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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] back to the nice world where we had treaties that were ratified by the Senate and agreed to and lasted over multiple administrations. We don't go back to Trump's in, Biden's out, Trump's in, Gavin Newsom's out. That's a crazy way to run a country. Yeah. That's the world we live in. No, but wait a minute. I just want to qualify. The world of. All right. Let's see real quick. What's going on with Glenn? Killy's healed. I hope that answers your question. Let me see. Let's go to Colt in Texas. Hello, Colt. A great name only from Texas. I watch that's not my name. I've got my last name one. But anyway, we'll quick. Okay. So we almost got it right. The subsidy is not tax rate offs or investments. That's not right. Rule by executive order that changes every four years. Let's let's not saying it's good. I'm just saying that's the pragmatic and realistic. By the way, NATO, NATO is not that important anymore. Anyway, the focus needs to be on the careful you can upset. NATO is very important. I told you, let me fire it up, concept in the first place. Tell us what you know that NATO is not a cause we should be full pick is not important. You're saying NATO is not a NATO. What we should be focusing on is Japan, Philippines, Australia, Indonesia. It should be a NATO or the Pacific. That's where all the focus should be because that's where the flashpoints are right now today. Do you like NATO and you want another one out on the other side? No, what I'm with never going to happen. China will never let that happen. Yeah. A lot of people don't know this. China heavily invested in the Vietnam war. Did you all know that? China heavily invested in Vietnam. Now what happened there? I know that's the idea is what is NATO today? It's NATO today what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to, I mean I understand Cold War framework of the you know pre 1980s or before the 1990s that NATO was essential. It was crucial. I think NATO just antagonized Russia. So I think NATO caused problems in Russia more than anything. It was Russia ever going to really proactively do something against Europe if we NATO wasn't. I'm sorry. That is that is Putin propaganda. We actually wanted to invite Russia to join NATO. We want Russia to join the civilizer. But that was back when George Bush looked into his eyes and saw Putin's soul or whatever that was actually. You know what happened? But you know what happened? But what happened? What happened? They'll finish the story. We got to join the club. Yeah a little bit of democracy before you join NATO. We're actually NATO is a little unsure about Turkey. You want people on your side in NATO if you're going to, you know, I'm going to listen to this a little bit guys. And if they don't go back to Middle East, I'm going to rewind to where they were talking about OPEC. I have a joint military there. So it's too bad Russia developed the way it did into a dictatorship. All a garkey. But you can't put Russia in NATO now that makes no sense for basically at war with each other. No, but if you put Russia, well, not now. I mean, Putin was a, Putin had been offered to join Russia multiple times and every president like swiped them on it. Listen, you know, that was never realistic. I mean, let's face it, Russia was on a path to that direction anyway. To which path? To where they are today. I mean, that was Putin's plan from the very beginning. No, no, no, bullshit, no, no, no, no, no. Bro, literally every president since like fucking Clinton has promised two things to engage in diplomacy with Russia and to not expand NATO borders. And they've always fucking lied. Okay. Putin invading Ukraine was literally the last straw. But there's also the complete different faction that we were escalating like crazy. Except Putin to join NATO. People can be like, uh, did you guys forget a history? Why we started NATO? No, we started NATO to basically keep funding the military industrial complex. That that's the real reason, bro. That's the real reason it's a bullshit. Fuck it. Oh, yeah. And the talk on one is a time is bullshit. What's the purpose of NATO? It was against Soviet Union. Now that he is part of us, what the hell are we doing spending this money and relying on America to protect NATO? So it's escape code to justify arm sales. I'm with John on that. I know, you know, Putin wasn't going to join NATO to be a friend. Putin was going to. No, he tried to join NATO to under what I'm saying. But before I'm not saying that. This is Russia before when Russia went to Putin, then kind of the die was cast. But no, there were big sense here because remember, they were weak after the Soviet Union class in the early 90s. So they were definitely amenable to diplomacy back then in the early 1990s. I don't think there wasn't a world where Russia became like what Poland is today. Because the Russian people want freedom, democracy, all the things they want us like everybody wants us if they get the chance. And there was a world where Russia would do that. Okay, not really dude. Yo, let me be very honest with you all, bro. Okay. Look, and I'm saying this is an American that loves this country. Not everybody wants to hold on to American ideals. I'm fucking sorry, bro. Like, like, we got to get rid of this wild solipsism that our way of life is the only way of life and everyone wants to be us. We are so fucking self centered. It's insane. Okay. That is not true. Okay. Most countries, even the poorest ones, have some degree of freedom for other citizens. Okay, come a regular country. Heaven knows join the European Union. NATO would cease to be that important at that point because there's no Russia. Maybe we'd be fighting its China or something sort. But once the 97 currency evaluation happened, all but that was it. Yeah, there was there was nobody. That was the end. I was cast and then it was forever. Remember of James Baker said, though, he said, um, if the Berlin wall comes down, we're not going to expand NATO. A foot past the Berlin wall. And you know, a lot. And they fucking lied. And they lied. I'm glad he brought that up. We lied to Russia several times about expanding the thing. And look, guys, let me be honest with y'all. I'm no fucking Russia. So let me be clear about this shit. I'm no Russia show. But we have to be honest about why Russian invaded Ukraine. We have to be honest about the might on revolution. We have to be honest about us interfering and putting in a puppet regime with Zelensky. Okay. We can't just like go, oh, put it bad. And like, not talk about everything beforehand. That led up to that. Well passed the Berlin wall and all the way up to Ukraine. And that was the red line where Putin started going to Ukraine when we started trying to put missiles into Ukraine. Exactly. This guy gets it. I don't know. That would rush. I've gotten aggressive between expanding it all the way up to its doorstep. Yeah. Possibly not. Definitely not, bro. Definitely not. NATO is a defensive. What? They want to get fucking sanctioned to help. They knew the risks of invading Ukraine at that point, but it was literally an existential crisis at that point. Alliance acted like an offensive alliance over the last 20 years. Though he supports that. No, I support. I support the expansion of democracy, freedom in the European Union. Bro, get the fuck out of here with that. Yo, yo, get this new kind out of here, bro. Give this guy the eat. Bro, it's 2026, man. This bush talking point is not going to fool us no more. Yo, this isn't fucking Fox News. Okay. Like, bro, Bush is not in office. Bill crystallate around. Wolfowitz is fucking. I don't know where that motherfucker is. John Bowen got indicted. Get the fuck out of here with this, bro. Yo, these dudes still think we're in 2002, bro. What the fuck is going on here? You need to Eastern Europe, which has been one of the most wonderful things in our lifetime. Well, one person's democracy expansions and other person's aggression and encroachment on your doorstep. I think there's a big difference in democracy between Poland and Russia. What about what happened in Ukraine's governments? Like, when we, they had a democratically elected president and then we went in and stirred up a riot and had them out here. Yep. Okay, okay. Okay, I'm reloaded. What he's referring to, guys, is the mind on revolution. Back in 2014, that's what he's referring to. Gorbachev was a pair of shankers. By the way, just so you know, you have to know his background. So this is not a regular guy. He's one of the only few people in the world that got a bachelor's in national security and a master's in national security. That's his background. So this, this, okay, that's a horrible way to say someone is credible. But okay, I digress. This is the argument. This is the argument where now it's being had. And for me, to be honest with you, I don't like the fact that they have gridlocked the president to not be able to threaten NATO that we can't. Okay, do you guys want me to explain what the mind on revolution is? Give me a seven in the chat if you do. And leave because we're fine. And then we'll protect and everybody in NATO. Who are the only three countries in NATO that have nuclear weapons? Forget us, put us out. That's only two others. And who are the friends in UK? So who has majority of it? We do. You know, they're kind of pushing around their weight. And then when we need them, you don't want to be there for us. Have a problem with that. Well, it was kind of nice that we had control over the nuclear escalation. And Europe is now figuring out, well, but maybe Europe wants control the nuclear. Actually, here's the problem in getting them to pay. The guy who picks up the bill chooses the restaurant. Back when we picked up the bill, we chose the restaurant, we picked the wine. If they're going to pick up the bill, they have rights to do what they want with the with the money. And you might not like it anymore. It's not how it works. That's not how you're paying for water. I'm paying for the bone and ribeye wagyu pee. You ain't paying for nothing. That's true. Wait for that little sorbet. Two to three percent of GDP is couch change. No great empire has spent less than 10 percent of you pay the minimum. Europe is paying 50 percent of GDP on social programs. So yeah, it's not our problem, bro. Yes, yes, but two to three percent relative to 50. Oh, but there's a US two to three percent. Everybody's got to pull their little red wagon. And if you don't, there's a negotiated that shows up and makes everybody uncomfortable. By the way, go back to that chart again, Rob. Go back to the chart up until this Donald Trump guy showed up. up. Nobody was paying their fair share. That's also when this Putin guy showed up and showed up in Ukraine. You think that's why they started doing it? Absolutely. All right. Here's the mind on revolution, guys. Basically, the revolution also knows the revolution of dignity took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the year or made in protest. Scores of protests were killed by government forces during classes in the capital, Kiev. Parliament then voted to remove President Victor Yanukovych. Return to the 2004 Constitution of Ukraine and call new elections. Revolution prompted Russia to occupy Crimea, starting the Russo-Ukrainian war. A lot of people think this war started in '22. It really started in 2014, Chad. Okay? And does this sound like familiar to what they do with Iran? Stage or coup? Do a regime change? Put in a government that's more friendly? Huh? Operation Ajax? Operation Bay of Pigs? Sound familiar, Chad? Regen rising lion? It's like, come on, dude. This is the, oh, this is the CIA fucking playbook right here. I think that's why they started doing it. Why would they do under, why the flat, why the flat, why the flat and then? They got, they got, they got, they got took them about a year to get really serious about defense. And Europe is now woken up. Put a flatline under Biden. Yeah. And he was still invading. Oh, no, no, no. This, but this is good. This is good that there's differences here. I like it. Let me get to our next one. Now, there's a meeting that's, that happens at the White House with King Charles showing up. Okay? And what made this very interesting with the, all right, let's go to Glenn real quick. The subsidy is as follows. Do you remember when the federal government started saying to AT&T and Verizon and P-Mobile, you want to put up that cell phone tower, you have to pay for the electromagnetic, magnetic airspace? Do you remember that? This is a, this is a problem. This is a misunderstanding. And we should correct, prefer the president, although I do prefer that he's out in the open, unlike Joe Biden, where they're hiding it. I prefer that it's not directed by the president. I prefer that it is something that is just the FCC takes care of because it's a clear violation. But I can't find them. They 100% started because the president do it by the way, guys, FCC launched an investigation into Jimmy Kimmel yesterday. Tell me that's not obvious. You may over his jokes be able to. So help me out. Look, bro, the jokes are retarded, but, you know, launch an investigation over jokes is kind of crazy, dude, Benny. Sure. So let's attack this from three different perspectives, Glenn. First, the moral obligations, then the regulatory obligations. And then what I did for Uno, all right, let's go back to OPEC here with these guys. Stricting output, the problem is getting the output out through the streets of hormones. So the total conference, if your sense.com, if you can go to it, my last biggest August 30. Yes, see, I told you guys, his seminars, how do we make some money? See what he just promoted? That's why he doesn't give a fuck about y'all in chat, say $7,000. You know what I mean? That's why I broke this is the wall, man. UAE to leave OPEC amid hormones oil crisis. All right, let's start cooking, chat. Again, for those you're just joining the news, UAE United Arab Emirates left OPEC. What is OPEC? It is the organization that petroleum exporting countries. It's an intergovernmental organization of cartel enabling the cooperation of leading oil producing in all the pennant countries in order to collectively influence the global oil and market and maximize profits. So basically, these guys get together. They all agree on pricing oil at a certain, you know, point and releasing certain amounts of barrels to ensure that everyone stays profitable because at the end of the day, these oil companies have a fiduciary duty to their investors. So they must be as profitable as possible. Okay. Is a blow to Saudi Arabia? What do you mean? Is this really happening? Yes, in the middle of everything that's going on? Yes. So the UAE announced Tuesday that would exit the organization of the petroleum exporting countries or OPEC along with wider group of partners known as OPEC effective May 1st. And what could be a blow to control over prices by the group long fed and practiced by Saudi Arabia? The move reflects the UAE long term strategic and economic vision, evolving energy profile, red and official statement carried by UAE state news as thermal. I'm watching at 1, 2, 5 speed. If you guys need to slow it down, guys, you can slow it down. The state of our moves continue to affect supply dynamics reports that the UAE would leave have circulated for years. And the country has had disagreements with Saudi over oil production quotas. President Trump has long criticized OPEC for its role in determining global oil prices, calling it a monopoly during his first term in office, addressing the world economic form in 2025. Trump urged OPEC countries to lower prices. Rob, do you have a clip on this or no? Because I see a yellow color here. Okay. So we're good with that. Jeff, what do you stand with the story? Why is this such a big deal? Well, it's a big deal because we got to go back to 2022, first of all. Where this really comes from is when OPEC announced in 2022 as oil prices came down off the top. OPEC decided they wanted $100 per barrel oil. They wanted that forever into the future. And they thought, well, okay, no, they didn't decide that. Russian invaded Ukraine. Got some supply back and get oil prices to firm up. And then that's the real reason it went up in 2022. That was the big stimuli because Russia makes an enormous, produces a massive amount of oil for the world. And then they had to sanction Russia. You sanction Russia. Can't buy their energy. Can't buy their energy price goes up because now you've effectively removed millions of barrels from the market overnight. Global economy will pick up and will be $100 per barrel oil forever forward. Well, they made a huge mistake there because the economy never really came back and oil prices were soft the entire time. So the UAE and all the other OPEC members were losing money for years because they were trying to reduce production but maintain, maintain price. So revenues would largely normalize out and balance out. But instead, what ended up happening is with oil prices softened and pumping less oil. A lot of these Gulf states are in big trouble. Saudi Arabia is a big one. So the UAE is finally saying, look, we need to correct this mistake. You guys, they're doing better than the others guys because they have a pipeline that goes into the Red C bed on the wrong horse here. And we don't want to be beholden to the Saudis for continuing to make these decisions, especially if they're going to go in the wrong direction. So UAE, which has always had a rivalry with Saudi Arabia to begin with, what they're saying is look, this is so here. So Saudi Arabia has a pipeline. It goes all the way across the country and pumps right out to the Red C. So they're able to circumvent the straight of her moose. But the problem is that they're not able to get that many that much volume of oil over to that side. So it's still, they're still operating at, you know, a smaller capacity. This is a last straw. Now, he's talking about a rivalry between UAE and Saudi Arabia. The reason why there's a rivalry there guys is because Saudi Arabia and the UAE are competing for the tourist market of the Middle East. Okay. Saudi Arabia is, you know, modernizing, realizing alcohol, opening up clubs, allowing them into drive. And what Saudi Arabia is trying to do is they're trying to compete with Dubai, which has the UAE and bring more expatriates and tourism in so that they can slowly start to get off and wean off the energy dependent economy that they have. We're done. We don't want to be beholden to the OPEC cartel who has all sorts of non economic reasons for whatever decisions they make. We'd like to just pump more oil. We want more money flowing into the country. They say they can get fine. No, that's not saying not at all. So I mean, what they're basically saying is we want to be more of a market based system. We want to respond to market forces, not the political forces next door. John, what do you send with this? Well, in the short term, the problem is not restricting output. The problem is getting the output out through the streets of Hormuz. So this isn't going to make a huge difference in the short term. It's a longer term question. And I get this 1970s feeling like, you know, get out the bell bottom jeans and the long hair is when does OPEC matter? We got the US is a huge, we're the biggest oil exporter in the world. That's irrelevant. That's irrelevant that we're the biggest export of oil that doesn't matter. Let me tell you guys why when you cut off certain countries ability to sell oil, it inadvertently or in some cases, very inadvertently spikes the price worldwide. Why? Because oil is a global commodity. Also, just because we produce a lot of oil doesn't necessarily mean that our price is going to drop off precipitously. Why? Because you got speculators. And then on top of that, we can't actually, we don't have enough oil to consume and also chip to other places. On top of that, we are geographically diverse, sorry, and geographically isolated. The very thing that keeps us protective from invaders and danger is the very thing that makes it difficult for us to effectively sell our oil at a fair price. Okay. So this whole thing of we make our own oil, whatever, that's a bunch of fucking garbage. Okay. Let me prove it to you. This is how we know it's a bunch of garbage. If we were making our own oil, right? And it didn't matter. Why the fuck is bread sitting at 116 right now, bro? Yeah. Bro, and what I tell you guys, we're not magic number, we get it close to 120. Anytime we get closer to 120, you already know, chose about to start freaking out, bro. Boom, look out. Russia like them are not there. Big oil exporter. And his whale is coming back online. Anybody in the North Sea, everybody in the world who has some oil is drilling like crazy right now. So that's not clear to me that they have a question. 38% though, 35 to 38% comes from open. Yeah. Yeah. Of which is small fraction comes from the UAE. So, you know, great. I'm all from oil supply, but it's not going to stop the media problem. And it's going to be, you know, uh, yeah. These guys are not addressing the biggest issue here, a little bit, which I'm going to talk to you guys here in a second. Less oligopoly in the long run. Not clear. Who is this? Who is upset by this the most? Who does this impact most? Saudis in what way? I mean, it's politics. Yeah. This is not really about oil, necessarily. I mean, yes, you wait. Like you said, this is a longer term thing. Um, so yes, the short, short run disruption is excuse to do it. But this is a longer term political project. Um, the UAE wants to run their economy. The way they want to run their economy, they want the Saudi, Saudi influence and the OPEC influence on what they're doing. Who does this? Who does this benefit? Who does this in the United States? Because the supply's going to end. Uh, Japan and Europe. Sure. They're so fucking wrong. They are so fucking wrong for saying this benefits United States. I'm going to tell you guys why here in a second, but I think on the political context, this helps the Trump administration, because what they're basically saying is, look, they're, no, it doesn't. There's more to this story. There is much more to the story that we're not. So you think that you think a, a, the Trump administration was involved in this phone call for made negotiations? It would be silly not to think that. I'm kind of, but first of all, the UAE goes to Washington. They were going to leave OPEC, whether without the United States, dude, that maybe they called or consulted, but yeah, this ain't it. For IMF meetings a couple of weeks ago, a couple of days later, we hear a UAES for a dollar swap line with the Treasury Department, right through the Federal Reserve. But then suddenly a couple of days after that, UAES says, I guess what we're out of OPEC. So there it has dude. The fact that they asked for a dollar swipe line is a problem. That's not a plus. That's not a plus to be financial guarantees. They had to have top level discussions with the Trump administration saying, look, this will ran conflicts. We're on your side here because Iran is, we're getting hit more than Israel. Iran's our enemy. We need some security guarantees. We need some financial guarantees. We need some economic guarantees. And by the way, we also probably need a dollar swap line too. The Trump administration said, yeah, okay, we understand your under pressure. We're here to help you. But what are you going to give us? Give us something too. The UAA said, I'll give you an easy one. We'll get out of the scope. We want to leave anyway. So it makes it the UAE is moving away from the Gulf, the Gulf regime or the status quo and the Gulf and move forward. They were number number three, number four, right? Number one is Saudi, number two is Iraq, number two. It used to be Iran, number three, and then UAE. But I think UAE passed up Iran by like a hundred thousand barrels a day, whatever the number is. And even on the OPEC list, I think Venezuela falls as number seven. So it's funny how U.S. has got the control with Venezuela. That's on that list. And then you can kind of, now that you get UAE, there's a lot of leverage here for them. Do you agree with the Jeff's assessment on this? Yeah, well, we're deep in the Middle East politics, which you know, bring bring your run negotiating skills. I kind of want the UAE and Saudi Arabia to get along. I'd like UAE Saudi Arabia and Israel to get along and, you know, be unified about Iran. So there's a lot of power, you know, what are they going to do about Yemen and stuff going on there? So what a mess, but competition in oil markets is always good. Right. Yeah, I think the bigger thing that we're concerned thing is that they're dangling out the idea of accepting oil payments and something that's happened to the dollar. They're talking about, oh, if we don't have enough dollars, we're going to have to take payments and you want. And it was a couple of years ago, too, that even Saudi Arabia started floating around the idea of taking payments and you want it. I mean, I don't know how serious or feasible that is, but if that starts happening, then everything falls apart. I mean, I think overall the decoupling of OPEC is a good thing because it's, you know, not something that's good for the market. It's just like a controlled agreement between the biggest workers in countries to, you know, have a collective agreed upon price of oil. So I think, yeah, the detangling of that is a good thing. But the notion of these countries taking payments and currencies out of them a dollar, that's something that we have to fight against vehemently. Did you see the oil tanker arriving in Japan? Did you guys see that? Do you see this or now? Oil tanker with 910,000 barrels of Texas light oil at a refinery near Tokyo through the Panama Canal. Avoiding the Strait of Hormel who has watched this year, they're announcing it. Rob, go a little bit lower so I can hear the audio. If you can raise it. Yeah, look at how long it took for them to do that, though. This isn't a flex, bro. 910. They had to go from the other side of the world, thousand barrels. So these are the types of things where you're sitting. They're saying, wait a minute. Like, so you have a one that you watch, Trump, you're like, why is this guy just sitting? We're going to attack. Wait, I'm telling you we're going to attack. He's not doing anything. He's got the blockade. He's kind of sitting on, I was like, all right, take your time. How long can you go with it? The big picture. There's not a big picture. Again, the framework here is Cold War 2.0. And what's really happening is the world is realigning. The world is realigning away from the, you know, we went, we had an alignment during the Cold War. They kind of went away in the 1990s and 2000s and you know, things got mixed up a little bit. But the world is now realigning and the Trump administration at the very least is recognizing the dangers as well as the potential opportunities. And he's trying as hard as he possibly can to realign the world in a way that's more favorable to the United States. So John, you're right. I mean, we love. Yeah, but that's okay. Saudi Arabia and the UAE to get along. I don't know if that's ever possible. But I think this is part of it. You know, it's another chess piece on the board that says we need to move. We need to break down some of the blocks that have been unnecessarily, you know, against the United States in the past. But, you know, OPEC has been a thorn in the side for quite some time. Not tremendous, not huge, not a huge threat, but it has been a thorn in the side. So if you can break OPEC down into pieces and then realign some of those pieces that are more friendly to the US national interest, that is a strategic goal that fits with the, the Cold War 2.0. And so that tanker actually is a wonderful visual of the great power of supply in economics and substitution. All these things we keep saying, you know, okay. So here's what they're not mentioning. What we're slowly seeing here, guys, is the erosion of the petrol dollar. Okay. That's what's really going on that no one's talking about. Okay. Though Trump has his grievances with OPEC, right? And the oil mafia. What he doesn't realize is the UAE leaving OPEC and then asking, right, to do this like trade line thing, though it does benefit the United States and, you know, continue to prop up the dollar as the power of the dollar wanes off, the UAE is not stupid. The UAE understands for a long term strategy, they've discovered that the United States cannot protect them. Okay. As you guys know, Iran relentlessly bombed the UAE during this conflict. The UAE got struck the most out of all the other countries. I think some of them seen one to two thousand different strikes. Okay. This, um, these strikes red pilled Iran and made them realize, oh, shit, the United States cannot protect us despite the fact that we thought that they could. These guys are full of shit. And basically what happened was the Iranians, um, call their bluff. They call their bluff. So now what the UAE is doing is what was a short term, sorry, a more long term project to advance an AI to diversify the economy has now become a sprint to diversify the economy. And they have realized that they cannot diversify the economy with protection and security the way they want via a US umbrella of defense. So though on paper, it looks like Trump is winning. Yes. We're, we're still going to prop up our dollar. They're still going to, you know, have these straight lines and etc. We're working with them. You're missing the point that you, the UAE is slowly leaving our realm of influence because if we can't provide them the protection from which they are, is the only reason they're dealing with us. What benefit is there for them to be allies with us? Thank about that, chat. If, if, think about this way, right? Let's say, let me give you all a, let me cook. Let's say you buy, you have a security team, you pay those guys 10 K a fucking day, right? You pay those guys 10 K a day. And all they have to do is ensure that you never get jumped or attacked. That's all they got to do, right? You pay these guys handsomely. The one day that you're at the club, right? Doing some shit. You didn't have all your guys there. And what's worse, one of your guards punched another dude and ran. Okay. In the club. The dude that gets punched sees you and then fucking punches you. But your security that you're paid 10 K a day is nowhere to be found. They just ran. They sucker punched a dude. They ran. Dude got up, seeing red. He sees you. It's all like fucking Donkey Kong, bro, you're getting your fucking ass whoop. You're just trying to protect yourself. You're five for five hundred pounds. You got a lot of money, but you can't protect yourself. Did you continue to pay those bodyguards? Oh, let's make it even better. You go home with a black eye. Your bodyguard says, Hey, nigga. Okay. Hello, monkeys. He's a black guy, by the way, him and the other five are just sitting there. Hey, bro, I know you got puts in the face and all, but hey, bro, you got to learn how to fight, man. Wait, what? I gotta look big. I pay you to do that. Anyway, we'll see you tomorrow. What time you need us here? 10? All right. Well, make it 10 30. We'll see you tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow, bro. Peace. Nigga leads with the same bitch that got that he was talking to the day before. Now let me ask you guys something. Would you continue to work with that security team? Exactly. My friends, that is precisely what is happening to the golf states and the UAE has the biggest black eye of the mall. So what basically happened was now just to bring the story and more understandable for you guys. Now this scenario, let's add the OPEC portion. So they tell you, Oh, defend yourself, whatever. Now you don't want to fire all of them, right? Because you still need security. Boy, you start slowly doing is you start, you know, looking at other security companies, right? You slowly start to wean off. You're made bodyguards protecting you and you start hiring other companies to help you. Monday, you've got your regular niggas. Wednesday, you got a test run company. Thursday, you got another company. Friday, you got another company. And you're cut, you're, you're like secretly testing how each different security team protects you. And you start to realize these other security groups are less, they're nicer. They're not dickheads. They're more professional. And you're like, damn, okay. I'm gonna stop working with these guys. It was going well, [BLANK_AUDIO] These guys, they can't do nothing. My friends, that is exactly what's going on with the golf. We were the stupid bodyguards picking on bitches, aka Israel. And now China and Russia are the new security teams that are looking to take that business. That's precisely what's going on in the Middle East if I can give it to you guys in analogous fashion that makes sense. Give me ones that that makes sense, dude. Give me ones that that all makes sense. And after you give me a one, make sure you like the video. Nobody can explain this shit to you guys the way I do, all right? I'm going to have to sub glaze for 10 seconds here. Make sure follow the channel, kick y'all, and not going to get content like this anywhere else. Explaining this shit, complex your political shana simple way. This is where the golf state are, so this is why this discussion that they're having is kind of preposterous because yes, in the short term, this looks good for Trump as usual. But in the long term, the UAE is double dipping. They're saying, look, we're still going to maintain our relationship with the United States, but they're looking for some other form of protection. They're only continuing to deal with us until they find a better guarantor of security chat. So this is actually very bad. And not only is the UAE doing this, Saudi Arabia is doing this too. Did you guys know that Muhammad bin Salman, the head of Saudi Arabia, the crown prince? Did you guys know that he brought a lensky down to teach these niggas how to do drones? Yeah, yeah, you heard that right. They brought fucking President Zelensky down to the golf who's in the middle of his own war, by the way, that we're funding. They brought that niggas down to teach them about drones. Saudi Arabia is leaning into Pakistan for the defense pact, but the problem is that Pakistan is also a great ally of Iran. Qatar got bombed by Israel and isn't getting protected now, but they're saying the same thing. The 13 U.S. soldiers that died, died in Kuwait, actually, chat. The F-15 that got shot down, got shot down in Kuwait, guys, two F-15s. So in the next year, within the next year or two, look at all the golf countries, start to slowly move away from U.S. influence and try to find another guarantor of security. The analysis that these guys have given is extremely shortsighted, because obviously they want a glazed trump. But the fact that UAE is leaving OPEC is for a far more ominous purpose. Here's another thing for you guys, Canada, another one of our allies just met with China not too long ago. Me and Cyrus Johnson were talking about this. They didn't like that comment that Trump made about Canada's list because of United States. Japan is striking a deal. India is doing a deal. All these guys are doing deals with Iran and maintaining relations with China, etc. Do you guys need to explain to you what the petal dollar is and why it's important? I realize that some of you guys might be new here. If you don't, we're just going to keep carrying on with the show, because I realized I'm doing going in the morning, so there's probably a bunch of people here right now that never watch me live. So it might be new. Okay. I'll summarize it quickly. The petal dollar guys was a deal, an informal deal that Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger struck back in the 1970s where they would guarantee security for the Saudi royal family if they did the majority of their oil transactions and dollars. Why is this important? This is important because since gas or energy oil is a global commodity that everyone needs. If every country needs to buy oil from Saudi Arabia using US dollars, that increases the need for the US dollars. So every country needs to maintain US dollars to purchase oil and that allows us to United States as the reserve currency to print money with almost no consequence. Since where the world's reserve currency and everyone needs our currency to buy commodities in oil, this puts us in an extremely advantageous position where our debt is fucking cheap. This is a big reason why the United States is so prosperous. This is why we have a debt-based society in the first place. So if we lose the petal dollar, we lose a significant amount of leverage on the world stage. There's four main things that make up American strength. And for all my guys in OSS and all the guys that are die-hard supporters, I'm sorry I'm repeating this for you all, but I've realized that we got a lot of fucking new people in here. Which is a blessing, but can also come off as somewhat redundant. There's four main pillars that the United States builds its power on. Number one. The petal dollar. Like we just discussed. Number two. Reserve currency status. This goes beyond oil and goes into the training of commodities and resources. Okay. Number three. Swift. Swift is also extremely important. What is Swift? Swift is basically a monetary tracking system where people that are doing deals in US dollars are basically subject to oversight so that if you're not a friendly country or you're dealing, doing business with the countries that's not friendly, we can shut your payment process off and fuck you up financially. Okay. That is what Swift is. Think of it as like a gas, like a toll that you have to use, right, that the US monitors to do financial transactions internationally. Okay. And last but not least, our military might. Okay. These four pillars are what make the United States a world power and had us as a unipolar power for so many decades. The petal dollar, reserve currency status, which kind of go hand in hand, Swift. That's why our sanctions used to be so crippling. And then of course, our military might. We spend more money on our military than the top 10 countries combined. So the fact that one of our, one of these pillars is getting weakened via our horrible for the policy in the Middle East is a big problem. Give me eights in the chat and evolve that makes sense. And why this OPEC withdrawal from the UAE, though it looks good in the short term, is actually a big problem in the long term. Them leaving has basically proven that the UAE no longer trusts us as a guarantor of security. They did the whole trade line shit to not make it obvious that they're trying to get out of US influence. They did that just as a hedge, but they, and to play both sides. The writings on the wall, they know the US can't protect them. And that is the sole reason why the UAE had them there before. Like I said, on my bodyguard analogy for you guys. All right, let's get back to this thing. If prices, and I was pulling my hair out, I was watching you guys talk about OPEC and not mention any of this shit. Go up to $100 barrel. All of a sudden, there's a lot of oil lying around that can get rearranged to different places. It can't happen instantly. So you go through some months of pain, but basically the Middle East is shedding itself out of the market in many ways. You know, maybe you're able to say that. And we all suffer for that. We all suffer for that. I'm pretty fucking is not the most thing in the world and all of a sudden they got a toe boot system now. They got a whole new way. They went from an oil production and export country only to now they're fucking toe boot country at this point. Two million dollars per freighter that comes through, bro. These guys. I think on this enormous amount of mass, if they only let it out of the ground, it's actually very good action. I was very impressed. When you pull up the clip with the president said, here's the president, because you know, they're talking about, well, you know, we may need to use one. I mean, we may use in both bessons and the president has some thoughts on this. Go ahead, Rob. We appreciate it. Oh, if you have time, I want to ask you one more question. And, you know, we have allies now in the Middle East, maybe some are, we can maybe count on more than allies in other parts of the world, but they're much better allies than NATO that I can tell you. The UAE asking, bro, NATO is like a sleepy Joe for him now at this point. And each as he gets to fucking attack NATO, he's going to do it. Bro is so mad at NATO. It's hilarious, actually, you asked for some type of like bro, you didn't consult with anyone from NATO. You attack with Israel. You didn't tell anybody. Now you want these dudes to come in and back you up. Come on, bro. Get out of here. Bro, I hate NATO, too. But we got to be honest here. NATO is not your fucking private army that you can mobilize whenever you want to fight regime change wars, unprovoked, okay? It's a defensive pack, even though that's a joke, too. And at least try to trigger Article 5. At least try, bro. Don't attack them first. Like what? I don't know if it's a solvency. And Article 5 chat is the article within NATO where an attack on one is considered an attack on all and brings in all of the entire coalition. Problems, more of a liquidity problem, and I know we did Secretary Bessett did something with Argentina that worked out. Is there some type of swap possible to currency swap with the UAE to help if they need it? And do you think they would be back? Guys, smash that fucking like button. Brian has a sleep all night, man. I'm in here giving you all that sauce. Smash the like button if you're watching on kick, give a follow. Best political commentary channel on this bitch, such a wealth or perceived to be such a wealthy country. Is that under consideration? It is, but it's been a good country. It's been a good ally of ours. And you know, these are unusual times. They were more than anybody else. And they were shocking because we thought that. Thank you, sweatshirt. Thank you. And still kick in Spanish. 101 so that is real, but not every other country in the area. And you know, UAE got hit with 1,400 missiles. Now fortunately they had the Patriots and they had a great defense and they were able to shoot down most of them But they know about a lot of gut that got through hit hard They were hit the hardest see even he admits they got hit hard of the group actually and they're really led by incredible people and Yeah, I mean, I'm surprised because they are really rich, you know, they invested a Year ago, I went there and I got them to invest one trillion dollars in the United States. Oh, oh The president's telling you guys what I said before I love it fucking chef's kiss, bro You guys you know why I think this was retarded and why like this is so stupid, bro These dudes invested a trillion dollars in us last year Trump only went on like one real official visit internationally Guess where he went the fucking Middle East chat He went to the Middle East on his first official visit internationally He went to the Middle East to secure a deal with the Gulf States to support American infrastructure and then we start a war They get fucked up. They get bombed. They can't sell oil. They can't sell energy. They can't sell gas. They can't fucking You know import things like the way that they want They can't promote tourism. They way they want real estate prices are crashing all over So this is the thanks to golf gets for investing in us. That is why they're still pissed off They're building no cab in my rafts. I've been told y'all that Trump struck this deal. And that's why this war is retarded A tremendous plant in a great state called Oklahoma Luminum plant melting plant beautiful incredible top of it You'll be the best anywhere in the world. You know, they're very good for this country So yeah, if I could help them I would I mean we're helping them much more with what we're doing with the war right there So that's the president. What do you think my buddy saying here in great state called Oklahoma? Yeah, exactly He's just beautiful over there. Exactly. I said the dollar swap issue. I think is a big one It's not because UAE is not wealthy when as John said, I mean when you don't have oil coming in you have no dollars coming in And the UA has a lot of dollar commitments through financial channels and other things and if they don't have the oil revenue coming in Plus investors kind of get cold feet the UAE special also the UAE wants to move more into AI They want to they want to get out of oil chat That's another important thing you guys got to realize Which would want which would also Take them out of the need for the United States because the United States also could be getting it An AI she to Dubai in the Dubai international financial district, whatever it's called They have been turning themselves into an international monetary hub Supposed to be the gateway to the global South and funded in in the operating in U.S. dollar denomination other currencies to but primarily U.S. dollar denomination So a shortfall of dollars coming in is a big problem for the UA regardless of their wealth or oil status or even the amount of reserves that they hold because the market is saying We're a little bit nervous about what's going on over there. We're nervous about the fact that UAE is right in the middle of the conflict Guys smash the like button. Let's get to 1000 likes without the oil revenue and dollar back sitting at only three hundred or twelve hundred guys in here King it could they could get into a situation where if the marketplace gets cold feet and starts to pull back in dollar funding It leaves them in a situation not unlike 2009 where the UAE was at the forefront of a second crisis that actually erupted afterwards So the dollar swap is about liquidity is John pointed out. It's it's not really about wealth about the fact that the conflict is really It's really squeezing them pretty we talked about it earlier and John I want to come to you with this is that This isn't a first time somebody left the opac right we guitar left 19 aqua door left 22 Angola left 24 and Indonesia left and came back and they left a suspended. They're not with the many they left because they were you know They weren't pumping enough oil. I could just didn't have enough. They're not they're not major players right So it's not like the first time when you think about NATO France left once in 66 or something and then they came back It was like a quick thing. It wasn't even a major thing NATO no one's ever left NATO. It's a whole different thing Do you think that now that guitar and UAE are out in the last seven years? There are other players that may be leaving and following their lead. What do you think John? Well, I think the whole thing has become less and less important As you saw you know that said we want to oil a hundred dollars a barrel. I'll go sixty five dollars. But I said this live Okay, so much for your vaunted power And the swap ones the crucial thing that it's doing is the UAE pegs its currency to dollars So if you're gonna pay your currency to dollars every now and then people say hey, I want my dollars and and you need that temporary liquidity to support the currency That's the major feature of what's going on. You know that I like people pick into the dollars So yeah, that's not gonna last forever though. All right. Let's jump on on Pete kegs breath Think what our troops have demonstrated to the world over the last 15 months are a reflect on let's see if I could get a better quality for you guys By years of America last policies Resulting in a diminished ability. I hate to say it but CNN always has the best production quality, bro Jack strength them and Al Jazeera under the previous administration We were focused on offshoring and outsourcing even though they're trash Riddled with cost overruns and degraded capabilities Under the leadership of President Trump our builder in chief We are reversing this systemic decay and putting our defense industrial base back on a war time Footing if you ask anyone at our Pentagon urgency informs everything we do we didn't vote for being on war footing Pete Where we what you building a military that the American people can be proud of One that instills nothing less than unrelenting fear in our adversaries and the utmost confidence in our allies We fight to win in every scenario The 1.5 true. Yeah, we could create confidence in our allies that don't want to join us in this war Million dollar f-1.7 budget put forward by the president Will build upon the historic one trillion dollar f-1.26 top line And continue to reverse the four years of underinvestment and mismanagement of the Biden administration The 1.5 trillion dollar budget will ensure the United States continues to maintain the world's most powerful and capable military As we grapple with a complex threat environment for lower and listed across multiple theaters Not to mention this budget also includes a historic troop pay increase 7% for lower and listed and the budget eliminates all poor or failing barracks Quality of life for our troops is front and center in this budget as well By supercharging our industrial capability and transforming how the department does business We're restoring American commercial dominance at a pace unseen in generation Transforming the defense industrial base from a broken slow-moving system of the past We have flipped the Pentagon acquisition process slow-moving system bureaucratic model To a business model we have flipped one Pentagon acquisition process we can't see us face sorry chat. I'll just do this one from a bureaucratic model to a business model 180 decisively moving from an acquisition environment paralyzed by bureaucratic red tape Into an outcomes driven organization focused on delivering the most at cost at scale for taxpayer dollars Over the past year through historic multi-year procurement agreements Smart business deals for things like critical munitions and capabilities We've sent an unambiguous demand signal to industry partners to build more and build faster Just you guys know he's testifying to get um An increased budget request that's what he's there for a chat and we know why for the war The result hit the war that we won that was almost over remember that war Yeah, that one you're trying to get a budget increase for that It's been a surge a revitalization of our great we went from no new wars to let's get a new war and pay for it Confactories and a massive reinvestment in the skilled American workers who serve as the industrial muscle behind our warriors Let me briefly provide you with some concrete high-level metrics of what's been accomplished over just the past few months These are announced new facilities and investments to support American war fighters and I would refer you to the screen The department has helped stimulate more than 250 private investment deals In 39 states in 180 cities and 150 companies worth more than 50 billion dollars It's resulted in 280 new or expanded facilities More 18 million new square feet of American manufacturing And more than 70,000 new jobs in defense Military industrial complex these this is the key part of this These 50 billion dollars of investment in new plants New assembly lines and new factories the private investments Not tax payer dollars By changing our department's transforming our department's business model American companies are investing in America with their own money their own capital a historic demonstration Of American manufacturing and defense revitalization all again with their capital not Uncle Sam's This has never been done before okay. Let's assume the US taxpayer isn't paying for this war. It's still a l dude It's still an l Regardless of whether private investors fund that are not still an l And is long overdue. We are focused on international wars versus domestic wars To from a bureaucratic model to a business model anyone on the outside looking in at what's been done Inside this Pentagon in the last 12 months cannot deny the fundamental transformation at speed at scale to innovate and meet the threats of today and tomorrow These investments equal great things for America American families and American workers And help to ensure that our war fighters are able to defend the American dream and all American made Together with the help of the policies updates and appropriations passed by Congress President Trump's war department has begun to turn the lights back on in manufacturing towns across this country, and once again, forging a lethal arsenal of freedom. Where critical supply chains are threatened, the War Department has acted decisively to inject capital, stimulate production, and prevent adversarial exploitation. We are firing up the American economic engine and at every level of our defense industrial base. Every policy we pursue, every budgetary item we request. Told you guys, military industrial complex undefeated, bro, serves to ensure the department remains laser focused on increasing lethality and survivability. One like Patriot missile interceptor guys is like millions of dollars, like three million of our three to four million. Some insane number are forces from the front lines to the factory. And the drones that are on shoots is like 10 to 20,000 like what? This is a historic budget, as you said, Mr. Chairman. This is a fiscally responsible budget. This is a war fighting budget. And speaking of war fighting, the topic of Iran, I'm sure will come up today, which I very much welcome discussing. I look forward to sharing the incredible successes of our military. All right, it's Q&A time, guys. Switch on over to kick. I'm ending the YouTube stream. Guys, come on over to kick. Come on over to kick. I am ending the YouTube stream here in a second, achieved in a matter of weeks. President Trump, unlike other president, has had the courage to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon and he's ironclad in that. We're the best negotiator in the world driving that deal. The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless, and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans. Two months in, I remind you, two months in, this should have been three days in a conflict. Let's, I remind you, and my generation understands how long we were in Iraq, how long we were in Afghanistan, how long, and we're making the same mistake again. Long we were in Vietnam, two months in on an existential fight for the safety of the American people, Iran, bullshit, bullshit. This was not an existential war whatsoever. Iran, does not have nuclear weapons. Iran doesn't have ballistic intercontinental ballistic missiles that can hit the United States. Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas cannot attack the United States. Complete fucking bullshit, complete bullshit, not true at all. We cannot have a nuclear. All right, guys, we're going to keep cooking over on, uh, on Kit guys. I'm ending the YouTube stream now. Come on over to Kit guys, kick.com, so that's my again, docs. Come on over. Come on over and just I'm ending, uh, X party and kick as well. Come on over. Clear bomb, we are proud of this undertaking. I am proud that President Trump was had the courage to do it, and I look forward to sharing more about what our troops have accomplished. So I thank you, uh, again, for the opportunity to address this committee. I asked it may got that God would continue to watch over our troops in harm's way. And those that have fallen are always in our memory, and we fight to ensure their legacy, look forward to the answer to the questions of this committee. Thank you, Mr. Secretary, General Kane, you're recognized. You're recognized. Thank you, Chairman Rogers, ranking members Smith and members of this committee. Thanks for having me today. I'm honored to be here today alongside the honorable Pete Hegseth and honorable J. Hurst to testify in the president's fiscal year 2027 budget. I'm grateful for the opportunity to testify today. And I'm thankful this is the number two guy for armed forces basically for your continued partnership in support of our war fighters, defending the homeland and our interests around the world. It's a privilege to speak with you today about the foundation of America's strength are 2.8 million members of our joint force. And I'm continually inspired by our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, guardians and Coast Guard men, guardsmen and our civilians, standing the watch for our nation supported always by their families. Each and every one of them could have chosen, and I want to emphasize my commitment to this committee in the Congress that I will always follow general marshal steadfast example as by providing clear and candid nonpartisan military advice and working together with our civilian leaders to ensure that our military does the things that we must do, being prepared to deter and defend our nation and have called upon when our wars around the world. America's joint force is operational at its core purpose built for the realities of a complex and ever-changing world. We are organized, trained and equipped, execute the most demanding missions across the globe with unrivaled precision. Over the past year, our war fighters have consistently demonstrated exactly what it means to be the most capable, adaptable, totally self-glace and most professional military force in the world. Our shared goals are to ensure the joint force remains the strategic -- maintains the strategic initiative and advantage, projecting American power and responding to global challenges on our nation's terms. During operations, rough rider, midnight hammer, southern spear, absolute resolve and epic fury, the joint force executed globally integrated operations and missions alongside our interagency and international partners. And once our civilian leaders made a decision, we make those missions our own, demonstrating the unmatched capability to seamlessly synchronize our capabilities across all domains from the seabed to cis lunar space and higher. We're able to accomplish these complicated missions and work because -- So, yeah. You guys are going to notice this trend a lot, okay? When you're doing war coverage, like you got multiple people that cover this war. You got military glazers like idiots like Max Afterburner, who are retarded and don't know anything about the war strategically. They just glazed capability, technology using classified shit that nobody else has, being able to do things in a certain way that other countries can't. Then you got the guys that are pragmatics, like myself, they're like, yo, this works for stupid. It doesn't matter if you win them militarily. And then you got hardcore Zionist morons that no matter what you say, they're going to say, we need a new guy, Ron. Israel first, you know, let's go. We got to get rid of the Ayatollah, you know, they shout that to America, that's Israel. Like these are the three camps really that exist right now with this whole conflict. Because we draw from a deep enduring reservoir right back. I think it's professionalism and commitment. Our operational tempo is high, but we're designed to sustain and rebuild our strength continuously. We build readiness every day, we train professionals every day. We learn and sharpen our edges every day by being learning leaders. And I am incredibly proud to be a member of this joint force team, proud of the team and proud of the commanders. As the chairman and the ranking member both said, we live in complex and dynamic times where global risk is scaling. The complexity of today's modern battlefields demands are constant adaptation, innovation, and partnership with this Congress. As a joint force, we're up to the challenge. We're defense industrial base and the national industrial base, ensuring our military is ready, securing our military advantage. Within the joint force, the uniform side, our priorities remain the same, ensuring our warfighters are properly armed, globally integrated, and ready, while always taking care of our people. And what truly sets our people apart from other militaries around the world is the 1.8 million members enlisted members of our force, who maintain readiness beyond reproach and are the envy of every other nation. I'm joined today by the senior enlisted advisor to the chairman, Dave Isom, who's here with me today representing the 1.8 million members of the enlisted force. He is a great American, not an American. While we face dynamic and a dangerous world, I have the absolute trust in the extraordinary men and women who come and volunteer to serve our nation within our joint force. They execute the missions quietly every day and coupled with the American spirit outthink, outcompete, and relentlessly innovate, we will maintain our decisive edge, but doing so requires your partnership. We stand ready today to answer our nation's call. It remains the honor of a lifetime for me to serve alongside the members of this joint force. And as we sit here today in this important hearing, I ask us all to remember our deployed teammates who are out there right now doing our nation's business. And wait, may we again always remember our fallen, who've given us the gift of an incredible example and their family members who continue to show us what courage and grit. And yeah, they should have never died in the first place, which is why this is stupid. They should have never been there in the first place. They should have never, you know, gotten bombed and killed in the first place. Thank you. A freedom tour and the great work the departments doing to help enhance our capacity and our defense industrial base. Could you tell us how last year's reconciliation bill helped enable what you have been able to do and what you think this year's FY27 budget request will do? Yeah, one chance if you're in chat or Josie, can you guys do Do me a favor. Can you guys quickly scrub through Glenn Beck's last stream and tell me if you talked about the Middle East. So you own on that somebody from the OSS trusted lumber if one of you guys can just go on to Glenn Bex Thing and just super chat what he's if he covered a run at all for it Well miss or the Middle East chairman Thank you for your leadership and your support on that topic and coming into this position We fell in on a lot of the reforms you in this committee have been advocating for for a long time Look at somebody that was willing to run with them and our department have run with those and that reconciliation bill Last year was kind of the rocket fuel to initiate President Trump's priorities in this department so we fell in on a department that was focused on a lot of the wrong things going in the wrong direction and with reconciliation we're able to put you know 22 billion in shipbuilding 22 billion into Golden Dome 25 billion into munitions Established drone dominance, which we're continuing to do this day in this next budget funds So getting in front yeah drone dominance like getting your drones shut down that are worth millions of dollars over Iran So they can reverse engineer it and it's about that one though of that budget cycle which had been notoriously unpredictable Out of coming out of the continue revolution resolution of FY 25 to fund this and then a bill a historic bill in FY 26 laid the groundwork for this historic budget to ensure that we're not coming at a cold start here We came into this administration Reconciliation was a beautiful tool. We were able to use that through that one big beautiful bill to fund the priorities of this department We spent on four billion on barracks started immediately getting after the quality of life of barracks Because of the austerity of the by-demonstration we traded off of maintenance and traded off of quality of life To try to fund up things operationally This budget stops that cycle and both invests in sustainment and modernization Which is which is something that's critically important so without that reconciliation bill I think Mr. Chairman we'd be in a very different place. So thank you for that. Great. Well as you always Expansion of the defense industrial base is the principal focus of this year's in DAA So in addition to enacting this budget Requests that's been submitted. We want to work with you to enhance the department statutory authorities to improve the capacity of our Deb What additional changes in law such as the additional multi-year Blocked by authority would you recommend that we pursue in this year's in DA a few aspects of the Acquisition transition transformation. It's been undertaken by under Secretary Duffy in acquisitions and sustainments So there's some aspects of that we'd like to codify even more But you mentioned it multi-year procurement is incredibly important and one of the most important parts of this bill When this committee in this Congress funds those things Companies are already breaking ground on tens of billions of dollars of new plants You you name the we've got 14 in our Ammunition councilor that we're focusing on certain ammunitions are 14 that are critical You know pack threes SM threes SM six is thads patriots Tomahawks Amrams jasms you you name prisms you name them We were building a bit too slow and too low level now the companies are gonna pay for those factories and those production lines and when you're when Congress gives those Five to seven-year demand signals They'll then fund it not just hey, can we get ten more per month, but can we two X three X four Production pay for it now and the companies invest Accordingly, so it's been a critical aspect of some of what we've done so far But we need more of those five to seven-year investments great a gentle cane. What does the 1.5 tree and I'm going to reach out real quick Be swift. Thank you. Hey, my when you go live in the morning, it makes the whole work day informative and great when you cook the retards And chat got you my friend one chest goes a good morning But you did you see wake up with a belly hanging over your pants this morning. There's your excuse for a fat belly All of us fitness coaching and accountability. Yes, guys get with our guy one chest. We do one monthly zoom call I just even jumping on the zoom call you guys get access to me. I'm gonna turn you from shit to fit this war benefits You ask exactly UAE looking like the nigger from Friday. We've got a chase that's my D-bow exactly Reade. Yeah, Wayne guys says mine. Thanks for always keeping me focused with a high cue cuts and it works 25 2.5 years into my six big House painting business and I haven't missed a stream in my headphones all day. Love you, bro. I appreciate you very much Wayne have Thank you for I'm you know, I take that very seriously that you guys will allow me for your news Alright, thank you for the day. Stream makes this to our drive to the rato bearable got you guys Jose Vermeer says back again, Martin. How do I get a hold of Egyptian menace or desert Joe? They're in the OSS 300 reach out to them over there And you can get access to them It's only a hundred bucks a month budget mean for the war five. That's our top tier guys OSS 300 or OSS army 300 I think is a website better in our ability to top description project forces and secure our interest around the globe Chairman You know in my in my view this this represents a historic down payment on future security We're spending about 25 billion dollars on operation epic fury Most of them what? Either a cost estimate coming to us anytime soon or be a specific supplemental request Thank you for that question So approximately this day we're spending about 25 billion dollars on operation epic fury 25 billion Most of that probably way more than that as a munitions. There's part of that. It's obviously ONM and equipment replacement We will formulate a supplemental through the White House that will come to Congress Once we have a full assessment of the cost of the conflict Derby so you're saying the full cost of this point is 25 billion Yeah, that's our estimate for the cost. It's got it's way more than that, bro It's way more than that That's probably just like raw hardcore cost of like doing things But that doesn't account for resources used fuel personnel all that shit contractors Okay, interesting because we I'm glad you answered that question because we've been asking for a hell of a long time And no one's giving us the money. We got all our bases destroyed. So those are gonna need repairs if we even do it So if you could get those details over to us that that would be great mr Secretary you mentioned the the nuclear aspect of Iran and the war And it is worth noting that every president prior to this one including Trump in his first term also prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon without actually having to go to war in Iran So we need to keep that in mind, but also since the war started Iran's nuclear arsenal has not been weakened in any way and at the moment in negotiations what Iran is saying Basically pay us to open up the straight that that's their position, which is completely untenable I agree. No, it's um open up the oh lift the blockade It's worth noting of course that the straight was and end the war then we can negotiate open before the war started Now we're negotiating to get back to status quo. Yep, and if you're finding to get back to status quo you lost Good job, mr. Smith. Oh, and Iran's most recent offer is to say we'll talk about nukes later So what is the planned do tell the full fucking offer come on man. What's up with everybody being retarded Denied the official offer was this US lift blockade US and the war then we can handle the nuclear discussion after those prerequisites are met then we'll come to the table to discuss uranium Actually turn all of this But once again, they are not going to stop enriching chat Okay, they are not going to stop enriching the US wants them to complete stop enriching. They're not going to do that Ethel kinetic action According international law it's their right sovereign right as a nation to enrich uranium for a civilian nuclear program Into energy and improvement in the nuclear situation because we haven't gotten there yet Play it out for us. How does that happen? How does it actually lead to that result? Well, I would take issue with the premise of the question that nothing was done operation midnight hammer was it a very effective I didn't say nothing was done. I said in this war ultimately Well, this is this under this administration unlike other administrations, which cut bad deals and pallets of cash with no ability to oversee whether Iran is actually pursuing a nuclear program That's bullshit like Yeah, Pete. Are you serious dude? Bro, it's no wonder you fucking quoted pull fiction while giving a sermon dude What is the JCP away Like what? No oversight This guy's got to be fucking drunk right now. Did he really just say that under oath? Are you fucking kidding me We got a cash with no ability to oversee whether Iran is actually pursuing a nuclear program Just where we'll litigate JCPOA or the Iran deal our view the president's view bra Every single time Every single cry Bro, what the fuck is this? Are you serious? This is insane Who's that was a very bad deal? Okay, that's the money up front the future that was their money that money we gave them was theirs you talked about that we froze about negotiated deals Funded it allowed them to fund their proxies and spread Hamas and Hezbollah all around the region build up nuclear capes They were already around because of Israel. What are we going to do now? President Trump has been clear right from the killing of Kossum Soleimani to the pulling out of the Iran deal To midnight hammer and now to this effort to recognize that you have to stare You pencil. Thank you for the gifted for down this kind of enemy who's hellbent on getting a nuclear weapon and get them to a point where they're at Bro if they were hellbent on getting a nuclear weapon, they would have had one fucking years ago, bro Like this is so this is so frustrating man It is so frustrating how he just literally lies to you guys on camera all day about a nuclear weapon, bro The table. It's like dude. Didn't we not just do midnight hammer and destroy the nuclear program? So why are you saying they're trying to get a nuclear weapon now if we push them back into their stone age giving it up Uh, in a way that they haven't so they haven't bro broken yet. Okay, we haven't gotten there yet for all of the nuclear facilities have been obliterated underground. They're buried and watching the 147. So we know where any nuclear material would be climbing me time for watching it. Second here, we had to start this war. You just said 60 days ago because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying that yeah, Trump was saying for like two or three weeks that they're going to get a bomb. He took the net and Yahoo, fucking punchline. It was completely obliterated. They had not given up their nuclear ambitions and they had a conventional shield of thousands of operation midnight conventional shields. Oh, no, the Marco Rubio talking point. Oh, wow. Bro, I swear to God, these guys get a script. Look at this shit chat. You can't make the shit up, dude. I feel like I'm fucking, you know, ultra instinct. He really said this dumb shit. Hi, it's Marco Rubio. They could have started. It would have been terrible. We put that in just a few years ago. They were at one, two percent. I don't know what on this, not what it is. Many Americans are asking, why did the United States have to attack Iran now? But why the attack now? Well, what was Iran trying to do? Iran was trying to build a conventional shield. In essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones that no one could attack them and they were well on their way. I had nuclear ambitions and they had a conventional shield of thousands of operation midnight and the weakest moment, nothing of something. Remix. Conventional shield of thousands of operation midnight missiles have so many drones build a conventional shield. In essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones that no one could attack them and they. Chad, this is why nobody wants to debate me on this topic, bro. I'm undefeatable on a topic, Chad, on the stupidity of this war. I am unfucking defeated on this. I know the fucking timestamps to show you guys, bro, it's at that point now moment, all of the top of the head, a thing of substance. It was not in the same place. We were bar for fucking bar with Marco Rubio, dude, before so much. Their facilities are bombed and obliterated. Their ambitions continued and they're building a conventional shield. Let me try again. It's the North Korea strategy. You know this very well. The North Korea strategy was use conventional missiles to prevent anybody from challenging them so they can slow walk their way to a weapon. President Trump. And then they got their weapon and what happened? We didn't do shit. Iran, it's weakest now. Kim Jong-un is firing off missiles, bored as fuck wishing he can be involved moment, took an action to ensure in a way that only the United States of America could do with our Israeli partners to ensure there will have an eventual shield was the reason the main reason why we didn't hit North Korea is because Israel cares more about Iran. That's why if North Korea was a threat to them, like Iran is, we would have bought North Korea too. One of the questions we've done if I could get to it. So on Ukraine, a year or plus ago, your advice, the President's advice was Ukraine had no cards to play. They should go cut the best. Yep. He said they sit back in February of last year. The possible deal they could. Clearly. That's where him and his last year were fighting. That was wrong. What did you miss? What did you miss about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that you didn't see that Ukraine was going to be capable of doing what they've done in the last 14 months? What we didn't miss and we're here in this committee is that Joe Biden, with no accountability, gave hundreds of billions of dollars of our weapons to Ukraine to an outcome that never would have happened if President Trump was a question. So he pulled out our, you guys don't talk about that, ultimately President Trump believes there's a key steal between Russia and Ukraine. You didn't expect Ukraine to be where they're at right now. I'm asking you. Outside logic. Oh slash force also says send a super chat earlier, but not sure if you saw with this before and during the war, I have interception. I have interception miss videos and aftermath videos also did have a bit of me sticking on. Oh, that's funny. We got some spies over there and the OSS spies. Yo, just don't get caught by myself, bro. Just for much strategic understanding. I think the Ukrainians have shown great courage and I appreciate that Europe is now paying for the web. Any weapons that we provide. All right. I yield back. Thank you. All right. Now I want to everybody. I was ducking and dodging everybody. Everybody wants to get their questions. So we are going to be strict sticking strictly to the five minute rule of day. So with that, I recognize the gentleman from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson. Thank you, Chairman Mike Rogers for your leadership working with President Donald Trump. As the grateful father of four sons who have served overseas in Iraq, each of them Afghanistan, I especially appreciate war, Secretary Hicks, Seth and Chief of Staff Cain for your competence, service and success. Military families have never been more appreciated than today. And our enemies of dictators now understand peace through strength. Dictators historically are in the run with your leadership. President Trump has given Syria a chance with President Alsharah replacing. Guys, anytime someone says peace through strength, huge red flag, more than like the neocon. It's a dog whistle for the neocon. From Damascus, who now lives in Moscow. Dictator Maduro is correctly in a Manhattan jail as you successfully revealed in Caracas that the war criminal Putin air defenses do not work. The Chinese Communist Party radar failed, and human mercenaries were expendable. The Cuban dictatorship is failing. And the ultimate mass murderer, dictator Khmerny, is dead of in Tehran, Iran joining the 35,000 people he murdered this year with your. Bro, that is the worst lie that they keep saying that the protesters that were killed 30 to 40,000 protesters. One day is 20,000, another is 30,000, another is 40,000. Bro, I've seen people say 80 to 100,000 fucking gets crazy. The leadership, American morale has never been higher in hopes. Cap, cap. Bro, American morale has never been more angry. This dude can't paint on no new wars. Well, is this guy drunk? That's what a god these bombers are retarded. Of the oppressed people of Iran, Cuba, Russia, and China have never been higher. And it's just an exciting time to be here with you. And Mr. Secretary, we continue to see the growing nuclear threat of our adversaries as they expand their capabilities with the largest military buildup in peacetime in world history by the Chinese Communist Party. Health critical is that we continue as at the Savannah Riverside and South Carolina to develop the plutonium pit processing so that we have modernization. Well, Congressman, I appreciate that question on nuclear modernization. This budget funds $71 billion to modernize the triad in a ways that we had neglected to do and our nuclear triad underwrites everything. But I really appreciate your opening statement. I think something that obviously the media doesn't want to cover and doesn't want to talk about is the historic record breaking surge in recruiting in our ranks. Thirty year record in recruiting of Americans wanting to do-- And now they got a fight for Israel, bro. We're meeting recruiting goals halfway through. Yeah, they wanted to put the uniform on because no new wars and wanted to actually defend the homeland. Now start provocation type wars that don't strategically benefit us of option. The year. Big difference. We couldn't meet our recruiting goals under the previous administration. Under Joe Biden, Americans didn't want to join the military. We couldn't get it. Now we have to turn people away and push them to the next fiscal year. That's why this budget grows our force by almost 50,000. Ultimately, additional troops into the force that we believe we can recruit. That's the best vote of confidence. I can imagine. Well, hey, even better. Hey, Mr. Secretary. You're really understating. Okay, here we go. More glaze. Giving no airmen behind. I think about this. The National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy are frameworks. But a president will employ national force and power based on the political and security situations that a president deems appropriate to use that military force. There's always trade-offs and all of these things. I'm confident that the president always carefully considers these readiness trade-offs. And I'm sure he has done so in this case based on the military options that we've presented with the associated risks and advice. To make a trade going after a regime that's weaker and more vulnerable than it has been in decades, which is quote unquote from the Defense Strategies Report. It's not in my opinion in common sense. Jim is times expired. As you can tell from looking at the dice, votes have been called. So we are now going to stay in recess to the end of this vote. I expected to take 20 to 25 minutes, but we are now in recess. All right, let's go back. Let's see if PVD is still on. It's a fairly Monday top one percent is paying. Yeah, but the campaign. The top one percent that need to pay their fair share, you know, that's the campaign that's happening. Let me get to the next story here. Next story is so Jimmy Kimmel. A few days ago, let's frame that the political leadership will accept a deal that Trump can announce. The problem is that if you know that deadline will hit, and SMS very considerably, Bremmer, own group has suggested that Iran might have about a month to lift its needs. Okay. Here we go. And the thing he's referencing is it's literally called the quasi where we like slightly had some, I'm in engagement with France, and you be helping. That would be run by us versus love, British royalty, well, Ching Charles is one of them. Incredibly, and it has been, you know, for decades, they say no kings, but they would take him. Guys, how long does their show go for two hours or longer? Second. Yeah. King Charles. Oh, this is. Lee. He went on. Yeah. He really runs straight up, or moves, proposal, and we saw it. We've all seen it. They asked for three different things. Those three things are, you know, lift the sanctions, open a blockade, and let's talk nuclear, right? There you go. Thank you, P.B.D. Thank you. Mainstream media did not say that. There's a clip on this as well. President Trump is that first person to fucking say it all. Actually, security to more skeptical of Iran's offer of a deal that would see the state of home was open discussions about nuclear work table, US officials said Trump had discussions with AIDS Monday morning about the offer while he didn't reject it outright. Officials said Trump sounded notes about Iran not dealing in good faith or being willing to meet his key demands, ending nuclear enrichment and vowing never to make a nuclear weapon. They didn't agree. Thanks for force also for the dollars. I'm back in the States now stuck. I was stuck there. Fair enough. No worries, bro. Yeah. What's this route here is this? This is MS now reporting on that. Okay, go for it. So then Trump appears unlikely to accept Iran's latest proposal to end the war. Retarded. Tehran's offer includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz while requiring the US to lift its naval blockade of Iranian ports and Fox News completely left this out. Setting aside questions about the country's nuclear program for later negotiations. The New York Times cites multiple people briefed on discussions in the White House situation room yesterday, who say the president has told advisors he is not satisfied with that proposal. The paper goes on to report. All right. Let Brent go up. Bro, we're sitting at one seventeen. Fuck it. Trump, that's all you want to play. Okay, bro. It is not clear precisely why Trump is skeptical of the offer, but he has repeatedly insisted that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. That is a sentiment. We posted something. Let's look. Break your news chat all the time. Let's see. I appreciate you guys giving updates in the chat, bro, because I can't look at the news while I'm on air. So I appreciate that you guys be doing that for me sometimes. Last thing you put here six hours ago, I can't get there together. They don't know how to sign a nuclear, not a nuclear deal. They better get some art soon, present DJT. Is that what it was? Yeah, bro, okay, sick, dude, sick, secretary is taking Marco Rubio echo. While we're looking at that, Trump wants Iran better get smart soon as he waves military options over straight up her moves. He's been saying this nonstop and Trump tells AIDS to prepare for extended blockade of Iran in a Wall Street Journal article that came out causing oil prices to jump to one fifteen after. He's 17 right now, chat, the reports of extended Iran blockade. So what do you think went up two dollars since these guys have been on air? He's happening here, Jeff. Well, did she really say it's not clear why he rejected the, did she really say that with a surprise that she would say no, I know, no, because it's somewhat reasonable. It's actually not like it's actually a good deal and offers Trump like an off ramp to begin an off ramp process. So it's actually not out of the question. Here's the problem. Our hubris makes us think that we have all the cards. We really don't, dude. We really don't. This is a game of chicken. It's been a game of chicken from the very beginning. Okay. And they have more time to play chicken than we do. That's simple. The IRGC doesn't have midterms in November. Trump does. The Iranians are betting that Trump will fold because of the midterm elections. Precisely. If they can keep oil prices high enough, the economic pain will be sufficient that the US administration will try to save face and come to the negotiating table in a weakened position and therefore they can get a deal that allows them to survive. That's all this has been. What Trump has done. Repeat. Okay. Now let's ask, are they capable of doing that? The answer is yes. Can they do that? The answer is yes. And that my friends is the problem in of itself. Ridley. This guy proved me right. Hey, look, I am willing to take the short run pain. I know this is going to be bad. I know it's going to, in the longer it goes, the worse it's going to get. But the long run strategic goal here is worth the short run pain. No, it's not because we get no benefit. Even if we do accomplish those stupid ass objectives, there's no American benefit. How is a fucking guy that's making 30 K and Ohio going to benefit from this war? If anything, he's getting dragged right now, as we speak. And so everybody keeps underestimating the strategy here and we've talked about this before. There is no strategy. He thought this war was going to be two to three days, dude. He tried to run a clandestine operation and got fucking caught right before Easter. Are you serious? Are you serious, dude? He has no plan. His several intelligence agencies told him this is a bad idea. Don't do it. And he did it anyway. Bro, thought this is going to be Venezuela, part two. Now we're fucking might as well call this operation stuck as well because we're stuck at the fuck over there. How we go from Maduro, and Venezuela to stuck as well in fucking Iran? We're cooked there, man, and our military base has got fucking blown up. Trump administration has behaved very differently. They started with Panama. They went to Venezuela. They've got Cuba. There is a strategic goal here, and they have shown, first of all, that they're willing to go past lines that people had thought they were, you know, you don't, you don't take out Venezuela's leader. You don't do that. They have shown a resolve to be able to do things that nobody else does. And they've also. Yeah. But Iran isn't Maduro. Iran is not Panama. Iran has been preparing for this for decades, dude. They've also shown here that they're willing to take this as far as it needs to go. We'll sacrifice the midterms if we have to in order, because this is worth it. This is one of those things that you don't negotiate. You don't, you don't, this is not something you can just set aside. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That's it. That's the starting point. We'll see if that works. That's right. We're trying to strangle Iran with a blockade. They're trying to strangle us with the Straits of Hormuz and see who blinks. The capacity of a dictatorship like that with stand economic pain is something we might have been misestimating. North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela were able to inflict enormous pain on their citizens and stay in power as long as they're ruthless about doing it. I think we are not here negotiating a treaty with the United Kingdom. We're negotiating with the IRGC, basically a criminal gang that's taken over the country. Who knows, actually, who we're negotiating with is the supreme Ayatollah, even alive it, or is in AI creation at this point. Promises from Iran vows to never create a nuclear weapon for the next 20 years. These guys want to know if they're going to wake up tomorrow morning, so that whole business just seems kind of silly that that's what we're negotiating about. We need to reopen the Straits. We're unwilling to do it with any, we're unwilling to do what we could reopen the middle week if we wanted to, but it would take a military commitment. But what we don't want to do is something you just said is really important that you're not going to go in. And that is the problem. One of the reasons why is that for the Iranians, at least the Iranian regime or what's left of it, this is a war of survival. There is no tomorrow if they, and that's why they're going to boss the wall, lose this. I mean, it's very likely they're going to be hauled them into the street. And so, you know, why don't they just say, sure, we'll give up the nukes, right? Because they can't make nukes anyway, if they try to move anything, these ways. So why the fuck are we there, bro? Why the fuck are you, you defeated your own argument? Why the fuck are we there? If you know they can't make nukes insane, he'll pound a taxi cab going down Central, well, I think that's a, it's a public relations thing for them to say we're still going after the nukes. Just like they keep saying that, you know, they got all these ships going through the black gate and Abbas Arrachi, who's a main negotiator, went out there, met with Putin. Putin made it very clear. We have each other's back. Yep. So that was a very, he went. I think he went to Pakistan Islamabad first and went. How was a big PR move, man? Guys, keep in mind, a president meeting a foreign minister is a big deal because there's a big gap in power there that normally doesn't happen. Normally you're supposed to meet your equivalent when you do a diplomacy. The fact that Arrachi met with Putin himself was to send a message chat to the West. We're with Iran. Y'all are not going to bully them. We're going to continue to support them. And this is us uniting against NATO and the Western countries. That's what that meeting was for. That meeting was to show optics. And let them know that Iran is not alone. That's what it is. It was an optics meeting. That's not normal for a head of state to meet a fucking foreign ambassador chat. And to Oman, then went to put, met with Putin and they had a public meeting in Russia said, "Hey, we're supportive. Our relationships are strong." So that was a state. is this it romp that we have? - Absolutely, it was a statement. Go ahead. - See how courageously and heroically the people of Iran is fighting for their independence, for their sovereignty. - This is obviously the optics. You wanna show to say we're on the same page, okay, as we're going through this. Rubio says the Iranians are serious about making a deal to get themselves out of the mess they're in. So Rubio saying one thing, Trump is saying something else. - Bro, it's 'cause they're lying. (audience laughing) It's that simple, they're fucking lying. They're making this shit up as they go, bro. - Okay, you got Frederick Martz saying the US was humiliated by Iran. So everyone's saying their own thing. This is it rock. - They are getting humiliated. - I've got to play this. - And need I say more, what is Brent? Oh, oh, 117, oh, okay, all right. Got it, got it. - Bombakat! - Let's go live. - They let them travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result. A whole nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called revolutionary gods. - Oh shit, that's one of our allies right there. - And in that respect. - Where are Germany W? - In fact, they let, yeah. - So, Brandon, where are you at with this? - It's why they called the fog of work, 'cause everybody has a completely, you know, if you're listening to somebody from that side, somebody from our side, you'd think a completely different thing's going on. But, yeah, no, a fact of the matter is that, yeah, dealing with a ruthless regime like that, we don't even know who's in charge anymore, but you have to take it all the way at this. - Dude, really? Oh, God, dude. These guys always strike out with the Iran War. Bro, we know exactly who we're negotiating with, bro. You guys just don't wanna say it. - No, you have to. - You guys just don't wanna say it. We know exactly who the fucking Supreme Leader is now, dude. - Yes. - It's Ali, come any son. - Reuplessness. - Who's badly injured? - Possibly. - Lost his kid in family. - For turn, he's the only one. So it's a fucking negotiate. - Respond to one thing and that's strength and, you know, we're not gonna have anything amicable happen. It's not gonna be a negotiated thing. It's gonna be like a brute force and you know, savage outcome wherever you have to, you know, be kind of ruthless. - So John is saying that-- - So, Brandon, would you go, you were a little bit pacifist earlier. If you wanna open the straits by force, the US can do it. There's never been an overwhelming match. Well, it's gonna take boots on the ground. There's no way to do it without the possibility of boots on the ground. - Exactly. You're never gonna win a war with our air power alone. - Like around. - This has been widely researched and shared by almost every single conflict historian researcher. - So, so open the strait. - Casualty, absolutely, yes. - No, well, the straits open though. I think the problem with the strait is that the ships won't, the insurers want to insure ships going through because you still have the thrower. - That's exactly what it is. And that's why it's so dangerous. They don't actually have to bomb anything. They just have to create the aura that they could bomb and then bam. The fear alone does the job for them. - Drone's hitting ships. - Exactly, the US has to remove that threat, which the US could do if we wanted to. - But that, eh, eh, eh, not really. That would require an enormous amount of resources, thousands of soldiers being killed months, if not years to find all the missile cities and drone cities. Nope. - It could come from anywhere though, which I think is the problem. It's like the chance of that happening is. - Okay guys, what's the let me test? If you are against the Ukraine war, but you're pro-Aron war, what does that mean? Good guys, let me know in the chat. If you're anti-Ukrain war, but supportive of the Aeron war, what does that mean? Pop quiz. - Why they won't get insured. So how would the US go about removing that threat? - It's not gonna come from Saudi Arabia. - No, but I mean, that you could send drones from anywhere with Aeron. - Exactly. I don't think this ends well, that regime is in power. - Right, so that's one so we have to go all the way. - And there we go. - Raptor 2CC, ding, ding, ding, your control by Jews. Exactly, sir. Exactly. ♪ I got my seven, seven, seven thousand dollars ♪ ♪ I don't give a shit about dead kids ♪ ♪ I got my seven, seven thousand dollars ♪ ♪ I love getting paychecks from Zionists ♪ - We're saying that. And if you're saying to open up the straight of Hormuz, don't you think if you open up the straight of Hormuz, you give them leverage? - I think you can open up the straight in a short run at tremendous cost. You can come with some deal and they agree to stop shooting for a while, at which point you've lost. At which point you've handed them perpetually the power to shut it down whenever they want. And if the U.S. is willing to go along with that, you might as well send Xi Jinping the keys to Taiwan. - Yeah, we can't have that, we can't-- - No, this is the power to shut it down whenever. - I did an episode, guys, with Cyrus on Taiwan. The invasion of Taiwan is a fear mongering, man. So we are actually, we're on the edge of a no way out. The U.S., I think, and you think, cannot just give in, have a short run deal, they stop shooting for a little while. We get to the midterms, no. 'Cause then we have lost strategically tremendous amount. They can't give in, either, 'cause they wanna get up to the next morning and they are willing to murder their people in enormous quantities in order to stop anything they come-- - No, they're one of the murder massage agents that were stimulating riots. - It was up because of the economy. So there's a scenario here where, once all the oil tankers that are on the sea have reached port, the oil situation gets really bad for the rest of the world, not so bad for the U.S. 'cause we make it. And things are really tough all around. There is no short run solution here. This isn't-- - Yeah, we make our own oil, but we're still playing double the price, bro. This guy's a clown, dude. (slow-paced music) Any time somebody says we make our own oil, it doesn't matter, just tell 'em to shut the fuck up, bro. 'Cause a bunch of you guys are probably paying double to fill your tank right now, and this guy's over here saying some dumb shit. - I think you're right. We're in the place where it's in either or. Either we go all the way or we stop short and the U.S. loses and they don't-- - Exactly, we aren't an escalation ladder trap. - They don't achieve their objectives. And I think, again, going back to the framework here, the Trump administration has said, we realize this. We're gonna tolerate the short run pain to achieve our long run goals. What they're betting is that they can break the Iranians before-- - But can you achieve that goal with the IRGC, which is the government Iran still in power? I mean, this-- - Why is that? - Nope. Nope, and those missile cities, nope. - I love about the-- - That's the goal, though. - They have pushed all of our enemies to the five-yard line. Venezuela's, the Cubans, the Iranians. Nobody, we were stuck on our own 30-yard line and just sitting around an internal huddle for 20 years. So they'd just, but there's no points until you get to the goal. - Right. - Yeah, there's obviously, there's a tremendous argument whether they can execute the plan, but I think that's the plan. There's not gonna be a short run. Hey, let's get the hormones thing open and we'll negotiate later. This is either or, either the Iranians break or we leave. - Yeah, and the tough part is that there's the absence of a rebel group and there's an absence of a clear next leader in the country, which is normally something you have when you're-- - Well, you know who the leader is today. Pull up the guy sent you, that's the guy today. Forget about how many, this is the guy. This is their commander-in-chief of IRGC right now, pointed March 1st. Just so you know, his background a little bit. - Yep, hardliner. He answers directly to a Mustafa committee. - He previously served as a deputy commander of IRGC and then he took over. Argentina's high school formally charged him in 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish community center. - Guys, the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, that is like, they're, I'll branch their military, they answered directly to the Supreme Leader. They're the ones that run the ballistic missile and drone program. - No, Buenos Aires, Argentina, you should, I know. - These are the dues responsible for Boom Boom Tel Aviv. ♪ Boom Boom Boom ♪ - You could thank these niggas for that. ♪ Boom Boom Boom ♪ ♪ Boom Boom ♪ ♪ Boom Boom ♪ ♪ Boom Boom Tel Aviv ♪ ♪ This is what you get for all your evil deeds ♪ ♪ Boom Boom Boom ♪ ♪ Boom Boom Tel Aviv ♪ ♪ You brought this up on yourself ♪ ♪ It's your time to bleed ♪ ♪ Boom Boom Boom ♪ ♪ Boom Boom Tel Aviv ♪ ♪ This is what you get for all your evil deeds ♪ ♪ You are ♪ - Let's see here, some fact in the chat. Free bands. Well, free bands, it's interesting that you say that because there's probably a high likelihood that you won't be free when you get sent to the shadow room. And you're more than likely, probably a monkey black. - Where's this fucking retard? Do you want me already get rid of this nigger? You guys shadow on them that fast? Damn. Wait, did you, did you, did you all shadow on this nigger? Already? Oh no, nevermind, I found him. All right, free bands, ZK. Enjoy the shadow on nigger. - Time to send you to the shadow room. (screaming) The future is mine. - Be gone, Faggot. Anyone that has a name called fucking free bands is definitely a fucking nigger. So enjoy the watermelon run with all the other fucking monkeys. (laughing) - Hello, monkeys. - Faggot. - This is who we're negotiating with, okay? Vahidi has considered a regime hardliner. He publicly warned Iranian woman that security forces would punish those breaking the rules with respect to her job compliance. So imagine what kind of a player you have that you're negotiating with. This is the, this is the commander. Jack Johnson, what do you think about energy lockdowns? From where? - cheap. Now, go to the Wall Street Journal story that came out two, three hours ago, Rob this morning with how the economy is impacting the people. 25 million people or so on the run work. 1 million directly lost their job. Another million indirectly lost their jobs. Inflation is up 67%. The price of meat right now. I think the pound of it right now. If you go a little bit lower is 360. Not a pound. I'm sorry if you go a little bit lower 360 and ounce if I'm not mistaken a pound Yeah 360 a pound beyond the reach of most in country where the minimum which is a hundred and thirty dollars a month Iran's national security look at the number One point eight million real to the dollar the people are getting destroyed This isn't this is nothing new. They've been dealing with this in January dude They've already been sanctioned how so what do they got to lose this actually proves why they're gonna keep fighting This little proves why they're gonna keep fighting They've already dealt with this for 50 years and they're tired of it It's do or die bro put up a shut up People are rerun the day-to-day average day-to-day people are getting destroyed and while you're reading this a story Comes out which this maybe the biggest story and I want to come to you guys Trump says Iran has days left before it's forced to halt oil production, okay now others say all right boys It looks like we're on the front page of kick for all you guys are joining new here welcome In case you're new here Women are dumb trained. He's can't have guns. They're mentally old Jews run America blacks are crooks Indian stink and it was a six million, okay? If you're a real ninja and you don't care about cancel culture You're not a retarded female or a dumb black or a greedy Jew or stinky Indian or a go-fucking Muslim We're retarded spick Then you're gonna enjoy the content make sure to follow the fucking channel Realistic on this shit most diversified. We literally do it all here. We got jokes racism geopolitical commentary We make fun of women and say how they're retarded Deep analysis on female nature true crime breakdowns That I mentioned that we say women are retarded Had to give you guys that one twice. It's that important Anyway carrying on with the show. We also do reactions like this debunking Zionists like a P.B.D. It could go for another two months two months to put us where July 1st, right? May 1st. Yeah, right July 1st is two months World cup starts when June can you find out when the world cup starts? I don't know when the world cup starts, but it starts in the next And this story as you read it it says president Trump's mid-April blockade of straight-of-home was largely about forcing Iran's oil industry to confront a shut-in date when it's oil storage capabilities exhausted and production literally stops That would be a dramatic economic Development for Iran as oil wells are difficult to restart and there's a risk of permanent damage The White House's logic is that Iranian economy will be under such strain That the political leadership will accept a deal that Trump can not happening, bro. Now Because like I've said before and I'll say it again these conservatives have like no fucking you know idea of geography The US only got have the problem correct. Okay, we are set up here In the Persian fucking golf right straight-of-home was this here guys right? So where 20% of the world's oil goes and we're set up right around here in the Persian Gulf right now. Here's the thing Iran has access to the Kaspian Sea. This is a basically a big-ass fucking lake that's connected to who? Oh Russia and Kazakhstan very nice Okay So they still have another lifeline To utilize to do business And they're still getting support from Russia. Why do they ever got you was visiting huh put two and two together chat Put two and two together chat Why was Arigachi and fucking Russia? Hmm. I wonder why Why did Aragachi me will put in himself? Hmm. I wonder why Does Iran have some type of deep connection with Russia? Oh, they share a lake that just so happens have zero fucking US naval ships or US power in general Hmm Hmm This is the equivalent to having your front door locked but everyone knows you got a back door that's always open So this is why this blockade is fucking retarded Even if they entered it 100% of the vessels It doesn't matter because the back door is wide open pause The problem is that a few know That deadline will hit an estimate is very considerably bremmer Own group has suggested that Iran might have about a month's time to hold that other suggests that things will come To a head earlier in May still other sets suggested juniper oh just like they said that they destroyed 90% of their ballistic missiles Just like they said they are they're down to like a hundred launchers Just like they said that Where the people are gonna rise up and take over the country Just like we said go to the streets and take your country back. I'm a side agent so it amongst you none of that shit worked Just like how Scott Scott percent purposely crashed the Iranian real And it still didn't lead to regime change These niggas get bombed while they're fucking marching and they say guide is great. I've shown you guys the footage The possibility Trump these guys are fucking different man. They're not like us is his wound Offered the most dramatic take when the foxes told that they only have about three days left. I don't know if it's three days So you're playing this game saying how much time they have they just want to rush a god knows what promises were made behind closed doors Gas prices in America when you look at it right now national average is 423 It's up 33.6 percent. Okay national average is 543 for that's crazy easel up 50% You know you already look at the stats with economy some of the stuff You know first time buyers right now. It's only 26% of purchases historically. It's been around 40% historically average age 36 So economy isn't the best today to put this even a little bit more on them. It's putting too much pressure So who's gonna be able to manage that pressure more? It's what it's gonna come down to Jeff your thoughts on this Yeah, again, it's a game of chicken the US economy is not good in historically oh shocks lead to recessions They'll come back to order how go Secretary can you know that this is not a surprise clearly general. Can you hear mine? I don't think Okay, they're back set schedule and we'll go back to the test one here in second They started out and say hey, we'll get this done in six weeks But that was just for public consumption. I don't think it was a realistic target and we talked about that you know back then It was it was gonna take longer than six weeks. We all knew that was the case. They knew that's they know that's the case Yeah, they've been lying the whole way first. It was the war's gonna be short Then it was we won the war now. It's fucking You know, we don't need the straight now. It's open the straight assholes So what they're really triplets every day trying to do is they're betting that the the damage that they're inflicting on a ran Will be so substantial that they don't have to negotiate with the IRGC guy because Somebody else. No, they're negotiating with a guy that can't control the IRGC That's what makes this worse That's why a bazaar got you said the straight-on mousse is open and then they just said uh nope and kept it closed They're like up nope. No block eight is still in. They're still bombing loving on. No, thank you. Nope Fuck with the prime with the you know foreign minister says We'll take care of him the IRGC is completely autonomous guys They don't answer to anybody not even the president on this supreme leader The pressure on the Iranian population. They'll be a popular uprising or some other faction will take control It's the strategic calculus here is the United States plus all these other groups against the IRGC And so how much abilities the IRG how much ability is the IRGC have to To withstand all of these consistent pressures all over the place We don't know nobody knows Maybe they have an idea. Maybe they think they have an idea, but we have no clue But that's that's that's the strategy is going into it. We're not talking about that anymore We're talking about oh, you know want them to make a deal because of the pain and there I think you know you look at hit How many trying to make it how many people did Mao star? How many people did Stalin star? How many people did North Korean star? They are immune to economic pain less Somebody else maybe the regular army somebody says uprising there has to be enough. They're not making a deal with the IRGC That's that's what I'm saying there was that was never the option the option here is I've been saying from the beginning is regime collapse I agree entirely, but that's not what we're hearing Say that though. I mean nobody in the Trump administration is going to say that we're we can't negotiate with these people because they're fanatics, but they're going to say is like they said before they're going to bring the public along slowly First to say we're going to have this wrapped up in six weeks Oh, then we're going to do a ceasefire and then we'll wrap it up They're going to string along the idea of a deal, but I don't think that's that's their realistic There's no midterm elections in Iran The thing that makes it tough though is that you know the IRGC has guns and the people the country don't have guns You know, so regime collapse you have to have one side that what makes having guns as well Well eventually what makes the population yeah, and Trump gave them guns should rise up and get guns You admitted that show, which is nuts a rebel group starvation Yeah, but wouldn't you say a rebel group a typically exists? They're not going to starve rush has been sending in a whole bunch of fucking food into Iran to ensure that that These sanctions don't get the people going hungry It's with the help of an intelligence agency and Seriously, I think in Iran that the hope is the regular army they have guns the other way of regimes collapse 30% of them are IRGC and the regular army Yeah, the other way regimes collapse is the people with the guns realize this is completely rotten Regime's not going to fucking collapse for us, dude. It's not going to happen What's up? Thank you for the uh 101 thank you for the gifted you if you guys are broken in a chat type and I'm a broken in a chat someone will gift you a sub Anymore that's how the Soviet Union collapsed they they they soldiers refused to fire right and which percentage of the Let's get back to it. Okay Um the um the king was here yesterday, and as he was speaking he received a standing ovation when he implored this body to continue our support for Ukraine in the um 2026 national defense strategy at assessors russia will be We'll remain a persistent manageable threat. It specifically identifies Russia's continued threats to Ukraine, and we have, of course, the, currently, the presidential continued drawdown authority that can support you. Hey, we're still on the front page. Guys, if you're enjoying what you're seeing, you like political commentary like this with some fucking jokes, having a good time, et cetera. Follow the channel on kick, number one political commentary channel on kick. We do everything. All right, political commentary, dating, masculinity, getting your mindset right. We do it all over here, literally all, helping out be a fat piece of shit and motivation. Ukraine and also, how about real estate, all that, the president Trump, when we cover the news, real nigga news announced a pearl of the price, someone asked, did you sleep my or no? I did not. So I priced down like another hour or so, and I'm going to pass out because I got Alex Johnson tomorrow, guys at two, we're going to do a marathon stream, I think. Now try to get streamed on kick as well for you guys tomorrow. So I will hopefully stream my stream with Alex Jones on kick for you guys tomorrow. I know some of you guys might find it hard to find, but it's going to be the last episode of Infowars. They are closing down and going to segue over to Alex Jones live. So I'm going to be there for the historic night. So it's going to be a good time. I will. I'm going to Austin to tonight, guys, literally flight is like a 950 or some shit. As Ukraine requirements list, and in the FY 2026, India, there is the 400 million that is included in the European capacity building within the defense security cooperation. General, the last time it went on the house floor with respect to funding for Ukraine, there was a vote in the House of over 300 members of the House that supported Ukraine. Could you please give us a description of some of the things currently that we're doing operationally support you, Crane? Uh, Congressman, I, bro, who gives a fuck about you, Crane? Bro, what? How come? Paws. You're still talking about you, Crane? You mean you are stupid. That's what we should really be talking about. Ukraine? No, you are stupid. You stupid. Quick, press shot. Few of those are probably left for classified session. We continue through our security assistance group, Ukraine, to assist with some information sharing matters. You, Com, continue. But you would describe it as continuous and ongoing and essential for Ukraine, with U.S. support. So much of the relations. Gentlemen, it's time to expire. Chair, and I'll recognize General California, Mr. Gehrminde. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Secretary and General Kering. Let me begin by thanking the men and women of the United States military. For their service and their bravery. I recognize that our service members have performed with extraordinary courage and tactical skill, and they've done incredible things that our country has asked them to. Their professionalism and selfless service are not in question, and never have been. What is in question is the purposes and the strategic direction of this war. Mr. Headseth, as Secretary of the Department of Defense, you are ultimately responsible for the conduct of the Iran War. Any unvarnished review of what is happening right now in the Middle East would reveal a geopolitical calamity, a strategic blunder resulting in worldwide economic. Oh, it was brought about a cook? Crisis. The result of Trump's war of choice is a serious self-inflicted run to America. It will take years and a new administration to recover from the grave damage to our standing in the world as well as our economy. Someone with some sense, not glazing military. We must remember that 13 Americans have been killed in action, hundreds wounded, and thousands of civilians killed, including more than 100 school children. The risk of this conflict was foreseeable, and certain that the Department of Defense knew that it was likely that in a war with Iran, Iran would create an international economic crisis by blocking the strait of Hamud. They said they were going to do all this shit. That's the crazy part, chat. They warned that they would do all the shit they're doing now. We will attack the Gulf. We will close the strait of Hamud's. This will be a regional war. We will escalate and defend ourselves. They literally said they were going to do all this shit. And thus stopping 20 percent of the world's oil. They said if Israel attacks us, we're going to attack the United States too. As this and they've done both. Existential threat considered, apparently not. During the 60 days of Trump's Iran war, critical munitions have been expended at an alarming rate. Yep. Pleading magazine levels below what is thought necessary to hold China at bay. It will take years and tens of billions of dollars to restock. A significant part of the necessary navy and marine force in the Pacific has been removed and sent to support the Iran war. Our support of Ukraine has suffered, as supplies and defense systems are diverted to the Iran war. America has lost irreplaceable aircraft, radar systems, and strategic bases have been shown to be vulnerable. The continued lengthy deployment of ships, equipment, and personnel has sacrificed readiness. We know what we have lost, but what have we gained? Let's consider that the regime in Tehran is still intact with new and more radical leadership. As are Iran's ballistic missile and drone forces. As Iran, as is Iran's ability to rebuild their military industries. Also as is Iran's coordination with China, Russia, and North Korea. And Iran's ability to choke off global energy supplies. And their stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which they only built after President Trump shredded President Obama. Let's go. Bro is cooking chat. Bro is cooking. Yes. Yes. Yes. Bro is fucking cooking. Bro, no politician has the balls to say that, bro. Holy shit. I've been screaming this for months. But the only reason why they even are pursuing a nuclear bomb is because we pulled out the fucking JCPOA. Bro is fucking sauteing right now. Wow, it's refreshing to hear a fucking politician finally say the truth, dude. Wow. Iran deal in 2017. Secretary. 2018, but close enough, man. Very headset. You have been lying to the American public. Hey. Yes. Call out, Kelly's breath. About this war from day one. Facts. And so has the President. Facts. You have misled the public about why we are at war. Facts. You and the President have offered ever changing reasons for this war. Let's fucking go. You've misled the public about the progress of the war. Facts. While the theory has executed this war with tactical success, the strategy has been an astounding incompetence. Hey, where's the spatula when you fucking need it, man? Doing immense economic damage to America, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Chairman, with the personal attack on the Secretary, he should have an opportunity to respond. He's certainly one. No, none of those are personal attacks. He just said he's lying, which is facts. No, no, no, no, it's the gentleman's time. We can use it as he sees fit and add an extra five seconds to Mr. Guillemini's time. Thank you. You and the President have ever changing reasons for the war. You have misled the public about the progress of the war. While the military has executed this war with tactical success, the strategy has been an outstanding example of incompetence. This war of choice is a political and economic disaster at every level. Like the President's promise to lower the cost of living, gas prices are up 40 percent, and inflation is so much for lowering the cost of living. The President has got himself in America stuck in the quagmire of another war in the Middle East. He's desperately trying to extricate himself from his own mistakes. It is in America's and indeed the world's interest that he's succeed in that. I yield back. Gentlemen, yours back here, and I recognize the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Whitman. Hey, let's see what Hexat's got to say. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to thank our witnesses for joining us today, General Cain, Secretary Hexat, Mr. Hexat. Thank you so much. I want to go to a DJ and Mike. Thank you so much. If you guys are broke, he's in the chat. Tell me. See, I put the fries in the bag. Guys, who is that guy, Courtney? What's his first name again, Chat? Is that Joe Courtney out of Connecticut? If I'm not mistaken, bro, he changed his hair. He looks so fucking different. Is that Joe Courtney chat? He needs to be bald. - Statement I've been making here. What the fuck? - For the last several years. And that is we are in the most dangerous national security position that this world has been in since 1939. And we know that it's a critical effort that we undertake to make sure we can deter through the concept of peace through strength. Miss Secretary, I'd like to start with you. We know that peace through strength has a number of tenants. I think the most important of those is presence. And we know that the United States has the Marine Corps amphibious, he's a death from California. - Threaty group Marine Corps Expeditionary Unit that provides us that presence. We know there are over 2,000 Marines and an aircraft combat unit that are on board those vessels. And they let us do a number of different things. That's the crisis response team that gets to go around the world. Today, as we speak, we have three arguments that are deployed around the world. Unfortunately, that's an anomaly. It should be standard. Secretary Hickseth, the president and the combat and commanders need maximum flexibility to respond in multiple places at multiple times to combat and deter these threats. I just want to get your perspective. - All right, John Garamendi, American businessman. Oh, why the hell did it say Mr. Corps? Who's sitting in the prime of the Corps and he's seat then? - On your goal to make sure we have a persistent 3.0 argument presence and to look at how we're going to make sure through our shipbuilding plans that we assure the Northern California Representative Democrat Party. - That we have the adequate number of amphibs that are being built. I think that number's probably right around 40. And then what are we going to do to make sure, too, that the a sub-o, the operational availability, is going to be at the level where we can maintain an argument 3.0 with the effort we have to put into maintain these ships. - So thank you for the question, the substantive question. - I don't normally keep up with fucking California Democrats, but bro, what's cooking, dude? - Yeah, bro, yeah, that was a flame session. - Ultimately, we support 3.0 argument. - I wonder if Hacksett is going to answer any of those questions. - That presence right now gives us a lot of flexibility. And this budget supports moving in that direction to ensure that this administration and future administrations have that kind of strategic flexibility. With the incredible capabilities the argument provides. We saw it in Southern Spear. We saw it on the Maduro raid. We saw it, we see it right now. It's a persistent capability. So I think you'll find our ship building investments to meet that as well. But if I may, I didn't get a chance. I didn't see a question in the statement from the congressman. I hope-- - Okay, let's go appreciate how reckless it is. When I said reckless, feckless, and defeatist of congressional Democrats at the beginning, that came after watching you say the same thing on CNN this morning, a quagmire. (laughs) All right, bro, it's pissed. - Yeah. - All right, boys. The showdown is about to come. - My generation served in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan years and years of nebulous missions. - But you guys have never been there as the point, dude. - You should have never been there. - In nation building that led us to nothing. What we have right now, the way you stain the troops when you tell them two months in, two months in, Congressman, you should know better. Shame on you. Calling this a quagmire, two months in. The effort, what they've undertaken. - The truth hurts, bro. They shouldn't have been there in the first place. - What they've succeeded, the success on the battlefield, the create strategic-- - Are we gonna lie to them? - Opportunity. - That they're fucking going to war for Israel? - He's the courage of a president, confront, a nuclear Iran, and you call it a quagmire, handing propaganda to our enemies, shame on you for that statement. And statements like that are reckless to our troops. Don't say I support the troops on one hand and then a two-month mission is a quagmire. That's actually, by telling the troops the truth, you're doing what needs to be done. Tough love, hey, this is a quagmire and you shouldn't be here. False a quick call, take an accountability, just like we did with Iraq. 'Cause this is the same exact rhetoric they had when people were criticizing Iraq. Oh, you're not a patriot, you're a terrorist sympathizer. You're with the terrorists, are you with America or not? This is exactly what they did during their Iraq war for anyone that criticized that war. And hexad is doing it again, and it's ironic because he actually went to Iraq for no fucking reason. Yet he's saying this now. - Who are you cheering for here? Who are you pulling for? Our troops are coming. - There we go. The typical, you're not American for telling the truth. - Incredible work, they've done incredible things for the entirety of this mission and achieved incredible battlefield successes. And you sit there and go on TV for your clickbait about Kwag. - Okay, Donkey Puncher in the YouTube chat. You have been selected. Tell me how I'm a retard, retard. Nucks, you said nucks that I'm a retard? Tell me how I'm a retard, moron. You have the floor. You're about to get fucking baked. I hope you're ready. And it's the 1940s, somewhere in Poland. Okay, you're literally about to get baked. How am I retarded, buddy? You get your news from a dude that has an anime caricature and doesn't have a face, okay? So go ahead and tell me how I am a retard. Please prove it, moron. I think he's a YouTube chat 'cause he's an idiot. Like most people that are in YouTube chat. - See if I can find this issue. I don't see it for some odd reason. But go ahead, Myers. It undermines the mission. Your hatred for President Trump blinds you to the truth of the success of this mission and the historic stakes that the president is addressing which the American people support. Iran's been at war with us for 47 years. You wanna talk about? - No, we've been at war with Iran with sanctions, coups, supporting Israel, all that bullshit. - Out of forever war? For two months, this president has stared them down. He's gonna get a better deal than anyone ever has and ensure that Iran never has nuclear weapon. I know the American people support that mission despite your loose-- - No, they don't support that mission, dude. None of us voted for new wars. - It's talk and words like Quagmire. - Brothers and sisters, feelings. - Thank you. - Thank you, Mr. Secretary. General Ken, I wanna quickly go to you. We know all about the need for exquisite platforms but we know if we're gonna close the gap with our pacing threats, we have to make sure we have those expendable and a credible platforms. And we know those nation capabilities are key and we have to be able to spin them up quickly because that's the fastest way for us to, again, deter by peace through strength. Give us your perspective on how you see the urgency of getting that capacity not only in place but getting that ability to go to scale and get those capabilities in the hands of our war fighters. - So I think it's critical. And when I look at what OSW above us is doing in the deputy secretary as well as Secretary Duffy, and frankly, the national and defense industrial bases all rallying around the need to scale along with the new entrants that are out there who are coming and bringing products to the joint force. A key is capacity to expand. - Here, now recognize the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Norcross. - Thank you, Chairman, like to thank witnesses for being here today. Mr. Secretary. - Well, no worries, bro. He says thank you for streaming on YouTube. No worries, man. I'm gonna stay on here for a little bit. I hate this platform though. I lose money being on here, chat. So that's why I try not to be on it long. It's well known that our defense industrial base and maritime industrial base has declined greatly over time. It's the shipyards. It's many things that you already spoke about. In my community, we used to have three shipyards, 40,000 workers. We've lost that critical job skills earn and 40,000 people who know how to do it. And quite frankly, most of it whenever it sees because it was cheaper. Well, cheaper doesn't buy the security we need for our industrial base. I championed a provision in the 24 NDAA entitled Enhance Domestic Content Requirement for Major Acquisition Programs. Had to do with our industrial base making things here in America long before this administration came in. The goal was to strengthen our supply chains and have that critical oversight push for greater investments. Much of what you're doing now on these major defense acquisition programs. So we pass that in a bipartisan manner because we knew that this was critical and things can happen. We'll only hold here we are. There was a reporting requirement and that's called on you, the Secretary of Defense, to establish an information repository. Sorry, it's a shout out to some retard chat, but he's not even worthy of a mention. Enjoy the shout out to watermelon phone. Rules create a fallback process to govern the Department of Defense. We wanted to better understand much of what is being done here, but it's not being reported back to us. I sent to your office on January 8th, followed up on February 4th for years overdue on this report. That will give us insight on how we're addressing it. We hear what you're saying, but can you commit that we will get that report to us in the next 30 days? >> Unless Jay has additional details, I'll make sure we look into it. Whatever we can get to you is rapidly as possibly we will. We'll also check with the new Navy leadership and make sure they're complying as rapidly as possible with every aspect that could apply to shipbuilding. that's been our focus. on the Navy side. >> It's not just shipbuilding, major acquisition programs across the board. This is incredibly important and they are ignoring this and 30 days is being generous certainly. Second issue is, you talk about champion and American worker and how important this is. Yet in a memo in April 9th, you terminate all the collective bargaining agreements across the DOD. Taking away from hundreds of thousands of workers at DOD, they are collecting the bargaining rights that they voted for. There was nothing to indicate there were any issues with any of the bargaining agreements, yet you decided to take away from them. Over the last few years, we have increased the wages for those war fighters. Incredibly important this year, up to 7%. Yet on the other side of this, you talk about supercharging the defense industrial base. We are in this, how do you go and say, yes, we support the war fighters. They can't do their job unless we are building things that they can use. Yet, no evidence to prove that these collective bargaining agreements were a problem anywhere across the Department of Defense. >> Encourage. >> What could lose this happen? >> Due to visit that installation before the end of this year. Thank you very much, and I yield back. >> Generally yields back. >> Chair and I recognize as a gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. Molten. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, you and I agree. >> You might be a Democrat. >> Be that Iran is a national security threat to us and our allies. Now, earlier, you called us feckless for questioning your war. Do you think Congress was smart or feckless? When it failed to ask tough questions of the Bush administration and gave them a blank check for Iraq? >> Exactly. >> Well, if you're trying to compare this war to the Iran-- >> I'm just asking you, do you think it was a harder effect? >> The first one to call is stupid war than it's a false comparison. >> Okay, well, probably a good idea to ask tough questions. So let me just ask you a few questions. Did you advise the president that we should attack Iran? >> We were, first of all, in this position in the cabinet, we never talk about what we would advise the president to do or not. >> Do you think the president or do you deserve more-- >> I've been in every meeting. >> I understand that. >> Mr. Chairman and everybody else says the-- >> Secretary, I'm asking the question. >> The questions were made. And he got every perspective possible when it came to-- >> I'm just asking what your perspective is. Are you afraid to take ownership of this? Do you think it was a good idea or not? >> When I, as I have consulted the president, do I think it's a good idea to confront a nuclear bomb in the hands of the-- Imagine what the world would look like right now. >> There we go. >> If Iran had a nuclear weapon. >> Okay, so let's just imagine-- >> Which, by the way, if they had one, every-- >> Which the Obama people could allow them to-- >> Including the first Trump administration. >> They had one. >> Prevented them from having a nuclear weapon. So listen, how is this war going? Do you think we're winning? >> Militarily on the battlefield, it's been an astounding military success. >> But are we winning the war? >> Absolutely. >> Okay, so do you call Iran closing the straight-of-war moose winning? >> Well, I would say the blockade that we hold that doesn't allow anything to come in or out of Iranian ports will always-- >> So we've blockaded their blockade. >> They blockaded us. >> Blockadeception. >> Then we blockaded their blockade. That's like saying tag, you're it, or-- >> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] >> You know, if President Madison had said, well, the British just burned down Washington. But don't worry, we're going to burn it down as well. [LAUGH] [LAUGH] >> Bro, just cooking them now, like just embarrassing them now at this point. >> Chairman Kayn, did the military have plans for the idea that Iran might blockade the straight? >> No, fuck no. >> Sure, thanks for the-- >> They definitely didn't know that, they thought it could happen, but they didn't plan for it properly. >> Question, I'll answer it this way, you know, in this job, I have to maintain trust with a variety of constituents to produce the president. >> Here we go, they're going to dance around this. >> Yes sir, as always, my point in this is, as I explain the role, my point in this is, we always offer a full range of military options that are careful. >> And he's been truthful, they really can't tell Trump what to do, Chad. All they can do is give him options, say, this is what I like, but at the end of the day, Trump makes a final decision. Remember guys, his whole Intel community said, yo, bombing Iran, is it going to do regime change? He did it anyway. Despite the fact his advisors told him whatever they told him. Trump bears ultimate responsibility, guys, at the end of the day. >> That's what he said. >> I'm not going to talk about it. I'm not going to talk about it. said we will give them no quarter no mercy in order for All right, guys, getting off of YouTube, come on over to kick, getting off of YouTube here in a second, come on over to kick. We got some rid of some of the trash on YouTube. No quarter or no survivor. I fucking hate stupid people, bro. Oh, my God. It's a war crime under the Geneva conventions. You understand that's murder. Do you stand by that statement? The Department of War fights to win. And we ensure that our war fighters have the rules of engagement necessary to be as effective as you call democratic members of Congress to be tried for sedition for reminding our troops to follow the law. But when you tell them to commit a war crime, you stand by yourself for insinuating the laws that we're giving them our law for. We're not breaking out of general from Tennessee, Dr. Desjardins. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I thank our witnesses for being here today. And I'd like to thank you for your commitment to our advancement in space, golden dome and nuclear modernization, all which are critical and also understand we're going to start some reproduction of the MQ nine reaper drones, which you, Mr. Secretary and Miss Secretary share my great state of Tennessee. And we know the one 18th, they're wing the National Guard operating very field and conduct many of these missions and they do. All right, we just went on a band spree. We went on a fucking killtacular right there. Get rid of the fucking trash. All right, guys, come on over to kick ending the YouTube stream now. Tired of fucking retards. Ending YouTube right now, guys, come on over to kick ninjas. We're the real niggas at move over to kick kick dot com slash mind games. X mods, put the link. So with great precision. Secretary Higgs said you commissioned as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army National Guard in 2003. You've been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay. You have been awarded two bronze stars, the combat infantry, men, badge, joint commendation medals, two army commendation medals among other recognitions. You have seen military actions from both an operational and service member perspective. Have you ever seen operations with the scope and scale and complexity of midnight hammer operation, absolutely resolved and operation epic fury? Thank you for the question, Mr. Congressman. Not only have I not seen missions like that, but if you ask, if you earnestly go into our formations right now and you talk to kernels and majors and staff sergeants and two star generals and you ask them about the environment of our military right now and its capabilities right now compared to under the Biden administration under Obama. They will tell you it is night and day. Even the even the ranking member acknowledged that the troops performed incredibly well over the past 15 months and have demonstrated to the world. These are not new troops in a lot of cases. These are the same troops with new leadership under President Trump who gives them every authority under a department that ensures they have what they need. I have operators looking at me saying for the first time ever we have everything we need to accomplish the mission, both in equipment and in authorities. That matters when you go 37 hours around the world for midnight hammers. That matters when you go downtown in Venezuela and grab the indicted dictator of a country in the middle of the night in the most fortified location. That matters at the outset of the Iran conflict. It matters during Operation Rough Rider, which there's a reason why the Houthis aren't on the. I don't want to settle around. Thank you, mine for your patience. So straight into Timmy got you mine. I love your content. Go cook some J's and monkeys. I want to escape the matrix. I have a daytime job train boxing with the time I've left. I want to do a dropshade. Do you have any advice? I have we have channels on we have shows on money Monday for dropshipping. Go check them out completely free. Mine a download kick. I've been trying to watch rewatch your previous stream, but they never load. The reason why is you got to subscribe, bro. You got to be a subscriber to rewatch the streams. You already know kegs breath is going to go home and drink the bottle off this morning. Exactly it. Holy fuck. How did he say up to 40% much crude barrel right now? Yep. You know, man, who's this guy? Can you check the politician A pack tracker? Probably doesn't get me. Probably might get money from them. That thing is on borrowed time. Politics prices are part of OSS. There's shows you've been doing the clarity of everything. It's obvious that hezbollah. Hey, my random question. The high particular if we this from David cookie fresh or that cookie cookie. If we the US want to cut ties with tomorrow, would that be possible? How far we've been involved? Uh, it would take years, a couple of election cycles. This come from Al Jazeera. Iran was caught cost 24 25 billion. I think it's more than that urban legend. Say Bitcoin. Yep, these are governments out of touch with the American citizen. Yep. Besides again, Andrew will say in debate with us right now. I've seen files in a relevant because Trump is bombing beetles in Iran. Yeah, I saw that. Um, these niggas be happy about my pictures being obsessed while they're in a room with seven egg as a touch and dicks waiting for their turn to fuck some fat wire girl thing. And it's going to make them homosexual. Yeah, bro, uh, people are stupid and never played sports, bro. You know, it's just whenever people talk shit about those pictures, um, which I've already explained a million times, uh, of like what happened right before those pictures were taken. Like one time when they broke in my room when I was in practice, another time where my fucking buddy kissed me on a cheek trying to be funny, she felt like that. Um, anytime people talk shit about that, I'm like, yeah, you're just a retard in this fight, right? You've never played a sport, been in the military, never out of brotherhood. Like, you don't know, like this is just like typical fucking, um, jock humor, toilet fucking humor, locker room talk type shit. Now, cause they experienced 50 days of the American military under President Trump. That matters, uh, in the 10 to McLeven. Appreciate you Caribbean and our fight against designated terror organizations. This military is unleashed and morale is at a level that this country has not seen for decades and decades because of the leadership of President Trump. And because the war department allows them to get back to basics, no more distractions, no more debris, it's simple accountability, training standards, lethality, and they respond to it. And it's that response that's manifest in a lethal is his favorite word. Highly and historic successful military operations led by our incredible joint force, uh, who are, are grateful to have a commander chief that has their back. I can tell you for that, our nation, myself, and all of us are incredibly grateful. Secretary Hague Seth and General Cain with your vision instead, fast commitment to our nation's service members. You have both overseen the beginning of a generational transformation of our armed services. This budget request reflects that commitment by building and sustaining our defense industrial base, increasing service member pay, housing and benefits, robust funding for golden dome missile defense and space capabilities and the emphasis on the peace through strength doctrine outlined in the national defense strategy based on the defense department's recent track record of successful missions. Can you share some examples of military action that illustrate exactly how your leadership and vision for the yeah, bombing the menop school is one of them. That's the vision. Department of war is translating the peace through strength doctrine into an operational reality and what psychological impact that may have on our near peer adversary, such as China and Russian, I'd like to get both years and, you know, deception. It wasn't may not illegal. And as a result, we're working very hard to ensure that any service member who is pushed out is brought back in. If they were forcibly pushed out with back pay and rank and everything that comes with it, those soldiers and troops of conscience who had to make that choice. Very good. Best troops in our force. Listen, I'm grateful that we have two great National Guardsmen sitting at that table today as a long time serving guardsmen who just retired. I'm so proud of y'all and what you mean for our total force. It's not a National Guard. It's not a reserve. It's not an army. It's not a Navy. It is a total force. And thank y'all for recognizing that. I just want to go back to some of the Iran stuff. I don't know. Maybe they're in a different world than I'm living in. But from where I live since 1979, Iran has been at war with the United States, although we refuse to acknowledge it, whether that's Hezbollah, whether that's the Houthis, whether that is Hamas, whether that is trying to build nuclear weapons, exporting tear everywhere. I know for a fact when I was in Iraq, both tours, bro, sounds like force. God, bro, what the fuck that? Bro, literally, sounds like box of chocolates, a piece made by Iran and killed our troops. I know for a fact that many of the munitions, I know for a fact, many of the militias. Bro, this nigga definitely gets bullied every day about force. God, bro, holy Jenny. Christians militias in Iran that were sheer bays were there to attack Americans at the willing knowledge of the Iranian government. Do you agree they've been at war with us and are still with that war with us? And the world since 1979. Of course, for 40. Bro, what a fucking retarded question. Here's from Beirut to Baghdad. Iran has sought the most dangerous weapons in the world to try to achieve death to America. And if they were to get the most dangerous weapon in the world, a nuclear weapon, they would most certainly use it, which is why this is at the level of seriousness that President Trump was willing to address it. And that's what I think so many in this body misrepresent North Korea is the lesson. Everybody thought North Korea shouldn't have a weapon. Under the Clinton administration, they gathered so many ballistic missiles that their ballistic missile shield allowed them to blackmail ballistic missiles shield. The region love that one. And the world to say, we're going to get a nuke and you can't do anything about it. Under this administration, them weakened by the 12-day war. And what happened with Midnight Hammer, President made a bold choice on behalf of the American people to say, never will Iran with their view of death to American death to Israel, have a nuclear weapon because if they have it, they'll use it. And he's taken that bold action in a way. I think the American people wouldn't understand the nature of that threat. And they do. They support it. Chairman Kim. I mean, while I've been around a long time, can any other military in the history of the world pull off Venezuela, midnight hammer and epic fear glaze the way that our great warriors that defend and project power for our nation, could are you Larry Jackson tend to make love and appreciate you guys with the gifted man, appreciate you on ninjas. You guys keep it going, you know, I deal with retards. You have any other nation in the history of the world that could have done. I literally say, when you enter the chat, I have one rule. Don't be a retard and they can still come into chat and are retards. Like I had to hit them upside the head for being idiots, like, Hey, think before you speak. Hey, stop saying stupid shit. Hey, prove you wrong. Never can. Then they get sent. I'm not sure. And I remain very proud of the joint force. I'll also say we're a learning organization and we're going to continue to look at the things that go right in any operations that we're tasked to do. And we're going to get better every day. So we do not want to sit on the successes and assume future successes. We owe it to the nation. I brought, I appreciate you with the gifted end of the citizens to constantly improve. Young dog, thank you, bro, matter how well something goes. So I'm incredibly proud of the joint force that said, I'm even more proud when they come back after that. They go into a team. Broke you say you put the fries in the bag. Someone to gift you probably chief tarot with the big, big, big fucking 25 gifted. Everybody better say W chief tarot in the fucking chat, bro. He's out the lot of you guys get subs, man. So you guys can go ahead and get emotes. Room and they start debriefing W chief tarot W chief tarot in the chat. Everybody spam that shit W to fucking chief tarot, big 25 fucking gifted. A lot of you brokeies that put the fries in the bag. Now can use emotes. The reason why emotes are being sub done kick is so good is because you're able to fucking get these emotes, which are hilarious. To make sure that warning though, views those emotes and other chats. You will get banned. I've already been told from multiple people that they get banned from Osmengol's chat and Poio, Los Poios, the fat Italian Faggot, okay. Niggas get banned for using my emotes and their things because they're so racist. Because those emotes are pretty racist chat. So be careful where you use them. We do it better next time. Whatever. I got monkeys, fucking Indians, retards, all kinds of funny shit in there. She blacks, Jews, maybe in my Mexicans. Final point. Terrace. I just want to talk about what a stroke or disagreeing with you when it comes to today's dollars in damage. But you can revise it. How much did it cost American taxpayers in terms of the strike to the Iranian school where kids were killed? Oh, let's go number in terms of the W rare W for the G. Thank you. Come again, vessels we used. As I've said, that unfortunate situation remains under investigation, of course. Oh, no, how much six, bro, y'all killed the fucking girls at Minabro. Stop lying, man. Stop lying. But I wouldn't tie a cost to that to anything. It's a reasonable question, no, sir. I mean, our taxpayer money was going there. Do you know how much it will cost Americans in terms of their increased cost in gas and food over the next year because of the Iran war? I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb. Bro, tried the Uno reverse and failed. Man guy does. Thank you so much for supporting three months, bro. I would simply ask you what the plane got your questions about. So the longer you guys are subbed to the channel, you get badges. And then, um, you know, you get all the different ranks. We got a lot of long time supporters here. It seems like I don't see as many privates as before. Okay. We got military rank and then you also get access to the emotes. But to message things, I'm not you're asking. You're saying it's a gotcha question to ask what it's going to be in terms of the increase. Why won't you ask what it costs to to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb? I give you that, bro, but let me, what would it cost? Dude, they don't even have the ability to have. They don't even have intercontinental ballistic missiles to strike us with nuclear bombs. Let alone that number one, they're having nuclear warhead. Number two, they don't even have the missiles that could deliver said warhead to the United States. Like, bro, do you think we're retarded access? Come on, man. You think we're dumb. We just woke up yesterday. You think we don't understand that these dudes don't have a ICB M? Like what? Would you pay to ensure Iran doesn't get a nuclear bomb? Do you do what would you pay? I reclaim my time. Do you not know you had no one do the analysis of what the increased cost of gas and food and the American people are going to be? What? Of course not. They don't give a fuck. It's the cost. Then Dan, Dan, shout to you around holding that straight issue with their weapons. It's $631 billion. The shiny says, how do I get a OSS badge on the kick? Talk to one chest. He's the one that gives me people's names. It means it's an increase of $5,000 a year for American. 5,000 a year households. Now, let me give you this point. You're saying that your operation is preventing a nuclear Iran. Will you acknowledge that there is an economic cost to the American people for doing what you believe is necessary to make Iran denuclear? Will you acknowledge the economic cost? We have an incredible economic team that's managing this better than. Yeah, but what the previous administration did to our economy with the previous administration did for the PlayStation. You don't know what the, you don't know what that administration did with COVID and you're going to like this administration about this. Here we go. The economy, you know what is upsetting credible. You don't even do the analysis on how much it's costing the American people. It's one thing if you say, okay, cost the American. We need a NSHR bat emo. Yeah, maybe yeah. El Cucuro, welcome for three months. People $5,000, but we think it's worth it. That's what we've done in World War II and other wars. Here's what it costs. You got to pay for it. You don't even know what the average American is paying. You don't know what we paid in terms of the missiles that hit the Iranian school. You don't know what we're paying in terms of gas. You don't know what we're paying in terms of food. Your 25 billion number is totally off. It's the incompetent. Do I have to think of it for the five gifted? Hence, it's the incompetence. Let me ask you this. Certainly, maybe here we'll find agreement. There were still 440 pounds of low and rich uranium, correct? When President Obama after the JCPOA, is that accurate? The amounts and types are classified. Okay, will you acknowledge that there are 970 pounds? Lay sat and shout out to you for the gifted. So if uranium and rich brookie sat with the fries in or I'm a brookie, someone will hook you up after Trump troller up the JCPOA. The JCPOA was a terrible deal to get a louder on a path to a nuclear bomb. You deal with vague platitudes. I'm asking you about numbers. Like you don't know what gas costs. You don't know what food costs. You don't know what the operation grows out of touch costs. You know, I get sound bites, but how about numbers? Do you know how much the enriched uranium was after you ripped up the JCPOA? I'll give you a number. I know that it was stated by early on. The price of gas is twice as expensive in California. Your home state is anywhere else in the country because of the horrible policies your state pursues. You know what, it used to be that that type of stuff worked. And then you started to lose the people that you campaigned. You you wanted to be for because you said you won't get us into bad wars. You said you wouldn't you would bring down the prices. You know what I'm sad for? I'm sad for all the people of the bar band. Appreciate you with the five gifted Ethan J. Thank you so much for the one gifted voted for Trump. I'm sad for them because you betrayed them. You've betrayed a lot of that mega base. And you know who knows that JD Vance knows that. That's why I tried to recognize the gentleman from the brass commissioner bacon. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank all three of you for being here today. It's a real privilege to be a part of this committee. We are the most bipartisan committee out of 20 in Congress. We have a tradition of voting on NDAs with large large majorities year after year. And it's important not to be a Republican first in here or a Democrat first. We're Americans trying to ensure that our country is well defended. And in that spirit, I compliment the operations in Iran. I served 30 years in the Air Force. We were attacked repeatedly by proxy groups of my ran and every deployment I was on, they were the number one threat where I was located. I've lost friends like at Kobar towers. I ran with a nuclear weapon. Would have been an existential threat to our country. And if they had a missile that could hit New York, they would have done it. They would have done it two months ago. So I support our operations. I think it was good that we got Maduro out. You know, I would say would be important to get the representative government that do we want their election there and not good to replace one dictator with another dictator. But Maduro was bad for their country. And I support our 5% GDP spending. There's no way to modernize our nuclear force. Six generation fighters take care of our mental women uniform without being a 5% GDP. But also in the spirit, I share a bipartisan concern of the firings that we've seen at the Pentagon for the Six Service Chiefs. For example, the Coast Guard. Yeah, because they don't want to engage in this dumbass war. We had a huge bipartisan adjoining here that had confidence in the Army Chief of Staff and the Secretary of Navy. Now, I would just point out it may be constitutionally right. You have the customers right to do these things, but it doesn't make it right or wise. Now, my first question is dealing with the housing allow. So I've been working for the last two or three years. Our housing allowances underpaying people in certain areas. And the department that has started under this administration has been going on for a while. They take out 5% of the housing allowances to other needs. But that means we're underpaying our service been a woman living off base by 5%. So we tried to fix it with a $2.9 billion line item to fix housing allowance for that money was moved. So I'll just, Mr. Secretary, do you tell us how we're going to fix this? Because we have a shortfall in housing allowance. And we tried to fix it out of here. And I'd like to get it fixed. Congressman, I agree with you. I think that is precisely the kind of quality of life issue that's been ignored time and time again. Oftentimes with good intentions of trying to do something trade off with something else. Yeah. And that's, this is something to fight for getting troops a better quality living. So the nuclear triad to make sure that that most critical backstop on our nation's most important. What happened to treason being responsible of death, treason is subjective, I guess. JC kind of hard to take the left seriously when they aren't spending out money on stupid shit as hell. Vengeance, I subscribe, welcome to LSS. Marvel presence 28, repealed the 19th. You know it. Day is reliable, redundant, and workable. And so we'll take a look at that. I know the team already deepen analysis on all the from NC 3 to the end state. But what I want you to know is the most important thing is the ability to execute if we had to and we can. You know, for 29 years, we had a plane of airborne with the shuttle on board. And it gave the Pentagon, the White House to strike on the assurance that we had a backup. I think we're back to the future. And appreciate your look at it. I just flew with them and they were doing great. And it was time to expire. I'll recognize gentlemen from Massachusetts, Mr. Keating. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to talk briefly about the current US doctrine. OK, here we go. Democrats about to fucking go after them again. Conducted the administration in the Sousa. I already knew what time it was, that particular event and a series of events, actually. As every burning in the dyes and the witness table is aware, the Department of Defense law of war manual specifies that any order to kill shipwrecked persons in an illegal order would constitute a war crime. Oh, shit. OK, for some of you guys that don't know, in the beginning of the war, a group of Iranian sailors had done a show event, right? Like they had done like a boat shore, some shit. And India, and as they were sailing back to Iran, Trump authorized and Hexeth, basically a submarine torpedo that killed several of the sailors and almost killed a bunch of like killed like half the sailors. And the only reason they survived this because they were calling for help and the Sri Lankan National Guard, like Coast Guard, their equivalent of Coast Guard, came and rescued them. So this is what he's referring to, chat. Or this is what I, and this is going to refer to. Let's see if I'm right. It isn't suggested. This is a specific example to show a clear cut. The United States wait until they got its international wars waters and then attack them. Example of what this entails in our own manual. With that in mind, let's look back a few weeks ago in a fishing crew and did a long day of hard fishing. OK, he's using it for the kinetic strikes. All right. Scoring a full stock of it. That's another thing that they're going to try to claim as a war crime, too, by the way, chat that whole Iranian vessel. They got bombed. David Zen, thank you for the gift of albacore and swordfish on board. Without any warning or expectation, this small Ecuadorian fishing vessel. But you know, guys, I am so confident when the next administration comes in, there are 100% going to indict Trump and fucking hexath for this shit, bro. These can extracts on these drug dealer boats that a Democrat is going to be chopping at the bit when they get into office to indict these guys for that shit, dude. Operating about 200 nautical miles of the Galapagos Islands was militarily engaged by US forces. It was hit once. Then it was hit again, not a warning shot, not an interdiction, two drone strikes. Yeah, that double top man. Survivors describe chaos and severe injuries. Our US forces then handcuffed the crew at gunpoint, placed black hoods over their heads, seized and scrubbed their devices, and then held them for days. Oh, shit. Bro, the treat is like al-Qaeda, ultimately. That's what happens when you design people as fucking narco terrorists. The crew was released, given there was no evidence, no evidence to sport any knock-o activity or any charges that may be against them. So to recap, we struck a vessel, we struck it again, set fire to us as it was sinking. And as public reports say, even drank their beer, we detained the survivors. He said, you know, he told them to do that one. And then we let them go. This should be eye-opening. Let's go to another example. The double tap or two strike attack that took place on September 2nd in the Caribbean. A vessel was struck, disabled, and then struck again, killing. You know, the crazy party's shot? Like, they released all this shit on Twitter. Like, it's classified. It'll do a D-class fight and show all the fucking strikes to the boats on Twitter, bro. Like, that's free evidence. Free evidence, bro. Normally, that shit's supposed to be highly classified, bro. These things are posted as shit on Twitter. Like, yo, all but two survivors. Try me post it. Try me post it on true social hexath, post it on fucking his department of workout. Like, buddy, buddy, buddy. Y'all think it's known that the Democrats are saving all this shit, man. And they ever get a periodic is our cocked, man, cocked, left clinging to the wreckage. And this is the thing. We know this happened. We know. Yeah, you guys already hear first. I've been told you I, when they were doing these kinetics strikes that this is going to be, this is going to come back to bite this whole administration in the ass, dude, especially hexath. He's going to be the one left, left holding the bag. How it happened and the defense department still refuses to release the follow up video of the kill unless Trump can find out like he's going to have to do like preemptive pardons for everybody. And I don't even know if you can really like it. That shit really works like that. But he's absolutely going to have to do a preemptive pardons before he leaves office playing of the shipwrecked survivors, even though they released the initial one to the public in major news networks worldwide. No difference in sources and methods in the two videos, but still not released to the public. Of course, the backlash was severe at the time and perhaps it's being forgotten and in printable, but in noble display of character from this administration, fingers were pointed at one another as everyone's scurried to cover an atastic acknowledgement that this was an issue potentially violating international law. I've reviewed what's been available, the phony rationale that these attacks are about fentanyl trafficking. When we know fentanyl comes from China, India, through Mexico, then the baseless argument that this was about knacko terrorism, you know, I don't believe a word of it. This was to create leverage for regime change in Venezuela. And now the president acknowledged that was about oil. The only simple need for justice and exercising American values. It's important for us to discuss what the US belligerence in the world stage means to our security, our ability to marshal cooperation with our allies. And most importantly, not to normalize these actions that could endanger the lies of our own service members put in similar peril. Let me be clear about one thing. Whether it's these particular strikes discussed here, the one that killed 11 others off the coast of Venezuela, whether it's the 178 other killings. With each of these extra judicial killings, the administration is pirating American values. We'll continue to investigate this. We will. That's a fact. It'll come Democrats are not going to let this go, man. I call that as soon as they start to post the shine and as I get, this is cooked. Forward in the future. Some day it's all just those that second video will be released. But we've got to stop also using our precious resources that are being taxed so heavily or over the world on actions that hurt our military. Laval new emoji available, that's funny, whatever happened, it's easy being punishable by death. I read that one phrase. Pretty sure I'm going to subscribe. Thank you, brother. They hurt our military and they hurt our standing internationally and they hurting our standard here at home. I hope that we can move forward. I hope we're going to review whether these are justified because I found no justification. We were given classified information on the second strike. I can't discuss it. But I must tell you, it's the most convoluted bullshit I ever heard in my life. It should be public. This is our honor. This is what it makes American a difference maker. This is what we're proud of. A incredible array of false accusations. And I yield back by time. - Gentlemen yields back. Chair and I'll recognize as a gentleman from Texas, Dr. Jackson. - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Secretary Hegseth and General Cain and Mr. Hurst for your bold leadership and for your time today, I really appreciate it. I can't tell you how awesome this hearing is today. It's fantastic. After someone who's, from someone who's set up here for four years during the last administration, this is a great day. Despite some of the crazy and disrespectful comments from some in this room, the Department of War is back. Today is a win because we are discussing American power and dominance, national security, and making America great again. There may be differences in how we go about that, but at least we are not wasting all of our time talking about how to restructure the Department of War into a social experiment that appeases the far-left woke agenda that existed for the last four years. Thank God those four years of the disastrous Biden administration are done. On behalf of someone who's served 25 years on active duty and almost everyone-- - That reconciliation package is properly tailored and timed so that it is passed, so that critical money gets there. So we're not looking to FY28 or FY29 because we need those capabilities right now, which is why I appreciate the chairman's opening question about reconciliation. It is a critical vehicle in this calendar year to ensure this department is fully funded to meet the threats of the future. - Well, thank you. Once again, I thank you guys for doing an incredible job. I appreciate your leadership and thank you for your time today. I yield back, Mr. Chair. - Gentlemen, yields back, Chair. I'll recognize the general lady from Pennsylvania. Ms. Mulahan. - Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I appreciate you, gentlemen, for being here today and for the opportunity to have a face-to-face conversation with each of you. I have many questions and unfortunately need to start with some that disturb me, Mr. Secretary, from your opening remarks. In your opening remarks, Mr. Secretary, you reserved more words and more time and more vitriol to condemn Democrats than you did for she and for Putin combined. It's pretty telling to me that you decided to use your words and your time for that. - Here she is, snowflake already disappointed. - Turns out the Democrats, even Democrats in Congress, are patriots as well. We serve in our uniform services. We admire and love our uniform services and we love our country just as much as Republicans do. In fact, in this body, I and Representative Bacon, who you just spoke to, led the junior enlisted pay raises that you now sit there and nod as your intake credit for. We led the closing of the BAH, which then you ended up poaching and using for other things. This body led and authorized Ukrainian funding that is now being withheld. You also, in your opening remarks, strangely admonished us here for not being patient with the results of your two-month war, a war of your suggestion to this president, a war of your choice. A war you executed without congressional consultation. And so it shouldn't be shocking, sir, Mr. Secretary, that we have questions, indeed it's constitutionally our right to do so. So to be clear, despite a brilliant performance by our men and women in uniform, despite thousands of tactical successes, Iran still has nuclear material, still has air defenses, still has. Yep, no strategic wind. Dark night, Kevaux, thank you. Small boats and still has the straight. So, despite the fact that your recent comments indicate that operations appear to be finished, it's clearly is more work that needs to be done. As mentioned, today is indeed 60 days. So, Mr. Secretary, how many more months, just order of magnitude? Do you think that you're going to need to be able to conclude operations successfully? And how many more billions of dollars, do you think you're going to ask this body for? As you know, and as the president has stated, you would never tell your adversary, especially once you. Sir, I would recognize that is the line that you always. Especially once you. Could give me an order of. Decimated their military, and you controlled their freight. How long you would be committed to the mission? And the next thing that you mentioned in your opening was Mr. Secretary. You know that, Mr. Secretary. Is that you called on which astounded me, examples of the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war and the Vietnam war. Those are stunning examples to me of something that didn't go our way. We had the opportunity to execute on those wars quite well, but we didn't accomplish any mission, in my opinion, and I think you would agree on that as well. My point is, this effort is not those efforts. That's exactly it. Is this war shaping up to be that war? Because it has. We're shaping up to get the same kind of Democrats we got in those wars, who, when they say it's from the beginning, undermining the progress of the. We just have a conversation about the country and the nation and not about parties. The Democrat party wanted to socially engineer the Department of War. We've had to undo that and get it to a point where it's capable of protecting power. And clearly, you're not even going to have a conversation. So I won't drop the free bill. And I'm going to reclaim my time. General George, let's talk about a guy who's a patriot. Somebody who every single person here in this bias and down there in that audience and out there in this world has huge admiration for. Why did he get fired? Drink those, welcome back. Fired. Well, as with any moves we make with General Officers, first of all, I thank them for their service. And ultimately. My impression is you thanked him by a text or a phone call. You didn't even do it to his face. Out of respect for these officers, we never talk about the nature of their removal, but every one of them, including myself, knows that they serve at the pleasure of the president. Ultimately, out of respect to these officers, we don't reveal it. However, I will note, it's very difficult to change the culture of a department that has been destroyed by the wrong perspectives with the same officers that were there. So you said General Courts destroyed a culture? There are many. We've gotten rid of many General Officers in this administration because we need new leadership. Or you have no way of explaining why you fired one of the most decorated and remarkable men who's in this organization. We need a new leadership. All right, looks like Trump made a new warning. Let's see here. And while the Wall Street Journal reporting president Trump could be preparing for an extended blockade of Iranian ports in Brian Yanis has the latest from Tel Aviv. Good morning. Hey, OSS guys, what do you want to cover on OSS? I was going to get off soon, but I'm like, you know what, man, let's fucking do something for OSS. Dana, what do you then just want to do? Morning. Well, the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports is now in its 16th day. And this morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump has instructed his aides to prepare to extend this blockade with the goal of collapsing Iran's economy enough to force Iran to agree to a deal to end its nuclear program. Now, the president reportedly assesses that the blockade is less risky than walking away entirely or resuming military strikes. At least for now, this morning, President Trump posted a warning, quote, Iran can't get their act together. They don't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They better get smart soon. The post includes an image that reads, "No more Mr. Nice guy with the president holding a gun surrounded by explosions." Now, Iran International reports said. Fucking retarded. Currently Iran's leaders acknowledge its economy cannot withstand another three to five more weeks of this blockade. So far, two million jobs have been lost. Half of a. Chad, do you guys want me to do the one-first 20, one Israeli versus 20 Palestinians, or do you guys want me to review the Owen Shroyer and Andrew Wilson debate, finished that up? And police cams. Wilson Shroyer, or one Israeli versus 20 Palestinians, or pre-Palestinians. Let me. We could do both. Iran's jobs are at risk. The value of Iran's real currency has dropped 98% to a record low today. Inflation is up 67% with the price of chicken, up 75% and beef and lamb is up 68%. In the meantime, the U.S. has surged more military assets to the region. Fox's General Jack Keen says military strikes in his opinion should resume because this blockade ultimately won't work. Eventually, it could cause an economic collapse, but they don't care about the suffering of their people. In my judgment, what we need to do is finish the objectives in terms of military objectives that have been assigned to the Israeli forces and the American forces, and let's finish what we started. Here in Tel Aviv, the Israeli defense minister says that Israel is prepared to renew this war and is simply just waiting for the green light from the U.S. Dana? A great report and more to come as we go over to Bill at the board. So, Dana, getting the work from the White House. Just late last night, as the president said, we're going to stick with the blockade. We're going to stick with the blockade and try and starve economically, Iran, as we speak today. This is Karge Island, Brian, talking about that here in the Persian Gulf. This is the area where Secretary Secretary Scott Besson says that the oil capacity is reaching its maximum level. What does that mean? That means once you're taking oil out of the ground, you'll only have so many places to put it. There's a report that they pulled two 30-year-old giant tankers out of service. Fox News A.K. Fox Jews. Service to put them back into service to store some of the oil there in Iran, losing now 170 million dollars a day for the Iranian economy. Here's what I want to show you right here. This is around the time the war started. This is April 21st, just about last year. last week. You see the orange line here? Let me try and watch this here in the last week as it goes down and declines. That's the oil output for Iran and that direction is not the way you want to be. If you're running the regime, you want to feed your people and make sure your economy stays strong. This is a port here on the southern coast of Iran, okay? Normally you have about five vessels a day, more than that sea off the coast of Iran. Today, they're well over 20, which shows you that this line right here with the U.S. blockade is working. Nobody in, nobody out. If you're reporting to any of these Iranian ports that run through the Gulf of Iran, through the straight of Hormuz and up here through the Persian Gulf, it is a no-go zone and right now that blockade has worked. With regard to OPEC, in the Middle East, all these countries or members of OPEC, and yesterday, you denied it Arab Emirates, right? Okay. And right here, they say they've been hit more than 2,500 times on behalf of Iranian drones and missiles. And the UAE says of this Friday, May 1, end of the week, they're pulling out of OPEC. What does that mean for the markets? Something really we have to watch. Where the average gallon of gasoline in America is now well over $4 a gallon for the first time. Rebecca Heinrich. I'm Rick Hudson Institute, senior fellow here with Dana Meade to talk more about it. Rebecca the day to you. Where are we now when the president has made the decision to keep the blockade there and try and starve this regime in effect, you're starving the people of Iran to a nation of 92 million. So the first thing I think it's important to keep in mind is we don't want to harm the Iranian people. Obviously, that's a secondary effect of squeezing the regime economically. And remember, before we even began epic fury, the regime was already suffering economic. But the goal here is to cut off their ability to fund the IRGC. I mean, already we've got ships are still getting through. Can't believe they're still fucking running with this dumbass shit reports. Caspian C still see is still open. Trade is not done that says that the regime can't fund the only did have the job their mercenaries. They cannot fund militia members. And at the same time, the United States bill is offering up to $10 million rewards for essentially giving the United States information about the heads of Iranian-backed militia leaders. That's going to look increasingly attractive as we try to further splinter the regime. And again, try to find people who, in the words of Marco Rubio, are more willing to make risk assessments and make better judgments and negotiate with the United States. I brought this up last hour, Rebecca. The Institute for the Study of War said that Iran's security institutions expressed concern about potential protest calls and assess that worsening economic conditions such as inflation on employment and rising prices could trigger renewed unrest. I ask again, see if there's any information. What do we know about what's going on inside with the people of Iran? Well, we know very little, but we remember in the beginning of Epic Fury, that the Trump administration officials were very careful to make, essentially, talk to the Iranian people to say that this war is not against you and wait. We're about to be at 120 for Brent, Chat. We're about to be at 120 for Brent. We don't want you to come out yet and protest, but there will be a time in which we will indicate. President Trump also said earlier on in the war that the United States had attempted to get weapons into some people who might be willing to use them against the regime. We had to halt that because they were intercepted and didn't get to the Iranian people. Yep. There we go admitting it once again. And admitting it once again, I told you, Chat, that whole fucking rebellion was a fucking ash reserve. But my question is, Dana, are we doing that now? Have we used this ceasefire, essentially, to do some CIA operations inside Iran to make sure that the Iranian people are armed? They are going to be a great asset for the United States. It's going to be up to them to finally push over the regime. But the regime is very fearful, I think, of the Iranian people. And so that's something we've got to keep watching. Rebecca, thank you so much. The people are being backed, are backing the Iranian. So much has borrowed bullshit. It's actually nuts. Much, you're welcome to kick it. Oh, lay, man. The army is like religious zealots and which ones aren't. You know, it's like, that's a part of the question, too. In terms of you running a thank you for subscribing, bro. U.S. economy having trouble. I think we're due for a good recession. Well, finished right to this guy's that we're going to do the debate with Andrew Wilson and Owen Shroyer. We're going to keep watching that and also do some police videos as well. So my bad, that's please, Kim. Sorry, Jack. Not fun. Look, I look, the trumpet, I don't the midterm election. I think they realize they've lost the midterm. So the terms isn't even a calculation here. This is, look, this is the long-term goals here. Against short-term pain, long-term. I don't know about this. I don't know. I don't know about that. When, when, when I speak, you're, you're not dealing with a guy that throws in the towel that quickly. You're not dealing with them. You're dealing with a guy that thinks he can turn anything around. He, he, he is wired in a very different way. Yeah, but he, there's no off-ram for this really where he's going to, he's going to have to concede on some stuff he doesn't want to concede in. The problem is that he wants complete, but, capitulation and total victory. That's the problem and he's not going to get that here. And the average person tries to understand them. In my opinion, now having said that, uh, you know how quickly we were talking about, everything was Epstein, story one away. Everything is Iran, Circus, everything's world cup. We moved so quickly. The average person moves on so quickly that it's like, you know, you know, you know, you don't want somebody attacks you and you're maybe a newer influencer. Oh my God, they wrote a hit piece on you. They lose sleep every night. Well, you know what the guy that's been around the block for a while says, for the story's going to be done in 48 hours. People have lives to live. They're going to move on. But if it goes, yeah, that's true. When you're controversial figure, bro, you just get used to this, bro. Oh, man, you just get used to it. My opinion, John, and please push back. I want you guys to disagree with me. If you don't, if my opinion, if they're able to figure it out before World Cup, or scored away because World Cup is the biggest positive distraction they will have, something massive is going to happen in the World Cup. And then we move on. Then you have Fourth of July, 250 year anniversary, that you got the, you know, UFC fight at the White House. You have so many positive distractions that market's going to be like, and by the way, you know how this guy works. He's going to tweet something and say, you know, we have come to an agreement. We are very close for Cuba to be the 51st state or Cuba to be a, you know, and oh, my God, we have come to the Greenland. And the next topic is that as much as I want to say, I'm with you 70% on midterms, I don't think he's wired like that. And I don't think his team is wired. And it's not, it's not just Trump because of course he's not doing the voting. I think what you said about Iran is true of the US. You need somewhere to run to, not just somewhere to run from the average voter. I'm tired of Trump or the war or whatever. And I tend to make love and appreciate you. And he looks at his average Democrat and says, Oh, wait a minute. Do I really want that team in power? We'll see what happens. It's interesting. You're seeing the one pushback I have for you is that the one issue that Americans have focused on for a year, after year, after year, talking about five years now, kitchen table issue. Yeah, yeah, possibly living. Oh, you can, you could distract them all they want. But I'll go home and try to fill up the gas. No, no, you're right. No, you're right. Yeah. And that's why people are pissed off because that's what Trump campaign done, which was affordability. You know, that's what he campaigned on and no new wars. And I'm telling you, you're right. When it comes up and immigration, immigration, no new wars and affordability onto that right. Now, do you know how bad farmers are doing right now? You know, farmers right now, I think bankruptcy for farmers last year in 2025 was up 56% bankruptcies. You know, the straight of hormones, how much they're relying on the fertilizer is crazy. Like Australia is getting cooked right now. There's a, like a lot of fertilizer goes through there and a lot of people having for food shortages. I'm telling you guys, this writer who moves me and clothes goes way beyond just crude, man. There's like other serious supply chain issues that are going to arise from this. Fertilizer that's coming from the state of hormones, how big of a liability this is for them. And when you go through all the different kinds, even more reason why this war is retarded, he needed for price going from $300 to $650 in months. So they're dealing with regulation. They're dealing with prices going up for, you know, fertilizer. They're dealing with all this stuff. So I think that economy, so oh my god, farmers are charging up. Farmers are not making any money. If you look at the average farmers margins, they make three to 12% if they're lucky and they make zero to five percent on average. And most of the time, they're losing money. So we got to make sure they're good. We got to make sure the young guys are buying houses, having kids, you know, and you're saying first time buyers dropping from 40% to 26% so they can't afford to buy. They can't do it because boomers are retarded and it fucked up everything. Boomers like we're able to really get the American dream versus like people are age group like we're cooked. You know, that's the truth. You have to work a lot harder nowadays to get the same lifestyle that your parents had for basically with a regular entry level job that didn't require an education. I think that affordability issue was there before Iran, but this just kind of ratcheted things up a lot we can't do it the European way by writing everybody checks because that'll just cause more influx. But we are doing that with farmers. Yeah, I have that's exactly point three this year. Sometimes it's necessary with farmers. It may be, but I want to hear his thoughts on that. Well, that's where, you know, back, it will be lovely if they could score a victory. If Venezuela would actually have a change of regime, if Cuba would have a change of regime, if Iran would have a change of regime, that would be, hey, we actually not one big victory. Otherwise, you know, yes, you and I, we say, oh, in the long run, this is a good thing for the US strategically, but at some point you want to win a political goal. That's massive. If they do flip Iran, if that's a big if it's a 5 to 10 percent by the way, I'm putting it very low. But if they're able to flip that, this may be a complete, I think it's a higher percentage of success. And then if it does happen, it'll certainly be worth it. That's again, it's short term pain. Yeah. I think they realize this is going to cause short term pain. And this food issue is much bigger than people who are giving it credit for. Yeah. Not only will you have people who are pissed off about the economy for the last couple of years, now you jack up the price of gasoline. It's going to get to five, maybe $5.56 a gallon. You're going to see food prices rise not next month, but three, four, five months from now. So there'll be a delayed effect right before the midterms. And it's baked in the cake at this point. There's no going back. If they get the hormones problem solved tomorrow, it's too late. There's still going to be some short term pain. So you get by, by the time you get to November, you're going to have gasoline prices are still relatively high, even if they start to come back down. You have food prices that are going to be up. There's going to be a lot of unrest around the rest of the world. So I think profit administration works right back to the world, and that's going to spill over to us. Yeah. I mean, you said this is much worse for the world, much worse, much worse food and energy issue rely on us. So we have to lead the way. Well, the fertilizer issue is underappreciated. We could see, I mean, if Australia is getting destroyed by it, man, it's really creating some serious issues in Australia. Any Australians in here, guys? How's your food costs going right now? If it continues to go this way, you could see countries fall. You could see regimes collapse. Yeah. That's the real downsides scenario. Oh, my God. When you look at the data of how bad it's impacting farmers, it's you know, you don't just tenure this year we're going to give, we're committing to $44.3 billion to farmers. Also, okay. Mine, guys, Iran makes like 80% of their own food, man. So we're not starving them. We're starving our allies because less than 9% of farmers are under the, uh, uh, under the age. Australia is really getting, getting shafted because Trump makes fun of them, put them in a basketball and then says, Oh, you guys need to fight to open up the straight again. It's like, no, bro, you fucking fucked it up, just 35, which means young guys are now growing up saying, I want to be a farmer. Everybody's above 35, 44.3 billion dollars. We have to give them this year farmers 10 years ago. That was only 11, 12 billion dollars in 10 years. It's 4X. Well, I will challenge the have to. So Franklin Roosevelt started giving money to farmers. We've been doing it ever since. The fraction of the US who works on fires a way under 2% right now. Most of which are illegal immigrants. So, you know, this is a tiny slice of U.S. immigrants. They lost some of those. Well, that's another problem for farms is you can't get Americans to do it. So there's stuff rotting on the vine right now because you can't get work. You can't do that. That's the one thing you can. But the US farmers for the US, it's a small fraction of our economy that God forbid could be allowed to be the free market. If you're in the Philippines, if you're in, uh, Thailand, if you're in Malaysia, you know, that they South America, South America, this is really hard on the overall economy as well as just yet. I always wondered about that. So play that out. What does that look like if we don't do farming subsidies because I always wondered if that was necessary or if they did it so that farmers could sell it, you know, lower prices so they didn't have to kind of raise the prices with the market fluctuations. What would that look like if we stopped with the farming subsidies? We would get cheaper food and more productive. More productive and cheaper food. But you end up selling it. And the price of food always goes up when fertilizer goes down. And if, um, where you're at doesn't need it, they're all the, the unproductive farms because they can't make the, they can't make enough food to make it profitable to, to pay to sell the market part. They worried they would go out of business stuff. They had to lower price that much. They will. Right. You eliminate some of the unproductive producers and the overall system, you know, they get absorbed by the larger. Yeah. The mom and pop car company went away in the 1920s. Sorry. They were cute. But you know, big companies were efficient. They could be with Ford. So why doesn't Trump understand that those Trump does the law farming subsidies and he seems like a free market guy. So Trump is not a free market guy and everybody, uh, let me try to, um, tariff funds, uh, let's see here. Let's see what happened with this King Charles thing. And originally it was men for an incoming commander and opportunity as an opportunity to inspect the troops, make sure they're ready for combat, they will know this thing together. Just to deliver a speech, front of all the whole squad. Hey, Trump started to ask they should explain as jump on see what's going on out. I'll just hear you. Bottom line. The way that the US looks at warfare and peacemaking, they guys are problematic in bold. We're going to transition guys soon. To the debate here, shooting stuff. Let's see what's the latest with this. Ansible right now is not just, they're still going us to Navy problem. I mean, we've seen the same on M Q 9s and Apache's and A 10s and systems that we are warfighters continue to rely on, which is why divesting to invest, which was sold under the previous administration because of continuing resolutions and insufficient budgets created a gap where now you're getting rid of the very things that you need right now and you don't have available things of the future that you said you would have because of the way this department did business, always over cost, always delayed. So there's one destroyer, one Arleigh Burke class destroyer in this. Yeah, government contractors. If people that do work with the government, always fucking Jew and, you know, fucking try to nickel and diamond. It's budget because, and I hate to even say it. They always charge the government extra. I'm going to say it in open here because they know they'll pay hearing how many years behind we are on the backlog of building the Arleigh Burke class destroyers. So the bulk of the money goes into shipbuilding to fix that in sure we can get new places to build more faster. Then you can fund additional, either whether it's this class or the next class, but the almost over time. I'm going to reclaim and just say in my last seconds here, careful with the pace moving through design to construction so quickly as proposed by this budget. Thank you. Jim's time is expired. As announced earlier, we're going to now recess until 10 minutes past the hour of bluen, all right, by a lightning strike in Venezuela the month before and sold on an Israeli idea that total victory over Iran would be quick and easy. Yep. Trump rolled the dice. But back in the real world, the facts are just really clear. This war will have long-term repercussions, renewed cycles of violence, vendettas, and instability for years to come. Iran was bombed twice in the middle of diplomatic talks with the U.S. and in 2015 it signed a deal with the U.S. that put limits on its nuclear enrichment. Someone speak, irashley. It took almost three years of tough discussions, and it was torn up by Trump three years later. So that distrust is mutual and palpable. If the White House keeps thinking the Iranian government wants to surrender and that everything's just going to be really fine after one more round of talks, that's the opposite of reality. That's going to take my cost on Al Jazeera. All right, let's see what else is going on. Let me read some super chats. The police police reactions got you, I will. Andrew Wilson's right-hand man, Mr. E said he has 15 experience in the oil industry and says that America is an expert for finding crude, okay? Only one-third of target struck have been military, so we wasted all this money and time for what? Exactly. This police recommendation got you. Renegade, subscribe. Welcome. I love being informed while at work, but give my homie, Becca Toby a shout out for putting me on this army. Yep. Shout out to you. Becca Toby. Sounds Nigerian. Bro, at this point, the blockade is a historical failure. Kitchen around the world will be laughing at it under US history. Yeah. Dude, they will. The blockade of the blockade. They're putting uniform on because employment in the job market is fucking trash. Yep. And he'll pick made a opaque way. The title. Yes. Only to respond to because I debated. Yeah. I was like, reacting to stuff. Okay. Let's see. Call me self-surrender chat. That's the official word. This is what you need to know now. I'm still not afraid. Former FBI chief James Comey expected to surrender to federal authorities after a new indictment. Yeah. I think it's. Yeah. I think it's surrounded this morning for Terry Pete Hegg said, basic lawmakers on Capitol Hill for the. I saw Ivan Raiklin out there recording him on X new images. the White House correspondent's dinner attack, showing the-- -This weird digger. -Ledge suspects armed in-- -We're out here taking selfies before the shooting. Like, what's going on here, man? Imagine catching a felony over a dollar is crazy. Can you cover this police camera footage as funny as fuck? Okay, got that for LSS? Inside the Washington, Hilton. Plus, officials identify what they say is causing right orange water to flow in a West Virginia stream. And the emotional effort to save Timmy, the stranded man-- -But three sisters, but I have 13 of them. -What do you need to know now? I'm Rachel Scott from ABC News. It is Wednesday, April 29th. This is what you need to know. Let's get right to the big story. Former FBI director James Comey expected to self-surrender today after a federal indictment. The charges center on a 2025 Instagram post showing 86.47 written in seashells. Prosecutors claim it was a threat. -They charged them for, like, threatening the president. They hit them with, like, the-- this typical secret service charge for it. FBI did the case. -Against president Trump, illegal experts say this will be a hard case for the Justice Department to win. -Of all the cases that have been brought and threatened against President Trump's enemies, this one may be the weakest. This is going to be a ridiculously hard case for prosecutors to win. Why? -Yeah, a big reason why is because he deleted it after and apologized. Some people might look at that as conscious of guilt. Other people might say, "No, he rectified it." And he didn't mean it that way. Context means everything. In the fact that he deleted it and denounced violence after. You know, obviously he shouldn't be charged. But, you know, I think the Justice Department isn't like they're trying to send a message, right? If you threaten the president, even if you are the former director of the FBI, we're coming after you. So I think this arrest was more about sending a message than actually convicting Komi. Because Komi is a former lawyer, he's not stupid. He probably has a high-powered legal team that's going to fight this thing tooth and nail. But this was more about sending a message, getting him arrested, hurting his reputation. Obviously, Trump, you know, can be a vindictive individual. So that's what I think. This arrest was more about optics and politics than actually getting a conviction for a serious crime. -He has to have intended it to have been a threat for this to be a successful prosecution. Komi's first indictment by the Justice Department for allegedly making a false statement to Congress. -And they admitted that they had this case open for like a year, guys. There's no coincidence that they indicted it literally this week after that guy tried to shoot Trump. Because it's a fairly simple case. Just that no way you say probably want to take it. But then they're like, you know what? Let's indict this thing. Leave no stone unturned. Fuck it. -Ris, what is throwing out on a technical-- -We're going to send a message to anybody else. And if you guys remember, he was indicted for false statements before on a technicality because the United States attorney that was basically put in place to run the District of Virginia. She had not been confirmed by the Senate. So since she had been confirmed by the Senate, the indictment didn't stand because she didn't have the authority to actually like push it through. So guys, the way prosecution's work is the United States Attorney at the United States Attorney's Office is the one that does the final sign off on any criminal indictment. So the fact that she signed off on it, but she was not really the USA because she wasn't officially confirmed via Senate. That's what fucked everything up. Because the USA is a presidentially confirmed. It's a presidentially appointed position, which means they have to get confirmed by the Senate to officially take the position. That's why he was able to get around the legal loophole. And they didn't bring it back up again. It was false statements. -Calody. Comey says he's still innocent and is not afraid. Cole Allen is a prototypical goofy progressive intellectual with an overflowing ego. Of course, for James Comey, the process of the punishment. Exactly, exactly. -No court date has been set for these new charges. -This isn't about convicting him. This is about sending a message. -This Supreme Court has struck down Louisiana's voting map and a major voting rights case finding it an unconstitutional gerrymanderer. Devin Dwyer has more. This decision came in a case out of Louisiana involving a court-order drawing edition of a second majority black district in that state because of the size of the state's population. And the Supreme Court today in this decision said that the court violated the 14th Amendment by adding the state rather violated the 14th Amendment by adding that district. They used race impermissibly, consciously, to add a second district to aid those voters. And they said that is simply not allowed under our Constitution. -A tear investigation is now underway in London after a knife attack in a neighborhood with a large ju-- -Oh, yeah, some dudes stabbed the Jewish guy. And fucking dude, this is why, like, these fucking idiots, like, this is not how you win the battle of ideas, man. Violence is going to just undermine everything. People are so stupid. -Butch community. Police say two men won in his 70s and another in his 30s were stabbed. Witnesses say the suspect was seen running with a knife attempting to stab members of the public before being detained and handed over to police. British Prime Minister Kier Starmer calling the incident deeply concerning. It comes amid a string of recent attacks targeting Jewish sites in London. Newly released images show the suspect in the White House-- -Brah. -That's correspondent's dinner attack just moments before the incident played-- -Brah, to take the quick flick before going to do an assassination attempt. What a fucking idiot. -Date out, sack. -And his phone sucks. Probably a droid. -A knife. Kool Allen appears to be armed with guns and knives wearing a black shirt and a red tie. Authorities say the pictures were taken from his hotel room at the fucking retard. -Washington Hilton, where he's accused of firing-- -Congrats. Confirm even more evidence for the FBI, dude. Fucking idiot, man. -FBI, open up. -The shot gun outside the ballroom or the White House correspondent's dinner was taking place. Prosecutors say the images are part of a detention memo detailing what they described as a pre-plan and deliberate attack. Allen is scheduled to be in court tomorrow. -Security changes have been made in New York City. Where the royal couple visited the 9/11 memorial today. It comes midway through a four-day trip for the king and the queen, marking 250 years of American independence. Over on Capitol Hill, former Attorney General Pam Bond, he will now appear for a deposition on May 29th. -Epsel files? -The appearance is part of a House Oversight investigation into the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. -Oh. They're on my desk. Okay. -Democrats had moved to pursue contempt charges following her previous failure to show up. Ranking member Robert Garcia applauded the news. -Well, great news. I clearly were being effective because it's interesting how it's only when we take action and when we actually have to force Republicans to do anything to call some-- -What the hell? This bitch looked like a M&M, bro. She balled this hell. -What the-- -What the fuck is going on there? -Check, look like a fucking milk, dud, man. I could see what she's thinking. Smooth ass head, bro. What the fuck? -Fuck! -Bits look like Michael Jordan with lipstick. -To get in front of our committee, that they actually ever do anything. So I am so glad. -The Department. -Give her a bull's jersey, man. -Mr. Justice says Pam Bondy was not required to appear at her previous deposition, since she no longer serves as U.S. Attorney General. And saying here and watching. -Yeah, it's kind of true. She's not compelled. She's not a government play anymore. She's a private citizen now, so she could say, "Fuck off." -To defense secretary Pete Hagseth is on Capitol Hill for a hearing on the Pentagon's budget, but it comes as a critical moment in the war with Iran. J.O. Bryan is following it all. -Rachel of fiery hearing with secretary Pete Hagseth as well as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs at a top Pentagon budget official. And Democrats on that panel asking pointed questions. One of them from the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith, was what was the overall cost to date of this conflict with Iran, to which that top Pentagon budget official said so far to date, it's cost the U.S. taxpayer $25 billion. Additionally, Adam Smith going back and forth with Hagseth on the administration's justification for this conflict with Iran. Hagseth said it was the nuclear capabilities of Iran that posed a threat to the American people. Smith said, "But the administration last summer in June conducted airstripes on Iranian nuclear facilities." And at the time said that Iran's nuclear capabilities had been obliterated. So how did Iran pose an imminent threat, Smith, asked if it's nuclear capabilities? -What's that, guys? -Had been obliterated. Last June, Hagseth said Iran still had nuclear ambitions. Worth pointing out here, Rachel, as at the end of this week, this conflict with Iran will have gone on for 60 days. And there are even some Republicans up here on Capitol O's saying that there should be a vote to authorize this conflict in Iran. So far, there's been no successful vote up here on Capitol Hill to authorize the administration's use of force in that country. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has officially asked Congress to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War. The rebrand could cost up to $125 million to replace signs and letterheads and make other additional changes. Turning now to the weather, a widespread severe storm threat impacting millions, a powerful system sweeping from the south to the Midwest, bringing damaging winds, hail, and possible tornadoes. In Texas, a possible tornado hit mineral wells, damaging homes, flattening buildings, and sending at least two people to the hospital. And in Arkansas, a tree crashing through a woman's home during heavy storms, she was inside at the time, but thankfully, she was not injured. NASA is not slowing down after the success of Artemis II, now preparing for what's next. Artemis III, a massive section of the rocket has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center after a 900-mile journey from New Orleans. The section will carry the fuel for the powerful engines. The next mission will test docking, which is scheduled for later next year. The goal is for Artemis Ford, but people on the moon 2028. And we have much more of what you need to know. Stay with us. Here's your daily briefing, other big stories we are following on ABC News. Elon Musk is back on the stand today, squaring off against open AI in its CEO, Sam Altman. Musk claims that the company now valued at more than $850 billion. But trade its original vision of staying as a non-profit. On the stand yesterday, Musk saying, quote, "it's not okay to steal a charity." But open AI lawyers told jurors there was never a promise to remain a non-profit, arguing that Elon Musk is trying to undercut the company to benefit his own AI venture. Musk is seeking billions of dollars in damages and what's Altman can move from the board. Receives placed arrested 22 Buddhist monks at an airport in Asia, accused of hiding 240 pounds of cannabis in their luggage. The monks were returning from Sri Lanka. Bro, I guess they really wanted to get Nirvana. Niggas took the easy way. Go from vacation. With that gongja. And in Thailand, police say that the pot was concealed inside fake they got hit with that Chinese FBI. "FBI open up!" walls in those suitcases. And a stream. The Foucais Bureau of Investigation. Huge sight in West Virginia. Bright orange water flowing down a stream. Take a look at this. State experts believe it is caused by iron related to runoff from an abandoned cold mine, but she'll say there is no indication of any impact on the local water system. All right, someone sent this and this is a red pill topic. We haven't covered a red pill topic. And hey guys, we're going to react to the, are they live back again? Okay, still recess. Okay, we're going to react to Owen and Andrew Wilson and this police shooting on OSS. So get ready, guys, we're going to switch over soon. Before the bill, okay? Yes, ma'am. I'm a social media influencer and yeah, that's automatically L. Bro, already lost before I haven't seen anything. This man asked you to go with him on a date and then he left before the bill, okay? Yes, ma'am. I'm a social media influencer. She sucks that bad, I guess. A influencer and Mr. Sutton, the defendant. He's leading to your DMs. Yes, essentially. He originally. Bro, you know what? We only asked me out on a couple dates. First one being coffee and the second one being ice cream. Plus, he declined those dates. Yes, I have. Of course I had to reschedule on him twice. I wonder why you had to reschedule and then how do you actually get on the date? Eventually our schedule ended up working out and we were. No, let me guess. He probably took her to a fucking, he offered a fancy-ass restaurant. She said, "Oh, I got time today." We're able to make it on time. Shout out to you having us be. Hi, I was a little bit late. Of course. I'm late, ma'am. 45 minutes late. I got stuck in traffic. Oh, sure. Come on. Not eating all that day. So, I'm starving. Did you ask him if he wanted anything to eat, ma'am? No, I did not. You just ordered your margarita and your calamari. Okay. Yes. And then do you proceed to order more food? Yes. The first scenario, I think she could have taken maybe 10 or 15 seconds just to send me something. She told me like 10 minutes before our day. I've already driven there. That was very upsetting to me. I said, "Let's go to drinks, not dinner." Nice. That's what she gets because she came late. I never said anything to you. I said, "You gotta clear it up." I try engaging in a conversation with her. She is on her phone. Stand you up, came late, stand you up twice. Like, she's lucky you even offered drinks. She's on social media. Of course. Women do that all the time. Guys, just so you know, you've got a day with a check. And she pulls out her phone on the first day. Like, if she does it once and it's quicker, whatever. But if she's like on her phone the whole time, you gotta check that shit, bro, when you're on a date with these girls. Gotta check that shit. It's incredibly rude and disrespectful. And the problem is like with younger women, especially, they don't understand that that shit's disrespectful because they're stupid. She's posting. She just ignores me. She doesn't even engage in the conversation. So, I told her I was going to the restroom and I v-line for my car and I didn't look back. In the next day, she did text me. She deserves it. She said I was rude to fit her with a bill like that. I did pay for my drinks, though. Okay, so he didn't put it then. Bro, she got to hold out. We're seeing a day just listening to you while work. I was doing heavy squats. Almost dropped the weight laughing. Oh shit. I sent her that money. Yeah, guys, listen to me in the gym at your own fucking peril, bro. I'm not trying to get your own biggest kill, man. You got 400 pounds on your back and you start laughing because I start talking about shanequas. Oh, my bad, wrong effect. Hello, monkeys. Hey, disclaimer, I am now responsible for you guys dying while lifting weights, man. Okay, listen to me at your own peril, bro. Try to catch me in between sets, man. Absolutely. Man, did you receive this money? Yes, Your Honor. Ma'am, you are dating for a meal. And so many women do that, by the way, chat FYI. So many women do that, shit, dude. You guys would be shocked if you guys knew how women like literally do this shit profession, where they they they set up a date every day just to get free food. It's insane. Court is convinced, man, that you operated in bad faith that you always do. It did this man's time. So the court completely dismisses the plaintiff's claim of $218 and $16. Hey, W. Suck it. I'd sent. That is my ruling. Take the L lady. W, W, W, W, all right, guys, we're going to switch on over to OSS. Join the top fucking team. Okay, show some love under Trump. We will have no more awards. No more. Only a dollar, guys, use the code LL YouTube. This is how I stay supported. This I'm able to keep doing the show. You guys say I'm the hardest worker streamer. How do you think I'm able to do it? Because OSS disruptions that we will have frostback. It's only a dollar. Use the code L YouTube. I already had peace for all. The mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser-focused. 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