00:00And so, on the third day of his war against Iran, speaking in the majestic East Room of the White
00:06House,
00:07Donald Trump reminded the world of what is most important to him.
00:15We have a lot of great service members here with us, too, in this beautiful building, isn't it? Beautiful.
00:21We're adding on to the building a little bit. We're improving the building.
00:25See that nice drape? When that comes down right now, you see a very, very deep hole.
00:32But in about a year and a half from now, you're going to see a very, very beautiful building.
00:36And there's your entrance to it right there. In fact, it looks so nice, I don't think I'll even...
00:40I think I'll save money on the doors, because it can't get more beautiful than that.
00:44I picked those drapes in my first term. I always like gold, but I think we can save a lot
00:51of money.
00:51I just saved curtains. And it will be. It'll be spectacular. It'll be the most beautiful ballroom.
00:59I believe it's because I built many a ballroom. I believe it's going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere
01:05in the world.
01:07The only president in history who, in the third day of a war, is talking to the world about drapes
01:19that he chose.
01:22When Donald Trump illegally launched his war, he said this.
01:29We may have casualties that often happens in war.
01:36And today, Donald Trump's defense secretary said this.
01:41As the president warned, an effort of this scope will include casualties.
01:48War is hell, and always will be.
01:52The defense secretary also said today that there are, quote, these are his words,
01:58no stupid rules of engagement.
02:02And that means the American military under Donald Trump will be operating under the same no rules of engagement
02:08used by Adolf Hitler's forces in World War II against Americans.
02:13When Donald Trump was speaking lovingly about drapes this afternoon,
02:20the publicly announced death toll of American military personnel in Donald Trump's war was four.
02:27And later today, after Donald Trump was talking about his love of his drapes,
02:32that number was raised to six.
02:35And Donald Trump has not said a word about those lost lives since that number moved up to six today.
02:44Donald Trump and his secretary of defense have both repeatedly referred to what they are doing in Iran as a
02:50war,
02:51which neither of them seem to understand as a way of emphasizing just how unconstitutional and illegal it is.
02:58Writing in Politico, Ankhush Khadori, a former federal prosecutor, says,
03:02in fact, the U.S. attack on Iran crosses multiple legal lines, both domestically and internationally.
03:08The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president.
03:13The Trump administration's war also cannot be squared with the War Powers Resolution of 1973,
03:18which allows the president to initiate hostilities abroad only when there has been,
03:23one, a declaration of war, two, specific statutory authorization,
03:26or three, a national emergency created by attack upon the United States,
03:32its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.
03:36Trump did not even attempt to argue that any of these conditions had been met.
03:41As for the killing of Khamenei, that also appears to have been illegal under international law,
03:47which generally prohibits killing heads of state.
03:51After a closed-door briefing by Donald Trump's secretary of state and secretary of defense,
03:56Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat in the Senate Intelligence Committee, said this.
04:02There was no imminent threat to the United States of America by the Iranians.
04:12There was a threat to Israel.
04:17But if we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the United States,
04:25then we are in uncharted territory.
04:29This being Donald Trump's war, of course,
04:32Donald Trump has changed the possible time frame of his war from days to months.
04:37The fact that Donald Trump is a proven pathological liar,
04:41combined with the fact that he is demonstrably incompetent,
04:44makes it very unlikely that Donald Trump tonight has any idea at all
04:49how long his war will last or what it might accomplish.
04:54Donald Trump has given a variety of reasons for launching his war,
04:57including regime change.
04:59But Donald Trump is calling on the Iranian people to deliver regime change for him.
05:06To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard,
05:11the armed forces and all of the police,
05:14I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity
05:19or, in the alternative, face certain death.
05:23So, lay down your arms.
05:26You will be treated fairly with total immunity or you will face certain death.
05:34How about lay down your arms and face certain death?
05:40Lay down their arms to whom?
05:42If an Iranian soldier puts his rifle on the ground, who's going to pick it up?
05:48Would it be picked up by one of the millions of opponents of the regime
05:52who would then immediately use that weapon to shoot and kill that soldier who put it down?
06:02Trump told the Iranian military,
06:04you will be treated fairly with total immunity.
06:07Treated fairly by whom?
06:09With total immunity granted by whom?
06:12There is not a person in Iran, in the military, or an opponent of the military,
06:17who can take a word of what Donald Trump said seriously.
06:22And then there is this.
06:26Finally, to the great, proud people of Iran,
06:29I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand.
06:33Stay sheltered.
06:34Don't leave your home.
06:36It's very dangerous outside.
06:37Bombs will be dropping everywhere.
06:39When we are finished, take over your government.
06:42It will be yours to take.
06:44This will be probably your only chance for generations.
06:50For many years, you have asked for America's help, but you never got it.
06:54No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight.
06:59Now you have a president who is giving you what you want.
07:02So let's see how you respond.
07:05America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force.
07:10Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future
07:17that is close within your reach.
07:19This is the moment for action.
07:22Do not let it pass.
07:25Imagine, if you will, any one of Donald Trump's brave sons or daughters or Donald Trump himself
07:32living in Iran tonight, not yet killed by a bomb.
07:38Is that what Donald Trump Jr. would do?
07:40Run out there and, quote, take over your government?
07:44Is that what 19-year-old Barron Trump would do?
07:48Quote, seize control of your destiny?
07:51Would Barron Trump's mother let him go out into the streets of Iran and seize control of his destiny?
07:59She won't even let him enlist in the American military and serve in his father's war.
08:05So not only is Donald Trump telling people to do something that he and no one in his family would
08:11ever do,
08:12he is leaving the entire burden of his war on the people he is bombing tonight.
08:18To wait until Donald Trump is finished bombing them and then take over your government.
08:26It will be yours to take.
08:34There is another way for the bloodshed to stop, and that is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people
08:43to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator,
08:48to step aside and then comply with the United Nations resolutions and rejoin the family of peace-loving nations.
08:58That did not happen, and when that president finished bombing Iraq, Saddam Hussein remained in power
09:06until that president's son became president and said this when he launched his war against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
09:20We come to Iraq with respect for its citizens, for their great civilization, and for the religious faiths they practice.
09:29We have no ambition in Iraq except to remove a threat and restore control of that country to its own
09:36people.
09:38Republican presidents launching wars never fail to pledge their friendship to the people they are bombing.
09:46The oppressed people of Afghanistan will know the generosity of America and our allies.
09:51As we strike military targets, we will also drop food, medicine, and supplies to the starving and suffering men and
09:58women and children of Afghanistan.
10:01The United States of America is a friend to the Afghan people.
10:05Tonight, the people of Cuba should probably be planning where they will hide from the bonds when American friendship comes
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