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Tonight on The Cameron Journal Newshour, we're talking about President Trumps new legislative edict: no more legislation until the SAVE Act is passed. We watch a clip of Gavin Newsome critisizing President Trump and the SAVE Act.
Then we talk about a smattering of smaller stories like AG Pam Bondi announcing that there will be no more Epstein files drops and that the remaining files will not be released. We also get an update on the Pennsylvania attackers who attempted to bomb an anti-Islam protest in front of NYC Mayor Mamdani's house. We also talk a little bit about the settlement reached between the government and LiveNation/Ticketmaster.
Then we talk about a smattering of smaller stories like AG Pam Bondi announcing that there will be no more Epstein files drops and that the remaining files will not be released. We also get an update on the Pennsylvania attackers who attempted to bomb an anti-Islam protest in front of NYC Mayor Mamdani's house. We also talk a little bit about the settlement reached between the government and LiveNation/Ticketmaster.
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00:06:02So with all of that done, let's dive into the headlines.
00:06:08Let's do this.
00:06:10I need to change my screen background at some point.
00:06:14And let's also change this overlay, because that's for The Living Joke, my other show that
00:06:20I do with Will and Connor, which we will, they'll be here on Wednesday.
00:06:24So make sure to come back for that.
00:06:26Um, and we're going to get into the SAVE Act, because President Trump has said he's not
00:06:32going to sign anything until the SAVE Act is passed.
00:06:36So let's dive right into that.
00:06:37In this story from the helm, it says here, Trump says he won't sign any bills into law
00:06:42until Save America Act passes.
00:06:44President Trump on Sunday threatened to not sign any bills into law until the Safeguard
00:06:48American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, America Act is approved by the Senate, doubling down
00:06:54on his push to change voting requirements ahead of the midterm elections.
00:06:57Quote, I, as President, will not sign other bills until this is passed, and not the watered
00:07:01down version, go for the gold, must show voter ID and proof of citizenship, no mail-in ballots
00:07:06except for military illness disability, the President wrote in his Sunday morning Truth
00:07:10Social Post.
00:07:11The White House did not respond to a request for comment on whether the President will
00:07:14sign a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid the partial government shutdown.
00:07:19The leader has pressed Senate Majority Leader, John Thune, to use the Senate
00:07:24to use a talking filibuster to pass the bill, which was approved by the House in February.
00:07:28The filibuster would force Democrats to speak continuously on the Senate floor to delay a
00:07:32vote on the bill, but if they cede, the floor Republicans could circumvent the need for a
00:07:3660-vote majority and pass the measure with just 51 votes.
00:07:39On Sunday, Trump again urged Thune to use this tactic to get the bill across the finish line.
00:07:43Quote, great job by hard-working Scott Presser on Fox & Friends talking about using the filibuster
00:07:47or talking filibuster in order to pass the Save America Act, an 88% issue with all voters.
00:07:52The President wrote, referring to the conservative activists.
00:07:55Quote, it must be done immediately.
00:07:57It supersedes everything else.
00:07:58Must go to the front of the line.
00:07:59Unquote.
00:07:59He continued.
00:08:00Thune, who ran for the Senate Majority Leader under the commitment to uphold the 60-vote threshold,
00:08:04has not budged on his stance despite Trump's pressure.
00:08:07The Save America Act has ample support from House Republicans and has already passed the
00:08:11lower chamber three separate times over the years.
00:08:14Democrats, however, have pushed back on the measure, claiming it would pose challenges
00:08:16for registered voters and potentially inhibit people from heading to the polls.
00:08:20The Hill has reached out to the White House, as well as Thune's and House Speaker Mike Johnson's
00:08:23offices for Congress.
00:08:26And so, I mean, that summarizes it, summarizes it quite well.
00:08:32But it's definitely a bold move, a move ahead of the, ahead of the, the midterms in terms
00:08:39of getting voter ID, voter ID passed and going.
00:08:43I, I was pissed a lot of people off several years ago when I wrote an article for the Cameron
00:08:49Journal called Why I Agree with Voter ID.
00:08:53Juditionally, most Democrats have not been too hot to trot on voter ID.
00:08:57I think voter ID is a good idea.
00:08:59The problem with the Save America Act is a couple of revisions.
00:09:01One, is it significant that disenfranchises married women because their ID and their marriage
00:09:09certificate and ID and everything has to all match with the same last name?
00:09:14And a lot of women haven't redone those documents.
00:09:16There'd kind of be a mass disenfranchisement there.
00:09:19Two, um, banning mail-in ballots.
00:09:23And there's no indication in any data thus far that mail-in voting is any less secure than
00:09:33in-person voting.
00:09:35Um, that's kind of a ballywick that's happened post-2020 because of all the changes around,
00:09:40all the changes that states and board of elections did around the pandemic to keep people from
00:09:44gathering.
00:09:45A lot of states that didn't have mail-in voting massively expanded it.
00:09:48And that has fed into some of the 2020, um, election, uh, questions and, well, in my opinion,
00:09:57conspiracies around the 2020 election.
00:09:59Um, and so this whole, you know, banning mail-in ballots is so you can't, you know, ballot dump
00:10:05because people don't understand that when you're looking at voting returns through the night,
00:10:11the fact that 3,000 votes came in at 4 o'clock in the morning does not mean someone's dumping
00:10:16ballots.
00:10:17It means some hardworking person who's been feeding ballots into a machine finally had
00:10:21a count for whatever ballots that were.
00:10:24A lot of states don't even allow, uh, county clerks to count ballots until the election
00:10:30has occurred.
00:10:31So you end up with all of the, you know, you end up with like, oh, that's the military votes
00:10:35coming in that have sat in a box until the election day.
00:10:38And then some person's feeding them into a machine doing the count.
00:10:41And then when they kind of get through them all and verify them all deal with the issues,
00:10:45all this type of thing, they put the, it all goes up on the website and wants to get an
00:10:49update.
00:10:50It's not fraud.
00:10:51It's, it's just admin sort of thing.
00:10:54All of that has led to being like, oh, you know, mail-in ballots are unsafe, especially
00:11:00in states where they allow, uh, people to, um, gather up votes of other people who maybe
00:11:06can't turn theirs in, all this type of thing.
00:11:08Um, it's also going to be awkward for two states that only vote by mail, which are Utah
00:11:14and Washington state.
00:11:15Um, both of those states will have to, if it passed today, they would have, it's March,
00:11:24eight months to build out in-person voting instruct, voting infrastructure that they haven't
00:11:30had in years.
00:11:32Um, you know, in terms of, you know, elderly people, they're going to have to get waivers
00:11:37for all this type of thing.
00:11:38It's going to be an administrative nightmare.
00:11:40I'm not saying that that's a, that that's necessarily a bad thing.
00:11:43I'm just saying that it's a, it's a funny thing with, with mail-in, with mail-in, with
00:11:48mail-in voting.
00:11:49Um, and so, yeah, this is, this, with all of this stuff and the ID and citizen proof requirements,
00:11:57one, a lot of Americans don't even have all those documents.
00:12:00There's going to be a rush to get them in order to vote.
00:12:02And then you're going to have all the admin of that.
00:12:05It's going to cause absolute and utter chaos for the midterms.
00:12:09Um, but I think in my humble opinion, that's the point.
00:12:15Um, but this is an interesting and very bold statement.
00:12:19Um, and I think it may come back to haunt him on the DHS funding.
00:12:24I think voter ID is a good idea.
00:12:26Um, and I think, you know, I think you should have a wide variety of IDs.
00:12:31Um, for instance, like student IDs don't count as IDs for voting.
00:12:35I don't think that's really fair.
00:12:36Um, you know, you have, um, you know, all these kind of very high requirements, even
00:12:41though we don't have a ton of evidence that we have a massive voter fraud problem or that
00:12:50we have a lot of immigrants voting.
00:12:51A lot of those are tropes and ideas that when you actually go look at voting and ballot
00:12:57data, don't really seem to bear out.
00:12:59I actually, I, it was kind of funny.
00:13:00I had someone on the show, um, early last year who was a Republican pollster.
00:13:06We were talking about the polls ending up to 2024 and how wrong they were and the confusion
00:13:10of polling in the Trump era and all this type of thing.
00:13:12Um, but one of the kind of interesting things that, um, that we, we got into was, you know,
00:13:19this, this, you know, question about ballot ballots and voting and all this type of thing.
00:13:23And I, the only thing I would remind president Trump about in this whole process is that,
00:13:29you know, okay, you felt like you got cheated in 2020.
00:13:31You spent a fortune trying to find something wrong.
00:13:35Didn't really, we've never addressed the whole fake electors scandal that happened and,
00:13:40and whatnot.
00:13:42And because Jack Smith was testifying about that, that we could talk about that.
00:13:45We never got into all that.
00:13:46We never got into the, you know, people in Michigan that were trying to, to do that or
00:13:51all this that we didn't get, never into all that, but we did get into, you know, all the
00:13:55problems with the voting system.
00:13:57Um, the same voting system that got him elected in 2016, but that he lost in 2020, but that got
00:14:04him back in in 2024.
00:14:06Um, and you'll notice all the issues and all this are about the 2020 election or the
00:14:112024 election, because that's when we lost.
00:14:15Are we sensing a pattern here?
00:14:17Um, so yeah, this is a lot of people who've had a lot of accessibility to vote are going
00:14:23to find out they don't have it anymore.
00:14:26Um, and a lot of local county clerks who are required to, you know, canvas for voters and
00:14:33some people in the future of them are going to, are going to have a very terrible time,
00:14:36um, figuring all of, all of this out.
00:14:38And I'm not, I'm not saying that people don't have IDs to present and that they shouldn't
00:14:42be presenting ID to match with the voter roll, all this type of thing.
00:14:46Great.
00:14:47That's fine.
00:14:47But when you're restricting what types of IDs you're requiring all these documents that
00:14:51people don't have, that's going to be a problem for people.
00:14:55And it's going to end up disenfranchising people.
00:14:58Um, one of the things we used to say back in the day, I don't know that modern data
00:15:02promotes this anymore.
00:15:04This is not true anymore.
00:15:05But back in the day, we always used to joke that when turnout is down, Republicans tend to
00:15:09win.
00:15:10And when turnout is high, Democrats tend to do a lot better.
00:15:14Um, and, uh, that was true in 2020.
00:15:16We had legendary voter turnout in 2020 because we readily expanded who could, who could vote.
00:15:25Um, and, uh, you know, and, and as, you know, and as fate would have it, you know, that election,
00:15:30uh, went in a Democrat direction.
00:15:32So it is, it, that at least in that instance was still true.
00:15:36I don't know if that's true for other races or other election periods, but that was still
00:15:40true for, true for them.
00:15:41Um, and I, I also, one of the things that I, I always laughed about in the lawsuits after
00:15:45the 2020 election is that the Trump lawyers were always making the argument that the only
00:15:52part of the ballot that was eligible for fraud or could be fraudulent was just people voting
00:15:58for president.
00:15:59That all the other races were honest, but that was the one where the rigging and fraud was
00:16:04happening.
00:16:04And I always thought that was a very odd and funny argument because it kind of showed
00:16:09you narratively where this was going.
00:16:12And it's also, it's also kind of sloppy because if something was really going to happen, you
00:16:18think you can only pick that one, grab a few Senate seats and house seats while you're
00:16:22at it.
00:16:23You know, I mean, you know, I mean, if you're going to go to all the trouble, you might as
00:16:27well go for the trifecta, right?
00:16:30So anyway, Trump says he's not signing any bills for the Save America Act passes.
00:16:35It's going to be, it's going to make it a lot harder to vote for people.
00:16:39Um, and I feel sorry for Utah and Washington.
00:16:42So moving right along.
00:16:45Um, speaking of this, uh, Gavin Newsom, uh, kind of was doing a talk in front of reporters
00:16:55and is kind of talking about the present situation.
00:16:57Well, let's watch and we'll talk.
00:17:01Well, I think it's pretty sick and pathetic and it just said everything you need to know
00:17:05the setting that we're under, that they chose the time manner and place to send their district
00:17:11director outside right when we're about to have this press card.
00:17:15Should everything you know about Donald Trump's America and that was top down, you know that
00:17:20for a fact, they'll deny it.
00:17:22And I'm sure maybe they won't deny it.
00:17:24Should everything, you know, about the authoritarian tendencies of the president of the United States.
00:17:29I said in a moment, wake up America, wake up.
00:17:32You will not have a country if he rigs this election.
00:17:36You will have a president who will be running for a third term.
00:17:38Mark my word.
00:17:39I wasn't exaggerating when I said that I received in the mail a Trump 2028 ad from one of his
00:17:45biggest supporters.
00:17:46These guys are not screwing around.
00:17:48The rules do not apply to him.
00:17:51The most corrupt president in history.
00:17:54He doesn't believe in free enterprise, crony capitalism.
00:17:59He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy.
00:18:02He's a lawless president.
00:18:03Wake up, America.
00:18:05Wake up to what's going on.
00:18:09It's an interesting, it's an interesting message.
00:18:13Obviously, Gavin Newsom is running for president in 2028.
00:18:18And, and, because I do, I really enjoy Brian Allen.
00:18:21He's connect the dots.
00:18:22The domestic response force deploys in April.
00:18:24The Epstein files are being resealed behind new investigations.
00:18:28Pam Bondi announced that they're not releasing any more Epstein files.
00:18:31We'll come back to that.
00:18:34Um, and, uh, and, uh, it's, all of this is coming together and obviously, you know, suspicion by certain people
00:18:43and certainly on a certain side of the aisle is very high that, you know, this, the midterm election will
00:18:48not be honest.
00:18:48It may be the last election and Trump's going to try to run for a third term.
00:18:52Now, I worry about the 2026 election for all the reasons I just outlined with the Native America Act.
00:18:59I don't think Trump's running for a third term and I'll tell you why.
00:19:02I think he's very tired of this whole president thing and I think he wants to go out on top.
00:19:08Um, I think he likes to throw that out there to stir the pot because that's his pattern.
00:19:13It gets people talking.
00:19:15Look at us sitting here talking about it.
00:19:17We have once again fallen into his trap.
00:19:19It gets people talking.
00:19:21It gets people worried.
00:19:22It gets people on the back foot.
00:19:24And that's what he wants them.
00:19:25He wants you off your stance.
00:19:27He wants you on the back foot, not sure what to believe, not sure what he's going to do next
00:19:32because he doesn't know what he's going to do next.
00:19:33All this type of thing.
00:19:34It's, it's part of the game and it, it, you know, it's, it happens every single time.
00:19:40And you'll notice he only throws that out every once in a while.
00:19:45And it's always very casual.
00:19:46He never does a rally or a big, none.
00:19:49And it's always just kind of like, oh yeah, it's all, it's like, it's like, oh, maybe I deserve it.
00:19:54Like he just, this is part of his whole thing.
00:19:57I think the domestic response force is far more dangerous considering how ICE operations have gone.
00:20:04And the fact that they're expanding now to Ohio, into, uh, Massachusetts, elsewhere.
00:20:09Um, you know, all of, all of these things, it's, um, it's, it's a very, um, it's a very, uh,
00:20:19off-putting and upsetting thing to do.
00:20:22And that's what Trump prefers.
00:20:25That's his whole thing.
00:20:26On the other side, I don't think Gavin Newsom is necessarily, is necessarily wrong.
00:20:31I think we are in a big gray zone in terms of what will be allowed and who, if anyone,
00:20:40can genuinely enforce to make sure rules are, are kept.
00:20:46The only institution that could stand up to Trump running to a third term and stop it are states who
00:20:53refuse to put him on the ballot.
00:20:57And, and, and that's something where some may, others won't, you know, how would that work?
00:21:06You know, cause there's some states that will fall all over to do it, other ones that will flatly say
00:21:09no.
00:21:10I mean, that's its own constitutional fight of its, of its own.
00:21:13But when it comes to everything else and the, the way Trump plays the market, the way he plays favorites
00:21:21with business leaders, the way they suck up to him and completely collapse, you know, in trying to gain favor
00:21:28with this man, all this type of thing, um, is an oligarchy.
00:21:33And the more and more stuff I see, like with the Trump brothers, um, Don and Eric investing in this
00:21:41drone company to make drones for the war in Iran, it starts to smack of, of what goes on in
00:21:47Russia and other, and other countries.
00:21:48And we've been very lucky to live in a country where, yeah, we spend too much in defense contracts and
00:21:54corporations do like to overcharge and all this type of thing.
00:21:57But it, it's not quite personal and overt, um, you know, we, we do a better job of keeping it
00:22:05to a minimum and at least keeping it behind closed doors and trying to prosecute those who do and people
00:22:11understanding that if it's ever exposed, there's serious federal crime, you know, federal charges involved, that's starting to fade.
00:22:19And let me tell you, corruption's expensive, ask anybody who lives in Russia or elsewhere, corruption is expensive for the
00:22:28everyday person.
00:22:29And it manifests itself in all sorts of odd ways, and it makes everyone poorer.
00:22:35Right before this show, I was taping, because I'm always making content, I was taping a couple videos, um, and,
00:22:43uh, and I was talking about austerity and makes everyone, austerity makes everyone poorer.
00:22:47That video will, it's short, but it'll be out soon.
00:22:50Um, the same dynamic is at play, um, is at play with, uh, with corruption.
00:22:56It makes everyone poorer.
00:22:58It's, it's, it's an inefficient season in the market.
00:23:01Having a strong legal background and stuff that's happening saves everybody money over, over the long run, which is one
00:23:07of the problems with defense contracting.
00:23:09Anyway, um, I thought this video was interesting.
00:23:11I thought it was very over.
00:23:13I think it's something everyone should be concerned about, and, um, you know, if you're okay with that dynamic, I
00:23:19would, uh, I'd maybe have to think about that.
00:23:22Think about why you're okay with that.
00:23:25Um, this story dropped today.
00:23:29This one is going to be, well, this is difficult.
00:23:33So, um, on March 7th, Amir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, allegedly threw mason jar
00:23:44bombs packed with TATP explosive and shrapnel towards anti-Islam protesters outside Mayor Zoran Mamdani's residence.
00:23:53Balat lit the devices, one after taking it from Kayumi before police tackled them.
00:23:58Both pledged allegiance to ISIS upon arrest, with Balat boasting of plans bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing.
00:24:04They faced federal charges, including material support to a terrorist group and using a weapon of mass destruction, as officials
00:24:11stressed zero tolerance for such violence.
00:24:13I should mention that it was at Gracie Mansion, which is where the mayor lives.
00:24:18I, the bombs did not work, no one was meaningfully hurt, but there is, um, there is some, uh, some
00:24:26video, maybe, possibly?
00:24:32That's them being tackled now.
00:24:38They certainly tried it.
00:24:40Oh, there's one of the devices now.
00:24:42See, nothing happened.
00:24:43No one was hurt.
00:24:45Um, but very disturbing, nonetheless, when you have people throwing devices that could have exploded and shouting their allegiance to
00:24:53ISIS and all this sort of thing.
00:24:56Um, oh, and this is the statement from Mayor Mamdani.
00:25:00Um, I've been charged with committing an heinous act of terrorism and proclaiming allegiance to ISIS.
00:25:04They should be held fully accountable for their actions.
00:25:06We will continue to keep New Yorkers safe.
00:25:07We will not tolerate terrorism or violence.
00:25:11Um, so it's, uh, yeah, so that happened over the weekend.
00:25:17That story didn't get enough attention because there's a lot of, of things going on.
00:25:23But, um, yeah, they will, um, yeah.
00:25:27I hope they like federal prison because they will be spending a lot of time there in the near, in
00:25:34the near, in the near future.
00:25:35Um, I heard about the bombing first, but now we have names, numbers, locations, and the nature of the, uh,
00:25:42the nature of the attacks.
00:25:43The interesting thing is that there was a protest, um, outside the, uh, outside the, the residents, um, that were
00:25:51protesting against Islam and Islamification.
00:25:54And so it was, you know, a, basically Muslims attacking what was essentially kind of a right-wing sort of
00:26:00protest or just people against, um, against Islam and, you know, the spreading of Islam in the, in America.
00:26:06And, uh, yeah, um, I'm sure every one of the people at that protest will be very, will still be
00:26:12convinced to keep protesting and keep saying against Islam after this.
00:26:16And, and this is definitely, it's moments like these that it's hard to say Islam is a religion of peace
00:26:22when this type of thing consistently keeps happening time and time and time again.
00:26:29So, um, let's, uh, move on quickly to the Ticketmaster Live Nation Settlement.
00:26:46So, um, I wanted to grab this story real quick on the Cameron Journal because we had, uh, talked about
00:26:52last week on The Living Joke,
00:26:55which if you're not watching The Living Joke, it's my Wednesday podcast with Will and Connor, and it's a lot
00:26:59more fun than this show
00:27:00because we talk about pop culture and fun things instead of the war in Iran like we do on this
00:27:04show.
00:27:04So, thelivingjoke.substaff.com. You should check us out. We air 4 p.m. on Wednesdays.
00:27:09But, um, we talked about the whole Live Nation Ticketmaster monopoly on ticket sales and how just going to concerts
00:27:16has become stupidly expensive.
00:27:18And there, there was, um, uh, there was, they were in, uh, in negotiations with the government because they are
00:27:26now one company.
00:27:27And so, they quickly reached settlement terms today.
00:27:31And so, it says here, the agreement, which requires a judicial sign-off, would avoid a breakup of the concert
00:27:35giant,
00:27:36but states that joined the suit object to the terms.
00:27:38Says here, the Justice Department said on Monday it had reached a tentative settlement of its antitrust litigation against Live
00:27:44Nation,
00:27:44the concert giant that includes Ticketmaster, a week into a high-profile trial that examined competition in the music industry.
00:27:50Under the terms of the deal, Live Nation agreed to change how it makes ticketing deals with venues,
00:27:55allowing them to use multiple vendors to sell tickets to fans rather than work with Ticketmaster exclusively,
00:27:59according to three people familiar with details of the agreement.
00:28:02In addition, the company would allow touring artists to use other promoters when performing in its amphitheaters, they said.
00:28:07Live Nation would also pay up to $208 million in damages to be split among the states that joined the
00:28:11settlement,
00:28:12according to the people familiar with the deal.
00:28:14who has to remain unnamed because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
00:28:18The Justice Department had accused Live Nation of operating in a legal monopoly that reaches in nearly every aspect of
00:28:23the multi-billion dollar concert business.
00:28:25The company, the government said, stifles competition, pressures artists and venues into using its services,
00:28:30and drives up ticket prices for millions of fans.
00:28:32The suit had sought to break up the company by forcing it to divest Ticketmaster,
00:28:36whose merger with Live Nation had been allowed by the Justice Department in 2010.
00:28:41Live Nation denied those accusations, saying it faces a robust competitive market,
00:28:44for its services, including ticketing, and that it does not threaten venues or artists.
00:28:48Dozens of states' attorneys, state attorneys general, had joined the Justice Department's lawsuit,
00:28:53which had been underway at Federal District Court in Manhattan.
00:28:55Some of them were now balking with the proposed settlement.
00:28:57In addition, the judge overseeing the case, who must approve any settlement,
00:29:00expressed frustration when the Justice Department and Live Nation revealed the existence of a deal in court Monday.
00:29:05Judge Arun Sabramian appeared angry when, outside the presence of the jury,
00:29:09lawyers for both sides of the case told them they had signed a term sheet on Thursday.
00:29:13The judge noted that there had been no discussion of such an agreement when the parties met in his chambers
00:29:17on Friday morning.
00:29:18Quote,
00:29:19It shows an absolute disrespect for the court, the jury, and this entire process, Judge Arun Sabramian said.
00:29:24It's absolutely unacceptable.
00:29:25After the proposed settlement was announced, lawyers representing some of the 39 states,
00:29:28along with the District of Columbia, who were involved in litigation, said they would seek a mistrial.
00:29:33New York's Virginia General,
00:29:34Letitia James said in a statement that New York would continue legal action along with 25 other states and the
00:29:39District of Columbia.
00:29:41Quote,
00:29:42We will keep fighting this case without the federal government, Ms. June,
00:29:44said so that we can secure justice for all those harmed by Live Nation's monopoly.
00:29:51This has been a problem for quite some time.
00:29:56When Ticketmaster and Live Nation joined together way back in 2010, under the Obama administration, by the way,
00:30:06the consolidation in everything around ticketing kind of reached a fever pitch.
00:30:12There were some artists that tried to break out of using Ticketmaster, and almost all attempts kind of failed.
00:30:19There are, the compromise is that for some artists, many artists, especially like stand-up comics, which is what I
00:30:26follow the most,
00:30:27you can buy tickets direct, they get so many tickets for themselves, you can buy kind of directly from them.
00:30:33Louis Black, when he was still touring, had a private membership where you could get tickets to every venue,
00:30:39you know, well ahead of time at reasonable prices.
00:30:43Kathleen Madigan does the same thing.
00:30:45Other major artists who tour do the same thing.
00:30:47But the reality is that Live Nation has complete vertical integration.
00:30:51They own most of the ticketing, they own a bunch of the venues, all the promotion,
00:30:55you can't use somebody else, all this type of thing.
00:30:58So I'm not quite sure where Live Nation says the competition's coming from,
00:31:01because they've driven it all out of the market.
00:31:03I'm sure they're talking about like, oh, what about the resellers?
00:31:06That's not competition.
00:31:07That's you getting paid once for the price of the tickets,
00:31:11and then them making thousands of dollars on arbitrage.
00:31:14That's not competition.
00:31:15So this actually gives an opening for a major tech player like Amazon to come in and start selling tickets
00:31:25or Apple or anybody.
00:31:28I guarantee you there are people at Amazon who are looking at this and being like, hmm, Amazon tickets, like,
00:31:35you know, sort of thing.
00:31:36I'm sure there's other people in tech that are looking, you know, I'm sure other people start, you know, other
00:31:40companies, other apps, all this type of thing.
00:31:43I think that end of it will be good.
00:31:45But the fact that they're still together and they really should be broken up,
00:31:50because Live Nation is the touring and Ticketmaster is the ticketing.
00:31:53I think that they should still be separate companies, you know, that deal should have never gone through and it
00:31:58was remarked upon at the time.
00:32:00So I just wanted to bring it up because we talked about it on The Living Joke,
00:32:03and I wanted to kind of do the more serious legal stuff, because with Will and Connor, we just have
00:32:08fun.
00:32:08That's the whole point of that show is we have fun.
00:32:10So, um, turning our attention to the Epstein files, interesting news on that today.
00:32:22Um, and remember how I said to save that?
00:32:25Well, according to, uh, Brian Allen here, my favorite reporter, in a, uh, video from MS Now, which we'll come
00:32:33back in a second,
00:32:34it says the Trump administration has announced it will not release any more Epstein files,
00:32:38more than half of six million documents remain sealed.
00:32:41Pam Bondi's response, the DOJ is done.
00:32:44Um, and then he says, uh, the WAG admitted they withheld images showing death, physical abuse, and injury.
00:32:51Names redacted, images hidden, half the documents sealed forever.
00:32:54A war started the week the files dropped.
00:32:56Seven Americans dead, two trillion erased from markets, the draft on the table.
00:33:00And Pam Bondi just told Congress and the American people, you don't get to see the rest.
00:33:04Um, and so let's watch this brief segment from MS Now to find out a little bit more.
00:33:11We'll start with a growing backlash and political backlash by the Republican political backlash
00:33:15against what one lawmaker is now labeling the Epstein administration.
00:33:19After Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ is done releasing the Epstein files,
00:33:23even though roughly half of the six million documents they have are still under wraps.
00:33:28Even Republicans are incensed, including Senator John Kennedy, who said this weekend,
00:33:32the Justice Department needs to, quote, release everything.
00:33:35South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace tweeted, quote,
00:33:37The days of cover-up are over.
00:33:39A sentiment echoes.
00:33:40We'll start with a growing backlash and political backlash by the Republican political backlash.
00:33:44All right.
00:33:45So, um, I thought that was, um, I'm not surprised because when we got the last really big dump,
00:33:57they said that was it.
00:33:59Um, according to the release, while they do have to justify every redaction submit those to Congress,
00:34:05so I imagine there will be hearings going through different redactions and why certain things were
00:34:10and were not redacted when they actually got the redactions right, which oftentimes they didn't.
00:34:15Um, I'm sure there'll be other questions around what was or was not released and why.
00:34:22Um, a lot of people are pointing out that still nobody, there's no charges, there's no prosecutions.
00:34:29We've talked about why that is.
00:34:31Um, not that I necessarily agree with that, but we've talked about why that is.
00:34:35Um, and, uh, and this announcement, which is just kind of flying under the radar of everything else
00:34:40because all the rest of these tabs are wrong, um, flying under the radar of everything else,
00:34:45um, is, is quite haunting.
00:34:49Um, I just, another video that I was editing today, um, it was, like, called The Epstein The Everything Conspiracy,
00:34:56and it's just, like, there's so much more to know and understand considering the tentacles of this man
00:35:05went so far, and he was involved in so many things.
00:35:12Um, you know, really looking forward to, you know, trying to learn more.
00:35:19And it, I'm disappointed that this is it because there's still a lot of questions
00:35:23to ask, to answer, to find out how far this went and for who.
00:35:29And right now, the only people who are really having any consequences are overseas.
00:35:35No one of note in this country has been arrested in any meaningful way.
00:35:41And so, Nancy Mace, you may say the age of the cover-up is over,
00:35:45but at this point with this administration, what are you really going to do about it?
00:35:50Um, you know, I, I will say that, you know, I understand holding back, you know,
00:35:57some of the images and all this type of thing.
00:35:59I get that.
00:36:00But I feel like out of six million documents, they're not all images.
00:36:04There's other stuff there that could be released, but it implicates certain people.
00:36:09People who can't necessarily be thrown under the bus.
00:36:13So, um, yeah, very disappointing.
00:36:19Very, very disappointing.
00:36:21Um, I think, uh, I think, I think socially and online, this isn't going to go away.
00:36:32Um, I think they hope it will.
00:36:34But when you have memes like this floating around by everybody, Republican, Democrat,
00:36:40everyone in between, I don't think this gambit's going to work.
00:36:43And it's extremely disappointing to get to this point and not be able to find out what exactly happened.
00:36:50And as I wrote in the newsletter on Sunday, figure out how to make sure it never happens ever again.
00:36:56When all this is over, the war on Iran, Epsi, everything, we're going to have to work very hard
00:37:02to make sure that this never happens in this country ever again.
00:37:08And, um, there's a big, a big conversation coming up constitutionally, institutionally,
00:37:16at every level, to prevent this from happening ever again.
00:37:19And we're going to have to change a lot about things in this country.
00:37:23And I think this is going to be a quiet battle cry that's quite sticky on the Epstein files.
00:37:32So, um, before the show gets too late, let's dive into Iran.
00:37:38So, let's level set.
00:37:42Um, the, uh, we have bombings on Sunday of oil infrastructure in Tehran and Estefan.
00:37:50This is Estefan-Iran.
00:37:53Um, and, uh, oh, let me change my graphic.
00:37:58Um, Epstein-Thal's latest.
00:38:00We're going to go over to Iran, Iran, Iran.
00:38:04It's on ten points if you can recognize that, uh, that song.
00:38:09Oh, hello, Noah Jordan 305.
00:38:12Thank you for stopping by, um, and watching.
00:38:15We love you for coming.
00:38:17Um, not, nothing too much.
00:38:18We're just discussing headlines here, so stick with us.
00:38:21Um, and, uh, so we're, uh, so let's just level set here with the New York Times,
00:38:27and we'll get into some of the other details.
00:38:28So, it says here,
00:38:29The volley of Israeli missiles that slammed into a government compound in central Tehran last Saturday morning
00:38:33was, by any military standard, a successful opening strike by the United States and Israel as they went to work
00:38:38with Iran.
00:38:38The blast killed Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
00:38:41as well as a cadre of other senior military and intelligence officials.
00:38:45The war's first salvo left Iran without many of its top commanders to lead the response.
00:38:50The reckoning, it turned out, was more complicated.
00:38:52The Israeli strike also killed another group of Iranian officials
00:38:55who had been meeting in a different part of the compound.
00:38:57Among them were people the White House had identified as more willing to negotiate than their bosses,
00:39:01who might help bring a swift end to the conflict, according to American officials.
00:39:04The strike on the compound in Tehran was emblematic of the muddled reality of the war's first week,
00:39:08a withering air campaign by American and Israeli forces against an overwhelmed enemy,
00:39:12but few answers about what victory might look like.
00:39:14Iran, its government still in place, has remained defiant and expanded the battlefield across the region,
00:39:19inflicting the first American casualties of the conflict.
00:39:22Even as senior administration officials in the United States spent the week trying to narrowly cast the war's goals
00:39:26around denying Iran any chance of getting a nuclear weapon,
00:39:28President Trump has bounced wildly between wildly divergent explanations for what he hopes to achieve.
00:39:33In his first message after the war began,
00:39:35President Trump called for a mass uprising in Iran against the country's leaders.
00:39:39In subsequent days, with little evidence that Iranians were moving to overthrow their own government,
00:39:43and with intelligence reports concluding that the clerical regime would likely hold on to power,
00:39:47he indicated he cared little about Iran's future after the military campaign ends.
00:39:52Then, on Friday, he said he would be directly involved in choosing Iran's future leader,
00:39:56and indicated he was committing the United States to Iran's long-term future.
00:39:59In an abelicose social media statement on Saturday morning,
00:40:02Mr. Trump warned Iran that, quote,
00:40:03areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time
00:40:07might not be targeted by the United States and Israel.
00:40:09The changing narratives have whipsawed the American public,
00:40:12which polls show broadly opposes the war.
00:40:14At the same time, the spreading violence is triggering rising oil prices and other economic shocks
00:40:18that could bring further election-year political problems
00:40:21from Mr. Trump and the Republican Party at home.
00:40:23The war's first week had echoes of the past,
00:40:26but for the first time since World War II,
00:40:27an American submarine destroyed an enemy ship using a torpedo,
00:40:30and it provided glimpses of the future.
00:40:32The Pentagon employed artificial intelligence to help pick its targets.
00:40:37Interviews with dozens of officials in the United States, Israel, Iran, and across the Middle East
00:40:41suggest that while American and Israeli military capabilities have proven to be overwhelming
00:40:45during the war's first seven days,
00:40:46the violence that has metastasized across the region could yield all manner of fraud outcomes.
00:40:51And we'll get into that.
00:40:52This is a very long article.
00:40:53We're not going to read the whole thing.
00:40:54I just want it to level set.
00:40:55But I do want to come down here to the idea of no endgame.
00:40:57It says,
00:40:58During the first days of the war,
00:40:59both Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel suggested
00:41:02that the real change in Iran would come from within,
00:41:04with mass protests on the streets toppling a government made weaker by the military campaign.
00:41:08That has not yet happened.
00:41:10And Mr. Trump has changed his public position by the day or the hour
00:41:13about just how big a role the United States would be in trying to engineer Iran's political future.
00:41:17On Friday, he said he would be happy if Iran was left with an autocratic religious leader
00:41:21after the war as long as the new leadership treated the United States and Israel, quote, fairly, unquote.
00:41:25Inside the White House, officials had identified some pragmatic Iranian officials
00:41:29who they believed would be convinced to negotiate at a relatively quick end of the war
00:41:31if the upper echelon of Iranian leadership were killed.
00:41:33The White House saw the potential Iranian negotiating partners not as much as moderates,
00:41:37but as people who would have self-interest in remaining in power,
00:41:40even if it meant reaching a deal with the United States for the end of hostilities.
00:41:45And so, um, and it goes into comparing the last 12-day war
00:41:50and, um, and there was an appointment of, uh, a new leader today, um, Ali Khamenei's son.
00:41:56We'll get into that as well.
00:41:57But with that as a baseline,
00:42:00I want to, uh, I want to dive into
00:42:05some of the interesting things that are happening, um,
00:42:10we actually don't need this, um, around this war.
00:42:13So, um, as we know, drones have been an increasing part of Iran's strategy
00:42:19coming out of the last series of strikes in the last 12-day war.
00:42:23They've been using drones extensively.
00:42:25Well, Ukraine also uses drones extensively, and so does Russia,
00:42:29and Ukraine's gotten very good at intercepting drones.
00:42:31Um, the Trump administration has drafted Ukraine
00:42:36into helping us in Iran with drone technology.
00:42:39Says here, Ukraine is now sending help to the Persian Gulf,
00:42:41aiding Gulf states in the U.S. to protect their military bases
00:42:44from Iranian suicide drones with cheap Ukrainian interceptor drones,
00:42:47because the Patriot missiles that we use to defend against drones
00:42:50cost way more than the drones or even the Shahid missiles.
00:42:54And that, remember that, because we're going to come back to that too.
00:42:57But, uh, this was just an interesting sort of thing.
00:43:01And there's a brief Fox News clip.
00:43:04This multi-layered strategy counters Iran,
00:43:06which seemingly is trying to flood the zone
00:43:09with these cheap $35,000 Shahid drones
00:43:12until the Gulf states run out of expensive counter-drone munitions
00:43:16like the $4 million Patriot missiles.
00:43:19Ukraine is also helping to fight Iran's drones.
00:43:23This is an ad for the Sting.
00:43:24It's a Ukrainian drone interceptor, a quadcopter,
00:43:28that hunts and takes down Iranian drones.
00:43:31Ukraine and the U.K. have also developed an AI-powered interceptor
00:43:35called the Octopus, which has reportedly been discussed
00:43:38by the Gulf states in this war.
00:43:40Ukraine is an expert at drone fighting,
00:43:42dealing with swarms of Iranian drones fired by the Russians.
00:43:46So I'd say...
00:43:48Yes.
00:43:49And as the top tweet says,
00:43:51Ukraine has not provided more military aid to the U.S. this year
00:43:54than the U.S. has provided to Ukraine.
00:43:58So it's, um, yeah.
00:44:01So that's, uh, yeah.
00:44:04It's, it's, it's, it's, it's dragging in everybody
00:44:07either materially or existentially.
00:44:10Um, and, uh, the, uh, the, you know, the drone,
00:44:15a drone carrier was also, um, was also shot down.
00:44:19Um, and this, this kind of shows the starkness of, um,
00:44:24uh, of the cost.
00:44:25So Patriot missiles are $4 million per missile.
00:44:28The Shahad drone is $35,000.
00:44:30And Ukraine's interceptor drone is $3,000
00:44:33with off-the-shelf parts that they now make in Ukraine.
00:44:38Um, and so that back and forth with the drones
00:44:43and the drone striking refining facilities
00:44:46in Qatar, in Bahrain, all this sort of thing,
00:44:49um, has now created the situation where,
00:44:52one, we can't really make Patriot missiles
00:44:54as fast as we're using them
00:44:56because the metallurgy and everything
00:44:58takes months to increase production,
00:45:00all this sort of thing.
00:45:01And so we're basically pulling in all the favors
00:45:04to, to figure this out.
00:45:06And so we now have a situation where
00:45:08this war is economic, it's drones, it's AI,
00:45:13it's also planes, it's ships, but not really.
00:45:17Um, it's, it's a war on multiple fronts
00:45:19using multiple tools where cost becomes a factor.
00:45:22And all the people in Ukraine who said,
00:45:24yeah, the, the age of, you know,
00:45:26the drone wars are here
00:45:27and the, the new strategy is going to be
00:45:30build lots of drones, build them cheap
00:45:33and flood the zone.
00:45:34So it's almost impossible.
00:45:36They're very hard to defend against them
00:45:37is shown itself in Ukraine.
00:45:39It is now showing itself in Iran
00:45:41versus the United States and the rest of the Gulf.
00:45:44Um, yeah, if we're not planning
00:45:46on adding significant drone stocks
00:45:48to at least water, you know,
00:45:51water ship-based platforms,
00:45:52all this type of thing,
00:45:53the Pentagon should really start thinking about that
00:45:55because we're seeing the future
00:45:57of conflict in the world
00:45:58and it includes cheap drones,
00:46:00not expensive missile systems.
00:46:03Now, um, to my point,
00:46:06I knew, I, see, I talked ahead of my story.
00:46:09So, um, today, this was this morning,
00:46:12Iran hit a U.S. oil tanker
00:46:14in the Strait of Hormuz
00:46:14with a Shahed-136 drone.
00:46:17Um, and it talks about the cost
00:46:19and, um, and it goes through how,
00:46:22you know, all, all of the, um,
00:46:26all of the, the cost of,
00:46:28of defending against this
00:46:29is just too high
00:46:30without using very inexpensive,
00:46:34uh, inexpensive drones.
00:46:36And then it also gets into how,
00:46:39you know, Lloyd's of London
00:46:41is no longer insuring tanker traffic,
00:46:44traveling through the Strait of Hormuz
00:46:45so ships can't go through
00:46:47with any, with any surety
00:46:50that they will be insured
00:46:51if they're fired upon.
00:46:53And so that means
00:46:54that they can't go through
00:46:55the Strait of Hormuz,
00:46:55which basically means
00:46:56all the oil and gas
00:46:58that usually pass through there
00:46:59are stuck
00:47:01on the wrong side of the Strait.
00:47:03Um, and then also, you know,
00:47:06removes 20 million barrels
00:47:07per day of oil,
00:47:08so the price of oil,
00:47:09it already hit 120 today,
00:47:11which means gas prices
00:47:12will be, um,
00:47:14will be going up.
00:47:15And there's a picture
00:47:16of the ship hit by the drone
00:47:19and how much it is on fire.
00:47:21Um, so the drone situation,
00:47:24that's the future of this,
00:47:25and that's going to become
00:47:26an increasing problem
00:47:27as Iran seeks to expand
00:47:28the war throughout the region.
00:47:31Um, uh,
00:47:33oh, this was a bit
00:47:34of Iranian propaganda.
00:47:37Um, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
00:47:38Aerospace Force Commander
00:47:40Majid Muzavi said,
00:47:42quote,
00:47:54And this is Iran
00:47:56showing off all their stuff
00:47:58buried in tunnels and places.
00:48:01This is Iranian state video,
00:48:04so bear that in mind.
00:48:18They chose good music,
00:48:20I'll say.
00:48:22Oh, there's more
00:48:23of those small drones.
00:48:34I mean,
00:48:35I think it's important
00:48:36to remember,
00:48:36this is a regime
00:48:37that has been anticipating
00:48:38this moment
00:48:39for 40 years.
00:48:41This exact scenario
00:48:42is exactly
00:48:44what their war plans
00:48:45have planned on.
00:48:49And look,
00:48:50it's all packed,
00:48:51all ready to go.
00:48:51They just grab the trailer
00:48:53with a little truck
00:48:54and away it goes.
00:49:03So, um,
00:49:05moving right along.
00:49:07Um,
00:49:08oh, this was about...
00:49:11So,
00:49:13Trump has floated
00:49:14that they might bring back
00:49:16the draft
00:49:16if they have to invade Iran
00:49:18with ground troops.
00:49:20Um,
00:49:21and I saved this
00:49:22because I thought
00:49:22it was prescient.
00:49:24Um,
00:49:24and I think
00:49:26certainly surmises
00:49:27public sentiment
00:49:28and somewhat
00:49:29my own sentiment
00:49:30as well.
00:49:31And,
00:49:32says from Tom Joseph,
00:49:34there's not going
00:49:34to be a draft.
00:49:35Trump doesn't have
00:49:36the authority
00:49:36to order a draft.
00:49:37There's not going
00:49:37to be a ground invasion
00:49:38to take over Iran.
00:49:39We don't have the equipment
00:49:40or the 10 million troops
00:49:41required to do it.
00:49:42Iran isn't going
00:49:43to surrender either.
00:49:44Trump is using
00:49:45that stupid language
00:49:45because he's lost
00:49:46and confused.
00:49:47Trump miscalculated
00:49:48every aspect
00:49:49of the Iran attack.
00:49:50He's unprepared,
00:49:50thoughtless,
00:49:51inexperienced,
00:49:51compromised,
00:49:52desperate,
00:49:53and rotting from dementia.
00:49:54It's obvious
00:49:55from Trump's comments
00:49:55that he has no idea
00:49:56what he's doing.
00:49:57He's making up shit
00:49:58as he goes along.
00:49:59He winged it
00:50:00to keep Epstein
00:50:00off the front pages.
00:50:01The loss of even
00:50:02one U.S. Air member's
00:50:03life is not worth
00:50:04the debacle.
00:50:05An 86-year-old psycho,
00:50:07supreme leader,
00:50:07who would have died anyway,
00:50:08was killed
00:50:09and is being replaced
00:50:09with his son.
00:50:10The destruction
00:50:11of their infrastructure
00:50:12is not worth the damage
00:50:12being done to U.S. bases,
00:50:14personnel,
00:50:14and the world economy.
00:50:15These are the consequences
00:50:16of the U.S.
00:50:16electing a compromised
00:50:17criminal traitor
00:50:18with dementia
00:50:19who is rightfully
00:50:20disqualified
00:50:20from even running.
00:50:23Okay, well,
00:50:24let's put the end
00:50:25to one side.
00:50:26That's a very overt opinion.
00:50:28But the idea
00:50:29that Iran's going
00:50:30to surrender
00:50:31is quite unlikely
00:50:31given the fact
00:50:32that they've literally
00:50:33survived the loss
00:50:34of the top third
00:50:36of their leadership
00:50:39and they're still going,
00:50:41still kicking.
00:50:42You know,
00:50:42their government
00:50:43is still continuing.
00:50:44There's new people
00:50:45in charge
00:50:45and they're figuring
00:50:46it out.
00:50:47But I think,
00:50:48especially when it comes
00:50:48to the whole idea
00:50:49of where did this
00:50:50to get the Epstein files
00:50:50off,
00:50:51I think people
00:50:51are kind of driving
00:50:52with that.
00:50:53I think Trump,
00:50:54as is typical,
00:50:55as I said earlier,
00:50:55like with the third term,
00:50:56he likes to throw stuff out
00:50:57to get people talking
00:50:58about it.
00:50:59That's another one.
00:51:00It's like,
00:51:01well,
00:51:01let's get people talking.
00:51:02You know,
00:51:02it gets people talking.
00:51:03It keeps it,
00:51:03you know,
00:51:04it keeps the narrative
00:51:04going.
00:51:05It gets everyone afraid.
00:51:06Again,
00:51:06on the back foot,
00:51:08upset,
00:51:08off kilter,
00:51:09don't know what's next.
00:51:11That's the Trump playbook.
00:51:13He keeps you
00:51:14on your toes
00:51:15and constantly insecure
00:51:17so that he remains
00:51:18in control.
00:51:19That's the Trump pattern.
00:51:21And this is another
00:51:22manifestation of it.
00:51:25Oh,
00:51:26this wonderful map.
00:51:27So,
00:51:29I wanted to show
00:51:30everybody
00:51:31kind of where
00:51:32the attacks
00:51:33are happening
00:51:34and why.
00:51:37So,
00:51:38the ones in red
00:51:39and orange
00:51:39are U.S.
00:51:40and Israeli strikes
00:51:41and the ones in purple
00:51:42are Iran
00:51:43slash Hezbollah strikes
00:51:44which stretch
00:51:45from way down here
00:51:46in Oman
00:51:47and the UAE
00:51:48up into Qatar
00:51:49into Saudi Arabia,
00:51:50Bahrain,
00:51:51Kuwait,
00:51:51into Iraq,
00:51:52northern Iraq,
00:51:53a little dot there
00:51:55here in Azerbaijan,
00:51:56over here in Turkey,
00:51:58obviously Israel,
00:52:00Cyprus,
00:52:01Jordan,
00:52:02all this type of thing.
00:52:03The fatalities
00:52:03reported so far
00:52:05in Iran
00:52:05are 1,300,
00:52:06Lebanon 300,
00:52:07Israel 12,
00:52:08U.S.
00:52:08group 6,
00:52:09and others 36,
00:52:11including
00:52:11some minor deaths
00:52:13in Iraq,
00:52:14Kuwait,
00:52:14UAE,
00:52:14Bahrain,
00:52:15and Oman.
00:52:17It says here
00:52:18that the IDIF estimates
00:52:20120 Iranian missile
00:52:21launches remaining
00:52:22warns it will pursue
00:52:23any successor
00:52:23to Supreme Leader
00:52:24as Assembly
00:52:24of Exeter Superiors
00:52:26to gather in Qom.
00:52:32It also
00:52:33is important to note
00:52:35that Russia
00:52:36is supplying
00:52:38intelligence,
00:52:39satellite imagery,
00:52:39and targeting information
00:52:40to Iran,
00:52:43which is
00:52:44turnabout is fair play
00:52:46with what the U.S.
00:52:47does to Ukraine
00:52:48sort of thing.
00:52:50And so
00:52:51this was an interesting
00:52:53sort of
00:52:53to get a visual idea.
00:52:56Basically,
00:52:56this conflict
00:52:57has plunged
00:52:58the entire Middle East
00:52:59into war.
00:53:02This is not going
00:53:03to stop and continue.
00:53:06What may or may not
00:53:07happen offensively
00:53:10remains to be seen
00:53:12at this time.
00:53:13There's a lot of calls
00:53:14on Gulf states
00:53:15to not just defend
00:53:16themselves against Iran,
00:53:17but to actively assist
00:53:18in taking down Iran.
00:53:21That also,
00:53:23you know,
00:53:23there's been weak
00:53:24response on that so far.
00:53:25But I wanted to show
00:53:26everyone the scope
00:53:28of what is happening.
00:53:29This is a huge,
00:53:32huge area.
00:53:33And it is,
00:53:35this is the great war
00:53:37in the Middle East.
00:53:38We always heard
00:53:39what happened.
00:53:39I studied this
00:53:40in grad school
00:53:41and this is almost
00:53:42exactly the worst
00:53:43case scenario
00:53:43that we imagined.
00:53:47And here we are.
00:53:49Thank God
00:53:49nobody there
00:53:50has any nuclear weapons
00:53:53because that would
00:53:54just make that
00:53:54whole problem worse.
00:53:58Ah,
00:53:59this was the story
00:53:59about the drone company.
00:54:02We're not going
00:54:02to stop there,
00:54:03but Don and Eric
00:54:04are investing
00:54:05in a new drone company
00:54:06to get new contracts
00:54:07from the Pentagon.
00:54:08And there's a,
00:54:09was a story about it.
00:54:11That's from
00:54:12occupied Democrats.
00:54:14Oh, yes.
00:54:15So when it comes
00:54:16to messaging
00:54:17and how uncoordinated
00:54:19the messaging feels,
00:54:20this was Marco Rubio
00:54:22this morning
00:54:23at 10 a.m.
00:54:24when I was preparing
00:54:25for the show
00:54:26on what success
00:54:27in the Iran war
00:54:28looks like.
00:54:30Let's listen.
00:54:31The goals
00:54:32of this mission
00:54:32are clear
00:54:33and it's important
00:54:33to continue
00:54:34to remind the American
00:54:34people why it is
00:54:36that the greatest
00:54:36military in the history
00:54:37of the world
00:54:37is engaged
00:54:38in this operation.
00:54:38It is to destroy
00:54:40the ability
00:54:41of this regime
00:54:42to launch missiles,
00:54:43both by destroying
00:54:44their missiles
00:54:45and their launchers,
00:54:46destroy the factories
00:54:47that make these missiles,
00:54:48and destroy their Navy.
00:54:50The goals
00:54:50of this mission
00:54:51are clear.
00:54:51So we've gone
00:54:53from regime change
00:54:57to not launching missiles
00:54:59and no more Navy.
00:55:02It's moving goalposts.
00:55:04The end game
00:55:05in what is actually
00:55:05going to happen
00:55:06is a moving goalpost
00:55:09and it threatens
00:55:10to be a bit
00:55:10of a boondoggle.
00:55:11This reminds me
00:55:12a little bit
00:55:12of what happened
00:55:13to Reagan
00:55:13in the early 80s
00:55:14after the bombing
00:55:15of the Beirut Marine barracks.
00:55:17We had gone in there
00:55:18to secure things
00:55:19in Lebanon
00:55:19and to help Israel.
00:55:21They blew up
00:55:22the Marine barracks.
00:55:23It was actually
00:55:23one of the first
00:55:24major suicide bomb attacks
00:55:25ever
00:55:27after Assad's father
00:55:28had invented that
00:55:29in Syria.
00:55:30And the Marines
00:55:31had been pulled out
00:55:32in two weeks
00:55:33after it happened.
00:55:34This is starting
00:55:35to have Beirut
00:55:37in 83 vibes to it
00:55:38of we'll move
00:55:39the goalposts
00:55:40till we find something
00:55:41that we think
00:55:41is acceptable
00:55:41to get ourselves
00:55:42out of something
00:55:43we should have
00:55:43never gotten ourselves into.
00:55:45We're already
00:55:45at that phase.
00:55:46And this is literally
00:55:48when Marco Rubio
00:55:48did this at 10 o'clock
00:55:49this morning,
00:55:50President Trump
00:55:50was already posting
00:55:51other things
00:55:52on Truth Social.
00:55:53So clearly
00:55:55Marco didn't call
00:55:55the White House
00:55:56first to find out
00:55:57what he was saying.
00:55:58Or Trump was just
00:55:59trying to make
00:55:59everyone look foolish
00:56:00because he does
00:56:00like to do that
00:56:01because he has
00:56:01remaining control.
00:56:04An interesting thing
00:56:06about the bombing
00:56:08of the school
00:56:09there was a school
00:56:11as everybody knows
00:56:12a school
00:56:13on an Iranian base
00:56:14that was
00:56:14that was hit
00:56:16by an Iran
00:56:17in an IRGC compound.
00:56:19And the latest analysis
00:56:20this is actually video
00:56:28The latest analysis
00:56:32seems to indicate
00:56:33that it's not
00:56:34a Tomahawk missile
00:56:35because it is
00:56:38flying incorrectly.
00:56:40So it says here
00:56:42A1 analysis confirms
00:56:44the wings of the munition
00:56:45in question
00:56:45sit around 40
00:56:46to 45 percent
00:56:47down the body
00:56:48of the munition.
00:56:49On a Tomahawk
00:56:50the wings sit
00:56:50at 49 to 50 percent
00:56:52down the body
00:56:52of the munition.
00:56:53The wing
00:56:54to body ratio
00:56:55of the munition
00:56:55in question
00:56:56matches an Iranian
00:56:57KH-55 derived
00:56:58land attack cruise missile.
00:57:00Further the video
00:57:01shows the munition
00:57:02a steep dive angle
00:57:03for the final attack phase.
00:57:04This places the attack angle
00:57:05at approximately 70 percent
00:57:06which is the max
00:57:07attack angle
00:57:08for a Tomahawk.
00:57:09The attack angle
00:57:09does not match
00:57:11the KH-55
00:57:12that angle maxes out
00:57:13at about 55 degrees
00:57:14so what would have
00:57:14caused this?
00:57:15The wing positioning
00:57:16alone makes the munition
00:57:17impossible to be a Tomahawk.
00:57:18The attack angle
00:57:19at the max
00:57:20of the Tomahawk's
00:57:20capabilities.
00:57:21The typical attack angle
00:57:21for a Tomahawk
00:57:22is much lower
00:57:22than 70 degrees
00:57:23but the typical angle
00:57:24is between 25 and 45 degrees.
00:57:26This is due to the
00:57:27flight pattern of Tomahawks.
00:57:28They fly very low
00:57:29horizontally to the ground
00:57:30and often only
00:57:315,200 meters
00:57:33to avoid detection
00:57:34and interception.
00:57:34In order to achieve
00:57:35that attack angle
00:57:36the missile would have
00:57:37to gain altitude
00:57:38several kilometers away.
00:57:39This would leave it
00:57:40vulnerable for interceptions
00:57:41as highly unlikely
00:57:41on the first day
00:57:42of U.S. attacks.
00:57:43So, what could have
00:57:44caused this?
00:57:44Simply put,
00:57:45GPS jamming
00:57:46on an Iranian KH-55.
00:57:47The U.S. and Israel
00:57:48were and continue
00:57:49to adequately jam
00:57:50Iranian airspace.
00:57:51If the KH-55
00:57:52signal was jammed
00:57:53this could result
00:57:53in an uncontrollable dive.
00:57:54Think of GPS jamming
00:57:55more like disorienting
00:57:56the missile.
00:57:58President Trump said,
00:57:59no, in my opinion
00:58:00based on what I've seen
00:58:00that was done
00:58:01by Iran.
00:58:03So, it appears
00:58:04the school
00:58:04was possibly
00:58:06maybe blown up
00:58:07accidentally
00:58:08by a lost
00:58:09Iranian missile.
00:58:10Still a terrible tragedy.
00:58:12But, we may not
00:58:13have accidentally
00:58:14killed 165 people.
00:58:16So, wanted to put
00:58:17that out there
00:58:18especially when there's
00:58:18videos and pictures
00:58:19and some analysis
00:58:20that I thought
00:58:21was interesting.
00:58:25So, it's, yeah.
00:58:28I found it compelling
00:58:30and worth thinking about.
00:58:33And so, in conclusion,
00:58:36as we bring the NewsHour
00:58:38to a close
00:58:38and bring this whole
00:58:39discussion to a close,
00:58:41today, President Trump
00:58:42said that the war
00:58:42would be over soon
00:58:43and it was going
00:58:45ahead of schedule.
00:58:46He called in to Fox News
00:58:48to let us know this
00:58:50and so, we'll, you know,
00:58:52or no, someone's reading
00:58:53this, he didn't call in.
00:58:54Here we go.
00:58:55And in that interview
00:58:56with Wey Zhajai,
00:58:58he said,
00:58:58I think the war
00:58:59is very complete
00:59:01pretty much.
00:59:01They have no Navy,
00:59:03no communications,
00:59:04they've got no Air Force.
00:59:06He added that the U.S.
00:59:07is, quote,
00:59:07very far ahead
00:59:09of the initial
00:59:10four to five week
00:59:11estimated time frame
00:59:13and then with that
00:59:14we bring in
00:59:15and in that interview.
00:59:16Yeah, and so,
00:59:18it's, uh,
00:59:20it says here,
00:59:20Trump told CBS
00:59:21that he's ahead of schedule
00:59:22on the four to five week
00:59:23war timeline
00:59:24and says that the U.S.
00:59:25should take over
00:59:25the Sea of the Formos.
00:59:26Two things are happening
00:59:27simultaneously.
00:59:28The retreat ahead of schedule
00:59:29means the regime change
00:59:30didn't happen,
00:59:31the regime is standing
00:59:32a harder, younger
00:59:33Supreme Leader
00:59:33is in place,
00:59:34Trump is now
00:59:35reframing failure
00:59:35as a timeline.
00:59:37Contrast this
00:59:38with what Marco Rubio said.
00:59:39The escalation
00:59:40taking over
00:59:41the Strait of Formos
00:59:41means a permanent
00:59:42U.S. naval occupation
00:59:43of a 21 nautical mile
00:59:45choke point
00:59:45surrounded by Iranian coastline.
00:59:47Iran has thousands
00:59:48of Shahed drones remaining,
00:59:49each cost $20,000,
00:59:51each U.S. Patriot missile
00:59:52costs $4 million,
00:59:53the Iranian coastline
00:59:54would give them
00:59:54a point blank range
00:59:55on every U.S. ship
00:59:56in the strait.
00:59:57Iran called it,
00:59:58you enter the strait,
00:59:58you become sitting ducks.
01:00:00Oil is at $110,
01:00:01Iran is threatening $200,
01:00:03seven Americans are dead,
01:00:04the draft is on the table,
01:00:05sleeper cells activated globally
01:00:07and Trump is now
01:00:08talking about
01:00:08occupying the world's
01:00:10most hugely contested
01:00:11waterway.
01:00:12So,
01:00:13um,
01:00:15this also contrasts
01:00:17with what's going
01:00:19to happen here.
01:00:20Um,
01:00:21Times of Israel
01:00:22says that,
01:00:24um,
01:00:24he's working
01:00:25specifically with
01:00:26Prime Minister Netanyahu
01:00:27to decide when
01:00:28it is convenient
01:00:29for them
01:00:29to end,
01:00:31uh,
01:00:31the war
01:00:32and the strikes.
01:00:33The president was asked
01:00:34whether he alone
01:00:35would decide
01:00:35when the war
01:00:36with Iran ends
01:00:37if Netanyahu
01:00:37would also have a say.
01:00:39Quote,
01:00:39the president said,
01:00:40I think it's mutual
01:00:40a little bit,
01:00:41we've been talking,
01:00:42I'll make a decision
01:00:42at the right time,
01:00:43but everything's going
01:00:44to be taken into account.
01:00:45Asked whether Israel
01:00:46could continue the war
01:00:47against Iran
01:00:48even after the U.S.
01:00:49sides of the haul
01:00:49of the strikes,
01:00:50Trump declined
01:00:51to entertain
01:00:51the theoretical possibility
01:00:52before adding,
01:00:53quote,
01:00:53I don't think it's going
01:00:54to be necessary,
01:00:55unquote.
01:00:56Trump has sought
01:00:57to avoid being locked
01:00:57down to a specific
01:00:58timeline for the war,
01:00:59but the White House
01:00:59Press Secretary
01:01:00Killian Lovett
01:01:00said Friday
01:01:01that Washington
01:01:02expected to last
01:01:02four to six weeks,
01:01:04which is funny
01:01:05because it was supposed
01:01:06to be four days,
01:01:07but anyway,
01:01:08that's the moving target
01:01:10on this conflict
01:01:15that we are going through.
01:01:18So let's bring this
01:01:23all together
01:01:24because we've gone
01:01:25through a lot.
01:01:27A lot.
01:01:28We have a conflict here
01:01:31that we can argue
01:01:33about its necessity
01:01:35or whether it was
01:01:36really needed,
01:01:36but the reality is
01:01:40Israel started it,
01:01:41the U.S. joined in,
01:01:43the U.K. may also
01:01:44be joining in
01:01:45at some point
01:01:46if they haven't already.
01:01:49As a result of that,
01:01:51the entire region
01:01:52is now plunged into war
01:01:53and the White House
01:01:55is desperately searching
01:01:56for an off-ramp
01:01:56and they keep doing things
01:01:58and saying things
01:01:59that make off-ramps
01:02:01less likely.
01:02:01Iran is not interested
01:02:02in the ceasefire
01:02:03negotiations right now.
01:02:04They're not taking
01:02:05the calls.
01:02:07There is
01:02:08a complete
01:02:09breakdown
01:02:10in the messaging
01:02:12of what all of this is,
01:02:13what is happening,
01:02:15and why.
01:02:16And we have
01:02:19really no clue
01:02:19what's going on.
01:02:21But the big moral
01:02:22of the story is
01:02:23we're not talking
01:02:23about the Epstein files.
01:02:26And that
01:02:28may have been
01:02:29the whole point.
01:02:31In writing about
01:02:32all this with AI
01:02:33and Claude
01:02:34and drones
01:02:35and Iran's
01:02:36bombing data centers
01:02:37to stop the AI
01:02:38and missiles
01:02:39and cost
01:02:40and it's
01:02:40overwhelming.
01:02:42It's overwhelming.
01:02:44But I will say
01:02:45what's not overwhelming
01:02:45and that is
01:02:46American support
01:02:47for the war
01:02:48in Iran
01:02:48which sits
01:02:49at a balmy
01:02:5127%.
01:02:53There's
01:02:53not a lot
01:02:55of enthusiasm
01:02:56for
01:02:58this conflict.
01:02:59There's not a lot
01:03:00of enthusiasm
01:03:00for this war
01:03:01and why would
01:03:02there be?
01:03:03The no more
01:03:04wars president
01:03:05may be getting
01:03:05us into
01:03:06another situation
01:03:07that we cannot
01:03:08easily
01:03:09extricate
01:03:10ourselves from.
01:03:11Bearing in mind
01:03:12Iran is surrounded
01:03:13by mountains
01:03:13on three sides
01:03:14which offensively
01:03:15makes things
01:03:16very difficult
01:03:16for them
01:03:17but defensively
01:03:18is amazing.
01:03:19The north
01:03:20has the Caspian Sea
01:03:22and mountains
01:03:22are east and west
01:03:23and so
01:03:24most of Iran
01:03:25lives in the flat plain
01:03:26between those
01:03:27mountain ranges.
01:03:28That's one of the
01:03:28cradles of civilization
01:03:29found in the Persian Empire.
01:03:31And so
01:03:34yeah
01:03:35you have
01:03:36but defensively
01:03:37it's really great
01:03:38because you can
01:03:39really only get there
01:03:40easily by air.
01:03:42any sort of
01:03:43land invasions
01:03:44going to be
01:03:45taking place
01:03:45from the sea.
01:03:47Invading Iran
01:03:48is an incredibly
01:03:49incredibly difficult
01:03:51difficult thing.
01:03:53I remember years ago
01:03:53there was a graphic
01:03:54saying why
01:03:55Iran was worried
01:03:57and it was because
01:03:58at that time
01:03:59we had so many bases
01:04:00in Iraq and Afghanistan
01:04:01they were basically
01:04:02surrounded on two sides.
01:04:05And
01:04:06Iran is basically
01:04:07willing to
01:04:08you know
01:04:09go against
01:04:09all of these threats
01:04:11with drones
01:04:12with Muslims
01:04:12with whatever it has
01:04:13to defend
01:04:15itself
01:04:16because this is
01:04:16existential for them.
01:04:17You know
01:04:17if they don't
01:04:18pull it all out
01:04:19and do their very best
01:04:21their
01:04:21you know
01:04:21their regime
01:04:22will not exist
01:04:23you know
01:04:25eventually at some point.
01:04:26And so
01:04:27I think
01:04:27honestly
01:04:28this is
01:04:30I kind of laugh
01:04:31because
01:04:32two of the
01:04:34great conflicts
01:04:35that I always
01:04:37thought would happen
01:04:39one day
01:04:39when I was in grad school
01:04:41studying international relations
01:04:43have occurred
01:04:45and
01:04:45this is
01:04:46by far
01:04:47the more dangerous
01:04:48of the two.
01:04:50And like I said
01:04:51you're going to be
01:04:52feeling this one
01:04:53immediately.
01:04:55Shortages
01:04:55are going to be
01:04:56on the table.
01:04:58domestic attacks
01:04:59are not without
01:05:00quest
01:05:00are not
01:05:01out of their own
01:05:01possibility.
01:05:04There's a
01:05:05TikTok
01:05:06YouTube Instagram
01:05:07creator
01:05:07named Youth Pastor
01:05:08Ryan
01:05:08who
01:05:09has a master's
01:05:10degree in
01:05:10homeland security
01:05:11very similar to
01:05:12my master's
01:05:13degree
01:05:14which is in
01:05:14diplomacy
01:05:15and terrorism
01:05:16and asymmetrical
01:05:17warfare
01:05:17and he was
01:05:18talking about
01:05:18how to prepare
01:05:19for the possibility
01:05:19of domestic
01:05:20attacks.
01:05:22This is going
01:05:22to get very
01:05:23real and very
01:05:24nasty
01:05:24I don't think
01:05:24there's a lot
01:05:25of really great
01:05:25ways out
01:05:26and that
01:05:27should be
01:05:28very concerning
01:05:29so
01:05:32anyway
01:05:33it's been a
01:05:34long day
01:05:34it's been a
01:05:35long week
01:05:35and this
01:05:35has been a
01:05:36long show
01:05:36so let's
01:05:38bring the
01:05:38plane into
01:05:38a landing
01:05:39I want to
01:05:39thank you
01:05:39all so much
01:05:40for watching
01:05:41this has been
01:05:41the Cameron
01:05:42Journal News
01:05:42Hour
01:05:42I am Cameron
01:05:44Cowan
01:05:44thank you so
01:05:45much for
01:05:46watching
01:05:46you can catch
01:05:47us online
01:05:47at Cameron
01:05:48Cowan
01:05:49on TikTok
01:05:51Instagram
01:05:51LinkedIn
01:05:52at Cameron
01:05:53Journal
01:05:53on Blue
01:05:54Sky
01:05:54and TikTok
01:05:57and Facebook
01:05:58just look up
01:05:58my name
01:05:59I popped
01:05:59right up
01:06:00I want to
01:06:01remind everyone
01:06:01to come back
01:06:02Wednesday for
01:06:03The Living
01:06:03Joke
01:06:05and Connor
01:06:06will be here
01:06:08and we're
01:06:09going to talk
01:06:09about the
01:06:09Mario Galaxy
01:06:10movie
01:06:10because they
01:06:11announced voice
01:06:11actors and
01:06:12production pictures
01:06:12today so that'll
01:06:13be fun
01:06:13and hopefully
01:06:14fingers crossed
01:06:15Brian McMillan
01:06:16from Woke Word
01:06:17Wars will also
01:06:18be on this week
01:06:19although I have
01:06:19not confirmed
01:06:20with him yet
01:06:21so we'll see
01:06:21about that
01:06:23this week's
01:06:23interview is
01:06:24really great
01:06:26the interview
01:06:27that's already
01:06:27come out
01:06:28is with
01:06:29publishing
01:06:29and publishing
01:06:30industry with
01:06:31Terry Whelan
01:06:31so if you're
01:06:32one of my
01:06:32writing people
01:06:33who wants to
01:06:34find out more
01:06:34about traditional
01:06:34publishing
01:06:35that is a
01:06:36must watch
01:06:36interview
01:06:38if you're
01:06:38curious about
01:06:39your astrology
01:06:41for the year
01:06:41of the fire
01:06:42horse I talked
01:06:42with Altazar
01:06:43who's been a
01:06:44friend of mine
01:06:45who's an
01:06:45expert astrologer
01:06:46for 15 years
01:06:47well he's been
01:06:48in astrology
01:06:48for 30 years
01:06:49I've been his
01:06:49friend for 15
01:06:50years
01:06:50so that's
01:06:51up right now
01:06:51and then later
01:06:53this week we're
01:06:53also going to be
01:06:54talking writing
01:06:54and publishing
01:06:55with Juliet Rose
01:06:56who's a great
01:06:57independent author
01:06:58that I had a
01:06:58chance to speak
01:06:59to so that's
01:07:00what's coming up
01:07:00this week on
01:07:01the Cameron
01:07:01Journal on
01:07:02the podcast
01:07:02so yeah
01:07:04thank you all
01:07:04so much for
01:07:04watching I
01:07:05really appreciate
01:07:06it have a
01:07:06wonderful evening
01:07:07and I will see
01:07:08you next week
01:07:08on the Cameron
01:07:09Journal News
01:07:09Hour
01:07:10goodnight now
01:07:20I'll see you next week
01:07:21I'll see you next week
01:07:23I'll see you next week
01:07:24I'll see you next week
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