00:00where Donald Trump decided to attack Iran, what did you feel about that,
00:06given that it ended so apparently quickly? Do you think Trump was vindicated in his short,
00:12sharp strategy there by bombing Iran? Or do you think that this will come back and haunt him
00:18down the line? Well, of course, I can't say. I mean, my life is a kind of unbroken chain of
00:26bad predictions and embarrassing analysis. And I've been wrong so many times, and I will be in
00:33the future without question. However, it's just a fact that, you know, events have consequences
00:39that we can't foresee, often for years or generations. And I think it's very unwise
00:46to use military force without a clear, achievable objective that serves the American national
00:54interest. In fact, it's not, it's not allowed to use it under any other circumstances. And in that
00:59case, I was concerned and remain concerned that this focus on Iran is not actually connected to
01:05our national security. How many Shiite terror attacks have there been in the United States
01:08in my lifetime? Let me do the math. Zero. So don't tell me that the greatest threat we face
01:13is Iran. That's a lie. You're telling it on behalf of a foreign power. Maybe they feel the greatest
01:18threat they face is Iran. It's not the greatest threat we face. It's not an endorsement of Iran.
01:22Okay. Doesn't make me a simp for the Shiites. It just makes me an American who's trying to think
01:27clearly about what our problems are. And our problems would include tens of millions of
01:31foreign nationals living illegally in my country. Nobody knows their identities. They would include
01:35a collapsing economy that makes it very hard for my children to have children and live the life that
01:41they grew up with and their friends and all American kids. It would include a drug crisis that's
01:45killed millions of Americans over the past 20, millions of Americans over the last 20 years.
01:50Iran is not even in the top 10 list. So you can scream at me all you want and call
01:54me names and
01:55call me a bigot or whatever. But there's no evidence to support that. And so if the energy
02:00of the U.S. government is focused on a threat that's not the primary threat to us, it is by
02:05definition ignoring threats that are. And that's a kind of negligence. And so I pointed that out. I was
02:12roundly attacked. My family was attacked. Whatever. I don't care. It's true. And everyone kind of
02:17knows it's true. And being bullied by Ben Shapiro into pretending that it's not true,
02:22it's just not on the program for me at 56. I'm just not doing that anymore.
