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[00:02:01] Well, good morning, Sam. I hope my audio connection is far better than yours. I've got very, very poor audio. I'm able to translate what you're saying, but I hope the listening audience has got a better connection than I do. So maybe we can have, if it's coming across poorly, maybe I'm coming across really good, but I'm getting you very poor. You sound great, Liz. Is it on the air good, Liz?
[00:02:31] All right, then you've got a Marshall on, Dr. It might be your internet connection. I don't know, but you're sounding great, sir. Okay, great. Well, you just started sounding great, as usual anyway, Sam. Well, I'm glad to be able to visit with you this morning. And, you know, another week has gone by, and it's just astonishing to me that time travels. Time flies when you're having fun, sir. I guess I've heard that saying, but I just wonder sometimes.
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[00:04:28] The first one, quote, Trump's memo of understanding with Iran, they say. Some is saying, hey, you know what? It's just determined hopefulness. You know, what's really going on? Is this just hopium? Is he hoping and thinking? All I can tell you is I will start out and answer it by saying this. They've already called off the sighting that was supposed to happen today. So whatever got, you know, digitally signed before, whatever was supposed to be long-term negotiated,
[00:04:58] whatever peace deal, ceasefire negotiations, don't know what will stick that we've committed to versus what won't versus how the negotiations will go. As far as I understand, it's a 60-day plus negotiation period on top of what was already signed. We've already given up, what, $300 billion to kind of build or rebuild Iran. I don't know. I'm pretty critical of this thing. I don't want to be too critical of Trump because then everybody will just hate me and shut me down. And, you know, I'll be disenfranchised everywhere from Sunday to speak my mind.
[00:05:27] So I don't dare do that anymore, doctor. So what do you think of this memo of understanding? I'm concerned about it just because we signed it a day or two ago, and now we're already not going to meet and finish it. So we're already going to threaten each other, and we're going to say there's a ceasefire while we're, you know, everybody's bombing everybody still. And what the heck's happening? Well, the memo of understanding, at best, is the minimalist wish list. It was not an agreement.
[00:05:54] It is not a confirmed, hard, fast kind of thing. It's points of discussion. And the biggest, I mean, there's so much to talk about this because Israel was not a signatory on this thing. Why would they be? Not only no, but heck no. And Trump kind of pushed back a little bit. He kind of had a religious meeting, we're told, with Netanyahu.
[00:06:21] And the biggest, biggest, in my opinion, there's two biggest breaking points on this thing is, number one, there's a ceasefire in all fronts. That includes Lebanon, the invasion that Israel made into Lebanon, the most Christian nation in the Middle East. The leadership is Christian. The leader of the military is Christian. Yes, Hezbollah has been using it as a base of operation.
[00:06:48] But Israel has been pounding the snot out of, that's a technical term, everybody, out of southern Lebanon. They've gone into Beirut and been attacking that directly. And Israel has said it doesn't, it will not include that. And Iran said, if it doesn't, it doesn't. And we won't either. And then the other thing, of course, is that, you know, the Iranians,
[00:07:17] they have been dictating terms. I mean, let me ask you this, Sam. Well, why wouldn't they? They've got a lot more power than we gave them credit for. They won. And they're backed by the communist Chinese. In fact, they've got the second largest military in the world backing them every play. I'm, you know, and a lot of people say, oh, don't say they won. Well, they won. I mean, who, who, who gets reparations and who gives reparations? Look at World War I. The Germans lost.
[00:07:44] They paid reparations to the victors. Who's paying reparations? The Middle Eastern regional countries. Who receives it? Iran. I mean, all of these things. 300 billion is what they're saying, right? 300 billion. And that's just a starter. And it's been over and over and over emphasized that the United States taxpayer will not pay that. But the fact of the matter is that the country that's getting the money is Iran. Hold on.
[00:08:13] What do you mean the United States taxpayers won't pay that? Well, that's what, that's what Trump and, and I know, but what does that mean? Cause I don't understand that money doesn't come out of thin air, doctor. Well, here's the thing. It's supposed to come out of the, um, their, uh, neighbors in the Middle East. Okay. So Saudi Arabia. And I don't, those guys get money from us. Well, they do, but the idea is they sold us a different piggy bank on the shelf over there. Well, we're not going to touch this piggy bank over here, but we're going to fill that piggy bank.
[00:08:42] And then we're going to take it out of a different piggy bank. And I mean, if we're giving money to the other people that are giving money to Iran, isn't that really what's happening? Well, if that is a kind of one pocket to the other, but the way you're up to pay Paul, it's inferred that this is, these are very wealthy countries. They got bank accounts that have been building for decades and they'll pay out of that. Now we don't know. None of these here, Sam, we can sit and speculate all day long,
[00:09:10] but there is nothing in there. It's all to be determined, TBD, to be determined. There is nothing in there. And like I say, I see the biggest break point is the, the end of the action in, in Lebanon, because I do not see Israel backing off on that. Yeah. Benjamin Netanyahu will never do that. He loves war. I mean, I don't, I don't know that he's,
[00:09:37] that he's put forth any effort for peace anywhere, anytime that I know of. Has he really in genuineness? Doctor. Well, you know, the founding fathers talked about the European nations as being nations of eternal war. And I think if any terminology or description applies to the Middle East, it seems to be that. This is it. Sure. I mean, the, this, this eternal warfare kind of thing is, is there and is never going to diminish. I think,
[00:10:07] I mean, I think when the savior comes and straightens us all out, then that's, you know, going to be worked out. But, but I, here's the deal. You know, I've said many times is that when you kick over a hornet's nest, the hornets decide when the fight is over. Iran has say now. I mean, they, they got kicked over. They've got big say now. In fact, they don't just have a say. They've proven they can shut down the Strait of Hormuz. The next question is what else? So Trump threatened them big time and said, Hey,
[00:10:37] if they don't get this done, we're going to rain bombs down on their heads. Big time. They better cooperate. And then they responded in kind. So while we're signing a peace deal, we're firing barbs at one another. When we get back, I'll tell you what the Iranians said. We get your take on that. Dr. Bradley would do it all. Then I want to know if we should impeach them all. Okay. We'll talk about it. Liberty round table live. Attention collectors and savvy investors. We are excited to announce a momentous evolution in our journey. Introducing Freewater Coin Company,
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[00:12:35] Donald Trump said, Hey, I'm signing this peace deal. We got it going on. Ceasefire peace deal. Iran's going to not have nukes. They've agreed to all that. We're all good. But if they don't, we're going to just bomb. We're going to just drop bombs on their heads like they've never seen before. Well, Iran didn't take it sitting down. They responded in kind of said, You ain't seen nothing yet, baby. And I don't have the exact words in front of me from either of them, but that's really the summary of kind of the conversation there. And, you know,
[00:13:03] I don't think that we realized how much they could shut down the Strait of Hormuz. I don't think Donald and company realized that. Or if they did, I don't know why they would have done what they did. But nevertheless, Iran saying ain't seen nothing yet. And when Iran's backed by the biggest military in the world, not counting the United States, China, you really wonder what do they have up their sleeves they can do. They surprised us, I think, with a lot of their teeny drones and a lot of teeny attack boats coming in swarms. I don't think they were able to take us out over it like they had hoped,
[00:13:32] but they were certainly able to demonstrate to the world that it's something to be reckoned with. And it's more than we thought it was. And what they really have and don't have, we don't really know. And that China's backing them. You know, on one hand, China says, Hey, we got to stop this fighting. On the other hand, China wants the oil big time. And China's got a relationship with Iran. And I don't know that that's really been impeded. I think to the back channels, that's continuing. And so, doctor, I bring all that up to say, you know, are we going to see the next level here? Or are we going to basically back away?
[00:14:02] What do you think? Well, I hope that peace can be reached, but I don't believe that this is as a hard and fast and done deal as the administration. The question actually came to me. This is the stall region. For about the 40th time now, President Trump has promised us that peace is breaking out all over the Middle East. What do you think this time? I mean, a lot of people are pretty jaded.
[00:14:32] I mean, it's, this has been... I have one comment, doctor. Wars, wars, and rumors of wars. I mean, that's predicted scriptorially speaking, and I don't think that's going to change. Well, and the thing is that I can't imagine how many times they've done tabletop exercises, you know, in the war department or all of the different little enclaves of how we look at this thing.
[00:14:59] And I cannot believe that there was not more preeminence given to the Strait of Hormuz. That was the checkmate piece. If you're, you talk about anybody being a... Well, you want to know why it wasn't brought up in a key point? And besides saying it's going to be opened, we hope, is because they know full well that we don't control it, and we don't have any leverage there. So, one of the negotiating tactics is you don't focus where you have no leverage, right? Well, that's right. And the fact of the matter is,
[00:15:27] this was never seemed to even have crossed the administration's mind as they pulled the trigger on the 28th of February. I mean, this thing, and now the MOU, the Memo of Understanding, indicates that the Straits are going to be opened up. The United States will back off its blockade, and they'll be free exchanged. Of course, there's time to, you know, basically clean out the mines and stuff like that. But if, if in fact,
[00:15:57] everybody walks away from this thing, because Israel decided they're going to keep bombing the snot out of Lebanon, you know, a sovereign country, I mean, think about this for a minute, Sam. Russia, Putin, invades a sovereign country, Ukraine. The whole world is up in arms about this. How dare he do that? Lebanon gets invaded, a sovereign country. I don't think we should back the Ukraine and be involved in that, but I do get the, everybody should be incensed about that, right? Well,
[00:16:27] but why aren't they incensed about what's happening in the most Christian nation in the Middle East? Because it's been. Because if you say anything, you're an anti-Semite, because you, well, they've got you framed in such a way that you're the bigoted, hate-filled thug, if you possibly stand up and count, right? Well, there's been an unwillingness then to discuss the realities of life. Of course. And this shows the fallacy of what we're being sold. Now, the United States could, could pull a plug on Israel and say,
[00:16:57] you know what, baby, you're on your own. We're no more, no more aid, no more military armaments, anything else like that. You continue this war. You're going to be wrestling in the dust yourself. But you got to wonder what Israel has in terms of control too. We, we talked about Iran and they have a lot of things we may not realize they have, and they have a lot more mojo than we thought they did. And they're flexing their muscle and they're basically winning. And the victors are winning and the losers are paying as we're doing. Right. But you got to wonder what Israel has too. And you say, well,
[00:17:26] they don't have a lot of military might without us. No, but they have everybody compromised and they have leverage through the whole halls of Congress through the president. They've got everybody leveraged and how far and how people are compromised and how people are blackmailed. And, you know, we don't know what their leverage is there, but I'm telling you right now, it'll take down the whole government if we're not careful. Right. Well, it's there. They have nukes. They have that ultimate trigger pull, but, but you're absolutely correct. I think that the, um,
[00:17:54] their lobby has effectively neutered. And that's a nice way to say this. The, uh, any opposition that might be in the house and the Senate and the president, the president's probably the most beholden of all, because he got, uh, over a quarter of a billion dollars to his election campaign from the Israeli lobby. And, and, and so here we have a nation, United States, 330 million people.
[00:18:23] And we took out Massey with that same big dollar rich lobby. Right. And they did. Absolutely. And so here's the deal. This nation is being led around by the nose by a much smaller nation, a nation about the size of New Jersey with about 9 million, a little over 9 million people. And, and Sam, this is, this is completely upside down and backwards. And I'm not saying empire should be the idea of the Americans,
[00:18:50] but Washington absolutely addressed this. And I could take five minutes and tell everybody exactly what Washington said. Yeah. Go about the scenario. Say again, go, you got it. Do it. Oh, well, let me get my, get some documentation. Because people need to understand that this isn't one of the things we, you know, have in America, this false idea that the founders just were clueless and bumbling, you know, kind of country bumpkins. Didn't have a clue. And no, they foresaw all this.
[00:19:19] They tried to keep us out of all this. They tried to keep the factions out of America's politics in terms of parties. And they warned us against internal conflict like this. And they warned us externally as well. They were fully aware of all this doctor. There's no question. They, they, they were, they pled with this, you know, George Washington's farewell address, you know, depending on what the font is, you know, it's eight to 12, maybe 14 pages if it's a big font. But the,
[00:19:48] the fact of the matter is that they, they talked at length about this idea of being a slave because of your affection or anonymity to either side or another country. I mean, we are being led around and this spirit is, is going about us. I mean, and people like you and me, I mean, he actually goes on to say that real patriots who may resist the intrigues of
[00:20:15] the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious while it's tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests. I look at the, the quote unquote, big names that are, I mean, they're, they're big networks. And they're also people with a big footprint on those networks. And in some independent networks, these people are the favorites that are touting constantly the cause of Israel. And, and the, the founding fathers.
[00:20:45] Well, let me just give you a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evil sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases that were no real common interest exists leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation, making the concessions. We're doing all the concessions.
[00:21:14] We went to war at their behest for crying out loud by unnecessarily parting with what. And the problem is we went to war really at Israel's behest. That's right. We can claim that's not the truth, but the more we dig in, the more that is the truth. Unquestionably. And in fact, I heard Marco Rubio statement. I mean, he was wired to the max with his caffeine. It sounded like to me, he couldn't stop yapping. And in essence, he said, Israel said, we're going, are you with us or not?
[00:21:43] And he could have said, the heck you say, we're not going in this way. And if you do it, we are not supporting it. And then the next phone call could have been made to, Iran and said, if you get attacked, we're not in this battle. They'll just get fired as a congressman or a senator. They'll put enough money in and partner with the right people in America that they have compromised. And you're done. Ask Thomas Massey if you don't believe me. It gives to ambitious, I mean, the people backed Thomas Massey virtually 100%, but the big dollars took him out. Nevertheless, it was flat out election fraud,
[00:22:13] in my opinion. Oh, there's no question. I mean, the Israeli lobby bought another seat in Congress. That's what they did. And it's interesting to me, guys like Ted Cruz, admit that they are in the United States Senate on behalf of Israel. I mean, he's the only Cuban born in Canada that was elected to the United States Senate out of Texas, who is there as a representative to Israel.
[00:22:43] And it's by his own admission. Okay. So, so this idea, exciting jealousy, a will, a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. It gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens who devote themselves to the favorite nation, facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity. I mean,
[00:23:13] this goes on for pages. I mean, I mentioned the length of, of George Washington's farewell address. Well, it was 6,000 words approximately, doctor, a very high percentage of it is, it is actually focused on exactly, exactly what's happening to, we've talked about the arts of seduction and misleading public opinion. You know, you get the big talking heads on some of these big new news media deals. They,
[00:23:40] they over awe influence or awe the public councils. Okay. To a, uh, attachment of a small, to weak toward a great powerful nation dooms the former, that's us, to be the satellite of the ladder. And I mean, I, I, I guess we've got to stop for another break, but it goes on. Yeah. You took five minutes, man. Huh? You took five minutes. I did. And I could go on and on. It is absolutely absurd. What is happening.
[00:24:10] Bottom line, ladies and gentlemen, the founders knew this, they warned against it. And we're not heeding their warning. Thanks for being alongside for the ride. Next episode. Uh, I want to talk about, Hey, can senators be impeached when they lose the midterms? Or if they do, will Donald be impeached once again? We'll talk about it. Next episode. I'm Sam Bushman, freedom, advising son.com for Dr. Scott Bradley, my website, Liberty round table.com, Liberty news, radio.com. We're available on Twitter, X, truth, social, YouTube,
[00:24:40] everywhere. God save our Republic. I knew that.