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[00:01:27] Any words, not push to get it there, because we need to spread the word on this. I want to start out with this Tulsi Gabbard thing. You guys had a great conversation last night about Tulsi Gabbard. I don't think all things are as they appear, Doctor. Well, I have to concur with your understatement, Sam. That's what I would place it. I just thought I'd kick it off with a little barb like that. Kind of fun to do that, you know? No, I think you're right on this thing.
[00:01:56] You know, Tulsi Gabbard resigned. It's effective end of June, I guess, so it's probably five weeks away. But she wants to spend time with her husband diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, and that was the, you know, what her resignation letter said. And Trump gave her a glowing acceptance of her resignation, everything like that. But a lot of us, including myself, considered it only a matter of time and kind of a foregone conclusion.
[00:02:25] Because I think, based upon her previous statements and some of the more recent statements that are a little bit more veiled, if you will, are principled positions on war, and especially the Iran war. And I think that it was just, you know, I thought it was going to be, but I just didn't know how or when. And she took the opportunity to, you know, take the poison pill, I guess, and find her way out.
[00:02:55] Yeah, and the interesting thing about this, Doctor, is you know that she was a Democrat, and she jettisoned the Democratic Party. You know that she has some solid stances. You know, what's interesting is you've got a couple of Democrats that are pretty high profile that we agree with more on some of these topics than we do, say, the Republican camps. Take Bobby Kennedy as one of them, for example, on the health care stuff. We agree with a lot of what he has to say, more so than even many of the Republican neocons or hacks or, you know, rhinos or whatever words you want to call for them.
[00:03:23] And then you've got some of these Democrats like Bobby Kennedy, like, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, who I realize that she's, you know, not a complete Democrat now, but my whole point is some of these people with unique ideas, and this is where they try to divide us into left and right, and this blows up that paradigm. So I do like that in that sense, Doctor. Well, exactly, and it's right and wrong, not left and right, what we ought to do. But she did start out as a Democrat. She became an independent. She became a Republican. But the fact of the matter is... She's got to return to being an independent again, huh?
[00:03:53] Yeah. She's more principled than virtually all of those who continue to sit in Trump's cabinet, sadly. I think she tried to present truth. I think this is just, again, an assumption. I wasn't there, and this is maybe an overstatement. She was shouted down, meaning she was, you know, kind of discounted by the Zionists in the administration. And I think a valuable voice of reason has been silenced. And here's the deal.
[00:04:22] Not only her, but every single element of her intelligence agencies and all the intelligence agencies of the United States agreed that Iran was not an imminent threat to the United States. And, in fact, virtually all international intelligence sources other than the state of Israel... Yeah, don't make me think too much about this or we might not end up in the war that I want so badly. That's exactly right.
[00:04:49] And I think that the Rubios and the Hegseths of the world, of course, the people outside it, you know, the Mark Levins and the Lindsey Grahams and so on, were beating the war drums so hard. And, of course, that's exactly where Trump was going because of, I believe, his willingness to listen to, you know, Benjamin Netanyahu over and above anybody that was within his own intelligence agencies. And, you know, it's interesting.
[00:05:19] I think wise leaders surround themselves with respected, principled people that can be trusted to offer counsel that could be contrary to the popular opinion. Yeah, and that's the whole point, though. You want people around you that may not agree with you or may look at things uniquely different than you do so that you can get all the bases covered. It doesn't need to be a hostile interaction or a disagreement to melt down. It just needs to be a, you know what, this person brings a valuable viewpoint, whether I take it or agree with it or whatever is beside the point.
[00:05:48] The fact is it needs to be brought to the table for fair vetting and discussion because, believe it or not, people might actually see something, contemplate something, and then take a different action than they might without it. No question. In fact, I've got a reference in my book to a letter that George Washington wrote, oddly enough, the 4th of July, 1774. So two years before the declaration, you know, was made. But he wrote this letter to his neighbor.
[00:06:17] He was a Tory, Brian Fairfax. He pled with him to run for office in Virginia. I mean, he was unquestionably a Tory. And Washington said, you know, we need people like you to bring reasoned input into the discussion so we don't overlook something.
[00:06:39] And people, if you surround yourself, your echo chamber becomes more overwhelming and you're getting more and more of this regenerative feedback until you know how it happens when you get real regenerative feedback with a microphone. You get that squeal in your ear and you can't hear anything else. Yeah, but you should get that squeal in your ear from time to time, too, because it kind of keeps you honest. It keeps you stable. It keeps you grounded and saying, hey, when is it too loud? When is it not enough?
[00:07:06] When is it, you know, and it's a barometer that people need to understand. I think of Davy Crockett is a great example of this as well, where, you know, he heard from that farmer instead of just blowing him off and going, you're just a redneck nobody. Who cares about you? I'm a rock star politician. He went, wait. This guy's got a valid point. You know what? I may have made mistakes in the past, but that doesn't have to be the future. And that's what we hope to have come out of these kind of, I don't want to say disagreements, but yet different views brought to the table and discussions.
[00:07:34] And, you know, we want honest people to truly consider them in meaningful ways, right? And that's really what we're after here. We are. And I'm saddened by her. I mean, you know what? Maybe I have different opinions on some things. And maybe Trump does. I'm positive he does, in fact. But the fact of the matter is that he had someone there as a sounding board, I think was a valuable asset.
[00:08:03] You know, people say, oh, well, the guy's got to have his own team there. Yeah, but if your own team can only, you know, preach the gospel of despair that's going to end up in the destruction of the nation. And I think this entering this Iran war, in spite of reasoned analysis, in spite of intelligence feedback, I think that that's going to have a very long-term effect, adverse long-term effect on the nation. Well, are we getting close to 90 days? I think we are.
[00:08:31] Well, yeah, but I mean, some of the stuff that came up later on in the discussion, I don't know if you ever want to do it now, too. But we've got a rolling kind of thing that really, and here's what I likened it to last night. You know, we got this 60-day memorandum of understanding. Arbitrary, bogus, constitutional, violating reality. Reality, yes.
[00:08:55] Well, memorandum of understanding, you know, M-O-U-S-E, Mickey Mouse. I mean, you're probably not old enough to remember the Mickey Mouse. I remember M-O-U-M-I-K-E-Y, right? Yeah, Mickey Mouse. Anyway, yeah. Or M-I-C-E-K-E-Y. M-O-U-S-E. I got it. It took me just a minute to get the cadence, but yeah. Very little humor on this show.
[00:09:22] But at any rate, sometimes, you know, anyway. Maybe our humor is just not the humor that other people take as humorous, and some of the humor that they have we don't enjoy. But anyway. Right. We digress. A 60-day extension of what could be called, or has been called, a ceasefire. It's not. It's not. It's not a ceasefire. I mean, there's rockets going back and forth and strikes and everything like that.
[00:09:50] And, you know, we can talk about that right now, but I'll tell you. I mean, do we have a break pretty quick? Because I think that there's... Yeah. I can take this real extreme. It's in like two minutes, but go ahead and get started. Okay. Here's the deal. You know, 73 years ago, in Korea, at a kind of a memorandum of understanding called a ceasefire. Yeah, we've got ceasefires going on everywhere while we're firing. 73 years, this has been an uneasy ceasefire.
[00:10:20] And the way they keep rolling this thing... I can't hear you shout ceasefire because the bullets are too loud. Yeah. And on top of that, here's the deal. This ceasefire, it's one of those things that not only could unravel, it doesn't give us anything we didn't already have better of. But not only that, it's not even a ceasefire, though. While we're claiming it's a ceasefire, everybody's attacking everybody. We'll talk about it coming up with Dr. Scott Radley, freedomsrisingsun.com.
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[00:12:41] I mean, he's talking about ceasefires and he's acting like things aren't perfect. I mean, things are just, it's like the Lego movie. Everything is awesome. It's incredible. And what he doesn't understand is there's just peace breaking out everywhere. I mean, just peace going on. So, doctor, what do you think of that? I mean, you're just confused, my friend. Well, I probably am. But the fact of the matter is, there's a lot of confusing things happening. I mean, we've been in weeks now in this ceasefire, and it's tentative at best.
[00:13:08] Israel's operating full force in Lebanon, blowing the snot out of everything there. The U.S. launched attacks against Iranian boats. They said they were sowing mines. I mean, Iranian missile batteries have been caught, and Iran's made response to these attacks. I mean, yeah, the mines and stuff. I mean, the United States is saying these are defensive. These are defensive attacks.
[00:13:31] And, you know, yeah, the mines and the missiles ultimately are a threat. Yeah. But could the presence of the American Navy be an ultimate threat against Iran? Now, I'm just saying if that's a potential reason for shooting at them, and could the Israeli and American missile batteries be considered a threat against Iranians? Yeah. Yeah. And here's the deal.
[00:13:59] You can hold your mouth a certain way and say we have every right to defend ourselves, and we launch attacks left and right and everywhere because there's a potential out there for a threat. But the Iranians, if you took it from the perspective of another nation that was under attack, you could say, you know what? All of these existing armaments that are all pointed at us are a threat too. Why don't I shoot back?
[00:14:23] I think that we're really, really spinning it in a viewpoint that has only one perspective. And so the Lebanon conflict, I mean, that right there, is that ultimately going to be in the ceasefire thing? Trump's kind of looking at this memorable understanding. Now, let me explain. You're making this way too complicated, Doctor. Let me explain what you do just so you understand because you're trying to actually think through it.
[00:14:51] But you're trying to really talk about a genuine ceasefire. You're talking about being honorable in your commitments or your delivery or your understanding or your, you know, agreements. And, okay, you don't do any of that. Here's what you do. You just simply tell everybody there's a ceasefire in the media. And then you do whatever the heck you want to do. Got it? And then if anybody brings up the fact that it isn't, you know, follow through, genuine, do as you say kind of thing, you just literally laugh at them and say, you know what?
[00:15:21] You're an enemy. You are an absolutely enemy combatant. In fact, you probably should be arrested. We'll let you go this time. But I wouldn't behave like that because you're, I mean, it's fake news. You're peddling fake and you just absolutely belligerently lie and in your face attack anybody that opposes you. Well, and I'll just give you an example. I mean, how far off am I from what we really start? I mean, see going on. Well, you're absolutely spot on with the way it's being spun in the Fox News of the world. It's crazy.
[00:15:50] WorldNet dailies and those kinds of things. They're unequivocally, totally and completely in the camp of war at any cost. But here's, you just brought up a very interesting thing. If anybody crosses Trump, we're going to cross them off the list. You know, and you've seen that happen with people that were generally supportive of the MAGA movement and now they're crossing them off the list. But two days ago in his cabinet meeting, the question was asked about,
[00:16:20] hey, what about this idea of Oman and Iran kind of jointly managing the Straits of Hormuz? And Trump just blew up on it. He says, we're going to blow up. That was his term. We're going to blow up Oman if they don't behave. And it's like, no, wait. These guys have been, you know, we've considered them friends for decades and we've worked with them. And, you know, we have military exchange things with them. And, yeah, now we're going to blow them up? Are you kidding me?
[00:16:51] Put a gate on it, baby. I mean, this kind of thing, you cannot expect to accomplish anything good if you're going to blow up everybody that doesn't agree exactly with you. And that's the problem with this 60-day memo. I have not seen the exact wording of it. But all the exchanges that I have had on it, I don't think it's going to get, well, if it gets signed by Trump,
[00:17:18] it'll be violated not only by Trump, but the Iranians and the Israelis. And I just, it's one of those things that they can make this rolling memo of understanding that basically continues to an uneasy ceasefire. And like I say, they've been doing it for 73 years in Korea, so maybe it can work. I don't know. But I just don't see progress happening.
[00:17:42] And the thing is, if anything, is anything at this point going to be better than it was 27th of February? The Straits of Homoose were completely open, unimpeded. Yep, there was nuke material in Iran's hands, but they weren't attempting to make a bomb, according to all of our intelligence agencies. The U.S. bases in the Middle East were functioning, but now they're pancaked. Fuel prices were $1.5, $2 lower per gallon. Fertilizer was available and cheaper.
[00:18:12] I mean, inflation was much lower. Global tensions were more stable and relaxed. Oh, and I saw a report yesterday. I think it came out of Rutgers University. I'm not positive. But anyway, their estimate is that it has cost United States consumers. That's you and me. That's not a government agency. United States consumers have paid over $49 billion more since the beginning of the war for stuff.
[00:18:42] Okay? And there's a really, really high probability Republicans are going to get humbled in the midterms. And so if Trump wanted a legacy, I don't know, his legacy is kind of, whoa, what's going on, baby? You know, this big... Well, and that's kind of the problem that I see with this whole thing is that, you know, we're not really genuine in what we're saying. I mean, Israel says, you know, they're going to do a ceasefire and they're pushing into Lebanon or whatever.
[00:19:08] And then the United States is attacking going, yeah, we got a ceasefire, but they did this and we did that. And I mean, look, how do you have a ceasefire when everybody's firing at everybody? It isn't true. And what they act like is it holds even though you violate it. When you violate it, isn't it broken? And the fact of the matter is that there's constantly... Now, here's... We're being worked, my friend.
[00:19:34] And every time Trump comes out and says peace is ready to break out, the stock market responds to that. And people are making big bucks on this thing. But it's just a crying wolf. There's a, oh, it's just around the corner. And then nothing happens. Well, and then last night they had J.D. Vance out there saying we don't have a deal yet, but we're close. He's standing outside by the plane. The plane's in the background, so you can hardly hear what he has to say.
[00:20:00] They're really, really, really trying to make J.D. Vance look presidential now. Well, and that may be true. And there may even be a more, I don't know, eminent kind of thing going on there. I mean, maybe somebody will do the 25th Amendment. Or, I mean, maybe... I mean, Trump's been in for his health checkups multiple times.
[00:20:22] And there are strange things happening where he has these outbursts that there isn't a shred of any overture that might look like we can have a handshake and a kiss over this thing. But it just isn't happening. And maybe people are saying, well, J.D. needs to kind of be more at the forefront. Because, you know, the 25th Amendment may come for a health issue or whatever, some kind of temper tantrum. I don't know. Maybe an impeachment. I don't know.
[00:20:51] But at the midterms, there's a very real probability based upon some things that are happening in that the Republicans will lose control, absolutely, I believe, of the House. And there's a higher and higher probability they'll lose control of the Senate. And then you get these issues of regular impeachments. Because the House is the one that brings impeachment articles. I mean, that doesn't mean somebody's removed from office. All it means is they're bringing charges.
[00:21:19] Yeah, and there's a separation between the House and the Senate and what they vote for and what they do because their roles are different, right? Exactly. And the Senate, then, if they get articles of impeachment brought forward, has the responsibility to try those articles. They become the judge and jury, if you will. And if the president's up for grabs, then John Roberts from the Supreme Court sits as the central guy that runs the show.
[00:21:47] But the fact is, I mean, the chances of Trump being removed from office based on an impeachment right at this point, unless there's something really strange that happens, is slim and none. I mean, they're not going to get two-thirds of the Senate to go along because there's enough Republicans there to block it. But, you know, I recently reviewed again. Now, this is how strange a person I am.
[00:22:13] But I recently reviewed the Nixon thing, you know, the Watergate and all that back in 1974. And, you know, he resigned in August of 1974. He never was impeached, but the Judiciary Committee had, you know, suggested the articles of impeachment be voted on and approved by the House. And it was a democratically controlled House. But Nixon didn't want to face that, and he ended up resigning.
[00:22:39] Now, impeachment, it's still a scarecrow, as Jefferson said. But it's becoming more and more commonplace now. And it's going to disrupt everything. If we have to have an impeachment article brought forth every week or every month or whatever in the last two years of Trump's administration,
[00:23:02] it's going to be a huge distraction from stuff that the government ought to be doing rather than just throwing, you know, mud at each other. You know, this, it's a disastrous situation. And somebody needs to say, Mr. President, you took an oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. We need to start weighing every decision, every action you take in that scale.
[00:23:29] So, and I don't know, Tulsi Gabbard, going back to the first thing we talked about in this hour, Tulsi Gabbard was a voice that could have said, let's use some reason. Well, and they also say that J.D. Vance is a lot more hesitant than President Trump on this, that he wasn't really for the war. He's kind of gone along, and he takes a lot more, you know, in my opinion, humble approach or whatever you want to call it, less hawkish actions kind of a thing.
[00:23:55] And so you need those voices, and if we jettison them, the only people whispering in Trump's ear are the Benjamin Netanyahu's of the world. The folks that are flat out hawkish, they want to go to war at the drop of every hat. They want to basically spend us into oblivion. They don't concern themselves with cost or anything else. They're just simply focused on the military-industrial complex, and that's what we've got to really worry about. Thanks for being alongside with the ride. Hopefully this is educationally entertaining. We're not trying to attack anybody, but we are trying to use the Constitution as our guide.
[00:24:25] After all, so for Dr. Scott Bradley, freedomsvisingsun.com, I'm Sam Bushman, libertyroundtable.com. Spread the word, share the love, and God save the Republic of the United States of America.