Episode 5282: Who Comes Out Victorious In This Ceasefire; Anthropic And Rise Of Skynet

Good evening everyone and welcome to the week night. I'm Simone Sanders Townsend with Eugene Daniels and Jackie Alamone in for Alicia and Michael. Let's get right to tonight's breaking news. Donald Trump just caved, backing down from his fake deadline, averting for now what the president described this morning as an attack on Iran that would lead to the death of a quote, whole civilization. Let's continue our breaking coverage. Donald Trump has announced that the United States has reached a two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran. Contingent, very important point here, on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier tonight, MSNOW reported that more than 50 House Democrats are now calling for Trump's removal, either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment, in the wake of Trump's threats against Iran. Iran has been a threat to the United States and the free world for 47 years. A chance of death to America, targeting our people, killing Americans, lying and blackmailing their way toward a nuclear weapon, so they thought. No longer. Not on our watch. Other presidents marked time and kicked the can down the road. President Trump made history. From the strike that took out Qasem Soleimani, to tearing up the disastrous Obama-Iran deal, to the precision campaign that obliterated Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer, to the decisive military victory we just achieved in Operation Epic Fury. No other president has shown the courage and resolve of this commander-in-chief. President Trump forged this moment. Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it. As a president, truth this morning, a big day for world peace. Iran wants it to happen. They've had enough. Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield. A capital V military victory. By any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran's military and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come. We see had Iran refused our terms, the next targets would have been their power plants, their bridges, and oil and energy infrastructure. Targets they could not defend and could not realistically rebuild, it would have taken them decades, and we were locked and loaded. They couldn't defend against it. President Trump had the power to cripple Iran's entire economy in minutes. But he chose mercy. He spared those targets because Iran accepted the ceasefire under overwhelming pressure. This new regime was out of options and out of time, so they cut a deal. They know this agreement means that they will never ever possess a nuclear weapon. Under the terms, any nuclear material they should have will be removed. Any material they should not have will be removed. Right now their dust is deeply buried and watched 24-7 overhead. The president has been clear from the beginning there will be no Iranian nuclear weapons. Period, full stop. Other presidents said it. President Trump did it. For decades Iran killed Americans with roadside bombs in Iraq, using cowardly proxies to do their dirty work while they hid safely in Tehran. They struck our embassies with car bombs and attacked from the shadows, never daring to face us toe to toe. They thought they could bleed America with impunity. Well, they just learned the hard way. What happens when you try to fight us directly. And even when they got lucky, one time in 40 days, and down two of our pilots, they couldn't hold them. In a daring 14-hour rescue operation, seven hours in daylight and seven hours of night, both pilots were recovered safely. Not once, but twice. A daylight thunder run right up the middle of their country, boots on the ground. A midnight raid right up the middle of their country, boots on the ground. Zero American casualties. The Iranians humiliated and demoralized. We control their fate, not the other way around. That's why they came to the table. Suffering their regime has inflicted around the world. Now we have a chance at real peace and a real deal. The war department for now, for now, has done its part. We stand ready in the background to ensure Iran upholds every reasonable term. And as everyone knows, nobody makes a better deal than President Trump. Anderson, I tend to withhold judgment until we know a little more and see. We don't really know what's happening in Iran. We don't know the strength of the system. I do think we've lost the plot, though, Anderson. I mean, you and I were talking back in January about the protests by the Iranian people. And I feel like we've lost that critical... You think destroying their civilization is a... I know exactly. I mean, what we saw play out in the last 24 hours was so counterproductive to everything. And particularly, the Iranian people are protesting for their civilization for Iranian nationalism against the Islamic Republic, the Islamic State of the Islamic Republic of Iran. And we've lost that. So look, we have to see as the dust settles here, what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. How intact is this regime? Is the supreme leader even in control? Is he alive? We don't know these answers, so we'll have to see. But obviously, there are a lot of problematic elements here right now, and I think it's going to require some good diplomacy to try to pull them together. Dave, President Trump posted on True Social this morning that there has been a very productive regime change in Iran and that there will be no enrichment of uranium. And the U.S. will work with Iran to dig up and remove the deeply buried nuclear dust. So I have just had two questions here. So both you, Mr. Secretary and the President, have referred to a new regime in Iran. So is this not the regime that was at war with us for 47 years? And what do we think of when we're saying that this is a new regime? What are we thinking and what are we saying there? And then my second question is, with any future deal with Iran, is there handing over of all of their enriched uranium and their promising not to enrich any future uranium being non-negotiable for the U.S.? Well, it's always been non-negotiable that they won't have nuclear capabilities. And so right now it's buried and we're watching it. We know exactly what they have, and they know that. And they will either give it to us, which the President has laid out. They'll give it to us voluntarily. We'll get it. We'll take it. We'll take it out. Or if we have to do something else ourselves, like we did in Midnight Hammer or something like that, we reserve that opportunity. But what's clear, what the new Iranian regime knows is they'll never have a nuclear weapon or the capability to get a path to one. As far as the new regime, you heard the list that I read. It's a new group of people who've seen the full capability of the United States military and has a new calculus about what it means to negotiate with us, hence why they came to the table wanting a ceasefire and the shooting to stop. So this new regime, the regime has been changed, has a different interaction with the U.S. Thank you, Gershaw. One America News. First of all, thank you to our troops. What role is our military playing in escorting vessels through the Strait of Hormuz at this point? And the President said on True Social that the U.S. will be hanging around to make sure everything goes well. Obviously, Mr. Secretary, you just mentioned, you know, we know the scars from hanging around in Iraq for decades, but what does that entail in terms of our military presence at this juncture? Yeah, we'll be hanging around. We're not going anywhere. We're going to make sure Iran complies with this ceasefire and then ultimately comes to the table and makes a deal. So we'll stay put, stay ready, stay vigilant as the chairman laid out. Our troops are prepared to defend, prepared to go on offense, prepared to restart at a moment's notice with whatever target package would be needed in order to come ensure that Iran complies. As far as the Strait, you saw the initial agreement that was struck, which is Iran's letting ships go through. So that will be happening. They will be sailing. And ultimately, as the President, we've done an incredible job militarily inside the Strait of Hormuz. I failed to mention Admiral Cooper's name. He's done a phenomenal job along with everybody at AFSENT, NAFSEINT, and ARSENT, and all the components down there laying the groundwork for Iran. Iran doesn't have the same ability to defend it the way they did before. And so as the President has pointed out to the rest of the world, we barely get any of our energy out of the Strait. Just a tiny fraction. It's time for the rest of the world to step up and ensure that that stays open after President Trump and the War Department brought Iran to the place where they are voluntarily opening it right now, as was announced last night. But I will say that the President demands, we have not reached any of those objectives. I have full confidence that the President is going to find some way to make this happen. But he said that we want to dismantle all major nuclear facilities. That has not happened. The end of uranium enrichment on the soil, they're still arranging the transfer of the enriched uranium stockpiles out of Iran. That hasn't happened. The acceptance of intrusive international inspections. They're still not willing to do that. And they have not suspended their ballistic missiles program. They're still firing them off to stop the production of the long-range missiles. That's just a few of them on the President's proposal. The question is, is the President using this two weeks to give our soldiers a break, a rest, to see if we can get this ultimately done? We'll see. Good morning, Mr. Secretary and Mr. Chairman. David Zea, Real America's Voice. Trying to cease fire, what do we do when we see Iran re-arming, re-grouping, repositioning weapon systems and air defenses? And also, have we confirmed the specific model type of air defense or man pads that took down our F-15, and is it still a threat for our patrols? We're still working through the specific details around that particular shoot down. The crews, when they normally return, go through a debriefing process along with the other members of that flight that were out there. And they'll go back, as they always do, and forensically look at what are the tactical lessons learned? Did we sense or see something? Could we have done something different? We do that, as I mentioned, in a prior press conference. Every single time we take any loss like that so that we become a quick learning organization. On the other part of your question around the movement of Iranian military forces, U.S. Sankham will continue to monitor that situation. They will continue to have a series of response options. And if need be, we'll come to the Secretary and to the President for guidance and be prepared to do the things that they're ordered to do so against valid military targets in accordance with the normal procedures that we have. I would just note, it's a good question. The more Iran moves, the more Iran moves forces, the more they emplace forces, the more easily targetable they are for us right now. Remember, we're able to look, we're able to see, we're able to sense. We know they are, so if they try to pre-position, they're just creating ripe military targets for us to strike should they make the wrong decision at the table. It's, sorry, it was an indictment framed as a question, so you're forgiven for that. Understanding. Go ahead, please. No, you've had your chance. Go ahead, sir. Thank you very much. I believe so based on the diplomatic negotiation. Thank you very much, Secretary. I believe so. It is always nice to see you. I believe so. Sorry. I trust President Trump. I know his heart. I know he wants to do the right thing. I know he has little apputions. We're telling him to do something else. I know he has other advisors telling him to do something else. He's the most understanding, competent of the bunch, and he's the President of the United States, and his instincts are very, very good. But I would say this. This enemy is still the enemy. They're still surviving. Their military may be destroyed, but the Communist Chinese will still help them. The Russians will still help them to rebuild, and so this thing's not over. And it's not that I'm a war monger. It's that they're a war monger. It's not that I'm an interventionist. They're an interventionist. Wednesday, 8 April, in the year of our Lord, 2026, fairly dramatic. President Trump essentially, as I said last week when he gave the national address, I came, I saw, I conquered. I'm going to hang around and conquer a little more, which he did. Major strikes over the last couple of days, not on their infrastructure, but on their war-making capacity. You heard the briefing by Pete Hegs as Secretary of War. And General Cain. We're going to get into it. The first question we're going to pose to our array of experts that have been with us since the beginning of the war is exactly what 10 points did anyone agree to? Because the Iranians and the European press are putting out something, I think that might be a little difference to folks at the White House. We'll break it all down for you. I think we can say that the military objectives of this campaign have been met, according to the Pentagon, and according to the chairman, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the United States. Our commercial break, we're back with Pozo, Faddis, Captain Fanel. We're going to go to the White House. We got Eric Bowling on markets, all of it today. The dollar's convertibility into gold ended in 1971. Gold was fixed at $35 an ounce. Well, fast forward to the day, and the U.S. dollar has lost over 85% of its purchasing power. Gold, on the other hand, is increased in value by over 12,000%. That's why central banks are buying gold at record levels. 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I say he's going to hang around a conqueror a little more. And then they're going to figure something out and we're all going to go home. Mark Levin, bad day for Tel Aviv Levin. We'll have more of that. Total full meltdown. Lindsay Graham now saying, Lindsay Graham saying, well, you know, this is all good. President Trump's a great snugershine. But we're going to have to bring that to the Senate to get approval like the Obama deal did. I don't think, Lady Lindsay, I don't think it's going to happen. Okay? President Trump is going to make a deal and move on. Let's get, so we got Fennel, Faddis, Posso, and of course, Eric Bohn. Let's go to the markets first. Some people got shredded yesterday. Did they not? Eric, and I think the world's telling us at least the capital markets, it's time, they agree with President Trump time to wrap this up and go home. I'm going to get into the part about exactly who thought they agreed to what because I think there's a big difference in the bid and the ask about what the 10 points are. What even 10 points there are, what we agreed to and what, because the president went on Sky News, gave a 90 second interview or to the journalist and the guy said, well, hold it, these, the 10 points of the Iranians are totally maximalist points. In fact, they still control Hormuz. He goes, well, those are not the 10 that I'm talking about. So we'll get into more of that. But Eric right now, capital markets, the oil market, commodities markets, telling us what the oil, Steve, last night, when we heard that Trump was going to accept the two week pause ceasefire, down $9 a barrel, we woke up this morning and texted you is down $20 a barrel, it's sitting $20 a barrel lower. That translates into lower gas prices. However, folks have to understand this is great news. You're talking about the capital markets. Sometimes when things bounce off a low like this, for whatever reason, we call it a dead cat bounce, which is a temporary bounce and then continuation of lower prices and equities. This isn't a dead cat bounce. This is a legit recovery, 1300 points in the doubt, 3% move in the indices. So the issue is gasoline will remain high or go higher. I've talked about this with the people hate to hear this. I'm just bringing the truth here, folks. That's it. You'll probably see gasoline continue the upward movements up a dollar a gallon. Since we started, you probably see another at least probably 40 cents higher on the pump price going forward, probably another three weeks a month before it starts to trickle its way down. Good news is Steve, it was quick. And we've been talking about how this needs to happen quicker so that we can clear out all the BS before the midterm elections. Can I just touch on one of the points in the 10 point of whatever they sent over? Sure. Trump alluded to this in a couple of press conferences that and they the Iranians said this was one of their issues that they were going to collect two million dollars per vessel, transiting the Strait of Hormuz. I did a little math here, Steve. That's a hundred and ten billion dollars a year and they were going to negotiate each point. So I'm praying, I'm hoping Wittkoff and Jared and whoever else is negotiating. Hopefully they said, you know, let's do a 50 50 split on that. You can get your reparations 50% of that 110 billion. But we're going to we're going to pay for our struggles here in the war, our struggles and ensure we don't have to deal with this again and take that 50 50 you know, 55 billion dollars a year is a nice little chunk of change for us to be able to replenish our supplies as well. So I think there's a lot on the table right now. There was a rumor also of a potential Fed move on rates today. And I haven't confirmed it yet. But if Powell doesn't hate America, he'll lower and he will call a quarter point drop in the Fed funds rate, which will add some fuel to the recovery of our equity markets, which I think will be great for a midterm situation. For people that went long on the civilizational. Take down their dead men walking this morning. I mean, you always tell me, I see dead people. You see some dead people out there that were on the wrong side of this trade, sir. Yeah, I see dead people in markets, especially the energy markets. And this whole time we've been on 40 days now, I was positioned to lose money if oil continued higher and stocks went down. Even though I said that that was what was happening, people didn't believe me. That's the truth. I'm having obviously a monster date today because oil is now down. Stocks are up. The people who listen to the Mark Levin's of the world, they do and gloom people, the people who want Iran civilization wiped off the earth versus a negotiations are smoked. They literally got smoked overnight in a matter of and there was no getting out. Steve, it happened at 6 p.m. Eastern last night. You can't trade your way out of a massive position at 6 p.m. or until the market really opens today. So they're getting crushed. They're probably going to defend their positions right now in the market. It moved a little bit against America for about an hour or so right now. But we'll see. I have a hunch towards the end of the day. You're going to see massive, massive selling and oil, massive buying in the equity markets. You know, I will caveat with this. The problem is it's always one tweet away. It's always one important material tweet away from changing the whole dynamic. But right now the ball is in Trump's court victory lab. It is. But I think it's directionally what we've been saying and allowing all the different commentators coming here. President Trump had a certain set of military objectives, as Captain Fanels told us. You heard again this morning from the Pentagon and from the Joint Chiefs. They believe those military objectives have been completed. Now it's in there's a very tenuous ceasefire. There's a lot of questions. The reason I keep emphasizing who we actually dealing with, because it's not just who can sign a paper or tweet over something that they agreed to certain things. Who can actually enforce it? I think this whole situation, I believe the combination of Bedouins and Persians down on the straight of her moves are going to have something to say about those fees and where they go, right? These are pirates. OK, I don't know if they're going to lay buddy. Horned in on that, including the guys that run the show in Tehran. Hey, you're in Tehran. We're here, right? Dig us out. So there's a lot of moving pieces here. But I think directionally you see President Trump has said, hey, we've achieved the military objectives. Pete Hexer said they're going to hang around and you've got to clearly get this thing negotiated. It's just a temporary ceasefire. And there's a huge, you know, the point they made in making in Europe that the Iranians, these are maximalist positions from both sides. Maximalist positions on the Iranians, 10 points, maximization, a position on ours. You actually use the R word there, reparations. I think President Trump's, you know, eyes would cross if he heard that word, he has no intention of paying the Iranians anything for that. But to be worked out, Eric, we'll see you back and do a transition with you at four, we'll let you get back into the pit and do some training today. What's your social media and where they go to get your new show? Add Eric Walling with the C. Just keep it on Rav. I'm all over the place. Richard, Steve, you're all really all over the place. And always you got to be commended for some of the stuff that we've been talking about for the last 40 days, just materialized last night, 6 p.m. Eastern, congratulations to Ben and the war room for having anyone can report the news. You go to the war room, you find what's going to happen next, which is all the difference in the world. See it for 50 on this morning show, we got bowling, Passovic, Sam Faddis, Captain Fanel, Treeta Parsi, Reagan Reese. We're going to have hopefully David Azir and Neil McCabe, where we get you as wide a range as possible. Gaffney, again, we're going to get you the Neocons or get you other people too, so you can make up your own mind. Which is what needs to happen here. Can't be told what to do. You got to come up, think about it yourself. Use your agency. Eric, thank you so much. Jack Passovic. You're going to give us a bigger strategic picture here because there's a bigger strategic picture. But just tell me of what you've seen so far, particularly the direction you heard today, the Pentagon, what President Trump's been saying, our military, your naval intelligence officer. But also the Iranians are running around Europe saying we won this. They've agreed to these 10 points and these are maximalist positions. Your thoughts, sir. Well, Steve, I'm not going to believe any 10 points until I hear them from the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. And we've seen 10 points and five points and 15 points. And Pakistan came out with theirs and the Chinese Communist Party came out with theirs as well. And so we have to see when the dust settles, perhaps the nuclear dust, in this case, when it settles to figure out what's going on. But I keep saying, and I've said from the very start that this people are looking at it and they're saying Israel, Iran, the United States. But I would submit to you that everyone is looking at the wrong straight. This has always been about China. This is about China and the bricks and the multi polarity trying to rise themselves above what they see as the US dominated uni polarity. And they're trying to position this. You already see in this, Steve, they're trying to position this as an American Suez and they're talking about the fact that the tolls were taken as I've talked about just about every time I've been on here going back to day one. The fact that the tolls are being taken in Chinese yuan. This is a trial run on the world stage with everyone looking proof of concept of D dollarization, D dollarization with oil sales backed in Chinese currency. Don't think for a second that that is not bricks. That's not the Belt and Road Initiative. That's BRI. And what is Xi Jinping doing in just a couple of days? Well, the leader of the Taiwan opposition party just landed in China and she is going over to meet with Xi Jinping. Hold it. It's the party founded by Shanghai Shack. It's the KMT. They put Chairman Mao together at gunpoint when to say you got to fight the Japanese and then and join together. You know, it's kind of like you got the ghost of Shanghai Shack and the ghost of Chairman Mao looking down. OK, real quickly, I need I got about a minute. You tell the American tell this audience why when they call this the American when the Chinese are sitting there saying this, the American Suez. What does that mean for people that study geopolitics, sir? Well, for people looking at from a geopolitical perspective, when I believe it was Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal against the British and said, we are going to take this and we are going to have control of this canal now. Again, the key maritime choke point. The British came in. They went to force it back open. The US said, no, we're not going to get involved. We're not interested. The countries in the region said, no, we're not going to do this. That forced a withdrawal in that case, which we haven't seen in this case, by the way. But it marks sort of the you know, the idea that on the world stage, the British Empire was no more. That Pax Britannia no longer ruled the waves. And so the Chinese are very quietly trying to put that out now. That's what's happened to Pax Americana. Hang on. We're getting more into this. So big captain for now, Sam Faddis on the other side. Fellow patriots, the Federal Reserve has portrayed America for over a century, printing fiat, inflating way your savings, serving globalist masters. But President Trump is ending it. President Trump is wielding a one hundred and twelve year old law to reclaim control from the rogue Federal Reserve. He's replacing Jerome Powell, slashing rates, igniting America's reindustrialization. Now, this is not theory. Government backed industry plus low rates on leashes, super cycles. History does repeat. Gold's already exploding. 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They knew exactly the scope of what we were capable of. We hit some military targets on Kharg, which is a bit of a signal. They can't defend it. And so the Iran ultimately understood their ability, their future to produce, to generate power, to fuel their terrorist regime was in our hands, was in President Trump's hands. That's why they came to the table. He ultimately said, we can take it all from you. Your ability to export energy will be taken away. And the United States military has the ability to strike those things with impunity. That type of threat is what brought them to the place where they effectively say, OK, we want to cut this deal. You know, it's interesting. I think it was Kevin Fanell yesterday. It was yesterday. He said that the love tap that the president or the SENTCOM gave Kharg Island on the military was a precursor of what was going to happen. Reagan Rees joins us. Reagan, bold question. Really appreciate you asking it, particularly coming from what I would call the daily call of more conservative media. You know, New York Times, everybody saying, oh, these are softball questions. You guys ask anything, but you ask great questions all the time. What did you think of the response? Well, first, I just want to say, Steve, yesterday I got a lot of texts from friends and family who are big supporters of President Trump's who were worried about that truth. Social posts who were scared, who didn't know what to expect to. I thought that a larger war was going to escalate. And that's why I felt this question was really important to ask, like, what was behind this threat? Was it a real threat? The response, you know, the underlying question within my question is, were we going to go after civilians? Were we actually going to just flatten Iran entirely? And what Secretary Hegzath there says is that they were going to target infrastructure, bridges, energy plants, etc. He goes on to say that they are going to target places that fuel the Iranian regime, which signals to me that it was going to still be within the bounds of this war is going to really just threaten Iran's military. And like you mentioned before, Kharg Island, those those threats, those attacks that they made there was kind of a preview of what was to come. And so some are interpreting it as, yes, they were going to follow through on the threat. It's hard to say. You won't never want to take what they say is face value. And honestly, that's why I'm considering recycling the question for other administration officials later today. Oh, wow. Reagan, before I let you bounce, because I know you're super busy today and thank you for taking time out to come on. You know, you've you've been in the Oval and interviewed the president, I believe it was one on one. You're highly regarded by the White House communication communication staff because you you're pulling kind of double duty here at the White House and at the Pentagon when it's important. As you look at this thing today, what did we actually agree to? Because we're going to treat a party on later. The Iranians are putting out this maximum exposition of these 10 that include reparations. They control her moves under kind of our guidance or in least President Trump and others are saying, well, that's not the 10 we agreed to, they're different. As you see it right now as one of our top reporters, what was actually agreed to get us to kind of this joint stand down that everybody appears once? Well, that's the question, Steve. I mean, I've been talking to other reporters because that's you don't just talk to your sources, you talk to other reporters to hear what they know. And everyone is a little bit unsure exactly on what we agreed to. I think the big question is, is did we agree to something temporary or is this war completely over? A lot of the messaging you see in coming out of the administration is that this ceasefire is within the bounds of that timeline that the president originally set that four to six weeks. And so that signals to me that this isn't just a temporary ceasefire. This is an official end to the war. But then you go to the Pentagon press briefing today and you hear from Secretary Hegzeff, who says, we're going to continue to hang out in the area. And the Pentagon is still on standby in case they need to strike and fire back up again. And so I think the big question is, you know, there are a bunch of different things within this 10 point 15 point plan. But did we actually agree to end the war or is this just going to last a couple of days and it's going to keep going? That's something I'm not seeing people really talk about. And I think that's key to consider as you're reading everything that's coming out of the administration. Absolutely central Reagan, where do people get you on social media and over the daily caller for your reporting, ma'am? I'm on all the platforms, Instagram, regrettably, I'm on TikTok, I'm on Twitter or X at Reagan Reese underscore. Very easy. Thank you, ma'am. Great job of the daily caller. Thank you. Jack Passovic, back to you. It's a framework to kind of get to something more permanent or semi-permanent or however it is. But you can tell the direction of President Trump and the Pentagon. They feel they've achieved their objectives. Your thoughts on this, particularly the maximist position that the Iranians are taking this entire thing and there's let's let's call them what they are. They're sponsors in Beijing, sir. We'll see if that's exactly like look, Iran is attempting to frame this. Remember, not just for the regional partners, or I should say regional adversaries, the Arab states, the Saudis who have always been their top regional rival, they're also their backing of China. This is all about their independence, but also their local domestic population. They need to go and bring us out to the domestic population to say, look, they took out our supreme leader, they turned him into a glorious martyr. Now we are able to say that we won, we defeated them. They said they were going to wipe us out. That didn't happen. They said they were going to take out the revolution. That didn't happen. And Steve, we're also, you know, I'm paying very close attention to see what's going to happen with the supreme leader, because they said this guy was so worried about assassinations that he's been sending handwritten notes so that so that the CIA and Assad wouldn't be able to track the electronics that were going in to exactly where he is the same way. And the New York Post has the story up that the American airmen was saved by just being able to use AI to find the beating of his heart using this system called Ghost Murmur, if that report is to be believed that they were able to track a human heartbeat in the middle of the desert and use these type of signals to be able to track potentially even specific individuals. So, so Steve, there's a lot to be said here. I do think that the Iranians look there and a lot of these people who are saying, oh, Iran did so well, they overperformed. You got to look at the scoreboard. The scoreboard does not show that Iran was able to fight off the Americans and the amount of damage that they had committed to Israel while they were able to punch through the Iron Dome on a number of times. The damage was, quite frankly, de minimis. It was de minimis. So is Israel invulnerable? No, but they didn't do anything to knock off the stability of Israel whatsoever, the way that they're running around claiming that they did. And the United States continued to be able to pound them. So are they toothless? No, but they are not some kind of, you know, monster that's about to take over the Middle East the way that they're saying. They're just not. So, Steve, what we see here, though, I think is that the president is working in to create a new normal for the Middle East, a new normal whereby in you're going to have the Americans, you're going to have the Gulf nations. Israel will be there, of course, but perhaps, and I keep saying this, this is all about a grand deal that we're going to see between the United States and China come when May 14th when the president heads over to Beijing to sit down as well with Xi Jinping. Well, that's the whole thing about Americans who has because that's the issue. It's Captain Fanels drilled into us to keep the main thing the main thing. The defense of Taiwan is in the vital national security interests of the United States. Let me just reiterate this. The Middle East and the Gulf Emirates and the Persian Gulf in Ukraine. You roll it all up. It's a side show. It's just a side show. And the Israel situation is a site. I don't care what Mark Levin and all his colleagues are all throwing the toys out of the pram this morning. President Trump goes from the world's greatest leader to, oh, you're quitting too early. The Israel first crowd. That's a side show to a side show. When they talk about American Suez, well, the Suez Canal, Nasser and Arab Nationalists, not a although supposedly a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but it was an Arab Nationalist in the era of Arab nationalism decided to take the Suez Canal, both Israel and the Brits put together a counter-striking force. And they assumed that the United States of America was going to be there with them. It was General Eisenhower who had led the coalition in the great crusade in World War Two in Europe said, we're not doing that. That's kind of outside of our bailiwick. You know, we fought in the desert against Ramo. We're not going back there. You guys going to have to handle his own. And that was a shock. Anthony Eden, these guys were in shock. And it was really the really the beginning of the at least the end of the empire. East of Suez and came as a shock. That's why you're going to hear this. This is America's Suez right here, what President Trump did. I think far, far, far from it, both the hemispheric defense from the Arctic all the way through South America, coupled with really where our strategic pivot is, Jack, it's not MacKinder's Central Asian Heartland. It's the vast Pacific Ocean, which is an American lake. And you take you take the three island chains, which gets you right up there to Taiwan, that is in the vital national security interests of the good old United States of America. And you're absolutely correct. This is going to be one thing. You bring up AI before I let you go. Folks, we were going to start the show this morning, even with everything that happened overnight. The single most important story today has nothing to do with or at least nothing to do with what happened in the Middle East, except maybe some of the operations, its artificial intelligence is anthropic. And now people can understand what this big fight between the Pentagon and anthropic and if my crack team can put it up. So Jim Vanderhey and Mike Allen over that have real insights and with these CEOs, Jack, have put up a story. Everyone has to read this morning. We'll have Joe Allen, Mark Beal and a cast of All Stars on this afternoon. This is the single most important thing that's been revealed. It ain't about the Middle East. It's not about the Strait of Hormuz. This is about species. You guessed it. As we've been warning, there are systems out there in AI models that cannot be controlled by the AI by the AI guys. They admit this. Turns out they say the White House has known this for six weeks. Other people in the industry have known it for a couple of months. Jack, I think that's part of what I think is part of the battle with the Pentagon they've had. Also, I think this is what the system you just talked about. People who have been blowing Jack and I up behind the scenes saying, hey, there's super weapons that are about to be deployed. There's all these super weapons like greater than tactical, nuclear weapons. I believe this is part of it, Jack. So you. Steve, there's no question that AI is the new super weapon. AI is going to be the nukes of the future. And the real danger here, and you look at the Axios piece that's out today talking about how the how DC governs by crisis. It's one of the best lines I've ever heard because it's exactly true. And it holds true across administrations. But there's a pause that I think that people really need to understand. You don't need to go full Joe Allen and Dark Aeon, which of course we've got a copy of it sitting right over here. But people need to understand you hook this one of these things up, Claude or anthropic, hook that up to an aircraft carrier. You hook that up to the USS Gerald Ford. You hook that up to America's nuclear missile stockpile. What is going to happen next? Even one F 35 Lightning, too. If you hook this up, this thing goes self aware. Suddenly it's going to be and by the way, it's not just going to go after other countries, it's going to leak up with other AIs. And that is the danger. By the way, it's like the Terminator movie. Skynet is self aware. Jack, what's your social media? I know you got a bounce. Thanks for joining us. Wonder where people go. Yeah, thanks so much. And God bless to the posse. We're going to be up at Jack Pasobic. Of course, here later today, real America's Voice 2 PM Eastern. And then you get the podcast live to sit rep out every day. Amazing, Jack. Look forward to seeing you, too. Jack Pasobic. OK, for now, Faddis next. Slashing rates igniting America's reindustrialization. Now, this is not theory. Government backed industry plus low rates on leashes, super cycles. History does repeat. Gold's already exploding. Miners are up over 400 percent in the last year. What Rickards is calling Trump's gift is wealth for American patriots, not global handouts. Now it's America's turn. Jim Rickards, former CIA and Pentagon, veteran says act now. Go to insider 2026.com. That is insider 2026.com to get Jim Rickards, strategic intelligence newsletter today, strategic intelligence based upon predictive analytics, it's what chairman and CEO throughout the world read. And you should too. OK, so get you up the speed reporting. UAE and Kuwait are reporting that they're being hit by missiles still. Also, I think they went after don't know if the Houthis, their allies or the Revolutionary Guard did try to strike at the pipeline that going to the Red Sea of the Saudis. Also, Netanyahu's office has reconfirmed what they said overnight. We'll get Faddis in on this one that Lebanon is not part of this deal. Sorry, not sorry. That might be surprising to the guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but we're going to get to all that Captain Fanel. You've done amazing reporting here of the military aspects of this. Let me just ask you, they'll brought it up for a second. Is this the American Suez or what happens in Beijing tentatively scheduled for, I think the 13th, 14th, 15th of May in Taiwan? As you know, the the Comington is over there right now, Kowtaowing, would Shaan Kaishak be rolling over in his grave? Kowtaowing to Beijing over the next couple of days as a tee up for that meeting to Jammus. Is that going to be the American Suez, sir? Steve, I agreed with what you said to Jack in the previous segment. I do not see this as American Suez. The performance over the last 39 days of our combat forces against Iran is unprecedented in history. So I would say this is more like, you know, the end of World War Two in a sense that we've done something very significant. It's not over, but in terms of what we've been able to demonstrate is really, really unprecedented in terms of the ability of our military to systematically bring a nation to come to a negotiating table like this in just less than five weeks. So I think that's what history will see. And President Trump's aware of this impact from China and the impact on China. He's put out today, he said, I'm putting a 50 percent tear up on any armed suppliers to Iran, and that's important because in the last six weeks, China has supplied sodium percolate, which is used to build ballistic missiles on the number of the five erythral ships, Iranian ships, revolutionary guard supply ships that have come in over the course of the last six weeks. So he's saying now, if you do this, China, you're going to lose 50 percent of your trade with the United States. So this is a this is well thought out and he's he's aware of what's going on. And so I think the message is we're going to dominate this area. We have dominated it. We're going to open it up. One of the tests will clearly be will the straight open without this one or two million dollar fee that the Iranians are somehow trying to claim that they're taking. The lawns already come out in the last four hours and said, we will not pay anything. So this is kind of significant. And I think the rest of the world, based on the United Nations Conventional Law of the Sea, there's going to be a lot of pushback internationally to say we we're not going to pay the transit through an international waterway. And that'll the test will be if that's allowed to happen. Maybe if we see a United States Navy worship conduct the freedom of navigation transit without being attacked, that'll demonstrate our power there. But again, back to the mission. Hang on, but hang on, but hang on. I want to talk about the broader mission, but they're also saying there's paid in Chinese Yuan, would you not agree with me that the recommendation we would make to the president right now, the commander in chief is like, is this thing gets another week into it and we get more refinement on the 10 points for the intermediate ceasefire and then for a longer kind of peace arrangement? I don't think it's going to be a treaty, but some acknowledgement that we're going to lay our arms down. Shouldn't we take both carrier battle groups in the North Arabian Sea and maybe take the Tripoli and a couple and transfer those back through the Straits of Malacca to the South China Sea and maybe have them do freedom of navigation runs, which we haven't done in the Straits of Taiwan to let the let the masters in Beijing know that the United States Navy is here and it just kicked ass in the Middle East and is prepared to defend Taiwan, sir. 100 percent. I have been calling for a long time for the United States Navy to send an aircraft carrier strike group, not just a destroyer, not just something with an aircraft like a P8, but we need to send an aircraft carrier through the last time the United States Navy aircraft carrier went through the Taiwan Strait was in 2007. USS Kitty Hawk, which I had just served on previously a couple of years before. And it was only because there had been a typhoon coming up through the South China Sea and they had to get out of port quickly to escape the typhoon that they actually went through. So we have not enforced our freedom of navigation statements that we've heard from many administrations fly anywhere, sail anywhere, steam anywhere. It sounds good, but you got to do it. You got to follow through. So I would suggest we do a freedom of navigation through the Straits of Hormuz. And then when the Lincoln's done and this thing is now calmed down and we feel confident, maybe we leave the bush in the med. But when the Lincoln goes home, she should come back through the Strait of Malacca and then go right up through the Taiwan Strait as a signal to Xi and the rest of them that, hey, what's good for the goose will be good for the gander, which is you, China. So don't get any ideas about Taiwan. Walk me through your concerns about the enforcement of the ceasefire. There's already kind of a scrambling around of, you know, what you just mentioned, what's going to happen in the Strait of Hormuz? Are they going to charge a fee? What's it going to be paid in? Or are they just going to blow that off? Other aspects of their nuclear weapons capability, Mark Levin and these guys saying you haven't done the job there. You still need to go get the nuclear dust. Your thoughts on on the continued potential of military operations here? I think there's still a real potential. I mean, and Secretary War Hexeth mentioned that there's still some strikes happening. There's still some kinetic action from the Iranians, and they're attributing that to the poor command and control and communications and this mosaic architecture that Sam's told us about. Fine, so we'll let that go for a couple of days. But if that continues, then we got a problem. But I think the real bigger issue is the nuclear issue, which is the no enrichment of uranium, which we have said is part of our points. And the Iranians have said we'll never allow that. And then there was also in our comments about nuclear dust, as you mentioned, a joint excavation and removal joint US Iranian program. If the Iranians agree to that, that would be phenomenal. Let's see what happens. So I think what happens here, I think it's in Friday at Pakistan. We'll let us know more about that. But that would be, for me, the key sticking point. Nukes. Captain, hang on for one second. 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