Episode 5196: RINO Infiltration In Texas; Do Russia And China Get Involved In Iran

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But the easing of sanctions notably comes as sources tell CNN that Russia is feeding Iran intelligence specifically about U.S. military targets in the region. This is remarkable because it's not just any intelligence. It is intelligence that puts U.S. forces it risk. Exactly right. And we're told that this is coming largely from Russia's constellation of satellites that it has sophisticated constellation of space capabilities and it is providing imagery to the Iranians to essentially pinpoint where U.S. troops are at any given time and not just U.S. troops but also ships and aircraft in bases. And so this is intelligence that really could have an impact on what Iran is targeting. And as we've seen, Iran has been successfully targeting U.S. military personnel in the region over the last few days. I mean, we just saw in Kuwait they successfully launched a drone strike against a temporary operations center there that was, that killed six service members. And so while it is very difficult, of course, to pinpoint exactly how effective the intelligence sharing is, it is undoubted that at this point Iran has been successfully targeting Americans and obviously Russia and Iran, they have a long history of sharing this kind of technology and this kind of intelligence most notably during the Ukraine war when Iran was providing Russia with the Shahed drones, the very same one that's using now against the U.S. I won't get ahead of the President on broadcasting any timelines. What I will tell you is what President Trump has already laid out, which is that the achievable objectives of Operation Epic Fury, we expect to last about four to six weeks and we are well on our way to achieving those objectives. Annihulating Iran's navy, we know that we've sunk more than 30 Iranian vessels and ships. Their navy has now been deemed combat ineffective. Taking out the ballistic missile threat that Iran posed to the United States and our troops in bases in the region, we have done a tremendous job. The United States military has done a tremendous job at achieving that objective thus far. Six days in, the retaliatory ballistic missile strikes from Iran are now down 90 percent. Of course, I'm sure Iran can ever obtain a nuclear weapon as well and significantly weakening their proxies in the region, which we know are responsible for the deaths of Americans. We've seen Hezbollah in the Houthis, hardly putting up a fight over the course of the last six days. Ultimately, the President has made it very clear. He wants to take out the threat of Iran to the United States and Operation Epic Fury as well on its way to doing that. The U.S. is claiming as one success that it has effectively blinded Iran, right? You know, taking out so many of its own capabilities so you have kind of, it seems like Russia backfilling. How about China here? Because the China piece of this, too, it, like Russia, has this kind of burgeoning partnership with Iran to what degree do we believe China is getting involved? So according to our sources and you've heard this too, Jim, it's a little bit more nuance than the Russian position. They are a little bit more reluctant to get involved in this war. They kind of want to see it end because they rely so heavily on Iranian oil and other imports from the Middle East. That being said, they are facing significant pressure right now because of that oil problem. They're trying to get Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz to get ships passing through so that that stuff can keep moving. And at the same time, we're told China has been considering perhaps an exchange for that from Iran, providing them with financial assistance, with spare parts for weapons and with missile components. So while they're a little bit more reluctant right now for a full-throated effort, joining the war, providing missiles and actual weapons in totality, they're considering in what way they can get involved. And it's very similar to their support for the Russians in Ukraine. No, not at all. Because in Ukraine, while China has not shipped tanks, say, to Russia, it's provided technology that has gone into Russian weapons, that it seems like they're following a similar format here. So the White House was asked about our reporting today, Carolyn Levit. How did she respond to this? So Levit said that it does not really matter because the U.S. has so successfully, according to the administration, obliterated Iran's capabilities at this point. It's ballistic missile launchers, it's drone capabilities. They say the U.S. is really making a dent in those. But at the same time, it is intelligent sharing that is clearly being used to target not only U.S. personnel, but U.S. assets in the region. And we should also know that Secretary of Defense Pete Heggseth, he was asked about this on Wednesday as well. What are Russia and China doing and how are they viewing this? And he called them a, quote, non-factor in this war, which, as we are seeing clearly, they could become a much bigger problem. Yeah. Trump specifically cited Iranian support weapons that killed U.S. soldiers in the war in Iraq as one of the justifications for this war. So, presumably, Russian support that would endanger U.S. soldiers would be something that would spark a reaction. What the president means is that when he, as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the United States of America and the goals of Operation Epic Fury has been fully realized, then Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender. Whether they say it themselves or not. OK, Le, what she just described is not the same as Iran's surrendering. What do you make of what we heard from both Trump and Carolyn Levin? I mean, it's a huge caveat, whether, you know, it's by Iran's terms or President Trump's terms, but I think what has been increasing and clear over what has been almost a week now of this ongoing conflict is every time the president talks about Iran, he's raising the stakes. Before this conflict happened, it was about ensuring that they didn't have a nuclear weapon. Now it's about destroying all of their naval assets. About destroying their ballistic missiles and preventing their vast terrorist network from destabilizing the region, which is something, frankly, that I still don't understand how that impacts the ceasefire agreement that was made in Gaza. The president keeps raising the stakes here, but what is increasingly clear is he feels very proud of the operation so far. He continues to call it very successful, and he said it's much in conversations with journalists. But I don't think anyone questions whether the U.S. can do this, and they are very much doing this with a huge amount of firepower. It's the question of whether they should be doing that, and that is not something that the president has really been able to articulate to the American public. Well, if it's something serious and not a bargaining position, then it would connote an entirely different set of mission objectives for the U.S. military. I mean, by design, an unconditional surrender means that the vanquished has to submit to the victor in every regard, politically, economically, militarily, even socially. So if he's serious about that, and we'll see what he says tomorrow, then certainly you would expect that the military will be getting different guidance and different structures and different orders to conduct the operations that they're now conducting, because originally it was couched from Secretary Hague's death, and the chairman, as the limited set of objectives, you say unconditional surrender. If you're serious about it, then the military has to then adjust the way it's conducting operations. So in addition to that, there was more to try and make sense up from the president, speaking with Time Magazine. He appeared sanguine about potential Iranian reprisals in the form of terror attacks on American soil. Quoting now from time, quote, ask whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. I guess he says, but I think they're worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it, but yeah, you know, we expect some things, like I said, some people will die when you go to war, some people will die. The president also spoke by a phone with CNN, Stan Abash today, telling her that he's involved in picking a new leader for Iran, and saying, quote, it's going to work very easily. It's going to work like it did in Venezuela. CBS News has three sources telling us that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran on U.S. positions and movements. The average American right here, that I think that's a big and dangerous deal, is it? Well, we're tracking everything. Our commanders are aware of everything. We have the best intelligence in the world. We're aware of who's talking to who, why they're talking to him, how accurate that information might be, how we factor that into our battle plans, our sent-com commander. So we know what's going on. The president has an incredible knack at knowing how to mitigate those risks. The American people can rest assured their commander in chief is well aware of who's talking to who, and anything that shouldn't be happening, whether it's in public or back channeled, is being confronted and confronted strongly. The American people can therefore expect conversations with the Russians to stop this. Well, President Trump, as people have seen, has a unique relationship with a lot of world leaders, where he can get things done that other presidents, certainly Joe Biden never could have. And through direct conversations or indirect, through him, one to one, or through his cabinet, messages definitely can be delivered. Does this put you as personnel in any more danger than the otherwise would be? Well, no one's put us in danger. We're putting the other guys in danger. That's our job. So we're not concerned about that. We mitigate it as we need to. Our commanders factor all of this, but the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're going to live. You know what, David was noting earlier about cooperation between the Iranians and the Russians. That's the type of thing that was very foreseeable. You could have put this problem to me seven years ago, and I would have said, one of the first things you're going to need to worry about is, do the Russians enter the conflict because they've been deepening their relationship with the Iranians for the past 15 years. And then my second question would be, do the Chinese do the same? Do the Chinese come in and start to arm the Iranians? And do you worry about this spiraling into a bigger war? And guess what? We have news tonight that, yes, the Chinese indeed are talking about helping to arm the Iranians. Not just the Russians coming into the conflict, it's the Chinese, but this shouldn't be something that blows people's minds at how the dominoes fell. This was all foreseeable, but you have a team that's unprepared, a team that's unseerious, and they've gotten us into a much bigger mess than they realized. They're Iran and the FBI piece of this for a moment, but the president doesn't seem overly concerned about giving the comments to Time Magazine about increasing attacks in the US, the potential of that. Should we all be concerned about that? Well, we should always be concerned. And I say that in the context of, behind the scenes, secretly in ways most people don't know about it, Iranian operatives have been on the ground here plotting things for a long time. There are even now Iranian operatives in the United States. One would have to assume that, given the number we have taken off the game field and the idea that Iran would have no mode of not to replace them with some other covert operators, you have to operate on that assumption. But we also, and I think what the president was saying is, we're under constant threat from the remnants of ISIS and al-Qaeda. We saw the Bourbon Street attacks in New Orleans on New Year's Day two years ago. We've seen the plots that have been interrupted and thwarted. This is a post-911 constant, as long as that propaganda is out there. The factor of Iran, though, is they do this very professionally and they are in a position where they've always done targeted violence, targeting particular people. This is the kind of environment where they could go to a mass casualty incident. I mean, people who have been caught in the past, what are they doing here? Where are they working here? Do they have diplomatic immunity or what is sort of infiltration in their life? So you've had covert Iranian intelligence officers who have come in and out of the United States under various covers and then recruited individuals associated with violence or criminal organizations to target particular people for them for a hit or for an assault or a kidnapping or a murder. But we've also seen them use elements of Hezbollah that were planted in America, Anderson, for the specific purpose of cataloging targets, studying them, mapping them, developing target books and transmitting them back to their handlers in Iran. So this is something that Iran has been thinking about and planning for 20 years or more. Many signs that you have seen so far that indicate to you that the government is getting ready to deploy boots on the ground, something that the average citizen and a journalist wouldn't necessarily pick up on or notice. Certainly, there are a lot of forces in the region. But again, putting in a small contingent of U.S. forces, where are you going to do that? You're going to drop in the middle of Iran when you still have the besiege and you still have a revolution at guards there. There would be, you know, almost a suicide mission. You would need to have a very large-scale, you know, force. Just like moved into Iraq, it moved it overland into it. You need to bring in the weapons, the equipment, the heavy weaponry and other types of things. So I don't see right now that they're ready to do that. Maybe they're planning to do it. I think they're trying to play catch-up with Donald Trump's policies. I don't know what he is planning to do. And this is where I think his haphazard reckless nature of this policy really could put U.S. forces in grave, grave danger. Let me just say this. Go, America. Go, President. It got 92 percent of MAGA behind you. And I bet you have most of the country behind you. We're going to destroy this enemy. Free the people in Iran. China's upset. The Russians are upset. And the Democrats are upset. That's it. I'm okay. 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Or, as President Trump's been talking about, an unconditional surrender. Is it today's going to be a little truncated given the timing that we've gotten and trying to jam everything in? So we're here today. Raheem Kasam is going to join me. We got Dr. Bradley Thayer, also Phillip Patrick. We're going to go a lot of geopolitics and strategy updated on the military operations in Phillip Patrick. We're going to talk about capital markets. In addition, the other thing to be watching is it is a long way from over from John Corning and Ken Paxson in Texas. Over the last 24 to 48 hours, you see it, Breitbart and Caroline Rand and many, many others going through John Corning's really not just lack of support for President Trump, but really against President Trump in so many major areas. These clips are starting to surface and get traction and you have major voices on the writing, including I think Jesse Kelly was on Megan Kelly, you're saying another voice in there. Just bringing up the concept that John Corning has not had President Trump's back. Even more importantly, having spent, I don't know, the last five or so weeks in Texas, and getting to know the grassroots and the grassroots in Texas is enormously powerful. And really are the key and the cornerstone of the Trump movement here and having President Trump's back. I just think given, and I think this can actually have an inflection point, hopefully, in modern politics. The scale and the vitriol coming after Ken Paxson with $80 million, essentially, of negative ads was a big eye opener to people in Texas, the grassroots. And I believe, and more analysis has to be done. I just don't think this whole that John Corning's by nature, the guy that could be Tariqa, I don't know if that's true or not. Number one, I think Tariqa is a much, much weaker candidate than people, particularly the DC and the political median DC. If you saw him on the campaign trail here and you've seen his previous, what he's really stood for and what he's presented, he is a far left radical and kind of a weird guy. That's all going to start coming out. So I don't think he's, I said from the beginning, I don't think he'd be as formidable as Jasmine Crocket. Jasmine Crocket's a firebrew that she had, obviously, major shortcomings her campaign at the end didn't really have much of a ground game. I think that's what the big thing is separated. Plus the whole, the Democratic establishment didn't want her. You saw the whole co-bear. That whole situation was set up to thwart her, but I don't think he's, they make him out like some incredibly powerful candidate. I just don't see it. I think Ken Paxson's a guy. I think the grassroots are really building momentum behind Ken Paxson. That's all going to play out where he's going to be here in a moment to talk about it. Also in addition, I think one of the galvanizing things we've seen here in Texas over the last couple of weeks is this proposition 10, which is about banning or prohibiting, I think the term is prohibiting Sharia law in the state of Texas. Now you're seeing the second wave as Brian Harrison and others talked about trying to get public hearings in the Texas legislature, Texas legislature, unless they call a special session, it doesn't meet till next year. I do believe they're going to call a special session. Governor Abbott has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and care as terrorist organizations. I already think listed. They can't own a real property. This is going to be a fight. There's just not going to roll over. Particularly care has fought everywhere, but it's very important in, especially as you see what's happening in this war. Particularly see what's happening with our allies in Great Britain. The entire phoniness of the first couple of hours of the military operation, when the United Kingdom would not let issues, the airfield to do strikes at it because of the power of the Muslim members of the House of Commons in the labor party. Now we find out they wanted to have Starmar and this crowd wanted to have some kind of phony. Oh, just give us six hours. So no, it doesn't work like that. You're an ally or not. This is all in a short period of link with what's happened in Europe, the migrant invasion in Europe, the islimization of Europe and what's happening in the United States. That's why Texas was so important to actually be the place where we stop it and reverse it. You can see right now overnight one of the biggest developments is one of the things we've been most focused on here is the center of gravity of this, which I believe has been the center of gravity of really the context and strategic context of the war, maybe not the center of gravity in a class of Vizian sense of battle because that's clearly been around Iran and command and control. And the military goes through a very set, Sencom goes through a very set target list to degrade the Iranian military. And President Trump says a day, it really be destruction. He considers he talking about unconditional surrender and unconditional surrender as Caroline Levit refined was President Trump's thinking that the inability of the Iranian military or the revolutionary guard to both do power projection on their own people are certainly power projection in the region. And that's one of the things I find most fascinating. And now overnight we made a big deal about it yesterday, but overnight the Iranian foreign minister has come out and said they will have for right now have no more strikes on their on their golf neighbors. The biggest part of this story to me in the first couple of days is Shiite versus Suni, Muslim versus Muslim Persian versus Arab. The strikes on the strikes on the in the Persian golf. I think one of the things that triggered the Iranians to say this is as we talked about yesterday, we'll talk further today is the seizing of financial assets, just like the West sees the financial assets of the Russians in the in the Ukraine Russian war. And I think had a major impact on Russia. It's one of the many reasons I think they haven't made a lot of progress. They still about 20, 25% of Ukraine they haven't made a lot of progress. I think because of the financial restriction, pulling them when the Western banks seized their assets, something we'd hadn't done to the Nazis or to Imperial Japan and World War II or to the Bolsheviks or even to the Chinese Communist Party. Dubai, which is I call like was it Tortuga for the Caribbean pirates this center, a little known fact is that the Iranians as much as the Gulf Arabs have always been at their throat and vice versa, the banking center, the financial center for them is not Switzerland. It's really Dubai and this is the way that they've gotten around sanctions. Well the UAE because it took enough hits said, hey, we are thinking of a kind of playing seizing the Iranians assets in our banks and we'll hold 12 hours later the Iranians say, well, a pun further review, maybe we're going to have a time out. We're going to have a pause on any more strikes into the Gulf. Now Qatar said yesterday, it's reported in borders and in the financial times of London that the Qatar oil minister said, hey, because I think they've shut down one of their big gas firms. I think it's the gas field during joint operation with the Iranians said oil could go to $150 a barrel. Now a lot of that is to it's just propaganda, but there's clearly oil, I think it's going up 35%. I think it's going up almost 40 or 50% since Netanyahu went to Marlago in December. As we now know, it's one of the big kickoff meetings. The oil market is an efficient market. Tons of information out there, a lot of traders that trade this is why head Eric Bowling. So let's get into the show. We're going to take a short commercial break just to go back tomorrow at 10 a.m. if we can pull it off technically, which I'm sure we can with Real America's voice, our great team in Denver and also our team here, the Warram team. We're going to have another Sunday morning special at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 2 12 noon. Today's going to be a little bifurcated because there's so much going on. Like I said, we've got shield of America's right now in Miami and that's the hemispheric defense. You're going to want to dip in into that all day. The Espino guys, where I have a new channel are going to cover that wall to wall, quite fascinating. Also, the dignified transfer of our honor dead will take place approximately 130 p.m. at Dover Air Force Base and Dover Delaware in the President of the United States. This Commander in Chief will be there. Want to thank all of our sponsors, particularly Patriot mobile 972 Patriot. If you want to back a company that backs you a Christian company that has your values and back sure values. And I can tell you just extraordinary work they've done here in Texas and Texas. I say this as a Virginian is the jewel in the crown of our Republic. As goes Texas, so goes the country. 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Patriot mobile.com slash bandit or call 972 patriot and use promo code bandit. Don't wait. This limited time offer won't last. That's patriot mobile.com slash bandit or call 972 patriot with promo code bandit. You're going to get an East Texas and East Texas accent and you're going to get an American citizen on the phone. So join me today. Make the switch today at 972 patriot promo code bandit. War of, here's your host Stephen K. Back. Okay, welcome back. I reheamed joins in now. So a couple of things I want to catch up with Rahim on pieces over the national pulse, et cetera. Rahim, I do think that you've got one of the best overall strategic views of exactly what's happening here. And one of the reasons for that is that you have dealt with this Islamic invasion of Europe. I don't know for 10 years. In fact, when we first started Breitbart London, one of the reasons that we came to you, you had your own site at the time to get you to be the editor, we could tell that that was going to be a huge problem. And eventually that, you know, we never realized it would come to Brexit that quickly, but that'd be one of the big drivers that this mass migration was going to be huge. You were also the very first person ever told me in 2014, it says, hey, I got to get over to Ukraine and I go, why are you going to Ukraine? He goes, they're having a color revolution over there. And I go, do you tell me through this? Why? You sure you just like to go over to the party. So given all that, given we still have a war in Ukraine going on, given that we still have a massive issue with our supposed to analyze the United Kingdom and France and Germany, this war, and I find the most intriguing part of this war, the war of the Muslims against themselves, the Persians versus the Gulf States, particularly when Israel is clearly the greater Israel project is alive and thriving as they now are going after all enemies, right? Little and small. So what we do strategically, especially when President Trump has said, we have to have unconditional surrender. Now he did walk that back and say, hey, unconditional surrender to me is when they have no more military ability to do power projection, both on their own people and outside the region. But I do want to hand in shaping what this government is. Just a overview of the entire thing as you see it right now. Yeah, how long do you have? Because it's been a good 15 odd years now that we've been when concerning ourselves with all these things. And there are people who have done it far longer than me for sure. But I seem to have managed to find myself on the front lines of all of these fights somewhere along the way. Call it journalistic intuition or whatever. Yeah, but you say a lot of people have done it. You came to me in those couple of years when I was leaving Breitbart and going to help the president, the whole thing with the no go zones. You were able to identify in those periods of time exactly what we're going to be the most important issues. And that's why I think people look to you, right? As somebody that just is not some Johnny come lately, but somebody that's been dealing with this topic that President Trump is now deeply into. And this is a kinetic part of it. My concern is this thing could spread to the kinetic part of the Third World War. Quite quickly. Look, I think if you do remember that sort of that far back, I used to call into the old Breitbart radio shows from on the road as I was writing this book. So I called from Brussels. I called in from Paris. I called in from Molynbeck. I called in from Malmo. And I have, you know, I literally have copies on my desk because I have to thumb through it sometimes and remind myself, oh my gosh, we were talking about these things that are manifesting themselves now all those years ago. And I almost kind of want to do a telephone sometimes, right? A live telephone, because I know people have so many questions about it. And whenever people approach me in the street or come to me at the restaurant or whatever it is, and they want to talk, you know, line by line about this stuff, Ukraine, these things. And now you're seeing, you know, exactly kind of what you, I remember when we were making that movie, The Brink, not a great movie, by the way. You know, you were drawing on the front page of a newspaper, the kind of the different axes going on in the world between China and Persia and Russia and all of this stuff. And people forget how quickly people forget, by the way, especially, you know, when you bring in the Texas element to all of this now, right? Because John Cohnin was up there in the Senate all those years ago talking about Russia collusion we need to get to the bottom of how Russia hacked our elections. The idea that Trump would be even entertaining the idea of endorsing him now is horrendous to me. But you look, back then I was writing about, we're going to have to think about Turkey's membership of NATO, right? Like the way it's trending, the Islamist regime there. Now of course, the Wall Street Journal jumps the gun, like goes way to, I said, you know, the next, the next war might have to be with Turkey. Hold on, you're going to go to war with the NATO member now? You could have resolved this when I wrote about it back then and said, actually, we have to remove the nuclear deterrent from Turkey, the American nukes that are there. You know, remember after I wrote that piece, there was an attempted coup and they were desperately worried about where those materials would end up. And now the Wall Street Journal wants to start a war with Turkey. So there's all of this precipice. Remember last week we talked about the AI precipice, right? There's all this precipice of a full blown global conflict right now. And you've got the CCP and Russia very clearly about to aid Iran in this whole process. So where do we go from there? Do we find ourselves in kinetic warfare with China by the end of the year? Maybe. I would hope not and I certainly believe the President Trump has the way with all to avoid that kind of thing. But as I think we are on some really, really poor trajectories. Is this fight between the Persians and really the Shiites, which you can tell what one of the things they're trying to do is to bring Max instability to the monarchies and the Gulf. Do you think you're going to see that start to play out in the Muslim communities, particularly these volatile communities in London and Paris? I mean, today they've been united against hating with and even with the Marxist of this red-green alliance that hate the Judeo-Christian West and particularly hate the governments and especially governments that have white people and white people running it. Do you see because now this thing amazes me that Doran Ramadan dirty each other's throats. And clearly, the Persians, I think are saying, hey, if we're going down under the boot of Israel and the United States and they're going to pound us into dust, we're going to take you guys down with it because we have, you know, as many Shiites in some of the Emirates, as laborers, as you guys have as the monarchs. You think that starts to break out in Europe also? It's already there. I mean, on Thursday, I kid you had horse-mounted modern day Sarasana. The Persians on the streets of Manchester chasing, you know, pro-Iran democracy protesters on horseback in the middle of Manchester City in England. The home secretary of the United Kingdom is a practicing Muslim. You know, this is the person, the home secretary is responsible for who comes in and who goes out of the country. They are, it is the equivalent of your interior secretary or DHS secretary, all of this rolled into one. This is already there. It's already there in a massive way. And by the way, what was the strapline of the book? How sure your law is coming to a neighborhood near you? It's coming to you, ladies and gentlemen, whether you are in Texas, whether you are in New York, whether you are in Florida, it is already here. You know, and we tried to tell people that a decade ago and, you know, I want to make sure that I want to make sure people understand. I think because of the explosive nature of that book and Rahim took time and actually went into the, particularly in Brussels, I think some of the Midland cities, but Brussels, you went in actually into the areas where you couldn't go, right? That you went and gave an eyewitness account. I think you were banned on Fox. And then I think Frank Gaffney, who had been inspired by your book, started talking about it. He was permanently banned on Fox. The reaction to this by the Republican establishment at the time, the, and conservative and media was they didn't want to talk about this. This crossed a line that what Rahim had done, you know, what is this Sharia law? And this is racist. This is nativist. This is xenophobic. And they didn't want to talk about it. And here we're in Texas, what, 10 years later. And we have Prop 10 on the ballot that gets almost 2 million votes, 95% approval by Republican voters. And it was the, it inspired people so much to come together. It was the first question asked at the Attorney General's debate, at the agriculture debate. And basically everybody had to sign on for this. Are you wouldn't be an elected official in the state of Texas, Rahim? Listen, I'll quote from you from the back of the book, right? From the jacket. No grizzone should be required reading for conservatives, Republicans, liberals, teachers, students, reporters, editors, and activists, all alike. You know who gave me that quote? It was none other than the next prime minister of the United Kingdom that would be one Nigel Farage. And you think about, you think about how far we've come, you know, how much we've warned about this stuff. And look, you've seen on the streets of England, on the streets of Wales, in fact, you want to talk parochial, fights between Turks and Kurds going on, right? Imported into Nesign, tribal warfare that's been going on on Western streets. And this stuff is spilling out all over the place. Ten years ago it was just in these enclaves. As you mentioned, the ones I went to, Mollenbeck, East London, Midlands, Malmo, you know, South of France, Bezier, all these places. Now you're seeing it, you started to see it two years ago, right? All across college campuses, all across the United States. Now it's coming to all these other neighborhoods too. And thank God there are other people now who are out there with cameras. But back in the day I was the only one. 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Rahim Kassam you've put up some amazing tweets on this situation including exposing I guess the comms director for here's on our stand the whole cornon cornon to the core of his being he's been a trump hater and this is why I told the Washington Post it's not simply the policies which are bad enough that the grassroots and the magma movement out here are not fans they don't like him for that they don't like the policies but there is a hardcore and I think it's 10 to 20 percent that will never vote for him because of his outright hatred for trump that's just below the surface and particularly in every time the president Trump's been vulnerable people out here in Texas don't forget and that's why I think he's by far the worst candidate just mathematically because it's you just got a central core base of trump space even with an endorsement even as much as they love president Trump they're going to sit this one out your thoughts sir. Well I do think that I think especially as this case gets litigated further in the runoff a lot more is going to come out about the nexus around John Cornett you know for a long time it's sort of been a policy thing right John Cornett doesn't vote with the president as often as people would like you know they put this figure out 97 percent but that includes like procedural votes when you actually get down to like policy policy it's more like 60 percent but this is going further than that now people are starting to look at the people he actually has around him who he's hired a staff over the years who he still retained a staff over the years I'll tell you funny story is a couple of nights ago one of his guys was tweeting angrily at me and I didn't think anything of it at first but it was later night I was in bed and I thought to myself I recognize this name from somewhere way back when from somewhere and his name was Matt McCovieck and I went I somewhat recall this guy reaching out to me at a certain point let me go through my my big honking oppo drive that I keep and see see what I have on the guy and of course the first thing that pops up was this tweet he had sent on January 6th 2021 where he said we are witnessing domestic terrorism that's a direct quote from John Cornen's current communications director calling J6 domestic terrorism I guess who had liked that tweet on x by the way that would be Chris Lasavita that's Cornen's current campaign chief by the way and then I started to go through other things and we're going to we're going to release some of this stuff over the weekend but we already did one on Friday on all of this where I sort of dug through Matt McCovieck's entire history and by the way he's got some very choice things to say about you and has done since about 2011 or 12 I think goes back that far to the break to the break to the break to the break break days 100 percent 100 percent and I've got a whole a whole story coming out on all the BS that he's talked about break bar over the years I have a whole story coming out about how he was pro-George Floyd when George Floyd was killed and actually tried to pitch me an op-ed approach Floyd op-ed for the national pulse and I have the emails that prove it that show I turned them down quite robustly but some of his tweets about the president are the most important here he went on long and lengthy tirade against the president not just in 2016 not just in 2017 not just in 2018 not just in 2019 not just in 2020 in 2021 also in 2022 also in 2023 also in 2024 rolls around he puts out a tweet where he says look I still back basically anybody but Trump but then when Trump is inevitably going to win he tries to flip right and he buys his way he spends an ordinary amount of time and other people's money buying his way into the election like party in Palm Beach I mean this is the worst of the Rhino brigade I was going to say here in Washington DC but he's not here in Washington DC he's in Austin Texas and he's been in Austin Texas politics for a very long time and he's had a fair share of run-ins with marga people in Texas so if you're John Corne and you know this guy's actually relatively high profile never Trump I mean he had Bill Crystal on his podcast he had Chris Matthews on his podcast he had the the guy Mona Charon from the bull work all these never Trump organizations on his podcast you'd think if you're Corne or your Corne's staffers like hey maybe we don't have this guy being our front line of attack on social media and in the press every day but this is the kind of people that we're dealing with it's not the deep state it's the in your face state if you remember he talked about he talked about Trump being given enough rope to hang himself at the debates he peddled the Russia hoax he said it is outrageous and dangerous and ridiculous for an American president to take Vladimir Putin's word over that of the US intelligence community that was over the Russia hoax remember he said every single person who said that Trump should have the G7 at Daraal should be fired he referred to Trump as a drunk driver at the wheel chugging vodka he's going to lose this election I mean over and over and over again he demanded a purge of marga from the GOP he called Trump's election an extension level event for the Republican party anyway I could go on and on but this is all at the national pulse dot com but if you're watching this it's gonna be a lot more all this weekend so you're going to be putting stuff up Rahim how do people get to the national pulse now more than ever you need to go it's on my media diet the first thing in the morning where do people go to get it yeah the national pulse dot com the national pulse dot com or all over social media as well at the national pulse it can follow me Rahim Kasam and remember we were 100% supported by ordinary people donating from their homes five dollars ten dollars whatever you can afford the national pulse dot com and it's important to get this sort of information out there so that Texas voters can make an informed decision Rahim Kasam Rahim you're at your best when you're in a fight right where he gets the when the juices get rolling Rahim is always the first in the rampart like an old medieval night thank you so much Rahim Kasam national pulse incredible check it out all weekend also Rahim connects more dots than anybody and one of the things we learned here connecting directly what was going on in London to what's going on in Texas is one of the things that inspired people so much um birchgold dot com we got Philip Patrick coming up at 1130 in times of turmoil people ask hey when you first start working birchgold I don't go was like eleven hundred dollars announced now it's what fifty two there was a logic to that that's what we outlined in the end of the dollar empire learn how the world works go get it is totally free just go to birchgold dot com promo code banan you get all seven free 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