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0:06Hi everybody. Today is Sunday, July
0:0812th, 2026. And our dear friend, our
0:11brother Larry Johnson is here with us.
0:13Welcome back, Daddy.
0:14>> Yeah, you're ruining my Sunday
0:15afternoon, but okay. Anything for you,
0:18my friend. And and note, I'm not wimping
0:21out on the Florida shirt. I'm wearing a
0:22shirt that has uh symbolic meaning in
0:26Iran.
0:27>> Yeah. [laughter]
0:29Good point,
0:34Larry. I want to start with what's going
0:36on right now between Iran and the United
0:38States. Sandcom just moments ago
0:41confirmed that the new attacks, new
0:43waves of attack are happening against
0:45Iran. And there are some footages coming
0:47out from Bandalabus
0:50>> in the southern part of Iran which shows
0:52that they have hit some targets in that
0:54city.
0:56And just to change the atmosphere of
1:00today's talk, one of the Iranians today
1:02was joking about because they have the
1:05name Bandal Abbos. Abbas is the first
1:08name of the Iranian foreign minister
1:10Abbas Arachi. And the guy who's living
1:13in that city says these people in in the
1:16United States somehow they're feeling
1:18that this city is belonging to Abbas
1:21Arai. That's why they're attacking every
1:23time they're attacking us.
1:25So
1:27I want this attack.
1:30Larry, are you checking the
1:34the the attack on Banderapas?
1:37>> No, I can't I don't have all I can tell
1:39you is all all I'm checking is the
1:42activity in the straight of Hormuz and
1:44>> Okay. Yeah.
1:45>> The only things
1:46>> I was checking that
1:48>> stop just stop for a second. Let me
1:49finish.
1:51The only thing that's active out there
1:52are two US flagged pleasure craft.
1:57>> H wonder what that is.
2:01>> Yeah.
2:03Uh
2:03>> before Larry
2:06before going to the straight of Hermoose
2:09today it was somehow different because
2:12of the
2:14death the announcement that the in the
2:17United States they said that Lindsey
2:19Graham passed away. It seems that it was
2:22because of some sort of heart attack. It
2:24said it's a immediate and sudden
2:26disease. What was that? I know that you
2:29wrote a piece on your substack.
2:31>> Yeah. Well, he did he did he did not die
2:34in Washington DC. Let's be clear about
2:36that.
2:37>> Uh if if he suffered a heart attack, the
2:40heart attack was suffered in Kev.
2:43Um so, you know, let me let me walk you
2:46through the timeline.
2:48When Lindsey Graham arrived in Kev, um
2:53Friday morning between 10:30 and 11 a.m.
2:57on a train.
2:59That's that's the normal way that
3:01members of Congress and Joe Biden,
3:04president and other European leaders,
3:07that's how they travel. You remember
3:08remember that train trip with Mcronone
3:10and Kier Starmer?
3:12>> Was it Mer?
3:13>> There was something going on.
3:16>> Yeah. They were they were riding that
3:18train high on cocaine, you know,
3:22[laughter]
3:24the quote uh the Grateful Dead. But uh
3:28uh so they go in on the train. The train
3:30gets in between 10:30, 11:00 a.m. on
3:32Friday. He then goes and he has meetings
3:35with Zinski and he gets to tour a drone
3:38factory that was destroyed sometime late
3:43Friday afternoon, Friday evening by
3:46Russia. Now, we don't know if Lindsey
3:49Graham was in that factory or had left
3:51that factory.
3:53[clears throat]
3:54Um, we don't know what happened that
3:57evening, but the if if he decided he
4:01needed to quickly return to the United
4:03States the normal way, because it's
4:06either return the normal way or go out
4:08on a medical evacuation flight. There
4:12are flights that medically evacuate
4:15personnel that have been wounded or
4:18killed uh in in Ukraine. And you know,
4:23we've seen a number of them will fly to
4:25a military hospital in Poland. So the
4:28the train that he would have taken would
4:30have left um Saturday morning about 7:45
4:37to 8:00 a.m.
4:39That is 100 a.m. Washington DC time. So
4:44now let's just stick with Washington DC
4:46time. That train ride takes between 9
4:49and 10 hours.
4:52So either that that means he either got
4:55into Warsaw at around 10:00 a.m. or 11
4:59a.m.
5:01Then he goes to the airport to catch the
5:03flight back to the United States. And it
5:05could have been a, you know, a chartered
5:06US aircraft.
5:08So let's say the earliest he could have
5:10boarded would have been 11:00 a.m. but
5:13more likely 12.
5:17Okay. The flight from Warsaw to the
5:20United States, regardless of whether you
5:22got military, aircraft, or whatever, is
5:24a 10-hour flight because you're flying
5:27against headwinds. You know, anyone
5:29that's ever done international travel
5:30knows that when you fly from west to
5:32east, much quicker. You got the
5:34tailwinds behind you. Flying from east
5:37to west, slower trip. Okay. What What
5:42time is it in Washington DC if you leave
5:44at 12, you know, 12 noon?
5:47And then 10 hours later, you get in.
5:49That's 10 p.m., right?
5:52>> Yeah.
5:53>> Okay. So, but the reports that were put
5:56out is that the call to 911
6:00came at 8:30 p.m.,
6:03but Lindsey Graham wasn't even in the
6:05country then.
6:07Now, could he have been in the country
6:09if he had been flown back on a medical
6:11flight? Absolutely.
6:13But that doesn't mean he was alive when
6:16the flight landed. And maybe they hauled
6:19his body over to the house to make it
6:21appear. You know, that's how they could
6:23have had him, you know, a dead body at
6:26at the house. And maybe he did suffer a
6:28heart attack in Keith. You know, that's
6:31possible. So, I can I'm not going to
6:33speculate on on the on the cause of
6:36death. Could have been a heart attack.
6:37My only point is if you're traveling
6:40normal, no way in hell would he have
6:42been back at his house by then, you
6:44know, having a heart attack after
6:46suffering an ar arduous journey. So
6:50either the dead body was brought back,
6:51planted at the house or they just made
6:54that up and uh you know his body where
6:57wherever it wound up uh you know the DC
7:00morg
7:02be curious to see what uh uh how that's
7:05been handled. Anyway, it's just the
7:07story put out by the White House is not
7:09true.
7:11>> Yeah. By the way, yesterday he was
7:14visiting one of these drone factories in
7:18Ukraine which was later on attacked by
7:20Russia and destroyed by Russia by the
7:22>> what?
7:24>> And he was getting back yesterday. He
7:28said he's going to get back and push for
7:30this new resolution of sanction in
7:32Russia, more sanctions on Russia. That
7:35was the main agenda. He would he went
7:37there to give the support to Zalinski
7:40and coming back putting more sanctions
7:41on Russia
7:44and
7:44>> well I guess you can check that off of
7:46his to-do list.
7:53>> Donald Trump was so sad today. He talked
7:58to CNN to MSNBC in all the these
8:04interviews. He was so sad. He was
8:06telling that he you know he didn't want
8:09to talk about this trade of formos. He
8:11was asked about this trade. He said
8:12before coming to this interview I told
8:14you I'm not going to talk about the
8:15trade of formos because we are so sad
8:18right now because of the you know the
8:21death of Lindry Graham. And here is what
8:24he said. Larry
8:27>> how you received this news and your
8:30immediate gut reaction when you heard
8:32it.
8:32>> So what makes it even stranger is that I
8:34got a call last night sometime at you
8:37know the early evening
8:39maybe in the sevens and he called and he
8:43said we're all set for the Save America
8:45Act. He was pushing the Save America Act
8:47like crazy. He got back said he just
8:49landed from Ukraine. I said that's a
8:52long trip to make. He said he sounded a
8:54little tired but perfect but it a little
8:56bit tired. I had a right to be and he
8:59was a worker. He was really a worker but
9:02uh but he sounded great actually but he
9:04was he was uh he actually said he was
9:06tired. But he he wanted to pass the Save
9:09America Act and I said well we're going
9:11to get it done Lindsay. We're going to
9:13get it done. I'll see you like soon. We
9:14thought maybe we might even meet today.
9:17>> And then that was it. And that was you
9:19know very
9:21around the time. It couldn't have been
9:23much longer. I don't It could have been
9:24his last call. I don't know exactly, but
9:26I got a message about 1:00 in the
9:29morning from one of the people at his
9:31office that he had passed away. I said,
9:33"You got I just can't believe it."
9:36>> He was like a member of the family to
9:38me. It's very tough actually. It's
9:40amazing.
9:41>> Mr. President,
9:42>> he was he was he was such an advocate.
9:45He was, you know, if he if he wanted to
9:47get something and you know, he had a
9:49unique ability. He was able to deal with
9:51Democrats and Republic. If I had a
9:53problem, a real problem, I wouldn't
9:55often ask, but if I had a problem with a
9:58Democrat, he could work it out. He was a
10:00a great He was a great politician,
10:02actually.
10:04>> Yeah. You feel how sad Donald Trump is
10:07when he's talking about
10:08>> Lindsey Graham
10:11and
10:13the we I have another reaction from
10:16Donald Trump after the the assassination
10:20of Charlie Kirk. I wanted you to comment
10:23on that. The way he's reacting to the
10:26you know to Lindsey Graham to the case
10:29of Lindsey Graham comparing to the way
10:31he's reacting to Charlie Kirk. Here is
10:33what he said about Charlie Kirk.
10:40>> How are you holding up over the last
10:42three and a half years?
10:42>> I think very good. And by the way, right
10:44there you see all the trucks. They've
10:47just started construction of the new
10:48ballroom for the White House, which is
10:51something they've been trying to get, as
10:52you know, for about 150 years. And it's
10:55going to be a beauty. It'll be a
10:57absolute and magnificent construction.
10:59And I just see all the trucks. just
11:01started. So, it'll get done uh very
11:04nicely and it'll be one of the best
11:06anywhere in the world, actually.
11:11>> Yeah.
11:11>> Yeah. You can tell he's really broken up
11:13over the death of Charlie Kirk.
11:17>> Yeah. You know, uh he he he's not um
11:24he's not telling the truth about what
11:26happened to Lindsey Graham. is that
11:28Lindsey Graham was flying back.
11:31uh that flight, the earliest the only
11:33way from Graham to get from Poland to
11:36Warsaw to fly back was on on uh you know
11:40the train and and then you know because
11:45normally the US military aircraft are
11:47not flying into Ke
11:50and and never not when Joe Biden went
11:53they didn't fly it they they he took the
11:55train
11:57you know when Ursula Vander lion fond of
12:00lion and goes in, she takes the train.
12:03All the members leaders of NATO, they
12:05take the train.
12:08Members of Congress, they take the
12:10train.
12:12But now we're asked to believe that
12:13there was some sort of special mission
12:15and they flew in a a US aircraft and it
12:19flew him back. Uh again, you know, what
12:24time did the aircraft take off
12:27and why why the urgency to get Lindy
12:30Lindsay back
12:32and then he gets back and
12:34suffers a heart attack at home even
12:37though the normal travel route means he
12:39would still be on a plane if if that's
12:42what happened.
12:44So either, you know, either he was uh,
12:49you know, killed in Kev, you know, maybe
12:52he he did get caught in a bombing
12:55uh or maybe he had a heart attack, you
12:57know, hearing the explosions go off. I
12:59don't think I don't think he's ever been
13:00in Ke before there were explosions going
13:02off and maybe maybe that frightened him
13:05to death. Who knows? But it's just, you
13:08know, the story story just doesn't quite
13:11add up. Uh if they would have said, "Oh,
13:13he had suffered a heart attack at one,
13:16you know, at midnight."
13:18Okay, maybe he'd gotten off the plane,
13:20got home, and you know, threw an emblei,
13:23you know, from you know, doing that much
13:26traveling, sitting and such over the
13:28time frame. But, you know, it
13:31the the story as it's being told just
13:34doesn't make sense.
13:36>> Yeah.
13:39Larry, the the fight. Before getting
13:42into the fight, I I want to play a clip
13:44of Lindsey Graham because we know how he
13:47supported the war in Ukraine. He was one
13:50of the main advocates of the support to
13:52Ukraine in this war. He said, "We're
13:55going to fight you." You remember he
13:56went to Ukraine before this war started,
13:59before all this madness started together
14:01with McCain and he said, "We're going to
14:04support you. you go along and you we're
14:06going to defeat Russia here in Ukraine.
14:09You're so brave. You're doing this and
14:10that. And the other side of his argument
14:13was the case of the West Asia and his
14:17support for Israel. And here is what he
14:19said in recent interview
14:22on October the 7th was 1,200 people were
14:25slaughtered, raped and murdered and
14:27filmed by radical Islamists who would
14:29kill every Jew if they could to the
14:31world. If you don't understand, this is
14:33a threat to Israel. flattened Gaza.
14:35>> Just flatten it. We flattened Berlin. We
14:38flattened Tokyo.
14:43>> Yeah. The reaction of
14:44>> Israel has lost one of the great
14:46champions of the American Israeli
14:48alliance. And frankly, I've lost a
14:52beloved friend. I was deeply shocked and
14:54heartbroken to learn of the sudden
14:56passing of a great American patriot, a
14:59true friend of Israel and a dear friend
15:02of mine, US Senator Lindsey Graham.
15:06>> Yeah.
15:08>> Yeah. Is it isn't it ironic that, you
15:10know, oh, he loves Israel so much he's
15:12supporting Nazis and Ukraine,
15:17people who carried out massacres, you
15:20know, their ancestors.
15:22The ideological ancestors of the
15:24Banderites
15:26were responsible for the murdering of
15:28Jews as well as of Catholic uh po Poles,
15:33women and children, elderly men.
15:36So, you know, there wasn't any there was
15:38any in intellectual consistency with
15:41Lindsey Graham on that.
15:45The reason Larry I played both clips,
15:47one of them from Lindsey Graham, the
15:49other one Donald Trump's reaction to
15:51both, you know, Lindsey Graham and
15:54Charlie Kirk is it is what we were
15:58talking about Donald Trump before Donald
16:00Trump being elected as the president of
16:02the United States. We were basically
16:04arguing that Donald Trump is an
16:05outsider. He's going to do this and
16:08that. He's going to be different and the
16:11new cabinet is going to be different.
16:13the people in in the administration. No,
16:15no one from the previous administration
16:17is part of the new administration. And
16:20all of a sudden, you see he's so much
16:23close. He's so much, you know,
16:28connected with Lindsey Graham more than
16:30those people who supported him during
16:32the election. Charlie Kirk was, I would
16:35say, one of the main factors behind
16:37Donald Trump being elected. He made a
16:39movement in the United States. TPUSA was
16:42so important for the election for Donald
16:44Trump, but he just ignored about about
16:46what was the importance of that. But
16:48he's so connected feeling personally to
16:52Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham is a
16:54very, in my opinion, important character
16:56because he was so close to Democrats and
16:59Republicans. That's the importance of
17:01Lindsey Graham. He's basically neocon.
17:04>> Well, you're correct. he is a character
17:06or was a character.
17:10>> You know, uh there's a I think there's a
17:13hot place in the afterlife that he's uh
17:16you know, he's able to work on a suntan
17:18now. But uh you know, this is uh
17:24you know, I don't understand Donald
17:25Trump's loyalty to to Graham given all
17:28the terrible things that Graham has said
17:30and done. Graham didn't lift a damn
17:32finger to investigate Russia gate when
17:34the Republicans had control of the
17:35Senate.
17:37You know, he's almost like he was an
17:39inside operative working against Trump
17:40and yet Trump stupidly
17:44um you know kept playing golf with
17:47Lindsay and kept close close ties to
17:50Lindsay. I I don't get it.
17:53>> Yeah. Nice.
17:54>> But you're but you're right. He was he
17:56was the consmate neocon. So the good
17:59news is one less neocon to run around
18:02making trouble.
18:04>> I think Ted Cruz is going to replace him
18:06right now because the most one of the
18:12no one is close to Lindsey Graham than
18:14you know other than Ted Cruz is going to
18:17be in his place
18:18>> to support Israel to support the war in
18:20Ukraine. Let's see Larry the attacks the
18:24war is happening between Iran again and
18:26the United States. The new waves of
18:28attacks are happening as we talk
18:31>> and there are reports from the Iranians
18:33from the southern part of Iran as I
18:35mentioned in the city of Band there is a
18:39new footage coming out and in a moment I
18:42I'm going to show a photo of that
18:45explosion in Bandal Abus but today there
18:49was another attack close to the nuclear
18:52power plant in Busher which was so close
18:55the attack they hit some car gets so
18:58close to the nuclear power plant. Here
19:00is the footage as you see here.
19:05Let me just look at here just
19:09it gets so close to the nuclear power
19:12plant. Later on we've learned that it
19:15wasn't a you know the nuclear power
19:18plant didn't damage because of this
19:20attack which was so close and it's
19:22operational.
19:23So the other reports from Iran was the
19:28attack Iranian attack on Jordan.
19:31In Prince Hassan air base in Jordan
19:37there is this footage and two points
19:40here. You see the larger circle, it
19:43shows the command and control in the
19:46Prince Hassan air base and the little
19:49one is a runway in that air base which
19:52is important. You you were asking why
19:54Iran why is Iran not attacking the
19:57runway? It this is it shows you know
20:00they did that in in Jordan. And the
20:04other the other report that came out
20:07later on it was the attack
20:10on the shelters, one of the shelters of
20:13these drones in again in the same air
20:17base in Jordan. You see in this picture,
20:21>> it shows how it was destroyed. I don't
20:23know how many drones were located at the
20:26time that this missile hits the target.
20:30So, the two sides are basically fighting
20:33and escalating the fight. They're
20:34hitting the targets. There were some
20:37reports that American forces were hit by
20:41by Iranian missiles because they were
20:44using in the initial hours last night of
20:46the attack, they were using highars in
20:49Bahrain and Kuwait and hitting the
20:52targets clo in the Iranian southern part
20:54of Iran. Then you see the Iranian
20:57response. And here is one of the points
21:00that was attacked.
21:02And it see it's at the border between
21:06Kuwait and Iraq. And here is the
21:09location of this attack. You see you see
21:12Kuwait at the border with Iraq. And you
21:15see that city called Abadan.
21:18That is the city of Iran. One of the
21:20cities in the southwest of Iran. It's so
21:23close for Iranians to monitor what's
21:25going on in in on that border. So they
21:28hit that target. It says it was a UN
21:31base or somehow some place belong to UN
21:35which was attack. Americans were using
21:38those high marks in that in in that
21:41area.
21:42>> Go ahead. Your understanding of what is
21:44happening so far?
21:46>> Well um so now Iran has targeted two
21:51separate bases in Jordan.
21:54the Moafik Alti base and now the King
21:58Hassan
22:00base. So those and so those are the two
22:05bases where US forces have been located
22:08and Iran's hitting them. They hit the
22:11naval repair or the naval facility in
22:14Oman.
22:16Now again, Iran's had pretty good
22:18relations with Oman, but they're sending
22:20Oman a message. You're going to make a
22:23choice. You're going to stand with the
22:25Americans, you're going to stand with
22:26us. If you stand with the Americans,
22:29we're going to destroy your facilities
22:31that are helping the Americans. They've
22:34also hit Aluded Air Force Base. Uh then
22:37they've hit the targets in Kuwait and
22:39and Bahrain.
22:41So, uh and they also hit Aluded Air
22:45Force Base in Qatar.
22:47So, and I my understanding is right now,
22:50even though the US is continuing its
22:51bomb, Iran is not waiting. They're
22:53already launching missiles in
22:54retaliation.
22:56So, we'll see if this is the last round
22:58of escalation.
23:00If we go on past patterns,
23:04uh we we get this spike of you know
23:06spike of violence Saturday or Sunday and
23:10then somewhere between Sunday evening
23:12uh or into early Monday morning like
23:157:30 Trump makes some sort of
23:17announcement about oh okay well you know
23:20you know one thing he could say tomorrow
23:22is you know Iran is screaming for you
23:25know our the effectiveness of our air
23:27strikes let Iran come see peace peace
23:30and so we're going to we're going to be
23:33going back to the negotiating table. Uh
23:36he could he'll he would do that before
23:38the market opens. If he doesn't do that
23:41before the market opens one, it's going
23:44to spike the price of oil and it's going
23:46to tank the stock market, you know. So,
23:49in the past, Trump has clearly been
23:51involved with the manipulation of the
23:53stock market and the oil market.
23:56So if he doesn't make that announcement
23:58uh you know in the next 12 to 13 hours
24:02then I think we're going to continue to
24:04see this escalation grow and the United
24:08States is expending high Mars and attack
24:10of missiles that they don't have. I mean
24:12they're depleting the inventories.
24:15So uh that that's that's going to be a
24:18problem.
24:20>> Yeah. And here is the street of Hermuz
24:23right now.
24:25And uh I have seen no changes in this
24:29rate since this morning.
24:32>> Is that is that marinetra.com?
24:35>> Mariner traffic. Yeah. Marinetra.com.
24:39>> Do you see that? Do you see that big red
24:41ship that's right there in the middle up
24:43towards Keshum Island
24:45>> here? This one.
24:47>> Yeah.
24:48What does that say? Jersey Devil. A US
24:51flag
24:52>> pleasure crew. So, and then the see that
24:56smaller red dot down below
24:58>> down below down below. Up up up up up up
25:01up up up up up up up up up up up up up
25:01up up up up up up up up up up up up up
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25:02up up up up up up up up up up up up up
25:02up up up up up up up up up up up up up
25:02up up up up up up up up up up up up
25:02there. Go go go go go back down go back
25:04down go back down right there.
25:08>> That's another US quote pleasure craft.
25:11That tells me that those those those uh
25:14civilian air civilian craft are most
25:16likely being used to collect
25:17intelligence.
25:19>> And I think at some point Iran's going
25:20to wake up, realize that and take them
25:22out.
25:25Wow.
25:27>> Yeah.
25:31>> There's there's no reason for that. That
25:33Pleasure Craft Jersey Devil, it's just
25:34been selling in a circle down there for
25:36for more than a week. I I've been
25:38watching it.
25:40>> I I I'd be shocked if it's not being
25:43used for intel collection.
25:48Iranian foreign ministry went to the day
25:51before
25:53the attack happening last night. We we
25:56know that he went to Oman. I don't know
25:58what was the communication between Iran.
26:00I I thought that they're going to talk
26:01about the new you know the straight of
26:03Hermos the new mechanism in the straight
26:05of Hermos not about attacking Oman
26:08because it was somehow surprise for me
26:10that Iran attacked Oman and they didn't
26:13do it during the war.
26:16Right.
26:16>> And right now there and Iranian foreign
26:19ministry moments ago said we have
26:22unfortunately reached a stage where
26:25there are not just US bases inside
26:28neighboring countries but in fact some
26:30countries have been turned into a US
26:33base in yeah in their entirety.
26:38and he mentioned the Arab micro states
26:42should immediately stop letting their
26:44territory be used by the United States
26:47military or face the severe
26:49consequences.
26:52It seems that there is no limit right
26:54now for Iranians. Before it was all
26:56about Oman. Last night we didn't h we
26:59didn't see we haven't any sort of attack
27:02on the part of Iranians on on Saudi
27:06Arabia.
27:07Does that mean that Saudi Arabia was not
27:11has the United States didn't use Saudi
27:13Arabia in this attack?
27:15>> Well, apparently not. You know, uh I
27:19think Iran's been pretty pretty specific
27:21about not uh attacking Gulf countries
27:25that are not involved with supporting US
27:28military operations. they are going
27:31after uh those uh those military uh
27:35facilities that are involved in those
27:38countries that are supporting the
27:39attacks on Iran. So, you know, they've
27:42been they've been pretty straightforward
27:43about that.
27:46>> Yeah. Here is the photo from Bandara Bus
27:50just moments ago. You see that
27:54that smoke, that plume of smoke there.
27:57It says that they attack they hit some
27:59targets in Bandar Abas
28:02and the other Larry how these forces
28:07that are it seems that the United States
28:09still keeping their forces in Kuwait and
28:12Bahrain because these highars and
28:16they have to use American forces to use
28:18to to use those highars because these
28:21are sophisticated weapons. It's not easy
28:24for these countries to use them.
28:27>> I think so. I I don't know that for a
28:29fact. So, I I'm not going to speculate
28:31on that. But they could have they could
28:33have trained the locals. That's
28:34possibility, too. But, you know, those
28:37are still those are targets that Iran
28:40will continue to go after. So, anybody
28:42who's in the vicinity will be at risk.
28:46and and what we saw, you know, the
28:49first, you know, three days ago when
28:51this started in the US hit, Iran then
28:55waited before it responded. It was like
28:57it was getting gathering information,
28:59figure out what to target. Uh we saw the
29:02same thing in the next 24-hour cycle.
29:05Now we're seeing they're not waiting.
29:07They are firing immediately.
29:09So, you know, this is escalating and
29:13we're going to see how long the United
29:14States wants this. The reality is the
29:16United States cannot sustain this
29:18indefinitely. If they're if they're
29:20using a Pyars and Attacks, th those are
29:23those got limited supplies. I think um
29:27you know the attacks they they stopped
29:29the production runs on those because
29:32they're moving to they want to move to a
29:33new platform. Uh the highars I believe
29:36they only had like 3,000 left at the
29:39start of the war. Uh so and remember the
29:43high mars are not all dedicated
29:45exclusively to scentcom. There are high
29:48mars that are in European command high
29:50mars and indopaccom. They get the
29:52priority. Uh there may be a few uh with
29:56um say Africom or southcom but but the
30:00majority will be allocated between
30:02Yukom, Sentcom and Indopaccom. And the
30:06commanders in Indopaccom and and Yukcom,
30:09they're not going to easily, you know,
30:11if ordered to to give up their stock,
30:13they will, but they'll do it under
30:15protest because it then leaves them
30:17exposed that they wouldn't have those
30:19weapon systems available in the event of
30:21a future conflict like with Russia or
30:23with China.
30:25And this is the footage, Larry, of
30:27Himars being used right now. The footage
30:30came out just moments ago from Kuwait.
30:33They're using the high Mars to attack
30:35some targets in Iran.
30:37>> Well, let's let's let's be precise.
30:39We're being told those are high Mars. We
30:40don't know.
30:42>> It [clears throat] could be attackums.
30:43Could be high Mars. Could be something
30:45else.
30:46>> But what we can say is that there are
30:49missiles being launched from, you know,
30:51Kuwait and Bahrain
30:54that Iran's going to respond and target
30:56those sites.
30:59>> Yeah.
31:01There was a report by Kuwaiti sources.
31:04They said Iran attack hit the attacks in
31:08Kuwait by three ballistic missiles
31:10hitting right on the target. It's it was
31:13mentioned by Kuwaiti sources, not
31:14Iranians.
31:15>> Mhm.
31:17>> And
31:17>> so that that means they're no longer
31:19available.
31:21>> Yeah. And when they get when you blow
31:23them up, uh the US in terms of
31:26launchers, you know, for launching high
31:27Mars or launching attack, I think they
31:29have plenty of launchers. The issue is
31:32the missiles, the actual missiles
31:33themselves because building more of
31:36those require rare earth minerals that
31:39are in the supply chain from China and
31:41China's not supplying those rare earth
31:43minerals. Therefore, the United States
31:45ability to reproduce those missiles is
31:48very, very limited.
31:52the
31:56Larry the attacks Iran Iran said yes
32:00last night that they're going to
32:03there was some I read last night that
32:07Iran is mining the southern part of the
32:09straight of I don't know how serious was
32:13that or is that right because I have
32:15never heard anything more than those
32:18some outlets were reporting on that he
32:20said Iran sent special forces to the
32:23southern part of this raid close to the
32:25Omani border and they mine that part in
32:28order to force the United States to you
32:30or or force the countries to use the
32:33northern part of this raid.
32:34>> Correct.
32:35>> Well, I that would not strike me as
32:37unreasonable.
32:39>> Something that Iran would not do. I
32:41think it's very possible Iran did that.
32:45But again, we we've got no confirmation
32:47one way or the other. So that's why I
32:49say we're not I'm not going jumping
32:51ahead right away and say, "Oh yeah, they
32:52did that." Yeah, maybe they did, maybe
32:54they didn't.
32:57>> I think the perception on the part of
32:59the Donald Trump and his administration
33:01is that Iranian finally going to back
33:03down
33:05and I don't know what they what do they
33:09want from Iran. And here is the Iranian
33:11the head of Iranian parliament today
33:13tweeting that the era of one-sided deals
33:16is over. We told you keep your water or
33:20pray or pay the price. Reality is
33:22knocking
33:24>> and and I know that they they're under
33:29tremendous attack in Iran. The head of
33:31Iranian parliament and foreign minister
33:33of Iran. They're basically they're
33:35calling compromiser. These people are
33:37traders. They're negotiating with the
33:39United States. when he comes out and
33:41telling talking like this or sending
33:44messages like this, it means that it's
33:46over. Iran is not going to back down to
33:49my understanding.
33:50>> Yeah. No, I I agree with you. I I don't
33:52I don't see Iran backing down from this
33:54at all. So, they're going to continue to
33:59uh retaliate and launch these attacks as
34:02long as the United States continues to
34:04attack them.
34:06So, it's not, you know, nobody should be
34:09surprised by this, but uh they are um
34:16you know, Iran has laid it out. You hit
34:19us, we're going to hit you back, and
34:20we're going to hit you back harder than
34:21you hit us. And so, you get to a
34:24question of how long can the United
34:26States or these countries that are
34:29allowing the United States to operate
34:30from them, how long do they want to
34:32endure this kind of uh abuse?
34:38And by the by the way, I I lied to you
34:40earlier. I thought I'd be free to go
34:43past seven, but I'll have to stop at
34:45seven.
34:47>> Okay,
34:48Larry,
34:50we here we have, you know, excommander
34:53of Sandcom, General Frank McKenzie,
34:56talking about, you know, the straight of
34:58Hermos and the, you know, the way they
35:01can manage, the United States can manage
35:02this rate. Let me bring up the
35:06video here. And he's basically arguing
35:10that the United States is able to
35:12control the straight of hormones. Here
35:14is what he said.
35:15>> How does the United States end up
35:18controlling the straight of horos?
35:22>> Well, Margaret, we certainly have the
35:24capability to control the straight of
35:25horror moves if the president chooses to
35:28follow that course of action. Look, what
35:30he's been trying to do is get to a
35:31diplomatic and a political solution
35:32here, which I applaud and I think we
35:34should all want to see as the final
35:36instate. Nonetheless, the fact of the
35:38matter is the Iranians generally only
35:40respond to military force and to extreme
35:43pressure. Look, we're not talking about
35:45regime change here. What we're talking
35:47about is modifying the view the views
35:49and actions of an extreme hard hardline
35:51regime. That is possible. We have the
35:54capability to do that. That capability
35:56is resident in the US military. should
35:58the president elect to employ it. That
36:00would include opening the straight of
36:02hormuz maintaining the straight of
36:04hormuz open and in fact seizing car
36:06island should we elect to do that. And I
36:08would just say as an aside that's
36:10something we should think about doing
36:11because possession of Iranian soil would
36:14be a significant factor in future
36:17negotiations with Iran. So all those
36:19options are on the table. I'm not sure
36:20where we're going to go with this, but I
36:22do know we have these capabilities.
36:25>> We have those capabil
36:28Yeah.
36:28>> Nons nonsense. Really? You can open it?
36:32Then what the hell have you been doing
36:33since February 28th?
36:37>> You know, we got March, April, May,
36:41June, halfway through July. 4 and a half
36:44months. US hasn't been able to open it.
36:47Why? Didn't try.
36:50Yeah. Bring bring those ships into the
36:51straight of let's see how that works
36:53out.
36:55Again, these uh you know, these US
36:58military attacks, they are designed to
36:59try to weaken Iranian coastal defenses,
37:03weaken Iran's ability to launch drones,
37:05to launch coastal defense missiles. The
37:07problem is [snorts] all those missiles
37:08are buried inside caves.
37:11So, they're not sitting out there in the
37:12open where they could be easily damaged
37:15and US may think is, you know,
37:16destroying one and then boom, out comes
37:18a coastal defense missile. They're also
37:21forgetting, you know, bring your ships
37:23into the straight of Hermuz, you're
37:25going to experience underwater drones,
37:26many submarines,
37:28uh, surface drones,
37:30apart to from the aerial drones, and
37:33then we haven't even talked about the
37:35short-range ballistic missiles, which
37:36are farther inland, uh, again, and
37:39underground underground shelters that
37:41were built to withstand nuclear blasts.
37:45So, the United States isn't using
37:46nuclear weapons, at least not yet. And I
37:48doubt if they will, but uh you know,
37:51this is just silly. And today you had
37:53the the administration. Oh, straight up
37:55hormuz is open. Really? You just pulled
37:58up the map. I think you were using
37:59marinetra.com.
38:02And you know, there's also vessel I find
38:05vesselfinder.com
38:07a little better because you can
38:08immediately see what the ship is and
38:11what its alleged destination is.
38:13So, um, you know, I again, I don't
38:16understand. This guy was a commander of
38:18Sentcom and he claims they got some sort
38:20of magical capability. They don't. And
38:23the fact that he's recommended take Car
38:24Island. Dude, you're going to put First,
38:28explain to me how you're going to get
38:29your soldiers into Car Island. Soldiers
38:32are Marines. You only got three ways. An
38:36amphibious landing. Well, there are no
38:37amphibious landing craft up there right
38:39now to do that. So that means you're
38:41left with an aerial aerial assault
38:43either with paratroopers [clears throat]
38:45or with planes to fly in land on the
38:47tarmac at the airfield there and then
38:50you know face getting blown up by
38:53Iranian drones, Iranian artillery can
38:56work from the mainland as well as uh
38:59short range ballistic missiles and
39:01coastal defense cruise missiles. and you
39:04land land the troops there and it's only
39:06what 115 degrees
39:08so they're going to need loads of water
39:12and how many how many soldiers you going
39:15to put out there as cannon fodder
39:18no this is madness this is stupidity
39:21arrogance hubris call it what you will
39:26>> if I'm not mistaken McKenzie was in
39:28charge of the sandcom during the Biden
39:31administration
39:33and he was somehow managing the the
39:36situation with Afghanistan where they
39:38came out of Afghanistan. That was his
39:41masterpiece.
39:43>> Yeah, that worked well.
39:47>> Sar all sar all sarcasm intended.
39:51>> Yeah.
39:53[clears throat]
39:54getting out of Afghanistan the way he
39:56did and right now talking about getting
39:58back to the trade of Mus and trying to
40:00do something is just amazing and
40:05Larry Donald Trump is
40:07>> I just say so the the straight of her
40:10moves is is as Ron said shut down it's
40:13not open as Trump administration claim
40:15that's not an opinion all you got to do
40:17is look at the damn maps it's a matter
40:19it's a matter of fact
40:21and I wish I wish these American
40:23commentators would deal with the damn
40:25facts as opposed to, you know, the their
40:28hopes and dreams that are not based on
40:30reality.
40:36Larry, here is what Donald Trump said
40:39about the case of Detroit. He says, he
40:42argues something that is so amazing.
40:44It's so surprising to me. He's I I think
40:46he's still making things up.
40:50very very evil and sick people. We had
40:53meetings with them for the last they
40:55agreed to a deal yesterday, a perfect
40:57deal for us. No nuclear, no this, no
41:00that, no nothing. They gave up
41:01everything.
41:02>> And then after that, they left the room
41:05and then within an hour they launched a
41:10drone and a ship. I said, "You people
41:12are sick. You're sick people." And so
41:15it's one of those things. I don't want
41:16to talk about it. Finally, before I let
41:18you go,
41:18>> I want to talk about I want to talk
41:20about one person today.
41:22>> Yeah. I don't know yesterday. What does
41:25he mean by yesterday
41:27and what sort of because there is no
41:30nothing in the Persian media or by any
41:32Iranian official that they had any sort
41:34of talk with Donald Trump yesterday.
41:37>> Yeah, correct.
41:40>> And that's true.
41:42>> And he's making things up. He feels that
41:45maybe he's that's going to help him. But
41:49the the reality is Larry that Iran feels
41:53there the straight is completely closed
41:56right now as we talk. They said it's not
41:58going to be open as long as the United
42:00States is trying to interfere in this
42:02trade of Hermos which is do you think
42:05are they going to prevail with this sort
42:07of policy?
42:09Who? The United States.
42:11>> Iran. I'm talking about Iran because the
42:13main goal is to force the United States
42:15out of this trade by closing this trade
42:17over most,
42:18>> right? Yeah. No, I Iran's
42:21prevailing so far. And there is again
42:24the United States doesn't have any
42:25military option beyond the bombs and the
42:27missiles. They're not going to bring
42:29their ships into the straight. Let them
42:31try. those ships will get hit and
42:35they'll they'll one or more may get sunk
42:37if they if they do that. So far they
42:39haven't done it. And you know people ask
42:42well why is he why if if Iran is
42:45completely defeated why are they keeping
42:47the US ships offshore the Iran's
42:49defeated so there shouldn't be any
42:51threat right well that's nonsense
42:57the air defenses are activated in Iran
42:59and in Kman Sha in the western part of
43:03Iran. It means that the United States is
43:06using the fighter jets to to go inside
43:09or somehow to hit some targets in the
43:12western part of Iran and basically
43:15they're using the Iraqi airspace in
43:17these attacks.
43:17>> Well, well, no, what they're doing is
43:19they're launching standoff munitions.
43:22They're launching either tomahawks or
43:24JASM missiles from the planes. They're
43:26not they're not going in and dropping
43:27bombs direct from those planes. They're
43:30they're not they're not they're not
43:31actually flying into Iran because to do
43:34so is going to put those planes at risk
43:36of getting shot down.
43:40>> It's it shows the air defense activity
43:42in the western part of Iran. And uh
43:48Larry,
43:50we we know that the United States, one
43:52part of the deal with the United States
43:54is that
43:56they want to sell F-35s to Turkey. Today
44:01the you know the the US ambassador to
44:05NATO Matthew Whitaker he was asked by
44:10CNN by Jake Tapper if the United States
44:13going to finally sell these F-35s to
44:17Turkey and here is what he said.
44:19>> Standing by before the NATO summit you
44:22said Turkey would have to scrap the
44:23Russian missile defense system before
44:26the F-35 fighter jets could be sold uh
44:29to Turkey. you're standing by that
44:31that's going to happen. They're going to
44:32scrap the defense system if the F-35
44:34sales are going to happen.
44:37>> Jake, I think it's very clear what
44:38American law requires. And uh you know,
44:41you would expect that the United States
44:44of America doesn't want our most
44:45sophisticated fighter jet to be uh
44:48tested against Russia's air defense
44:50system. And and and uh so you know that
44:53that's I think a a deal that can happen.
44:56I think it will happen. And you know
44:58this is F-35s even if Turkey was allowed
45:01back in the program and and met all the
45:03conditions under law that these planes
45:06would not be delivered tomorrow.
45:09>> Yeah.
45:09>> Oh no no no catch. When when might they
45:13be delivered there ambassador? Uh oh the
45:16last ones that were delivered uh about
45:19four or five weeks ago. I think there
45:21were six. uh they they came with uh no
45:24radar in the nose cone because they
45:26can't make to get the radars because of
45:27China's restrictions on rare earth
45:30minerals. So they're delivering actually
45:32radar that don't work.
45:35Uh okay, that that that sounds pretty
45:37cool. That sounds like a great deal. Um
45:40so you got you basically have uh radar
45:45that doesn't work. Uh, so you have to
45:47put the the weights from a gold's gem in
45:51the nose cones. And yeah, I I I think I
45:55think Turkey getting uh you know, if the
45:58Turks are dumb enough to do this, they
46:01deserve everything they get in return
46:03because what it means in return is these
46:07aircraft by the admission of Congress.
46:11uh testimony before the US Congress now
46:13three weeks ago by the Secretary of the
46:16Air Force said that the readiness level
46:20of uh these aircraft is uh 25 to 30%.
46:26So that means if if Turkey buys 10, they
46:29can probably be guaranteed that they'll
46:31only have two to three of those 10 that
46:33will be available for actual combat
46:35missions. uh the rest will be um in the
46:40hangar, you know, trying to fix
46:43something.
46:44Um, I I think you know if Turkeykey's
46:47interested in defending Turkey, they're
46:49they ought to they ought to be looking
46:50to Russia or China for the uh air
46:54defense uh combat aircraft and keep the
46:58S400 because the the S400 is hands down
47:01the best uh air defense system apart
47:05from the S500 which is even a step up
47:08and the S550 which can take out
47:11satellites.
47:12So you know
47:14>> satellites.
47:16>> Yeah.
47:18>> How
47:19deacon satellites?
47:21>> Yes. Yes.
47:25>> Wow.
47:25>> Bring Ted post bring Ted Postal on to
47:27talk about that.
47:30>> Wow.
47:31>> Yeah. So that I mean that's what it was
47:33designed for to for satellite warfare,
47:38but it's also effective on the ground
47:40going after against you know uh the
47:43combat aircraft. So you know th this is
47:46just a this is another case of uh
47:49American hubris where we you know we're
47:53we're making making threats and claims
47:56that that we can't can't deliver on.
48:01I I don't think that Russia would let
48:04Turkey to sell those air defense system
48:07S400 to one of these GCC countries as it
48:11was mentioned before.
48:14These are
48:16>> because they said that Turkey going to
48:18sell the air defense S400 to one of
48:21these GCC countries maybe Qatar or UAE
48:25in order to receive American fighters as
48:27F-35. But these are of importance.
48:32The these S air defense system are so
48:35important for Russia and they don't let
48:39Turkey to do that.
48:40>> I don't know.
48:43>> Are they going to send them back to
48:44Russia?
48:47>> Uh well, I think under the law they're
48:50they're required to.
48:52So now will they do that? Remains to be
48:56seen. Uh but you know what you have
49:00right now is uh at least Turkey of all
49:04the NATO countries has the most
49:05effective air defense system. Now uh if
49:09if they give that up what are they going
49:11to do? Get patriots? US can't supply
49:14patriots for years.
49:17So what's their alternative? What do
49:19they you know you don't give up one air
49:21defense system for nothing.
49:24And you know already, you know, we've
49:26seen in Kev, you know, Zalinski's
49:29complaining they're they're dead out.
49:30They're flat out. They don't have
49:31another Patriot missile pack two or Pack
49:34Three to fire. They may have launchers,
49:37but they don't have missiles to launch
49:38them with.
49:41[snorts]
49:42>> Here is the new report shows that two
49:44locations on the outskirts of Awas. Awas
49:48is the capital of the province of Huzan
49:51in this western part of Iran and they
49:55were attacked by projectiles fired by US
50:01with Himars from Kuwait
50:04>> and there's some reports to attacks on
50:08on this fool in the same province in
50:10Hestan. This is the province that is so
50:12close that is bordering the Iraq you
50:15know the country of Iraq
50:17>> on the border basically on the border.
50:20So these are the attacks that are
50:22happening in I don't know how these do
50:26you think that the if Iran uses the the
50:30drones are they going to be able to hit
50:32these highars
50:34>> how what would be the solution of Iran
50:37they going to use drones missiles what
50:39sort of
50:40>> well I don't I don't know specifically
50:41what they use but uh they they clearly
50:44have the munitions capable of hitting
50:46them and and and destroying
50:50They absolutely have that. And so we'll,
50:54you know, we'll see what the, like I
50:55said, my understanding is Iran right now
50:57is launching back and they're going to
50:59continue to launch through the night and
51:01it'll go on probably to the early
51:02morning hours tomorrow. Uh I'm sure
51:06Trump's monitoring the price of Brent
51:09already is up to about $80 a barrel now.
51:12It's shot up over three and a half
51:14percent. So he's going to see that the
51:16oil markets are not happy and that
51:20that's just again that's a paper price
51:22that has nothing to do with the actual
51:24supply. Actual supply is in is in far
51:27far far worse shape.
51:30>> Yeah.
51:31Thank you, Larry. And tomorrow
51:35>> are we what time are we doing it
51:37tomorrow?
51:38>> Normal time 10 a.m.
51:40>> No, no, 6 pm. Oh, tomorrow at 6 PM.
51:44>> Yeah.
51:44>> Okay.
51:46>> Okay. I will put that on the
51:48>> I'll put that on the calendar.
51:50>> Okay. Great. See you tomorrow. All
51:54righty. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.
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