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CNN Panelist CRASHES OUT When Confronted With Iran War Facts!

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Young commentator Adam Mockler recently confronted CNN's Scott Jennings on live television, reminding the pundit that he and his allies sold the Iraq war with the exact same arguments—WMDs, terror sta...

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>> I wanted to cover this happened, I think it's happened.

One was this April 30th. So Scott Jennings is the conservative on the panel, and this is a young whipper snapper at a mock floor. So he's the young whipper snapper, and he's very annoying because he comes with facts.

And that's always, that's always going to kill your grift.

And Scott Jennings sometimes has some really good things to say. And here he shows that he's also as the ability to be, and the eye at toll of supreme douchebags. And so let's just, let's just get to it, shall we? >> I mean, honestly, they have been at war with us for 46.

We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country that starts with letters. I are a, that we're currently failing, that is going to put us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt. I was only a few years old while you were in the administration defending prior andless wars. Now this war is failing. >> Hey, I reached his end listening.

>> Okay, you said it was because that is six weeks ago. >> You have the attention span of a net. >> Which I have the baited you on TV, 46 weeks ago, and you said we were weeks away from it.

Now you're making condescending remarks because you can't defend the fact that this war is not going your way.

Wait, one more time. >> Now you're doing one political session. >> I mean, one political session. >> Okay, I'm not going to do this, guys. >> Everybody, everybody hang tight, okay?

>> No, everybody calm down. >> Okay, you're, we're having a debate, you can respond to the points that he's making.

>> I didn't see his finger going his face to you, but that's what happens when you're getting your ass kicked by a college kid on national television and you're humiliated.

So you try to bully him and try to change the subject. Is that what you saw happening, Kurt? >> It was a reverse Ben Shapiro. >> Yeah, you're humiliating a grown man. >> That's a reverse Ben Shapiro.

So this six, yeah, so when Ben Shapiro goes out and debates college kids, he usually dominates them. But here's a college kid, completely wipe in the floor with Scott Jennings, because Scott Jennings on the wrong side of history. Just like he was on the wrong side of history with Iraq, and it was great that he brought that up right in his face. And he pretended that it was his finger in his face. Now this would be somebody putting their finger in their face.

Someone over here, that is not even close. But let's sleep, there's a little more to this clip. >> A political concession that we've got here. >> We have a flashback to the war, the skinheads had in my studio. >> I would be mad about that.

>> I would be mad about that. >> We have a real good. >> We have a very simple goal to keep terrorists and a terrorist regime from heading a nuclear weapon. They can threaten the United States. Our interests in the region are allies in Europe, anybody else.

>> You can't answer the question. >> That is how it would get mad, too. >> [LAUGH] >> We can't talk to these trails in this guy. >> The threat in America or interest in the Middle East.

They can already do that without nuclear weapons, guys. >> The only reason they have embombed is real out of existence already is because Israel has nukes. That's, anyway, so there's more to this.

>> I believe that there guys, next for us, the president such as ABC.

>> So they had to leave it there. I just want to play this one more time, watch him kick his ass and watch the kick. >> That's that guy, Freak Scott Jennings, Freak out. >> I mean, honestly, they have been at war with us for 46. >> We all know that Scott Jennings is more.

>> First of all, I like how there's this new thing.

But Iran has been at war with us for 47 years. It has been the most secret war I've ever seen in my life. Nobody, nobody, nobody's bombed America, nobody, what is this 47 years of war with us? They've been at war with Israel because Israel have been trying to wipe them away. And by the way, why did they go back 47 years?

Because that's when, they don't go back to 1953. That's when the United States overthrew their democratically elected government because they wanted to keep the oil for their own people. And we said, no, that's our oil, you son of a bitch. And we had the CIA go in there and overthrow most a day in 1953.

And then what did we do? We installed a dictator, a shot of Iran, a dictator, a brutal dictator. And the people finally pushed back 47 years ago and overthrow that dictatorship. >> We should say. >> The CIA calls that blowback.

They aren't, they have a name for what we did. So we're the ones who's been at war with them since 1953, not 47 years since they eventually

Kicked out our dictator.

What do you want to say, Kirk?

>> No, that's the thing.

We also installed the Itolla, that was Jimmy Carter and sir Bigger Brazinski's big play.

That was the trilateral commission what they did because they thought it'd be a better deal for some Pacific treaty. And then that's the blowback is that like how Castro screwed them over, legendarily, you know, that's what happened. But it wasn't enough to install one dictator, they put the Itolla in.

That was us, our doing as well. That wasn't just, so they could do in that screw in the country twice like that. >> Why? >> And then being mad when it blows back and you're dumb fucking fake. >> So let's watch this, the finger moment.

I want to watch this again. And then happy to defend a war with the country that starts with letters, IRA that we're currently failing that is going to put us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt. I was only a few years old while you were in the administration defending prior and less wars.

Now this war is failing. >> Hey, I reach as endless to you.

>> Okay, you said it was because that is six weeks ago and you said we were weeks

away from it. Now you're making condescending remarks because you can't defend the fact that this war is not going your way. Wait one more time. Let's see how far away his finger is from his face.

It's not even close. He's got his arm bend, it's not even close and now he's getting embarrassed. This is what an immature bully does when he's getting beat on the facts. Let's watch. Here comes.

I'm not going to have this guy figure in my face. Okay, Dan Harple. What do you say, Kurt? Hang on. >> He had his finger.

>> He had his figure. >> The other guy was really aggressive figure, I saw was this guy. >> Here it is. He's doing the bill Clinton. He's not even, he doesn't even have his finger out.

>> He doesn't even have his finger up. Who has his finger up this guy? >> That's the guy with the big, he's doing the bill Clinton. He does, wait, one more time. Let's watch it one more time.

Let's watch when he snaps. He's not even, that's even up his finger up. >> One political session. >> One political session.

>> So here's what Glenn Greenwald, friend of the show, Glenn Greenwald.

If you're a fan of Glenn, it breaks our heart, he's not coming out in our show anymore. It's a painful, I don't know what happened, but anyway, he says leave aside your views of the Iran War or the CNN Mellot drama of Scott Jennings yelling, "Get your effing finger out of my face." What's most notable is that Scott Jennings became in rage at exactly the moment when his

history of working in the Bush-Chainian administration was raised, and it was pointed out that he and his allies sold the Iraq War to the American public based on the exact arguments and scripts that Jennings is now using to sell the Iran War to Americans. WMD's terror state oppressed their own people can't wait for a mushroom cloud, et cetera, et cetera. The DC swap is so accountability free that they all think they're entitled to have everyone

just forget and not hold that against them. That they've deceived the country into a historically disastrous and criminal invasion of Iraq, only to now return to use the same exact mentality, ideology, tactics, and narratives to sell this new war against a country bordering Iraq, all as if none of it ever happened.

By the way, why are there any Bush-Chainian people being asked their opinion at all anyway?

How did Scott Jennings have even get out of this, Scott? Ben, Ben, Glenn goes on, that Jennings and countless media and political elites are using the same arguments to justify the Iran War that they use for Iraq doesn't, of course, by itself prove that the new pro-war arguments are wrong, but of course, that should be a vital factor in determining the credibility of these people and their assertions, and it

should be the main metric for determining whether these are the people who should be presented as experts and listen to when advocating the very war policies that disgrace them when they defended them 20 years ago. It no other profession or subculture would such catastrophic error or deceit be deemed irrelevant, but because this basic standard would reputationally harm and disqualify the bulk of

DC political and media class on a bipartisan basis, they all unite to pretend it never happened

or at least implicitly agree that it's irrelevant. The CNN guest violated that implicit self-protective taboo against raising it, and that's what sparked Jennings' reign. It wasn't his finger in his face, because he didn't have his finger in his face.

It was the fact that he just beat the shit out of him with facts and remindin...

stupid and what a totally was of the last failed war. It's rude, Jimmy. It's downright rude. It was like an episode of comics, all these news panels, it's comics unleashed. So you know how Norma Donald say they're the most leech comics, because it's a fake conversation

with your rehearsed jokes, they're very leeched. Yeah, that kid is being rude because they're supposed to just say they're a little stupid hack lines, because they're all hacks. And so that he's rude by making his hand into a vagina hole while the guy's pointing. Good line says, amazing how all the propaganda is literally exactly the same, not even

an attempt at being creative. This is the hangover, too, of war propaganda. All they changed was one letter from Q to an N, from Iraq to Iran. That's exactly right.

I hate the wars, but I can never root for anyone from Midas' touch.

Oh, is that kid from Midas' touch? Oh, that is too bad. Hey, maybe get over high school, anyway. So now I'm going to show you that, I was watching, do this and it's a make-fall on these two clips.

This is Haraldo now pretending that somehow that kid making salient points was being a dick. Let's listen. Chris, the kid was a dick. I mean, a smart, eloquent, had his argument together, had obviously debated Scott

before. And he was really being a dick. I mean, it was like I shut up, you know, go ahead, go ahead and get some life extra. How many different ways? So, he just told you his life experience of watching us never win a war, you idiot.

Yeah, maybe go get some, so that's the, hey, you're right, but go go go go, go, go. The pesky kids. Oh, these meddling kids, it's a, which in the open of Al Capone safe for no reason was nothing in it. Yeah.

I got to experience it. No kidding.

Hey, not to be a dick, Haraldo, but why are you still around?

I haven't we all had our fill of Haraldo by now. Hey, Haraldo, great job focusing on the important part of the story. Not the fact that Scott Jennings is a complete fucking fraud, and that the kid wasn't even pointing at him, but talk about how the kids being a dick, and he's just not old enough to have an opinion yet.

That's what Haraldo's saying. Uh, we'll see if he's got real talent if might his touch keeps something on.

You know, because everybody's got their first job, and they like when you got a cool snappy

come back and first, but let's see if he holds to it. He might be drawled a one day. Let's, let's hear what, uh, Fredo has to say. Do the three of us, so you have one of the best broadcasters in history, right? Mr. mediocre in the middle, and Governor Sununu, who's one of the most celebrated, uh, public

officials in his state, um, period. All of us have at least six ways, dusty, just said, what my favorite governor ever. Oh, there you go. She knows my brother's going to kill her for that, but that's okay. Um, we all have at least six ways to deal with somebody trying to get our goat, right?

You would never allow yourself to act that way or the way you would with your brother, right?

I'm telling you, here's my concern, is that what you represent Chris is being lost right now. I believe the majority wants it. I believe the majority wants somebody who shows their character by how they react.

For although you would never meant more to the country than you have, I'd say in the

last seven eight years with you, okay, I can't even listen to this guy, I can't even listen to Fredo. There are all such slow pokes. Who watches this? But what is this tongue bath he's giving you know, Raldo Rivera?

It's said, well, it certainly wasn't the prior seven years. Raldo did a one great news report when he, uh, exposed, uh, the mental hospitals and upstate New York that that made his name and then the next thing he did was, uh, El Capone's vault and I was an old enough to remember because I watched it. Yeah.

And it was what they, what Joe, Joe Scarborough would call a nothing burger. They opened his vault. There's nothing there. And there was like 40 hours of build up to it. Yeah.

Anyway, he, you know, he talked about bravely getting hit by a chair on his dumb show. So here's Machler. So he comes back. I got accused of being ungrateful for our troops for simply questioning Trump's Iran war. Don't you backfire on him instantly.

Let's watch. Here we go.

So this generational divide, I think when it comes to war has always been a thing in America,

but it seems particularly acute right now, Adam. Yeah. For my entire life, the United States has been at war with some country in the Middle East and young people have constantly been told that this will make us safer and make us better off.

When we look around at the world today, we are less safe and we are worse off. Millennials grew up watching all these headlines saying that Iraq had been, you know, defeated. That we had taken out Saddam Hussein and we had killed all the bad guys. Well, that turned into a grinding counter insurgency that cost us trillion, a trillion dollars and it was a catastrophe.

The same thing happened with Afghanistan.

And now, Gen Zers are going to the same thing with Iran.

We are watching the same people who defended these first two failed wars.

Go on television and defend another failed war. This war is failing, we have not gotten any political concessions. And I'm sorry, I'm not buying this trust the process line. I don't trust the same people who got us into the friar wars, amassed trillions of dollars and debts and are not putting America first on the global stage.

Wow. What a total dick he's being. If I dick, I mean that, you know, he's being a dick to the evil institutional war mongers draining us about our children and our money. Yeah.

What a dick he's being. What do you want to say, Kurt? This is why he's a dick. They all know that, oh, you don't think we want to say that kid? Yeah.

I'm not supposed to say that. Seriously, that it's because they're all performative. This is just more wrestling bullshit.

But that he's being a young upstart, it's like the politician that thinks they're going

to change things.

Oh, look at this guy, is it a comment and make it different like that's what they're

mad at. Let's keep this watch. It gets worse. Putting aside, I'm perhaps hurt just for a moment, even the politics of this current moment. I mean, is it fair for young people to have that level of distrust of the people to

Adam's point who maybe defended the last war and were wrong and are defending this war, too? Yeah. You gotta be. That's not a legit question.

She's trolling or something. How is that a real question? Is it fair for a person who has old enough to be drafted into these stupid wars that have an opinion on it? Is it fair?

Why? It's closeted man to answer that. I don't think so. I don't think so. It's not fair for that kid who, by the way, all the people in the military are his age.

It's not fair for somebody of his generation to actually have a correct opinion about it. Holy, effing, eff. All right. Here we go.

It was Lee. I'm grateful. He's ungrateful. Wait. I got it.

And we're wrong and are defending this war, too. Yeah, I don't think so. I think honestly, Adam, that's immensely ungrateful to an American service personnel and the people who keep us safe every day after 9/11. It was by no means guaranteed that there would be no mass casualty terrorist attack on

American soil in the immediate aftermath of that attack, especially since we had events in Madrid, in London, etc. And after the attack on Iraq and the elimination of Stomphusane's regime, we took a tear supporting enterprise off the map. We don't talk about Iraq anymore as a threat to a national security because it isn't.

Well, we, it never was a threat to our national security, a dipshit.

We don't talk about Iraq anymore because guess what? We're allies with ISIS and Al Qaeda and we just installed the chief head chopper from Al Qaeda as the president of Syria as we did another Iraq to Syria.

That's why Iraq had never done anything to us.

They had never attacked. In fact, we were the one who gave the chemical weapons to Iraq so he could then gas the Kurds. And there were the suppliers of the weapons, as far as that's the first time. Yeah, and the first time it was for Kuwait.

Kuwait was slant drilling. They were drinking. That's right. They were taking, Kuwait was taking stealing the oil from Iraq and Iraq when it had said f_u.

And so we pretended like we were the good guys anyway that that is just, again, this is why he's been thrown on the ground since then, Jimmy. This is why nobody watches CNN because it's full of garbage like this. And wow, they're all auditioning when they do their little part like a pad. They're all like, you know, many patching girls are on these shows like a lot.

And they're all like little patching boys and girls and they say they're a little thing, you know, him, him, him say that it's, it's not because it's not, it's not great, great full. It's ungradable. Great to the troops.

No, you know what's in grateful to the troops is sending them into a meat grinder for fucking Israel and for oil and lying to them that somehow Iraq is a threat to the United States, and not getting the oil, we get nothing good with oil happened. No one's blaming the soldiers, no one's blaming the soldiers, you dip shit, they're

blaming the neocons. Yeah, that's what I would have said.

That's why I guess I would have called me a dick though.

Yeah, you probably would have been called a dick. Let's watch a little more of this. This is amazing. This is amazing. And those who would pretend as though Iran is not a national security threat.

Pretend. And are this frankly dismissive of the extent to which American service personnel get up every day to stop these people from executing the attacks on American and their allies that they plan. Can you, can you name all the attacks in the last 47 years that Iran has made on the

United States? It would be zero. Zero. It's real. I know they're less than Israel's direct terror attacks on the right.

Exactly. Zero. In terms of publicly accepted history, they still Iran is not even closed.

Every single day.

This is a thorn on our side.

It absorbs a lot of American taxpayer dollars to say nothing of the energy of our service

personnel. And I just think it's just ungrateful. I am so afraid that I am the service personnel are not keeping you safe when they are. No. I feel less safe due to the actions of our leaders.

I am incredibly grateful for our service men and you're doing your feelings. Wait, listen. You are feelings. Hold up. Hold up.

You're talking to me. You're talking to me. I'll let you respond. No, we're talking to you. You are doing the exact same thing that I just laid out in the opening.

You are telling young people they shouldn't be asking questions. They shouldn't be questioning the people. I love you. It's a fun question. It's about the nature.

What was ungrateful about what I said. I said that the leaders are making us less safe. And I can prove that.

Right now, Iran has control over the straight of four moves.

And that is a weapon they didn't have control of two months ago. They shut down the straight of four moves in the 80s and they opened it up in the 80s. By the way, we're free from the straight of four weapon. You take gas prices or high right now. Iran with the nuclear weapon, we'd have unlimitedly high gas prices.

They would take control of the straight of moves and they would blackmail the world. And how much farther away are they probably going to clear up and where is the straightening right now? They're non-powerful. Where is the arrest uranium?

We're going to get the unrest uranium. It's buried right now. But you know, where is the buried? You're asking me. I'm not in the classified briefings and you're either used.

So just where is it? Very. Let me finish. Okay. Adam, we are more safe than we were.

Before we took out Iran's nuclear capabilities. Absolutely more safe. The straight of her moves is going to be open and Iran's not going to control it. It is, that is. And it's going to happen.

It doesn't matter if it's two weeks or two months. It does actually matter. Because economists are saying if it's closed for a few more months and we're going to go into a recession. So it does matter.

No, no, no. No one's predicting that because the markets that are all. No one's predicting that. Markets that are in all time. The markets aren't predicting it.

With the oil markets. The inflation rate is, the inflation rate is state where it is. And by the way. It was inflation. By the way.

To expand on my framework, I gave a very good faith criticism of this war and of the history of these types of wars. And I had one person say that I was ungrateful and then another invoked the weapons of mass destruction that Iran could potentially be developing.

What I was trying to say is that getting military successes, if you want to call it not,

doesn't always translate to helpful outcomes for the American people.

We've seen this. We killed Saddam Hussein. We took out the bad guy. It's a arguable that the Afghanistan was just the worse since World War II because Iran has killed thousands of Americans.

Saddam Hussein hadn't killed thousands of Americans. Afghanistan hadn't either. But he ran out of nowhere. No. I'm saying Iran had no worse.

I'm saying. I'm saying. He should have ran out. It's a 47 year point. I think the Congress in the American people it was.

That's a great point. If it's such a justified war, how can we didn't take it to Congress in the American people and have them bowed on it? Because Congress is the only people who actually are supposed to be declaring war, but they're such cowards and they're so owned by eight pack in the Israel lobby that they don't

want to have their hands dirty. And so they just let Trump do whatever he wants. So they can wash their hands a bit when they go to get reelected. Well, they didn't say no to the Ukraine thing. And why would they say no to this?

So just to my end. Let me do that. But ultimately. But I'm sure it doesn't make power. Anyway, now you know why people don't watch CNN because it's filled with Jagot.

Jagops like that. And whenever somebody comes along with an actual idea, they tough shut up kid, you get to go grow up. Okay. The blonde guy, this this like golden potato right here, unbelievable.

He looks like he looks like a Kate and said this, he he he looks like the W E F version of Donald Trump. If you went to like a community theater, he'd be the guy playing Donald Trump in the community theater production of the war. That'd be that guy.

Looks exactly like that's the best way that gets close.

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Thanks for your support. So this is Howard Lutnik. Now he's the Epstein class. So much so that he went to Epstein Island. He hung out at Epstein's apartment because they live next door to each other.

Epstein sponsored dinners in his name. And he lied about it all. So he's the quintessential. He's like Dr. Fauci. They're really good at lying and they over-explains stuff.

So that's how you know they're lying. They give you way too much information that you need. And here he is trying to talk about Jeffrey Eps. And the reason why I'm bringing this up is because he just recently had to testify. Of course, behind closed doors.

And everybody's calling him a creep and a liar. Well, that's before I get to you.

What the Congress people who were at the hearing said.

Let me just remind you of what a liar he is. Jeffrey Epsstein was your neighbor.

I would be remiss if I didn't ask you about him.

He's 71st straight. He was your neighbor for 10 years. How well did you know him? All right. So we are in number 11.

And he lives in number 9. Right. So we renovate, we buy our house and our house is pigeons and mice. Okay, that's it was derelict. Right.

So we build rebuild our house when moving in 2005. Okay. Jeffrey Epsstein is arrested in like a way to make something. Right. So not gun the door.

His assistant or like a salary says Mr. Epsstein, your neighbor would like to invite you over for coffee. So my wife and I go next door. Here we walk the seven steps. Yes.

Right to the next house for coffee. We share a wall. By the way, his coffee code for pizza. Yeah. And your little beef jerking coffee.

Yeah. Right. So it's in New York City. So invites us in. We have coffee.

In this. And he says, do you want a tour? Hmm. It's an interesting set. Really big house.

Every room he went in. He's got, he's got it. Well, I'll tell you. So his house is like. Super big.

Really wide. And. And. So he gives me a tour in living room. Big living room.

And then across from it is double doors.

I assume it's the dining room. Yeah. And he opens the doors. And there's a massage table. In the middle of the room.

And candles all around. So I ask very insightful cutting questions. I say to him. Massage table in the middle of your house. How often you have a massage.

And he says. Every day. And then he gets like weirdly close to me. And he says. And the right kind of massage.

Oh, now my wife is standing here. So she looks at me. And I look at her. And we say. I'm sorry.

We have to go. And we left. And in the six or eight steps. It takes to get from his house to my house.

My wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person.

Ever. So I was never in the room with him. Socially. For business or even philanthropy. That guy was there.

I wasn't going because he's gross. And so I look back at it. Has a gift? Yes. He gave me a gift?

Yes. Of a voice. So. Yeah. That's my story.

A one. And absolutely done. Right. So I mean, that's an incredible story that you could pick up. That he was a pervert.

It's gross. That guy's gross. Right. My wife. He looks like he's gross.

This was.

Now, when she says that's an incredible story.

What the literal interpretation of that is. That's a not believable story. Because it's not believable. Because he's lying. All that stuff is what a great liar he is.

He's a theatrical liar. Just like Dr. Fauci. That's a good of a lie. And how do I know that he's lying? Because there's Jeffrey Epstein files that show him asking to go to his island.

And he actually did go to his islands. And he took his kids. And the kids. And he took us. How many?

So children. He says. I Jeff. We're landing in St. Thomas early Saturday afternoon and planning to head over to St. Barts on Monday at some point.

Where are you located? What's the exact location for my captain? Does Sunday evening for dinner sound good? I've got another couple. Michael and Marcy Learman with me with my on my boat.

And each of us has four children. Two 16s. Two 14s. A 13, a 12 and 11. Emma and a seven year old.

Why is he doing that? So here he was before he had to testify. He just recently testified in secret. So now you know he's a liar. Not only that.

He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein. Okay. He brought a bushel of kids to him. He brought his kids. And he sounds very weird how he's talking about his own kids.

So let's so. And he was asked about this once before. But Nick.

I think you understand the root of concern here.

It's the way you described. Very emphatically your first encounter with him in his apartment. Said you were disgusted.

We'd never have any contact with him again.

Did you in fact make the visit to Jeffrey Epstein's private island? I did have lunch with him as I was on the boat. Cross on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my four children. So everything you said in that interview was a lie.

Everything you said about he's a creep. We never got we had to excuse ourselves. Oh my god. These are crepes. He's gross.

That's that was all a lie. Because you actively sought out eating lunch going to his island. And you went. Really? He was that gross.

And you're like, we got to get our kids.

We got another couple of kids to this guy's island immediately.

And also he was in business with him.

Lutnik and Epstein were in business together. And as Thomas Massey wrote, It's all one big club and you and it. Epstein sponsored an event held by John Paulson to honor Howard Lutnik. John Paulson also appears in Epstein's black book.

The kicker John Paulson has given a $250,000 to defeat Thomas Massey. Literally every fat cat is after Thomas Massey in this. Okay, so there you go. All right. So now let's get back to the most recently.

So most recently, they had a he testified in secret behind closed doors with no video.

And why does the Epstein class?

Why do blackmail pedos get to testify behind closed doors about the Epstein files?

Well, it's because your country is run by blackmail pedos. Blackmail pedos who get to testify behind closed doors because your country is run by blackmail pedos. Yeah, they're not just pedos. I mean, don't limit there. They do every evil thing you could imagine such as the mass bloodletting they're doing right now.

Right now we're in a middle. Yeah, perpetually right. They're they're constantly slaughtering people for profit. Literally killing people for profit. They're like they're like a man's in a Ted Bundy and they're better part of them.

And a Jeffrey and a Jeffrey Dommer all put together. That's what that. That's who the class of people is who are ruling over us. And I don't I don't mean Congress people because they're not the ones actually ruling.

I'm talking about the people who rule over them.

The puppet masters, the people who control Trump. So here can't abide even one mass he left. So I hope I didn't bury the lead. Here is a representative Yasmin and sorry after she was at the hearing. It coosing a glutnic about this.

Here's what she said. After what we have seen so far in this transcript interview, I feel very comfortable saying that Howard Lutnic is a pathological liar. Who is enabling the most egregious cover up in American history. We have now gone through the timeline of events with him in in detail,

an excruciating detail from when they met in 2005. This is Howard Lutnic and his wife meeting Jeffrey Epstein. He described it himself in great detail on a podcast last year, where he said that they went to his home. They took a tour.

And allegedly we're so uncomfortable after seeing the massage tables in Jeffrey Epstein's home that Howard Lutnic went on on this podcast to tell the American people that he himself and my colleagues referenced the definitions he tried to change of what he meant there.

But he said that he would never socially or professionally be involved or be in a room with Jeffrey Epstein again.

Then in 2012 he took his family and his staff to Jeffrey Epstein's Island. I focus my questions today on how he could have done that if him and his wife were truly so uncomfortable, especially when in 2008 we know that Jeffrey Epstein was accused and the sweetheart deal took place for soliciting a minor. Howard Lutnic tried to tell us in that room that he essentially didn't know any of that.

I asked him how did I as a child at the time see this all over the media about Jeffrey Epstein and you on the dull two is this person's neighbor who had engaged with him before. How could you possibly not have known? I mean the level of the lies that are taking place inside that room without video is unbelievable and part of this egregious cover up.

I recommend that every single American when this interview is released read the document in full. That they're not going to read the document in full.

That's for that's what newscasters are for according to Fredo Cuomo.

Anyway, so here's the story. That's that's Lutnic. And you see that look on his face. That's the look of a man. That's the look of a man, Kurt, who knows the corrupted system is going to protect him.

No matter what he says or no matter what he does, he is not going to pay a price. He's not going to, I bet I would bet money that he's not going to be even asked to leave the administration because he as a lot of people have theorized is Trump's actual handler. Yeah. Well, and his son in law probably too.

I mean he's surrounded by people that are usually Trump looking like more like Biden every day of when he just babbles nonsense. And why does your does a government that's run by blackmailed PDF files? Allow a guy like that to testify in secret behind closed doors without video

Because your government is run by blackmailed PDF files who allow people to d...

I wonder if Latinx wife would be also subpoena to talk.

Because I'd like to know why she thought it was a good idea to take her kid. And no kid that'd be a great idea.

Are you sure he has a massage table in his living room?

That might be too gross. For reasons he said we're inexplicable. Howard Lutnik acknowledged visiting Jeffrey Epstein's island seven years after he claimed to have severed his relationship with the convicted defender. According to lawmakers present for the commerce secretary's closed door testimony.

I'm sorry, but inexplicable means you're not capable of explaining something. Rather than you just don't want to explain it. The acknowledgement, however, did not satisfy Democrats on the house oversight and government reform committee participating in Wednesday's interview with Lutnik as part of the panel's ongoing investigation

into Epstein's crimes and the powerful people in his orbit.

He was a vase, so okay. They just still okay, Lutnik appeared before lawmakers Wednesday for a transcribed interview. Not a deposition. Meaning he did not need to take an oath of honesty and the proceedings were not recorded on video. What is this George Bush and Dick Cheney after 9/11?

Because that's exactly how they testified. They testified in secret, no video, not under oath and only but with each other. Right. So everything's got that a meeting, basically. Everything's going to court a plan.

So house oversight chair, James Comber said, if we find that there were any misstatements by Lutnik, it's a felony to lie to Congress and you'll be held accountable. What do we won't test the motive? What? You can't what?

James Comber says, if we find there were misstatements by Lutnik, you haven't found any yet. I just found a whole three minutes full of them. I just showed you a video of those misstatements. I just showed you the lies.

You have to think I would tell you if I were any Jimmy, it'll be cash bill.

Don't you think I would tell you? It's a dude. We're out there. It is cash. I'm out there.

I'm out there framing shooters and busted scooters, maybe. Come on. If only if only if only if it's a felony to lie to Congress, but only if when Congress isn't made up of liars, who also don't want to be found out. So Comber also defended his decision not to require Lutnik's interview to be videotaped.

So this guy who's saying, hey, if we find out that there was any misstatements, of course, what do you tell if we find out? He's the guy who let him testify in secret. Comber you're the best. He said the panel would release a transcript to the public and it will end up,

it will be up to the American people to judge why not live a video of it. Oh, Comber, I keep thinking it's Comber. No, it's Comber. So Lutnik has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection. Of course, nobody has.

What are you talking about? Nobody's using him now. I'd like to accuse him if I could, Chuck Hughes. Why did they just hire Matt Taibi and Michael Tracy to run this hearing? Maybe Shellenberger can tell us why.

Maybe Shellenberger. Yeah, we shouldn't jump to conclusions. Yeah, but he has been under scrutiny from members of both parties, since federal materials in the Epstein matter revealed. The longtime canter Fitzgerald CEO visited Epstein's now infamous retreat

in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2012. He had originally said he broke ties with them in back in 2005. But the stakes are high for Lutnik.

The first cabinet secretary to testify before the oversight committee

with the congressional majority of the same party in recent history. Prior administration officials were ousted by President Trump soon after politically damaging appearances before lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Notably, Christie known the Secretary of Homeland Security and Pam Bondi.

I don't think that's why Pam Bondi was, like, go.

Around the time that Lutnik and Epstein became neighbors, Lutnik and his wife, so we already went over this. But Lutnik admitted he and his family and friends had a short lunch right. He recalled being unsettled that Epstein's assistant had found out he was in the U.S. Virgin Islands to extend the invitation in the first place.

But the committee Democrats told reporters that Lutnik ultimately could not explain why he went to Epstein's island. And sorry, saying the cabinet officials described the decision as inexplicable and their interactions were meaningless and in consequential.

Here's Rolkana.

Here's what he said. We know why that interview was not videotaped. If Donald Trump had seen the videotranscript, he would have fired Howard Lutnik. It was really embarrassing. He was asked very straightforward questions about whether he regretted misleading the American people.

He said that he would never see Epstein again in 2005.

And everyone knows that he took his wife and kids to see Epstein in 2012. And yet it was just contortions and lies and no acknowledgement that he misled the American public. And if you saw the exchanges that my colleagues had with him, you would see he made a force of the English language. I mean, he was trying to define I as if saying that what he really meant is that he would not see Epstein alone.

But we'd totally fine with having his wife and kids see Epstein. And it made no sense. And then he's raised even more serious concerns about the investigation. He originally had said that Epstein engaged in blackmail and recorded videotapes. Now he's saying, well, he was wrong. He was just speculating and Epstein actually didn't engage in blackmailing. This raises the question on what the cover up is.

I'm telling to say that I've not heard that he is that Epstein never engaged in blackmail.

Why is our luckening changing his testimony, changing his story?

He's lost all credibility and really it's a shame that the American people don't get to see what he did there. Total lack of truth and lack of honesty. Here is a guy named Wacassia. So he's the guy standing behind Rokan and he's wearing glasses. Not because he needs them to see, but he needs protection from all the finger pointing that's coming his way. Because they, all these people actually know what the real deal is here.

So here's what he said. Today, Jeremy Comer said that he hadn't seen any evidence of wrongdoing by the Secretary London. And that's actually the problem with the Trump administration, this Republican majority in Congress, because lying to the American people is wrongdoing. And how are lucking lied to the American people?

I hope today that we would have heard some more some contrition from Secretary London or flat out lying to the American people. Instead, what we've heard thus far is hours of testimony. He's attempting to redefine the meaning of the word I.

He claims that when he said, I would never be in a room again.

The Jeffrey F. Dean, he meant only him and Jeffrey F. Dean. F. Dean was so gross to him, so disgusting. And he wasn't willing to be in a room with him, but he was perfectly okay with his wife and family being in a room with Epstein. He's lying. And today's transcribed interview is part of the ongoing cover-up.

Because the American people deserve to see the video of what's taking place in there. They deserve to see the sweat on the Secretary's brow as he struggles to answer basic questions about his lives today, American people. We're going to continue to listen and ask tough questions. But unfortunately it appears that Secretary Londonic is not going to responsibility.

You have to align to the American people today.

I think it's amazing that this walkish-out guy is incredulous that someone who would even consider going to Epstein Island is capable of lying. Right? That's like being shocked that Jeffrey Dhammer didn't tidy up after eating a runaway. Oh my god, his kitchen total of mess, no bad. Anyway, now you know what's happening.

Your country is running and protecting PDF files that are being blackmailed. Okay, so that's exactly right. We just said this fake little page in here. Because this is minus touch again. So it's the misless brothers who are those fakes who try to ruin Rogan.

Right? That's right. I'm going to go ahead and go ahead and make sure that they're connected to the diddy thing, which is also connected to the Epstein thing. So this is one big pageant. Oh, how are the Democrats ever going to come back?

Right? Because they suck so bad and Trump is now sucks so bad. They're going to swing the pendulum back. Oh, look, might as touch wants to get the truth out, Jimmy. Yeah.

Oh, look at that. Yeah. Now that Biden is in president, they want to get the truth out about the Epstein files. So there you have it.

Again, they get to testify and secret behind closed doors with no video.

Because your country is run by blackmail PDF files who allow people to testify and secret behind closed doors with no video.

Because your country is run by blackmail PDF files.

It's a circular thing. I'm here with.

Uh, uh, what about our favorite guest Scott Ritter one time arena intelligence officer reserved that the former Soviet Union implementing arms control agreements from 91 and 98.

He served as the chief inspector for the United Nations in Iraq leading the search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction didn't find any. He was later a vocal critic of the American decision to go to war in Iraq. He's also the best selling author of nine books. His latest highway to hell, the Armageddon Chronicles 2015 and 2024. Welcome back to the show Scott Ritter.

Thank you very much for having me. Thanks for being on Scott.

I always appreciate you accommodating our schedule.

It's always nice to this is my judge in the Paltano presentation. I hope you appreciate it. You're always very kind and generous.

You're always appreciate your insights and so it's amazing.

Scott, so I wanted to get right to it. I saw this tweet by our friend Furkin. He says the Pentagon is an absolute panic mode. Al Jazeera completely exposes U.S. central command for dodging basic questions about massive damage to American vessels. The Trump administration recklessly fired on a taker and sparked a retaliation.

Trump is hiding a massive failure. Let's listen. Well, that's right. And I should point out that we here at Al Jazeera have reached out to U.S. central command to try and get the U.S. take on what exactly occurred in the straight of Hormuz in the last couple of hours.

Our response was that they had nothing to offer us. In other words, they didn't confirm it nor did they deny it. And we should point out that when it comes to Iran State broadcaster, there have been reports of damage to U.S.

vessels before the United States has always denied or minimized that.

And so it's really unclear right now exactly just what has occurred. But as you reported at the start of the bulletin, this escalation has come on the heels of the United States firing on Iranian tanker just one day earlier. And so there is certainly an incident that potentially has prompted the Iranians to now retaliate against the United States. But again, the United States central command not confirming nor is it to -- Okay, so Scott, do you have any -- this is from yesterday.

Do you have any information that could confirm or deny this report?

No, I don't have a hotline to a central command. So I wish I did, but if I did, they probably wouldn't tell me anyway. You know, I would air on the side of the Iranians being over optimistic. I do believe they engaged our ships. Our ships have some very sophisticated self-defense capabilities.

The important thing here isn't whether or not they actually hit a ship and did damage, although that would be a very big story. It's that they made the ships turn around and run away. You know, that they -- apparently the attacks overwhelmed the defenses to the point that they had to use the close-in weapon system, basically the failing 20-millimeter gatling gun in a desperate effort to stop the Iranian missile from hitting the ships. You know, and the gatling gun only has a finite amount of ammunition, it burns, it can cycle through that ammunition in third seconds.

So it had a second wave been launched and broken through the missile defense barriers. The ships would have been helpless, and so they had to leave. And this, again, underscores the fact that Iran is in complete control of the straight-over moves. And the United States Navy is powerless to change that equation. Well, speaking to that point, the Washington Post reports that U.S. intelligence says Iran cannot last Trump's harm moves blockade for months.

And John Hudson did a nice summary of this confidential CIA analyst delivered the policy makers. This week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least three to four months before facing more severe economic hardship. Finding that contradicts those hailing and imminent collapse.

The U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75 percent of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles per U.S. official.

The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities and repair damaged missiles. And here is from the report, one of the U.S. officials said they thought Iran's capacity to sustain prolonged economic hardship is far greater than even the current CIA estimate.

The leadership has gotten more radical, determined, and increasingly confiden...

Inside Iran, the official said comparatively U.S. similar regimes lasting years under sustained embargo and air power only wars.

What's your response to this report? Well, I would say that the CIA doesn't have good insight into Iran to begin with, you know, we've burned through three human intelligence networks over the years. And when I say burned through that means that they were compromised and all of our spies on the ground were captured and killed.

So we've been relying upon Israeli intelligence. That's what God has said this war to begin with. Bad Israeli intelligence.

So what we're looking here is a CIA assessment of, you know, open source information, nose, spectacular insights. And the CIA is prejudice against Iran. Even though these assessments are, you know, show Iran to be in a better position than the White House's spun it. I would say that Iran is in a better position than the CIA is reporting. It's not three to four months. Iran can last indefinitely. People tend to forget that Iran has been laboring under, you know, U.S. sanctions and restrictions on its oil economy for, for 47 years.

This isn't their first rodeo. Their first fluctuation in market realities. They know how to deal with this.

It also ignores the fact that, you know, a great deal of Iran's oil production is consumed domestically. That they aren't necessarily held hostage to the, you know, the closure of the strait as much as people might think.

You have other ways to, to get oil to market. You're right now, the Pakistani Iranian border looks like something out of Mad Max with all the oil tankers going back and forth.

You know, and in, you know, the Iranians have mastered oil smuggling routes. They're not panicked at all. The Iranians I have spoken to say that there is no panic in Iran about the, they're the people that are panicked at the Gulf Arab States, quite for instance, who shipped zero oil last month.

They're the ones running this storage problem. Same thing with Saudi Arabia, same thing in the United Arab States.

They're the ones that face, you know, oil field closure and maintenance issues. So the, the CIA is wrong on the missiles. I would just refer to foreign minister Iraq, she's response. He said, we're not at 75% we're at 120%. Meaning that Iran has far more capability today than they had when the war started. That reflects the reality that the United States hasn't destroyed anywhere near what we claim to have destroyed.

And that Iran took their missile production underground. They've been building missiles during the war and their building missiles. Now they have more missiles today of a more modern variety than what they started the war with. Hey, this is Jim use this. What's up, Jimmy? It's your favorite US vice president calling. Wow, we have the Uber Humphrey on the line.

Oh, very funny. Okay, very funny. You got me away. Do I sound like him for real though?

I got no idea, buddy. How are you, Mr. Vice president? Oh, I'm doing great. Thanks for asking Jimmy. And things are going great too. Jimmy, I'm happy to announce for you on the verge of wrapping this hole. I ran thing up. Yeah, is that so?

Yes, and it's glorious to see all that we have accomplished with sheer American will and American military might. What do you mean? You can have it accomplished literally anything. None of your objectives. I know. No regime change. No solid into the nuclear program. They still have enriched uranium underground. Yeah, you've established a rent has complete control over the straight of our moves.

And our actions of marginalized moderates in the government and neutralized civilian opposition mission accomplished. Okay, how on earth is this a win? Jimmy, we win in the Trump administration. Know how to spin massive buckups in the positives. Spending the Iraq debacle may be our biggest challenge yet, but we are up to the task. And here we say by accomplishing nothing. Have we really accomplished everything?

Here I say no.

The United States is now officially willing to go to war for literally no reason to accomplish nothing. Dear realize what a statement of strength that is. Like who in there might write mine would mess with us now. We've come a long way from the Donald Trump who is pining for a Nobel Peace Prize. Well, there again, I think you're wrong. Actually, to that end, think of all the countries we haven't invaded, which is like most countries. So considering how frivolously we can go to war.

You know, that shows President Trump in a very restrained and peaceful light, if you want to think about it a certain way.

What an amazing disconnect from reality, sir.

Thank you. Yeah, it's pretty great. There's really only one loose end that we haven't been able to wrap up yet. I'm sorry, Mr. Vice President. I'm getting a call on the other line. Hello, this is Jimmy at the Jimmy Dorch Show speaking. Who's this? Jimmy, this Benjamin Netanyahu is J.D. Vance there. Hey, baby. Hey, hey, hey, tell him I'm not here. I can hear you.

Hey, man, what's up, dude? How are you doing? Don't give me that. Why is no one at the White House taking my calls?

What is this I hear about a pissed field being broken without me?

Baby just calm down. Everyone is going to get their fair share. You just need to be patient for a little while. Fuck that. I want to talk to Trump. I demand to talk to him now. You can't talk to him right now. I'm the one who put this war together. God damn it. Without my connections, none of this would have happened. I demand my concessions. I want my concessions right now, J.D. You keep your voice down. You're going to get your concessions. I promise you.

But you have to wait until the heat of this whole thing blows over.

Have we ever known Trump to desert an ally? You just need to lay low and be patient for a little while. Oh, J.D. J.D. What? Oh, J.D. boys. The pipes are calling. Wow. That got tense for a minute there, but that everything now is clearly going to be okay. I don't know what I do without this kid. I really don't for the life of me get Trump.

But J.D. can always get through to him. Well, that's part of my job.

I feel better already. I don't even know what I was so worked up about. Time for me to pass on the good news to others. I bid you gentlemen farewell. Shallot. Bye, B.B. That dude's better than a door now. What?

Yeah, dude. Trump told me if he starts raising a stink about this piece program.

He's going to withdraw his support for him so he gets topples and prosecuted within the Israeli government. Will. Though that chaos will solve the whole Israel slashed. Let's go. God's a problem for us once and for all.

So anyway, yeah, I got to go set that emotion personally. I do enjoy personally stabbing people in the back so this will be a good one. Anyway, what can I say? These breaks out. These in our time. And all things to the great piece maker Donald Trump himself. Oh, my chest hurts. I got to go.

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