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Memorial Day Recap: Honoring the 13 Fallen, Iran on the Brink, Platner's Portnoy Disaster & Newsom's Gas Lie
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95% of the way there to the most consequential peace deal in modern history. We're going to talk a little bit about Memorial Day. Both some modern heroes that we want to recognize, but also what people like Gavin Newsom were doing this Memorial Day. Graham Platner gets into it with Barstool's own Dave Portnoy. All that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up. Get up.
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The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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Yesterday, President Trump spent Memorial Day honoring fallen American heroes and their place in our history.
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By their deaths, those who have gone before us in battle have redeemed the promise of our founding for each future generation. In Operation Epic Fury, we lost 13 wonderful souls, wonderful special people. These incredible men and women gave their lives to ensure that the world's number one state sponsor of terror will never have a nuclear weapon.
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As you're listening to this on Tuesday morning, it has been a wild 72 hours diplomatically in terms of Iran, the current state of the Middle east and our relationship with the rest of the world. President Trump called in his National Security Council on Friday, began discussing what people on the outside thought was either going to be a new round of strikes against Iran or some potential breakthrough towards a deal. Then reports came out that there were major framework of a deal getting put forward. Now, the American side kept their cards close to the chest on what was actually a part of that deal. But the Iranians, as they've done throughout this entire conflict, began to try and shape what they wanted out of these negotiations through their friends in the media, with reports through Al Jazeera and others saying things like the United States has agreed to give up sanctions relief and all sorts of locked up Iranian money in return for Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz eventually and things like that. And in all of those reports, it included incredibly one sided terms like the notion that America was going to give up all of this cash to Iran and Iran wouldn't guarantee anything about their own nuclear material, nuclear ambitions, even the Strait of Hormuz. The United States has said throughout this process, Iran cannot collect tolls on the Strait of Hormuz and Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. But the one sided reports of this said the exact opposite of that. And so on Sunday, as President Trump continued to hammer out with other Middle Eastern and Gulf countries aligned what this deal would be, including very clear red lines. And I would commend the White House for their outreach Sunday through a lot of friends and powerful voices in media to make clear what their red lines were. For example, this from Kayleigh McEnany, a senior administration official tells us no dust, no deal. We are not going to roll over. We are not there yet on a deal. We are not going to sign a deal today or tomorrow. The President's instinct is to give them five, six, seven days to make this deal. They've agreed in principle to the framework and we're 95% of the way there. We have a deal on the nuclear stockpile and the Strait of Hormuz, but are negotiating language. We don't have a deal until there's a deal. A potential deal would have a no dust, no dollars concept, the opportunity to make a deal that will lower the cost for Americans but will mean the Iranians will not get a nuclear weapon. We're not going to do a bad deal, that's for sure. We have optionality and resume military strikes if a deal is not reached. So that's another important part of this. In the reports on Saturday that were incredibly one sided. It included things like the United States was do a full retreat, shut down their blockade and essentially cede the entire region to Iran without any guarantees, meaning they would give up all their leverage. Now President Trump and his team have said why would you ever listen to these one sided reports? And so again, I commend them for doing this great outreach on Sunday to clarify what their red lines are, including most importantly, that no dust, no dollars, Iran doesn't get anything until they actually give up that nuclear dust. The other thing that came into the equation on Sunday was President Trump saying that the other countries that are involved in this conversation should join the Abraham Accords, meaning create strong diplomatic relationships with Israel, something that most of them, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, other countries have not had up to this point. Now this will some friction. We've already seen countries like Saudi Arabia say we're only going to do this if there's a clear path to a two state solution with Palestine and things like that. But President Trump is acknowledging the fact that he's making a deal that gives Iran a little bit more than we would like to give because these Gulf countries and these Arab countries are asking him to. If we're gonna do that, we need to have a better step forward diplomatically for the entire region. And that's where the Abraham Accord comes into play. Now, there are no guarantees on this deal as that information through the White house, through Kayleigh McEnany and others, said we won't go forward with a bad deal. President Trump's giving Iran five, six, seven days to solidify this because, for example, we know the new Ayatollah is in hiding. They say you basically have to have couriers and carrier pigeons to even get to him in order to sign off on this. And there's no guarantee that he will because he is a part of the radical clerics who were basically born chanting death to America. And so if they can get this done, that will be incredible. But President Trump setting in stone his firm red lines here is incredibly important. And since then, we've heard reports once again through, you know, all sorts of fraught, not totally reliable sources like Al Jazeera, that Iran's now saying they won't have a toll on the Strait of Hormuz, but they might have a fee for things like environmental protection concerns and things like that, which is something that President Trump simply isn't going to go for. So we're going to watch this closely this week. At any given point, both sides could say, this just isn't going to work. And for that, President Trump has reserved the right resume bombing again because he's kept our military assets in the region. So, again, a tale of two days, a Saturday that was largely defined by unreliable reports about what America was giving up. And then Sunday, the White House team coming in to say very clearly we have firm red lines. They are the same red lines that we have had from the beginning of this. Now, this MoU is not a full on peace deal. It is an agreement to have the negotiations that could lead to a peace deal. But President Trump's thinking here is clearly, if we start bombing again, we're going to see another short term term shock in oil prices leading to gas prices in the economy. If we're going to do that, we need to leave no stone unturned on the diplomatic side of this. And it may get to the point where they say we're just not going to get there, so start the bombing again, but let's do it click. Let's do it surgically. Let's have all the other countries in the region aligned with why we're doing this, because we all got together, got on the same page about what we're going to do here, and Iran simply won't act in good faith. You'll have a larger and more sort of confirmed backing of the region when you do that. Late last week, Gavin Newsom turned heads when he declared war on Chevron posting from his Governor Newsom press office Twitter account. Californians, if you're hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to avoid Chevron. Now remember here, Gavin Newsom's been at war with Chevron for years now because Chevron moved refineries out of the state due to Gavin Newsom's own policies. No one moves refineries just because they want to. They move because it's no longer economically sound. So Gavin Newsom has been after Chevron for years because of that. But declaring war on a major state employer like Chevron is a bizarre move. But as people were very quick to point out, California has gas prices that are more than $2, in some cases $3 higher than any other state. And it's because of Gavin Newsom and his insane policies. For example, this person in Southern California pointed out that there's one area where you can get gas for $3 cheaper if you drive 4 miles across the border into Arizona. How could Chevron do this? Again, it is not Chevron. It's Gavin Newsom. But Gavin Newsom has been dragged to high heaven for the absurdity of this broadside, particularly going into Memorial Day weekend from people like comfortably smug Steve Forbes and others who have pointed out that Gavin Newsom did this. As we head towards June 2, primary day in California, the California governor's race clown car continues to sputter. First off, a number of Democrat candidates did CNN interviews over the weekend where reminded everybody just how low the bar is to be a Democrat in California. First off, Javier Becerra asked simple questions.
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California right now has the highest poverty rate in the country, highest gas prices in the country, the most homeless people in the country, and among the most affordability issues when it comes to homes in the country. Do you think that the Democrats in this state who have been in charge of it and the supermajority are doing a good job? We could do better, no doubt, but we are the fourth largest economy in the world.
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Now, that fourth largest economy in the world talking point is a pure Gavin Newsom move. And it's a reminder that they don't have any good answers. And if you elect Javier Becerra, you can expect to see more of the same. For example, continuing to pay higher and higher taxes so they can pay for free health care for illegal immigrants.
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Well, and some of that is a question of what to do in terms of healthcare for the undocumented. That's been something that Steve Hilton has pointed out. He says he wants to take the undocumented off of health care rolls. Why do you want to keep them on there and how much is that going to cost the state? Clearly a place where we differ. He looks at them as people who don't have documents. I look at them as hard workers.
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Now, Tom Steyer, who is neck and neck with Becerra, hasn't really done much better. He continues to try and show that he can be the most radical liberal in the bunch, even though he's also a terrible evil billionaire. You talked about trans people. I'm totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. Again, an 8020 issue that in order to be successful in California you have to be on the wrong side of to be successful. Tom Steyer, if you elect him, will do whatever Democrat socialists demand of him because he's so desperate for power. Checking back in on Maine Democrat Graham Platner, who you may know for stories about having a Nazi tattoo or unspeakable acts happening in Porta Potties. Well, he was back in the news again quite a bit last week for a number of insane comments that he made on Reddit. Some of them were about veterans and one veteran in particular that he suggested after being shot multiple times did not deserve to live. Well, Platner was confronted by Fox News Digital and he did not have any apologies about those comments.
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I was wondering if you regret the post about the Purple Heart veteran, if you think you need to apologize to him, what you would say to voters who might be upset by it.
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Out of four tours of the infantry,
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any attempt to say that I disrespect veterans is slanderous and offensive.
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Now that sets up our you can't make it up segment for today, in which I want to highlight a fascinating exchange between staffers for Maine candidate Graham Platner and barstool sports Dave Portnoy. Now, anyone who's ever worked on a campaign has tried to think of creative things to do to reach new people. What celebrity could you potentially do some kind of joint with? Who? So it's not surprising that as Graham Platner is trying to appeal to the sort of barstool universe, these sort of lower propensity young men who are frustrated at the world, they might think Dave Portnoy might be the guy for them to get together with. But they didn't really do research on Dave Portnoy's larger sort of profile and issue set. So they reached out to Dave and wrote this. Hey Dave, something different for you. Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is putting a 30 second ad on NESN, the local news station covering The Boston Red Sox that attacks private equity's grip on the team and wanted to let you get eyes on it. It's an example of Graham's populist streak in talking about shit people are mad about, like the Sox and big bad John Henry. Here's the ad, if you're interested. Would love to get you talking with Graham about the Sox and big bad John Henry pe. So big bad John Henry, private equity, that's the owner of the Red Sox. Dave has talked about the ownership of the Red Sox, failing the team, things like that. So it's not the dumbest idea in the world unless you. Other things that Dave Portnoy cares about, which is, for one thing, Dave's Jewish. And you'll remember Graham Platner is most famous for having a Nazi tattoo. So Dave's read up on this and wasn't caught off guard by this request. Now, this is how Dave responds. Hey, Jeff, now this is the Nazi guy, right? Yeah, I'd be happy to talk to him about that tattoo and him being a Nazi. I'm not as interested in his baseball takes. Let me know when we can set up some time. Dave, the staffer, not knowing what to say to that, writes back, nice one. Thanks, Dave. Dave writes back, is that a no? And the staff writes back, if we can get to a place where this is a productive convo, we'll give it a think. Now also consider, like, a guy who says we'll give it a think isn't necessarily the guy that you want engaging with, like Dave Portnoy and like, you know, the sort of young, disaffected cool guys of today. But. So Dave writes back, what's that mean? You reached out to a Jew to poo poo a Nazi? I'm not Bernie Sanders. If your boy isn't a Nazi and can handle me one on one in a convo, set it up. If he can't, you should fire yourself for thinking I'd want to glamorize this clown. So again, if you're doing staff work, make sure you do a little bit of research before you do the outreach so that you're not opening yourself up to once again reminding everybody about your Nazi tattoo saga while you were trying to come up with this big play to come off like a populist who hates private equity owners of the Boston Red Sox. So not great. But also hilarious that Dave mentioned Bernie Sanders, who was up in Maine rallying with Graham Platner, reminding everybody that in addition to a Nazi, in addition to being a degenerate who can't go near porta potties and has a very scary scary history with women. He also is a socialist and nobody likes that either. That is all the time we have for today. Thanks for joining us. Please tune in tomorrow for another 10 minute drill like subscribe. Leave us a review. Have a great day.