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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, April 8th, 2026
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Martha Stewart
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John Solomon
Good evening, America, and welcome to the Wednesday edition of JUST THE news. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you actually today from West Palm beach in the great and beautiful real America's Voice studios down in Florida. A lot to cover today. A historic but admittedly tenuous agreement between the United States and Israel and Iran is holding thus far. But I do use the word tenuous because there are lots of difficult issues to work out. And those issues were front and center today. Is uranium and enrichment off the table for Iran? Is Israel's ability to attack Lebanon part of the deal? Some confusion, some doubt, some across the board media negotiating going on between the two sides. President Trump making very clear the final deal will not allow Iran to have enriched uranium. We'll see if the Iranians are on board in that. We're going to be talking about that all show long, including in a few seconds with a former CIA senior intelligence officer, Sam Fadis, who's been on top of this from the beginning. A quick programming note before I throw it over to my amazing co host tomorrow night I want you to tune in, mark your calendar. I'm going to release some new declassified documents about the Ukraine impeachment. You will learn that it was based on hearsay information from a partisan and biased source whose information was immediately challenged by the intelligence community. Despite that, they went ahead and impeached President Trump back in 2019 over Ukraine. And Hunter Biden going to cover that tomorrow night. Let me bring in my amazing co host, Amanda Head. Amanda, big moment for the White House. The peace is holding, but a lot of work ahead, right?
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Amanda Head
Yeah. Well, as the president and the press secretary, Caroline Levitt have reminded everyone, you know, it's not like Iran is an honest broker. So this is, as you referred to it, very, very tenuous. But the media, John There has been the media that they have sided, it seems like, with Iran. And I'm not going to say that they are anti American or anything like that, but when you repeatedly believe the Iranian regime over the President of the United States, I think that it says about biased coverage. But it's amazing to me the metamorphosis that we have seen from, you know, President Trump was ostensibly in the hospital last week to he's a madman because he wants to turn Iran into glass. And then he, you know, last night, he's a coward for backing down to them. And it's just this amazing, as I said, this, this transition going to, going through each of these phases where it seems like they just really can't make up their mind about it. But at the end of the day, President Trump has had his mind made up about this since before he even ran for president. And that's clear. If back. And look back at clips.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Jury will be out on whether the traditional media is anti American. It clearly is anti truth. And that's, I think, what we've seen. Iran's military has been decimated, its industrial complex decimated. They don't want to admit that. That's why they're at this point of a pause because they have nothing to fire at us anymore. All right, we've got the perfect guest to kick off our show tonight. All right, joining us now, somebody knows a thing or two about the Middle East. He served in the CIA as a clandestine officer for a very long time today. I think he's one of the most sage voices when it comes to security around the world. He's a good friend, retired CIA officer Sam Faddis. Sam, great to have you back on the show.
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Sam Faddis
Great to be here. Thanks, guys.
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John Solomon
I love the work you do on your substack. And I think the reason is it's based in reality. There's always happy talk when a tenuous deal like this gets put together, but then there's a reality of getting to some finality without it falling apart. Walk us through where we are. Today's been a bumpy day. Iran and the United States seem to not have all the details buttoned down. They're kind of working through it maybe.
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Shannon Davis
How.
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John Solomon
Where are we in that process and how concerned should we be that this could fall apart at some point?
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Sam Faddis
Well, look, we have a ceasefire and I think we have an agreement that we're going to sit down. Islamabad, there have been some bumps, as you said, with apparently some missiles and drones still flying back and forth. I'm not super concerned about that, because I think you're talking about on the Iranian side, a very decentralized system at this point. So the fact that not everybody's on the same sheet of music, not everybody got the memo yet, not everybody necessarily is pulled in the same direction. Okay. I think that sort of comes with the territory. The bigger issue from my perspective is when we sit down in Islamabad, what are we negotiating? I don't mean, I mean we're obviously trying to negotiate a, an actual peace agreement, a permanent end of hostilities, but what are we negotiating from in terms of a basis? The Iranians are being very clear that they are stating very publicly that we are negotiating from their 10 point plan that they have trotted out, which from my perspective is a non starter. Right. It's we remove all sanctions, the UN revokes all its resolutions, they get to keep the nuclear program, we pull our forces out of the Middle east, we promise never to attack them ever again, they control the Straits of Hormuz, they keep charging $2 million a ship, et cetera and so forth. So that I cannot imagine is, I mean, right there, probably all of those terms are terms to which we cannot, we cannot agree.
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Amanda Head
Right. Well, and Sam, I know that the White House felt the exact same way because the press secretary today said that they literally threw it in the trash. And I know in any negotiation, even for a country like Iran, you start way further on your own side than you know you're going to end up. But as you said, I mean, this was a wish list. This was absolutely delusional to you. Does that show that this entire process has not been serious and therefore for whatever this ceasefire can be, effectively, that it's not serious either?
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Sam Faddis
Right. Well, I mean, the way I would characterize their 10 point plan is it's a surrender document, but we're the ones who are supposed to surrender to them. So, yes, non starter. Are they always going to push you too far? Yes. Are they always going to ask for the sun, the moon, stars? Yes. These are smart guys and, and they're very aggressive. And this is the Middle east and haggling is the deal, even for them. This is really, really extreme. I mean, I think, I am afraid that what they're saying is they don't think they're losing. They think we want the peace more than they do. And as anybody knows, in a negotiation, leverage is everything. So again, even for them, it's a tall order.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Sam, I want to talk. I had an unusual experience of negotiating with the Mullahs back in 2009, my reporter was taken when I was the editor of the Washington Times. And it was such a surreal experience because publicly they were saying, we're never going to release this infidel. We're never going to do it. He was a spy. He's going to be tried. And behind the scenes, they're actually negotiating. Is that a norm for them? And could it be that the propaganda is designed to keep their reputation with their people intact, even though they know that on the backside they've taken a pretty big hit?
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Sam Faddis
Well, it is without question this element that you just touched on, that a lot of what they're going to say is going to be for domestic consumption.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Sam Faddis
Or in the rest of the region. That's. That's a given.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Sam Faddis
I mean, they're going to talk smack and there's going to be a lot of trash talk, and then you get behind closed doors. But you know what's. They're going to take you for as much as they can get. Yeah, right. I mean, it's. That is the nature of the beast for them and the entire region. So what is critical is that they understand that we are prepared to walk away and go back to beating the hell out of them. And I don't want that to happen, and I hope that does not happen. But the second they feel like we need to want the deal more than they do, we're done, obviously.
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John Solomon
That's a great point.
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Amanda Head
Well, and Sam, I think that one thing that could be propelling them to that place where they delusionally think that we want it more than they. Well, maybe it's not just delusional.
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Martha Stewart
We do.
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Amanda Head
We do want peace. That President Trump has spoken about. That a lot is their main bargaining chip, whether they realize it or not. The Hormu Strait, because they no longer. They don't have military superiority. Is the Hormuz Strait. Is that their big, biggest and best bargaining chip? And if so, how do we eliminate it?
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Sam Faddis
Well, look, the center of gravity of the whole conflict is oil and natural gas. Right. And it's not just the Straits of Hormuz, it's the production facilities in the Gulf and in Saudi Arabia. Right. So, you know, our military is beating up on them. Would they sink a carrier battle group if they could? Obviously. Do they realistically think they have a chance against the US Military? No, but. So we shoot it. We shoot at them, and they shoot at gutter, they shoot at Dubai, they shoot at Saudi. And it's not just keeping the straits closed. It's, you know, if we really get in, our backs are against the wall. We'll just burn the whole place down. Like, permanently will burn it down. We'll send it so many drones that Saudi won't pump a barrel of oil for five years. And that, you know, kind of a giant suicide vest kind of mentality. That's. That's their real. Their real leverage. And we will see whether they feel like we've hurt them enough, that they're going to make a deal, or if we're going to have to go back to fighting and take. Take away that leverage, take away their capacity, their capacity to threaten that.
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John Solomon
That's really smart, Sam. That's what I'm hearing from the inside. That really is the concern. When we were in the Cold War, we had detente because we had something the other side feared enough. What is it? And, you know, Donald Trump always wants to know, what does his enemy want most and what does he least want to have happen to them? And then negotiate between those two parameters, what is it that Iran would fear more than anything from us?
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Sam Faddis
Look, I think if we could take away their capacity to threaten other countries, oil and natural gas, and if we could then cut off their capacity to sell oil, which we can do anytime we want, because we can blockade them, that really puts them in the box from which they cannot escape. First step in that is we have to be able to protect oil and natural gas in the Gulf and in Saudi Arabia, and we're, you know, shooting down 90% of the drones is great. If 10% of the drones still get through, that's too many, right?
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John Solomon
Yeah. Yeah. It still causes damage.
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Amanda Head
Now, Sam, before we let you go, I had. I was in another state, and I had a friend who asked me, you know, what more should the Iranian people be doing to assist in the overthrow of their own country? I know that they live in fear of this regime. They have been forced to for the last 47 years. But is there anything they can do as far as uprising to assist in the overthrow?
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Sam Faddis
Is it possible for there to be an overthrow of the regime. Yeah. Today? No. Are they organized enough? Armed enough? No. I mean, having participated in that kind of activity on behalf of our government, the actual amount of infrastructure, you got to build the legwork, you got to do the support, the training, the weapons. You know, it's not just ask everybody to go out in the street tomorrow. It takes a lot of work. They are not anywhere close to that. The regime killed 30,000 demonstrators recently. They'll kill 300,000 in the street and not bat an eye that's you're talking about very, very ruthless guys.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Very realistic. Sam, for everyone who's watching, you have an incredible substack. You do great work. What's the best way for people to follow all your great work? I think you're a must read person every day. What's the best way for us to stay in touch with you?
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Sam Faddis
And magazine. And magazine.substack.com yeah, I highly suggest folks read it.
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John Solomon
Sam does some of the best work on this issue and he's been right over the target on all of the key issues surrounding this operation. Sarah, great honor to have you on this show again. Thanks for joining us.
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Sam Faddis
Thanks.
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John Solomon
Yeah. What a great conversation. All right, folks, when we come back, you remember when those 51 intelligence officers told you don't believe the Hunter Biden laptop. We were supposed to because it was true. But there was a lot of censorship that went around that it's happening again. Believe it or not, the the new movie coming out about the Hunter Biden laptop and the whistleblowers, it's being censored on social media. We're going to cover that next. You're going to be mad when you watch the next segment, but better to be informed. We'll have that next right after these messages. Hey, folks, I want to take a minute to talk about something that affects almost every single person watching the show. Medicare. And I'll be honest with you, Medicare is confusing. Part A, part B, part C, part D, Advantage plans, supplements. It's a maze, right? And I don't think that's an accident. Washington doesn't make things simple. Simple means you're in control and they don't want that. That's exactly why I want to tell you about a Mac, the association of Mature American Citizens. Over 2 million members strong, myself included. They're the conservative alternative to aarp. They fight for the values we talk about on this program every day. Limited government, personal freedom, fiscal responsibility. And here's what makes them different. On Medicare, AMAC has licensed advisors who will get on the phone with you, walk you through every option and help you find the plan that actually fits your life. Real simple. No pressure, no sales pitch. Just straight answers from people who share your values. So go to AMAC US Smart or call 800-901-8893. It's free. You've earned the right to get this decision right. Let AMAC help you do it.
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Martha Stewart
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John Solomon
We choose science over fiction. And yes, we choose truth over lies. Hunter Biden was providing millions of dollars for the benefit of the Biden family through an influence peddling scheme. My name is Gary Shapley. I'm a supervisory special agent of the International Tax and Financial Crimes Group. Hunter Biden's laptop was a smoking gun. It connected Joe Biden to Hunter Biden's businesses. All right, folks, you know how often I talk about the importance of whistleblowers on the show. In 40 years of reporting, whistleblowers have changed the world more than once. Which you just saw was part of the trailer for the new documentary Shielded by Power, which is a story about two of the most courageous whistleblowers I've ever met. It tells the inside story of the Hunter Biden tax investigation through the voices of Gary Shapley and his fellow workers who were whistleblowers who risked everything to expose that scandal. Joining us now to talk about it, two of the men behind that documentary and power Oversight President Tristan Levitt and Chris Dodge, the founder of Fruition Predictions, who's helping make that movie. Tristan. Chris, great to have you on the show.
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Chris Dodge
Well, thanks for having us, John. Appreciate it.
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John Solomon
All right, we all know and a trip down memory lane that the Hunter Biden story started with a lot of censorship. My reporting in 2019, censored in part by the work of the whistleblower who tried a fake whistleblower who tried to suggest that the Hunter Biden story wasn't true. Then Miranda's work, Miranda Devine's work on the laptop censored again back in the 2020 election. You guys are trying to get this movie out. And if I understand, Tristan, you run into a little bit of censorship on social media all over again.
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Tristan Levitt
That's right. So this is a film that is mostly completed in terms of the interviews, but there is a campaign that we launched several weeks ago to raise the money to finish the production of the film which Chris Dodge has been leading out on. And to do that, we need to run ads, right? We need to get the message out to people that this is a documentary that we want to finish. And so we've gone through all the hoops, jumped through all the things that have been required of us by X, by Meta, which has both Facebook and Instagram and even by Google. And repeatedly, our ads. Campaigns have been shut down. No ads have been run. The same entities that suppressed the Biden story when the laptop first came out seem determined that we not run any ads on their platforms.
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John Solomon
It's just unbelievable. Chris, this is an incredible movie. The facts are no longer in doubt. Back in 2019, if you believe that Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, did something wrong, you were called a conspiracy theorist. If you believe the laptop was real, you were told you're a Russian disinformation artist. Everything in this movie is now documented by evidence in the courts, in the Congress, to reporters like myself and Miranda and others, and yet there's a resistance to it. Where does that resistance come from?
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Chris Dodge
You know, I'm not sure, John. I spent the last year really trying to get this film out to the traditional distribution systems, the traditional Hollywood system. You know, you see lots of incredible documentaries on social issues in places like Netflix and hbo, and all of the middlemen in Hollywood say, oh, we're not interested in a social issues. A social issues documentary. And I find that to be challenging because we've had so many incredible stories out there about things like Epstein and P. Diddy and all these other scandals, and yet we can't get this story out there that was suppressed in the media in the 2020 election cycle.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it is remarkable. Chris, let me stay with you for a second. You got to meet all the players in this drama. You got to chronicle all of the resistance that they faced, all of the pressure. What's the most surprising thing when people are going to watch this movie and it will get out, it's so important. What will be one of the most surprising things that most Americans will wake up to when they read it?
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Chris Dodge
I think really, actually understanding how the quote, unquote, deep state actually functions. This is a documentation on how the Department of Justice actually stopped a criminal investigation on the parts of Gary and Joe. And they were doing their job as IRS investigators and agents, and they were stopped at every. Every single way that they could be stopped. They were stopped. And to make it worse, I think we actually look at the documentation and the firsthand accounts from gentlemen like yourself and Matt Taibbi, Miranda Devine, Mike Benz, incredible journalists who show that the FBI had The backdoor access to suppress the story. And I think that that suppression is still a danger to Americans today. And we need to get out there and actually pay attention to the fact that our media channels are not free. We do not have a free and open press. And I'm thankful for programs like yours to try to get out there and actually make a difference telling the stories that are actually happening out there.
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John Solomon
Yeah. And that suppression is real. I think a lot of people thought, well, we elected Donald Trump in 2024, the government's no longer doing it. But there are so many secret hands in the media world, in the social media world, the big tech world that still can suppress something. Tristan, you sent a letter to members of Congress in the last few days chronicling the concerns of what you experienced when you tried to advertise and promote this movie. What's been the response from Congress? Will Congress dig into this?
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Tristan Levitt
We have been in communication with a couple different offices. We do hope that they will dig in. It's difficult because on the one hand, again, this is a private project. Unlike before, we were kind of helping the whistleblowers to expose to Congress the things that they saw here. We're trying to tell the story. So I think generally Congress doesn't try to wade into private projects like this. But this is an instance where again, some of the same players, like, you know, Mark Zuckerberg came to Congress after the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and said, this is totally our fault. You know, we should not have done that. We won't do it again. And so again, to be stuck in this Kafka esque series of maneuvers from Facebook where they tell you you're approved, then you're not approved. At one point they took our social media ad manager, who's a very experienced person that we contracted with for this project. He's worked in Hollywood for quite some time time, but he is a conservative. His entire account was suspended when we first listed this. And so, you know, on the one hand, Facebook can say, well, you just need to do X, Y or Z. But it seems very clear to us that there's this pattern that we keep getting suspended on these platforms just because this is the project we're advertising. The same trailer you showed a portion of, that's what we've submitted and their unwillingness to show it. We think it's important for Congress to know that some things seem to have not changed, just bite what these big social media companies are claiming to Congress.
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John Solomon
So Tristan, you for years represented and protected whistleblowers in Congress. You work with Senator Grassy staff. I think he's the. The godfather of the modern whistleblower movement in America. So many big things have run through his office over the last 40 years. Chris, you make movies. I don't think you could find two more extraordinary characters, both as whistleblowers or as storytellers in a documentary than these two guys. Joe Zigler is a Democrat. He's going up against his own party's machines because he knows it's the right thing to do. Gary Shapley is one of the most accomplished IRS agents in the recent history of the irs, and he can't get anything off the ground because people don't want this case. How does this story from a Hollywood perspective ring? I mean, the truth is, it's all nonfiction, but it has characters that would make even a fiction movie pretty exciting.
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Chris Dodge
I think the story is absolutely incredible, John. I mean, when you look at all of the things these guys went through for five years, they worked on this case before they were thrown off, before they came forward in Congress. And then even the cast of characters that extends beyond that with House Chairman Jason Smith and Jim Jordan and James Comer that help these guys have the forum, the platform to actually speak about these things. Senator Chuck Grassley for fighting the FBI for transparency. And when you start digging through all of this, there's been so many books written on this topic, and you dig down into the weeds, it is incredible, the level of detail that you find, that all of these departments are working together to cover up what is an obvious crime, what is an obvious embezzlement of American money. And this first family basically taking advantage of the executive branch. And so much was done to cover that up. And so we're just trying to tell the definitive story about what is fact and really try to get that out there, because it's important that we put a capstone on this and say, look, this is the history of this. Let's not let this go by and not allow American people to understand. I think viewers of your program know this very well because of your reporting, but there's still a big majority out there. And a lot of people love watching, you know, video content and documentaries, and that's our goal, is to get that story out there.
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John Solomon
Yeah, we know everything that occurred from impeachment forward on the Biden family. Soon, I think we're going to learn what happened in the intelligence community that led to the Ukraine impeachment of 2019. It's probably going to be another chilling story that we're all going to be scratching our head about when we get that evidence. But folks, in the meantime, get ready for this incredible documentary. Hey, if you got a Facebook account, send a note to Facebook sports saying, I don't like what's going on with the ads involving Shielded by Power. Let free speech reign on Facebook. Go tell them that today. Fellas, what do you expect this movie to be in the marketplace?
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Tristan Levitt
We can get people to go to Shielded by Power if we can complete this movie. That's what we need. So if we can get the support there of people going that we hope to have it done by August.
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John Solomon
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Amanda Head
Welcome back everybody. The fallout from yesterday's announced cease fire with Iran is still coming in and there's been a lot of talk about what a potential peace deal could actually look like with Iranian and American plans seemingly looking very, very different. And this is all being negotiated under the backdrop of military pressure because whatever can be said about the war, we can definitively say that American military might has absolutely crushed the Iranians conventional forces. So what does it mean going forward? And how can the Trump administration continue to put pressure on a potentially fractured Iranian regime? Joining us now to talk about this and more is someone who's got a lot of insight into it. He is former special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and currently the Dean of Academics at the Institute of world politics, Dr. James Robbins. Sir, thank you so much much for being with us.
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Dr. James Robbins
Hi Amanda, thanks for having me.
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Amanda Head
Thank you so much. All right, this, it's going to be prickly for sure. This two week cease fire. It sounds like there have already been some rogue things flying back and forth, but of course it's the initial hours of that, so that's possibly to be expected. Do you anticipate that two weeks from now we will be saying, well, that went well?
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Dr. James Robbins
Well, it isn't even really going well two hours into it. I think people have to look at the Israeli Hamas negotiat and how that worked where you'd have a ceasefire and then it would be broken and then there'd been more negotiation and maybe there'd be another ceasefire. And it was very nonlinear. So if people think that you can just declare a ceasefire with Iran and it will stick, or they won't add conditions, or they won't say, well it didn't apply to Israel or some other thing like that, no, that's not how it works. So hopefully the ceasefire will hold, but we'll have to wait and see.
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Amanda Head
James, what does it say about their efforts to actually come to an agreement and I guess their view on this conflict overall, the fact that they came forward with these 10 points that according to Press Secretary Caroline Levitt literally went straight into the trash bin because it was just such a ridiculous pie in the sky wish list from Iran. What does it say about their, their Good faith efforts.
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Dr. James Robbins
Well, the Iranians are very good at negotiating. They come up with these 10 points that are basically their wish list. They're all non starters, but they all reflect the things that they were demanding even before the war started. They're treating it almost as though the war didn't happen and that, you know, the destruction of their government and their supreme leader and things like that, they're not even recognizing it. They're just going along like they're winning. And in fact, they declared that the United States has lost, that the fact that there's a cease fire proves it and that they will go forward with that. And again, it's the same with Hamas. It's exactly the same strategy because they know that whereas on the military battlefield they are definitely at a disadvantage when it comes to negotiating. They see themselves as being better than us, that they have an advantage. So they're going to milk this diplomatic process for everything it's worth. And our negotiators are going to have to be willing to just walk away from this process at some point because Iran is going to stick to its maximalist demands and they're not going to give an inch on what we want from them.
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Amanda Head
What is their strategic bargaining chip? Because they militarily, they obviously have been crushed by our military. They've ticked off pretty much all of their neighbors. Is it just the Straits of Hormuzzi?
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Dr. James Robbins
Yes. I think that they look at the economic chaos that they tried to generate, which, by the way, they were saying oil was going to go to 200 a barrel. Okay, it only went to 120 at the worst, which by the way, was about where it was under Barack Obama, even without a war. But they see the chaos and the political pressure in the energy markets and other things that were the result of their attacks on their neighbors and closing the straits as being successful. The fact that we went to a cease fire, they see that as being a direct result of that. So that's what they see as their leverage, that if the war goes back on that they can go back to run that same playbook and that will have the same effects. So the United States has to be aware that the Iranians seem to be willing to let the ceasefire collapse. I mean, they didn't actually cease fire. They kept firing at Israel and kept firing at their neighbors, which they now say should be part of the deal, that the war in Lebanon has to stop. But again, they're just, you know, increasing their demands. So that's, that's what's going on. If if our negotiators think it's just a linear playbook where we're actually trying to find a solution or a compromise, that's not how the Iranians are treating it.
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Amanda Head
When President Trump retook office last January, it wasn't even a day one priority. It was an hour one one priority, practically. President Trump unleashing American energy production. We are now at a place where, as President Trump articulated last week in his address to the nation, we don't necessarily need a lot of what is going through the Straits of Hormuz. And President Trump said, therefore, it's up to those countries that are reliant on those products that go through the straits to secure. Seems to me that there's one country out there who President Trump indirectly was making a clear and open negotiation to, and that was China, because China needs the straits to be open. Did it come across to you like that? Do you think that that was a message. Message to China?
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Dr. James Robbins
Yes. And it's interesting that the Chinese were the ones who were trying to pressure the Iranians to go to the ceasefire and that Iran had been critical of the strait closure strategy from the beginning. I don't know if we want to see Iran taking up a mission of securing any kind of straits with their navy, because the Iranians are building up their navy and they're looking for a global presence. And to kind of suggest that maybe this is good for them, I don't know that that would be the kind of mission we would like to see. And particularly when you talk about straits, I mean, the Strait of Taiwan is the strait that the Chinese are most interested in. And the US has always maintained that we have freedom of navigation through that strait, just as we have freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. So standing on the principle of that, of maintaining that navigational freedom, I think is a lot more important to say that China should play a role in securing the strait. Well, so long as it's a non military role, maybe. But I really don't think we want to see Chinese navy patrolling the Persian Gulf.
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Amanda Head
I think that is exactly right. I want to ask you, you know, President Trump has a remarkably warm relationship with NATO Secretary General Mark Ruda, even though leaving NATO is something that President Trump has talked about since before he was even president in his first term. So amid all of these negotiations, there has been an appeal from President Trump to NATO member nations to assist us in securing the straits. Secure. Assisting us in this, in this conflict in general. And yet it has been, for the most part, closed doors. Does that surprise you? And do you anticipate that this could move President Trump into a position where he can justifiably say, fine, we're out.
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Dr. James Robbins
Well, the Europeans certainly did not read the room. I mean, that is clear. It is one thing to say on a technical side that like this wasn't a NATO mission because NATO wasn't attacked or NATO wasn't involved. But by the way, Turkey was attacked and Turkey is a NATO member. But put that aside. To say things like, you can't use bases, you can't have overfly rights. It's one thing to say you will not send military forces to an out of area engagement. Okay, that's fine. It's not a NATO thing and we get that. But to actively impede the United States in conducting this mission, that is absurd. I mean, that's really where the Europeans crossed a line and now they're kind of backtracking and saying, you know, well, we didn't mean that, or whatever they're saying, but they really gave an opening to the people on the Republican side who were against NATO to say, look, this alliance is worthless to us if they're.
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Amanda Head
Dr. Robbins, I'm so sorry. We've got, we've got to cut you off, but we're going to get you back on very soon. It's such an important, important topic. Thank you so much, everybody. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back, everybody. Reports show that major hedge funds are struggling to meet redemption requests from investors. So, so what does that mean for you and your savings and your retirement? And what can you do about it? Joining us now to discuss this and more is the CEO of American Alternative Assets, Shannon Davis. Shannon, thanks for coming back on. Good to see you.
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Shannon Davis
Good to see you, Amanda. And John, always a pleasure being with you.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I love having you on.
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Amanda Head
Likewise. You know, this is something that you have been warning about for a while. Obviously we don't know how it will pan out this time, but that's kind of the scariest part about it is the unknown.
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Shannon Davis
Yeah. The uncertainty. We were just chatting about it before jumping on is that's the only thing I'm certain about is the uncertainty. Yeah. Amanda, John, this is what Wall street doesn't want us talking about. You know, when investors try and pull their money out of these funds, we're talking billions of dollars. They're being told they can't or they're being restricted. They're capping the amount that they can give out. You know, this isn't 2008 all over again. It's something different. These institutions took retirement accounts like 401ks, pension funds and put them into illiquid, high risk positions. Now when people need their money back, they're being told that they can't get it. The door's locked. And I'm talking Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo. They're all tied up in private credit funds, real estate funds, equity funds. They can't unwind them and they would take massive losses if they would. So, you know, it's going to affect retirees. Don't be like faked out with these headlines. When the market jumps, that's something that people really need to pay attention to, guys. It's scary stuff for sure.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Shannon, I've been watching this. Blackrock, I think set off red alarms when they said they're managing risk. And then people said, what risk? And the answer is big risk. What are the driving forces that have made the hedge funds more illiquid and how big is the commercial real estate pressure right now and adding to that challenge.
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Shannon Davis
Yeah, that's a great question. With the real Estate on the commercial end. And we'll talk a little bit about that for sure. But with Blackstone blackrock, they don't have the cash. These firms promise liquidity, liquid assets or access to their money, but they, they don't have it. They've invested into real estate, right. Commercial real estate that is imploding, private equities, AI startups, structured products. You know, right now, one out of five major, like metropolitan areas that their buildings are sitting empty. So the system right now, it's freezing up. Retail investors and retirees, everyday Americans, they're trapped in some of these funds. And again, John, they're being told that they can't have it. And so it's an iou, basically, is what they're being told. JOHN and Amanda.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, I mean, that IOU robbing Peter to pay. Paul, what happens on a granular level for our viewers for people who have investments through some of these major firms like BlackRock, what should they do to keep from being affected by it?
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Shannon Davis
Yeah, I mean, history is very clear every time the financial system gets stretched. I mean, we can go back to 1971, when Nixon closed the gold window. 2000-2008-2015-2022. It's called diversify your assets into something tangible and real. And that's why gold has held its value for a very, very long time. And they just need to be, they need to prepare and not be reactive, be proactive and diversify into something outside paper assets and the dollar that is struggling right now.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Shane, I want to talk a little bit about the pressures that any war action, any military action, like extended time like we have in Iran right now, always has a chance because you're printing money to drive up inflation. There's some early warning signs that the path that the Fed was on, which was getting towards cutting rates and they cut it a few times now, might be stopped for a while because of that inflationary pressure. How does that factor into this bigger picture with the hedge funds having some liquidity issues and just general uncertainty in the financial markets?
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Shannon Davis
Yeah, it's, it's huge. Inflation has always been sticky. I think that's the word that they use, sticky. But things are getting more expensive. We'll never go back to, you know, pre Covid, you know, pricing. I think, you know, in today's times, our dollar bill just does not buy what it used to buy. And, and they're not, I, I feel like they haven't moved on the interest rates in quite some time. It's, they, they've, they've Drawn a line in the sand and it's affecting people's purchasing power, it's eroding their savings. And this is why gold and silver is always inverse to that relationship and why it always does well. Yep, we've had some corrections here, but it's because of what's going on in the Middle east and we've got a huge energy crisis and these Asian countries are liquidating their gold to pay for the energy needs that they have. If they didn't have the gold to liquidate, they'd be in trouble right now. So that's how powerful on a global scale gold is. But interest rates, we're going to have to hold on for at least another 30 to 45 days until that seat changes because we're not going to see a change there. And it's going to continue to squeeze individuals dollar from both ends for sure.
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Amanda Head
Shannon, I know you guys provide a very, very wide range of products and assets. Do you have a preference of physical gold versus something in an ira? Do you think one is better than the other when it comes to security?
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Shannon Davis
No, it really depends on what the strategy is that we're able to break down with any of our customers. Right. If they're 65, 75, 85, whatever their age is, it really just depends on what they're looking to do. Platinum, you can put into your retirement account. Palladium, you can put into your retirement account. There's a huge demand for it and very little supply. So that's always going to drive up the value. Silver, obviously it's a historical opportunity to buy again. And gold is always going to be your just your stable go to now. Gold's job isn't to pay 2% or 4%. Its job is to be there when everything else isn't. When banks close, when Blackstone or blackrock tell you they can't, you, they won't send you the redemption payments. That's why you want to have that type of asset in your retirement account. And there's nothing more liquid than, than gold and silver, platinum and palladium. I was just explaining to you like globally countries are funding their energy needs with gold.
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John Solomon
It's powerful, stunning, amazing moment.
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Amanda Head
CEO of American Alternative Assets, Shannon Davis. Always a pleasure having you with us. Thanks for being here.
- [56:04]
Shannon Davis
Love it. Thank you guys. Have a great day.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, thank you too. You too. All right. And to our viewers, if what Shannon just said worries you, it should. You can do something about it right now. American Alternative Assets put together a free wealth protection guide that's going to help you protect your retirement before the next crisis, because we have no idea when that could come. Now inside, you're going to discover how to get your money out of Wall street and into assets that you actually own, like we were just talking about with Shannon. So go to john likes gold.com that's where you can get your free copy. You can also use a phone number. You can call 855-GOLD-340. Do it today before the next headline hits. All right everybody, we're going to take a very quick break and we'll be back to finish up on the other side.
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Welcome back to the final segment. John, I know you have probably seen these comments from service members on social media, but also service members who I've spoken to in person. The comparison between former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to now General Dan Kane and their ethos really going from a place where DEI and wokeness was valued and now to a place where military preparedness and that fighting spirit has been restored. So guys, I just want to play sought to because we have Chairman Dan Kaine discussing what this cease fire means. Check it out.
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General Dan Kaine
Every factory that produced Shahid One way attack drones was struck. Every factory that produces the guidance systems that go into those drones was struck. Their missile defense industrial base is shattered with more than 80% of their missile facilities gone, as well as their solid rocket motor production capability. It will take years for Iran to rebuild any major surface combatants as more than 20 naval production and fabrication facilities have been damaged or destroyed. And nearly 80% of Iran's nuclear industrial base was hit, further degrading their attempts to attain a nuclear weapon.
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Amanda Head
John, as you and our audience just saw moments of sobriety there laying out exactly what has happened, the goals that have been achieved. But there was also a moment of levity earlier when he was talking about what was required in the practical world for our true troops. Talking about copious amounts of caffeine, energy drinks and nicotine, he said, I think we might have a problem, but we're
- [61:24]
John Solomon
going to tell Bobby Kennedy, yeah, there
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Amanda Head
is definitely not a problem.
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John Solomon
Listen, this war was phased in with really great precision. Phase one, take out their air defenses, then take out their navy, then take out their air force, then take out their missile ranges, then go after the industrial military complex so that they couldn't rebuild and resupply. And the impact of this is not just on Iran. Russia can't count on Iran anymore to make all those drones that they were using against Ukraine. That's going to hamper and potentially bring Putin to a different negotiating position very quickly. So this is a three dimensional victory, not only against Iran, but Russia particularly, and China in some degrees because they're suffering right now without the oil from Iran. So a very interesting assessment by Dan Cain. And you're right, you can tell we're under a new sheriff.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. And speaking of Ukraine, I want to get to your T's in just a moment because you've got some explosive documents and information that you're going to roll out tomorrow. But as a non sequitur, I want to throw out this clip of Democrat Representative Ro Khanna talking about President Trump and whether he should remain in office. This is what we're hearing from a lot of Democrats right now. Check it out.
- [62:39]
Dr. James Robbins
You were one of the members of Congress that was out there today calling to invoke the 25th Amendment of the United States.
- [62:47]
John Solomon
Walk me through how you would see that working. This Cabinet, this Trump cabinet, which would be required, including the vice president, which would be required to invoke the 25th
- [62:56]
Dr. James Robbins
Amendment, they are not exactly profiles in
- [62:59]
Sam Faddis
courage to and willing and shown a
- [63:01]
John Solomon
willingness to stand up to Donald Trump.
- [63:02]
Sam Faddis
Yet we need to remove this president. We need to use all options, whether it's impeachment, whether it's the 25th amendment.
- [63:12]
Amanda Head
Impeachment, you say. Well, John, I know that that pertains to the documents you have for tomorrow. Tell us about it.
- [63:17]
John Solomon
Yeah. So we've always said on this show that Russia and Ukraine scandals were tied together. That was the theme of my book in 2020. We are going to deliver some bombshell new proof tomorrow night. It's going to show exactly what the intelligence community knew about the officer and his story who prompted Ukraine impeachment. Bombshell information. It should never have gotten to an impeachment when people see this. But the evidence we're going to show you tomorrow night was never given to the senators who sat as jurors. It was never given to President Trump's defense lawyers, even though it was exculpatory. And it was never given to the impeachment managers. So they were flying blind on the very thing that started the entire impeachment back in 2019. We all know now that Hunter Biden did have a corrupt relationship. He did have a tax problem, the things that President Trump wanted to investigate. But now we're going to let you know that the intelligence community who started that impeachment knew they had major problems with the story that the whistleblower, the alleged whistleblower, I'm not going to call him a whistleblower. Gave. That's what we're going to lay out tomorrow night. It's going to be a lot of fun.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, well. And John, this is kind of a pattern, isn't it?
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John Solomon
It is a pattern. Yep. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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Amanda Head
Exactly. It doesn't really matter if you have the goods as long as you got the guy that you want to have the goods on, then that's what really all that matters.
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John Solomon
All about getting job.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. What's the quote about? If you have the facts, pound the facts. If you don't have the facts, pound the table. And that's exactly what they did in that committee. All right, everybody, that's all the time we have for this evening, but we will be back here tomorrow night at the same time. Have a good one.