Iran Missiles SMASH Tel Aviv, US F-15's Downed, Israel Begins Phase 2 | Redacted News

Summary

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Redacted News — March 3, 2026

"Iran Missiles SMASH Tel Aviv, US F-15’s Downed, Israel Begins Phase 2"

Host: Clayton & Natali Morris
Guests: Col. Daniel Davis (Deep Dive with Daniel Davis), Drew Berquist (Former Counterterrorism Officer)

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the dramatic escalation of conflict between Iran, Israel, and the US, as Iran launches a massive missile strike on Tel Aviv, US air assets reportedly take losses, and Israel initiates what’s being called "Phase 2" of the war. Clayton and Natali Morris aim to cut through mainstream media narratives, bringing in military and intelligence experts to analyze the rapidly evolving situation, highlight strategic miscalculations, and examine the profound risks now facing US global and domestic security.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Media Silence and Narrative Control

• Mainstream Blackout: Both Clayton and Natali open by emphasizing the lack of coverage by Fox News and mainstream media of the events in Tel Aviv ([00:54], [01:23]), attributing this to entrenched pro-war narratives and Washington establishment interests.
• Information Suppression: “You're not going to find it on Fox News or the mainstream media, which of course is in lockstep with the neocons in Washington D.C.” — Clayton ([01:36]).

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2. War Objectives and US/Israeli Strategy

• Objectives Outlined: Clayton reviews official White House objectives, including neutralizing Iran’s missiles and navy, ending their nuclear ambitions, and halting proxy support ([04:20]).
• Skepticism and Indefinite War: Natali points out the vagueness of the objectives, especially "directing terrorist armies," as a pretext for endless intervention ([05:35]).
• Iran Preparedness: The guests note Iran’s military has anticipated such a conflict for two decades, building ‘deep underground missile bases’ ([07:23]).

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3. Depleting Western Air Defenses

• Missile Shortages:
  • Col. Daniel Davis: Highlights fast-dwindling US, Israeli, and European stocks of interceptor missiles ([09:01], [10:44]).
  • “We had a limited number of interceptor missiles because we've given so many to Israel over the last two and a half years and to Ukraine over the previous four years... These wars are making our own national security more vulnerable.” — Davis ([09:53]).
• Potential Consequences: Running out of air defense capability would endanger not only Israel/US allies but US bases globally.

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4. Strategic Miscalculations & Military Logistics

• No Clear Plan B: According to Davis, US & Israeli leadership "rolled the dice," banking on regime collapse in Iran and assuming a quick victory akin to Iraq in 2003.
  • “It will be a huge blunder of enormous proportions… The only thing you can do is to err.” — Davis ([13:08], [18:53]).
  • The US lacks both the munitions and ground force strength to invade or sustain a prolonged conflict in Iran ([18:53]).
• Comparison to Past Wars: Citing failures to subdue Gaza or Hezbollah, Davis is critical of thinking Iran would be different ([13:08]).
• Logistics Are Key:
  • “In wars, the true professionals are ultimately the logisticians.” — Adm. Stavridis, quoted by Clayton ([12:41])
  • “This should have been done way back in the planning stage…” — Davis ([13:08]).

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5. Fraying Alliances & Geopolitical Fallout

• Perception of US Weakness: Davis warns US credibility is being severely damaged among allies in the Middle East and NATO as American promises of protection prove hollow ([21:05]).
  • “Does it make sense to continue to be friends with the United States when because of their actions, not only do they not protect you, but they spawn an attack on you?” — Davis ([21:47], [22:59]).
• Attacks on Oil Infrastructure:
  • Iranian retaliation targets oil fields — like Saudi’s Tenora— aiming not just for military/strategic aims but long-term economic/political leverage ([23:06]).

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6. Propaganda, Causality & the "Who Started It?" Debate

• US/Israeli Preemptive Strikes: Natali and Davis outline four separate times since April 2024 when Iran was attacked first, pushing back on the White House/State Dept. narrative that Iran started the war ([26:20], [27:25]).
• Davis sharply rebukes officials:
  • “Rubio was just flat out lying when he said that they would have attacked us. There's no way they would have attacked us. They haven't ever.” ([27:25])
  • Calls out the "Doordash" analogy of Israel ordering up US military support at will ([34:40]).

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7. Missile & Drone Warfare — New Technology Paradigm

• Failed Missile Defense: Interceptor systems are failing to block Iranian missiles and drones ([24:51], [25:53]).
• Iranian Drone Capabilities:
  • Significant advancements due in part to technology-sharing with Russia ([38:09]).
  • “The Iranian missile program, I'm sorry, the drone manufacturing base only expanded and increased.” — Davis ([38:09]).

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8. Domestic Security: Sleeper Cells & Blowback

• Potential for Terrorist Attacks in the US:
  • Drew Berquist: Asserts that while visible attacks from organized sleeper cells haven’t materialized yet, risk of lone-wolf or coordinated attacks has never been higher due to open borders and escalation in the Middle East ([46:33], [48:20]).
  • “You should always have your head on a swivel. You should definitely have your head on a swivel right now.” — Berquist ([48:20])
• Cycle of Blowback:
  • “If you kill my father, I'm coming for you...that's just how it's going to go, and that's how this cycle continues.” — Berquist ([49:45])
• False Flag Concerns: Discussion on whether some domestic attacks might be cynically used as justification or distraction ([53:52], [54:25]).

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9. Strategic & Political Consequences

• US at Risk of Strategic Loss:
  • "If the President stops it for any reason short of [stated objectives], he can't claim any of those things are successful, so we'll all know that it's not, and that Americans have died in the meantime…" — Davis ([35:16])
• Political Fallout: With war dragging on and negative economic impacts (soaring oil/gas prices), Trump risks catastrophic losses in upcoming midterms, especially as he campaigned as a “peace president” ([37:02]).

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “This is a huge blunder of enormous proportions.” — Col. Daniel Davis ([13:08])
• "They're saying this will not be a protracted war. We have objectives. We have goals. I’d love to know what those objectives and goals are." — Clayton ([01:36])
• “We had a plan A which was let’s go in and blow a bunch of crap up...It didn’t work. And so I don’t think there was a Plan B.” — Davis ([32:56])
• "I think that Iran does have enough offensive missiles to at least drag this out for multiple months longer than we can." — Davis ([11:03])
• “We have started a war with Iran. FYI.” — Clayton ([44:11])
• “Once the oil infrastructure is destroyed, this is not something, this is not a genie you can put back in the bottle.” — Clayton ([23:06])
• “You're not going to invade Iran and have any success.” — Davis ([19:40])
• “If you kill my father, I'm coming for you...that's just how this cycle continues.” — Berquist ([49:45])
• “That app may not work. They may be pushing the button, but nothing's going to be happening after that.” — Davis on US military support availability to Israel ([36:00])

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Timestamps: Important Segments

• Opening critiques of media coverage ([00:54]–[02:11])
• Reviewing US objectives & skepticism ([04:20]–[07:43])
• Col. Daniel Davis on missile shortages & strategic risk ([09:01]–[11:03])
• Debating the realism of ground invasion ([18:40]–[20:43])
• Fraying alliances and loss of US credibility ([21:05]–[23:28])
• Drone/missile defense failures ([24:32]–[26:20])
• Debate over who initiated conflict ([27:25]–[29:44])
• No Plan B and military stalemate ([32:45]–[35:16])
• Economic and political consequences ([37:02]–[39:41])
• Iranian sleeper cells and domestic terror risk ([46:33]–[49:45])
• Blowback, cycle of vengeance, and false flag debate ([53:52]–[54:25])

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Final Thoughts

The episode delivers a bleak, no-spin assessment of escalating US/Iran/Israel hostilities, the collapse of pre-war assumptions, and the long-term dangers of depleted military resources, shaken alliances, and domestic instability. The guests—a retired Army Colonel and a former counterterrorism officer—warn repeatedly of the risks of believing official optimism, call for urgent reevaluation of US policy, and stress the inevitability of unforeseen consequences when war begins without a credible exit plan. Throughout, the hosts and guests maintain a critical, sometimes sardonic tone, repeatedly urging viewers to “keep their head on a swivel” both at home and in media consumption.

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Transcript

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to driver availability [e-mail] SameDayDelivery welcome everyone on this Monday to the show. Great to see everybody. What an incredible weekend and past 24 hours as Iran has sent a barrage of missiles into Tel Aviv. Of course, you won't see this on Fox News anywhere. I just like watching Fox News over the past hour. No mention of what happened over the past 24 hours. Really? In Israel at all. Is that surprising?

[Natalie]

No, it is not. Also no mention of Iranians in the streets protesting against US Intervention, calling against Netanyahu and Trump together. Hard to find, isn't it? It's a little bit hard to find that information.

[Clayton]

Yeah. Dig for it. You're not going to find it on Fox News or the mainstream media, which of course is in lockstep with the neocons in Washington, D.C. which push for regime change. Of course. We heard recently, of course, from the Secretary of War. Pete Hegseth just spoke a short time ago saying that this will not be a protracted war. We have objectives, we have goals. I'd love to know what those objectives and goals are. And President Trump says four to five weeks. So we're gonna ask Colonel Dan Davis, host of the Deep Dive with Daniel Davis, really one of the smartest voices in all of this, to kind of go through and figure out exactly what is the military strategy here and what are they not telling us. We're gonna talk with him.

[Natalie]

Oh gosh, I was just watching his live stream. He's fired up and I'm here for it cuz I'm fired up too. We're gonna talk about what else. We're gonna talk about how this continues at risk. It inspires radical Islam. How could it not? Are we at any danger of Iranian sleeper cells here inside the United States? Will it in fact impact our borders? So we're going to talk about all of that and more. Thank you so much for being here. Be sure to hit that like button if you're here so that other people can join our conversation. That helps us with the algorithm Juice, we really appreciate it. Okay, but before we do that, we have two sponsors we are happy to tell you about. The first is American Financing. Now of course, have you looked at your credit card statements lately? And if you're in high interest rates, you're using your credit cards to buy gas, groceries, things you used to be able to afford. Well, you know, many are predicting that this war is just going to make that worse. So think about that. Over 20% just to keep yourself afloat. American Financing though is doing something about it. They're actually helping people. They have mortgage rates in the fives. They're showing homeowners how to take their hard earned equity in their home and wipe out high interest debt. The average savings is 800amonth and they have salaries based mortgage consultants to help you. There's no upfront fees, no obligations. So to see how much you can save, call them 866-890-8434 or go to american financing.net now if you act today, you can delay two mortgage payments. Really give yourself some breathing room. So give them a call. And again, American financing.net now their NMLS number is 182334. If you'd like to look them up, it's nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR rates for the 5.6.196 for well qualified borrowers. But of course interest rates are going down as the American dollar devalues. We see that happening, so see what they can do for you personally. Again, American financing.net We also want to tell you about our friends at IQ Bar. They are our exclusive snack, hydration and coffee sponsor, IQ Bar protein bars, their IQ hydration mixes and they also have mushroom coffees. They're delicious, low sugar and they're the brain body fuel you need to win your day. Now personal these little hydration packs I keep in my purse at all times. My son is a migrainer so I need electrolyte drinks with me at all times. So I can't just keep a Gatorade in my purse. But to have those electrolyte packs are really important. Plus all my kids are athletes and my husband is one too, not professionally, but, you know, we're active people. So we keep these on hand at all times. Really delicious, many different flavors. They also have magnesium in them. It's they have a variety of flavors for their bars that are quite delicious. Delicious too. So it's really great on the go snack that you can be sure doesn't have, you know, artificial flavors or coloring and that kind of thing. So check out their buffet of offerings. Text redacted to 64000 you can get 20 off plus free shipping. Again, text redacted 64000. You should be so glad to add this to your emergency stash of snacks if you're an active person with an active life. We thank them so much for their support of this show. All right. Well, the war with Iran is going about as predicted. Now recall about two weeks ago the Trump administration fired generals who said this will not go well. And then this is not going well. After assuring the American people that the war would be a quickie, we could just quick in and out, pull a little regime change. President Trump and the Pentagon now say this could take four to five weeks. President Trump, when asked if ground troops might be necessary, said he's not ruling that out after assuring us we would never need to do that for a war that was ordered up by Israel basically on a door dash. Now, the White House says that the US Actually does have stated goals and they've given us this infographic. Let's study it for a second, shall we? Now first they're saying they're going to destroy Iran's missile capabilities. Then they're going to annihilate their navy. They're saying that they want to make sure they can't sponsor any terror anymore and obtain a nuclear weapon. And this the fourth one, that they cannot arm, fund and direct terrorist armies outside of their border. So that one being overly broad, you know, they could just say, oh, you know, someone over here did something. We think Iran did it. We're still going to keep going. That one, I think is the placeholder to keep this war going indefinitely. But we'll see. You know, we have sources inside Iran that have said that Iranian navy has not suffered losses, that most of this war will be conducted with drone equipped speedboats. And those are still sitting in the harbor right now. They're not that afraid of that.

[Clayton]

By the way, Fox News just a short time ago even had the gall to admit on their air that Iranian drones are almost unstoppable. They're having that's the biggest trouble right now for Iran or for, for Israel and the United States is these Iranian drone attacks.

[Natalie]

Yes. And then if we could just put that graphic back up, the idea of the missile systems being destroyed, well, those are underground because Iran has been preparing for this for about as long as the United States has been threatening it, which is what do we say? Take Clayton, two decades, two and a half decades. So, yeah, they've been, they, they kind of saw this one coming like from

[Clayton]

a long we go back to 2002, September 12th of 2002, when what's his name, Netanyahu, Milikowski, whatever was sitting in Congress. And answer the question from Dennis Kucinich specifically, any other threats out there we should know of as he was trying to sell the Iraq war is.

[Drew Berquist]

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[Clayton]

That's good. That's the next one you really got to pay attention to.

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Iran.

[Natalie]

Yeah.

[Clayton]

2002.

[Natalie]

So, yeah, long time we this one was a long time coming. So anyone who someone tried to tell me this weekend, oh, they really didn't see this coming. I'm sorry. That's so dumb. It's so dumb. Yeah, it's not a laughing matter. But you think they didn't see. I'm sorry, you take it from here.

[Clayton]

All right, we want to bring in Colonel Daniel Davis, host of the Deep Dive with Daniel Davis now, who is one of the real sensible voices in all of this. And Colonel, great to see you as always. Welcome back to the show. I just want to get your sense overnight that I'm surprised. Like here's some new footage from Tel Aviv and I was speaking to sources in Tel Aviv who were showing me videos outside of their freaking window of what they were seeing. But you won't see this on FOX News News at all. This is, this is Tel Aviv. You know, of course, buildings being blown up, direct hits right next to city hall. But why is Fox News, do you think, not really covering any of this damage in Tel Aviv?

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Col. Well, look, I just saw a few minutes ago a interview with Keith Kellogg on Fox News and they were asking him about a, I think it was a Wall Street Journal report that said that we're going to have to do something pretty quick because we're going to run out of interceptor missiles. We don't have enough to sustain this over this five week period that President Trump talked about. And he says, no, no, no, that's not the case. No problem at all. We obviously wouldn't have ordered something like this. Our commander wouldn't have ordered something like this unless he knew we had enough missiles in the stockpile. And in any case we can get some from our allies if we need to. And I was just thinking, look, uae, according to Bloomberg has said that they've got about a week left of interceptor missiles and they're going to run out. And they're not even the primary target we're seeing. You just showed a video there of the even what we have these missiles that are coming in from Iran, going through it like a sieve and now that we may run out completely. And that's something I think you and I have talked about before. We had a limited number of interceptor missiles because we've given so many to Israel over the last two and a half years and to Ukraine over the previous four years and our inventory was already low. This is why I have been warning so emphatically for so long that these wars are making our own national security less vulnerable or more vulnerable and putting us at higher risk. And now you're seeing it play out before your eyes. But it could get a lot worse because now there's nowhere else to get missiles from and we can't make them fast enough. And if we keep going on with this fiction that we're going to win something here and we use all the rest that we have, our entire national security across our global requirements will be put at greater risk. And that is something that should be, it should never get to that point.

[Natalie]

Now some of the propaganda is, oh, Europe is mobilizing. Oh, we've got France, we've got Greece. They don't have a major army other than NATO funded armies. So do you think that Iran would be quaking in their boots that, oh, here comes Greece?

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Yeah, yeah. I'm thinking that the mighty Greece armed forces is not exactly going to cause a lot of trepidation in Tehran when the US and Israeli armed forces together are not causing them to quake. Look, this onslaught is true, tremendous amount of combat power. And for all the videos you were showing there in Tel Aviv, there's just as many in Tehran, in some of the other cities in com, and in several other places throughout the country. They are getting just pummeled and hammered because a lot of our stuff's getting through as well. But the fact is they knew this was coming and they have calculated and they signaled this ahead of time that they felt that it's less risky to have a war with the United States and Israel than it was to submit again because otherwise it was going to eventually get to that point to where they would be destroyed anyway. And so they said, look, we're going to hit you back in the face and we're going to give you a bloody nose. We're going to give you a broken arm. And so far, that's exactly what they're doing. And the question is, this is all about missiles. It's not going to be about anybody's army or any ground force. There's no army involved here. This is all about missile forces and air defense, missile forces, and it's a matter of who's got the most resources. And. And right now, I don't think we have enough air defense missiles, and I think that Iran does have enough offensive missiles to at least drag this out for multiple months longer than we can. This is probably not going to go like the Russia, Ukraine war, where it can go on for years. This is probably something that could go on for weeks or many months, potentially. And if it does, we're in a world of hurt because we can't drag it out that long. Especially if they completely shut off the Strait of Hormuz and they have it partially shut off now, the whole Western economy is going to be in a world of hurt.

[Clayton]

Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Admiral James Stavridis. Am I saying that correctly? Says as both the US and Israel expend hundreds of precision weapons, from JDAMs to Tomahawks to Patriots, it is time to start focusing on logistics. How deep are the stockpiles? In wars, the true professionals are ultimately the logisticiansticians. Do you agree with that?

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Yeah. I mean, it's time to start focusing on logistics, right? Look, Clayton, this should have been done way back in the planning stage when the first day you ever got together in the tank or wherever. They did this in the Pentagon or wherever that should have been. Job number one, you should have had all these charges said, all right, here's how much our inventories do we have, the classified numbers. Here's what we think it would take to accomplish the objectives, the political objectives that the president wants, and here's how much time we think it would take to get that. And then you say, do the ways and the means match? Can we get this done? The answer would clearly have been known, because the only way it's a yes. And it looks to me like this is what we are literally gambling everything on. You think that you bought into the rhetoric that they were saying before this, that the Iranian regime is like a house of cards. It's never been weaker than in this whole 47 years than it is right now. So you go and you throw a Few missiles down, they collapse, they fall. Game over. And yay, we win. We come out. Easy victory. That's, I think, the only way that you could say that we're going to take this action here, because if they did the normal thing, which is to not collapse, because with no threat of a ground force like there was in Iraq in 2003, then the only thing you have is missiles, and we clearly did not have enough offensive missiles in a country four times bigger than the country of Iraq to bomb them into the Stone Age. Just consider. Consider this so important here. The tiny little Gaza Strip that Israel had complete mastery over for two and a half years have literally turned it into a moonscape, and they still have not brought into submission the Palestinian people and Hamas, even, even Hamas in this tiny little enclave. Now, imagine in a country the size of Iran that you're going to expect them to collapse overnight when almost nobody else does that in history. The Houthis didn't do it. Hamas didn't do it. Hezbollah didn't even do it, even with all the damage they've caused. And you think that Iran. Iran is going to do that. And yet we have gambled everything and now we're on a course to where we are using all these JDMs or these precision munitions, the air defense missiles, and there's no path to get out now. So this is a huge blunder of enormous proportions.

[Natalie]

Now, about two weeks ago, it was reported that General Dan Kane reported to the president that we don't have enough ammunition to win this war. It would not be pretty. We probably would not. And then President Trump took to his truth social and said, oh, no, no, no, no. If we do it, it will be easily won, he promised. Easily won. And now here we are. And it looks like we. General Kane was probably right. He. There were adults in the room who knew our capabilities. You know, they had assured us there would be no ground troops. Now President Trump is saying there may be ground troops if. If that's necessary. I mean, I don't even know what the entry point would be in Iran. You're saying ground troops would not really do very much. So speak to the fact that this is not easily won. And anyone who believed that is a jerk.

[Clayton]

Could I also maybe just follow up with that? Colonel, is that also to what you just said? An admission to use ground troops is an admission that we don't have the missiles to sustain the mission inadvertently.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

That's exactly what it is. And, you know, and I wondered at the minute you brought up that issue about Trump's truth. Social after the reports were that General Kaine said that there was some enormous risk involved here. And Trump came out and said, no, that's not what he said at all. Fake news, actually. He said, he said this is what Trump, he quoted Cain, he said we would win easily. Not that Trump said it. He claimed that that's what the general said. And I noticed and looked very carefully for it. It was not rebutted anywhere. General Kaine never came out and said he didn't say that. And I was thinking at the time, I'm like, I'm wondering how this is going to play out in history. This is before the attack because if it goes the way I think it's going to. And he never said he didn't refute that then. Now, then you're going out there and you're letting the President mischaracterize something you said and you're going to be going forward. So do you have the integrity to stand up and say, no, that's not what I said. I did not say it was going to be easy? Because right now it looks like you're concurring with him. So now you're allowing by your silence for people to believe that, oh well, that is what he said then, because the President said it and he didn't contradict it. And so now if you have the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that told the President this is going to be easy, then you got the wrong guy in that job. And if he didn't say that and if he believed it otherwise, and yet he stayed silent and continued going on, you still have a problem. Because at some point somebody's got to stand up and say no, you're given a political objective that we don't have the military capacity to accomplish and if we try to get this accomplishment, it's impossible to succeed or improbable, then we will cost ourselves tremendously. We're already seeing that play out now. God help us if this continues on, if it even goes through this four week part because we have already suffered so much loss, not just in the number of troops, but in our credibility and reputation among our friends and allies, much less among our potential adversaries. This is very costly. If we keep ignoring reality and go further down and then we physically get even lower in our position. Guided weapons and our air defense missiles, I'm telling you, I mean this, our national security across the globe will be at perilous risk and we just have to hope no one puts us to the test further.

[Clayton]

What about troops on the ground. Actually, as someone in the chat room reminded us, I think maybe Colonel McGregor had mentioned that we don't even have enough troops for this going in. What would that even look like? Are we prepared to send. How many would it take to go in and try to.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Absolutely not. You know that when in Desert Storm, we're out. I was part of that deployment then. In fact, I fought alongside Colonel Doug McGregor then. He was major at the time, and I was a green second lieutenant. And, you know, Saddam Hussein invaded on August 1990, and then by November, we already knew that it was likely we were going to get called up. But the order came in November, and it took us about, I guess, three or four months to get all of our combat power into the region. And that that was an army of 750,000 we had at that time. Now we've got about 450 or so, and that's total army of the worldwide all the place. And you're talking maybe 100, 120,000 actual combat troops. In part of that. We don't have a fraction of anything that's on active duty to be able to engage something like that. And as you just mentioned a minute ago, where would you go in from? From Baghdad. Do you think Baghdad's gonna allow us to have this army informed? And it would take months to get there. And of course, the terrain is so much more difficult in Iraq. I've looked at the terrain that it would take to go, whether from Kuwait or from Baghdad, anywhere in Iraq to get, like, say, to Tehran, to be able to unseat the political seat of power. It would be almost impossible because it's through almost like a lot of these mountains. In Afghanistan, you'd have to go through mountains, and there's all this canalizing terrain and, you know, narrow roads, and you could be ambushed everywhere. We would never make it. So there is, no matter how many troops we have, we could not accomplish. You're not going to invade Iran and have any success. So the only thing you can do is to err. And that's why I say this has been a gamble of historic proportions, of rolling the dice and hoping that they just collapse. But if Iran just maintains its solvency and its viability, we're going to lose strategically.

[Natalie]

Now, something you said on your show earlier this afternoon, you said, you know, there's a lot of propaganda out there. We're winning, we're doing great. You know, these are our strategic objectives. Some Americans buy it, fine, but our partners overseas do not. And this will cost us dearly because of that. Can you expand on that? Because I really stopped on that point when you said it.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Yeah, yeah. So let's just look at the Middle east especially, because everybody has been our friend and everybody has been a backer of the United States because the perception of that, we're the lion, you know, and the king of the jungle. We're the big, you know, bull on the block that everybody else is afraid of and we can keep everybody safe. Well, now we have proven already that because of our choice, our decision to go to fight a war that didn't need to be fought, we were not able to provide protection from them. So now then, I mean, cities are on fire, high rise buildings are going up in flames. Their, their oil infrastructure is getting struck and we can't stop it. I mean, not only do we not have enough air defense missiles, our allies don't have enough air defense missiles. So all this air defense capabilities that we've given everybody that we say this is incredible is obviously not because the missiles and the drones are getting through anyway. So now then people are starting to see, and this was with Qatar a little bit in 2025 when our base there was, it was a demonstration hit. But at least they saw. Wait a minute, you didn't keep us from getting hit. And now then they have been hit themselves. Not just our bases, but the countries themselves. So they have paid a price because of our actions in here. So now then you got to say, does it make sense to continue to be friends with the United States when that means that because of their actions, not only do they not protect you, but they spawned an attack on you? And that is something that I don't think anyone has come to grips with. And I'm talking about in these countries yet, but I promise you they're going to. And then you can carry that over into NATO, you go into the European countries, and they're seeing now that our stuff is not that good, and now that we're running out of the ability to even defend Israel, and you see how bad that's going. So people are going to start saying, does it make sense to keep on hanging our future defense and our security to an erratic regime like the United States? I mean, you got to imagine they're

[Natalie]

thinking that now we have Saudi officials who are going on TV saying the United States abandoned us.

[Clayton]

And this is Saudi. This is the video here. This is the robbery. Tenora oil fields. 500,000 barrels of oil per day being produced at this oil field up in smoke and we spoke to a guest the other day who said that's the biggest concern. Once the oil infrastructure is destroyed, this is not something, this is not a genie you can put back in the bottle.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Colonel yeah. And I mean, number one, it's going to take time. Look, we've seen that these things can be fixed because I mean, look at it no further than Ukraine. They've had their facilities hit a lot, Russia's had a lot of their facilities hit and those things could be repaired. But those sides are in a full on war and they understand that there's not supposed to be a war here and we have now started one that is causing them to get hit. And I think that's one of the intentions and I think that's one of the objectives of the Iranian regime is that they're saying, okay, we don't have the wherewithal to physically defeat the United States. They can't, they can harm us, they can hit us with these missiles. But I think that they have made what is probably a pretty shrewd calculation to say, say I'm going to hit your friends in the area to prove that you can't protect them and to make them cause in the future not to be supportive of you because we've gotten blanket support for decades. And I think that once the smoke clears from all this, however it rolls out, however much damage is done, it'll be repaired at some point. But the question is going to be what's going to be the damage on the political side afterwards? That could be far more consequential to us than the physical new video in.

[Clayton]

Colonel Just this is Israel, of course, it's nighttime there. You know, Iranian ballistic missile strikes, what type, when you're looking at these types of strikes here, what are you seeing? I mean, it seems like interceptors failing to stop these. Are these hypersonics that you're seeing coming in here? What are we seeing?

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Yeah, I'm not some of those look legit, some of those don't. I'm worried that a lot of this stuff, or some of this stuff anyway, is AI driven. But some of the, especially that hypersonic one that, that looks like stuff we've seen, I'm not sure if all this is legit or not, but what we know for a fact is that a number of the for sure real videos, it just shows missile after missile coming in and a small percentage of them are even getting in engage, much less intercepted. And, and you know, the longer this goes, the Israel just can't survive a lot of this. Damage. Whether those were AI videos, we don't know. But you see in the daylight, even on Fox News, they've shown some substantial damage on the ground inside of Israel. And this is going to continue to happen. And until, I mean, there was a reason why the 12 day war only lasted 12 days because Israel said, we can't do this, we can't stop these missiles, we don't have enough defense missiles. And they're not stopping it anyway. That's why they pushed, they pushed to have the war in last time because they didn't want to. And now here we are again. And this is what boggles my mind is that the same technology that existed last June was still in place here. So for you to preemptively strike a missile that you knew was going to get the Iranians to fire back, you knew the outcome was going to be the same as it was in June of last year. And so it is. So what are they going to do now? They're going to stop again after 12 days. Will Iran stop after 12 days? That's a bigger question. And I don't know that they will. Right.

[Natalie]

You mentioned that they have calculated and they need to stop this once and for all. And it's hard not to see why that calculation would be valid because they're, you know, our American government is calling this Epic Fury. They are calling it operation true promise 4 now. Why 4? Because we started it in April. They didn't attack first. The US and Israel did. April of 2024, when Israel struck the consulate. October of 2024, Israel struck inside of Iran to target, they say Hamas and senior Iranian leaders. Then last summer, in June, then they got hit first again. So they keep getting hit first. We hit them again during peace talks, which shows they were not gonna strike first. Every time we say this was preemptive and then we hit them first four times. So how can we expect a country to just keep taking bombs and not strike back? So you're saying their calculation is, we're putting an end to this. It ends now and again.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

It's totally logical. And man, that's a great point you just made, Natalie, because just before I came on here, I saw Secretary of State Rubio came out there and said, well, listen, Israel was going to attack. He admitted this. Israel was going to attack him. We didn't have any choice. Otherwise we would be sitting there waiting for Iran to attack us first. And Iran has never, never in 47 years attacked us first. They've never done that. They've always tried to calibrate even their retaliation to try and not have this escalate into a big war. And so now then they have said, all right, we're still not going to start it, but since you have now, we're going to go and do other things and we're going to now really unload on you. And that's what we're seeing play out right now. Now. So Rubio was just flat out lying when he said that they would have attacked us. There's no way they would have attacked us. They haven't ever. And they certainly wouldn't have done it now. But now then we have done this. And he's just using that to cover over, to make it sound like, oh, well, we didn't have a choice. Oh, you damn sure had a choice. You didn't have to let. If Israel wanted to do that. And Tucker Carlson said this, and I was really disappointed that he said this the day before the attack even he said, well, I mean, what else are we going to do if they're going to attack? I mean, I guess we have to go and try to shape it and, you know, go in with them. No, we did not have to shape it. We should have told them, hell no. If you take this action, you're on your own. We will not help you. We will not get involved. We will signal to everybody to include the Iranians. You're on your own. That's between you all. If you want to do it, we're not going to do it. That's what he should have done. If it was America first, if we actually cared about our troops in the region, that's what we would have done. But instead, I don't think that they'll. I think that was canard from the beginning. It was never because they were going to go in. I think it's that we've been coordinated this for a long time. As a matter of fact, Benjamin Netanyahu said that this has been going on, this planning had been going on for months, even before the December 28 meeting at Mar a Lago. The United States has bragged about this coordination and cooperation. So I don't buy that at all that we had to. We chose to do this, and now we paid with American blood that should never have been spilt. And now all this damage to our infrastructure, and we don't know where this is going. We still got a lot more damage probably to come. I'm really upset by this.

[Natalie]

Yes. Someone in the chat called it Operation

[Clayton]

no Plan B. Yeah, maybe no Plan A.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Right.

[Clayton]

I mean, that's what I mean.

[Drew Berquist]

Yeah.

[Clayton]

I mean, I want to retread what we. I'll get you on this. But Colonel, IRGC General Jabari just said the Americans have relocated a majority of their aircraft to Cyprus. We will launch so many missiles at Cyprus that they will be forced to flee from there as well. This is Jabari. Let's just hear. Let me see if we can get some sound on this.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

The cassidy.

[Clayton]

So, Colonel, what do you. So I just want to get to like the military perspective here, the logistics. And you would know better than anyone but US Aircraft right now, the aircraft carriers. We heard from a source today in Iran that said, you know, as Natalie pointed out earlier, Iranian navy is fine. In fact, thousands of these small speedboat attack style boats are out in the Persian Gulf that like any kind of big ships are in port. It has not been destroyed, despite what we're hearing from the Western media. So from an American perspective, where are we like positioning a bulk of our forces right now, to your knowledge?

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Yeah, it's hard to know because you hear so many claims by both sides that are mutually exclusive. They can't both be true. And I don't have any way right now, at least this early to be able to authoritatively say where anything is. I've heard this from the Iranian side that they forced us to flee from all these bases. I heard from a source that I have that has direct connections into the area that says a lot of our stuff has been relocated away from Bahrain, for example. But how much I don't know where it's gone, I don't know that either. Have the aircraft carriers moved further back? I just don't have any knowledge about that. The only thing we do know is that according to the British, there were at least two missiles that were fired at Cyprus. Allegedly they were both intercepted. And that was early this morning. And so if he fires more in there later, I don't know, it could be bluster, it could just be trying to argue that they're going to do this or look strong with their own domestic audience because that's who the primary audience with that was. Or it could be true, I don't know. But what we do know is that they have made good and that they can penetrate air defense in all of these other places in the region. And I mean, I can't rule out the possibility they could do that.

[Clayton]

Are we entering like phase two right now? Is it safe to call this phase two? When the initial wave and decapitation attack didn't work I think that what I

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

think the person that made that comment on your show a second ago has got it right here. We had a plan A which was let's go in and blow a bunch of crap up and kill a bunch of people and see if we can assassinate the Ayatollah and hopefully that will cause him to collapse like a house of cards. And it didn't work. And so I don't think there was a Plan B. I don't. They definitely don't have anything resourced and so I don't think they know what they're going to do. I truly don't. It's mind boggling that that's the case. I, I think, I don't remember if it's on your show or not, but I've bemoaned many times and condemned the Russians because they had a Plan A in their war to have all this combat power come in to compel the Ukraine side to capitulate and have a negotiated settlement. At least that plan A was plausible and nearly worked. But at the end they ended up fighting harder and rejected the negotiations at Istanbul. And then it took Russia a good year and a half to recover from that, to resource themselves for their real Plan B. And you know, that's worked out pretty well so far. We don't have a Plan B that I can see. We don't have the industrial capacity to recover like the way the Russians did because they already had a pretty decent defense industrial base and then they ramped it up real big because it was an existential strike strike. This one's not existential for us. In fact, most of the people look at this and say, why did we even start this? Just stop the dying, stop the killing, stop getting rid of our missiles. And this end is because our security is not threatened by Iran. So I don't know how we get resource for a Plan B or what it's going to be because I don't see an attainable military objective however they want to do it. We just need to stop this war and get it off the table as soon as possible. Stop the bleeding, stop the depletion of our inventories and start recovering our strength before we get even worse. Well said.

[Clayton]

Oh, sorry.

[Natalie]

One of my worries about this is that it does stop a little bit easily and then the United States starts the bluster back up again. And so we won't stop it unless it is truly deterrent. And I mean, I'm not rooting for anyone to get hurt. I would very much like it to end. But Israel has an app that's like Doordash, where they just order up the US military and they get it and so they will do it again if we are still available. How do we stop the root cause?

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Well, the only thing that I can, I would hope that might be different in this situation if they, if they did what I said, that it will be self evident to everybody, and I'm talking in the United States, whatever the mainstream media wants to say to make this, put a good face on it, it'll be obvious that we should never have done this, that we caused a lot, because we have set this nearly impossible set of objectives that Secretary of War Pete Hexseth set out today, which is the destruction of their long range missiles, the destruction of their support for all of their proxies, and the destruction of their navy. And then of course, no all denuclearization. If you don't accomplish every one of those, then you are seen as a failure. No matter how much you blow, how many people you kill, if you don't accomplish the mission you set out, then it will be a failure. The Iranian side has merely to endure. They don't have to physically defeat us, they just have to not lose and to remain viable entity. So if the President stops it for any reason short of that, he can't claim any of those things are successful, so we'll all know that it's not, and that Americans have died in the meantime, and that our regional allies are now keeping us at arm's length and are angry at what we've done. And so there's gonna be a lot of consequences to this. And if the President's approval rating was like at 36% before this ever started, and there was already likely gonna be a blue wave, you add a loss like this on top of it and there's a whole bunch of more people that are gonna be saying, no. We want somebody who's actually a no war president or no dumb war president that's gonna keep us safe, but not gonna get us into a war we can't win. So I think that there would be consequences this time. And Israel itself is suffering really bad too, because if they don't have the air defense missiles, they can't keep going on either. So that app may not work. They may be pushing the button, but nothing's gonna be happening after that.

[Clayton]

Yeah, and you're right. I mean, and then also the feeling on the American people like it's fine right now, but once those oil prices start going up, and then separately Gas prices start going up, Natural gas prices start going up. They just, we just got confirmation of an hour ago, Iran has struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and that is on fire and destroyed. So this is escalating quickly until the American people start seeing it on their televisions and Americans coming home. This is going to continue. And then that'll be the true measure for President Trump as we head into the midterm elections. Like, is he going to want this? He campaigned on being a peace president. No more Middle east wars. And here we go again. Colonel, we got a few super chats, if I can throw up here on the screen here. Daniel Davis for president. Impeach Trump. Mr. Wink says thank you for your.

[Natalie]

You're up, sir.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

You're up.

[Clayton]

Iranian drones. Daddy Crab says, gee, where'd they get that technology? Iran has drones. What do you think about that on the drone piece of this?

[Drew Berquist]

Are these

[Clayton]

the Iranian drones that are being so sophisticated and being a real thorn in their side right now?

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Well, listen, the Iranian drones is what the Russians used initially with the Garand ones. You know, when their war in, even in 2022, they started getting a lot of that. And then you had dual use capabilities between Iran and Russia, and they started exchanging technology. And then as Russia built up its capabilities with Garen ones and then Garen 2s after that and then additional ones. I'm sure there was a lot of transfer of technology over there. So the Iranian missile program, I'm sorry, the drone manufacturing base only expanded and increased. So they were, I mean, they're smart on their own. They're, you know, they're very, they got a lot of good scientific mind. They always have in the Persian, I mean, the culture. But now working with the Russians over this time, they were able to improve even more. So this is part of the consequence of what's going on over there, right?

[Natalie]

I saw a funny meme. It's like, oh, yes, we need to liberate their women who are scientists and engineers. Let's go do that.

[Clayton]

This one here from Latrina says, guys, I'm starting to think the egomaniac queens real estate developer wasn't the best man for the job. And P. Walker says what's wild is that there are huge protests, pro Iran gatherings in Azerbaijan, of all places. There's pro Iranian government protests, of course, pouring out in the streets of Iran, all over Iran, mourning the loss of the Ayatollah and shouting like death to Trump for these attacks. This is not going, this is not going well.

[Natalie]

Yeah, that regime change was not so quick.

[Clayton]

Colonel, great to see you. Go ahead.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Also in Pakistan and nearly anywhere there are Shia Muslims, there's been a lot of protest, angered about the assassination of the Ayatollah.

[Clayton]

Colonel Daniel Davis, host of the Deep Dive with Dan Davis. You got to check it out. Great show. Must watch. Tell television on a regular basis. Colonel, great. Thank you for your insights and perspective as always. We really appreciate it.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Thank you. Always a pleasure to be here. Appreciate it.

[Clayton]

Thanks, Colonel.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

God bless.

[Natalie]

He's coming in hot. You know why? Because he can say, I told you so. And he did so.

[Clayton]

Yeah. Well, I love his comment about the, the admiral who was like, you know, we need to focus on that. We now need to focus on the logistics phase.

[Natalie]

He's like, start to start to focus

[Clayton]

on the logistics phase now. What are you out of your freaking mind? Yeah, well, that, when he said, when he said that Rubio said, you know, otherwise we'd be here waiting for Iran to attack. And I think there's something telling in that, that, like, we don't want to just wait. That's boring. Like, let's do something like wait.

[Natalie]

Well, I mean, we provoked them four times. Four times before we got the war that we wanted. So, okay, you know, we got it. How long are you gonna slap that down?

[Clayton]

Coming up, we're gonna talk about Iranian sleeper cells. You know, the last administration, of course, had wide open borders, borders in the United States, Chinese, Mexican, it didn't really matter. But our borders, of course, were flooded with tens of millions of illegal immigrants pouring across the border into the United States. And security concerns now, at least from the intel side from dni, that there are Iranian sleeper cells inside the United States which could be carrying out terrorist attacks. Is this false flag? Is there any truth to this? We're going to talk about that coming up next. But first of all, I don't know if you saw price of gold surging once again, $533 an ounce. This morning, Eric Sprott, one of the legends of the silver business, probably the legend in the silver business, says that he sees $300 for an ounce of silver. I mean, if it's actually valued correctly, $300 an ounce for silver. That's Eric Sprott saying that. And it could even go higher as a. At $500 an ounce for silver. Of course, you know, silver is used in a lot of these weapons, by the way, and it's vaporized, gone forever. So we have, you know, an incredible demand for precious metals right now. And We've been talking about investing in precious metals, gold, silver, for years on this show. Natalie and I started investing back, I think when gold was about $1,700 an ounce and gold was in the 30s. So, you know, are you going to, hopefully you're protecting your families, at least being educated about what's coming with the US Dollar, it's unsustainable at this point. Every expert we've talked to talks about the unsustainability of the US dollar. So do you want your family's future tied to that? I mean, it's up to you if you do. But I'm saying like if your money's sitting in a savings account, that's where you hit a real wall because your money is tied to a US dollar. So our friends at Lear Capital can actually educate you on this. It's a free phone call. Just get on the phone with them and have a call and see if it's a fit for you and your family to start investing in gold. They're an American company. You're not going to get outsourced to India. You're going to speak to an American and make a decision. Do you want gold coins, silver coins sent to your house? You can store them in your gun safe or you want them stored off site in an off site facility, which is what we do under 24 hour guard. Think in Delaware specifically. And they'll help you through this entire process. They'll send you a free kit. You can talk it over with your loved ones and make a decision if you want to. Maybe if you've got a few thousand dollars in American dollars in savings, maybe converting that to precious metals. We're big believers in investing in real tangible assets like real estate, gold and silver. Like that's, that's the top of the heap for us and our family. So anyway, give them a call right now. 1-800-613-3557. Speak to an American company that will help you Gold and silver and precious metals. They will send you a free gold kit and you can sit down over the coffee table with your loved ones and talk about it OR go to learedacted.com is the website or just get on the phone. I prefer getting on the phone. Develop a personal relationship with them. They're a great team.

[Natalie]

So.

[Clayton]

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[Natalie]

Someone in our chat just said fear porn. Did we not warn you about a war with Iran? Is it not happening? Is your dollar not being devalued? So that's. Yeah, we're not fear mongers.

[Clayton]

It happened like they're like, oh no, we're not going to go to war with Iran. We, we have started a war with Iran. FYI, I don't know if you're.

[Natalie]

They are choking off international energy ports. That's happening. So, yeah, we're not doing this for fun. It's not fun for us.

[Clayton]

Us we've been trying to stop.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Yeah. It just reminds me of the, like

[Clayton]

a friend of mine, I was telling

[Natalie]

Clayton before the show, a friend of

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

mine, like, we were, I was talking with somebody else about, you know, and I had mentioned that the Ayatollah had been killed.

[Clayton]

And my other friend, I just wouldn't have expected this.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

He was like, oh good.

[Clayton]

He was such a troublemaker.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

And I just looked at him, I was like, that, yes, that has wide reaching. You know, like, that's not just, oh good, we got him.

[Clayton]

Kill troublemakers on a regular basis.

[Natalie]

Well, again, I want, want to just point out who is starting all of this trouble. Who strikes first, who invades other countries, who's the troublemaker, really? I mean, I'm not for the Ayatollah, but, you know, that's kind of a weird. Well, perspective.

[Clayton]

Yeah. I mean, as Secretary of War P. Hegseth said, you know, we, we were responding. They started this war and we were responding. And as our friend of the show, Daniel McAdams from the Ron Paul Institute, said, no, you moron, you started this war. They did not. So, but now we're dealing with the fallout and the consequences. One of those consequences could be sleeper cells in the United States. Are we going, are they being activated? Intelligence sources at the DNI inside of Washington are being told to focus on counterterrorism specifically. Like, don't worry about the Iranian war, just focus on what's going to happen in the United States. Counterterrorism in the United States. And are we already seeing false flag attacks like that mass shooting in Austin where it's convenient that that person's name was being searched on Google searches days before the attack? And he's wearing a. What is it? I Love Allah sweatshirt? Okay, so is this a false flag attack designed to stoke fear? Are we legitimately about to see Iranian sleeper cells activated in the United States thanks To the last four years of wide open borders borders in the U.S. we want to bring in former counterterrorism officer Drew Berquist now to talk about all of this, who's been watching this very closely. And I just want you to Tell us, tell it to us straight, Drew. Like, I mean, are we, are we going to see sleeper cells being activated? Are you seeing any signs of this from your experience in counterterrorism?

[Drew Berquist]

Well, first of all, thanks for having me, guys. It's good to be with you again, I think, you know, signs now know, not necessarily signs in the near future, very possibly. This. Look, this has been a concern of mine long before we, we kicked off this war with Iran. And, and frankly, we've had sleeper cells here long before the previous administration, which was obviously a disaster. And then that just whole, that whole issue was exacerbated, you know, times a thousand. So, you know, long has been the concern. Look, these guys from, from working overseas all the time that I did spend most of my adult life overseas doing, doing operations for the government and living and breathing counterterrorism and, and being around these guys, interrogating these guys, going after these guys. I mean, the amount of hate that they have for us is actually impressive. Like, you got to give them some credit. Like, they, they're, like, they're really good haters. But. But that's always been the case. Now you do this, now you, you kick this thing off and you've got a, You've got a bunch of IRGC folks, you've got a bunch of lone wolf type folks who are maybe not as organized and, and as connected to irgc, you know, the Iranian Quds Force, but they're all here. So I would be more shocked than not if we did not see some form. Am I saying that every city is going to have attacks going on at their, their churches, their synagogues, their grocery stores? No, but this has long been a concern of mine that something is going to happen. You know, the Austin thing, I think is an outlier. And as you said, there's. There's some, some oddness to it.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

It.

[Drew Berquist]

But I do think that there is some stuff here that, that you, you should be at least concerned about and that should look, that should just getting, getting ahead of myself. And I've said too much already, Clayton and Natalie, but like, you should always have your head on a swivel. You should definitely have your head on a swivel right now.

[Natalie]

Well, right. Because even if it's not an organized response inside the United States, one of the things, I was a liberal at the time when the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, shooting happened, and I bought the bullshit that it was a homophobic attack. It was not. This person was protesting US Drone wars inside Afghanistan. He was tired of seeing his own People being bombed. So he took it upon himself to shoot up an American location to let us all see what it feels like. The press lied to us about that, protecting Barack Obama. But it did, in fact it inspire radical responses. We can't blame that on any religion. We can't blame it on homophobia. It happens. And so some on X are trying to fight with me and say, well, we really do need to go after radical Islam. We are inspiring it and that will bring consequences. If you. I just said what I think. Why don't you say what you think? Sorry.

[Drew Berquist]

No, I think you're absolutely right. I mean, here's the problem with the g. What you know, our whole global war on terror and it goes back back before that, right? Like that global war and terror doesn't happen with, with, without some spats between America and jihadists and extremists before that. But the, the problem with this is, look, the Ayatollah, the mulas, terrible people. Like, I'm glad Kanye's dead.

[Clayton]

Like that's great.

[Drew Berquist]

Like he should be dead. He's not a good person. But the problem is which, which is hard for, for people to understand unless you've been in. And if you don't have to have been in to understand this. But, but is with, you know, we saw it firsthand. We go and kill some dude who's a mid level target. Maybe he's an HVT in Iraq or Afghanistan. His kids are now extremists. We will see his kids in 10 to 20 years. Like this cycle never stops. So it's a really tough that, that's, that's where this thing is so complicated. This is not, you know, United States versus a big state actor in Russia or China. This is, this is an ideology against an ideology. And every time you. And, and we would do the same thing too. Right? And I'm not justifying what, what radical jihadists do, but if you kill my father, I'm coming for you. And, and that's, that's the bottom line. Like, like that's just how it's going to go and that's how this cycle continues. And the same thing is true with, look, there's, there's some good things being done right now. There's some bad things being done right now too. Like I think that we could, we could handle, handle this better. But at the end of the day, when you target another country who has people who hate us, who already hated us, but certainly hate us now in our country, there's going to be repercussions and the same thing remains true for, for stuff that we're doing with the cartels. Now you, you go after, you go after cartels in Mexico or in south and Central America, they also have people here. You run the risk of it. Doesn't mean it's a guarantee, but you run the risk of when you do this or that, that. And, and that's a cost benefit analysis that someone's got to run. And hopefully they've done these numbers and metrics where you start to see some stuff here in America that, you know, we experienced overseas in war zones and we expected there. But, but the American people aren't expecting or wanting to see here. And, and you, you can't blame them.

[Clayton]

Right? Again, I've talked about how, because it's over there, we're desensitized to it. It's like I've said this multiple times. It's my, it's my chicken at the grocery store analogy. But you know, it's a nice piece of chicken breast in cellophane. People don't see the butchering process of it. Right. So there we are, desensitized to it until poor body bags start arriving here at home or we see terrorist attacks. I spoke to a senior level customs and border patrol official today who said you can't let in over 200,000 special interest aliens and not have large, large numbers of terrorists. 60 to 70% of the 12 million illegals that Biden let in were single adult military age males. Let me put it this way. If I woke up tomorrow to learn 50 cities were on fire from terrorist attacks in the United States, I would shrug my shoulders and say, of course, Right, Absolutely.

[Drew Berquist]

Absolutely. It's, it's, it's the outcome anyone with a brain would expect. And here's the thing too, that you like, I don't think enough people, put enough emphasis on, is we've seen how the American public responds to crisis. Whether you go back to, I mean, you look back, I always use the DC sniper case as an example. It was regional. Yes, but like that whole region shut down. If you have terror attacks, you have a dude clacking off in a grocery store and someone in a bookstore here and a church there, and this is happening across the country. The United States of America will not respond well to that. Like, it will not go well. So there's a lot of rah rah going on right now. We're the best military in the world. Hell yes we are. We're freaking awesome. Like, and, and they're doing some Good things. But you've got to understand that with that comes the potential for this. And I think that's, that's, you know, as someone who lived and breathed this world for a long time and as a father and a husband, now that's my biggest concern. And again, I'm not saying I'm all for or all against all of this. I'm just saying when I see this stuff happens, my first response is, oh, crap. Like there's going to be some crazy stuff that happens now in this country that people aren't prepared for.

[Clayton]

Yeah. I mean, you can only punch someone's, you know, in the face so many times before they're going to wind up and, and clock you with a big uppercut at some point, you know.

[Drew Berquist]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Natalie]

But there's a large swath of us now immediately, my people on X, anytime we see something more like false flag, false flag, we just don't know. Right. And, but there's also a larger contingency that are, don't live online like me, who might believe it. Where do we. There's, there's somewhere in the middle that we need to live, and I don't know how to do that. Maybe I need to get off the Internet.

[Drew Berquist]

I wish we all could. Right? That would be, that'd be the thing. Because honestly, the answer typically is in the middle.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Yeah.

[Drew Berquist]

And the problem is, is you get online and you hear these two extremes and then they get dumped into your algorithm because that's what you see. And you just, you see those two things and it's like most people really aren't there, but it, but it is. It's like the truth is usually in the middle. Again, Iran is bad. Us attacking Iran has some benefits, but it also has some massive drawbacks, too. And to think that there's none and we're just going to end this is, is very naive and I would say foolish in thinking. And, and, and, and I also think you can execute it the right way and have it go a certain way still, with some possible and likely ramifications here at home. What I'm really curious with about this whole thing is, is how we handle the back end. Because America tends to get into a lot more stuff on the back end after the. We're great at bombing and killing people. That part's easy. Crazy. It's what happens after that. And you know, from an overseas geopolitical perspective, that's, that's where I'm really concerned and curious to see where things go. And I guess we'll, I Guess the proof will be in the pudding. We'll see here in time.

[Clayton]

No, you bring up a great point. That was going to be my final question, Drew. Which is the back end now? Which is the United States? We know that, you know, officers and the DNI are being told focus on counterterrorism here in the United States. Like, don't worry about what's happening happening in Iran. Focus. Keep singularly focused on this counterterrorism operation in the U.S. from your experience, like, what does that look like? Like what are those, what are, you know, what are the phone calls look like right now inside of like the counterterrorism offices in the United States?

[Drew Berquist]

Well, I think that you've got threat profiles that are always there in, in the different JTTFs, JTTFs that are across the country, you know, which combine intel, FBI, local law enforcement, a bunch of

[Clayton]

different agencies and that's Joint Terrorism Task Forces.

[Drew Berquist]

Okay. Yes, Joint Terrorism Task Force. So you've always got those operating. The problem is as, as a country, you know, where we go wrong so often is we're really good at focusing on one or two shiny balls at a time. And if, if, if a big thing such as the, like the JTTFs should never be shut down. They should always be ongoing because again, we've got, got an ideology and a large, I mean we're talking the largest group of people on the planet. Not all of them are bad, but you've got a portion of the largest group of people on the planet who, who absolutely despise us. So, and obviously we've done some things to fester that hatred. So you've always got to have that going. But at any rate like these guys have always been doing this. Now there's some extra emphasis on it. I, I don't think that changes a whole lot other than it's just the, the problem is, is you, you brought up, we've discussed already multiple times in this, this discussion here. The, the US Government is only so capable like our S. Like look, our intel, who, who found the locations of the 49, whatever the number of leaders is that we killed and some of the key installations. Great job, like really good job bang up job on, on executing some of these folks and some of these targets because you had to have all that dialed in before you're, you're going to do that, that. But back home when people come in and you have the influx, we were, we were not good at it before. And then you add the influx into the Biden administration, like there's no fidelity on where a lot of these people are or who they are. Because we have systems and databases that get. Get thrown for a loop when someone's name spelled wrong. And guess what? An American spelling, you know, a Middle Easterner's name and doing it phonetically correct or phonetically the same every time doesn't happen. So you end up having all these things slip through the crack, and then you bring in a crap ton of people. So they're. They're doing their. Their. Their everyday thing. And it's. Maybe it's ramped up now, and it should be ramped up now, but again, you're like, you're.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

You're.

[Drew Berquist]

You're kind of playing blind. Like, you've been like, hey, here's your badge, here's your gun. Here's your duty belt. You know, here are the contacts we're going to give you. But now we're going to blindfold you and just kick you out into your. Your area of operation. Good luck, because there's a bunch of people you don't know are here, and we're. And as a result of that, we typically are, as the United States government and as an intel community and even as a law enforcement community, very reactive.

[Clayton]

Yeah. Oh, that's exactly what we're seeing, too.

[Drew Berquist]

I.

[Clayton]

Again, speaking with cp, you know, customs and Border Patrol, and what's going on with some of these ICE agents that have, like, almost no experience just being thrown into trying to do arrests? Like, they have no experience doing arrests.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Like, yeah.

[Clayton]

Drew, great to see you. Thank you for your perspective on this. Keep your head on a swivel. And we should always be doing that and protecting ourselves. Watch out. All right, Drew, thank you so much.

[Drew Berquist]

Thank you guys for having me.

[Clayton]

Appreciate it. All right, how do you feel about that?

[Natalie]

I don't know. I mean, I'm gonna say it's a

[Clayton]

simple numbers game right now.

[Natalie]

Yeah.

[Clayton]

It's probability game right now, sadly, when you leave, you know, ten tens of millions of people into the United States illegally. And he brought up a great point with the cartels. I mean, so you assassinate, you take out, like, cartel leaders. Like, you don't think you're gonna see reprisals in the U.S. right?

[Natalie]

And remember, we are still fighting a war in Russia, in Ukraine. We are still funding that war. How can we afford to be vigilant and take care of our own this way? It's not possible.

[Clayton]

So, no.

[Natalie]

No amount of stealing oil from Venezuela is gonna, you know, cover this gap, so.

[Clayton]

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[Drew Berquist]

Here's a question.

[Clayton]

Oh yeah, bud, you're so free. Nsa, CIA know when you sneeze.

[Natalie]

I don't think I ever thought that I was free.

[Clayton]

Maybe they're talking about Drew. I don't know.

[Natalie]

Oh, okay.

[Clayton]

A false flag attack Luke Snow says would have been made a lot bigger. You guys are a joke, I guess. Talking about Austin. Well, we're not saying it is a false flag attack. We're just saying that there are some big inconsistencies with that attack. Right?

[Natalie]

Right.

[Clayton]

Wouldn't you say? I mean, the fact that there were Google searches for this guy's name ahead of time.

[Natalie]

Yeah, and anytime there's like a big T shirt signaling this is what I'm doing this for. We're like, okay, you know, again, questions. We have questions. We still don't have accurate information about Charlie Kirk's assassination. So how can we know anything that the guards government tells us about this in two days? Okay, from increased blood pressure. I'm with you. With you, dude. The madman Mark Levin reported on Fox News that Iran had nukes that could strike mainline us. Oh, that's right. What was the rest of that? How many disappear? So how many people only get their. Yeah. Believe that because they only get their news from Fox? I mean, if you believe that uncategorically, you did no research behind it.

[Clayton]

Right? Well, and how does a guy like that have a job? Like, if I was on Fox News, every tweet he's like calling for the death of human beings.

[Colonel Daniel Davis]

Right?

[Clayton]

Like, if I was at, I worked at Fox News, if I was taking to Twitter and calling for like the assassination of people on Fox News world leaders, I probably would lose my job. Like, I would. Excuse me. I would have been fired.

[Natalie]

Right.

[Clayton]

But they're like, it's fine. It's Mark Levin. You know, Levin.

[Natalie]

Do that. We want this too, so.

[Clayton]

Okay.

[Natalie]

Okay.

[Clayton]

Luke Snow says this channel loves the Aya Ola and where they stand for. Thank you for that great sentence. You love English.

[Natalie]

We love terrorism. We. We love terrorism.

[Clayton]

Yeah. Love terrorism. And, and we love the, the, the, the, the irgc. Thank you.

[Natalie]

You know, nothing. Luke Snow.

[Clayton]

Thank you, Luke. But thank you for your grammar. We really appreciate that. And yeah, I think that's. We got all the rest of them here. Any other ones you want to touch on?

[Drew Berquist]

No.

[Natalie]

Looking good. Test message. Thank you to Bob Maddie England.

[Clayton]

Oh, yeah. Aspartame and other sweeteners can cause migraines. That's right.

[Natalie]

Yes, that's right.

[Clayton]

We were talking about migrating earlier in the show and BB is in Germany. People say in the chat room, BB is in Germany. Yeah, yeah, I know, but he released a video where he's like on top of a building inside of, of inside of Tel Aviv. So you wonder if like he filmed a bunch of videos ahead of time, like he got a bunch of content in the can possibly before he flew to Berlin. Or if he's a clone, could be like Jim Carrey. Well, thank you, guys. I should mention, please subscribe to the channel. It's totally free to subscribe. If you're not already a subscriber here, just hit that follow button on X, YouTube and rumble. It's totally free. Thank you, guys. We'll be back here tomorrow at 4pm Eastern Time for our live show. As always, have a great night everybody.

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