Ben Meiselas (4:49)

Again, there's always receipts and videos for everything. CNN put together this collection of clips of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that Iran was close to getting a nuclear weapon 24 hours a week. It's about to happen. Going back to 1996, we've been hearing this here. Play this clip.

Benjamin Netanyahu (5:15)

The deadline for attaining this goal is getting extremely, extremely close. And Iran, by the way, is also outpacing Iraq in the development of ballistic missile systems that they hope will reach the eastern seaboard of the United States within 15 years. By next spring at most, by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage. From there, it's only A few months, possibly a few weeks, before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb. The foremost sponsor of global terrorism could be weeks away from having enough enriched uranium for an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons. That would place a militant Islamic terror regime weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It could be a year. It could be within a few months.

Ben Meiselas (6:21)

Less than a year, you know, and what? 90 days ago, Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of national intelligence, Trump's DNI, she said, according to the US intelligence community, this was 90 days ago, she said that Iran is not capable of building a nuclear weapon and they're not pursuing a nuclear weapons program. This is what she said. Here, play this clip.

Unnamed Intelligence Official (6:46)

The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. And Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program.

Ben Meiselas (7:02)

Now, I want to be clear about what my position is. I do not want Iran to get a nuclear weapon, okay? I do not think that the Ayatollah should be leading Iran. I also recognize that regime change means bloody civil war and that my view, American troops should not be sent into the Middle east to be a part of a bloody civil war in Iran or a war in Iran at all. Donald Trump has alienated our allies at the G7. He basically gave them the middle finger. The only, I guess, ally that Donald Trump has now is Netanyahu. And for just the US And Israel to go it alone, perhaps pursue regime change which can lead to regional destabilization, committing potentially American troops to an endless war in the Middle east without a plan. I mean, just think about what will happen in Iran. Let's just say you topple the Ayatollah. Everyone. No one, no one likes the Ayatollah, okay? I mean, I look at those videos and photographs in the 70s, before the Revolution, and you see, you know, women's rights, you see people out there looked like a modern society, you know, in the 70s, before it became a theocracy. But play it out. So we already have the family and the descendants of the Shah saying they want to take over. You have extreme terroristic groups, even more extreme than the Ayatollah who would want to take over Iran in a power vacuum. The people of Iran, in my opinion, are. Are not going to be okay with Benjamin Netanyahu or Trump picking a puppet ruler to lead or picking whoever their ruler is to lead Iran. So, so play it out what happens here. Play it out what happens. And if we're not reaching out to our typical G7 allies, what the hell do you think's gonna happen?

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Ben Meiselas (10:23)

The way, as the Tennessee Holler account points out, it's not just Netanyahu. The New York Times has been warning of a nuclear Iran for. For 30 years also. Now, as I've said before, I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, period, full stop. But I want to make sure we're getting accurate info and we're not getting played like the WMDs in Iraq. And this is going to be Iraq, you know, times 10. Here. Play this clip. Sam Ram So Donald Trump was asked when he was flying back from the G7 because he was too cowardly to spend Tuesday to be with President Zelinsky. Trump was asked, your own Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that Iran was not building nuclear weapon weapons. And Trump's response was, I don't care what she's saying. Play this clip.

Unnamed Intelligence Official (12:38)

But how close do you personally think.

Donald Trump (12:40)

That they were to getting one? Because Tulsi Gabbard.

Steve Bannon (12:42)

Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the.

Donald Trump (12:45)

Entire intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon. I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to him.

Unnamed Intelligence Official (12:51)

The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. And Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.

Ben Meiselas (13:01)

Or Donald, maybe you want to watch this video of yourself when Obama was in office, when you said, our president will start a war with Iran because he's so stupid. Here, play this clip.

Donald Trump (13:11)

Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective.

Ben Meiselas (13:20)

And now you have Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon basically saying it's Trump and Fox propaganda that's pushing for the US to get involved in a war in Iran. Let's play it.

Steve Bannon (13:31)

It does feel like Fox News is playing. And I never criticize Fox because they were so kind to me, but they are playing a, like a central role in the propaganda operation here. It feels like it's, it's the what? Let's go back to the Iraq war. I mean, you were there. You saw it. Look at the Iraq war. I promoted the Iraq war because of the information you were giving. Knowingly what they did. If you go back to look at Iraq, it's not like these things are successful. They're not successful. They're unsuccessful. They can't be successful because as Lincoln told us, what you need is popular opinion to have your back. And we don't do enough about educating the American people on what reality is. In fact, they give them the exact, exact opposite.

Donald Trump (14:13)

That's why.

Steve Bannon (14:13)

That's all. That's what this is. The rise of Trump is from two things. The rise of Trump is from the failed Iraq war and from the 2008 financial collapse. Exactly. You had Buchanan before that. We had Perot before that. We had even Reagan from some populism, nationalism. You had these sprouts there. You could see people were trying to get there, but they couldn't. It was those two cataclysmic events, right? An epic failed war. Right. That we were lied to about everything. The reason we went in, because, remember, at first the American people supported it, given the information they were given. Then later they realized that, hey, not just with the initial predicate for this a lie, all the updates were kind of a lie, right? All the updates were a lie. We really weren't winning, right. Until we sent General Kelly to the Anbar province to be the toughest tribe.

Donald Trump (14:58)

It was.

Steve Bannon (14:59)

It took forever. And what, 8,000 dead, 50,000 wounded, $9 trillion. Two trillion and or seven trillion in Iraq and two trillion in Afghanistan. You're just lied about the entire time. That's what's happening here.

Ben Meiselas (15:12)

And I thought this was a Powerful speech by Democratic Senator Tim Kaine. Here's what he said. The Constitution says the power to declare war is Congress. Play this clip.

Tim Kaine (15:22)

There's no part of the Constitution that's more important than the Article 1 provisions making plain that the United States should not be at war without a vote of Congress. And yet the news of the day suggests that we are potentially on the verge of a war with Iran. When I was elected to the Senate in 2012, having served as a governor from 2006 to 2010 during a tremendous upsurge in the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I visited our troops multiple times in the Green Zone, in Baghdad and in Afghanistan. I went to the deployments and the homecomings. I went to the wakes and funerals. And I told myself when I came to the Senate that if I ever had the chance to stop this nation from getting into an unnecessary war, I would do everything I could to stop us from getting into an unnecessary war. I happen to believe that the United States engaging in a war against Iran, a third war, war in the Middle east since 2001, would be a catastrophic blunder for this country. I think there are some in this body who have a different point of view than me on that point. But I think we should all be able to agree that the fundamental constitutional principle that says we shouldn't be in a war if Congress doesn't have the guts to debate it and vote on it, we should all, having taken an oath to the Constitution, at least support the principle that war is something that should be for Congress to declare or.

Ben Meiselas (17:11)

Democratic Senator Murphy from Connecticut. Here's what he's got to say.

Tulsi Gabbard (17:14)

Anyone who is cheerleading the United States into a war with Iran has very quickly forgotten the disasters of the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War, where there were early tactical successes, but it became a quagmire that ultimately got thousands of Americans killed, created new insurgencies against US Interests and against our allies in the region. So I do not think there's support in this country for the United States to go to war again in the Middle East. And I would remind the President that he can't take any offensive action against Iran without coming to Congress first. He has no leeway here. The Constitution requires him to get an authorization of military force from Congress. I don't think that he'll get that authorization from this Congress because there is opposition on both the Republican and Democratic side to the United States getting dragged into another potentially disastrous conflict in the Middle East.

Ben Meiselas (18:03)

So, as I said, there is a social media post or tweet for everything regarding Donald Trump, but I want to pull out those receipts. Tell me what you think in the comments below. I'd love to. I'd love to hear from you. But I'm just giving you the videos and just giving you the data points. You and you tell me what you think. Hit subscribe let's get to 5 million.

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