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Ron Filipkowski
From unsolved mysteries to unexplained phenomena, from comedy gold to relationship fails, Amazon Music's got the most ad free top podcasts included with prime. Because the only thing that should interrupt your listening is, well, nothing. Download the Amazon Music app Today, The situation in the Middle east has gone from bad to worse following Donald Trump's invasion of Iran. We just learned that a fourth US Service member has been pronounced dead. The amount of seriously wounded US service members has climbed to 18. Also, in response to all of the very serious and deeply troubling news coming out of Iran and the Middle East, Donald Trump has issued the following statement to the American people. He said this to the New York Post moments ago, quote, I don't have the yips with respect to the boots on the ground. Like every president says there will be no boots on the ground. I don't say it. I say probably don't need them or if they were necessary because I don't have the yips. I don't have the yips. Statement from Donald Trump right there. War is spreading throughout the entire Middle East. Iran is not relenting. There was a disastrous press conference held this morning by Donald Trump's Defense Secretary, Pete Hegson and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Cain. They talked about a war that could last a very long period of time, weeks, potentially months. Also, Donald Trump's been calling into reporters and saying that he is not ruling out boots on the ground. The specific quote from Donald Trump is we are going to be escalating this even more soon. It's going to get even less safe. We haven't even hit them referring to Iran hard yet. Donald Trump says he's also been making a number of other kind of deranged quotes about how he's not ruling out. He said other presidents, they're afraid of putting boots on the ground. I'm not afraid of putting boots on the ground. I'm going to do whatever it is that I'm going to do. We also learned that there were three F15 that were struck by Kuwait in a friendly fire incident. US Air Force fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses. Fortunately, all of the individuals on board those airplanes were safe and they did not die. They all were able to eject. But a major friendly fire incident over there in Kuwait. I want to go through what else is going on. Let's just take this piece by piece of what we are learning this morning. CENTCOM posted the following Update as of 7:30am March 2 for U.S. service members have been killed in action. The fourth service member who was seriously wounded during Iran's initial attack eventually succumbed to their injuries. Eighteen American service members seriously wounded so far during this operation, the US Military's ongoing strike campaign against Iran. According to a spokesperson from US Central Command, Iranian forces also hit a US Flagged tanker, the Stena Imperative, in the port of Bahrain today, setting the vessel on fire. And while all of this was going on, Donald Trump says it's going to get less safe. We haven't started to hit them hard yet. The big wave hasn't even happened yet. The big one is coming soon. Then Donald Trump called up CNN and told Jake Tapper the following as well. Let's just play this clip.
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Podcast Host 2
That and President Trump I'm just hearing in my ear just told my colleague Jake Tapper that the big wave is yet to come. So clearly things are going to be escalating, not de escalating in the future.
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Ron Filipkowski
Well, I think the imminent threat goes
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Podcast Host 3
back to nuclear weapons.
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Podcast Host 2
Yeah, but I mean the assessment was it could take 10 years, 10 years for an ICBM.
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Podcast Host 3
But we know they have.
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Podcast Host 2
But Trump said it was obliterated. The nuclear weapons were obliterated.
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Podcast Host 3
We know they have stockpiles of nuclear material.
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Ron Filipkowski
We can see the satellite imagery right here dated Sunday March 1, obtained by Planet Labs and Airbus Defense in Space. Hat tip to the fine folks at OSINT Defender who have done a good job at least compiling all this stuff and analyzed by the New York Times, you can see extensive damage that's been done to the US Naval support activity base in Bahrain, the headquarters of the U.S. navy's 5th Fleet right there. Look at the before, look at the after right here. Also, according to abc, all US Military bases are now under threat condition Bravo, which is basically one of the highest level threats of terroristic activity there. Ali Lauren Johnny, who is one of the top military officials in Iran, runs their national security, their version of their National Security Council has put out the following statement this morning. Iran, unlike the United States, has prepared itself for a long war. And here's the statement that was put out by the Islamic regime as in the past 300 years, Iran did not start this war and our braved armed forces have not engaged in any tax except in defense. We will fiercely defend ourselves and our 6,000 year old civilization regardless of the costs and will make the enemies sorry for their miscalculations. He then posted Trump has betrayed America first to adopt Israel first. And then posted Trump's wishful thinking has dragged the whole region into an unnecessary war and now, he is rightly worried about more American casualties. It is indeed very sad that he is sacrificing American treasure and blood to advance Netanyahu's illegitimate expansionist ambitions. He also posts, we will not negotiate with the United States. So, folks, it doesn't seem like Iran is going to be relenting or going to be surrendering or going to be even negotiating with Donald Trump at this point. The same time, we know that the Kremlin, Donald Trump's buddy Vladimir Putin says that Russia is in continuous contact with Iran's leadership over what Moscow calls outright aggression against Tehran and has expressed deep disappointment in how events unfolded. So as Donald Trump continues to be a Putin bootlicker, you have Putin and China also siding here with Iran, as we knew they would. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, held a unhinged press conference this morning. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Cain, and he just started like doing like Clint Eastwood quotes. It was like very bizarre, this press conference. Let me show you what went down when he was asked, so is this war going to take, you know, four weeks, six weeks? How long is it going to take? Pete Hegsev he then attacks NBC and says, that's a typical NBC gotcha question. If it's four weeks, six weeks, weeks, it could move up. Just stop asking these questions here. Play this clip ability that we have over there.
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Pete Hegseth
I heard the question about four weeks. It's the typical NBC sort of gotcha type question. President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about how long it may or may not take. Four weeks, two weeks, six weeks. It could move up, it could move back. We're gonna execute at his command the objectives we've set out to achieve and what he has shown ability to do that other presidents can't quite seem to have the aperture to do. Well, I mean, Joe Biden didn't even know what he was doing is to look for opportunities and off ramps and escalations for the United States. That creates new opportunities to execute what we need on our own timeline. So you can play games about four weeks, five weeks. He has all the latitude, and I'm glad he does because there's no better communicator than our president expressing those things. I've been in meetings with the president for the last two and a half days. We know exactly where his head headspace is and he will communicate, as he should, exactly what he would like and we will follow those orders. And I think he, everything he said on that is right down the middle. Absolutely, yes. Right there.
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Podcast Host 3
Yes sir.
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Ron Filipkowski
Then Hegseth starts to like do these bizarre one liners where he's like this is not so called regime change, but this is changing the regime. Here, play this clip.
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Pete Hegseth
Iran was building powerful missiles and drones to create a conventional shield for their nuclear black male ambitions. Let me say that again, a conventional shield for their nuclear black male ambitions. Our bases, our people, our allies, all in their crosshairs. Iran had a conventional gun to our head as they tried to lie their way to a nuclear bomb. It almost worked under Obama and his terrible deal, but not under this president. Turns out the regime who chanted death to America and death to Israel was gifted. Death from America and death from Israel. This is not a so called regime change war, but the regime sure did change and the world is better off for it.
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Ron Filipkowski
As we wrote on the Midas Touch account, it would be nice if we had a Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing and not just regurgitating quotes from action movies. More from Hegseth right here, where he's asked by reporters, what do you mean by you want our troops to. To pray or you want. What do you want them to pray for? What's in your prayer for them? What are you talking about right now? Rather than giving us a strategy, you want. You want prayer? That's what you're saying that we should do. We shouldn't ask questions as the American people. It's just prayer. And he's like, yeah, it should just be the biblical prayer. That's what my family does, the biblical prayer. You know, all of these warmongers, all of these fascists, they hide behind the Bible. They hide behind God when they don't want to answer actual questions. It's utterly despicable. Play this clip. It's a military objective.
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Pete Hegseth
Last one right here.
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Ron Filipkowski
Uranium is.
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Podcast Host 2
Thank you, sir. As you've said, there are a large amount of U.S. service members that are in harm's way right now. What is your prayer for them?
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Pete Hegseth
First of all, my prayer for them is that I do pray for them. My wife prays for them. Our family prays for them. Our cabinet prays for them. None of this is done on a whim. Having been in their boots, having been in their shoes, having been in their flight suits, I think we. I mean, I know we think about them with every decision that we make and every recommendation that we make to the President of the United States, those.
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Jason Crow
Those.
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Pete Hegseth
Those recommendations are made prayerfully. And when I pray every day for them and for this mission, I pray simply for the biblical wisdom to see what is right and the courage to do it. It's going to take courage to follow through on this. There's going to be a lot of noise, and we pray for that, and we hope all of you do do as well. Thank you very much.
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Podcast Host 3
Appreciate it.
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Pete Hegseth
Thank you.
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Ron Filipkowski
Then the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Kane, spoke, and he said we should expect a lot more losses of life. This mission is going to take a very long time. This is a major operation. Major combat operations take a long time. We're in a war here. Play this clip. The military objectives that CENTCOM and the Joint Force have been tasked with will take some time to achieve and in some cases, will be difficult and gritty work. We expect to take additional losses, and as always, we will work to minimize US Losses. But as the Secretary said, this is major combat operations. So then a reporter asks, Hegseth, are you concerned about this war spiraling into a longer war? Play this clip.
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Podcast Host 2
Secretary Higseth, and one for Chairman Kaine as well. I understand to your point here that you don't want to broadcast everything for our adversaries to hear. But the American people also want to know what they're sending their men and women to war for. Is there a concern of this spiraling into a longer war and then one for the chairman when you're done.
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Pete Hegseth
Did you not hear my remarks? I mean, we're ensuring the mission gets accomplished. But we are very clear eyed as the President has been, unlike other presidents about the foolish policies of the past that recklessly pulled us in to things that were not tethered to actual clear objectives. So we know we have plans, we have generals, we have chairmans, we have commanders, CENTCOM commanders, Admiral Cooper who's executing very deliberately to ensure outcomes that I laid out are accomplished. But we would never in front of a press pool lay out how long that may take. The mission for our war fighters, which is what matters to us, is very, very clear. And they're executing it right now violently.
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Ron Filipkowski
And then he says that rules of engagement are stupid. He says rules of engagement are stupid.
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Pete Hegseth
Let's play this clip with maximum authorities. No stupid rules of engagement. No nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win and we don't waste time or lives. As the President warned, an effort of this scope will include casualties. War is hell and always will be. A grateful nation honors the four Americans we have lost thus far and those injured, the absolute best of America.
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Ron Filipkowski
Donald Trump just issued the following statement to New York Post. Donald Trump says, quote, I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground. Like every president says there will be no boots on the ground. I don't say it. I probably don't need them or if they were necessary, I don't have the yips. Not the yips. Donald Trump says that's his current message to the American people. He doesn't have the yips. Uh, then Donald Trump said that he really liked that press conference of Pete Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Cain. He says that's right out of the central casting of a Hollywood movie. And he said that that's what he likes. You know, that it's out of central casting. It's a direct quote from Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
The military operation, he said there is no greater military in the US and he was praising General Kaine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth for the news conference that he just watched cut and dry as he said central Kentucky. And they have a job to do and they're getting it done.
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Ron Filipkowski
More Donald Trump communicating here with state regime media known as Fox. Donald Trump is saying that we need to follow what we did in Venezuela and do that in Iran. Just use the template. Find somebody in the Islamic Republic who wants to take over and then become their allies. So that's the plan right now. Okay, here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
He said there is a plan. He points to Venezuela as a template, which means to me that going in they had some sense on the ground of what was coming next.
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Ron Filipkowski
Then they're bringing on all their sycophants in the MAGA movement like Mark Wayne Mullen, MAGA Republican senator from Oklahoma. And here he says it's up to the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people will make their decision. You mean the Iranian people. Okay, it's up to the Iraqi people. They literally conflate Iraq and Iran because this is what they're doing here, playing this clip.
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Markwayne Mullin
But it's up to the Iraqi people, or I'm sorry, the Iranian people to choose their next leader. It's up to them to rise up and kick this regime out of place. If they do not, then they will be with a different leader, but the same regime, if they choose to get a different leader that we can have a relationship with, which we would love to. Prior to 1979, we had a good relationship with Iran. But if they, if they, if they choose to pick up a leader, Stuart, we will surround that leader, not necessarily with, with boots on the ground, but with assets to make sure that that leader can be protected, rise up and then Iranian people will have the opportunity to choose their next leadership.
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Ron Filipkowski
That's what we, in contrast, here's what Democratic congressmember and Army Ranger Jason Crow had to say. Play this clip. Right.
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Jason Crow
And how this goes is elites and leaders in Washington talk tough and bang the war drums. And then what happens is working class kids like me and the people that I fought with in Iraq and Afghanistan actually have to get into planes and helicopters and pick up rifles and do it right? So I've had it with that cycle, that endless cycle of non accountability. I mean, look, Friday night Donald Trump filmed this tough video where he talked about war and the costs of war and how hard it's gonna be and how we're gonna lose troops. Then he literally went behind the curtain and hosted a million dollar a plate dinner dance party at Mar a Lago. That tells you everything. You need to know.
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Ron Filipkowski
In other international news, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has barred the US from using bases there to strike Iran. French President Emmanuel Macron announced a direct boost in France's nuclear arsenal moments ago, announcing the country will stop revealing the size of its stockpile but will be greatly increasing its stockpile of nuclear weapons. As Aaron Bonko explains what a remarkable turn in messaging we went from hearing from Trump and senior officials and lawmakers in recent days that they want freedom for the Iranian people, signaling a push for regime change, to hearing from the Pentagon that this campaign is actually not about that at all. And as Greg Kallstrom says, Trump is basically calling up every journalist in his phone to workshop different timelines and goals for his war in the past two days. Washington Post the aim is freedom for the people of Iran. Axios maybe we can end it in two or three days. New York Times Might be four to five weeks. I have three very good choices who might take control. ABC actually, never mind, we killed those choices. He doesn't sound convinced by any of it. He's throwing spaghetti at the wall. Ultimately, I suspect he just wants to say he's he solved the problem that has vexed every American president. There's no clear idea what that looks like, no plan how to get there. Probably what's going to happen is Trump declares victory and just leaves the region an absolute mess. I'm not sure that's even possible at this point as we're seeing just this massive, massive retaliation by Iran. I mean, massive strikes, don't get me wrong, by the United States and Israel in Iran. But Iran is striking its neighbors and inflicting a lot of pain as well. And the entire region's becoming a gulf. Russia's being drawn, China's potentially being drawn in and the entire war. Right. The entire world right now in some way or another is involved in this war. That's what we got for now. We'll keep you posted throughout the day. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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