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The World Is Watching | Episode 296
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Senior Trump administration officials say a major Iran agreement is “95% complete;" Trump pushes to expand the Abraham Accords as intense Middle East negotiations continue; Ted Cruz warns against concessions; Rubio blasts critics over Iran deal talks; Democrats face backlash over a Memorial Day anti-Trump post; GOP senators feud over DOJ funding; Secret Service kills another lunatic gunman outside the White House.
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Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. I hope you had a mighty Memorial Day weekend. It's so great to be with you again today. The best audience anywhere. We have a big show ahead. I just got a very important briefing from a senior administration official on how the Iran deal is shaping up, what the United States is prepared to do and what the United States will never do. The hint on that one is we will never forfeit our security at any point during this negotiation. I've got some good insider information for you coming up on this edition of Vince, thanks for being here for the show. And again, I do really hope you had a great weekend. We it was very restful here, although it was super rainy, which really put a damper on our ability to go to our local pool and to also do some gardening, which we wanted to do this weekend. It was just raining all weekend long. So I've got my to do list is a little bit longer this week. 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Here is the reporting this morning from FOX News. Take a look. The United States military carried out self defense strikes in southern Iran on Monday targeting missile launch sites and Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, because they were trying to drop mines. CENTCOM says the strikes were launched after Iranian forces were spotted laying mines in the Strait and a missile site that had targeted U.S. warplanes during an already fragile ceasefire in the region. And they've got, you know, little helpful photos of the fact that we're, you know, attacking these idiots and the stuff that we're blowing up. So that's great. Thank you to CENTCOM for blowing up the bad guys. But that's in the midst of these negotiations because yesterday there was apparently some very intense negotiations going on in Qatar. The Iranian delegation was there and trying to hammer out some of the details of what kind of deal they might reach or with the United States of America. And that's where my conversation this weekend came in. I was one of, you will see across the Internet. I'm not going to disclose anybody who was there who doesn't want to disclose that they were there. But there are lots of people that were there. These are a lot of type conservative media figures you'd probably be aware of. People are kind of in the business that I'm in. Got a briefing from a senior administration official, many of whom shared some of the summaries of what we, what we heard. And I would say that I left this call very, very encouraged, very, very encouraged about where things are headed, how a deal would be structured and how we're not going to in any way have something like Obama had. Remember the pallets of cash and just letting Iran get away with nuclear enrichment. None of that is going to happen with the Trump administration and this team. None. So don't for a moment let me chat. Let me just warn you right now, if you see anybody suggesting that President Trump is engaged in a sellout of the American people, that we're going to allow a nuclear Iran to continue, this is worse than the Obama deal. That's disinformation. They're lying to you. Do not fall for it. Do not fall for it. So let me, let me, if I could, I'll just take you through some of the top lines here of what we have from the administration, what they're working on. And again, this is, this sourcing is impeccable. I'm not in any way doubtful of what they're up to. Here's the top line. No dust, no dollars. No dust, no dollars. Now, I think you can basically suss out what that means. Other calls, I know that they were using the phrase no dust, no deal. But fundamentally what they want is all of the enriched nuclear material turned over and removed from the Iranian borders done out. And if they do that, that is a predicate to get some, not all, some sanctions relief. Because what kind of leverage do we have over the Iranians right now? Well, we have Operation Economic Fury. We have them in a complete headlock economically. And if you want any of that pressure to even be slightly relieved, you will start doing things that the President of the United States demands here in order to ensure our long term national security. So no dust, no dollars. Iran will not get access to a single dime unless they actually produce results. Now, we do not have a memorandum of understanding signed yet. There was some conversation over the weekend that it could happen today. It's about to happen. It's very imminent. And the message that I'm hearing is it, it's not happening. It didn't happen yesterday, of course, it didn't happen Sunday when I got briefed on this subject. And it's unlikely to happen today. These things move slowly and that's for a reason. The Iranians are keeping their gay, deformed Supreme Leader as far away from American and Israeli detection as they think they can possibly keep him. They're trying to hide him. Now, my guess is, I'm just. This is a wild guess. We know exactly where this gay, deformed Supreme Leader is. We know where he's at, but it doesn't really matter in the end. Fundamentally, it takes a while in terms of our communications to get to him. And so there's a four to five day lag time on even changing very subtle language, little bits of language in an emerging deal. That's actually what's going on. This is the challenge here. And so the President of the United States has been very patient here through this very slow, almost like messenger pigeon like process to get a deal set up. But he's doing it because he really wants to end this conflict in a way that benefits the United States of America gets rid of the nukes in Iran, reopens the global economy, brings oil prices down very rapidly. These are the things that they're focused on. And so he's right. Now they're just waiting for responses here from the Iranians. And it does, it does take a while. It does take a while. So the Trump administration does believe that they are days away from a memorandum of understanding with the regime. Here's how it would work. If we get a memorandum of understanding, the second that occurs, the Iranians pull away from interfering in any way with the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz is immediately open upon the signing of the MOU. From there, it begins another 30 days or so of negotiation about how exactly to remove all of the nuclear dust. To get rid of it. You got to figure out the detailed mechanisms by which they would give up that highly enriched stockpile of nuclear dust. And they would negotiate over a certain period of time. They say probably around 30 days. 30 days. And then at the conclusion of that, if they can reach, if they can stick the landing on that phase two, where they negotiate how this is all removed and we start getting it out and we want to sign a real deal at that moment where they signed a grand deal, then you get a very senior level administration official to be present for a very public signing ceremony. Now, theoretically, that could be the President of the United States, but we don't know the answer to that just yet. It could be the President. And I bet, and I'd venture a guess that the President wants to sign a deal like that, especially if he can resolve a problem that's been enduring for over 47 years now. So if he can do that, he'll want to. But again, there's a lot of moving parts here. But this is how this thing is, is ramping up. Now, they say that 95% of the deal is done with Iran. 95%. But, quote, literally changing words requires occasionally days of deliberation within their system. We're mostly there. We feel like we've got a commitment. These are quotes I'm reading to you now. Quote, we're mostly there. We, we feel like we've got a commitment on the enriched stockpile. We feel like we've got a commitment on the Strait of Hormuz and we're haggling a little bit over some of the language. This deal would open the strait and it would end Iran's long term nuclear ambitions. So step one is that they open the straits, the United States lifts the Blockade that gives the world economy some breathing room and they Iran commits to giving up their highly enriched material. The strait opens up the minute we sign the mou. Step two, then you figure out the mechanism, the detailed mechanism by which they give up the highly enriched stockpile. You negotiate that over a certain period of time, probably 30 days. Now how do the sanctions work? Well, right now the United States and a bunch of other countries have very punishing sanctions on Iran. And one of the things, if I just take you through history, the way this has worked is when President Trump was in office the first time, Trump 45, he imposed all sorts of meaningful sanctions and restrictions on the Iranians. The problem is when Biden came into office, his team allowed Iran to evade the sanctions just in an out of control way. So Iran really was not being held to any sort of real punishing standard by Biden's team who allowed them to export all sorts of oil and get away with it and not have those sanctions truly enforced. So now that President Trump is back in office, the sanctions are back on and they're being enforced entirely. And in fact the blockade itself, the American led blockade, allowed the Trump administration to accelerate the economic damage that it wants to do to Iran, the punitive damage that we are doing to Iran in order to bring them to heel at levels that we would not have been able to do without the blockade. So the blockade has been an immense value to accelerating the sanctions against the Iranians, which is really great. And so even if everything was lifted today, meaning even if we got rid of the blockade today, even if we pulled up stakes today in Iran, Iran's entire, both military and economic enterprise has been set back decades. The reality of course, is we have sunk the Iranian navy, what's left of these little annoying boats that are trying to drop mines, and we keep blowing them up whenever they do that. The Iranian air force is no more. They've just been destroyed. The Iranian missile stockpiles have been obliterated to such an extent that their ballistic missile program, their production capacity does not serve a meaningful threat anymore in terms of their ability to rapidly produce all of these weapons. There was a period where they were easily producing hundreds of weapons a month, a week. That's not the case anymore. They can, their industrial base has been destroyed. They were, they were north of 100 or so. I believe it was a week before this thing started. Now it's closer to zero than it is to even five senior administration official tells us so their ballistic missile shield. Remember what predicated us going in there? In the first place, that they were developing all these ballistic missiles. The whole thing's been destroyed. So they've been set back in that way meaningfully. And then economically, they've been set very, very far back. And so again, even if we pulled up stakes today, Iran is going to be limping into the future. And the nuclear threat has been severely mitigated by our actions already. The military threat of Iran has been severely mitigated by this administration's actions already. And that's without a long term deal. So imagine if we actually got a deal, what that would mean. Now, how do sanctions work here? How do we handle this? Well, the sanctions relief would be on what they call a dial. You're familiar with a dial where you turn it based on how much punishment, how much pain you want the Iranian regime to have to endure. And so if they behave well, if they behave well, we begin to dial back the sanctions. So if they deliver their stockpile of enriched uranium, and by the way, that has to happen first, we don't give sanctions relief until they actually deliver. So once they hand over the enriched uranium, the sanctions begin to go down. They get some sanctions relief. If they play ball with getting rid of their long term nuclear enrichment in a verifiable way that we can ensure that they're not developing any nuclear material, then the sanction relief comes in. That's how the dial is adjusted. Now if they begin to violate the terms of any of this, if their behavior ends up being poor, if they, you know, whatever, if we find out that they didn't turn over all the nuclear material, or if we find out that they are trying to enrich uranium, then we start, we can dial it all back up again. So there's a, there's a, a punishment mechanism and there's an incentive mechanism built in to a deal like this. Relief will be phased in when Iran actually delivers. And here's the key element again, on the, on the idea that this is, oh, could this could be like an Obama deal? No chance. The Obama deal allowed enrichment to continue. That is not happening here. No enrichment whatsoever. And Obama delivered truly billions of dollars in cash stacked on pallets, dropped into a run. No pallets of cash, period. Quote, no pallets of cash, period. We're not giving the Iranians a dollar, we're giving them sanctions relief if they behave. So what's changed? Why is it that we've had a breakthrough over the course of the past few weeks? Well, a lot of this seems to be just Operation Economic Fury and all of the punitive impacts that our military has had on their system. It's just clear to me that our leverage is working, that President Trump's leverage is working, is working. And here's what's changed about the Iranian side of the conversation. Senior administration official telling us that the Iranians are, quote, now clearly talking details about getting rid of the enriched stockpile in a way that they never have before. Never. And the second significant change that they detected over the last few weeks is they are now showing willingness to stop enrichment, whether that would be forever or for some sort of time, limited duration, say 20 years or something. I'm not giving a quote here. I'm just summarizing it from my own head. I've seen some of the headlines to that effect. In other words, they're negotiating some of these details, and maybe that's in the 5%, but they want to stop uranium enrichment for as long as they can in an enduring way. And they're trying to figure out those details now. But it's important to remember, under the Obama Iran deal, the Iranians were still permitted to enrich uranium, which is crazy. And, of course, they always use that to pursue a nuclear weapon. They have, they have, quote, now acknowledged that is something they're going to have to give on the fact that they're even willing to say that is a significant change from where they were two months ago. Two months ago. So that's a huge amount of change here, a huge amount of change just over the course of these last two months. So that's the trick here. The other piece is, you know, these, these Middle Eastern countries that we're working with, we're working with a lot of these, these Arab countries to try and get their support here. And they are being supportive. Apparently, they're helping to provide the stage for these negotiations. They're encouraging Iran to get to the table, to get to a deal. They don't want a war in the Middle East. They want things to settle down. A lot of these Arab countries are looking to develop better relationships with the United States. President Trump has been a total sea change of the United States and our relationships in the Middle east, trying to integrate the global oil economy so that we can bring costs down for everyone. Because if we can have abundant energy available to the planet, and that includes, of course, the United States, then we can bring costs down immensely, and then we can increase productivity in a huge way. So the president is working on all of those things. You've seen that throughout his administrations. But here's what's interesting, what they wanna do is try and get as many of these countries as possible to join the Abraham Accords. Now, you remember the Abraham Accords. For years, Washington, D.C. was under this delusion that we could get some sort of grand bargain where all of the Arab countries in the Middle east would recognize Israel in some sort of gigantic agreement, gigantic pact. That just was never gonna be the case. There's just too many competing interests in the Middle east, too much hate for Israel, too much like, you know, just. Just impossible to try and get all these groups together. So the administration in the first round decided, why don't we do this one by one? We'll have separate bilateral acknowledgments of Israel's existence and we'll begin to create warmer relationships between each of these countries. So the administration did that. They started going country by country and having them establish what we now know as the Abraham Accords, these direct relationships between Israel and a single Arab country. And it's worked. Now, is this piece a little tenuous? Yeah, sure. Is there still contempt for Israel directed by a bunch of these countries? Yeah, definitely. But the reality is that it's a warmer relationship than it's ever been, thanks to the efforts that the Trump administration has undertaken. And now what he's trying to do is establish a grand Abraham Accords where he can bring as many, if not all, of these countries in as as possible. In fact, the President of the United States was asking for that this weekend on Truth Social. And here's what we're hearing from our senior administration source. They say that these Arab countries, which have had tensions between them at these Arab countries between them as well, are all coming together. It would be very good for the global economy if our closest allies in that region controlled the energy under American influence. Now, most of these countries have said they are under a pathway right now to join the Abraham Accords if we can secure the deal with Iran. So as a condition of, if we get the deal with Iran, a lot of these countries are going to be willing to jump on board with the Abraham Accords. Israelis and Arabs will work together to patrol that region of the world, and that would free the United States from having to do it. You got that? Fascinating. Fascinating. So what, what you have on? Who is this? Vrash17? Vince, please move on. That's what does he say? Move on to the news is going to happen. You're wasting time. And move this fuck. Hey, Vrash, get the fuck out. Move on. I'm telling you exactly what we're hearing. So you know what's going to happen. So you can go, Vrash can go. So these Arab countries, if they establish this relationship with Israel where they can work together, then and patrol that region of the world together, and that's important if Israel is involved, because Israel's interested, of course, in its own threats to its existence. It's an existential threat. If they can work together, that's a huge deal. And that liberates the United States from having to patrol that region of the world. Massive. And we can concentrate on all of our concerns here in this hemisphere, which are immense. We've got a lot of, We've got a lot. Now, one thing I would pay attention to is there's a lot of bullshit out there. There's a lot of people who are lying to you about what's coming. And certainly there's sides of this that are claiming President Trump's gonna be weak, he's gonna have the wool pulled over his eyes. That's just total bullshit. Do not fall for that. The President is very clear about what the goals are here. The other side of it is the lies being told by the irgc. I want you to be on guard for this particular thing. Within Iran, there are two different primary factions that we're concerned about. Now. There's, there's, there's a bunch of disparate factions, but two ideologically primary factions. There's the kind of the pragmatic, relatively moderate people within the regime who this administration, the Trump administration believes are, for the first time in a very long time, ascendant. We killed a lot of radicals at the top, but these guys are ascendant. That's really key for the long term stability of this relationship. And for Iran, if the pragmatic side of this can dominate now, the IRGC side, that's the extremist side. And so what we're seeing with the IRGC is these guys are telling the American news media lies about the deal and then the American news media is carrying their water. So I'll give you an example of how this happened. Last week, Reuters, last week they had a report that Iran said there's no circumstance that they're giving up their enriched uranium, that they're red line. Remember that we talked about this last week. There's no circumstance they're giving up their enriched uranium. Now, I told you when that, when that headline came out, I was like, that's not going to work because that's President Trump's red line, which is you give up your enriched uranium. What are you talking about? You're not going to give it up. That's our red line. You're talking about your red line. It turns out that story was an IRGC planted story with Reuters. There are forces within Iran who are trying to scuttle this deal and trying to interfere in the American foreign policy debate. So if you see headlines like this where some Iranian source is claiming some sort of delusional red line that you know the president would never go for, there's a very high probability that that is Iranian extremist propaganda being pushed by the irgc. So I want you to be aware of that if you see headlines like that. I've got some more to talk about with you coming up. We've got some more details to work out. Also, a threat to the White House this weekend. 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All right, so let me see if there's, if there's any, any lasting elements here that I can share with you because again, we learned a lot this weekend from senior administration officials on, on how this is all going down. You did see people like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham were kind of crapping on an emerging deal here this, this weekend. The truth is, I just don't think that they know what they're talking about. They just don't have access to the information. And maybe they've learned more since then. I know Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz on his podcast was, he seemed to be talking this weekend a little bit more, hopefully about the nature of the deal. But I would, you know, I would caution all these guys, you know, regardless of what you think the right course of action is with Iran, first of all, trust the President to handle this the right way. The guy's as aggressive as, as anybody has ever been on this issue. And the other is like, don't, don't crap on the deal in public before you even know what it is. Stop the hip shots. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. And part of this is, I mean, let's be honest. Ted Cruz wants to run for president in 2028. I don't know about Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham's like, always off on his own, like, crazy adventure. But Ted Cruz wants to run for president in 2028. So he's looking for ways to distinguish himself among Republicans right now to be like, I'm the tougher one. Okay, how about instead of that posturing, if you don't like how this deal works out, like, you can tell us once you see the actual terms. But in the meantime, why don't you just trust the President to do the job? How about that? That would be good. So basically settle down, son, is the point. And so we'll see what happens here. But I feel very, very good about the way this is going also. Speaking of that, here's Marco Rubio this weekend. I don't think anybody would question Marco Rubio's sincerity on taking care of the Iranian threat, resolving it. Here he is smacking down some of the kind of, like, weak kneed critics of the emerging Iran deal. Cut one, watch who has been stronger
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on this issue than President Trump? Multiple political leaders, multiple presidents of the United States have all said the same thing. Iran cannot have a new. The only one who's tried to do anything and has actually done anything about it in a real way has been President Trump. So his commitment to that principle that they'll never have a nuclear weapon shouldn't be questioned by anybody. And the idea that somehow this president, given everything he's already proven he's willing to do, is going to somehow agree to a deal that ultimately winds up putting Iran in a stronger position when it comes to nuclear ambitions is absurd. That's just not going to happen. But our preference is, is to address this through a diplomatic means, and that's what we're endeavoring to do here. I think we've made some progress. I'm always cautious when I say that because you can agree to things on paper, they actually have to be implemented, you can agree to things in writing, and then you actually have to go out and do it. But I do think perhaps there is the possibility that over the next few hours, the world will get some good news, at least with regards to the straits and with regards to a process that can ultimately leave us where the president wants us to be. And that is a world that no longer has to be in fear.
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Yeah. So basically, we're trying to get rid of the nuke problem, stop crapping on the deal. You don't even know what it is. Secretary Rubio explains very carefully now as far as what was happening yesterday, intense negotiations reportedly. Trey Yingst over at Fox says Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammed Bagar Golibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Aragachi arrived in Doha, that's Qatar, earlier today. That would have been Monday, for talks on ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. A source briefed on the visit told the United States there are very intense talks on the details of an agreement to end the regional conflict. They've been ongoing since yesterday morning, Monday morning, they're continuing as of yesterday evening, the ongoing negotiations between Qatari mediators and the Iranian delegation are in coordination with the United States. So there is a lot of activity taking place right now, right now at this very time, and we'll keep our eyes on that. All right. There's a lot more to get to here on the program, though. In addition to the emerging Iran deal, which I'm very hopeful for. Say your prayers that this thing works out. We've got to get rid of the crazy nuclear Iran. The Persian people will really benefit if it. If it works out in the end, and so will we in the end. You know, the concerns about the American economy are real. We need to get gas prices down. And if we can get this deal, if we can get this thing, you're going to see very, very rapid movement ahead of the midterms especially, which, it's going to be great. It's going to be wonderful. So I'm really looking forward to that. Okay, a lot more to talk about with you. Let's see here. It was Memorial Day yesterday. Did you guys see the Democrats attacking President Trump? They use Memorial Day to attack President Trump. You see this? They won't, they never miss a chance to attack President Trump. The Trump derangement syndrome is psychotic. They have deleted the post in which they attacked the President. But it was in fact, it was super gross. Take a look at this. Here's what they did yesterday. They, they posted to X Today we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump's war with Iran. And then they put up a graphic remembering the Americans who have died in Trump's war with Iran. This is the dnc, the Democrat National Committee, the political operation that runs the Democrat Party, dancing on the graves of fallen heroes and trying to use their deaths as a means to attack the President of the United States. This is, it's utterly disgraceful. I mean they, there really is no bottom to their disgraceful behavior. There really is no to the point that they keep on encouraging people who take up arms against the President of the United States and attempt to assassinate him over and over and over again by spreading conspiracy theories about the President. And for them to take Americans fallen and then to use their deaths as a weapon against the President of the United States. It really just does not get more disgraceful than that. They're disgusting. They're totally disgusting. Now they have since I don't know who told them, like, hey, this is a, not just a terrible look, this is demonic. Somebody decided to delete it. They that post, I just showed you a screen grab. It was captured by a guy called Brent Scher, editor in chief over the Daily Wire, good guy. And he got a hold of that and then they reposted like a much more like anodyne like, like standard celebrating, commemorating, commemorating Memorial Day post this Memorial Day we remember and honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our country and defend our freedoms. They removed everything. But what this is, is like the most ham fisted cover up imaginable. They have not apologized. They haven't released any statement whatsoever that we screwed up. We fired the social media person who did this. This is disgraceful behavior. Nothing, Absolutely nothing. But while the rest of us were, were thinking and I think that's true of this audience for sure. We were all kind of contemplating the fall on this weekend because that's what you're supposed to do on Memorial Day, celebrating our great American freedoms. Hard fought American freedoms. The Democrats were dancing on the graves of the dead in order to try and hurt the President of the United States. And they're disgusting. They're totally disgusting. Meanwhile, there was a guy who tried to open fire outside the White House this weekend before he was gunned down by the United States Secret Service. I've got details on that in just a moment. We've got a lot more to discuss coming up here on this edition. Events want to thank one of our wonderful sponsors today that is Bowling Branch. We love Bowling Branch, ladies and gentlemen. This chat loves Bowling Branch. 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So in other words, somebody at the White House will tell you, come in on that street's gate or Pennsylvania Avenue or whatever. The point is, there's a couple of access points and Secret Service agents are assigned to protect all of them. They process people in, they ask you, you know, where are you going? What's your business? That kind of stuff. And so we've got agents there, we have armed Secret Service agents who are protecting the outer perimeter of the White House. But does it feel like we keep getting, at least every year we're getting stories of people who are either trying to ram their cars into the gates of the White House or pulling a firearm, opening fire on the agents who are standing outside. And it makes me think that, like at this point you have to realize if you're an agent who's working security at the White House on the outer perimeter, that there's a non zero chance that you're going to be engaged in a gunfight. Like there's a meaningful probability that that's going to happen, that somebody's going to try and take shots. It's awful. It's so crazy. And speaking of crazy, the guy who just opened fire this weekend has been gunned down by the Secret Service. Here's the New York Post summary of what happened this weekend. A gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ, okay, opened fire on the White House checkpoint and was shot dead by the Secret Service. A crazed gunman who believed that he was Jesus pulled out a revolver and opened fire outside the White House Saturday night before he was quickly taken down by a barrage of shots from the Secret Service, sources said. Nassir Best, 21 years old, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10pm Saturday after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th Street Northwest, sources told the Post. He only got off a few shots before he was shot and killed and a hail of bullets from federal officers. Now at least one bystander was hit and seriously wounded in the fuselage, the sources said. There's Nasir Bass, 21 years old. Looks like a prior mug shot of the guy. He opened fire on a White House checkpoint Saturday evening. While a motive for the attack has not been confirmed, sources said Best is a mentally troubled individual who's well known to the Secret Service. You repeatedly loitered around various entry points and has violated a previous court order to stay away from the White House. Cash Patel posting on X this weekend, the FBI is on the scene and supporting Secret Service responding to shots fired near White House grounds. We will update the public as we're able. The sound of shots from the incident terrified members of the press who are doing their normal reporting at the White House, including one ABC reporter who was seen diving for cover during a live stream. Yeah, so the here's the thing. I'm going to show you some of these reporters and this is this will be a quick run through of human reactions and whether or not these guys have the wherewithal to pay attention to what's going on in the world. In fact, at least one of these reactions makes me question whether this reporter is even capable of sussing out reality. So that she can convey it to the rest of us because I think that's the point of being a journalist. Let's go one by one here. This is Selena Wang. She's from ABC News. And I would say she probably had the most rapid reaction to the shots being fired. Take a look. Cut three. Here we go. President Trump has said a deal is close only for the two sides to remain far apart. She dives under the table. So she's aware it's these are gunshots, or at least she's contemplating those could be gunshots. And what you would think that with the press just experienced, which is the, the attack on the White House correspondents dinner, that they would be even more sensitive to the fact that shots were being fired. So Selena Wang, how do we score her reaction time here? CHAT let's get a score. Let's. I want, I want to score like, we'll do it like sports. Scoring 1 through 10. How do we score her reaction time here? And remember, I'm going to show you some other videos. So not everybody reacted as quickly as Selena did. Chat what do we want? 1 through 10, 10 being the best, the most rapid reaction time, lightning quick reflexes. That's a nine. That's a 10. Six, eight, nine, seven, nine. All right, so we're on the positive side of five. She's got some people say pretty slow, cozy. Sophie's is pretty slow.
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All right, tell you what, let's do eight. We're going to, we're going to settle up at eight. We'll give Selena Wang an eight. So Selena gets an eight for her reaction time. Now let's compare this. Let's go with Aaron Navarro. Here's CBS News. And here's Aaron Navarro's reaction time again, filming a video live during the shooting. Here he goes, cut for President Trump promises the prices will go down, but his grip on Republican support on Capitol Hill is weakening. Is weakening. He had to finish the sentence. Here he is adjusting his tie, then diving under the table. I don't know if the tie adjustment was important. I, well, I think he was looking for a microphone. That's in fairness, he was trying to get the wire off. You see people running Secret Service coming out on the White House lawn telling people to clear the area. Okay, so how did Aaron do, everybody? How did Aaron do? We've got some fours, a four and a half, a six, a five. Some, some. We got some ones in there. At least he was aware. Yeah, I think he was reaching. Somebody asked about if he was taking off the tie. I think he was trying to find the microphone. But you can see as we watch this video again, he pulls the microphone off of his. See? Does he pull the mic at all? He's looking for it. He can't find it. It's on his jacket. He thought it might have been on his tie. That's what that was. So a four or five. All right, let's give him a five. I think a five is fair for Aaron. So Selena Wang gets an eight. Aaron Navarro at CBS gets a five. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to see this woman. This woman. This is interesting. We got abc, we have cbs. Now we have NBC. We have all the Alphabet letter companies. NBC, this is Julie Serkin in what is sure to become a meme video from now on. Julie Serkin cut five. Here she is, NBC, reacting to the shooting in real time. I'm not even certain she's aware a shooting took place. Watch. What is that. Today? But this obviously comes just a couple weeks after a shooting at the White House. What the hell was that? Let's see. I. They were saying, I saw somebody say she's got the survival instincts of a newborn baby. She's. I'm afraid that that woman would walk out into traffic and not realize that cars were on the road. I. What is going on here? What is that? She looks. I don't even know if she's reaching the level of bewildered. She just looks confused and maybe a little annoying. I. All right, well, I'm gonna have Selena Wang protect the house. Selena Wang's got the reaction time. Julie Serkin. I, I don't know. I don't know what we do with Julie. I don't. What does she get? Ladies and gentlemen, negative 10. I didn't. Can we do negative numbers? Is that all right? So Selena wang gets an 8. Aaron Navarro gets a 5. Julie Cirkin gets negative 10. In today's roundup of reporter reaction times to, to a shooting outside the White House. That's. That's unbelievable. I, I, I, I'm still bewildered by it. I was thinking that I have an idea. If I can, if I can pitch this to Dan Bongino. I think maybe he should do this. Can Dan Bongino send the entire White House press corps don't get dead shirts, you know, just to remind them that, like, you know, life is worth living and to think a little bit more clearly when threats to your life are emerging, you know, don't get dead. Don't get dead. I think, wouldn't that be nice, you know, not to not to volunteer Dan, you know, spending his own money on these guys. And the last people he probably wants to spend money on is the press corps. But they should just have a bunch of dam Bongino don't get dead shirts. I think that'd be great just, just to remind them, like, hey, it's okay to like, you know, duck for cover when the, when the gunshots are going off. That is kind of the number one rule. Don't get that. But it's got to be. It's got to be the Bongino version. Not that I thing that I had. Here's. This is the Bongino version. This is. This is the real one. Look at that. Available right now@store.bongino.com Store. Don't get dead. Which is just send the whole press corps. Don't get that shirts. Oh, unbelievable. Anyway, don't be Julie Serkin. Keep your head on a swivel, ladies and gentlemen. Keep your head on. The left is out there. The left is out there. Okay, that's. That was the attack on the White House this weekend. I prayers for whoever was shot in the. The crossfire this week. And I don't know the circumstances there of whether or not they're recovering, if they're doing well, but our prayers up for them in order to get better, recover fully. Just awful. We've got to figure out a way to stop this. Just these ongoing attacks on the President of the United States. The President did say, by the way, and the White House said this weekend that this is all the more reason why they need the ballroom built and why these radical judges need to get the hell out of the way. Like, it's crazy that they're throwing up impediments on Trump because they don't like Trump. He's just trying to build a ballroom. It's a gift to the American people. And it would create a much more secure environment for the President of the United States. Not just this President, but really for all the future presidents who get to use that ballroom. Because chances are this President is going to barely be able to use it by the time this term is done. But other Presidents will. And it will be a much safer venue for the President because again, they do have security. They got the Secret Service working the perimeter, protecting the President even. And the President was in the White House during this, during this attack. So super crazy, super crazy. Hey, the United States Senate is on vacation right now. I don't know about you, how many vacations you get, but the Senate gets lots of vacations. Now they'll claim they're like, we're not on vacation. We're working in our home districts. Yeah, sure, buddy. Working in your home district. Yeah, right. They're on vacation right now. They did not. Before they left this past week, they didn't pass ICE and Border Patrol funding to take care of the. The civilian employees, the administrative employees who work in these agencies. They're still going without pay. Can you believe this? Can you. Anybody in chat work for. For Border Patrol or ice? It's. I'm. My heart breaks for you that you haven't received a paycheck in months. That's so crazy to me. And this is all because the Democrats don't want us to have borders, and they don't want us to deport the illegals that they've imported into the country. So I just. I feel so bad for you, and I'm angry at the United States Senate for not giving you the bare minimum, which is to. To make you whole again, to give you your paychecks. And this is. Look, Democrats, of course, are just being legislative terrorists here, but there's no question that I'm placing blame right now on. At the feet of Republicans. You couldn't do this. Last week in the House and the Senate, you couldn't. And why is that? Why specifically in the United States Senate, why couldn't you do the reconciliation package? Simple majority vote. And the answer, apparently, is this, is that enough of these senators are one ticked off at President Trump because he's endorsing against the establishment. Like today, John Cornyn is about to lose in Texas because President Trump and Trump and American voters, Texas voters, prefer Ken Paxton. So Cornyn's about to lose. And so when President Trump a week ago announced his endorsement of Paxton, the establishment people in the Senate went crazy. They went nuts, which is total ratification of the president's judgment here. Get rid of this guy. Get rid of him. And so these senators decided, well, okay, fine, we're not gonna fund ICE and Border Patrol. And another reason they claim they're not funding ICE and Border Patrol is because they're upset that President Trump's Justice Department just established a fund to make settlement payments to Americans who've been attacked by their own government. Now, this is nuts to me for a bunch of reasons. One of them is the United States Senate has no say in this at all. This is already law. The Justice Department can do this. They can distribute this settlement fund the way that they see fit. And so the Senate has no role here. But they want a role. They're mad at President Trump for apparently a number of reasons, including that American citizens are going to be taken care of at all. They hate this, so they want ape. This past week, what happened was Todd Blanche arrived at the Senate to meet with these senators to explain the settlement fund, the $1.776 billion settlement fund. Apparently, upwards of 20 to 25 Republican senators spent the meeting screaming at Todd Blanche, angry that American citizens would be taken care of. These people are not on our side, and I like that they're getting exposed. Here's Senator Ted Cruz on his podcast. It's called Verdict, describing what the Republican senators were doing to Todd Blanche inside of that meeting. Watch this.
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What a bunch of pansy asses. So you got all these, you got these establishment Republicans sitting there. Oh, no, we might have to take uncomfortable votes. Tell Democrats to pound sand. Tell them to pound sand. I don't care if they want to pass an amendment that. That's called the America is Great Amendment. We, we confirm America is great. Just vote no on everything the Democrats have to offer. You wanted to be. If you want to be part of this process, you should have done that before. Now we're at the reconciliation phase because we don't need you. So anything you present, we're voting no on it. I don't care what it is, and just get that message out there. But instead, you've got people like Thumbelina, Thom Tillis, you've got people like John Cornyn, bitter John Cornyn, you have bitter Bill Cassidy, you have John Thune. That Couldn't lead nuns in silent prayer. This guy can't lead anything. The reality is you've got all these establishment weaknesses, people, and as a result, the very bare minimum can't get done. We can't fund Border patrol and ice. What the hell's wrong with you people? You're throwing a fit over the fact that American citizens are being taken care of. We need to clean up the United States Senate. The good news is that cleanup is underway. President Trump is done with this crap. He's endorsing against the establishment. He's driving these guys crazy, and it couldn't happen to a better group of people. I love it. I love the effort that's underway, and I love. For those of you in Texas, if you haven't been out to vote yet, please do it today. Today's election Day. Go out and vote for Ken Paxton. Let's clean out the establishment and let's bring in fighters who are actually going to achieve the basics, like passing the Save America Act. We're not asking for that much. We're just asking for you to do the bare minimum. And the current crop can't even do that. Can't even do that. Crazy. Yes. Don't get cocky. Go vote. You're right, Anmo. Today's the last day. Vote, vote, vote. And get everybody you know to go with you. Tell them. Get on social media. Tell them whatever you can do. Tell them, little effort, lots of effort. Put it in. Because. Because the future of our country really does depend on it. Come on, Texas. You can do it. Texas is a. A big vote today. I mean, the numbers do look pretty good. I mean, the polling looks good. But do not rest on that. Play. Play like you're way behind and dominate. Today in Texas, we need a great candidate going up against Talafrico. Ken Paxton's the guy. Got to go up against Talif Rico and destroy that dude. He's. He is awful. He is truly, truly awful. Okay, one more thing for you, which is maddening to me. New York Giants quarterback Jackson Dart. This is not Manning. I love this Jackson Dart. Great athlete. He just introduced the President of the United States at a New York rally this past weekend, and it was pretty cool to see. It's always. It's always fun to see these athletes step up to the microphone. Actually, you know why I like it so much? It just demonstrated that, like, he was totally unashamed about supporting President Trump, that he wasn't withering under the criticism of, you're not allowed to support the president, which is so Crazy to me. He likes the guy. So he showed up, he supported the President and he did a big introduction. And here's what it looked like. Watch. I'm grateful, I'm honored, I'm pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump. And I'm proud to be an American wearing east side of the man who died, who gave that life to me. From sea to shining sea, Detroit down to the President of the United States. Very cool. So Jackson third, it's introduced him. He didn't give like a big wind up speech. He didn't tell people how to think about everything ideologically. He wasn't lecturing everybody. He just said, it's my honor, it's my privilege to, to introduce to you the two time President of the United States, Mr. Donald Trump. And there he is. So President Trump comes out, they hug, they embrace. Wonderful. Now I don't know about how you were raised, but you know, when I was a kid, like, even as an adult, it's always amazing, it's always been an amazing thing to be able to see a President of the United States of either political party. I think most people go most of their lives and they're never in the same room, like a rally like this with a president. So it's an extraordinary privilege to just see the guy who's leading the country up close and in person. And that's a normal human reaction, I think, a normal American reaction. Do we have disagreements? Yeah, huge ones. We have big disagreements. But to see a president and be given the honor of being able to introduce the president is very cool. So Jackson did that, he accepted that and was very gracious. The other thing is like, there's this kind of attitude that, you know, we've seen people wield which is like, oh, athletes are never allowed to have political opinions or something. That's not true. You're allowed to have a political opinion. You have to know that once you enter the political arena, there's people who are not gonna like it. That's fine. Jackson dart made that calculus. No, he, no question. You have to be a complete moron not to realize that you'll have criticisms directed your way. But he made that, that assessment and he stepped on that stage anyway. More power to him. I think that's, I think that's great. I'm not one of these people who says that like, you know, if you're an athlete, that's the lane you have to stay in forever. You're not allowed to Talk about what you believe in. No, look, if you say something I agree with, I'll tell you I agree with it. If you say something I disagree with, I'll tell you you're a moron. There are, there are current American politicians who say moronic things all the time. Eric Swalwell exists. Adam Schiff exists. Jasmine freaking Crockett exists. They're morons. And we'll say that on a routine basis that their business is politics and they should shut up. No, I don't. I don't have any problem. If you want to, if you want to step up and say that, you know, that you want to secure our borders, if you want to tell us, you know, what a. What an important role Jesus has played in your life, I love all that. Go ahead, speak up. Speak up. If it comes from a place of wisdom and sincerity, I think that's wonderful. Now, having said that, Jackson Dart did step on that stage, and then he was being attacked by one of his teammates in public. A linebacker by the name of Abdul Carter got on X Saturday morning and wrote, quote, thought this shit was AI. What we doing, man? What are we doing? First of all, what kind of teammate are you? Like, if you, if you disagree with his political positions, really, you're going to take it to social media to attack him? Why don't you just work it out with him? And allegedly, the two of them did work it out afterwards, but after, after Abdul Carter's emotional, incontinent nonsense, which doesn't help the team at all. That's not, that's not a sign of leadership on his part. Here's how, here's how it all went down. This is what the New York Post says about it. Abdul Carter and Jackson Dart spoke as men after Trump rally sparks Giants drama Abdel Carter wants to put the discourse surrounding him and his Giants teammate Jackson Dart to rest. Carter, who called out Dart Saturday morning for introducing President Trump at a rally in upstate New York, said there's no animosity between him and the quarterback. Me and JD6 are good, he posted on Saturday. We spoke earlier. As men, y' all can keep y' all narratives. That's right. The linebacker's comments came hours after he was seeming to rip Dart for attending the rally, claiming he thought it was AI generated. Anyway, it doesn't. It hardly matters. But here's this goofball, Abdul Carter, 51, linebacker. And, and look, look, if you have a difference of opinion with the guy, bring it up with him. Why you gotta throw the team in the chaos? What is this, man, what is this? Control yourselves. Just control yourselves and stop this whole thing about, like demonizing President Trump and anybody who associates with him. At some point you're gonna grow up. I don't know how old this kid is now. Abdul Carter, these are all kids, relatively. These are young guys. At some point he'll grow up and he'll look back at this and he'll go, man, that was really stupid. Trump was great for this country. What was I thinking? Why did I attack that guy for that? And I hope he comes to that realization sooner rather than later. It'd be good for the whole country if people started waking up to that. All right, we've got a lot more to get to. I've got the big national radio show today, the VIN show dot com. You can join us on radio stations nationwide. We've got your local listings there. Or you can join us on Rumble. It's a 12 to 3 Eastern show each day. You can join us from 1 to 3 Eastern right here on Rumble. Rumble.com Vince Dan Bongino and his Don't Get Dead apparel line. You can find out all four about that coming up at 10am this morning. Rumble.combongino he's got his great show coming up on Rumble and then the amazing Haley car. Rumble.com Haley Haley with two wise. Why? Because she is amazing. She's at noon Eastern right here on Rumble. It is so great to be back with you after the long Memorial Day weekend. You're the best audience anywhere and we will meet again tomorrow. I can't wait to do it. We'll have so much to discuss. All right. Have a great one.