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And he's authentic, he's genuine, whatever he is, he is. And we don't have people like that because their message is so odious, the left's message when they went full revolutionary, that they have to completely apologize and mask and deceive. They'll never say, I want that open border. I want to change the demography. I hate the existing demography. I want future constituents. These people are better than Americans. Whatever. But they never say that. And then when they do it, like Kamala Harris, she's running for president. I'm for deportations. And there's an argument to be made for that wall. And I'm for fracking now. And then you thought, well, how many days after she loses will she go back to Trump is a racist monster who wants to deport people and build a wall? was like 24 hours.

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contributor, Mark Thiessen, who joins us now. So obviously, a lot of people are feeling economic pain right now, but you've seen a drop in crime, you've seen a drop in inflation numbers, you've seen a border that has been closed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that people going to the polls feel all of that. No, that's exactly right. But I mean, think about this, think back to the '22 midterms. When Joe Biden, we had just had the Afghan withdrawal, the worst foreign policy debacle in our lifetime, we had the worst inflation in four decades, worst crime wave since the 1990s, the worst border crisis in American history, and he put in one of the best midterm performances of any president since JFK. So you know, those things, what matters really is candidate quality. And so if you think about the Senate, right, the Democrats need to gain a net of four Senate seats in order to take back the Senate and they have to hold on to Michigan, which is a blue seat, it's an open seat, but it's their seat, what do they do? They nominate an Islamic radical socialist who hates football in Michigan, right? They have to beat Susan Collins. So what do they do? They find Graham Plattner guy with a Nazi tattoo, and then they replace him with a guy who came in third in the gubernatorial race and has children with his cousin. So, you know, candidate quality matters a lot. Now, the bad news for Republicans is, if you look at the toss-up states, what are they? Alaska, Ohio, Iowa, you know, North Carolina, leaning down. So seats that used to be solidly red are in play this time around. Texas is a toss-up. That's insane. So a lot, it could go any way, any direction. Yeah, you know, I totally agree with you, candidates. That absolutely matters. And I see that. I think Vance's message is very good in that, you know, although as Charlie said, people are feeling the economic pain and I was just in the Midwest, spent a lot of time this summer in Wisconsin, and people are upset about the inflation. They also said their comments on the war were interesting. Their comments were wrap it up. I kept hearing that everywhere I went. He needs to wrap it up. So my question to you is, do you think it could wrap up before midterms? And what would that do to the midterms? Because as we pointed out here, everything else is going great. I'm a big advocate of wrapping it up and wrapping it up with a final hurrah that would really set this regime back a decade. Look, what Donald Trump did in Iran is one of the most important foreign policy decisions any American president has made in my lifetime. That regime has been at war with us for 47 years. He's the first president who fought back. But the problem is we stopped at the 20 yard line in April, right? We still had about 14 days of bombing that we had to do to take out their capabilities. And so what that means is it left them with the capability to hit Gulf oil infrastructure. It left them with the capability to hit American troops in the region. And what I'm really worried about is not just that the war is not wrapped up, but that there could be an October surprise in Iran. Yes, I read a column in the Washington Post about that, that the Iranians know the midterms are coming up. And they may want to affect the midterms by carrying it by raising the price of oil by attacking Gulf oil infrastructure right before the right before the midterm vote, causing some sort of chaos, forcing the president to go back to combat by killing some Americans right before the midterms. When what we should do, I think, honestly, is go back and just finish this thing, declare victory and end it and which we which we can do. What does that look like? What that looks like is finishing the last 14 days of the bombing campaign that was planned, hitting their economic infrastructure hard, taking out, you know, we've destroyed 85% of their defense industrial base, destroying 99% of it. They've got the plans on the table. Admiral Cooper has them. Execute that. And then you'd stop, you say, man, combat is over at the 20 yard line. Because I think he thought that we could get a deal. And he was it was suggested to him that a deal was possible. And President Trump always wants a deal rather than combat and we're and in killing people. And so that and that's an admirable quality about him. But we've and then what happened is we got into this cul-de-sac of negotiations followed by Iranian violations, followed by America having to retaliate, followed by more negotiations. And we've been stuck in this since April. And we could have this could have been done in April. I mean, the comp major to people who said midnight hammer. I thought we did it in midnight hammer. Why did we go in when we know that you talked earlier during the break, you said the threshold for pain in Iran is very high. Yes. But we kind of knew that before. Right. So midnight hammer was enormously important. Yeah. But what the audience were doing is they didn't they responded to midnight hammer not by saying, okay, this president's going to stop us from getting a nuclear weapon. They went on a barrage of building missiles, which what their plan was was to have a large enough missile capability that they could overwhelm any defenses that the U.S. had of its troops in the region or Israel had of its country. And then they could they'd have a shield by way behind which they could rebuild their nuclear program. And President Trump saw that and he had to stop them. I think I think just add to what you're talking about, which is so smart and so insightful is that we are looking at the administration unleashing an economic strangulation on Iran that has never before been seen. And the president mentioned that because it would cut off all energy transactions and financial dealings with all of the Gulf states. And that would be an economic impact that we would see certainly before the midterms. If that's coupled with an October surprise, does that settle this? So I think what the president is doing economically, it's been dubbed Operation Economic Fury, is one of the most effective military. So the Iranians are selling zero oil right now. And by the way, Admiral Cooper, the Ascent Comp, we've escorted 1,000 ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Not many people know that number. It's like 20 a day right now. We're sending about $10 billion of barrels of oil a day, a million barrels of oil a day. A thousand ships have gone through the Strait. The Iranians do not control the Strait of Hormuz. We control the Strait of Hormuz. So if you finish the military campaign and take that off the table, we're done. Open the strait, keep the blockade on. The Iranian regime will eventually collapse. But you can't predict if that escalates things. So that's a little bit, but we'll see what happens. I mean, I think people said wrap it up. So thanks for being here. Thank you.

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In 1930, an 18-year-old Scottish woman, her name was Mary Ann McLeod, she boarded the SS Transylvania, it was bound for New York. She came from the remote island of Lewis, it was a really rugged place shaped by hard weather and hard labor and limited opportunity. And like millions before here, she came to America searching for something better. Her sister had already come, and so when she arrived, she arrived with $50 in her pocket. She registered as a domestic, she was a nanny and a maid, a servant, and she lived that life through the depths of the Depression. And she slowly built herself a life here in New York City. Years later, she married a man named Frederick. He was the son of the German immigrants. They had first entered through America, through Castle Garden, remember I told you his name was Frederick at first. Well they got married and they raised five children in Queens, and eventually they had one of those children they named Donald. He would be the one that would inherit eventually the family business. But he had an appetite for risk and a willingness to think and bet big, lose big sometimes, but to bet big and dream big, and to pursue something even larger than the New York skyline itself. But before becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump had a lot of work to do. He cut his teeth in real estate, just past this wall in New York. And one purchase in particular, he called it his Mona Lisa, if you will. And it exemplifies his willingness to just take the bull by the horns. The building is at the heart of a lawsuit designed to ruin him. The address is 40 Wall Street.

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look at that boys look at that I got a question how many Washington monuments do you see wait wait two wait but I thought there's only one Washington Monument there's two now why is there two now why is there a reflection who made that what is that true mama it's quite true and and the water is gonna be filling up for another week and it's going to look awesome what do you guys have to say to the president can't wait to see it

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Fox News alert the Iran deal is now in immediate effect both sides have signed Trump did it over lobster and caviar at Versailles and the gay Ayatollah had his number two use an auto pen so one day in how's it looking? I think the president's peace plan in Iran is already bearing real fruits for the American people. Last night 12.5 million barrels of oil went through the Strait of Hormuz that is a high since the beginning of the conflict. On the military side the Iranians for the second night in a road did not shoot at any ships in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM lifted the blockade and the first ships to set sail were three Saudi super tankers the price of oils now in the 70s same as it was before the war and gas just fell under four bucks a gallon POTUS said told you so. I just do want to say though the stock market just hit a new all-time high the 401ks just hit a new all-time high and oil is dropping like a rock other than that it's another day in paradise. It could be paradise for Iran too it's without the versions if they behave and follow through on the deal we'll open Iran for business. There is a great desire from the Arab world and from outside the Arab world to actually get involved in Iran if they behave properly. If you behave and if the Emiratis themselves want to build a power plant then we will do the sanctions relief necessary to make that possible. A world where the Gulf Coast coalition has greater leverage into the Iranian economy is a world where the Iranians are going to be heavily prevented from misbehaving. There's a big brouhaha brewing in Washington over Iran getting money remember we control the money they're like a kid if they screw around they don't get an allowance it's the exact opposite of the Obama deal where we paid them to build missiles and enrich. The Obama nuclear deal allowed enrichment ours will not the Obama deal allowed the accumulation of stockpiled weapons grade material ours is actually leading to the destruction of that stockpile of enriched material so there are many differences the Obama deal gave them over a billion dollars of American money the this seal gives them zero dollars of American money. The way the deal structured is if Iran holds up their end of the bargain they don't get American money they get Arab money and we decide what they can build with it and we can see what they're doing with it after they get it but they don't get anything until they blow up the dust and this just in Whitcoff just briefed Congress that Iran's inviting the International Atomic Energy Agency to come inspect its nuclear sites and uncover the enriched material this is big. The Iranians have also agreed that US nuclear inspectors would be allowed into the country that's huge on day one we're already getting somewhere hopefully these are good signs but it's not about words it's about action. I've seen skeptics of the deal people say the Iranians will never change their behavior well maybe that's true and if so they don't get any of the benefits of the bargain but isn't it worth trying isn't it worth seeing whether this incredibly weakened position that the President of the United States has put the Iranians under whether that motivates them to change their behavior. The Iranians are dealing with a trillion dollars of damage we sunk their navy air force and 50 liters and we wiped out thousands of factories and they are in a deep deep depression they have to rebuild their country before they can even think about rebuilding a new program and if they start rebuilding their new program they won't get any money to rebuild their country. If space force even sees a man on a camel wander anywhere near one of their three new sites sanctions back and a love tap. Let's say two years down the road they've done what we need to see on the nuclear program and we release the sanctions as the deal contemplates then they decide they're gonna start rebuilding the nuclear program then of course those sanctions are gonna come back on and that's why it's really kind of like a dial as they dial up their good behavior we can dial up the economic relief if they dial down their good behavior we can turn it off. People are all saying well what about the strain in 60 days the deal leaves it open for Iran to toll. JD says wrong again. When you say it leaves it open it doesn't really leave it open and except in the sense that of course the final negotiation is gonna set the terms of what comes afterwards the Omanis the Iranians and the Gulf Coast Coalition together will figure out a proper security framework for the straights in the future and what I mean by that is that we don't ever want this to happen again but that's not about tolling that's about ensuring that the straights are never used as a choke point for the global economy ever again. The deal won't allow tolls if some Persian swashbuckler shows up rattling a tin can the Navy rolls up and we close their banks. When the blockade opens fully we'll step back and allow commerce to flow but if Iran doesn't comply then we're more than able to re-impose an ironclad blockade. Remember Iran suffered a painful and humiliating defeat. They've been living underground and under a blockade. They don't want to go back to that. The only reason we didn't kill more of their leaders is because we needed someone to sign a deal. They know that. Trump knows where the gay Ayatollah sleeps. If they're stupid we're violent. Bottom line. They're already praising Allah that Trump's letting them sell oil again. The VP says that's not even a concession. They've been selling oil for decades. Even though it was sanctioned they were still making money but we couldn't see the whole shadow fleet or the black market trades. Now with the sanctions off the oil sales we can see exactly who's buying and what Iran's doing with the money. So if they're funding Hezbollah paying for centrifuges with the oil revenue boom economic fury. The deal requires Iran to put their proxies on a leash. That means Israel needs to chill. Vance thinks Netanyahu has been a little too trigger happy. We seem to be right on the cusp of a major breakthrough in the agreement and then all of a sudden there's a major explosion that goes off in a civilian population center in Beirut and a lot of people who have nothing to do with Hezbollah lose their lives. That's not acceptable. Vance sent a warning to the Jews. He said watch out. Trump's your daddy too. You've seen people within BB's cabinet who have come out and attacked the deal and in some ways very personally attacked the president of the United States and I guess my message to them would be twofold. Number one Donald J Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. Two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars. The problem for Israel is not Donald J Trump. This isn't Israel's deal. They wanted regime change which I completely understand but hard to do without ground troops. Trump didn't want to use ground troops. A lot of people said he would but he didn't. They told us it'd be a quagmire. Wasn't. Said it would cause World War III. Didn't. They predicted oil would hit $200 a barrel. We'd be rocked by deadly domestic terror attacks. We had no strategy to open the strait. We'd be in a recession. The stock market would crash and the same people who said all these things are now saying the deal is dumb. Now we're not Nostradamus. We just covered it. Trump could have easily done nothing on Iran. Let him keep building missiles, drones, terrorizing the neighborhood, nuking up deeper and deeper underground. That might have been smarter politically to do nothing but Trump's not a politician. He's a leader and leaders have to do the hard things so that life can be easier in the long run. And if it pays off and so far so good he'll have fundamentally changed the Middle East. A place that sucked America dry for 50 years. The people in that desert who have the most to lose here's what they say. The Gulf Coast Coalition loves this deal because they think that it makes Iran weaker. They hated the Obama deal because they thought that it made Iran stronger. They know more about this and they have more to lose than anybody including the United States of America. So I trust their judgment. The only people saying America lost this war, Iran and the Democrats. Everybody else recognizes the reality. We buried their leaders, their military and their dust. Number one, their nuclear program has been completely destroyed. Their capacity for enrichment, the facilities at which they were using to develop enrichment and develop a potential nuclear weapon, those facilities are still destroyed. Their conventional military is still destroyed. We did in three months with no ground troops. Thirteen casualties. God bless their souls. Cracked open the strait, took over the world oil market and aren't sending the mullahs a dime. We blocked China's Belt and Road and made them think twice about taking Taiwan. Kicked Russia out of the region. They've been kicked out of Venezuela, Syria, Iraq, Iran and we brought the Jews and the Arab Muslims closer together. Even if the deal goes south, which it very well could, Iran is financially and militarily crippled and their new programs dead and buried. But if this thing holds and hopefully it does, Kushner, Wyckoff, Rubio, and Vance deserve a lot of credit. Now I have seen some progressive criticisms of me personally saying what experience does the vice president of the United States have with hostile high-stakes negotiations and I would point those progressive critics to the fact that just two days ago I spent over an hour on the view. I mean look, Joy Behar is way tougher than the Iranians and she and I are best friends now so we're going to get to a good place. Peter Schweitzer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute. Peter how do you think this deal is going down in DC? I think a lot of people on the left and on the right are being critical of it but I think they're lacking an imagination in what Trump is trying to do here. Look, everybody wants her to be a final solution to have the Iran problem solved. That's not in the cards. The question is where do you go from here? Iran is in an enormously weakened position. If you look at the estimates of just the economic damage they've faced, you talked about their military has basically been decimated. The estimates are that they have suffered economic costs of between 40 and 50 percent, Jesse, of their entire gross domestic product. That's massive. So the question is you know they are a fanatical regime but fanatics believe in self-preservation as well and so there's an opportunity to do a deal. Look at the way that this has been structured. What Trump is doing is saying Iran is going to commit to these things and by the way the money is going to flow when we sign off and when the people in the region that most hate the Iranians, the Gulf states, when they are prepared to write a check and by the way those checks are not going to go to banks in Iran. They are going to pay the contractors who are creating the economic projects in the country. So it's not a case where Obama handed them a bunch of cash. So look, it could all go south. It could all fall apart but I think it's a really good effort to try to bring some finality to what has been a problem for 47 years. You know that's a good point because we can still control what the money in Iran is spent on. If they're going to take the money and build missile factories that's not going to happen. It just won't ever get off the ground and in terms of what we're hearing now and I had my doubts about this thing obviously you can't trust these people but when you're hearing on day one that they've invited the IAEA and U.S. nuclear inspectors into the country already they promised it not yet but they promised that that seems like we're heading in the right direction. Yeah I mean there's some positive signs here again look Iran has a long record of leading the West on. The question is by the way that this deal is being structured again the funds are not being handled by the United Nations they're not being handled by the Iranian government they're being handled by the Gulf Cooperative Council states which is Saudi Arabia Kuwait the Emiratis etc they hate the Iranians and the idea is that if you have an American company or a Japanese or a Korean company going to build a project in Iran and if we sign off on it it's going to be paid for by the Gulf states they're not going to hand that cash off to the Iranians to run off and not pay their bills so I think it's a very genius approach if you ask me where we're going to be in a couple years I think it's very possible we're going to have more military strikes against Iran I think they can't help themselves in terms of violating this deal but it is worth the effort and again think about Trump's strategic position the time is moving along Iran has a possibility to kind of rebuild economically but as all of this is going on Jesse Ray Theon is producing missiles we're producing more bombs we are upgrading our military capabilities and we can bring those to bear again absolutely and who's to say the people going into Iran to rebuild aren't CIA agents be nice to put maybe a listening device in one of the steel beams just saying just just thinking all right Peter yeah hopefully this goes well thank you

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we we Trump just landed in Paris after the g7 47 swung through the French Capitol to commemorate America 250 the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War they toasted the occasion in the world's largest royal palace we're going to Versailles for dinner with some of Europe's great people and we'll see how that works out I think it'll be very good the president will be there with madam and I think we're gonna have a good time the president signed another treaty at dinner more on that in a sec but the Europeans are already telling 47 merci I think I think I was right I'm sort of always right they do call him daddy but they can also call him this they gave the boss a big gift the EU trade deal we raised tariffs on him and they dropped a bunch of tariffs on us to zero monies being made and love was in the air he was in a hotel and I met him and we fell in love deeply in love and he didn't even want to see Hillary he said you're gonna win I don't want to meet her so you're gonna win he didn't want to see you remember that the atmosphere was intoxicating deals seem to turn Trump on you know deals are amazing I've done them all my life I've got into deals that were a hundred percent and they don't happen I've got into deals that there was no chance of getting them done and it happens and they happen easily so you never know what deals do you but you're gonna find out pretty soon I think it'll be done they want to sign they want to get back to a normal life and Fox News alert president Trump just signed the Iran deal over dinner he said it they snapped a pic of the sheet and emailed it to the gay Ayatollah without Wi-Fi he'll probably get it Friday and primetime just got our hands on the deal we've read it three times it's only two pages the headline Iran's nuke program is over forever the mullahs have agreed at the very least that they're enriched uranium stockpiles will be destroyed on site and that the International Atomic Energy Agency which means us will supervise since Iran can't dig it out we'd be the ones doing it they only get sanctions relief after the dust is destroyed and if Iran backs out they've still agreed that they'll maintain the current status quo of their nuclear program and the status quo is they have no new program the uranium is buried the centrifuges shattered and their scientists are all dead so status quo is still bueno even then Iran agreed to this quote we shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons and if Iran so much as comes near the sites it'll be trouble we have space force cameras on every single door every so well there are no doors have been pretty well shattered but every area of that if somebody walks in and he's got a badge with his name on it like Mohammed something which is about a 50/50 guess Mohammed something they can tell the name they can give you a serial number moving on the straight immediately opens no attacks no tolls and we slowly lift the blockade Iran's allowed to sell oil again that means two things one the price of oil is gonna fall so we'll gas prices and inflation here and to China can't buy sanctioned Iranian oil at a discount anymore they have to pay full price oil closed a day in the 70s which was the exact same price it traded at before the war so we're back and here's where it gets a little cute it says after 60 days Iran can talk to Oman and the Gulf States about how to manage the strait under international law now people are saying that that means Iran can go back to tolling now tolling the strait is illegal under international law and the Gulf States would never agree to tolling they just put that language in there so that Iran can save face and this just in for the first time since the start of the war Iran didn't fire at a single vessel in the strait it's a pretty good signal next there's going to be a 300 billion dollar fund where Gulf neighbors not us Gulf neighbors will invest in rebuilding Iran any relief they receive under this deal they'll have to get based on merit and it won't be from us we don't have to give them anything but some people may want to invest like what are you gonna do say you can never ever invest in a country I mean it's pretty tough they need investment because we did a trillion and a half maybe two trillion dollars worth of damage so somebody's gonna have to help them out this isn't free money the deal says that we control who does business in Iran quote we grant all required licenses waivers and permissions needed that means if Iran screws around they don't get any investments their country doesn't get rebuilt usually after we win wars we like to rebuild the loser Japan Germany the south after the Civil War when neighbors do business they usually don't go to war because war is bad for business that's the thinking here next in terms of sanctions the United States will only lift sanctions as a part of the final deal that means not now that means when the dust's been destroyed and Iran signs the final deal which is only gonna get tougher the deal also says the United States won't be reducing our force posture until the final deal is signed that means the two carrier strike groups remain in position locked and loaded also Iran has to keep their dog on a leash Hezbollah has to stand down if they attack Israel Israel can hit back and hit back hard but Israel they have to behave too we have a little dispute over Lebanon and I say you can do a little softer touch maybe they're off to knock down a building every time somebody walks into it that's from Hezbollah a senior official tells primetime that Netanyahu thinks the deals a home run if Iran complies but he's skeptical here's the bottom line they'll never have a nuclear weapon the straights open the ayatollahs dead their military is whipped and we did it in three months with no ground troops and Muhammad's not getting a penny until he performs and none of these pennies are even ours and as a bonus the United States is now the world's biggest energy exporter and hopefully fingers crossed we rewired the Middle East so they make love not war and we don't have to babysit him Trump actually set the stage for peace in the Middle East in his first term by bombing the hell out of Isis and whacking Iran's top general this was years in the making you know why because I was the one that killed General Soleimani if I didn't kill General Soleimani we probably wouldn't be talking right now about this deal because he was a mad genius a lot of people forget that the tough guys you know the tough guys that would drive the country right down the tubes then Trump terminated the Obama deal and in his second term the president visited the Middle East first remember beefed up the Abraham Accords sold the Arabs AI Chaching and came home with trillions of American investments last week's airstrikes and project freedom sealed this deal American deterrence is back and the guard lost its leverage over the straight when we started secretly shepherding tankers out senior US officials tell Fox News that they don't trust the Iranians they're not in the trust business but the Iranians in private have been saying all the right things now that doesn't mean anything this is a performance-based deal if they BS us we slap back the sanctions and the blockade and maybe bombs away I don't like it we'll go back to shooting at him dropping bombs on their head I don't like it if they don't behave we'll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head now you're hearing a lot of noise about the deal not everyone's gonna love it I get it but Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul polar opposites both say it's good so what happens next the talks in Switzerland this weekend are critical in the first 30 days the Iranians prioritized we'll see how serious they are one thing's clear the mullahs no Trump's serious they tried to bribe their way out of it and you know what the Iranians did they laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch the president's no sucker he's been a part of deals that blew up that's why he's sending JD why not stick around for the signing ceremony with this Iran peace deal I might you might yeah I might but I'd rather this is a memorandum of understanding it's very important but it might not be the kind of a document that I should be sending this way if it works out I'm gonna take the credit if it doesn't work out I'm blaming JD you better be careful JD he's gonna turn his plane around and get the hell out of here yeah I like that idea

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