Mark Dubowitz

I agree with how we've run up these massive debts and we have to be actually, if we're serious and conservatives are really serious, they need to tackle these massive budgets, deficits.

And it would be really easy if it was just all about the military and we could just kind of get rid of the Pentagon and all of a sudden we'd be running balanced budgets.

That's not the case.

We have much deeper structural issues.

economic problems in this country.

And everybody knows that.

And so we got huge challenges as a country.

But I really believe, as I believe since I was a little kid, that America is the greatest force for good in the world.

And that we make mistakes, sometimes tragic mistakes.

We make huge miscalculations.

And I think we will be much more clear in how to rectify those mistakes if we stop obsessing

with these boogeymen that are out there, the Israelis, the Jews, the influencers.

The Iranians.

Well, and we start focusing on our adversaries, which are not the Iranians, because 80% of Iranians despise this regime.

And, you know, Lex, I feel really bad that we, in five hours, we actually haven't even talked about that in any detail.

And, you know, the only place they don't succeed in the world...

is inside the Islamic Republic.

When they come to America and Canada and Europe, they're incredibly successful people.

And 80% of Iranians despise this regime and they long for a free and prosperous Iran.

And so it's a big question that they're ever going to get there and who knows the right way to get them there.