Episode 5528: China Successfully Targeting And Interfering In Our Election

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Who were the U.S. service members killed and what immediate context opened the show?

Unknown 0:00

Just in moments ago, the Pentagon identified those two soldiers who were killed in Jordan. First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, a 25 year old from Hawaii, and Private Isabel Gonzalez, a 19 year old from Texas. President Trump spoke about the losses.

Donald Trump 0:19

Well, we feel very badly. But, you know, those great people, those great patriots are out there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Iran has been very, very badly damaged. They've lost everything, almost, militarily.

Joe Scarborough 0:36

where we are in Iran because there are no glib, easy answers. We can't cut and run. The MOU that gave Iran half a trillion dollars is a non-starter because they proved they couldn't even be bribed. But it's going to be very hard to fight out of this corner. Where are we? What do we do next?

Unknown 1:01

You can't really talk about their sacrifice without talking about where we are in this conflict. And I think we're at an inflection point here. You can see that the Trump administration is accelerating and expanding their strikes, now hitting military infrastructure, railways, bridges, that kind of thing, trying to really put economic pressure on the IRGC and the military there in Iran. The question is, is that going to be enough to force the Iranians to the table? And you have to remember that the folks that Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner are talking to are not the folks in charge of the drones and the missiles. The IRGC still runs all the military there in Iran. So it's an open question whether this additional pressure is going to force them to the table.

Unknown 1:44

And if it doesn't, I can assure you that the U.S. military is preparing for even more expanded attacks and a return to what they would consider major combat operations. I don't think the president wants to go there. I certainly don't think those who may be considered moderates in Iran want to go there. But I don't believe that the IRGC is particularly concerned about that at this point.

Joe Scarborough 2:05

That entire charade was when he released the documents that said two things. Number one, the Russians were trying to influence the campaign. to help Donald Trump become elected president of the United States. And number two, that when enemies of America want to disrupt democracy, what they do is they start spreading doubt about the fairness of elections. Again, Donald Trump calling himself out. I'm not saying he's an enemy of democracy. I'm just a humble believer. You know, as you know, a state school dumb country lawyer. I'm saying in these documents contain. Intel assessments that if foreign powers want to undermine the United States confidence in democracy, then what they will do first is they will try to undermine their confidence in fair and free elections, which is, of course, against all evidence, what Donald Trump has been doing since 2020.

Stephen K. Bannon 3:16

So, Joe, this was an amazing spectacle, really, for people who didn't watch Thursday night. The president was really, you know, almost shouting. He was making the wildest charges about election fraud and deep state conspiracies. It's the kind of thing that you see online in, you know, very intense blogs and newspapers. sites, but you don't hear that directly very often from the president. But he said, you know, if you want to check this out, go to whitehouse.gov and look at the intelligence documents that I've just declassified. So over the weekend, I took him at his word. And I thought, OK, I'm not doing anything else Saturday other than watching England massacre France. But I did read these documents.

Stephen K. Bannon 4:12

And it's extraordinary, Joe, that if you look over them carefully, They rebut almost everything that the president said. A key part of his case was the Chinese tried to defeat me, intentionally went out to defeat me in the 2020 election, which obviously he still can't get over. He can't believe that he lost. So it must have been the Chinese. And you look at the intelligence assessments that were produced, which he's thank you very much, supplied. And you see that the consensus judgment of the intelligence community was precisely the opposite, that the Chinese did not decide to intervene to defeat Trump.