Chapter 1: What personal experiences does Dave share about his family vacation?
What are you doing, Rob? There's nothing like coming back from family vacation being like, man, I need another vacation. That just took the life out of me. Dude, so I took the family to Disney for a week and it's great. I know it's a big evil corporation and all that, but the kids, the kiddos just love it. They have an amazing time.
But for people who have been through it, this was my second time. This one was longer. Being a dad at Disney is... it's it's a lot it was a lot of fun but man does it beat you up um you know it's just con you're just you know all day you're carrying you don't stop moving the entire time you're there and you're the dad so you're always carrying the heaviest you know i'm there
with my, you know, I got two kids, my wife and her parents. So I'm the one, you know, like I'm just, I mean, she was the one, she planned out the whole thing. I shouldn't say that it's me and her. She, she did a lot of that, but I, you know, just a lot of work. Um, and, uh, I don't know. Anyway, it was a great time.
Um, it was a little bit strange in, in a way, just everything going on, you know, this was planned out six months in advance. Um, and, uh, Yeah, just a little bit weird. I mean, because I do think this is just like such a dark time for our country, genuinely. And I also just have... I have a friend who had like a family tragedy. And so it just felt like a little bit weird of a time to go there.
But then, of course, once you're there, my cute kids can suck me into their world, you know, very easily. And we all start, you know, having a great time. Anyway, I... You know, I tried at, you know, I checked the news times here and there, and I tried to keep in touch with everything. There's been so much.
And then when I got them to sleep at night, I would just go on tweet storms and, you know, try to give my take on some of this. Because, Rob, this is like this is one of those episodes where there's just so much, you know, we got, I don't know, several episodes worth of content here and stuff to talk about really important stuff.
But, you know, as exhausted as I am coming back here, I was just like, I can't, I can't wait to talk to you guys till tomorrow. We have to do it tonight. I can't wait to talk to you, Rob. I see you without a podcasting, just being on the lines and being that guy who's chewing people's ears off. Like, do you not know what's going on right now? We're at war. Why are we here? No, no, no.
I wasn't doing that to other people. I mean, me and my, my father-in-law were talking a whole bunch about it, but no, no, no. But I'll tell you this one funny thing about Disney. I don't know why this was just making me laugh so hard on the trip, but so, you know, my, you know, so anyway, the, you know, you can picture my two kids are in, in a double stroller, you know my, my two the
my mother-in-law and father-in-law are on two scooters and me and my wife are just walking for seven days. But, you know, so like my, my father-in-law, he's had like double knee replacement surgeries and you know, he's got some hip issues. He's like 74. He's, you know, he's not going to walk the entire, you know, so he gets a scooter, but then he'll start like tightening up and stuff.
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Chapter 2: What significant event led to Joe Kent's resignation?
And so I had played, I had told Joe about the, you know, that Gideon Rose interview with Stephen Colbert. You know what I'm talking about, where he's breaking down how we're stealing Ukraine away from him. And it like blew Joe's mind. He hadn't seen it before. He's like, yo, that's crazy.
Like a lot of people like didn't know about the whole made on revolution and the American involvement and stuff like that. And so he has her on the next day and he asked her about it. So then he plays it again on the show. And I was like, oh, man, this is awesome. Like back to back episodes. He played that video and then he throws it to Tulsi. And I was like, yo, this is crazy.
We're both going to like destroy this war. And then he goes, so Tulsi, what's going on here? You know, and Tulsi goes, you know, I forget exactly, but it was literally something like. You know.
Chapter 3: How did Joe Kent's resignation impact the discussion on the Iran war?
The problem is that the military industrial complex has far too much power in Washington, D.C., and we are no longer a government of, for, and by the people. We are a government of, for, and by the military industrial complex. So, like, something like this... And I was like, oh, I at the time, I kind of really respected Tulsi. And I was like, oh, maybe I'm going to learn something from her.
Maybe she's going to have a nugget that like I didn't know, you know, that she knows she was in the Congress and all that, you know, and you're just kind of like, but I do have to say, you know, when she when she used to do that, like her little shtick about like my brothers and sisters, you know, she was embedded in a medical unit in some of the worst years in Iraq.
She saw some shit, you know what she saw? And she used to talk about her brothers and sisters needlessly dying in this war that politicians led us into. And I got to say to Tulsi, and I hope you hear this, like you really had me going there for a little bit with that. You know, I kind of believed you on that part of it.
I kind of believe that you actually gave a shit about the people you watched having their limbs blown off and shit like that, you know? And yet here you are, lying us into a fucking war that you've been predicting fucking publicly for at least a fucking decade would go this way. What the fuck are you talking about? The president of the United States said that no one could have predicted this.
I predicted this. I'm an idiot. Fucking Scott Horton predicted this and John Mearsheimer predicted this and Jeffrey Sachs predicted this and Tucker Carlson predicted this and the fucking Pentagon predicted this. What are you talking about? Yeah, well, she's going to sit there. She's going to sit there and just fucking dodge the question. Yeah, she can't criticize the president.
And so she completely dodges the question and just says we're accumulating information. And as we get information, we give it to the president, which is not an answer of yes or no. Was the president informed of this or and if not, why were our intelligence agencies completely blind to this level of risk?
yeah but and of course the answer is they weren't they weren't blind to this they all knew it's why generals were warning donald trump not to do this um you know it's i don't know it's there there is just something about watching these people like you're destroying our country man you're like what are you doing what are you doing you're risking all of this just killing all these people um and and you know like it's like
Anyway, I don't know. But Tulsi here, and I'll say this because I've heard from a few different people who have said that something like along the lines of, yeah, well, you know, Tulsi resigns and they're just going to put someone worse in there. You're like, oh, yeah, someone who might lie us into war. You're going to put someone worse in there? You are worse now.
You're as bad as any of them if you'll do this. No, I'm just saying this is the whole thing. What do you mean worse? Worse is this. This is worse. Worse is lying us into a war. That's the thing. What's the worst thing a director of national intelligence can do? It's this. It's what Tulsi's doing right now. And it's about the war that she sold T-shirts to keep us out of.
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Chapter 4: What did Tulsi Gabbard say during the recent Senate hearing?
Is this the one where Tulsi... I wanted the Tulsi imminent threat. This is the longer version of when Tulsi says... The imminent threat clip. Yeah, that's what I want. Okay, great. Hey, live chat. That's how the sausage is made. Two hours and what? One second. You said two hours and what? Two hours and 15 minutes. Okay. Yeah, that's the guy. Handsome fella. Never heard of him before.
yeah i think i may have seen him a time or two i don't know nothing about him though so you provide to congress timely objective and independent of political considerations correct yes and you noted in your opening statement you're here fulfilling a statutory response ability and that your testimony quote represents the id assessment threats correct if that opens
This is coming through really awful for us. Just pause for a second. Intelligence community. Yes. Intelligence community. I think it might be worth pulling it back, let it load up a little bit, take a couple comments, and then just give it a clean edit and play it.
yeah i mean if if you're recording locally i suppose it won't um come out but it's really hard for us to comment on it like this so yeah do what rob said just let it load up for a little bit we'll take a couple questions from the chat and then we'll edit this out yeah maybe maybe go to like 215 30 214 30. unless i guess unless one of your questions are really good um here go ahead put in a question in the live chat if you want one
Why doesn't Ben Swan get more exposure? Everything I've seen from him has been good over the years. I think he'd be a cool guest. Yeah, I would, I would have been on for sure. Um, you know, I'll say this to you guys and we will edit this out of the episode, but, um, you know, I think, I think working at RT is really hard, really hard to, you know, I, I like Ben a lot. I think Ben's great. Um,
and uh i've i've been a fan of his since back in the day when he was at that fox affiliate wherever and i used to watch his his viral clips all the time he was like a big figure in the ron paul uh revolution days but um i do think going i like i to me it's just like at this point too especially like you know back when when adam kokesh and um uh what's her name uh what's what's her name just blanking on it um
uh, the, the lefty anti-war lady, um, had their shows there. It was a little bit different because it was like, well, shit, that's the only fucking thing that'll let you on TV to say all this shit is RT.
And it's a little weird to take money from the Russian government, but fuck, like you can say some real shit on there and you can't, but now it's just like, man, everyone's got shows, dude, just do a show. You'll reach just as many people. I mean, I understand you get money because now it's just the money in a way, you know? And I think it kind of, Creates a little bit of a perverse thing.
I know Kiriakou worked for them too for a little bit. I mean, I like all those guys. I'm not trashing them. But I think it takes you out of the conversation a little bit. Gives you too easy of a thing to be able to dismiss you. All right, let's go to the Tulsi Gabbard statement. Under the law, you are responsible for providing national intelligence to the president, correct? Yes.
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts perceive the implications of Tulsi Gabbard's statements?
And to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and senior military commanders? Across the IC, yes. And to the Senate and the House and relevant committees, correct? Yes. And the law states that the national intelligence you provide to Congress, quote, should be timely, objective, and independent of political considerations, correct? Yes.
you noted in your opening statement you're here fulfilling a statutory responsibility and that your testimony quote represents the ic's assessment of threats correct that opening statement as submitted to the committee in advance of this hearing stated that as a result of last summer's airstrikes quote iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated end quote correct that's right
And is that in fact the assessment of the intelligence community?
Chapter 6: What criticisms do the hosts have regarding Trump's foreign policy?
Yes. So the assessment of the intelligence community is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated by last summer's airstrikes? Yes. And the opening statement you submitted to the committee last night also stated, quote, there has been no effort since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability, end quote, correct? That's right.
And that's the assessment of the intelligence community? Yes. The White House stated on March 1st of this year that this war was launched and was, quote, a military campaign to eliminate the imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime, end quote. That's a statement from the White House. Quote, the imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime.
Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime? The intelligence community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment capability.
Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was a, quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime, yes or no? Senator, the only person who can determine and what is and is not an imminent threat is the president. False.
This is the worldwide threat-searing where you present to Congress national intelligence, timely, objective, and independent of political considerations. You've stated today that the intelligence community's assessment is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated and that, quote, there had been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.
Was it the intelligence community's assessment that nevertheless, despite this obliteration, there was a, quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime? Yes or no? It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat. That is up to the president based on a volume of information that he received. Just pause it.
I mean, this is more comical than anything out of the George W. Bush administration. I Never seen anything like that before in my life. It is not our job to assess threat. It's exactly your job. You put out an annual threat assessment. That is your job. You can't just say it's not your job. Listen, it's as simple as this, man. What a fucking evil person Tulsi Gabbard turned out to be.
She's lying us into war. She's lying us into the war that she warned about, spent her entire career warning about, sold t-shirts about. And here's as simple as you know, she's lying us into war, Rob. If there was an imminent threat, then the answer to that question is yes. Simple as that. If there was an imminent threat, and she said, does the intelligence say that there's an imminent threat?
She'd go, yes, it says there's an imminent threat. She can't say that because she knows it's not true, and so she won't admit that it's not true. Okay, not telling the truth is the same as lying in this situation. We're talking about the DNI testifying about a war that was just launched. She's lying us into a war, knowing full well that she's doing it.
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