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Chapter 1: Why is Tucker Carlson done with the Republican Party?
what's up what's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem I am Dave Smith he is Robbie the fire Bernstein we were here yesterday Rob we sat right here in these seats and the world was crazy but today it's been all figured out
moves quick that's what's nice about the trump administration there you go he figured it out and he blew it again what's happened between in the last 24 hours oh rob things are still things are still going pretty crazy uh luckily that's what keeps this show in business how are you doing today i'm doing well and uh porches this weekend raleigh north carolina hampton north carolina myrtle beach and then uh
a lot of dates. You can go to port store.com. You can check them all out all over the country. And then you and I, we got some stuff coming up. Oh yeah. We'll be in Houston, Texas.
That's our next stop. Houston, Texas. Looking forward to that here. I should, we got a few. Many things coming up. Let me read them off here. Yeah.
Chapter 2: What does Michael Knowles suggest about the Republican Party's direction?
Houston, Texas, coming up July 9th, 10th and 11th. Then Huntsville, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee. I will be speaking at the Young Americans for Liberty event in Cincinnati, Ohio, by the way, this summer as well. Me and Rob will be doing comedy in Fort Lauderdale, Appleton, Wisconsin, Austin, Texas, Louisville, Kentucky, Fort Worth, Texas, Dallas, Texas. Did I say it wrong again? Louisville.
Louisville. All over the place. Comicdavesmith.com. But Houston, Texas. That's our next date coming up.
I've got to say, my favorite barbecue spot in Texas is in Houston, so I'm always excited to go there. I don't know the name of it, but I know where it is. I don't know the name of it, but I always know how to re-find it. That's the way I clock information.
Chapter 3: How are the negotiations with Iran described in this episode?
I got an internal fat guy map.
All right. I like that. There you go. You just go off the smells, the memory. That's very... Okay. I respect that. All right, Rob. Well, Donald Trump is... Look, you got to kind of give him, I guess, a little bit of a pass on this. But Donald Trump's trying to thread a needle of how to get this deal done, how to get through. I mean...
It is, let's just say, Rob, we have a memorandum of understanding, right? This is not technically a peace deal of any sort. It lays the barest kind of structure, right?
Chapter 4: What challenges does Donald Trump face in his negotiations with Iran?
In which negotiations can take place and it gave a very brief period of time of 60 days to negotiate some very complex things as we've talked about on the show took two years to negotiate the JCPOA this two months very challenging, although I suppose you could copy paste a lot. But.
that being said you have two months of negotiations it's already off to let's just call it an incredibly rocky start the thing almost the signing ceremony almost fell apart according to a bunch of reporting things off to a very rocky start donald trump is coming underneath uh enormous um pressure
from one very specific lobby obviously but also just in general that look i mean this is the the position we find ourselves in here rob which is a little bit tough is that we want to get this get through these 60 days we want to come out with some type of agreement here we want to just result this to result in no more war and america getting out of this
At the same time, obviously, Donald Trump has a lot of vulnerabilities here because he has talked mad shit for 100 plus days and now is backing off of every last one of the things that he said. But so he's got to try to, you know, look tough. He's got to try to sell this as victory. We always said this is going to be very tough. Here is from Donald Trump this morning, Rob.
despite the, sorry, one second, protestations and false statements to the contrary, Coupled with the drumbeat of the fake news, which is doing everything possible to make the U.S. victory as small and insignificant as possible, Iran has fully and completely agreed to highest-level nuclear inspections long into the future, parentheses, infinity, exclamation point.
This will ensure, quote, nuclear honesty, quote, If they did not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations. Based on this and other major concessions being made by Iran, I have agreed to allow the Hormuz Strait to remain open with no further naval blockade.
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Chapter 5: How does the podcast discuss the impact of media on political narratives?
However, all ships are remaining in place should it be necessary to reinstitute the blockade. Blah, blah, blah. This is a humanitarian crisis, he says, about sending money into Iran. So there you go, Rob. I got to say, this, if I was advising the White House, give me your thoughts, this to me just seems very ineffective. I don't think this is good.
Just keep talking about how devastating the economy is being hit and how much we need to open this straight. I think this trying to sell this as some victory narrative is just too... It's it's a lie. It's a lie that requires a lot of people to prop it up and and not enough. Nearly enough people are willing to prop up this lie.
It seems like right now this lie that we won and the media is just they're just not reporting what an obvious American victory this is. What do you think, Rob?
Well, on the trying to sell this lie, the amount the contingency of media support of people that were you got the people that were against the war and you had the people that were for the war and the people that were for the war, not exactly for walking away. And the people that were against the war think that this entire thing was a mistake.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of Tucker Carlson's statements for the Republican coalition?
And so they're not going to celebrate the victory of the mistake you made. So there's a very small contingency of people who can be getting on the media to try and sell this as a win.
i'm seeing a little bit of a trend here firstly it's at this point for donald trump to be yelling at the fake news for bad reporting you guys have lied every single day about this war and what's going on in this war it's very hard to go hey trust me they're the fake news and the information you're seeing isn't true and the writing of the agreement seems to indicate
everything is being a complete and total capitulation and loss that iran is getting money up front that there is no nuclear agreement in place um and now it seems like donald trump is trying to change the terms of the deal which uh i guess is very art of the deal of to just you know give people what they think they're getting and then just absolutely walk back the concessions perhaps the pathway to victory is that iran can now sell its oil and they realize you know what we're getting along with the rest of the world here this is pretty good and they actually do um
decide that that they want to do nuclear inspections or they actually do decide, you know what, we do have to buy medical supplies and wheat. And so if it makes Donald Trump look better to take the funding to have to go purchase that, we'll do it. But I can't imagine that Iran was agreeing to that. That's clearly not what that's not what's in the terms. That's not the way it's written out.
And so you got to wonder if this is a Donald Trump negotiating trick or if he was actually buying himself some time to get the straight open and they're actively blowing up the deal by clearly walking back, which was, hey, yes, we will admit that it came down to someone needed to admit that they lost. And the U.S. basically did it when they said, we'll give you your money up front.
And now they're changing it to, no, we never said it's the doll hair presidency, which I've said a million times. I never said I give you a million dollars.
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Chapter 7: What criticisms are made regarding the Democratic Party's approach?
I said doll hairs. Oh, I never said I give you your money up front. I'll give you your funds, but paid for in wheat and American medical supplies and soybeans that no one will buy from us right now. And we'll send that over to you instead. Oh, and then this line of, oh, clearly I never would have done a deal with you guys if it didn't include nuclear inspections.
So even though you guys came to the table and signed a deal that didn't agree that, obviously I was going to do that. So it's just common sense that that was included. Yeah, well, they didn't agree to it. That's the point of sitting down and negotiating an agreement.
Yeah, look, I mean, I think that much like look much like the way he's conducted the entire war i think a lot of these are like very short-term lies just designed to like get you off his back for five minutes so he can get his head above water oh we're getting big concessions out of them they're great now look um
I would say that I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that you could maybe get nuclear inspections as a result of some nuclear deal. I mean, it's somewhat surprising that Iran has floated the idea of entering nuclear negotiations. Now, again, as you alluded to there, Rob, Their red line has been that they get money up front, and then we'll talk about all that.
Chapter 8: How do the hosts suggest voters should respond to the current political landscape?
So we'll see what ends up happening there. The idea that Iran could maybe at the end of this 60 days agree to some type of inspections regime is not that crazy. I mean, again... They've agreed to this in the past, so perhaps they could. What would you need to give them in order to get them to that place? Well, that's a really big question.
And then, of course, Rob, again, I mentioned this on yesterday's show. It's really worth repeating. Look, throughout this entire war, I've been saying, guys, you've got to pay attention to what the Iranian regime is saying here, too. You've got to read Dropsite and Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grimm and these guys, and you've got to see what that side is saying. And it gives you a big advantage here.
in terms of understanding how this conflict is going. So not just hear from one side, but hear from both sides. Obviously, that has paid off and given a big advantage to people who paid attention to that. Okay, again, as I said yesterday, right now, there's huge internal splits within Iran about why they should even be, whether they should even be negotiating. This is a controversial move.
If you could imagine like, You know, everything's got a left-right spectrum, and even the Iranian government has a left-right spectrum. These are the liberals who are there having a negotiation right now. In fact, Rob, the Supreme Leader himself didn't even endorse this. He like, he was very careful with his wording.
He said he'll allow these negotiations to go on, but like didn't exactly support it. So again, the fact that for Donald Trump to be selling already that we've got this inspections regime, it's like, dude, this isn't on paper. This isn't agreed to, this isn't confirmed, let alone actually being implemented. It's way early in the process. Um, and I think what you said, uh,
You know, there's a very good point to your comment about how Donald Trump can't really call the media liars now because the last hundred days he's just completely torched any semblance of credibility that he has. What do you mean they are liars? This whole thing was sold off lies and then you just lied every day throughout the whole thing, including right now.
And yeah, it's true that a lot of the people in the media are criticizing him for making this deal because they want the war to continue. And he is right in a sense that, you know, a lot of them are liars. But hey. What position are you in to criticize them for that when you've been feeding us the bullshit you have for the last hundred plus days?
And on the food claim, because I saw J.D. Vance going off on this as well, that, you know, all the news agencies are lying to you. We're not just giving them money. If you read the agreement, there's nothing in there that says the fund, the funds can only be used to purchase American humanitarian goods, which I guess is basically food and medical supplies. It's not in writing. Then J.D.
Vance goes, how dare you guys say we're just giving them money? Well, buddy, that's what's written right here. And then, of course, the Iranians turn around and go, we never agreed to that. Give us our money. And yet you still have J.D. Vance going, how dare you guys pretend that we're capitulating and just giving them the money? It's like, well, that's what's written.
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