The United States maintains global shipping lanes as a critical national security interest because international waterways are essential for global trade and economic stability; when a rogue state like Iran threatens these lanes through military actions such as mining and attacking commercial vessels, the US has both the capability and responsibility to intervene, as demonstrated by Project Freedom operations that neutralized Iran's military capabilities and prevented the establishment of a dangerous precedent where nations could control international shipping routes.
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[music] [music] [music] >> Hello everyone. If you've landed here, you've landed on Let's Talk News. I'm your host Leticia Romero and I'm hoping I'm hoping that we're not going to have any technical difficulties tonight.
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And as you all know, he is just my absolute favorite person uh in the Trump administration. And and frankly, I hope he goes on to be our next president. Um but, he held a press conference the other day that was absolutely insane.
Um tonight's show is going to be all about that press conference. Uh and I am going to say hello to everybody cuz I can see your comments before I do, I just want to let you know that Marco is a son of Cuban immigrants.
Um he grew up in uh in a working-class household.
Uh and they were, you know, very Catholic. Um he's married to Jeanette Desbet DeBeaz.
Uh and she's a she was a bank teller for a for in my uh in Florida and she was a Miami Dolphins cheerleader.
Um and she's from she's Colombian. Um so he graduated from South Miami Senior High School. He grew up in Miami.
He attended uh Tarriq Tarriqio College of Missouri on a football scholarship.
So little Marco actually played football.
Um so he earned a BA in political science from the University of Florida and a JD [ __ ] laude from the University of Miami School of Law. He worked for US Rep Ileana Ros-Lehtinen when he was in law school. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives tives in 2000 and then reelected um until he was elected to the Senate in 2011.
Um and he would stayed uh as a senator until he became our Secretary of State. So he's a smart smart guy.
Um and what I just love about him is he it seems like he's always got the answers.
He's just always got them. And you're going to see in a minute. But first I want to say hello to everybody cuz last night I couldn't see your comments and it was terrible. So everybody comments a lot. Um and we'll have a poll. We'll do all the things. Uh hi Francine, good to have you. Hi Kevin Wall from the other side of the earth, but not the other side of the issues.
Uh hi Angela Ricker, good to have you my right arm. Hello. Yes, mom is doing much better today.
Um it's still tough. She's got a lot of breaks and she's 85. And uh right? She's 85 85. She's going to be 86.
Um so but they got her up and they're moving her from chair to chair. She's doing therapy. She's doing okay. Hi Jeff, how are you? Good evening Kevin Young.
Hello Andrew Dorman and hello Professor.
Uh so uh let's see. I'm going to I'll put the poll up in a minute, but first I want to start with the question that I think was really important in that press conference and I love the answer is you know basically why we're in the Iran war and what's going on. So um I'm going to show you. All right. Let's get to the front. These guys are going to get mad. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Thank you. Same here. Melissa stated press.
You mentioned earlier that some countries have privately and publicly indicated their willingness to help with Project Freedom. Can you say how many have reached out to the US with their offers of help and what kind of capabilities >> Well, and I I mean that you know thank you for your question. That's a good question. I mean multiple countries have said we got to do something about it and fix it.
>> dozens or single digits or more than a hundred or I don't know. I don't put a number on it. I would just tell you that here's what I would say about it. The capabilities is the issue, okay? A lot of countries would love to do something about it. They don't have a navy. Right.
Right, or they can't get there in time or they can't Others, you know, are less, you know, that some unfortunately do have a navy are saying, "Oh, we'll be involved, but we'll be involved after it's over." Well, after it's over it's kind of like, you know, that makes sense. So, you know, we'd like to have it There may be some utility in a post, you know, closure mission. I'm not downplaying that, but I think that's been the challenge. But there are other ways they can help, unique ways that they can help. And I don't want to get into who these countries are for obvious reasons, you know, because they they they are prepared to help us in certain ways, but maybe don't want that publicly disclosed for no other reason than it impact the foreign policy. It could have some domestic ramifications, [clears throat] but ultimately I don't want to mislead you. The primary responsibility for this Project Freedom is on the United States because we're the only country that can project power in that part of the world the way we're doing now. We're the only ones that can do it and we're going to do it as a favor to to Understand this.
This is a favor to the world because it's their ships that are stranded. It's their fuel supplies that are stranded.
By the way, it's their humanitarian There's humanitarian aid destined for different countries in the world that's stranded in the Persian Gulf right now.
It It's It's the fertilizer that they need for their food and crops that's stranded in the Persian Not our fertilizer, their fertilizer. So, we want to be helpful and that's why the president stepped forward because we're the only ones that can. Frankly, we're the only ones that can. Mr. Secretary, Mr. Secretary, on the rising oil and gas prices, the president has said that this is a small price to pay for getting rid of a nuclear weapon. But 10 weeks in, are we any closer to getting rid of Iran's nuclear material?
>> Yeah, but look, here's the the way to think about Iran. And this is what I described at the very beginning of this.
What was Iran's plan? You have to understand what their plan was. Their plan was they were going to build this conventional shield where they would have so many thousands of missiles and drones and rockets that they couldn't be attacked. And behind that conventional shield that they were trying to build, they would then break out and do whatever they wanted with their nuclear program. They no longer have that conventional shield. Okay, we told you guys from the very beginning and it and and and we're very consistent in this messaging. The operation that has concluded was going to destroy their navy. They have no navy left. They don't. Not a navy. They have small boats and Boston whalers, but they don't have a navy left. They don't have an air force. I challenge you. When is the last time you read or heard about an Iranian jet flying anywhere? They don't have an an air force. Their missile launching capability has been substantially degraded and their industrial base, their defense industrial base has been severely severely damaged. So, their ability to build a shield behind which they could hide their nuclear program was wiped out. That's a very substantial achievement and that was the purpose of this operation from day one.
>> material in order for this war to end.
Well, that's one of the topics that needs to be discussed. I don't know about I think you're linking it. The The The operation is over. Epic Fury is President notified Congress. We're done with that stage of it. Okay, we're now on to this project of freedom. As far as a negotiation is concerned, I think the president's been clear that part of the the process has to be not just the enrichment, but what happens to this material that's buried deep somewhere that they have still have access to if they ever wanted to dig it out. That has to be addressed and that's being addressed in the negotiation. I'm not going to go further on what progress has been made on that topic because I don't want to endanger the negotiations, but suffice it to say that the president and this entire team is aware of the centrality of that question and that will have to be addressed one way or the other.
He's just [clears throat] I have never heard a better explanation about why we're well why we did what we did with Iran and where we are right now than that one. And the question that I have is has anybody seen it anywhere? Have you read it anywhere? I haven't. You know, even on Fox they kind of gloss over it. The fact that we're done with epic fury. The fact that you know, is all we keep hearing is all the war powers act and you know, in the in the Senate and all this stuff. Well, there's no nothing to vote on. We're not in war and their military's gone. You know, so Yeah, he's a smart he's a smart man. He really is a smart man. Hello there Ramon, how are you? Hi Colleen.
Ramon says America will beat Iran and we will win. I agree. I think we did beat them already. Hi Susan Durama, good to have you.
It's clear we beat them because what the Secretary of State said and is true, when have you heard about any of their military? They are if it wasn't for Iran and China I mean Russia and China, Iran would have nothing right now.
So and we're stopping that too. Iran the other day, was it today or yesterday? I can't remember. Dang. They they bombed a Chinese tanker ship.
You know, so they their goal is to start out Armageddon because that's what their religion wants and that's what they're they're going to they want to start. Okay, so um we we got a new poll, okay?
Uh who would you vote for to be the Republican nominee for president 2028?
Uh type one if it's J.D. Vance, type two if it's Marco Rubio, type three if it's Gavin Newsom, or type four if it's someone else. All right, so that's our poll tonight. Who do you want to be the Republican Well, it's a Republican nominee and I I put Newsom in there, but I as a joke. Um but yeah, let's see.
Uh Iran was evil. Well, they're still they still are evil, but they don't have um they don't have a military anymore basically. Uh hello Wargard, good to have you. Big Marco, secretary of state, press secretary, president of Venezuela, and soon-to-be president of Cuba.
Excellent.
>> [laughter] >> That's That is very very true.
Um yeah, so you know, who do you want?
You know, just put your put your number in the comments. You know, one is Vance, two is Rubio, three is Newsom, and four is someone else. And if it's someone else, I want to know why who and I want to know why. Uh well, I want to know who anyway. Um so, hi Tom McInerney, hope you're feeling great. Hope you're feeling great. Hope you're feeling great. Um why is it not Why is it not registering? I don't know why it's not registering. Hm.
Okay, let's see. I I you know, I will learn about this damn poll one way or another. All right, why why why is it not registering? Huh.
I don't know. All right, well we'll I'll that out. All right, I I've got so much more to show you. Okay, um so listen to uh Rubio talk about the Strait of Hormuz and why it's important to America. I think this is important.
President Trump has made it clear that the US doesn't rely on the Strait of Hormuz. So why should Americans even care about Project Freedom and these ship shipping tankers going through?
Well, I think on the second point is the one I want to address first and that is why should Americans care and why it matters to us? Because ultimately these things have an impact on the global economy which ultimately has an impact on our economy in the long term. That's number one. Number two, because if we live in a world where a rogue state like this Iranian regime is allowed to claim as a new normal control over international shipping lane, it will not be long before you see that happen in multiple shipping lanes around the world. I can identify for you six or seven six or seven vital shipping lanes around the world that some countries can decide, "Guess what? If Iran was able to do it, we're going to do it, too. We're we're not going to start charging tolls." And it'll get closer and closer to us. That's unacceptable. We cannot live in a world There's a lot of time and energy been invested in behind the idea that international waters are free for the free flow of goods. The stuff we make in this country and export has to go through international shipping lanes.
And for us to live in a world where a country can decide, "Now we own the international shipping lane and you have to pay us if you want to use it." That is a normal that we will never be able to accept and that's what the Iranians are trying to get us to do. So we're doing two things about it and we haven't talked about the second one enough. The second thing we're doing is we're going to the UN. Everybody loves the UN, right? We're trying to go to the UN and we're saying, "Okay, countries of the world, condemn this. Say that it is it is wrong for you to put mines there. It is wrong for you to shoot at commercial vessels." Guys, that's what we're talking about here. These guys are bombing commercial vessels. They're not bombing naval vessels. They're bombing commercial tankers. It's just outrageous. That needs to stop and and and and it needs to end. And and if it doesn't, then the world should be diplomatically and economically isolating Iran as well. But if we live in a world where global shipping lanes can be taken over by countries, that'll have a direct impact on Americans in the short and the long term, and we can't let it start by Iran doing it. But and we're the only ones that can do anything about it.
I love that answer. I love that answer.
IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. I CAN'T EVEN.
UH RAMON says anti-war protesters are losers. Yeah, well, I you know, the first memories I have of anti-war protesters were the Vietnam protesters.
I remember, and I've told this story before, I wore the bracelet of um a POW on my wrist um for a long time. I I don't know if who was raising money with that. It was probably um the USO.
Um but I have that still somewhere. Uh let's see.
Uh so Kevin Wall. So we have a lot of twos.
Uh a lot of twos, and I don't know why it's not up dating, and that's pissing me off.
Um Kevin Wall wants to know how Vivek Ramaswamy goes as VP. Well, he's running for governor right now.
Um by then, maybe. I don't know. I I got to tell you my dream team would be um and I've said this before, Marco Rubio and John Fetterman. I know it's crazy, but that that I would like a fusion ticket. Because I'm tired of everybody.
I'm tired of the parties. I really am.
Um Kevin says one or two.
Uh okay, Jeff Pardo is not is for someone else. Donald Trump is especially since the 2020 election was a fraud.
Uh well, then that would mean he was already elected three times though, Jeff.
And it would be unconstitutional.
I don't recall Colleen, I don't recall hearing about an air force in Iran even before or much of a military in general.
Oh, no, no, no. They had a really big military.
Um there's 90 million people in Iran, and they You know who who built up the military was the Shah. Uh the the you know, the who was we were friendly with when they were free. Um he cuz they had all that them that oil money from the 1970s. So, he's the one who built up the military. I think we talked about it on the show. I'm pretty sure. Uh Jeff Pardo says for and I'm guessing that means for Trump.
Um okay, Colleen and Tommy are showing each other love. I love this.
Uh Ramon, this is Obama and Biden couldn't beat Iran. They because they are trying to negotiate with terrorists.
You have to understand the the motivation for Iran. The motivation is to is it's a theocracy.
So, they believe to get the Messiah to come down, they have to start an Armageddon. That's it. Uh Colleen says, "Didn't all that start after we went in the mines and tolls and bombing commercial ships? Did we [ __ ] them enough?"
Uh they have plenty of drones. And yes, it happened after we went in. But that I I you know, I've got to say that you know, they were getting a nuclear weapon together, and Marco just said how. They were collecting an arsenal so that nobody could stop them from getting a nuclear weapon. And they have the uranium.
So, they're now using the stuff that they were collecting after we got rid of the you know, after we buried the uranium. They were collecting uh weapons to try and stop anyone from stopping them. You get it?
Okay. Uh Colleen likes the ticket of uh Rubio and Fetterman.
Uh Angela Angela said Rica says uh, Rubio and DeSantis. That's another good one. I just There's a thing about DeSantis that I have and I don't know what it is. I have to be honest with you.
I love I love his policies and I love that he's tough. He I just he's There's a thing about him. But, you know why you couldn't do Rubio and DeSantis? Cuz they're both from Florida.
Um, and it's it doesn't shape up well that way.
Um, it probably, you know, Florida, South Carolina, but not even I would say Florida, Texas.
Um, because you know, Texas is a big state and we need those people to come in. Uh, but maybe it doesn't even matter anymore where people are from. Maybe it doesn't.
Who knows?
Uh, the professor actually 1804 1805 Jefferson sent in Marines Presley O'Bannon to the shores of Tripoli against the Barbary pirates who controlled the Gibral Gibraltar Strait.
Okay.
The And we know that that that happens to open the strait. Um, so I guess what the professor is saying is we've done this before.
Uh, Colleen says, "I feel like we need to [ __ ] them further." Well, I mean, their economy's in the toilet. Um, the problem is is that Russia and China had keep on arming them. So, that's why that's why Trump put our own blockade there so they can can't get anything.
And I think that's working. But, you know, at the end of the day, you can't negotiate with this group, with the theocracy. You have to people have to overthrow this government and they have to start their own. We have to somehow find a way to arm these people.
Um, the professor says, "So, the US has been involved with this sort of things, uh, since the beginning." Yeah, absolutely it has. Um, and and there's nothing wrong with it. There's just nothing wrong with it.
Uh, let's see. What did I I said almost I like uh the UN. So, listen to what Rubio says about the UN. This is really good.
>> What is the purpose of the UN? The UN was supposed to be a place where you could peacefully resolve global conflict. Right now, you have a country who is unlawfully, criminally, and illegally taking possession of an international waterway and blowing up commercial vessels and putting mines in the water.
I don't know people appreciate like how outrageous this is, how unacceptable it is that any country would fire and try to sink commercial vessels or put mines in the water. Both of these things are illegal. And so, we're going to take it to the UN and we're going to give it another chance to be a forum in which we're not even asking people like commit troops to the region and help blow up the Iranian boat. All we're asking them to do is to condemn it, to call on Iran to stop blowing ships, to remove these uh mines, and to allow humanitarian relief to come through cuz there's humanitarian aid that's trapped. That's it. It's a very modest request. And if you're telling me that the international community and hundreds of countries cannot rally behind that, then I don't know what the utility of the UN system is if it can't even solve something as straightforward as that. And I think to both the Chinese and the Russians, I would argue and have argued that it is in their interest for that resolution to pass and for pressure to be brought on Iran because it is in their interest not to see international waterways, including the Straits of Hormuz, be closed down and cause economic chaos to dozens and dozens of countries around the world.
So, there was a resolution in the UN that the America put forward and it was vetoed.
Um just further shows you that the UN is they're not our friend. They want our money. They're like a an obstinate teenager. They want our money, but they want nothing to do with us. Um they're they think they're too cool for us. So, I I think that we need to be out of the UN. I think we need to be out of NATO. I just I do. I think that it's just it's crazy. It's just absolutely crazy that they would veto that.
Colleen says, "And the UN put Iran on some kind of security board." Oh, no, human rights board.
They put him on a human rights board, which is absolutely laughable.
Okay, the professor had Carter nipped Iran in the bud on Valentine's Day 1979 when the sergeant was shot at the US Embassy 911 would have been avoided.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Yo, Carter did not know what to do with Iran.
And that's a problem.
I mean, that's that's what happens with weak presidents.
Carter was a weak president. He was, you know, everybody loved him, but he was a weak president and that's just it's it's terrible. Piracy is a very serious problem in that area, says Andrew. Yes, it's always been.
But but really yeah.
We need to make sure that that doesn't happen again. And as the professor rightly said, Thomas Jefferson was the the one to get rid of the Barbary pirates. Yeah, Kevin, it was was women's rights human rights. The committee is I believe it was women and human rights, which is laughable because there are no human There are no rights for women or anyone else except for men in Iran. And then those are the categories, right?
Colleen says they're a shadow agency for the globalist. 1,000% a shadow agency for the globalist.
And and they've I'm just trying to understand. I don't know why the globalists are so into the Muslims.
I mean, maybe because they have such control over people. They keep them dumb.
Maybe.
I'm not quite sure. Uh Uh the professor says it's long overdue.
All of this is really long overdue.
You're right, professor. Uh War Guard, you really have to defend the Fetterman pick. He's an outright Democrat with all of their principles except for not funding the government. Right when you think he will vote with Republicans, he reverses. No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, War Guard. I will defend it. That's not true. He's all for the Save Act, but the problem with the Save Act was they kept on piling [ __ ] on, which everybody had a problem with, and so do I. There was no reason that it couldn't have been kept clean. He is more Fetterman is more an independent than he is a Democrat. He is not a lib by any stretch of the imagination.
If anything, he's a blue dog Democrat.
And that's okay. I'm okay with blue dog Democrats. Um the fact that he of all the people, um Fetterman is uh you know, thinks before he votes. He reads before he votes. And it's not just the Iran war he's good with, and it's not just uh Israel he's good with. He has been good with many policies um that that the he he voted against shutting down the government for Obamacare. He voted against um shutting down the government for ICE.
Um again, you know, he he he supports the war. He supports the Save Act. He only pulled back from the Save Act when they started making it a whole pork belly fest. Um so, he's a thinking, level-headed guy, which I'm shocked that I'm saying. Uh and I think that we need that. I think that if we could find a fusion ticket, we could get rid of the loony left. And that's who we need to get rid of, the loony left. You know, we have a loony right, too. Um and you know, I'm sorry if I offend anybody, but Q is too far to the right and too weird for me. Um lots of things lots of things they they get tidbits and they run with it, but that's what happens with the loony left, too. Uh I but if I had to go Q or loony left, I go Q. But I they have a lot of false information and I don't like it. Um so, I just want normal people to all gather together and independents to all gather together to eradicate the loony left and eradicate the you know, rigid right.
And let's get back to the center where we could talk to each other. That I that's my defense word guard.
Um Colleen says that's right, I knew it was preposterous.
Uh yeah, the the the human rights thing.
Uh Jeff Pardo, early on Iran killed 10,000 of their own citizens early on, much more sense. Yeah, I think it was after the protest. Uh it was almost 30,000 they claimed. They bragged about it. Uh the professor says Barbary pirates sold white slaves up until Marines arrived in 1905. Yeah, there were plenty of white slaves. People don't realize that slaves came in all colors. They still do. They still do.
Um 1805, yeah.
Oh, I'm sorry. I I'm sorry, yeah. I mis- I I should have corrected it. I knew it was 1805 cuz Thomas Jefferson would have been really [ __ ] old in 1905. Um Kevin Young, I don't trust the French sending the carrier Charles de Gaulle into the street just when we will end this war soon. Well, the war's ended.
Okay? It was never a war. It was a a military action and it's over. Epic fury is over. Now, what we're doing is we're playing gatekeeper.
We're we're playing international police once again. And for the first time ever, I actually sanction it. Because what we're doing is we are now um blockading. We You know, all the sanctions that's on Iran, nobody ever stopped the the people who were trying to do stuff on the black market, but now we're we're doing that. So, you know, like China, you know, um would put their banana on a Iran ship.
No, we're not letting that happen anymore. We're taking We're confiscating that oil. Um we are not doing business with Iran.
We're bankrupting I We are not letting anybody do business with Iran. And if you are doing business with Iran, you have to answer for it. So, um yeah, and I get what you're saying. Um I get what you're saying, uh Kevin, about you know, um the French. The French are I don't know.
Uh yes, Fetterman and John Collins says uh Fetterman is against men and women sports. Yes, he is. He really is. He He is a blue dog Democrat. Um Uh so, War Guard, by his own words, he's a dem. Again, he will not vote to shut the government down. I watched him when he we were sure he would vote with us and he ditched. But cool, I don't trust him.
I I Listen, I hear what you're saying, but he didn't vote He He didn't vote to shut the government down.
He voted against that.
What he did ditch last minute was the Save America Act, the Voting Rights Act.
He was all for it. And then Trump piled all that [ __ ] on, and he said, "No, I can't do that." And I respect him for that. And And nothing should have been piled on that. That thing should have sailed through just as it was because the majority of people wanted that way.
All right, I don't want to go too long.
I want you to listen to this. This is a question I love this question and his answer. Okay.
Back back row yellow tie.
Back row Yeah, yeah, yeah. CBN News, you've had a a deep faith for God and country.
At the end of the day with all that you've been involved in >> going. You've been extremely busy. Go ahead. I'm sorry. As we all know, I I got to ask you, what is your hope for America at a time such as this?
My hope for America? And how do you personally deal with that? Yeah, look. I mean, my hope for America is what it's always been. I think it's the hope I hope we all share. We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything.
Where you're not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity, but frankly, it's a place where you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your full potential. I think that should be the goal of every country in the world, frankly, but I think in the US, we're not perfect. Our history's not one of perfection, but it's still better than anybody else's history. And ours is a story of perpetual improvement. Each generation has left the next generation of Americans freer, more prosperous, safer, and that is our goal as well. But it is a unique and exceptional country, and as we come upon this 250th year anniversary, we have a lot to learn and be proud of in our history. It is one of perpetual and continuous improvement where each generation has done its part to bring us closer to fulfilling the vision that the founders of this country had upon its founding. So.
Uh I just as the show ends, I'm in total darkness. All right, loveys. I love you all. I will see you on Sunday with a brand >> [laughter] >> computer. Thanks for watching Let's Talk News. Um please like us on Spotify and follow us on Spotify and subscribe to our YouTube channel or me. All right, love you. Going to go cuz I can't see a thing.
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