First off, Blaise, how do you feel about where things are at right now? It seems like the Houthis are complicating things up big time while trying to say we are not an enemy of America.

Yeah, it's good to be with you, and I think that's exactly right.

Look, we knew that when President Trump shifted to this economic pressure campaign on Iran, trying to strangle their exports through his blockade, trying to put sanctions on them to strangle their ability to get oil or other goods out by other means to earn revenue in any other way, we knew that Iran wasn't going to take that lying down.

And I think we're seeing that response now.

And I think it's important to note that it's actually not just the Houthis.

We have seen the Houthis advance in Yemen.

We have seen them be able to now control the Bab el-Mandeb, that critical waterway that goes out of the Red Sea.

What would it take for you to support something like that? Or are you there now?

First off, But, Blaze, how do you feel about where things are at right now? It seems like the Houthis are complicating things up big time while trying to say we are not an enemy of America.

Yeah, it's good to be with you, and I think that's exactly right.

Look, we knew that when President Trump shifted to this economic pressure campaign on Iran, trying to strangle their exports through his blockade, trying to put sanctions on them to strangle their ability to get oil or other goods out by other means to earn revenue in any other way, we knew that Iran wasn't going to take that lying down.

And I think we're seeing that response now.

And I think it's important to note that it's actually not just the Houthis.

We have seen the Houthis advance in Yemen.

We have seen them be able to now control the Bab el-Mandeb, that critical waterway that goes out of the Red Sea.

What would it take for you to support something like that? Or are you there now?

How did we get here?

[sighs] I wish I had a good answer to that, 'cause then maybe we could solve this problem.

Look, part of it is just something that seems to be, uh, historical universal.

For two and a half thousand years, people have wanted to, to, to hate and kill the Jews and blame all of their problems on them, going back to the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Egyptians.

You know, then we had the Spanish Inquisition, the Germans, the Russians, the Poles, the Ukrainians.

Everyone at some point in history has persecuted the Jews.

Uh, for a long time, I thought that maybe, maybe America was the country that broke that trend, and, and for a long time it was.

How about colleges? Since we addressed this a couple of years ago, and this administration's taken legal action, these elite universities, do you, do you find any improvement, anecdotal or empirical, about the antisemitism that exists on those campuses?

Yeah.

You know, I think the the greatest weapon that we have in this fight against Iran, the weapon that Iran is most afraid of is the Iranian people, which is why we've seen them to continue and expand their crackdown during the war.

with the executions you talked about, continued arrests and jailings and beatings of dissidents and anybody that they fear might be involved in anti-regime activity.

I think that speaks volume as to how fragile the regime is and how scared it is of the Iranian people.

And to Admiral Harward's point, the U.S. has all the leverage.

It could have even more leverage If it were able to harness the power of the Iranian people and support it, I think that that would give us truly the upper hand in this conflict.

But to your question, you know, President Trump has spoken about the threat of pickaxe mountains.

Blaise, your thoughts on that? And also, how do you see Israel's war role rather going forward if the war reopens?

Your reaction about how Australia has handled everything from the shooting and the aftermath?

Well, good morning.

Thanks for having me on.

You know, I think it goes without saying that for two years we watched, uh, the climate in Australia turn increasingly hostile towards its Jewish community while the government did nothing, and in fact, helped enable it.

You know, one of the things that struck me the most was about a year ago, uh, there was a video of Australian nurses and doctors saying that they were allowing Jewish patients to die because they deserved it.

That is a sign of a very sick society, and one which requires some sort of intervention, one- s- some sort of leadership to tell people that this is not okay.

And instead when the government says, uh, Israel might be committing genocide, we need to recognize a Palestinian state thereby rewarding the attacks of October 7th, I think that normalizes the sort of hate that we saw expressed just a week ago, unfortunately.

Do you think most of them felt secure up until this weekend?