What happened? What was it like?

Yeah, I was in my office on the Pentagon's E-ring a couple of corridors down from the point of impact and watching, like everybody else, watching what was happening in New York, which, you know, it was obvious that there had been a terrorist attack.

And then all of a sudden the walls shuddered, pictures fell off, the smoke came into the hallway.

And, you know, what was amazing to me, and as I look back on it, no evacuation alarm ever went off.

We just don't knew what had happened.

We got up and we walked out and looked back at the broken and burning building.

Those of us who were blessed not to be at the point of impact.

Bleeding hearts notwithstanding, Martisan, we did what we had to do.

Are we picking at nits here or what?

Oh, of course we're at war with Iran.

I mean, it's self-evident that we are.

Just because there's not shooting on a daily basis doesn't mean that we're not at war.

We're at war with them militarily.

We're at war with them economically.

And we're doing it because Iran, as President Trump has said, can't have a nuclear weapon.

So the job that is keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon could have been essentially done by now.

woke one

was the election of Donald Trump.

And so now, you know, we were looking at the world and the clouds have parted.

The sun is coming through and shining.

It's, you know, wokeness seems to be on its back heels.

And what I think a lot of Americans don't realize is we're in the eye of the storm.

This is this is the woke two is coming if they ever get power again.

And the question is, did we, at least in the diplomacy part, did we misjudge Iran enough?

What do you think? Yeah, I mean, woke one implies there's

going to be woke two.

And the reason woke one ended is because of Donald Trump.

Because Donald Trump was elected and he came into office and he told schools that if you allow men into women's sports, then we're going to cut off your federal funds.

And he banned funding for DEI and all these other things.

So they're waiting in the wings for 2028 to have woke two.

But on the other point about these candidates, do the Democrats not know any normal men? No.

High crime in American

Mark Thiessen, how do you read it?

I loved your riff.

You're exactly right.

I nominate you for national security advisor to go back into the Trump administration and execute that policy.

I endorse it wholeheartedly.

Look, here's the reality.

Donald Trump, for 47 years, the Iranian regime has been waging war in America, and Donald Trump's the only president to fight back.

I'll give you the last word.

Here they go again.

Absolutely.

Look, if Mamdani tries this, he's the one who's going to be going to jail, not Benjamin Netanyahu.

I looked up the law, okay? There are two laws involved here.

The first one is 22 U.S. Code 7423, which says that no agency or entity of any state or local government may cooperate with the International Criminal Court in response to a request for cooperation by the International Criminal Court pursuant to the Rome Statute.

That's the American Service Members Protection Act.

It applies to allies.

What's your thinking here? You think that I'm wrong on this and now he's not going to go through with it?

Expand on that one.

Well, I mean, if you go back to the Soviet Union, who were we fighting for? Who was Ronald Reagan fighting for? The refuseniks, the Jews who they weren't allowing to emigrate.

It was Natan Sharansky who was in the gulag celebrating when someone passed him an article in Pravda that Ronald Reagan had called the Soviet Union an evil empire.

So the far left and the far right hate Jews.

The Nazis hated the Jews, the Soviets hated the Jews, and oppressed them.

So there's a long history of ties between anti-Semitism and socialism.

But I'll tell you, I think we need to recognize there is anti-Semitism across the political spectrum on the right and the left, in America at least.

It's

Otherwise, we're all going to be in trouble in this country.

Yeah, well, the issues are related.

So President Trump says they're communists.

You say they're anti-Semites.

I say yes.

Yeah.

They're both.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, so that, that seems to be in character.

Um, and you know, he just put out a text saying that he's gonna take Washington back from the Epstein class.

This is a guy who I just, I just reported in- in my Washington Post column on the details of it.

He's, he's been on an app called Kik for over a decade, which has been called a predator's paradise, uh, by the National Center for Child, uh, for Sex Ex- on Ex- on Sexual Exploitation.

This is...

You, you go on this app, and, and it literally, there, you're flooded with, uh, with sex messages and the ki- thousands of kids have been victimized on this thing.

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Mark, you know, you're making a point and I like the point, but you don't actually believe that that's going to be the outcome, do you?

I don't think it's going to be the outcome, but it was where we were headed last week.

Look, first, let's start at the beginning by saying that I've never seen a president with more courage than Donald Trump in starting this operation.

Four American presidents, Democrats and Republicans, said Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.

Donald Trump's the only one who did anything about it.

So so kudos to him, regardless of how this happens.

But how you end a war is as important as how you begin one and having the courage to begin it.

it one bit.

That's what we have to show, and I think we have to do it pretty fast, Mark.

Yes.

Look, it takes a little while for people to build up their confidence.

Money is a coward, right? So we've let through two ships.

We have to demonstrate that we can protect them from being hit, and then once we do that, more ships will follow.

But I would put this in context, Larry, is that think about where we were a couple of weeks ago.

Right.

We're an energy

Yes.

This is actually going to be, by the time this is done, this is going to be a winner For Donald Trump, uh, uh, in the midterm elections.

The other point, Larry, 'cause you went through all those great stats in y- in your, uh, in your opening riff.

You know, if y- I'm, I'm writing a book right now on the Miracle on Ice, and I'm looking at the 1970s.

And if you remember, in 1979 during the last Iran hostage crisis, we had gas shortages.

90% of the gas stations in New York City were closed.

Mm.

That is what we are doing.