Good morning, everyone. This is Anne Baker on
Talking with Anne, and I am with my
buddy Brian Fitzherbert on Fitzherbert Friday.
And, good morning, Brian. How are you?
Good morning, Anne. I'm doing well. It's great.
I I just wanna remind all of you
Holy Spirit High School graduates
and anyone who might be attending,
remember it's tomorrow evening from six to 8PM.
They're having the Spartan Way Scholarship
Gala
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which is in Galloway Township right there on
New York Road. Easy to get to,
and it's going to be
amazing.
So
remember, go check your calendar again. Get your
dress and and shoes out or your suit
and tie and,
and have a ball.
Anyway,
Brian, do you think there's enough going on
when it comes to government and issues?
There's plenty, and this is what always cracks
me up. You know? Our our friends on
the left and then the Democratic Party always
say that government is the solution,
when all too often it proves that's anything
but.
Yeah. Yeah. It's it it it we need
small government. We need to follow,
what Ronald Reagan said.
You know what? When you have to start
worrying when someone knocks on your door to
say, hi. I'm from the government, and I'm
here to help.
No.
Absolutely. I mean, use the
the minimal, quote, unquote, government shutdown
that's
having some movement today, obviously, because congress is
gonna go on their two week, vacation for
for Easter holiday
coming up. But you see some movement on
this. But, again, you have an extended period
of time where government employees and and more
particular under DHS and and TSA agents that
are not getting paid.
And understandably, a lot of them are not
going to work because, again, we don't work
for free. There are individuals that do that,
and they've seen this before, but this is
becoming a recurring theme for government employees where
they miss multiple paychecks. And the fact that
most Americans,
sadly and unfortunately,
live paycheck to paycheck,
this could be catastrophic when paying the mortgage,
when paying utility bills, when paying grocery and
gas bills, your fundamentals,
notwithstanding the other,
cost that you have throughout,
your monthly, you know,
budget cycle, I guess you could say, from
from a home budget.
And, again, take it a step further. Why
do we have TSA? Obviously, this was bin
Laden's,
revenge after nine eleven and has made, air
travel very difficult for the last twenty five
years. So the question is, do we still
need TSA? I would venture and argue that
we do. Does it need to be government
employees? Maybe that's something to reconsider. Maybe that's
something we start to privatize
that is contract based.
And, again, the democrats are doing this because
they have nothing. They have no campaign
or issue to run on ahead of the
midterms. They have no leader still, which is
which is mind boggling,
two years after Trump pretty much trounced the
democrats in 2024.
So they're trying to fixate and do everything
from a political theater standpoint and try to
find something from Max Twinpane to get the
headlines.
And, unfortunately, for them, there's a whole lot
of other headlines that are in the news
that are that are, taking precedent over this.
But even further, this is the same games
that continue to play. You know, you can
call the Schumer shutdown. You can call it
whatever you want, but they didn't get anything.
And, again, they keep saying that they want
changes
with regard to ICE and or or they'll
with withhold funding from ICE and other immigration
activities when,
they're too stupid to realize that part of
the one big beautiful bill was
almost full funding
of these kinds of actees through 2029.
So, again, them trying to say, well, you
guys passed legislation,
and we we wanna undo that. You don't
have the leverage. You don't have the votes.
Again, the first thing you learn in politics
is how to count. They do not have
the votes.
And therefore, they can continue to do the
shutdown because the argument could be said for
Republicans that we don't have the votes to
continue,
funding. But, again, it's a negotiation. And if
you wanna have max pain on air travelers,
especially during spring break,
for a lot of people from, you know,
primary education all the way up to to
college that are traveling with their families at
these airports now encouraging people to to show
up four hours before their scheduled time
to get through security,
that's on the democrats. The democrats are making
this painful. The democrats have made this decision.
So, again, these are this again, you can
call,
questions into republican leadership because, again, there's tactics
to get around this. Again, we know Democrats
are going to do different things with rules
with the senate and filibustering.
At some point when they get power back,
whether that's 28, thirty, thirty two, whatever, it's
not infinite for Republicans. There will be a
time where Democrats have control of both chambers
of congress and the White House again. So,
again, what do you wanna get done for
the American people, and where can you blow
the filibuster
to actually get this stuff done or do
it through reconciliation,
which is another avenue to go. So,
you know, we'll see what happens. But it's
it's maximum pain, and Democrats have even stupidly
said this in media hits that, of course,
they know that this is hurting, and they're
hoping it works. So there's added pressure on
Republicans that the Republicans will bend the knee.
Yeah. Again,
it's political theater, and that's always what it
is. And the American taxpayers and the American
people always get stuck in the middle.
This morning,
was
there something that I heard on,
radio
that had to do with them passing,
the,
Department of Homeland Security, that they are going
to fund Department of Homeland Security, but they're
not they've already eliminated ICE, not realizing that
ICE is already
funded,
as you said.
But,
I have a feeling that
if they go home,
their constituency
will
throw
not just barbs at them, they will be
throwing literally rocks at them
if they haven't made some adjustment, if this
isn't true,
that they have said, yes, we're going to,
we're going to start funding DHS TSA.
Because really, why
don't they recognize the fact that people are
angry at them for not passing
the funding bill that would
help,
airports,
go through, you know, as they always have
with minimal,
discomfort to the to the passenger?
Yeah. So, again, this
is this is what frustrates everyone listening and
most people when they see how things operate
in politics. Again, you don't make threats that
you're not willing to carry out. And unfortunately,
on both sides of how this happens all
the time, and then they wind up looking,
pretty poor
in terms of, well, you just wasted forty
days or fifty days doing something, and you're
where you were fifty days ago, and you
didn't get anything. And all you do is,
put maximum pain on Americans.
So, you know, what happened this morning and,
again, this is the senate Republicans. This isn't
the house. The Senate Republicans,
accepted the offer from the Democrats for I
I believe it was funding for all DHS
except for ICE, which, you know, obviously, that
incorporates border patrol,
protection, all that kind of stuff. But, again,
not understanding what has already been funded. Again,
it's it's so ridiculous. But
Democrats have jumped up and down saying that
they want reforms, want reforms, want reforms.
And what they're talking about is,
again,
confederate type behavior, something similar to what happened
earlier this week with the democrats here in
in New Jersey, which, again, everyone probably looks
at this as a bad thing. I kinda
look at this as a good thing when
it happened with Mikey Sherrow and the democrats
here locally,
that Murphy probably had the political app to
to know ahead of time as he was
going out the office
and did the pocket veto. But a lot
of these bills that were discussed and passed
and Mikey Sherrill signed,
from a immigration or ICE or border patrol
standpoint is totally unconstitutional violation of the supremacy
clause. So it's gonna be done,
away once it goes through the courts and
someone sues with regard to that. And, again,
that's a good thing because then this,
you know, community directive,
with regards to coordinating with ICE. Again, this
is Confederate behavior on behalf of the Garden
State. You're supposed to work hand in hand
with the federal government when you don't, IE,
no history.
That's considered Confederate behavior. That's considered insurrection behavior.
So taking this a step further, I'm tying
in the New Jersey and the Garden State
stuff that happened earlier this week. But, again,
the Democrats don't seem to get it. The
vast majority of American people poll after poll
after poll.
When they're asked the question, all illegal immigrants,
it is a super majority.
They want border enforcement. How many months have
we gone now under the Trump administration where
there isn't one single person released into this
country, into the interior that's an illegal alien?
It's been many, many months. And even further,
we're doing deportation efforts because these people need
to get out. You hear about this horror
story that just happened in Chicago of this
college student who was shot,
running away from an illegal alien who who's
been arrested. I don't know how many times,
multiple times, and probably was part of some
gang initiation to kill her, and now she's
dead. And it was completely
avoidable if you actually enforce,
all these laws. And this is a long
roundabout way of saying that, again, we need
to do the job of the laws on
the books, and Democrats are trying to play
politics
with all of this stuff because they know
what kind of damage this does to their
own constituency. You talked about earlier,
when they go back to their own home
districts and states
that there's gonna be some complaints about this.
They won't even have town halls or complain
about this stuff. They'll ignore it because they
stick to each other.
What happens in one state or one district,
they don't care unless they have a fear
of losing an election, then their behavior starts
to change. But in these districts where Democrats
are plus 10 or plus, 15 or something,
they don't care what their constituents say. They're
going to do what they're going to do
based on their ideology.
And that means stopping Trump at all all
angles as possible,
and that there isn't gonna be any help
for ICE or border patrol
further, quote, unquote, or DHS, etcetera, and they'll
use Americans as pawns. And, again, they don't
seem to realize when they make accusations of
ICE and border patrol being lawless, it's lies.
ICE and border patrol are doing exactly what
they are supposed to do following the law,
going into the interior, and finding illegal aliens
who broke the law by coming in here,
making them criminals, and they need to leave,
and they will be arrested. And, again, this
is gonna be the power struggle.
Yeah.
And they always need a struggle.
They need a struggle in order to maintain
some degree of face,
with, the people who are like them, not
very bright when it comes to the issues
and what's most necessary for the people, the
residents of, each and every one of our
districts.
One of the other things that I I
simply don't seem to understand,
but and I don't quite know whether it's
8020, but the Save America Act, the Safeguard
American Voter Eligibility,
Save America Act,
I don't understand
how it is that Democrats can say, Absolutely
not. We are not going to pass this.
It's bad for married women.
Like, women Yeah. Can't navigate
government.
What do you think?
So so, again, this this this makes me
laugh because and it goes back to my
earlier point. The Democrats that are in these
safe districts and or states where they win
by double digits or more
are going to bend to the fact that
this is an eighty twenty. I mean, we're
not even joking. The polling is consistent
across all sexes, across all races, across all
parties. That 80% plus think that the Save
America Act that you should be able to
show some form of ID to be able
to vote in an election is totally sane.
It is an eighty twenty thing, but there
are so many Democrats in districts and in
states that will not support this. Now my
position on all this is because this has
been a long standing thing. You know, you
look at the New York Times, ten, twelve,
fifteen years, they're writing articles about how election
fraud can. My general premise for any of
this stuff is there is an opportunity
for things to happen,
meaning illegal or behavior otherwise,
and this BS nonsense of of the honor
system, again, by signing a document stating that,
yep, you are an American citizen. Okay. Cool.
How do we enforce that? If there is
opportunity to cheat, then those loopholes need to
be closed. And the easiest way to close
those loopholes
is with a government ID. And then, like
you said, the democrats complain say that women,
who have maiden names changed to mirror names,
you know, you're disenfranchising them, or hell, on
the other side of the coin, if they're
getting divorced or separated,
or let's say
they're moving, etcetera. You ask anyone on the
street. You see any of these videos, man
on the street, woman on the street, and
they will know exactly where the DMV is
or where and how to get a government
ID and how much it costs. And, again,
then the Democrats fixate on, oh, you know,
this is like a poll tax. It costs
somebody $36
or $40 to get a government ID. There's
plenty of programs out there if you are
really bent out of shape for $40
to get an ID. But, again, you need
an ID for dozens of other things. Getting
into bars, purchasing cigarettes, buying alcohol, getting on
airplanes,
renting a car. I mean, the list can
go on and on. And the fact that
Democrats won't do this is because there's enough
of those Democrats, like I said, that are
in districts and states that don't really care
if it's an eighty twenty thing. They don't
believe in it. They don't support it, and
they think it will eventually hurt them because
we do know, and now we're learning even
more with Nick Shirley in California, not just
from the fraud standpoint, but there's clearly
election fraud, which everyone has talked about in
California. Now, again, we have to get specific
examples.
And my premise, my position has always been,
if there is a process
to go vote, to go do something where
there is a potential opportunity for cheating to
take place or fraud to take place, then
we need to close those loopholes. Plain and
simple. What else does the Save Act do?
It repeals a lot of the the motor
voter registration. Right? You go to DMV. They
ask you if you wanna register to vote.
Do you know how many people and we
talked about this with the assemblyman Bergen.
Do you know how many people when you
get voter data list when you're a candidate
or knocking on doors or whatever, where you
get multiple names at the same address, and
guess what? It's the same person, but they've
registered to vote multiple times because, for instance,
my name, Brian Thomas Fitzherber. I may register
as Brian Thomas Fitzherber. And let's say I'm
stupid, and I forget that I'm already registered
vote. I registered again when I get my
new license. And I do it Brian t
Fitzherber. And then I do a third time,
and it's Brian Fitzherber. Or maybe I have
a short form. Let's say I went by
Bry and went Bry Fitzherber. You could have
four separate registrations under the same individual
at the same household that, again, when you
get a vote by mail ballot
in the like, you have happened in 2020,
there could be all of those ballots for
one individual. And then, again, apartments, transitory places
where multiple people live and an address could
be a one year lease. They could be
there for multiple years. So many things can
happen. If there is an opportunity
for cheating to happen, especially when we know
in 2020 in New Jersey alone, the signature
verification was waived, then all of a sudden
you had this massive uptick
in, quote, unquote, voter participation. So, again, my
position has always been if there's opportunity to
cheat, then that's a problem we need to
close those loopholes. And this is what the
Save Act does. The fact that the Democrats
do not support this is very simple, like
I said. It's because they live in double
digit districts where it doesn't matter what their
constituents say. They're never gonna lose an election.
So they have no problem supporting,
or going against that kind of legislation because
they also fear that, oh, my voting block
will go down. You've had Democrats on record
saying, we need more immigrants in my district
or more immigrants in a state to
power up the electoral vote prospects.
I mean, it's that they do this not
only
in in verbal, but they do it on
camera.
Yeah.
What what is
an absolute disgrace to our country have happens,
to be when you get testimony from people
that are there,
and they tell you
that the absentee ballots that come in, the
mail in ballots, they came in sequence.
Now if they're mail in balance, there is
no way in hell that the sequential numbers
are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten. It doesn't happen that way.
People are mailing them from various and sundry
mail
posts
all over,
the district, all over the state.
So you're not going to find ballots that
come in one right after the other with
numbers and sequential order.
It means that there is fraud.
Serious.
And, Linda, you've been patient. Good morning. Welcome.
How are you?
Oh, thanks, Anne. Hi, Brian.
Hi, Linda. How's it going? How old is
your little guy?
He was approaching age four.
Oh my gosh.
Did you hear about the,
child over in the,
airport that stopped breathing. I believe he was
two years old.
No, no, I didn't hear that. But it
was over there. The
agent And the,
ICE agent,
gave him mouth to mouth, brought him back.
And he was taken to the hospital, I
guess. Yeah. Thank you, God, for ICE agents.
That's what I said. That's what that was
so nice.
Yeah.
You know? A little two year old, I
believe. Yeah.
Stop breathing.
Yeah. ICE agents are there for good, not
for evil. They're not there to
to pick and choose who they want to,
do damage to. They're there for the sake
of the people to have things moving a
little more quickly than they can be because
of the lack of TSA agents. They're doing
a fabulous job. And anybody that doesn't recognize
that, Linda, is a fool. And
and the people are appreciating them. Black and
white, you know, they're really appreciating the TSA.
So The guy turned around and said, look.
There they are. They're just doing they're walking
around, you know, doing what they're supposed to
be doing. No problem. Everything's good to save
a little two year old who stops breathing
and passing out water. You know?
Well, you know, it's funny I it's funny,
Linda. The the announcement of the president that
ICE agents were going to be going into
the airports as,
backup and support to TSA agents that were
working, I think, sent a really critical message
to the Democrats. I think that's why things
started to move a little bit more,
with regard to the shutdown because, again, then
individuals at airports, because ICE isn't reflected very
well in the media. And if you get
people that are exposed to ICE agents waiting
online, getting through the airport, get to know
them, talk to them, or see what they're
doing,
it changes the dynamic. It changes the narrative.
It damages the Democrats' narrative. And, again, it
was all BS to begin with, but this
is part of the psychological warfare that goes
on during politics
every freaking day, and then Democrats try to
do something for maximum damage. So,
I think that, you know, everything, unfortunately,
is part of,
the strategy. And, again, ICE agents do their
job to protect you, me, everybody listening
from those that commit crimes that come here
illegally. They are not supposed to be here.
They need to follow the law. They need
to follow the process. If they don't, they
should get out of here.
Brian, I'm so happy that you're here with
me.
I you know, the issues,
they keep they keep mounting,
are the worry that people have about, the,
the war
against Iran, against them wanting to have,
nuclear weapons.
And,
most of the countries in The Middle East
now backing what America is doing.
Do you find any downside
with what's occurring in The Middle East today?
Well, the fog of war is upon us,
number one.
And regardless of how people feel
going in or not going in, etcetera, we're
there right now, and we are feeling the
impacts of that, and there's multiple levels of
that.
You know, obviously,
anyone listening is wondering, well, how does this
affect me? Well, two things. Obviously, from a
national security standpoint to keep us safe, as
well as our day to day, which, unfortunately,
is the gas pump. And it's not necessarily,
anything else. Because remember, it takes forty five
days to refine
oil into gas and and then and then
some. So everything you're seeing price wise today,
sadly, just think about once this is resolved,
that forty five days after that, then we'll
start to see some prices come down because
it's affecting
supply, which ultimately affects, the price. And then
it's not necessarily that we get our oil
from, you know, OPEC and Iran. We don't.
Most of it is is,
we're a net exporter. We get most of
our oil ourselves, but it affects the markets,
from that standpoint. So that's, like, the fundamental
thing to think about. Now,
there's always the the debate now I'm seeing,
not just in conservative circles, but also on
the media and everything else that, you know,
what was the imminent threat with Iran? And,
again, you know, I talked, three weeks ago
or so when this first kicked off,
about what an imminent threat or what it
may be. It's the imminent threat was the
fact that we've been,
threatened for forty seven years, and it was
only Donald Trump that did something about it.
It was the nuclear,
program that was destroyed,
last June, and now it's even further because,
again, it's like a bully. You kick him
you punch him in the face,
and he's supposed to basically say, okay. I'm
not gonna do that anymore because it was
a reaction.
And then if they come back and they
wanna bully more, then guess what? Excuse my
language here, but you gotta kick him in
the nuts. You have to keep going until
the behavior change. Why do we do things
with regard to these regimes? Do we do
punishment?
Do we do regime change? Do we do,
anything else that may fall under that umbrella
from a national security standpoint?
And we've now seen that our
public
knowledge of how far a lot of these
ICBMs,
you know, intercontinental
ballistic missiles could go from Iran
was totally BS. They could actually strike further
than what was previously known or claimed because
they fired one, and guess what? It went
quite a bit. It went more than,
2,000 kilometers. So
all this stuff that's going on, again,
Trump is trying to get into a place
that this does not continue,
and the Ayatollah is dead. Again, we went
through all the review of that. The current
Ayatollah probably is dead or is about to
die because he hasn't shown his face. Why
wouldn't you show your face and do a
word statement,
unless you were seriously disfigured or on life
support or dying or brain dead or whatever
it may be? And I think that there's
still destabilization.
Now to your broader question
with regard to The Middle East, yes, you
are correct. And a lot of people are
now seeing that a lot of these countries
in the neighborhood, right, in the neighborhood
of Iran that
are cheering this on whether privately or publicly.
In a lot of cases, they're doing both,
that this is the final time. And once
we see more
movement, I I suspect over the next probably
two weeks, maybe three weeks,
we'll probably see a decision of how far
we're going to go and destroy things even
further. Because, again, Trump is nothing if not
consistent. You go back in time. You see
his videos when he was my age talking
about how to deal with Iran, his comments
about Iraq, how big of a mistake was.
But once we were there,
we should have,
done things differently, especially in his view. We
should have taken the oil. What are we
getting for doing this? I think Trump's mentality
is, again, the same thing. If we're going
to do something like we just did, not
just from a national security standpoint, but from
a wire what's the in it for the
Americans? Oh, you, I bet you he's gonna
have control or The United States is gonna
have control of a lot of the oil
supply
with regard to, the output and maybe some
kind of,
take back from that. So that will change
the dynamics
significantly. And, again, it's just like you, me,
or anyone else listening that has a neighborhood,
where you live in your house, your development
or your street or whatever it may be.
If there's somebody in your neighborhood that is
very frustrating for fill in the blank reasons
and then someone finally does something, do the
other neighbors stand up and do something as
well? And I mean, that's a drastic example
of, analogy, but that's exactly what's going on
in The Middle East with Iran. And, again,
these notions that Iran was not an imminent
threat because we took out
their nuclear capability or if there's,
you know, changing of the goal post with
regard to, oh,
you know, it's nuclear program. Well, no. Now
it's enrichment
on ICBMs.
There's no reason to enrich uranium
past, say, probably 1820%
unless you're trying to create a nuclear bomb.
That's what they openly said that they were
doing. Yeah. You may have destroyed what we
have, but we still have stockpiles, and we
could probably put these into ICBMs
and do some damage. And, again,
this is nothing new. For forty seven years,
you've heard chance of death to America. And
how many presidents? Seven presidents before Donald Trump
that just let this happen. And he finally
made a decision
last June, and guess what? Their behavior did
not change. So he came, and he hit
them again. And he's watching to see if
their behavior changes. If it doesn't, again, he's
going to hit them even harder. He's got
the military capability and the leverage to do
that. And whether or not there's mixed messaging
that's coming out, it's the fog of war.
This stuff happens
so quickly, so fast that people are not
briefed in real time. Things that are being
reported from oh, I talked to somebody in
DNI. I talked to someone at DOD.
I talked to someone, at NSA. It's all
happening real time, and there isn't it it's
very difficult
when all these things are going on. And,
again, it is the fog of war. I
hate war. I can't stand I don't want
war at all, but I want security, and
I trust the president to keep The United
States safe in the decisions that he's made.
He has a knack for this. His gut,
his political gut, whatever it may be, he's
got a knack for it.
Yeah.
Does he have a knack, do you think,
to go after Carv Island?
If you were to put a gun to
my head, I would venture to guess that
he is absolutely going after it.
What do you think then,
the people that have been getting oil, from
Iran,
how will they change their behavior
towards The United States?
So
you gotta remember that there are multiple facets
of here. If Trump goes and does that,
what happens? Right? You gotta game theory this
out, which no doubt he's been briefed on.
All those things just like what happens if
he went into Iran last month like he
did,
with regard to everything that's going on. You
gotta game theory all this out. So RAND
has threatened that if you go after Card
Island that they're gonna go after all these,
water filtration plants, you know, which a lot
of the Middle East heavily relies on a
lot of these water filtration plants Right. To
live. That's a huge problem.
So
energy is a huge thing. Obviously, energy is
the lifeblood.
Right? When all these countries in in the
world, United States include, when you have natural
resources
to
generate revenue,
aside from everything else, When that gets threatened,
you may respond erratically as we've now seen
with Iran.
So I would suspect that and, again,
not to get into the nitty gritty of
military campaign
type stuff. But if you're to grab Card
Island, you cannot do that at 30,000 feet.
Right? You need
ground troops. You need the marines. You need,
and and, again, this is where,
again, from my perspective, being in aerospace defense
industry and knowing weapons and aircraft,
etcetera, and when assets are moved to be
positioned,
I can
have a pretty good understanding of what kind
of mission is going to take place,
granted that that stuff is public knowledge. So
when you start to see any kind of
vehicles
that have a ground assault purpose or capability,
that would back up that mentality because you
cannot take something like Carg Island from the
air or anything else. You you you need
a ground control,
in some capacity, and that requires troops, and
that requires risk. That means the death of
soldiers,
potentially, if there is
a assault and there's a resistance on it.
And then then there's getting control of it,
and then the actual behavior that will come
after is what you're referring to of other
countries. Because, again, OPEC is still going,
strong, quote, unquote, from, you know, the the
organization of patrolling exporting countries, right, in The
Middle East. Mhmm.
So if all of a sudden Trump and
The United States and or a military presence
is there that's impacting
refinery
or impacting,
logistics
and overall supply and demand, then that significantly
changes behavior. And then The Middle East, just
like we've unfortunately seen in decades past, will
make a calculation. Okay. How long is The
United States gonna be here? Can we wait
them out, or is this a paradigm shift
that will continue? The their perspective is that
that's unlikely because Americans, they're fickle. When things
don't look good, the media
can really hit on things. There's elections. There's
changes in, political parties and political power. And
let's say
let's say JD Vance and Rubio are the
ticket in '28, and then he continues. Okay.
That's that's six years. Will they get reelected?
Okay. That's ten years. What happens if a
Democrat gets in there in '28? They're making
those calculations too just like China's. That's why
we're not seeing anything move with regard to
the South China Sea or Taiwan
now. They will wait until Trump is out
of office,
and then they'll wait and see who the
who the new president is to determine that.
But all those things are calculations. And, unfortunately
unfortunately unfortunately, and I'll say that the three
times,
Iraq and Afghanistan
prove that that you can be there for
an extended period of time,
and
the opponent will wait you out.
And then things go back to the way
they were. Yeah. Yeah. It's very unfortunate.
Yeah.
You know, my my question
really is, how is Iran still capable of
attacking
or threatening to attack, as you said, the
water desalination
plants, other,
important infrastructure
plants? How are they still capable of doing
that?
You would think that we would have eyes
in the sky
on Iran showing us
where they are starting their assaults from so
we can we can bomb the heck out
of them and get rid of it. How
are they still able to do this?
So if you recall a few weeks ago
when I when I went into a deep
dive with regard to this, this is part
of asymmetrical
warfare.
It does not take a lot of money
to build a $30,000
drone that has multiple,
capabilities. And when I say capabilities, I mean,
it can be an eye in the sky.
It can have weapons on it, or itself
can be a rocket
that can be used as a missile.
And that is what Iran is very good
at doing. And, again, for us to stop
those things, it costs us
millions of dollars in interceptors or other types
of vehicles
and or,
weapons to stop that. And, again, it should
be very simple, but geographically speaking, Iran is
very much like Afghanistan.
And a lot of this stuff
happens
because, again, the
the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard Corps, which has basically been in control
since '47,
there's thousands of them, probably tens of thousands
of them,
that have a firm control and that this
is spread out throughout the region. So there's
plenty of things that are going on. I
mean, you could have,
splinter cells that, you know, if they're not
getting direction from the Ayatollah because he's
dead too, I'm just not publicly saying so
or he's brain dead or whatever it is.
And the negotiations that are allegedly going on
would
venture to indicate that they know that there
is no control control structure or delegation structure
in place, which is why they're trying to,
you know, do things,
to have some kind of conversation all at
the same time, just as typical with,
this government since '47
I mean, since, '79,
is that plain and simple, they wanna delay,
delay, delay.
And even though Trump's proven time after time
again, you, for lack of better terms, you
piss him off or you play games and
you're not doing it in good faith, he
will do what he says. Never make a
threat that you're not willing to carry out.
That's at every level of every aspect of
human nature.
Because if not, then you then you you
cut tail, and you've got a tail between
the legs. So I think, ultimately,
there's still all these splinters that are going
on,
and I think that they can wait out,
The US and and Donald Trump. And I
would say that's a grave miscalculation
because,
like I said, we've seen things we've never
seen before,
with this military campaign.
There are plenty of other,
weapons and capabilities and military strategies that have
not been seen by the public that Trump,
I assure you, has been briefed to use.
Yeah.
Well, I I I worry about,
the people of Iran, the good people of
Iran that wanna see the IRGC
destroyed,
that don't wanna see the
theocratic form of government ever,
in their land again.
So I understand that.
I I'm just so afraid that Iran, as
they have always done,
as bad countries have always done, they've planted
their weapons, their assault launchers, and whatnot
in neighborhoods where if we were to go
after them, we might be killing
hundreds, if not thousands,
of the innocent people of Iran?
Yeah. And this is this, again, this is
why United States is such a unique country
with our constitution.
Everyone keeps asking, you know, why isn't the
Iranian people rising up? They don't have the
second amendment. Right? They aren't armed. They don't
have weapons.
It's not a thing that's built in where,
you know, if this were to happen in
The United States, guess what? There are millions,
if not tens of millions of people that
have firearms that could rise up. God forbid
that should ever happen. It's that does not
occur in Iran. The Iranians,
on the ground, you know, more or less
the the ethnic Persians, they were protesting, you
know, in the beginning of the year, and
between thirty and forty thousand of them were
murdered, assassinated, and killed
by the Ayatollah for doing so. So there
is resistance
from them to do it. There is no
opposition leader. There is no opposition organization, which,
again, like I alluded to, I suspect this
CIA
is on the ground trying to make that
happen.
But this this is very difficult scenario, and
it is the fog of war, especially when,
again, my analogy with the bully. If you
kick a bully in the face and then
he goes away, okay. Cool. Mission accomplished. But
if he comes back, then you gotta kick
him even harder, and you gotta go for
the nuts. And with regard to the protesters,
guess what? They were kicked in the head
by for the analogy purposes. Again, there was
40,000 people that were murdered, unfortunately.
And that sent a message of fear that
no one else will try to do a
protest or to try to do anything, even
with The United States coming in here and
blowing everything to kingdom come
with, with specific
missions and goals that, you know, the secretary
of war has has laid out. And, again,
this is a
it's a multifaceted
campaign because, again, what was the goal? Kill
the Ayatollah.
Kill a lot of the military. I mean,
they they basically sunk the Iranian navy, and
their military capabilities have been stunned, but they
still have capabilities with the drones and the
asymmetrical warfare I talked about. But you still
have to do other things. If there's regime
change, guess what? You gotta kill thousands.
If not tens of thousands, the IRGC. Again,
it's conquest. It's conquering. And that's what makes
things so difficult
in in war today because unless you're going
to war
and there's
as Trump has asked for complete and utter
surrender, which isn't probably really likely,
you have to kill them. That's the only
way that you have total surrender.
And you conquer
by taking over the land. You're taking over
the resources,
and it's a long
drawn out thing that, guess what, you, me,
and probably most of the listeners and the
Americans just don't have the appetite for. But
we do have an appetite
for punishment
and for,
accountability
of actions,
and that is what, for most part, a
lot of this mission with Iran has been.
Kelly Ayatollah, kill his his lieutenants,
send a message to the rest of the
world, blow up infrastructure,
blow up and destroy the navy and the
nuclear capabilities, do not threaten The United States
anymore or any of its allies.
Do not do this anymore, or we will
come back and we will do it more.
And sometimes, you gotta punch a bully in
the face. Sometimes, you gotta kick him in
the nuts, and then sometimes, you gotta put
him in a choke hold until he's knocked
out, and that's probably where we're going.
Oh,
lord. I wouldn't wanna be them.
But at the same time, I I
am hopeful that the American people understand why
we're over there and how important it is
for us to remain there until
we dominate,
literally dominate,
Iran
and get rid of the IRGC.
Or, you know, Donald Trump gave them an
ultimatum, throw down your weapons,
you know, surrender,
and we won't kill you. But if you
don't, we will kill you. So
I I'm also waiting for Israel. You know,
when you're talking about Israel, Shin Bet, and,
their forces,
you're talking about people that don't forget ever.
And,
every single one of the IRGC members
has to know that, no matter where they
go, no matter where they hide, Israel will
find them.
If
Yeah. And again again, the the main objective
is what is in the best interest in
The United States, and that is what Trump
has consistently said. That's what secretary of war
and Hegseth has said. And if there happens
to be coalition with someone like Israel, then
great. If there isn't, it doesn't matter. This
is American interest, national security,
and actions will be taken as such.
Brian, again, thank you.
You,
elucidate
so well the issues having to do
with this new war that we're involved in,
the one that's, increasing our gas prices, but
I think that is such a temporary kind
of of,
pain that we have to feel in order
to make sure that the world is a
safer place in which to live.
I wanna thank you again for
Fitzherbert Friday. We've been doing this for a
long time, you and me.
And, I really do appreciate you coming on.
And,
you've got so much information.
And in the industry in which you work,
you can give us so much more that
we couldn't find anywhere else. So thanks, Brian.
Love to you and the family.
No. Absolutely. Thanks for having me. It's been
a good eight years, and I'm looking forward
to that continuing as the years go by.
So it's always a good time.
Thanks, Brian. Have a great weekend. God bless
you and and Catherine and, of course, Luke.
Thank you. God bless. Bye.