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In this eye-opening episode:
🔍 Hidden truths behind headlines no one questions
🧠 How perception is manipulated by media and politicians
🌍 Are we living in a fabricated reality?
⚠️ What "Twilight Zone" events reveal about the deeper power play
🎭 Expect surprises. Expect truths. Expect the unexpected.
✅ Like, comment & subscribe for real insight beyond the mainstream.
#PhilGiraldi
#TwilightZonePolitics
#SurpriseWaiting
#CIAWhistleblower
#DeepStateTruth
#MediaManipulation
#GeopoliticalIllusion
#HiddenTruths
#WeeklyRecap
#PoliticalTheater
#MindControlAgenda
#AlternativeNews
#GovernmentSecrets
#GlobalPowerPlay
#ConspiracyFact
#WhatTheyDontTellYou
#USPoliticsUnfiltered
#QuestionEverything
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01:00Are the neocons in Trump's crew now becoming ascendant? Do you get that feeling?
01:37He thinks he's a genius and he thinks he has everything figured out. They've taken advantage of all that to basically, I think, be in some measure steering the ship as long as they kind of maintain the fiction that he's completely in charge and he's the genius behind what is happening today.
02:03So it's kind of one of those mixed personnel type things.
02:08And we saw the same thing in the first time when Trump was president where he made very bad choices.
02:16And these choices, like Bolton, tended to dominate the policies that were coming out because they were to a certain extent able to fool the leader.
02:28Do you think that people like Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz want the war in Ukraine to continue and wish that Witkoff has no success?
02:48Yeah, I think that the you have to realize the neocons are we tend to focus on their issues in the Middle East.
03:00But the neocon doctrine, which was, of course, developed and refined in the 1990s, essentially is a world domination doctrine.
03:15And that's why there's the continuing, which I find so unfounded, hatred for China, hatred for Russia.
03:25These are seen as competitors in the sense that they diminish or minimize the possibility that the United States will continue as the world dominant hegemon.
03:38And of course, there are reasons why that ain't going to continue, which have been very well spelled out by a lot of your friends on this program.
03:49So we will see how that plays out. I'm very interested in seeing in the next month what happens vis-a-vis Ukraine and what happens vis-a-vis Gaza.
04:02But also you have to be looking at what's going to happen in Yemen, where they're talking about ground invasion now.
04:09Here's one of the most beautiful articulations against American hegemony.
04:22I won't have to tell you who this is or when it was. You'll know in a heartbeat.
04:28Chris cut number 17.
04:30And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient.
04:37That we are only 6% of the world's population.
04:41And that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94% of mankind.
04:47That we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity.
04:53And that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.
05:00And of course, we know what happened to him.
05:04Well, that's right. That's certainly one of the things that I recall when I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago.
05:13Well, we were discussing the fact that Kennedy might have been done in part because he was not on board of the hegemony railroad.
05:26And there were there were signs, of course, that he was very lukewarm, particularly about Vietnam.
05:33And so all these things kind of came together and came together with the problem with Israel, Israel's nuclear arsenal.
05:41There were a whole lot of people that really would like to have seen and would and finally did see John F. Kennedy go away.
05:50Yeah. By the way, you mentioned your undergraduate years at the University of Chicago.
05:55When you were there, was Leo Strauss on the faculty?
05:59No, Strauss was well, he was still kind of off the screen.
06:04But you talk about the foundations of neoconism.
06:08I mean, that's right up his alley.
06:10Yeah. And he was the one, of course, who educated the next generation of neocons, many of them, of course, who were at Chicago and many of them went on to where his apostles were at in Baltimore.
06:26So, you know, it was a developed philosophy at that time.
06:32And there were a lot of the acolytes being trained at that time.
06:37I had no contact with him.
06:39Thanks be to God.
06:41Yeah.
06:42Why did Trump withdraw from the JCPOA and what was the JCPOA, which Ritter rues Trump having withdrawn from?
06:55Yeah, the JCPOA was the Joint Comprehensive Proposal for Action, which was basically a multi-nation agreement to do what was necessary to monitor Iranian nuclear developments to make sure they were not creeping into the weapons phase.
07:21So it was it was well designed, operated for a short time and was very effective.
07:28The Iranians allowed inspectors to go into all their facilities.
07:33It was clear that they were not cheating.
07:36But somehow someone named Mr. Bolton, I believe it was, got to a guy that was just elected president, was completely ignorant in the form of Donald Trump and convinced him that the Iranians were cheating.
07:51And of course, the Israelis were singing the same song.
07:54And so they he basically pulled out of the program under the conviction that there was a secret nuclear weapons program.
08:04And of course, now we've we've we've we've noted that the CIA has for at least certainly for 20 years has known that Iran had no such thing.
08:16And that's in spite of very intensive spying to to uncover it if it were true.
08:22So it's again, it was a fraud and it was a fraud that sold it was sold to Donald Trump.
08:27So he withdrew the United States from the program and it basically collapsed.
08:32Wouldn't the CIA have told him or wouldn't he have had to have rejected their advice to do this?
08:38Wouldn't they have told him, no, there's nothing going on there?
08:41Or was this the era where they told him what they thought he wanted to hear?
08:45Well, maybe it's a little bit of both, but I would add another element to it.
08:49There have been a couple of presidents that I I certainly have been told by my former colleagues inside the agency were not interested in the president's daily debris, daily brief.
09:01Bill Clinton was one of them and Donald Trump also was rarely interested in being sat down in an office and briefed about what was going on in the intelligent world, the intelligence world.
09:16He was more interested in talking to the people with which he had a great deal of empathy.
09:20And those were the ones who were trying to steer him in a certain direction.
09:25I'm going to play a clip and then ask you some questions about it.
09:30But before I play it, I'm going to tell you what Colonel McGregor said about this person and this statement on this show yesterday when he said, if you hire a clown, you get a circus.
09:48Cut number nine.
09:51He's he's dead serious that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
09:55He's said that for 20 years.
09:57He's been consistent.
09:58That is clear.
09:59But he's also dead serious that if we can't figure this out at the negotiating table, then there are other options to include my department to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear bomb.
10:08We hope we never get there.
10:09We really do, Maria.
10:10But what we're doing with the Houthis and what we're doing in the region, we've shown a capability to go far, to go deep and to go big.
10:17And again, we don't want to do that.
10:19But if we have to, we will to prevent the nuclear bomb in Iran's hands.
10:23Maria should have said, hey, Pete, how is it that the Israelis have a nuclear weapon?
10:28What would he have said?
10:29Yeah, she should have said that.
10:31But of course, nobody ever says that.
10:33And that's part of the problem.
10:35But of course, it's not as simple as he's portraying it.
10:39Basically, he's saying we will go to war if Iran is developing a nuclear weapon.
10:46But here we have our intelligence services telling us that they ain't doing that.
10:50And so it's a bit of a dilemma.
10:53And then meanwhile, we have Bibi Netanyahu pounding on his desk and insisting that a Libyan solution has to be arrived at.
11:03Now, a Libyan, if you think back what happened to Libya after Gaddafi was killed, the country was basically stripped of its weapons by NATO with the United States and Britain and France in the lead.
11:19And that's what we have now calling for, saying it's not enough just to take away their nuclear weapon.
11:29It's necessary to take away everything they have.
11:33And that means going into the country with U.S. troops in the lead and stripping their armaments and taking away their industrial capabilities to make more weapons and to basically make them not sovereign anymore and not able to defend themselves.
11:52That's what Netanyahu wants.
11:54So we'll see maybe in the next month or so or maybe even sooner which way this is going to go.
12:00Here is a former Congressman Kurt Weldon.
12:04You may know him on Libya.
12:08Cut number 16.
12:11We were the ones that caused Gaddafi's death because Hillary Clinton played a game over there.
12:15And I was the one that went over there during the war.
12:18Gaddafi asked me to come over.
12:20I took a Biden staffer and a Bush staffer and a film crew leader from ABC one in New York.
12:26Larry Mintz and a cameraman because I didn't want the CIA to set me up.
12:30I hand carried the letter back from Gaddafi offering to resign.
12:34The U.S. didn't want him to resign.
12:36They wanted to kill him.
12:38That was Congressman Weldon on the Tucker Carlson show.
12:43We used an AI voiceover in order to avoid copyright issues, even though Tucker is a friend.
12:49We didn't want to get involved in any of that.
12:51But does that make sense to you, what he just said?
12:54Yeah, I think basically that, well, first of all, there were economic motives that were behind a lot of what happened in Libya in terms of Libya's energy reserves.
13:09And I know in particular I was in Europe at that time.
13:12And, of course, the Italians and others were very keen on getting a hold of that stuff.
13:17So, yeah, they wanted him out.
13:19They wanted him dead.
13:20And that was the raison d'etre for a lot of things that happened.
13:26And, of course, countries like Israel, who saw Libya as an enemy.
13:33And Libya had indeed been very active in its role of pan-Arabism in opposition to Israel.
13:41And they wanted him, they wanted the country reduced to basically what it's become now.
13:47Basically, it had been the richest and most prosperous country in Africa.
13:54And now it's at the bottom of the list.
13:57Yeah.
13:58ICE, the Immigration Customs Enforcement entity, what does Max Blumenthal call it?
14:07The Israel Censorship Enforcement, recently posted on X that its job is to impede the movement of illegal ideas.
14:22And then that post was taken down.
14:25Under the American Constitution, isn't an illegal idea inconceivable?
14:33Well, according to the Constitution, yes.
14:36But according to the Biden and our current government, there is an evil aspect of criticizing one thing, which is basically Israel.
14:51And by extension, the groups and the policies and the constituencies that have put Israel in that position.
15:00You can't talk about that.
15:02Like, just like you can't talk about...
15:04U.S. government employees cannot talk about Israel's nuclear arsenal, even though it's well-attested, well-known.
15:11I'm sorry, my phone is ringing in the background.
15:14Well, at least it's nice music in the ring.
15:17Go ahead, Phil.
15:20I decline to knock music.
15:22Right.
15:23So anyway, yeah, it's that kind of story, and we'll see how it plays out again.
15:29This stuff is all on a knife's edge right now.
15:32What is your view of the relationship of Russia and China to Iran?
15:40Do you think they'll sit back if Netanyahu talks Trump into attacking?
15:48I mean, McGregor has told us that...
15:53Well, you know what?
15:54I'm going to play what McGregor told you.
15:56He didn't tell us.
15:57He told a colleague of ours, whom you know, Danny Davis.
16:02Chris, play that clip, please.
16:05What nation on the planet can have their embassy destroyed in another country and to have an assassination in their capital city on an inauguration and not go to war with somebody?
16:18Yet that's exactly what Iran didn't do because they don't have the power to do it.
16:22So that should tell you...
16:23Wait a minute.
16:24Wait a minute.
16:25That's a fundamentally false statement.
16:27Which part?
16:28False, false, false, false.
16:30They don't have the power to go to war.
16:33You haven't looked carefully at Iran.
16:36Iran's arsenal of missiles is enormous.
16:39It could flatten Israel in a day.
16:42They have the power to go to war.
16:44They have chosen repeatedly to avoid war.
16:48And I've said this a thousand times.
16:50No one in the Middle East is interested in a war except Israel and the United States.
16:57Agreed.
16:58Yeah, I mean, that's absolutely correct.
17:01McGregor is correct.
17:03Right.
17:04Right.
17:05Davis, as usual, is off key.
17:07And that was a correct assessment.
17:11Iran has a considerable capability.
17:14And it has that...
17:17I hesitate to call it an alliance with China and Russia, but it's an arrangement.
17:24And they would certainly be supporting Iran.
17:27They would not actively be on the battlefield or anything like that.
17:33But they would be supporting in as many different ways as they can.
17:37If only...
17:38Now we're talking about US staging an attack because Israel's not going to do it.
17:43And they want us to die.
17:45They want us to spend our money.
17:47And if the US were to do it, both China and Russia see now that there's probably not going to be any good relations down the road with the US for either country.
18:02So they would want to be weakening the United States by supporting countries like Iran, which are in the front line in terms of going against US policy.
18:14So if Netanyahu attacks Iran and we back him up, or if Netanyahu talks Trump into attacking Iran, Witkoff can pack it in.
18:24Yeah.
18:25Witkoff's not going to be invited for five-hour meetings with Putin in Moscow anymore.
18:30Yeah.
18:31The game will be over in many different ways.
18:34That's the thing that's so perplexing about the Trump administration.
18:39And it was true about Biden, too.
18:41The fact is they don't see what happens the day after.
18:44They don't see that when you start attacking people who don't threaten you, you're not at war with, that other countries will take note of that.
18:54And they're going to make things difficult for you in every way, shape or form that they possibly can.
19:00And that's why the United States should disengage from all these things and basically start talking.
19:07But I don't see that coming out of what has been happening in the last couple of weeks.
19:14Why did you call events in the United States in the past week the Twilight Zone?
19:20Yeah.
19:21Well, the Twilight Zone was the title of the article.
19:26And I went through four or five different scenarios that had recently occurred, all of which negatively impact on the United States and on the viability of the United States.
19:40And on what's going to happen to us American citizens.
19:46And one of them that particularly irritated me was, was, of course, this whole business of deportation, where they're now seriously talking in the White House and presumably in other areas within the government and within the administration about American citizens being exported.
20:05And Donald Trump came out with that ridiculous metaphor that he always comes out with about these bad people who are pushing people in front of subways and banging old ladies over the head.
20:19And these people have to be exported to places like El Salvador and put in mass prisons.
20:27And these are American citizens born by birth in American citizens.
20:32And he's talking about doing that to them.
20:35This is so scary.
20:36I think that that I would I would take that the media and others would be going out of their minds.
20:43But of course, they're not.
20:44No, they're not.
20:45And it is terrifying that heretofore rational, well-meaning people are defending the abuse of free speech rights and defending the rejection of due process rights that are being caused by this administration.
21:07Right before we came on air, a federal judge commenced contempt proceedings against the Trump administration because of its willful failure to follow his orders and its willful failure to explain to him what they did or didn't do to comply with the orders.
21:26I don't know how this ends up, but the Trump administration, in my view, is playing with fire.
21:33I don't mean that playing with fire by playing with federal judges.
21:37I mean playing with fire by its reckless abandonment of the values of America that the Constitution was written to protect and that everybody in the government has sworn to uphold.
21:51Yeah, sworn to uphold it, but the message they're sending is quite the opposite, which is that they don't have to pay any attention to what a federal judge says.
22:02And they've been repeating that over and over again.
22:05And again, take a look at the Constitution.
22:08Take a look at the history that lies behind the Constitution, the wrongs that the Constitution intended to fix.
22:17And these people are throwing all that out the window.
22:19It's beyond scary.
22:23Phil Giraldi, always a pleasure, my dear friend.
22:26Rupert hasn't moved an inch between you speaking to me.
22:29No, he moved. Look, look.
22:30He's turning his head.
22:32All right, there he is.
22:34He heard me use his name.
22:36A pleasure, Phil.
22:37Thank you for joining us.
22:39Okay, thank you for having me on.
22:41Okay.
22:42All right, let me just look up what we have tomorrow.
22:48Tomorrow, at 8 in the morning, Professor Gilbert Doctorow.
22:54At 2 in the afternoon, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.
22:58At 3 in the afternoon, Professor John Mearsheimer.
23:02And sometime during the day, Max Blumenthal.
23:06Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom.
23:08Cheers.
23:09For next time, open the up to today.
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