Jeffrey Sachs REACTS: Iran, US BOMBING AGAIN As Trump Pumps Mark Levin

Good morning, everybody.Happy Monday.We have an amazing show for everybody today.What do we have, Crystal?

Indeed, we do a lot of breaking news that we added to the show this morning.There is a new exchange of fire between the U .S.and Iran.Trump is complaining about people chirping, making it harder to get a deal.Jeffrey Sachs is going to join us to talk about all of that.

He's also going to take a look at the continued economic fallout.And it's some very interesting comments from a economic advisor to the president, Kevin Hassett.Is that his name?Kevin?Anyway, after after major cancellations, Trump is floating, canceling all America 250 performances and just giving a rally speech, because we've never seen that before.Israel is being integrated deeply into our fence industrial base.

Brandon Weikert is going to join us with his analysis of that, but it is not too late to stop.So we all need to take action right away to make sure this provision does not go forward.Graham Plattner and his wife are responding to sexting allegations from a disgruntled former campaign staffer and a bunch of centrist Dems are low -key suggesting that Democrats should vote for the Republican instead.And Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker were both blocked from entering the UK over their Israel criticism.absolute insanity, Cenk is going to join us live to tell us what happened and his reaction.

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This is going to be a long show, though, so just so everybody makes sure to calibrate their expectations.and running.something Iranian attack that posed a threat to ships in the Strait of Hormuz and transiting oil tankers.Kuwait, as of this morning, said that the country was then under attack by ballistic missiles and drones.Alarms sounded across the country, United States taking out some air defense systems, radar, and drone sites on Qeshm Island.So all of this is very familiar.

But the exchange of fire, the serious exchange of fire here, multiple different things happening, U .S.bases that were under attack, actually come on the heels of a more serious development, which is the hot conflict in Lebanon.Iran has said unequivocally that the ceasefire applies to Lebanon.Iran was willing to give the United States some ground where they were trying to negotiate a ceasefire between the Lebanese government and between the Israeli government.All of that apparently has currently, as of right now, seems to have failed.

Here is a major reminder by the Iranian foreign minister.Let's put this up here on the screen.Again, literally breaking minutes before even doing our show.This is from Saeed Arachi.is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts.The U .

S.and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any any violation.absolutely apocalyptic scenes out of Beirut as Israel's military will pound to the country of Lebanon.Remember, this is strikes that are happening in the capital while Israeli forces continue to advance farther and farther into the country with their own stated goal of never leaving a serious portion and effectively taking over half of the country.This continues as there were more than 50 attacks actually in northern Israel as of this morning from Hezbollah.So it does seem Look, this has been a low -grade conflict, Crystal, has been happening the entire time of the ceasefire, but it is becoming clearer and clearer.

Israel will not stop its advancement into Lebanon and that the ceasefire talks between the Israeli government and the Lebanese government, which even then exclude Hezbollah, themselves do not even appear to be progressing, which is endangering the entire framework or any hope of such framework as of this morning.

Yeah, that's absolutely right.And we've known this from the beginning.I mean, Iran has consistently stated that they are looking for a ceasefire and an end to hostilities on all fronts.They have focused on Lebanon from the very beginning.Remember when Trump announced that he had accepted as a basis for negotiations the Iranian 10 point plan.It was made very clear in that process that Lebanon was considered essential to moving forward.

And the Iranians have not backed off of this whatsoever.Meanwhile, Trump has effectively given Israel the green light to go forward.with this after at one point saying that, you know, they must stop and demanding that on True Social.Since then, he has now effectively given them the green light to continue to bomb and attack within Lebanon.The Israelis and their supporters and allies recognize that this could be a very effective way to blow up the deal.So no one should be surprised that that is exactly what they are trying to do because they do not want this deal to go forward.

Trump seems unwilling to do what it takes to rein them in, and the Iranians are still drawing hard line around this.So, you know, to call it a major obstacle, it's an impossibility if some dynamic doesn't shift.Trump also posting kind of a revealing true social that we can put up on the screen here as, you know, deal negotiations seem to be taking place.teetering, I guess we'll say.He said, Iran really wants to make a deal and it will be a good one for the USA and those that are with us.But don't the Democrats and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans understand that it is much tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate when political hacks keep negatively chirping at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster or move slower or go to war or not go to war or whatever.

Just sit back and relax, Sagar.all work out well in the end, it always does.That really reminded me of one of the things Tucker said about his conversations with Trump when hewas urging him not to engage in this foolish and disastrous war, is that Trump said to him effectively, don't worry, it's all going to be fine.And Tucker was like, well, why?What makes you say that?

Why do you think that?And he said exactly this, because it always works out.It'll be fine, because he's always landed on his feet.He's going to land on his feet this time, not based on any sort of reason or logic or rationality or plan to extricate ourselves from this mess, just a blind narcissistic faith in his own sort of like divine right to always have things work out.And so that's what he's selling to the public.The other interesting thing, Sagar, I think to note here is, you know, in his comments about chirping, you could imagine and he sort of alludes to that it could be the neocons that he's annoyed with in terms of chirping, because they're pushing that, oh, we need to go, we need to go back to more war.

We need to be more aggressive.You know, we've got to make sure that we don't give Iran absolutely anything in terms of this deal.We've got to be as hawkish as possible.But that is sort of undercut the notion that he's pushing back on them is undercut by the fact that earlier he encouraged everyone to go and watch Mark Levin's show.I was going to say that would not be an encouraging sign.

That would be a very comforting thought if we did not have this.Let's put a five up there on the screen.Over the weekend, the president posting on truth social watch Mark Levin tonight at eight.a big show which immediately then is followed by this Mark Levin interview with the former Israeli ambassador.Let's take a listen.

Tell me, what is the mindset in Israel with the Israeli people and so forth?

Very concerned, Marc, I'll be very frank with you.Very concerned that if the regime is thrown a lifeline through sanction relief, through the unfreezing of frozen assets, you're talking about tens and tens of billions of dollars, then it will continue to fund Hezbollah.It will continue to fund Hamas.It will continue to build intercontinental ballistic missiles.that have threatened us.And what I want to say to the president, if I had that elevator talk with him, as they talk about in Washington, where you get caught in an elevator with somebody for two minutes, I'd say to him, Mr. President, you have an opportunity to go down in history, not as one of the great presidents of American history, but one of the great leaders of all time, the ultimate game changer.

And I know it's difficult and under immense pressures economically, politically.But stay the course, stay the course and run out the clock on these guys because they have a clock.

And you know what else?Let's say my team loses the midterm elections in the House of Representatives.They're still not going to be able to stop the commander in chief, the president of the United States under our Constitution, from doing what he needs to do and what he wants to do.War Powers Act, No War Powers Act and all the rest of it.unless they intervene in a budgetary way and literally cut us off.But that's on them if they do it.

So that's basically it.We're all ungrateful nits, and it's all worth it in the end.You also just love having a literal Israeli politician who is, you know, from the United States, actually, I believe, renounced his citizenship to be able to become the Israeli ambassador to the United States, then talk to Trump about how he can go down as a great man of history.So that is apparently where things are right now.We do have the great Professor Jeffrey Sachs to break some more of this down, the situation with Iran.Let's get to it.

So joining us now to break down all of these developments and more is Columbia University professor and economist and great friend of the show, Jeffrey Sachs.Great to see you, sir.

Good to see you, sir.Great to be with you.Thank you.

So we just went over some of the developments this morning.We've had a new exchange of fire between the Iran and U .S.and Iran and Kuwait.We also have Trump coming out and complaining.people chirping as he's trying to make a deal. Obviously,

Obviously, Israel continues to bomb inside of Lebanon and Iran continues to insist that that is a red line for them.So what do you see as going on right now?Do you think we are actually close to a deal or is this whole thing following falling apart and degrading?

I don't know if there can be a deal, but there can be a solution, and the solution is quite straightforward.The United States should leave.That's all.The United States and Israel had an idea.It was crazy.It failed.

But the idea was that in one day, they would take over Iran.That was literally the idea, that they would kill the leadership, put in a new leader of their choice, and then we'd all live happily ever after in their fantasy land.This failed within hours.Iran consolidated its government, especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.It consolidated its control.And most importantly, Iran demonstrated the capacity to retaliate and to retaliate very effectively.

And the United States and Israel can do nothing about this.In other words, there is no military solution, period.Trump continues to act as if he can make total demands on the Iranian side that Iran has no interest in agreeing to.And from Israel's point of view, of course, Netanyahu simply wants the war to continue and to escalate.So Israel uses the United States.It abuses the United States.

The U .S.lets itself be abused.And this is where we are.Nothing has changed since March 1st.And Trump can fulminate.

He can make demands.He can make threats.None of these threats is credible.He knows it.The U .S.

intelligence agencies know it.The Pentagon knows it.There's no military solution.So what should be done?I personally don't see how there can be an agreement on complex issues like the nuclear brief.You're going to have Kushner and Whitkoff negotiate a nuclear arms control agreement?

Are you kidding?Of course not.So the idea that this is somehow real negotiations is ludicrous.The idea that Iran, in this circumstance where you have a war criminal nearby, Netanyahu, saying we need to kill all of them, unilaterally giving up anything is absurd.When you are facing a Donald Trump who says, let's negotiate, and then he bombs you the next moment, that's absurd.So I personally don't see how there can be a negotiated agreement.

But I see a perfectly fine solution, which is the United States leaves, goes home, declares victory, of course, the greatest victory in the history of humanity, and Iran opens up the strait again and, yeah, maybe collects a dollar a barrel of oil because that would be about 70%.billion a year against maybe $50 billion of destruction by Israel and the United States.in the last 90 days.So no problem, nothing even to discuss.Next year, if you don't send Kushner and Whitkoff, but you actually send some competent people, then the nuclear issue can be brought up again.Of course, we know the ultimate irony is the nuclear issue was solved 11 years ago and Trump ripped it up.

So this is immaturity It's petulance.It's stubbornness.It's the Zionist lobby.It's refusal to face facts.It's an old, ignorant man as our president.But there's an obvious answer.

get the oil prices down, go home, have a shot at your midterm elections, which Trump now says he doesn't care about.Good, if he doesn't.But I don't want it to be decided on the basis of continued war.But in any event, just go home.You tried something.You tried a stunt.

Someone sold you a line.We know who it is.Barnier and and Bibi sold Trump a line.He alone in the room bought it.The others thought it was farcical, but he bought it.They tried it.

It failed.well, what are you going to do?Keep trying the same farcical failure?That's where we are right now.No need for a deal.No need for a deal.

Just go home.

Of course, Sagar, the professor forgets that they've also added someone from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies to the negotiating team.

So surely we're on our way to a deal.Fair enough.fair enough.

One last question on Iran, sir.Zooming out, you travel the world, you speak to a lot of diplomats, Europe and Asia.What has been the reaction behind the scenes?You talk to a lot of these world leaders and a lot of these diplomats.What are they all thinking right now about the United States in the aftermath of the Iran war?

I think everyone sees that the United States government is incompetent, irrational, incapable.So, this is a display of the lack of any process or foresight.They see an old guy surrounded by yes -men, by sycophants, making decisions that Netanyahu passes to him, and it's not impressive.So, I think the world doesn't quite know how to handle this.They have business to do with the United States.But this has been a display of profound incompetence.

And that, I think, is the overriding fact.Of course, they're pissed off also.Their energy prices have soared.This hurts people across the world.They don't like this.They want this to end.

But the main thing that they see is instability and incompetence in the United States.

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