Van Jones HUMILIATES HIMSELF Over Israel's SECRET NUKES

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0:00 A group of House Democrats is demanding that the United

0:04 States break the taboo surrounding Israel's nuclear weapons.

0:08 We can put our first element up on the screen.

0:10 This was a story in the Washington Post that reported on a letter saying a group

0:15 of House Democrats is urging the Trump administration

0:17 to p publicly acknowledge Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program.

0:21 a move that would abandon decades of US policy but confirm what

0:26 has been an open secret among intelligence officials since the late 1960s.

0:31 Now, this letter was addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

0:36 Uh the Post published the letter in full and you can

0:39 see I'm very curious to get Ryan Grim's reaction to this.

0:42 Again, 30 House Democrats, not just squad type House Democrats either.

0:47 You have like Al Green on there.

0:49 AOC is on it.

0:50 Becca Balance is on it.

0:51 Some of, you know, Greg Casar, some of the obvious,

0:54 uh, types, Mark Bhan, uh, but it's it's not just squad types.

0:59 Lloyd Dogget is on this.

1:00 So, uh, we can also then, Ryan,

1:04 take a little trip down memory lane to Jonathan Pard years ago.

1:09 That's a familiar name, but set us up, Ryan,

1:11 because you had us pull this clip to kind

1:12 of understand the significance of what's really happening here.

1:16 Yeah.

1:16 So, Jonathan Pard, one of the maybe the most infamous um Israeli spy who helped

1:22 build um Israel's nuclear program by stealing American

1:27 nuclear secrets and sending them to um Israel.

1:31 uh as as we reported a while ago uh and this has

1:34 been in books and other stuff uh when Netanyahu came uh

1:39 to the US in the '9s um he mentioned um to President

1:46 Clinton that Israel had tapes of him in communication with Monica Lewins.

1:50 Just mentioned it like as a friend would do.

1:53 Not not making any threats whatsoever.

1:55 Friend would do.

1:56 Just saying, "Hey, just just bro FYI, we've got these tapes.

2:00 to think about.

2:01 Not great.

2:01 Then he also said um I need you to free Jonathan

2:05 Pard as part of this peace deal that I'm trying to get,

2:08 you know, get brokered with Arafat here.

2:10 Uh the George Tennant, who was a CIA director at the time,

2:14 told Clinton, if you do that, I'm resigning and saying that's why I'm resigning.

2:19 Like we as the American intelligence community will not

2:23 allow this spy to be sent back to Israel.

2:28 That was the '9s.

2:29 Um he was eventually kind of given some humanitarian parole in 2015

2:35 um by uh the Obama administration

2:37 and then uh the Trump administration allowed him to head back uh to Israel where

2:43 he promptly threatened to nuke the United States.

2:47 So let's roll Pard.

2:49 The Oiden administration, as I called it, did threaten us,

2:53 but I said you're mistaken if you think there's never a choice.

2:57 There was a choice.

2:58 He said, "Well, what?

2:59 Is it to have our weapons cut off?

3:00 I said, "No, let me bring you back to October 1973 during

3:06 the Yam Kapour war when Henry Kissinger instituted an arms embargo against us.

3:12 He he stopped the aerial resupply of our army at that point

3:18 to extract uh diplomatic concessions from us." And what happened?

3:24 What happened was um an A4 Skyhawk was parked at uh

3:32 Telnof Air Base with some interesting weapons under the its wings

3:37 and uh we told the Americans take your eye in the sky

3:42 and take a good look at the airplane that's on that runway.

3:47 And the next day the airlift started.

3:52 So

3:54 the guy that I was talking

3:56 which airlift

3:56 to the to Israel

3:58 the arms airlift.

3:59 So in other words, we threatened their um

4:02 we threatened to use unconventional weapons.

4:04 I'll leave it at that.

4:06 And so he said is this what you're want us to threaten now?

4:09 I said absolutely except this time I want us to go forward with it if necessary.

4:14 Well, ain't that nice?

4:15 After that uh unconventional weapons

4:17 unconventional weapons some fancy weapons under the wing.

4:21 After that, Mike Huckabe, our ambassador to Israel, met with Pard,

4:26 which then drew protests from American officials in the embassy who were like,

4:31 "What on earth are you doing?" Uh, meanwhile, Pard is taking the hint.

4:35 Um,

4:36 you put up B3 here.

4:37 He's announcing, according to Times of Israel, you know,

4:39 he's planning on entering politics,

4:41 slamming Netanyahu and Bennett from the right, obviously.

4:44 Yes.

4:44 Right.

4:45 Um, so I look forward to when Pard is prime minister.

4:49 Um people saying that they condemn the pard but not Israel.

4:54 Um so yeah that'll be interesting.

4:56 By the way I was looking through the list of the 30 people

4:59 that signed a ton of them are not coming back to Congress next next time.

5:02 However super interesting some that are interestingly one of them Maxine Dexter.

5:07 Oh that is interesting.

5:09 So Maxine Dexter she beat um Primila Gyipol's sister.

5:14 Yes.

5:13 Sushila Gyipol.

5:14 Primila Gaipal signed this letter.

5:16 Uh she got more than $2 million from Apac

5:20 that they secretly funneled through this group 314 action.

5:25 Yes.

5:25 So she was elected with two plus million dollars worth of Apac secret Apac money

5:29 and is running again.

5:30 And is running again.

5:30 She's been and she has been constituents

5:33 hammer her constantly that secret AP pack money.

5:36 She's Portland area.

5:37 Yeah.

5:38 Very.

5:39 Um and so that's interesting that she would sign this.

5:42 That's very interesting.

5:43 Apac you spent 2 million bucks to get her in there.

5:45 She's now she's uh telling Israel to out um its nuclear program,

5:49 which has legal implications because if

5:53 the United States ever acknowledged that Israel had

5:55 uh undeclared nuclear weapons and it is

5:58 not a signatory to any of these treaties,

6:00 you can't we can't arm a country like that.

6:02 It is illegal to arm that country, which means it it is illegal to arm them.

6:07 There is so much on the line.

6:09 And I get that this is just like a silly little letter.

6:11 Uh people will say from House Democrats, but it's a huge sign that this taboo

6:16 with massive implications is in the process of shattering.

6:19 Van Jones on CNN was discussing this with Abby Phillip

6:22 and had a little bit of honestly a crash out.

6:25 You can see why.

6:26 I mean, he's he's sort of calm throughout,

6:29 but you can see he's he's pulling at the stud that Ryan's talking about.

6:32 Why?

6:33 Why?

6:33 Why these House Democrats saying it?

6:36 Roll the clip here.

6:37 Here are some of the questions that Wen Castro um is posing on this issue.

6:43 May maybe this might answer some of your questions.

6:45 What nuclear weapons capability does Israel have?

6:48 Has the administration received any assurances from Israel

6:52 that nuclear weapons will not be used?

6:54 Has Israel communicated to the United States any nuclear doctrine,

6:58 any red lines or thresholds for nuclear use

7:00 in the context of the current conflict with Iran?

7:03 Has the administration assessed what circumstances could

7:06 lead Israel to continue consider nuclear use?

7:09 What contingency planning has the administration conducted for such a scenario?

7:14 I mean, we do I I I mean, I is is there any I'm I'm asking an honest question.

7:21 Why I mean is have there been some rumor

7:24 that says that Israel is going to nuke Iran?

7:27 Here's the I guess the question is the question is

7:29 again now there's been a a change of status quo

7:33 there's a war between

7:36 the United States Israel and Iran that is going on right now in the Middle

7:40 East and under those circumstances that is

7:43 actually different from what we've been experiencing

7:47 for the last you know 40 50 years and so under those circumstances there's

7:53 only one power in the Middle East um that has a nuke and it's Israel.

7:58 And so the question is what are the circumstances?

8:01 What are the boundaries?

8:02 Are there any boundaries?

8:03 They don't acknowledge that they have them.

8:05 People know that they that they do, but are there any boundaries?

8:08 I think that seems like a fair question to ask.

8:11 I'm assuming that they're in executive session.

8:14 This seems like a fair question to ask.

8:15 Abby Phillips says, but Ryan Van Jones is saying why.

8:19 I think because he's getting it exactly to your point.

8:21 He's saying why?

8:23 Because he believes the answer is so

8:25 that because Democrats now want to stop arming Israel.

8:29 I I think that's what he was my interpretation is that's what he's pushing at.

8:32 He's saying, "Well, nobody thinks Israel is actually going to nuke Iran.

8:35 So, the only reason you're doing this, uh he didn't come out and say it,

8:38 but is because you don't want to keep

8:40 sending arms and military support to Israel,

8:43 period." And I think that's obviously what the real

8:45 threat is to people like Van Jones here.

8:48 Yeah.

8:48 And the the status quo position among a lot

8:51 of Democrats at this point is uh okay,

8:55 we're not going to subsidize Israeli weapons transfers anymore,

8:59 but we're still going to facilitate massive weapons transfers.

9:03 And the next uh terrain for the fight is going to be no.

9:08 Um we should actually not be sending period.

9:11 We should not even be selling Israel weapons as long

9:13 as they are continuing this expansionist project into Lebanon,

9:18 into Syria, um into into Gaza, uh into the West Bank.

9:24 Um and then in fact, they should be under sanctions.

9:26 And if you're making the case that they should be sanctioned,

9:29 having an illegal undeclared nuclear program,

9:32 I believe we're at war um with Iran over its nuclear program.

9:39 Mhm.

9:37 Uh right right now, although maybe maybe we're pausing that, you know,

9:42 Project Freedom momentarily.

9:44 Um but yeah, so that that that will play in when um if if the US,

9:49 you know, if if if the American people are like,

9:51 "Wait a minute, we don't we don't necessarily trust

9:54 the um ability of this country to self-regulate its behavior." Yeah.

10:01 This is uh to I mean,

10:03 this is a big picture conversation we've been having about Iran for a long time,

10:05 which you look at polling in America,

10:07 support is just cratering for Israel almost across the board,

10:10 except for among older Republican voters.

10:13 And you're starting to see I mean this letter

10:15 kind of shatters the taboo in and of itself.

10:17 And so as these conversations increase,

10:21 you have like Pard being somebody who's entering Israeli politics,

10:26 uh, you have a a ascendant far right in Israeli politics.

10:30 uh because there's this idea that it's the this is kind of the end

10:35 of the line when it comes to uh protection that shield from the United States

10:40 because Americans no longer buy that the relationship

10:43 is beneficial is mutually beneficial uh

10:46 to the American people and so sort of a a sign there that's probably correct.

10:53 Yeah.

10:53 Uh love the Van Jones uh response.

10:56 Why leave these guys alone?

10:58 Why why are you singling out this this Israel in the Middle East

11:02 just because they're the only uh country with an undeclared nuclear program?

11:09 Seems seems awfully strange.

11:11 Uh we have Ro Chopra standing by.

11:12 So we are going to bring him in to talk

11:14 about this crazy what how many acres, Ryan?

11:17 62 acres.

11:18 62 square miles.

11:19 62 square miles.

11:20 That's right.

11:21 Data center in Utah.

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Van Jones HUMILIATES HIMSELF Over Israel's SECRET NUKES

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