The spirit of this revolution is not going away.

This is the Ron Paul Liberty Report with Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, and Chris Rossini.

We are all ambassadors of the Ron Paul Doctrine, and it's so simple, just tell the truth.

An idea who this time has come not stop by any army for any government

hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the liberty. Dr. Paul is off today, so I will be the lead on today's program, but thankfully I'm joined

by not only a guest, but an old and very dear friend, not old, but a very dear friend.

Jim Jatrice, you watch the show, you know Jim.

Jim is a former U.S. diplomat,

former senior Senate official, and a former Beltway lobbyist, but the good kind. Jim, are you there?

I'm here, but I have to dispute you there, Dan.

Uh-oh. I mean, as much as I appreciate your friendship, I am in fact old.

Well, everything is relative. Everything is relative.

Ah, okay.

You know, we're not redwood old, but we're...

So anyway, the thing that we want to talk about today, Jim, is what at least appears to me, and I'm sure you, as a pretty significant escalation in the U.S.

Iranian standoff.

You know, we've seen over the last couple of weeks almost playing footsie.

They hit a little something.

The U.S. hits a little something.

The U.S. then screams it's defensive when it hits

something, but they've kept it at a pretty even keel until last night.

And what happened last night is that if I get the sequences right, and I think I do have

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