"He's A True Believer" – Why Rubio May Be Tougher On Iran Than JD Vance

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Patrick Bet-David** (0:26)
You had Maryam Adelson that gave $100 million to the president's campaign, I believe. She came out and she had an article. I don't know if you guys have that article or not. If you want to pull it up, then there's two stories. Adelson that came out and said, You could have been the greatest president of all time, but you failed. Mr. President, you have greatly harmed the human interests of the Enlightened World, and you may be remembered forever as the president who brought about America's humiliation. Betrayed us, the Israelis, and in a single moment, the contempt you once faced suddenly seemed so justified and logical. Danny Zakian writes to the US president. Okay, so that's that. Now, another story is with the Murdochs, which is what? Fox News. I don't know what page that's in. I saw it earlier in one of the articles. Oh, there it is. Murdoch outlets turn on Trump's deal, and this is a Newsweek story now on what they're talking about with Trump. You got Fox and Murdochs to the most heavyweight names in conservative media, Murdochs being the biggest heavyweight, but Adelson being a, they bought the Mavericks, I think, from Mark Cuban. And a rare break from one of Trump's most important media ecosystems, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and New York Post have all published criticism of the administration's Iran agreement. The criticism is notable because Murdoch's owned outlets have frequently aligned with Trump over the past decade and remain highly influential amongst Republican voters.
Fox News hosts are questioning whether Iran actually lost. This is Brian Kelmead called the memorandum of understanding very vague and concerning. Then you have Mark Levin has emerged as one of the deals' harshest critics. Then Wall Street Journal and New York Post raised similar concerns in the editorial. So this is a battle that he's facing today. So this is what it leads me to.
It leads to this conversation of Vance versus Rubio.
And why is this such a big story? Well, Forbes has this article and you know, I don't give a lot of credit to Forbes that went from being the capitalist tool to the socialist tool. But Forbes writes this article of Iran war spotlights, Rubio versus Vance battle. Trump has increasingly pitted these two against each other. This is what the article says.
Rubio is likely to have the support of Wall Street and establishment donors, while Vance has deep ties to Silicon Valley which has become more friendly with Republicans since Trump's first term and was less of a factor in the 2016 presidential election the last time Rubio ran. Vance has also cozied up to billionaire donors as the Republican National Committee to Finance Chair, etc., etc. Numerous reports have emerged of Trump asking his billionaire friends who they support and Trump's knowledge publicly is watching the pair. Okay, if you see this situation, when the president was speaking about, you know, you know the joke when the guy said, well, if it works out, you can take the response, take the victory. If it doesn't, you can blame who? JD Vance. Remember that? And do you remember who was standing behind him?
Who was standing behind him? One guy was standing behind him. And that was who? That was Marco Rubio.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:34)
Oh, okay. To the right.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:35)
And Rubio, when he was standing back there, he wasn't smiling. Why was he not smiling? I don't know. Again, remember, guys, we just speculate. We're not on the inside to tell you exactly what's going on. We're just giving you speculation and access to some of the context that we have when we speak to them. So, guys, I'm going to send you this clip, see if you can pull this up or not on Twitter, because I know Twitter's having issues right now. It's a clip of what Marco Rubio said about Iran.
Okay. It's a video about what Marco Rubio said about Iran. I think it's worth watching.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:08)
Is this the one from like 10 years ago?

**Patrick Bet-David** (4:10)
I don't know when this video is from.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:12)
Was he in Congress?

**Patrick Bet-David** (4:13)