ROPE-A-DOPE | Day 163 | Iran-Oman Hormuz pact | US sidelined | Israel land grabs | Burnham on tour

**George Galloway** (0:00)
And it's live, despite the time differences. And it is big tonight. This is the mother of all talk shows, with the mother of all interviews. Professor David Miller and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, and well, ill-educated me in the chair.
The United States has gone from tragedy to farce. The whole world is laughing at President Donald Trump as he gets on to hair force one with his new Benjamin Buffon. And Israel is taking a tanking in soft power everywhere. But no one quite expected it in the English courts.
And it's all happening on the Ukrainian front also. You don't want to miss any of this.

**Jeffrey D. Sachs** (0:53)
Not one minute of it.

**George Galloway** (0:56)
It's the mother of all talk shows. Stay tuned.

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**George Galloway** (1:12)
People used to fear the United States. People used to hate the United States. I spent my entire life shaking my fist at the camera saying no more US wars. The US actually doesn't want to be in the war in Ukraine anymore. That's the Social Democrats and Liberals and the pink brigade that are so gung-ho for that. But Donald Trump has, against all judgment, all sanity, taken them into an unwinnable war in the Persian Gulf, and everybody knows it. Everybody in the United States knows it. In fact, the United States have a saying for it. Donald Trump is behind the eight ball. Now, I'm a snooker player rather than pool. I've no idea what the eight ball even is. But I know if you're behind it, you are in a jam, and Trump is in that jam right now, between a rock and a hard place, and the rock ain't Mount Rushmore. The rock is the destruction of the Republican Party in just a few months' time in the midterm elections. If the Democrats, who be no better, win the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump will be being impeached every single week. Now, of course, there's a difference between being impeached and being convicted, but it only needs a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict the president, and as each drop in the opinion polls, as each drubbing in elections begins to dawn on the remaining Republican Senators, that this man is leading the party to destruction, don't bet against that two-thirds majority being achieved. And if it's achieved, if Trump is convicted, then he is in the mother of all difficulties, because no pardons will be possible. JD Vance, who would by default become president of the United States, could not possibly pardon the Trump gang. He might have to pretend he's going to, but something will come up on the way to the studio. The auto pen won't work. Something will happen, because JD Vance would be signing his own political death warrant by pardoning an impeached and convicted President Donald Trump. And if the President Trump is brought down and convicted, what about his extended family? And boy, is it an extended family. Gianni Infantino of FIFA was trying to sell the World Cup to a Kushner, and not even the Kushner you thought.
That Kushner has a brother who's also on the make, on the take, and Infantino was going to sell the Democratic cultural treasure of the whole world, the game of football, not soccer, guys. Doesn't exist. Bit like pool, if you get my drift. Football belongs to the world, and they were getting ready to sell it at vast profit for Infantino. And one or two other Plutocrats, maybe even Donald Trump himself, to another Kushner. So my point is, the crime family is quite a big one. I don't know how big the Genoveses are. I don't know how big the Gambinos are. But I know the Trump crime family is quite a number of people. Anyway, back to my point. The United States haven't gotten into this war, and unable to win it, and unable to get out of it, is trapped in a vice, which is now obviously going to run all the way up to November and beyond. Look on it as a kind of October surprise, Donnie. The Iranians may well offer a deal to an incoming new American administration that they are definitely not going to agree to with you in charge. After all, you killed so many of them. You killed so many school girls. Who can forgive that? I mean, ask yourself, if somebody killed 160 little girls in your local primary school, how could you possibly forgive them? Let alone sit down, talk to them and broker an agreement that will make them happy.
Iranian people are not like that. They don't mind sacrificing themselves for what they believe in and for their country. That much should be evident by now. If it isn't, you weren't watching the videos of Arbaeen in Kerbala, the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of the imams. The martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the martyrdom of his son Ali are absolute cornerstones of the Shia Muslim faith.