hi everyone, judge andrew napolitano here for judging freedom. today is tuesday, october, what is today, long day? october 1st, 2024, scott ritter joins us now. scott, i very much appreciate you coming on the last minute. it's been a long day for both of us and for all the folks uh watching us. what do we know of uh about the iranian uh missile attack today on israel? what did it consist of, what was uh? struck down, what got through, what

damage if any did it do? well, i can't say we know anything other than the iranians fired a of significant number of missiles, the majority of which appear to strike the ground, whether or not they struck the ground where they intended to strike is unnable until the iranians tell us what their objectives were and what their battle damage assessment, i would imagine that if these missiles did st their intended targets, israel will not, you not be quick to confirm that, because the last thing you want to do when you're on the receiving end of missiles. it appears, however, that a significant number of missiles were targeted at nevatum airbase outside of bershiba, this is a one of israel's most important air bases, it's where the f-35 fighters are based out of along with netanyahu's air force one and some other of critical. assets uh the uh the video tape of

this attack uh shows what appear to be hypersonic missiles you coming in and significant quantity and um and hitting what they're you know hitting something on the ground um they uh some of them may have been intercepted but not all of them this uh appears to be part the iranian strategy of saturation attacks, if you take a look at the quantity of the missiles being fired, it's simply overwhelmed israel's air defense systems. the iranians also appear to have made use of um the more sophisticated missiles, the hypersonic fata 2, they fired to take out the the arrow 2 and arrow 3 surface. stair missile or anti-missile

defense sields uh, i've been looking at some videos that look as though the iranians were deploying um sophisticated warheads that have multiple warheads and decoys um and accelerating warheads so they used um a variety of means you know back in april when we talked about this you know i said look the iranians let off with old stuff it was just basically um to uh exhaust these israillies exhaust the air defense and then they finished with dozen or so of their the good stuff and all of those hit their target and at the time i said this was iran putting a marker on the table saying the next time you're just going to get the good stuff well this was the next time israel got the good stuff and um what what we saw here is that israel is defenseless utterly um you may shoot down 10% of the incoming missiles but the bottom line is uh iran saturated uh

israel's missile defense shield, and it wasn't just israel, israel had the assistance of the united states, the united states navy and american uh fad systems, the jordanians reactively involved bragging about how they shot down one or two uh missiles, so you you basically had the world's densest, most sophisticated ballistic missile shield being exposed as utterly useless and this is a signal in and of itself to the israelis because they are talking about. retaliation and if israel retaliates in a significant way, iran has already reloaded all 180 plus launchers that were involved in the first one, they have others in reserve, remember right now iran is also holding loaded pistol against the head of the united states, letting the united states know that that they get involved in any offensive action against israel, alardid air base and kather will be destroyed just like nevatim was, there's no defense against it, alasad air base and iraq will be destroyed just like navatim was.

"there's no defense against it, and we, they iran may strike up, the the american naval base in bahrain, the home of the fifth fleet, this was a tremendous..." display of capability by iran, one that um israel and the united states would do well to uh to reflect on before undertaking any precipitous moves. are the uh hypersonic missiles the ones that are impossible to stop? well, i wouldn't say impossible, because technology being what it is, you you always might be able to find a uh solution. i would imagine that if you fired one hypersonic uh against a uh... defensive capability that was ready to receive it, you might get lucky. um, but generally speaking, the hypersonics are coming in a rate of engagement, a closer, rate of closer, that's too fast for any radar system today to configure as an intercept

solution and have the interceptor actually be able to do it. um, i think what we saw was there were some occasions of the israelis playing catchup, meaning that the... the uh they were trying to catch up to the um to the warhead but they they they couldn't that was going too fast and it appears that the hypersonics that iran fired just came through uh the the the israeli um air sirens didn't even go off so they didn't even detect it uh that's how fast they were going that's how quick their closure uh speed was do do the israelis have hypersonics no these well i mean again the israelies had the jericho two and the jericho 3. missile, these are nuclear capable, but they can fire a conventional payload, and the jericho 3 is believed to have something that uh, that will have closure speeds similar to a hypersonic missile, but it's a ballistic missile, which means that it speed is is generated by ballistic trajectory a hypersonic is a

missile that comes in a non-ballistic trajectory uh and usually under its own power um and and and you know and hits the ground it ' significant speeds that aren't generated by ballistic trajectory. is the um uh israeli iron dome about which they've been boasting for generations effectively useless? well the iron dome it wasn't meant to defend against these systems. aron dome was meant to defend against the saturation attack by katushka rockets or low technology short range rockets. so it wasn't designed to defend against the saturation attack of ballistic. missiles or ballistic missiles, this is what the uh arrow 2, the arrow 3 uh the patriot um the fad system, these are the systems that are designed to defend against those, the iron dome uh is when hamas fires off you know 70 unguided rockets that that go against

area, the iron d is designed to shoot those down or if hesel of fires katushka rockets, but the iron dome isn't designed to take down ballistic missiles, there's other systems. are supposed to do that, and clearly those systems didn't work. can israel, does israel have missiles that can reach iran? 100%, the jericho 2, the jericho 3 uh have the ability to uh to reach to reach iran, but the again the difference is israel's missiles aren't design, they're not designed to do the kind of saturation attack that um that iran just carried out, these are missiles that are are one shot, one hit, um, potentially with nuclear capability, but uh, if they're conventional, it's just designed to have one warhead come in. uh, the question is, could the uh russian s400 air defense systems that uh russia has uh supposedly provided iran and are positioned around iran's critical

infrastructure, can they get a um an intercept solution a jericho ballistic missile? i think the answer might be yes, so even if israel were to fire jericho missile. there's a good chance that um, because they're firing flying a conventional ballistic trajectory that uh they could be shot down by the s-400. uh, what is russia's role as you understand it in the defense of iran other than providing the defensive mechanisms that you just talked about? for example, would president putin call up president netanyahu or prime minister netanyahu and say, back off or would the russians provide offensive uh weaponry to enhance the iranian fleet? i don't think there's anything the iranians need or want from russia in terms of offensive weapons capability, they've proven that they have um significant strike capacity that successfully

hit the most heavily defended space on the planet which is israel. um defense is a different uh matter all together, i believe russia has um gone out of its way to provide uh iran with defensive capabilities, again speculation on my part, but i would imagine uh given the you know timelines associated with training. up uh an s-400 crew to be combat capable uh that these missiles might be manned by russian crews or at least have russian advisors on the ground, the same thing with electronic warfare uh systems in place etc. um the also it appears that russia may have rush delivered some of their more advanced fighters to uh to iran and again uh here uh because the iranians haven't had a chance to fully uh train up on these these fighters may be flown by russians so theoretically speaking if were a where to launch um a strike using manned aircraft against iran, there's a chance to be going up

against air defense systems manned by russians and um fighter interceptors manned by russians. history shows that this is what russia has done in the past, they did it in vietnam, they did it in korea, and uh they did it in egypt during the yam kapur war and the and the war of attrition, and uh there's no reason to believe that russia wouldn't be doing that today. we have a clip of uh president by. in which he refers to iran as defeated and ineffective, but but in fairness to him, listen to the whole clip, it's not that long, it's maybe 30 seconds and it's only about a half an hour old, chris cut number 21, say few words about iran's missile attack on israel today, at my direction united states military actively supported the defense of israel, and we're still assessing the impact, but based on what we now, the attack peers to have been defeated and in a... effective and this is testament to israeli military capability and us military

and also also testament to intensive planning between the united states and israel to anticipate and defend against the brazen attack we expected of what did well first of all what is your opinion of what president biden just said defeated and ineffective? well i mean his words don't match the video. evidence that has been presented so far on telegram, on x, on tv. again, until the final battle damage assessment can be made, it's hard to say. one way attack could be ineffective is if for instance nevatim airbase had been emptied of all critical assets and literally the iranian struck empty shelters, then you could say uh, it was ineffective. um, but what he's doing right now is... classic um american double speak, united states does not want this escalate at

all, and the key aspect of escalation is the concept of um deterrence um modes of deterrance. if iran has done something that both israel and the united states publicly say shows the ineffective of ineffectiveness of israel's defenses, israel has lost any notion of deterrant. um and stability goes along with that. i think the united states is anxious to keep israel from over escalation, meaning they know that israel is going to retaliate. iran knows israel is going to retaliate. what the united states is trying to do is create the set of circumstances that allow israel the ability to retaliate with a significant strike, but not something that prompts immediate iranian retaliation, and with draw back to its borders, maintaining the fiction of effective. uh missile defense so that politically netanyahu has some sort of um cover to hide behind uh and that's

that's appears to what what he's doing, i don't know how long this subtrifuge uh if indeed it is subtrifuge can last, there is commercially available um satellite imagery um there's eventually we're going to get to know what was hit in israel and uh you how badly it was hit the iranians will publish a target list and the truth will come out but i think right now biden is desperately trying to contain a uh a situation that's gone grossly out of control. the us navy uh did not stop this attack. it was supposed to, but it did not stop this attack. uh, it did intercept a handful of uh of missiles, but again, the iranians have had some time now to figure out america's uh, ship-born anti-missile defense protocols, and i would imagine that they did things designed to... um get the radars to lock to certain targets

which were decoys um and then confused the firing solution by mixing up the um the missiles coming in and um and the end result was saturation and it was the ineffectiveness was on the part of the america's too many missiles hit the ground simultaneously for anybody to believe the notion that the united states and israel um you had an' effective defense, what i saw is are united states defenses on the ground in israel or did they all come from naval ships ships in the mediterranean? no, i believe that the united states has... both, we we have the ships which provide the the bulk of it in terms of the numbers, but we've also deployed one and maybe two thad batteries that are um a more advanced um uh intercept capability than the uh patriot, we also may have some patriot batteries on the ground, especially since we put american troops on the ground, will be protecting them with american uh assets, uh

we would never allow american troops to be deployed and only have israeli assets on them, we we provide our own forest protection, so we we have ground-based interceptors in israel uh as well as the sea based interceptors. is netanyahu afraid, is he scared? sorry for me to get in, i know he's fearful of his political future, um, he's somebody who's been saying he wants to have this decisive moment of conflict with iran for some time now, um, "i i don't know what is being briefed, i would imagine that if he's being briefed honestly um, he should be afraid, he should be very afraid, because what the iranians demonstrated today is that israel is uh effectively defenseless in the face of a concerted iranian attack and that if the iranians wanted to, they could time this attack differently uh, they they timed it at night when facilities will be uh empty

when um the israelis would have had enough time to evacuate, put people in bomb shelter." um, if if the iranians wanted to pull in israel, for instance, dahua type doctrine, which is israel's doing against lebanon right now, collective punishment of the lebanese population for the sins of hezbulah, over a thousand innocent lebanese have been killed, i have friends of mine over there who are scared to death because of what's going on, and they are civilians, they have nothing to do with, nothing to do with anything, just living their lives, and yet their lives are at risk because of their. responsible actions of israel, if iran were to replicate the israeli approach and apply a collective punishment thing, they could easily have killed um several thousand israelis tonight, but they chose not to, they chose to strike military targets only, and they did so a time when israel would be able to evacuate and put people in, so this was not an attack designed to inflict casales,

this was attack designed to send a very stark message. that the next time you won't be so lucky and the other thing they did, and this is something that should resonate with the israelis, if indeed they took out nevat air base, which it appears that they struck many many times, every israeli pilot that takes off to strike iran in the back of their head has to wonder whether or not there will be an airbase waiting for them when they come home, because what iran did there can be, and that's the most heavily guarded air base that where the most valuable assets are, that could be replicated every single air base in israel. and um the time of flight 5 to 15 minutes um it takes it takes to the israeli air force far longer so by the time the iranians detect the israeli air force being launched against him they will detect it the russians will detect it they'll get the early warning they could literally saturate these airbases and there won't be any airfields left in israel for these aircraft to return to what is prime minister netanyahu doing to

israel big picture oh he's killed israel i think strategically israel's finished. what we're looking right now is noise, the the key thing we have to look at is long-term economic viability, because from that comes social stability, political stability, military security. um, we're in a situation right now where netanyahu has launched the conflict against tesbula, iran just put a marker on it saying, we're not going to let you destroy hez, but we're not going to let you go in that direction. um, the purpose of this conflict was to return six. 6,000 or 60,000 israelis to their settlers to their homes in the north of israel, they'll never be able to return home now, it just isn't going to happen void of a comprehensive peace settlement which will cost netan yaho's job because it'll be inclusive of a cease fire agreement with hamas which he said will never happen um so netanyahu has basically sacrificed israel for his own personal

political ambition, he uh desperately wants to you know leave office with legacy of that of a winner of... victor, this is the ultimate sin of narcissist full of hubrus and that's who benjamin netanyahu is, and he's he sacrificed the long-term viability of israel, because their economy is tatters right now, they're never going to get the 60 thousand back, the port of eli is is shut down, that's costing them billions, h is under attack, that's not an effective port, ashkanon gas facility was struck, that's an energy problem for israel, israel is un' sustainable economically and unsustainable right now in terms of their social reality, politically you have evenly divided country, i again remind people that prior to october 7th the israeli president was speaking of civil war and uh those emotions still run high. this is all because of benjamin netanyahu, he has destroyed israel, destroyed israel's long-term viability, and he's sacrificing

everything just so that he uh can retain a legacy that's already tarnished, he will never recover from this, he will always be a genocidal, murderous, maniac, a man who killed hindrajab. that's what i will forever remember him as, the man who murdered a six-year-old girl who was desperately crying for help, and there's no forgiving. this um, i was um surprised to hear you say because i haven't heard anybody else report it that the jordanians uh provided defenses for the israelis and boasted about it, isn't uh the king of jordan uh on thin ice with its own people, i realize he's a king, he's a monarch, he probably has limitless power within the hashimite kingdom, but uh isn't he really going against the grain to have his... military do that, he has no choice, he sold his soul a long time ago to israel and to the united states, he functions as a an extension the israeli security apparatus, jordan is a

shield to israel, and one of the shields they provide is suppression of palestinian statehood, jordan, the king of jordan is not supportive of a palestinian homeland, he's fearful of the palestiny people, um, he is of course walking a thin line, as you said right now, because the emo in the region lend itself to support for palestine, his wife is palestinian, but at the end of the day he will do what he is conditioned to do, his pavlovian response as when threats emerge to israel, jordan's job is to eliminate the threats that jordan is capable of doing, his missiles did shoot down a number, when i say number one two three of iran's missiles, one the debris from one of those shootdowns landed in a... palestinian village, killing a palestinian individual uh, but you know again, the king of jordan is uh, a man who i think is wildly reviled amongst the

palestinian people, even his own people, and in the arab world, is a man who sold out to israel a long time ago. last question, president erdogan uh of turkey, is the uh, in your view the assassination of nasralla enough to get him to do something, whether? it's militarily or economical, all he has to do is make a phone call and turn off the spigot of oil that goes to israel, no, he doesn't even have to make a phone call, he just does it, i mean it's it's turkish pipels um, he doesn't have to clear it with azerbaijan, although he and azerbaijan are they're very good allies and you know that's what makes it difficult is azerbaijan, this is an important um you economic and geopolitical thing, and also remember turkey wants to uh preserve its potential as a regional gas hub ' and you can't be a regional gas hub, the key thing to energy security, and this is what people tend to forget is the moment you start turning on and off pipelines for because of geopolitical

pressure, you're no longer a reliable source of of energy security. um, to be a supplier of energy, you supply energy come hell or high water. um, this is what russia's done, i mean there was a lot of people before the ukraine conflict that said that russia would weaponize its energy. russia never weaponized, russia has met every single contract because that's what you have to do. be a reliable supplier of energy, azerbaijan desires to be a reliable supplier of energy and turkey desires to be a regional energy hub, which means you have to be a reliable supplier of energy, so anybody waiting for him to shut down the oil, you got to think strategically and understand that's not something turkey's going to do, um, and until turkey is willing to do that, i think we have to take it face value, the any rhetoric that comes from erdogan about confronting uh israel, uh, turkey has a military. capable of confronting israel if it chose to do so, it will not do so, this is just posturing by adodon. my dear friend scott ritter, scott, thank you very much.

"it was a shot that was heard around the world, the 82,000-pound bombs which destroyed the mountain that was said hassan nasrallah has changed many things. the clock stopped, the tears fell, the morning began, but the guns kept blazing as netanyahu is about to find out on the ground in lebanon. come and have it out with galli if you are hard."

with the unsett of november 2023, the atrocities in gaza by israel persisted, by november 6th, before the conflict reached its one month mark, the death toll in gaza surpass 10,000. november 8th, 40,00 people were forced to evacuate northern gaza escape israely bombs, for many palestinians at leave in their homes and facing force displacement is painful reminder their passt. this nation has been driven from its original home for decades.

on november 15th, israeli soldiers committed another atrocity by storming alsafa hospital. other hospitals were not safe either. as always, israel had flimsy excuses for these atrocities. the final days of the month, the seven-day cease fire agreement was finally established between israel and hamas. however, everyone knew that the aggressive nature of the zionist regime would not tolerate the peace of these seven days. gaza continued to move towards destruction.

your press to be headlines, israel keeps pounding areas across. went on with the health ministry announcing the death from regime's aggression surpassing 2000. the un chief has sound the alarm over the rising number of civilian casualties in israeli attacks on lebanon calling it totally unacceptable. and aron's foreign minister has made a visit to the syrian capital demas.