Speaker 1: This is the US Report with James Moroar.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming
Speaker 2: up tonight. It's a race to the bottom as New
Speaker 2: York and California rushed to run out of spending other
Speaker 2: people's money. Plus that thing they claim doesn't happen, well
Speaker 2: it keeps happening. A new report reveals illegal migrants are
Speaker 2: voting again. And who knew that Saint Patrick's Day was
Speaker 2: really about the struggle for Palestinian liberation. I thought it
Speaker 2: was all about corn beef and guinness. Apparently not. But first,
Speaker 2: we are now coming up on the end of the
Speaker 2: third week of the Operation Epic Fury campaign, the joint
Speaker 2: US Israeli operation to make the world safe from the
Speaker 2: terrorist theocracy of Tehran and hopefully bring about a free
Speaker 2: and more democratic future for the people of Iran. Now
Speaker 2: at the outset recall, US President Donald Trump warned that
Speaker 2: this would be a four to five week operation, but
Speaker 2: now only a little more than two and a half
Speaker 2: weeks in. Plenty of people in the media are already
Speaker 2: hoping he calls time early, saying he's already failed. And
Speaker 2: I want to talk about one particular case that illustrates
Speaker 2: just how when you see these headlines saying that the
Speaker 2: war is a disaster or that Trump has lost key support, well,
Speaker 2: you know what, you're not necessarily getting the whole story.
Speaker 2: Now here's an item that was big news this week.
Speaker 2: Headlines were made around the world when Joe Kent, who
Speaker 2: had been Donald Trump's top counter terrorism advisor, spectacularly resigned.
Speaker 2: Now Kent posted a lengthy screed on x saying that quote,
Speaker 2: I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.
Speaker 2: He went on and said, Iran posed no imminent threat
Speaker 2: to our nation, and it is clear that we started
Speaker 2: this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful
Speaker 2: American lobby who what a very odd thing to say,
Speaker 2: considering all the evidence to the contrary. I mean, back
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, Kent himself was very clear about
Speaker 2: the threat that Iran posed.
Speaker 3: Most Americans aren't aren't aware of it. We've our troops
Speaker 3: in Iraq and Syria have been attacked one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty plus times by Iranian proxies. And when we say
Speaker 3: Iranian proxies, we've got to be clear on what that is.
Speaker 3: That's the Iraqi government that we pay because after the
Speaker 3: Iraqi military we spent two trillion on surrendered to ISIS,
Speaker 3: we had to go back in there in very short
Speaker 3: order and stand a military back up again. And guess
Speaker 3: who filled the breach. The SA malicious controlled by Iran did,
Speaker 3: and the Iraqi government's controlled by Iran.
Speaker 2: How curious. Kent also tweeted that same year that Iran
Speaker 2: had been after Donald Trump personally since twenty twenty. So
Speaker 2: which are the Ayatolas a threat? Or do they just
Speaker 2: want to be left alone to study the Koran. It's
Speaker 2: all very confusing, and it's all the weirder given that
Speaker 2: Kit is claiming that none other than Charlie Kirk, the
Speaker 2: conservative influencer assassinated last year, conveniently told him before he
Speaker 2: died that he should try and stop Trump from attacking Iran.
Speaker 4: We knew each other, And last time I saw Charlie
Speaker 4: Kirk on this earth was in June in the West
Speaker 4: Wing in the stairway, and I said hi to him,
Speaker 4: and he looked me in the eye and he said
Speaker 4: very loudly, and it's a small you've been in the
Speaker 4: West Wing. It's it's small. It's a tight space. And
Speaker 4: he said, Joe, stop us from getting into a.
Speaker 5: War with Iran.
Speaker 2: Really again, how convenient? I mean, sure, the very prominent
Speaker 2: Kirk made this very important direction to a very tangential
Speaker 2: player in this whole saga right before he died. Yeah, Joe,
Speaker 2: you know, I believe you billions wouldn't. And on that subject,
Speaker 2: here's actually what Charlie Kirk said last year after last
Speaker 2: June's strikes on Iran.
Speaker 6: And you might say, Charlie, do you support or oppose this?
Speaker 6: I support President Trump, That's my answer. I know the man,
Speaker 6: he's the commander in chief, he's the man for the hour,
Speaker 6: and he's had the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Speaker 6: So in a situation like this, I support my friend
Speaker 6: and he's had my back and I have his.
Speaker 2: So what could explain Joe Kent's sudden change of heart,
Speaker 2: this sudden resignation, seemingly out of the blue, this attack
Speaker 2: on the Boss and his plans for Iran. Oh, hang on,
Speaker 2: We've got some breaking news from Laura Ingram at Fox News.
Speaker 7: So our sayser saying that Joe Kent, the former director
Speaker 7: of the United States National Counter Terror Center.
Speaker 1: This is from Semaphore. He just resigned.
Speaker 7: He's now under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information,
Speaker 7: and the investigation predates his departure.
Speaker 2: Well well, well Weirdly, this crucial data point has made
Speaker 2: a lot less news in those outlets that trumpetd can's
Speaker 2: not so quiet quitting, which is important to keep in
Speaker 2: mind because when it comes to this war, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people who don't want to hear positive developments
Speaker 2: such as the just signed joint statement from the UK, France, Germany,
Speaker 2: Italy and the Netherlands, as well as Japan saying that
Speaker 2: yes they are ready to contribute to efforts to open
Speaker 2: the Straits of Hormuz, or that far from being stalemated,
Speaker 2: the USS Tripoli, a flat deck amphibious assault craft loaded
Speaker 2: with marines and helicopters, is heading to the neighborhood of
Speaker 2: carg Island, which of course could change everything and open
Speaker 2: up this vital oil choke point once and for all,
Speaker 2: and I mean once and for all, And that brings
Speaker 2: me to my second point. Iran was always going to
Speaker 2: be have to be dealt with at some point by
Speaker 2: some administration Trump somebody in the future. Since nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 2: this regime has been a cancer on the middle East
Speaker 2: spreading terror and mayhemon becoming a close partner with China
Speaker 2: and Russia. Eventually it was going to have to be
Speaker 2: dealt with or it would be overwhelming to us all.
Speaker 2: And the idea that the US that the world is
Speaker 2: now so brittle that it cannot endure even a few
Speaker 2: weeks of energy disruption for a long term good of
Speaker 2: making sure that oil coming out of Iran is not
Speaker 2: going to be able to threaten the world's energy supplies
Speaker 2: in perpetuity is preposterous. And to hope that this whole
Speaker 2: project fails just because you don't like Trump is to
Speaker 2: say you think Iran and China and Russia should be
Speaker 2: given a veto over world affairs forever. Now, very quickly,
Speaker 2: I wanted to bring you up to speed on some
Speaker 2: of the latest news with the Save Act, which we've
Speaker 2: spoken about before on this program. It is, of course,
Speaker 2: the Republican led effort to make sure people who vote
Speaker 2: in American elections are a eligible to vote and b
Speaker 2: are who they say they are. Wild stuff, I know,
Speaker 2: and I've been watching the debate over this in the Senate,
Speaker 2: and my god, I have been struck by how the
Speaker 2: Democrats have painted themselves into a rhetorical corner on this. Now,
Speaker 2: most Americans poll after Pol's show support these very reasonable
Speaker 2: proposals to help keep the sanctity of American democracy sacred
Speaker 2: on Capitol Hill. Though it's another story.
Speaker 1: The Save Act is not about protecting the vote.
Speaker 8: It's about making it harder to vote and easier to
Speaker 8: steal an election.
Speaker 2: Sorry, what was that requiring ID to vote makes it
Speaker 2: easier to steal an election? Explain that logic to me sometime. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Democrats said Senator Raphael Warnock tried another excuse to be
Speaker 2: against the bill. He said that women and poor people.
Speaker 2: Now I think he wants to say black folks, but
Speaker 2: he's clever enough not to fall into that trap. He's
Speaker 2: saying they just can't get id.
Speaker 8: If you want to effectively disenfranchise women, disenfranchise poor people,
Speaker 8: working class people who have to struggle for the right
Speaker 8: to vote, that is your prerogative. But be very clear,
Speaker 8: you are not on the side of the movement. You're
Speaker 8: on the other side of that history.
Speaker 2: And then there was Democrat Janine Shaheen who said foreigners
Speaker 2: aren't allowed to vote already, so hey, why do we
Speaker 2: need the law?
Speaker 9: That's the law only American citizens can vote in American elections.
Speaker 10: We're not true, nobody's trying to change that.
Speaker 2: I love her logic. And by the way, hey, it's
Speaker 2: already illegal to speed on the highway, so why do
Speaker 2: we need speed cameras and cops. Look, the Democrats have
Speaker 2: really again, I say, box themselves into a corner here.
Speaker 2: Either they're saying that poor people and women in blacks
Speaker 2: aren't able to get the same sort of idea they
Speaker 2: need to fly on a plane or buy a pack
Speaker 2: of smokes, or they actually do want people who are
Speaker 2: not citizens to be able to cast a ballot for
Speaker 2: whatever reason. Either way, Democrats, it's not a good look.
Speaker 2: All right. To kick things off tonight, let's bring in
Speaker 2: Hudson Institute research fellow Zeneb Rabua. She's one of the
Speaker 2: smartest analysts of everything going on between the US and
Speaker 2: I ran right now, so let's get straight into it. Zeneb,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the program. This war has quickly spilled over
Speaker 2: into the energy markets, and I can tell you we're
Speaker 2: all already definitely feeling this here in Australia. But there
Speaker 2: have been two major developments in recent hours. One, Iran
Speaker 2: has struck LNG plants in Qatar, So I guess that
Speaker 2: friendship is over between those two countries and two treasury
Speaker 2: sectoris Scott Bessett is talking about lifting sanctions on Iranian
Speaker 2: oil that's already at sea now. On the one hand,
Speaker 2: it feels like the Iranian regime is now lashing out
Speaker 2: and signing its own death warrant. But on the other
Speaker 2: I'm wondering how some people are going to interpret that
Speaker 2: move on the sanctions. Walk us through these two and
Speaker 2: what the economic strategy is around this, because this is
Speaker 2: becoming an economic war in the markets as much as
Speaker 2: it is on the battlefield.
Speaker 10: Thank you very much for having me and for your
Speaker 10: kind words. Well, absolutely, I think it's I think that
Speaker 10: the Iranians knew exactly what they were doing by hitting
Speaker 10: oil infrastructure of Gulf countries and especially Qatar, which actually
Speaker 10: played a big role in mediations and in making sure
Speaker 10: that the messages from the Iranians were actually reaching the
Speaker 10: White House, and that's a very important thing. And I
Speaker 10: think that they fell into a strategic trap which it's
Speaker 10: actually going to help the United States tackle the IERGC
Speaker 10: even more since now golf countries on on the side
Speaker 10: of making sure that the i ERGC gets punished. So
Speaker 10: there is that on what Scott Beson is doing. And
Speaker 10: I think that there's actually signals that lifting sanctions it's
Speaker 10: a very difficult process actually to do UH, and it
Speaker 10: means that they actually do have either intel or a
Speaker 10: calculus that the IERGC is not going to be able
Speaker 10: to benefit from those tankers, which we're also talking about
Speaker 10: stranded tankers, which means that they were already purchased from China,
Speaker 10: which I think is the main which is the main
Speaker 10: buyer of these uh. They're just making sure that the
Speaker 10: oil is flowing UH. And I think that the elevating
Speaker 10: the sanction, as I said, means that there's a calculus
Speaker 10: that the Iranians are no longer going to be able
Speaker 10: to benefit from it. But it also signals something else
Speaker 10: that it's the United States that decides on one when
Speaker 10: and which tankers are going to China, and I think
Speaker 10: that's a very important signal. It also means that these
Speaker 10: decades of China profiting and being the main UH being
Speaker 10: the main buyer of Iranian oil with a steep discount,
Speaker 10: I think that era is just ending.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's not just in the Middle East
Speaker 2: that Iran has had a really successful propaganda operation. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's been all over the West too, for people who've
Speaker 2: been paying attention to it. And that brings me to
Speaker 2: my next point, which is how the way the war
Speaker 2: is being reported in the Western world, where to listen
Speaker 2: to a lot of the press talk about it, they're
Speaker 2: basically saying the thing has already lost, that Trump is
Speaker 2: a stale might. That's a quagmire. Here in Australia, we
Speaker 2: have the left wing ABC, the state broadcast of trying
Speaker 2: to claim that Iran has the edge on the conflict
Speaker 2: rather than the US. Added the US, You've got an
Speaker 2: MS news anchor suggesting that Trump's attacks on Iran are
Speaker 2: because of racism. Look at this, So the.
Speaker 11: Way they seem to create this image of the Iranians
Speaker 11: and all of their proxies or allies, the sort of
Speaker 11: imagery that they conjure up, and I think that it
Speaker 11: takes a certain amount of arrogance. And I'm also going
Speaker 11: to say it a bit of racism to constantly talk
Speaker 11: about people like they are savages. That is a word
Speaker 11: that we've heard hag seth Us.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is pretty nuts here, but give us
Speaker 2: the straight scoop here, who is actually winning, who's got
Speaker 2: the advantage in this conflict.
Speaker 10: Look, I will tell you very very openly, in the
Speaker 10: United States and israel Is that are absolutely winning this.
Speaker 10: There's no doubt doubt about it. The military assessment simply
Speaker 10: speak for themselves and the Gulf countries the way they react,
Speaker 10: and also that's for itself. But you know, that's just
Speaker 10: how it always is American you know, media politics, it's
Speaker 10: always about winning a political war. It's not about doing
Speaker 10: any really strategic analysis. And in fact, I think that's
Speaker 10: that's very important for people to keep to keep in mind.
Speaker 10: But also, you know, that's very interesting to say. You know,
Speaker 10: I wonder if that's something she would be comfortable saying
Speaker 10: to the thousands of Syrians who had to leave their
Speaker 10: homes while the iergy C and Islamic Republic were absolutely
Speaker 10: destroying their country, and the same for Iraqis and the
Speaker 10: and the Libanese.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 10: It's it's very arrogant, but that's just how it is.
Speaker 2: And I think that people really ought to study, particularly
Speaker 2: I ran in the Lebanese Civil War to understand just
Speaker 2: so much of what's at stake here for the West. Hey,
Speaker 2: I wanted to also just talk about the broader strategic
Speaker 2: environment around the world we've had Trump. You know, this
Speaker 2: is part of a much bigger game. It involves China,
Speaker 2: but it also involves Cuba, and it just to get
Speaker 2: you sort of to talk about this a bit too,
Speaker 2: because in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba is now undergoing total blackouts.
Speaker 2: Now it sounds like across the entire island, but Cuba
Speaker 2: is part of this broader Trump farm policy that I
Speaker 2: ran in Venezuela fall into because there's a big Chinese
Speaker 2: signal intelligence based on that ninety miles off the Florida coast.
Speaker 2: Tell us how all of this ties in Cuba. It's
Speaker 2: a complicated game of chess because there's the Middle East,
Speaker 2: but then there's also against securing America around the world.
Speaker 2: Tell us about that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that it's very important important to highlight that,
Speaker 10: you know, China's economic model really depends on exports on
Speaker 10: cheap Iranian oil, on a network of partners. Venezuela and
Speaker 10: Cuba are part of that, and it's very important for
Speaker 10: them because it's about absorbing the surplus of production and
Speaker 10: providing really strategic depth for chi Jin Pink Operation epic
Speaker 10: theoria is already a destroying uh. The most important not
Speaker 10: in net network being Iran, because it's also Chinese sanctions
Speaker 10: really busting oil supplier. And I think that looking into
Speaker 10: Cuba is very important, and I think that it's very
Speaker 10: important for for different reasons, one being uh, that the
Speaker 10: United States had a big problem with the Kubans for
Speaker 10: a very long time UH, and that there there are
Speaker 10: a lot of I think factors that play into that.
Speaker 10: But also you know, it's it's very it's time for
Speaker 10: the United States to look at its neighborhood and to
Speaker 10: stop having to pay for better foreign policies that did
Speaker 10: not work. The United States has a military dominance, has
Speaker 10: a as an economy that is very attractive, innovation and
Speaker 10: so on. Uh, and keeping basically Chinese outposts in the
Speaker 10: neighborhood is not good for the United States.
Speaker 2: Absolutely right. So then thank you so much, and don't
Speaker 2: believe the doomsayers out there really appreciate your time. Thanks
Speaker 2: for joining me. Thank you all right now onto reports
Speaker 2: tonight that the Pentagon has asked the White House to
Speaker 2: approve a request to Congress for more than two hundred
Speaker 2: billion that's billion with a B. Dollars to help fund
Speaker 2: the war and Iran. This is almost certain to divide
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill, where the war is quite contentious. Already joining
Speaker 2: me now to discuss this and so much more is
Speaker 2: former White House Chief of Staff and senior advisor at
Speaker 2: Bondi Partners, Mick mulvaney. Mick, great to see you. What
Speaker 2: do you make of this? I think this just highlights
Speaker 2: some of the actual practical problems with keeping this conflict going,
Speaker 2: especially when Congress decides. If Congress decids, say, you can't
Speaker 2: have any more money for this, tell us how this
Speaker 2: is all going to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, James, there's a bunch of different moving pieces here.
Speaker 5: Number one, we hear now that they're spending about one
Speaker 5: to two billion dollars a day on prosecuting war. So
Speaker 5: if they're asking for two hundred billion dollars, that might
Speaker 5: lead you to believe they think they're going to be
Speaker 5: in this for another one hundred to two hundred days,
Speaker 5: which is a lot longer than I think anybody is
Speaker 5: actually talking about now. I weigh that against the fact that,
Speaker 5: as the former budget director, I know that the Defense
Speaker 5: Department always asks for more than they really need. So
Speaker 5: if the real number is really one hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 5: That still means they're at someplace for the next fifty
Speaker 5: to one hundred days. This is much longer than I
Speaker 5: think people realize. And what's going to happen now is
Speaker 5: this This is not going to be a blank check.
Speaker 5: It's not gonna be a rubber check. It's not going
Speaker 5: to be sort of, oh yeah, here you could have
Speaker 5: the money the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, the OMB director,
Speaker 5: maybe Russ Fode is going to have to go down
Speaker 5: to Capitol Hill and explain what this money is for.
Speaker 5: So these are the hearings that so many people have
Speaker 5: been asking about to talk about what the plan is
Speaker 5: for the war, what's the strategy, what does victory look like?
Speaker 5: Those conversations are getting ready to happen in public.
Speaker 2: And what does that victory look like. Because we've heard
Speaker 2: different things out of the administration about whether it's just
Speaker 2: about degrading. But then at the same time Trump has said,
Speaker 2: we don't want to have to go back there five
Speaker 2: to ten years and sort this problem about out. How
Speaker 2: does this conflict with the political drive that's going to
Speaker 2: start to come when prices go up, when it costs
Speaker 2: more to fill up your tank. This is already biting
Speaker 2: hugely in Australia. I can tell you what are the
Speaker 2: domestic politics looking like.
Speaker 1: So far?
Speaker 5: So good for Trump. He's lost a good many of
Speaker 5: the swing voters, which is what's giving the Republicans on
Speaker 5: the hills such heartache right now. But the MAGA base,
Speaker 5: the Republican Trump base, is nearly one hundred percent supportive
Speaker 5: of him so far. I think he's probably got a
Speaker 5: couple of months left at that. Unless he goes to
Speaker 5: boots on the ground, we end up seeing heavier American casualties.
Speaker 5: But I think he can do this sort of standoff
Speaker 5: sort of war, the Tomahawk War, the cruise missile war,
Speaker 5: for a couple more months before the base really starts
Speaker 5: to turn on them. They'll they'll tolerate high gas prices
Speaker 5: for a short period of time, but not all the
Speaker 5: way through to the midterm. So Trump has probably got
Speaker 5: a month, maybe two, to make some real progress in
Speaker 5: this war. You raise a really good point, James, what
Speaker 5: does victory look like? I don't know, but I do
Speaker 5: know this. The Americans cannot leave until the straits are open.
Speaker 5: Straits and Hoemos must be open for Trump to have
Speaker 5: any claim to having anything close to victory. So if
Speaker 5: that's a diplomatic resolution, that could take several weeks. If
Speaker 5: it's a military solution, that could take several weeks. So
Speaker 5: I think they're in this for a lot longer than
Speaker 5: people are talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, how would boots on the ground go if it
Speaker 2: was a limited venture. We have heard that the USS
Speaker 2: Tripoli I spoke about this at the start of the program,
Speaker 2: which is an amphibious carrier, carries about sixteen hundred and
Speaker 2: two thousand marines, a lot of helicopters, and a lot
Speaker 2: of other toys. If that was to go in and
Speaker 2: try and take that civilian infrastructure on KRG Island, would
Speaker 2: that be pretty much checkmate for the regime?
Speaker 5: Probably, I would think so. But I mean keep in mind,
Speaker 5: that would be a huge win for the Americans, there's
Speaker 5: no question. But there's a famous exchange you and I
Speaker 5: may have talked about this last week between the Americans
Speaker 5: the Vietnamese at the end of the Vietnam War, where
Speaker 5: the American negotiators said, oh, by the way, we just
Speaker 5: want to point out you never beat us on the field,
Speaker 5: and the South the North Korean general said, yeah, so
Speaker 5: what when you're fighting what the Iranians are fighting now
Speaker 5: with the Vietnames, we're fighting a generation ago. It's a
Speaker 5: war of survival. You don't have to beat the Americans.
Speaker 5: You just have to last longer than they can. So yes,
Speaker 5: I think it's a huge military victory for the Americans
Speaker 5: to be able to be able to take carg Island,
Speaker 5: and it is a huge choke point in the Straits.
Speaker 5: But I don't see how it ends the war because again,
Speaker 5: all the Iranians have to do is survive, and if
Speaker 5: they do survive, this regime will be even stronger than
Speaker 5: it was going into the war. So again, they've got
Speaker 5: a tiger by the tail here. If they can win
Speaker 5: a bunch of battles, how they win the war still
Speaker 5: looks a little murky to me.
Speaker 2: And it's a bit sort of a question who even
Speaker 2: is there to offer up an instrument of surrender and
Speaker 2: do a negotiation. But Nick, there's a lot of other
Speaker 2: things going on here in the US, and I was
Speaker 2: fascinated with this here story of the New York Post
Speaker 2: where they uncoord shocking story of legal migrants from Africa
Speaker 2: and Asia voting in US elections, and they reveal how
Speaker 2: one immigrant from Mauritania was marked for deportation in two
Speaker 2: thousand and two, but continued to live in the US
Speaker 2: and registered as guess what, a Democrat, had voted in
Speaker 2: every election since two thousand and eight until Fed's busted
Speaker 2: him last week. Now, Mick, I know people will say
Speaker 2: this is like a small thing. It's only one or
Speaker 2: two cases, it's not a big deal. But it feels
Speaker 2: to me like the thing that they keep saying, Oh,
Speaker 2: it doesn't happen, and we don't need any laws to
Speaker 2: prevent it keeps happening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And to your point, James, it undermines the integrity
Speaker 5: of the election, and that's the last thing we need
Speaker 5: in this country. Don't need people wondering whether or not
Speaker 5: illegal immigrants are voting and so forth. What we need
Speaker 5: is some very clear laws as to who can vote
Speaker 5: and who can't vote. That debate is going on right
Speaker 5: now in the United States Senate. I don't think they're
Speaker 5: going to pass any significant legislation, but this is one
Speaker 5: example of why it's so important to protect the integrity
Speaker 5: of your elections.
Speaker 2: Well. Indeed, and you know this other issues with integrity too,
Speaker 2: because this ties into another story here, And I want
Speaker 2: to talk about a really important story where a federal
Speaker 2: court has revoked the US citizenship of a man who
Speaker 2: orchestrated a massive, nearly four million dollar COVID relief fraud scheme. Now,
Speaker 2: it was ruled that he obtained naturalization while he was
Speaker 2: actively committing fraud and scamming the government. This seems like
Speaker 2: a massive precedent here, particularly when we're talking about those
Speaker 2: other massive Medicare fraud stories in places like Minnesota and California.
Speaker 2: Is this a big win for the administration being able
Speaker 2: to boot people who you might have thought you were
Speaker 2: stuck with.
Speaker 5: It is, and this is the type of thing that
Speaker 5: resonates with eighty five percent of the American public. Again,
Speaker 5: we can talk about legal immigration. Some folks like it,
Speaker 5: some folks don't. I happen to like it a lot.
Speaker 5: But illegal immigration that's an eighty five percent issue. Deporting
Speaker 5: criminals that's an eighty five percent issue. Take citizenship away
Speaker 5: from people who have stolen from the federal government is
Speaker 5: an eighty five percent issue. So this is a huge
Speaker 5: win for the administration. I hope you're writer. I hope
Speaker 5: it is a precedent, and I hope that we're able
Speaker 5: to sort of get the word out that this type
Speaker 5: of thing is is on the table. I think it
Speaker 5: will discourage a lot of a lot of fraud, not
Speaker 5: all of it. We have to be vigilant, but this
Speaker 5: is a move in the right direction. I think it's
Speaker 5: a big win for the administration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and finally, Mick, before you go, and just to
Speaker 2: talk a little bit more about immigration, we've got the
Speaker 2: news that Greg Mavino, who is the face of the
Speaker 2: immigration enforcement crackdown or one of them in the US,
Speaker 2: is now leaving the job. Tell us about what you
Speaker 2: think that his legacy will be, especially after of course
Speaker 2: those incidents in Minneapolis where we saw two American citizens
Speaker 2: killed in shall we say, murky confrontations with ICE agents.
Speaker 5: Certainly it will follow him, There's no question, and I
Speaker 5: suppose it should. I keep in mind, the man has
Speaker 5: served the country I think for over a quarter of
Speaker 5: a century. This is not some new name. This is
Speaker 5: not somebody that Trump brought in after the election to
Speaker 5: sort of run ICE. This is a career guy served
Speaker 5: in various administrations and for various different presidents of both parties.
Speaker 5: So is it going to be part of his history?
Speaker 5: It absolutely is, but again that you know, the buck
Speaker 5: has to stop someplace, and he was put in the organization,
Speaker 5: so we'll see what happens. It's been fascinating to see
Speaker 5: how immigration has gone to the back burner here in
Speaker 5: this country in the last couple of weeks. Of course,
Speaker 5: wars tend to do that. I would be curious to
Speaker 5: see if immigration becomes an issue again before the midterms,
Speaker 5: or if it's all going to be about the war
Speaker 5: and the economy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick, I think you're right. I think we've got
Speaker 2: bigger fish to fry than just Minneapolis. Now, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for your time, as always great to chat.
Speaker 2: Now stick around because in a moment we're gonna be
Speaker 2: looking at which Democrat governor is more unhinged, California's Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom or New York's Kathy Hochel. The answer might surprise you.
Speaker 2: But first you gotta love this one. Donald Trump has
Speaker 2: just had the new Japanese Prime Minister today, Sakaichi are
Speaker 2: out of the White House and they had the whole
Speaker 2: joint press conference thing. And check out how Trump responded
Speaker 2: when a reporter tried to do in gotcha and asked
Speaker 2: why he didn't tell Japan before he attacked Iran. Keep
Speaker 2: your eye on the Japanese Prime Minister's reaction here.
Speaker 5: We went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody
Speaker 5: about it because we wanted surprise.
Speaker 2: Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay, why didn't
Speaker 2: you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 2: I don't know how she kept a straight face for that,
Speaker 2: But that was the funniest thing I've seen since John
Speaker 2: Cleese said, don't mention the war, don't go anywhere, stick
Speaker 2: around because it's a West coast East coast showdown. After break, Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome back to the program. Now Donald Trump is under fire.
Speaker 2: What else is new for comments he made about California
Speaker 2: Governor Gavin Newsom's apparent learning difficulties. It all starts when
Speaker 2: Newsom said this.
Speaker 10: You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot
Speaker 10: read a speech, and.
Speaker 2: That, of course, prompted Donald Trump to respond by saying this,
Speaker 2: you know, because Gavin Newscomb has admitted that he is
Speaker 2: a that he is learning disabilities.
Speaker 12: Honestly, I'm all for people with learning disabilities, but not
Speaker 12: for my president.
Speaker 2: I don't want I think a.
Speaker 5: President should not have learning disabilities.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, fair enough. The National Center for Learning Disabilities, though,
Speaker 2: says it was disturbed and condemned Trump's comments. But is
Speaker 2: this all a lot about nothing? Joining me now to
Speaker 2: discuss this and a lot more is White House reporter
Speaker 2: at the Washington Examiner, Naomi Limb. Naomi, thanks for joining
Speaker 2: me here. What can you tell me about this constant
Speaker 2: war of words between Trump and Newsom, or as Trump
Speaker 2: likes to call them, new scum.
Speaker 13: Honestly, these two because like an old married couple.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I mean I sometimes.
Speaker 13: I think you know, Trump gives Newsome a lot of
Speaker 13: attention and potentially it could be helping him, you know,
Speaker 13: if he does run in twenty twenty eight, which we
Speaker 13: think he will. The comments that you alluded to earlier
Speaker 13: this week were because he's on a book tour campaign,
Speaker 13: you know, sort of that very sort of wink to
Speaker 13: a presidential run where he sort of talks about his
Speaker 13: experience with dyslexia and things like that. And this is
Speaker 13: the latest sort of war of words between the pair
Speaker 13: of them. Obviously, we saw Trump take a swing at
Speaker 13: Newsom at the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland, and
Speaker 13: now we're sort of seeing him go after the personal here.
Speaker 13: But I think with Trump, you know, we've seen this
Speaker 13: particularly you know after Biden, there's this heightened scrutiny of presidents,
Speaker 13: and obviously Trump himself is very proud of his own
Speaker 13: intelligence and his abilities and cognitive testing as well. So
Speaker 13: it's a whole a lot of hot air. But you know,
Speaker 13: what else is new between these two.
Speaker 2: Do you think, I mean, just to throw you a
Speaker 2: question without notice on this what you said there intrigues me.
Speaker 2: This idea that Trump keeps building him up. Do you
Speaker 2: think that Trump wants Newsom to be the nominee because
Speaker 2: he sees California and Newsom's record there as a huge
Speaker 2: target for whoever succeeds him.
Speaker 13: Well, that's also a really interesting contention. I think that
Speaker 13: there's this idea in thinking that, you know, Newsom might
Speaker 13: be peaking too early. Obviously he's doing quite well in
Speaker 13: those early sort of hypothetical polls, but a lot of
Speaker 13: that is because of name recognition. You know, he's been
Speaker 13: on the national stage for a long time. And then
Speaker 13: as we were sort of talking about, he has Trump
Speaker 13: helping sort of pump his his tires, and so I
Speaker 13: think that that is you know a little bit because
Speaker 13: We've seen also Newsom very carefully try to sort of
Speaker 13: roll back this idea of him being this really progressive,
Speaker 13: it's really liberal governor. He's done this podcast where he
Speaker 13: has a lot of conservative hosts on, and he's trying
Speaker 13: to modulate his positions, particularly on things like transgender rights,
Speaker 13: and so I think, you know, there's sort of a
Speaker 13: bit of method to your madness there in terms of
Speaker 13: what you're saying as well.
Speaker 2: Indeed, indeed, Edie know. Meanwhile, you've got things happening on
Speaker 2: the other side of the country here in the socialist
Speaker 2: Republic of New York, and of course you've got mayors
Speaker 2: there on Mom Donnie, who will talk about in a second,
Speaker 2: but I want to talk first about what's going on
Speaker 2: with state Governor Kathy Hochel, who is now begging wealthy
Speaker 2: New Yorkers not to flee as Mom Donnie pressures her
Speaker 2: to hike their taxes. And of course, people who've got
Speaker 2: money they want to take a hike, have a listen.
Speaker 9: I need people who are high net worth to support
Speaker 9: the generous social programs that we want to have in
Speaker 9: our state. There are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay,
Speaker 9: cut me the checks. I mean, just if you want
Speaker 9: to be supportive, but maybe the first step should we
Speaker 9: go down to Palm Beach and see who you can
Speaker 9: bring back home.
Speaker 2: This is so funny to me. It's almost like an
Speaker 2: Iron Rand novel. Here everybody with money has left the
Speaker 2: state and now they're begging them to come back to
Speaker 2: write more checks so they could give them way to
Speaker 2: medicare fraud and gosh knows what else.
Speaker 13: Well, what I think is funny about this is that
Speaker 13: when she first ran, I think in twenty twenty, she
Speaker 13: sort of, you know, you know, challenged people that didn't
Speaker 13: really particularly like her politics to leave the state, and
Speaker 13: so they did, and now they're sort of trying to
Speaker 13: hatch up a really big hole in the state's budget.
Speaker 13: Particularly you know, you were speaking about Danny's agenda in
Speaker 13: New York, but Hokal her self is trying to push
Speaker 13: and expand childcare access because you know, affordability is obviously
Speaker 13: a big issue in New York.
Speaker 3: The state.
Speaker 13: And so now we're sort of seeing, you know, things
Speaker 13: coming back to haunt different politicians, and obviously she's running
Speaker 13: for reelection herself in a couple of months, and so
Speaker 13: this is all I think a you know, sort of
Speaker 13: an appeal to those people that she probably shouldn't have
Speaker 13: annoyed in the first place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty amazing. But I mean, what Margaret Thatcher
Speaker 2: said about problem with socialism is eventually you run out
Speaker 2: of other people's money. But also, let's go into the
Speaker 2: New York City politics itself, because they're Zoron Mam Donnie's wife,
Speaker 2: Rama Duaji. Well, turns out she has celebrated Palestinian terrorists
Speaker 2: in the past, in a flurry of reserve and social
Speaker 2: media posts she made not just as a teenager, but
Speaker 2: also in her early twenties. According to posts, she used
Speaker 2: her Tumblr account to hail Palestinian plane hijacker Leyla Khalid
Speaker 2: and other members of the terror group Popular Front for
Speaker 2: the Liberation of Palestine. Now, Naobi, this is not the
Speaker 2: first time this has happened, and every time Zoron has
Speaker 2: defended her. And I mean, I get standing by your wife, but.
Speaker 13: Come on, I mean, was that saying in her behind
Speaker 13: every successful man as a strongly opinionated woman, is that
Speaker 13: what they say?
Speaker 14: And I think this is this is an.
Speaker 13: Example of where you know, he's obviously sort of said,
Speaker 13: you know this his wife is not a member of
Speaker 13: his administration. She's not a member of his campaign, but
Speaker 13: they were most sort of campaigned as a package deal.
Speaker 13: You know, she was an appeal to sort of younger
Speaker 13: women voters as well. And you know what's worse about
Speaker 13: the reporting that you kind of highlighted it was it's
Speaker 13: a part of a trend. There was reporting earlier that
Speaker 13: she had liked posts sort of celebrating the Hamas terrorist attack,
Speaker 13: which you know, is troubling in itself, and now we're
Speaker 13: sort of seeing you know, posts sort of a little
Speaker 13: bit further back in time, sort of ten years ago.
Speaker 13: But some of the stuff that she was amplifying, you know,
Speaker 13: was was sort of is troubling even now in the
Speaker 13: context of today, because she was sort of expressing support
Speaker 13: for terrorist organizations as well as this idea that you know,
Speaker 13: white people are to blame for al Qaida, and then
Speaker 13: sort of, you know, recently sort of said that you know,
Speaker 13: a Tel Aviv shouldn't shouldn't exist, which I think was
Speaker 13: probably the most troubled troubling thing. So we'll see whether
Speaker 13: he can continue to defend her. This obviously takes place
Speaker 13: after there was protests and counter protests outside their home
Speaker 13: between sort of you know, white nationalists or people that
Speaker 13: were sort of islam phobes and people that you know,
Speaker 13: were not. And so I think that this sort of
Speaker 13: puts fire and already a very sort of tenuous situation,
Speaker 13: particularly as the war in Iran is unfolding.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Hey, finally just wanted to talk a bit a
Speaker 2: bit of bit said or you know, news around the
Speaker 2: Trump White House with the announcement that Chief of Staff
Speaker 2: Susie what Wilds has breast cancer apparently, but we'll fight
Speaker 2: on in her rule while undergoing treatment. Great example I
Speaker 2: think to women to rise so high, but also just
Speaker 2: you know here that she's going to try and keep
Speaker 2: battling on with the position. Your thoughts, Yeah, I.
Speaker 13: Mean when I first heard that news, I sort of
Speaker 13: was sort of surprised that she wouldn't want to stay
Speaker 13: on in that role. But I think we've seen with
Speaker 13: this administration, you know, the likes of you know, Caroline Levett,
Speaker 13: who will probably be in her post. She'll only sort
Speaker 13: of take three weeks off or something like that when
Speaker 13: she has her baby. So they're so committed around this
Speaker 13: president and the fact that she was diagnosed last week,
Speaker 13: you know, there's there's hope that it was an early diagnosis,
Speaker 13: and she's very confident about her prognosis, but obviously it's scary.
Speaker 13: She's sixty eight and a lot of women have to
Speaker 13: contend with this, which is why I thought it was
Speaker 13: really sort of meaningful in her post when she sort
Speaker 13: of you know, reflected on not only her journey, but
Speaker 13: also you know that this is something that a lot
Speaker 13: of women contend with, you know, not early in this country,
Speaker 13: but around the.
Speaker 2: World of course, of course, and of course here at
Speaker 2: the Usport we pass on our well, which is to
Speaker 2: Susie Wilds and hope she makes a speedy recovery. Nailmi,
Speaker 2: thank you so much as always for joining us. Now, anyway,
Speaker 2: let's move on because we've had a lot of other
Speaker 2: fun stuff this week. These oscar as Saint Patrick's Day,
Speaker 2: both by the way ruined by Lamb attempts to make
Speaker 2: them all woke, but you know who's not buying into woke.
Speaker 2: Secretary of War Pete Hexith. Here was a little update
Speaker 2: on the fight in the Persian Gulf.
Speaker 15: The last job anyone in the world wants right now
Speaker 15: for the IRGC or besiege temp jobs, all of them
Speaker 15: and to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in
Speaker 15: World War Two. We've decided to share the ocean with Iran.
Speaker 15: We've given them the bottom half.
Speaker 2: Indeed, well played, sir, well played, though still not as
Speaker 2: funny as your boss. Anyway, to stick around, because from
Speaker 2: the hot war of the culture war, it's all happening
Speaker 2: in a tick. Welcome back to the program. Now, I
Speaker 2: want to go over to Texas to talk about this chucklehead,
Speaker 2: James Tallerco. He's a Democrat pastor who emerged victorious in
Speaker 2: the Democrat primaries to run for the Senate. He's a
Speaker 2: guy who has said lots of incredibly normal things, like
Speaker 2: comparing white people to a virus, saying God is non binary,
Speaker 2: and oh that the fate of the world rests on
Speaker 2: stopping people from eating meat. In Texas, we.
Speaker 12: Have, I think, heard more and more issues of animal welfare.
Speaker 12: I think not just because it's the right thing to
Speaker 12: do and the moral thing to do, but also it's,
Speaker 12: as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change.
Speaker 12: It is now existential that we try to reduce our
Speaker 12: meat consumption.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really see that message going down so well
Speaker 2: in Texas. And to talk about this and other elections
Speaker 2: that are going on up and down the US of A.
Speaker 2: I'm joined by a man who knows the process very well,
Speaker 2: former Republicans Senate nominee Rick made A. Rick, thanks so
Speaker 2: much for joining me here on the US Report. What
Speaker 2: tell me are the Democrats thinking fielding candidates like this
Speaker 2: tallar Ico guy.
Speaker 1: Well, great to be back on with you, first of all,
Speaker 1: and let me tell you the Democrats have become the Republicans'
Speaker 1: best friends when it comes to these mid terms. I mean,
Speaker 1: a guy like James Talerico. If we've learned nothing from
Speaker 1: the last few elections, is that voters are looking for authenticity.
Speaker 1: And you're campaigning in a state of Texas telling people
Speaker 1: to reduce their meat consumption when you literally have industries
Speaker 1: built off of the meat industry. I mean, it's silly. Now,
Speaker 1: look at James. He's going around saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: white people are a virus. Is that even authentic?
Speaker 15: You know, you.
Speaker 1: Can't disclaim and disown your own race and your own color.
Speaker 1: And when the country is trying to move more neutral,
Speaker 1: trying to become more race neutral, especially when people are
Speaker 1: literally just care about the price of the housing, the
Speaker 1: price of food. You know, it reeks of inauthenticity, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what people are going to be taking to
Speaker 1: the voting polls come the mid terms.
Speaker 2: Well, Rick, I'm seeing this trend a lot here with
Speaker 2: the Democrats. They seem to be choosing candidates who are
Speaker 2: really wildly left wing, even if they claim to be moderates.
Speaker 2: And I feel like, you know, what we're seeing here
Speaker 2: is a reverse of what's happened in Virginia where they
Speaker 2: ran a supposedly moderate candidate who is incredibly radical now
Speaker 2: the governor, Abigail Spaanberger. Are Americans going to see through
Speaker 2: this when the midterm elections come up? Or is there
Speaker 2: a danger that, you know, if this war does not
Speaker 2: go well, if prices do not come down, and if gasoline,
Speaker 2: if petrol is still really expensive, the Democrats could get
Speaker 2: a slate of really hard left candidates up into Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely a concern. Right, It's always going to
Speaker 1: be a balance between social issues and fiscal issues, right,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, most people just
Speaker 1: want to live. And I think Reagan really said it best.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, the government is the biggest problem
Speaker 1: with is not the government, but it's the government in
Speaker 1: your house and keeping that government out of your house, right.
Speaker 1: And the problem is is that with candidates like Tall
Speaker 1: Rico who are not really campaigning on how to low
Speaker 1: lower prices, lower crime, fix our school systems. You know,
Speaker 1: if Republicans can't get candidates that can step up and
Speaker 1: create solutions to that, you're going to have a problem.
Speaker 1: So we'll see it's going to be interesting when it
Speaker 1: comes down to the midterm elections.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I think that's a great point because both
Speaker 2: sides have often fallen sort of that. You know, it's
Speaker 2: the economy step. But as James Carville, a Democrat, once said,
Speaker 2: but you know, this whole Democrat socialist thing, this hard
Speaker 2: left thing, you know, this is epitomized I think by
Speaker 2: Zoron Mundani in New York. Now again, this week was
Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Day, but he was asked about his thoughts
Speaker 2: on Ireland and Saint Patrick Day and a unified Ireland,
Speaker 2: and he managed to turn the whole thing into a
Speaker 2: rant of a Palestine.
Speaker 14: Have a look over the past few years, as we've
Speaker 14: witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been
Speaker 14: deafening silence from so many for those who have long
Speaker 14: cared about universal human rights and the extension of them
Speaker 14: to Palestinians. Silence, however, is nothing new, Rick.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think he's splitting the g down
Speaker 2: there at the pub, our friend, Zoron Mamdani. But how
Speaker 2: do you wind up managing to turn everything into Palestine?
Speaker 2: And is this approach going to turn you know, people
Speaker 2: off the Democrats?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean listen, I think when you and
Speaker 1: I live in New Jersey, right, we've seen so much
Speaker 1: flight out of this area because of people like Zoron Mamdani.
Speaker 1: We're just kind of sick of politicizing what should be
Speaker 1: fun events, should be celebrating heritage and letting communities be communities.
Speaker 1: And Zoron has a unique, almost special ability to turn
Speaker 1: things that are normal into abnormal events, right, And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe the guy just likes it when
Speaker 1: you wear a he job over a kilt. I don't
Speaker 1: really know, but it's really a slap in the face
Speaker 1: of the communities that live here that are celebrating their faith,
Speaker 1: their their religion, their fun, and more most importantly, their values.
Speaker 1: And so unfortunately you have a mayor that's an activist
Speaker 1: that really just has student politics energy. You know, he's
Speaker 1: always making a cause out of nothing, always lecturing in
Speaker 1: a room, turning it into a seminar. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's voters are already seeing through it where they're kind
Speaker 1: of sick of it, both Democrats and Republicans. This is
Speaker 1: no longer about party politics. It's really just about keeping
Speaker 1: some common sense and normalcy. And you know that's doro
Speaker 1: on for you out here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Rick, We've got a rule on this
Speaker 2: program that pretty much anybody who's ever been involved with
Speaker 2: student politics, that's almost disqualifies them from going into adult politics.
Speaker 2: But you know, let's go from New York to the
Speaker 2: other coast here, let's go to California. I love this story. Here.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty two, Gavin Newsom, potential presidential candidate budos
Speaker 2: could be next president, broke ground on the Wallace Annenberg
Speaker 2: Wildlife crossing. It was an idea to get animals to
Speaker 2: be able to cross a freeway in southern California. He
Speaker 2: boasted that the state had committed fifty four million dollars
Speaker 2: it would complete the job with the other ten million.
Speaker 2: Butt fast forward four years, it hasn't happened. It's now
Speaker 2: over one hundred million dollars. But here's the crazy thing.
Speaker 2: That Wildlife Bridge would allow all sorts of animals like
Speaker 2: wildcats and things like that to cross over into these suburbs. Rick,
Speaker 2: if you were at California, I feel like this is
Speaker 2: a metaphor for everything that's wrong with your state.
Speaker 1: Well, I gotta tell you, even the deer get better
Speaker 1: infrastructure than the homeless, right they it's just streams. What
Speaker 1: their priorities are. They care about people, they'll care about
Speaker 1: animal they care about social justice, they care about all
Speaker 1: this textbook stuff that doesn't actually hit home right there.
Speaker 1: You're talking about like preaching to faculty lounges rather than
Speaker 1: the family kitchen table. And that's the problem. You know,
Speaker 1: guys like Gavin Newsom's door and mom Donnie, they're living
Speaker 1: in their ivory towers. They don't know what it's like
Speaker 1: when people are literally can't find the means to make
Speaker 1: ends meet. I mean, you know, and you're spending one
Speaker 1: hundred million on infrastructure for animals, Like are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: So you know what good? Like I said, these are
Speaker 1: the guys that'll be Republicans' best friends. And again, it's
Speaker 1: not about party politics. It's about who's going to bring
Speaker 1: common sense to look at the issues that are facing
Speaker 1: the voters, that are facing everyday families. You know, the
Speaker 1: rising price of gas, food, electricity, that's a big problem
Speaker 1: in my state right now. How are you going to
Speaker 1: use that? And especially when you have you know, technology
Speaker 1: like AI coming, entry level jobs are becoming increasingly hard
Speaker 1: to find. It's it's it's just laughable. It's laughable.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And finally, Rick Is want to ask you very quickly.
Speaker 2: We had the oscars this week here seventeen point nine
Speaker 2: million people tuned in. This was the lowest is twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two? Are people just sick of all the woe
Speaker 2: Hollywood nonsense? The what the woe hollywoods? Yeah exactly, Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, like you know, que the tiny violin, No one
Speaker 1: cares anymore. And the truth is it's become an echo chamber.
Speaker 1: You go up there, you see these celebrities, they make
Speaker 1: these woke jokes in woke movies. It's just not reality.
Speaker 1: It's not what the everyday person is. And yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think people have lost a lot of interest because
Speaker 1: it's unrelatable. It's completely unrelatable because of this echo chamber
Speaker 1: they've created.
Speaker 14: Kelly.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a shame, Rick, the Hollywood dream is dead.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time. Okay, now stick
Speaker 2: around because Holy in America is coming up in a tick.
Speaker 2: But first let's check in on former MSNBC or is
Speaker 2: it ms now host Joy Read shall we here? She
Speaker 2: is running the old stick that America is just as
Speaker 2: bad for women in minorities as Iran.
Speaker 16: We're kicking women out of the military, out of university.
Speaker 16: We're saying that DEI means women can't be hired for
Speaker 16: high positions in the sciences. So we're marginally better, and
Speaker 16: we're doing it for Christianity. They're doing it for Islam.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Actually, you know, come to think about it, she may
Speaker 2: be right, because if the reports are true, Iran as
Speaker 2: actually more woke than the US. After all, they just
Speaker 2: got their first gay Ayatola. Anyway, stick around, Only in
Speaker 2: America's next after the break. Welcome back to the program,
Speaker 2: and now it's time for a little segment we like
Speaker 2: to call Only in America. Hey, so was Saint Patrick's
Speaker 2: Day earlier this week, and we've already seen how the
Speaker 2: woke mob have tried to appropriate a good excuse for
Speaker 2: a pub crawl and turn it into a dreary lecture
Speaker 2: about Gazo. So to counter all of that, how about
Speaker 2: a little blast from the pass back to nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: seven when President Ronald Reagan was in the White House.
Speaker 2: He was a man who not only liked a good joke,
Speaker 2: but also had no time for that woke nonsense.
Speaker 7: It's an honor and a pleasure for me to be
Speaker 7: here with you sharing the spirit and the festivities of
Speaker 7: Saint Patrick's day.
Speaker 1: The blessed Saint.
Speaker 2: Patrick, we are told, and died on this day in
Speaker 2: the year of our Lord four sixty one, and leave
Speaker 2: it to the Irish to be carrying on a wake
Speaker 2: for fifteen hundred years.
Speaker 10: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, very droll, mister President. And I tell you what,
Speaker 2: I don't think Reagan would have liked what's going on
Speaker 2: in Ireland too much these days, but that's another story. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I'll see you next time here on the US Report
Speaker 2: and bright early Sunday morning for outsiders. Bye bye.