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Speaker 2: All right, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show. March second,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. We are in day three of the
Speaker 2: strikes against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, Welcome Blake. We had
Speaker 2: an eventful weekend, to say the least, Yes, an eventful weekend.
Speaker 2: We came in. We did an emergency special live stream
Speaker 2: on Saturday. Tens and tens of thousands of people saw that.
Speaker 2: So thank you guys for supporting the show. We did
Speaker 2: our best to honor Charlie. What Charlie would say in
Speaker 2: these situations. We obviously don't know exactly because he's not
Speaker 2: with us, but we have some good indications because we
Speaker 2: walked alongside Charlie in the summer strikes, Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 2: We saw how he deliberated through those very tough decisions,
Speaker 2: those very tough back room calls, those private conversations, and
Speaker 2: then what he would say publicly. And so I think
Speaker 2: we did a good job of that, got a lot
Speaker 2: of great feedback. And you know, here's the bottom line is,
Speaker 2: we don't know how this is going to turn out.
Speaker 2: We don't know what's going to happen in the coming days, weeks,
Speaker 2: months ahead. We don't know if this is going to
Speaker 2: ultimately be a success or if history will judge this
Speaker 2: to be a failure. But I will say that again.
Speaker 2: The US military's incredible. I just would say precision. Their
Speaker 2: lethality has been on full display. President Trump is saying
Speaker 2: they are ahead of schedule, especially when it comes to
Speaker 2: targeting the leadership of the IRGC. The Ayatola is dead.
Speaker 2: Of course, that was something we were not aware of
Speaker 2: when we concluded our stream on Saturday. But Kamani has
Speaker 2: been killed, along with forty nine at the time, Yeah,
Speaker 2: along with forty nine other members of the leadership structure
Speaker 2: within run.
Speaker 3: President Trump even said where this is misinterpreted by some
Speaker 3: people were he was saying, they had a list of
Speaker 3: likely candidates to succeed come in a and it appears
Speaker 3: that their strikes have been so successful they don't know
Speaker 3: who an obvious successor is at this point, I say
Speaker 3: misinterpreted because some people thought we killed our own candidates
Speaker 3: to replace him. Now it appears that we're just talking
Speaker 3: about the hostile leadership.
Speaker 2: We knew there was suspicion of who would be selected
Speaker 2: if the Supreme Leader was killed. By the way, there
Speaker 2: was another Supreme leader briefly installed for twenty two hours.
Speaker 2: He too is dead. Don't even know his name. I
Speaker 2: don't think we need to but the point is the
Speaker 2: ultimate secession plan remains pretty unclear at this point. It
Speaker 2: seems to be there was an indication from President Trump
Speaker 2: where he was saying, we'll see who they choose, meaning
Speaker 2: it does seem that this is not a regime change war.
Speaker 2: I understand that can feel like, you know, a distinction
Speaker 2: without a difference, right, because yeah, the regime is going
Speaker 2: to change. These are targeted air strikes to take out
Speaker 2: leadership and allow the people of Iran to choose the
Speaker 2: next leader. So we don't know how that's going to
Speaker 2: play out. We were very reticent around here about regime
Speaker 2: change wars. We're very reticent about going in to a
Speaker 2: country as large and as strong as Iran, and the
Speaker 2: unintended consequences are sure to be extreme. We don't know
Speaker 2: how this is going to ultimately play out, and they
Speaker 2: can't say that enough. Charlie was very concerned about regime
Speaker 2: change wars, was very reticent about using kinetic force in
Speaker 2: this region. But at the end of the day, Charlie
Speaker 2: over and over and over again said this is why
Speaker 2: I elected President Trump, this is why I fought so
Speaker 2: hard for that.
Speaker 3: That's really what it is is. There would be two
Speaker 3: competing impulses with Charlie, and the reason we cite him
Speaker 3: a big reason we continue this show, a big reason
Speaker 3: it still has his name on there. As people looked
Speaker 3: to Charlie as a leader, as a leader in the movement,
Speaker 3: as a person who had wise perspectives, as a person
Speaker 3: who wasn't under the control of anyone else, and so
Speaker 3: he could be frank, he could be honest about things,
Speaker 3: and so we're trying to maintain that voice to the
Speaker 3: best we can so that because that's what people are
Speaker 3: looking towards. And what I can say, and I think
Speaker 3: you agree, is Charlie would have two competing impulses. One
Speaker 3: is he was a millennial. He was a part of
Speaker 3: that generation very shaped by Iraq and Afghanistan, two wars
Speaker 3: that looked very easy at the start, but went on
Speaker 3: a lot longer than people thought, were more expensive than
Speaker 3: people thought they would be, and ended in ultimately either
Speaker 3: failure or at best mixed results in the case of Iraq.
Speaker 3: And that would have shaped his attitude towards this. You
Speaker 3: can say, we agree. He repeatedly said he thought regime
Speaker 3: change in Iran was a bad idea. The competing impulse
Speaker 3: there is he was a supporter of President Trump and
Speaker 3: President Trump's judgment in international affairs, and he was also
Speaker 3: an American patriot, and so this war having started. His
Speaker 3: take would similarly be I was very hesitant for this,
Speaker 3: but I also do trust the president's judgment that he
Speaker 3: must have good reasons for this, and that he would
Speaker 3: have a plan to keep this from extending endlessly and
Speaker 3: escalating out of control.
Speaker 2: Well, and to your point you mentioned a rock. Secretary
Speaker 2: of War, Pete heg Seth addressed this very dynamic in
Speaker 2: his press conference this morning with General Kine three oh one.
Speaker 4: To the media outlets and political left streaming endless wars, stop,
Speaker 4: this is not a rack. This is not endless. I
Speaker 4: was there for both. Our generation knows better, and so
Speaker 4: does this president. He called the last twenty years of
Speaker 4: nation building wars dumb, and he's right, this is the opposite.
Speaker 4: This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission, destroy the
Speaker 4: missile threat, destroy the navy, no nukes.
Speaker 2: So he's getting to the opera strategic missional objectives here.
Speaker 2: He continues on three oh two, he said, this is
Speaker 2: our why three o two.
Speaker 4: Iran's stubborn and self evident nuclear pursuits their targeting of
Speaker 4: global shipping lanes and their swelling arsenal of ballistic missiles
Speaker 4: and killer drones were no longer are no longer tolerable risks.
Speaker 4: Iran was building powerful missiles and drones to create a
Speaker 4: conventional shield for their nuclear black male ambitions. Our bases,
Speaker 4: our people, our allies all in their crosshairs. Iran had
Speaker 4: a conventional gun to our head as.
Speaker 2: They tried to lie their way.
Speaker 4: To a nuclear bomb. It almost worked under Obama and
Speaker 4: his terrible deal, but not under this president. Turns out
Speaker 4: the regime who chanted death to America and death to
Speaker 4: Israel was gifted death from America and death from Israel.
Speaker 2: A lot of a headlines about that final line, basically,
Speaker 2: you know, and it's right. It was a bit of
Speaker 2: a mic drop moment because you know, they've been chanting
Speaker 2: death to America, death Israel for a long time. Turns
Speaker 2: out that the Supreme Leader met his end, his demise
Speaker 2: at the hands of CIA intelligence and an Israeli strike.
Speaker 2: So the full circle moment for the iatola, certainly. But
Speaker 2: let's just wrap up this segment. We've got so much
Speaker 2: more to get to by saying that President Trump is
Speaker 2: now on the record saying that the big wave has
Speaker 2: not even commenced yet, which is something else. This is
Speaker 2: Jake Tapper, who he talked to three point thirty four.
Speaker 5: I asked the President if US was doing more than
Speaker 5: these military strikes to help the Iranian people regain control
Speaker 5: of Iran against the regime, to seize the country from
Speaker 5: the Iranian regime, and he said yes. The President said, yes,
Speaker 5: we are, indeed, but what right now? We want everyone
Speaker 5: staying inside. It's not safe out there. And then Resident
Speaker 5: said it's about to get even less day. He said, quote,
Speaker 5: we haven't even started hitting them hard. The big wave
Speaker 5: hasn't even happened. The big one is coming soon.
Speaker 2: Ominous warning from the President. The big one has not
Speaker 2: even happened yet. It's coming soon. So take that as
Speaker 2: you will. There is a lot of speculation. I do
Speaker 2: want to just get to one of these. I'll never
Speaker 2: forget this clip, Blake. It was at the height of
Speaker 2: the base kind of having this public conflict about Operation
Speaker 2: Midnight Hammer. It was about to commence, I believe, and
Speaker 2: Charlie went on Jesse Waters in sort of an impossible situation,
Speaker 2: and I just felt like he just nailed this moment
Speaker 2: and I want to play it because I remember it
Speaker 2: well three or nine.
Speaker 1: President Trump understands his base extraordinarily well. He knows that
Speaker 1: his base does not want another Iraq, he does not
Speaker 1: want Libya, does not want a civil war or bedroom
Speaker 1: where the The States is left carrying the bag. But
Speaker 1: also President Trump has been morally clear for a decade
Speaker 1: Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. And President Trump
Speaker 1: has the talent the expertise to be able to thread
Speaker 1: that needle. The generation that I represent, Jesse, the under
Speaker 1: thirty crowd, they absolutely are very war weary. Many of
Speaker 1: them voted for President Trump on college campuses because they
Speaker 1: did not want to see a Joe Biden or George
Speaker 1: Bush philosophy where we get into this endless conflict where
Speaker 1: we're sending hundreds of billions of dollars. I think President
Speaker 1: Trump will be able to balance those two things while defending
Speaker 1: our allies, saying that Iran will not have a nuclear
Speaker 1: weapon without having to deploy a single American troop or
Speaker 1: even having America involved from the sky. President Trump can
Speaker 1: get that deal done while fulfilling the mandate that the
Speaker 1: voters gave him.
Speaker 2: Pretty impossible interview. I remember that night going. You know,
Speaker 2: Charlie Wine goes, well, say prayer, wish you luck. And
Speaker 2: I thought he did a tremendous job. But you know,
Speaker 2: he made a point about how consistent President Trump has
Speaker 2: been when it comes to Iran. And we found this
Speaker 2: clip from nineteen eighty a President Trump just talking about
Speaker 2: his posture about Iran in nineteen eighty and remember you
Speaker 2: go back to nineteen seventy nine, it's the hostage, the
Speaker 2: Iran hostage crisis. I think Trump was just sort of
Speaker 2: offended that we let this happen three twenty eight.
Speaker 6: When you get the respect of the other countries, then
Speaker 6: the other countries tend to do a little bit as
Speaker 6: you do, and you can create the right attitudes. The
Speaker 6: Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold
Speaker 6: our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this
Speaker 6: country sits back and allows a country such as Iran
Speaker 6: to hold out hostages, to my way of thinking, is
Speaker 6: a horror.
Speaker 7: You're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, etc.
Speaker 7: And brought our boys out. I absolutely feel that.
Speaker 6: Yes, I don't think there's any question, and there's no
Speaker 6: question in my mind I think right now would be
Speaker 6: an oil rich nation, and I believe that we should
Speaker 6: have done it, and I'm very disappointed that we didn't
Speaker 6: do it. And I don't think anybody would have held
Speaker 6: us in abeyance. I don't think anybody would have been
Speaker 6: angry with us, And we had every right to do
Speaker 6: it at.
Speaker 3: The time, held us in abeyance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got the best. He's got the best where
Speaker 2: its don't ever forget. Yeah, I mean, listen, So this
Speaker 2: is a very young Trump basically sound in the exact
Speaker 2: same way, and he has been consistent. And I think,
Speaker 2: you know, Charlie made this point that you know, you've
Speaker 2: got the hyper interventional or anti interventionists, and you've got
Speaker 2: the warhawks, and these are our sort of two extremes. Well,
Speaker 2: President Trump tends to defy both. And that's tends to
Speaker 2: be the truth with President Trump. He he does find
Speaker 2: a third way. And again, anybody that tells you that
Speaker 2: they know how this is going to work out is
Speaker 2: completely full of it.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are We'll be frank, a lot
Speaker 3: of people are smug at this point. They've acted like
Speaker 3: the war is already over because THEO is dead. It's
Speaker 3: not period. There are Iran has responded to this by
Speaker 3: basically lobbying missiles at seven different Arab countries almost at random.
Speaker 3: It seems their goal is to demoralize break apart. You know,
Speaker 3: could create a lot of pressure for peace because people
Speaker 3: start dying, well.
Speaker 2: That their hope is that they'll just blame the uses
Speaker 2: of that or Israel for all of that. And actually,
Speaker 2: so far we've seen a little bit of the opposite effect.
Speaker 2: Right where you saw Saudi Arabia is now going to
Speaker 2: participate in some of these actions because they got missiles
Speaker 2: dropped on them. And you know, listen, we've lost four
Speaker 2: US troops. We have to pray that our US troops
Speaker 2: would remain safe and that we have a minimal, minimal
Speaker 2: loss of casualty. But President Trump is already indicated that
Speaker 2: we'll probably lose more. That's horrifying as it's unfortunate and
Speaker 2: it's horrifying, but he is also right in saying that
Speaker 2: this is what happens in when there is armed conflict
Speaker 2: between militaries, and so yeah, listen, I think all these
Speaker 2: things are are important to hold all at the same time.
Speaker 2: You know, we pray for success, but we also understand
Speaker 2: that we don't know all the details. I warned repeatedly
Speaker 2: on Saturday, for those of you who saw our Saturday stream,
Speaker 2: I warned repeatedly that I made numerous calls ahead of
Speaker 2: our stream, trying to gather as much intel as I could.
Speaker 2: And there was this repeat theme for multiple people that
Speaker 2: there was a very real concern that Iran was like
Speaker 2: a dog backed into a corner, a rabid dog, and
Speaker 2: that you could hold two things in the same at
Speaker 2: to be true at the same time that yes, the
Speaker 2: strikes against Foidah were successful, Yes the regime was weaker
Speaker 2: than ever, but yes they could be more dangerous than ever.
Speaker 2: Why because they were pursuing hypersonics from China. Those are
Speaker 2: carrier sinkers, right, Those will sink one of our carriers
Speaker 2: in the region, five thousand people on board of those.
Speaker 2: And they were working on dirty bombs, right, whether they
Speaker 2: were collecting materials from the Foidah sites or whatever that
Speaker 2: had been struck, or if they were just getting it
Speaker 2: on the black market, and they were working on their
Speaker 2: belove missile stockpiles really really quickly. They were escalating really
Speaker 2: really quickly. And so the reported numbers that you saw
Speaker 2: how many ballistic missiles they had were probably an underestimation.
Speaker 2: I think they had far more, and I think we're
Speaker 2: sort of seeing that indication now. They were a dog
Speaker 2: backed into a corner and they were going to bite,
Speaker 2: and so President Trump made the decision to hit them
Speaker 2: before they were ready to hit us. I understand that calculus. Again,
Speaker 2: we don't have to agree with that. You don't even
Speaker 2: have to think that Iran was an imminent threat to
Speaker 2: us to understand that reasonable people would come out on
Speaker 2: a different end of that discussion. So we're not a
Speaker 2: drums of war people. We're not excited, getdy. There's no
Speaker 2: sort of fervor here. There's no excitement at this. It's humility, terror,
Speaker 2: and prayer for our troops and wishing and praying for success.
Speaker 2: That this would ultimately be a good thing for the world,
Speaker 2: and it would be a good thing for the region.
Speaker 2: And by the way, if this does end in a
Speaker 2: positive way, it's undeniable that this this could have massive upside. Okay,
Speaker 2: you're you're talking about choking off the energy flow to
Speaker 2: the CCP, we see any other down downstream effects.
Speaker 3: Well, we said this over the weekend, but I think
Speaker 3: it's worth repeating. I think the best possible outcome for
Speaker 3: this is that instead of being another Middle East war,
Speaker 3: it is the last Middle East war that would be
Speaker 3: the United States has to be involved in. We've been
Speaker 3: in here multiple times, but at this point, Iran you
Speaker 3: can say, is the last entity that is a serious,
Speaker 3: you know, a serious danger to anyone. Yeah, there's Kuthis
Speaker 3: who shoot missiles at ships in the Red Sea, but
Speaker 3: the Huthis are not in any way a strategic danger
Speaker 3: to any entire country. That matters, And so ideally, once
Speaker 3: the Iranian regime is either removed or it is curtailed,
Speaker 3: which the President has said, he seems to be saying,
Speaker 3: if we can destroy all their military capabilities and if
Speaker 3: they never try to rebuild them, we don't care what
Speaker 3: they do after that. They can be in Islamic Republic
Speaker 3: as long as they want, as long as they're not
Speaker 3: a threat to anyone else. If we can create that reality,
Speaker 3: then we can leave the Middle East. You know, leave
Speaker 3: a few bases here and there, but most of the
Speaker 3: troops come home, most of the ships come home, most
Speaker 3: of the planes go elsewhere.
Speaker 2: Worry about that. You've seen that commentary that this is
Speaker 2: in effect, if it works out, a reorientation of our
Speaker 2: focus on the Indo Pacific.
Speaker 3: America has had forty five years of conflict in the
Speaker 3: Middle East. It would be nice to not have anymore.
Speaker 3: That is the best possible end for this.
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Speaker 2: Crane joins US now. Congressman, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2: I saw you briefly on our travels back from the
Speaker 2: State of the Union last week. It was good to
Speaker 2: see you in touch base really quick. You are a
Speaker 2: former Navy seal, you're also a Congressman. Just lay out
Speaker 2: the situation as you would see it in Iran, what
Speaker 2: our troops are facing. Obviously, whether you're for this intervention
Speaker 2: or not, the one thing is very clear. Our troops
Speaker 2: are second to none, Our military is second to none.
Speaker 2: Tell us from your perspective, Congressman, what you're what you're thinking,
Speaker 2: what you're seeing.
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, thanks for having me on. Yeah, last week
Speaker 8: before this invasion took place. You know, I was kind
Speaker 8: of banging the drum of caution when it comes to
Speaker 8: regime change, primarily because of my own personal experiences and
Speaker 8: playing a small role in the regime change efforts in
Speaker 8: Iraq and just seeing all the complexities that come with that.
Speaker 8: You know, I know a lot of gold star moms.
Speaker 8: I have a lot of friends that did not come home.
Speaker 8: I know, we spent trillions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaker 8: We lost you know, know, thousands and thousands of American lives,
Speaker 8: and when you look at those places now, it's it's
Speaker 8: very tough to make the argument that those places are
Speaker 8: better off now than when we went in there. And
Speaker 8: so I know, if you look up research and you
Speaker 8: know analysis, only about twenty to thirty percent of regime
Speaker 8: changes are actually successful. And there's a whole list that
Speaker 8: you know of places that you know, this has been
Speaker 8: tried and it has not worked.
Speaker 7: And one of the biggest problems with regime.
Speaker 8: Change operations is the power vacuum that unfolds immediately. And
Speaker 8: so you've got you've got tribes, you've got clans, you've
Speaker 8: got militias, you've got political parties that are all jockeying
Speaker 8: for political power and positioning.
Speaker 7: And that's just within the interior of the country. And
Speaker 7: then you have the exterior, you know forces.
Speaker 8: You've got countries like China and Russia and the United
Speaker 8: States and Israel and so many others who are also
Speaker 8: trying to assert influence. And you know, as Americans, often
Speaker 8: in Westerners, because you know, we live in the countries
Speaker 8: that we do, we we often have this slip and
Speaker 8: attitude that, well, you know, we've done our part.
Speaker 7: We've taken out the iatola.
Speaker 8: You know we've damaged you know, the military infrastructure there.
Speaker 8: So Iranians just go do your thing now, right, That's
Speaker 8: kind of the attitude. The problem is is that most
Speaker 8: of these people have lived under brutal authoritarian regime for
Speaker 8: so long that there there's a there's got to be
Speaker 8: a certain calculus and a fear in many of them
Speaker 8: to you know, almost to the point of if I
Speaker 8: step up and I back the wrong horse, or if
Speaker 8: I back the wrong political party and the party that
Speaker 8: I back or the person that I back doesn't win,
Speaker 8: am I going to be you know, thrown into a
Speaker 8: prison or a goo lag or beheaded or hanged in
Speaker 8: the street, and so it's very dynamic.
Speaker 7: It's very hard to pull off.
Speaker 8: That being said, now that you know, you know, this
Speaker 8: operation is underway, I'm hoping and I'm praying for not
Speaker 8: only the administration and you know, the wisdom, you know,
Speaker 8: for for their decisions going forward, but also for the
Speaker 8: people of Iran. But it's a very you know, dicey,
Speaker 8: very dynamic situation right now, and you know, I hope
Speaker 8: it works out.
Speaker 7: I hope it works out.
Speaker 8: And I will say this, guys, if if we were
Speaker 8: going to you know, obviously we made the decision to
Speaker 8: do it, I am glad that at least from the
Speaker 8: pr standpoint, this administration is not you know, talking about
Speaker 8: we're going to you know, be pushing regime change. At
Speaker 8: least they're talking about the Iranians stepping up and doing
Speaker 8: it themselves.
Speaker 7: Because if the United States.
Speaker 8: Was to insert you know, a leader, you know that
Speaker 8: has good relations with the United States, that leader would
Speaker 8: be seen as a puppet of the West and would
Speaker 8: have a tough time gaining legitimacy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the President spoke to Brett Bayer about this exact
Speaker 2: issue three thirty one.
Speaker 9: I asked, so, what you're saying, is that you know
Speaker 9: there is somebody on the ground in Iran that is
Speaker 9: going to rise up. Quote yeah, I feel there is.
Speaker 9: I feel that, and some of them are no longer
Speaker 9: with us, to be honest, because it was forty nine
Speaker 9: leaders that were taken out. That was going to take
Speaker 9: four weeks. We thought to get rid of the Iranian leadership,
Speaker 9: and it's always you know, if they hide, it's a
Speaker 9: lot longer than four weeks, and they would have been hiding.
Speaker 9: We were shocked when we heard what was going on.
Speaker 9: We knew exactly what was happening and where forty nine leaders.
Speaker 2: He goes on one more clip here, Elin, I'll get
Speaker 2: your reaction on the other side, three thirty three.
Speaker 9: He said, there is a plan. He points to Venezuela
Speaker 9: as a template, which means to me that going in
Speaker 9: they had some sense on the ground of what was
Speaker 9: coming next. So from the President of the United States.
Speaker 3: He is pleased.
Speaker 9: Does bel believe that this is going faster than they thought,
Speaker 9: And he believes that four weeks is something that they
Speaker 9: had put as a kind of calendar of what they
Speaker 9: were looking at as setting the table for the Iranians
Speaker 9: to do what they do.
Speaker 2: So when you hear for four to five weeks, he says,
Speaker 2: I'm open to changing that timeline could be moved up,
Speaker 2: could be moved back. What are you Does that give
Speaker 2: you the sense that you know, regime change was the
Speaker 2: ultimate goal here? What do you interpret when you hear that,
Speaker 2: Eli Congressman Crane.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's I do believe that that was
Speaker 8: definitely part of the plan. I mean, you know, from
Speaker 8: the time that the President addressed you know, the people
Speaker 8: of the nation, initially it was it was pretty clear
Speaker 8: that that was a part of the plan, even if indirectly,
Speaker 8: and hey, we'll take out you know, the Ayatola, will
Speaker 8: take out a lot of you know, the opposition will threaten,
Speaker 8: you know, the police to stay out of it or
Speaker 8: they're going to die. But now Iranians you need to up,
Speaker 8: you know, and do your thing. So I do think that,
Speaker 8: even if indirectly, that was a part of the plan.
Speaker 8: Obviously we wanted to take out the ballistic missiles. And
Speaker 8: I do believe that Iran is a massive threat and
Speaker 8: at some point was going to have to be dealt with.
Speaker 8: And I will say humbly, guys that you know, I
Speaker 8: recognize on the outset that I don't have all the
Speaker 8: information and intelligence that the President and this administration have,
Speaker 8: so I want to be cautious. I know tomorrow when
Speaker 8: we fly in at five pm, we're going to be
Speaker 8: brief by a Secretary Rubio. I believe Pete Hegseth John
Speaker 8: Ratcliffe is supposed to be there, so you know, we
Speaker 8: should be able to you know, paint some of the
Speaker 8: color and understanding.
Speaker 7: In you know, for members of Congress.
Speaker 8: But I am glad that the President is at least
Speaker 8: speaking in terms of, hey, we've got to be flexible,
Speaker 8: because you know, everybody has a plan until they get
Speaker 8: punched in the mouth. And as somebody who's gone to
Speaker 8: war many times, I can tell you that often, you know,
Speaker 8: things don't go the way that you planned, and you've
Speaker 8: got to be able to be flexible, and you've got
Speaker 8: to be willing and able to adjust. And I very
Speaker 8: seriously doubt the President of the United States, you know,
Speaker 8: who I think has a pretty good track record of
Speaker 8: trying to keep us out of prolonged military conflicts. You know,
Speaker 8: game plan this out with his senior advisors from many
Speaker 8: agencies on you know what next? That's always the question
Speaker 8: with regime change, type operations. You know, the actual you know,
Speaker 8: toppling of a regime isn't the hard part.
Speaker 7: It's what comes next.
Speaker 8: And you know, I'm sure the president had many, you know, plans,
Speaker 8: strategic plans presented to him. And you know, this is why,
Speaker 8: you know, Charlie and others have said that we voted
Speaker 8: for the guy because we did trust.
Speaker 7: You know, his instincts. And I'm hoping and praying that
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 8: He's in prayer himself and you know, making the best
Speaker 8: decisions possible for the country because you know, military operations
Speaker 8: like this can go sideways so fast, you know, it'll
Speaker 8: make your head spin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's the question, Blake, and it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: you talked about how we don't want to put our
Speaker 2: thumb on the scale picking the next leader of Iran.
Speaker 2: But then there is this vacuum and you get this
Speaker 2: factions fighting. Everybody's wondering who if they picked the wrong horse,
Speaker 2: are they going to be sent to the gulag? How
Speaker 2: do you how do you install or not install? How
Speaker 2: do you achieve that without installing somebody? Because if I'm
Speaker 2: the Iranian people, I'm going who's America going to pick?
Speaker 2: Because that's probably going to be the winning horse here, Like,
Speaker 2: how do you thread that needle? You know, that's I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know that you have an answer for it.
Speaker 2: But to me, that seems like the central tension.
Speaker 8: Then yeah, you know, if if I was, if I
Speaker 8: was working this problem, guys, I would be working with
Speaker 8: my coalition partners in the area, you know, to find
Speaker 8: somebody that you know, we could all you know, agree upon,
Speaker 8: you know, would be better than the former leadership, but
Speaker 8: at the same time have some credibility with the Iranian people.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, I think that's probably smart, even when
Speaker 2: you have other Arab partners that are are now kind
Speaker 2: of at the table, the Board of peace. It'll be interesting.
Speaker 2: You've also got the you know, with the Crown Prince Raza,
Speaker 2: whatever his name is, he's who knows, who knows what
Speaker 2: his credibility is on the ground. I mean, but listen,
Speaker 2: you're hitting all the notes that we're hitting. Congressmen. Listen,
Speaker 2: there's no there's no eagerness here, there's no fervor to
Speaker 2: get involved in this conflict. But as you said, this
Speaker 2: is why we work so hard to get President Trump
Speaker 2: elected is for tough decisions. Like this, and we have
Speaker 2: to trust his instincts. Ultimately, we have to pray for
Speaker 2: success and for peace and minimal casualties. And I think
Speaker 2: it's very telling that a man like yourself, Congressman, that
Speaker 2: has been in combat multiple times, that this is the
Speaker 2: tone you're setting. And you heard that as well from
Speaker 2: Secretary heg Seth. He said, you know, I was there
Speaker 2: for I Raq, I'm here for this. This is not
Speaker 2: a rack, but the humility of going to war. I
Speaker 2: think we always have to keep that central while praying
Speaker 2: for our brave servicemen and women. Thank you, Congress, God
Speaker 2: bless you, and I look forward to updates as you
Speaker 2: as you get briefed in DC tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Thank you, guys, God bless We're going to take.
Speaker 2: Just a quick detour here because we have to address this.
Speaker 2: Our friend Charlie was once again targeted by leftists, this
Speaker 2: time over a massive banner hanging at the Department of
Speaker 2: Education with his face on. It was a beautiful tribute
Speaker 2: at the Department of Education, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was a banner. It had Booker T. Washington, it
Speaker 3: had who was the next one, Catherine Beecher, and then
Speaker 3: it had Charlie and it said, empowering our states to
Speaker 3: tell the stories of our heroes in American education. And
Speaker 3: so it's reflecting the agenda with the Department of Education,
Speaker 3: which is of course abolish it. Ultimately, we don't need
Speaker 3: a big federal Department of Education.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also yeah, so empowering the states and then heroes
Speaker 3: in American education and so some very nasty people. I
Speaker 3: don't think we need to really pull any punches there.
Speaker 3: They're saying. Gross people.
Speaker 2: They deserve to be absolutely excoriated for this insane attack
Speaker 2: against Charlie. And of course we are talking about none
Speaker 2: other than Mehdi Hassan. Mehdi Hassan, the disgraced former ms
Speaker 2: NBC was because it was MSNBC then broadcaster. He's a
Speaker 2: foreigner MSNBC, I can never remember ms MS Now they
Speaker 2: changed it because they were embarrassed about it. Well, he
Speaker 2: had to say. First Democratic presidential candidate who publicly pledges
Speaker 2: to tear down this particular banner on day one of
Speaker 2: his or her administration gets an immediate bump in their
Speaker 2: presidential primary polling. Uh, shut up, Mehdi Hassan, shut up,
Speaker 2: go back to whatever hell hole you came from and
Speaker 2: go terrorize the people there. That's my message for you.
Speaker 3: What stands out to me is Meddi is, of course
Speaker 3: a leftist, and he's been freaking out massively about this
Speaker 3: war NonStop. You can go to his ex account and okay, well,
Speaker 3: Charlie was someone who opposed war, would be was hesitant
Speaker 3: this war. And this is the grace we get, which
Speaker 3: is MENTI Hassan goes online and you you could even
Speaker 3: oppose it, You could say I don't think this is
Speaker 3: who should be on But instead it's the visceral disgust
Speaker 3: he's in. He's furious that we would dare commemorate someone
Speaker 3: who is heinously murdered by a left wing radical while
Speaker 3: he was on a campus advocating for American principles in
Speaker 3: free speech, engaging with people who disagreed with him, and
Speaker 3: one of those people who disagreed with him shot him.
Speaker 3: And that's his response is to say, I'm we're gonna
Speaker 3: immediately support whoever tears down this disgusting banner. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: just a repulsive creature, of course. And of course he,
Speaker 3: you know, is someone who was welcomed into this country
Speaker 3: from a foreign country. We gave him citizenship for some
Speaker 3: stupid reason, and he rewards us by dumping on an
Speaker 3: American icon and an American hero. Yeah, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'll give my primary support to whoever says we're going
Speaker 3: to try to find a way to strip this person's
Speaker 3: citizenship and send him back to some dump.
Speaker 2: Yeah we should, Actually we should, And you know it's
Speaker 2: worth remembering that. In a reservice clip from two thousand
Speaker 2: and nine, Mehdi Hassan given his sermons speeches to Muslim
Speaker 2: student groups on Islam and extremism. He quoted the Quran
Speaker 2: to describe atheists, non believers, Kufar disbelievers as cattle, that's
Speaker 2: what he said, death and stubborn to the teachings of Islam,
Speaker 2: incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off
Speaker 2: those blind prejudice prejudices. In a list of sins attributed
Speaker 2: to the historical tyrant Yazid, he concluded a homosexual, a pedophile,
Speaker 2: a sexual deviant, alongside drunker, dog lover, music lover, killer.
Speaker 2: So you know this is Mehdi Hassan. He's a foreigner
Speaker 2: that to Blake's point, for some reason in our stupid
Speaker 2: immigration system, he was allowed in. Then he's allowed to
Speaker 2: come in here and smear the memory of Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 2: the legacy of Charlie Kirk. And listen, those are the
Speaker 2: freedoms that have been bestowed upon him by a superior
Speaker 2: country and culture than his own. And yeah, he whatever,
Speaker 2: he's British or whatever his you know, but he's a Muslim,
Speaker 2: he's somebody that is proudly in favor of the Palestinian
Speaker 2: movement and hamas anti Israel, anti American, and so yeah,
Speaker 2: we have a superior culture than Mediassan's. And yet he's
Speaker 2: come in here and he's been bestowed with the same
Speaker 2: freedoms that American citizens have long enjoyed. And we should
Speaker 2: find a way to stop that. We should absolutely find
Speaker 2: a way to stop that. That's my final feeling on this.
Speaker 2: I don't see much of a difference between him and
Speaker 2: many others that are even more violent. Obviously, there's another
Speaker 2: John Pavlovitz. This is a left wing Christian apparently, if
Speaker 2: that's such a thing these days, three sixty five John Pavlovitz,
Speaker 2: who's who wrote a book basically saying, if you're a Christian,
Speaker 2: don't be a d word. And yet he spends all
Speaker 2: of his time on social media basically behaving like a
Speaker 2: D word, and I won't fill in the blakes.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of that.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of that, he says. Yeah, but he says.
Speaker 3: Left wing Christians are very often very messed up in
Speaker 3: the head.
Speaker 2: Well, that's first, that's for sure. John Pavlovitz says Charlie
Speaker 2: Kirk was a horrible human being who despised diversity, empathy
Speaker 2: and equality. No, he despised equity, which is a communist term.
Speaker 2: His face belongs nowhere near a government building, let alone
Speaker 2: when devoted to education. And then he pumps his sub
Speaker 2: stack where he says the shameful Christian idology and fraudulent
Speaker 2: martyrdom of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3: This also captures their values. They say Charlie doesn't. They'll
Speaker 3: basically say Charlie doesn't belong on an education building because
Speaker 3: he thought college was a scam. Charlie was a huge
Speaker 3: advocate for education. He would have people touting Christian education,
Speaker 3: classical education. We had Hillsdale here on all the time.
Speaker 3: He endlessly loved to talk about what you should learn
Speaker 3: throughout your life. He advocated education throughout your life. He
Speaker 3: told people here's how you can and get the most
Speaker 3: out of college if you go. He loved education. He
Speaker 3: just thought colleges don't educate people. He thought it was
Speaker 3: a scam. He didn't say the education scam. He didn't
Speaker 3: say the learning scam. He said the college scam because
Speaker 3: he thought it was cheating people. He thought all of
Speaker 3: values that made it important were eroding away. He thought
Speaker 3: it had become away for scammers to rip people off.
Speaker 3: And so these parasites go out and they're say, oh,
Speaker 3: Charlie doesn't belong in a Department of Education building, you know,
Speaker 3: after we murdered him. Because he didn't think it was
Speaker 3: a good idea to spend two hundred thousand dollars in
Speaker 3: a worthless degree.
Speaker 2: He didn't mindlessly parrot the talking points from the regime
Speaker 2: media that would say that college or busts. Sorry, there's
Speaker 2: other options. We like hvac and plumbers and people that
Speaker 2: work with their hands, shower before and after work. We
Speaker 2: liked those guys too. Anyways, screw these two all right.
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Speaker 2: We are joined by Jonathan Gilliam. He's a former Navy seal,
Speaker 2: former FBI agent. You can follow him on x It's
Speaker 2: a good follow Jay Gilliam Underscore Seal. Jonathan, welcome back
Speaker 2: to the show. It's been a while since we had
Speaker 2: you on. I believe last time you were on your
Speaker 2: own with Charlie. There is a huge concern with the
Speaker 2: strikes going on in Iran that it could activate sleeper
Speaker 2: cells here in the United States. Of course, we had
Speaker 2: this terrible shooting in Austin. Fourteen were injured, two killed
Speaker 2: when a fifty three year old man from Senegalese.
Speaker 3: Immigrant, yeah, naturalized citizen, and I believe a shirt said
Speaker 3: property of Allah, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And under his T shirt had a some sort of
Speaker 2: reference to Iran underneath that sweatshirt. So the question then becomes,
Speaker 2: what do you do about this? You know, head on
Speaker 2: a swivel, stay frosty. There's multiple levels to this though, Jonathan,
Speaker 2: what are you watching and paying attention to right now?
Speaker 10: Well, first of all, let me just touch on that
Speaker 10: head on a swivel, stay frosty thing that people say
Speaker 10: a lot, so are either of you guys in in finance,
Speaker 10: do you study finance at all?
Speaker 2: I'm not in finance. I study it as best I can.
Speaker 10: Okay, So if I ask you what stocks should I
Speaker 10: invest in today? You know, are you going to give
Speaker 10: me an educated opinion or are you going to give
Speaker 10: me an opinion based on what you've heard? Right?
Speaker 2: What I've heard?
Speaker 10: Well, that's true, Okay, It's the same thing here. Just
Speaker 10: being aware is like saying, you know, I know that
Speaker 10: there's stocks in the stock market, right, So it's what
Speaker 10: you're aware of that that is So as many people
Speaker 10: listen to this this podcast and watch this podcast, especially
Speaker 10: people who are smart, critical thinkers, they have to understand
Speaker 10: what to look for, when to look for it, and
Speaker 10: what is normal versus what is abnormal behavior in any
Speaker 10: sector of their life. And I'll get to why this
Speaker 10: is so important now and what threats we're looking at.
Speaker 10: But this is the very first thing that people must
Speaker 10: realize is that I have to go study stocks and
Speaker 10: the market and all these things to get versed in
Speaker 10: when and how to invest. And it seems complicated, but
Speaker 10: for those who do it, it's not that complicated. Well,
Speaker 10: it's the same thing with attackers that guy that walked
Speaker 10: into that bar in Texas and killed two people and
Speaker 10: wounded fourteen, Well, he wasn't a rocket science, he wasn't
Speaker 10: a Navy seal. He was a guy wearing a property
Speaker 10: of all ushirt, which, by the way, he is a
Speaker 10: property of his ala now, but he's actually property of
Speaker 10: our gride now. He didn't have all this special forces
Speaker 10: training and things to walk in there and carry out
Speaker 10: a success full terror attack. He had had the will,
Speaker 10: and the people that were killed and wounded did not
Speaker 10: have the awareness to see a guy walking in with
Speaker 10: a property of all a shirt, wearing camouflage pants and
Speaker 10: carrying a gun.
Speaker 2: So this is.
Speaker 10: Where he figured out the vulnerabilities and he exploited those vulnerabilities.
Speaker 10: And the interesting thing is that people that got shot
Speaker 10: and the people who were in that bar, they also
Speaker 10: know about those vulnerabilities. They just don't look at it
Speaker 10: from his perspective. So that's where I started out. That's
Speaker 10: why I started out with the comparison to stocks, is
Speaker 10: that we all know and we've heard that if you
Speaker 10: invest your money correctly, your money is going.
Speaker 2: To make you money.
Speaker 10: And if we learned just a little bit about how
Speaker 10: the market goes back and forth. We can then start
Speaker 10: to develop more of an understanding of where and how
Speaker 10: to invest their money. It's the same thing here if
Speaker 10: you look at how these attackers traditionally work. If you
Speaker 10: look at yourself, your life, your sectors, each sector of
Speaker 10: your life, your business, church, school, so on and so forth,
Speaker 10: and you say, if I was going to attack, this
Speaker 10: is why I would choose this. This is what I
Speaker 10: would exploit to get to that area effectively when it
Speaker 10: might happen. Because that bar is not a viable target
Speaker 10: Sunday morning at twelve am it's a viable or excuse me,
Speaker 10: at twelve pm, it's a viable target at twelve am
Speaker 10: Sunday morning because that's Saturday night. So we have to
Speaker 10: look at our lives from the attacker's point of view
Speaker 10: and then turn around and say, now my awareness is heightened.
Speaker 10: I know to look in this area at this point
Speaker 10: in time. I know that the attack could come from
Speaker 10: this direction, it might be that type of attack. And
Speaker 10: then you can say this is normal. That's normal at
Speaker 10: that time in that place, but this is not normal.
Speaker 10: And so if people can do this using their knowledge,
Speaker 10: but looking at an attacker's point of view, and then
Speaker 10: turn around and then eliminate vulnerabilities, develop plans of action.
Speaker 10: What they'll end up finding is that they, for instance,
Speaker 10: in the Ariana Grande concert that got bombed years ago,
Speaker 10: people who thought, you know what, I'm not going to
Speaker 10: walk out when everybody else does, because that's an area
Speaker 10: that's right for an attack. I'm either going to leave early,
Speaker 10: which I would have if I was forced to go
Speaker 10: to Ariana Grande concert, I would have left early, or
Speaker 10: you wait for everybody else to leave and then you go,
Speaker 10: because then you could have avoided you would have had
Speaker 10: a plan of action to avoid that critical time in
Speaker 10: that critical area.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm just I'm curiously, but.
Speaker 3: I will This feels spooky. It sounds like you're kind
Speaker 3: of in a roundabout way saying just avoid crowded spaces
Speaker 3: at this point.
Speaker 10: No, I'm what I'm saying, is it? Well, yeah, if
Speaker 10: you don't have to go into those crowded spaces, then don't.
Speaker 10: But if you do, and it's not just crowded spaces
Speaker 10: it I mean that bar was not the biggest bar,
Speaker 10: it wasn't the most packed bar, but it was a
Speaker 10: place in time that was could have been right for
Speaker 10: an attack and it was so not paranoid but aware.
Speaker 10: And it's a huge difference being this aware freeze you up.
Speaker 10: You're not gonna worry. Am I gonna get caught? Because
Speaker 10: you're gonna have a plan of action and then if
Speaker 10: it does happen, that plan is going to allow you
Speaker 10: to maneuver to safety. And so that's how we do
Speaker 10: threat assessments, and that's how people should do that on
Speaker 10: their line.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious when you go into a crowded space,
Speaker 2: especially right now where you know are we're under heightened
Speaker 2: security risk with everything in Iran? Are you looking for
Speaker 2: an exit as soon as you walk into a building?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What are the first three things you do? You say?
Speaker 2: Where's my exit? How do I how do I get
Speaker 2: immediate cover? What's the list that goes to your head?
Speaker 10: Well, if I can choose where I'm gonna sit or
Speaker 10: where I'm gonna go, that's what I do. If I
Speaker 10: can't choose, then yes, I'm always monitoring exits, not just
Speaker 10: the exit, what are other exits? And you can kind
Speaker 10: of get an idea for the places that you're going
Speaker 10: to go. You go regularly, you know, I live in Arizona,
Speaker 10: so I'm familiar with where you all are at, and
Speaker 10: I've been there before, and I always have an understanding
Speaker 10: of the threats as you all do. And but I
Speaker 10: don't know if you all, but I definitely look at
Speaker 10: it from an attacker's point of view. So when I
Speaker 10: walk up anywhere, I'm understanding, for instance, in a mall,
Speaker 10: that there is places to exit in the back that
Speaker 10: take me to an alleyway that could lead outside of
Speaker 10: a building. I don't necessarily have to go out the
Speaker 10: front door. So that that is the defensive side, the
Speaker 10: awareness the attacker side is saying, if I was going
Speaker 10: to attack, I'll probably just walk to the front door
Speaker 10: with a knife for a gun. And if something happens,
Speaker 10: as a defender, I'm going to avoid that, I'm going
Speaker 10: to go towards the back and go out. And so
Speaker 10: this is the back and forth, the switch on and off,
Speaker 10: the what if game, and going back and forth from
Speaker 10: the attacker to the defender.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you know, it's a terrifying reality
Speaker 2: that we've all had to confront around here of just
Speaker 2: constantly being vigilant and constant. You know, it's understand you
Speaker 2: might have a tail where how do you how do
Speaker 2: you shake the tail? You know, what do you do
Speaker 2: if you have an intruder? What do you have somebody
Speaker 2: who comes on campus? God forbid? Like we've we've run
Speaker 2: through all these scenarios because this is the world we
Speaker 2: live in. Unfortunately, and obviously with what happened to Charlie,
Speaker 2: we're we our awareness is even more heightened. So, h Jonathan,
Speaker 2: how do people find you if they want to keep
Speaker 2: tabs on your advice and what you're you're putting out.
Speaker 10: There Jonathan Gilliam anywhere on social media? Just look for
Speaker 10: this face face for radio and and if they DM
Speaker 10: me and they have a question, I can always get
Speaker 10: back to them if I see it, and listen. Awareness
Speaker 10: is the name of the game. Awareness and thinking like
Speaker 10: they do so you can avoid it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Jonathan, thanks for making the time. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Austin really drove this point home. So thank you for
Speaker 2: helping us stay vigilant, giving us some points, pointers and
Speaker 2: tips and tricks. Thank you so much. Jonathan Gilliam, I'm
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Speaker 2: the US is ready for possible Iranian sleeper sell attacks
Speaker 2: on US three oh five.
Speaker 1: Concerns about Iranian sleeper cells and kind of what has
Speaker 1: the Trump administration been doing to kind of monitor.
Speaker 4: These across the Intern Agency in full coordination. Of course,
Speaker 4: we're paying attention to any potentialities there there. This is
Speaker 4: a former regime, a regime that seeks to export that
Speaker 4: ideology and try to so terror. We're ready for that.
Speaker 4: We've we've seen these types of folks before, and the
Speaker 4: American people can rest assured that we're were vigilant on that.
Speaker 2: And then let's do a little back in time here.
Speaker 2: This is Tulsi Gabbert three sixty six.
Speaker 11: You revealed that the Biden administration I didn't believe this headline.
Speaker 12: They deported only eight out of one hundred illegals.
Speaker 1: With ties to ISIS.
Speaker 12: It is inconceivable to me to have a commander in
Speaker 12: chief and a president who would knowingly return those who
Speaker 12: are either known or suspected terrorists, or those who had
Speaker 12: very close ties with known or suspected terrorists back onto
Speaker 12: our streets in their country. But unfortunately, it's exactly what happened.
Speaker 12: There were over four hundred illegal immigrants who came from
Speaker 12: Central Asia into our country. Of those, there were hundreds
Speaker 12: who had either ties to terrorists or were terrorists themselves.
Speaker 3: This is something I would truthfully tease Charlie about. He
Speaker 3: had a big fascination with sleeper cells, which I think
Speaker 3: was somewhat related to him watching twenty four a lot
Speaker 3: when he was growing up. You have these espionage shows
Speaker 3: where there's a lot of them. But Tulsi's getting at
Speaker 3: the heart of it, which is that for decades, really,
Speaker 3: and especially during the Biden administration, we really did just
Speaker 3: let anyone in at the southern border. It was so
Speaker 3: simple to just be let in. We had people not
Speaker 3: just coming from Latin America, but they're coming, as she said,
Speaker 3: Central Asia, the Middle East, China, and a lot of
Speaker 3: them are criminals, sex offenders. We don't know who they are.
Speaker 3: They don't have any real identification, and we've let them
Speaker 3: in for years, and we're just at the point where
Speaker 3: there are millions of people in the United States from
Speaker 3: foreign lands, where we don't know what motivates them, why
Speaker 3: they're here, what weird mental problems they might have. So
Speaker 3: some of them could be active agents of foreign governments,
Speaker 3: or they're just nutballs who obviously shouldn't be here, and
Speaker 3: both of those pose a real threat where they could
Speaker 3: react to this either because their order to or just
Speaker 3: because they choose to. That property of a Laguy I
Speaker 3: don't think was sent here as anyone's agent.
Speaker 2: He has a history or had a history now, but
Speaker 2: he had a history of mental illness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we just let him. He came in over
Speaker 3: state of visa illegally. We just let him become a
Speaker 3: citizen anyway because he married somebody, which I think that
Speaker 3: would be a good rule. If you violate a visa
Speaker 3: to stay here, you can't use a marriage as to
Speaker 3: get out of jail free card on it. Well then yeah,
Speaker 3: eventually just snapped and killed people. Well, and there is
Speaker 3: millions who could do that.
Speaker 2: Of course. And by the way, they're not all Iranian nationals,
Speaker 2: although some of them are. This is a report a
Speaker 2: CBS from June twenty twenty five, where the where ICE
Speaker 2: arrested eleven Iranian nationals I guess across eight states in
Speaker 2: forty eight hours. This is real. That's why interior re
Speaker 2: enforcement is so important. Three sixty.
Speaker 11: The Department of Homeland Security says Yusuf Maredano had been
Speaker 11: living in the United States illegally for nearly eight years,
Speaker 11: since US officials determined he lied on a visa application.
Speaker 11: On Sunday, just four months after the Iranian foreign national
Speaker 11: was added to the US's Known or Suspected ORRIST list,
Speaker 11: he was arrested in Central Mississippi. He's now in ICE
Speaker 11: custody pending removal proceedings, and he's not alone. Over the
Speaker 11: past forty eight hours, ICE officials have arrested eleven Iranian
Speaker 11: nationals spanning eight states nationwide. Among them, five possessed previous
Speaker 11: criminal convictions, their crimes ranging from grand larceny to drug
Speaker 11: and firearm possessions. Also among those apprehended, rib Var Karmi.
Speaker 11: ICE officials say they found his Islamic Republic of Iran
Speaker 11: Army identification card and allege he served as an Iranian sniper.
Speaker 3: Okay, just let these guys in super casually.
Speaker 2: Just to remind you, this is go back in your
Speaker 2: head to Minneapolis. All these you know, blue haired Karens
Speaker 2: using their cars as battering rams against ice officials. These
Speaker 2: are the people that they're getting out of the country.
Speaker 2: This is why Interior enforcement matters. This is why we
Speaker 2: can't give an inch to these crazy people. They think
Speaker 2: that their message is compassion, they think that they're trying
Speaker 2: to be inclusive or whatever. I don't want to be
Speaker 2: inclusive of people like that. I don't want to be
Speaker 2: inclusive of people that are going to turn the gun
Speaker 2: on American citizens and fire into a nightclub in Austin,
Speaker 2: Texas or wherever. And so this is a very real problem.
Speaker 2: I'm candidly there's a big part of me that's glad
Speaker 2: we've had at least a year of ICE deportations under
Speaker 2: President Trump before this kind of action was taken in
Speaker 2: the Middle East.
Speaker 3: Yes, but we need a lot more. And it really
Speaker 3: it is just an illustration of how badly we've harmed America.
Speaker 3: Totals America asked attitude, this attitude of everyone in the
Speaker 3: world has a right to come to America and stay
Speaker 3: in America, like every single a good idea I've heard
Speaker 3: is you know, anytime a plane crashes, we have this
Speaker 3: board that comes in and they analyze every single thing
Speaker 3: about the crash, and you know, how could this have happened?
Speaker 3: And we do new safety innovations to make sure and
Speaker 3: as a result, we have almost no plane crashes anymore.
Speaker 3: And I think it would be pretty reasonable for us
Speaker 3: to do that the same way, like any time an
Speaker 3: immigrant to this country does something like a terrorist attack,
Speaker 3: a mass shooting, they're doing some really heinous crime, it
Speaker 3: should merit an Actually, you should make someone have to
Speaker 3: write up a report. How did this person get into America?
Speaker 3: Why did they remain in America when they were obviously
Speaker 3: insane or a criminal and on or a welfare thing,
Speaker 3: And how do we prevent this from happening in the future.
Speaker 3: And you should make it so someone is getting humiliated,
Speaker 3: someone is losing their job when this happens, because we
Speaker 3: have done this over and over and over again. We've
Speaker 3: had it multiple times in the past year where someone
Speaker 3: who is an immigrant to this country just stabs someone
Speaker 3: to death on the bus, specifically on a bus lunatic
Speaker 3: immigrant to the country stabs someone to death. The number
Speaker 3: of people who come into this country and then stab
Speaker 3: someone to death on a bus should be zero. I'm
Speaker 3: going to guess in a lot of countries it is zero.
Speaker 3: Somehow they don't have this problem, even if they have
Speaker 3: immigration there. So it is a choice.
Speaker 2: Well, and you think about recreating how we got here.
Speaker 2: So you got a Senegalese immigrant who comes, not sure
Speaker 2: what was in the benefit of America to even let
Speaker 2: him in in the first place, overstays's visa, has a
Speaker 2: history of mental health issues, then gets married and we
Speaker 2: allow him to stay. This guy is a complete degenerate
Speaker 2: that shouldn't have been allowed in this country, should have
Speaker 2: been deported candidly, should have never been naturalized. The fact
Speaker 2: that we're just so knee jerk to extend our compassion
Speaker 2: to somebody that doesn't belong here, hates our country, and
Speaker 2: by the way, worships you know, has a Quran in
Speaker 2: his car.
Speaker 3: By the way, you know, there's I want to beat
Speaker 3: up on Mehdi Hassanmar. He's also tweeted over the weekend yesterday.
Speaker 3: God help us if we're about to see a repeat
Speaker 3: of the post Iraq era. We're illegally in Vada Medes country.
Speaker 3: Energize extremists and then get predictable blowback terrorism in the US. Gee,
Speaker 3: why is it predictable that there would be blowback terrorism
Speaker 3: in the United States. I don't feel that there was
Speaker 3: predictable that we would get blowback terrorism when we fought
Speaker 3: any of our hundred years ago. But apparently now it's
Speaker 3: a predictable consequence if we pursue any foreign policy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: where's that come from?
Speaker 2: Madi?
Speaker 3: Maybe people making that predictable shouldn't be in the country.
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Speaker 2: to the show. I'm very excited about this. This is
Speaker 2: Pastor Robbie Dawkins. He spent a lot of time in
Speaker 2: country in Iran, throughout the Middle East, Pakistan. If he
Speaker 2: tells you where he's at currently, that's his prerogative. Here,
Speaker 2: welcome to the show, Pastor Dawkins.
Speaker 13: Thanks Andrew, it's glad to join. I'm in Dubai. Yeah,
Speaker 13: kind of saying.
Speaker 2: You're in Dubai. So Dubai is actually you. There's been
Speaker 2: some missiles that have gone right to dubybe if really
Speaker 2: close to that. I forget the name of the building. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's the tallest building in the world.
Speaker 3: Are you hearing the explosions go off?
Speaker 13: Yes, most definitely. They hit early this morning. They hit
Speaker 13: the airport. They had struck one of the malls here
Speaker 13: before that. Also, they struck a hotel yesterday or day
Speaker 13: before yesterday. Rather, Yeah, we've got several videos that we've
Speaker 13: taken of missiles that have been shot down, drones that
Speaker 13: have been shot down. We're hearing mortar blasts here. Today
Speaker 13: was a little bit unusually calm for what we've been
Speaker 13: hearing over.
Speaker 2: The past couple of days.
Speaker 13: But it's definitely been very active. And my connections in
Speaker 13: northern Iraq and also the northern part of Iran have
Speaker 13: also been hearing active you know, fighting that's been going
Speaker 13: on there too.
Speaker 2: So what do you think the goal is? And we're
Speaker 2: going to get into Iran and just a second, pastor,
Speaker 2: but what do you think the goal is of the
Speaker 2: IRGC sent it off missiles into neighboring Arab states. Well,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of thoughts.
Speaker 13: My personal thoughts is I think they're trying to provoke
Speaker 13: Arab nations to participate very foolishly. I mean, why would
Speaker 13: they do that if they're being struck by the IRGC.
Speaker 13: But that's it seems to be that's something that they're
Speaker 13: trying to do. They're they're in an active ploy to
Speaker 13: engage other Arab nations, you know, Iran is not Arab,
Speaker 13: it's Persian. But to engage them in engaging into the battle,
Speaker 13: and so that's something that they are heartily involved in
Speaker 13: doing and have been trying to do. But all of
Speaker 13: these surrounding nations UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Qatar have all given
Speaker 13: support to the US and IDF forces.
Speaker 2: All right, So this is what I'm trying to ascertain
Speaker 2: and why I wanted to have you on pastor is
Speaker 2: because not only are your longtime friend of mine, but
Speaker 2: I know for knowing you for years that you have
Speaker 2: been doing ministry work inside Iran in Pakistan. You know
Speaker 2: this area very well and you know the people very well,
Speaker 2: so you know what this is the So there's conflicting reports,
Speaker 2: right so I'm seeing these videos you could throw three
Speaker 2: seventy six on just without sound, please, But this is
Speaker 2: apparently pro government rallies that are taking place right now.
Speaker 2: They're saying no submission, no surrender, war with America. But
Speaker 2: you're hearing the other side of that story, which are
Speaker 2: people within Iran that seem to be very happy about this.
Speaker 2: What is your gauge right now about the actual sentiment
Speaker 2: on the ground. Are they for these strikes? Are they
Speaker 2: against them. What's the truth.
Speaker 13: I did not know one Iranian that is not pro
Speaker 13: this war that they are happy that Israel and the
Speaker 13: United States are striking them. I don't know one that
Speaker 13: is not happy about that. These rallies that are taking place,
Speaker 13: you have to realize this has gone on. I've worked
Speaker 13: in Iran for over twenty years and also Afghanistan and Pakistan,
Speaker 13: as you mentioned, and let me tell you what they
Speaker 13: do is they force many of these students. There's a
Speaker 13: food shortage, water shortage. They are threatening students. They are
Speaker 13: threatening people that they will cut off their ability to
Speaker 13: get food, that they will cut off their ability to
Speaker 13: get supplies if they do not show up at these rallies.
Speaker 13: If you're a government worker, if you're IDF, military or police,
Speaker 13: if you don't show up and your family doesn't show up,
Speaker 13: you can even be killed. They are taking this extremely seriously.
Speaker 13: So this is all propaganda. It is all under the
Speaker 13: threat of the IRGC maintaining control. And that is literally
Speaker 13: all that it is. They've even paid students in the
Speaker 13: past imagine George Soros and things he's done, you know,
Speaker 13: where they have forced them to come or that they
Speaker 13: would be cut from the school, they would be cut
Speaker 13: from the education system and their food supply would be
Speaker 13: completely cut off. That is what is happening, and that's
Speaker 13: not hypothesis, that is actual facts of what's taking place
Speaker 13: right now.
Speaker 2: Well, and I've sent you just over the weekend, I've
Speaker 2: sent you a number of videos that have been circulating online.
Speaker 2: Some have im proven to be old videos of the
Speaker 2: irgc rallies, but these ones do, the ones that I
Speaker 2: just put on screen, they do appear to be current.
Speaker 2: So you're saying that you're hearing from the ground, your
Speaker 2: sources on the ground, that a lot of these are
Speaker 2: coerced demonstrations. There's got to be real popular support though,
Speaker 2: right even if it's a minority, I'm sure there's factions
Speaker 2: within eronomy. It's a huge country, eighty ninety million people,
Speaker 2: various geographies, various ethnicities. There's got to be popular support
Speaker 2: for the regime. I'm sure. Do we have any idea
Speaker 2: of what a percentage of support of the nation would
Speaker 2: be supportive of the regime versus supportive of overthrowing it.
Speaker 13: There's not going to be any hard numbers regarding percentage
Speaker 13: of ratios. I can tell you right now, Like I
Speaker 13: know thousands of Iranians in the country. I'm in communication
Speaker 13: with Iranians every day, all day long, and there is
Speaker 13: no one that is in support but the IRGC literally knowing.
Speaker 13: That's the reason why you're seeing all of these people
Speaker 13: shouting from their you know, flats and from their balconies,
Speaker 13: you know, death to the Iyatola, death to you know,
Speaker 13: the IRGC, and they are just sick of it. So
Speaker 13: all of it is propaganda there. If there is anybody
Speaker 13: that's in support, most of those people are in support
Speaker 13: because they've been told that if the US comes in
Speaker 13: that they will be killed. Even though the president clearly
Speaker 13: stated that they will give you know, immunity to anybody
Speaker 13: who surrenders, they're being told, no, you'll be killed, and
Speaker 13: if they don't kill you, then they're going to be
Speaker 13: killed by the IRGC. So this is like old school
Speaker 13: imagine old school Soviet you know, way of dealing with things.
Speaker 13: That's what's happening right now on the ground in Iran.
Speaker 13: But the percentage I'm telling you now, there is vast,
Speaker 13: vast numbers I know university students right now that are
Speaker 13: are ready to take over, that are ready to do things,
Speaker 13: that are ready to step up that they've been prepared
Speaker 13: for this for a long time, and you know, we're
Speaker 13: are you know, my particular ministry. We're getting medical supplies
Speaker 13: into them, We're getting starlinks into them, We're smuggling those in.
Speaker 13: We have an active route for that. And there's just
Speaker 13: but there's so much demand right now because the vast
Speaker 13: population they are ready to see this regime fall and
Speaker 13: they are not in support.
Speaker 2: So that we we had representative of you like Craanon
Speaker 2: before and you know, nature abhors a vacuum, as they say, right,
Speaker 2: and President Trump is telling people to stay inside, so
Speaker 2: presumably the supporters of the overthrow of the regime are
Speaker 2: still inside. They're hunkering down. It's still dangerous. The question, though, becomes,
Speaker 2: is there any you know this I always forget his name.
Speaker 2: Crown Prince raised a yeah, so is there popular support
Speaker 2: for him coming in to help usher in new leadership?
Speaker 2: You think? So? Okay? Interesting? I was absolutely Blake and
Speaker 2: I were convinced were getting there was like an op
Speaker 2: going on because we had a number of things we
Speaker 2: weren't sure if that was sort of outside prep propaganda
Speaker 2: from expats that were all all over the world. The
Speaker 2: diaspora of Iranian Persians or if that so, you're telling
Speaker 2: me your read on the ground, because again you know
Speaker 2: a ton of these people. You're saying that's actual organic
Speaker 2: support for this guy.
Speaker 13: Yes, and the main reason why is because they do
Speaker 13: not trust anybody that has been in leadership so far
Speaker 13: coming out of the regime that would say they would
Speaker 13: switch sides or that they don't agree with it anymore.
Speaker 13: Polavi has made a commitment to a democratic government. He
Speaker 13: said he would only take the position if the Iranian
Speaker 13: people chose him. That's a big difference from everything else
Speaker 13: that they're hearing inside the country from the regime. And
Speaker 13: they also are people that are hoping for him to
Speaker 13: step in, even if it was in a form like
Speaker 13: a Prince Charles Forum where it was a figurehead, but
Speaker 13: to come in and to be a stabilization and help
Speaker 13: set up a new government that is voted upon which
Speaker 13: he has committed to fascinating.
Speaker 2: So, but the question that you're your read on the
Speaker 2: ground is that because the brutal crackdowns on protesters, we're
Speaker 2: hearing reports of twenty maybe thirty thousand were killed in
Speaker 2: the streets, you believe that more than fifty you believe
Speaker 2: it's higher. Okay, Wow, So you believe you believe that
Speaker 2: despite that crackdown, that the survivors of that movement are
Speaker 2: ready to come back to the streets and reclaim power.
Speaker 13: When when the coast is clear, absolutely, you're going to realize, Andrew,
Speaker 13: they can't even.
Speaker 2: Go to the hospital.
Speaker 13: They go to the hospital and they have wounds that
Speaker 13: are or they've been marked as being participants in those protests,
Speaker 13: they will be killed at the hospital. So there's underground clinics.
Speaker 13: That's the reason why we've been getting medical splices in
Speaker 13: because there's underground clinics because people cannot show up to
Speaker 13: the hospitals or they'll be killed as soon as they arrive.
Speaker 2: Wow. These are some some videos that Robbie sent from
Speaker 2: I believe Dubai, which is crazy. Three seventy eight. This
Speaker 2: is actual explosions that they were able to see three
Speaker 2: seventy eight. If you can throw that up from it
Speaker 2: looks like a high rise that we're looking down. Were
Speaker 2: one of these missiles landed in a civilian area. Pretty
Speaker 2: wild and you can see him in three seventy seven. Actually,
Speaker 2: the the missiles coming down and tracking them, these I
Speaker 2: mean just just wild to see that in the skyline
Speaker 2: of Dubai, which is one of the most famous skylines
Speaker 2: in the world. Just incredible. Robbie, We're joined by Pastor
Speaker 2: Robbie Dawkins. He's currently in Dubai, but he has a
Speaker 2: long history of doing ministry work in Iran and Pakistan Afghanistan.
Speaker 2: One of the things that you know, people are not
Speaker 2: aware of culturally. I think the American public has an
Speaker 2: image of Persian people, maybe where through movies or just
Speaker 2: an assumption. But explain the difference between an Arab Muslim
Speaker 2: and a Persian Muslim, or a Shia and SUNI I
Speaker 2: don't know how you want to break that down, but culturally,
Speaker 2: give us a sense of what they're like. Are they
Speaker 2: pro Western? Are they anti Western? Is that too simplistic
Speaker 2: a framing please?
Speaker 13: Well, you definitely have the you know, the Persian people
Speaker 13: are very warm to the westernization and warm to the
Speaker 13: United States. What you're seeing even back in the seventies
Speaker 13: with the you know, students that were taking over and
Speaker 13: all that, so much of those were people that were
Speaker 13: from the outskirts, they were from the country. The majority
Speaker 13: of people that ended up you know, leaving here fleeing here.
Speaker 13: You know, we're leaving because they were having you know,
Speaker 13: because the shaw had been overthrown and the government was overthrown.
Speaker 13: Many of them worked in the government and so they
Speaker 13: had to flee for their lives. Anybody with money, any
Speaker 13: anything like that, they had to leave. So Muslim, the
Speaker 13: Muslim population, I actually have I'm quite sure that the
Speaker 13: Christian population right now actually out numbers the Muslim population.
Speaker 13: I know that sounds extreme to say that, but I
Speaker 13: am in communication with numbers that are They're extremely rough.
Speaker 13: There's no way to calculate it and be precise, but
Speaker 13: that they're very, very strong. And people are just sick
Speaker 13: of the Islamic Republic. They're sick of Islam.
Speaker 2: They believe it's all lies.
Speaker 13: You have to realize. Even Mohammad was questioning at the
Speaker 13: end if Allah was a demon or was actually God,
Speaker 13: and he was struggling with that even himself.
Speaker 2: And I will say, Robbie, that does sound extreme, and
Speaker 2: I love you, but I doubt it. But I have
Speaker 2: met a lot of Iranians, you know, whether they're living
Speaker 2: in the UK now or in Los Angeles, that are
Speaker 2: actual Catholics or Christians. So I don't doubt that there's
Speaker 2: a significant population. One of the stories that sits in
Speaker 2: my mind is after Charlie was assassinated, you were telling
Speaker 2: me that you were doing evangelism in these countries. I
Speaker 2: think it was Pakistan at that point, but I think
Speaker 2: it's similar in Iran. And you were saying that Charlie,
Speaker 2: his legacy and his inspiration his life just spurred on
Speaker 2: a ton of conversions. Do you tell us some stories
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 13: We actually we were in Hydrobad, Pakistan and the police
Speaker 13: showed up and this I had three hundred people I
Speaker 13: was doing we call them acts, which is Arab Kingdom
Speaker 13: training schools where we're training people how to live the
Speaker 13: Book of Acts, acts and step out to bring people
Speaker 13: into relationship with Christ. And the police showed up and
Speaker 13: they came to the front. I was up speaking and
Speaker 13: it's the first time I've seen this in Afghanistan. You know,
Speaker 13: I've been arrested four different times for the Gospel, three
Speaker 13: times in Afghanistan, one time in Russia, and have been
Speaker 13: through all kinds of things, incarceration over night for days, torture,
Speaker 13: different things like that.
Speaker 2: But this is the first.
Speaker 13: Time I never saw any underground church leaders not run.
Speaker 13: They stayed, they were in place, and I was shocked.
Speaker 13: And then the next day the secret police showed up.
Speaker 13: Now these are the guys that can torture you. These
Speaker 13: are the guys that can come in and do all
Speaker 13: these horrible things. I know because I was taken by
Speaker 13: the secret police in Afghanistan and.
Speaker 2: Held for several days.
Speaker 13: But they were they didn't move. And afterwards I looked
Speaker 13: at him and I said, I've never seen people not
Speaker 13: run from the police or the secret police in these countries.
Speaker 13: And I said, why is that? And they said Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 13: And I said, what do you mean, Charlie Kirk. And
Speaker 13: this is right after his assassination. They said, when we
Speaker 13: saw that, we thought, if that man could take a
Speaker 13: bullet and take his life be surrendered for Christ, then
Speaker 13: we can do it too. And we have courage and
Speaker 13: we want to actually dedicate this school in Hyderabad to
Speaker 13: Charlie Kirk. And it was just incredible. They were just fearless.
Speaker 13: And let me tell you something, I've been in that
Speaker 13: situation before. It's the first time I've never seen them young.
Speaker 13: Most of these are like university student age young people.
Speaker 13: And so I was blown away. And they were so inspired.
Speaker 13: They were so touched. Just two days before the memorial
Speaker 13: service you know, had aired, you know, for everyone to see,
Speaker 13: and they were just they were so committed by Charlie's
Speaker 13: willingness to put himself at risk, knowing that he could
Speaker 13: have been killed in Utah and yet going anyway, and
Speaker 13: they were like, if he can do it, then we
Speaker 13: can do it. We're going to step out in boldness
Speaker 13: for Christ as he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's amazing. You know, we often think in
Speaker 2: terms of Charlie's legacy in the US, and rightfully, it.
Speaker 3: Really was a global event, even outside of Christianity. I
Speaker 3: remember the memorial service they held to Seek Temple in
Speaker 3: the UK. I believe.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, so it was.
Speaker 13: I'm hearing from the Iranians. They're inspired. As a matter
Speaker 13: of fact, they told several of them I was coming
Speaker 13: on with you. They wish they could get your the show,
Speaker 13: Charlie Kirk show. But they were like, man, please tell them,
Speaker 13: we are so inspired by everything that we've seen by
Speaker 13: Charlie Kirk. And they know you guys' names, and uh,
Speaker 13: they're they're very inspired by, you know, this encouraging program
Speaker 13: that's speaking to their generation. You know, that that transcends nations,
Speaker 13: it transcends spaces like that, It really really does people
Speaker 13: relate and they feel that sense of purpose that's being
Speaker 13: communicated and being given, and they want that. They want
Speaker 13: that for their lives.
Speaker 2: Wow. Robbie Dawkins, Pastor Robbie Dawkins, who I've known for years,
Speaker 2: has put his life on the line a lot to
Speaker 2: spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Middle East,
Speaker 2: a place that you don't think is hospitable to it,
Speaker 2: and it's really not actually because you've you've you've been
Speaker 2: in some some dangerous situations, Pastor, So thank you for sharing,
Speaker 2: especially about Charlie's legacy in a place that we don't assume.
Speaker 2: That's really powerful. And please stay safe and I'll be
Speaker 2: in touch with you give it giving us updates from
Speaker 2: the ground in that neck of the wood. So thank you, Pastor, Robbiedawkins.
Speaker 2: God bless you, my friend.
Speaker 13: It's an honor. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Andrew, all right, we'll talk to you soon. Brother.
Speaker 3: We're getting called out by some people online. We should
Speaker 3: mention it is primary day tomorrow in Texas.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we've got We've got Paxton on the show tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be talking all about it, so please, yes,
Speaker 2: get out and vote.
Speaker 3: We're in Texas. Make your plans now, make sure it happens.
Speaker 2: Yes. Good, We don't want.
Speaker 3: To hear any of this nonsense about forgetting Yeah jove
Speaker 3: Charlie up the wall.
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