1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: Okay, President Trump now weighing a potential serious escalation, in fact, 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: a massive escalation in the war. Five thousand Marines have 3 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: now arrived in the Middle East. They are likely likely, 4 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: it's not for certain, but according to planners, they believe 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: they are going to be sent to carg Island along 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: with three thousand paratroopers from the eighty second Airborne. That 7 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: is going to be a key island that they believe 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: they can use to force the regime in Iran to 9 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: finally sign a peace agreement. However, to clear the Strait 10 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: of Hormuz, they're going to need more than just navy ships. 11 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: They're going to need boots on the ground as well. 12 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: And now the military, the Pentagon, is telling President Trump 13 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: he is going to need to deploy another ten thousand 14 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: ground troops on top of the eight thousand. 15 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 2: My question to you, do you support. 16 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: Sending in ground forces to win the war in Iran 17 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: or do you fear that now this is going to 18 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: become another Iraq or another Vietnam quicksand where we send 19 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: more and more and more and then the body bags 20 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: start to come back. Six one, seven two, six, six 21 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: sixty eight, sixty eight lines are blazing Lou in Rhode Island. 22 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: Thanks for holding Lou and welcome. 23 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, Hi, good morning, Jeff. Hi. A couple of things 24 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 3: are still in my mind about this whole thing. 25 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: Uh. 26 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 3: First of all, it looks like the IRGCS are in 27 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 3: control of everything. So I think even before we're sending 28 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 3: any any any troops at all ground troops, I think 29 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 3: we really need to start working with taking out the 30 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 3: command and control structure of the IRGC. They have to 31 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 3: keep on working on that, maybe in the background, trying 32 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 3: to make it out. Destroy their ability to communicate with 33 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 3: each other, that would be an And they get rid 34 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 3: of their supply lines where they're getting these supplies, where 35 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 3: they have where they have these drones, where they have 36 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 3: these missiles. That all has to be taken out. They've 37 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 3: got to get take away their ability to strike. And 38 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 3: I think they got to get rid of their command 39 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 3: and control. It seems like, you know, even if you 40 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 3: don't have a a Mullah in there, you're going to 41 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 3: have some kind of like pretty radicalized generals or whoever's 42 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 3: running the i r g C. So they still have 43 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 3: to go in there and get rid of the command 44 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 3: and control of the i r g C. UH and 45 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 3: we can, we can their structure before we can maybe 46 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 3: even do anything. The second thing is I've been reading 47 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 3: about that Iran has been sending out all these like 48 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 3: shadow tankers, you know, in order to sell their oil. 49 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 3: We'd have to maybe even start seizing some of the 50 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 3: shadow tankers that they have coming out of Iran, and 51 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 3: maybe even some of the Chinese tankers if we have to, 52 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 3: just to cut off their their their ability to make 53 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 3: any kind of money at all. And also on top 54 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 3: of that, what you did with the original Iranian regime 55 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 3: is that freeze assets, don't let them have any assets 56 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 3: in order to be able to purchase anything. Now I 57 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 3: don't know if China supplying them with anything or not, 58 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 3: or fresh As supplying them with anything or not. That 59 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 3: we have to stop as well, before we can even 60 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 3: think about sending in troops. We've got to like really 61 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 3: disrupt their ability to strike. And that has to be 62 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 3: at cutting off the head of the IRGC wherever it 63 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 3: is now. They also the IRGC also has almost total 64 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 3: control of the civilian population. They're they're they're controlling the 65 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 3: via terror because the population is not able. Hasn't risen 66 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 3: Upper has not for some reason been able to fight 67 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 3: back against the IRGC and just like Hamas, they're hiding 68 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 3: themselves in schools and hospitals and universities and stuff like 69 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 3: that throughout the various cities in Iran and still maintaining 70 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 3: their iron gripple on the population and terrorizing the population 71 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 3: and still killing people. So there's there's a number of 72 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 3: things I think maybe we can do within the next 73 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 3: week or so before we need to even do the 74 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 3: ground troop things, just to soften them up as much 75 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 3: as we possibly can and to take out this uh, 76 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 3: this this structure that's actually still running the show. Just 77 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 3: break down the continued structure that still running the show. 78 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 3: The second thing is is that you know, I am 79 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 3: really disappointed in our allies. I mean, you've got these 80 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 3: these populations like Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia. Uh, you know, 81 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 3: when they want our help for Ukraine, they demand our 82 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 3: help for Ukraine, but when we demand their help here, 83 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 3: they're there nowhere to be found. And I think it's 84 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 3: because they still fear and they still help out because 85 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 3: they have They're an example of what the Democrats would 86 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 3: do here. They have a woke government. They have woke 87 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 3: governments that keep catering to the radical Islamis and I 88 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 3: think that they're going they're still catering to Iran as well, 89 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 3: and I think that's a problem throughout the world. 90 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 4: Now. 91 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 3: The one thing I can say about Trump and this 92 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 3: war that might be a positive thing is that there 93 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 3: is a big war going on between the giant structure 94 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 3: of radical Islam combined with the communists in China UH 95 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 3: to basically spread their influence and take over the world 96 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 3: and UH and and and that's and that's something that 97 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 3: if we defeat Iran, if we do manage to defeat Iran, 98 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 3: that whole kind of thing will be broken. That that 99 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 3: will be broken, and a lot of people in different 100 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 3: countries will rise up and get rid of their woke 101 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,239 Speaker 3: governments because they'll see the main influence of studying Islamic 102 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 3: terrorism and UH and the caliphight throughout the world. Iran 103 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 3: has been has been defeated. But I think first we 104 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 3: need to really do soften up the IRGC, take out 105 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 3: as much as we can, try to destroy any kind 106 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,799 Speaker 3: of missiles or anything they have. And if China's bringing 107 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 3: in missiles to them or sending them secret missiles, or 108 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 3: Russia too, we've got to be able to stop that 109 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 3: as well. 110 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: But uh, I mean, as I mentioned, you put a 111 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: lot on the plate there, Lou. Look just I'm part 112 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: of my show prep every single day is I read 113 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: the Israeli media because frankly, a lot of their reporting 114 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: is better than ours, and Israeli politicians are actually more 115 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: honest than our politicians. And so what Israeli intelligence is saying, 116 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: what the Israeli leadership is saying, is that increasingly now 117 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: net Nyahou and Trump are giving up on regime change. 118 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: Initially they thought within a week or ten days the 119 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: regime would fall, people would rise, and they would be 120 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: an alternative government. They're starting the hopes for regime change 121 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: are starting to fade, and so there's a sense now 122 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: that the regime is going to survive somehow, some way, intact, 123 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: or the remnants of the regime are going to survive. 124 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: So they have to deal now with that. Okay, just 125 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: very very quick, because I want to go back to 126 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 1: the phone lines. The point I was making to Lou 127 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: was both israel and according to American intelligence, is what 128 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: they're telling Trump Israeli intelligence. I'm just going by what 129 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: I'm reading in you know, Israeli media obviously, our media 130 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: here apparently now they are starting to give up on 131 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: regime change. So what they're doing now, especially Israel, We're 132 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: more concerned with the Strait of Hormuz, obviously, but Israel 133 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: is now pounding these industrial sites all across Iran. Why 134 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: they don't just want to wipe out their ballistic missile 135 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: program and their drones. They want to destroy their production 136 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: capabilities to make these missiles and drones so that Iran 137 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: remains damaged and crippled for years to come. So the 138 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: Israelis now were saying, We're gonna bomb so much of 139 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: their productive capability and capacity that it's going to take 140 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: them years and years to be able to make their 141 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: own missiles, to be able to make their own drones, 142 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: to put together any kind of a ballistic program that 143 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: can threaten US or Iran's neighbors or Europe. So that's 144 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: why bb is now asked Trump, give me a couple 145 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: more weeks so we can finish this properly. 146 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 2: Just rip the guts out of this regime. 147 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: And if they still survive, okay, but they will be 148 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: so defanked and they will be so neutered and neutralized 149 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: that they will not threaten US or the region for 150 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: years to come. And I believe Trump's play now is 151 00:08:55,160 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: to clear the Strait of Hormus, get navigation flowing again, freely, 152 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: get all that oil from our Persian Gulf staff from 153 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: these Persian Gulf states flowing to the world economy, and 154 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: then basically declare victory. In other words, you're not gonna 155 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: have an iron grip over the Strait of Hormus. You're 156 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: not getting anybody to pay you a toll. Absolutely not. 157 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: We control the strait, We patrol the strait, and your 158 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: blockade has been broken. Now to show you how badly degraded, 159 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: decapitated the regime has become. Honestly, it's almost funny, except 160 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: it's becoming sad because it may lead to our soldiers 161 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: getting killed because now they have to potentially be deployed 162 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: to take carg Island, to have these idiots sign a 163 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: surrender because they don't want to acknowledge they've been defeated. 164 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: But to show you how badly it has gotten. Now 165 00:09:53,600 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: for the mullets, there are only two senior fish left 166 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: in the entire regime. Everyone else has been killed or 167 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: bombed or hit in a missile and taken out. 168 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 2: There's only two left. 169 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: The arrogant Foreign Minister Aragachi, I believe is how you 170 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: pronounce his last name. He's a real arrogant sob. But 171 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: he speaks English and he's able to talk to our 172 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: diplomats and we've been doing some negotiating with him and 173 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: the person I was talking about a couple days ago. 174 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: He is the head of Iran's parliament, their version of 175 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: the House speaker, and he's considered more pragmatic again for him, 176 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: for them, pragmatic means semi sane doesn't have a suicidal 177 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: death wish. He's considered more pragmatic, more of a quote 178 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: unquote moderate, a bit of an opportunist. And that's it. 179 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: Those are the only two senior figures left. Israel had 180 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: them both in their sights yesterday and said we can 181 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: take them both out, which means the entire senior leadership 182 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: is dead, dead, gone gone, just gone, completely gone. And 183 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: President Trump said, please don't do that, the reason being like, 184 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: we won't have anybody left to negotiate with. Like, no, 185 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. Trump is like going, guys, I'm not joking. 186 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: You take away these two, who do we talk to? 187 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: There's nobody left to talk to. So we got to 188 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: keep one or two alive so we can potentially have 189 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: peace talks and sign a peace deal and negotiated settlement 190 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: and then the war. But Trump let both of them 191 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: know that they've been taken off the kill list. He 192 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: stressed it for now. In other words, you know, we 193 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: can get you killed, and he time, You're not safe. 194 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:08,319 Speaker 1: Anywhere you go, you're not safe. So you don't make 195 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: a deal and we start to find you a hindrance 196 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: or an obstacle or a thorn in our side, you're 197 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: going to be dead like everybody else. Now, just imagine 198 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: a country attacks US. Our president is dead, Trump is dead, 199 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: Vance is dead, head Seth is dead, Bessant is dead, 200 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: Tulca Gabbard is dead, the entire cabin I don't want 201 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: to go through the the Secretary of Labor, this Secretary 202 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 1: of Agriga, they're all dead. The jiank chiefs dead, are 203 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: top generals dead, our Supreme Court all dead, our congressional leadership, 204 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: both sides, they're dead. And there's just one or two 205 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: figures left in the government that are still alive. Everybody 206 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: else is dead. That's what's happening in Iran. Right now, 207 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: and they still don't want to surrender six one seven 208 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: two six six. 209 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 2: What surrender is sign a deal. 210 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 1: That you stay in power and the sanctions get lifted completely. 211 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 2: So to a rational Western mind, you'd say. 212 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 1: Take it. What are you nots take it? You're crazy 213 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: not to take it. 214 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 2: Allah comebout allah allah allah. 215 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: That's that's what they're screaming over there. They're raising a 216 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: million man army to go up against the troops that 217 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: we are thinking now of deploying. That's that's their reaction. 218 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: That's their response. Okay, very very quick. The Kooner Country 219 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 1: Pole Question of the Day sponsored by Marios. Marios Quality Roofing, 220 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: siding and Windows, and I truly hope as many of 221 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: you participate in this as possible. I really would like 222 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: to get your take because it gives me, gives the 223 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: Trump administration really a sense of where MAGA, the heart, 224 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: the core of MAGA is and whether you're enthusiastic about 225 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: sending in ground troops or you're opposed to US sending 226 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: ground troops. So here it is again sponsored by Marios. 227 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: Is an end to the Iran conflict worth US boots 228 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: on the ground, is an end to the Iran conflict 229 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: putting us boots on the ground A yes, b no. 230 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: You can vote on our web page wrko dot com 231 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: slash Cooner wrko dot com slash Cooner. 232 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 2: You can also vote via x my handle. 233 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: There all one word at the Kooner Report. At the 234 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: Kooner Report, kuh And is in national Er. So far, 235 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: it's roughly twenty five percent of the audience says yes, 236 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: seventy five percent say no. So seventy five percent of 237 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: Cooner country as things stand right now, say the Iran 238 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: conflict is not worth putting us boots on the ground. 239 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 2: Let's go to mikeque. Were going to go to. 240 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: Scott in Shirley. Thanks for holding Scott and welcome. 241 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 5: Hey, I gif hi, Hey, Look I'm looking at this 242 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 5: Iran war from a different perspective. Remember, these guys have 243 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 5: been in power for over fifty years or a religious 244 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 5: ideology or the religious ideology has turned them into Basically 245 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 5: everything is run through the maulas the judicial system, the 246 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 5: economic system, religion, everything. One of the things we learned, 247 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 5: especially in Afghanistan, from a lot of different people. 248 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 2: Scott, can you do me a favor? 249 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: I'm up against the break, Okay, let's go right back 250 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: to Scott in Shirley. He's saying that there were lessons 251 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: we should have learned and we did learn in Afghanistan, 252 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: and he wants to remind us of them. Please Scott, 253 00:16:58,440 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: pick up where you left off. 254 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 3: Yay. 255 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 5: The religious fundamental especially whether they're ISIS or any of 256 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 5: the others we are fighting in Afghanistan where the Taliban whatnot. 257 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:12,439 Speaker 5: One of the things that were very effective at doing 258 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 5: was they were always nurturing and training the next generation 259 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 5: of leaders, meaning that if if Farably over here gets killed, 260 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 5: or say be gets get killed, you're next in charge. 261 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 5: Then you're next, You're next. We're seeing that happen right 262 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 5: now in Iran. People there in one of our country 263 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 5: doesn't recognize the religious fundamentalism that is ongoing in Iran. 264 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 5: They want to bring in the chaos because they leave 265 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 5: in and they truly do. They want to bring in 266 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 5: the twelfth Emam, which will usher in the end of 267 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 5: the world. And part of this is that all of 268 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 5: them will have to read a part of this responsibility, 269 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 5: whether it's being killed, suffering, whatnot. That's how they look 270 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 5: at it. What we we don't understand about Iran is 271 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 5: we do know, from a diplomatic point of view, the 272 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 5: Iranians are probably the most effective liars we've ever seen 273 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 5: on the face of the earth. Knowing that is, where 274 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 5: do we go with this? Well, one mistake mister Trump 275 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 5: made and I really you said there was two effective 276 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 5: leaders left. Take them out. And the reason that you 277 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 5: do is eventually you're going to get rid of them 278 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 5: and over time the population of Iran. They may be 279 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 5: culturally Islamic, but they're not fundamentalist Islamic and we can 280 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 5: change that. And I think that's probably the way we 281 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 5: have to put our thumb on the scale, meaning if 282 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 5: we have to take out the power plants, shut them off, 283 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 5: because nothing's worse than making a regime change when you 284 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 5: have nothing to eat. So it sounds harsh, sounds cruel, 285 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 5: but darn it, guys, we want to win this and 286 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 5: we want to also make sure we have the free 287 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 5: flow of oil over there. 288 00:18:58,560 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 3: That's my point. 289 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: Well, the free flow of oil is I think right 290 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: now everything for Trump and for the West, I think 291 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: there's no question. 292 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 2: There's no question. Scott. 293 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 1: Look, I think you made some excellent points. What is 294 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: clear and this is really starting to dawn on Trump 295 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 1: and his team. When you said these people are religious fanatics, 296 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: they're starting to really realize it's not just that they 297 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: yell death to America or they're willing to send a 298 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: couple suicide bombers to blow themselves up. Is many of 299 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: them want to die. I mean I'm talking within the regime. 300 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying they're suicidal. They're all itching 301 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: to hang themselves, but to die for Allah, to die 302 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: in a holy war, to die fighting quote the Great 303 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 1: Satan and the Little Satan's You know, you have to 304 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: understand for them that for them is it's a gateway. 305 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: It's a guarantee, it's heaven insurance. They will go to heaven. 306 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: And notice their view of heaven this is very it's 307 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: so foreign. Look, it's such an Eastern way to think. 308 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: We think like Westerners, so we can't imagine the thinking that, 309 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,439 Speaker 1: you know, how their worldview compared to ours. But just 310 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: stand back for a second. Their worldview is if I 311 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 1: die for Allah, I'm basically yeah, I mean, I go 312 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: to heaven. But heaven is very much like the earth 313 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: we have now, except I get seventy two virgins. I'm 314 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: in a harem. Well, really, like you know, they they 315 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: feed me. They you know, these seventy two virgins put 316 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: grapes in my mouth and satisfy my every whim. And 317 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 1: I live in this beautiful like almost Saudi Arabian style 318 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: palace with all these servants, and I can do what 319 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,719 Speaker 1: I want and eat what I want and enjoy what 320 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 1: I want. So for them, if you look at it 321 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: from their point of view, a my soul is saved 322 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,959 Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. I'm guaranat, you know, 323 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: to be in as I say, paradise, in paradise, but 324 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: it's a very earthly paradise. It's a much better life 325 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 1: than any of them could ever imagine. Women, virgins, food, whatever, luxury, 326 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 1: whatever comfort. So it's almost like an incentive to die. 327 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: It's like it's a hell of a lot better there 328 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: than it is here. So ha ha, let's die for 329 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: a luh. Let's do it when you're dealing with the 330 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 1: leadership and in some sense a security apparatus like the 331 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: IRGC and millions of followers like that. 332 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 2: It's what we. 333 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: Learned with Japan in Nazi Germany. For us to knock 334 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: out the Nazis, we had to conquer the Nazis. It 335 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: wasn't just enough to bomb them to the stone Age. 336 00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: We had to send in how many well how many 337 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: millions troops at to come in the Russians, US, the Brits, 338 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: the French, Japan. We were taking the home islands, one 339 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: home island after another. We took heavy losses, we kept coming. 340 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: Japan was clearly beaten. The fanatics just would not give up. 341 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,439 Speaker 1: And it took not one but two atomic bombs, and 342 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: had the Emperor not intervened, it would have taken three 343 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: or four or five. So what I'm saying is Trump 344 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: is starting to realize, and this is what he's saying, goes, 345 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: You've been defeated. You've lost, like it's so to the world, 346 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: to a rational human being. 347 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 2: You've lost. 348 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: Your navy is gone, your air force has been obliterated, 349 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: your air defenses are non existent, your nuclear program has 350 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: been wiped out. Your ballistic program is still there, but man, 351 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 1: it's on fumes. We've broken you militarily into a thousand pieces. 352 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: People are suffering. Your economy is there's no economy left. 353 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 1: Like dude, You're not gonna win this like just and 354 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: I'm giving you a great peace deal. I'm giving you 355 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: a chance to rebuild. 356 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 2: No, I mean it's just it's just a no. 357 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: We got a thousand men, we gotta They're calling up 358 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 1: a thousand men and they have another sorry, a million men. 359 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: They're calling up a million men, and they have another 360 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: million men in reserve. And the sad thing is they're 361 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: all like la, like you know, hey, I want my. 362 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 2: Seventy two virgins, like a long, let me die. I want. No, 363 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 2: You're not gonna die. I'm gonna die. 364 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 1: Now what I'm scared, Scott is if we do put 365 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: in those troops. I mean, look, let's say in total, 366 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: it's eighteen thousand, okay, five thousand marines, three thousand paratroopers, 367 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: and now the ten thousand that the Pentagon is thinking 368 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: of sending. Yeah, eighteen thousand and many military theaters can 369 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 1: do a lot of damage, especially our troops are excellent, 370 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: but you put them on carg Island, they could be ambushed, 371 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 1: they could be sitting ducks, and you can just be 372 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 1: overwhelmed in these kinds of numbers. I mean, will kill 373 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: many of them, but they're gonna kill us because you know, 374 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,639 Speaker 1: eighteen thousand against a million. Now, I know we have missiles, 375 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: we have naval power, we have air superiority. I understand 376 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: all that, but I'm just saying, see, they don't value 377 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: human life. 378 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,959 Speaker 2: We do. They're willing to send a million men as 379 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 2: cannon fodder. They don't care. That's the difference. 380 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: And so I think Trump is starting to realize no, no, no, no, 381 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: this is not Venezuela. Because the Communists are atheists and 382 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: they value their neck. This, this is a level of 383 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 1: fanaticism he hasn't encountered. No one's encountered something like this. Now, 384 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 1: I'm not saying they can't be beaten. They can be 385 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 1: easily beaten. But to beat him you have to be 386 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 1: willing to expend a lot of political capital and blood 387 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: and treasure. And I don't know if Trump is willing 388 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 1: to do that, only because he's got a fifth column 389 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: at home, because they want to hang him. The Democrats 390 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: want to literally hang him, politically hang them. And so 391 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: that's the sort of Damocles that's hanging over his head. 392 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 2: Scott. Final word to you. 393 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 5: Yes, hey, I always remember one thing about Islam. They 394 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 5: love death, whereas Christians we love life. 395 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,679 Speaker 2: Happy Easter, Happy Easter, God bless you, very good call Scott. 396 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 2: So you know that's that's that's why. 397 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: And Trump is angry with them because again he's he's 398 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: a Christian and you know he's an Episcopalian, and he's like, 399 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 1: don't you really I don't want to kill more Iranians, 400 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: Like I want to, come on, you've lost, Like he's 401 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: mad at them. You're now your people are dying for nothing. 402 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: For nothing. I don't want to do this to you. 403 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to do this to you. So he's almost 404 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: like telling him, like, come on, sign a damn deal. 405 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? But now he's also making it 406 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 1: very clear if you don't sign the damn deal, it's 407 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: going to be a. 408 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 2: Hell of a lot worse. We will unleash hell. 409 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight 410 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 1: is the number. Okay, eight o'clock you know what that means? 411 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: Cooner's Call Log Caller of the Week. 412 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 6: It's time for Cooner's Call Log, where we showcase our 413 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 6: favorite caller from the week. 414 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 2: I can hear you? Can you hear me? Thanks for 415 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 2: holding Mike. 416 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 3: I'm calling Jeff because I've been working with TSA for 417 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 3: over twenty years. I've been commuting from Rhoe Island and Logan. 418 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 3: There's no lines. There's nothing crazy going on in Logan 419 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 3: right now because the management there is working through fear. 420 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 3: So basically all the employees are either if they call 421 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 3: out sick one day, they're going to get remanded and fired. Basically, 422 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 3: that's what it comes down to. The people that have 423 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 3: been a few years have more to lose in the game, 424 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 3: are basically motivated by fear. I've been getting hand out 425 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 3: from my mom, which I'm embarrassed to say, because she's 426 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 3: in our early eighties and you know, she's offering me 427 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 3: money and I don't want to take it, but she's like, 428 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 3: you need it more than I do, so I take it, 429 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 3: losing my pride. Basically we just managed. I have some savings, 430 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 3: but that's going to be, you know, slowly used as 431 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 3: this progressive and I'm embarrassed, but that's the way it is. 432 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 3: Motivation by fear. That this is what management intimidation is 433 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 3: on the with the TSA and Logan, we also have 434 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 3: the douations where people have from my LAFE in most 435 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 3: cases attribute to the job itself when wear and tear 436 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 3: issues with their back, the knees, and if you call 437 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,719 Speaker 3: out using that you have to bring a doctor's note 438 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 3: no questions asked. If you don't bring doctor's notes, they're 439 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 3: gonna be on you all day. So Logan has a 440 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 3: lot of corruption internally, and it's been going for years 441 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 3: and everybody's afraidable to whistle because everybody wants to, you know, 442 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 3: steal the radar. 443 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: Basically, come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly. If 444 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: you can use some exotic booze. 445 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 2: There's a far and far bomb. Come fly with me, 446 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 2: Let's fly, Let's fly away. 447 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 6: Be here every weekday on the Cooner Report between six 448 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 6: and ten am, and next week it could be you 449 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 6: on Cooner's call. 450 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: Log Please don't be a stranger. Call again, dynamite call. 451 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: That was a heart wrenching call. Now the good news is, 452 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: and I don't want to get too sidetracked because I 453 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: want to stay on topic. But at two o'clock this 454 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: you know, yeah, this morning, So what is it? Six 455 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 1: hours ago the Democrats and the Republicans came to a 456 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: deal on DHS funding. So it passed the Senate unanimously 457 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: on a voice vote. It's going to go to the House. 458 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: It looks like it's going to pass there unanimously as well. 459 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: And so the TSA agents will start getting paid. Obviously, 460 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: they're going to get back pay as well, so will 461 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: the Coastguard, so will FEMA. 462 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 2: It funds all of the Department of Homeland. 463 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: Security except ICE and Customs in Border Protection. Ice and 464 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: Customs in Border Protection will not be funded now. John 465 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: Thune says that they have already put aside money in 466 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: the One Big Beautiful Bill to fully fund ICE and 467 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: Customs in Border Protection until next year, so he says, don't. 468 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 2: Worry about it. They'll all be paid. 469 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: They'll have enough money, and he says they can restore 470 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: funding as well through reconciliation, so he believes eventually ICE 471 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: will be funded. But DHS yesterday has now a sorry. 472 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: Senate yesterday has agreed to fully funded Department of Homeland Security. 473 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: TSA agents are starting to get We'll start getting their 474 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 1: paychecks immediately, and hopefully that will ease a lot of 475 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,959 Speaker 1: the pressure and the congestion at these long lines at 476 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: security checkpoints at airports. Hopefully now about five hundred TSA 477 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: agents have already quit their jobs, so we'll see if 478 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: that has an effect. But many that have been calling 479 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: out sick are now expected to be showing up to work, 480 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,479 Speaker 1: and there is the Eastern travel period. There is spring break, 481 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: so a lot of Americans are going to be flying 482 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: in the next week or two. That's why there was 483 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: so much pressure on both Democrats and Republicans to come 484 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: to a deal. And come to a deal they did. 485 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 1: By the way, all of this pain, all of this chaos, 486 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: all of this inconvenience for what for what? What in 487 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: the end did the Democrats accomplish Nothing. No changes in 488 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: the behavior of ICE, no rules tightening what ICE can 489 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: do and can't do. They still can wear masks, they 490 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: still don't need a judicial warrant if they want to 491 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: go after illegal aliens in a home. Was what they 492 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: were asking for. And ICE has already been separately funded 493 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: through the Big Beautiful Bill. So all they did was 494 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: was hurt the public and hurt TSA agents, the Coastguard, FEMA, 495 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: and Homeland Security. I mean, honestly, it's disgusting. It really 496 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: is disgusting. Okay, but let that go. I want to 497 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: read to you a quick text and then I want 498 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: to get your reaction. Six one seven two, six, six 499 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, it's from 500 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: six to ozho three up in New Hampshire. You can 501 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: text the cooner man seven zero four to seven zero, Jeff, 502 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: here is my concern now, by the way, and this 503 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: is a former military so this is a vet who's 504 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: writing this. 505 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 2: Jeff. 506 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: Here's my concern now with this situation regarding the constant 507 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 1: escalation of sending in ground troops. The opposition that we're 508 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: facing is a suicidal, fanatical regime willing to wage a 509 00:32:55,160 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 1: holy war. They have a million man army and from 510 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: what I understand, another million in reserve. Even with our 511 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: militaries much better training and superior weaponry, the Iranian regime 512 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 1: is willing to throw countless bodies and overwhelming cannon fodder. 513 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 2: At our soul, at our troops. 514 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: How that doesn't swallow up whatever forces we send. There 515 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: is beyond me. And notice this, Israel said they are 516 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 1: not going to send any of their troops to assist 517 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: in these operations that will ultimately protect their homeland. And 518 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 1: the Israelis aren't going to be sending in troops. Notice 519 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: the Saudis are sitting this one out, even though they're 520 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 1: being attacked by Iran, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, 521 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: all of those Persian Gulf states. They're all getting protected 522 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: by this. Iraq They're all getting protected by this. It's 523 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:14,880 Speaker 1: their oil that's being embargoed by the Iranian mullas or 524 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: they have to pay a toll. Okay, so it's there, 525 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: you know, it's their oil that's being extorted or being embargoed. 526 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: Take your pick. They're not helping. What are they doing? 527 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: And where's NATO? Where's NATO. 528 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 2: Again? 529 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 1: Ukraine was not a member of NATO. It affected Europe, 530 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: but with the Europeans said hey, we need help, what 531 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: did we do? We stepped up. Whenever Australia needs help, 532 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 1: We're there. Whenever Canada needs help, We're there. Whenever the 533 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,400 Speaker 1: French or the Italians, or the Germans or the Brits here. 534 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 1: When Britain fought the war in the Falklands in the 535 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, that wasn't our war, but they asked for 536 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 1: help because they were surprised by the level of resistance 537 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 1: from the Argentinians, and we. 538 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 2: Helped them out. So you see, time and time and 539 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 2: time again, were always the world's sucker. 540 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:23,479 Speaker 1: We're always there for everybody else, but when we need 541 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: their help, no one's there. 542 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 2: It's us and Israel fighting Iran. That's it. 543 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,880 Speaker 1: And you know I've said this before. The oil that 544 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: goes through the Horse Strait of Hormuz we use. I 545 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: think what less than one percent that's not for us. 546 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 1: That oil is consumed in Asia and in Europe, and 547 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: they're not willing to help us with the delivery of 548 00:35:55,160 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: their own oil and natural gas. Six one seven. Now 549 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:09,719 Speaker 1: you know who our friends are? Now you know six 550 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 1: one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is 551 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: the number. 552 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 4: People will get to. What that's a pupil case of America? 553 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:22,359 Speaker 2: No no, I said no. 554 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: On the pole, seventy five percent are against ground troops. 555 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:28,840 Speaker 2: So far the poll is changing. 556 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 1: I think it's now seventy percent or against ground troops 557 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 1: thirty percent or four, but not against the war. 558 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:36,280 Speaker 2: Just sending in ground troops. 559 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:42,439 Speaker 4: Bob, Oh no, what happened? Still get the living hell 560 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 4: whacked out of them? 561 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: Okay, Bob, who's going to get the living hell whacked 562 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: out of him? 563 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:56,000 Speaker 4: If don't moren hit the plan? Do you wait? You're 564 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,680 Speaker 4: going to get the hell kicked out of them? 565 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 1: You mean on carg Or or in general Vietnam Marine? 566 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,320 Speaker 1: No no, but Bob, I just want to clarify your position. 567 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 1: So you're saying, if we send troops to take Carg Island, 568 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,719 Speaker 1: we are going to wipe out the Iranians. And you 569 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,439 Speaker 1: think that will be the knockout Blowbob. 570 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 4: Time twelve hours, will take Cag Island. 571 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 1: And you think the Mullas will cry uncle once they 572 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 1: lose Carg Bob, Okay, we lost, Bob, but no, Okay, 573 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,520 Speaker 1: I hear you, Bob. Bob says, Look, don't underestimate Trump, 574 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:53,840 Speaker 1: don't underestimate American military. Don't underestimate our forces. Uh, you 575 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 1: send in those Marines, you take Carg Island, you have 576 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,520 Speaker 1: you have taken over the economic hub of Iran, their 577 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:07,480 Speaker 1: economic lifeline, and this will break the Mullahs once and 578 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:07,919 Speaker 1: for all. 579 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:10,919 Speaker 2: Agree, disagree,