WEBVTT - Mass Killings in Iran 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.040 Hour two Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and nine four one, 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.120 Shawn our number. You want to be a part of 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:11.160 the program. This is President Trump yesterday encouraging the protesters 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:15.200 in Iran to keep protesting and that help is on 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:15.880 the way. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.960 Here's what he said to all Iranian patriots, keep protesting, 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:25.040 take over your institutions if possible, and save the name 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.000 of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.440 You're being very badly abused. Then I've canceled all meetings 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.680 with the Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:37.680 And all I say to them is help is on 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.360 its way. You saw that I put tariffs on anybody 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.080 doing business with Iran, just went into effect today, and 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.080 I say, make I ran great again. You know, it 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.920 was a great country until these monsters came in and 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:50.520 took it over. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.920 Now this is seemingly getting worse by the day. The 0:00:55.600 --> 0:01:00.560 Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have been out just slaughtering people. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.920 You have to imagine that President Trump means everything that 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.600 he says. He doesn't make idle threats. That's one thing 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.360 we know about the president and we have right now. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.560 What's happening is an evacuation. Very key personnel at key 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.080 US military bases in the region, for example, at a 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.720 Cutter have been advised to evacuate. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.839 That is now ongoing on an. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:31.639 Expedited basis, which would I think a pretty strong warning 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.440 that something militarily may happen with the president. I've got 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.959 to imagine there may be an attempt to get some 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.440 type of arms into the hands of protesters. You can't 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.400 win a revolution with a slingshot or a bottle or 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.120 a brick. It's just not going to work. We have 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:53.240 Bill Ackman put this out on x earlier today. I 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.800 actually passed it on to Sean Current, the head of 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.480 the Secret Service Islamic Republic State TV. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.160 He points out across the. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.320 Red line, airing the image of President Trump after the 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:11.600 assassination attempt, along with a Persian message reading quote this 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.160 time the bullet won't miss a direct threat against the president. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:20.240 Obviously here arranging leaders now are signaling that fast trials 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.720 and executions the protesters are now beginning. We expected that 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.280 first one to happen today. Haven't got confirmation. A twenty 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.320 six year old expecting the security forces their crackdown has 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.320 killed as many as twenty thousand people to date, so 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.960 I would imagine help is on the way. But I 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.320 think the President very wisely is putting the safety and 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:47.320 security of Americans in the region first and getting them out. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:53.480 I know they've expedited that mission to date, and I 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.720 would expect that the President means what he says. The 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.160 very strong action against Iran and the regime you know 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.280 is is about to happen. He wouldn't be telling the 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:09.280 protesters to keep protesting otherwise. Joining us now is Amir Fakrovar. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.880 He's now teaching cooperative constitutional law at Texas State University. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.680 Author of the best selling book in Iran, Comrade Ayatola. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:23.519 He's also the National Iranian Congress Senate Chairman. Also joining 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.880 us as Congressman Zach Nunn of Iowa, a member of 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:32.440 the Four Country Caucus, which is Iraq and Iran veterans 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.160 serving in the House. Thank you both for being here. Amir, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.320 let me start with you. What are you hearing from 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.800 people on the ground. The images I'm seeing are just, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:43.560 you know, from a horror movie. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:44.560 They're horrific. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.880 Thank you. Thank you Sean for having me since last 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:55.440 week when we spoke. We lost at least twenty thousand, 0:03:55.960 --> 0:04:03.720 very brave Iranians, the heroes. Yeah, regime have done another massacre. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.160 It's the largest one and in two days, in forty 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:12.400 eight hours, they killed up to now we know the 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.080 number is at least twenty thousand, and it will go 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:20.680 up maybe to fifty thousand. You cannot hear such a 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:27.599 thing in modern history. And it's we are all very 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.040 worried about the people inside the country. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.839 Every single family they lost some family members, all of 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.919 us which we are living in exile, ten million Iranians 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.360 in exile. We have our family inside and all of 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.440 us we lost some family members. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.240 It was a massacre, bloody massacre. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:50.320 Regime killed with drone, with the drone show Head drone, 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.800 which IRGC gave two hundred twenty five hundreds of those 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.800 drones to Russia to kill the Ukrainian civilians. They are 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.680 you using right now those drones to kill the protesters 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:09.200 in street. And just think about this tyranny, this brutal regime. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:15.440 They have thousands of missiles and they if they can 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:21.240 kill their own people. Most of the people who have 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:26.440 been killed, they are teenagers, they're very young, and if 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.200 regime can kill them that easy, Oh, yes, they will 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.920 use those ballistic missiles when they can breathe. Right now, 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:39.279 they cannot breathe because with the heart sanctioned President Trump 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.560 just got them. And if they can feel a little 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:50.560 space to breathe, then regime definitely will go to hit Israel, 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.760 will go to hit the European capitals, and they are 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:59.000 planning with the help of China to hit New York, Florida, Morolago. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:00.279 And you have seen in the. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:07.600 Photo on Iranian state TV today which was widely broadcasted, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.560 that yes, this time we will not miss the target. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:19.200 In farce, it's in em that says the first assassination 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.599 attempt was their job too. They're saying in Bard that 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.880 means we did it before, we missed it. This time 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:30.120 we will not miss it. And it's this regime definitely. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.800 President Trump should always when he said he's going to 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.080 punish them, he should go and punish them. He should 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.920 destroy entire Iranian missile facilities with the help of Israelis. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.120 And then we have some targets, Sean, we have some 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.400 very clear targets that the US Army can attack. We 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.159 are not talking about the boots on the ground, the 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.279 beautiful b toos and F thirty five's and F forty seven. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.960 It can be the first mission. For F forty seven, 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.159 they can go and target. It's called the Pastor Area 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.239 in Tehran, in the capitol of Iran. The Pastor area 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.800 is the different palaces of the King of Iran, the 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.800 last King of Iran, which all the Mulahs. They are 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:20.600 living in these palaces, including Mester's Supreme leader. This Pastor 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.600 area is gated, very secure. The people cannot go there. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:30.360 Whoever lives in that area. Please President Trump, remember Pastor Area. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:35.320 Whoever lives there is either a mullahs, a killer or 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:40.040 their minions around. Yeah, the best target is Pastor area. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.720 The Iranian missile facilities and the Homainies the founder of 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:50.360 Islamic revolutions. His shrine is another very good target for America. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:54.280 To President Trump, needs to send the very strong target 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:59.160 and Iranian State TV. Then they can understand they cannot 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.040 come and send some this type of message to President 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.280 of the United States. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:09.680 Congressman Zach Nunn, you're an American hero and you're now 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.680 an elected member of Congress from Iowa, and you're with 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.760 the Four Country Caucus, which is Iraq Iran veterans serving 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:22.280 in the house. Your former Air Force intelligence officer deployed 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.200 three times to the Middle East after nine to eleven. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.080 There, I guess. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.440 Among some people to some ambiguity. For me, I have 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:35.320 pretty I have moral clarity on this. There's there's no 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.240 doubt in my mind zero that the President did the 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.240 right thing by taking out Iran's nuclear sites. Number one 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.800 state sponsor of terror. They have threatened this country many, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.640 many times. If they ever got weapons of mass destruction 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.560 coupled with their radical ideology, I think it is a 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.360 clear and present danger to the entire world, never mind 0:08:54.400 --> 0:09:00.240 the region we're watching mass slaughter of individuals. I think 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.320 the President's you know, the Trump doctrine, if you will, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.160 which is no forever wars, no boots on the grounds, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.840 I think is the perfect solution in this case. I 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.400 think the President means what he says. The President is 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.839 evacuating military personnel on bases nearby that the Iranians might 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.280 be able to hit. Clearly something is on the way. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.520 What would be the right response in your view? 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.040 Well, Sean, I think you were hitting this nail on 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:28.920 the head, and I want to say, our heart is 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.720 out to Amir, and you know his fellow warriors in 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.240 Iran right now, Amir and I both you know. I 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.360 saw at the Institute for World Politics here in DC 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.240 for a while. But Sean, my head is with the 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.680 President on this. He has approached this the absolute right way. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.679 I've flown out of that bass in guitar how ud 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.680 Air his based fly in combat recont operations off the 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.520 coast of Iran. The Iranians always threatening to shoot us 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.440 down every single time. They have no problems coming after 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.040 the United States. And here's the reality. Iran, just in 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.040 the last years alone has been the number one funder 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:09.440 to Hamas in Lebanon, to hesb Law in Lebanon and Gaza, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.000 as well as what the Huthi rebels have done by 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.040 shooting at US area carrier strike groups, a rebel group 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.640 taking potshots at US carriers, and the Biden administration doing 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:24.800 nothing in response, embolden the Ayatola and the IRGC. And 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.360 so when we talk about what we can do in 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.640 response here, the President's approach is correct. First, I'm very 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.640 proud in Congress that I'm leading the Iran maximum pressure campaign. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.040 It's put real economic sanctions, cut off their ghost sleep, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.680 stop their floil of oil to places like China where 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.959 they get their money to fund the IRGC and keep 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.520 the Ayatola in power. That is step one. But the 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.160 President also made very clear. You know, I flew some 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:52.520 of the first recommissions over Iraq that looked at Solamani, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.040 the IRGC commander, and President Trump in his first term 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.959 turned Solimani into Slami when he eliminated him as the 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.040 head of the IRGC. That's a very clear message to 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.280 folks back and iron Yet President Trump was going to 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.440 be different and so coming into his second term here 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.600 to see the Iranian people rides up against an oppressive 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.800 regime and to not only lend support, but to action 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.040 economic sanctions against the Ayahtola to make sure that the 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.520 IRGC is unnoticed that if they shoot innocent civilians as 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.000 you have noted tragically in the back of the heads 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.240 to the tune of tens of thousands being executed publicly 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:28.920 and this. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.400 Have you seen the videos that I've seen. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:35.240 Yeah, tragically, tragically, yes, But the reality here is Sean, I. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.400 Mean, I want you to explain in your words, because 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.240 these are not images that will ever leave you in 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.360 my view, That's why I can't air them on TV. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.640 I kids are watching my show. I don't want that 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.760 that in their head for the rest of their life. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.439 Sean, you are absolutely right. We fly a recomplaint that 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.160 listens to what's happening on the ground and to hear 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.719 people screaming for their life as they are lined up 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.319 and executed with shots to the back of the head. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.520 And these aren't just protesters. These are Iranians across one 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.959 hundred and eighty different cities in all thirty one provinces, 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.600 who have tried to stand up for basic survivability. And 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.160 the Iranian people themselves are great, they are huge allies, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.000 they are huge potential partners with us in this region. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.319 But the reality is here. This country is under the 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.439 iron grip of the IRGC, and this is where after 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.280 what you and I have seen it, I guarantee the 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.760 president has seen even worse. And so when he talks 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:32.000 about taking tactical but lethal strikes, there are value add 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.280 targets here in eliminating IRGC command. I don't want to 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.199 bomb this country into the stone Age. I don't want 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.240 to see boots on the ground. I want to see 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:40.080 the biggest. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.800 Ohry For those that don't. You're talking about the Iranian 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:42.840 Revolutionary Guard. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.720 That's right, Yeah, the IGC. There's two militaries effectively within Iran. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.600 Many know this. There's the Iranian military, which serves as 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:55.080 basically just defense, and then there's the IRGC, which sponsors 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.839 terrorism and tries to project Iran abroad. The reality here 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.200 is protests alone are not going to be enough to 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.160 destroy the Iyatola and the death that he's done. To 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.600 hold him in check. The IRGC has to be clipped. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.520 And that's the safeguard not only for the Ironium people. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.040 It's a safeguard for the two thousand Iowa National Guards 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.480 members from my home state who are deployed right now 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.000 trying to protect you as interests abroad. It's a protection 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:20.040 for Americans when there are IGC operations being carried out 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.160 at our southern border in the United States and Sean. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.320 To your very acute point here, the IRGC has come 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.120 up multiple times to try and recruit people to assassinate 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.720 the President of the United States, President Trump. This is 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.160 a regime that's intent on trying to topple our president 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.840 and is hurting millions of folks the world over. Targeted 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.120 strikes on the RGC are an effective way to clip 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.920 their ability to harm the Iranian people, and ultimately, the 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.319 Ironian people have to decide what their future is going 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:48.680 to look like and how they're going. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:48.920 To do it. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.280 The US Committee and I'd like to see them get armed. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.240 I think, you know, if there's a way to get 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.600 them armed so they can fight back. You can't win 0:13:55.640 --> 0:14:00.160 a revolution with a slingshot. Listen, I could talk to 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.880 both of you forever. We're gonna probably have you back 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.720 this week. But you know, thank you, Congressman for your 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.439 service number one, and thanks for your passion and your 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:15.880 clarity on all of this. Emir Fakrovar. We appreciate your passion, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:22.680 and we are praying for a speedy, you know, transformation. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.440 The death the slaughter has to stop. I wish I 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.040 could share with everybody what I what I'm seeing. I 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:33.640 wish I could. I can't, It's that bad. But I 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.680 appreciate both of you a mere thank you, and Congressman, 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.280 thank you. We appreciate you both, and we will have 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.440 you back to talk more about this. This is a 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.880 developing story as the President now has ordered troops in 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.720 the region to come home, and that would tell me 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.080 just the opposite of what some of you may think 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:57.480 that probably some action is imminent. Quick break right back 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:02.200 will continue on the other side. So Renee good the 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.440 woman that went and reverse and then hit this officer. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:11.040 Now we updated earlier today that story because I think 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.720 it's important that people understand that the officer in this 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.840 particular case that oh the media has been saying never 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.880 got hit. Well, it turns out he suffered internal bleeding 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:25.240 after being clipped in that encounter. The ICE agent suffered 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.480 the bleeding to his torso according to DHS officials, I'm 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.120 sure that's going to be corroborated in the days and 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:38.480 weeks ahead. Anyway, Renee's father, Tim Macklin is his name, apparently, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.560 was on fake News CNN last night. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:41.040 Listen. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.480 Well, you know, I'm not blaming anybody. I mean, it's 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.240 a hard situation all the way around. It's it's hard 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.240 for the you know, for everybody involved. I mean the 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.360 US agent. You know, at first, I didn't see the 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.240 footage where you know, he was actually you know, he 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.320 was actually been ran. I mean I seen the bump 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.840 of the car hitting you know, hitting his legs, and 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.280 so in a you know, in a flash like that, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.280 it's it's hard to say how you would react from 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.280 my understanding that he had been through that before, maybe 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:12.240 dragged or something, and so, uh, you know, like I said, 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.920 it's just it's just a hard situation for everybody. 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:15.560 Uh. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.360 You know Becca, you know it's she's a great person 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.600 as well. I mean, you know, I don't have any 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.160 many enemies. I love everybody, and and that's what the 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.840 Bible tells us, what our neighbors as we love ourselves. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.280 But you know, I think there's some bad choices and 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.600 the word says for the raptid God would come up 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.000 on the turn of disobedience, and you know it's it's Uh, 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.240 I don't blame us. I don't blame Rebecca. I don't 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.080 blame Renee. I just you know, I just wish that 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.240 you know, if if a walking the spirit of God, 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.560 I don't think she would have been there. That's that's 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:45.360 why I look at it. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:46.120 Wow. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:52.080 No, you just you can't take a car which is 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.360 a weapon, and the law backs up, the law enforcement 0:16:55.800 --> 0:17:00.080 backs up law enforcement. Uh, on the legal merits and 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.320 use it as a weapon and drive and accelerate towards 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.399 an officer. And now that we have more details about 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:10.320 his injuries, I think that puts to rest any notion 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.840 that the officer was not hit. Anyway, let's get to 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.760 our busy phones. Brandon, Missouri, Brandon, how are you glad 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:18.160 you called? 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.560 Thanks for checking in, Thanks for taking my call, Sean. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:25.200 Is what a touch point here on the Iran situation 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.520 that we have gone on in our involvement with that. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.560 I really don't think we belong over there, involved deeply 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:38.160 in that. I know we have talked about limited capabilities, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.880 but in involvement in that, but I don't know how 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.000 limited limited is. I mean we talk in sending some 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.240 of our protesters in Minneapolis and Portland over there to 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:51.960 help out, or what are we talking about here? 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:53.879 Well, let me ask you a question. 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.479 The number one state sponsor of terror over the years, 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.800 they have killed Americans, They've threatened America many many times. 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:07.480 And you know they are a geopolitical enemy. We know 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.040 the work of Solo money that we know they killed 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:14.040 Americans in Iraq. Do you think it was the wrong 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.720 call for President Trump to take out the nuclear facilities? 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.920 Do you think it was in our long term national 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:27.280 strategic America first interest to prevent that right radical ideology 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.840 from ever having weapons of mass destruction like. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.399 Nuclear weapons agreed, showing yes I do. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.000 Okay, Now, there are a number of other questions. Here, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:42.000 is it in our long term national interest America first interest, 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.119 if this regime were to go away? 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:45.880 Oh? 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.920 Absolutely, yes, I think it would be great. 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:49.760 Kay, all right, fair enough? 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.800 So if the president Now, I don't think it's an 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.600 accident what we're witnessing and what we're watching out of 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.440 the Mid East. And I mentioned at the beginning of 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:04.040 the program today that you have Islamic Republic State TV 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.560 airing an image of President Trump after the assassination attempting Butler, 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.080 along with a Persian message reading quote this time the 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.200 bullet won't miss. Bill Lackman put that out on X Today, 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.560 a direct threat against the president. But we do know 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:24.480 that the Iranians have threatened death to America, death to Israel, so. 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:25.280 On and so forth. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.040 So if you know it doesn't mean that what might 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.000 replace it. I don't think you can get much worse 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.320 than what we have there. Here's another question. And I 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.359 know we can't be the world's policeman, but when you 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.680 see twenty thousand people and maybe the numbers upwards of that, now, 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:46.439 I don't know, and we're only getting scattered reports on this. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:51.399 When you see a mass slaughter of people and with 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.119 the might of America, should we just sit back and 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.960 do nothing? Should we just let these people get slaughtered? 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:05.960 Or good America use it's military as a force for 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:11.480 humanitarian good at times when possible to save lives, because 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.600 that's what that's part of the equation here too. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.560 Yeah, Sean, I don't think this is an either or situation. 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:19.360 I think this. 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.080 Is it kind of is either we're going to help 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.280 or we're not, one or the other. It really is 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:24.760 either or. 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.760 I say that we help, I agree with that, but 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.560 to what context. I mean we you know, are we 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.680 talking about sending arms over there? 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.240 You know, the United Yeah, I think that if I 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.560 had to guess what's going to happen, and you see 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.800 that President Trump now is we have been pulling out. 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:49.320 Our forces are from bases all over the region so 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.920 that our military won't be you know, sitting ducks and 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.720 targets there. The President has said help is on the way. 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:01.320 Do I think arming the city of Iran as part 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.840 of the equation will be part of the equation. Absolutely, 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.760 But I don't think the President gives idle threats either 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:09.240 when he says help is on the way to you. 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:11.560 No, I do not. And I think that's actually something 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.639 that we need to push more for, is the people 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.840 taking back their independence themselves. It means a lot more 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:21.760 to the populace when they gain their right for existence 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.160 or democracy than it is just handed to them. They 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.320 cherish it and they will fight for it more. 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.919 I agree in principle. I wish all of that were true. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:36.240 Here's the problem. You have a population that is completely unarmed. 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.639 You're not going to win a revolution with a slingshot, 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.160 a Molotov cocktail and a rock. 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:44.359 That's not how it works. 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:48.080 When you're going up against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:51.920 a ruthless regime that puts no value on human life. 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:53.359 And that's what we're dealing with here. 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:56.439 Yeah. Yeah, and I guess I would ask where are 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:57.760 allies in this sean? 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.680 I mean, really, far as I'm concerned, they're useless. 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.840 I've all but pretty much given up hope on NATO 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:09.840 and Europe and their ability to be an effective fighting force. 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:13.200 I mean, you can see the open contempt that people 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.840 like Vladimir Putin have now. Putin fears Trump, he doesn't 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:23.320 fear Europe and that's because they have allowed themselves to disintegrate, deteriorate. 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:26.680 And you know, when Great Britain has eighty some on 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.800 Cheria courts and they're not insisting on assimilation within their 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:35.719 own society and among people they're allowing into their country, 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:37.840 they want to be separate and apart from the people 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.040 of Great Britain. I think that's a big mistake. Yeah, 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:43.960 but you know, I think we've actually come to an understanding. 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:46.359 I think I've kind of brought you more to my 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:50.119 side here. I don't want forever wars. Now, this is 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:52.800 what the beauty of the Trump doctrine to me is 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:58.040 no forever war, no boots on the ground, surgical strikes, 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:03.840 but also the the need and moral imperative to act 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:08.439 on threats and act on you know, just pure evil 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:12.280 in our time. I mean, if the world, the world 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:14.760 in many ways turned a blind eye, I think you 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:17.560 would agree to a lot of the atrocities that were 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.200