Speaker 1: What specifically is better than a ceasfire?
Speaker 2: What are you looking for here?
Speaker 3: And then a real end, not a ceasefire, and then
Speaker 3: we are giving up entirely.
Speaker 1: Is that okay too?
Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 2: Good Wednesday morning.
Speaker 4: Welcome, It is the forty seven Morning Updates, so nice
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Speaker 4: First up, we're gonna give you the latest on what's happening,
Speaker 4: and it's evolving very quickly with America's foreign policy when
Speaker 4: it comes to Iran and the real chance now that
Speaker 4: America may join the fight. Also Donald Trump making it
Speaker 4: clear what his intentions are with Iran and calling out
Speaker 4: the Supreme Leader as well. We're going to break all
Speaker 4: of that down for you. I want to also just
Speaker 4: talk to you real quickly about what you can do
Speaker 4: to help the people in Israel. And we've been talking
Speaker 4: for a long time about an organization called the International
Speaker 4: Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Speaker 2: And right now, after your.
Speaker 4: Witnessing what is happening, you may say, you know what,
Speaker 4: I want to stand with the people in Israel and
Speaker 4: what we're saying it is disturbing anti Semitism on the rise,
Speaker 4: not just in the Middle East, but.
Speaker 2: Even here in America.
Speaker 4: We're seeing Jewish schools, they are being targeted, synagogues, they
Speaker 4: are being threatened, Families that are living in fear, and
Speaker 4: it's a whole other level of pain that we're witnessing
Speaker 4: in Israel. And that's why I want you to get
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Speaker 4: They're also literally as we speak, building bomb shelters just
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Speaker 4: all of the rockets that are coming in. They're helping
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Speaker 4: morning update and it starts right now.
Speaker 2: Story number one.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump's hardline stance on Iran's nuclear program and what
Speaker 4: that means moving forward is becoming much more clear. Donald
Speaker 4: Trump number one demanding Iran's unconditional surrender. Trump escalating his
Speaker 4: rhetoric in light of the recent Israel Iran strikes, calling
Speaker 4: for rand surrender and warning civilians to evacuate Tehran. We
Speaker 4: also know that it's clear what the president wants to do.
Speaker 4: It is targeting Iran's nuclear sites. Let's be clear, this
Speaker 4: is not about a war or an invasion or boots
Speaker 4: on the ground. Trump is not ruling out strikes and
Speaker 4: Iran's nuclear facilities, but he's also made it clear he's
Speaker 4: not wanting to invade anything at all. He has even
Speaker 4: made it clear to the Supreme Leader calling him quote
Speaker 4: an easy target, though saying killing him is not on
Speaker 4: the table for now. Why did he say that, warning
Speaker 4: the Supreme Leader that you better not harm a single
Speaker 4: American troop in the Middle East? Now it's very clear
Speaker 4: that Iran could in fact go after American soldiers, and
Speaker 4: the President wanted to get ahead of that, saying if
Speaker 4: you want to die, because I know where you are,
Speaker 4: I can take you out at any moment, So you
Speaker 4: better not retaliate and go after any American bases or
Speaker 4: servicemen and women. Targeting Iran's nuclear sites is what this
Speaker 4: is really all about.
Speaker 2: And now we know that the.
Speaker 4: President is mobilizing military assets as well. The US has
Speaker 4: now positioned bombers, refueling tankers, and aircraft carriers the Carl
Speaker 4: Vincent and the Nimits to the region as a show
Speaker 4: of force. We also know the Vice President is playing
Speaker 4: a major role in the diplomacy. Jeddy Vance is also
Speaker 4: playing the role of reassuring skeptics Vans, countering those within
Speaker 4: the base who are saying that Donald Trump should just
Speaker 4: be an isolationist and should not get involved at all,
Speaker 4: making it clear that Trump has an obligation to defend
Speaker 4: America and make sure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear
Speaker 4: weapon to attack American citizens as well as our ally
Speaker 4: Israel now stressing restraint is also part of what the
Speaker 4: White House is talking about. They are signaling yes, potential
Speaker 4: military action be extremely limited to the nuclear sites. Both
Speaker 4: Vans and other administration officials are stressing that the immediate,
Speaker 4: full scale action of even going after these new nuclear
Speaker 4: sites has not been confirmed. And you've got to put
Speaker 4: this in a broader context. There is clear support for
Speaker 4: the president at home for him to go after Iran's
Speaker 4: nuclear sites, but there's also clear polling to show that
Speaker 4: Americans do not want boots on the ground. They do
Speaker 4: not want to invade Iran either, and that is what
Speaker 4: Donald Trump has been very clear about. He has no
Speaker 4: intention of doing that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: The other question is when will the decision be made?
Speaker 4: The State Department spokesman saying this about the president earlier.
Speaker 2: It's up to the president.
Speaker 5: He is the singular guiding hand about what will be
Speaker 5: occurring from this point forward, as he has been, and
Speaker 5: I think that that dynamic is pretty clear. He says
Speaker 5: he wants an end as he has said about every
Speaker 5: conflict that he has as a peacemaker worked to stop
Speaker 5: peacefully through diplomacy. That has been his commitment. And he
Speaker 5: wants these things, as he said about in a number
Speaker 5: of situations, not for a month or six months, but
Speaker 5: durable ends to this nature of forever wars. And that
Speaker 5: has been his posture, and that's his posture.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: It's very clear the President does not want this to
Speaker 4: continue on. That's why he gave that sixty day window
Speaker 4: to get a deal done with Iran. And once sixty
Speaker 4: days was up, the President then said, okay, and now
Speaker 4: we're going to have to let Israel do what Israel
Speaker 4: needs to do to protect and defend itself. Now, President
Speaker 4: Trump also has major allies in Congress who are coming
Speaker 4: out clearly stating that they believe the President has the
Speaker 4: right and an obligation to protect America and take out
Speaker 4: a RAN's nuclear program. Senator Cruz, talking with Sean Hannity earlier,
Speaker 4: said this.
Speaker 6: Here with reaction, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator, it is amazing.
Speaker 6: I watched the president. You should have listened. I gave
Speaker 6: you time. I watched the President warn the people of Tehran,
Speaker 6: and we'll show more video of it to get out,
Speaker 6: and there's like millions of people listening to Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: They're not getting that message from the leadership of Iran.
Speaker 6: They're getting it from the President of the United States,
Speaker 6: showing that he cares about human life.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, President Trump, throughout this conflict has been fantastic.
Speaker 1: I spoke to the President on Sunday and just told him,
Speaker 1: I said, your leadership has been so critical on this,
Speaker 1: and he made clear Iran is not getting a nuclear weapon,
Speaker 1: and he is standing with Israel. I believe our position
Speaker 1: should be we stand unequivocally with the state of Israel.
Speaker 1: And I'll make a point, Israel is doing an enormous
Speaker 1: favor to.
Speaker 2: The United States right now.
Speaker 1: I believe the most acute near term security threat facing
Speaker 1: America is the threat of a nuclear Iran because the
Speaker 1: Ayatola is a religious nut case. He is a theocratic
Speaker 1: mass murderer, and when he chants death to America and
Speaker 1: death to Israel, he does so in front of mobs
Speaker 1: of people. He also refers to Israel as the little
Speaker 1: Satan and America as the Great Satan. There is a
Speaker 1: reason the Iyatola is developing ICBMs. ICBMs are incontinental ballistic missiles.
Speaker 1: You don't need an ICBM to bomb Israel. They're bombing
Speaker 1: Israel with ballistic missiles. You need an ICBM to get
Speaker 1: to America. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, I think
Speaker 1: the odds are unacceptably high that we would find out
Speaker 1: with a mushroom cloud over New York City or Los
Speaker 1: Angeles or Tel Aviv and Israel. And what Israel has
Speaker 1: said is we are going to act. Israel is a
Speaker 1: tiny country. It's the size of the state of New Jersey,
Speaker 1: and they are taking out Iran's military with surgical precision.
Speaker 1: They're taking out virtually all of the senior leaders of
Speaker 1: the military. They're taking out their nuclear scientists, they are
Speaker 1: leveling nuclear facilities on the ground. And I think President
Speaker 1: Trump is exactly right to say we stand with Israel.
Speaker 1: And I'm with a seventy five percent of Americans that
Speaker 1: agree with the President's strong stance to keep America safe.
Speaker 1: That's the commander in chief's number one job to protect
Speaker 1: American lives and keep America safe.
Speaker 2: That's what Donald Trump is doing today.
Speaker 4: By the way, this brings me to another big story,
Speaker 4: and it's a story that they're trying to play up
Speaker 4: on TV the story that there's some massive divide between
Speaker 4: the MAGA movement. There isn't actually that big of a
Speaker 4: divide at all. The majority of people that I know
Speaker 4: are supporting President Donald Trump and his actions, and they're
Speaker 4: glad that we have a president that is standing up
Speaker 4: and willing to protect and defend all of us. The Dims,
Speaker 4: by the way, have also gone completely silent on this
Speaker 4: Israel Iran conflict. It's a question that many of us,
Speaker 4: and the media especially should be asking, what do you
Speaker 4: think and why are you being so quiet?
Speaker 2: Jesse Waters bringing that up on Fox.
Speaker 7: Trump's consumed in one of the most consequential moments of
Speaker 7: his presidency. Nukes, oil casualties, mid East strategy, the six
Speaker 7: are high, and the Republican Party is having an open debate.
Speaker 7: But the Democrat parties know where to be found. They've
Speaker 7: gone silent during an historical moment where the leading foreign
Speaker 7: policy voices of the Democrat Party, the strategists, the hawks,
Speaker 7: the doves, anybody, does anybody have an opinion? Democrats don't
Speaker 7: know what to say because they have to be told
Speaker 7: what to say, and no one's telling them. We haven't
Speaker 7: heard a word from Hillary, Obama, Biden, Kommel, and not
Speaker 7: even Susan Rice or Blink and carry. Where are all
Speaker 7: these people While Trump tries to manage wars overseas, Democrats
Speaker 7: are trying to kick off a civil war here at home.
Speaker 4: Jesse's absolutely right, where are the people on the left,
Speaker 4: Which brings me to my final point. There's a very
Speaker 4: good chance and by the time you even hear this show,
Speaker 4: we may find out that Donald Trump has ordered our
Speaker 4: US military to attack the nuclear sites in Iran?
Speaker 2: And why did he do it? To protect all of us?
Speaker 4: And that is something that every American should be proud of. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: there are going to be many detractors who are going
Speaker 4: to say that Donald Trump is getting us into World
Speaker 4: War three, when the reality is he's probably preventing it.
Speaker 2: Now story number two, there's a.
Speaker 4: Real chance now that the United States of America may
Speaker 4: join Israel in the war against Iran. Now, let me
Speaker 4: explain why this could take place so and also understand
Speaker 4: what war means in twenty twenty five. Number one, there
Speaker 4: is no chance that Donald Trump is going to put
Speaker 4: troops on the ground. There will be no boots on
Speaker 4: the ground. That is not what this means. That's number one.
Speaker 4: Number two, this is not an invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan,
Speaker 4: which there have been many that have been lying about
Speaker 4: that over the last several hours.
Speaker 2: So I want to clear that up.
Speaker 4: In fact, I've talked to several of my good friends
Speaker 4: that work in the administration and they're saying that is
Speaker 4: not even a remote possibility. Donald Trump is saying to
Speaker 4: Iran is simple surrender.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: Surrender and do the deal on your nuclear program or
Speaker 4: prepare for your nuclear program to be annihilated. That is
Speaker 4: what he is saying. And he's not mincing words on
Speaker 4: this either, because as Donald Trump has said, look, we
Speaker 4: can take total control of Iranian airspace as Israel is done,
Speaker 4: and we also know where the Ayatota is hiding.
Speaker 2: Now we're not going to kill him right now.
Speaker 4: But he's telling you, Ittola, like you want to die, fine,
Speaker 4: Like we can make that happen.
Speaker 2: We know where you are and we can kill you.
Speaker 4: We would rather not do that, but if you want
Speaker 4: to stay in power, then you better do the damn deal.
Speaker 4: And so what would this look like is I think
Speaker 4: a better way of putting it. If we did get involved,
Speaker 4: it would actually be very very simple. We would use
Speaker 4: the technology that I think we're the only country that
Speaker 4: has it to go after this nuclear site that is
Speaker 4: very deep underground in Iran. Israel does not have the
Speaker 4: technology to hit that deep. That's part of what you
Speaker 4: need to understand. So again I go back to the
Speaker 4: basic thing. Is this something that America needs?
Speaker 2: Do? Yes? I believe that it is. I really do.
Speaker 4: I believe this isn't our best interest for us to
Speaker 4: make sure that there is an Iran that uh is
Speaker 4: not nuclear right. And Donald Trump's also been clear about
Speaker 4: this for quite some time and finked in fact, he's
Speaker 4: he has been so clear on this since the day
Speaker 4: came down the elevator ten years and one day ago
Speaker 4: or ten years and two days ago, where he said
Speaker 4: to the world that there's no circumstance where Ran can
Speaker 4: get a nuclear weapon. There's no circumstance where Ran can
Speaker 4: get a nuclear weapon. That is significant. And the President
Speaker 4: is not bluffing on this, okay, Like the President has
Speaker 4: made it very clear that you can't trust them. Now,
Speaker 4: why can't you trust them? Because they're a murders regime,
Speaker 4: Like that's what they are, and they chant death to
Speaker 4: America and they chant death to Israel. So when that's
Speaker 4: what they do and that is what they said, then
Speaker 4: I think you just say, Okay, I actually believe you.
Speaker 2: I believe you when.
Speaker 4: You tell me that you want to kill innocent men, women,
Speaker 4: children that are Americans, and you want to annihilate the Jews,
Speaker 4: and if you have a nuclear weapon, you will either
Speaker 4: do it or you'll give it to one of your
Speaker 4: terrorist proxy groups that you support, and they will do it.
Speaker 4: There's also a second part of what's happening right now
Speaker 4: that I think people need to understand as well, and
Speaker 4: that second part is this. The President is also I
Speaker 4: think inspiring the people of Iran and especially specifically in Tehran,
Speaker 4: to understand that, hey, your government may not be as
Speaker 4: powerful as they actually have been able to make you believe.
Speaker 4: In fact, they're incredibly vulnerable. Look at the traffic jams
Speaker 4: and the people leaving Tehran as the President said, leave evacuate.
Speaker 4: They weren't listening to the leadership in Iran like that's
Speaker 4: something they were not doing. They were listening to the
Speaker 4: American president of the United States of America, and they were
Speaker 4: leaving because the President said to evacuate Tehran. And when
Speaker 4: he did that, I think that also sent a veryquer
Speaker 4: message like, Hey, your guys that claim that they're in
Speaker 4: charge of your country, that are holding you back and
Speaker 4: oppressing you and in our brutal dictators of a murder's regime,
Speaker 4: like they may be a lot more vulnerable than you
Speaker 4: actually understand. Also, having air superiority is part.
Speaker 2: Three of this.
Speaker 4: The fact that Iran was able to be decimated when
Speaker 4: it comes to their air power virtually instantly by Israel,
Speaker 4: and now Israel can do whatever they want to do
Speaker 4: whenever they want to do it, however they want to
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 2: Over the skies of Israel, of Iran.
Speaker 4: It is also incredibly telling, like it is unbelievable now
Speaker 4: what we're looking at, and I mean this like it is.
Speaker 4: It is just amazing to me that we have seen
Speaker 4: how quickly Iran has been just decimated and now you
Speaker 4: can do whatever you want to do. Now you put
Speaker 4: all this together in a perfect storm where we are now.
Speaker 4: And this is also a think a foreign policy issure.
Speaker 4: We're sitting the president saying the message of the world
Speaker 4: like if I tell you, whether it's tariffs or a
Speaker 4: nuclear program, that this is the deal, and you don't
Speaker 4: believe me. Watch how fast you find out? Like this,
Speaker 4: this goes back to that FAFO mentality of this of
Speaker 4: this administration, like watch and find out. You have the
Speaker 4: President returning to Washington after cutting the G seven Canada
Speaker 4: trip short. You have the President saying, everybody get together
Speaker 4: in the situation room. You have the president telling that
Speaker 4: clearly the vice president to go out and say.
Speaker 2: Hey, we may enter this war.
Speaker 4: All of these different scenarios and just how quickly the
Speaker 4: President is moving, I think is just on no one.
Speaker 4: I think believe the President would move this quick. And
Speaker 4: I think he's shown people that like, hey, not only
Speaker 4: are we going to move this quick, but you guys
Speaker 4: better get the hell out of the way. Like when
Speaker 4: I tell you something, if it's sixty days, and that
Speaker 4: was a nice timeline that I gave you, right it was,
Speaker 4: it really was. It was a nice timeline. And the
Speaker 4: sixty day timeline that I gave you, you should have paid
Speaker 4: attention and you should have listened. And if you would
Speaker 4: have listened, then you wouldn't be in the scenario. And
Speaker 4: so if you're the iatota right now, you may lose everything.
Speaker 4: I think that's also part of what the present is
Speaker 4: saying you want to lose everything. You want to lose
Speaker 4: all your power and your life, because we know where
Speaker 4: you are and I could kill you right now if
Speaker 4: I want to. The Israelis could kill you right now
Speaker 4: if they want to. There's no reason for you try
Speaker 4: to run high because we're going to watch you. We
Speaker 4: know where you are, we know where you're going, and
Speaker 4: if you think for a moment that we can't kill you,
Speaker 4: then you're an idiot. This is all part of the
Speaker 4: presence peace through strengths, showing you here's your deadline, and
Speaker 4: I'm not screwing around now. This deadline of sixty days
Speaker 4: was I also think a very nice one. I really do.
Speaker 4: I think it was a very nice deadline. It was
Speaker 4: one that gave them not thirty days, but sixty days
Speaker 4: to do this. I think that's a positive. Like that
Speaker 4: was showing that he was really willing to come together
Speaker 4: and he was really willing to have a conversation. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: Iran and their you know, murderous regime, for some reason,
Speaker 4: thought they were much more powerful thany actually were. Well,
Speaker 4: all that's been shot to hell now, like it's all
Speaker 4: just been shot to hell, and so we're at a
Speaker 4: point now where there are three different scenarios.
Speaker 2: In my mind that could happen.
Speaker 4: Okay, Number one, we could have total regime change and
Speaker 4: ran and that could happen actually quickly if the people
Speaker 4: rise up. Number Two, we could actually take out the
Speaker 4: leader if we need to, or Israel could take out
Speaker 4: the leader if he needs to, and that could be
Speaker 4: significant as well. Or three, they come to the deal
Speaker 4: and they surrender and then everything just calms down very quickly.
Speaker 4: Those are three very real and very different scenarios.
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