Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arms Strong and Getty and no Hee Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Mister Vice President, is the United States now at war
Speaker 3: with Iran? No, Kristen, We're not at war with Iran.
Speaker 3: We're at war with Iran's nuclear program. President's been very clear, Kristen.
Speaker 3: We have no interest in a protracted conflict. We have
Speaker 3: no interest in boots on the ground.
Speaker 4: I don't like the regime, but we're not into the
Speaker 4: regime change business here. We're into the safety and security
Speaker 4: of the United States business.
Speaker 2: We are not pursuing regime change.
Speaker 5: We're not trying to put any troops on the ground
Speaker 5: into Iran.
Speaker 2: We are trying to eliminate their nuclear weapons program.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think I see boots on the ground
Speaker 4: in our future, but I do see Israel not stopping.
Speaker 2: So that was JD. Vansvice President, Marco Rubio, the Secretary
Speaker 2: of State, Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, both very trumpy
Speaker 2: hawks in the Republican Party saying no or not, this
Speaker 2: isn't about regime change, and then Trump, like an hour
Speaker 2: after they all went on the TV shows defending his
Speaker 2: actions against a hostile press that, of course wanted us
Speaker 2: to do nothing. I guess Donald Trump tweeted out, it's
Speaker 2: not politically correct to use the term regime change, but
Speaker 2: if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran
Speaker 2: great again in all caps, why wouldn't there be a
Speaker 2: regime change mega, as in m I GA as in
Speaker 2: make America Iran great again.
Speaker 6: So I wonder if Iranian.
Speaker 7: Ex pats who despise the current regime, we'll start wearing
Speaker 7: mega hats with the old Iran flag on it. And
Speaker 7: we've got the lion on there, which has become a
Speaker 7: potent symbol of get the Mullahs out.
Speaker 2: Later this and about a half an hour, actually, we're
Speaker 2: going to talk to Mike Lyons, another one of our
Speaker 2: military analysts that we really like about how it went
Speaker 2: in what could come next. I just I don't personally
Speaker 2: get why Iran would do a lot of the things
Speaker 2: people are scared of happening. It just seems like it
Speaker 2: would be a soulicide mission. Well yeah, the only for
Speaker 2: the country argument.
Speaker 7: Well, right, but if you have a messianic religious fervor,
Speaker 7: as the Ayatola does allegedly and a lot of the
Speaker 7: people around him, you want to bring on the apocalypse.
Speaker 6: That's part of their religious politics.
Speaker 7: It hasn't happened yet, but that's the main argument for
Speaker 7: doing what was done, is that these are religious lunatics.
Speaker 7: These are not calculating dictators of a Kim Jong unish style.
Speaker 7: And that's a big enough pain in the ass that
Speaker 7: he has nukes, but they are religious lunatics.
Speaker 2: If they believe that and they strike, for instance, one
Speaker 2: of our bases and kill a whole bunch of US soldiers,
Speaker 2: it will be apocalyptic for one area of the world terran.
Speaker 2: The rest of the world is going to continue on.
Speaker 6: At which point the Muslim world.
Speaker 7: Unites and fights back against the Great Satan and brings
Speaker 7: on the great to religious war.
Speaker 6: I guess the.
Speaker 7: Concept of the thirteenth Mahdi, which I remember reading about
Speaker 7: a number of years ago. I can't remember why I
Speaker 7: had to do with a post nine one one.
Speaker 2: Probably after nine to eleven we all memorized this.
Speaker 7: It refers to a messianic figure in islam belief, often
Speaker 7: associated with the end times, who is expected to bring
Speaker 7: justice and peace to the world. While she a Muslim
Speaker 7: Islam in particular, anticipates the return of the twelfth Mahdi.
Speaker 7: Concept of the thirteenth Mahdi is not a standard part
Speaker 7: of the doctrine, but it's believed that some of the
Speaker 7: wackadoodles in charge of her hon are really into this,
Speaker 7: bringing on the apocalypse and Allah's justice being visited on
Speaker 7: the unbeliever's bubble.
Speaker 2: It's hard to know how much they actually believe it.
Speaker 2: You just never know. It might be a good way
Speaker 2: to hold sway over a bunch of religious nutjobs. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 6: Out in the hinterlands, I mean the citizens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just watching I was looking up at
Speaker 2: ABC News right now and they have Ian Pannel in
Speaker 2: Tel Aviv, and I thought he was in Kiev or
Speaker 2: some other bombed out town in Ukraine, because that's what
Speaker 2: it looked like in that little area with the apartment
Speaker 2: complex is just rubble. That's what's happening in some parts
Speaker 2: of sparkling, glittery, very modern tel Aviv. They're getting missile
Speaker 2: striked pretty good by Iran. And I can't imagine that
Speaker 2: Israel's going to allow that to happen for very long
Speaker 2: if they can stop it, so it isn't just what
Speaker 2: do we do next? Israel gets to say.
Speaker 7: Right, and from what I understand, Iran's held back some
Speaker 7: of the more heavy armaments and those might be on
Speaker 7: the way. So what role do we take and even
Speaker 7: more active role in intercepting ordinance as it flies toward Israel.
Speaker 2: Don't know, but it's far from over.
Speaker 7: While the success of the initial mission is unmistakable, Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's definitely a time of uncertainty and any sort of triumphalism.
Speaker 6: Well nobody.
Speaker 7: I don't think anybody's engaging any in any triumphalism. Jd Vance,
Speaker 7: Marco Rubio very serious in businesslike on the unwatchable talk
Speaker 7: shows over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I keep mentioning this. The four hundred kilograms
Speaker 2: of sixty percent enriched uranium is still out there somewhere
Speaker 2: as far as we know. Where is that because that's
Speaker 2: the important part of the whole nuclear program. That's why
Speaker 2: you had those reactor sites, was to make that stuff.
Speaker 2: And where is it? And do we know?
Speaker 6: That's a big question. Nobody knows.
Speaker 7: I don't think, well somebody knows, but we got to
Speaker 7: get it out of them. A couple of different perspectives
Speaker 7: to share with you, although, Jack, you've you've led us
Speaker 7: rather neatly into one from one of our listeners who is,
Speaker 7: if not an expert, damn close to it in the
Speaker 7: very world you're talking about the enrichment of uranium, And
Speaker 7: he says, and I'll keep him anonymous for now, the
Speaker 7: basis for criticism of the attack will most likely be
Speaker 7: the accusation that Iran was not close to being able
Speaker 7: to make a nuke. In fact, Jeff mccauslin of CBS
Speaker 7: advocated that position when he was on the show earlier today.
Speaker 7: But consider this little bit of math. If Iran has
Speaker 7: a stockpile of uranium refined to a level of three
Speaker 7: percent enrichment, as Iran and both the IAEA both claim
Speaker 7: that they do, then Iran has already refined the uranium
Speaker 7: more than ninety nine point nine to nine percent of
Speaker 7: the total refinement needed to achieve weapons grade enrichment. Or
Speaker 7: put another way, they ever fined something that exists at
Speaker 7: less than three parts per ten million distilled it down
Speaker 7: to three parts per one hundred. All they need to
Speaker 7: make weapons grade uranium is to further refine it by
Speaker 7: around thirtyfold, using the exact same technology that got them
Speaker 7: to the level they're at. One reason that Iran has
Speaker 7: been quote within a couple of weeks of getting a
Speaker 7: nuke for months or years is that quote a couple
Speaker 7: weeks is the time it would take to convert the
Speaker 7: three percent stuff to the ninety percent stuff.
Speaker 6: However, the likely.
Speaker 7: Hold up is that Iran also needs to work out
Speaker 7: all the details and engineering of the actual bomb, igniters, reflectors,
Speaker 7: et cetera, et cetera, and the ability to put it
Speaker 7: on a missile for delivery to its target.
Speaker 2: Those things are much harder. You don't have to put
Speaker 2: it on a missile for a target, though, has been
Speaker 2: pointed out many of people. All they got to do
Speaker 2: is drive a truck into Tel Aviv somehow, like you know,
Speaker 2: like Israel has apparently been able to do into Iran
Speaker 2: with drones and Ukraine was able to do into Russia
Speaker 2: with drones. Drive a truck into Israel or next to
Speaker 2: a US base. You don't need to put it on
Speaker 2: a rocket.
Speaker 7: Can you imagine a nuclear arm suicide bomber with a truck?
Speaker 7: Final bit that he says those things are much harder
Speaker 7: to track and inspect. But the important thing is that
Speaker 7: once they do work out those details, Iran can create
Speaker 7: weapons grade fissile material within a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Iran has been a I was about to use a
Speaker 2: really gross graphic medical example, but I don't need to.
Speaker 6: Thank Goodness for your restraint.
Speaker 2: God, I'm really wanting to. Yeah, no, I won't.
Speaker 6: What do you got for us? Tumor festering sore?
Speaker 2: Yeah, open festering shore with some more. Yeah, it's sort
Speaker 2: of a sort of graphic language that direction. But it
Speaker 2: has been that for so many years, and it's just
Speaker 2: the world just puts up with it. And maybe it's
Speaker 2: time the world doesn't put up with that. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's going nowhere. Good you just I guess said. The
Speaker 2: world has been hoping all this time that the ancient
Speaker 2: Ayatola will die or there'll be an overthrower or something
Speaker 2: like that. And you know, why why go to war
Speaker 2: and risk everything that is war if perhaps it'll die
Speaker 2: out on its own.
Speaker 7: But man, we've been waiting a long time. Or the
Speaker 7: belief that they don't really mean that stuff that death
Speaker 7: to America, death Israel. They don't, they don't actually mean that.
Speaker 7: The interesting part of this, and again there are question
Speaker 7: marks around this. I do not bring one hundred percent
Speaker 7: certainty to all of this, but the idea that we
Speaker 7: have now started a war with Iran. We are now
Speaker 7: at war. We have been attacked dozens and dozens and
Speaker 7: dozens of times in the United States, never mind Israel
Speaker 7: or close ally. Our people have been attacked in deadly fashion,
Speaker 7: many many times by Iran through the years they've been
Speaker 7: at war.
Speaker 6: We just haven't.
Speaker 2: Well, we're aware of much. We're aware of plots. We
Speaker 2: have captured some of the Iranian operatives to try to
Speaker 2: kill our president. That's not a terrible reason to bomb
Speaker 2: them right there.
Speaker 7: Right then, you have this perspective from the La County
Speaker 7: Sheriff's Department. Our hearts go out. This is from their
Speaker 7: official Twitter account. Our hearts go out to the victims
Speaker 7: and families impacted by the recent bombings in Iran. While
Speaker 7: this tragic event occurred overseas, the LA County Sheriff's Department
Speaker 7: is closely monitoring the situation alongside our local, state, and
Speaker 7: federal park.
Speaker 2: Why anyway, why my local sheriff monitoring what's going on
Speaker 2: in Iran? Our hearts go out to the victims and
Speaker 2: new families impacted by the recent bombings. Can you monitor
Speaker 2: my local Walgreens and CBS to make sure doesn't get
Speaker 2: rob blind. So what it can stay open? How about
Speaker 2: you let somebody else worry about Iran well.
Speaker 7: Not shockingly, not long after that, the La County Sheriff's
Speaker 7: Department put out the following statement. We are issuing this
Speaker 7: statement to formally apologize for an offensive and inappropriate social
Speaker 7: media post recently posting on our department social media platforms
Speaker 7: blah blahla. This post was unacceptable, made in error, does
Speaker 7: not reflect the views of Sheriff Robert G. Luna nor
Speaker 7: the department. Okay, who put it out, and we don't
Speaker 7: comment on that. This has nothing to do with our mission.
Speaker 7: Virtually everything you've said.
Speaker 2: Who put it out? Somebody that works for you? Are
Speaker 2: they still working there?
Speaker 6: They don't go to that.
Speaker 7: You're committed to learning from this failure and to prevent
Speaker 7: such incidents from occurring again.
Speaker 2: Somebody who works there in the Sheriff's department put that
Speaker 2: out thinking that that was what everybody thought and would
Speaker 2: be Okay, that person and everyone who was aware of
Speaker 2: that statement needs to go.
Speaker 6: I disagree.
Speaker 7: I suspect it was a woke activist employee who had
Speaker 7: access to the social media.
Speaker 2: Well, well they still haven't mentioned, did they get fired
Speaker 2: or they still work there?
Speaker 7: Steps are being taken a strength in our social media
Speaker 7: over a site protocols and to ensure that any future
Speaker 7: communications aligned with our department standards of professionalism, respect and accountability.
Speaker 7: We're rooting out the evil to her and will fire
Speaker 7: their ass and probably give them a little night stick
Speaker 7: on the way out. That's how I interpret that.
Speaker 2: Tend to put somebody with that point of view.
Speaker 6: Wow, well, all right, minor point moving along.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't somebody in that job supposedly have the best interest
Speaker 2: of the sheriff's department.
Speaker 7: That's what their job is. That's my point. That's not
Speaker 7: their job. They just had access to it. There's some underling.
Speaker 7: Maybe he knows how to.
Speaker 2: Blah blah, maybe tighten up your access like you and
Speaker 2: I don't have lots of people with really crazy ideas
Speaker 2: have access to art statements.
Speaker 7: No indeed coming up. How and when Trump made the
Speaker 7: decision to go. It's pretty interesting. He was a board
Speaker 7: marine one.
Speaker 6: According to inside sources.
Speaker 2: And this is the big headline. Millions on alert for
Speaker 2: life threatening heat across much of the country. What is
Speaker 2: causing this heat? Joe Getti has a theory summer more's
Speaker 2: my best theory.
Speaker 7: I'm still conducting experiments and consulting the calendar.
Speaker 2: That's a decent theory. More on the way, stay here,
Speaker 2: the Test.
Speaker 6: Of Thorpe all about it falls down, he looks hurt.
Speaker 7: There it comes Sga the other way inside of Williams
Speaker 7: throws it down.
Speaker 2: Halliburton's hurt right away. What he fell. That was the
Speaker 2: play of the game. And it happened in the first quarter.
Speaker 2: The star player for Indiana, who was on fire nine
Speaker 2: points and seven minutes and just dominating, was playing injured
Speaker 2: and he goes down and he immediately knew it was over.
Speaker 2: He's pounding the court, he's crying. Everybody on both teams
Speaker 2: knew too. Oh man, the best player on one team
Speaker 2: just went out. I mean, that's that's not what you're
Speaker 2: wanting a game seven. It was just it was horrible.
Speaker 2: He didn't they didn't. There's no attempt. I mean, he
Speaker 2: knew it was over. They just got him up and
Speaker 2: took him to the locker room. Is dang it. It
Speaker 2: could have been a really great game anyway, Okay, a.
Speaker 7: Very plucky effort against mighty Oklahoma that's got a bunch
Speaker 7: of I was just reading a bunch of super high
Speaker 7: draft choices. Yeah, over the next couple of years. I mean,
Speaker 7: they're just getting started. I've heard that before though in
Speaker 7: my life watching No it's a dynasty, clearly a dynasty.
Speaker 2: And things change. But I'm interested in the fact because
Speaker 2: this happened a couple of times in the playoffs. Athletes
Speaker 2: the whole they just know their body and and injuries
Speaker 2: and stuff like that in a way that like the
Speaker 2: rest of us don't. Apparently, like they know when they
Speaker 2: get an injury. Oh, this is this is huge, this
Speaker 2: is bad. I'm out for a year or whatever. Where
Speaker 2: is I, for instance, as just a regular human being
Speaker 2: regularly like twist a certain way and think, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna walk again, and then five minutes later,
Speaker 2: I'm fine. Oh sout. Apparently I'm all right. You know,
Speaker 2: you've been over picked something. Oh my god, this is it.
Speaker 2: I'll be in a chair. Ah, I'm gonna be driving
Speaker 2: a chair with my chin. Oh I'm fine.
Speaker 7: So, speaking of pain, Fox News Mark Levin nuked Representative
Speaker 7: Marjorie Taylor Green, I am unfortunately going to be quote
Speaker 7: media Eite, which is the shameless left wing rank, but
Speaker 7: they're getting the quotes right. On Sunday, Green tweeted MGT MTG.
Speaker 7: I never hear it called Green, so that it's confusing
Speaker 7: to me for a thing. Yeah, Margie said, I don't
Speaker 7: know anyone in America who has been the victim of
Speaker 7: a crime or killed by Iran, but I know many
Speaker 7: people who have been victims of crime committed by criminal
Speaker 7: legal aliens are murdered by cartel and Chinese fentanyl and drugs. However,
Speaker 7: America has not dropped bunker busters on the cartel sophisticated
Speaker 7: drug tunnels, launched tomahawks on massive cartel poisoning drug networks,
Speaker 7: et cetera, et cetera. Neokan warmongers beat their drums of
Speaker 7: war and act like billy badasses going to war in
Speaker 7: countries most Americans have never seen can't find on a map,
Speaker 7: but never find the courage to go to war against
Speaker 7: the actual terrorists who actually do kill Americans invaderland make
Speaker 7: billions doing it every day year after year.
Speaker 2: Man's that's the Tucker Carlson argument right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: By the way, it's probably worth noting there wasn't ani
Speaker 7: and drone attack that actually killed three service members from
Speaker 7: Georgia in Jordan.
Speaker 6: Just last year.
Speaker 2: But well, in addition to thousands of American soldiers they've
Speaker 2: killed over the years.
Speaker 7: Right, and Levin fired back, Marjorie Taylor Green, shameless.
Speaker 6: Nit wit and everyone knows it.
Speaker 7: How incredibly dumb is this, Marjorie Taylor Green? She doesn't
Speaker 7: know anyone in America has been a victim of crime
Speaker 7: or killed by Iran. You mean the thousands of Americans,
Speaker 7: especially military personnel killed and maimed by the Iranian terrorist regime.
Speaker 7: He went on on that level. So, yeah, there's obviously
Speaker 7: a bit of a divide.
Speaker 6: On the right.
Speaker 2: Well was she you know, Well, according to polling, she's
Speaker 2: in a pretty small minority, although that is a loud
Speaker 2: minority that will donate a lot to your campaign if
Speaker 2: you represent them.
Speaker 7: Well, and the whole tossing out a false choice thing, Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 7: what happened here doesn't prevent us going after the cartels.
Speaker 7: It's not an either or never was, and how the
Speaker 7: hell do you imagine it is?
Speaker 6: But that sort of thing seems to be very popular.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does Mike Lions. We love talking to him about
Speaker 2: all things military. Will get his take on what happened
Speaker 2: and what could happen, among other things, to stay tuned.
Speaker 6: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: As the strike package approached for DOEU and Natence, the
Speaker 1: US protection package employed high speed suppression weapons to ensure
Speaker 1: safe passage of the strike package, with fighter assets employing
Speaker 1: preemptive suppressing fires against any potential Iranian surface to air threats.
Speaker 1: We are currently unaware of any shots fired at the
Speaker 1: US strike package on the way in Wow.
Speaker 2: So we were able to fly over Iran, drop all
Speaker 2: those bombs, do whatever we wanted, then leave without a
Speaker 2: shot being fired at us.
Speaker 7: To discuss the success of the mission, what's likely to
Speaker 7: come after, and much more or please welcome Mike Lyons,
Speaker 7: military analyst to the show again. Mike recently penned a
Speaker 7: terrific article for Real Clear Defense entitled The War that
Speaker 7: was Always Coming Mike welcome.
Speaker 6: How are you hey, guys?
Speaker 4: Great to be back.
Speaker 2: Could that have gone any better?
Speaker 4: Not really? I don't see how you know again all
Speaker 4: of warfare's deception. I think everybody was looking at the
Speaker 4: head fake of B two's getting stationed in Guam for
Speaker 4: a couple of days and taking their pictures there. I
Speaker 4: didn't think it was going to happen Saturday night. I
Speaker 4: thought it might have happened forty eight hours after that,
Speaker 4: but it couldn't have. And it just again shows American
Speaker 4: ingenuity planning with a lot of help of Israel. Let's
Speaker 4: face it. I mean they take out the entire air
Speaker 4: defense systems. That target was the most important thing inside
Speaker 4: of Iran and they were just completely incapable of defending it.
Speaker 4: So it just shows you the status of where they
Speaker 4: are and what the situation is US there don't know
Speaker 4: if it's been destroyed totally. I thought the chairman gave
Speaker 4: very guarded remarks about what the situation is. We've got
Speaker 4: our president calling Bullzheim's, you know, is one on one
Speaker 4: is pretty different and it's not the end, but it
Speaker 4: surely sets back their their program, and it was frankly inevitable.
Speaker 4: At some point US or Israel was going to do it.
Speaker 7: And Iran is not technically defenseless, but they're as close
Speaker 7: as a significant power has been in my memory.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: You know, they had say three hundreds, say four hundreds,
Speaker 4: They had strategic level air defense systems that are all gone.
Speaker 4: Their capability to create ballistic missiles is gone. That went
Speaker 4: out about six months ago the rains you attridded all
Speaker 4: of the capability out. They've obviously taken away and stripped
Speaker 4: away has Blah Humas, the hu Thi's, all of those
Speaker 4: proxy brigade, all those all those people that were fighting
Speaker 4: their war are all gone. So they are very well
Speaker 4: exposed right now. And I don't think Israel stopping. In fact,
Speaker 4: they're going for the Supreme Leader decapitation. His strategy is
Speaker 4: in their DNA. It's in their DNA since nineteen four
Speaker 4: forty eight. They're not going to stop. And also, this
Speaker 4: is not going to be just because they do this.
Speaker 4: You know, they're going to be responsible for rebuilding it.
Speaker 4: They're not going to care. They're just going to see
Speaker 4: what happens. But they're not going to put up the
Speaker 4: targets are going after right now, specifically the army. I
Speaker 4: think that's really important because that's where the power center
Speaker 4: will be. Once the Supreme Leader is gone, someone in
Speaker 4: this in their military will will rise up, have access
Speaker 4: to that equipment and try to take over by force.
Speaker 4: And I think that's smart going after the army leaders
Speaker 4: as well right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the history of these sorts of things
Speaker 2: is some popular military leader who has a lot of
Speaker 2: people who are willing to follow them takes over. But
Speaker 2: if you kill all the popular military leaders, it makes
Speaker 2: it a lot less likely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the scenario of potentially someone coming from outside,
Speaker 4: I know the Shah's son has been on social media
Speaker 4: trying to politic for the job. Perhaps let's hope there's
Speaker 4: a Henry Kissinger out there somewhere that it's getting these
Speaker 4: Middle Eastern countries together, because I think this is a
Speaker 4: generational moment. Like I said in that article, I think
Speaker 4: we have a chance to reshape the Middle East through
Speaker 4: the end of this century in a way that's never
Speaker 4: been shaped before, and bring in a country that truly
Speaker 4: will be part of the international community, that won't be
Speaker 4: looking to destroy Israel, that won't, you know, create this
Speaker 4: hegemonic power there that the other Middle Eastern countries were
Speaker 4: frankly afraid of. But we have to see it's this
Speaker 4: is also a Shiasuni divide that is the underlying current
Speaker 4: to that as well, which is which is again why
Speaker 4: we have to just be very careful as to once
Speaker 4: this regime does fall, who takes over.
Speaker 7: Well, right, and honestly, it could be argued that if
Speaker 7: you want to prevent chaos, and I think most people
Speaker 7: and countries do, the fact that a lot of the
Speaker 7: major military leaders are gone is not necessarily a good thing,
Speaker 7: as they are an obvious next step, but who knows.
Speaker 6: I mean, it could go in any direction. So the
Speaker 6: title go ahead, no, no good good.
Speaker 7: I was just going to reference the title of your article,
Speaker 7: the war that was always coming. I'd said early in
Speaker 7: the show that a number of you know, press outlets
Speaker 7: and politicians are saying America is now at war with Iran,
Speaker 7: when we've been attacked dozens and dozens and dozens of
Speaker 7: times through the years, fought back against Iran's proxies and
Speaker 7: sometimes a're on directly. The idea that this is the
Speaker 7: beginning of a state of hostilities is almost funny.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean, they've been at war with us for
Speaker 4: the last forty seven years. They've killed or main thousands
Speaker 4: of American service members of just people don't know. The
Speaker 4: Iranian propaganda machine has kept a quiet and for whatever reason,
Speaker 4: every president, to include Republican presidents, have been always so
Speaker 4: focused on de escalation and not ramping up the escalation ladder.
Speaker 4: But this is the first president comes in and says Nope,
Speaker 4: enough's enough, and I'm just glad it's happened again. It
Speaker 4: was always going to happen. Israel was going to take
Speaker 4: out their nuclear capability, whether or not they had October
Speaker 4: seventh happened or not. Let's say hesblond huthis and and
Speaker 4: Iran was still at its height of its defenses. Israel
Speaker 4: would have sacrificed itself in order to take out their capability.
Speaker 4: So that was always going to happen. But they've been
Speaker 4: at war with us for the last four seven years.
Speaker 4: As we've talked about it, greatest foreign policy failure in
Speaker 4: our country since post World War two, and that's that's
Speaker 4: hopefully we're on the paths to change now.
Speaker 2: So not surprisingly, the Supreme Leader of Iran has threatened
Speaker 2: all kinds of things. Oh you've done it this time.
Speaker 2: Now all hell is coming toward Israel in the United States.
Speaker 2: Will you will wish you had never done this? Blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. What can Iran do? What do you think
Speaker 2: they actually will do?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: I think you know again, classic Iranian playbook. They sow
Speaker 4: fear within our country saying we're going to release sleeper styles.
Speaker 4: You know, they must watch the same movies that it
Speaker 4: made here in Hollywood, because I just think that's completely overblown.
Speaker 4: They will likely try to maybe target some American forces
Speaker 4: that are in the area that are closed, that are
Speaker 4: all that are all buttoned up right now. Every one
Speaker 4: of those missiles they try to fire at them has
Speaker 4: a return address, and I guarantee it, as soon as
Speaker 4: one of them lead the tube on that side, there'll
Speaker 4: be something in return going in the other direction. This
Speaker 4: president is not going to sit back and take and
Speaker 4: take it, so I wouldn't be surprised if we continue
Speaker 4: to escalate. The thing is, we don't even speak to Iran.
Speaker 4: We don't even talk to them directly, like Marco Rubio
Speaker 4: brought that point up over the weekend, and we haven't.
Speaker 4: We've always talked to them through proxies, which is why
Speaker 4: I just there's no negotiation that's going to take place.
Speaker 4: They're not interested in talking. They're interested in just surviving
Speaker 4: and delaying. But they're in such a bad point strategically
Speaker 4: right now, I just I just think they're going to
Speaker 4: do it. I wouldn't be surprised if they get on
Speaker 4: planes and left. I think that's going to the only survive.
Speaker 4: But the switzerlander gets some other place. That's the only thing. Wow,
Speaker 4: ensure they're survival at this point.
Speaker 7: That's the old dictator's golden parachute. Get out of dodge
Speaker 7: and we won't kill you, Yeah, Mike. Folks who are
Speaker 7: opposed to the strike frequently cite the example of Iraq
Speaker 7: and Mission Creep and the rest of it.
Speaker 6: How did the two situation.
Speaker 7: I mean, I realized this could be a book length answer,
Speaker 7: but how did two situations differ most prime to you
Speaker 7: or most.
Speaker 4: Importantly, Yeah, not even close. We don't have one hundred
Speaker 4: thousand troops there on the ground. We didn't topple this
Speaker 4: regime necessarily. This again was as a surgical military strike
Speaker 4: to advance our foreign policy. Right, war as an extension
Speaker 4: of foreign policy. This strike was doing that. The president
Speaker 4: is not declaring war against Iran. Also, Iran is not
Speaker 4: a wash in weapons that would fuel an insurgency that
Speaker 4: took place in Iraq, And we made this tremendous mistake
Speaker 4: of dismantling the Iraqi military and basically putting four hundred
Speaker 4: thousand young men on the street who went and then
Speaker 4: picked up weapons and fought against us in an insurgent manner.
Speaker 4: That's not just the same situation here, So it is
Speaker 4: completely different and it's not the same comparison. It's not
Speaker 4: an endless war that's going on. It's a one time strike.
Speaker 4: We're still supporting Israel with intelligence and material and equipment,
Speaker 4: and that's still going on. But the bottom line is
Speaker 4: we used this weapon system which was designed to take
Speaker 4: out that specific reactor fifteen years ago. We knew that
Speaker 4: they were doing this message to North Korea. If we
Speaker 4: wanted to do it to you, that's going to happen next.
Speaker 4: So because it's the same kind of deep, kind of
Speaker 4: assist reactor that they've built in North Korea that they
Speaker 4: have here as well. So you bring that all together,
Speaker 4: this is the only weapon that could be used against
Speaker 4: that target. And I'm glad we did it.
Speaker 7: You have better sources than we do. What have you
Speaker 7: heard about the effectiveness of the.
Speaker 4: MOP So what I'm hearing is that they like the
Speaker 4: fact that it got well underground and if it wasn't destroyed,
Speaker 4: it's been buried in on itself. So right now, the signals,
Speaker 4: the Intel, what they're listening to the iraqis talk about
Speaker 4: it and they're noticing that there's not normally you would
Speaker 4: send an army unit or somebody to go towards it
Speaker 4: and check it out itself. Is real bombed a lot
Speaker 4: of those roads that could go there, but there's no
Speaker 4: signs of life. There's no nothing there, which means to
Speaker 4: tell me that Israel will eventually send commandos to go
Speaker 4: check it out itself. But the fact of the matter is,
Speaker 4: without any signs of life coming out of there, they
Speaker 4: think that not only did it get further down, but
Speaker 4: it likely imploded on itself, just based on how they
Speaker 4: think that the attack went.
Speaker 6: Military analyst Mike c. Lions.
Speaker 7: Mike, thanks so much for the time. This is far
Speaker 7: from the last chapter in this saga, so let's stay
Speaker 7: in touch.
Speaker 4: Great I describe me.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Ian Bremer was tweeting out yesterday and a lot of
Speaker 2: people have made this point that it shows Iran and
Speaker 2: a number of other countries the importance of having a
Speaker 2: nuclear weapon. Nobody does this to a country that has
Speaker 2: nuclear weapons already. And a big unknown in this whole
Speaker 2: thing is where the enriched uranium is currently And you
Speaker 2: know what other facilities Iran might have that the world
Speaker 2: was not aware of, and do they have the ability
Speaker 2: to get that uranium to a lab somewhere and turn
Speaker 2: it into a nuclear weapon and announce the world, ah,
Speaker 2: we have a nuclear weapon now and change the calculation
Speaker 2: on this completely.
Speaker 7: And if the Mullahs made that announcement, would they be believed?
Speaker 7: I mean, they have every incentive to lie about it.
Speaker 7: At this point, they're hanging on by a threat.
Speaker 2: You'd well, the reason, there's the way this is usually
Speaker 2: handled is you detonate one. That's what. So what we did,
Speaker 2: That's what Russia did, That's what country, That's what countries
Speaker 2: usually do. North Korea did to show the world you
Speaker 2: see we got when we ain't kidding. So they'd probably
Speaker 2: have to have some sort of a detonation to prove it.
Speaker 2: But so hopefully that doesn't happen because that does change everything.
Speaker 2: But the idea of the Iatolas hopping on a plane
Speaker 2: and going to Switzerland and living out their lives in
Speaker 2: some penthouse suite with protection, well, then in Iran is
Speaker 2: completely leaderless. All the military leaders and a lot of
Speaker 2: political leaders are dead, so man, it would be a
Speaker 2: free for all. Then I can't imagine what would happen.
Speaker 7: Why And if I'm one of those guys in my
Speaker 7: swanky pad there in the UAE.
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Speaker 2: Trump is headed to a NATO meeting that was planned
Speaker 2: before this attack on Iran, but I'm sure that'll be
Speaker 2: one of the top topics, along with you know, the
Speaker 2: whole Ukraine Russia thing is still going, and Putin's got
Speaker 2: to be loving the fact that nobody's paying any attention
Speaker 2: to the fact that he's bombing the hell out of
Speaker 2: all kinds of civilian targets around Ukraine daily and not
Speaker 2: getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 7: Ugly Ugly times. Final note for me this segment. Apparently
Speaker 7: Trump was flying along on Marine one, the helicopter, and
Speaker 7: he got a call from Pete Hegseeth, who said, look,
Speaker 7: it's time to make a final decision. We either move
Speaker 7: forward with the strikes and Iran or abort the mission
Speaker 7: because all of those chess pieces had been moved. As
Speaker 7: Mike Liines was describing, the faint out to Guamber wherever
Speaker 7: they sent those B two's.
Speaker 2: And the it's got up to two weeks.
Speaker 7: As Trump said, So obviously things were moving in the background.
Speaker 7: But evidently Steve Whitcoff, his Special Envoy to the Middle East,
Speaker 7: essentially said to Trump, they're not serious about the negotiating.
Speaker 7: They're not They're clearly not right, and so Trump said, go.
Speaker 2: And go. They did interesting. Be interested in your takes
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Speaker 2: obviously other news in the world and things to talk about.
Speaker 2: I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 5: And the National Guard is still here. A lot of
Speaker 5: security here in LA, and I think the National Guard
Speaker 5: is I think the LA lifestyle is going to their head.
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Speaker 2: So here's an interesting thing. My son and I are
Speaker 2: driving to Dodgers Stadium on Friday to go to a
Speaker 2: Dodgers game, and we're listening to the hip hop station.
Speaker 2: I think it was Power Anyway. All the hosts on
Speaker 2: there are not all the hosts, but a lot of
Speaker 2: the hosts have a Hispanic accent, and they were really
Speaker 2: into the story that. So I'll back up a second.
Speaker 2: Last week brought you the story that there was pressure
Speaker 2: being put on the Dodgers by a number of left
Speaker 2: leaning news organizations with the theory that forty percent of
Speaker 2: their fan base is Hispanic and hey, we might launch
Speaker 2: a boycott against Dodgers games if you don't get on
Speaker 2: the side our side, you know, okay.
Speaker 7: The Black Lives Matter strategy of bullying. Nike say into
Speaker 7: given one hundred.
Speaker 2: Million dollars, right, And we are kind of talking about
Speaker 2: how that era seemed like it was over where your
Speaker 2: big companies take a political stance to appease you know,
Speaker 2: being taken hostage by activist groups or whatever. But on
Speaker 2: my drive to Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers did announce a
Speaker 2: million dollars going to a fund to help victims of ice,
Speaker 2: whatever that would mean. I mean, it just seems like
Speaker 2: a gesture to me. I mean, I can't imagine how
Speaker 2: where the rubber meets the road on those individual dollars
Speaker 2: or whatever. But anyway, it was a gesture to hold
Speaker 2: off the very thing we were talking about. And the
Speaker 2: crowd on the hip hop radio station, which based on
Speaker 2: all their their news hits and commentary between songs, they
Speaker 2: were hardcore horrified and against any of the ice raids
Speaker 2: or doing anything about kicking illegals out of the country.
Speaker 2: They were overjoyed with the Dodgers' decision, and you know,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are back on the right side of things
Speaker 2: and all that wow, which I found very interesting. I
Speaker 2: don't I would. I would have been completely unaware of
Speaker 2: it if I hadn't been listening to that radio station.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers did it for people who listened to
Speaker 2: that radio station or follow that kind of news. In fact,
Speaker 2: they probably he'd prefer if nobody else heard about it.
Speaker 2: The fact that they donated a million dollars through this cause,
Speaker 2: and I was surprised. So then my son and I
Speaker 2: would go to the game, and it's fantastic, cool being
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium and lots of lots of fun and
Speaker 2: got to watch Shoeo, Toni batt and all that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff. But had a Dodger dog eleven dollars, maybe
Speaker 2: the worst dog I've ever had had. I'm I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The other food great chicken, Strip's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I had a cheeseburger. It was as good at cheeseburger
Speaker 2: as I've ever had anybody I thought the Dodger dog
Speaker 2: sucked out loud. Anyway, I got my picture taken outside
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium when the game was over because the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in the background, and tweeted it out, and I'll bet
Speaker 2: about half the replies were, I can't believe you went
Speaker 2: to a game after they donated money. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: People who are taking the strong, you know, go in
Speaker 2: the other direction, Boycott, I.
Speaker 7: Guessed, yeah, well, I get the dynamics of why they
Speaker 7: be tempted to do that and think it was a
Speaker 7: good idea, But holy cow, how about you announce, you know,
Speaker 7: our stance is beat the Dodger or beat the Giants
Speaker 7: and beat the Cadres and try to win our division.
Speaker 7: We're a baseball team, folks, We're a baseball team.
Speaker 2: It seems like such an say that Nike.
Speaker 6: Dodgers, all you people.
Speaker 2: It just seems like such an easy out to me
Speaker 2: to say, our primary purpose is to have the best
Speaker 2: baseball team we can, which they have, which they've paid for.
Speaker 2: Every single player is a star. That's one thing you
Speaker 2: notice watching that everybody they put up there is like
Speaker 2: a three time All Star or all time thiss or
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Yeah, every single player. It's something best
Speaker 2: team money can buy.
Speaker 7: But leftists want politics in everything all the time.
Speaker 2: But I think it's such an easy out and I
Speaker 2: think it would work. You just have to have a
Speaker 2: little courage. Our goal is to win another World Series
Speaker 2: period plus, you know, and if you're a different sort
Speaker 2: of a company, you can say, we're obligated by our
Speaker 2: shareholders to concentrate on baking the best running shoe that exists,
Speaker 2: so we're going to stay out of politics. I think
Speaker 2: you're fine. Let people try their boycotts. They're not going
Speaker 2: to amount to anything.
Speaker 7: But the Dodgers must have been scared, Yeah, clearly, or
Speaker 7: got whipped up in the whole, grossly overestimating the numbers
Speaker 7: and power of the activist class.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell them that happens long. The radio station
Speaker 2: I was listened to, they mentioned every single break like
Speaker 2: it was a big deal to them.
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