03-02-26 Part One - Trump's War

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“Sarah comes and talk about what's on the table.”

About the money that we bring for school and home houses, but at the expense of a child. Over the money freedom, the money we want. Over the work, the money we earn, and a lot of money. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

And I'm sorry to be in your state.

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During that time, he changed his mind. That was almost verbatim one of the real statements that I saw. On some of the most ridiculous coverage of the whole thing. And it was, well, or maybe he wasn't going to tell you. You know, maybe you don't say, hey, and about an hour, we're going to start.

We look at the, you know, the logistics of it all of getting something together the Wall Street Journal had a piece on how this thing came to be. And it really was a matter of timing. You and I had an off air discussion about, well, you know, they're not going to do it during the day.

And then I joked actually.

My advice would be do it during the day because it would be a surprise element.

And it wasn't because of a surprise element. It was because of opportunity of where the leadership in Iran was at the time. And they believed if they went after those targets in those moments, they could accomplish taking out a great number of them. And that's what happened.

The synchronization when you look at that, because you had bombers coming in from Israel. Right, you had, you know, the ships in the Arabian sea. You had stealth bombers coming in. Yeah.

So everything was time to hit at the same time. Yeah, that, that synchronization. I was watching some analysis on that. It is, it is mind boggling how they, how they put that together. And then the other things that they used, for example,

I saw one report that we actually got into their defense radar and hacked into their radar. Right. Yeah. And then sending those very, very hundreds of those cheap drones that,

that look like massive amounts of aircraft coming in, that were just cheap drones that they would, you know,

“that that's what appeared on many of their radar screens.”

Right. But actually hacking into their radar screens to confuse them. And then the beginning of the synchronization of taking out so much of their air defense at the exact same time. Right.

Yeah. And that's why you saw, you didn't see. And we don't know how the Americans were killed. We don't know if that was at one of the bases. Right.

That were, that were hit. I initially just assumed Bahrain, but I don't know. That's what I thought. I thought about that too. I thought about it.

Yeah. Bahrain because there, a missile actually landed there. They've got thousands of, you know, and thousands of ballistic missiles. Right. And many of them on mobile launch sites.

Yeah. And, and so, of course, you're going to get, uh, some of those that would be, you know, shot at Israel and then in other Arab countries, which did the opposite of what they expected,

which was it made so you had, well, we found out Saudi Arabia. And you and I talked about this last week. Hmm. The number of countries that said, no, no, no. We're not going to cooperate.

We don't want this happening. And privately, Saudi Arabia was telling the president. Yeah. Go, which was interesting because then the Democrats went, well, so, well, we're doing it because Saudi Arabia wants to.

And I'm just like, oh my gosh. Yes.

there needs to be a full display of the cooperation of other Arab nations

that in the region. Uh, that's important for sure.

“But when the story hit about how Saudi Arabia”

really put the pressure on them, you know, externally, they were saying, oh, no, no, no, no. We don't, you know, I'm wagging my finger. Oh, we don't want this and, and blah, blah, blah. And we're, you know, we're going to stay out of it.

And then internally, they were pressuring the administration saying, look, you need to get this done. Because the reality of those other Arab nations is this, and especially since, um, Iran responded the way they did. Now you have other regional nations,

the ones that were targeted in response and Iran tried to come out with a statement saying, no, no, no, no. We were just going after American interests in those countries. We weren't going after your country.

They were saying basically the response was, you know,

what? We have a right to defend our country. And we don't care that you were going after American targets. You're targeting our nation and we're going to defend our nation. This is a, that's a turning point in this whole thing. Oh, that could be massive.

If, if indeed this goes, though, it keeps going the right direction from the weekend. And that momentum is there, but also what you pointed out, the targets that were hit, the type of targets that were hit. You've disabled a great part of their Navy.

You've disabled a great part of it.

And that other nation can get here is gone.

There is pretty much, pretty much gone. Because their, their naval, naval command was, you know, wiped out too. So they don't really have a response there. You're seeing when you see the fact that Israel went after Hezbollah. Because as Hezbollah was sending rockets,

I don't know that that was strictly a response to their sponsor state being hit as Hezbollah. I think may have been ordered. Look, you've got to send whatever you can because we're crippled here. We've got very little now based on how badly we've been

damaged here.

“And, and, and I think that's, you know, a ran looking at at the reality of this all.”

And the question is, can you get it to the point something you and I have been talking about? When you talk about the state within a state, this 4,000 and, and they pointed out over the weekend, an isomized, I thought, well, it has to be beyond that 4,000. There's probably tens of thousands connected to the 4,000,

which you could, you could easily, that that would be logically. It wouldn't be necessarily limited to those 4,000 very loyal state within a state actors that were that were part of Iran still existing. I mean, without that, they probably would have fallen imploded quite some time ago. But you look at how now the writing is on the wall.

You have nothing and this campaign is going to last as long as it takes according to President Trump. And what do you do? Because you don't have the weapons and you don't have the proxies that you had before.

“And that's the question going forward is, can you break the will of those who were previously loyal?”

And how deep have they gotten? I mean, we've seen the reports of how many in the leadership that they have killed. I'm a dinner jod, the former president. He was targeted for very good reason. You look at the entire structure of the regime of Iran.

And it wasn't in this case just cutting off the head of the snake. Yes, that happened. And the Iotala is no longer a power, which when you think about, he's no longer living. When you think about that, that for all of us to go back to the very beginnings of this whole thing. You know, fit roughly 50 years.

This is incredible. But as you mentioned during the pre-show meeting, there's a ton of work to be done still. There's a lot of moving parts to this whole thing for it to be successful. If this overall mission is successful, it changes things in the Middle East for our lifetime and possibly far beyond that. Because if you look at the way that other Arab nations have come together.

and the fact that other nations and it largely is generational.

“But it's also the fact that if you want to survive, America has the best oil game in terms of what we have in reserves in our soil.”

We, we, their ability back in the day when on a dinner job was in power to say death to America or death to Israel and have the markets just go crazy. The oil markets go crazy over that are over. There's impact, you see it. In fact, with the, with the oil prices over the weekend. I think last I saw and I even checked here in the last, I'll check here about five and a half percent.

Brent crude. Yeah. And then West Texas, about the same. About five. Okay, last I saw.

It went up like 10, then came down to seven, so it's down to five. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I looked at it when I first heard it.

Well, first off, Gavin Newsom's post. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was like, there's no self awareness. We're Democrats at all, yes, prices haven't been above five dollars for a while now.

Yeah. Trump has taken us to war. And now it may go above five dollars a gallon. Yeah. And I'm like, you know, just like, how tone deaf are you by mentioning that we're hanging around five bucks.

But we don't want to go over five bucks. Oh, my god. Shut up. Yeah. And both prices on Brent and, and then West Texas are now back about seven percent.

But if you look at that, if you look at five dollars a barrel for Brent. Okay.

“And for 92 up 492 up 559 for Brent 492 Brent, because that's what comes out of the ran.”

But, but West Texas oil up nearly five dollars a barrel. Something like this years ago, it would be, it would be a much greater. It might be thirty or forty dollars a barrel that it would go up that quickly. Yes. And, but that, you know, you make it a great point.

We got, well, you were a little bit younger than I, just, you're just a year or two younger than I am. Ten years. Yeah. But, I mean, I, I go all the way back to the late 70s with the ran and clearly understand it as you do. Because then in the 80s and 90s, we, you know, we went through everything.

You understand that this is something that's almost a half century long with the United States. My dad's position in the Air Force did not allow me to be ignorant on this issue, because we had so many Iranian pilots. Oh, yeah. Law of the Air Force base. Yes, right.

You, I remember that, don't you? I was standing at the gate as a young, S, P, Explorer, which was a program that young people could join. And I was an S, P, Explorer, standing at the gate of law from the Air Force base, the day that the bus loads of Iranian pilots left law from the Air Force base. And, of course, my dad explained to me more, you know, what was going on. I was fully aware of it because my dad obviously had to stay informed.

And so it was something that, even at that age, I really couldn't escape if I wanted to.

And it was critical in understanding that because there were two things.

The Iran hostage crisis and the Cold War were very much in play. And then you looked at the 1980 election and then there's anybody wondering, I mean, I wasn't old enough to vote. And I did vote for president Reagan for a second term. But you look at the entire equation that was there. And there were some pretty significant threats. You know, I wasn't part of the duck-in-cover teaching children to hide under their school districts.

Cold War era. I wasn't part of that. I was a little bit younger. But still, the Cold War being, and my dad explaining why it was so important, they simply to keep your head on the swivel. Not necessarily for me as a 12 or 13 year old. But I mean, as a nation, they were, and of course, my dad had to, in charge of security for this massive NATO training facility. And, and those things, again, are etched into your, your being.

“Those, that was something I will never forget.”

And as you go on, this is why when president Trump decided to bomb the nuclear site for the rant.

Because when you talk about bombing a rant, that's something that had been thrown around almost became a bit of a joke.

“But that people didn't think it. That they didn't want it to happen to take out Iranian leadership.”

But you would try getting into a conversation. We kind of had a similar conversation last week, right? What do you do? Well, you're not going to trust that the Iatol is just going to go into exile and not have any influence, right? So you wanted to get on a plane without a flight. Right. A thousand other people, you know, a few planes with a thousand other people as loyalists and go live in Siberia or Russia, you know, whatever part of Russia as was the rumor.

And you're not going to trust them on a nuclear deal. You know, everybody was, well, this isn't about regime change. And yeah, it was about, you know, someone to Graham on on on on me to press, you know, this isn't about regime change. So then he went on to talk about how it was about regime change. And by the way, I think he did a good job.

But if something you can't get around because there was, you saw the story. There, there were, there was a talking points text messaging call on Sunday morning, early Sunday morning with all the surrogates that were going to be on the Sunday. Show's, including Lindsey Graham.

“And that was, that's kind of the line you have to take.”

It's not about regime change, but it's about regime change. Of course, it was about regime change. And here's why it's important when you think about it. The eye at all of the regime in Iran is this hard line regime that is that last massive brick wall to break through to get to a new era of the Middle East. And that's quite possibly what we're headed for.

And if that happens, if this overall mission in that way happens, it is going to be written about for a long, long time. The only thing you could say, the technical thing that it's not about regime change is it's not the United States. It's going to set up the government. Yes, and he made that point.

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Yesterday, Tim Kane on Fox News Sunday was the first thing that I watched on Sunday.

Turned it on, he said, "This illegal war." Let's discuss that. We'll do that coming up following the bottom of the hour. Oh, and we have time. I thought we only had a couple of seconds.

And were you like me when you saw the Trump? Your first instinctual reaction was what? That Trump offered a ran free, nuclear fuel forever as part of the deal. And when you first read it, you're like, "What a time, a ran free!" Oh, wait a minute.

He was offering something that he knew they wouldn't accept.

And if they wouldn't accept that, then the negotiations were never going to get anywhere.

And it was like, "No, we still want to retain the power to do our own stuff with nuclear weapons." Because we're going to give you all the free nuclear power forever that you want. Yeah. When they didn't agree to that, you're like, "Okay, you get out." There's no way to get out.

Moving that it's not about power. It's not about, well, that kind of power. It's not about power.

Is there a way to destroy this fuel flashback?

Or just to destroy something? And then, hopefully, it's a storm. No, not at all.

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I said this over the weekend, talking to a bunch of different people. That said, what do you expect to see? And I said, "Well, I expect to see is number one. You're going to see Iranian Americans celebrating in the streets. And here it is right here.

Here we go. (Music) Now, you've got these Iranian Americans dancing signs. We stand with Trump. American flags and Iranian flags together.

And using the song from his rally, the village people, YMCA, as the song from his all of his rally. And I said this when the Democrats immediately jumped out and said, "This is illegal. It's horrible and everything else." And I said, "They're going to be on the wrong side of history."

Now, there's still a lot of, besides the military action. And we'll get into this a little bit later on. You still have, you've got a bunch of different opposition groups, really two main opposition groups. They all want the same thing.

Yeah. So I don't think there's going to be any problem of them uniting together. Right. You shouldn't be, you know, and these are opposition groups that are outside of the country, the former Shah's son, former member of the parliament that have a group in their two strong

groups that want to bring a secular democracy, you know, excuse me, a secular republic, which is under the umbrella of democracy. Yeah. Republican form of government, which means no Democrats allowed, no Republican form of government, as they represent a government of the people.

Yeah. And, but with the separation of church and state. Yeah. And so look, I mean, there, you look at Iran, a very highly educated society. Mm-hmm.

Yes.

“Just like when I went down, never forget when I visited the Alamo a few years ago.”

And the impact, as they talked about the impact that the Constitution and the United States had on Central American and South American countries way back then, you know, way back in the 1800s. Mm-hmm. And it was like, whoa.

Wow. And I didn't know that at that particular time. People do look at the Constitution, the United States. We know Democrats hate it. But you look around the world.

And this is where again, you look at, you know, what these opposition groups are looking at. And what are they looking at?

What is the one thing we set as the core of the Constitution, the most important part of the Constitution?

And it's not the Bill of Rights. Every time I say that I know people go, what do you mean it's not the Bill of Rights? There's something greater than the Bill of Rights. Because the Bill of Rights doesn't exist if you don't have the separation of powers. You know, something that Scalia wrote about.

And it was a brilliant writing and, and, and you look at the basics. And that's it. The foundation. If you don't have a true separation of powers. And, and from that, what stems from that, right?

Because that then is the long-lasting foundation of the Constitution, what holds everything together. And there are other nations that are invious, not that they're going to become the United States.

I think there will be some.

“Again, if this mission is completed and accomplished, you look at the people of Iran who want to have a say so.”

They want to choose their government. They want as a people to run their country. You need police force and an armed forces that, that, because this was brought up over the weekend. How do you do this if the new government of the people isn't armed? Right.

In fact, that was talked about the fact, even. Oh, I forgot where it was. So many things. I got, like, like, like everybody else.

There's like a million things in your head.

Yeah. But there was, there was some discussion where Democrats were saying, but the people aren't armed there. And so the government could take it and they were arguing for citizens having guns in Iran and they were liberals. And it was like, oh, my gosh, it was, it was pretty funny. But we'll get to that here in a little bit.

But the separation of powers is really the entire thing here when we get back to what the president did. Just like last week with tariffs. And, you know, when best it was out there and Trump was out there and they're saying, we can't believe that I can limit trade, but I can charge a tariff. Hmm.

That's where day I mean, come on.

“Well, that's because that's what the Constitution dictates.”

Right. Because the Constitution doesn't say you can tax. Right.

It says you can regulate.

Right. If you wish to regulate from another country, you can do that in an emergency. Yep. You can sanction. Right.

But you can't. But unless we're a war, you can tax. Right. And you can. Or Congress gives you a limited role for limited amount of time, whatever, which has been approved.

But you can't tax you're the executive branch and you're taxing American companies. And you can't tax American companies. It's at simple. Right. And, you know, you can't only Congress can do that.

That's a separation of powers. And as I've said, and we were very disappointed in so many people, Republicans who claim they're conservative, that's just, well,

Jettison, one of the most important parts of the Constitution, which is your elected representatives,

are the ones that tax you. You know, that's your elected representative.

“And that's what's in the Constitution now on the other side here with the separation of powers.”

You know, Tim Kane. It's illegal. It's not illegal. And if you look at it, well, the war powers act, the war powers act. Is a political law.

It's not a criminal law. It's a political law that has no enforcement of the Supreme Court. Right. None. It's not the Constitution.

There isn't one right. There isn't one. Not one administration, democrat or Republican that believes that they have to abide by the war powers act that Congress passed as law. Why? It's very simple.

The Constitution gives the president, you know, he's the commander in chief. He gets to set the rules and regulations if he believes there's a foreign danger to the United States. If you wish to change that, you need to have a constitutional amendment with specific rules and regulations for the president. Otherwise, it's meaningless now. It is political in the fact that the president went to the gang of eight.

Yeah. They let them know what was going on. But he advised Congress, that is a smart move to do. It's a smart move to, as the president did, by the way, very quickly. But I probably could spend an hour on this, though.

I said very quickly. When I woke up in a hotel room in Buffalo, New York. And funny thing is, I left the TV on in the hotel room. I was super the TV on. Right.

When I woke up. To be clear, you flew there. You were there deliberately. You didn't just black out and wake up in a hotel room. Yes.

I was drinking in a bar. So I went in early. And I woke up in a hotel room in Buffalo. And my wallet's gone. I didn't even know.

No, I went visit Dad and watched my great after you played ball. And so I wake up and be in commercials on. I'm like, what's this? What are you selling here? I'm sort of looking my phone.

What? Yeah. And then I turned immediately on. And I saw the eight minutes speech. He covered everything now.

We are the ones that have said the biggest problem with this administration is words.

How the president communicates. He that was a perfect messaging from the president. It really was. I was also a way. And also in a hotel room.

But it looked. I felt like I was about to be able to go to sleep, which is where for me in a hotel room. And then it started. That was.

Yeah. It was 12. 15, 12, 30, our time. Central. And here we go.

And next, and I was up. I never would sleep. I, it was. Okay. Here we are.

Made for a very long day. But it's, it's kind of, you know, what happens because. My thought was. They're out to get the eye at all. They wouldn't have done this.

It was daylight there in Tehran. And I thought, okay. They've got word on where the eye at all is. They're going after strategic sites. But they're going after the eye at all.

Now here's the question. Is he in a bunker.

“And the sub question from that, is there a bunker strong enough to withstand what we have available to us in terms of weaponry?”

And then at the end of it, it was very clear. And then they, a ran when a ran came out and made this statement. It was like, okay.

Nobody has any questions now because a ran had first said, no, no, no, everybody's okay.

And of course, that wasn't the case. But his speech was, his speech was perfect. So getting back to the legal stuff here. And I saw everybody, you know, playing back and forth. Well, the Justice Department guidance from Obama and this happened here in the Justice Department.

And that to me is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The president can do almost anything to protect the United States of Congress doesn't like it. They can impeach him or move him from office. Use the 25th Amendment. Immediately or cut off all funding other than that.

They cannot dictate to the president how to how to go after. Now, there is Justice Department guidelines and we know all over the place. And court, you know, well, maybe that's a guideline that should be.

“But the fact is Constitution doesn't dictate that at all.”

No, no. And so I was reading here with Andrew McCarthy goes, admit it. And this is, but this is why, for example, take out. I mean, that's actually the Constitution. But let's take the politics here and reading Andrew McCarthy.

Administrations of both parties and rationalizing unilateral action now routinely rely on the Obama Justice Department guidance from 2011. That's when President Obama used force and Libya without congressional authorization in the absence of any threat to the United States. Imminent or otherwise, because the Democrats were saying it has to be imminent, which means they're going to attack you now. No, it doesn't. No, never had to be.

No. Obama sought to prevent what the administration said would in the absence of American military intervention. Be a humanitarian catastrophe. Obama officials added to the mix the promotion of regional stability and the credibility of the UN. The Security Council had authorized to no fly zone.

If those are vital American interest, then there is no limitation or unilateral presidential warmaking and many including President Trump, believe this to be the case. Well, it is the case. Yeah. Now, you may be wrong in doing what you do.

What Congress can do is remove you from office or cut off the money completely or use the 25th Amendment. Right. That's the recourse and the founding fathers knew that because you need one person to decide what the threat is. Yep. And so they look and they go, well, the Justice Department guidance.

It doesn't matter what the Justice Department guidance is. It's what the Constitution is, but if they're going to use that for political purposes, it's Obama's saying there's going to be humanitarian crisis somewhere in the world if we don't do something. Within there are no rules. You can do whatever you want.

Right.

As the Constitution basically dictates.

Yeah, look, you look at this situation and it is, you know, the War Powers Act might as well be called, hey, we're going to change the Constitution without changing actually changing the Constitution Act. Right. And you can't do that.

“Now, I think that what's in there are good political suggestions for the President.”

Bush, Christom Walker brought it up with Lindsey Graham, Bush 43 went to Congress and, you know, and she, because she brought up a question just before that about the War Powers Act.

And then he made the point after the other question.

Did he even hear that? Yeah. He said that. He said the War Powers Act is on Constitution. And he also said, after the Bush question, he's Bush went to Congress.

Bush solicited that approval from Congress. If President Trump wanted to do that, he could do that. He doesn't have to do that. Right. We are Red Eye Radio.

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“I'm telling you, the best thing that I saw yesterday.”

Well, one of the best things. There were numerous best things that I saw on on X was, and I'm just scrolling down to see if I can get it here. Oh, Mark Helper. Because Mark Helper put out the New York Times headline that said, I told a homony hardline cleric who made a ranoregional power is dead at 86. And, you know, compared it to a headline, fewer Adolf Hitler, dog loving artist who made Germany a world power is dead at 56.

Gerald Baker from one of the editors of the Wall Street Journal said nothing wrong with that headline. It is an accurate summary and conveys no implication of moral approval of the man Mark Helper and rights back.

Respectively to cent, quote, "Jeffrey Dahlmer, hungry was constant man passes away as accurate as well, but it also implicitly conveys at the minimum moral tolerance if not full on on approval."

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Here we go. This was fascinating.

“We'll play the audio in a second, but we want to read the text of it first because it's pretty low volume, but you can hear it.”

Everybody covered it. It was all over X. Newspusters had it, a hot mic moment during a live feed of protests in Austin, Texas. Both against and support of the joint U.S. Israeli strikes on Iran gives us a rare inside glimpse into the political inner workings of the newsroom. In the process, we watched a reporter resist those pressures and well report.

CBS's Austin's Vinny Margarano is told to deemphasize the rally in support of Operation Epic Fury, which he then refuses to do so before going live. A crew member hands Vinny the phone, which shows him a text message. He says, "What does that mean?" The crew member says it means they don't want us to focus on this. He said Vinny Margarano then said, "All right, well I am."

And then you hear the rally. Thank you, Trump. Thank you, Trump. And then he goes live and says, "All right, there are a lot of mixed emotions across Austin about the joint attack between the United States and Israel against around that happened earlier this morning. Some people like this group behind me are thanking Trump in the United States for following through with this attack against Iran while other people across the city say there needs to be more peace in the Middle East."

It's Austin a very liberal way for those that don't know our familiar with Texas, a very liberal part of Texas, also the capital of Texas. But it's that would be an accurate report. We can't have that. Don't emphasize the celebrating of this Operation in Iran. Don't you dare?

Wow.

But here it is. I want to read the text first and then you can hear it. Again, the volume isn't that loud, but you can understand it.

Okay, all right, here we go.

“There you have it. Well, I am, and then what does this mean?”

Does this mean they don't want you to focus on this? Yeah, all right. Well, I am. And good for him for in that moment, I haven't seen any other reports by him, but at least in that moment acting on the principles of real journalism. You know, if you're going to cover this, that's because we already know there are people that are unhappy with it. You know, I mean, you could include a Rand Paul. Yeah, from the Republican Party.

There are lots of people that are unhappy with it.

The emphasis Paul that came out yesterday 25, the only 25 percent of the American people support this.

And it's like, no, on a preemptive attack, it's hard to get support. You and I've talked about this over the years. Yes, well, inside our advantage, though. Yeah, which we believe is a very approval 54 percent disapproval 37 percent.

“Right, but in responding to the, the, when I'm reading the emphasis Paul, I'm thinking to myself, okay, no, assume it's accurate, right?”

I don't think it was 25 percent. I don't think it was ever that low.

But I would think 40, 50 percent, you know, somewhere in that range, on a preemptive strike.

And it would, the approval probably tended to be older people, older demographics. Because we remember, we remember the long history here decades in the making of the Iranian regime. And now, you look at this situation. And we, you and I talked about the 9/11. Had there been a preemptive strike, it would have been much different.

Going into Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, there was still a great deal of, "You're for you is not the right word, but we need to go get the people who are responsible type of domestic support, right, that a president and an administration wants." Because that also drives the political support on, on, on capital Hill for the funding of such efforts and so on. But there was the, and you saw, you, you, you could see it now, clearly, it changed over the years. But it is not, you know, the preemptive strike.

Had they gone in in the, I don't know, in the summer in August of 2001. And struck some sites in, in, in trying to kill Osama bin Laden and, and it was a major event. Because keep in mind, Afghanistan and its infancy, that effort was a CIA mission before it became a big military mission. And then, you know, after a while, it was full Pentagon involvement. But you look at that, that whole thing is, the public support was there.

Going to war is not one preemptively, especially, is not one of those things that a president is going to get a hundred percent approval on nowhere close. Well, you and I remember, one more point, the 9/11 commission, the 9/11 commission. And you, uh, I don't know if we were working together when that came out, but we both had the same opinion on it, which was they said, We need to have, we need to make sure that the intelligence gets to those in power, that the intelligence was there. We knew they were doing something, and we need a better intelligence and the media focused on that.

“But what they didn't focus on was the 9/11 commission saying, what do you do with that intelligence?”

Right. If you have the intelligence, and you don't act on it. Right. Because as a 9/11 commission said, both Democrats and Republicans, what was needed to stop 9/11 was preemptive strikes.

So what you're saying is 9/11 was inevitable because the American public will always be against a preemptive strike now.

“That is a little bit, it's a little bit different, not entirely because you had the first World Trade Center attack in the early 90s.”

Yes, in 93. Right. So we knew what was going on, but the American, the American politicians, you know, played, you know, played down on it. But Iran, we have known about. We've known about Iran now for almost a half a century. Yeah. Yeah. This says, you know, this has been going on. We are very, very familiar with what Iran wants to do.

But when you think about it, when you when you adjust to pose the difference between what Trump is doing and what the Democrats are doing.

Understand that the Democrats, as we have said over and over again, and the public didn't care. The Democrats did not care. Right. That Biden was ensuring that Iran could fund their terrorists to attack the United States and make sure that their proxy terrorist groups had money to attack Israel. On October 7. And that was the whole thing of, well, we're watching where the money goes and remember the whole money is fundible and all that.

“Yeah. But the fact is we shouldn't have that was absolutely reprehensible. And then Obama, the pallets of money.”

Right. Democrats were ensuring that Iran had money, which increased their odds of successfully attacking the United States

Interest United States bases, United States troops around the world and in the Middle East. Yep. And Biden and Obama gave them damn money to do it. October 7th. And it's widely believed October 7th was greatly funded because of that. And nobody, nobody debates that fact that the money goes to them Democrats just didn't talk about it. Right. But when confronted, they knew they did it. Well, we're making sure that the money doesn't get to.

Yeah. Well, no, but then you, but it doesn't need that exact money doesn't need to. You can fund them here and they'll take other money that's funding that they don't need the money for that and they'll move it over there. Right. You don't give them that money. Right. They can show you receipts. And oh, we did this. Look at all the humanitarian things that we did with this money. And we're not funding our proxies, what mean while their proxies are driving around in limos. It's just, you know, when you see the difference between the Trump and I'm not necessarily saying Republicans, this is on, you know, you look at this and you look at the Trump foreign policy, which we have said he's built a tremendous amount of credibility.

And we said, we know all the Trump's going to whip out here because we said, I don't, I don't know that. And I'm going to give Trump the benefit of the doubt because he has had a tremendous amount of credibility when it comes to foreign foreign relations. Right. And, and, and confronting our enemies. And I was reading some of the other day that said, you know, that he even, he probably looks back at the first term and says, I shouldn't have allowed this to happen. I shouldn't have allowed. I should have done it in my first term.

“And that's fine. If somebody's willing to learn, I'm, that's cool. That's fine with me. And Trump was willing to learn who our enemies were are and just said, well, no, remember the funding stops.”

We're not going to do it. Sanctions are back. The funding stops for the United States to sit there and say, you can sell your oil and we're going to make sure you get the money back. And, you know, we're going to hope that you take this money and it's all for productive purposes and we're going to monitor that money. We could give them that money. They use it there and they just transfer the other money that they get from other sources that they would not have. Would not be available to fund their proxy terrorist and use that because you're giving them money over here.

It's when a lot of that whole debate is when a lot of people learn the definition of the word "fungible." Exactly. So I mean, it's just when you see what the Democrats did. And to criticize what's going on, you know, here with Trump, we all know this was going to happen. But as I said, I was getting, once I woke up, everybody was texting me.

To absolutely devastated. And so I call him the next morning and I said, Hey, I was going to call you earlier, but you know, we went to warn. He goes,

Yeah, I heard about that never mentioned basketball. He called me again later on the day. We probably spent an hour. He wanted to know everything about a ran everything about the constitution, whether it was constitutional or not. I caught the phone. It's like, wow, that's awesome. That's great. This mind's completely off his laws. And he wants, he wants information as to what's going on. And I swear, he knows more about the separation of powers. And after last week with tariffs, and now this would Democrats, he knows more about the separation of powers than probably a significant portion of Americans.

Yeah, well, think about that. You know, it's because that's the opposite of willful ignorance, right? It's willful learning or tribalism too.

“Yeah, and willful learning is great. And young minds, by the way, I think have the natural aptitude to want to learn things to want to know things.”

The willful ignorance comes when, oh, I'll just shut that down and not pay attention to that part of it, and which is part of the indoctrination. But your great nephew is looking to learn something and find out because look, whether he's part of the conversation, whether anybody's part of the conversation, or not. They want to know what is true, what they're seeing. And there's so much going on right now. I mean, it was just everything was just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Exactly what you would expect in the wake of such an event.

You're having to decipher. So imagine being at that age, you know, here's somebody who's going to be entering the world as an adult soon. And being at that age and wanting to know, and I could, yeah, I told him as young young kid. I said, don't agree with me because I'm your uncle and you love me.

I've always told that my kids do not agree with it. He said, make me prove my point, just like you make everybody else prove their point.

Well, my second half was agree with me because I control the money. Exactly. No, I mean, I've always told my kids, you don't have to think the way I think.

“I believe you should have the facts. And once you have the facts, you'll decide on your own, knowing they were smart enough.”

But when, you know, the Democrats response to it yesterday, we had more audio coming up, by the way. I just, I went, wow. Wow. Yeah. I was just around the wrong side of history here. I mean, I hate that term to begin with because Democrats always use it, but they are, they are, they are on the wrong side of history. They're still tremendous challenges. But no matter what, no matter what happens with the opposition groups and we'll go through the opposition groups here in just a little bit. Whatever comes, you know, whoever comes to power, you have, well, when I saw around the other day, well, we're going to announce who the replacement for how many is very soon. I'm like, I wouldn't want that to be me.

And then they talked about it yesterday. Trump talked about it because we don't know who's left to take over. And as you know, I talked about, you got to hit level after level after level after level after level of the regime because when you say the regime, they go, well, the regime still in power, but they're saying is not that the eye at toll is dead.

“But the, you know, we talked about this last week, all the research has been done, the intelligence of how widespread his regime is and how many levels you have to destroy, which could be hundreds and even thousands of people.”

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“Here when I radio, he's currently an I'm Gary McNammer. Of course, you got to go to the Babylon be then with everything happening over the weekend, right?”

And so I hear here's one headline, Iranian generals kicking themselves for not just meeting over Zoom. Yeah, British citizens politely asked if they can be liberated from radical Islam next. Oh, did you see that they're going to allow bases now some bases for the U.S. to operate out of the right that will target ballistic missiles.

And then finally, I've read this one. I go, but this could actually happen.

Mandani, Mandami in New York City orders flags at one world trade center flown half staff to mourn the I atola. That could actually be I know that it's like. Quit it, Seth Dylan, you're doing real news.

“That's over there at the Babylon be because that could be an act that could end up being an accurate prediction.”

I mean, in the in the first hours, Mandani puts out this post, you know, condemning Trump for the attacks and everything else.

And it's like not a good look. Yeah, not a good look at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get rid of radio live every night on the red eye radio out available in the F store. Red, yeah, I'm ready to go.

“And he is our colleague. And I'm during McNamara.”

Good morning. This is a more audio. This is Israelis and Iranians together dancing and celebrating side by side on the streets of London. We have audio here. Thanks. You know, we have talked a lot about on a number of topics, just how the Democrats in this country have no self awareness and no awareness at all really of any type of situation. Did you see Mark Kelly statement where he went after Trump and everything.

This is because Trump ripped up the nuclear agreement and everything else. He's killing himself as a potential presidential candidate in in in in in the future. Yeah, because the one thing I thought of immediately when I started seeing the reaction of Democrats and then Sunday morning news shows when I saw Tim Kain on there. And I really wondered that he put Tim Kain on there because they said, let's get someone who's going nowhere. Yeah, somebody who's not the future. Right. Right. Let's see.

Because, uh, and we had mentioned the president's statement at speech. It covered everything. He, he said, you know, we don't want anything from you. We're liberating you. Stay in, be safe when this is over.

The Iranian citizens take over your government. My god. I mean, that is just it's on, I've never seen anything like that.

I saw and we've been critical of the president. We, when he believed we believe he deserves criticism on foreign policy and everything that led up to this and I'll say this too. And I, not happy with headset, especially with the, the whole signal scandal. Right. He was wrong. Right. He was absolutely wrong when that, when that bombing with the, uh, was in Yemen, right, was at the, Right. And, and he used signal to send information about what was going on beforehand and he said there was no top secret information.

And then making the excuse, but I'll tell you what.

“On the things that he has done when it comes to, however it's being done.”

He is the head of the Pentagon. And he, the joint chiefs, the American military, uh, the president, they are putting together these military actions that are as precise as anything, a top out anything that the American government has ever done. And it's success after success after success. And you and I went through earlier in the show, what was needed, the synchronization that was needed between Israel and the United States and the, the assets positioned all around the world to strike at that point, the technology that we have, to hack into their radar, hack into their broadcast, hack into their apps.

I mean, you're talking about, uh, military exercise, as well as an exercise in getting into their communications to communicate with the people inside the government and the people of Iran.

“And that's why when I saw the president speech and the first question I got, what's going to happen, I said, well, what's going to happen is in the next 24 to 48 hours, you're going to see Iranian Americans on the street.”

That's probably first, just because there's, you know, they, there's more free media here, right, that can get it, and then hopefully you'll see some things from Iran, but what you're going to see is Iranian flags, you're going to see American flags and you're going to see. People thanking Trump, Iranian Americans and Iranians thanking Trump, and that's exactly what happened. And I thought to myself, these Democrats, they can't, once the American people understand that this is an exercise to liberate the people of Iran and at the same time, protect the United States and bring peace to the Middle East.

It's over for the Democrats on this issue, they lose complete and total credibility on foreign policy and the Middle East completely. And I was like, when I was watching, let me just see if I have it here. And I was watching Mark, Senator Mark Kelly, I'm thinking to myself, I go, you're an idiot, just shut up, don't say anything. Right, you know, just don't say anything. You could come out to somebody ask you and say, look, we're a military operations and I hope that the, you know, the, the people I always wish that all people can be liberated around the world and leave it at that.

But, you know, he came out and let me just see if I have it here. Oh, yeah, he, okay, here we go. Ready? All right. Hey folks, this this morning, the United States, while this administration launched a major attack on Iran. As I see this, hey, there's no real plan here. And often these things do not go the way people think they do, especially the people that don't serve in the military, you know, like this president, you know, often there the ones that think every solution is to drop a bomb and by the way, this is the guy that got sort of got us into this mass anyway.

He, um, in his first term, he, he ripped up the Iran nuclear deal, which then put the Iranians on a path to further enrich uranium.

Did that strike the summer that operationally was a success strategically, as we see now, not so much. So I'm really concerned about troops on the ground in Iran. We don't need that.

“We don't need more data Americans and trillions of dollars of our tax dollars spent on this. I think the president owes the American people an answer.”

And what is the strategy here? What is the goal? Is it getting rid of the Iranians nuclear capability, which by the way, this administration said was obliterated last summer or is it getting rid of ballistic missiles or is it regime change? We need an answer and we need a vote in the United States Congress. There you go. The president doesn't have to get the vote in the United States Congress, not everybody gets to be in the war room. Separation of powers again comes comes to the top here and reigns over everything.

It gave them a path to an nuclear weapon, but it gave them cover, right?

“And this is money. And this is where Mark Kelly comes across as an idiot, just like he did.”

There's three things that sit in my mind just from the last two months. When he said on there with the reporter and don't we need to get rid of billionaires? Yes, we need to get rid of billionaires. Shut up, you idiot. I mean, we need to get rid of it. We need to get rid of it. And we need to get rid of it. And we need to get rid of it. And then the pictures of him at the state of the Union of the rest, wrong on every issue.

And then here that the Iran nuclear deal was a horrible deal. Trump was absolutely right for tearing the damn thing apart. Well, and what Kelly didn't bring up here is the money. Yeah, that was returned to Iran. Yeah. Where was Kelly then? Right. Where was Kelly when Biden was ensuring that we fund the terrorist groups that attacked the United States? Right.

Where was he? And clearly funded October 7th. Yeah.

We talked about empty this guy. I mean, seriously, for an astronaut. Yeah, he's really empty inside. No, he really is. It shows you that nothing going on upstairs. It shows you and this is going to be my new band name. It shows you that astronauts can be idiots.

Astronauts can be idiots. Oh, like that. I do band name. Yeah. We're going to play punk ACBI. ACBI at CBG. ACBI at CBG.

Right.

Because it is just it's that it's everything you just heard there was garbage.

And now complete garbage. And I, and I'm thinking to myself, after the president said it,

“the president, you need to communicate the message all the time, by the way, as we have said.”

Right. But somebody like me and maybe it's unfair to use my judgment from somebody, my age, who knows the entire half century what has happened or maybe somebody 30. Well, you saw that only 23% of Americans know where Iran is on the map. Right. You just see that? Yeah. The people got Iran was Ireland.

There were people that had, you know, in the Atlantic Ocean. Like, they pinpointed. Yeah. Where is it? And there's like some in the Indian Ocean. Right. I think the tiny, the tiny set of islands in the Pacific.

That's why I will say this. So nobody put Iran in the middle of the United States. There wasn't anybody that put Iran in Iowa. That's got an eye. Is it is to Florida?

I mean, this is, but it is the willful ignorance. And again, it brings out the dry erase board protestor. Oh, we're not on ice anymore. We're on dog bomb Iran. Or we stand with a regime.

I don't know how, I don't know which, what's going to be their chance. And the best one was the presidents. Did this because of the Epstein files that didn't last too long. Yeah. That didn't know anywhere.

I saw that one. No. It, it really, again, the ignorance. And this is, you know, someone like Mark Kelly, I'm more prone to believe that his ignorance in, in, in approaching his constituents.

And anybody else who will listen to his gibberish. Isn't about, isn't just about wanting to keep people stupid. He's not smart himself. So he's just repeating, you know, whatever lame ideas are going on in that brain of his. Um, this is, again, you look at the situation where it is.

There is no doubt. There's a great deal of work ahead. But the precision of what they have done so far with Iran. Is mind-bought. The precision and the message that they put out as to why they're doing it.

Here's British humor. Let me play this audio cut talking about it yesterday. Here we go. The public reaction is likely to be favorable.

“Uh, and, and I think these Democrats are kind of trapped.”

Because they exist in a party whose membership overwhelmingly despises Donald Trump. Um, it's been called Trump derangedments syndrome and there's something to that. And the result is that these Democrats with rare exceptions, John Federman today, of course,

That they feel their job in life is to resist and oppose Donald Trump in every way almost no matter what he does.

“So that, I think that, that accounts for the political reaction on the Democratic side here.”

Now over time, uh, those who are critical may feel vindicated if things start to go barely.

But if they don't, they're gonna be stuck with this. They're gonna be, they're gonna be the people that will be, it will be argued. We're, you know, didn't want to take, uh, this evil of any regime down. If you, if you're any, machine goes, goes down and things turn out well in Iraq and Iran. That will be a burden around their next.

Which is, which is true now. There's a lot of things that are out of the president's hands. And we'll get into that here, uh, coming up, and that's the, you know, kind of the opposition parties do it. Can they, can they actually bring a, a peaceful Iran? But I look at it this way, either way, the goal is to get this current regime out.

And also not have the ballistic missiles, which gives us more peace, get rid of the nuclear capabilities.

Completely, it's all the three, it's the three things that the president is doing.

“And, and so the one thing that he's not in control of is how it goes.”

But you have degraded the ability for probably decades, even if the regime stayed in power. I don't believe they are because they're hitting every single level. And the president said, we'll talk, but we're not, we're not stopping until this is done. Then the Iranian Foreign Minister said, well, we're not going to talk then. Right.

All right. Well, expect more of the same. We are right, I radio. Coming up, more with Gary McNamara and Eric Hartley. It's right, I radio.

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You know, you're just making the case here during the break that the difference, when you look at a lot of other altercations that we have been in over the years, is that you've got the Middle East backing us now. Yeah, you've got Canada. You've got Australia.

Right. Now, England has come and said, okay, you can start using our bases to start taking out the ballistic missile capabilities of Iran. Right. Right.

Hard of Europe? Well, you know, we'll see if they come along or like Democrats, if this works out. Right. That again, they'll be on the losing side of history. But the other Arab nations in that region being on our side on this is a huge deal.

Yeah. That is, this is not the U.S. and Israel along. We're trying to get granted.

“And I really believe it goes back to that meeting.”

The set of meetings and that visit that Trump made to the Middle East when he met with the heads of those nations. That was before bombing Iran's nuclear facility. And I think it was a big deal. I radio.

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