BREAKING: 50,000 U.S. Troops Assemble in Middle East

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a little bit later in the show. There are some big news happening right now, and we are in the last couple days of our double-year impact drive. So we're going to cover all of that today as military begins had a more and more of an uptick in the Middle East as more than 50,000 troops.

We have now assembled in the Middle East.

Now, I want to clarify, because you're going to be seeing that headline a lot, or you're

going to see things more than suggest 50,000 new troops have been deployed. That is not the case. What the case is is that we are now totaling, roughly around 50,000 troops in the Middle East. That is about 10,000 more than normal, which is a percentage-wise, a sizeable uptick.

That is not nothing, but you are going to see a lot of people saying 50,000 and they're going to be inferring, especially the New York Times article that came out today, inferring that there are 50,000 new troops that are arriving in the Middle East. This is not accurate. There are 10,000 additional troops that have been added to the normal standard procedure

40,000 that already exist in the region. Of course, the talks of boots on the ground, what that looks like has been a major, major point of discussion, as President Trump has been weighing the kind of going back and forth on if this is going to happen or if it won't. That's right.

So look at this number, and once you see the place of New York Times put, there are now over 50,000 American troops in the Middle East. They are trying to, as you said, make it seem like this is in flux of 50,000 U.S. personnel. When in reality, there's normally about 40,000 around the Middle East at the bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Qatar.

Any given UAE? Kuwait. Right. The personnel may have changed as they pulled less operational individuals back or some of the families that may have said we want to get out during that time when the war initially

broke out and putting more combat ready troops. So I'm sure some of that plays in as well, but about 5,000 extra between Marines and sailors just arrived to the region. We also know that 4,500 of, because the Gerald Ford had to go to Crete for some maintenance and things of that nature.

So there's that net gain of really about 1,000 there.

But once again, that's still 20 to 25 percent more troops in the region, which you would

expect during a more time, but it's all building towards whether or not the president is going to do an operation to either go after Kirk Island, which is where that oil and gas refineries and situations are, or send in a ground operation to secure that enriched uranium, which is popping up everywhere people talking about, and I want to know, does our audience

“would you support something like that if it was a boots on the ground operations?”

I'd say get uranium. If you would ask me a year ago, if this is something that was in President Trump's playbook, I would have said no, I have to say his tone has shifted quite a bit. Now I would say he's enjoying wartime, but he certainly is celebrating the military successes. He is certainly not backing down from it, and it's more, again, I don't want to say having

fun, but he talks a lot about blowing stuff off eliminating top leaders and doing that kind of thing. The thing that President Trump probably would not have done a year ago. Now again, the times have changed. The world has changed.

What do you think? I want you to let me know. That's our open for you at 1-800-684-3110. I want to hear from you as well, and again, Jordan's here, we got one of our ACLJ attorneys Christie joining us a little bit later on the show, and we're going to keep that discussion

going in big ACLJ victory or port one, you're not going to miss a real heartwarming one. The phone lines are open for you and your conversation at 1-800-684-3110. I'm also looking at the chat right now. Let me know how you feel about that, and you think the boots on the ground scenario.

“Tell me if you think it's going to happen, and do you want it to happen?”

Or are you okay with it? I think that's more okay. I don't think any of us want it to happen. If we could avoid war, especially putting our own troops in harm's way, of course, we would not want to avoid it completely.

But are you okay with it happening? Let me know in the chat right now, if you're watching on YouTube or watching on Rumble, it's a great way to do it. You can also call me at 1-800-684-3110.

I won't look at it.

“Look, I think there's quite a few different points of view right now.”

There are people saying that if President Trump deems a necessary, they're not going to push back on it. Some people saying they're done with voting for any party. It feels like everyone is warm on green, so that's another point of view. One that I think is very interesting, person put, that they are supportive, but doesn't

mean they're not frightened, they're both frightened and proud. I think that is something that probably checks with a lot of the American people. Well, and I think to that statement is that, any time you have a direct combat in that way, I mean, even the air campaign isn't without peril for our US servicemen and women. However, when you add that element to it, a ground strike of some former fashion, whether

the just Marines or just special forces, or if it's a more broad type of incursion into it with troops on the ground boots on the ground, as they say. Yeah, there is another layer of danger for US men and women that serve our country. This big operation that's getting some reporting, it's out of Wall Street Journal had

it first, but it's that the President is weighing whether or not to send in a military

operation to secure a thousand pounds of uranium from Iran. The difference here, rather than whether it be a special forces strike Jordan on a leader, or whether it be even securing that oil and gas island, is that now you're talking about a major logistical operation. People go again, you've got, you're going to have it be fire coming in on any kind of aircraft

to deliver or vehicles to deliver those troops, those locations. We know that a lot of these locations are underground, that they've been previously bombed so that we don't know that have the structures, how those structures are, I'm sure that this radio has also been moved around, we know, because this isn't just from this conflict, but from months ago, the first major strikes over the summer was I was in

Strasburg, France, our European Center for Law and Justice with the US, it is real made

“those first hits at the Iranian nuclear sites, so how stable are those sites to begin with?”

But when you start putting troops on the ground, then to move out what is a thousand pounds of a very dangerous area, the likelihood of mass casualties, mass being helicopters going down plays, which has as much more likely, it's not to be negative, right? Well, and that's where you're not just going to get into it, right? It's not like going to just take you out leaders or person.

This is going in a security and area for a period of time that would include engineers to extract it. I can't just go and grab this, it's like a bankrupt, you know, he says, hey, is he ready? We go. It's not like that, so it would take days.

So you'd have to, I guess, have a military campaign that basically weakened their defensive

so much in those areas that you almost are like waltz again and listen, is that outside the scope? No, the US military certainly could do that, but what we've seen so far is, again, this kind of still this discussion of, we'll negotiate, we won't strike your take out all of your energy yet, but if you don't negotiate, you don't give us your aid, if we will, something

like that occurs.

“I mean, if a road goes dark, does it make it easier to go into extract your radio?”

Likely, but it is still, I mean, this becomes a mission, there's a lot more dangerous than anything done from the air. Well, and once again, I'll pass back to you, Logan, though, the IRGC is not a insurgent terror group in Afghanistan. They are special forces, those guarding this uranium are going to be their elites.

So it is not the same even type of mission of kicking down doors in Baghdad and finding an insurgency. This is a well-trained operation that would be able to inflict a lot of pain on the United States if not done in the most secure way. We have to, I think the explanation to the American people by the administration leadership

would have to be much more directed it has been so far. Now we have to see real addresses, you know, from the present directly into the camera, to the American people, exactly before you start because the moment you start city troops

at all the ground, not what we may do covertly, because that's always different, but troops

in camo on the ground and listed people. Even if it is mostly special forces, it's going to, again, it's going to take engineers they said, people like that. You're going to have to explain to the American people why does worth U.S. lives to do this now, why it's necessary now, why is this the time to do it?

And I think that can be done if you really can put this together, but you all set to think about, this is a way to also show some cards to the Iranians to say, we're willing to go this far. So if you're not going to go straight with us, we'll shut down your energy, Iran will go dark, and you don't know who we're coming for, or when we're coming for it.

I think some of the blackout that has gone on in Iran, the power outage is the control

of what this war could look like, and then you start adding on to things like, we are

“going to extract uranium, I think most people have to start Googling, how do you even store”

uranium, how do you create uranium, then how do you store it, then how do you extract it, and how do you do that on a plate, what did you explain it now on a plate, and I think that is going to be a harder pill to swallow, because it doesn't feel, it almost feels like an action movement. It doesn't feel authentic, right, also if you start sending him like you said, camo troops

on the ground, there's got to be a very, very specific mission. Well, and I think that does go back to what President Trump has said since before he was

president that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, that has always been the singular

goal of this, the getting rid of the, I had told for many of us was an added bonus, but the mission here is to stop Iran from being a nuclear power, and from having this capability, and when they were even bragging about how much enriched uranium that they could get to a warhead, that tells you where their mind was at. Without securing that, I think there is, it does open the President up to a lot of criticism

from both sides that you started this, you did to grade them, you did take out leadership, but you left what, now they may not have the ability to rebuild a warhead or the centrifuges,

“but they still have that enriched uranium, that is a very important part that I think”

to the, what the President has always stated in America, so to, I mean, they have the ability to shut down world shipping, the 20% of goods and oil that goes through the, the, the straight of the moves. They have the ability still operationally to make that, to shut that down without, without you risking, again, serious life by moving vessels, paying bribes and subcutures are

doing. It's almost the weird negative of such massive success early on in this, in this, when we've got to call it war, we're day one, you had the removal of the ayatola within three days, you had pretty much a destruction of their entire leadership, so I think there is now going to be a much shorter window, because the mission seems, I don't want to say smaller,

but to the American people, that was the bad guy, you took out the bad guy, what do we do it? Well, in once again, that's where I don't hold that by the way, I'm not holding that. You're even hearing some senators like Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, that it said

last week, I think it's about time we wrap up Iran, but the original goal was always

to eliminate the nuclear threat. That was, no matter how much the media and the Democrats on the hill tried to say, there's no mission, it was always clearly said to slow down and exploit the uranium, we have to take out the entire capacity for them to create a nuclear weapon, and if that means securing this, whether it be through some sort of deal where they are able to, we're

able to go in and take it, or if it is by military force, I think that is 100% in line with the goals of the president in Secretary of War Heggseth and Marco Rubio, as they have been saying from the beginning, I'd like to take this call, let's go to Ann and Pennsylvania on line two, and go ahead.

Hi, guys, I think the bottom line is we have about how much the enemy is at stake here.

The enemy is so vicious and the level of evil is I think what Trump is taking into consideration. He has all the intel, we have 40 years of torture and abuse and savagery on the Iranians and the Persians and thousands of Americans have been slaughtered for 47 years. We have a Democrat party that's been saying for many years that Iran cannot have uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons, and the president knows exactly this.

He does not like war, he hates war, he was against the Iraq war, he is the commander and chief, he knows what the intel is, and I just feel it really just shameful that people are just so quick to judge, and so quick, and when I heard first heard this morning, you guys announcing that there were troops on the ground, I had no idea, and I actually got really happy, and I'm not happy that troops are on the ground, I'm not happy that we

have a war in Iran, but regime change needs to happen, and I'm happy because I trust President Trump, and I'm happy because I know that he knows what he's doing, and it just makes me happy, and I'm only cutting off because we're actually out of time for this segment. I think that is very interesting because you seem to have trust in the president, which

is great, and then on the other hand, you're concerned about it, but on the other hand,

“you're happy about it, so I think there is that sentiment, that's what the comment”

that said. I'm terrified, but I'm happy, and also to clarify, they are not on the ground in Iran at this moment. Yeah, the 50,000 are at the bases around there on naval vessels, usually have in

I think for people to realize that we usually have 40,000, it's not an additional 50,000.

That gets reported now, if we weren't in this conflict, you could move 10,000 troops over like this, and it would not even make it a belief, not the fourth page of the New York Times, because it would just be seen as a trading mission, or this, or that, or something with shipping, something with our allies, something you know, maybe we're building a new base.

What's those troops are on the ground, and it's not just intelligence, and a secret

“covert operations, we've entered a whole new world on this conflict, and I think President”

Trump is going to do everything possible, not to have that happen. Yeah, we get back. We're going to check in with our ACLJ attorneys, because we got a big victory, one that you're going to like. You know what I'm gonna miss?

This is a really good one, one that'll make you smile, so just stay tuned with back for just a minute.

Oh, the back to the second, you know, every, really day this month, I've wanted to highlight

something really interesting, the ACLJ legal team is working on, and today, as we wrap up our WIRP Act drive here at the end of the month, I am excited to share a victory with you, and look, again, when we talk about, on the world stage, the ACLJs involved on the highest of high, you know, biggest government issues that are happening, whether it's in Nigeria, whether it's in Israel, wherever it may be around the world, Europe, of course

here in the States, but we also still are representing the individual, student who needs our help, and sometimes you get to do that twice, because we have some great clients that know their rights, know what they're going to say, and are still happy to proclaim the name of Jesus, whatever they can, and well, that's precisely what happened, and again, I've smile on my face, because I know this is a positive.

That's right, and we brought this up, we had Christy on a little bit more over a week ago when this issue came back up, because it was a client that Christy was the initial attorney

for this client, back when she first had an issue in Washington State, where she was

being subjected to bag searches, making sure she had no contraband, what was the contraband? And Christian material, things to share her faith with her fellow classmates, but we had to represent this student again, as now that she's in middle school, very similar situation, Christy gives us a little bit of background of, once again, what happened here? So our client was a sixth grader now in middle school, so it's fun that we represented

her when she was a second grader, and four years later, she is still on fire for the Lord sharing her heart with others about Jesus, but she was pulled out of her math class by the vice principal and told that she needs to stop sharing the Christian tracks with others. And on top of that, when she asked, "Well, why are other people allowed to go to the

ice protests and bring ice protests signs into the school?" But I can't talk about my religion, she was told that's because it was an opinion and opinions are allowed, but her religious views weren't. Additionally, she said, "Well, what about the Christian club that I want to start?"

“And she was told, "Well, you have to have a teacher sponsor that club."”

So all of these things are fundamental violations of her constitutional rights. She is a loud, to talk about her faith at school. She is a loud, to start a Christian Bible study. We at the ACLJ have been fighting for this for 30 years. This is what we do, and yet there are still vice principals who don't know the law.

And Christy, we quickly, fortunately, already had a connection with this client because she is not going to give up on sharing her faith, and we have already had a victory for her. But what happened right before a deadline that we gave the school district as it seems to happen, what did we hear back? The best news for our client that within one week, we sent a demand letter, and we said

that you have to give us a response by Friday, one week by 5pm. And literally, at that deadline, we received a letter back from their council at the school, saying that yes, she is allowed to do these things. She does have this right, and they will ensure that she gets that. So what a wonderful victory for our client, she doesn't have to go through a lawsuit, and

all of the stress and trial that comes with a family that we were able to within one week get her all of the results and secure it, just like we did four years ago.

“And that's what's so important about the ACLJ, where we are able to fight for our clients”

and stay with them for many years as they continue to grow, and that she is now going to be able to be in her mental school, hopefully, without any more issues coming in from the administration. We'll see what happens in high school, right? I mean, but Christie, I was in Washington DC last week with our team, we were talking

about this. On the one hand, it's shocking. It's like, how many times these school districts have to learn their lesson? But on the other hand, you get one administrator to a vice principal this situation, a student

what their rights are. They pick on this student, they didn't once before they'd do it again, and we're able

“to vindicate their rights within a week, but it does also, I think, underscore to people”

why you've got to speak out and why you've got to be that student who is willing to tell your parents if this happens, willing to say no, this can't be right, and not just kind of roll over if the administration says you can't do this. Exactly. I mean, we have, I'm a parent myself, how many children are wanting to talk about their

faith with others at school? It's fundamental to our religion and our faith of what we're supposed to be doing. Yet you have these administrators bullying them.

I mean, how intimidating for her to have been pulled out of her math class by the second

highest person in the school, and being told she can't do something, and so she knew that was wrong, and she stood up for her faith, and I, you know, think of this as being your child, your grandchild, you want to encourage them to stand up for their faith, and you want to show them that you're willing to fight for them too, which is where we can step in, and we don't need to bring a lawsuit necessarily, and this instance, what a blessing

that we didn't have to sue, we were able to get this resolved in one week. And Christy, I see a lot of comments coming in right now. People asking, where is this, where did this happen, why does this have, of course, what happened in these areas? And, you know, we said this happened in Washington, but what we need to know, in what everyone

means, there was this is happening everywhere. This is not just in states that you would historically think, or maybe, or left leaning, or liberal states, this is happening in Texas, to say, we've cases all over the country, where this is happening on what feels like a daily, weekly basis that we're getting reached

out to buy some parent, or buy a student saying, I need your help, and this doesn't fall

under any lines, really, of blue or red. Right, this was Washington state, but I mean, we've seen this happen in Texas, we're seeing this happen in Georgia. This is everywhere. And what it is is it's administrators who don't understand the law, even though they're

going to training. I know that tax dollars are being spent to teach them what the law is. And yet they're still, they're still doing this to students, so that we do have to hold them accountable. That is part of why we need our donors help, our sponsors help to help these children

from the administrators who are just violating law, left and right. And I think folks, for those of you out there who are thinking maybe it's just these places, think about, you know, it might not be, maybe your kids are older now, maybe you're out of the school system, but your local school system, you could be in a very red state. But the public school system is still controlled by those teachers, you know.

Those teachers, you know, we've been talking about for years, and even when they get the training, they are, they are, unfortunately, not just left leading, but kind of had this, this anti anti religious bias and anti Christian bias, really, and conservative bias. Teachers say you can't talk about free speech leaders, you can't talk about Charlie Kirk.

We saw that.

“We saw that you can't, you know, it can't start a Bible club if you want to, at this”

middle school. After this school district has been through this before with us, with this student, and has had to realize that within a week, but they still try to get the student to roll over. They still try to get you to say, okay, I won't push.

I won't contact the ACLJ this time. I won't fight back. So it doesn't matter the politics of who your congressman is, who your center is your center state, your public school system is still where there are a lot of battles. We talked about city councils a lot, public schools and the school boards.

That's another place we've always been fighting at the ACLJ since our very beginning.

Yeah, and you may be watching this and going, oh, I didn't even think about this. I've had this similar situation happen. I'm sorry, my son or daughter had a similar situation, or maybe there is a workplace issue you've had anything that kind of falls within our scope. I want you to do never feel bad without reaching out.

Going to ACLJ.org/help, doing that, you feel on the very simple form, and you get attached to one of our ACLJ attorneys, and we're very quickly telling you whether it's something that we think applies, something that is legal or illegal, or we can fight for you. We get all the answers to you very quickly.

You're not sent to a call center. You're assigned to an attorney at our legal team at ACLJ.org/help. I was going to make sure that we promote that as well. Well, and also think about this because there is no cost to the client when we take on these cases, you may think, oh, it was a demand letter.

They didn't go to a lawsuit. That wouldn't have even cost much if they went to an outside council. Nope, it would getting any going to any sort of law firm and saying, I need you to take legal action, send a letter on my behalf. They're going to be billing you for that, not at the ACLJ.

That is exactly when your impact is doubled, what it goes to help.

“Because when you send that letter, you have to back it up with the ability to actually”

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Sharing your opinions as we have discussed that now that 50,000 troops, again, it is hit 50,000 troops have arrived in the Middle East, United States troops. What does that look like? Obviously, President Trump is weighing the options of what a ground insurgency could look like if that wasn't even to happen.

I wanted to get your thoughts and comments on that at 1-800-6-8-431 10. We also wanted to set aside some of the stress that's coming from those headlines to let you know that yes, as we used the word assembled, 50,000 troops have assembled. And that is more accurate than what you're seeing on somewhere like the New York Times, which are more inferring that 50,000 new troops.

And that's saying that, the 50,000 new troops have arrived.

There are about 40,000 troops that are always in the Middle East, give or take at any

time. So you have seen a sizable uptick. That's not joke around, it's an arena-sized full of troops that have arrived. 10,000 troops, as Jordan mentioned earlier though, if that was to happen on any other day, probably would not even be looked at.

But with obviously the potential for a grounded insurgency, that is why everyone's talking about today. That's right. And also, when you read deep, when you're like 15 paragraphs down, even in the New York Times report, they say military experts caution that even 50,000 troops, many of them

at sea, is a small number for any kind of major land operation. The media wants you to be scared.

“What they thrive off of, that's how they get you to click and they get their advertising”

dollars, is by scaring you into thinking that this is World War III.

I've heard actually over the weekend, that term went away where people talking about this being World War III, they're bringing it back. They're trying to make the World War III happen. They are wanting you to think that we are currently in the middle of that. And when all of the data and what we're seeing points against that, we're seeing actually

the Gulf regions not turn into complete chaos, where we're seeing people we didn't think would join our team on this saying, "We may actually may need to step up and do more." That is all because of the strategy and the way it's taking place. And that you can take a lot of these experts over the last 50 years and kind of throw out the opinion at this point, because they have been completely wrong about this.

And you're just saying people that we're pushing for the other Midwest wars that turned into a quagmire for the United States for a very long time. And what do we see? This is completely different. Now, it's not over.

There could be a lot more ahead and it is a conflict. There are so many unknowns that can play out. But thus far, it has been as far as a military operation done so well in so many objectives being hit, that they're having to then jump again to the World War III concern to frighten you and to say, "Look, there's 50,000 people on ships in the Middle East to try and make

you scared that this is going to be something that is going to completely crumble America, but in reality, that's not what we're seeing." And they are trying to use these numbers to their advantage to make you scared, instead of getting you to read and learn the truth. And we get back here, I want you to not only call in, but we're going to give you a challenge.

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I'm sorry. Sorry.

“Let's go to Tom, California, you're on Seculo.”

Hey. Thank you, guys. You're the dynamic dual Batman Robb and gotten up and on you and you are putting the guilt grip on me. So, well, I'm going to go to confession and catch all the technical incidents at this

month rather than that. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, everyone. I appreciate it.

I understand. Okay, don't let the democratic reflect all this Middle East garbage from the really crux of the issue, which is dishonest politicians. We need an RF and giving the RF agents an incentive on every penny they find that it has been stolen and bezled, are corruptly taken by the government or by the government and

people allowing it without oversight. And we need to crack down that we need an RF just for government programs and give the agents and send us financially to turn over all the crux in our damn government. It's gotten so Tom, I will jump in here and say that on Friday, JD Vance.

Helled his first meeting of the new anti-fraud task force.

That was something that President Trump announced during the state of the union that he was creating that. So, I mean, it's, and once again, who was there, the Secretary of the Treasury, the IRS, is under the Department of Treasury. So when you do look at this, this is what you're talking about in IRS for corruption.

So to speak, that's what's going on. And actually Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary Jordan has unveiled a whistleblower program where there are rewards for successful reporting of fraudulent activity. We've seen the reports out of California now that where there's so much potential fraud with the hospice programs out there.

It was the daycares in Minnesota. It looks like there's a big industry in hospice fraud in California. And all of that is stealing from the American people. Yeah, it's plenty of taxpayer dollars. People weren't lucky.

The government wasn't going to people, so we get these reimbursements, so we get these kind of tax benefits back. And so these funds are available to us and the checks were just being written. But yeah, at the same time, it's like, is the IRS really functioning for the American people right now?

No. And we also don't have a fully funded government. Right. And we're talking about invading Iran, potentially, with limited ground troops and taking out uranium with engineers and maybe taking cargo island, which is the main oil hub of Iran,

And yet, we can't figure out how to fund enough TSA to do so people with the weight line six hours at an airport. I mean, the flights into the United States are being canceled.

“So I think that one thing you have to do is always when you are going to engage in conflict”

around overseas, as your country has to be running as best as it can. And so I think what we have to look back is put more pressure on Congress. I think the fact that they left without getting a deal, so where people could, again, know that it might take a couple hours to get through airport security, but not six, not seven, not that you're going to miss most of your flights or the fact.

So I think that, again, that kind of uncertainty is it great when you're talking about sending troops into a war zone and not just the air campaign, which we tend to accept more in the United States as a risk. So I think, again, this is up to Congress, the President can't do that on his own, but all of that I think has got to start working together.

I think the American people, before any additional occurs or the next kind of level occurs, have got to hear it explained by our leaders exactly why they have ordered what they've ordered. Before we go to another call, Jordan, I didn't want to bring up. You mentioned the DHS shutdown.

The mess that it has become, I mean, it's, it's not, that doesn't help the Republicans now. Security talking about sleeper cells from Iranians in the United States, and our TSA is an operating fully. I mean, it doesn't seem like you're asking for a problem that you could, that you have

the ability and you've built since 9/11. The capabilities to prevent, but you're not funding it at a time when we have killed the, the, the, the, the, the supreme leader of Iran, and most leaders of the Iranian government

and, and some, some is out down to their third leader in some cases.

So it's a time when you want your department of Homeland Security and your TSA to be fully operational. But then at the end of the week last week, President Trump said, I'm going to go in through emergency, right? Issue.

I'm going to issue paychecks. You see the Democrats freaking out over the weekend, literally saying, this is illegal. How dare he pay them? We have the power of the purse. But the irony here, is that while it may technically not be, it could be challenged.

Yeah. The people who would have to challenge it, who would have standing are the TSA agents who received a paycheck illegally, who are not going to go and say, you know what? How dare he pay me for showing up to work? I think it puts them in an interesting political position when the congressmen themselves

may not have the standing to sue over this, but they're going to go out there and complain that they're getting paid because the congressmen and women can't do their own job.

“That's what you saw Mike Johnson come out so strongly on the Senate.”

He wasn't just blaming Democrats, he blamed Republicans and Democrats, it said, I can't believe they left. I mean, they left trying to leave the American people, you know, in Easter week, people are traveling, it's still spring break, happy to cross the country, lots of travel, and

you're being told, basically, in a lot of airports, like don't even try.

I mean, that's, while a word is going on, that might be an air campaign word, but you've got the president, I'd say it's talking about the potential for ground troops and the numbers going up, like you said these for you, you see these 50,000 numbers, a lot of this is talking people through it. It's not talking the military through it.

I'm talking about deep strategies that we don't need to know. Talking about, you have to talk the American people through why it's worth risking that much more life. And why don't we have the security in place for our airports that we pay for with our tax dollars?

Yeah, absolutely. We get back, I do want to hear from you. We have two minutes left on this segment. Probably, yeah, we can take a very, very quick call. Let's go to Jerry and Tennessee, who's behold for a long time, Jerry.

You're on the air. Hey, little Jordan and Logan, I just wanted to share with you that, man, we need to support our president. This is a time. This is a very important time.

We need to be praying for him. I know you all are many of your listeners are, but Iran has been involved in so many bad things. The world wide for such a long time. This is the time that we can stand up and make a difference for our world long term.

“Yeah, Jerry, I think you've had many, many administrations.”

You've had many, many political campaigns that have run on the threat of Iran. And now you actually have a president administration willing to do something about it. And now they're getting, you know, the heat for it.

Because there are always empty promises that come in from political campaigns and look,

no one wants war, no one wants to see our troops in harm's way. Of course, that is somewhat inevitable when you have these kind of situations. And that's unfortunate. I hate that. I think you also, of course, as you said, got to pray for, the president got to pray

for the administration, got to pray for everyone, and pray for our troops absolutely. And you got to pray for the American people because we know how wartime affects people. And also affects the way people, what they support, what they don't support, we have a very,

We'll talk about that when we get back at 1-800-6-8-4-31-10, you can be on the air today.

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With that being said, I want to go ahead and take some phone calls and we will take some more too. Here are some phone lines open at 1-800-684-3110. It's going to Kathy and Kentucky. Kathy, thanks for holding.

Thank you. I see current development moving the Iranian people closer to their opportunity. They need to have the opportunity to change right along with the American goal of eliminating Iran.

This is the new third military part.

So Kathy, I think what is interesting. Being as well with this is it also goes to show the way that President Trump thinks because there has been reporting that some leaders were at the point saying, hey, now we need to encourage the people to take to the streets. Like now we need to try and force this within Iran.

But all the reporting, and once again, this is from anonymous sources, is that President Trump was actually the one to say, I'm not ready to do that because why would I want to send people to their slaughter? Knowing how strong the regime still was, he didn't want that on his hands. He wants to take out the regime.

He wants to take out their capacity to hurt the United States. But he wasn't willing to be the one that said, go do this and then the headlines are of how many tens of thousands of people died for the cause of trying to retake their country.

“I think that that is something we all know is a likelihood could end up happening is that”

the people that are ready and waiting for their moment to try and retake their country at the same time, they're being mass casualties in that. We know that 30,000ish people were killed just this year for protesting. So it could be much more significant bloodshed if they are actually trying to retake the country.

I pray for the people of Iran that if that is the goal that they take and the path they take, they can successfully take their country with as minimal loss to their own life. I hope that the IRGC just walks away from it and realizes this isn't worth it. Let's try to go get safe haven in other countries and take as much of the treasure we have here with us.

But I think that's yet to be seen, Kathy. I think what we know, though, as Americans, for regime change to occur, people will have to be willing to take that risk. We don't necessarily as President of the United States while you're still doing these mass air campaigns.

Tell people, God, the streets. He said that very clearly when this started, this is not the time to do this. Right now, you need to hug her down because of the, it's too dangerous outside.

“I think until you get that signal, but we'd give it that signal, you have to take that”

moment. This is not our, our fight is not to overthrow the Iranian regime. That's not an American soldier's fight. Even we're talking about taking away the Iranian. It's not about taking away the regime.

It's about taking away their ability to have nuclear weapons and be a threat to us. But they're still threat to the people there. The people there will have to risk their lives at a certain point, more so that they have even to this date to overthrow this regime. What is it going to be easier than ever before?

Yes, and it's getting easier every single day. But there are those in the regime that are also going to try and cut deals with the United States. So it's, it's one of those situations where again, we'd all like to see a new Iran, a

And we've seen the Middle East open up to the Western world, we've seen Saudi Arabia open

up to the Western world. And we know it could happen. But it's going to take people risky their lives to do so. We have a couple of calls left. I want to make sure we get to him once in ACLJ Champion in the end of calling online for

Lorraine. You're on the air. Good afternoon. Love you guys. Hey, I'm just a little nervous about the hoodies getting involved with this conflict.

“Can you give me some insight on maybe what their intentions are?”

Well, Lorraine, they are a proxy group of the Iranians. They are. Not great. Attention. Sorry.

And a bit of mid-range weaponry, they're going to be shooting at our troops that are in the region. They have not stopped. But remember, when you take out their main supplier, they have less weapons to fire back you.

So they become much weaker as well. I mean, I think the issue right now is what would happen to these proxy groups if your run falls? If the Islamic regime falls in your run is they fall too. Yeah.

So what's going on with the hoodies?

So that is the rebel group within Yemen that is basically taken over the country of Yemen.

“That is an Iranian proxy and it's right there on the Arabian Peninsula and they have the”

ability to go after merchant ships and things of that nature. They have started to try some attacks themselves. They don't quite have the capacity that even like Hezbollah has. But they have taken over a country pretty successfully through that Yemeni civil war. They are causing some issues.

They are engaging a little bit more than they have men. But as you've seen, a lot of the proxy groups don't have as much will to fight and die for Iran at this point. Exactly. Exactly.

Right. So it's like, if you fire all of your missiles or your rockets today, there's no, there's no privacy. You're getting more rockets tomorrow. I want to take this last call of the day, and I can't imagine a better one to take

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