June 23, 2025 • 37 mins
Over the weekend, President Trump gave the okay to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, thus joining Israel in the conflict against Iran. Specifically, the U.S. targeted Fordow, a uranium enrichment facility deep inside a remote mountain in Iran, and facilities at Natanz and Isfahan. Monday, in retaliation, Iran launched missiles at a U.S. base, Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who received a classified briefing Monday morning, told reporters that the U.S. anticipated Iran's reprisal. Qatar's Ministry of Defense relayed a statement that the base’s air defense system intercepted the missiles towards the base and no deaths or injuries were reported. Now that the U.S. is engaged in warfare towards Iran, do you think we’re on our way to WWIII? We discussed the latest in the U.S. conflict with Iran.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's night side with Dan Ray on WBZ Foston's radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All Right, we have had a pretty interesting seventy two
or so hours since we last were together on Friday night.
Most of us when we left on Friday night were
counting the days down to when President Trump was going
to finish two weeks of contemplation. He had said it
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would take two weeks for him to figure out exactly what.
Up to two weeks, he said, Up to two weeks.
That would have taken us to about the fourth of July,
interestingly enough, and then Saturday night word broke that there
had been an attack by US military Air Force against
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these three installations in Iran, and the President spoke on
about ten o'clock. So just to refresh your recollection, let's
go to cut one.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
A please robe that these strikes were a spectacular military success.
Iran's key nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely and
totally obliterated around the bully of the Middle East must
now make peace. If they do not, future attacks would
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be far greater and a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The President went on in his speech. This is a
second cut from the speech. Cut number two. Please rob.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
For forty years, Iran has been saying death to America,
death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs,
that was their specialty. We lost over a thousand people,
and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around
the world have died as a direct result of their hate.
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In particular, so many were killed by their general Cassem Soleimani.
I decided a long time ago that I would not.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Let this happen. It will not continue.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister, bb NET
and Yahoo. We worked as a team like perhaps no
team has ever worked before, and we've gone a long
way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So there were a lot of questions over the weekend
as to how much damage those bunker busting bombs were
able to do to these facilities, the three facilities, which
well two of them were hit by bunker busting bombs
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and the third was hit by a lot of missiles
from the US submarine. And over the weekend, I've seen
the pattern before that Donald Trump said things were obliterated,
and particularly on CNN, there was a lot of skepticism. Now,
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Democrats seem to forget that it wasn't too long ago
that there was a Democratic presidential candidate who you might remember,
Hillary Clinton. But back in two thousand and eight, this
is what Hillary Clinton had to say about attacking Iran.
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Cut one to oh three, rob.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
And I want the Iranians to know that if I'm
the president, we will attack Iran. Whatever stage of development
they might be in their nuclear weapons program in the
next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching
an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally
obliterate them. That's a terrible thing to say that Those
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people who run around need to understand that, because that
perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish,
and tragic.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That was the same same verb that President Trump used,
what's seventeen years later, obliterate. Well, anyway, today Iran did
fire some missiles at a US airbase, a US base
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in the Middle East. Apparently the Iranians fired fourteen missiles
I believe it was the number, and only one got through.
No one was injured. And now President Trump has released
this statement. I hope it's true. It's let me read
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it to you. This president released this about six oh
two this evening as the Yes six oh two June
twenty third, congratulations to everyone. It has been fully agreed
by and between Israel and Iran that there will be
a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now, well,
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that would be midnight our time, when Israel and Iran
have wound out and completed their in progress final missions
for twelve hours, at which point the war will be
considered officially ended. Iran will start the ceasefire, and upon
the twelfth hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and upon
the twentieth twenty fourth hour, an official end to the
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twelve day war will be saluted by the world. Now
this is sort of interesting because I think what he's saying,
it's a little unclear, is that at midnight tonight Iran
will stand down, and during that time I guess Israel
will have an opportunity to attack Iran if I'm reading
this correctly, and then at noon tomorrow Israel will stop.
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So Iran stops at midnight, Israel has twelve hours and
I guess again a little confusing here because he then
goes on to say during each cease fire on the
other side will remain peaceful and respectful on the assumption
that everything works as it should, which it will. I
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would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on
having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should
be called the twelve day War. Israel was involved in
a six day war many years ago. This is a
war that could have gone on for years and destroyed
the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will.
God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East,
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God bless the United States of America, and God bless
the world. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
of America. Now it's a little unclear to me here,
but it said that Iran we'll start the cease fire,
and upon the twelfth hour, Israel will start the cease fire.
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So I could construe that to say Israel will have
twelve hours from midnight to noon to do what they
would like to try to do. I don't it's a
little unclear to me. It's a little unclear to me. Officially,
Iran will start the cease fire again, he said, approximately
six hours, which would be midnight our time here in
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the East coast. So we'll have to see how it
works out. My questions then are pretty simple and pretty straightforward.
What was your reaction when you heard on Saturday night
or Sunday morning, if you were out partying on Saturday night,
what was your reaction to the unilateral action that the
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US took. You're a lot of Democrat today who went
after Donald Trump. If if the president is right, and
I will try to during my break here at double
check with some additional uh information as to whether or
not I have read that correctly, uh and if there
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are any late developments uh. And I know some of
you will be watching for me let me know. So
we're going to talk about it for two hours. Maybe
maybe Donald Trump did the right thing here, big gamble.
If one of those planes ever had been shot down
or crashed, imagine what the response would have been. So
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six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. I'm wondering if there are any people who
are out there, you know, certainly not our Democratic elected
leaders in Massachusetts, but if there are any people out
there who particularly don't like Donald Trump, but are willing
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to say, hey, this gamble might have worked, or even
might say whether this gamble works or not. He did
the right thing. I talked to a friend on Saturday
night and I said he was concerned that this might
initiate a nuclear war. I said, on the contrary, my opinion,
this takes and prevents another player from walking on to
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the nuclear states. There are nine countries around the world
that have some level of nuclear weapons. We can go
through all of that anyway. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty or six one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
This is a huge story. This if if he'll never
win the Nobel Peace Prize, but if this were to
lead to peace in the Middle East, I don't know
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how how the people who present the Nobel Peace Prize
would ever be able to handle this. We'll be back
on Night's side. Let's get the conversation going. Coming right back.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, just checking there. It has been again no indication
that the problems have developed. There has been some suggestion.
I'm reading from a New York Times article here, which
just has cleared the wire twenty three wires. Twenty three
minutes ago, a group of New York Times reporters Finares Fasihi,
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Jonathan Swan, Ronan Bergman, Aaron Boxerman, and Adam Rasband. President
trust Trump said on social media Monday that Israel and
Iran had agreed on a ceasefire. Hours later, Aroun's Foreign
Minister of US Are Geeche suggested a cease fire was possible,
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but said there was no agreement as of now. He
had around, would be willing to lay down arms if
Israel star and illegal it's illegal aggression against the Iranian people.
By four am in Tehran. I think it's four am
in Tehran at this point. Actually it's probably after four am.
It's probably I'm guessing here, it's probably six am. And
Israeli military spokesman declined to comment, and as that deadline approach,
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Israel was continuing to strike Iran with missiles in one
of the most intense barages of the war. Mister Trump's
assertion came hours after Iran launched missiles at l Udan
Airbase and Cutter, the largest American military installation in the
Middle East, retaliating for US strikes on Irani and nuclear sites,
though giving fore warning to limit the damage. Vice President
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jad E Vance said soon after that mister Trump's post
that the war appeared to be effectively over and there
was now an opportunity to restart real peace process. Mister
Trump's language was characteristically less cautious. It has been fully
agreed by in between Israel and Iran that there will
be a complete and total ceasefire, the president rode in
social media. I read that to you as well. Three Democrats,
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three diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy,
said that top Katari officials had intervened in behalf of
the Trump administration and persuaded around to agree to an
American CEI's fire proposal after being told Israel had signed on.
So we'll see. The proof will be when this time passes.
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Let's go next to Jack is a Newton. Jack is
going to start us off. Jack is no fan of
Donald Trump. There's no question about that. Hey Jack, how
are you?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah? Jack Porter from Newton. Well, I think it took
everybody by surprise, but maybe that was part of his rules,
to fool people and not you know they I'll tell
people what he was going to do. It's kind of
interesting that both the left, or at least the moderate
left on the right, unlike Guyza, have been united on
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this except for you know, Elizabeth Warren and saying that
you know, they had to bound and then we have
to destroy that.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well you would you, Jack, You you wouldn't put Elizabeth
Warren as as a member of the moderate left anyway.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I mean said the left and the right, not the
extreme left. Elizabeth Warren is not not the moderate left
just another word for liberals.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mean, I think that your Congressman Cha Claus has
been been very good on this issue recently, and I
think I saw a statement from him today. Uh. I
didn't perceive that that statement was particularly critical of the
action that was taken, if I if I heard it
correctly in its entirety.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Well, that's what I'm saying, is just an issue that
unlike Gaza, it seems like the left and the right, Uh,
I agree that it is not to be done. And
then now we moved Thomas.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Then so what what is your what what do you
think that? I mean? You know, maybe Iran feels at
this point that all of the proxies have been eliminated
or or diminished. Uh. They obviously know better than most
what damage was inflicted on Saturday. You know, Saturday, Saturday night.
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I'm looking at this as maybe maybe they're they're hurting
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well, I think the the leadership is worried that this
could destabilize the country and and lead to the overthrow
of the moms and bring it back to what we
we had hope for it to kind of a more
secular ran The people don't want ther moms, they don't
want harmonies, So maybe this was a way to to
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stop that possibility. But Trump is smart not to uh,
to have gone over a regime change, not to support
a regime change, and he hopes that that will happen
naturally or unnaturally by itself, which I think it could.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, we haven't had much luck. I mean when the
when the Obama administration took Kadaffi out, remember was it
Hillary Clinton? You know, we came, we saw he died. Uh,
you know that didn't work out great, and uh, certainly
Iraq didn't work out great. So maybe ironically Donald Trump
has has done what had to be done here and
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got the message across that that we're serious and that
they're not going to get a nuclear weapon, which I
think is actually a positive result for the world. We
don't need more countries with nuclear weapons. We get nine
of them already that have nuclear weapons.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
He might he might win the Nodill Price. The Nobel
Prize has gone to people who were the most peaceful
well whatever, like a thought and being, and Para's got it.
So it's uh, it's quite possible he might get the
Noldill Price.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah. Well, I don't think Arafat every should have received
the Nobel Peace Prize. Uh. And but I think that
shows more of a bias towards towards the West, uh
and towards Israel. I think that's evidence evidence of I
would perceive that as anti Semitism. On behalf of the
folks who give out the Nobel Peace Prize, Yes, sir
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era fact, no Nobel Peace Prize. How many people did
he personally killed? The people?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I've been nominated for the Nobel Piece Prize.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Everybody can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. I could.
I would have nominated you, Jack, if you had nominated me.
It's a joke in many respects.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I nominate you for some for the one hundred and
fifty most notable Bostonians from Boston Bagusan nominated.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, thank you, Jack, that's very very appreciative. But but
you won't see that.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Nominate you for a Peace Prize and you'll.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Yeah, like people that you will get nominated, and it's
very litical. I don't know for both, you know, either
of us will get it going.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No, no, no, that's like the people pay one hundred dollars
or whatever it is, or one thousand dollars to have
your name on the on a presidential ballot in New Hampshire,
so when your obituary is written, they can always say,
you know, Joe Smith candidate for president in twenty twenty
or in twenty sixty or whatever. That's that's that's a
scam that that New Hampshire has been running on people
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for a long time. You get eleven votes and you rent,
you can say legitimately you rent for president. Hey, Jack,
thank you much. I got the news. I gotta get
to thanks buddy for starting us off. I appreciate it
all right. I will remind you we have two phone
numbers here at WBZ. Not only can you call the
number that Jack just vacated six one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty, but there's also six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty. We got open lines here. I kind
of imagine my audience is not interested in weighing in
on this Donald Trump. The Democrats are all upset. Some
of the Democrats are all upset with them. Is this
an impeachable offense? No, I don't think so. I don't
think so. President Obama and other presidents before him, including
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I believe President Biden actually has also done the things.
Who were they going to? Who did they want Congress
to be made aware of this? Did they want to
tell elon Oma or AOC that we were sending stealth
bombers to Iran? I don't think that would have been
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a good idea. We'd be back on Night's side. Join
the conversation six months seven two, five, four to ten thirty.
Six month seven nine three, ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
All right, we're talking about the activity of the weekend.
We're going to go next to Jeff Is in Chelsea. Jeff,
your thoughts on what transpired over the weekend and what
appears to be transpiring tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Oh, thanks you very much, Dan, Well, Dan, I am
definitely for what Trump did. Ireanne cannot have a nuclear weapon,
so this had to be done. But my main concern
is the blowback, the retaliation by Iran in particular, but
also communists and other Muslim countries with the sleeper cells
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that are already inside this country, and what could happen
down the road attacks on the homeland. For instance, a
long time ago, there was an article, there was a
news story about this guy named Alexi sub who was
with Hezbollah and he was taking surbillance photograph to the
Prudential building, Fenway Park, Saniel Hall. And that was a
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long time ago and that was on the news.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I remember that article. I remember it did forgot the
guy's name, but yeah, there's been some of that. But
guess what I mean. Either you're going to live in
fear and do nothing, or do what the president did,
take a dramatic action and it may have paid off.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Yes, you are right, and like I said, I'm for
what President Trump did. But also remember this our grid,
electric power, gas and water. That's our that's the American
glass jaw, and it's very easy to hit those places,
either by cyber attack or physically. I remember I work security,
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I've been doing it for over twenty five years and
a lot of your substations are only protected by a
chain link fence and a padlock and chain.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Don't give people any ideas, by the boy, But I
know exactly what you say, and I totally agree with you.
I am as concerned as you are. And it doesn't
take a lot. But the problem is is now up
to the local authorities. It's up also to people. You know.
There was a period of time. I'm gonna say this now,
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and I know I'll get in trouble for this one,
but that's fine. There was a period of time, Jeff
where we were all told if you see something, say something.
You know, if all of a sudden you're in an
MBTA station and you see an unattended bag, you know,
pointed out to the authorities, have somebody go and check
it out. Why is there another, you know, attended bags
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sitting there. But then they became a problem where if
you saw something and you said something about someone who
looked I don't know, different, Middle Eastern or whatever, whatever
the character was characteristic, they were people who were offended.
You know, I happen to be Middle East. I'm not
Middle Eastern, but someone could be Middle Eastern and all
of a sudden, I don't know, they're walking up and
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down and maybe someone says, oh this that guy was
looking suspicious as he was, you know, walking up and down.
And then you you had blowback there where we all said,
I'm not gonna say anything is I don't want to
be characterized as a bad person. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Oh no, I know exactly what you're saying. Dan, I'm
gonna wrap up the call with this. I worked at
the airport pre nine to eleven internal e and Dan,
I'm telling you something. The reason why I believe not
eleven happened. Part of it was apathy. Another part is
rapid hackism, particularly with Massport. How we current did articles on.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
This a favor. Okay, you don't have to spend talking
about other programs. You know, your experience is more important
to me. And again the whole question of I think
it was more than apathy. And look, the FBI remember this.
The FBI interviewed the Boston bamber brothers and they gave him.
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They interviewed him they had tips from from internal sources
in Russia and they said, oh, they're fine. So I mean,
our law enforcement has to be on top of things. Okay,
And whether it's Homeland Security or whether it's the FBI
or atf whatever, there were people in advance at nine
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to eleven. There was that FBI agent. She was a
woman who was assigned to the Minneapolis office. She found
out that some of the people who eventually were the
nine to eleven suspects went and were getting instructions on
how to fly airplanes. They didn't want to know how
to take off, they didn't know how to want to land.
They just want to know how do we fly a
plane once we get it up of the air. And yeah,
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she tried to She tried to tell her the authorities
and the FBI we got to be concerned about this,
and no one listened to her. How many lives will
we just strike? Sing here out? Thanks Jeff, appreciate your call.
Thank you very much. Kill that way, rob Let's keep
rolling here. I'm gonna go next to Tim and Wilburn. Tim,
you're next on nightside.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Go ahead, Tim, Hi d'An tell you take of my call.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
You're welcome.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
What I have to say about dog Trump, don't you?
Speaker 9 (24:02):
And Nut?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Now those guys know what they're doing. That general from
myrin's got to be stopped. Linder was stopped and took
a little time. They know what they're doing the second
they get nuclear bombed, and I saw them right it Israel, no,
no question about it. They know what they're doing. Yeah, no,
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look he's gotta be stopped.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well I don't, I don't.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I don't care what. I don't care what the people
on the college is upset about. I could cares. These
people know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Well, they have. It's like Pavlov's dog. You know that
they're gonna react. They're gonna bring out their Palestinian flags
and uh, they're gonna put in their cadifa the head dress,
and they're gonna march up and down because you know, again,
the funny thing about it is if those people lived
in Iran, those young college students, and they had any
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sort of a social life that was different than what
the Moullahs would would demand, you know, they find themselves
in jail, but they're they're they're very happy to demonstrate what,
in effect is in favor of Iran or in favor
of the people who want to destroy Israel. That's what
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I don't understand.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
That's yeah, what the heck would I ran right, you
know that's so you know they're they're after us, and anyway,
I think, you know, I don't know if the Nobel
Peace buys a juggernaut. I don't know that you're bub
But I think Benjamin NETANYAHUO and Donald Trump, I don't
know if they're gonna end this thing or not. There's
been too much bloodshed. I don't even gonna start tonight
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on tomorrow. But I think those guys. But what is
done Benjamin Netanyahu, when he's done to Israel, what he's
put up with Holy Machael.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I agree a guy.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I'm a big fan of his leadership. That was a
horrific situation. Obviously, the Israeli intelligence services for one of
the few times, failed to pick that problem developing up.
You know, the Masade and those intelligent services have a
lot of infiltration, they have infiltrated into Iran. A lot
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of the work that they do is a result of
of the on the ground intelligent intelligence, human assets as
we say. So, yeah, I agree with you, Benjamin etne
who has been a very effective Prime Minister of Israel,
and that's what he's concerned about. He's he wants to
make sure his his country isn't annihilated. I think that's
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a pretty reasonable concern in my opinion.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I guess it is. I guess it is. Anyhow, the
vault of them might they know what they're doing. I
think the world of the two. I got a question
fa you. You were talking about you at a Molo
station the other night.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yes, with your car?
Speaker 7 (26:58):
You have a Volvo?
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Yes, I do, all right.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I think when I met you at the place in Westwoods,
I think I saw you get out of that.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Yeah, I have a Toyota. I have a Toyota. It's
a two thousand. It's twenty five years old. It's wow.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The but the you got your money's worth there, Tim,
let me tell you got your money's worth their twenty
five year old car.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
It's mint. It's mint. It's got one hundred and sixty
thousand miles on. I changed you oil in the filter
every seven thousand with a synthetic oil. My mechanics said,
it's the more out of the cow the oil in
the filter.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, And I learned that lesson
on Sunday night, Tim, So I will never find myself
in that situation again, Tim, I got to get one
more in here before the break, buddy, Thanks for your call.
As always, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Got the best show. You got the best show on
the ear from the beginning of time.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Thanks man, I appreciate it. You know that. Thank you
so much. Tim, Talk to you soon. You have a
great night. Let me get next to Dave in San Antonio, Texas.
Dave gright ahead.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
Yeah. I just like to ask the people that are
criticis critical of dolland Trump over his presidency. I just
like to ask them something, what does crow taste like?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Well, first of all, let's get ahead of ourselves. Okay,
I don't think you could do that. Number one.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
I mean I.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Told my daughter a couple of days ago, as soon
as I heard, or a day and a half ago,
as soon as I heard the guitar was hit with
those uh pre warned nuclear weapons, I said, it's over
and they're just saving face. They're gonna they're going to decide,
knows how to fight, and he knows the immaturity of
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the Middle East. They're so I don't know, they're they're
so they got to be you know, they can't lose face.
So I knew that was that was That's what that
was I told my daughter says, you go to see
a peace treaty in a near, very near future.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, let's let's go, Dave. There's no sense of taking
a victory lap until the pen is on the paper.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
Okay, I know I got every confidence in Donald As.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm sure you do. I'm sure you do what I'm
just I am always someone who will say to you, uh,
it's it's better to be a little cautious here because
you're dealing It isn't just Donald Trump. You're dealing with
the folks in Iran who have been have a long history.
I'm hopeful, but let's see. Let's see when when the
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ink drives in the paper. David As always appreciate you calling,
my friend.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
We got what we got to pray for is the
people I ran decide the.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Way I would join you in that prayer. I would
join you in that prayer. Thank you, my friend. Thanks Dave. Okay,
have a great night. I would take a quick break
couple of lines one at six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty and one at six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty. Try to move folks a little
bit more quickly so I get to some more callers
coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
All right, back to the phonems we go. Let's go
to Ken in Waltham. Ken, you were next on Nightside.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Welcome, Hey, Dan, Hey, I'm one of those mega anti
trumpsters who is going to share your Tasha's optimism that
this is the right move.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah. I mean, there's nothing wrong with if a president
does something that actually not only is good for the
United States, but maybe good for the Middle East and
may even be good for world peace. I mean, I
don't see it downside. I will be be I don't
want to give him all the credit in the world
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for for bringing this thing to a conclusion. Let's you know,
and he said it's going to start at midnight. Let's see.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Well you read his post or you know, they completely
and totally obliterated, right. And then when General McCain was
interviewed or asked, you know, he said, well, we have
to do a you know, battle damage assessment.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Did you hear mysel in the world joice if this
really is person?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah? Did you hear my sound bite from Hillary Clinton?
She used She used the same word in two thousand
and eight threatening obliteration.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Yeah, and well one major you know, I think the
Democrats are doing the wrong sort of the exact wrong thing,
say as Dave from San Antonio, right, which you know
he's totally pro trun you know, I think maybe taking
too much credit too fast.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
But yeah, but when I heard a.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Democrat today say, well, you know Trump, because Trump said
he was going to take two weeks and he didn't.
That Trump lied to the American people. Well, like he's
supposed to give away his strategy. I mean, if Trump
said the two weeks, I mean he hadn't. I thought
for sure, given Trump's behavior, I thought for sure he
was going to wait two weeks because he's been dinning
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with every country, right, every country I think has stood
up to Trump, from Canada to Russia, to Greenland to Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Right, And I was particularly after listening to your analysts
last week who was saying that Israel's really in trouble
because they just don't have the assets if Iran keeps
hitting them.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
That Kada, by the way, was interesting. I had a
couple of emails over the weekend which bothered me, and
they were individuals who obviously, like I am, pretty pro Israel.
How could you have on someone who views the world
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a little differently than we do or whatever, And it
was like, have the guts to call the show. You're
going to send me a nasty email because I had
a guest on that you disagreed with. Call the show
and make the points on the air, you know, I.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
Mean because because of the things he was saying, and
because I really think Trump's been getting pushed around by
other countries. I'm like saying the prayer, you know, Trump,
please stand with Israel, show something.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, sure, yeah, you know, and then you.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
Know, be careful what you pray for, you know. Saturday,
I'm like, holy you know.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And well the other
thing too is that tatsu actually on Sunday sent out
an email. He was the first person who showed the
trucks lined up a few days ago out outside of
four Dough, in which there's some speculation that some of
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the plutonium had been removed as supposedly I guess nine hundred.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
Killers from the those three sites.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Well there was from one site, four Dough the name, yeah,
the big site. But the point is that, you know,
Tatsuo and I disagree, and we did disagree on the air,
and we disagreed about Benjamin Netieau. And yet these these
brave you know, keyboard emailers, they don't have the courage
to call the show and uh and discuss it with
Tatsu or whoever. I try to bring guests on from
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a different points of view. Uh. Just because they're a
guest on my show doesn't mean that I think that
they're the the oracle of Delphi. I mean I want
different points of view on the show, including yours. So
I agree with you, and I share your hope that
this is something that that is going to become a
real later on tonight it ceas.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Five and I hope, I hope Channa's watching. Well, I
know they're watching.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Well, that would be another that would be another benefit
from it. You know, hey, oh I I always say
I'm rooty for the success of the United States of America,
whether it's Joe Biden or Donald Trump or Barack Obama
or George Bush or or whomever. Simple as that can.
I want to get one more in here before the
blank is going to let you run. I so appreciate you.
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I appreciate your thoughtfulness. You and I tend to disagree
on a lot of things, but you're a gentleman and
you bring good points to the table to my show,
and I can't thank you enough for that. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
Thank you, Dan, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Let me go to Wayne and Saugus. Wayne, you were
next on night, say, I gotta wrap the hour force.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
Go right ahead, Wayne, Hey, Dann how you doing.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I'm doing fine, do it fine? Watching very caiously, first
time calling. Well, thank you for a digital studio audience.
Speaker 10 (35:41):
Go right ahead, You've got a great show.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Let me thank you.
Speaker 10 (35:47):
I think that dog Dad, I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Are you and are you in Wayne? Are you in
a car? You're breaking up on us a little bit?
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Here?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Are you in a car? And no?
Speaker 9 (36:07):
Yes, yes, okay, well.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Let's yeah again. That's no, that's fine. No, no, no, no, no,
you go right ahead. I'm just trying to pay attention.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Had some back and he really put his money outwards,
you know he really did.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
But this one I'm more than certain that to descend etages.
It's finally felt that sure. Yes, but a good night.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Thank you very much. Wayne. Next time you call, we'll
have a better connection, So I'll look forward to your
second call better. But I think I got the drift
of what you had to say, and I think you're right.
It's been a long time since nineteen seventy nine and
all the US hostages who were held for four hundred
and forty four days. Iran has been a nemesis of
this country and a nemesis of freedom in the Middle
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East for almost five decades. And maybe there will be
a change in leadership in that government. Won't be easy,
that's for sure. All right, we're coming up here on
the eleven o'clock newscast. If you're on the line, you're
going to be pretty close to the top. I got
some open lines, by the way, ladies, when we talked
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about this on whenever we talk about war and peace.
For some reason, my women callers, who are strong callers,
choose not to participate. I hope that all of you
feel free to join this conversation tonight, because all points
of view are more than welcome. I have lines at
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six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty and at
six one, seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. Coming right
back on night Side.
He's night side with Dan Ray on WBZ Foston's radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All Right, we have had a pretty interesting seventy two
or so hours since we last were together on Friday night.
Most of us when we left on Friday night were
counting the days down to when President Trump was going
to finish two weeks of contemplation. He had said it
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would take two weeks for him to figure out exactly what.
Up to two weeks, he said, Up to two weeks.
That would have taken us to about the fourth of July,
interestingly enough, and then Saturday night word broke that there
had been an attack by US military Air Force against
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these three installations in Iran, and the President spoke on
about ten o'clock. So just to refresh your recollection, let's
go to cut one.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
A please robe that these strikes were a spectacular military success.
Iran's key nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely and
totally obliterated around the bully of the Middle East must
now make peace. If they do not, future attacks would
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be far greater and a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The President went on in his speech. This is a
second cut from the speech. Cut number two. Please rob.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
For forty years, Iran has been saying death to America,
death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs,
that was their specialty. We lost over a thousand people,
and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around
the world have died as a direct result of their hate.
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In particular, so many were killed by their general Cassem Soleimani.
I decided a long time ago that I would not.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Let this happen. It will not continue.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister, bb NET
and Yahoo. We worked as a team like perhaps no
team has ever worked before, and we've gone a long
way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So there were a lot of questions over the weekend
as to how much damage those bunker busting bombs were
able to do to these facilities, the three facilities, which
well two of them were hit by bunker busting bombs
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and the third was hit by a lot of missiles
from the US submarine. And over the weekend, I've seen
the pattern before that Donald Trump said things were obliterated,
and particularly on CNN, there was a lot of skepticism. Now,
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Democrats seem to forget that it wasn't too long ago
that there was a Democratic presidential candidate who you might remember,
Hillary Clinton. But back in two thousand and eight, this
is what Hillary Clinton had to say about attacking Iran.
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Cut one to oh three, rob.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
And I want the Iranians to know that if I'm
the president, we will attack Iran. Whatever stage of development
they might be in their nuclear weapons program in the
next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching
an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally
obliterate them. That's a terrible thing to say that Those
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people who run around need to understand that, because that
perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish,
and tragic.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That was the same same verb that President Trump used,
what's seventeen years later, obliterate. Well, anyway, today Iran did
fire some missiles at a US airbase, a US base
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in the Middle East. Apparently the Iranians fired fourteen missiles
I believe it was the number, and only one got through.
No one was injured. And now President Trump has released
this statement. I hope it's true. It's let me read
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it to you. This president released this about six oh
two this evening as the Yes six oh two June
twenty third, congratulations to everyone. It has been fully agreed
by and between Israel and Iran that there will be
a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now, well,
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that would be midnight our time, when Israel and Iran
have wound out and completed their in progress final missions
for twelve hours, at which point the war will be
considered officially ended. Iran will start the ceasefire, and upon
the twelfth hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and upon
the twentieth twenty fourth hour, an official end to the
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twelve day war will be saluted by the world. Now
this is sort of interesting because I think what he's saying,
it's a little unclear, is that at midnight tonight Iran
will stand down, and during that time I guess Israel
will have an opportunity to attack Iran if I'm reading
this correctly, and then at noon tomorrow Israel will stop.
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So Iran stops at midnight, Israel has twelve hours and
I guess again a little confusing here because he then
goes on to say during each cease fire on the
other side will remain peaceful and respectful on the assumption
that everything works as it should, which it will. I
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would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on
having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should
be called the twelve day War. Israel was involved in
a six day war many years ago. This is a
war that could have gone on for years and destroyed
the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will.
God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East,
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God bless the United States of America, and God bless
the world. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
of America. Now it's a little unclear to me here,
but it said that Iran we'll start the cease fire,
and upon the twelfth hour, Israel will start the cease fire.
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So I could construe that to say Israel will have
twelve hours from midnight to noon to do what they
would like to try to do. I don't it's a
little unclear to me. It's a little unclear to me. Officially,
Iran will start the cease fire again, he said, approximately
six hours, which would be midnight our time here in
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the East coast. So we'll have to see how it
works out. My questions then are pretty simple and pretty straightforward.
What was your reaction when you heard on Saturday night
or Sunday morning, if you were out partying on Saturday night,
what was your reaction to the unilateral action that the
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US took. You're a lot of Democrat today who went
after Donald Trump. If if the president is right, and
I will try to during my break here at double
check with some additional uh information as to whether or
not I have read that correctly, uh and if there
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are any late developments uh. And I know some of
you will be watching for me let me know. So
we're going to talk about it for two hours. Maybe
maybe Donald Trump did the right thing here, big gamble.
If one of those planes ever had been shot down
or crashed, imagine what the response would have been. So
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six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. I'm wondering if there are any people who
are out there, you know, certainly not our Democratic elected
leaders in Massachusetts, but if there are any people out
there who particularly don't like Donald Trump, but are willing
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to say, hey, this gamble might have worked, or even
might say whether this gamble works or not. He did
the right thing. I talked to a friend on Saturday
night and I said he was concerned that this might
initiate a nuclear war. I said, on the contrary, my opinion,
this takes and prevents another player from walking on to
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the nuclear states. There are nine countries around the world
that have some level of nuclear weapons. We can go
through all of that anyway. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty or six one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
This is a huge story. This if if he'll never
win the Nobel Peace Prize, but if this were to
lead to peace in the Middle East, I don't know
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how how the people who present the Nobel Peace Prize
would ever be able to handle this. We'll be back
on Night's side. Let's get the conversation going. Coming right back.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, just checking there. It has been again no indication
that the problems have developed. There has been some suggestion.
I'm reading from a New York Times article here, which
just has cleared the wire twenty three wires. Twenty three
minutes ago, a group of New York Times reporters Finares Fasihi,
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Jonathan Swan, Ronan Bergman, Aaron Boxerman, and Adam Rasband. President
trust Trump said on social media Monday that Israel and
Iran had agreed on a ceasefire. Hours later, Aroun's Foreign
Minister of US Are Geeche suggested a cease fire was possible,
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but said there was no agreement as of now. He
had around, would be willing to lay down arms if
Israel star and illegal it's illegal aggression against the Iranian people.
By four am in Tehran. I think it's four am
in Tehran at this point. Actually it's probably after four am.
It's probably I'm guessing here, it's probably six am. And
Israeli military spokesman declined to comment, and as that deadline approach,
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Israel was continuing to strike Iran with missiles in one
of the most intense barages of the war. Mister Trump's
assertion came hours after Iran launched missiles at l Udan
Airbase and Cutter, the largest American military installation in the
Middle East, retaliating for US strikes on Irani and nuclear sites,
though giving fore warning to limit the damage. Vice President
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jad E Vance said soon after that mister Trump's post
that the war appeared to be effectively over and there
was now an opportunity to restart real peace process. Mister
Trump's language was characteristically less cautious. It has been fully
agreed by in between Israel and Iran that there will
be a complete and total ceasefire, the president rode in
social media. I read that to you as well. Three Democrats,
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three diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy,
said that top Katari officials had intervened in behalf of
the Trump administration and persuaded around to agree to an
American CEI's fire proposal after being told Israel had signed on.
So we'll see. The proof will be when this time passes.
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Let's go next to Jack is a Newton. Jack is
going to start us off. Jack is no fan of
Donald Trump. There's no question about that. Hey Jack, how
are you?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah? Jack Porter from Newton. Well, I think it took
everybody by surprise, but maybe that was part of his rules,
to fool people and not you know they I'll tell
people what he was going to do. It's kind of
interesting that both the left, or at least the moderate
left on the right, unlike Guyza, have been united on
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this except for you know, Elizabeth Warren and saying that
you know, they had to bound and then we have
to destroy that.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well you would you, Jack, You you wouldn't put Elizabeth
Warren as as a member of the moderate left anyway.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I mean said the left and the right, not the
extreme left. Elizabeth Warren is not not the moderate left
just another word for liberals.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mean, I think that your Congressman Cha Claus has
been been very good on this issue recently, and I
think I saw a statement from him today. Uh. I
didn't perceive that that statement was particularly critical of the
action that was taken, if I if I heard it
correctly in its entirety.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Well, that's what I'm saying, is just an issue that
unlike Gaza, it seems like the left and the right, Uh,
I agree that it is not to be done. And
then now we moved Thomas.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Then so what what is your what what do you
think that? I mean? You know, maybe Iran feels at
this point that all of the proxies have been eliminated
or or diminished. Uh. They obviously know better than most
what damage was inflicted on Saturday. You know, Saturday, Saturday night.
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I'm looking at this as maybe maybe they're they're hurting
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well, I think the the leadership is worried that this
could destabilize the country and and lead to the overthrow
of the moms and bring it back to what we
we had hope for it to kind of a more
secular ran The people don't want ther moms, they don't
want harmonies, So maybe this was a way to to
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stop that possibility. But Trump is smart not to uh,
to have gone over a regime change, not to support
a regime change, and he hopes that that will happen
naturally or unnaturally by itself, which I think it could.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, we haven't had much luck. I mean when the
when the Obama administration took Kadaffi out, remember was it
Hillary Clinton? You know, we came, we saw he died. Uh,
you know that didn't work out great, and uh, certainly
Iraq didn't work out great. So maybe ironically Donald Trump
has has done what had to be done here and
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got the message across that that we're serious and that
they're not going to get a nuclear weapon, which I
think is actually a positive result for the world. We
don't need more countries with nuclear weapons. We get nine
of them already that have nuclear weapons.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
He might he might win the Nodill Price. The Nobel
Prize has gone to people who were the most peaceful
well whatever, like a thought and being, and Para's got it.
So it's uh, it's quite possible he might get the
Noldill Price.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah. Well, I don't think Arafat every should have received
the Nobel Peace Prize. Uh. And but I think that
shows more of a bias towards towards the West, uh
and towards Israel. I think that's evidence evidence of I
would perceive that as anti Semitism. On behalf of the
folks who give out the Nobel Peace Prize, Yes, sir
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era fact, no Nobel Peace Prize. How many people did
he personally killed? The people?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I've been nominated for the Nobel Piece Prize.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Everybody can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. I could.
I would have nominated you, Jack, if you had nominated me.
It's a joke in many respects.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I nominate you for some for the one hundred and
fifty most notable Bostonians from Boston Bagusan nominated.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, thank you, Jack, that's very very appreciative. But but
you won't see that.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Nominate you for a Peace Prize and you'll.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Yeah, like people that you will get nominated, and it's
very litical. I don't know for both, you know, either
of us will get it going.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No, no, no, that's like the people pay one hundred dollars
or whatever it is, or one thousand dollars to have
your name on the on a presidential ballot in New Hampshire,
so when your obituary is written, they can always say,
you know, Joe Smith candidate for president in twenty twenty
or in twenty sixty or whatever. That's that's that's a
scam that that New Hampshire has been running on people
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for a long time. You get eleven votes and you rent,
you can say legitimately you rent for president. Hey, Jack,
thank you much. I got the news. I gotta get
to thanks buddy for starting us off. I appreciate it
all right. I will remind you we have two phone
numbers here at WBZ. Not only can you call the
number that Jack just vacated six one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty, but there's also six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty. We got open lines here. I kind
of imagine my audience is not interested in weighing in
on this Donald Trump. The Democrats are all upset. Some
of the Democrats are all upset with them. Is this
an impeachable offense? No, I don't think so. I don't
think so. President Obama and other presidents before him, including
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I believe President Biden actually has also done the things.
Who were they going to? Who did they want Congress
to be made aware of this? Did they want to
tell elon Oma or AOC that we were sending stealth
bombers to Iran? I don't think that would have been
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a good idea. We'd be back on Night's side. Join
the conversation six months seven two, five, four to ten thirty.
Six month seven nine three, ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
All right, we're talking about the activity of the weekend.
We're going to go next to Jeff Is in Chelsea. Jeff,
your thoughts on what transpired over the weekend and what
appears to be transpiring tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Oh, thanks you very much, Dan, Well, Dan, I am
definitely for what Trump did. Ireanne cannot have a nuclear weapon,
so this had to be done. But my main concern
is the blowback, the retaliation by Iran in particular, but
also communists and other Muslim countries with the sleeper cells
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that are already inside this country, and what could happen
down the road attacks on the homeland. For instance, a
long time ago, there was an article, there was a
news story about this guy named Alexi sub who was
with Hezbollah and he was taking surbillance photograph to the
Prudential building, Fenway Park, Saniel Hall. And that was a
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long time ago and that was on the news.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I remember that article. I remember it did forgot the
guy's name, but yeah, there's been some of that. But
guess what I mean. Either you're going to live in
fear and do nothing, or do what the president did,
take a dramatic action and it may have paid off.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Yes, you are right, and like I said, I'm for
what President Trump did. But also remember this our grid,
electric power, gas and water. That's our that's the American
glass jaw, and it's very easy to hit those places,
either by cyber attack or physically. I remember I work security,
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I've been doing it for over twenty five years and
a lot of your substations are only protected by a
chain link fence and a padlock and chain.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Don't give people any ideas, by the boy, But I
know exactly what you say, and I totally agree with you.
I am as concerned as you are. And it doesn't
take a lot. But the problem is is now up
to the local authorities. It's up also to people. You know.
There was a period of time. I'm gonna say this now,
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and I know I'll get in trouble for this one,
but that's fine. There was a period of time, Jeff
where we were all told if you see something, say something.
You know, if all of a sudden you're in an
MBTA station and you see an unattended bag, you know,
pointed out to the authorities, have somebody go and check
it out. Why is there another, you know, attended bags
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sitting there. But then they became a problem where if
you saw something and you said something about someone who
looked I don't know, different, Middle Eastern or whatever, whatever
the character was characteristic, they were people who were offended.
You know, I happen to be Middle East. I'm not
Middle Eastern, but someone could be Middle Eastern and all
of a sudden, I don't know, they're walking up and
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down and maybe someone says, oh this that guy was
looking suspicious as he was, you know, walking up and down.
And then you you had blowback there where we all said,
I'm not gonna say anything is I don't want to
be characterized as a bad person. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Oh no, I know exactly what you're saying. Dan, I'm
gonna wrap up the call with this. I worked at
the airport pre nine to eleven internal e and Dan,
I'm telling you something. The reason why I believe not
eleven happened. Part of it was apathy. Another part is
rapid hackism, particularly with Massport. How we current did articles on.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
This a favor. Okay, you don't have to spend talking
about other programs. You know, your experience is more important
to me. And again the whole question of I think
it was more than apathy. And look, the FBI remember this.
The FBI interviewed the Boston bamber brothers and they gave him.
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They interviewed him they had tips from from internal sources
in Russia and they said, oh, they're fine. So I mean,
our law enforcement has to be on top of things. Okay,
And whether it's Homeland Security or whether it's the FBI
or atf whatever, there were people in advance at nine
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to eleven. There was that FBI agent. She was a
woman who was assigned to the Minneapolis office. She found
out that some of the people who eventually were the
nine to eleven suspects went and were getting instructions on
how to fly airplanes. They didn't want to know how
to take off, they didn't know how to want to land.
They just want to know how do we fly a
plane once we get it up of the air. And yeah,
(23:35):
she tried to She tried to tell her the authorities
and the FBI we got to be concerned about this,
and no one listened to her. How many lives will
we just strike? Sing here out? Thanks Jeff, appreciate your call.
Thank you very much. Kill that way, rob Let's keep
rolling here. I'm gonna go next to Tim and Wilburn. Tim,
you're next on nightside.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Go ahead, Tim, Hi d'An tell you take of my call.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
You're welcome.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
What I have to say about dog Trump, don't you?
Speaker 9 (24:02):
And Nut?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Now those guys know what they're doing. That general from
myrin's got to be stopped. Linder was stopped and took
a little time. They know what they're doing the second
they get nuclear bombed, and I saw them right it Israel, no,
no question about it. They know what they're doing. Yeah, no,
(24:23):
look he's gotta be stopped.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well I don't, I don't.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I don't care what. I don't care what the people
on the college is upset about. I could cares. These
people know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Well, they have. It's like Pavlov's dog. You know that
they're gonna react. They're gonna bring out their Palestinian flags
and uh, they're gonna put in their cadifa the head dress,
and they're gonna march up and down because you know, again,
the funny thing about it is if those people lived
in Iran, those young college students, and they had any
(24:56):
sort of a social life that was different than what
the Moullahs would would demand, you know, they find themselves
in jail, but they're they're they're very happy to demonstrate what,
in effect is in favor of Iran or in favor
of the people who want to destroy Israel. That's what
(25:18):
I don't understand.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
That's yeah, what the heck would I ran right, you
know that's so you know they're they're after us, and anyway,
I think, you know, I don't know if the Nobel
Peace buys a juggernaut. I don't know that you're bub
But I think Benjamin NETANYAHUO and Donald Trump, I don't
know if they're gonna end this thing or not. There's
been too much bloodshed. I don't even gonna start tonight
(25:43):
on tomorrow. But I think those guys. But what is
done Benjamin Netanyahu, when he's done to Israel, what he's
put up with Holy Machael.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I agree a guy.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I'm a big fan of his leadership. That was a
horrific situation. Obviously, the Israeli intelligence services for one of
the few times, failed to pick that problem developing up.
You know, the Masade and those intelligent services have a
lot of infiltration, they have infiltrated into Iran. A lot
(26:18):
of the work that they do is a result of
of the on the ground intelligent intelligence, human assets as
we say. So, yeah, I agree with you, Benjamin etne
who has been a very effective Prime Minister of Israel,
and that's what he's concerned about. He's he wants to
make sure his his country isn't annihilated. I think that's
(26:39):
a pretty reasonable concern in my opinion.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I guess it is. I guess it is. Anyhow, the
vault of them might they know what they're doing. I
think the world of the two. I got a question
fa you. You were talking about you at a Molo
station the other night.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yes, with your car?
Speaker 7 (26:58):
You have a Volvo?
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Yes, I do, all right.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I think when I met you at the place in Westwoods,
I think I saw you get out of that.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Yeah, I have a Toyota. I have a Toyota. It's
a two thousand. It's twenty five years old. It's wow.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The but the you got your money's worth there, Tim,
let me tell you got your money's worth their twenty
five year old car.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
It's mint. It's mint. It's got one hundred and sixty
thousand miles on. I changed you oil in the filter
every seven thousand with a synthetic oil. My mechanics said,
it's the more out of the cow the oil in
the filter.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, And I learned that lesson
on Sunday night, Tim, So I will never find myself
in that situation again, Tim, I got to get one
more in here before the break, buddy, Thanks for your call.
As always, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Got the best show. You got the best show on
the ear from the beginning of time.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Thanks man, I appreciate it. You know that. Thank you
so much. Tim, Talk to you soon. You have a
great night. Let me get next to Dave in San Antonio, Texas.
Dave gright ahead.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
Yeah. I just like to ask the people that are
criticis critical of dolland Trump over his presidency. I just
like to ask them something, what does crow taste like?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Well, first of all, let's get ahead of ourselves. Okay,
I don't think you could do that. Number one.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
I mean I.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Told my daughter a couple of days ago, as soon
as I heard, or a day and a half ago,
as soon as I heard the guitar was hit with
those uh pre warned nuclear weapons, I said, it's over
and they're just saving face. They're gonna they're going to decide,
knows how to fight, and he knows the immaturity of
(28:48):
the Middle East. They're so I don't know, they're they're
so they got to be you know, they can't lose face.
So I knew that was that was That's what that
was I told my daughter says, you go to see
a peace treaty in a near, very near future.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, let's let's go, Dave. There's no sense of taking
a victory lap until the pen is on the paper.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
Okay, I know I got every confidence in Donald As.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm sure you do. I'm sure you do what I'm
just I am always someone who will say to you, uh,
it's it's better to be a little cautious here because
you're dealing It isn't just Donald Trump. You're dealing with
the folks in Iran who have been have a long history.
I'm hopeful, but let's see. Let's see when when the
(29:36):
ink drives in the paper. David As always appreciate you calling,
my friend.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
We got what we got to pray for is the
people I ran decide the.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Way I would join you in that prayer. I would
join you in that prayer. Thank you, my friend. Thanks Dave. Okay,
have a great night. I would take a quick break
couple of lines one at six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty and one at six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty. Try to move folks a little
bit more quickly so I get to some more callers
coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
All right, back to the phonems we go. Let's go
to Ken in Waltham. Ken, you were next on Nightside.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Welcome, Hey, Dan, Hey, I'm one of those mega anti
trumpsters who is going to share your Tasha's optimism that
this is the right move.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah. I mean, there's nothing wrong with if a president
does something that actually not only is good for the
United States, but maybe good for the Middle East and
may even be good for world peace. I mean, I
don't see it downside. I will be be I don't
want to give him all the credit in the world
(30:47):
for for bringing this thing to a conclusion. Let's you know,
and he said it's going to start at midnight. Let's see.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Well you read his post or you know, they completely
and totally obliterated, right. And then when General McCain was
interviewed or asked, you know, he said, well, we have
to do a you know, battle damage assessment.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Did you hear mysel in the world joice if this
really is person?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah? Did you hear my sound bite from Hillary Clinton?
She used She used the same word in two thousand
and eight threatening obliteration.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Yeah, and well one major you know, I think the
Democrats are doing the wrong sort of the exact wrong thing,
say as Dave from San Antonio, right, which you know
he's totally pro trun you know, I think maybe taking
too much credit too fast.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
But yeah, but when I heard a.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Democrat today say, well, you know Trump, because Trump said
he was going to take two weeks and he didn't.
That Trump lied to the American people. Well, like he's
supposed to give away his strategy. I mean, if Trump
said the two weeks, I mean he hadn't. I thought
for sure, given Trump's behavior, I thought for sure he
was going to wait two weeks because he's been dinning
(32:07):
with every country, right, every country I think has stood
up to Trump, from Canada to Russia, to Greenland to Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Right, And I was particularly after listening to your analysts
last week who was saying that Israel's really in trouble
because they just don't have the assets if Iran keeps
hitting them.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
That Kada, by the way, was interesting. I had a
couple of emails over the weekend which bothered me, and
they were individuals who obviously, like I am, pretty pro Israel.
How could you have on someone who views the world
(32:50):
a little differently than we do or whatever, And it
was like, have the guts to call the show. You're
going to send me a nasty email because I had
a guest on that you disagreed with. Call the show
and make the points on the air, you know, I.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
Mean because because of the things he was saying, and
because I really think Trump's been getting pushed around by
other countries. I'm like saying the prayer, you know, Trump,
please stand with Israel, show something.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, sure, yeah, you know, and then you.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
Know, be careful what you pray for, you know. Saturday,
I'm like, holy you know.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And well the other
thing too is that tatsu actually on Sunday sent out
an email. He was the first person who showed the
trucks lined up a few days ago out outside of
four Dough, in which there's some speculation that some of
(33:46):
the plutonium had been removed as supposedly I guess nine hundred.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
Killers from the those three sites.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Well there was from one site, four Dough the name, yeah,
the big site. But the point is that, you know,
Tatsuo and I disagree, and we did disagree on the air,
and we disagreed about Benjamin Netieau. And yet these these
brave you know, keyboard emailers, they don't have the courage
to call the show and uh and discuss it with
Tatsu or whoever. I try to bring guests on from
(34:17):
a different points of view. Uh. Just because they're a
guest on my show doesn't mean that I think that
they're the the oracle of Delphi. I mean I want
different points of view on the show, including yours. So
I agree with you, and I share your hope that
this is something that that is going to become a
real later on tonight it ceas.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Five and I hope, I hope Channa's watching. Well, I
know they're watching.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Well, that would be another that would be another benefit
from it. You know, hey, oh I I always say
I'm rooty for the success of the United States of America,
whether it's Joe Biden or Donald Trump or Barack Obama
or George Bush or or whomever. Simple as that can.
I want to get one more in here before the
blank is going to let you run. I so appreciate you.
(35:06):
I appreciate your thoughtfulness. You and I tend to disagree
on a lot of things, but you're a gentleman and
you bring good points to the table to my show,
and I can't thank you enough for that. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
Thank you, Dan, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Let me go to Wayne and Saugus. Wayne, you were
next on night, say, I gotta wrap the hour force.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
Go right ahead, Wayne, Hey, Dann how you doing.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I'm doing fine, do it fine? Watching very caiously, first
time calling. Well, thank you for a digital studio audience.
Speaker 10 (35:41):
Go right ahead, You've got a great show.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Let me thank you.
Speaker 10 (35:47):
I think that dog Dad, I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Are you and are you in Wayne? Are you in
a car? You're breaking up on us a little bit?
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Here?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Are you in a car? And no?
Speaker 9 (36:07):
Yes, yes, okay, well.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Let's yeah again. That's no, that's fine. No, no, no, no, no,
you go right ahead. I'm just trying to pay attention.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Had some back and he really put his money outwards,
you know he really did.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
But this one I'm more than certain that to descend etages.
It's finally felt that sure. Yes, but a good night.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Thank you very much. Wayne. Next time you call, we'll
have a better connection, So I'll look forward to your
second call better. But I think I got the drift
of what you had to say, and I think you're right.
It's been a long time since nineteen seventy nine and
all the US hostages who were held for four hundred
and forty four days. Iran has been a nemesis of
this country and a nemesis of freedom in the Middle
(37:04):
East for almost five decades. And maybe there will be
a change in leadership in that government. Won't be easy,
that's for sure. All right, we're coming up here on
the eleven o'clock newscast. If you're on the line, you're
going to be pretty close to the top. I got
some open lines, by the way, ladies, when we talked
(37:25):
about this on whenever we talk about war and peace.
For some reason, my women callers, who are strong callers,
choose not to participate. I hope that all of you
feel free to join this conversation tonight, because all points
of view are more than welcome. I have lines at
(37:46):
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty and at
six one, seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. Coming right
back on night Side.
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