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Speaker 1 (00:01):
As we've just learned that the United States of America
has become a combatant in the what I call the
Persian War.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Iran's Ki nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely and
totally obliterated.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Well we entered the war. Now at least three B
two bombers dropped on Pordo. That is an awful lot
of ammunition. That's the homasey equipment of a small nuclear bomber.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Around the bully of the Middle East. Let's now make peace.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
If they do not, future attacks would be far greater
and a lot easier.

Speaker 5 (00:33):
The Israeli's bid off more than they could chew. Let's
just be blunt.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
The Americans came out on a President Trump in a
target package, and I think he's sitting there going, hey,
this is it.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
I want you guys to stand down.

Speaker 6 (00:45):
Were at war.

Speaker 7 (00:46):
They will respond, they will have to respond, and our
boys are sitting right off the coast.

Speaker 8 (00:52):
We did what no one else could do.

Speaker 9 (00:54):
This is your fight from here, wanting to attack us back, we.

Speaker 7 (01:02):
Will lose Young Pullings.

Speaker 8 (01:06):
You guys take over. We did what no.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
One else could do with the B fifty two's the
early satellite imagery, I'm told shows a.

Speaker 6 (01:14):
Complete destruction of that zone. They have not signaled any
desire for beef.

Speaker 10 (01:20):
Americans are very concerned that this might lead us into
the next war.

Speaker 11 (01:24):
Any kinetic response would result in extreme destruction in Iran
and throughout the police.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
There's no military in the world that could have done
what we did tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
If the Iranians don't stand down, that's when it's going
to get interesting.

Speaker 12 (01:44):
Welcome to special coverage here on Real America's Voice on
this Sunday, June twenty second, twenty twenty five. Of course,
these two days, I would say, yesterday June twenty first
and today very historic days in American history. As you
just heard, for those of you who may have miss
by some chance, yesterday the United States struck with precision,

(02:05):
with massive bombs the three main nuclear sites in Iran,
bringing the United States directly into this conflict.

Speaker 13 (02:12):
Here's video.

Speaker 12 (02:13):
We have video now of that explosion, just moments after
the bomb hit. This is from fordaw and you can
see not quite a mushroom cloud, but massive, massive bomb
there and of course the resulting fire and smoke. President
Trump spoke to the nation, joining me now for to
help me with this live coverage.

Speaker 13 (02:30):
This morning is Frank Gaffney.

Speaker 12 (02:32):
Frank Gaffney, a longtime security and terrorism expert who is
also a host here on Real America's Voice. Frank, at
the very least, all you can say is this is
a very very historic time. But I also want everyone
to understand, while this is an enormous moment, I don't
think the American people should be overly, overly frightened this morning. Obviously,

(02:52):
be cautious, be vigilant, be smart. But what has happened
today is something that I think was a long time coming.
This was a the number one killer regime in the
world for four decades. More than that they had this coming.
Wish it didn't have to come to this, but I'm
sure you would agree. This is a very very bad
enemy of the United States that has now been very

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measurably weakened.

Speaker 14 (03:15):
I pray that so, I believe it so, and I
think it's absolutely warranted and frankly long long overdue. The
tragedy is that successive American presidents did not have several
things that Donald Trump has had. Fortunately, one is courage.

(03:35):
Another is a vision of the threat here that he
has been very clear for I think a decade or more,
and he also had an Israel that was prepared to
do the heavy lifting on as much of it as
it could and did and created the conditions under which

(04:00):
those be two bombers and those cruise missiles were able
to reach their targets with precision and without fortunately any
apparent losses. And the question that I think we do
need to drill down on.

Speaker 15 (04:16):
Now is.

Speaker 14 (04:19):
Will we sit and wait for Iran to retaliate? And
let me just say, Iran, I think we ought to
very outset set the stage here. We're talking about the
Iranian regime. We're not talking about the people of Iran.
Our friend Steve Bannon talks about the Lau Baijing of China.

(04:40):
I think of the people of Iran as the Lau
Baijing of Iran. The people have no say in what
this government has been doing to them or aspires to do.
To Israel for sure, and to the rest of us.
I believe they don't want any part of that, and
we ought to be now ensuring and I think the
Israelis are more than prepared to do it, that they

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finish the job by removing the last vestiges of this regime.
So the people, you know, that might attack our forces
in the Gulf. The people who are clearly intent on
continuing to attack Israel, and the people who may be
commanding sleeper cells or even assassination teams in our country

(05:27):
are out of business. They're no longer able to command
those forces to do what we think they might certainly
be capable of doing and bring an in. That President
is talking about peace, I submit to you, Jake, that
peace can only be achieved once the well the regime

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is done. I don't want to call it regime change.
I want to call it free Iran, because that's what's
going to I think secure us as well as others
from the preditions that this outfit may yet seek to do.

Speaker 12 (06:04):
Yeah, that's a very very good point.

Speaker 13 (06:06):
Another good point that I should have made off right
off the top.

Speaker 12 (06:08):
We are expecting Secretary Defense Pete Hegg's Secretary of Defense
Pete Hegseth and Jordan Chiefs Chairman Dan Kin to address
the nation at eight am Eastern time. We're speaking to
you now just after seven am Eastern time, so we'll
be bringing you live coverage as we await those talks,
and if anything, we can go by President Trump's timeline

(06:29):
last night. I think we can expect that eight am
time to be pretty well respected by a Secretary Hegseth
and General Kine. So that, of course will be our
latest update on where things stand. To your point, Frank
Gaffney about not being able to go any further down
the negotiation road, that was not the United States choice.

(06:49):
As recently as yesterday in Geneva, talks about Iran's nuclear
program between Iran and some of the European powers ended
as you might have expected, with no success, with the
Iranian dignitaries leaving those talks as defiant as ever. I
don't know if that was the trigger point for President
Trump to light the green light on this attack, but

(07:11):
it wouldn't surprise me, although I think, of course this
was planned, planned for many months, maybe even years before yesterday.
So look the idea that this is some kind of
willy nilly impulsive attack, which is what people like Congresswoman
AOC are calling it and other people are erroneously calling it.

Speaker 13 (07:30):
It couldn't be further from the truth.

Speaker 12 (07:32):
This has been in the works, as he said, Frank Gafney,
for many, many, many years. I think before we continue talking, though,
for those of you who missed it. I think it's very,
very important that we listened to President Trump's announcement to
the nation. It's a short one, but it's one of
the most consequential speeches of our time, and I think
it's important for us to hear what President Trump had
to say.

Speaker 13 (07:51):
Listen to this, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
A short time ago, the US military carried out massive
precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the
Iranian regime, Fordeaux, Natance, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names
for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our

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objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear inrichment capacity and
a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's
number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report
to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
Iran's key nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely and

(08:41):
totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must
now make peace. If they do not, future attacks would
be far greater and a lot easier. 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.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
That was their specialty.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
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. In particular, so
many were killed by their General Cassem Solomoni. I decided
a long time ago that I would not let this happen.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
It will not continue.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister bb Net Yahoo.
We worked as a team like perhaps no team has
ever worked before, and we've gone a long way to erasing.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
This horrible threat to Israel.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful
job they've done. And most importantly, I want to congratulate
the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight,
and all of the United States military on an operation
the likes of which the world has not seen in many,
many decades. Hopefully we will no longer need their services

(10:03):
and this capacity.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
I hope that's so.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint
chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin Kane, spectacular general, and
all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.
With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There
will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran,
far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember,

(10:30):
there are many targets left to Night's was the most
difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal.
But if peace does not come quickly, we will go
after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most
of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.

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what we did tonight, not even closed. There has never
been a military that could do what took place just
a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kine, Secretary of Defense
Pete heigsth we'll have a press conference at eight am
at the Pentagon, and I want to just thank everybody,

(11:12):
and in particular God.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
I want to just say, we love you God, and
we love our great military. Protect them.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, and God
bless America.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Thank you very much. Thank you.

Speaker 13 (11:30):
Frank Afney.

Speaker 12 (11:31):
You know when I think of it, when I see
that speech, the thing I think of you can have
all the military superiority in the world.

Speaker 13 (11:37):
You can have all the political clout in.

Speaker 12 (11:40):
The world and all the good reasons in the world
to carry out an attack like the United States did
last night, But unless you have a leader to articulate
to the people exactly why and what happened, like President
Trump did just last night, it doesn't matter. And I
think that he was able to check that box and
then some last evening with that in address.

Speaker 14 (12:01):
It was short, but it was very much to the point,
and it seems to me that it touched the key
aspects of where we are at the moment. One, he
obviously commended the exemplary service and performance, the skill, the
courage of the military men and women who performed these strikes.

(12:27):
Two he spoke very pointedly about the partnership the team
that he has helped lead with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime
Minister of Israel. And Three he made it very clear
that this would continue if the Iranian regime persisted in

(12:53):
doing what it has done for forty six years, which
is not only threatened to bring death to America but
actually done so repeatedly, and whatever got a chance and
has planned to do much much worse. Of course, again
just to Israel, and frankly, Jake, not just to the

(13:14):
United States. I think their purpose, the agenda, the idiologically
driven mission of these Mullahs, has been to bring down
Western civilization, Judeo Christian civilization, which brings me to the
last point. I was very touched and I believe it
was the most important part of that speech. The President

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thanked God, and I think it ties into something that
I've been convicted of since he was very nearly assassinated,
and I think it's been on his heart as well,
that he was saved for a purpose. And I don't
take anything away from the importance of him saving our
country in the election last year, but I do think

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that this may be the ultimate mission to save Yes Israel,
to save Yes America, but also to save Western civilization
from what I think of as Sharia supremacism as practiced
by these mulas. And again, I would just come back
to this key point, Jake. Why would we want them

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to remain in power for another day? Why would we contemplate?
And I don't think this is necessarily what the President
was saying, but he's talking about peace. That suggests that
there will be further conversations. The only piece worth having
will be one made possible by the unconditional surrender of

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these mulas, not just their enriched uranium or whatever else
they've got left, but the reigns of power. And the
key piece of this, which I think profoundly important, is
if we continue to parlay with these guys, to have
whatever kind of negotiations with them, it conveys two things, unmistakably. One,

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we actually think they can say on in power safely
that it's going to be okay, they'll promise to behave
better and all that won't happen. But secondly, we're signaling
to the people of Iran that we will betray them
once again, as their President Trump's predecessors had repeatedly done,

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most egregiously Barack Obama, signaling to them that we are
intent on ensuring a free Iran, not that we're going
to choose who will lead it, that will be up
to them, but that we will help through the Israelis
create conditions under which the people of Iran can safely

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liberate themselves. That is the name of the game at
this point in my estimassion.

Speaker 13 (15:54):
All right, thank you Frank Kaffney.

Speaker 12 (15:55):
Again, this is live coverage here on Real America's Voice
America's strike on Iran. As we await the news conference
from the Pentagon from Secretary of Defense Defense Pete Hegseth
and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kin, we'll be right
back with more.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Great carried out massive precision strikes on the three key
nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime. God bless the Middle East,
God bless Israel, and God bless America.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 12 (16:32):
Welcome back to our special report live coverage here on
Real America's Voice on the US strike on Iran. We
are leading up to Secretary of Defense Pete heg sas
press conference at the Pentagon scheduled to start at eight
a m. Eastern time, so less than an hour from now.
He will be joined by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan
Kin Folks. June sixth, nineteen forty four, I believe, of course,

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the most important date of the twentieth cent If things
go the wrong way on D Day, the world is
probably cast into a darkness that it doesn't survive. June
twenty first, twenty twenty five, eighty one years later to
the same month, I think we'll also potentially go down
as one of the most important days of the twenty

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first century. If things had gone wrong last night, or
if we'd had a president who didn't order this strike,
it's possible the world could have been cast into a
darkness that it didn't recover. Sorry to be so heavy
on a Sunday morning, folks, but that's the way the
news is. I want to bring in David Zeer, who
was with us at the White House, who I hope
you joined us last evening on Real America's Voice as

(17:38):
he scrambled to cover this story from the White House,
ran back from his hotel.

Speaker 13 (17:43):
Yeoman's job and.

Speaker 12 (17:45):
Your reward for that, David Zeer's you got to wake
up early this morning, put on a tie and join
us again.

Speaker 13 (17:49):
But thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 14 (17:51):
Yeah, good morning.

Speaker 16 (17:52):
I'm really upset because I missed joining in the globalized
the Intafada rally at Penn Station.

Speaker 17 (17:58):
In New York.

Speaker 16 (17:58):
They took over Penn State their maniacs and a lot
of Palestinian flags flying and then Iranian flags flying outside
the White House yesterday.

Speaker 17 (18:08):
Is surreal.

Speaker 13 (18:11):
David.

Speaker 12 (18:12):
You know, I think you touched on it right there.
We haven't spoken yet about the pushback so much. I mean,
I did briefly mention the ridiculous statement by Congresswoman Alexandria
Casio Cortez calling for President Trump to be impeached over this.
I mean, here's someone who's really saving the entire Western world, which,
of course, the United States is the biggest bulwark of
I can't imagine too many other Democrats, even at least

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publicly saying this, But I believe only John Fetterman is
the only elected Democrat who has come out strongly in
support of these attacks.

Speaker 13 (18:42):
You're in DC, what are you hearing? What are you
seeing on the streets here?

Speaker 12 (18:45):
I mean, you saw these protests yesterday at the White House,
these pathetic figures holding up the flag of Iran's And
you don't like President Trump, you don't like this policy, fine,
But to support this evil regime which kills its own
people by the thousands regularly, and this is just an
example of what we're up against. I don't mind being
up against a loyal opposition, but these people are absolutely out.

Speaker 13 (19:06):
Of their minds.

Speaker 16 (19:08):
I covered or I was at the twenty seventeen Trump inauguration.

Speaker 17 (19:13):
That was violent protests, right.

Speaker 16 (19:15):
They were burning, they burned a limousine, they were breaking
the storefronts and downtown DC. That environment's kind of left
us here. The protests this year that we're supposed to
go on during the second Trump inauguration, they were saying, Oh,
we're going to have half a million people. It turned
out to be like less than fifty thousand, and even
the permit they took out how to merge the Woman's

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rally with the leftist protests together, and they still couldn't
get twenty eight thousand plus people. I think the wind
is out of their sails a little bit because the
American people spoke last year and they don't want any
more of this, and they don't want George Floyd type
stuff again.

Speaker 17 (19:53):
So it's not as bad. I enjoy the buzz once
again in DC.

Speaker 16 (19:57):
I mean, I've been coming here since I seven years
old and a long long time ago, and I've seen
the waves of crime and the gentrification. It's not that bad.
In the twenty twenty one inauguration of Biden, that was
a top one oh one Constitution Avenue with Amanda head
covering that dystopian inauguration, the four thousand troops sleeping on

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the lawn of the Capitol, one hundred.

Speaker 17 (20:20):
Two hunred people.

Speaker 16 (20:21):
There was more media on top of the building than
they were at the actual inauguration.

Speaker 17 (20:24):
They put a giant fence around it because of J six.

Speaker 16 (20:27):
You know, they were trying to create like some atmosphere
that there was a threat. Mayor Bowser shut down all
the businesses in DC. It was a ghost town. The
vibe is back. Trump brought that back. It's like the
Wildwood rally last night. Not to get off topic, but
you know, their summer season was hurting. People are hurting,
Inflation was killing them, and the hotels are empty. And Wildwood,
just north of Cape Maye, New Jersey, Trump got every

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single hotel room booked because of his rally. You know,
he's a positive energy and people want to be part
of it. And I was at Old at but Grill
the other night. There often for many, many years, there's
a buzz again. There's Maga people.

Speaker 17 (21:04):
It's okay to wear a Maga hat.

Speaker 16 (21:06):
There aren't Pride flags every ten feet, so it's a
it's a little better. It's a little better, and I
think that it's a place where I want to be.

Speaker 17 (21:16):
I think where America wants to be a little bit
more so.

Speaker 16 (21:18):
The protesters, I did cover the New York City protests
last week just to close. You know, they were violent.
The police were able to take their gloves off. I
got incredible footage of the clubs like beating down protesters
when they deserved it and hauling them them away.

Speaker 17 (21:33):
And the cops were the diverse crowd.

Speaker 16 (21:35):
The cops are the blacks and the Hispanics and the
Asians and the women. And it was the protesters. They
had like five Hispanics there and the rest were white
girls and white guys yelling from their entitled ivory towers.
And you know, so I think the side is on
the good people of America these days. I am concerned
about protests and sleeper cells and other stuff as well.

Speaker 13 (21:57):
Though, Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 12 (21:59):
Let's bring Frank Gaffney here as well. Frank, you know,
this is an interesting point. We talked to you, and
I talked about the threats to the United States, the
retaliations that could happen, and that is always always something
that we don't ignore.

Speaker 13 (22:12):
We must discuss that.

Speaker 12 (22:13):
Although I think you would agree with me, the threat
to our homeland from these Iranian back terror celles has
been true for a very very long time. I don't
know what rock you've been hiding under if you don't
understand that we have been attacked and we have been
threatened for a long time by these Rainians. But Frank,
I want to talk to you about the political leadership
here and the Democrat political leadership. I don't know if
you agree with me about comparing June twenty first, twenty

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twenty five, potentially to June sixth, nineteen forty four. But
to me is this because to me, this feels like
the Democrats last chance. If there aren't a if there
isn't a critical mass of Democrat leaders who get behind
this effort against Iran right now support President Trump's actions,
I don't know if this party can ever be taken

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seriously by anyone ever.

Speaker 13 (22:58):
Again, we are in.

Speaker 12 (23:00):
The midst of a conflict with a murderous regime that
was looking to destroy all of Western civilization. If they
can't stand up and act like leaders and responsible leaders
instead of spoiled protesting children now Rank Afney, when will
that ever happen?

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Ash?

Speaker 14 (23:17):
This is such an important point, Jake, May I just
pick up on something that we just heard from David
that I think sets up the answer to your question.
He talked about and I think it was tongue in
cheek hating to miss the globalize the Intifada rally up
in the train station in New York. That's one manifestation

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of what we're up against. That is what I call
Sharia supremacism at work. And part of the problem is
that those sleeper cells, those you know, front groups of Iran,
those nation teams, and you're right to some degree, these

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guys have been here for a long time. They've been
casing target sets. I had a fascinating conversation with our
friend Sam Fattis on our program Securing America this weekend,
and he points out that the thing about Hesbelah, for example,
is they don't wait to be given a mission and

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then figure out what to do about it. They prepare
the mission packages for many years in events in some
cases to execute on demand. This brings me back to
that point. We must stop the command from coming now.
But the larger question is if we are in fact

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serious about dealing with this threat. And to your question
about the Democratic Party, it has largely thrown in with
these Muslim brotherhood front groups for example, and to some
extent with the others. The Sharia supremacist types in this country,
some of whom are yes, tied to Iran, but they've

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also been tied into the Communist Party, the China backed
Communist Party, the Democratic Socialists, and so on. So to
go back to your question of D Day compared to now,
you know, Democrats in America, like Republicans in America, I

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think we're loath to get into World War Two. But
once we were in it, because we were attacked by
the Japanese and then Hitler declared war on us as well,
Democrats were all in as much as were Republicans. We
had a unified country that fought that war to a
victory rooted on the principle of unconditional surrender by both

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the Nazis and the imperial Japanese. And today the Democratic leadership,
such as it is, as I'm afraid, really fractured the party.
I'm an old Scoop Jackson Democrat myself, his like is
not in the party any longer, Joe Lieberman. They're not

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there because they're not welcome. They're now Republicans. Some of
them are maga as am I. But the main point
is where we find this country is we're going to
have to deal as an oath of office that I
took on many occasions and other you probably have to
to support and defend our constitution against all enemies, foreign

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and domestic. Is going to require us to brace up
and realize that some of those enemies, domestic, the red
green axis, if you will, the communists read the is
limus green are here. They are a mortal threat, and
they are getting material support from people who are political

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leaders and influential ones in some cases, and that must end.
It must end if we are to survive as a nation.

Speaker 18 (27:08):
Again.

Speaker 12 (27:08):
If you are just joining us, you are watching Real
America's Voice, special coverage, special live coverage this Sunday morning
of America's strike on Iran, and we are going up
to the news conference, live news conference at the Pentagon
with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman
General Dan Kine, which we expect to begin right at

(27:29):
eight a m. Eastern time. I think they're pretty punctual.
We'll be right back with more coverage live. And this
it's just occasion, historic moment in American history, and it's
not over yet.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key
God Bless Israel, and God bless America.

Speaker 4 (28:03):

Speaker 12 (28:07):
Welcome back to our live special coverage of the US
strike on Iran and the effects of it, as we
continued here today on this Sunday morning, June twenty second,
twenty twenty five. This is Real America's Voice. I'm Jake Novak.
Thank you so much for joining us as we await
the eight am news conference at the Pentagon Secretary of

(28:27):
Defense Pete Hegseth. He will be joined by Joint Chiefs
Chairman General Dan Caine.

Speaker 13 (28:32):
That will be at eight am Eastern, and my bed is.

Speaker 12 (28:34):
They're going to be getting going within eight within five
minutes of that eight o'clock call time. They've been pretty
precise about news conferences and the way they schedule them,
so you're gonna want to stay here and not go anywhere.
Joining me this morning for this live coverage and getting
up early with me. So grateful for that are David
Zeer and also Frank Gaffney.

Speaker 13 (28:52):
And David.

Speaker 12 (28:53):
You were telling me during the break that a number
of things have happened overnight, when the last time most
of us got some sleep last night in the United
States and overseas, so let the audience know what we're
talking about here. I assume these are some certain movements
and also some watching of terror groups across this country
and others.

Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yes, and I'm.

Speaker 17 (29:13):
Looking forward to hearing Raisin Kine.

Speaker 16 (29:16):
You know, Trump always talked about him on the campaign
trail over the years, and he got a big rise
out of the crowd that he helped smash ices for US.
You know, at least thirty more missiles were launched overnight
from Iran into Israel, and up to eighty six people
were injured, so they didn't get the message right. Fresh
Israeli strikes targeted Iranian missile launchers. There's word that they've

(29:37):
destroyed over half of the launchers inside of Iran already,
and several hours ago Israel military hit other targets, including
eight additional launchers.

Speaker 17 (29:47):
Two F five fighter jets.

Speaker 16 (29:49):
Six of those launchers were set with missiles to launch
into Israel, and I think they were able to shoot
down ten got.

Speaker 17 (29:56):
Through into Israel.

Speaker 16 (29:58):
Of those, thirty or so also exile Iranian Prince Reza Pavlabi,
who's the son of the Shah, calling for the Islamic
leadership to step down in for an uprising, calling them
a crumbling terrorist regime. That's interesting, but there's no visible
signs of uprising or anything going on on the ground.

(30:18):
They've shut down the internet. I think that's going to
take a long time to fester. And since the beginning
of Rising Lion Operation Rising Lion from Israel, over five
hundred UAVs launched from i Ran towards the state of
Israel have been intercepted.

Speaker 17 (30:33):
They i think intercepted.

Speaker 16 (30:35):
Another twenty twenty and thirty last night as well. And
then there was strikes on Saturday by twenty Israeli Air
Force jets against dozens of military targets and as you know,
they softened up the targets at the Tans and Isfaran
and they hit it constantly over several days, softened it up,

(30:56):
destroying centrifugeres, cutting off the power to the Tans. I
believe there was concerns about radiation leaking, but the IAEA
says that that's contained and they don't see any radiation
coming from Florida because you know, the Gulf States are
concerned about the environment and the radiation. Sixty million people
in that region get their water from desalinization plants in

(31:17):
the Persian Gulf.

Speaker 17 (31:18):
It's a very serious issue.

Speaker 16 (31:19):
If there's an economic and environmental disaster over there in
the Straits of Hormuz and other and the UK is
urging I ran to come back to the negotiating table.
The IAEA did confirm there were no levels of radiation
that were significant around and overnight or yesterday it might

(31:39):
have been. Three bodies of three more hostages killed by
Hamas were found and they were recovered in a joint
IDF and ISA military operation. After being held hostage for
six hundred and twenty five days, they got the bodies back.
UN Secretary General Antoniogutaras said that you know, there's a

(32:02):
ramification of years from this to come. But as usual,
the UN didn't take any action against Iran. European countries
weren't able to do anything to stop this, and I
just wanted to close with a global markets a bracing
for impact. Oil remained relatively stable. I know this is
your lane Jake by seventy three dollars a barrow today,
but it's still up twenty five percent from the lows,

(32:23):
and Brent Krude is up to seventy seven to seventy
hundred dollars a barrow. They're expecting it to climb, which
is up twenty percent for them, but they're expecting it
to climb up to one hundred and thirty dollars a barrow,
which would be devastating the Gulf States, of course, concerned
about any closures or interruptions in the Straits of Horror.

Speaker 12 (32:42):
Moves, Yeah, of course, if there is a closure in
the Strait of Horror Moves, one of the biggest losers
will be China, and there may be Chinese pressure. Well,
we know there's Chinese pressure on the Irani regime not
to do that. And you're absolutely right to talk about
the seventy three dollars barrel level in the United States
recrude oil. But I want to remind our viewers that

(33:02):
on October sixth, twenty twenty three, US crude oil was
at the ninety dollars a barrel level, So we are
still significantly lower than we were even before October seventh.
That doesn't mean I'm going to cheer a few more
cents per gallon at my gas station, but honestly, we
got a long way to go before we even feel
the pain that we did less than two years ago.

(33:23):
Frank Gaffney, I want to ask you, getting back to
the Chinese aspect of this, getting back to the Russian
aspect of this feels to me, Frank, these are two
dogs that are not barking.

Speaker 13 (33:33):
I'm not hearing such righteous indignation.

Speaker 12 (33:36):
We've seen some statements, but I don't get the feeling
that China and Russia are banging the table about what's
going on. In fact, they may be licking their wounds
a little bit because I think they backed the loser.

Speaker 14 (33:46):
I think you're absolutely right, Jack, and it may change,
but most of the world operates with a fairly highly
attuned sense of who's powerful and who's not, and whether
the powerful have the will to use their power. I

(34:09):
would argue there's no greater contempt in the world, and
you saw it from the way the Iranians conducted themselves
with the Biden team particularly, and the Obama team before them,
when they saw a powerful nation essentially groveling, you know,
they treated us with the utmost contempt and moved inexorably

(34:33):
forward with their nuclear weapons program. But to your question,
I think that what you're seeing out of China and
Russia is a recognition that Donald Trump, as during his
first presidency, is a force to be reckoned with and
peace through strength, which he is not only you know,

(34:58):
enunciated is his policy in both terms, but he's put
it into practice just in the past twenty four hours.
Is going to have I think a very salutary effect
on both of these guys. And you know, there are
some who say, and you know, frankly, we'll see the
juries out that his movement of assets like the Nimitz

(35:19):
Carrier strike Group from the Far East to the Middle
East has now you know, created new opportunities for the
Chinese to act aggressively. That may well be, I think
they are poised to be more aggressive towards Taiwan and
possibly towards US. But the truth of the matter is

(35:40):
I think this has affected their calculation and in a
positive way for US and for Taiwan, and for Japan
and for our friends and allies throughout the Pacific as well.

Speaker 12 (35:53):
Yeah, clarity is always the most important thing when it
comes to foreign policy, when it comes to the markets,
and when it comes to foreign policy, and that is
incredibly important. I want to talk to David a little
bit about what you expect. Let's start setting the stage
now for this important news conference from Pete hegg Seth,
our Secretary of Defense and Dan Kin General Dan Kin,

(36:16):
our Joint Chiefs Chairman.

Speaker 13 (36:18):
What would you like to hear from them?

Speaker 12 (36:20):
I mean, I'm sure we'd all like to hear some
of the tactical details, because, let's face it, this is
cool stuff.

Speaker 13 (36:27):
I'm not talking about the death or destruction.

Speaker 12 (36:29):
I'm just talking about the incredible technology that went into
this attack. You see the stealth bomber, the B two
stealth bomber. It is a thing to behold. For those
of you who've been to Super Bowl games or other
NFL games when they do those fly overs. I guess
they do them at baseball games too, although I've not
seen that. It's a cool thing to behold, and you
have to be really dead inside not to be impressed

(36:49):
by the technology of it. And I see we have
some animation of it also. But David, what would you
like to hear from Secretary of heg Seth in General Kine.
You know, if you had a chance to ask them questions,
what would your feeling? What would you want to make
your first questions be?

Speaker 17 (37:05):
I want to know the logistics on how they put
it together.

Speaker 16 (37:08):
I also want to know what measures they've taken outside
of evacuating the bases in Kada.

Speaker 17 (37:13):
And other aircraft to protect US troops abroad.

Speaker 19 (37:17):
But these B.

Speaker 16 (37:19):
Twos are just extraordinary, you know, weapons aircraft that just incredible.
I'd like to see some clarification because I've heard people
say B fifty twos are involved and the number of missiles.
My latest info is that the B twos took off
from white Men. They can travel up to like thirty
thirty six hours. I think when in flight we're fueling,
they have an incredible range. And if the B twos

(37:43):
were in fact the only aircraft up there that were bombers,
how many were actually that hit Florida. I understand there
was twelve. And you know, these bombs are thirty pounds,
but most of that is mass, and they go in,
they penetrate, They can penetrate their sixty feet of concrete
and they have a twenty five hundred pound warhead. I
believe once it gets down to the correct level to explode.

(38:05):
It's a very fascinating and precision operations. I'd also like
to know because we were reporting yesterday throughout the day
that the Israelis were softening up targets across these various
nuclear sites for a couple of days and cutting power
off at the I think it was Thentance facility, destroying

(38:28):
thousands of centrifuges.

Speaker 17 (38:29):
Supposedly when the power was cut.

Speaker 16 (38:31):
There were concerns there were levels of radiation detected, as
I said earlier.

Speaker 17 (38:36):
But I think that's contained.

Speaker 16 (38:38):
I'd like to know the logistics of, you know, who
softened up the targets. Did the US do any of
that as well, or did we just come in with
our I don't know if we had F twenty twos
or F thirty fives escorting us in.

Speaker 17 (38:50):
I believe they were F twenty twos.

Speaker 16 (38:52):
I want the details because we need that clarified, and
I think the American people are fascinated by this and
to minimize the law of life, not only US troops
but people on the ground in Iran as well. These
were not attacks on civilian targets as opposed to indiscriminated
bombings and missile attacks on un guided munitions from Iran

(39:12):
to Israel.

Speaker 17 (39:13):
I'd like to know that as well.

Speaker 12 (39:16):
Yeah, well, we're about fifteen minutes away from that. You
are watching live special coverage here on Real America's Voice
of the US strike on Iran and everything that comes
after it.

Speaker 13 (39:25):
I'm Jake Novak, will be right back as we await
that news.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Comments carried out massive precision strikes on the three key

Speaker 4 (39:50):

Speaker 12 (39:53):
Welcome back to our live special coverage here on Real
America's Voice on the US strike on Iran. You were
looking at a live shot of the briefing room at
the Pentagon, and you see two podiums in front of you.
One of them will be taken by our Secretary of
Defense Pete Hegseth. The other will be taken by Joint
Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kine.

Speaker 13 (40:11):
As they will be giving a news conference at eight
a m.

Speaker 12 (40:14):
Eastern time, And judging by the way that the press
is already sitting down and getting ready, I think that
sucker is going to go on right as scheduled. Frank
Gaffney is joining us, so is David Zier. Frank I
asked David a moment ago what he would ask if
he were in that news conference getting a chance to
ask a question. Let me let me let you take
a crack of that. Also, what would you ask if
you had a chance to ask a question?

Speaker 14 (40:35):
Well, obviously, I think we're all very anxious to get
the battle damage assessment, Jake, so that presumably will be
top of the reporter's minds and would be of mine
as well. Uh, you know, I think we do want
them to exercise care about disclosing too much about, you know,

(40:57):
the kind of tactics and for that matter, and the
capabilities that we use, simply because, as the President has signaled,
we may need them again, not only in Iran obviously,
but quite possibly elsewhere. Having said that about you know,
not wanting too much of the hand to be shown,

(41:19):
it might be interesting to have some sense, at least
in a sort of generic way, what are considered to
be options for further strikes. But I think the single
most important question to me is does Israel have the capability?
Is it assessed to have the capability to finish the
job vis a the the Iranian leadership, that is to say,

(41:45):
removing the last of them, the Iotola Hamoni himself and
his you know, senior supporters who haven't been struck so far,
and as importantly as whether they can do they have
a attitude to do so. Is that something that is
now clearly on the table, especially, as I said at
the very top of the show, Jake, because we're sitting

(42:08):
here and we'll be talking, i'm sure with you the
Secretary and raising Kine about the threat that now exists
to our personnel and the Gulf, to Israel, and to
us here at home most especially, we need to know

(42:29):
that that regime that is in a position and for
all present purposes we can assume, is saying to those
who are capable of attacking our target sets, go for it.
Are they going to be put out of business? Or
are we going to in the hope of getting some
kind of further deal with them, tell the Israelis, no,

(42:52):
don't go after them. I pray that's not going to
be the case. I think it would be a terrible
mistake and possibly squander the deciple victory that is now
in prospect for Israel for us as well.

Speaker 12 (43:06):
David Zeir you were I think that you can help
us with this, because look, of course the United States
now has rank just said faces some new threats from Iran.

Speaker 13 (43:16):
But folks, if you think this.

Speaker 12 (43:18):
Just started, if the United States has started something and
now there's going to be some kind of reverberation from that,
you really are coming to this party extremely late.

Speaker 13 (43:28):
David.

Speaker 12 (43:28):
Let's talk about some of the terocell activity guided and
funded by Iran for years.

Speaker 13 (43:34):
This has been going on for a long time, hasn't it.

Speaker 16 (43:38):
Yeah, you can go back a long time. I've been
following this and I'm about twelve years old. You know,
with the hasbal Sheite oriented attacks, the two hundred and
forty one Marines killed in Lebanon, the two bombings of
our Israeli embassies, the killing of CIA station Chief Jim Buckley,
the hanging of Colonel Higgins, these incredible attacks, and the

(43:59):
Tea Wa hijackings, dumping the body of a US Navy
seal on the tarmac and Beirut, Lebanon, the Senior Center
attacks in Argentina killing eighty or ninety people, an attack
on Jews in Argentina, and the Kobar Towers. We had
twenty five US soldiers killed between Kobar Towers and the

(44:20):
attack a year before in nineteen ninety five. And I
know a lot of our audience has parted ways with
George Bush, with the second Bush. But you know, he
promised the families of Kobar Towers when Obama left that
he would prosecute them, and he did. And on the
first day of first few days in office, he called
in the families of the Kobar Towers and you know,

(44:41):
started making indictments and arrests and capturing Iranian assets. So
it gets worse, you know, because on top of all
these incredible hundreds of attacks, thousands of attacks around the world.
I believe there were six sleeper cells just in the
UK broken up in the last year or two. And
we also had an assassination plot of Trump. Faraj SHAKEI

(45:05):
was plotting the assassination of Trump and the charges. You know,
he was instructed by an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps official,
and that's who runs Iran. They owned fifty percent of
the oil assets in Iran through subsidiary companies. They owned
the telecom industry. They're in trench. There's three leaders right
behind the Supreme i Atola over there. And you know,

(45:27):
so without a significant uprising from within, I don't know
if it's possible to change what's going on here. But
that Trump was at the top of that assassination list here.
And remember at the border years ago, in between Trump
and I think at the end of Trump's term, they
were Iranian suspects captured at the border. I think one

(45:48):
woman had like seventeen thousand dollars in cash on her.
There's been a lot of activity here and there's been
at least fifteen Iran linked terror attacks and kidnappings and
assassin attempts that the UK has broken up in just
recent years, a shop rise in threats from Iranian dissidents,
and then on top of that we've got.

Speaker 19 (46:09):
Threats in the United States.

Speaker 16 (46:11):
But my point is is that you know there were
lone wolf attacks in New York City, supposedly lone wolf. Right,
you had the home Depot truck driver while Trump was
in office in Halloween killing eight to nine people, the
you know, the pressure cook of bomber, the subway bomber.

Speaker 19 (46:27):
Now these guys were Sunnies.

Speaker 16 (46:29):
But you also had a Palestinian terrace in nineteen eighty
seven murder somebody on the top of the Empire State Building.

Speaker 19 (46:35):
You had Labovich students on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Speaker 16 (46:38):
They stopped the bus, they got a shotgun and a
pistol and they killed a fifteen year old student.

Speaker 19 (46:43):
I believe he was fifteen.

Speaker 16 (46:44):
These attacks were NonStop, and then you had the Pakistani
ISIS related guy who put the fuse in backwards of
the propane bomb and Times Square if that thing went off,
and thank god for Wayne Radagan, the Mounted police officer
who has spoken to at length. You know, he caught
it in time for the guy had a chance to
flip the fuse around. We were at a couple of
hundred dead just from the glass in Times Square.

Speaker 19 (47:07):
So we have to be super vigilant.

Speaker 16 (47:09):
And the activities on the college campuses and what happened
in Denver, and what happened in DC or in Boulder,
and what happened in DC a few weeks ago, I
think you will see anti Semitic hate on the rise.
As I said earlier in April, I think there was
about a thirty five percent increase that in attacks on

(47:30):
Jews in New York City alone. That has subsided, but
that's probably going to happen again. My kids live in
New York City. I can't sleep at night. I lost
my best friend in nine to eleven, from when I
was a teenager. One of my best friends. And you know,
my sister lost eighty one clients. Howard Lutnick lost seven
hundred employees. We don't want to see anything like that again.

(47:51):
So it's time to be super vigilant. And I don't
mind the deportations. You know, let's get rid of anybody
who hates America right now, who has any type of
Iranian Hey, Jake, I just.

Speaker 13 (48:02):
Make a couple, don't forget. Oh, go ahead, Frank, go ahead, Frank.

Speaker 14 (48:05):
Just just to add to that litany that David very
handsomely wahed out speaking of nine to eleven, David, is
you know the Iranians did seeker covert training of those
hijackers inside Iran for nine to eleven.

Speaker 12 (48:24):
There was an.

Speaker 14 (48:25):
Iranian piece of that plot. And it speaks to the
issue that you sort of alluded to, and that is
the willingness of the Shiites of Iran and the Sunnis,
Saudi Arabian and cut her most especially as evidenced in
Hamas being perfectly willing to collaborate against those that they

(48:45):
considered to be their mutual enemy. You know, we tell,
we're being told endlessly that you know they don't get along, well,
they don't get along unless it serves their purposes to
go after us. And just to emphasize this point, the
Muslim Brotherhood operations, and I think some of them are
ones that you were referring to there, David, are very
dangerous in this country as well. I mean, Donald Trump

(49:07):
has a memorable speech on the fifteenth of August twenty
sixteen laid out the case for stripping out the networks
of the ideology that he called radical Islamic terrorism I
think is better described as Sharia supremacism. We need to
be doing that right now, both for the Iranian threat
purposes here and the Muzzlim brother ones.

Speaker 16 (49:29):
You know, Frank, I just wanted to add, you know,
a civil court found on behalf of a thousand victims
families of nine to eleven and gave them billions of
dollars in a lawsuit against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
and the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic for that training.

Speaker 14 (49:45):
Exactly.

Speaker 13 (49:46):
That's exactly.

Speaker 12 (49:47):
You know, you're looking like the briefing room. Yeah, I
want to show the brief room just for a second.
Sorry about that, Frank. This is the live shot of
the briefing room at the Pentagon. As you can see,
two podiums are at the stage there. One will be
taken by our Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The other
will be taken by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kane.

Speaker 13 (50:06):
Any moment now, and.

Speaker 12 (50:07):
We're gonna be getting that to you live as soon
as it begins. This is your live coverage here on
Real America's Voice this morning.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
And the bully of the Middle East, let's now make peace.
If they do not, future attacks would be far greater
and a lot easier.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
The Israeli's bid off more than they could chew. Let's
just be blunt.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
The Americans came out on a President Trump in a
this is it.

Speaker 5 (50:37):

Speaker 6 (50:39):
We're at war.

Speaker 7 (50:40):
They will respond, they will have to respond, and our
boys are sitting right off the coast.

Speaker 9 (50:45):
We did what no one else could do. This is
your fight from here.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
It opened Iran up to wanting to attack us back.

Speaker 8 (50:55):
We will lose, young boys. You guys take over. We
did what no one else could do with the B
fifty two's.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
The early satellite imagery I'm told shows a complete destruction
in that zone. They have not signaled any desire for beef.

Speaker 10 (51:13):
the next war.

Speaker 11 (51:17):

Speaker 2 (51:24):

Speaker 1 (51:27):
to get interesting.

Speaker 12 (51:38):
Welcome back to our live coverage here at Real America's
Voice of the US strike on Iran and everything that
comes after it.

Speaker 13 (51:44):
You're looking live at the briefing room at the Pentagon.
Two podiums are set up.

Speaker 12 (51:48):
We are about to hear more about last evening's strike
on the Iranian nuclear facilities from Secretary of Defent Pete
Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kine. That will
start any minute now again, I'm Jake Novak. Thank you
so much for joining us on Real America's Voice for
our live coverage. I'm joined by David Zeer in Washington.

(52:08):
Frank Gafney has.

Speaker 13 (52:09):
Joined us, and also now we have a special guest
joining us.

Speaker 12 (52:11):
Now from Jerusalem, Gal Khalev. He is a writer for
the Jerusalem Post. He's an expert on security issues.

Speaker 17 (52:18):
Go.

Speaker 12 (52:18):
We know that Israel took the first brunt of a
response from Iran, although I don't think you can say
this is a specific response to the attack last night,
because of course Israel has been taking similar hits from
ballistic missiles and drones from.

Speaker 13 (52:30):
Iran for days now.

Speaker 12 (52:32):
We know that we're eighty six people injured, all of
those injuries light except for one so far. How is
Israel responding to the news of the strike and how
are they responding to what they might think is maybe
even stronger reverberations or responses from Iran.

Speaker 15 (52:47):
Goll Well, good morning.

Speaker 20 (52:49):
First of all, we are extraordinarily grateful to President Trump
at the United States for doing this.

Speaker 13 (52:55):
We've been I have to dirupt you gal here we go.

Speaker 12 (52:58):
Here's Secretary of Defense exits.

Speaker 21 (53:02):
Three facilities in for dontons to destroy.

Speaker 22 (53:09):
To sdue degrade improvement.

Speaker 5 (53:12):
The Chairman Joint chiefs MS.

Speaker 18 (53:15):
It was an incredible and.

Speaker 21 (53:18):
Overwhelming Well thank you for joining us this morning. Last night,
on President Trump's orders, US Central Command conducted a precision
strike in the middle of the night against three nuclear
facilities in Iran for DOAU, Naton's and Esfahan in.

Speaker 22 (53:40):
Order to destroy or severely degrade.

Speaker 21 (53:44):
Iran's nuclear program, and as the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs will demonstrate, it was an incredible and overwhelming success.

Speaker 22 (53:54):
The order we received from our Commander in.

Speaker 21 (53:56):
Chief was focused, it was powerful, and it was clear
we devastated the Iranian nuclear program. But it's worth noting
the operation did not target Iranian troops of the Iranian people.
For the entirety of his time in office, President Trump
has consistently stated for over ten years that Iran must

(54:20):
not get a nuclear weapon full stop. Thanks to President
Trump's bold and visionary leadership and his commitment to peace
through strength, Iran's nuclear ambitions have been obliterated.

Speaker 22 (54:35):
Many presidents have dreamed.

Speaker 21 (54:38):
Of delivering the final blow to Iran's nuclear program, and
none could until President Trump. The operation President Trump planned
was bold and it was brilliant, showing the world that
American deterrence is back. When this president speaks, the world

(55:02):
should listen, and the US military we can back it up,
the most powerful military the world has ever known. No
other country on planet Earth could have conducted the operation
that the Chairman is going to outline this morning, not
even close, just like Solimani found out in the first term,

(55:25):
Iran found out. When Potus says sixty days that he
seeks peace and negotiation, he means sixty days of peace
and negotiation. Otherwise that nuclear program, that nuclear capability will
not exist.

Speaker 22 (55:41):
He meant it.

Speaker 21 (55:43):
This is not the previous administration. The President Trump said
no nukes, he seeks peace, and Iran should take that path.
He sent out a truth last night saying this, any
retaliation by Iran against the United States of America will

(56:07):
be met with force far greater than what was witnessed tonight,
signed the President of the United States, Donald J.

Speaker 22 (56:16):
Trump.

Speaker 21 (56:17):
Iran would be smart to heed those words. He's said
it before and.

Speaker 22 (56:23):
He means it.

Speaker 21 (56:24):
I want to give recognition to the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs Staff, the Joint Staff, General Eric Carilla at SENTCOM,
who did.

Speaker 22 (56:33):
A phenomenal job. He and his staff, all of Sentkom
policy across the board.

Speaker 21 (56:39):
This was a joint effort and across the Pentagon effort.
I want to recognize the pilots who flew those bombers,
who flew those fighters, who flew those refuelers, warriors. I
want to recognize the sailors on those destroyers, in those subs.

Speaker 22 (56:59):
On those carriers. Warriors, all of them.

Speaker 21 (57:02):
I want to recognize our soldiers doing air defense, base
defense QRF warriors, all of them. Every American involved in
this operation performed flawlessly, and I want to give recognition
to our allies in Israel as well. This is a
plan that took months and weeks of positioning and preparation

(57:26):
so that we could be ready when the President of
the United States called It took a great deal of precision.
It involved misdirection and the highest of operational security. Our
B twos went in and out of downtown Tehran, Tehran,
excuse me, of these nuclear sites, in and out and

(57:49):
back without the world knowing at all. In that way,
it was historic, a strike that included the longest B
two spirit bomber mission since two thousand and one and
the first operation employment of the mop A massive ordinance penetrator.
The mission demonstrated to the world the level of joint
and allied integration that speak to the strength of our

(58:11):
alliance and our joint forces. As President Trump has stated,
the United States does not seek war, but let me
be clear, we will act swiftly and decisively when our people,
our partners, or our interests are threatened. Iran should listen
to the President the United States and know that he

(58:31):
means it every word. I want to give congratulations to
our commander in chief. It was an honor to watch
him lead last night and throughout, and to our great
American warriors on this successful operation. God bless our troops,
God bless America, and we give glory to God for
his providence and continue to ask for his protection.

Speaker 22 (58:55):
I turn it over now to the Chairman for specifics.

Speaker 23 (58:58):
Thank you, Miss stric Terry, Thanks for recognizing all of
our folks out there doing our nation's work, and nice
to see everybody on this early Sunday morning. Last night,
on the President's orders, US Central Command, under the command
of General Eric Krilla, executed Operation Midnight Hammer, a deliberate
and precise strike against three Iranian nuclear facilities. This was

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a complex and high risk mission carried out with exceptional
skill and disciplined by our joint force. I want to
thank every service member, planner, operator that made this mission possible.
Their actions reflect the highest standards of the United States
Armed Forces. This operation was designed to severely degrade Rand's

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nuclear weapons infrastructure. It was planned and executed across multiple
domains and theaters with coordination that reflects our ability to
project power globally with speed and precision. At the time
and place of our nation choosing, this was a highly
classified mission, with very few people in Washington knowing the

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timing or nature of this plan. I'll refer you to
the graphic on the side as I walk you through
some of the operational details. At midnight Friday into Saturday morning,
a large B two strike package comprised of bombers launched
from the continental United States as part of a plan
to maintain tactical surprise. Part of the package proceeded to

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the west and into the Pacific as a decoy, a
deception effort known only to an extremely small number of
planners and key leaders here in Washington and in Tampa.
The main strike package, comprised of seven V two Spirit bombers,
each with two crew members, proceeded quietly to the east

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with minimal communications. Throughout the eighteen hour flight into the
target area. The aircraft completed multiple inflight refuelings. Once over land,
the B twos linked up with escort and support aircraft
in a complex, tightly timed maneuver requiring exact synchronization across

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multiple platforms in a narrow piece of airspace, all done
with minimal communications. This type of integration is exactly what
our joint force does better than anyone else in the world.
At approximately five pm Eastern Standard time last night, and
just prior to the strike package entering Iran, a US

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submarine in the Central Command Area of responsibility launched more
than two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles against key
surface infrastructure targets at Esfahan. As the Operation Midnight Hammer
strike package entered Iranian airspace, the US employed several deception tactics,

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including decoys as the fourth and fifth General Aircraft pushed
out in front of the strike package at high altitude
and high speed sweeping in front of the package for
enemy fighters and surface to air missile threats. The strike
package was supported by US Strategic Command, US Transportation Command,

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US Cyber Command, US Space Command, US Space Force, and
US European Command. As the strike package approached for DOEU
and NATANCE, the US protection package employed high speed suppression
weapons to ensure safe passage of the strike package, with

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fighter assets employing preemptive suppressing fires against any potential Iranian
surface to air threats.

Speaker 22 (01:02:49):
We are currently.

Speaker 23 (01:02:50):
Unaware of any shots fired at the US strike package
on the way in. At approximately six forty pm Eastern
Standard time two ten am, Iran time, the lead B
two dropped two GBU fifty seven massive ordnance penetrator weapons

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on the first of several aim points at four doh.
As the President stated last night, The remaining bombers then
hit their targets as well, with a total of fourteen
mops dropped against two nuclear target areas. All three Iranian
nuclear infrastructure targets were struck between six forty pm and

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seven ZHO five pm Eastern time. Again, that's about two
ten in the morning local time in Iran, with the
Tomahawk missiles being the last.

Speaker 18 (01:03:43):
To strike at Esfahan.

Speaker 23 (01:03:45):
To ensure we retain the element of surprise throughout the operation.
Following weapons release, the midnight Hammer Strike package exited Iranian
airspace and the package began its return home. We are
unaware of any shots fired at the package on the

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way out. Iran's fighters did not fly, and it appears
that Iran's surface to air missile systems did not see
US throughout the mission. We retained the element of surprise.
In total, US forces employed approximately seventy five precision guided

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weapons during this operation. This included, as the President stated
last night, fourteen thirty thousand pounds GBU fifty seven massive
ordnance penetrators, marking the first ever operational use of this weapon.
I know that battle damage is of great interest. Final
battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage

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assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage
and destruction. More than one hundred and twenty five US
aircraft participat in this mission, including B two stealth bombers,
multiple flights of fourth and fifth generation fighters, dozens and

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dozens of air refueling tankers, a guided missile submarine, and
a full array of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, as
well as hundreds of maintenance and operational professionals. As this
secretary said, this was those largest B two operational strike

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in US history and the second longest B two mission
ever flown, exceeded only by those in the days following
nine to eleven. Well prior to the strike, General Carilla
elevated force protection measures across the region, especially in Iraq, Syria,
and the Gulf. Our forces remain on high alert and

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are fully postured to respond to any Iranian retaliation or
proxy attacks, which would be an incredibly poor choice. We
will defend ourselves. The safety of our service members and
civilians remains our highest priority. This mission demonstrates the unmatched reach, coordination,

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and capability of the United States Military. In just a
matter of weeks, this went from strategic planning to global execution.
This operation underscores the unmatched capabilities and global reach of
the United States Military. As the President clearly said last night,

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no other in the no other military in the world,
could have done this. I joined the President and the
Secretary and being incredibly proud of the air crews, naval forces,
cyber operators, planners and support teams and commanders who made
this mission possible. It is their skill, discipline, and teammate

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teamwork that makes this operation possible. I am particularly proud
of our discipline related to operational security, something that was
of great concern to the President, the Secretary, General Carilla,
and me, and we will continue to focus on this.
As we stand here this morning, many assets are still

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airborne and we have hundreds deployed. I asked that we
keep our warfighters on their way home and our deployed
service member in our thoughts. Our joint force remains ready
to defend the United States, our troops, and our interests
in the region. Thank you very much.

Speaker 22 (01:07:39):
We will take a few questions.

Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
Phil.

Speaker 13 (01:07:41):
Yeah, so is regime change off the table?

Speaker 15 (01:07:45):
Mister secretary?

Speaker 17 (01:07:46):
And to the chairman, you know.

Speaker 20 (01:07:49):
You said the battle damage assessment is still ongoing, but
do you believe that some nuclear capability in Iran remains?

Speaker 21 (01:07:57):
This mission was not and has not been, about regime change.
The President authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats
to our national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program
and the collective self defense of our troops and our
ally Israel.

Speaker 22 (01:08:18):
Thanks for your question.

Speaker 23 (01:08:20):
I think BDA is still pending and it would be
way too early for me to comment on what may
or may not still be there.

Speaker 19 (01:08:26):
But thanks for the question.

Speaker 22 (01:08:27):
Green Green, no behind.

Speaker 8 (01:08:30):
You student was Secretary?

Speaker 14 (01:08:33):
Can you tell me it was there a particular moment
when the President decided to pull the trigger on this
operation where he said, now, rather than being you know,
something in the holes or now we're going to.

Speaker 21 (01:08:43):
Pull the drigger on, I would just say having the
opportunity to witness his leadership. He was fully committed to
the peace process, wanted, wanted a negotiated outcome, gave Iran
every single opportunity and unfortunately was met by stonewalling, which
is what he gave them. Plenty of time to continue
to come to the table and give up enrichment, give

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up the nuclear program. But there was a I won't
say the particular moment, there was certainly a moment in
time where he realized that it had to be a
certain action taken in order to minimize the threat to
US in our troops.

Speaker 24 (01:09:18):
Yeah, General, you say that General Carolla increased force protection
in Iraqs area and go from those areas. Were they
given any advance warning the attacks were coming? And also,
as a secretary, when we're congressional leaders notified how long
before the attacks.

Speaker 22 (01:09:35):
Replays sure to your first question.

Speaker 23 (01:09:39):
You know the risk has clearly been rising over the
last few weeks in the region. Based on that and
not a particular awareness of this operation, We've made smart
decisions to minimize the risk to US forces in the region.

Speaker 17 (01:09:54):
No advance warning, No, sure, in Congressional.

Speaker 21 (01:09:59):
They were they were notified after the planes were safely
out where we complied with the notification requirements of the
War Powers Act attacks they were notified, they were immediately thereafter.

Speaker 8 (01:10:11):
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 25 (01:10:14):
Two questions, do you believe you completely destroyed Iranian nuclear program?
And how about Iranian ballasted missiles? As I always saying
that his biggest threat. And second question is very important,
what will be your next step if Iran or militias

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under Iranian influence from the region attack US interests or
all eyes.

Speaker 15 (01:10:45):
In the region.

Speaker 22 (01:10:47):
And you can chime in on this too, miss Chairman.

Speaker 21 (01:10:50):
The battle damage assessment is ongoing, but our initial assessment,
as the Chairman said, is that all of our precision
munitions struck where we wanted them to strike and had
the desire of effect, which means especially in four Doah,
which was the primary target here, we believe we achieved
destruction of capabilities there. Ultimately, wherever it may be, whether

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it's in Iraq or Syria or Basis in the Gulf,
as the President said it would be, or excuse me,
as the Chairman said, it would be a very bad
idea for Iran or its proxies to attempt to attack
American forces.

Speaker 15 (01:11:25):
Yes, thank you, mister Secretar.

Speaker 26 (01:11:27):
Career regarding retaliations. Iran and North Korea are cooperating on
your career and missile development. Do you think there is
a possibility that Iran knows Korea and the other forces
such as China, we'll join forces to retaliate against the

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United State.

Speaker 21 (01:11:53):
Well, unfortunately, because of the policies under the previous administration,
we drove those countries together, and ultimately that creates a
challenging environment.

Speaker 22 (01:12:04):
For this particular operation.

Speaker 21 (01:12:06):
The focus is on Iran and an Iranian nuclear capabilities.
That's our focus here is to not just say that
they can't have but President Trump has said from over
twenty years, frankly, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and
ultimately he decided this is the moment, given their stonewalling,
when direct military action had to be taken to prevent
that from happening.

Speaker 17 (01:12:28):
Yes, thank you very much.

Speaker 27 (01:12:29):
General Kane, I understand obsek I respect.

Speaker 15 (01:12:32):
On the sect.

Speaker 27 (01:12:33):
Can you say at all what security procedures are being
taken to protect US troops in Iraq and elsewhere in
the least and Secretary Hegseth as a global war on terrorism? Veteran,
what do you say to veterans who may be concerned
the US is getting into another open ended war in
the Middle East over weapons of mass destruction.

Speaker 22 (01:12:54):
Thanks sir for the question. I won't comment on.

Speaker 23 (01:12:57):
What force protection measures are being to in the region.
What I will say is we're being proactive and not reactive,
and being very thoughtful about ensuring that we do all
that we can to protect our forces out there.

Speaker 21 (01:13:13):
And I would just say, as the President has directed
and made clear, this is most certainly not open ending.
It doesn't mean it limits our ability to respond. We
will respond if necessary. The most powerful military in the
world is postured and prepared to defend our people. But
what the President gave us, as I said, was a focused,
powerful and clear mission on the destruction of Iranian nuclear capabilities.

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Those are the targets. That's what was struck. That was overwhelming.
That's what was overwhelming. That's what the Iranian regime needs
to understand. As the President put out last night, he
wants peace. There needs to be a negotiated settlement here.
We ultimately demonstrated that Iran cannot have a nuclear capability.

Speaker 22 (01:13:55):
That is a very clear mission set on this operation. Yes,
hold on, yes, right there, Thank you.

Speaker 28 (01:14:04):
Mister secretary. Question for the Secretary and the chairman. How
was this strike coordinated with the Israelis on a strategic level,
militarily and on a tactical level. Was there any direct
Israeli military participation in this operation?

Speaker 21 (01:14:25):
Well, I would say certainly, Israel had an incredible military success,
especially at the beginning and ongoing in degrading Iranian capabilities,
degrading Iranian launchers MRBMs. It's been incredible to watch what
our ally Israel has been able to do, and there
certainly have been conversations. I mean, General Carilla at Sentcom

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has worked closely in the defense of Israel for many years,
and part of this operation was the defensive, visual and
the ongoing defense of Israel. But as it pertains to
this strike, this was US operated in the US LED.

Speaker 23 (01:15:03):
We took advantage of some of the preparatory work that's
been done over the past week and a half in
terms of access of approach. I won't get into the particulars,
but as the Secretary said, it was a US strike,
we made sure we were not in the same piece
of airspace and sky. Aside from that, that was the
extent of it.

Speaker 22 (01:15:23):
We'll take a couple more Yeah, right there.

Speaker 29 (01:15:26):
Question in the Secretary. First, are you concerned whatsoever now
about the reaction from US allies given the strike, particularly
those in the Gulf. And to the Chairman, if I may,
I understand you don't want to speak to specific assets
force protection measures, but do you anticipate at least having
to bring in any further assets from other theaters to
aid enforced protection over the coming days.

Speaker 21 (01:15:49):
We certainly understand the challenges of allies in the region,
and we have been respectful and in working in collaboration
with them as it pertains to basing and sensitivities there. Ultimately,
they've got a lot of assets and people in those locations,
also where American troops are co located, so that's a
consideration of ours. We've been in close consultation with them

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when we appreciate the support that we have got.

Speaker 23 (01:16:12):
Thanks for the question on sort of the global picture,
and as you know, that's one of my jobs is
to look globally at the entire range of challenges. We
are always carefully considering our force posture and of the President.

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I won't comment on any future things, but the American
people should know that we carefully consider those moves around
the world. And try to modulate as needed our force
structure in the region.

Speaker 22 (01:16:46):
Absolutely, yeah, right here, thank you.

Speaker 28 (01:16:48):
What communications are being sent to the Iranians right now
and is there any possibility of diplomacy now we're in
the coming days.

Speaker 21 (01:16:56):
I can only confirm that there are both public and
prime messages being directly delivered to the Iranians in multiple channels,
giving them every opportunity to come to the table. They
understand precisely what the American position is, precisely what steps
they can take to allow for peace, and we hope
they do so.

Speaker 22 (01:17:18):
Yes, the President may not want an open ended conflict.
The Iranians may disagree.

Speaker 14 (01:17:24):
Are you prepared for protracted war?

Speaker 22 (01:17:28):
Well, anything can happen in conflict. We acknowledge that.

Speaker 21 (01:17:31):
But the scope of this was intentionally limited. That's the
message that we're sending. With the capabilities of the American
military nearly unlimited. So Iran in that sense has a choice.
But we've made it very clear to them. This is
nuclear sites, this is nuclear capabilities. This is the line
that the presidents set and we set that back. Now

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is the time to come.

Speaker 22 (01:17:53):
Forward for peace.

Speaker 21 (01:17:53):
But we I think but one of the takeaways from
this as well is the unpreceded level of ongoing cooper operation.
I can't speak highly enough of the Chairman and his
staff and General Carilla in Sentcom what they've done to
look around the corner to preposition to understand how an
operation like this comes together. The scope and scale of

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what occurred last night would take the breath away of
almost any American if you had an opportunity to watch
it in real time. And I think Taran is certainly
calculating the reality that planes flew from the middle of
America and Missouri overnight completely undetected over three of their
most highly sensitive sites, and we were able to.

Speaker 22 (01:18:34):
Destroy nuclear capabilities.

Speaker 21 (01:18:37):
And our boys in those bombers are on their way
home right now. We believe that'll have a clear psychological
impact on how they view the future, and we certainly.

Speaker 22 (01:18:46):
Hope they take the path of negotiated peace.

Speaker 21 (01:18:48):
But I could not be more proud of how this
building operated, of the precision, the sensitivity, and the.

Speaker 22 (01:18:56):
Professionalism of the troops involved in this effort.

Speaker 21 (01:18:58):
I will take one more, will take one more question,
yes right there, thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:19:04):
Mister Secretary.

Speaker 30 (01:19:05):
Concerning the justification for these strikes in March, the Office
of the Director of National Intelligence released their threat assessments, concluding, quote,
Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Kamani has
not authorized the nuclear programs he suspended in two thousand

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and three unquote. So what new intelligence does the US
have since then that the rants have changed their position
on nuclear weapons? And does this new intelligence come from
US sources and methods or are we getting this information
from other countries?

Speaker 21 (01:19:43):
Well, I would just simply say that the President's made
it very clear He's looked at all of this, all
of the intelligence, all the information, and come to the
conclusion that the Iranian nuclear program is a threat and
was willing to take this precision operation to neutralize that
threat in order to advance American national interests, have reduced
the Iranian nuclear program and obviously collective self defense.

Speaker 22 (01:20:05):
Of ourself and our allies.

Speaker 21 (01:20:06):
So he looked at all of it, understood the nature
of the threat, and took bold action. I think the
American people would expect in a commander in chief.

Speaker 22 (01:20:14):
That's all we've got.

Speaker 21 (01:20:15):
Thank you very much, appreciate its chairman, Thank you sure.

Speaker 14 (01:20:20):
The WC one thirty five, Can you check over you
active material in the atmosphere.

Speaker 12 (01:20:25):
Oh, you've been watching live coverage. That was Secretary of
Defense Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine
explaining the situation, I think as best as they could
a news media, and some of those questions were not
exactly on point, as you may have noticed, not really

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getting the gist of everything.

Speaker 13 (01:20:47):
I'm Jake Novak.

Speaker 12 (01:20:48):
You have been watching live coverage and we're going to
continue with our live coverage here on Real America's Voice
of the US strike on Iran. Joining me right now
are David Zeer in Washington, d C. Frank Gaffney, the
host of Securing America here on Real America's Voice, and
a special guest who's just joined us, Gal Khalev from
Jerusalem and Galla just want to get your perspective. You
were in the middle of answering my question about how

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Israel is responding, how israelis are responding not only to
the attack last night of the US on the Iranian
nuclear sites, but the perceived and expected Iranian response to them.

Speaker 13 (01:21:19):
Of course, Israel will be at the tip of the
spear of that.

Speaker 20 (01:21:23):
Yeah, we are, as I mentioned, grateful to President Trump.
Last week, the German Chancellor said that Israel is the
one who's doing the dirty work for the entire Western
world by taking down the Iranian threat. Last night we
saw it's now America who's doing the dirty work for
the entire Western world. America is much safer, Israel is
much safer today, and so is the rest of the world.

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So I hope that just as we are in Israel
thanking the President and the troops and the United States
for doing this, so are other people around the Western world.

Speaker 12 (01:21:54):
Gal let's address the elephant in the room, because since
the beginning of time, almost certainly since the beginning of
this conflict or the rising of the threat from Iran,
you've heard the people say that this is just something
the United States is doing for quote unquote Israel. Would
you like to explain I don't know if you want
to explain politics or thermonuclear weapons, because there's no such

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thing in a nuclear conflict where only one nation the
size of New Jersey is going to be affected.

Speaker 20 (01:22:25):
Absolutely, and first of all, just a suggestion is insulting
to the President of the United States. The President Trump
made it clear from the beginning he is going to
do what is best for America. Is well expects nothing
else out of that. Every country, every leaders needs to
do what's best for their country. In President Trump is
certainly doing that. But look, Iran having a nuclear bomb

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doesn't mean that it's only going.

Speaker 15 (01:22:47):
To direct it into Israel.

Speaker 20 (01:22:49):
It has the delivery capabilities to direct it to the
United States, to Europe and elsewhere. And it's not just
you know, the fact that you know they're going to
launch the bomb, it's the fear of the bomb going
to go to football games or baseball games. If there
is some sort of a threat of abom Some of
us like me who are old enough to remember the
nineteen eighties and the threat of a Russian nuclear war,

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there was a certain degree of tension. Take that by
multiple of one hundred. Because Irans Russia the didn't say clearly,
we're going to power America, America, We're going to destroy America,
We're going to end America. Iran says it's clearly. So
the threat of a nuclear run is monumental. The threat
of Iran having ballistic missiles, you know, which he already has,
is big because the people in the United States and

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in Europe are watching those Uranian missiles flying into Israeli homes,
into Israeli hospitals and destroying them, including this morning, including
in my own hometown neighborhood. So you know, we people
are watching how those missiles are murdering Jews, are destroying homes,
are destroying neighborhoods, and understand that that could be neighborhoods
in Europe and later, you know, as Iran continues as

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programs neighbors neighborhoods in the United States.

Speaker 15 (01:23:57):
So this is.

Speaker 20 (01:23:58):
A clear and present threat to the United States. As
Secretary has said, the President determined that you know, this
cannot wait.

Speaker 15 (01:24:05):
It needs to be happened now. And that's what happened.

Speaker 20 (01:24:07):
And I think everybody should be grateful for the President
and for this restoring most of the restoring deterrence.

Speaker 15 (01:24:14):
As the Secretary said, yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:24:17):
I mean, what we're dealing with here now is a
tremendous new paradigm, but not new in the sense that
we haven't seen this threat for a long time.

Speaker 13 (01:24:26):
You know, I've heard.

Speaker 12 (01:24:27):
People say, and David Zier said this that since twenty fifteen,
and I know Frank Gafney said it as well, that
since twenty fifteen, President Trump has made it clear that
Iran could not have a nuclear weapon. I actually saw
a statement, guys from him twenty eleven, fourteen years ago, saying.

Speaker 13 (01:24:43):
That Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. The idea that.

Speaker 12 (01:24:46):
This is something that was pressured onto him by a
small foreign country, which isn't even in the top twenty
of countries that donate money to American candidates, So that
you can't directly do that anyway a foreign nation cannot
do that is just ludicrous. Sadly, Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist
aligned donors in this country and other countries absolutely dwarf

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the donations of just about anyone else, let alone another
foreign country as small as Israel. So let's just stop
with those kinds of that, that kind of talk, and
as Gole said, and as and as Gole said, that
is a really insulting to President shrub who, of course
is in addition to being the most powerful man in
the world, is also one of the wealthiest.

Speaker 13 (01:25:29):
I want to bring in Mark, Mark. You were here
for a lot of this last night.

Speaker 12 (01:25:32):
You were talking to with us, Mark, tell us what
are some of your, you know, initial reactions not only
to this attack, but what you just heard from Secretary
heg Seth and General Kane Mark.

Speaker 31 (01:25:44):
Sure, good morning, Jake and everyone.

Speaker 32 (01:25:46):
Look, obviously, Secretary HeiG sith and and the Chairman laid
out what was a brilliantly executed military plan. I mean,
imagine you know, these pilots on B two by flying
eighteen hours undetected mid air refuelings to reach their targets.

Speaker 31 (01:26:09):
It was brilliant. It was amazing.

Speaker 32 (01:26:12):
American military might is the best in the world. And
Donald Trump is clearly leading with his commitment to peace
through strength. Look, this is not ideal in a lot
of ways that we had to be put in this position.
And I think there are some neo cons on the
right who are thrilled today. There are some gi Hottis

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who are ready to seek revenge against us. So I
think there are consequences ahead. Who knows what this means,
for instance, for Syria or for Afghanistan hopefully, and I
believe that this sends a signal that we want peace
and Donald Trump's going to do whatever it takes to

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reach peace. Remember on the tarmac in Marristown, New Jersey,
on Friday, he said, I'm a peacemaker, but sometimes you
have to show strength to achieve peace. And Donald Trump
clearly put those words into action last night. Look at
the bottom line is I trust Donald Trump. I trust
this president to lead America. He's got insights and information

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and intelligence that we don't have access to. And ultimately
I trust the leadership of President Trump and believe in
what he's doing. But for certain it's going to be
a time where the consequences are yet to be seen.
Hopefully the Iranians will realize their nuclear capabilities are decimated.

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They're gone, and they don't have that capability anymore to
use against the Middle East, Israel and the rest of
the world.

Speaker 13 (01:27:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:27:50):
You know, as a number of those journalists who did
ask a good question, they wanted to know about the
battle damage assessment on the sites in Iran, And of
course we weren't given anything definitive for understandable reasons from
General Kine. But we do have video that was taken
presumably by Iranians. Now a fowar down now for down
is a remote site, but it's not all that remote.

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There is a highway where the site can be seen
from and if you take a look at this video, now, look,
obviously you could have very spectacular fires and very spectacular
video and smoke from something that still is not completely destroyed. Again,
I know that's redundant, it's not totally taken out. However,
that looks bad. Guys, I mean, Frank Gaffney, look at

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that explosion. I can't believe maybe they didn't destroy everything
underground there, but I can't believe that humans anywhere near
that site can get anywhere near that site in the
coming days or weeks or months or maybe even years.
This feels very, very, very devastating to me as I
look at that video. I don't think I need to
be too much of a military expert to say that

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looks pretty devastating.

Speaker 14 (01:28:56):
What do you think, Frank, I have no wing to
be a way of judging it, but I think your
gut instinct is right. And what almost certainly happened. Whether
every single part of that deeply buried facility was destroyed

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in the sense of being blown up, I have to
believe that it's now at best a sealed mausoleum for
those who were working in it. They're not going anywhere
if they didn't actually die in the immediate attack. And
it speaks again to something that we talked about earlier, Jake,

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excuse me, namely the extent to which we were able
on the basis of very important intelligence. Some of it,
I'm quite certain came from Israel, and I'd like to
think some of it came from our own sources. But
it just it strains credulity. And one of the US

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guys asked this question, what about this statement that the
United States intelligence community, as best I can tell, continues
stand by that they didn't have a program. They gave
it up in two thousand and three, and there's simply
no evidence that they were moving forward with particularly imminent

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nuclear weapons program. The President quite rightly said the other
day he doesn't agree with that. He said Tulsea Gabbard
was wrong, and Pete Hegseth today I think reinforced the point.
And everybody looking at that battle damage over the coming
days is going to have, I think the kind of
questions that I have, which is, what on earth has

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been going on with US intelligence and this connection.

Speaker 12 (01:30:48):
Yeah, David Zierr, you're in Washington, DC. You can already
see some of the Democrats coming out taking that line,
talking about how this was unprovoked, talking about how this
was not necessary, talking about impeaching President Trump. I mean,
we've talked about for weeks now the insane hills the

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Democrats have decided to die on in their battles against
President Trump. Hills that include going over to El Salvador, sorry,
and you know, in those places like El Salvador and
meeting with an accused human trafficker, sitting in detention centers
with people who have been in college for seventeen years,
and harassing Jewish students on campus.

Speaker 13 (01:31:28):
These are the people who are their heroes. Are they
going to die on yet another hill here in favor
of Iran? I mean, is there any level to which
these Democrats won't stoop to attack President Trump?

Speaker 12 (01:31:41):
If he says two plus two equals four? Will they
have a violent protest to say it's five? Because we're
getting in that territory, aren't we?

Speaker 16 (01:31:47):
David ziir Yeah, And Iranian media was playing AOC last
night on X you know, with her comments that Trump
should be impeached, and they were also saying that there
were just tunnel entrances, damage to snow damage these facilities
of that video.

Speaker 19 (01:32:04):
I would beg to differ with that.

Speaker 16 (01:32:05):
Just seeing that, but there's been a lot of first
under Donald Trump. I just wanted to add, you know,
these seven B two bombers eighteen hour flights with multiple
inflight refuelings.

Speaker 19 (01:32:15):
It was no.

Speaker 16 (01:32:16):
Shots fired at them during the strike package. They dropped
four hundred and twenty thousand pounds of bombs on these targets,
not including all the Tea LAMB one thousand war pound warheads.
Tomahawks were a thirteen hundred mile range. And this was
the longest B two Spirit mission since two thousand and one,
when the B two is from the five h ninth

(01:32:36):
Bomb Wing and Whiteman Air Force Base flew three days
of missions forty four hour missions in Afghanistan in the
early days of the Operation Enduring Freedom. And I just
wanted to add Trump, there's a lot of first under Trump.
This is the biggest use of conventional munitions ever. But
up until this point this year, the largest ever aircraft

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carrier launched strike was off the USS Harry S. Truman
over there and sixteen f eighteen's took off and bombed
Al Shabab and ISIS operatives in a cave network in
Somalia with one hundred and twenty five pounds of conventional bombs.
So Trump making easy work of radical terrorists. Maybe so,

(01:33:20):
maybe we're not entrenched in forever wars. Very serious stuff here,
and you know, we've been hitting al Shabab all week
and hasn't got media attention. And isis in Somalia on
June fourteenth to fifteenth, the sixteenth, and maybe more so.
These types of strikes may be ongoing. But this mission

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was just an incredible feat.

Speaker 12 (01:33:44):
And one of the first things we learned in this
news conference today was the name of the mission, Operation
Midnight Hammer.

Speaker 13 (01:33:50):
Remember that name.

Speaker 12 (01:33:51):
You're watching live coverage here on Real America's Voice on
Operation Midnight Hammer.

Speaker 13 (01:33:56):
We'll continue with more live coverage and we come right back.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
Very carried out massive precision strikes on the three key

Speaker 13 (01:34:23):
Thank you very much, Operation Midnight Hammer.

Speaker 12 (01:34:28):
You're looking at a live shot of the Old City
of Jerusalem, that is the western wall in the foreground,
and of course the skies of a Jerusalem will be
a focal point today as the world looks to see
what kind of response Israel will take. There were Iranian
missile and drone launches overnight. Eighty six people were injured,
all but one of them light injuries, that Iran still

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has some missile firing capabilities, although Israel is working very
hard to take them out, and the United States taking
out those nuclear facilities. Last evening, I want to bring
in a panel. We have Frank Gaffney from Securing America.
We have Mark Serrano, a RAP contributor. We have David
Zeer in Washington, and we also have Gal Khalev from Jerusalem.
I don't want to go to Mark first. Mark, you're

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a messaging expert. And something I said a while ago
this morning was that you can have all the military
expertise in the world, all the military advantages in the world,
you can have all the political capital in the world,
but if you don't have a leader who explains to
the American people exactly what is going on why he
has put our troops in harm's way. Although I do

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think this is a minor risk, et cetera, et cetera,
then it doesn't matter. You have to have a leader
who can really articulate these things. With all due respect,
I don't think President George W. Bush did that as
well as he could have. During the Global War on Terror.
I think President Trump last night again love him or
hate him. Couldn't have been clearer, and couldn't have been
standing on strong stronger moral ground and rhetorical ground. He

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was very clear with the American public, Mark sure Jake.

Speaker 32 (01:35:59):
Look at the psychologue warfare that Donald Trump used all
week long. Well, I might bomb them, I might not
bomb them. You know, we're going to take two weeks
and give Iran a chance.

Speaker 31 (01:36:08):
To come to it. Sences. You know, he's the.

Speaker 32 (01:36:11):
Master of psychological warfare, and he employed that all week long,
and in fact, you know, you had some of these
B two bombers that were shown going to Guam, which
obviously was a feint to driver one's attention that way.
But he's also I think something for us to take

(01:36:33):
a look at is, if you consider this past decade
in America, Donald Trump has completely reconfigured American politics. He's
flipped it on its head where the elites are no
longer in power. He's done it with the news media,
where new media like Real America's voice is now obviously

(01:36:55):
on the rise, and legacy media, corporate media, they're completely
disc credited. Well, Donald Trump also and he did this
in his first term brilliantly. He was able to use
economic leverage against our adversaries worldwide like no one has
ever done before, which is why he uses peace through strength.

Speaker 31 (01:37:14):
He's not looking for a new war.

Speaker 32 (01:37:16):
And now I think what we're seeing potentially here is
Donald Trump also redefining warfare where he was very limited.
He was very restrained, just like he did in Syria
in his first term, very very strategic strikes, very limited,
very restrained. So he hopefully can get the effect he's seeking,

(01:37:37):
which is eliminate the nuclear capability of Iran, get them
to the table to negotiate peace, so that way we
can see peace throughout the Middle East. One other thing
about this, Jake, if you remember, in President Trump's first term,
his first trip overseas in May of twenty seventeen was
to the Middle East to address all the leaders.

Speaker 31 (01:37:57):
Of the Middle East. And what did he do in
that meeting?

Speaker 32 (01:37:59):
In that conference, he said, Look, we can continue to
fight over all of our differences, but why don't we
all come to terms on something we can agree on,
which is we've got to be opposed all of us,
the United States, our allies, the entire Middle East, all
of the moderate Arab nations. They all agreed on one thing.
We can't have a nuclear Iran. That was in May

(01:38:21):
of twenty seventeen. His first international trip as president was
to deliver that message that says, we must all agree
there can't be a nuclear Iran.

Speaker 12 (01:38:32):
Mark I want to bring in now Kalev from Jerusalem
gal On Thursday, when the President announced and Carolyn Levin
announced that within two weeks decision, there were a number
of enemies of Israel, both overseas and even here in
the United States who were dancing a little jig.

Speaker 13 (01:38:51):
They were patting themselves in the back.

Speaker 12 (01:38:53):
They thought they had dissuaded President Trump and stopped him
from standing up decisively. And the first thing that came
to my mind was an Israeli phrase was you friars
in Israeli a parlance that basically means you suckers. You
really believe they're going to give get two weeks? I
think we all, a lot of us knew it was
going to be two days. And God, was there any
thought in Israel on Thursday to Saturday that, oh, no,

(01:39:16):
we've lost our friend President Trump.

Speaker 15 (01:39:19):
No, absolutely not.

Speaker 20 (01:39:20):
I mean the President Trump continues to provide us with
ammunition and the support. There was thought that maybe we
need to do this by ourselves, and this will take
longer at a higher price. And we were prepared to
do that because our Defense document has always been that
we want to defend ourselves by ourselves. There's certain things
we cannot do, so we've very you know this, this
is obviously a game changer.

Speaker 15 (01:39:38):
But I think what you alluded to earlier is that
we in Israel are really facing a dual threat.

Speaker 20 (01:39:44):
There's the physical threat that we've been facing from Iran
and its proxies, which is much weaker now, you know,
after we've taken down some of its proxies in Gaza,
you know, in Syria, and certainly after what President Trump
did today. But there's also a secondary threat, which is
the ideological threat coming from Europe and its proxies. And
what you said earlier is right on messages. There is

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you know, if you look at the Democratic Party, all
of a sudden, over the last few years, there's been very,
very strong anti Israel messages.

Speaker 15 (01:40:12):
We're in the midst of an attempt.

Speaker 20 (01:40:14):
To negate the whole idea of the Jewish state and
through it, to negay the idea of Judaism. And we've
seen it across the board and we see it sadly
in the way that democratic money is being reflected. Years ago,
if you were running for Congress, you need to make
all sorts of strong statements about how you support Israel.
And now if you're running for Congress as a Democrat

(01:40:36):
to get funding, you need to make all support how
Israel is the bad guy, how you oppose this and that.
So I think what we're going to see out of
it is not just you know, the President Trump revolutionized warfare.
I completely agree with that, but I think it's also
going to revolutionize the peace thinking in the Middle East,

(01:40:58):
which until now was very defensive.

Speaker 15 (01:41:00):
Ability defeat is oh well, devide the baby.

Speaker 20 (01:41:03):
I will give you this land if you if you
if you agree, you know, not to attack us for
a few years, we'll beg you a bit harder. I
think President Trump, with this consols of peace to strength,
is changing that. And we're going to move from UH
silly slogan based frameworks like two state solutions UH to
frameworks that are based on win win like the abrams
AC courts, under the President's leadership, where all parties can benefit.

(01:41:26):
What we've seen today is both the ability of the
United States to exert power, so that so as as
we said, first first come strength, then comes peace, but
also to remove a threat that will enable other actors
to make peace on a totally different UH basis and
frameworks than we will used to until now.

Speaker 13 (01:41:45):
Yeah, David Zierr, you're in Washington, d C.

Speaker 12 (01:41:49):
And we've talked about this already during this program a
little bit about how the Democrats seem to now starting.

Speaker 13 (01:41:55):
I mean, I thought that as.

Speaker 12 (01:41:56):
The hours rolled by this morning, we would see a
few more Democrats come out and support of the attack
on Iran.

Speaker 13 (01:42:02):
It looks like I was wrong.

Speaker 12 (01:42:03):
I'm seeing more and more of them deciding to take
what I believe is a politically suicidal stance against these attacks.
They come out sounding very much supportive of Iran. They'll
claim that they're not, but at the same time they're
trying to straddle that fence.

Speaker 13 (01:42:18):
David, Look, this is I can't believe. Let's put it
this way. I can't believe how.

Speaker 12 (01:42:25):
Easy President Trump's enemies in this country are making it
for him. If you're telling me that the choices between
them and their support of illegal aliens, their support of
human traffickers, their support of Iran, their support of Ramas
they're supportive people who are harassing people on college campuses,
and the people that they're not harassling are still having

(01:42:45):
a hard time get.

Speaker 13 (01:42:46):
To class, getting to class.

Speaker 12 (01:42:48):
How can you not begrudgingly support President Trump? This is
why his approval rating in the only survey I really
trust Scott Rasmussen Nepolitan News, who had President Trump's approval
before this attack at fifty three percent. I think it's
going to be in the high fifties next time he
does a survey in a week, David, they can't be
making it this easy for President Trump, are they?

Speaker 19 (01:43:11):
I think they are making it that easy.

Speaker 16 (01:43:13):
And just to draw a comparison, you know, you were
joking during the break, Brandon Jarvis a very talented camera
and sent me a meme of palettes of cash, you know,
next to Trump talking to the Supreme Iatola and I
ran and he said how much do you want? He
said billions? So and you know, instead of pallets of cash,
he sent, you know, the bombs in But this was

(01:43:34):
the legacy of Barack Obama, right up to two billion
dollars at least on palettes of cash.

Speaker 19 (01:43:41):
That's the image.

Speaker 16 (01:43:42):
And you know you got you got these GBU fifty
seven munitions and then put that against the cash that
was going in here.

Speaker 19 (01:43:48):
And the Democratic National Chairman Ken Martin.

Speaker 16 (01:43:53):
Was very critical here, and he says, we measure our
success not only by the battles we win, referring to
what Trump said earlier in the but also by the
wars that we end, and most importantly the wars we
never go into. But Ken Martin said, against his own words,
the President sent barbers into Iran. It also drew criticism
from Senator Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, about the US

(01:44:14):
entering the work does not make America more secure. And
then we got Virginia Senator Tim Kaine horrible judgment, push
all senators for a vote on whether they are in
for this third idiotic Middle East war. And many others
on top of that have lined up here. But I
think they're hedging their bets. Even Rocanna joined the choir,

(01:44:35):
and he's been somewhat reasonable on some things here. He
introduced legislation with Thomas Massey, though called on Republicans to
terminate the use of armed forces against Iran unless explicitly
authorized by Congress to go to war. So you know,
there's no shortage of this. Of course they're going to
use this as a campaign, hedging their bets because you know,

(01:44:58):
we talked about yesterday the fog war with Bannon. You know,
things go wrong, things happen. We had two hundred million
dollars in fighters lost in the deck of the harry S.

Speaker 19 (01:45:06):
Truman since December.

Speaker 16 (01:45:08):
You know, we had a hoothy cruise missile come within one.

Speaker 19 (01:45:11):
Mile or half a mile of the harry S. Truman.

Speaker 16 (01:45:14):
And if it wasn't our close for our twenty millimeter
close in weapons systems, the Phalanx, you know, which puts
up basically a wall of steel of rounds, the Truman
may have been hit. These things can happen. Now we
have three carrier groups in there, and maybe later we
could talk about the Gulf States preparing for war, US
evacuating the base and Cotter the biggest base you know

(01:45:36):
over there, I think in the Middle East for the US.

Speaker 19 (01:45:38):
So, you know, a lot to be concerned about.

Speaker 16 (01:45:41):
But the Democrats, you know, it's easy for them, right,
they just had the JCPOA, which was failed policy, and
now Iran as not a nuclear threat apparently.

Speaker 12 (01:45:52):
Yeah, let's take a little bit of a time out, right,
Now we are reporting live here on Real America's Voice
on Operation MIDI Night Hammer, remember that name.

Speaker 13 (01:46:01):
We'll have more discussion.

Speaker 12 (01:46:03):
From all of our experts here on Real America's Voice,
and we come right back.

Speaker 1 (01:46:14):
Because we've just learned that the United States of America
has become a combatant in the what I call the
Persian War.

Speaker 2 (01:46:21):
Iran's Ki nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely and
totally obliterated.

Speaker 6 (01:46:29):
Well we entered the war. Now at least three B two.

Speaker 3 (01:46:31):
Bombers dropped on Porto. That is an awful lot of ammunition.
That the homas the equipment of a small nuclear.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
Bomb around the bully of the Middle East. Let's now
make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be
far greater and a lot easier.

Speaker 5 (01:46:46):
The Israelis bid off more than they could chew. Let's
just be blue.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
The Americans came in on a President Trump in a
this is it.

Speaker 5 (01:46:57):

Speaker 8 (01:46:58):
Were at war.

Speaker 7 (01:46:59):
They will, they will have to respond, and our boys
are sitting right off the coast.

Speaker 9 (01:47:04):
We did what no one else could do. This is
your fight from here.

Speaker 6 (01:47:11):
It opens iron up to wanting to attack us back.

Speaker 8 (01:47:14):
We will lose young boys. You guys take over. We
did what no one else could do with the B
fifty two's.

Speaker 3 (01:47:23):
The early satellite imagery, I'm told shows a complete destruction
in that zone.

Speaker 6 (01:47:29):
They have not signaled any desire for beef.

Speaker 10 (01:47:32):
the next war.

Speaker 11 (01:47:37):

Speaker 2 (01:47:43):

Speaker 1 (01:47:46):
to get interesting.

Speaker 12 (01:47:57):
Welcome to Real America's Voice, our special coverage as we
begin our third hour of live coverage this morning of
Operation Midnight Hammer. In the last hour, Secretary of Defense
Pete Hegseth told us that that was the name of
the operation, so did Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kine.
And that is now, of course a name that we
can all use to reference this. We no longer have

(01:48:18):
to say us strike on Iran, or whatever we want
to call it. I am joined by a panel of
some great experts. I have David Zer in Washington, d C.
I have Frank Gaffney, host of Securing America. I have
RAV contributor Mark Serrano, and from Jerusalem, Israel, we have
Gal Khalef. Frank Gafney. I want to go to you
first because you know we saw this also in that
animated teaser we just saw. Of course, our first concern

(01:48:41):
this morning is the safety of the American people, the
safety of American troops. I am no person who likes
to whistle pass graveyards, but I have to say that, Look,
our American troops are trained for this. They know that
they're in harms way the second they deploy, they're in
harms way when they do training exercises here in the
United States.

Speaker 13 (01:49:00):
The idea that we should be pushing.

Speaker 12 (01:49:02):
This scare mongering message, especially on our fighting men and women,
I find that a little distasteful right now. I trust
their courage, I trust their training. Of course, if I
can join in the course of threatening Iran and anyone
else wants to attack us, not to do it.

Speaker 13 (01:49:16):
I'm certainly going to do that. Frank Avney.

Speaker 12 (01:49:19):
We've been prepared for this for a long time, haven't we.

Speaker 14 (01:49:22):
Well, it's something we're prepared for in a sense. But
I don't think we're taking all of the steps that
we can to protect our personnel in the region, to
help protect Israel and not least protect against the possibility
that we've been discussing throughout the morning Iranian sleeper cells,

(01:49:44):
has belaw elements, the front organizations of Iran, and not
least now assassination squads that we know are inside our country.
We're not protecting against those as we must, I believe
by taking a step that would be pretent potentially absolutely
decisive in preventing any of those things from going sideways,

(01:50:08):
namely ending the regime what's left of it in Iran.
And I'm not talking about regime change, which means that
we're going to go in and we're going to tell
the Iranians what's coming next, who's going to run their country,
how it's going to be governed. I'm talking about free Iran.
And if we act now as we are apparently waiting

(01:50:33):
for some prospective deal with that molocracy that will conduce
to peace, there's no such thing. At the very best,
it means a postponement of the next round of the
violence with them, because they are determined to destroy this country.
That's what they're all about. These Sharia supremacists in general

(01:50:54):
and the Iotolas in particular. So Jake I would just say,
if we want to actually not just be prepared, but
we want to be taking the steps that will almost
certainly impede orders being given by these various elements to
attack us, to attack our personnel, to attack our allies.
We need to ensure that the Israelis are free to

(01:51:17):
take out this government. Doing otherwise legitimizes the regime. It
signals to the Israelis that they have to keep their
hands off what's left of the moulocracy. And third, most especially,
it signals to the people of Iran that once again
the United States wants to keep going this horrific government

(01:51:40):
that has oppressed them so terribly and threatens us. For
none of those reasons should we be persisting in the
pursuit of negotiations with these guys, with the possible exception
of insisting and accepting their unconditional surrendering.

Speaker 13 (01:51:57):
Thank you, Frank.

Speaker 12 (01:51:58):
I want to bring a Mark seronicas Mark, I like
talking to you about messaging, and you know Frank mentioned this.

Speaker 13 (01:52:03):
I think it was the last hour, or at least
he alluded to it.

Speaker 12 (01:52:07):
The Barack Obama administration early on in his administration his
first year in office in two thousand and nine. It
was really just within months of him taking the oath
of office a popular uprising began in Iran calling for democracy.

Speaker 13 (01:52:19):
He not once said a.

Speaker 12 (01:52:21):
Word even in encouragement of it, let alone doing anything
tactically on the ground to help. When President Trump was
president in his first term, a massive amount of violent protests.
It became violent because the regime started to push back
on them. Against the Iranian regime began. President Trump did
speak out in support of it, unlike Barack Obama, and
Iran basically felt very free, maybe because COVID was beginning

(01:52:43):
here in the United States, or at least the lockdowns
of COVID. And they not only killed many of those
Iranian protesters who you know. Again, for those of you
who are wondering why the Irani people aren't going into
the streets right now, understand the last time they did,
they were literally killed.

Speaker 13 (01:52:57):
And worse than that Mark Serrano. There are many.

Speaker 12 (01:53:00):
Credible reports that the thugs who killed the Iranian protesters
in twenty nineteen went to the homes of the families
of the people they killed and gave them a bill
for the bullets that were used to kill them Mark Serrano.
In the face of all that, what kind of messaging
can President Trump give now? Not just because I think
he gave a great message to the American people, how
about a message to the Iranian people that you would

(01:53:22):
craft that you were doing that as a public relations
as a communications expert.

Speaker 32 (01:53:27):
Sure, and Jake Tay, let's go back to the Ronald
Reagan era. Remember what Ronald Reagan did with messaging. You know,
he defined the Soviet Union as the evil Empire, and
he spoke eloquently about America being the shining city on
a hill. Think about that disparity, that contrast, that sends

(01:53:50):
a signal to the world that America is a beacon
of light. We are the last great hope on earth
for freedom, for our God given rights, and there is
evil in this world. President Trump basically was making up
for all of Barack Obama's deficiencies.

Speaker 31 (01:54:08):
What did he do.

Speaker 32 (01:54:09):
He had a policy of appeasement. He didn't speak out
during that Iranian uprising where the people in the streets
wanted freedom, They were desperate for freedom. And yet propaganda
can be used for good. You can speak to the
Iranian people, and I believe President Trump will do this
about their potential for freedom. Ninety million people have the

(01:54:31):
hope and the chance for their God given rights to
be embraced and respected. Perhaps this is that moment where
they can finally have that.

Speaker 31 (01:54:40):
And you know, I've We've got great experts on here.

Speaker 32 (01:54:44):
Frank Gaffney is a terrific expert, and he's got all
the respect in the world.

Speaker 5 (01:54:49):
For me.

Speaker 32 (01:54:50):
My only concern is that I think if there is
a plan for regime change that's on Israel, that the
United States can no longer be in that business, especially
considering what got President Trump into power into office was
a base of voters who said no more, forever wars,

(01:55:10):
no regime.

Speaker 12 (01:55:17):
We may have lost. Mark Serano there for a second.
I want to go to Gal Khalev, though, because Mark,
he just tossed the ball into your court saying it's
on Israel now for regime change. Tell us a little
bit about Israel's very very intimate connections with Iran that
started well before the fall of the Shah and continue
now with a significant Persian Jewish community in Israel. Many

(01:55:40):
of those communities live in the same neighborhoods they were
asked by the Israeli government when they came to Israel
in nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty to remain on
the same blocks with one another, so they would keep
their dialects the same, so they would be able to
be fantastic resources for surveillance.

Speaker 13 (01:55:55):
Things like that. This is not Israel flying blind.

Speaker 12 (01:55:57):
I mean they do have the support of people like
resipov Labi, who is the son of the Shah who
died many years ago.

Speaker 13 (01:56:05):
Israel can help with regime change, can it.

Speaker 8 (01:56:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:56:10):
And while we did not define with gym change is
one of the objectives of the war, the Prime Minister
and others have made clear that we will be happy
if that's the outcome. It's up to the Iranian people,
and we certainly providing the help and support for them
to do that. We have a great relationship with the
Iranian people, and we had a great relationship with the
Iranian government until nineteen seventy nine, until the Iatolas took over.

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And we are made clear that this is not a
war against the Iranian people. It's a war against this
murderer's regime that mass murders people both now and throughout
the last forty five years, and you're completely correct. We
have a lot of Israeli Jews. I have a lot
of friends who are Persians who are born there or

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with their parents were born there, And you're correct, we've
leveraged that very effectively. So this is not about this war.
It's not about boots on the grounds of American troops,
but it's certainly about maybe Adida sneakers of Israeli Mussada
agents on the crown, because the Israeli Masada has built
a very, very prolific operation in Iran, much thanks to

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those Iranian Jews who moved to Israel.

Speaker 13 (01:57:25):
Well, we do have to go to break Franks.

Speaker 12 (01:57:27):
I'll get you when we come back from the other
side of the break, Gaukaleb, he has to leave.

Speaker 13 (01:57:30):
Us now from Jerusalem.

Speaker 12 (01:57:31):
We thank you for your expertise and your voice from
Israel or of course you are the tip of the spear.
We'll be right back with more of our live coverage
of Operation Midnight Hammer here on Real America's Voice.

Speaker 13 (01:57:41):
Thanks for watching.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
Very carried out massive precision strikes on the three key
nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime.

Speaker 4 (01:57:54):
God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel. And God bless. Okay,
thank you very much.

Speaker 12 (01:58:03):
Welcome back to Real America's Voice, our live coverage, and
we have a name for it now, of Operation Midnight Hammer.
That is what the US military has dubbed last night's
attack on the three key Iranian nuclear sites.

Speaker 13 (01:58:17):
Secretary of State Pete Hegseth.

Speaker 12 (01:58:19):
And Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kine telling us that
those sites were indeed destroyed, but the battle damage assessment
is not ready yet exactly from the detailed point of view.
But as we've seen video of at least the explosions
of ford Ow, can't possibly think there's going to be
much going in and out of that site for much longer.
We went to break, and Frank Avenue wanted to make

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a point before we went to break, so Frank got
and give you the floor right now.

Speaker 5 (01:58:43):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:58:45):
I just wanted to follow up clarifying my own position
on this. Mark was talking about us not being in
the business of regime change, and I agree with that.
I think, especially this idea that we're some going to
now pick who's going to run Iran. It isn't our mission.

(01:59:06):
Our mission though, I think, and we don't have to
do it ourselves. We simply need to ensure that the
Israelis are free to take care of the remainder of
this regime. Is to create conditions under which the people
of Iran will rise up and remove what's left of

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this regime and make the decisions about how they will
be governed going forward. I'm prayerful that as I think
a very much educated, cultured, capable population, very much with
a affinity for the West, that what will come out
of it, perhaps after some chaos, yes, perhaps will be

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a government that will be very much wanting to bring
their people at long last back into the Western civilzed world.
We just need to make sure, and this is my
key message to President Trump and everybody else. P Tex
Sath today was talking about, you know, getting back into
negotiations and the purpose of which is to have peace.

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The point is there will be no peace with the Mullas.
There may be what they call a hudna where they
temporarily suspend hostilities while they regroup and rearm and then
re engage at their convenience. That's not peace and that's
not something that will serve us because it suppresses the

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people of Iran. And as you were saying earlier, Jake,
you know this isn't their first rodeo. They've been terribly,
terribly brutalized, especially when they have taken the opportunity to
rise up. There's never been a chance like now, and
with the Israelis help if they are free to finish
the job, as our friend Steve Benna likes to say,

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by getting the IRGC, the security apparatus that keeps these
mullets in power. And we've had the President of Iran
I'm told to resign. Presumably that's because he didn't want
to be put out of business the old fashioned way,
but that ought to be the case with every single
one of them. Just entreat President Trump. Don't allow a

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new negotiation to have the effect of legitimizing this regime
further and discouraging the Israelis from acting to remove it,
the blast vestiges of it, and most especially keep the
people of Iran from achieving what we all should want
and I think need, and that is a free Iran.

Speaker 13 (02:01:40):
Thank you, bat Yat.

Speaker 12 (02:01:41):
Frank Afney, I want to take show you our com
fleet team that's joining us now for this hour. We have,
first of all Steve Gruber, the host of America's Voice
live here on Real America's Voice, we're also joined by
Matt Faracci, who has an Israel podcast. Steve Gruber, I
want to go to you first, because you can't to
remind people here on Real America's Voice. I hope all

(02:02:01):
of you were watching this channel for the last several days,
because first of all, this was the channel that first
told you that you should be focusing on the word
within two weeks, when Caroline Levitt said within two weeks,
talked about that on my program, talked about it on
an American Sunrise. I know you talked about it too
as well, Steve. And of course the scrambling last night,
people like David Zeerr who also joins us now to

(02:02:22):
get on the air and to let people know about
what was going on, and of course our early morning
coverage this morning.

Speaker 13 (02:02:27):
Steve, we have the freedom here to speak the way
we want to. Steve.

Speaker 12 (02:02:31):
You're joining us from an undisclosed location in Michigan where
you lived with chickens. But America didn't act like chickens
last night, did they, Steve?

Speaker 18 (02:02:39):
No, they did not. And look what we did last night.
There was no question that Donald Trump again and we
talked about it on America's Voice Live. For the entirety
of all last week, it was pretty clear by what
President Trump was saying that he was going in. Now,
we tempered that a bit on Friday because he got
me too. He got me to say, well, maybe they're
going to take a momentitude of negotiate for a minute.

(02:03:00):
They were never going to take a moment to negotiate.
The negotiations were over as far as the plants in
four doh and the tons and the others, they were
going in. They had made the decision. They moved some
B two bombers. Again, it's great manipulation of the headlines
and propaganda to open the avenue so that America could
deliver a well they call it the Midnight Hammer. They

(02:03:22):
could deliver the Midnight Hammer to Iran and say, look,
we're not going to tolerate you having a nuclear weapon.
And for the people that are out there today, well,
why is it up to us to have oversight over Iran?
Because nobody else can, Because it's our job to keep
the world safe. It's our job to make sure that
tamlas in Tehran do not have nuclear weapons that they
were used, not just on Israel potentially, but potentially on

(02:03:44):
the United States. They want a delivery system icbm's interc
ballistic missiles. They want those missiles available so they could
hit the United States.

Speaker 15 (02:03:53):
That's a fact.

Speaker 18 (02:03:55):
And for anybody who questions why we did this, we
did this because we had to, and we have an
opportunity for the first time since nineteen seventy nine, to
deliver a blow to Iran, to that regime that is
at its weakest point since nineteen seventy nine. It's the
Iranian Islamic Revolution of nineteen seventy nine when they took
fifty two Americans hostage for four hundred and forty four days.

(02:04:17):
This was the window that was open. We called it
here on this network. We said they're going within a
couple of days. I said by Saturday. Apparently I was
right about that. You were too, Jake. I know that
Matt Farachi and David Zee and all the rest have
been watching this closely as well, because we're right on
the cusp of a change of leadership in Iran, and
how important would that be to the world going forward.

(02:04:38):
Their neighbors like Saudi Arabia and Jordan and other countries
in the Middle East. They don't want Iran to have
nuclear weapons either, because they don't trust these people in
Tehran to have that kind of power. And that's where
we wake up today. And that's where I woke up today,
because I've never been feeling well, but I woke up
and I've absorbed all of this, and look, it's a

(02:04:59):
new day. I applaud President Trump and his administration, Pete
Hegseth for pulling off another head fake. Oh look here
we've got and then bam, midnight hammer falls on the Iranians.
And I have to say most Americans are not for
boots on the ground, but they're perfectly okay with this
kind of an activity to stop the Tehran regime from

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having nuclear weapons.

Speaker 12 (02:05:25):
Oh, Steve, you may be sick, but you sound great
and what you have to say is very wise. I
want to go to Matt Farachi. Matt, you're a former
political strategist.

Speaker 13 (02:05:32):
You know we're talking about regime change in Iran.

Speaker 12 (02:05:35):
But and I'm not putting tongue in cheek when I
say this, Matt, what are we going to get regime
change from the Democratic Party? I don't know how smart
a political consultant you have to be to understand that
if you are an elected Democrat in this country right now,
and you stand for this attack, and you stand for
what is a safeguarding of the American people, the safeguarding

(02:05:57):
of our allies, an attack against agi that is against
every liberal belief and philosophy under the sun, whether it's
the suppression of women, whether it's the killing of gay
and lesbian people on on down the line. I don't
think I need to be a genius to say that
any Democrat that does that will get a boost in
the polls. They might get a shive in the side

(02:06:18):
from the DNC, but they would get a boost in
the polls. Could this lead to regime change among the
Democratic Party where we see sane Democrats coming to power
over there.

Speaker 33 (02:06:29):
Well, first, what I'd love to do, if I might,
just for a second, is add to what Steve said,
because I think it's prescient the nature of the threat.
I think the whole conversation about the nature of the
threat has been has been way off, and that's probably
because people have what I call George W. Bush syndrome.
You know, before George W. Bush, when the President of

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the United States said that such and such as a
threat we believed them, and unfortunately after George W. Bush,
because of the fact that there were no WMD found
in Iraq, et cetera, et cetera. Now when the President
says something, everybody questions it. First of all, of course,
these weapons were a threat to Israel. There are several

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hundred thousand Americans, I need to point out living in Israel.
There are also Americans living in the region. You'll also
further notice that all the Arab states who can't stand Iran,
you haven't heard anybody saying anything negative.

Speaker 19 (02:07:31):
Right.

Speaker 33 (02:07:32):
That's partly because the President went over there beforehand and
let everybody know what was going to happen if Iran
chose not to give up their nuclear program.

Speaker 18 (02:07:42):
But I just want to make the point.

Speaker 33 (02:07:43):
That, yes, Israel is a key ally, and yes it
was a threat to Israel, but it's also a threat
to the United States. I think people are thinking in
a linear manner, right. They're thinking about, well, Iran could
build a nuke, and then they could put the nuke
on a missile and the missile could hit Israel or
Europe in the short term.

Speaker 18 (02:08:01):
In America.

Speaker 8 (02:08:01):
In the long term, the other thing is.

Speaker 12 (02:08:03):
We're gonna We're gonna let you finish in just a second, Matt,
because we're gonna have to take a break.

Speaker 13 (02:08:07):
We're talking with Matt Faracci.

Speaker 12 (02:08:08):
Remember you're watching Real America's Voice, where we were live
all day yesterday with Steve Bannon, who said the party
is on right here. This was the network to watch.
This was a channel to watch, and it still will
be when we come right back from break. We'll be
right back with Matt Faraci here on Real America.

Speaker 2 (02:08:21):
Les Y carried out massive precision strikes on the three
key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime. God bless the
Middle East, God bless Israel, and God bless America.

Speaker 4 (02:08:44):

Speaker 12 (02:08:47):
Welcome back to our live coverage here of Operation Midnight Hammer,
the US strike on the Iranian three nuclear sites, according
to the President and our Secretary of Defense, completely successful.
We were just in the middle of talking with Matfaraci
when I rudely interrupt him. Sorry, Matt, but before you
get back to your point, I want to ask you
about the media coverage of this. You know, it's really
important for the American people to understand that those of

(02:09:08):
us in the news business who have been in it
for a long time, like myself, like people like Steve Gruber,
like Frank Gaviney Davis ere we knew this was going
to happen when it was going to happen, for the
most part, not the exact hour, but you get the point.
And accordingly here on Real America's Voice, we were live
yesterday with Steve Bannon's war Room, and he's live on
the air when this thing starts and he says the
party has started. I mean there is an absolutely. I

(02:09:30):
was just talking about what we need regime change with
the Democratic Party. But people also need to understand media
messaging here.

Speaker 13 (02:09:36):
I am not looking to win elections.

Speaker 12 (02:09:38):
For anyone or going into the trenches, but I'm here
to tell the American people what I think they're not
getting even on those established channels.

Speaker 13 (02:09:46):
We know, we know who they are, what they think.

Speaker 12 (02:09:48):
Maybe there's a friendly message, and I think Matt that's
important now too, right, the American people need to get good, clear,
in the minute messaging like they got here and they're
getting here now.

Speaker 18 (02:10:00):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 33 (02:10:00):
And to double down on what you're saying again, the
nature of the threat. A nuclear armed deran is a
direct threat to the United States, and one of the
things that Again that we don't know is let's say
that they were able to make nuclear weapons. They also
specialize in drones. What kind of technology or delivery systems

(02:10:22):
could Iran use to deliver those nuclear weapons? Or who
would they sell them to? Because there's lots of bad
actors around the world. They're the biggest sponsors of terrorism,
so they like to give weapons to their proxies. You know,
it doesn't take a genius to figure out what's happening there.
To your point about the Democrats, I think there's two
sort of key things that takeaways from this. The first

(02:10:44):
thing is it's quite terrifying to see the face at
least of the Democratic Party as an anti American party,
a party that is rooting for the other side. That
is something that's unprecedented and that we've never seen in
this country before. And I know people are saying, well,

(02:11:04):
they should keep going because they're never going to win
an election. But the scary part is if they were
to win another election, it would make Joe Biden look
like a moderate, and that's to me as an American,
that's very troubling. The other thing that I'm hoping and
praying that this strike has done is if you look
at the bed wedding on the right, and not just

(02:11:26):
from Tucker Carlson, but from a bunch of other voices
on the right who obviously have fatigue from the forever
wars that have been fought since George W.

Speaker 15 (02:11:36):
Bush.

Speaker 33 (02:11:37):
The point is, and I'm sure Frank Gaffney has made
this point beautifully on air, is that not all wars
are the same, not all military actions are the same.
Taking out nuclear sites with a precision strike is not
the same as putting hundreds of thousands of Americans on
the ground in a country for an indefinite period of time.

(02:11:57):
The President has never suggested, but that's something he's looking
to do. He has consistently suggested that he wants to
get rid of Iran's nuclear program, and finally everybody's seeing
that he was actually serious about what he said from
the very beginning.

Speaker 22 (02:12:13):
Please negotiate, Okay.

Speaker 33 (02:12:15):
You don't want to negotiate.

Speaker 18 (02:12:16):
I'm going to get rid of your nuclear program.

Speaker 33 (02:12:18):
It's amazing to me that Trump has been around for
ten years and people have still not figured out that
when he says something, he means it.

Speaker 34 (02:12:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (02:12:28):
I couldn't agree more. Steve Gruber, I want to go
to you because you know you're in America's heartland. You're
in Michigan, which, more than just being the heartland, is
also a key swing state in these last few elections.
I mean, you can't put It's hardly a more important
state to the United States right now, Steve, how do
you think the people in Michigan are going to respond

(02:12:49):
to this news? Haven't responding to this news of Operation
Midnight Hammer. Do you think there's going to be And now,
of course you have also a significant Arab American population
in Michigan, which, by the way, he did not vote
in large numbers against Donald Trump in the election in November,
as we know.

Speaker 13 (02:13:03):
So I mean, do you think that this will be
taken in an interesting one? Because I remember, Iran is
not in an Arab country. It's a Muslim country.

Speaker 12 (02:13:10):
It's been looking to dominate the Arab people, but it's
not an Arab country. I mean, am I crazy to
say that there may actually be support for this among
a critical mass of people in Michigan, both Arab, non
Arab American born, et cetera.

Speaker 18 (02:13:24):
We're gonna have to see how that plays out over
the next few days, few weeks and see how this
operation continues. Right now, it looks like a one and
done operation midnight hammer does. We're not sure where it's
going to go. The President obviously not tipping his hand
ever to what's going on. But you have to go
back a few days to the situation room. The decision
was made there. What was that Tuesday of this week?

(02:13:45):
The decision was made in the situation room at the
White House at that time, and he came out and said, look,
we're going to try for a couple more negotiations. The
Iranian delegation end up in what Geneva. None of that mattered.
This decision was made. And so when I come to
the heartland of swings, it's like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. You
do have to look at how the electric's going to
take this. I believe they'll be fine with it. I

(02:14:05):
believe overall they'll be fine with it. Yes, there's a
huge Middle Eastern population in Dearborn, in that part of
the state down around Detroit. Now, having said that, you
have to look at the fact that the mayor in
Dearborn Heights and other places in that part of the
state of Michigan, indorse Donald Trump prior to the twenty
twenty four election. I don't think there's changed that. You
go back again to Saudi Arabia, who says they don't

(02:14:25):
want nuclear weapons, but they were clear this week was
the Crown Prince and he said, if there are nuclear
weapons in Iran, we will have them in short order.
Here paraphrasing a little bit, but that's the concern because
even the neighbors of Iran in the Middle East don't
trust that country. They don't trust them to be good neighbors,
to be safe. And again I come back to what

(02:14:46):
Matt was saying. Yes, they want intercoind ballistic missiles. They
want ICBMs to deliver warheads to the United States, to
the shores of this country. So when people say, why
is it our business, because it's your family, your children,
your grandchildren face the threat of Iran. When people look
you in the eye and say deaf to America, believe
what they say. It's what they think. It's their philosophy

(02:15:07):
for all these years. And I want to add one
more thing to all of this, and that is where
does China come down. China gets twenty to twenty five
percent of its oil out the back door. By the way,
on the black market from Iran, and this will hurt
dictator she cheesing pink, will be hurt economically to a point.
By this, you're seeing the Iranians now saying they have
voted to close the Strait of Hormuz. Well, if they

(02:15:30):
do that, the oil delivery systems to China and elsewhere
will be constricted. China's already got problems with its economy.
China has already got problems internally with its people because
of the economic pressures levied by tariffs and so forth.
By this president again, Donald Trump does exactly what he
says he's going to do, and let's put America first,
so he's not concerned with China on oil and so forth.

(02:15:52):
But China is facing a problem here because the further
constrictor economy oil is It's seventy seven dollars today. Ten
days ago, it was at sixty two dollars of fifteen
dollars a barrel already on the open market. Looking at
what's Texas Intermediate and Brent Krue, the benchmark here at
seventy seven dollars and a half now is is creeping up.

(02:16:13):
These are things to watch. How China reacts is important
in this. Russia also gets oil from Ron, so it
is North Korea. This is their partner in crime, if
you will, that supports this network of terraces of Hezbollah
and Hamas and all the rest. So this is going
to be an interesting thing to watch as to how
those countries react to what has happened. But I say,

(02:16:34):
I think here in Michigan, people are going to applaud
the move by the president. Didn't put boots on the ground,
devastated their nuclear infrastructure. We believe we obviously were waiting
for more intel, but it looks like fortoh and the
tans of these other places got hit hard. Fourteen of
those moobs got dropped into the key Iranian nuclear facilities.
It's what they voted for is to protect this country first,

(02:16:57):
America first, and I think that most people are going
to be okay with it.

Speaker 13 (02:17:00):
Jake, Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 12 (02:17:03):
We have a great panel here if Steve Ruber from
America's Voice Live. We have Matt Farachi, political strategist and
also a podcaster. We have David Zier in Washington, d C.
And we have Frank Gaffney. I want everyone to watch
Prime Minister Nitsanyahu's response. Many of you may have not
seen this. This is Prime Minister in Nisanyahu's response to

(02:17:23):
the news of Operation Midnight Hammer. And then I'm going
to get the panel's reactions to this, because I think
there's a lot to unpack here as well.

Speaker 13 (02:17:30):
Check it out.

Speaker 34 (02:17:31):
Congratulations, President Trump, Your bold decision to target Iran's nuclear
facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United
States will change history. In Operation Rising Line, Israel has
done truly amazing things. But in tonight's action against Iran's
nuclear facilities, America has been truly unsurpassed. It has done

(02:17:57):
what no other country on Earth could do. History will
record that President Trump acted to deny the world's most
dangerous regime the world's most dangerous weapons. His leadership today
has created a pivot of history that can help lead
the Middle East and beyond to a future of prosperity

(02:18:19):
and peace. President Trump and I often say peace through strength.
First comes strength, then comes peace. And tonight President Trump
and the United States acted with a lot of strength.
President Trump, I thank you the people of Israel, thank

(02:18:39):
you the forces of civilization.

Speaker 8 (02:18:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 34 (02:18:43):
God bless America, God bless Israel, and may God bless
our unshakable alliance, our unbreakable faith.

Speaker 12 (02:18:52):
Let's start with David Zeir. David, I thought that BB
and Donald Trump had broken up. They were having a
big fight. I heard the left and people who Israel
dancing in the streets a couple of nights ago, saying
this is the end of their relationship.

Speaker 16 (02:19:05):
Not so much, right, David, No, naw, who wasn't going
to visit Joe Biden. He went to the Southern White
House to visit Donald Trump.

Speaker 19 (02:19:12):
Earlier in the year.

Speaker 16 (02:19:14):
You know, they know what has to be done, Israel
being a key ally for the United States here. But
I would just express you know, there's definitely concern out there.
You know, the UAE in Turkey and Turkey are upset
about this escalation. Russia's condemning it. Saudi Arabia, who would
ever think. Now, Trump opened the door with net and

(02:19:37):
Yahoo and the Middle East, the Abraham Accords, the three
other Piece deals, allowing Israel to use Saudi Arabia's airspace
for the first time, even for civilian and military.

Speaker 19 (02:19:47):
Now that was reversed under Biden.

Speaker 16 (02:19:49):
But that relationship is back, and it's probably stronger than
ever at this point here. But you know, the Gulf
states are definitely concerned about infrastructure getting struck.

Speaker 19 (02:20:00):
You know, we have our bases in Bahrain, we have bases.

Speaker 16 (02:20:03):
In Iraq that were attacked after we killed Solomoni under
the first Trump administration. But Saudi Arabia, Oman and Iraq,
of course, you know, condemned the US strikes. But you
know who would think Saudi Arabia, right, you got to
hoo the rebels blowing up the Saudi Arabian airports for
years and years and years and affecting shipping lanes and

(02:20:23):
shooting missiles, you know. But they're concerned about the fallout
from this. So I think the next few weeks are
going to be really telling here, you know, because it's
a victory right now, but it's something very close to watch.
And I just wanted to add those Gulf states, Oman, Uae, Iraq.

(02:20:44):
They're concerned also about environmental damage that could be done.
Things stop blowing up, if there's radiation leaked, you know,
all kinds of stuff. Like I said earlier, sixty million
people get their drinking water from desalinization plans through the
Persian Gulf.

Speaker 19 (02:20:58):
This is a tightrope.

Speaker 16 (02:20:59):
This is something something that can be taken lightly but
I think the Netanyahu Trump relationship is stronger than ever.

Speaker 12 (02:21:07):
All right, David Zier, We're going to be right back
with more on our live coverage here of Operation Midnight Hammer,
here on Real America's Voice.

Speaker 13 (02:21:14):
The party is on.

Speaker 1 (02:21:22):
The party is on, and so that is our analysis
this morning. Is the party on?

Speaker 5 (02:21:28):
Is this thing? Are we inexorably drawn into this? And
maybe the day's.

Speaker 35 (02:21:32):
The day of actually, you know, the one just the
one swoop of a jet that Kaylee Mcanini wants, just
one swoop of a jet.

Speaker 2 (02:21:39):
Jerry carried out massive precision strikes on the three key
God bless is you know, and God bless America.

Speaker 4 (02:21:53):

Speaker 12 (02:21:56):
Welcome back to our live coverage here on Real America's Voice,
where the part he is on and the party has
been on since all day yesterday when you were watching
this channel and you heard Steve Bannon say that, and
you were on top of the news, well ahead of
anyone else.

Speaker 13 (02:22:09):
I'm Jake Novac. This has been the live coverage.

Speaker 12 (02:22:11):
We are well into our third hour, almost three hours
complete right now, talking about what we now know is
being called Operation Midnight Hammer. I want to go to
Frank Gaffney. Frank, we played before the break Prime Minister
Nittanya Who's response to Operation Midnight Hammer his very deep
gratitude express to President Trump. Some people are absolutely going

(02:22:33):
to make this all about some kind of slavishness to
President Trump and not really the bigger picture.

Speaker 13 (02:22:40):
It goes well beyond their personal relationship, doesn't it.

Speaker 14 (02:22:42):
Frank Oh assured length And I think what Babe said,
which was pitch perfect, is this is about changing the
course of history. No, it's fairly infrequent that one understands
that you're in the midst of that kind of transformation
when it's taking place, but this is unmistakably the case.

(02:23:05):
And he also made the key point, I think, Jake,
that this is about Western civilization, or if you will,
Judeo Christian civilization. That's what's on the line here. It's
not just it's not just America, it's not even just
Europe and you know other parts of the world. It's
about the civilized world, which is exactly what these Mullah's

(02:23:29):
in or On are trying to take down and have
been since they came to power. And if I could
just take a minute to respond to something Steve said.
His analysis I think is right. But the American people
are with Donald Trump on this. We've been witnessing, unfortunately,
a little bit of a sort of fratricidal exercise going
on amongst MAGA, and I think it's important to drill

(02:23:50):
down on this at this particular moment in time. It's
been underway, I think, mostly at the hands of a
lot of younger folks. I call it a kind of
children crusade, a push to say, none of this is
our business. Piece is all about, you know, staying home
and minding our own business. And it doesn't matter what
happens to Israel. It doesn't matter what happens to the

(02:24:12):
people in Iran. I think adults, and notably amongst them,
the large number of Christian adults who are I think
the majority of the LAGA base, by the way, are
four dealing with this in the kind of way Donald
Trump is done and all I'm compleading for one more

(02:24:34):
time in the course of this program, You've given me
a chance to say this, but I think it's absolutely
imperative that it be part of what we take away
from everything we've heard, everything we've discussed. Will history be
determined with an ongoing presence of the Iotola's, the Mullahs,

(02:24:54):
the Sharia supremacists in Iran continuing to do what they
can to take down was stern civilization or will it
be defined by the people of Iran finally, at last
having a chance of free themselves and free Iran and
bring it back into that western civilized world. And I
think this turns now not on American force of arms,

(02:25:17):
not even on President Trump's leadership. It's just a matter
of allowing the Israelis to do what I believe they
know must be done, which is to end the regime
in Iran and the security apparatus that keeps the people
there terrified and repressed and enslaved. And if those things

(02:25:39):
take place, Phoebi's absolutely right, Western civilization will prosper, Iran
will prosper, Israel will prosper, The United States will prosper.
And last point, the alternative is to leave in place
people who can command at any time attacks on our

(02:26:00):
forces in the Gulf, of course, more attacks on Israel,
and the operational attacks inside our own country by the
Cells and the Jesus assassination teams that They've put here
all of these reasons argue, I think convincingly for doing
what's the vast majority I'm convinced of MAGA, to say

(02:26:22):
nothing of the American people want, which is a decisive
victory at last. We haven't had one, really since World
War Two. This is one we can get and we
don't have to do it ourselves. God bless Israel, God
bless you. Thank you.

Speaker 12 (02:26:36):
Yeah, Matt Faraci, your thoughts on what Frank Affney just said.

Speaker 13 (02:26:41):
I'd like to get your overall thoughts.

Speaker 12 (02:26:42):
I'd like you to address specifically the people who aren't
so sure about this. I'm not talking about the crazy
Trump deraigned syndrome people.

Speaker 13 (02:26:49):
Who if he says two plus two equals for they'll
say it's five.

Speaker 12 (02:26:52):
I'm not talking about the people who are so anti
American and anti Israel that they can't be reason with.
I'd like you, Matt Farachi, to address those people who
are saying, this morning, I want to trust President Trump,
I want to trust our military, but I'm not so
sure about this.

Speaker 13 (02:27:07):
What would you say to them?

Speaker 14 (02:27:08):
Then?

Speaker 33 (02:27:09):
Well, as somebody that goes back and forth between the
United States and Israel constantly. One of the things that
I've appreciated is that the more time you spend in
the Middle East, the more you realize that the average
American and this is not an insult, it's just a fact,
the average American does not understand the culture over there.
It is vastly different than the culture in the United

(02:27:31):
States or anything that we may be familiar with in Europe.
Although goodness, the way Europe's going that may come back
to bite me. The way that it works in the
Middle East is that the only thing that people take
seriously is the threat of force. Why do you think
Israel is so heavily armed and why do you think

(02:27:51):
the IDF is so prepared all the time, because they
know that the only way to deter terrorism is force.
So the fact is that I think the mulas here
made a miscalculation, which was that every single US regime
or US administration, sorry, before President Trump had said, hey,
line in the sand, if you remember Obama, line in

(02:28:13):
the sand, We're not going to allow you to have
a nuclear weapon some weeks ago, and it was credited
to President Trump, this statement that Iran has never won
a war, but has never lost a negotiation. And so
when the President said we're not going to allow you
to do this.

Speaker 18 (02:28:28):
He had to back that up.

Speaker 33 (02:28:30):
If Iran was not ultimately willing to divest themselves of
their nuclear program, Trump was going to have.

Speaker 18 (02:28:37):
To back that up.

Speaker 33 (02:28:38):
And here's what I think the most salient point. There
are those critiquing the administration and saying Trump is starting.

Speaker 18 (02:28:44):
World War three. It is just the opposite.

Speaker 33 (02:28:48):
Trump has made this move to stop world War three,
to prevent world War three, to remove the Just imagine Iran,
which has obviously been allied with Russia, allied with China
and some other bad actors. Imagine Iran, which was apparently
very close to getting their first set of weapons, being

(02:29:10):
allowed to continue to do that. Now you've got world
War three. Now you've got the serious threat of World
War three. Also, David, to your point about the Saudis,
I personally think that was kind of a wink wink.
They said what they felt they needed to say, but
they knew this was happening. They'd talked to the President
about this beforehand. Iran having a nuclear program is an

(02:29:32):
existential threat to Saudi Arabia, and it's an existential threat
to any of the other Gulf states.

Speaker 8 (02:29:38):
So they all can't stand iron.

Speaker 33 (02:29:40):
I was talking to a guy the other day from
Ethiopia who was explaining that some of the terrorist activity
in Ethiopia was funded by you guessed it, Iran. They
are the bad guys of the world. Nobody likes them,
and so I think what the President is doing here
is proactively saying, no, we've got to stop World War three.

(02:30:01):
That's precisely why I'm not going to let a country
that would actually use nukes to have them.

Speaker 12 (02:30:07):
All Right, Matt for Actule, I want to thank you
for joining us, and that was a good summary of
everything that's going on. I want to bring in Real
America's Voice contributor Mark Serrano, because you know, let's first
start with that last point that we made about how
Saudi Arabia, and you know, I've been on live events
with Saudi Arabian officials where they say things like this,

(02:30:29):
where they say like, well, we don't really love what
Iran is doing, but we don't support it.

Speaker 19 (02:30:33):
Is reel.

Speaker 12 (02:30:33):
We don't support the United States doing this, And I
often say, I understand your position because you have to
say that publicly, and then I look at the audience
and say, let me say what our extreme guests from
Saudi Arabia is not allowed to say, but we know
he's thinking. Of course, they all get really mad at
me because they have to pretend they're upset. But believe me,
they're grateful that I'm helping to say that Saudi Arabia
is not going to be a problem.

Speaker 13 (02:30:52):
Here are they? You know, you know, Mark, this is
not going to be an.

Speaker 32 (02:30:55):
Issue, absolutely, Jake. Look, there's policy and there's propaganda. And
policy from these moderate Arab states is that Iran's been
a threat for a long time and that threat needed
to be eliminated and their delighted President Trump took this action.
Then there's propaganda, which is their messaging can't necessarily come

(02:31:15):
full force backing President Trump like bb net and Yahoo did.
So there's a distinction between the policy and the propaganda.
But make no doubt about it, they support President Trump
and they were looking forward to a Middle East that
can enjoy peace and prosperity. You know, if I made Jake,
there is a big, big loser besides Iran in this

(02:31:38):
development that took place yesterday, and it's the Legacy Media.
Real America's Voice scooped Legacy Media on the biggest story
of the year legacy media are. They're like the Itolah,
the Ayatolahs of you know, news misinformation in America. They

(02:31:59):
support cent They have attacked Donald Trump for ten years,
and yet they got scooped because yesterday on his regular
program from ten to twelve, our Steam colleague Steve Bannon,
the host of War Room, he talked about the party
is on.

Speaker 31 (02:32:14):
He knew his sources were.

Speaker 32 (02:32:15):
Telling him that this attack was going to take place,
and Real America's Voice went live for most of the day,
well into the late evening because we knew it was coming.
Thanks to Steve Bannon. He met with the President on Thursday.
He's been very vocal about his concerns about taking this
action against Iran and what it means for our America,
for his policies. But what's really striking to me is

(02:32:40):
that the news media has egg underface.

Speaker 31 (02:32:42):
They are so misaligned with the American people. They blew it.

Speaker 32 (02:32:47):
They had no idea this was coming, and Real America's
Voice did. And I'll make one last point about this, Jake.
This Trump white House has embraced new media because they
recognized the corruption within in corporate legacy media. We now
have a seat at the table a front row seat
in that briefing room, where David Zeer is there, where

(02:33:08):
Brian Glenn reports from there every day of the week.

Speaker 15 (02:33:12):
And it's just.

Speaker 32 (02:33:14):
Mind blowing that we now have embraced this administration is
embraced new media because they know that's where the American
people get their news for real America's voice, and now
they know breaking news starts right here.

Speaker 13 (02:33:31):
Yeah, well, said Marks Rhino.

Speaker 12 (02:33:33):
All right, we're just about to wrap up our coverage,
our live coverage this morning, so I need to go
around the horn from the three of you, Steve Grueber,
David Zeer, and Frank Avene. I want to start with
Steve Gruber. I need thirty seconds from you, your thoughts
right now.

Speaker 18 (02:33:46):
Well, I'm watching and Marcus spot On and what he
just said right there and everything he said. Look, the
American people are going to be behind the president. This
network was on top of it, from Steve Bannon all
the way down. We've got a we've got a a
seat in the room now so we can give the
American people a front row view and commentary and what's

(02:34:07):
happening from the White House to the Oval Office, to
the situation room to Iran. It's a critical place for
us to be. The networks, networked news is it's old,
it's passe, it doesn't have a clue of what's going on,
and they don't have the policy of the American people.
That is absolutely true.

Speaker 5 (02:34:27):
We do.

Speaker 13 (02:34:28):
Yeah, and look at this panel that you're looking at
it right now.

Speaker 12 (02:34:30):
Do you think people like me, Frank Gaffney, Mark Serrouno,
Steve Ruber, and David Zier aren't more plugged into the
overall story. I'm not even talking about sources within an administration.
This isn't about partisanship. This is about our experience, our
historical knowledge, our willingness to share that with the viewing public.
David Zier, your thoughts as were, we wrap up your

(02:34:52):
your twenty seconds.

Speaker 16 (02:34:54):
Yeah, I don't think anyone, including Trump, takes any of
this light lightly.

Speaker 19 (02:34:58):
He didn't stop to take questions.

Speaker 16 (02:34:59):
When watched Marine one land on the South Lawn last night,
we knew something was up also, And I just want
to say, as for a regime change in Iran, state
propaganda TV has shut down the Internet as well, we
should air drop one hundred thousand starlinks on them and
let the people organize themselves and do something and just
in closing. Iran went too hard, too fast. They lost

(02:35:21):
their proxies in Syria, Hamas, Hesbla and Yemen. They engaged
in too many nefarious activities and it was time for
Israel to act. And doesn't mean we're all not concerned
about everything going forward, but this was a big success
so far.

Speaker 13 (02:35:37):
Great Gaffney, you're twenty seconds of last thoughts.

Speaker 14 (02:35:40):
Yeah, I couldn't be more proud to be part of
the Real America's Voice network, where the warm up act
for your early edition exercise every week day at five
and weekends too. I'm anxious to just call attention. We're
going to do a fabulous webinar with our friends at
three sixty five Action Israel three sixty five Action the

(02:36:02):
Victory Coalition on Tuesday at two pm Eastern time. We
should have a link up very shortly at victoryco dot
org to give a lot more texture to all of
the things that we've been talking about today. And I
thank you for including me in this great to be
with your guys.

Speaker 12 (02:36:16):
Jay Party is on Operation Midnight Hammer, ladies and gentlemen,
I thank you for joining us for this three hours
of special coverage here on Real America's voice, stay with
this channel from now on, let alone the rest of
the day, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (02:36:37):
The party is on and so that is our analysis
this morning. Is the party on?

Speaker 5 (02:36:43):
Is this thing? Are we inexorably drawn into this?

Speaker 35 (02:36:46):
And maybe the day is the day of action, you know,
just the one swoop of a jet that Kaylie Mcanini
was just one swoop of a jet.

Speaker 9 (02:37:10):
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