1. Los Angeles Mayor Race / California Politics:
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- Karen Bass (incumbent) leading in early results.
- A close contest for second place between Nithya Raman (portrayed as more left-wing) and Spencer Pratt.
- The transcript emphasizes:
- Delays in vote counting (weeks after the election).
- Allegations or suspicions about election integrity, especially with mail-in ballots.
- California governance (taxation, homelessness, crime, wildfires).
- Public services (fire response, policing, infrastructure).
2. Middle East Conflict (Israel–Iran):
- Reports on recent escalation between Israel and Iran, including:
- Missile exchanges between both nations
- Israeli airstrikes on Iranian targets
- U.S. involvement (or lack thereof)
- Former President Trump’s stance and statement
- Iran’s nuclear capabilities
- Terrorism funding
- Regional instability
3. Election Integrity Discussion
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- Mail-in voting
- Ballot harvesting
- Delayed vote counting
- Reference to the Carter-Baker Commission to argue that:
- Mail voting increases risks of fraud
- Comparison with states like:
- Texas and Florida (presented as more efficient and trustworthy)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in his vertical Centator Ted Cruz, ben Ferguson with
you as well, and Senator we have got a lot
of action happening right now in the Middle East. We're
going to cover it the best we can because it's
changing so quickly.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well we are, But we're gonna start with a very
simple question, what in the hell is wrong with California. Look,
I gotta say, the Los Angeles mayor race is as
bizarre a race as I've ever seen. We're gonna break
down the results there. They're gonna shock you, they're gonna
piss you off. We're gonna talk about exactly what's going on.
We're also going to talk about, as you noted, the
(00:32):
Middle East, and in particular, Iran is firing missiles at Israel.
Israel is firing missiles at Iran. Things are escalating right now,
things are fast moving. We're gonna give you the latest.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
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start there. I have a theory that when you make
so many people miserable, as soon as the saying can get.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Out, they get out as fast as they can.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
If you are a normal person and you're living in
a place like La and you watch part of the
city burn down, and you see that the fire hydrants
aren't working well and the reservoirs don't have the water
they need, and then you're dealing with all the crazies
there in government.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You just leave.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So my question is this, did all the same people
basically leave La Therefore the only thing you have left
is Karen Bass are a communist or a socialist and
that's it, because they've destroyed the entire city.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Look, there's still a whole lot of people there. A
lot of people have left, they are fleeing like crazy,
but there are a lot of people still there. Let's
do the latest news. It's eleven seventeen pm Sunday night.
So as of right now, Karen Bass, the incumbent, is
going to the runoff. She has been called. She has
received so far two hundred and fifty eight and seventy
(03:31):
one votes, which comes up to thirty four point seven percent. Now,
the election happened a week ago. Let's start with the
fact that these imbeciles can't actually count the votes in
an election. We're a week into it and we only
have eighty three percent of the votes in. They have
another seventeen percent that they haven't counted yet. That is
true statewide. We're gonna break that down in a minute.
(03:52):
But by the way, Texas, somehow we managed to have
elections and no election night or late in the morning
the next day the results because we actually count our
damn votes. Apparently in California, vote counting keeps going until
I guess they get the result they want. I mean,
it is messed up. For much of the past week,
(04:15):
Karen Bass was in first, and then Spencer Pratt was
in second, but in a sizable second. He had a
sizable lead. Then suddenly today's vote count dropped and nit
Yah Ramen, who is the left wing Marxist, who, by
the way, thinks Karen Bass, the communist who piled around
with Fidel Castro, is not left wing enough, She has
(04:39):
now surged into second place. So as of right now,
nit Ya Ramen has one hundred ninety hundred and ninety
eight votes, which is twenty seven point one percent, and
Spencer Pratt has one hundred and ninety three thousand and
eighty five votes, which is twenty six point seven percent.
Now what does that mean. Well, I'm gonna tell you.
I looked on Klshi right now just to see what
(05:00):
the betting odds were on who will be in second place?
What do you think the odds are according to Kalshi,
that Nitschia Rahman is in second place.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I'm going to go like super high throughout a number
eighty nine percent higher higher. So basically they're saying it's
it's rigged and there's no way a Republican's going to
come in second.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
That's what you're telling me. Keep going nine down one
ninety eight percent. Okay, yeah, bingo.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It was ninety nine earlier. Today it dropped to ninety eight.
Let me ask you, all right before we get into
the process questions. All right, So, Karen bass I think
has demonstrated she is the most incompetent mayor you could
possibly imagine being in charge of a podunk city, much
(05:50):
less the second largest city in America. Much of her
city burned down.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
She saw.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The most costly natural disaster in American history is the
Papecific Palisades Way rage. Mind you, this was after both
La and California had little to no fire and mitigation.
They allowed, they allowed the overgrowth of brush. They didn't
do anything to clear it out because apparently no one's
figured out that they're fires in California. This is a
(06:17):
really complicated thing for Democrats to figure out. On top
of that, they didn't have water, they let the reservoir
be empty, the fire hydrants had no water. And you
remember we played this on the on the podcast at
the time, we did an entire pod on the preventable
(06:39):
train wreck that was the LA wildfires, the public policy
decisions that made the risks much greater and then made
the ability to mitigate it, to stop it, to put
it out much much weaker. LA at the time their
fire chief and the top two deputies. Okay, this is
almost something out of Saturday Night Live, as Saturday Night
(06:59):
Live was allowed to be funny anymore. Yeah, the top
three officials in the LA Fire Department were all lesbians
named Kristin.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It was d I at its best, Like, if you
just want to be really honest.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Does that doesn't that sound like almost a rejected script
for an SNL. Let's have Christen one, Kristen two, and
Kristin three. They're all lesbians and and and we played
an interview I think it was Kristen two, although to
be honest, I can't keep track. Who was an African
American woman who was explaining that that that you know,
they had as a high priority hiring hiring lots of
(07:34):
women and women are great. But but but she said,
you know, some of you might be saying, what, well,
what I what if that little woman can't carry my
husband out of a fire? Yeah, And she says, you
know what, when you when you see a firefighter, you
want someone who looks like you. That's what you care
most about. And if your husband's in a fire, that's
his fault. He shouldn't have gotten himself in that position
(07:55):
in the first place.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Like it truly was unbelievable. Let me be very clear
for the record, if I'm in a fire, I don't
care what the firefighter who shows up looks like. Doesn't
matter to me at all.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I just want you to carry me out.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Someone big as hell who can throw my ass over
his shoulder and get me out of there.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
That is.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And by the way, you know my mom, My mom
is ninety one years old.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
My mother lives in a high rise in Houston, and
she lives up in the twenty sixth floor. And a
couple of years ago, I remember this, the power went
out in the building and ended up having it had malfunctions.
They shut the building down for a couple of months.
But my mom is up on the twenty sixth floor.
The power is out. They're evacuating the building, and the
(08:44):
elevators aren't working, and my mom uses a walker, So
there is no universe in which my mother is making
it down twenty six flights of stairs. That is just
not something she is capable of doing it at age
ninety one. And so Houston firefighters to Houston firefighters carried
her down twenty six flights of stairs. Incredible promise you
(09:05):
my mother didn't say, Okay, wait, I'm sorry. You guys
are both big strapping dudes. No, I don't need that.
I need Could you send two ninety year old ladies
to carry me down? That's what I'd like. Like this
is asinine and at some point, and never mind the
out of control crime, never mind the homelessness, never mind
(09:26):
Venice Beach, that the homeless camp they're assaulting people, never
mind the drug needles and parks, never mind the kids
stepping on fentanyl needles. Like watching what has happened to La,
It's tragic.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Look.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I spend a lot of time out out in California
because because Heidi's a native California and her whole family
are Californians, it's a spectacularly beautiful state. I have a
lot of dear friends who live there. When I look around,
they've got perfect weather, they've got the Pacific oceans, they've
got mountains. I mean, it's breath to taking.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It is actually beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And I look around, I'm like, how did they screw
this up? Like like it's not and and I.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Want to be up by the way it takes effort
to screw it up.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It's easy to be successful if that's what you're given
as your surroundings.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You look at it and you go, I love to
live here.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Like you go to California and you look at California,
I don't care if what part of the coast you're
up or down.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You see it and you're like, this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The only way you could make people not want to
go there is if you have terrible services what you're describing,
insanely high taxes what you're describing, and anti business policies,
which which.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
They also have there.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And then it forces people to make a tough decision,
which is I love the land, I love what I see,
but I got to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I can't afford it.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And I want to be clear. Look, I like to
talk smack on the whole Texas versus California thing, and
that's a fun thing to do. But let me be clear,
California destroying itself is tragic for the country. Look, California
is our the largest state. California historically has been this
economic engine that has created enormous numbers of jobs. It's
(11:07):
been really valuable for the American economy. And to watch
people like Karen Bass, people like Gavin Newsom just destroy
it and destroy it. Newsome with this idiot wealth tax
has driven trillions of dollars out of the state. I mean,
they're just fleeing like crazy, and listen. I don't know
Spencer Pratt never met the guy. I have no idea
(11:28):
what his policies were. I will say the videos, the
viral videos that his campaign put out. I watched every
one of them. I love them. At one point I tweeted,
how could you not vote for this guy? Because he's
just saying he was not running a right wing campaign,
He was not running a conservative campaign. He was like,
how about a mayor that will stop your house from
(11:48):
burning down, stop criminals from murdering you, stop homeless people
from harassing and assaulting your children, and pick up the
needles in the park.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's not conservative a liberal, that's just like, can we
get the basics right again so that we don't watch
the city like continue to go up in flames.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And the bizarre thing is is the voter said, okay,
So thirty four point seven percent said, hey, this is awesome,
we want more of this. Give us an incompetent comedy.
You doesn't know how to run a city. And then
the second biggest group of people one hundred and nine
hundred ninety eight said, you know what, she's not that
(12:30):
crap crazy enough. We've got someone that.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Is full on vot crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Turns out incompetent Marxist is not far enough, and so
they want full mandami. I guess you know it is.
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You mentioned earlier how long it's taken to get the
vote in in a local election. This goes back to
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back to a lot of election issues that a lot
of I think same conservatives, non conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I'm one of them now.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I'm like, when you watch him go from second place
and drop down to third all of a sudden, and
it took a week to count, why would anybody have
any faith in that system? Center like that's and look,
I think a lot of us post COVID and all
the lies that we were told on about COVID, and hey,
six feet stop and spread. The list goes on and on,
(15:39):
the vaccine, and the list goes on and on. But
there's people like me that look at this sho're like,
I'm gonna throw up a red flag here and say,
if it takes you a week to count the votes,
something just doesn't seem right with that. And this is
where people genuinely start to have distrust in the election.
And then that also means a lot of people then go, well,
(16:00):
why do I even vote? It's rigged, right, That's that's
what I don't want to happen. But that's what people
think is maybe I shouldn't even vote. It's not wasting
my time, it's it takes them a week. I don't
believe my vote matters or even as counted correctly.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, and listen, in California, it is illegal for officials
to check a photo ID. Yes, so we know that
illegal aliens are voting. We know that illegal votes are counted.
They also they vote overwhelmingly by mail and and and
it's worth reminding everyone that the last major bipartisan study
of election integrity that was chaired by former Democrat President
(16:33):
Jimmy Carter and chaired by former Republican Secretary of State
James Baker. The Carter Baker Commission concluded that voting by
mail increases the chances of election fraud, and they also
concluded that that ballot harvesting, the ability of paid operatives
(16:54):
to collect ballots and then send them in by mail,
is the single most dangerous policy because what happens is
a collop correct operative can say, go into a nursing
home with the ballots of every person there and fill
them out. And you can have people are completely senile
who are in a coma, they can fill out the
ballot and vote for them. They can also see who
the person votes for. And let's say someone has a
(17:14):
moment of sanity and they vote for someone they don't like.
A corrupt operative can just throw that ballot in the trash.
So ballot harvesting makes voter fraud much more likely. What
does California do allows ballot harvesting? Now, let me say
it's the gubernatorial election. We don't know who's going to
be in the runoff, it's a week.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
End to it.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So far, they've concluded that Javier Besserra, who is the
California Attorney General, who is in the midst of a
corruption scandal, who is incompetent who is a far left radical.
He's in first place. And then as of Sunday morning,
conservative commentator Steve Hilton holds the lead for second place
over billionaire Democrat Tom steyerh Hilton was the top choice
(17:59):
for twenty six point one percent of voters and Styers
for twenty one point three percent of voters. But you
know what, given the drop of ballots, who knows, maybe
that could flip and in fairly short order you'll see
two Democrats. But let me read a story from the
San Francisco paper because it asked how many votes are
left to be counted, and it says, according to the
(18:21):
California Secretary of State's office, there are approximately three million
unprocessed votes. As of Saturday evening, over six point three
million ballots have been counted. Updated vote totals normally drop
in the evenings. Why does California take so long to
count votes? The Secretary of State's office explains on its
(18:43):
site that there are a few reasons why Californians often
wait days or weeks for the full results. Mail end
ballots that are received within a week of election day
need processing, which means some of the ballots still in
the mail system may need counting. Once a ballot is received,
the Secretary of State says, quote, election officials must confirm
each voter's ready to stration status, verify each voter signature
on the vote by mail envelope, and ensure that each
(19:05):
person did not vote elsewhere in the same election before
the ballot can be counted. That's no small feat for
a state as large as California, which has about as
residents as the entire population of Canada. Nonetheless, both Republicans
and Democrats agree the process should be speedier. On Friday,
a spokesperson for Governor Gavin Newsom told the San Francisco
(19:25):
paper that Newsom quote wishes the vote count mood faster too. Well, dufous,
there is a way to fix it, which is don't
let people mail their damn ballot in on election day
and mail in ballots, require the ballots be received by
election day. Look, we actually have in Texas. We have
(19:49):
early voting. We have two weeks of early voting, and
much of that, most of that is in person, and
it's really quite easy to vote. I usually vote early
and you go into the polling place and you can
do it there if you vote early. There are almost
never any lines. You wait in line maybe five minutes ago,
vote and it's quick at easy. You do a paper ballot,
they put it in, they count it, and so the
(20:09):
early votes. Right now in Texas about two thirds of
the votes are cast early, and they're cast early in person.
We have limited mail in ballots for people who are seniors,
people with disabilities, for military those serving the military. That oversees,
so it's a limited number of exceptions. But we managed
to get and then the remainder of the ballots are
(20:30):
in person on election day, and we don't have people
mailing in ballots on election day. You've got to get
your ballots in and Texas, let's be clear, California has
the highest population of the country, but what's number two. Texas.
We managed to get our votes counted, typically by election day,
or occasionally, if it's a really close election, it may
(20:50):
drag on a day or two. If it's down to
like like if it's neck and neck, it could drag
on a day or two. But that is the exception
rather than the rule. By the way, Florida, same thing.
They're there, they have the third highest population. Somehow Florida
manages to count their damn ballots and and so listen.
I don't know in LA if the looney communists surging
(21:12):
ahead of Spencer Pratt is a result of voter fraud
or a result of a bunch of voters who just say,
you know what, it's so bad, I want it worse.
But but like nobody, And let's be clear, this is
not just lefty Californians that are like, oh, I love abortion, okay,
K five, look the question of choice in life. I
(21:34):
have no idea what Spencer Pratt's view is, but I
can't believe he's anything but pro choice. No reason to
think anything else. It's not about gay rights. I'm not
aware of any of view Spencer Pratt has about gay rights.
I assume that that that we're two years away from
them making it mandatory for every child in the California
public schools to be transgender. So like that's the path
there on is is Ben? Congratulations your three boys. We're
(21:57):
now going to surgically sterilize them, whether they want it
or not. They're not quite there yet, but they ain't far.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But they're not.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Those were not the issues in this race. This was
not socially. We're liberal blah blah blah. I don't agree
with that, but that's not what this was over. This
is people saying, no, I don't want a mayor who
can hire a fire department who can put out a
damn fire. No, I don't want a mayor who could
(22:28):
actually hire police officers who could arrest murderers. No, I
don't want a city that stops crackheads from leaving leaving
drugs on the streets, from people defecating on the streets,
from putting needles on the streets, from threatening our kids.
Apparently the people of la are like, Nope, no basic services,
(22:51):
not interested in those. I just want you know, it
is somewhere between you know, mindcomf and the communist manifesto,
and that's what they care about.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Final question on this if you do end up having
even let's say bass loves and you go to even
more extreme kind of it turns Mandani, what does that
say about this country that are two of their biggest
state cities in the nation have gone this far to
the extreme.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It's not even the Democratic Party anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We're talking about communism and socialism in our biggest cities
on the west and East coast.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And by the way. To be clear, Karen Bass is
already pretty much where Mandannie is. Yeah, like there's not
a whole lot of daylight. So this looney leftist who
thinks Bass is too conservative, I shudder to think what
the hell that means. Like it's getting to the point
(23:48):
it's not healthy for a country. And I have to
assume that there are a lot of voters in LA
who are not paying attention. Look, there are a lot
of Republicans in California who are demores, who don't think
it matters anymore, who stay home. That is a big factor.
I'll tell you, as I said, I'm out in California
(24:09):
quite a bit. And when I'm out there, I will
have people in LA come up to me and they'll
sort of look to the ground and they'll furtively look around,
and they'll say, ted, I'm the only conservative in California,
And I'll.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Tell them, no, no, you're not, you're not.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And in fact, do you know what state has the
most Republicans in it?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
California.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yes, there are more Republicans in California than there are
in Texas. Now there are even more Democrats. They are outnumbered.
But it's almost like when they come up to me.
It's like the Christians in the ancient Colosseum, where with
the foot they make the shape of a fish in
the sand. They are beaten down. And I will say
an awful lot of Republicans don't show up because they
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believe it is hopeless, and unfortunately, that belief too often
can become a self fulfilling prophecy.
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twelve thirty seven am Eastern time as we're recording right now, center,
and so let's talk about what's happening right now in
the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We have had a flare up. I think it's a
fair way to put it.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Israel involved, Iran involved hitting Terris targets as well in Lebanon.
This is turned into a bigger deal. The President trying
to still get this deal done with I ran making
phone calls apparently to Bib Netanyahu's saying, hey, let's not
go too heavy here. Let us see if we can
keep this framework together. Trying to keep that seasfire together
as well. There's an awful lot happening right now.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, let's talk about the latest news. And as you noted,
it is Sunday night, so things could break by by Monday.
By the time this podcast is out, we could have
more news breaking. But as of right now, the latest
news Axios reported just a few minutes ago, quote the
Israeli Air Force conducted strikes on military targets in central
and western Iran on Monday morning local time. The Israel
(27:11):
Defense Forces said to statement, the strikes in retaliation for
an Iranian missile attack against Israel, mark a new phase
in a growing escalation that started on Sunday morning. This
is the first time Israel has struck Iran since the
April eight ceasefire. Further exchanges of fire could unravel the
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negotiations between the United States and Iran and lead to
the resumption of the war. President Trump told Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who hours before the strikes, not to
retaliate after Tehran conducted a retaliatory attack on Israel. A
US defense official said the US military was not involved
in the Israeli strikes on Iran. The official said the
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Israeli strikes were relatively limited in their scope, so we
have returned to firing missiles. Active hostility between Iran and Israel.
Both have fired missiles at each other in the past
twenty four hours. That certainly has the potential to escalate.
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And also Sunday morning, President Trump was on Meet the Press.
He was asked about Iran. Here's what President Trump had
to say.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Their leaders are gone.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Do you know where all of Iran's nuclear material is? Yes? Yes,
Would you unfreeze any Iranian assets or lift any sanctions
up front as a part of any rail so that
would come after after if they turned over the material.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Unlike Obama, Obama flew a Boeing seven fifty seven a plane.
I know very well. They took the seats out and
they loaded it up with one point seven billion dollars
in cash from the banks in Maryland and Virginia and DC.
They emptied at the back and they gave them one
point seven in green and they gave them tens of
(29:04):
billions of dollars, just kept giving them money and it
didn't work.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Would any again? But again, mister president, you promised that
you were going to negotiate a better deal.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Do you whip?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You listen to the president there, and I do think
it's really interesting to see how quick I meet the press.
They wanted to get back in his face to go
but this is a disaster, like he's like, it's three months.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Like what I'm doing right now is really tough.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Others said they were in favor of what I'm doing,
they didn't do it the way I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm holding them accountable.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
This goes back to just perspective here, I think is
the biggest thing of the President saying.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Well, what the President said that is very clear is
he's drawn a red line and he's insisting that Iran
comply with his red line. His red lines, which we've
talked about at length. Or Number one, no nukes, no
nuclear materials. They have no nuclear in Richmond, and they
have to hand over the enricheradium. They have number two,
they have to stop funding terrorism. Number or three, they
have to open the strait of Hormus. And you will
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not see he has said, sanctions relief. You will not
see money going to them until they comply with those conditions.
That's the right way to negotiate. Both Barack Obama and
Joe Biden just flooded billions, yeah, into Iran. As the
President said, Obama literally flew a plane filled with almost
two billion dollars in cash, palettes of cash into Iran
in the dead of night. There was another exchange President
(30:27):
Trump had had with meet the press. Give a listen
to this.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
One, and they would have had a nuclear weapon five
years ago.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
But mister President, I'm curious because when you were campaigning,
you said you would rip up the around nuclear deal
but negotiate a better deal. Why didn't you negotiate a
better deal at the time, Because after it was ripped
their work guardrails and they escalated their production of enriched duration.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Use me, it takes years to do these things. These
people have been fighting for forty seven years. They've been
killing Americans. They've been taking off their legs and their
arm and their faces have been hurt so badly and
so horribly. I'm moving very fast. I'm into three months.
You know, Vietnam lasted nineteen years. I'm into my third month.
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And all I do is say, well, what are you
going to win? If I were a Democrat, nobody would
be talking that way. But it doesn't matter to me.
I have gotten so used to it. Look, we have
totally destroyed their military. They have some missiles left, They
have some drones left.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Do you know how many minutes?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Exactly how many?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I don't want to tell you.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Can you give me to have some left? No?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
But they have. I know almost to the number. And
we know where they are too, And we know where
their drones are, and we know where their drone factories
are Most of the drone factories have been knocked out,
most of the launching pads have been knocked out, and
most of the missile manufacturing areas have been knocked out.
But they still have capacity. They have some missiles, they
have some drones. I would say percentage wise, maybe twenty
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one twenty two percent of their missiles. It's a lot
of missiles, but it's not what it was when we
first attacked.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
So you're saying they have twenty one twenty two percent
of their missiles.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Left, correct, Yes, I just I got to say I
laugh at how they want him to tell them in
phreings like I'm not going to tell you that public, Well,
why won't you because I'm not going to tell the
enemy what I know on everything.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
This seems pretty normal.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yet the entire interview had that level of hostility in it.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah. Look, I mean NBC unfortunately it is approaching this,
and it has approached this like like the rest of
the corporate media, with effectively rooting for the United States
to lose. As the President laid out, the United States
has had extraordinary military results in this conflict. Eighty percent
of the missiles, eighty percent of the drones, destroyed, virtually
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all of the drone manufacturing and missile capacity, destroyed, the
air Force in rubble, the Navy sunken at the bottom
of the ocean. The Iyatola did, many of the Mulla's dead,
many of the leaders of the IRGC did. And her question,
she says, well, why didn't you negotiate a better deal?
And you know, I'm listening to that wondering. You know,
it's like someone saying to the police, why didn't you
(33:10):
negotiate a better deal with Charles Manson, Why don't you
negotiate a better a deal with Jeffrey Dahmer. Why don't
you negotiate a better deal with Ted Bundy. It is
not possible to negotiate a deal with someone who's only
objective is to murder you. And the media refuses to
acknowledge that. They said, They're like, you know, the right
(33:31):
solution is send them billions of dollars. That's what democrats want.
It is complete appeasement. It is denial of the reality
that when the Iatola says death to America, he means it.
And the reason President Trump is waging this war is
because if the Iatola got nuclear weapons, we could see
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hundreds of thousands of Americans murdered in a flash of
an eye, and the president is not going to let
that happen. It is I gotta say, By the way,
I'm quite confident the folks at NBC News are cheering
the results of the La Marrior's race because the last
thing they want is a mayor that can actually put
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out fires or arrest criminals.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yeah, that's a great point. We're going to keep you
updated on both of these stories. Don't forget. We do
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the sin and I will see you back here on
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Wednesday morning.
Welcome in his vertical Centator Ted Cruz, ben Ferguson with
you as well, and Senator we have got a lot
of action happening right now in the Middle East. We're
going to cover it the best we can because it's
changing so quickly.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well we are, But we're gonna start with a very
simple question, what in the hell is wrong with California. Look,
I gotta say, the Los Angeles mayor race is as
bizarre a race as I've ever seen. We're gonna break
down the results there. They're gonna shock you, they're gonna
piss you off. We're gonna talk about exactly what's going on.
We're also going to talk about, as you noted, the
(00:32):
Middle East, and in particular, Iran is firing missiles at Israel.
Israel is firing missiles at Iran. Things are escalating right now,
things are fast moving. We're gonna give you the latest.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
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theory center if we're let's go back to California and
start there. I have a theory that when you make
so many people miserable, as soon as the saying can get.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Out, they get out as fast as they can.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
If you are a normal person and you're living in
a place like La and you watch part of the
city burn down, and you see that the fire hydrants
aren't working well and the reservoirs don't have the water
they need, and then you're dealing with all the crazies
there in government.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You just leave.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So my question is this, did all the same people
basically leave La Therefore the only thing you have left
is Karen Bass are a communist or a socialist and
that's it, because they've destroyed the entire city.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Look, there's still a whole lot of people there. A
lot of people have left, they are fleeing like crazy,
but there are a lot of people still there. Let's
do the latest news. It's eleven seventeen pm Sunday night.
So as of right now, Karen Bass, the incumbent, is
going to the runoff. She has been called. She has
received so far two hundred and fifty eight and seventy
(03:31):
one votes, which comes up to thirty four point seven percent. Now,
the election happened a week ago. Let's start with the
fact that these imbeciles can't actually count the votes in
an election. We're a week into it and we only
have eighty three percent of the votes in. They have
another seventeen percent that they haven't counted yet. That is
true statewide. We're gonna break that down in a minute.
(03:52):
But by the way, Texas, somehow we managed to have
elections and no election night or late in the morning
the next day the results because we actually count our
damn votes. Apparently in California, vote counting keeps going until
I guess they get the result they want. I mean,
it is messed up. For much of the past week,
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Karen Bass was in first, and then Spencer Pratt was
in second, but in a sizable second. He had a
sizable lead. Then suddenly today's vote count dropped and nit
Yah Ramen, who is the left wing Marxist, who, by
the way, thinks Karen Bass, the communist who piled around
with Fidel Castro, is not left wing enough, She has
(04:39):
now surged into second place. So as of right now,
nit Ya Ramen has one hundred ninety hundred and ninety
eight votes, which is twenty seven point one percent, and
Spencer Pratt has one hundred and ninety three thousand and
eighty five votes, which is twenty six point seven percent.
Now what does that mean. Well, I'm gonna tell you.
I looked on Klshi right now just to see what
(05:00):
the betting odds were on who will be in second place?
What do you think the odds are according to Kalshi,
that Nitschia Rahman is in second place.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I'm going to go like super high throughout a number
eighty nine percent higher higher. So basically they're saying it's
it's rigged and there's no way a Republican's going to
come in second.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
That's what you're telling me. Keep going nine down one
ninety eight percent. Okay, yeah, bingo.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It was ninety nine earlier. Today it dropped to ninety eight.
Let me ask you, all right before we get into
the process questions. All right, So, Karen bass I think
has demonstrated she is the most incompetent mayor you could
possibly imagine being in charge of a podunk city, much
(05:50):
less the second largest city in America. Much of her
city burned down.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
She saw.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The most costly natural disaster in American history is the
Papecific Palisades Way rage. Mind you, this was after both
La and California had little to no fire and mitigation.
They allowed, they allowed the overgrowth of brush. They didn't
do anything to clear it out because apparently no one's
figured out that they're fires in California. This is a
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really complicated thing for Democrats to figure out. On top
of that, they didn't have water, they let the reservoir
be empty, the fire hydrants had no water. And you
remember we played this on the on the podcast at
the time, we did an entire pod on the preventable
(06:39):
train wreck that was the LA wildfires, the public policy
decisions that made the risks much greater and then made
the ability to mitigate it, to stop it, to put
it out much much weaker. LA at the time their
fire chief and the top two deputies. Okay, this is
almost something out of Saturday Night Live, as Saturday Night
(06:59):
Live was allowed to be funny anymore. Yeah, the top
three officials in the LA Fire Department were all lesbians
named Kristin.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It was d I at its best, Like, if you
just want to be really honest.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Does that doesn't that sound like almost a rejected script
for an SNL. Let's have Christen one, Kristen two, and
Kristin three. They're all lesbians and and and we played
an interview I think it was Kristen two, although to
be honest, I can't keep track. Who was an African
American woman who was explaining that that that you know,
they had as a high priority hiring hiring lots of
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women and women are great. But but but she said,
you know, some of you might be saying, what, well,
what I what if that little woman can't carry my
husband out of a fire? Yeah, And she says, you
know what, when you when you see a firefighter, you
want someone who looks like you. That's what you care
most about. And if your husband's in a fire, that's
his fault. He shouldn't have gotten himself in that position
(07:55):
in the first place.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Like it truly was unbelievable. Let me be very clear
for the record, if I'm in a fire, I don't
care what the firefighter who shows up looks like. Doesn't
matter to me at all.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I just want you to carry me out.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Someone big as hell who can throw my ass over
his shoulder and get me out of there.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
That is.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And by the way, you know my mom, My mom
is ninety one years old.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
My mother lives in a high rise in Houston, and
she lives up in the twenty sixth floor. And a
couple of years ago, I remember this, the power went
out in the building and ended up having it had malfunctions.
They shut the building down for a couple of months.
But my mom is up on the twenty sixth floor.
The power is out. They're evacuating the building, and the
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elevators aren't working, and my mom uses a walker, So
there is no universe in which my mother is making
it down twenty six flights of stairs. That is just
not something she is capable of doing it at age
ninety one. And so Houston firefighters to Houston firefighters carried
her down twenty six flights of stairs. Incredible promise you
(09:05):
my mother didn't say, Okay, wait, I'm sorry. You guys
are both big strapping dudes. No, I don't need that.
I need Could you send two ninety year old ladies
to carry me down? That's what I'd like. Like this
is asinine and at some point, and never mind the
out of control crime, never mind the homelessness, never mind
(09:26):
Venice Beach, that the homeless camp they're assaulting people, never
mind the drug needles and parks, never mind the kids
stepping on fentanyl needles. Like watching what has happened to La,
It's tragic.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Look.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I spend a lot of time out out in California
because because Heidi's a native California and her whole family
are Californians, it's a spectacularly beautiful state. I have a
lot of dear friends who live there. When I look around,
they've got perfect weather, they've got the Pacific oceans, they've
got mountains. I mean, it's breath to taking.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It is actually beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And I look around, I'm like, how did they screw
this up? Like like it's not and and I.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Want to be up by the way it takes effort
to screw it up.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It's easy to be successful if that's what you're given
as your surroundings.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You look at it and you go, I love to
live here.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Like you go to California and you look at California,
I don't care if what part of the coast you're
up or down.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You see it and you're like, this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The only way you could make people not want to
go there is if you have terrible services what you're describing,
insanely high taxes what you're describing, and anti business policies,
which which.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
They also have there.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And then it forces people to make a tough decision,
which is I love the land, I love what I see,
but I got to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I can't afford it.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And I want to be clear. Look, I like to
talk smack on the whole Texas versus California thing, and
that's a fun thing to do. But let me be clear,
California destroying itself is tragic for the country. Look, California
is our the largest state. California historically has been this
economic engine that has created enormous numbers of jobs. It's
(11:07):
been really valuable for the American economy. And to watch
people like Karen Bass, people like Gavin Newsom just destroy
it and destroy it. Newsome with this idiot wealth tax
has driven trillions of dollars out of the state. I mean,
they're just fleeing like crazy, and listen. I don't know
Spencer Pratt never met the guy. I have no idea
(11:28):
what his policies were. I will say the videos, the
viral videos that his campaign put out. I watched every
one of them. I love them. At one point I tweeted,
how could you not vote for this guy? Because he's
just saying he was not running a right wing campaign,
He was not running a conservative campaign. He was like,
how about a mayor that will stop your house from
(11:48):
burning down, stop criminals from murdering you, stop homeless people
from harassing and assaulting your children, and pick up the
needles in the park.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's not conservative a liberal, that's just like, can we
get the basics right again so that we don't watch
the city like continue to go up in flames.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And the bizarre thing is is the voter said, okay,
So thirty four point seven percent said, hey, this is awesome,
we want more of this. Give us an incompetent comedy.
You doesn't know how to run a city. And then
the second biggest group of people one hundred and nine
hundred ninety eight said, you know what, she's not that
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crap crazy enough. We've got someone that.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Is full on vot crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Turns out incompetent Marxist is not far enough, and so
they want full mandami. I guess you know it is.
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also have to ask you this question, though, and I
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You mentioned earlier how long it's taken to get the
vote in in a local election. This goes back to
twenty sixteen. This goes back to twenty twenty. This goes
back to a lot of election issues that a lot
of I think same conservatives, non conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I'm one of them now.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I'm like, when you watch him go from second place
and drop down to third all of a sudden, and
it took a week to count, why would anybody have
any faith in that system? Center like that's and look,
I think a lot of us post COVID and all
the lies that we were told on about COVID, and hey,
six feet stop and spread. The list goes on and on,
(15:39):
the vaccine, and the list goes on and on. But
there's people like me that look at this sho're like,
I'm gonna throw up a red flag here and say,
if it takes you a week to count the votes,
something just doesn't seem right with that. And this is
where people genuinely start to have distrust in the election.
And then that also means a lot of people then go, well,
(16:00):
why do I even vote? It's rigged, right, That's that's
what I don't want to happen. But that's what people
think is maybe I shouldn't even vote. It's not wasting
my time, it's it takes them a week. I don't
believe my vote matters or even as counted correctly.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, and listen, in California, it is illegal for officials
to check a photo ID. Yes, so we know that
illegal aliens are voting. We know that illegal votes are counted.
They also they vote overwhelmingly by mail and and and
it's worth reminding everyone that the last major bipartisan study
of election integrity that was chaired by former Democrat President
(16:33):
Jimmy Carter and chaired by former Republican Secretary of State
James Baker. The Carter Baker Commission concluded that voting by
mail increases the chances of election fraud, and they also
concluded that that ballot harvesting, the ability of paid operatives
(16:54):
to collect ballots and then send them in by mail,
is the single most dangerous policy because what happens is
a collop correct operative can say, go into a nursing
home with the ballots of every person there and fill
them out. And you can have people are completely senile
who are in a coma, they can fill out the
ballot and vote for them. They can also see who
the person votes for. And let's say someone has a
(17:14):
moment of sanity and they vote for someone they don't like.
A corrupt operative can just throw that ballot in the trash.
So ballot harvesting makes voter fraud much more likely. What
does California do allows ballot harvesting? Now, let me say
it's the gubernatorial election. We don't know who's going to
be in the runoff, it's a week.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
End to it.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So far, they've concluded that Javier Besserra, who is the
California Attorney General, who is in the midst of a
corruption scandal, who is incompetent who is a far left radical.
He's in first place. And then as of Sunday morning,
conservative commentator Steve Hilton holds the lead for second place
over billionaire Democrat Tom steyerh Hilton was the top choice
(17:59):
for twenty six point one percent of voters and Styers
for twenty one point three percent of voters. But you
know what, given the drop of ballots, who knows, maybe
that could flip and in fairly short order you'll see
two Democrats. But let me read a story from the
San Francisco paper because it asked how many votes are
left to be counted, and it says, according to the
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California Secretary of State's office, there are approximately three million
unprocessed votes. As of Saturday evening, over six point three
million ballots have been counted. Updated vote totals normally drop
in the evenings. Why does California take so long to
count votes? The Secretary of State's office explains on its
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site that there are a few reasons why Californians often
wait days or weeks for the full results. Mail end
ballots that are received within a week of election day
need processing, which means some of the ballots still in
the mail system may need counting. Once a ballot is received,
the Secretary of State says, quote, election officials must confirm
each voter's ready to stration status, verify each voter signature
on the vote by mail envelope, and ensure that each
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person did not vote elsewhere in the same election before
the ballot can be counted. That's no small feat for
a state as large as California, which has about as
residents as the entire population of Canada. Nonetheless, both Republicans
and Democrats agree the process should be speedier. On Friday,
a spokesperson for Governor Gavin Newsom told the San Francisco
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paper that Newsom quote wishes the vote count mood faster too. Well, dufous,
there is a way to fix it, which is don't
let people mail their damn ballot in on election day
and mail in ballots, require the ballots be received by
election day. Look, we actually have in Texas. We have
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early voting. We have two weeks of early voting, and
much of that, most of that is in person, and
it's really quite easy to vote. I usually vote early
and you go into the polling place and you can
do it there if you vote early. There are almost
never any lines. You wait in line maybe five minutes ago,
vote and it's quick at easy. You do a paper ballot,
they put it in, they count it, and so the
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early votes. Right now in Texas about two thirds of
the votes are cast early, and they're cast early in person.
We have limited mail in ballots for people who are seniors,
people with disabilities, for military those serving the military. That oversees,
so it's a limited number of exceptions. But we managed
to get and then the remainder of the ballots are
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in person on election day, and we don't have people
mailing in ballots on election day. You've got to get
your ballots in and Texas, let's be clear, California has
the highest population of the country, but what's number two. Texas.
We managed to get our votes counted, typically by election day,
or occasionally, if it's a really close election, it may
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drag on a day or two. If it's down to
like like if it's neck and neck, it could drag
on a day or two. But that is the exception
rather than the rule. By the way, Florida, same thing.
They're there, they have the third highest population. Somehow Florida
manages to count their damn ballots and and so listen.
I don't know in LA if the looney communists surging
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ahead of Spencer Pratt is a result of voter fraud
or a result of a bunch of voters who just say,
you know what, it's so bad, I want it worse.
But but like nobody, And let's be clear, this is
not just lefty Californians that are like, oh, I love abortion, okay,
K five, look the question of choice in life. I
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have no idea what Spencer Pratt's view is, but I
can't believe he's anything but pro choice. No reason to
think anything else. It's not about gay rights. I'm not
aware of any of view Spencer Pratt has about gay rights.
I assume that that that we're two years away from
them making it mandatory for every child in the California
public schools to be transgender. So like that's the path
there on is is Ben? Congratulations your three boys. We're
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now going to surgically sterilize them, whether they want it
or not. They're not quite there yet, but they ain't far.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But they're not.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Those were not the issues in this race. This was
not socially. We're liberal blah blah blah. I don't agree
with that, but that's not what this was over. This
is people saying, no, I don't want a mayor who
can hire a fire department who can put out a
damn fire. No, I don't want a mayor who could
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actually hire police officers who could arrest murderers. No, I
don't want a city that stops crackheads from leaving leaving
drugs on the streets, from people defecating on the streets,
from putting needles on the streets, from threatening our kids.
Apparently the people of la are like, Nope, no basic services,
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not interested in those. I just want you know, it
is somewhere between you know, mindcomf and the communist manifesto,
and that's what they care about.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Final question on this if you do end up having
even let's say bass loves and you go to even
more extreme kind of it turns Mandani, what does that
say about this country that are two of their biggest
state cities in the nation have gone this far to
the extreme.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It's not even the Democratic Party anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We're talking about communism and socialism in our biggest cities
on the west and East coast.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And by the way. To be clear, Karen Bass is
already pretty much where Mandannie is. Yeah, like there's not
a whole lot of daylight. So this looney leftist who
thinks Bass is too conservative, I shudder to think what
the hell that means. Like it's getting to the point
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it's not healthy for a country. And I have to
assume that there are a lot of voters in LA
who are not paying attention. Look, there are a lot
of Republicans in California who are demores, who don't think
it matters anymore, who stay home. That is a big factor.
I'll tell you, as I said, I'm out in California
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quite a bit. And when I'm out there, I will
have people in LA come up to me and they'll
sort of look to the ground and they'll furtively look around,
and they'll say, ted, I'm the only conservative in California,
And I'll.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Tell them, no, no, you're not, you're not.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And in fact, do you know what state has the
most Republicans in it?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
California.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yes, there are more Republicans in California than there are
in Texas. Now there are even more Democrats. They are outnumbered.
But it's almost like when they come up to me.
It's like the Christians in the ancient Colosseum, where with
the foot they make the shape of a fish in
the sand. They are beaten down. And I will say
an awful lot of Republicans don't show up because they
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believe it is hopeless, and unfortunately, that belief too often
can become a self fulfilling prophecy.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
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Compassion dot com. All right, let's timestamp this. It is
twelve thirty seven am Eastern time as we're recording right now, center,
and so let's talk about what's happening right now in
the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We have had a flare up. I think it's a
fair way to put it.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Israel involved, Iran involved hitting Terris targets as well in Lebanon.
This is turned into a bigger deal. The President trying
to still get this deal done with I ran making
phone calls apparently to Bib Netanyahu's saying, hey, let's not
go too heavy here. Let us see if we can
keep this framework together. Trying to keep that seasfire together
as well. There's an awful lot happening right now.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, let's talk about the latest news. And as you noted,
it is Sunday night, so things could break by by Monday.
By the time this podcast is out, we could have
more news breaking. But as of right now, the latest
news Axios reported just a few minutes ago, quote the
Israeli Air Force conducted strikes on military targets in central
and western Iran on Monday morning local time. The Israel
(27:11):
Defense Forces said to statement, the strikes in retaliation for
an Iranian missile attack against Israel, mark a new phase
in a growing escalation that started on Sunday morning. This
is the first time Israel has struck Iran since the
April eight ceasefire. Further exchanges of fire could unravel the
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negotiations between the United States and Iran and lead to
the resumption of the war. President Trump told Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who hours before the strikes, not to
retaliate after Tehran conducted a retaliatory attack on Israel. A
US defense official said the US military was not involved
in the Israeli strikes on Iran. The official said the
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Israeli strikes were relatively limited in their scope, so we
have returned to firing missiles. Active hostility between Iran and Israel.
Both have fired missiles at each other in the past
twenty four hours. That certainly has the potential to escalate.
(28:14):
And also Sunday morning, President Trump was on Meet the Press.
He was asked about Iran. Here's what President Trump had
to say.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Their leaders are gone.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Do you know where all of Iran's nuclear material is? Yes? Yes,
Would you unfreeze any Iranian assets or lift any sanctions
up front as a part of any rail so that
would come after after if they turned over the material.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Unlike Obama, Obama flew a Boeing seven fifty seven a plane.
I know very well. They took the seats out and
they loaded it up with one point seven billion dollars
in cash from the banks in Maryland and Virginia and DC.
They emptied at the back and they gave them one
point seven in green and they gave them tens of
(29:04):
billions of dollars, just kept giving them money and it
didn't work.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Would any again? But again, mister president, you promised that
you were going to negotiate a better deal.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Do you whip?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You listen to the president there, and I do think
it's really interesting to see how quick I meet the press.
They wanted to get back in his face to go
but this is a disaster, like he's like, it's three months.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Like what I'm doing right now is really tough.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Others said they were in favor of what I'm doing,
they didn't do it the way I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm holding them accountable.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
This goes back to just perspective here, I think is
the biggest thing of the President saying.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Well, what the President said that is very clear is
he's drawn a red line and he's insisting that Iran
comply with his red line. His red lines, which we've
talked about at length. Or Number one, no nukes, no
nuclear materials. They have no nuclear in Richmond, and they
have to hand over the enricheradium. They have number two,
they have to stop funding terrorism. Number or three, they
have to open the strait of Hormus. And you will
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not see he has said, sanctions relief. You will not
see money going to them until they comply with those conditions.
That's the right way to negotiate. Both Barack Obama and
Joe Biden just flooded billions, yeah, into Iran. As the
President said, Obama literally flew a plane filled with almost
two billion dollars in cash, palettes of cash into Iran
in the dead of night. There was another exchange President
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Trump had had with meet the press. Give a listen
to this.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
One, and they would have had a nuclear weapon five
years ago.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
But mister President, I'm curious because when you were campaigning,
you said you would rip up the around nuclear deal
but negotiate a better deal. Why didn't you negotiate a
better deal at the time, Because after it was ripped
their work guardrails and they escalated their production of enriched duration.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Use me, it takes years to do these things. These
people have been fighting for forty seven years. They've been
killing Americans. They've been taking off their legs and their
arm and their faces have been hurt so badly and
so horribly. I'm moving very fast. I'm into three months.
You know, Vietnam lasted nineteen years. I'm into my third month.
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And all I do is say, well, what are you
going to win? If I were a Democrat, nobody would
be talking that way. But it doesn't matter to me.
I have gotten so used to it. Look, we have
totally destroyed their military. They have some missiles left, They
have some drones left.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Do you know how many minutes?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Exactly how many?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I don't want to tell you.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Can you give me to have some left? No?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
But they have. I know almost to the number. And
we know where they are too, And we know where
their drones are, and we know where their drone factories
are Most of the drone factories have been knocked out,
most of the launching pads have been knocked out, and
most of the missile manufacturing areas have been knocked out.
But they still have capacity. They have some missiles, they
have some drones. I would say percentage wise, maybe twenty
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one twenty two percent of their missiles. It's a lot
of missiles, but it's not what it was when we
first attacked.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
So you're saying they have twenty one twenty two percent
of their missiles.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Left, correct, Yes, I just I got to say I
laugh at how they want him to tell them in
phreings like I'm not going to tell you that public, Well,
why won't you because I'm not going to tell the
enemy what I know on everything.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
This seems pretty normal.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yet the entire interview had that level of hostility in it.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah. Look, I mean NBC unfortunately it is approaching this,
and it has approached this like like the rest of
the corporate media, with effectively rooting for the United States
to lose. As the President laid out, the United States
has had extraordinary military results in this conflict. Eighty percent
of the missiles, eighty percent of the drones, destroyed, virtually
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all of the drone manufacturing and missile capacity, destroyed, the
air Force in rubble, the Navy sunken at the bottom
of the ocean. The Iyatola did, many of the Mulla's dead,
many of the leaders of the IRGC did. And her question,
she says, well, why didn't you negotiate a better deal?
And you know, I'm listening to that wondering. You know,
it's like someone saying to the police, why didn't you
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negotiate a better deal with Charles Manson, Why don't you
negotiate a better a deal with Jeffrey Dahmer. Why don't
you negotiate a better deal with Ted Bundy. It is
not possible to negotiate a deal with someone who's only
objective is to murder you. And the media refuses to
acknowledge that. They said, They're like, you know, the right
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solution is send them billions of dollars. That's what democrats want.
It is complete appeasement. It is denial of the reality
that when the Iatola says death to America, he means it.
And the reason President Trump is waging this war is
because if the Iatola got nuclear weapons, we could see
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hundreds of thousands of Americans murdered in a flash of
an eye, and the president is not going to let
that happen. It is I gotta say, By the way,
I'm quite confident the folks at NBC News are cheering
the results of the La Marrior's race because the last
thing they want is a mayor that can actually put
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out fires or arrest criminals.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yeah, that's a great point. We're going to keep you
updated on both of these stories. Don't forget. We do
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Wednesday morning.
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