June 18, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (06/18) - Jordana Miller comes on the show from Israel to talk about the latest developments in the war between Israel and Iran. Pres. Trump said he may or may not strike the Iranian nuclear sites with the "bunker buster" bombs. There is going to be another No Kings Day Protest on July 17th. A man is suing the LA County Sheriff's Department for a flashbang injury during a protest that led to his finger being amputated.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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are going to start immediately with what's going on between
the US, Israel and Iran, because you never know when
on a major escalation of that war is going to
occur and how big of an involvement we are going
to have. Trump has been intentionally vague or cryptic about
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whether we are going to get involved with major bombing.
Looking for Iran's nuclear uranium enrichment and nuclear nuclear bomb
construction sites very deep in a mountain. The Tehran is
emptying out, Israel is bombing them pretty heavily. And we're
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going to talk now with Jordana Miller, ABC News correspondent.
We've had her on many times from Jerusalem, and she's
going to tell us right up to the minute what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
They're good to join you. I can tell you that
things seem just slightly quieter today than the first five
days since Israel launched its surprise attack on Iran's nuclear
and ballistic missile programs. For about fourteen hours there were
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no sirens, no strikes from Iran. A short while ago
was the first one and it was in Tel Aviv,
and it was oddly just two ballistic missiles. Last night
there were several waves of strikes. About twenty ballistic missiles
(02:02):
were fired in the night before thirty. The numbers are dwindling,
and as we can see now also they're happening less frequently.
It's unclear if Aroan is doing this as it postures
to possibly de escalate so that President Trump will give
them another chance to negotiate instead of going into this war,
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or if Israel has really crippled their ability to strike
back in a large way. Israel has taken out a
lot of their missile launchers and a lot of their
missiles and even their factories that are building missiles right
in the last several days. Or it could be that
(02:47):
Iran is just you know, pulling back because potentially they
could you know, fire on US assets as well. If
President Trump joins the war. You know, things have been
a little bit quieter, but there's you know, very very
very high tension here as everyone watches and waits to
(03:12):
see what President Trump decides. It's obviously going to be
a critical decision that could impact this region for decades
to come.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What is Trump looking for to keep American bombs from dropping?
Has he been clear about that?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
What what the President would do? I mean, the President's
been very.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah. What does he want iron to do? He says
unconditional surrender, and and that means exactly means right.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So I think what he means by that is agreeing
to the terms of the deal that he had offered
the Iranians, which was dismantle you're clear weapons program, get
rid of that highly enriched material, and limit your ballistic missiles.
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And those are terms that Iran has said they would
never agree to, right. They said, If you'll remember, just
a week ago, we heard Iranian officials say, who is
the United States to tell us what we can enrich
what we can't in rich?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And they you know, continued to the Iranians have continued
to try to fool the world that they're enrichment program
was all about civil energy and clean energy. But you know,
no one needs to enrich uranium at those levels for
a civil nuclear energy program. And they had increasingly shut
(04:50):
out the International Atomic Energy Agency. Uh. And they even
you know, just a day before is all carried out.
It's surprise strike. They said that. You know, the i
A had basically sanctioned Iran right criticized Iran for violating
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violating their commitments. So I think the president wants to
He wants Iran to give up its nuclear weapons. Uh,
it's fantasy or ambition to become a nuclear power. That's
what I think he means by surrender. Does he mean
regime change?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I don't think so. But you know the Israelis, they're
one of their there. They do not have regime change
in their list of war aims. Right there after the
nuclear sites, they want to destroy them. They're after the
ballistic missile program. They want to considerably set that back.
Those are their official aims. They don't necessarily want to
(05:57):
topple the regime. Though Israeli officials will say, if that's
a byproduct, fine, no one, no one in Israel will
cry about that. But that is not that is not
their aim, and uh, you know, other officials here have said,
you know that changing or toppling the regime, that's a
choice that people of Iran need to make. We're taking
(06:19):
care of national security interests, and that means getting rid
of this nuclear program and these these dangerous ballistic missiles.
The rest, you know, will leave up to the Iranian people.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It doesn't seem like Iran has the defenses to keep
Israel in the US from destroying their nuclear facilities. If
that's the choice made. It doesn't seem like they're equipped
to fight this off.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
They aren't. I do not believe they are equipped to
fight fight it off, right. They can't. You know, they
can't fight off the Israelis. They're certainly not going to
be able to fight off the US, the US Army, right,
the US Air Force. I mean, they're in a terrible
position right now. And remember how may Nay, the supreme leader.
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He lost ten of his twelve closest military advisors, more
than a dozen of his top nuclear scientists. He is
in hiding, he's isolated. There are concerns about whether he's
even being told the truth about how bad the situation is.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right years old, isn't.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yep, yep, he's eighty six, yep, and he had a
you know, an iron fist hold over Iran, right. You know, Unfortunately,
because Iran is not doesn't have any kind of transparency, right,
(07:57):
it's hard to even find out what's going on in
side Iran, how the people of Iran feel. I mean,
the Supreme Leader has cut internet access, you know, they
are certainly they didn't allow reporters there right to tell
you what's happening. And people are also, with good reason,
afraid to talk. So we don't have a clear picture
(08:22):
of what's going on inside Iran. We only found out
today on day six, a very broad general number of
the people who've been killed.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It took around days to say that about two hundred
and fifty people had been killed, and then today we
heard an Iranian officials say hundreds have been killed. You know,
there's a human rights a human rights group that's outside
of Iran that's collecting information that believes about five hundred
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and fifty people have been killed. But again, it's hard
to know exactly what's going on inside. And so while
the Israelis say, you know, we don't we're not about
regime change, they you know it's true what it is.
It is true that a byproduct of what they're doing
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is obviously destabilizing the regime, right, and the Israeli's bombed
the They bombed the Iranian State TV headquarters and their
radio headquarters, and they hit near their Interior ministry and
their police. Right, So they are going after the regime,
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you know, some governmental aspects of the regime and not
just their military and nuclear sites. That became clear, it's
becoming more clear today and some of the things that
they targeted.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
All right, Jordana Miller, ABC News, thank you, excellent reporting
as always, Thanks Tucson Aks. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. We'll
have some audio clips to play of Trump musing on
what he's going to do. And again it looks like
the main demands are to dismantle the uranium and Richmond site,
(10:14):
to dismantle their capabilities of creating nuclear weapons, and also
ending somehow restricting their ballistic missile development. All that coming
up in next segment.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
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John Cobelt Moistline on Friday is eight seven seven moist
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talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. We just had Jordana
Miller on the ABC News correspondent in Jerusalem because it's
become clear that that something bad is going to happen
to Iran imminently or at least sometime in the next
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few days, unless they offer unconditional surrender to Israel and Trump,
and by that it means that they are going to
agree to dismantle their uranium enrichment operation which is buried
deep inside a mountain, and they're also going to restrict
their ballistic missile supply and use of those ballistic missiles,
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and also stop developing nuclear weapons. And unless Israel and
Trump get all of those concessions and get them immediately,
then Israel is going to go in there, probably backed
up by the United States. And the key job that
we would have is we have these thirty thousand pound bombs.
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They're called bunk or buster bombs because the uranium enrichment
facility is buried deep inside a mountain and there are
very few weapons that could penetrate the mountain. I forget
exactly how deep they are, but it's quite a distance,
and so you need these thirty pound bombs, and there's
only so many bombers that are capable of dropping something
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that big and destructive. It's like two hundred feet below
the surface, under concrete and stuff. Yeah yeah, so's it
would take repeated blasts to bust all that up. And
you're also taking a risk that some of that nuclear
energy could get released into the atmosphere. So it's clear
that I think the United States is in position to
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do something like that if Trump decides to pull the
trigger and Israel is doing a lot of damage on
their own now, they put out signals in Israel that
people should clear out I think right or Americans ought
to clear out. Tehran is emptying out and Trump took
some questions on this. Today they had some kind of
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flagpole installation ceremony at the White House. I heard. I
heard some of this on the radio this morning. Let
me start with cutting number seven, because the reporters were asking,
what does unconditional surrender mean?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Specifically, what does unconditional surrender mean?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Would you know what it is like? Condition?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Can you explain it? Promos yourself?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Wor It's a very simple unconditional surrender.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That means I've had it. Okay, I've had it.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I give up no more.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Then we go blow up all and you know, all
the nuclear stuff that's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Then now they had bad intentions.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You know that for forty years they've been saying death
to America, death to Israel, death to anybody else that
they didn't like. They were bullies, they were schoolyard bullies.
And now they're not bullies anymore. But we'll see what happens. Look,
nothing's finished until it's finished. Our war is very complex.
A lot of bad things can happen, a lot of
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turns that made so I don't know. I wouldn't say
that we want anything yet. I would say that we
sure as all made a lot of progress. And we'll see.
The next week is going to be very big. Maybe
less than a week, maybe less. But is there anybody
here that said it would be okay to have to
have a hostel.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Very you know, zealous, really, but to.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Have a hostile country have a nuclear.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Weapon that could.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Destroy twenty five miles, but much more than that could
destroy other nations just by the breeze blowing the dust.
You know that dust blows to other nations and they
get decimated this is just not a threat you can have.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And we've been threatened.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
By Iran for many years.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You know, if you go back and look at.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
My history, if you go back fifteen years, I was
saying we cannot let Iran get a nuclear weapon. I've
been saying it for a long time.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I mean it more now than.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I ever mentioned.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh, and now they've been getting very close. It's they
suspect around would have it working within a year. So
this has been building for a long long time. The
Iyatola crowd has been running around forty six years, going
back to when they grabbed all those American hostages back
in nineteen seventy nine. Let's play cut number six. A
reporter asked Trump, if we really are getting close to
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bombing the nuclear sites?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Have are questions about whether you are moving closer?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You believe the US is.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Where's your mindset on that?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
You can say that right? You don't seriously think I'm
going to answer that question? Will you strike the Iranian
nuclear component? And what time exactly, sir sir, would you
strike it? Would you please inform us so we can
be there and watch. I mean, you don't know that
I'm going to even do it. You don't know. I
may do it, I may not do it. I mean,
nobody knows what I'm going to do. I can tell
(15:29):
you this that Iran's got a lot of trouble and
they want to negotiate. And I said, why didn't you
negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why
in you neigot? I said to the people, why didn't
you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have
done fine, You would have had a country. It's very
(15:51):
sad to watch this. I mean, I've never said anything
like it, So you neveryone thought it was going to
be the reverse.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I didn't think so. And I'm telling him you got
to you got to do something. You got to negotiate.
And at the end last minute, they said, no, we're
not going to do that, and they got hit.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Have you wanted to reach out to you?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
And I said, it's very late, you know, I said,
it's very late to be talking.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
We may meet. It's it's.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I don't know. There's a big difference between now and
a week ago, right, big differ.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Helps that we may meet. Course is about the dance.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It's about anybody. They even suggested they come to the
White House. It's a big difference, but they've suggested that
they come to the White House. That's you know, courageous,
but you know it's like not easy for them to do,
but they suggest. Because I can't go now because of
what's going on. I had to come back early from
the G seven, which was terrific by the way, in Canada,
(16:53):
really terrific.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Good people.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Is there a possibility of next week?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
We are sooner that you well, I don't know how
much longer it's going to go.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And then he was asked if he has a message
for the Iyatola, have.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
A line, say good luck, good luck to the.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You got to blow his habit him.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
You're gonna take out where they have sixty days and
a big you know, sixty days money at time, and they.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Made a mistake. You've paid out of that. You know,
this is what's important. He gave the Iatola sixty days
and on the sixty first day, they said times up,
and we're coming in. And now the Ayatola is dangling
there and Trump goes, I don't know, maybe I'll do it,
maybe I won't. I don't know. You know, we'll see
and so can you imagine what it's like inside tehron
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or the Iatota lost ten of his twelve top guys.
And it's important. If you give somebody a sixty day deadline,
then yeah, you do blow up their nuclear facility on
day sixty one or shortly thereafter. Otherwise nobody else in
the world's ever gonna believe you. The next time there
is another crisis. And then one more clip.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Trump had a question for the flagpole installers.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Do we have anybody and here's that's a number of
young and I don't think.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But you've known all these people.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Who are wrong clock any illegal immigrant point if they will,
they'll find happen.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They'll be checking you.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
You won't believe your whole life will be destroyed because
of this press conference.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So I've still destroyed these people.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I didn't want to tell them that before this did happen.
They'll end up being a he's so, and so this
one is from you nowhere. Don't worry. I think you're
I think you're going to be okay. I'll be right
behind you from far behind you.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I'll be right behind you.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
No illegal aliens among the flagpole workers, otherwise they were
to run.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
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We spent the last half hour the big question hanging
in the air all around the world is Trump and
Israel going to go in and start bombing Iran and
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destroy their uranium and richmond facilities, their nuclear weapon facilities,
their capabilities when it comes to shooting ballistic missiles. It
looks like they're headed in that direction. But to Trump
is saying publicly, just talked to CNN that you know,
they haven't made a decision yet. Meantime, on the other
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side of reality, you had the Goofballs who had their
no Kings protest on Saturday. They announced that they're going
to have another one. They accomplished absolutely nothing with those
protests over the weekend, nothing except, you know, cost LA
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taxpayers billions of dollars. So having accomplished zero, they're going
to do it again. On July seventeenth, sixty demonstrations planned
for that day. The ACLU is running this one of
the did you do you remember what I told you
(20:22):
about the ACLU chief makes yeah, a million three, a
million three. Now, when you run an organization that depends
on donations and you yourself grab a million three of
those donations, you got to keep the juices flowing. You've
got to keep emotionally manipulating people and make them think
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they can go out into the street and we're going
to change presidents that way. Is it fascinating? I would
say it's delusional, except I know why these organizations do it.
They make a lot of money and they employ a
lot of people. So their business is emotionally manipulating the
psychologically damaged, the people with emotional disorders, the easily excitable.
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And that's what's going on. You know, after five days,
I think everybody's realized, wowouh, I's still president. I thought
we were deposing the king. What happened here? Meantime, I'll
get to this in a second. He's sending in more
National Guard troops and they're going to have more ICE
(21:31):
agents arresting and detaining more illegal aliens here in LA
and everywhere else. So instead of him taking the hint
that he's not allowed to be king. He's responding with
more of everything. So, hey, July seventeenth, it's great. It'll
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end up costing taxpayers here millions more, but I'm sure
the protests will be mostly peaceful. In fact, they'll you'll
see all the news operations will tell you for twelve
hours it's mostly peaceful. It's mostly peaceful. Right, there could
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be mass killings in the street, there could be entire
blocks burning. It's mostly peaceful. So July seventeenth is the
date the White House did call the June fourteenth protest
an utter failure, and if they're wrong, point to the success.
(22:37):
The success, point to what changed nothing. Meantime, I looked
at the New York Times, the Alley Times, and uh Politico,
and they all have similar headlines that they think the
Federal Appeals Court is likely to side for the most
part with Trump to keep the National Guard here until
(23:01):
further notice. Yesterday was a little over an hour long.
The hearing three judge panel, two Trump appointees, one Biden appointee.
It seemed like the Trump appointees and even to some
extent the Biden appointee, thought that Trump had the better
legal argument as to who ultimately controls the National Guard,
and all of Newsom's feeble huffing and puffing, that's just
(23:25):
his attempt to try to start his national campaign to
look like the king of Trump resistors. And I told
you yesterday Newsom is starting out with a twenty nine
percent approval rating across the country. In California, it's not
so hot either. Even in California, he's only got forty
four percent approval. So he's a guy who increasingly has
(23:48):
no following. Trump is sending two thousand more military troops
to LA, two thousand National Guard troops because there's going
to be more immigration cracked down, there's going to be
more raids, more detainees. They expect more protests, more resistance.
So there's now these troops are from the forty ninth
(24:13):
Military Police Brigade Fairfield in northern California, and uh, you're
get You're getting thousands more and ICE arrests. It turns out,
I guess the No Kings protesters didn't even know this.
The ICE arrests, according to Channel seven, was going on
(24:33):
weeks before the LA raids, and the eight the agency
made has made twenty three thousand five hundred and sixty
four arrests just last month. This was before the surge
here in La twenty three thousand people. Yeah, so that
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all the protests and screaming and whining from the likes
of Newsom, who really is impotent, isn't I mean, he's
really flaccid. He's got no juice at all. The acting
ICE director said, no protesters are going to block our way.
Since January twentieth, we've been making arrests in Los Angeles
and all around the country. Now compared to last year,
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after Biden woke up belatedly realized the immigration issue was
destroying his reelection chances. Last year, ICE made eighty four
hundred arrests in May. Now it's twenty three thousand. Not
to mention that the activity on the southern border is
near zero. So there's a lot of personnel that's freed
up now that isn't stopping a legal alien crossing the border,
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and they're able to, you know, to do whatever they
need to do. Inland. There is no word from the
Appeals Court today. I have a feeling if they thought
it was such an outrage that Trump had the National
Guard here, they would have issued some kind of immediate
order blocking. But it looks like they're taking their time,
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and you know, they might offer some restrictions and then
if Trump doesn't like any of the restrictions, it's going
to go on to further appeal and eventually the Supreme Court.
I'm sure Newsoman's going to push this to the Supreme
Court or I don't know, maybe not. Maybe he doesn't
want an ultimate ruling from the Supreme Court on this,
and see likely he'd likely lose. All Right, we got
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more coming up.
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another day in another round of the LAPD shut off
A body part shot off? My body part?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Oh really?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Are you okay? Well, no, not mine personally. We're going
to play you this clip first from uh It's oh yes,
he was part of the No King's Day protest and
he's suing the La County Sheriff's Department. In this case,
the sheriff Sheriff's Department blew off the body part. It
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was a flash bang injury. So play cut number three.
Fox eleven Matthew Seedarth.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
New images from days of chaotic protest in.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
L A finger off my finger, revealing.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Gruesome, sometimes life changing injuries.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I was waving my flag and you can see the
PROJECTI hey, and it just exploded right in front of.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
My face, Sergios.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
But it was downtown Saturday for the No King's protest.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
We weren't rioters, we were protesters, and I want people
to know that.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
This the video Sergio was recording as an explosion took
off a portion of his finger.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
I was tacting people protest with one hand on my
phone in the other, and they blew the making flag
right off of me and my finger as well with
the Bleslito grenade.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Agitators and law enforcement have squared off for days during
the anti ice protest.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
The lapd were taking rocks and bottles, they said from
the high ground were throwing.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
To this bridge sky Fox Justin O'Brien reporting from above
with Fox elevens Mario Ramirez on the ground.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Wait, We're going to back up a little bit here.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
You authorities firing back with tear gas, flashbans and rubber bullets.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You see projectiles coming with a light trace, like a
tracer shot type thing, and it needs a He looked
like Baghdad on a bad day. Yeah, like.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
British photojournalist Nick Stearn seen in this video from Paramount
getting shot by a rubber bullet while taking pictures. Demonstrators
there carrying him away with a projectile embedded in his leg.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
The whole time I felt I was going to pass out.
The pain was so intense.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
The county Shriff's deputies also injured. You should take a
wedding for ten La police officers.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't want to see any more police officers or
deputy Sheriff's injured, or anybody else on either side of this.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
A long, chaotic week of sometimes violent clashes definitely sound
very intense moments with everything you're being launched towards both sides.
I do want to show you that I did when
I was out there covering some of these protests. I
saw one of these less than lethal rubber bullets fired,
and you think that they're going to hit with the
rubber on your skin, but in some instances it actually
hits with the other side and even more painful. I
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witnessed that firsthand. Happened that one of those protesters out
there last week.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Well, and maybe you should go home. Maybe now they
do advertise it as less than lethal and getting your
testicle blown off less than lethal, getting your eye blown out,
like we found out yesterday one guy less than lethal
and today it's a finger. So we have a testico,
(30:00):
an eye, and a finger. Let's play our game again.
If you had to choose which one you could live
with getting blown out? Erica, what do you pick? Testicle?
Eye or finger? Oh? Finger? Finger? Yeah, easily, all right,
you can play this game now even though you don't
have a testicle.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I don't have a testicle, but we have eye or finger?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Finger? Yeah, I would choose finger two. So we'll give
up our fingers before our eyes and certainly before our testicles.
I have this I have this idea. You can't go
to a protest and go and chant peaceful protest over
and over again when other guys are throwing rocks and
(30:44):
bottles and bricks at the police, because you wouldn't want
to get a brick in the head or a bottle
or a rock. And when you do it against police officers,
they have the full freedom to fire back at you.
In fact, You're lucky you're not getting real bullets, because
(31:06):
I think out in the out, in the real world,
if they ran into some guy who's throwing bricks at
their heads, that guy might get shot. But for an
official protest, I guess the rules are a little more tolerant,
and so you get less than lethal rubber bullets.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, I mean, I think it depends on what you're throwing. Also,
I mean if you start maybe not what you're throwing,
but if you start firing, if you start firing bullets,
I think you're not.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Going to get the rubber bullets. Yeah, you know, then
you're dead. Yeah, you're getting the full treatment from the police.
But I just I don't understand the purpose of the
protest is to express yourself. Okay, you've expressed yourself. Trump's
not leaving, and now the bad guys have shown up
and they're throwing the bottles in the rocks at police.
What are you doing there? And then you're crying that
(31:53):
your finger got blown off? Why'd you put yourself in play?
I mean, how many days of protest where you saw
hundreds of people getting getting arrested and lots of people
getting injured and the police firing all kinds of stuff
you heard about the you know, like for the next
protest on July seventeenth, Now that you know you could
(32:15):
lose a testicle or an eye or a finger, why
would you go out there? Do you think on July eighteenth?
Trump's not going to be the president? I guarantee you.
And unless you know his final cheeseburger takes him out,
you're gonna wake up July eighteenth, no matter how loud
you shouted, no matter how long you stood in the
hot July Southern California, Son, he's still president, and he's
(32:36):
still going to be deporting people, and he's still going
to have the National Guard here in case people get
out of the line. I I. And he's still going
to be bombing around probably. So what's your what is
it like? What do these protests do exactly? What's the
point of it? And then and then you're all hacked
off because you lost the body part? You can't buy
another finger or an eye.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Well, I don't think people are going out and protesting
think that they're going to lose a testicle, your finger.
There's that risk now, but there's a risk to everything
in life.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
We have three examples now and there's other things that
could blow off too, So those aren't the only three
body parts.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
It's true, but we can, you know, walk out of
this building and you know something can happen to us.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh sure, every I almost walked in front of a
bus once. Really, Yeah, that would have hurt more than
getting my testicle blown off. Or maybe not. I don't know.
All right, when we come back, I'm just pausing for
partly for drama and partly because I don't know what
(33:40):
I'm going to do next. Oh, well, you're going to
the news.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I mean you say that.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Maybe you'll give me an idea just in your newscast. No,
I know what I want to do. Well, we'll talk
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are going to start immediately with what's going on between
the US, Israel and Iran, because you never know when
on a major escalation of that war is going to
occur and how big of an involvement we are going
to have. Trump has been intentionally vague or cryptic about
(00:46):
whether we are going to get involved with major bombing.
Looking for Iran's nuclear uranium enrichment and nuclear nuclear bomb
construction sites very deep in a mountain. The Tehran is
emptying out, Israel is bombing them pretty heavily. And we're
(01:07):
going to talk now with Jordana Miller, ABC News correspondent.
We've had her on many times from Jerusalem, and she's
going to tell us right up to the minute what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
They're good to join you. I can tell you that
things seem just slightly quieter today than the first five
days since Israel launched its surprise attack on Iran's nuclear
and ballistic missile programs. For about fourteen hours there were
(01:40):
no sirens, no strikes from Iran. A short while ago
was the first one and it was in Tel Aviv,
and it was oddly just two ballistic missiles. Last night
there were several waves of strikes. About twenty ballistic missiles
(02:02):
were fired in the night before thirty. The numbers are dwindling,
and as we can see now also they're happening less frequently.
It's unclear if Aroan is doing this as it postures
to possibly de escalate so that President Trump will give
them another chance to negotiate instead of going into this war,
(02:26):
or if Israel has really crippled their ability to strike
back in a large way. Israel has taken out a
lot of their missile launchers and a lot of their
missiles and even their factories that are building missiles right
in the last several days. Or it could be that
(02:47):
Iran is just you know, pulling back because potentially they
could you know, fire on US assets as well. If
President Trump joins the war. You know, things have been
a little bit quieter, but there's you know, very very
very high tension here as everyone watches and waits to
(03:12):
see what President Trump decides. It's obviously going to be
a critical decision that could impact this region for decades
to come.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What is Trump looking for to keep American bombs from dropping?
Has he been clear about that?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
What what the President would do? I mean, the President's
been very.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah. What does he want iron to do? He says
unconditional surrender, and and that means exactly means right.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So I think what he means by that is agreeing
to the terms of the deal that he had offered
the Iranians, which was dismantle you're clear weapons program, get
rid of that highly enriched material, and limit your ballistic missiles.
(04:09):
And those are terms that Iran has said they would
never agree to, right. They said, If you'll remember, just
a week ago, we heard Iranian officials say, who is
the United States to tell us what we can enrich
what we can't in rich?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And they you know, continued to the Iranians have continued
to try to fool the world that they're enrichment program
was all about civil energy and clean energy. But you know,
no one needs to enrich uranium at those levels for
a civil nuclear energy program. And they had increasingly shut
(04:50):
out the International Atomic Energy Agency. Uh. And they even
you know, just a day before is all carried out.
It's surprise strike. They said that. You know, the i
A had basically sanctioned Iran right criticized Iran for violating
(05:14):
violating their commitments. So I think the president wants to
He wants Iran to give up its nuclear weapons. Uh,
it's fantasy or ambition to become a nuclear power. That's
what I think he means by surrender. Does he mean
regime change?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I don't think so. But you know the Israelis, they're
one of their there. They do not have regime change
in their list of war aims. Right there after the
nuclear sites, they want to destroy them. They're after the
ballistic missile program. They want to considerably set that back.
Those are their official aims. They don't necessarily want to
(05:57):
topple the regime. Though Israeli officials will say, if that's
a byproduct, fine, no one, no one in Israel will
cry about that. But that is not that is not
their aim, and uh, you know, other officials here have said,
you know that changing or toppling the regime, that's a
choice that people of Iran need to make. We're taking
(06:19):
care of national security interests, and that means getting rid
of this nuclear program and these these dangerous ballistic missiles.
The rest, you know, will leave up to the Iranian people.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It doesn't seem like Iran has the defenses to keep
Israel in the US from destroying their nuclear facilities. If
that's the choice made. It doesn't seem like they're equipped
to fight this off.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
They aren't. I do not believe they are equipped to
fight fight it off, right. They can't. You know, they
can't fight off the Israelis. They're certainly not going to
be able to fight off the US, the US Army, right,
the US Air Force. I mean, they're in a terrible
position right now. And remember how may Nay, the supreme leader.
(07:12):
He lost ten of his twelve closest military advisors, more
than a dozen of his top nuclear scientists. He is
in hiding, he's isolated. There are concerns about whether he's
even being told the truth about how bad the situation is.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right years old, isn't.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yep, yep, he's eighty six, yep, and he had a
you know, an iron fist hold over Iran, right. You know, Unfortunately,
because Iran is not doesn't have any kind of transparency, right,
(07:57):
it's hard to even find out what's going on in
side Iran, how the people of Iran feel. I mean,
the Supreme Leader has cut internet access, you know, they
are certainly they didn't allow reporters there right to tell
you what's happening. And people are also, with good reason,
afraid to talk. So we don't have a clear picture
(08:22):
of what's going on inside Iran. We only found out
today on day six, a very broad general number of
the people who've been killed.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It took around days to say that about two hundred
and fifty people had been killed, and then today we
heard an Iranian officials say hundreds have been killed. You know,
there's a human rights a human rights group that's outside
of Iran that's collecting information that believes about five hundred
(08:52):
and fifty people have been killed. But again, it's hard
to know exactly what's going on inside. And so while
the Israelis say, you know, we don't we're not about
regime change, they you know it's true what it is.
It is true that a byproduct of what they're doing
(09:13):
is obviously destabilizing the regime, right, and the Israeli's bombed
the They bombed the Iranian State TV headquarters and their
radio headquarters, and they hit near their Interior ministry and
their police. Right, So they are going after the regime,
(09:37):
you know, some governmental aspects of the regime and not
just their military and nuclear sites. That became clear, it's
becoming more clear today and some of the things that
they targeted.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
All right, Jordana Miller, ABC News, thank you, excellent reporting
as always, Thanks Tucson Aks. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. We'll
have some audio clips to play of Trump musing on
what he's going to do. And again it looks like
the main demands are to dismantle the uranium and Richmond site,
(10:14):
to dismantle their capabilities of creating nuclear weapons, and also
ending somehow restricting their ballistic missile development. All that coming
up in next segment.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
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John Cobelt Moistline on Friday is eight seven seven moist
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talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. We just had Jordana
Miller on the ABC News correspondent in Jerusalem because it's
become clear that that something bad is going to happen
to Iran imminently or at least sometime in the next
(10:58):
few days, unless they offer unconditional surrender to Israel and Trump,
and by that it means that they are going to
agree to dismantle their uranium enrichment operation which is buried
deep inside a mountain, and they're also going to restrict
their ballistic missile supply and use of those ballistic missiles,
(11:20):
and also stop developing nuclear weapons. And unless Israel and
Trump get all of those concessions and get them immediately,
then Israel is going to go in there, probably backed
up by the United States. And the key job that
we would have is we have these thirty thousand pound bombs.
(11:41):
They're called bunk or buster bombs because the uranium enrichment
facility is buried deep inside a mountain and there are
very few weapons that could penetrate the mountain. I forget
exactly how deep they are, but it's quite a distance,
and so you need these thirty pound bombs, and there's
only so many bombers that are capable of dropping something
(12:05):
that big and destructive. It's like two hundred feet below
the surface, under concrete and stuff. Yeah yeah, so's it
would take repeated blasts to bust all that up. And
you're also taking a risk that some of that nuclear
energy could get released into the atmosphere. So it's clear
that I think the United States is in position to
(12:26):
do something like that if Trump decides to pull the
trigger and Israel is doing a lot of damage on
their own now, they put out signals in Israel that
people should clear out I think right or Americans ought
to clear out. Tehran is emptying out and Trump took
some questions on this. Today they had some kind of
(12:46):
flagpole installation ceremony at the White House. I heard. I
heard some of this on the radio this morning. Let
me start with cutting number seven, because the reporters were asking,
what does unconditional surrender mean?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Specifically, what does unconditional surrender mean?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Would you know what it is like? Condition?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Can you explain it? Promos yourself?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Wor It's a very simple unconditional surrender.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That means I've had it. Okay, I've had it.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I give up no more.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Then we go blow up all and you know, all
the nuclear stuff that's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Then now they had bad intentions.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You know that for forty years they've been saying death
to America, death to Israel, death to anybody else that
they didn't like. They were bullies, they were schoolyard bullies.
And now they're not bullies anymore. But we'll see what happens. Look,
nothing's finished until it's finished. Our war is very complex.
A lot of bad things can happen, a lot of
(13:41):
turns that made so I don't know. I wouldn't say
that we want anything yet. I would say that we
sure as all made a lot of progress. And we'll see.
The next week is going to be very big. Maybe
less than a week, maybe less. But is there anybody
here that said it would be okay to have to
have a hostel.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Very you know, zealous, really, but to.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Have a hostile country have a nuclear.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Weapon that could.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Destroy twenty five miles, but much more than that could
destroy other nations just by the breeze blowing the dust.
You know that dust blows to other nations and they
get decimated this is just not a threat you can have.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And we've been threatened.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
By Iran for many years.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You know, if you go back and look at.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
My history, if you go back fifteen years, I was
saying we cannot let Iran get a nuclear weapon. I've
been saying it for a long time.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I mean it more now than.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I ever mentioned.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh, and now they've been getting very close. It's they
suspect around would have it working within a year. So
this has been building for a long long time. The
Iyatola crowd has been running around forty six years, going
back to when they grabbed all those American hostages back
in nineteen seventy nine. Let's play cut number six. A
reporter asked Trump, if we really are getting close to
(14:57):
bombing the nuclear sites?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Have are questions about whether you are moving closer?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You believe the US is.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Where's your mindset on that?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
You can say that right? You don't seriously think I'm
going to answer that question? Will you strike the Iranian
nuclear component? And what time exactly, sir sir, would you
strike it? Would you please inform us so we can
be there and watch. I mean, you don't know that
I'm going to even do it. You don't know. I
may do it, I may not do it. I mean,
nobody knows what I'm going to do. I can tell
(15:29):
you this that Iran's got a lot of trouble and
they want to negotiate. And I said, why didn't you
negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why
in you neigot? I said to the people, why didn't
you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have
done fine, You would have had a country. It's very
(15:51):
sad to watch this. I mean, I've never said anything
like it, So you neveryone thought it was going to
be the reverse.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I didn't think so. And I'm telling him you got
to you got to do something. You got to negotiate.
And at the end last minute, they said, no, we're
not going to do that, and they got hit.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Have you wanted to reach out to you?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
And I said, it's very late, you know, I said,
it's very late to be talking.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
We may meet. It's it's.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I don't know. There's a big difference between now and
a week ago, right, big differ.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Helps that we may meet. Course is about the dance.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It's about anybody. They even suggested they come to the
White House. It's a big difference, but they've suggested that
they come to the White House. That's you know, courageous,
but you know it's like not easy for them to do,
but they suggest. Because I can't go now because of
what's going on. I had to come back early from
the G seven, which was terrific by the way, in Canada,
(16:53):
really terrific.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Good people.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Is there a possibility of next week?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
We are sooner that you well, I don't know how
much longer it's going to go.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And then he was asked if he has a message
for the Iyatola, have.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
A line, say good luck, good luck to the.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You got to blow his habit him.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
You're gonna take out where they have sixty days and
a big you know, sixty days money at time, and they.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Made a mistake. You've paid out of that. You know,
this is what's important. He gave the Iatola sixty days
and on the sixty first day, they said times up,
and we're coming in. And now the Ayatola is dangling
there and Trump goes, I don't know, maybe I'll do it,
maybe I won't. I don't know. You know, we'll see
and so can you imagine what it's like inside tehron
(17:49):
or the Iatota lost ten of his twelve top guys.
And it's important. If you give somebody a sixty day deadline,
then yeah, you do blow up their nuclear facility on
day sixty one or shortly thereafter. Otherwise nobody else in
the world's ever gonna believe you. The next time there
is another crisis. And then one more clip.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Trump had a question for the flagpole installers.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Do we have anybody and here's that's a number of
young and I don't think.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But you've known all these people.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Who are wrong clock any illegal immigrant point if they will,
they'll find happen.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They'll be checking you.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
You won't believe your whole life will be destroyed because
of this press conference.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So I've still destroyed these people.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I didn't want to tell them that before this did happen.
They'll end up being a he's so, and so this
one is from you nowhere. Don't worry. I think you're
I think you're going to be okay. I'll be right
behind you from far behind you.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I'll be right behind you.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
No illegal aliens among the flagpole workers, otherwise they were
to run.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
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We spent the last half hour the big question hanging
in the air all around the world is Trump and
Israel going to go in and start bombing Iran and
(19:18):
destroy their uranium and richmond facilities, their nuclear weapon facilities,
their capabilities when it comes to shooting ballistic missiles. It
looks like they're headed in that direction. But to Trump
is saying publicly, just talked to CNN that you know,
they haven't made a decision yet. Meantime, on the other
(19:40):
side of reality, you had the Goofballs who had their
no Kings protest on Saturday. They announced that they're going
to have another one. They accomplished absolutely nothing with those
protests over the weekend, nothing except, you know, cost LA
(20:01):
taxpayers billions of dollars. So having accomplished zero, they're going
to do it again. On July seventeenth, sixty demonstrations planned
for that day. The ACLU is running this one of
the did you do you remember what I told you
(20:22):
about the ACLU chief makes yeah, a million three, a
million three. Now, when you run an organization that depends
on donations and you yourself grab a million three of
those donations, you got to keep the juices flowing. You've
got to keep emotionally manipulating people and make them think
(20:44):
they can go out into the street and we're going
to change presidents that way. Is it fascinating? I would
say it's delusional, except I know why these organizations do it.
They make a lot of money and they employ a
lot of people. So their business is emotionally manipulating the
psychologically damaged, the people with emotional disorders, the easily excitable.
(21:10):
And that's what's going on. You know, after five days,
I think everybody's realized, wowouh, I's still president. I thought
we were deposing the king. What happened here? Meantime, I'll
get to this in a second. He's sending in more
National Guard troops and they're going to have more ICE
(21:31):
agents arresting and detaining more illegal aliens here in LA
and everywhere else. So instead of him taking the hint
that he's not allowed to be king. He's responding with
more of everything. So, hey, July seventeenth, it's great. It'll
(21:53):
end up costing taxpayers here millions more, but I'm sure
the protests will be mostly peaceful. In fact, they'll you'll
see all the news operations will tell you for twelve
hours it's mostly peaceful. It's mostly peaceful. Right, there could
(22:15):
be mass killings in the street, there could be entire
blocks burning. It's mostly peaceful. So July seventeenth is the
date the White House did call the June fourteenth protest
an utter failure, and if they're wrong, point to the success.
(22:37):
The success, point to what changed nothing. Meantime, I looked
at the New York Times, the Alley Times, and uh Politico,
and they all have similar headlines that they think the
Federal Appeals Court is likely to side for the most
part with Trump to keep the National Guard here until
(23:01):
further notice. Yesterday was a little over an hour long.
The hearing three judge panel, two Trump appointees, one Biden appointee.
It seemed like the Trump appointees and even to some
extent the Biden appointee, thought that Trump had the better
legal argument as to who ultimately controls the National Guard,
and all of Newsom's feeble huffing and puffing, that's just
(23:25):
his attempt to try to start his national campaign to
look like the king of Trump resistors. And I told
you yesterday Newsom is starting out with a twenty nine
percent approval rating across the country. In California, it's not
so hot either. Even in California, he's only got forty
four percent approval. So he's a guy who increasingly has
(23:48):
no following. Trump is sending two thousand more military troops
to LA, two thousand National Guard troops because there's going
to be more immigration cracked down, there's going to be
more raids, more detainees. They expect more protests, more resistance.
So there's now these troops are from the forty ninth
(24:13):
Military Police Brigade Fairfield in northern California, and uh, you're
get You're getting thousands more and ICE arrests. It turns out,
I guess the No Kings protesters didn't even know this.
The ICE arrests, according to Channel seven, was going on
(24:33):
weeks before the LA raids, and the eight the agency
made has made twenty three thousand five hundred and sixty
four arrests just last month. This was before the surge
here in La twenty three thousand people. Yeah, so that
(24:54):
all the protests and screaming and whining from the likes
of Newsom, who really is impotent, isn't I mean, he's
really flaccid. He's got no juice at all. The acting
ICE director said, no protesters are going to block our way.
Since January twentieth, we've been making arrests in Los Angeles
and all around the country. Now compared to last year,
(25:19):
after Biden woke up belatedly realized the immigration issue was
destroying his reelection chances. Last year, ICE made eighty four
hundred arrests in May. Now it's twenty three thousand. Not
to mention that the activity on the southern border is
near zero. So there's a lot of personnel that's freed
up now that isn't stopping a legal alien crossing the border,
(25:42):
and they're able to, you know, to do whatever they
need to do. Inland. There is no word from the
Appeals Court today. I have a feeling if they thought
it was such an outrage that Trump had the National
Guard here, they would have issued some kind of immediate
order blocking. But it looks like they're taking their time,
(26:05):
and you know, they might offer some restrictions and then
if Trump doesn't like any of the restrictions, it's going
to go on to further appeal and eventually the Supreme Court.
I'm sure Newsoman's going to push this to the Supreme
Court or I don't know, maybe not. Maybe he doesn't
want an ultimate ruling from the Supreme Court on this,
and see likely he'd likely lose. All Right, we got
(26:28):
more coming up.
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another day in another round of the LAPD shut off
A body part shot off? My body part?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Oh really?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Are you okay? Well, no, not mine personally. We're going
to play you this clip first from uh It's oh yes,
he was part of the No King's Day protest and
he's suing the La County Sheriff's Department. In this case,
the sheriff Sheriff's Department blew off the body part. It
(27:14):
was a flash bang injury. So play cut number three.
Fox eleven Matthew Seedarth.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
New images from days of chaotic protest in.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
L A finger off my finger, revealing.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Gruesome, sometimes life changing injuries.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I was waving my flag and you can see the
PROJECTI hey, and it just exploded right in front of.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
My face, Sergios.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
But it was downtown Saturday for the No King's protest.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
We weren't rioters, we were protesters, and I want people
to know that.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
This the video Sergio was recording as an explosion took
off a portion of his finger.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
I was tacting people protest with one hand on my
phone in the other, and they blew the making flag
right off of me and my finger as well with
the Bleslito grenade.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Agitators and law enforcement have squared off for days during
the anti ice protest.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
The lapd were taking rocks and bottles, they said from
the high ground were throwing.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
To this bridge sky Fox Justin O'Brien reporting from above
with Fox elevens Mario Ramirez on the ground.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Wait, We're going to back up a little bit here.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
You authorities firing back with tear gas, flashbans and rubber bullets.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You see projectiles coming with a light trace, like a
tracer shot type thing, and it needs a He looked
like Baghdad on a bad day. Yeah, like.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
British photojournalist Nick Stearn seen in this video from Paramount
getting shot by a rubber bullet while taking pictures. Demonstrators
there carrying him away with a projectile embedded in his leg.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
The whole time I felt I was going to pass out.
The pain was so intense.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
The county Shriff's deputies also injured. You should take a
wedding for ten La police officers.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't want to see any more police officers or
deputy Sheriff's injured, or anybody else on either side of this.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
A long, chaotic week of sometimes violent clashes definitely sound
very intense moments with everything you're being launched towards both sides.
I do want to show you that I did when
I was out there covering some of these protests. I
saw one of these less than lethal rubber bullets fired,
and you think that they're going to hit with the
rubber on your skin, but in some instances it actually
hits with the other side and even more painful. I
(29:35):
witnessed that firsthand. Happened that one of those protesters out
there last week.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Well, and maybe you should go home. Maybe now they
do advertise it as less than lethal and getting your
testicle blown off less than lethal, getting your eye blown out,
like we found out yesterday one guy less than lethal
and today it's a finger. So we have a testico,
(30:00):
an eye, and a finger. Let's play our game again.
If you had to choose which one you could live
with getting blown out? Erica, what do you pick? Testicle?
Eye or finger? Oh? Finger? Finger? Yeah, easily, all right,
you can play this game now even though you don't
have a testicle.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I don't have a testicle, but we have eye or finger?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Finger? Yeah, I would choose finger two. So we'll give
up our fingers before our eyes and certainly before our testicles.
I have this I have this idea. You can't go
to a protest and go and chant peaceful protest over
and over again when other guys are throwing rocks and
(30:44):
bottles and bricks at the police, because you wouldn't want
to get a brick in the head or a bottle
or a rock. And when you do it against police officers,
they have the full freedom to fire back at you.
In fact, You're lucky you're not getting real bullets, because
(31:06):
I think out in the out, in the real world,
if they ran into some guy who's throwing bricks at
their heads, that guy might get shot. But for an
official protest, I guess the rules are a little more tolerant,
and so you get less than lethal rubber bullets.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, I mean, I think it depends on what you're throwing. Also,
I mean if you start maybe not what you're throwing,
but if you start firing, if you start firing bullets,
I think you're not.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Going to get the rubber bullets. Yeah, you know, then
you're dead. Yeah, you're getting the full treatment from the police.
But I just I don't understand the purpose of the
protest is to express yourself. Okay, you've expressed yourself. Trump's
not leaving, and now the bad guys have shown up
and they're throwing the bottles in the rocks at police.
What are you doing there? And then you're crying that
(31:53):
your finger got blown off? Why'd you put yourself in play?
I mean, how many days of protest where you saw
hundreds of people getting getting arrested and lots of people
getting injured and the police firing all kinds of stuff
you heard about the you know, like for the next
protest on July seventeenth, Now that you know you could
(32:15):
lose a testicle or an eye or a finger, why
would you go out there? Do you think on July eighteenth?
Trump's not going to be the president? I guarantee you.
And unless you know his final cheeseburger takes him out,
you're gonna wake up July eighteenth, no matter how loud
you shouted, no matter how long you stood in the
hot July Southern California, Son, he's still president, and he's
(32:36):
still going to be deporting people, and he's still going
to have the National Guard here in case people get
out of the line. I I. And he's still going
to be bombing around probably. So what's your what is
it like? What do these protests do exactly? What's the
point of it? And then and then you're all hacked
off because you lost the body part? You can't buy
another finger or an eye.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Well, I don't think people are going out and protesting
think that they're going to lose a testicle, your finger.
There's that risk now, but there's a risk to everything
in life.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
We have three examples now and there's other things that
could blow off too, So those aren't the only three
body parts.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
It's true, but we can, you know, walk out of
this building and you know something can happen to us.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh sure, every I almost walked in front of a
bus once. Really, Yeah, that would have hurt more than
getting my testicle blown off. Or maybe not. I don't know.
All right, when we come back, I'm just pausing for
partly for drama and partly because I don't know what
(33:40):
I'm going to do next. Oh, well, you're going to
the news.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I mean you say that.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Maybe you'll give me an idea just in your newscast. No,
I know what I want to do. Well, we'll talk
about it in minutes. Hey, you've been listening to The
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