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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Cooner Contry. Okay, we've been talking about it
for over a week.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Last week we saw it coming.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We debated it on this show over and over and
over again. Well on Saturday night, essentially the debate is over,
at least for now. President Trump made the fateful decision.
In fact, according now to what the administration is saying
and what media reports are reporting, President Trump even on Saturday,
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still was not one hundred percent certain whether he should.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Give the go ahead. But then early Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Afternoon, after the Iranian Mulla's incredibly rejected any peace talks
with Trump as he offered them one last olive branch
and said, we will not negotiate nuclear enrichment our nuclear
program under any conditions as long as Israel continues to
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bomb us. Trump said, okay, I'm done, and he ordered
what is called Operation Midnight Hammer. And whatever you think
of the wisdom of his decision, the operation itself is,
to me, without question, one of the most brilliant, spectacular,
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effective military operations in the history of warfare. Everybody has
been marveling at the Israelis and what they have pulled
off over the last eight nine days. Man, did our
military take it to another level.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So just very.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Quickly, Trump engaged in an unbelievably brilliant move of deception. Militarily.
This was this was a masterclass. As he spoke about
I'm willing to give Iran within two weeks, noticed the
way it was phrased, not two weeks, but within two
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weeks a chance at the diplomatic table. And as he
then sent B two strategic stealth bombers going west from Whitman, Missouri,
which is where they're based, and the whole media was
following that fleet of B two bombers as they went
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out over the Pacific.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Ocean Hawaii, Guam.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Everybody said, well, it's going to be a long while
before they get there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
But secretly, in an incredible deception.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Campaign, he used the B two bombers going west as
a decoy while the real package, as it's called, the
real attack.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Fleet, went east.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It went east from Whitman, Missouri, and it went in
the dead of night. One hundred and twenty five aircraft
participated in the strike. The B two stealth bombers were
periodically repeatedly refueled in the air. They never landed once.
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They flew continuously thirty seven hours to their targets, and
then back when you read about the operation, you just
marvel at the sophistication, at the discipline, at the incredible
power of the American military and its incredible global reach.
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They penetrated Iranian airspace undetected, and then as the stealth
bombers were protected by third fourth fifth generation aircraft with
the USS Carl Vincent and the USS Admiral Nimits nearby,
they then used nuclear submarines to launch over a dozen
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Tomahawk cruise missiles, cruise missiles striking the key nuclear enrichment
site Isafan, and as Isaphan was getting blown to pieces,
the B two stealth bombers fly.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
They had a crew of two on each. On each
of them.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Dropped what are called mops massive ordance penetrators, These thirty
thousand pounds huge bunker busters, one after another after another
after another. Fourteen were dropped in all, twelve on four dough,
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two on Natans. Four dough is gone. Ntons has been
blown to pieces. Isfahan has been absolutely shattered, and so
with one order, President Tromp, in one sweeping blow, has
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destroyed the core, the very heart and soul of Iran's
nuclear enrichment program and Iran's nuclear weapons program. And then
and by the way, they took out all surface to
air missiles. There wasn't even a shot fired on the bombers.
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It was absolutely devastating. It was devastating. The planes then
flew back across air Iranian airspace, never landing refueled until
they got all the way back to Whitman Base in Missouri.
He caught the Ayatolas and the Iranian regime with their
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pants down. And so now the question, after making this,
this decision to bomb Iran, what comes next?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's now the question.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
President Trump delivered a very forceful, bold speech he addressed
the country ten o'clock in the evening Eastern time on Saturday,
in which he told the United States and the world
that as far as he's concerned, this is now over.
Iran now has a chance to go back to the
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peace table and then peacefully give up its nuclear weapons
and ballistic missile programs forever, forever, and the bombing will end,
and Iran can have a life of normalcy and prosperity
and join the entire free world. But he left it
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open ended if they do not come back to the table.
Trump says, We're going to hit you again and again
and again, and as he put it, we're gonna this
was the most difficult operation. We're gonna hit your military bases,
We're gonna hit your oil and energy infrastructure. We're gonna
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hit your most important military targets. In other words, we
are gonna hammer you and bomb you and attack you
into submission. If you're smart, go to the table and
make peace. But what is now clear is that Trump
now is clearly clearly looking at the possibility of an
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open ended war with Iran. The next day, Secretary of
Defense Pete Hegseeth jd. Vance, the Vice President Secretary of
State Marco Rubio, went and did talk show after talk show.
Hag Seth himself did a major media briefing in which
they say, according to them, this is a one done,
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that they are happy that they took out this nuclear
weapons program, and that Trump now doesn't want to do
any more bombing.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So what's going to happen next?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Trump last night on True Social said it's time to
make Iran great again Miga Miga, in which he called
for regime change in Tehran, the overthrow of the Mullas.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Now he was vague.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Does this mean the Iranian people rising up and overthrowing
the Iatolas? Does this mean backing Israel if they go
in for a regime change war? Or are we now
slowly being pulled into a regime change war a la Iraq?
But this time, piece by piece by peace. We don't
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know yet. We don't know that. Mike asked me just
before we got on the air, Jeff, do you think
the bombing of Iran by our magnificent US military was
it the right move or the wrong move? I'm gonna
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tell you exactly what I told Mike. As a military operation,
it was an unmitigated spectacular success.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It is very high risk.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Trump is a high risk man, and that's what makes
him so formidable, so unpredictable, and very often invincible. He's willing.
He's like a poker player. He's willing to go at
the table and go all in over and over and
over again. And now with Iran, he's gone all in.
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Make no mistake, we are war with Iran. The question
now is what will the Ayatolas do? How will the
Iranians respond? That is now the question. If the Iranians
are in any way semi rational and That's the key.
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Now are they semi rational? And everything depends on the
supreme leader. He runs that country, he calls the shots.
What is he going to do. Is he now going
to finally see sense and sit down or send his
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team and negotiate a peace deal to save his country
and save his regime from impending doom. As Trump put it,
you have two choices, peace or tragedy, or are the
ayah Toolas going to retaliate? Okay, well, I'll tell you this.
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Trump has now become the Ayatola's worst nightmare. So look,
as I said to Mike, and I want to restress
this to everybody, this was from a military point of view,
I mean incredible. Ah, I mean just I'm in awe.
I'm serious, I'm in truly in awe. And this is
one of the greatest military operations I believe in the
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history of warfare, certainly in the history of modern warfare.
And if this breaks the back of the Mullahs, and
this is now everybody's hope, not just wiping out their
nuclear enrichment and nuclear weapons program, but forces them to
the peace table in which they then they agree in
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a you know, in a deal that they will permanently
abandon their ballistic missile program and their nuclear weapons program.
Then I think there's no question Trump will go down
in history. Were talking Winston Churchill that level as a
world historical figure, as one of, if not the greatest
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US president ever, who brought about peace in the Middle East,
peace to America, peace to the world. There's no question,
There's no question. But it is high risk, and he
knows it's high risk, and his people around him know
because and this is the other side of the equation,
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and we have to be very honest with ourselves. Now
everything depends on the Ayatola's response. Will they see reason
and go to the peace table and recognize now that
their nuclear program is shattered, that their ballistic missiles even now,
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by the way, Israel continues to bomb. Israel has not
stop bombing. They're destroying more missile launchers, more of these
ballistic missile storage facilities. So the Iranian regime is being
systematically degraded almost now by the hour. It's starting now
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to collapse around them. So are they going to see
reason and make peace? If they do, this is honestly
one of the greatest operations ever. But if they retaliate
then we could definitely see an escalating war and a
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widening war. Now, in particular, a couple of things you
need to know, all of you. Please, whatever you're doing,
just put it down or pay attention, because this is
very important. The Iranian Parliament has now voted to close
the Strait of Hormuz. That is the key critical troke
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point where over at just over twenty percent of the
world's oil supply and shipping goes through. If they shut
down the Strait of Hormos. Now it's still the Ayatola.
The Supreme Leader must sign off on this, So the
parliament now is voted for it. It's literally at his
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on his desk. If he signs it, they are gonna
shut it down. They're gonna mine it, They're gonna shut
it down. This will cut off twenty percent of the
world's oil supply. This will send oil prices soaring around
the world, even here in the United States. China would
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be hurt by this badly. India, which gets about eighty
percent of its oil through the Strait of horm moves
their economy would be utterly decimated.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But even here you.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Are gonna see the price at the pump go way up,
I mean, way up, five.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Six, seven, whatever, I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's it's going to cause the price of oil to
go high, very high. So there's gonna be a major
economic impact. Rubio has now told the Iatolas publicly, if
you shut down the Strait of Hormuz, we will consider
this an economic attack on the United States and the world,
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and it's going to be a massive retaliation on our part.
We are gonna hit you so hard it's going to
make Fourdeaux look, you know, like a Sunday picnic. In
other words, escalation.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Of the war.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Furthermore, the Foreign Minister of Iran is now flying to Moscow.
Former President Dmitri Medvedev, who's really the number two in
the regime, has now come out and said that the
Russians and other great powers i e. The Chinese are
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now seriously thinking about giving the Mullahs and atomic bomb.
As Medvedev said, what the Americans have now done by
smashing their nuclear program is now going to pave the
way for other great powers i e. Russia, China, maybe
Pakistan to deliver a nuclear weapon to Iran so they
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can protect themselves from further strikes from either Israel or.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
The United States.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Now Trump is furiously working the phones as we speak
to tell Putin's stand down, to tell Ji stand down,
and to tell the leader of Pakistan stand down. We
are not going to allow you or any of you
to provide nuclear missiles or a nuclear bomb already completed
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to the Iranians. Iran has now vowed a massive retaliation.
They have now put their country on a full war footing.
They have declared war on the United States, saying that
we have declared war on them, so they're now responding
with a declaration of war against US. They have proxies
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now across the Middle East. Has Ballah weakened but still alive,
Hamas badly weakened, but still alive. They also have Shia
proxies in Iraq and Syria, and they have the Huthis
in Yemen. Our forces now are on very high alert,
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fearing now a terrorist attack on our basis and on
US military personnel.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And the big one.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And this to me is what is most unforgivable about
Joe Biden. This is why I cursed that man even
to this day. While Trump was at the g seventh summit, okay,
last week, he got a message through an intermediary This
is from the Iranians themselves, that they had penetrated Biden's
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open border. They said, we want Trump to know this
and that we have sleeper cells in the United States
Hezballah Iranian terrorist sleeper cells, and that we are now
ready to activate them and they will commit acts of terror.
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Americans will be slaughtered on American soil. Okay, lines are
absolutely jammed. Text line is on fire. I'm getting a
ton of emails already. I want to ask all of
you clearly now, this is one of the most critical
momentous decisions in Trump's presidency. Frankly, maybe in the history
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of the world we shall see. And so my question
to you, and it is now the ultimate question. Did
Trump do the right thing in getting us involved in
a war or at least an attack on Iran? Did
Trump do the right thing to bomb Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities,
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or in other words, did he remove the grave Iranian.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Nuclear threat.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
At least for the next couple of years and finally
do what no other president has been able to do.
Or has he now slowly roped us in to another
war in the Middle East, the very thing he vowed
he would never do. That is now the question agree, disagree?
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Did Trump do the right thing? Six one seven two
six six sixty eight sixty eight. Mark in Medford, you're
gonna kick us off. Mark, the honor is yours.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Thank you, Jeff, Thank you, Jeff, and happy good morning
Monday to you. But not so good in Iran. But
I'm leaning towards yes, Jeff. I think Trump did the
right thing.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I mean, Iran had ample upon ample opportunities to make
peace in the Middle East, to make peace with Israel,
to make peace with the United States. Well, it is
now clear, Jeff that they want no part of any
peace whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
So I believe Trump did do the right thing. For
forty plus years, Jeff, we've been listening to debt to America,
debt to Israel, debt to the Americans, and debt to
the Jews. Well, when you do that, Jeff, you can't
have a nuclear bomb. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Do you fear that if Iran retaliates, and we've already
said that if they do, we're going to hit them
back even harder and harder and harder. Do you fear
that we could be getting sucked into another war? Is
Do you have any fear of that whatsoever, or do
you think, like many, this is all bluff on the Iranians.
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They're up against two militarily much superior powers, the United
States and Israel. Their military has been completely and utterly neutered.
It's been smashed for all intents and purposes. And that
Iran right now is just like a barking dog. That's
all they can do is bark and bark and bark.
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It's all talk, no action.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
What say you, Well, you never can't trust what the
Iranians say, Jeff, You really can't. But if they do
decide to retaliate, then it's obvious they have a death
wish for the Mullahs, for the regime and basically for
the for the citizens of Iran, which is not right
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because most of them don't like the regime, Jeff. But
I think if it does happen, Jeff, I think it
would be quick and painless. That's my opinion.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Interesting, interesting, Mark, thank you very much for that call.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Mark says, on the whole he thinks Trump did the
right thing. Look, this is a death to America regime
and they've been doing it for forty five years. And look,
I thought Trump delivered a really strong speech Saturday night
when he addressed the country, this is a regime that
has killed literally thousands of Americans. We forget this now.
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And Trump mentioned all of those IEDs that they deployed,
that they the Uranian scientists gave to their Shia proxy
in Iraq, and how many American troops they maimed and
murdered and killed in nineteen eighty three, the attack on
the barracks in Beirut, in which they can over two
hundred and forty American Marines, never mind the hostages that
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they took. So the point being, they have killed Americans
for thousands, sorry, thousands of Americans. This is a regime
with American blood on his hands. So can you really
allow them to have a nuclear bomb, especially when they
vowed to use it to wipe Israel off the face
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of the earth. By the way, no other country does
that saying yeah, we get the bomb, we're gonna use it.
We're gonna wipe the Jews off the face of the earth.
So Trump decided they were too close to the possibility
of a bomb. Israel had softened up a lot of targets,
and Trump basically said, okay, they clearly don't want peace.
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They'd rather have war than give up the bomb. That
was ultimately Trump's conclusion. They prefer the bomb to peace,
and Trump said, I've told them a million times, you're
not getting the bomb, and kaboom, he let him have it.
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Saturday Night six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. Dave in Hyde Park, Thanks for holding, Dave,
and welcome.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Hi, I'm very good. How are you, Dave.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It's a beautiful day, Jeff. The sun's out, the sky's blue.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, it's also a heat wave, Dave. But I don't
know how you can stand it out there. But let
that go, Dave.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Bro Jeff, it's hard to have nice ac in the
Small Pipe podcast that gives you a nice icy weather.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Dave. What do you think of Trump's decision? You like it?
Not like it?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Jeff? I think he did the right thing. Okay, now
just just excuse me. Just after that, I heard it
on What Happened, Jeff. I heard another report just after
that saying that the Iranians had taken everything out of
the mountain and the caves and everything. They're saying that
there was nothing in the mountains that when they bombed
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it and everything was already had taken was removed. That
also came on yesterday. So now that's another story in
itself because that came out just after the initial report
that we already bombed them. But Jeff, I do agree
that there's going to be a lot of sleeper cellths
waking up and there's going to be retaliation, Jeff, and
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I also believe, Jeff, there's going to be a heavy,
heavy retaliation on Israel and if they destroy Israel, Jeff,
according to revelation, it's going to come right down to
the very end where the guys are going to literally
open up and God's going to take over if this happens,
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because you know, they want to destroy all the Israelis
and all the Jewish people, Jeff, because basically they know
God came from Israel at Jesus walk the earth, and
that's what they were afraid of, Jeff. In the old
man that they're talking about, who's going to come down
from this guy that's not gonna be Jesus, Jeff, that's
going to be the devil if anything ever happens like that,
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and that's will be there.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You see you're dealing you nail that, you're dealing with
religious fanatics. You know, the Molahs in Tehran. They're literally
they're religious fanatics. And you're right, they want to do
everything in their powers to wipe Israel off the face
of the earth. And so the thing is, though Israel
is it's got such air supremacy. Now they are hitting
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Iran at will, They're hitting the Iranian regime at will.
So I don't see how Now my only fear is this,
and it's just a fear. It's clear they did keep
a lot of their nuclear enrichment. The capacity is gone, okay,
their program is gone, but they had trucks there for days,
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and they did pull out a lot of their enrichment material,
their enrichment ficile material. So they've kept a lot of that.
Now do they have the sophistication to make a small
nuclear device. I don't know. I don't know. The Israelis
are monitoring our security. Our intelligence is monitoring everybody. That's
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what I mean, everybody. Can they put together a suitcase bomb?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
We're gonna have to find out. That's why I told Mike. Look,
there's no question from a military standpoint, it was a
brilliant operation. The only question now is to me, it's
almost like time will judge another couple weeks and we
will know definitively whether Trump broke them or has this
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led to an escalation and a widening of the war?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Okay, very very quick.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
This was President Trump Saturday night, clearly one of the
most momentous, important, critical decisions, not just of his entire presidency,
but in many ways of the history of the world
as we speak. Listen now to Trump saying Iran's nuclear
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program is no more roll cut one mike.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
A short time ago, the US military carried out massive
precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the
Iranian regime Fordeaux, Natance, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names
for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our
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objective was the destruction of as nuclear enrichment capacity and
a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's
number one state sponsor of terror.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
And on that there's no question he did it. He
did it. Other presidents talked about it. He did it.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity has been obliterated. The nuclear threat,
at least for the next couple of years in terms
of their weapons program. Okay, again, we don't know what
they've managed to save or maybe put together for a
little dirty or suitcase bomb. I hope not. I'm praying not.
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But you always have to be careful. I mean, this
is a very dangerous regime. But they have now they
have obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program. And this is the
world's number one it's a terrorist state. It's the world's
number one state sponsor of terror. So the most dangerous
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regime on Earth has now been denied the most dangerous
weapon on Earth. I think that is now no question.
Listen now to Trump, though he then says, I may
be coming back. This thing may not be over. There
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may be more strikes and more bombings. The ball is
now in the Mulla's court roll cut one a Mike.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes
were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear and Richmond
facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Around the bully
of the Middle East must now make peace. If they
do not, future attacks would be far greater and a
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lot easier.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So do you catch that if they don't make peace,
in other words, if they don't come to the table
and sign a deal that permanently ends their nuclear program
and their ballistic missile program, he's saying more attacks are coming,
and even bigger attacks. So he's leaving the door open
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for possibility and open ended campaign against the Iranians. Now
listening very this is Trump. The argument that he makes
is not just a nuclear argument, or we can't. We
have to end the regime's ability to get a bomb permanently.
But he's also saying part of this was retribution. Part
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of this was justice for everything the Mullas had done
to us for the last forty six years roll cut
to Mike.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
For forty years, Iran has been saying death to America,
death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
That was their specialty.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands
throughout the Middle East and around the world have died
as a direct result of their hate. In particular, so
many were killed by their general Cassem Solomoni. I decided
a long time ago that I would not let this happen.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
It will not continue.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netan Yahoo.
We worked as a team like perhaps no team has
ever worked before, and we've gone a long way to
erasing this horrible threat to Israel.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So Trump makes it very clear, they killed many Americans,
they killed many others around the region and around the world.
This is a death to America regime. And now he
just dealt them a devastation body blow. Now let me
play one more cut that I want to go back
to the phone lines. I want to play this second
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cut because Trump, at this point in the speech goes
even further where he's now saying no, you know, in
other words, this is not a one and done, or
it could be a one and done if the Iranians
bow to our demands and come to the peace table.
But if they don't, he goes, mark my words, more
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attacks are coming, more bombing is coming.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
We are not going to stop. It's either the.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Moranians have a choice peace or tragedy. And what he
means by tragedy is more bombings like the ones we
did on Fourdeaux Natons and Isfahan Roll cut three, Mike.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
With all of that being said, this cannot continue.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
There will be either peace or there will be tragedy
for Iran, far greater than we have witnessed over the
last eight days.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Remember, there are many targets left.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
The Night's was the most difficult of them all by far,
and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not
come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision,
speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out
in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
So this, this is the fear that many people within
his team and many leading MAGA thinkers and influencers have,
Which is, has Trump inadvertently now stumbled into or been
pulled into another major war in the Middle East? And
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remember he campaigned on getting us out of endless wars.
So we shall We'll see again. Everything depends on Iran's response. Now,
let me make one final point and then I want
to go right back to the blazing phone lines. To me,
I think what is now clear is that, and it's
been this for a while. We're in the midst of
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a larger war, World War III, and you've seen it
now with blocks developing, and you have the China, Russia, Iran,
North Korea block, and I would even throw in South
Africa now and these countries have formed a military alliance,
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and what this strike is on Iran is in many
ways simply a battle in part of a larger war
between ourselves and the You and the China, Russia, Iran,
and North Korea. I think there's no question. There's no
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question we've been fighting a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
We have been fighting proxy wars against Iran going back
forty years. China now has become Iran's biggest backer, and
we are now fighting proxy wars against China as well.
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So the question now is what will tine Ultimately? I
don't even think it's the Mullas that are going to decide.
I think ultimately now the decision is going to be
made in the Kremlin, but especially in Beijing. Are they
willing to give Iran a nuclear weapon? Are they willing
to send in weapons to the Mullas? Are they willing
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to help the Mullas escalate and expand this war? That
those are all unknowns at this point. Now Trump doesn't
want this to happen. Trump is calling Putin, he's calling
j He's telling back off. You don't want to you
don't want this to go where this thing can go.
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We just don't want the Mullis to get a bomb.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
So rain in your junkyard dog the Mulla's and everything
will be fine. The question is will the Russians and
Chinese play ball? And I know I've said it before,
but I've got to say it again. Damn Joe Biden.
That's all I can say, Damn Joe Biden, because the
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greatest threat that we face and the homeland are these
terrorist cells that now the Mullus could activate. And I
want to be crystal clear on this again. I said
it in my opening monologue. I want to say it again.
Iran sent messages to Trump at the g seventh Summit
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under Biden's open border. They said it, we penetrate your
country with terrorists and terrorist cells.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
We're in, We're in, and we're telling.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
You that if you attack us at our time of
choosing and place of choosing, we are going to activate
these terrorist cells and you are going to see dead
Americans on American soil. Now leave aside what the Iranians
are planning to do for a second. How dare Joe
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Biden leave that border open? Look what he's done to us.
He's literally putting our lives at stake, because that's son
of a you know what I want to call them,
that sob decided to fanatically keep that border open. And
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now you have the same idiot Democrats and the same
leftist Oh, this could be leading to terrorists, to Turks
on American soil, Trumps getting.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Us involved in a war with Iran. That's going to
lead Americans being killed here at home. Yeah, who let
them in? Your guy, let him in, your guy, let
him in now. Just so that you know, Trump is
obviously aware of this.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
FBI Director Cash Pattel, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, the CIA,
John Ratcliffe, and Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, have all
come out and said that they are increasing surveillance of
Iranian terrorist cells and terrorist groups, not just in the
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Middle East, which is where Ratcliffe is focused on, but
here at home. The FBI is monitoring many groups and
certain members that they believe could launch terrorist attacks domestically
in the United States. But my god, how could he
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do this to us? Six one seven, two sixty six,
sixty eight, sixty eight is the number. And it was Obama.
I'm telling you it was Obama. He was the one
that ran Biden's third term. He was the one, remember,
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going all the way back to Obama's presidency, he was
the one that gave the Iranians billions of dollars in cash.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Who nuked him up? He did.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Who gave them the ability and the financial capacity to
build these bombs or get this nuclear weapons program?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
He did. Who gave him the ability to fund and
arm their proxies all around the Middle East? He did.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Who was the one that pushed Biden to open up
the border, knowing that these Hezballah and other Islamic jihad
and other terrorist cells aligned to a law aligned to
Iran would pour into our country.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
He did. He did.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
And so, as I said last night on x what
went up in smoke Saturday night was not just the
dream of the Ayatolas to obtain a nuclear bomb. What
also went up in smoke was President Obama's, the their
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letters dream of giving Iran the path to the nuclear bomb,
of giving radical Islam the bomb, because, as he said
in his own autobiography.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Dreams of My Father, his father.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Wanted to bring America down, and Obama said it was
good for the United States to be knocked down.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
As he put it a peger too.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
He wanted our mortal enemies to be able to defeat
and challenge the United States, especially Islam and especially the
Mullahs in Tehran. You know what else Trump has done.
He literally has overturned Obama's presidency. Obama's dream is now finished,
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just like the Ayatola's dream of a nuclear bomb is finished.
Trump just defeated Obama six one seven two six six
sixty eight sixty eight. Agreed, disagree, Betty in Quinsy. Thanks
for holding Betty, and welcome.
Speaker 8 (42:48):
How's it going good?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
How are you, Betty?
Speaker 8 (42:52):
Good? So much to talk about? Well, Jeff, I just
want to bring a little positivity to the situation. I
think we should all look on.
Speaker 9 (43:00):
The bright side and there is a silver lining here
that thank God that Trump is our president and that
Biden is not. I mean, this was inevitable, and you know,
I support Trump and the bombings one thousand percent. I mean,
if he didn't take this action, this opportunity would always
be looking over our shoulders and over our back. I mean,
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we know that no president priet and probably no president
in the.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
Future is going to have the balls of the backbone
to take this action. You know, so it was something
that needed to be done. And as General Jack Keane
said last night, he got so emotional and terry eyed,
and he said, this is for the last forty years.
And you know that gave the retribution for all the
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men and women who came back maimed and who lost
their lives, you know. And I have to say for
the squad and AOC, they were all lining and stuff.
You know what, Jeff, this reminds me of like the parents,
you know, in line trying to order food and it's
like they're trying to teach their kid a lesson. They
want them to make choices, and it's like, okay, Joey,
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do you want the pickles? You don't want the pickles,
And there's twenty people in line. There was no reason
for Trump to ask these people for their opinion. I mean,
he's the parents, they're the kids. This would have been
leaked in like three seconds. I mean, there's a time
and a place. But I think this is just unbelievable.
It's the right decision. Everybody knows that Trump is not
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a president of war, but you know what, he can
stand up and make the decisions. We can't be mushy here.
He's making the decisive decisions, and this was just poetry
in motion, and you could see the military. It's like,
you can't be listening to the peanut gallery. This is
one thousand percent correct, and I'm excited to see where
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this is going to go. I think we should be
looking on the right side here.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Well, you know, Betty, I gotta say to me, there
are many many silver linings. There's no question. One of
them is the brilliance of our military. And I think
the signal that had sent to the world, and I
think it's no accident. I've been watching these briefings by
the military, for example, like the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
Dan Kin, who Trump really praised, saying, if you want
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to know the truth, he was the architect of this
bombing campaign, this plan, and he said it was masterful,
absolutely masterful. That General Kin is just I'm really a
a brilliant military strategist. And so General Kin came out
and gave his briefing and he was really blow by
blow by blow by blow, and part of it is
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I'm looking at this, I'm like, you really, should you
really be telling everybody this much detail? But then it's
obvious the reason why he's saying so much detail. He's
not just talking to us, He's talking to Putin, He's
talking to Gee, He's talked to the leaders all over
the world. Look how good and disciplined and professional and
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almost really super level are our military is. Look what
we can do. And the Iranians had.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
No clue, no clue. And we can project power all
over the world. We can hit.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Anybody by air, by land, by sea, you name it.
In other words, don't mess with the USA. So I
think there's a lot of silver linings. There's no question.
And look, Trump bent over backwards. I don't know how
many ways and how many times he gave them an
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exit ramp and the Mullas wouldn't take it. So you know,
you keep chanting death to America.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
Death.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
They're like a bully. And now they really got punched
in the face. I mean really got punched in the face.
And they don't like it. Well, too bad, stop bullying everybody.
You know, the whole region hates them. Notice again, the
only people that are taking to the streets to defend
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Iran and the Mullahs, I swear to you, are the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
And the left. If you'll notice.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Saudi Arabia is quiet, Syria is quiet, Lebanon is quiet,
Turkey is quiet. All these countries in the Middle East
are quiet. The Muslims are going on the streets saying
death to America. How dare you attack Iran? No. In
New York as an example, last night, thousands of protesters
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anti Trump, pro Iran protesters, they're waiving the Iranian flag,
took to the streets to protest what Trump did. AOC
is now calling for Trump's impeachment. You have other Democrats
now saying we're going to impeach. Outside of Fetterman, I
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think every single Democrat has condemned the attack by Trump,
and now they're complaining.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
He didn't give us any heads up.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Well, why you think if he gave Schumer a heads up,
or if he gave Hakim Jeffries a heads up, that
they wouldn't have run to the New York Times or
the Washington Post and this thing would have been leaked
as our planes were still in the sky approaching Iran.
One of the reasons why it was so stunningly successful
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was because he didn't tell those idiot Democrats. Finally, a
military operation where people kept their mouth shut and I
think that's why it was such a spectacular success. So honestly,
if I was advising Trump and he says, well, you know,
usually in America, you know, you give the Senate majority
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leader a heads up, the Senate minority leader, the House Speaker,
the House minority leader. In other words, you know, two Republicans,
two Democrats, the most powerful in Congress.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
You let them.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
You give them, you know, at least a heads up
to what's happening. I'd be are you crazy? This thing
would be on the front page of the New York
Times and the Washington Post. Our planes wouldn't even be
hitting Europe, never mind iron Yet, tell him nothing, because
their job is to sabotage you and sabotage this country.
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And by the way, when Biden or Obama bombed, they
never gave a heads up. They never gave a heads up.
So it's okay for them not to give a heads up.
But we got to give a heads up to these traders.
I don't think so, No, I don't think so. Six
one seven. Thank you for that call, Betty. Two six
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six sixty eight sixty eight is the number Bob in Plymouth.
Thanks for holding Bob and welcome.
Speaker 10 (50:10):
Hey Jeff, you just covered everything that I was going
to talk about. Was it will always wacko Democrats. Did
you see Bernie Sanders the night he got that note
about the bombing, he would, oh.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Bob, please hang on. I want to come right back
to you, okay uh, Because the reaction among Democrats
Good morning, Cooner Contry. Okay, we've been talking about it
for over a week.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Last week we saw it coming.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We debated it on this show over and over and
over again. Well on Saturday night, essentially the debate is over,
at least for now. President Trump made the fateful decision.
In fact, according now to what the administration is saying
and what media reports are reporting, President Trump even on Saturday,
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still was not one hundred percent certain whether he should.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Give the go ahead. But then early Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Afternoon, after the Iranian Mulla's incredibly rejected any peace talks
with Trump as he offered them one last olive branch
and said, we will not negotiate nuclear enrichment our nuclear
program under any conditions as long as Israel continues to
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bomb us. Trump said, okay, I'm done, and he ordered
what is called Operation Midnight Hammer. And whatever you think
of the wisdom of his decision, the operation itself is,
to me, without question, one of the most brilliant, spectacular,
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effective military operations in the history of warfare. Everybody has
been marveling at the Israelis and what they have pulled
off over the last eight nine days. Man, did our
military take it to another level.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So just very.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Quickly, Trump engaged in an unbelievably brilliant move of deception. Militarily.
This was this was a masterclass. As he spoke about
I'm willing to give Iran within two weeks, noticed the
way it was phrased, not two weeks, but within two
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weeks a chance at the diplomatic table. And as he
then sent B two strategic stealth bombers going west from Whitman, Missouri,
which is where they're based, and the whole media was
following that fleet of B two bombers as they went
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out over the Pacific.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Ocean Hawaii, Guam.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Everybody said, well, it's going to be a long while
before they get there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
But secretly, in an incredible deception.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Campaign, he used the B two bombers going west as
a decoy while the real package, as it's called, the
real attack.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Fleet, went east.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It went east from Whitman, Missouri, and it went in
the dead of night. One hundred and twenty five aircraft
participated in the strike. The B two stealth bombers were
periodically repeatedly refueled in the air. They never landed once.
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They flew continuously thirty seven hours to their targets, and
then back when you read about the operation, you just
marvel at the sophistication, at the discipline, at the incredible
power of the American military and its incredible global reach.
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They penetrated Iranian airspace undetected, and then as the stealth
bombers were protected by third fourth fifth generation aircraft with
the USS Carl Vincent and the USS Admiral Nimits nearby,
they then used nuclear submarines to launch over a dozen
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Tomahawk cruise missiles, cruise missiles striking the key nuclear enrichment
site Isafan, and as Isaphan was getting blown to pieces,
the B two stealth bombers fly.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
They had a crew of two on each. On each
of them.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Dropped what are called mops massive ordance penetrators, These thirty
thousand pounds huge bunker busters, one after another after another
after another. Fourteen were dropped in all, twelve on four dough,
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two on Natans. Four dough is gone. Ntons has been
blown to pieces. Isfahan has been absolutely shattered, and so
with one order, President Tromp, in one sweeping blow, has
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destroyed the core, the very heart and soul of Iran's
nuclear enrichment program and Iran's nuclear weapons program. And then
and by the way, they took out all surface to
air missiles. There wasn't even a shot fired on the bombers.
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It was absolutely devastating. It was devastating. The planes then
flew back across air Iranian airspace, never landing refueled until
they got all the way back to Whitman Base in Missouri.
He caught the Ayatolas and the Iranian regime with their
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pants down. And so now the question, after making this,
this decision to bomb Iran, what comes next?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's now the question.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
President Trump delivered a very forceful, bold speech he addressed
the country ten o'clock in the evening Eastern time on Saturday,
in which he told the United States and the world
that as far as he's concerned, this is now over.
Iran now has a chance to go back to the
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peace table and then peacefully give up its nuclear weapons
and ballistic missile programs forever, forever, and the bombing will end,
and Iran can have a life of normalcy and prosperity
and join the entire free world. But he left it
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open ended if they do not come back to the table.
Trump says, We're going to hit you again and again
and again, and as he put it, we're gonna this
was the most difficult operation. We're gonna hit your military bases,
We're gonna hit your oil and energy infrastructure. We're gonna
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hit your most important military targets. In other words, we
are gonna hammer you and bomb you and attack you
into submission. If you're smart, go to the table and
make peace. But what is now clear is that Trump
now is clearly clearly looking at the possibility of an
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open ended war with Iran. The next day, Secretary of
Defense Pete Hegseeth jd. Vance, the Vice President Secretary of
State Marco Rubio, went and did talk show after talk show.
Hag Seth himself did a major media briefing in which
they say, according to them, this is a one done,
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that they are happy that they took out this nuclear
weapons program, and that Trump now doesn't want to do
any more bombing.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So what's going to happen next?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Trump last night on True Social said it's time to
make Iran great again Miga Miga, in which he called
for regime change in Tehran, the overthrow of the Mullas.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Now he was vague.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Does this mean the Iranian people rising up and overthrowing
the Iatolas? Does this mean backing Israel if they go
in for a regime change war? Or are we now
slowly being pulled into a regime change war a la Iraq?
But this time, piece by piece by peace. We don't
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know yet. We don't know that. Mike asked me just
before we got on the air, Jeff, do you think
the bombing of Iran by our magnificent US military was
it the right move or the wrong move? I'm gonna
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tell you exactly what I told Mike. As a military operation,
it was an unmitigated spectacular success.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It is very high risk.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Trump is a high risk man, and that's what makes
him so formidable, so unpredictable, and very often invincible. He's willing.
He's like a poker player. He's willing to go at
the table and go all in over and over and
over again. And now with Iran, he's gone all in.
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Make no mistake, we are war with Iran. The question
now is what will the Ayatolas do? How will the
Iranians respond? That is now the question. If the Iranians
are in any way semi rational and That's the key.
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Now are they semi rational? And everything depends on the
supreme leader. He runs that country, he calls the shots.
What is he going to do. Is he now going
to finally see sense and sit down or send his
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team and negotiate a peace deal to save his country
and save his regime from impending doom. As Trump put it,
you have two choices, peace or tragedy, or are the
ayah Toolas going to retaliate? Okay, well, I'll tell you this.
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Trump has now become the Ayatola's worst nightmare. So look,
as I said to Mike, and I want to restress
this to everybody, this was from a military point of view,
I mean incredible. Ah, I mean just I'm in awe.
I'm serious, I'm in truly in awe. And this is
one of the greatest military operations I believe in the
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history of warfare, certainly in the history of modern warfare.
And if this breaks the back of the Mullahs, and
this is now everybody's hope, not just wiping out their
nuclear enrichment and nuclear weapons program, but forces them to
the peace table in which they then they agree in
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a you know, in a deal that they will permanently
abandon their ballistic missile program and their nuclear weapons program.
Then I think there's no question Trump will go down
in history. Were talking Winston Churchill that level as a
world historical figure, as one of, if not the greatest
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US president ever, who brought about peace in the Middle East,
peace to America, peace to the world. There's no question,
There's no question. But it is high risk, and he
knows it's high risk, and his people around him know
because and this is the other side of the equation,
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and we have to be very honest with ourselves. Now
everything depends on the Ayatola's response. Will they see reason
and go to the peace table and recognize now that
their nuclear program is shattered, that their ballistic missiles even now,
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by the way, Israel continues to bomb. Israel has not
stop bombing. They're destroying more missile launchers, more of these
ballistic missile storage facilities. So the Iranian regime is being
systematically degraded almost now by the hour. It's starting now
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to collapse around them. So are they going to see
reason and make peace? If they do, this is honestly
one of the greatest operations ever. But if they retaliate
then we could definitely see an escalating war and a
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widening war. Now, in particular, a couple of things you
need to know, all of you. Please, whatever you're doing,
just put it down or pay attention, because this is
very important. The Iranian Parliament has now voted to close
the Strait of Hormuz. That is the key critical troke
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point where over at just over twenty percent of the
world's oil supply and shipping goes through. If they shut
down the Strait of Hormos. Now it's still the Ayatola.
The Supreme Leader must sign off on this, So the
parliament now is voted for it. It's literally at his
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on his desk. If he signs it, they are gonna
shut it down. They're gonna mine it, They're gonna shut
it down. This will cut off twenty percent of the
world's oil supply. This will send oil prices soaring around
the world, even here in the United States. China would
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be hurt by this badly. India, which gets about eighty
percent of its oil through the Strait of horm moves
their economy would be utterly decimated.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But even here you.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Are gonna see the price at the pump go way up,
I mean, way up, five.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Six, seven, whatever, I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's it's going to cause the price of oil to
go high, very high. So there's gonna be a major
economic impact. Rubio has now told the Iatolas publicly, if
you shut down the Strait of Hormuz, we will consider
this an economic attack on the United States and the world,
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and it's going to be a massive retaliation on our part.
We are gonna hit you so hard it's going to
make Fourdeaux look, you know, like a Sunday picnic. In
other words, escalation.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Of the war.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Furthermore, the Foreign Minister of Iran is now flying to Moscow.
Former President Dmitri Medvedev, who's really the number two in
the regime, has now come out and said that the
Russians and other great powers i e. The Chinese are
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now seriously thinking about giving the Mullahs and atomic bomb.
As Medvedev said, what the Americans have now done by
smashing their nuclear program is now going to pave the
way for other great powers i e. Russia, China, maybe
Pakistan to deliver a nuclear weapon to Iran so they
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can protect themselves from further strikes from either Israel or.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
The United States.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Now Trump is furiously working the phones as we speak
to tell Putin's stand down, to tell Ji stand down,
and to tell the leader of Pakistan stand down. We
are not going to allow you or any of you
to provide nuclear missiles or a nuclear bomb already completed
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to the Iranians. Iran has now vowed a massive retaliation.
They have now put their country on a full war footing.
They have declared war on the United States, saying that
we have declared war on them, so they're now responding
with a declaration of war against US. They have proxies
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now across the Middle East. Has Ballah weakened but still alive,
Hamas badly weakened, but still alive. They also have Shia
proxies in Iraq and Syria, and they have the Huthis
in Yemen. Our forces now are on very high alert,
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fearing now a terrorist attack on our basis and on
US military personnel.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And the big one.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And this to me is what is most unforgivable about
Joe Biden. This is why I cursed that man even
to this day. While Trump was at the g seventh summit, okay,
last week, he got a message through an intermediary This
is from the Iranians themselves, that they had penetrated Biden's
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open border. They said, we want Trump to know this
and that we have sleeper cells in the United States
Hezballah Iranian terrorist sleeper cells, and that we are now
ready to activate them and they will commit acts of terror.
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Americans will be slaughtered on American soil. Okay, lines are
absolutely jammed. Text line is on fire. I'm getting a
ton of emails already. I want to ask all of
you clearly now, this is one of the most critical
momentous decisions in Trump's presidency. Frankly, maybe in the history
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of the world we shall see. And so my question
to you, and it is now the ultimate question. Did
Trump do the right thing in getting us involved in
a war or at least an attack on Iran? Did
Trump do the right thing to bomb Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities,
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or in other words, did he remove the grave Iranian.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Nuclear threat.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
At least for the next couple of years and finally
do what no other president has been able to do.
Or has he now slowly roped us in to another
war in the Middle East, the very thing he vowed
he would never do. That is now the question agree, disagree?
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Did Trump do the right thing? Six one seven two
six six sixty eight sixty eight. Mark in Medford, you're
gonna kick us off. Mark, the honor is yours.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Thank you, Jeff, Thank you, Jeff, and happy good morning
Monday to you. But not so good in Iran. But
I'm leaning towards yes, Jeff. I think Trump did the
right thing.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I mean, Iran had ample upon ample opportunities to make
peace in the Middle East, to make peace with Israel,
to make peace with the United States. Well, it is
now clear, Jeff that they want no part of any
peace whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
So I believe Trump did do the right thing. For
forty plus years, Jeff, we've been listening to debt to America,
debt to Israel, debt to the Americans, and debt to
the Jews. Well, when you do that, Jeff, you can't
have a nuclear bomb. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Do you fear that if Iran retaliates, and we've already
said that if they do, we're going to hit them
back even harder and harder and harder. Do you fear
that we could be getting sucked into another war? Is
Do you have any fear of that whatsoever, or do
you think, like many, this is all bluff on the Iranians.
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They're up against two militarily much superior powers, the United
States and Israel. Their military has been completely and utterly neutered.
It's been smashed for all intents and purposes. And that
Iran right now is just like a barking dog. That's
all they can do is bark and bark and bark.
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It's all talk, no action.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
What say you, Well, you never can't trust what the
Iranians say, Jeff, You really can't. But if they do
decide to retaliate, then it's obvious they have a death
wish for the Mullahs, for the regime and basically for
the for the citizens of Iran, which is not right
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because most of them don't like the regime, Jeff. But
I think if it does happen, Jeff, I think it
would be quick and painless. That's my opinion.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Interesting, interesting, Mark, thank you very much for that call.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Mark says, on the whole he thinks Trump did the
right thing. Look, this is a death to America regime
and they've been doing it for forty five years. And look,
I thought Trump delivered a really strong speech Saturday night
when he addressed the country, this is a regime that
has killed literally thousands of Americans. We forget this now.
(22:40):
And Trump mentioned all of those IEDs that they deployed,
that they the Uranian scientists gave to their Shia proxy
in Iraq, and how many American troops they maimed and
murdered and killed in nineteen eighty three, the attack on
the barracks in Beirut, in which they can over two
hundred and forty American Marines, never mind the hostages that
(23:04):
they took. So the point being, they have killed Americans
for thousands, sorry, thousands of Americans. This is a regime
with American blood on his hands. So can you really
allow them to have a nuclear bomb, especially when they
vowed to use it to wipe Israel off the face
(23:25):
of the earth. By the way, no other country does
that saying yeah, we get the bomb, we're gonna use it.
We're gonna wipe the Jews off the face of the earth.
So Trump decided they were too close to the possibility
of a bomb. Israel had softened up a lot of targets,
and Trump basically said, okay, they clearly don't want peace.
(23:47):
They'd rather have war than give up the bomb. That
was ultimately Trump's conclusion. They prefer the bomb to peace,
and Trump said, I've told them a million times, you're
not getting the bomb, and kaboom, he let him have it.
(24:07):
Saturday Night six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. Dave in Hyde Park, Thanks for holding, Dave,
and welcome.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Hi, I'm very good. How are you, Dave.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It's a beautiful day, Jeff. The sun's out, the sky's blue.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, it's also a heat wave, Dave. But I don't
know how you can stand it out there. But let
that go, Dave.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Bro Jeff, it's hard to have nice ac in the
Small Pipe podcast that gives you a nice icy weather.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Dave. What do you think of Trump's decision? You like it?
Not like it?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Jeff? I think he did the right thing. Okay, now
just just excuse me. Just after that, I heard it
on What Happened, Jeff. I heard another report just after
that saying that the Iranians had taken everything out of
the mountain and the caves and everything. They're saying that
there was nothing in the mountains that when they bombed
(25:13):
it and everything was already had taken was removed. That
also came on yesterday. So now that's another story in
itself because that came out just after the initial report
that we already bombed them. But Jeff, I do agree
that there's going to be a lot of sleeper cellths
waking up and there's going to be retaliation, Jeff, and
(25:37):
I also believe, Jeff, there's going to be a heavy,
heavy retaliation on Israel and if they destroy Israel, Jeff,
according to revelation, it's going to come right down to
the very end where the guys are going to literally
open up and God's going to take over if this happens,
(25:58):
because you know, they want to destroy all the Israelis
and all the Jewish people, Jeff, because basically they know
God came from Israel at Jesus walk the earth, and
that's what they were afraid of, Jeff. In the old
man that they're talking about, who's going to come down
from this guy that's not gonna be Jesus, Jeff, that's
going to be the devil if anything ever happens like that,
(26:20):
and that's will be there.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You see you're dealing you nail that, you're dealing with
religious fanatics. You know, the Molahs in Tehran. They're literally
they're religious fanatics. And you're right, they want to do
everything in their powers to wipe Israel off the face
of the earth. And so the thing is, though Israel
is it's got such air supremacy. Now they are hitting
(26:44):
Iran at will, They're hitting the Iranian regime at will.
So I don't see how Now my only fear is this,
and it's just a fear. It's clear they did keep
a lot of their nuclear enrichment. The capacity is gone, okay,
their program is gone, but they had trucks there for days,
(27:07):
and they did pull out a lot of their enrichment material,
their enrichment ficile material. So they've kept a lot of that.
Now do they have the sophistication to make a small
nuclear device. I don't know. I don't know. The Israelis
are monitoring our security. Our intelligence is monitoring everybody. That's
(27:29):
what I mean, everybody. Can they put together a suitcase bomb?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
We're gonna have to find out. That's why I told Mike. Look,
there's no question from a military standpoint, it was a
brilliant operation. The only question now is to me, it's
almost like time will judge another couple weeks and we
will know definitively whether Trump broke them or has this
(27:57):
led to an escalation and a widening of the war?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Okay, very very quick.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
This was President Trump Saturday night, clearly one of the
most momentous, important, critical decisions, not just of his entire presidency,
but in many ways of the history of the world
as we speak. Listen now to Trump saying Iran's nuclear
(28:25):
program is no more roll cut one mike.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
A short time ago, the US military carried out massive
precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the
Iranian regime Fordeaux, Natance, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names
for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our
(28:58):
objective was the destruction of as nuclear enrichment capacity and
a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's
number one state sponsor of terror.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
And on that there's no question he did it. He
did it. Other presidents talked about it. He did it.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity has been obliterated. The nuclear threat,
at least for the next couple of years in terms
of their weapons program. Okay, again, we don't know what
they've managed to save or maybe put together for a
little dirty or suitcase bomb. I hope not. I'm praying not.
(29:40):
But you always have to be careful. I mean, this
is a very dangerous regime. But they have now they
have obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program. And this is the
world's number one it's a terrorist state. It's the world's
number one state sponsor of terror. So the most dangerous
(30:01):
regime on Earth has now been denied the most dangerous
weapon on Earth. I think that is now no question.
Listen now to Trump, though he then says, I may
be coming back. This thing may not be over. There
(30:22):
may be more strikes and more bombings. The ball is
now in the Mulla's court roll cut one a Mike.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes
were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear and Richmond
facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Around the bully
of the Middle East must now make peace. If they
do not, future attacks would be far greater and a
(30:55):
lot easier.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So do you catch that if they don't make peace,
in other words, if they don't come to the table
and sign a deal that permanently ends their nuclear program
and their ballistic missile program, he's saying more attacks are coming,
and even bigger attacks. So he's leaving the door open
(31:18):
for possibility and open ended campaign against the Iranians. Now
listening very this is Trump. The argument that he makes
is not just a nuclear argument, or we can't. We
have to end the regime's ability to get a bomb permanently.
But he's also saying part of this was retribution. Part
(31:42):
of this was justice for everything the Mullas had done
to us for the last forty six years roll cut
to Mike.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
For forty years, Iran has been saying death to America,
death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
That was their specialty.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands
throughout the Middle East and around the world have died
as a direct result of their hate. In particular, so
many were killed by their general Cassem Solomoni. I decided
a long time ago that I would not let this happen.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
It will not continue.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netan Yahoo.
We worked as a team like perhaps no team has
ever worked before, and we've gone a long way to
erasing this horrible threat to Israel.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So Trump makes it very clear, they killed many Americans,
they killed many others around the region and around the world.
This is a death to America regime. And now he
just dealt them a devastation body blow. Now let me
play one more cut that I want to go back
to the phone lines. I want to play this second
(33:06):
cut because Trump, at this point in the speech goes
even further where he's now saying no, you know, in
other words, this is not a one and done, or
it could be a one and done if the Iranians
bow to our demands and come to the peace table.
But if they don't, he goes, mark my words, more
(33:30):
attacks are coming, more bombing is coming.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
We are not going to stop. It's either the.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Moranians have a choice peace or tragedy. And what he
means by tragedy is more bombings like the ones we
did on Fourdeaux Natons and Isfahan Roll cut three, Mike.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
With all of that being said, this cannot continue.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
There will be either peace or there will be tragedy
for Iran, far greater than we have witnessed over the
last eight days.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Remember, there are many targets left.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
The Night's was the most difficult of them all by far,
and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not
come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision,
speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out
in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
So this, this is the fear that many people within
his team and many leading MAGA thinkers and influencers have,
Which is, has Trump inadvertently now stumbled into or been
pulled into another major war in the Middle East? And
(34:54):
remember he campaigned on getting us out of endless wars.
So we shall We'll see again. Everything depends on Iran's response. Now,
let me make one final point and then I want
to go right back to the blazing phone lines. To me,
I think what is now clear is that, and it's
been this for a while. We're in the midst of
(35:16):
a larger war, World War III, and you've seen it
now with blocks developing, and you have the China, Russia, Iran,
North Korea block, and I would even throw in South
Africa now and these countries have formed a military alliance,
(35:37):
and what this strike is on Iran is in many
ways simply a battle in part of a larger war
between ourselves and the You and the China, Russia, Iran,
and North Korea. I think there's no question. There's no
(35:59):
question we've been fighting a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
We have been fighting proxy wars against Iran going back
forty years. China now has become Iran's biggest backer, and
we are now fighting proxy wars against China as well.
(36:20):
So the question now is what will tine Ultimately? I
don't even think it's the Mullas that are going to decide.
I think ultimately now the decision is going to be
made in the Kremlin, but especially in Beijing. Are they
willing to give Iran a nuclear weapon? Are they willing
to send in weapons to the Mullas? Are they willing
(36:43):
to help the Mullas escalate and expand this war? That
those are all unknowns at this point. Now Trump doesn't
want this to happen. Trump is calling Putin, he's calling
j He's telling back off. You don't want to you
don't want this to go where this thing can go.
(37:05):
We just don't want the Mullis to get a bomb.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
So rain in your junkyard dog the Mulla's and everything
will be fine. The question is will the Russians and
Chinese play ball? And I know I've said it before,
but I've got to say it again. Damn Joe Biden.
That's all I can say, Damn Joe Biden, because the
(37:30):
greatest threat that we face and the homeland are these
terrorist cells that now the Mullus could activate. And I
want to be crystal clear on this again. I said
it in my opening monologue. I want to say it again.
Iran sent messages to Trump at the g seventh Summit
(37:54):
under Biden's open border. They said it, we penetrate your
country with terrorists and terrorist cells.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
We're in, We're in, and we're telling.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
You that if you attack us at our time of
choosing and place of choosing, we are going to activate
these terrorist cells and you are going to see dead
Americans on American soil. Now leave aside what the Iranians
are planning to do for a second. How dare Joe
(38:31):
Biden leave that border open? Look what he's done to us.
He's literally putting our lives at stake, because that's son
of a you know what I want to call them,
that sob decided to fanatically keep that border open. And
(38:52):
now you have the same idiot Democrats and the same
leftist Oh, this could be leading to terrorists, to Turks
on American soil, Trumps getting.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Us involved in a war with Iran. That's going to
lead Americans being killed here at home. Yeah, who let
them in? Your guy, let him in, your guy, let
him in now. Just so that you know, Trump is
obviously aware of this.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
FBI Director Cash Pattel, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, the CIA,
John Ratcliffe, and Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, have all
come out and said that they are increasing surveillance of
Iranian terrorist cells and terrorist groups, not just in the
(39:39):
Middle East, which is where Ratcliffe is focused on, but
here at home. The FBI is monitoring many groups and
certain members that they believe could launch terrorist attacks domestically
in the United States. But my god, how could he
(40:01):
do this to us? Six one seven, two sixty six,
sixty eight, sixty eight is the number. And it was Obama.
I'm telling you it was Obama. He was the one
that ran Biden's third term. He was the one, remember,
(40:21):
going all the way back to Obama's presidency, he was
the one that gave the Iranians billions of dollars in cash.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Who nuked him up? He did.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Who gave them the ability and the financial capacity to
build these bombs or get this nuclear weapons program?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
He did. Who gave him the ability to fund and
arm their proxies all around the Middle East? He did.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Who was the one that pushed Biden to open up
the border, knowing that these Hezballah and other Islamic jihad
and other terrorist cells aligned to a law aligned to
Iran would pour into our country.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
He did. He did.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
And so, as I said last night on x what
went up in smoke Saturday night was not just the
dream of the Ayatolas to obtain a nuclear bomb. What
also went up in smoke was President Obama's, the their
(41:29):
letters dream of giving Iran the path to the nuclear bomb,
of giving radical Islam the bomb, because, as he said
in his own autobiography.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Dreams of My Father, his father.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Wanted to bring America down, and Obama said it was
good for the United States to be knocked down.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
As he put it a peger too.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
He wanted our mortal enemies to be able to defeat
and challenge the United States, especially Islam and especially the
Mullahs in Tehran. You know what else Trump has done.
He literally has overturned Obama's presidency. Obama's dream is now finished,
(42:26):
just like the Ayatola's dream of a nuclear bomb is finished.
Trump just defeated Obama six one seven two six six
sixty eight sixty eight. Agreed, disagree, Betty in Quinsy. Thanks
for holding Betty, and welcome.
Speaker 8 (42:48):
How's it going good?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
How are you, Betty?
Speaker 8 (42:52):
Good? So much to talk about? Well, Jeff, I just
want to bring a little positivity to the situation. I
think we should all look on.
Speaker 9 (43:00):
The bright side and there is a silver lining here
that thank God that Trump is our president and that
Biden is not. I mean, this was inevitable, and you know,
I support Trump and the bombings one thousand percent. I mean,
if he didn't take this action, this opportunity would always
be looking over our shoulders and over our back. I mean,
(43:22):
we know that no president priet and probably no president
in the.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
Future is going to have the balls of the backbone
to take this action. You know, so it was something
that needed to be done. And as General Jack Keane
said last night, he got so emotional and terry eyed,
and he said, this is for the last forty years.
And you know that gave the retribution for all the
(43:48):
men and women who came back maimed and who lost
their lives, you know. And I have to say for
the squad and AOC, they were all lining and stuff.
You know what, Jeff, this reminds me of like the parents,
you know, in line trying to order food and it's
like they're trying to teach their kid a lesson. They
want them to make choices, and it's like, okay, Joey,
(44:09):
do you want the pickles? You don't want the pickles,
And there's twenty people in line. There was no reason
for Trump to ask these people for their opinion. I mean,
he's the parents, they're the kids. This would have been
leaked in like three seconds. I mean, there's a time
and a place. But I think this is just unbelievable.
It's the right decision. Everybody knows that Trump is not
(44:32):
a president of war, but you know what, he can
stand up and make the decisions. We can't be mushy here.
He's making the decisive decisions, and this was just poetry
in motion, and you could see the military. It's like,
you can't be listening to the peanut gallery. This is
one thousand percent correct, and I'm excited to see where
(44:53):
this is going to go. I think we should be
looking on the right side here.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Well, you know, Betty, I gotta say to me, there
are many many silver linings. There's no question. One of
them is the brilliance of our military. And I think
the signal that had sent to the world, and I
think it's no accident. I've been watching these briefings by
the military, for example, like the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
Dan Kin, who Trump really praised, saying, if you want
(45:21):
to know the truth, he was the architect of this
bombing campaign, this plan, and he said it was masterful,
absolutely masterful. That General Kin is just I'm really a
a brilliant military strategist. And so General Kin came out
and gave his briefing and he was really blow by
blow by blow by blow, and part of it is
(45:44):
I'm looking at this, I'm like, you really, should you
really be telling everybody this much detail? But then it's
obvious the reason why he's saying so much detail. He's
not just talking to us, He's talking to Putin, He's
talking to Gee, He's talked to the leaders all over
the world. Look how good and disciplined and professional and
(46:08):
almost really super level are our military is. Look what
we can do. And the Iranians had.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
No clue, no clue. And we can project power all
over the world. We can hit.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Anybody by air, by land, by sea, you name it.
In other words, don't mess with the USA. So I
think there's a lot of silver linings. There's no question.
And look, Trump bent over backwards. I don't know how
many ways and how many times he gave them an
(46:49):
exit ramp and the Mullas wouldn't take it. So you know,
you keep chanting death to America.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
Death.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
They're like a bully. And now they really got punched
in the face. I mean really got punched in the face.
And they don't like it. Well, too bad, stop bullying everybody.
You know, the whole region hates them. Notice again, the
only people that are taking to the streets to defend
(47:19):
Iran and the Mullahs, I swear to you, are the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
And the left. If you'll notice.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Saudi Arabia is quiet, Syria is quiet, Lebanon is quiet,
Turkey is quiet. All these countries in the Middle East
are quiet. The Muslims are going on the streets saying
death to America. How dare you attack Iran? No. In
New York as an example, last night, thousands of protesters
(47:48):
anti Trump, pro Iran protesters, they're waiving the Iranian flag,
took to the streets to protest what Trump did. AOC
is now calling for Trump's impeachment. You have other Democrats
now saying we're going to impeach. Outside of Fetterman, I
(48:11):
think every single Democrat has condemned the attack by Trump,
and now they're complaining.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
He didn't give us any heads up.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Well, why you think if he gave Schumer a heads up,
or if he gave Hakim Jeffries a heads up, that
they wouldn't have run to the New York Times or
the Washington Post and this thing would have been leaked
as our planes were still in the sky approaching Iran.
One of the reasons why it was so stunningly successful
(48:45):
was because he didn't tell those idiot Democrats. Finally, a
military operation where people kept their mouth shut and I
think that's why it was such a spectacular success. So honestly,
if I was advising Trump and he says, well, you know,
usually in America, you know, you give the Senate majority
(49:07):
leader a heads up, the Senate minority leader, the House Speaker,
the House minority leader. In other words, you know, two Republicans,
two Democrats, the most powerful in Congress.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
You let them.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
You give them, you know, at least a heads up
to what's happening. I'd be are you crazy? This thing
would be on the front page of the New York
Times and the Washington Post. Our planes wouldn't even be
hitting Europe, never mind iron Yet, tell him nothing, because
their job is to sabotage you and sabotage this country.
(49:41):
And by the way, when Biden or Obama bombed, they
never gave a heads up. They never gave a heads up.
So it's okay for them not to give a heads up.
But we got to give a heads up to these traders.
I don't think so, No, I don't think so. Six
one seven. Thank you for that call, Betty. Two six
(50:01):
six sixty eight sixty eight is the number Bob in Plymouth.
Thanks for holding Bob and welcome.
Speaker 10 (50:10):
Hey Jeff, you just covered everything that I was going
to talk about. Was it will always wacko Democrats. Did
you see Bernie Sanders the night he got that note
about the bombing, he would, oh.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Bob, please hang on. I want to come right back
to you, okay uh, Because the reaction among Democrats
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