Nick Berg, Iranian-American author of a debut novel 'Shadows of Tehran,' joins Ryan to discuss President Trump's ongoing negotiations with the Islamist government of Iran on their nuclear energy program.
https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Tehran-Conflict-Iranian-American/dp/B0DMHKHY6L
Shadows of Tehran, is inspired by his extraordinary real-life story of rebellion, immigration, and military service.With U.S.–Iran relations once again in the headlines—from nuclear negotiations to proxy conflicts in the Middle East—Nick offers a rare and timely perspective. He grew up in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution, actively opposed the regime, fled the country under threat of execution, and later served in U.S. Special Operations.
Topics include:
-The geopolitical stakes of current U.S.-Iran negotiations and regional instability
-Why the Iranian regime continues to exert such control—and how it could change
-Firsthand experience growing up in a theocratic state and resisting authoritarianism
-The intersection of identity, loyalty, and national service as an Iranian-American
-Veteran mental health and the psychological aftermath of conflict
His novel, Shadows of Tehran, is a gripping autofiction that weaves together history, rebellion, and resilience—and serves as a powerful lens through which to view today’s headlines.
Shawn Farash, host of the 'Ungoverned' podcast, joins Ryan as 'President Trump' to discuss the escalating fiery anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and the feud and rift erupting between Elon Musk and the 47th President over the 'Big, Beautiful Bill.'
https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Tehran-Conflict-Iranian-American/dp/B0DMHKHY6L
Shadows of Tehran, is inspired by his extraordinary real-life story of rebellion, immigration, and military service.With U.S.–Iran relations once again in the headlines—from nuclear negotiations to proxy conflicts in the Middle East—Nick offers a rare and timely perspective. He grew up in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution, actively opposed the regime, fled the country under threat of execution, and later served in U.S. Special Operations.
Topics include:
-The geopolitical stakes of current U.S.-Iran negotiations and regional instability
-Why the Iranian regime continues to exert such control—and how it could change
-Firsthand experience growing up in a theocratic state and resisting authoritarianism
-The intersection of identity, loyalty, and national service as an Iranian-American
-Veteran mental health and the psychological aftermath of conflict
His novel, Shadows of Tehran, is a gripping autofiction that weaves together history, rebellion, and resilience—and serves as a powerful lens through which to view today’s headlines.
Shawn Farash, host of the 'Ungoverned' podcast, joins Ryan as 'President Trump' to discuss the escalating fiery anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and the feud and rift erupting between Elon Musk and the 47th President over the 'Big, Beautiful Bill.'
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, if we just take a look at the
baseline numbers here, this is Trump's net approval rating on immigration.
It's gone up like a rocket compared now versus eight
years ago. During Trump's first term, look at this, and
his first term, Trump was way way way on the
water at minus twenty one points. But look at this,
He's up over twenty points now. In the aggregate, he
is in positive territory at plus one point on his
(00:22):
net approval rating. Some other polls even have it a
little bit higher than that.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
There is no issue.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
On which Trump is doing so much better than he
was in his first term more than the issue of immigration.
No wonder The Times has written up the way that
he is. Trump is begging for a fight on this
because he knows what he's doing so far is working
with the American electorate.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Allow me to use a poker analogy to reinforce what
Harry Enter and CNN just said. And he's great. I
love Harry. He's very entertaining, and he's chooses straight. And
there's a lot of people on the left that don't
like him. Because when there's good news for Trump, he's
pretty enthusiastic about delivering it. But This is like a
Trump administration knows it's got the nuts on a hand,
and I'm talking, we're not waiting for the turn or
(01:05):
the river needing a certain card. This is President Trump
and his administration, Tom Holman, christinom all of them, Pam Bondi,
John Fabricatory, knowing that with the American people, they have
the winning hand. They have it locked up. There's no
beating their hand. So they're all in. Donald Trump is
(01:28):
all in on this hand of deporting illegal aliens. And
the key detail where I have to buyfur kate from
my good friend Dan kaplis is it doesn't matter whether
they've been here for twelve years and haven't committed any
other crimes. If you are here illegally, that in and
of itself, by polling of the American people, is reason
(01:52):
enough for mass deportations. Not that they would be at
the head of the line. The priority will be criminal
illegal aliens who have committed other crimes, especially violent ones.
And I understand the kind of layers to the onion
here that Tom Holman is examining, But for instance, the
fifteen year old who plowed into the twenty four year
(02:12):
old American, the criminal illegal alien who stole his mother's
car in Aurora that was soft pedaled by Amy Padden,
the eighteenth district attorney in a Rapahole County. Yeah, your
mark for deportation. Your whole family's marked for deportation. Gt
to the FO Also Mohammed Soloman, this maniac who was
given a driver's license in the state of Colorado but
(02:34):
was never an American citizen. He drove for uber eats,
was not here legally. Through molotov cocktails and firebarm bound
elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors in Boulder, you are marked for deportation,
so is your entire family. Got to keep families together.
We don't want to separate families. That's what the left
(02:56):
told us. Okay, by forgive me. Have no empathy, no
sympathy none. You rolled the dice, you lost. And not
only that, these are two horrific crimes that were committed,
one of complete recklessness and negligence the car the vehicular
homicide by the fifteen year old illegal alien. Get out
(03:19):
what the phil wiser about the family of the firebombers, saying, well,
they might have a case for asylum. They might not. Nope, no,
they don't anymore, they have none. You lose. Good day, sir,
get out. I know I'm not the only one, because
Harrietton just said so. A majority of Americans share the
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viewpoint that most of you in this audience, and I
know I have it, and I believe Kelly does too.
No quarter, no daylight. You're here illegally, you gotta go.
Why Why why am I so cruel? Why am I
so uncaring? Thoughtless, callous? Because by very definition, if they
(04:01):
are here illegally, they have not been vetted. We don't
know where they came from. We don't know why they're here.
We don't know their criminal background or history. They haven't
been cleared for asylum. And if they're awaiting a hearing,
the Biden administration just let them in. Willy nilly, go
wherever you want, wander around the country. No, the Trump
administration is reinstituted, they'll remain in Mexico policy hold them
(04:24):
at the border. Is they await an asylum claim, it
might take a while, It might take a damn long time,
And that's too bad. But that's the way it is.
You don't get to skip the line. You don't have
a right to be here. You're not special. Everybody's got
a sob story. There are people who came here legally
that went through a lot of tough times to do that.
(04:45):
They should be punished. Those who cheat should be rewarded.
How about no, how about not at all? How about
zero tolerance for that? And now we're seeing it play
out in Los Angeles in the form of these protesters.
Now to the degree the they're authentic, that's debatable. The
fire bombing of cars, the throwing of rocks at LAPD,
(05:07):
the waving of Mexican flags, the burning of American ones.
If you love Mexico so much and you're waving that flag,
you clearly don't want to be here. We're terrible the
United States, So we're a fascist country. Now we'll go ahead,
will kindly kindly take you to the border and let
you go through those swinging gate. You ever been to
(05:28):
San Diego slash Tijuana going into Mexico. It's a joke
going into Mexico. This is what I did. I parked
at the border. I was running the Suzuki Rock and
Roll Marathon in two thousand and one July, right before
nine to eleven, I might add, so it was a
very different time in this country. But then there's this
rotating gait that you pass through, and while you're in Mexico,
(05:51):
there's nobody checking to see did you come in legally?
Do you have proper authorization? You can go into Mexico
however you want, whenever you want. Where you won. And
now that's how the Biden administration traded the American border
coming back the other way. When I came back from Tijuana,
oh Man, at least at that time. We're talking two
thousand and one July. President Bush w at the time. Yeah,
(06:14):
I had to go through some process there to prove
I was an American citizen coming back. That's how it
should be. We'll get to your tax more of them
five seven, seven, three nine. Let's do that right now,
shall we. First of all, going back to Friday. I'm
glad to see this one. Ryan, I was the winner
of Henry Cho tickets. He and Nathan Wallace were awesome. Thanks, Yeah,
(06:35):
Paramount Theater were so glad Henry was able to join us.
I hear, I'm hearing it was a great show, including
from you, and that was Paramount Theater downtown Denver, and
happy to pass those along. Glad you had a great time.
More texts here, Ryan, will paul Us let the state
capital be destroyed like he allowed in May and June
of twenty twenty. That was a summer of love. As
you recall, that was Chez Chop in Seattle. That was
(06:59):
rapes and murder and assaults happening and police free zones
they didn't want police. And then there was Portland. Then
there was the fiery but mostly peaceful protests in the background.
As an MSNBC reporter relaid that false information to us,
there was Minneapolis. There were a lot of touchstone points
along the way in the wake of the George Floyd death.
(07:22):
Alexa text Ryan, wouldn't be ironic? Are you going to?
Alanis Mori said on me. There's more of that to
come this week. Stay tuned. Wouldn't it be ironic if
sixteenth Street was burned down after the three four or
five years they've worked on it to be reopened just
a few weeks ago. Yeah, I was just passing through
there with Valdemar Chorletta. We went to the Rockies Mets
(07:44):
game on Sunday. It was a great time and not
for the Rockies. It was bad thirteen to five. They
lost again. They got swept by the Met's no surprise.
But I was of the opinion this sixteenth Street, mall
you shorten that to sixteenth Street? Why not get real
clever and brevity is the soul of wit, and just
call it sixteenth Because as Valdemar and I drove from
sixteenth Street, as the sign said it just the next
(08:06):
street said fifteenth. That's it. Just break it on down sixteenth,
that's all. What is? Oh, it's sixteenth? Got it? You
gotta know you create some level of mystery and discovery
and adventure, but there's a little too adventurous for many
of us because you might get stabbed. It. It's a
very stabby on sixteenth Street these days. You gotta be careful.
(08:26):
Gott to keep your hat on a swivel. LA wants
to be a sanctuary city and operate outside the rules
of the federal government and law enforcement. They can stop
sending any aid and any support in any federal funding
to the State of California. Brilliant, hard, stop choke the
state off, cut off this cancer before it grows. This
amazing tax. And I'll tell you who agrees with you.
(08:47):
That's Victor Davis Hanson and I've got a remarkable post.
I won't have time to read it all because it's
it's a pretty long dissertation, almost on that platform of
X and he goes into how Gavin Newsom is doing
his best Jefferson Davis impersonation. That's not a compliment, by
the way. Yeah, Kelly reacted to that one. Here's another
great text, Ryan. Can you imagine going to Spain or
(09:09):
Finland or Mexico illegally lighting things on fire and assaulting
their police officers and have the support of their leaders
against their own authorities. I like Kelly and from sokel
went to usc during the riots, and now I hear
people here in Boulder planning the same stuff. I don't
know what news they listen to, but they literally think
there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And Trump is a horrible guy trying to stop nothing.
Crazy upside down world. So sad. Yes, there is a
tremendous amount to are the left's term of misinformation about
what's actually going on and what's being planned. So brace yourselves,
as Kelly is doing and answering the phone there for
our next guest. But the so called mostly peace fiery
(09:53):
but mostly peaceful protests by reports I'm seeing some scuttle
butt that they're coming to color Springs, they're coming to Aurora,
and they're coming to Denver as soon as today but
definitely tomorrow. And we're going to keep tabs on that
your text at five seven, seven thirty nine. As I mentioned,
I believe Kelly, we'll keep going with this. Remember now
(10:18):
I'm running my own board here. It is a circus act,
Kelly alongside Steven Litlson, retired law enforcement officer, says, and
then to no one's surprise, there are the Colorado den
legislators supporting the anarchy. Yeah, you know, par for the course, right, Steve,
If you've seen some of these posts on social media,
if you wouldn't mind sending me some of those links,
(10:40):
I'll copy and paste them from our text line and
take a look at those. But you know it here,
I hate to give, you know, tips to the Democratic
Party to help them, but if there was a I
don't know, Josh Shapiro, somebody that is trying to pretend
at least to be a moderate Democrat these days, come
out and condemn the violence in California, yea, I'm telling
(11:01):
you that would give that Democrat a foothold with the
median American voter, with the undecided, independent moderates who are
swing voters. They are losing on this issue. It is
such a loser. Harry Enton is trying to warm them.
They're not listening, but listen to more of this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Where does immigration rank on issues for him?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
How is he doing compaired to others?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So I think what's so important is it is his
top issue so far. And the reason it is his
top issue is because take a look at the individual
nuggets in here. Why are people approving of Trump on immigration?
Approof of these different immigration actions. Well, Trump's administration's program.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
To deport those here illegally.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Look at this fifty four percent approval. How about agents
searching your hometown for those that.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
They think are here illegally. Again, positive territory.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Here above fifty percent for Donald Trump. So it's not
just on the broad issue of immigration where Trump is
doing well. It's on the specifics when you dive into
the issues, Trump is above fifty percent in hiss are
above fifty percent at least with those most directly connected
to what's going on right now.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Out in Los Angeles, and those numbers have not wavered.
In fact, in light of what's going on in Los Angeles,
you can only imagine that those numbers for President Trump
and for his administration are going to improve because people
are going to watch what's going on. And I don't
want that. I don't want that in my country. I
might not even be a Republican, but I want it
to end. And I know that Gavin Newsom and Karen
(12:26):
Bass are powerless to stop it. Nobody respects them their authority.
They wanted to have control of the situation. They lost
controller of this situation. And Trump has every right plenary power.
Listen to Michael Brown on this issue. He's a constitutional scholar.
The president of the United States, the executive branch, has
every right to send in federal troops where there is
chaos and disarray to this level where the safety of
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American citizens is at hand. It happened in nineteen sixty
eight and throughout many of those riots. It happened at
the convention in Chicago where the National Guard were sent
in that year. Don't take my word for it, look
it up. Our next guest is the author of the
book you can find on Amazon right now entitled Shadows
(13:08):
of Tehran Forged in conflict from Iranian rebel to American soldier.
It is fiction, but it is based in a world
of reality that our next guest endured himself, Nick Berg.
He is of Iranian descent. We'll talk to him more
about that right now. But again you can find his
book Shadows of Tehran on Amazon or at your favorite bookstore.
Here in Ryan Schuling Live, Nick, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Thank you, Ryan, I appreciate it. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
This is an issue that is near and dear to
your heart, and that is the ongoing negotiations the relationship
between President Trump and Iran tenuous as it is. But
take us through the inspiration behind this book. What led
you to write it and why it was important to you?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Well, the book, the book is about what happened after
the revolution in Iran. So I grew up in Iran,
I grew up during the revolution, they run in Iraq
war and being becoming a rebel after the Islamic Revolution,
working against the Islamic Revolution in Iran because all the
freedoms were taken away from everybody, specifically around women and
(14:15):
forcing of the Islamic religion on everybody and the wordish
area law and all of that stuff, and that country
kind of excuse my expression, went to help and so
working against that government. Coming out of Iran, I was
a US citizen coming out of Iran because my dad
(14:36):
was an American. I was born on a naval base
in Iran at the time before the revolution, but my
dad was coming back from Vietnam, so I was an
American citizen. I made my way back to the US,
and after landing in the US, I joined the US
Army because I wanted to protect the same freedom, these
freedoms that we have in this country. And so eleven
(15:00):
years later I was forced to get out of the
Army because of injuries and things like that. I couldn't
be on the team, in a special precious team anymore.
So I decided to pursue a civilian life at that time.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, thank you for your service, Nick, appreciate your time,
and he's joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live, author
of Shadows of Tehran. I have so many questions, Nick,
but I'll try to distill them what this reminds me
of as we go back to the time of the Shah,
before the nineteen seventy nine revolution that you cite and
the radical Muslim extremists that would take over power and
as you mentioned, subjugate so many women. But that there
(15:34):
isn't an There's not a perfect answer. But I have
many supporters of the Shaws he is in exile right now,
Raza Polavi, who want to reinstatee and reinstitute that monarchy.
And it reminds me a lot. I'm of Serbian descent
of my grandfather who was a monarchist with the Chetnik
Army at the time that was fighting on two different
fronts against the Nazis and against the communists. Is it
(15:56):
your opinion, and I don't want to put words in
your mouth that Iran would be better by reinstalling the Shah.
Is there a different form of government that could take hold?
Are the people of Iran reaching a breaking point where
they might be willing to spark another revolution here in
twenty twenty five, So.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
At that point, Ryan, I think they are ready for
a change, They are ready to spark another revolution. Right now,
the truck drivers of Iran are protesting and they are
on strike, and there's at every level in Iran life
is really miserable, and I think that was really shown
by when President Trump went to Middle East, and that
(16:35):
his tour of the Middle East. In contrast of all
the other Persian Gulf countries like UAE and all of
these places with these big, beautiful buildings and the modern
life compared to Iran that is barely right now. I
can provide electricity to their people, and they have a
lot of economic issues and a lot of economic problems
(16:55):
right now, so absolutely they're ready for the next revolution thing.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Really, he doesn't really want another monarchy. He wants uh,
he wants the people of Iran to decide for themselves,
but for it to be a fair, free, democratic referendum
of what the next government of Iran is going to be.
And he wants rid of the whole Islamist terrorists in
the in the world, not just in Iran, because they're
(17:23):
kind of the head of the snake right now. The Hezwolla,
the Hamas, all of these things are being sponsored by
the current Iranian government and in order we just need
to get rid of those guys and for a world
to be a better place for everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Nick Berg, our guest author of Shadows of Tehran. A
final question here, Nick, We always appreciate your time and
definitely your book, and that is the tactics that President
Trump is using. We know that he's a pragmatist and
he prefers peace. Reportedly, he stood in the way of
Israel potentially bombing the nuclear facilities run by the regime
in Iran to undercut their potential development of a nuclear weapon.
(18:03):
What do you make of President Trump's strategy here? Where
it goes from here? And can a true revolution only
come from within not be forced from without?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I would say something Ryan is that I think President
Trump is being very patient there on right now, and
they should appreciate this patience that he's showing, because I
was expecting him to go and basically overthrow that government
as soon as he came in came into his administration.
But that said, I think he's taking the right strategy.
(18:35):
He's trying to give him every opportunity to take the
peaceful route. But I don't think it's going to work.
I don't think they running government have shown over and
over again that they're really good at playing the long
game and just keep delaying tactics and pulling the over
on everybody's eye. That's what they did when they had
the job pop with the Obama administration and they fail
(18:57):
for it. I don't think President Trump is going to
felt that thing in I think he's ready to take
some action rightfully, and he needs to take that action,
which I don't think these negotiations are going to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
We'll keep an eye on it as it goes forward.
You can check out his work of Fixture, but again
it is based in a lot of reality and fact.
Shadows of Tehran, available on Amazon. He is author Nick
Berg joining us today. Nick, thank you so much as
always for your time, and we'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I appreciate Ryan, thank you for your time. All right.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Nick Berg right there and standing by mister President in quotes,
will join us after the break. His take on the
Elon Musk fallout as well as the ongoing riots in LA.
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It's time once again for another edition of Trump's hot Takes,
charting the forty seventh president's epic interactions with the fake
news media erst.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Protests forty daughter City of Chicago, New York, for example,
a news.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Is We're be watching it very closely.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
And when they spit at people, you know, they spit,
that's a new thing. Just spit head work, you know
what they throw at them, right, And when that happens,
I've already said for they say they spit, we hit
my dog. Nobody's too have spit on our police offices.
Nobody to has spit on our mil Sure, which they
(22:01):
do is a common thing. They get up to this
far away and then it's spitting in that place that happens.
They get hit very hard.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They spit, we hit, so says President Trump, and he
joins us on the line right now on Ryan Schuling line.
Mister President, thank you, as always for your time. When
they spit, we hit, tell us a little bit more
if you would.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Well, when they spit, we hit, right, you're not looking
at it with these people. You're not going to be
spitting on us. It's nothing to happen. When you have
federal officers and members of our military. They're not going
to take it right. They're not going to take it.
When they spit, we hit, and we could use other words,
but we're I'm allowed to say it because when we hit,
(22:43):
you're going to take it. You know what, We call
it a sugar honey iced tea. You can't say the
word on radio, but you look at it. These people
are really bad people. You know. They're first of all,
they're coming from other countries. They're waving other countries stupid flags.
These are stupid flags. Look at the Mexican flag. It's
a stupid plag We have a beautiful flag. They have
a stupid flag. And we're all having tacos in Casandia's
(23:07):
tonight to celebrate the deportation of all of the bad hombres.
I can tell you that you know, we got a
lot of them at it here on A lot of
people call it Cinco de Mayo. We call it sinc
On de Porto. We got them the hell out of
our country, and now we're going to get a whole
hell of a lot more of them out of our country.
When they spit, we hit. So they better not be
spitting on anybody or else they're going to get hit
(23:28):
very hard and they're not gonna like it.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Sugar honey, iced tea. I'm writing that one down, mister President.
I wanted to give you an opportunity to respond to
California Governor Gavin Newsom. There seems to be a bit
of disagreement on what happened on the phone call between
you and the governor. Here's a couple of his comments
in the aftermath of these fiery but mostly peaceful riots
(23:51):
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Where's your decency, mister president, stop for sen disorder. It's
illegal and unconstitutional, and I said it, I'll say it again.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's in more. You're creating the conditions that.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
You claim you're solving, and you're not, and you're putting
real people's lives at risk.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So some tough talk, and then he continued with this
under his executive order.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
It specifically notes and under what the DoD did is
they had to coordinate with the governor of the state.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
They never coordinate with the governor of the state.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
We talked for almost twenty minutes, and he barely this
issue never came up. I kept trying to talk about
LA You wanted to talk about all.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
These other issues. We had a very decent conversation.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
When was this This was late Friday night, about one
thirty plus his time, after the protest had started, after
the protest, and he never once brought up the National Guard.
He's a stone cald liar, he said he did, a
stone called liar, never did. It was a very civil conversation.
I've always wanted to approach engagement with the President of
the United States in a respectful.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And responsible way. But there's no working with the president.
There's only working for him. And I will never work
for Donald Trump. He will never work for you, mister president.
What is your account of the phone call that happened
Friday night?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Well, first of all, like all of my phone calls,
this was a perfect phone call. It was a beautiful
phone call. We did very nice things on the call.
You know, I get a little well with Gavin Nouscum.
Even though I call him that. He doesn't like that
I call him that, But I call him that because
you look at him. I believe, you know, people think
he puts grease in his hair. I think he puts
pond scum in his hair, otherwise known as the stick
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that comes out of Nancy Pelosi's mouth whence he's talking.
I had she had the hard time keeping her teeth
in them out. And for some reason, she, despite having
a hard time with her teeth and her eyebrows being
drawn in several different directions and places on a day
to day basis, she's one of the greatest stock traders
in the history of the world. He knows when to
buy or sell, but she can't keep a teeth in
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them out. But you look at Gavin Nooskum, he's a
stupid guy. He really is a stupid guy. I had
a perfect phone call with him. It was perfect, and
I did most of the talking. You know, every time
he tried to talk, he was stupid. So we cut
him off, We said stop. But he's had a lot
of problems. You know, every six months or so, a
portion of his state is somehow on fire. It's either
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a wildfire or arson. Now you have protesters, they call
them protesters, they're not protesters. He's a terrorist, right and
these are very bad people, and now they're lighting things
on fire. So no matter what Gavin tries to do,
something is on fire in California. The only thing that's
not on fire is is approval rating. And his approval
rating is in the toilet, which is a place that
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Crooked Joe never made two in time. You know, you
think about it in his type of the bull hooves
he made in a diaper. But you have a lot
of problems in California. We're going to fix those problems.
But he doesn't want me to fix the problems. He
wants to say he fixed them. But it's out of
control and he thinks he's going to run for president.
He's not going to go very far, not.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Much, I can tell you, mister President. Joining us here
on Ryan's Shooling Live. And you mentioned his poll numbers
not on fire, but they might represent a dumpster fire,
mister President. Here's Harry Enton CNN outlining what a problem
the Democrats have on their hands with this issue of
illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So what a voter see in terms of their perceptions
of Republicans, the president or Democrats, se Gavenusom on this issue,
the American electorate believed that the Democrats don't have a
clue on the issue of immigration. I mean, you could
just take it here closer to trust more immigration Democrats
versus Republicans.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Got three different.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Polls for you across the board. They all tell the
same story. Republicans lead on the issue of immigration. You
see it here CBS plus six, You see it here
at CNN plus six. You see it here IPSOS even
bigger plus nineteen. No matter what poll you look at,
no matter which way you cut it, the American public
is with the Republicans. The American public is with Donald Trump,
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and to a much greater extent than they were in
term number one. And it's not just on the broad
issue of immigration. It's on the specifics as well in
which the American public is with Donald Trump and the Republicans.
And that is why Donald Trump is eager to take
on this fight and eager for those scenes.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
At a Los Angeles I made the analogy that this
is like a poker. When you have the nuts, you
have the winning hand. You know you have the winning hand.
Do you feel that on this issue in particular, that
the wind is that you're back with the American people.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Well, you're talking about having the nuts. Nobody has bigger
nuts than I do. I can tell you that, right.
We have the greatest nuts the world has ever seen.
Rolding all the tors. We're holding them like nobody's ever
held them before. We have it's called an ace in
the hole, right, or beautiful things. You know, we have
a beautiful it's called pocket aces. When you're playing Texas,
hold them. We have them. It's beautiful. We're holding so
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many cards, right, like Zalinski, he's not holding any cards.
He came to the White House. He thought he was
playing cards. We shut that down. We shut that whole
thing down. But you look at you look at what's
going on. These are very bad people, and they're not
holding any cards. We're holding them all. And you look
at the polling numbers. The polling numbers are so bad.
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You know, there's so bad. Nobody wants the illegal alien
dead ombre animals in their country or they don't want
them here. Abrego Garcia is coming back because he's being charged.
But you have Senator Van Holland, who's very stupid. I
call it wasted away again in kill Margaritaville. He was
down there sipping with the gang member. The people don't
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want to do, you know, they don't want to talk
about it. The knuckles and all the things. The American
people want to get rid of. The bad MREs is
ten to twenty million of these people, and they're not
good people, and they have to get the hell out.
We have the polling, we have the data, we have
all of the people we are on They call it
eighty twenty, right, eighty twenty. This is a ninety nine
(29:40):
to one issue. Ninety of the people want the bad
armbres app including you're in Colorado, you have a problem
with I call them, they call them PBA trend de Aaragua.
They're taking over apartment complexes, doing bad things. And your
fat governor, Your governor is very fat. To say that
he's a fat guy and he needs to stop eating, right,
(30:04):
you know, he needs to be more like the Jared
from Subway and lose a little weight. He keeps getting
it whatever weight Lizzo lost, Jared Paulus fun. But there
are few sacknowledge it's a problem. It's a huge problem,
and the American people elected me to solve that problem,
and that's what we're going to do.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Mister President, appreciate your time. Just one final question. I
know that over the weekend, going into the weekend, there
was the story about the feud that had erupted between
you and Elon Musk, and you had a very unlikely
person come to your defense, and that is your former attorney,
Michael Cohen. Let's hear what he had to say. Is
there a world in which these two transactional guys Musk
and Trump figure out.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
That it's better not to be fighting and come back together,
or you think this?
Speaker 7 (30:47):
I think once Elon went so low in terms of
talking about Epstein, and if we can stay on that
topic for a quick second. Look, I have extensive knowledge
of Trump being by his side for almost a decade
in a half, right, let me dispel all of that notion.
While he knew Jeffrey Epstein, and while yes, he may
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be in the files in the form of Trump being
in the Black Book, so were hundreds and hundreds of
very nameworthy, influential individuals. I have zero knowledge of any
relationship between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. And I would have
seen it over the course, literally because you're.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You're mister president. Like you, I'm a big pro wrestling fan.
This feels like a heel turned by Elon Musk. And
suddenly Michael Cohen's a good guy? Can you straighten this
out for us?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Well, Michael Cohen is a bad guy, right, he's what
he's looking for. He looks he's looking for a pardon.
He's looking for my help. He's not going to get it.
You know, he said very nasty things in the stormy,
stormy stormy Daniel's case, right with fat.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Alvin Bragg, and I'm a fat guy.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I called him the Walrus right cool Kuka Chew. You know,
the courtroom was very called. But when Alvin Bragg walked in,
his sun desigh were rubbing against each other so much
it made us very warm. I could say that when
he walked into the courtroom, that guy, he's a big
we call him twinkies, that he has a twinkie problem.
Michael Cowan is a bad guy, but he was telling
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the truth.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
They call it the blind squirrel. Uh and he sounded
nut and uh and you look at it. So he
was doing all of that and he's right. I have
nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein and what Elon did.
Elan did something very bad. He lost his mind. He
called it. We call it cracking under pressure. He cracked
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under a lot of pressure. And it's not what you
want to see, right. He was a worse performance than
the Colorado Rockies, who can't seem to win a baseball game.
It's really horrible with their record is a band record.
You look at that, but it's you look at what's
going on. Elan lost his mind. Now he was the
pretend leg it never happened. Though it happened. He lost
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his mind. But we're gonna call it a shoo. We
don't want to keep fighting with him. He doesn't want
to keep fighting with me. He knows that I would
have won. I already did win. But Michael Cohen is
a bad guy. But he happens to be right this time.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Well, we know you have a lot on your plate
with everything that's going on in Los Angeles, mister president.
Always appreciate your time, and thank you for joining us
here today. We'll talk again down the line.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Thank you very much. You're a wonderful person. And by
the way, don't quite your dad job. Yeah, you try
to sound like me. Don't quite your dad job. You
know what, I'm in this job.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
He always gets that note in about my subpar Trump impersonation,
and he's not wrong. We think mister President joining us.
As portrayed by Sean Ferrish. You can follow him on
x at Sewan shaw N Underscore Farish fa r A
s H. He is Captain Deplorable host of the Ungoverned
podcast on LFA TV. A timeout will let Kelly recover
(33:51):
and maybe you as well. I I'm going to pee
my pants and she'll go do that right now on
out he pants. She's gonna make it to the bathroom,
unlike Joe Biden Aaron rein Shielding Live.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
So what we have as a lawless president and a
lawless administration and now finally we have a Brago Garcia
able to be in a court of law, which is
all that I have asked for from the beginning, and
we have an administration and you just heard from them.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
They said they weren't going.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
To bring him back to allow him to have due process.
They've had to do that in response to the Court's
decision and ninety zero Supreme Court decision. We don't see
those very often. So I am always glad to stand
up for people's constitutional rights, and that's what we're doing
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in this case.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So proud in this case on behalf of a human
trafficker has been alleged against Kilmar A Brago, Garcia, Debs.
Keep dying on this hill, keep going for the twenty
percent of this eighty twenty issue. As Harry Enton of
CNN showed you, the polling absolutely decimates the Dems on
this
You know, if we just take a look at the
baseline numbers here, this is Trump's net approval rating on immigration.
It's gone up like a rocket compared now versus eight
years ago. During Trump's first term, look at this, and
his first term, Trump was way way way on the
water at minus twenty one points. But look at this,
He's up over twenty points now. In the aggregate, he
is in positive territory at plus one point on his
(00:22):
net approval rating. Some other polls even have it a
little bit higher than that.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
There is no issue.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
On which Trump is doing so much better than he
was in his first term more than the issue of immigration.
No wonder The Times has written up the way that
he is. Trump is begging for a fight on this
because he knows what he's doing so far is working
with the American electorate.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Allow me to use a poker analogy to reinforce what
Harry Enter and CNN just said. And he's great. I
love Harry. He's very entertaining, and he's chooses straight. And
there's a lot of people on the left that don't
like him. Because when there's good news for Trump, he's
pretty enthusiastic about delivering it. But This is like a
Trump administration knows it's got the nuts on a hand,
and I'm talking, we're not waiting for the turn or
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the river needing a certain card. This is President Trump
and his administration, Tom Holman, christinom all of them, Pam Bondi,
John Fabricatory, knowing that with the American people, they have
the winning hand. They have it locked up. There's no
beating their hand. So they're all in. Donald Trump is
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all in on this hand of deporting illegal aliens. And
the key detail where I have to buyfur kate from
my good friend Dan kaplis is it doesn't matter whether
they've been here for twelve years and haven't committed any
other crimes. If you are here illegally, that in and
of itself, by polling of the American people, is reason
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enough for mass deportations. Not that they would be at
the head of the line. The priority will be criminal
illegal aliens who have committed other crimes, especially violent ones.
And I understand the kind of layers to the onion
here that Tom Holman is examining, But for instance, the
fifteen year old who plowed into the twenty four year
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old American, the criminal illegal alien who stole his mother's
car in Aurora that was soft pedaled by Amy Padden,
the eighteenth district attorney in a Rapahole County. Yeah, your
mark for deportation. Your whole family's marked for deportation. Gt
to the FO Also Mohammed Soloman, this maniac who was
given a driver's license in the state of Colorado but
(02:34):
was never an American citizen. He drove for uber eats,
was not here legally. Through molotov cocktails and firebarm bound
elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors in Boulder, you are marked for deportation,
so is your entire family. Got to keep families together.
We don't want to separate families. That's what the left
(02:56):
told us. Okay, by forgive me. Have no empathy, no
sympathy none. You rolled the dice, you lost. And not
only that, these are two horrific crimes that were committed,
one of complete recklessness and negligence the car the vehicular
homicide by the fifteen year old illegal alien. Get out
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what the phil wiser about the family of the firebombers, saying, well,
they might have a case for asylum. They might not. Nope, no,
they don't anymore, they have none. You lose. Good day, sir,
get out. I know I'm not the only one, because
Harrietton just said so. A majority of Americans share the
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viewpoint that most of you in this audience, and I
know I have it, and I believe Kelly does too.
No quarter, no daylight. You're here illegally, you gotta go.
Why Why why am I so cruel? Why am I
so uncaring? Thoughtless, callous? Because by very definition, if they
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are here illegally, they have not been vetted. We don't
know where they came from. We don't know why they're here.
We don't know their criminal background or history. They haven't
been cleared for asylum. And if they're awaiting a hearing,
the Biden administration just let them in. Willy nilly, go
wherever you want, wander around the country. No, the Trump
administration is reinstituted, they'll remain in Mexico policy hold them
(04:24):
at the border. Is they await an asylum claim, it
might take a while, It might take a damn long time,
And that's too bad. But that's the way it is.
You don't get to skip the line. You don't have
a right to be here. You're not special. Everybody's got
a sob story. There are people who came here legally
that went through a lot of tough times to do that.
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They should be punished. Those who cheat should be rewarded.
How about no, how about not at all? How about
zero tolerance for that? And now we're seeing it play
out in Los Angeles in the form of these protesters.
Now to the degree the they're authentic, that's debatable. The
fire bombing of cars, the throwing of rocks at LAPD,
(05:07):
the waving of Mexican flags, the burning of American ones.
If you love Mexico so much and you're waving that flag,
you clearly don't want to be here. We're terrible the
United States, So we're a fascist country. Now we'll go ahead,
will kindly kindly take you to the border and let
you go through those swinging gate. You ever been to
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San Diego slash Tijuana going into Mexico. It's a joke
going into Mexico. This is what I did. I parked
at the border. I was running the Suzuki Rock and
Roll Marathon in two thousand and one July, right before
nine to eleven, I might add, so it was a
very different time in this country. But then there's this
rotating gait that you pass through, and while you're in Mexico,
(05:51):
there's nobody checking to see did you come in legally?
Do you have proper authorization? You can go into Mexico
however you want, whenever you want. Where you won. And
now that's how the Biden administration traded the American border
coming back the other way. When I came back from Tijuana,
oh Man, at least at that time. We're talking two
thousand and one July. President Bush w at the time. Yeah,
(06:14):
I had to go through some process there to prove
I was an American citizen coming back. That's how it
should be. We'll get to your tax more of them
five seven, seven, three nine. Let's do that right now,
shall we. First of all, going back to Friday. I'm
glad to see this one. Ryan, I was the winner
of Henry Cho tickets. He and Nathan Wallace were awesome. Thanks, Yeah,
(06:35):
Paramount Theater were so glad Henry was able to join us.
I hear, I'm hearing it was a great show, including
from you, and that was Paramount Theater downtown Denver, and
happy to pass those along. Glad you had a great time.
More texts here, Ryan, will paul Us let the state
capital be destroyed like he allowed in May and June
of twenty twenty. That was a summer of love. As
you recall, that was Chez Chop in Seattle. That was
(06:59):
rapes and murder and assaults happening and police free zones
they didn't want police. And then there was Portland. Then
there was the fiery but mostly peaceful protests in the background.
As an MSNBC reporter relaid that false information to us,
there was Minneapolis. There were a lot of touchstone points
along the way in the wake of the George Floyd death.
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Alexa text Ryan, wouldn't be ironic? Are you going to?
Alanis Mori said on me. There's more of that to
come this week. Stay tuned. Wouldn't it be ironic if
sixteenth Street was burned down after the three four or
five years they've worked on it to be reopened just
a few weeks ago. Yeah, I was just passing through
there with Valdemar Chorletta. We went to the Rockies Mets
(07:44):
game on Sunday. It was a great time and not
for the Rockies. It was bad thirteen to five. They
lost again. They got swept by the Met's no surprise.
But I was of the opinion this sixteenth Street, mall
you shorten that to sixteenth Street? Why not get real
clever and brevity is the soul of wit, and just
call it sixteenth Because as Valdemar and I drove from
sixteenth Street, as the sign said it just the next
(08:06):
street said fifteenth. That's it. Just break it on down sixteenth,
that's all. What is? Oh, it's sixteenth? Got it? You
gotta know you create some level of mystery and discovery
and adventure, but there's a little too adventurous for many
of us because you might get stabbed. It. It's a
very stabby on sixteenth Street these days. You gotta be careful.
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Gott to keep your hat on a swivel. LA wants
to be a sanctuary city and operate outside the rules
of the federal government and law enforcement. They can stop
sending any aid and any support in any federal funding
to the State of California. Brilliant, hard, stop choke the
state off, cut off this cancer before it grows. This
amazing tax. And I'll tell you who agrees with you.
(08:47):
That's Victor Davis Hanson and I've got a remarkable post.
I won't have time to read it all because it's
it's a pretty long dissertation, almost on that platform of
X and he goes into how Gavin Newsom is doing
his best Jefferson Davis impersonation. That's not a compliment, by
the way. Yeah, Kelly reacted to that one. Here's another
great text, Ryan. Can you imagine going to Spain or
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Finland or Mexico illegally lighting things on fire and assaulting
their police officers and have the support of their leaders
against their own authorities. I like Kelly and from sokel
went to usc during the riots, and now I hear
people here in Boulder planning the same stuff. I don't
know what news they listen to, but they literally think
there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And Trump is a horrible guy trying to stop nothing.
Crazy upside down world. So sad. Yes, there is a
tremendous amount to are the left's term of misinformation about
what's actually going on and what's being planned. So brace yourselves,
as Kelly is doing and answering the phone there for
our next guest. But the so called mostly peace fiery
(09:53):
but mostly peaceful protests by reports I'm seeing some scuttle
butt that they're coming to color Springs, they're coming to Aurora,
and they're coming to Denver as soon as today but
definitely tomorrow. And we're going to keep tabs on that
your text at five seven, seven thirty nine. As I mentioned,
I believe Kelly, we'll keep going with this. Remember now
(10:18):
I'm running my own board here. It is a circus act,
Kelly alongside Steven Litlson, retired law enforcement officer, says, and
then to no one's surprise, there are the Colorado den
legislators supporting the anarchy. Yeah, you know, par for the course, right, Steve,
If you've seen some of these posts on social media,
if you wouldn't mind sending me some of those links,
(10:40):
I'll copy and paste them from our text line and
take a look at those. But you know it here,
I hate to give, you know, tips to the Democratic
Party to help them, but if there was a I
don't know, Josh Shapiro, somebody that is trying to pretend
at least to be a moderate Democrat these days, come
out and condemn the violence in California, yea, I'm telling
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you that would give that Democrat a foothold with the
median American voter, with the undecided, independent moderates who are
swing voters. They are losing on this issue. It is
such a loser. Harry Enton is trying to warm them.
They're not listening, but listen to more of this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Where does immigration rank on issues for him?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
How is he doing compaired to others?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So I think what's so important is it is his
top issue so far. And the reason it is his
top issue is because take a look at the individual
nuggets in here. Why are people approving of Trump on immigration?
Approof of these different immigration actions. Well, Trump's administration's program.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
To deport those here illegally.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Look at this fifty four percent approval. How about agents
searching your hometown for those that.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
They think are here illegally. Again, positive territory.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Here above fifty percent for Donald Trump. So it's not
just on the broad issue of immigration where Trump is
doing well. It's on the specifics when you dive into
the issues, Trump is above fifty percent in hiss are
above fifty percent at least with those most directly connected
to what's going on right now.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Out in Los Angeles, and those numbers have not wavered.
In fact, in light of what's going on in Los Angeles,
you can only imagine that those numbers for President Trump
and for his administration are going to improve because people
are going to watch what's going on. And I don't
want that. I don't want that in my country. I
might not even be a Republican, but I want it
to end. And I know that Gavin Newsom and Karen
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Bass are powerless to stop it. Nobody respects them their authority.
They wanted to have control of the situation. They lost
controller of this situation. And Trump has every right plenary power.
Listen to Michael Brown on this issue. He's a constitutional scholar.
The president of the United States, the executive branch, has
every right to send in federal troops where there is
chaos and disarray to this level where the safety of
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American citizens is at hand. It happened in nineteen sixty
eight and throughout many of those riots. It happened at
the convention in Chicago where the National Guard were sent
in that year. Don't take my word for it, look
it up. Our next guest is the author of the
book you can find on Amazon right now entitled Shadows
(13:08):
of Tehran Forged in conflict from Iranian rebel to American soldier.
It is fiction, but it is based in a world
of reality that our next guest endured himself, Nick Berg.
He is of Iranian descent. We'll talk to him more
about that right now. But again you can find his
book Shadows of Tehran on Amazon or at your favorite bookstore.
Here in Ryan Schuling Live, Nick, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Thank you, Ryan, I appreciate it. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
This is an issue that is near and dear to
your heart, and that is the ongoing negotiations the relationship
between President Trump and Iran tenuous as it is. But
take us through the inspiration behind this book. What led
you to write it and why it was important to you?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Well, the book, the book is about what happened after
the revolution in Iran. So I grew up in Iran,
I grew up during the revolution, they run in Iraq
war and being becoming a rebel after the Islamic Revolution,
working against the Islamic Revolution in Iran because all the
freedoms were taken away from everybody, specifically around women and
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forcing of the Islamic religion on everybody and the wordish
area law and all of that stuff, and that country
kind of excuse my expression, went to help and so
working against that government. Coming out of Iran, I was
a US citizen coming out of Iran because my dad
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was an American. I was born on a naval base
in Iran at the time before the revolution, but my
dad was coming back from Vietnam, so I was an
American citizen. I made my way back to the US,
and after landing in the US, I joined the US
Army because I wanted to protect the same freedom, these
freedoms that we have in this country. And so eleven
(15:00):
years later I was forced to get out of the
Army because of injuries and things like that. I couldn't
be on the team, in a special precious team anymore.
So I decided to pursue a civilian life at that time.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, thank you for your service, Nick, appreciate your time,
and he's joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live, author
of Shadows of Tehran. I have so many questions, Nick,
but I'll try to distill them what this reminds me
of as we go back to the time of the Shah,
before the nineteen seventy nine revolution that you cite and
the radical Muslim extremists that would take over power and
as you mentioned, subjugate so many women. But that there
(15:34):
isn't an There's not a perfect answer. But I have
many supporters of the Shaws he is in exile right now,
Raza Polavi, who want to reinstatee and reinstitute that monarchy.
And it reminds me a lot. I'm of Serbian descent
of my grandfather who was a monarchist with the Chetnik
Army at the time that was fighting on two different
fronts against the Nazis and against the communists. Is it
(15:56):
your opinion, and I don't want to put words in
your mouth that Iran would be better by reinstalling the Shah.
Is there a different form of government that could take hold?
Are the people of Iran reaching a breaking point where
they might be willing to spark another revolution here in
twenty twenty five, So.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
At that point, Ryan, I think they are ready for
a change, They are ready to spark another revolution. Right now,
the truck drivers of Iran are protesting and they are
on strike, and there's at every level in Iran life
is really miserable, and I think that was really shown
by when President Trump went to Middle East, and that
(16:35):
his tour of the Middle East. In contrast of all
the other Persian Gulf countries like UAE and all of
these places with these big, beautiful buildings and the modern
life compared to Iran that is barely right now. I
can provide electricity to their people, and they have a
lot of economic issues and a lot of economic problems
(16:55):
right now, so absolutely they're ready for the next revolution thing.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Really, he doesn't really want another monarchy. He wants uh,
he wants the people of Iran to decide for themselves,
but for it to be a fair, free, democratic referendum
of what the next government of Iran is going to be.
And he wants rid of the whole Islamist terrorists in
the in the world, not just in Iran, because they're
(17:23):
kind of the head of the snake right now. The Hezwolla,
the Hamas, all of these things are being sponsored by
the current Iranian government and in order we just need
to get rid of those guys and for a world
to be a better place for everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Nick Berg, our guest author of Shadows of Tehran. A
final question here, Nick, We always appreciate your time and
definitely your book, and that is the tactics that President
Trump is using. We know that he's a pragmatist and
he prefers peace. Reportedly, he stood in the way of
Israel potentially bombing the nuclear facilities run by the regime
in Iran to undercut their potential development of a nuclear weapon.
(18:03):
What do you make of President Trump's strategy here? Where
it goes from here? And can a true revolution only
come from within not be forced from without?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I would say something Ryan is that I think President
Trump is being very patient there on right now, and
they should appreciate this patience that he's showing, because I
was expecting him to go and basically overthrow that government
as soon as he came in came into his administration.
But that said, I think he's taking the right strategy.
(18:35):
He's trying to give him every opportunity to take the
peaceful route. But I don't think it's going to work.
I don't think they running government have shown over and
over again that they're really good at playing the long
game and just keep delaying tactics and pulling the over
on everybody's eye. That's what they did when they had
the job pop with the Obama administration and they fail
(18:57):
for it. I don't think President Trump is going to
felt that thing in I think he's ready to take
some action rightfully, and he needs to take that action,
which I don't think these negotiations are going to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
We'll keep an eye on it as it goes forward.
You can check out his work of Fixture, but again
it is based in a lot of reality and fact.
Shadows of Tehran, available on Amazon. He is author Nick
Berg joining us today. Nick, thank you so much as
always for your time, and we'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I appreciate Ryan, thank you for your time. All right.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Nick Berg right there and standing by mister President in quotes,
will join us after the break. His take on the
Elon Musk fallout as well as the ongoing riots in LA.
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It's time once again for another edition of Trump's hot Takes,
charting the forty seventh president's epic interactions with the fake
news media erst.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Protests forty daughter City of Chicago, New York, for example,
a news.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Is We're be watching it very closely.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
And when they spit at people, you know, they spit,
that's a new thing. Just spit head work, you know
what they throw at them, right, And when that happens,
I've already said for they say they spit, we hit
my dog. Nobody's too have spit on our police offices.
Nobody to has spit on our mil Sure, which they
(22:01):
do is a common thing. They get up to this
far away and then it's spitting in that place that happens.
They get hit very hard.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They spit, we hit, so says President Trump, and he
joins us on the line right now on Ryan Schuling line.
Mister President, thank you, as always for your time. When
they spit, we hit, tell us a little bit more
if you would.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Well, when they spit, we hit, right, you're not looking
at it with these people. You're not going to be
spitting on us. It's nothing to happen. When you have
federal officers and members of our military. They're not going
to take it right. They're not going to take it.
When they spit, we hit, and we could use other words,
but we're I'm allowed to say it because when we hit,
(22:43):
you're going to take it. You know what, We call
it a sugar honey iced tea. You can't say the
word on radio, but you look at it. These people
are really bad people. You know. They're first of all,
they're coming from other countries. They're waving other countries stupid flags.
These are stupid flags. Look at the Mexican flag. It's
a stupid plag We have a beautiful flag. They have
a stupid flag. And we're all having tacos in Casandia's
(23:07):
tonight to celebrate the deportation of all of the bad hombres.
I can tell you that you know, we got a
lot of them at it here on A lot of
people call it Cinco de Mayo. We call it sinc
On de Porto. We got them the hell out of
our country, and now we're going to get a whole
hell of a lot more of them out of our country.
When they spit, we hit. So they better not be
spitting on anybody or else they're going to get hit
(23:28):
very hard and they're not gonna like it.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Sugar honey, iced tea. I'm writing that one down, mister President.
I wanted to give you an opportunity to respond to
California Governor Gavin Newsom. There seems to be a bit
of disagreement on what happened on the phone call between
you and the governor. Here's a couple of his comments
in the aftermath of these fiery but mostly peaceful riots
(23:51):
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Where's your decency, mister president, stop for sen disorder. It's
illegal and unconstitutional, and I said it, I'll say it again.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's in more. You're creating the conditions that.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
You claim you're solving, and you're not, and you're putting
real people's lives at risk.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So some tough talk, and then he continued with this
under his executive order.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
It specifically notes and under what the DoD did is
they had to coordinate with the governor of the state.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
They never coordinate with the governor of the state.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
We talked for almost twenty minutes, and he barely this
issue never came up. I kept trying to talk about
LA You wanted to talk about all.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
These other issues. We had a very decent conversation.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
When was this This was late Friday night, about one
thirty plus his time, after the protest had started, after
the protest, and he never once brought up the National Guard.
He's a stone cald liar, he said he did, a
stone called liar, never did. It was a very civil conversation.
I've always wanted to approach engagement with the President of
the United States in a respectful.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And responsible way. But there's no working with the president.
There's only working for him. And I will never work
for Donald Trump. He will never work for you, mister president.
What is your account of the phone call that happened
Friday night?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Well, first of all, like all of my phone calls,
this was a perfect phone call. It was a beautiful
phone call. We did very nice things on the call.
You know, I get a little well with Gavin Nouscum.
Even though I call him that. He doesn't like that
I call him that, But I call him that because
you look at him. I believe, you know, people think
he puts grease in his hair. I think he puts
pond scum in his hair, otherwise known as the stick
(25:24):
that comes out of Nancy Pelosi's mouth whence he's talking.
I had she had the hard time keeping her teeth
in them out. And for some reason, she, despite having
a hard time with her teeth and her eyebrows being
drawn in several different directions and places on a day
to day basis, she's one of the greatest stock traders
in the history of the world. He knows when to
buy or sell, but she can't keep a teeth in
(25:44):
them out. But you look at Gavin Nooskum, he's a
stupid guy. He really is a stupid guy. I had
a perfect phone call with him. It was perfect, and
I did most of the talking. You know, every time
he tried to talk, he was stupid. So we cut
him off, We said stop. But he's had a lot
of problems. You know, every six months or so, a
portion of his state is somehow on fire. It's either
(26:06):
a wildfire or arson. Now you have protesters, they call
them protesters, they're not protesters. He's a terrorist, right and
these are very bad people, and now they're lighting things
on fire. So no matter what Gavin tries to do,
something is on fire in California. The only thing that's
not on fire is is approval rating. And his approval
rating is in the toilet, which is a place that
(26:29):
Crooked Joe never made two in time. You know, you
think about it in his type of the bull hooves
he made in a diaper. But you have a lot
of problems in California. We're going to fix those problems.
But he doesn't want me to fix the problems. He
wants to say he fixed them. But it's out of
control and he thinks he's going to run for president.
He's not going to go very far, not.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Much, I can tell you, mister President. Joining us here
on Ryan's Shooling Live. And you mentioned his poll numbers
not on fire, but they might represent a dumpster fire,
mister President. Here's Harry Enton CNN outlining what a problem
the Democrats have on their hands with this issue of
illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So what a voter see in terms of their perceptions
of Republicans, the president or Democrats, se Gavenusom on this issue,
the American electorate believed that the Democrats don't have a
clue on the issue of immigration. I mean, you could
just take it here closer to trust more immigration Democrats
versus Republicans.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Got three different.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Polls for you across the board. They all tell the
same story. Republicans lead on the issue of immigration. You
see it here CBS plus six, You see it here
at CNN plus six. You see it here IPSOS even
bigger plus nineteen. No matter what poll you look at,
no matter which way you cut it, the American public
is with the Republicans. The American public is with Donald Trump,
(27:44):
and to a much greater extent than they were in
term number one. And it's not just on the broad
issue of immigration. It's on the specifics as well in
which the American public is with Donald Trump and the Republicans.
And that is why Donald Trump is eager to take
on this fight and eager for those scenes.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
At a Los Angeles I made the analogy that this
is like a poker. When you have the nuts, you
have the winning hand. You know you have the winning hand.
Do you feel that on this issue in particular, that
the wind is that you're back with the American people.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Well, you're talking about having the nuts. Nobody has bigger
nuts than I do. I can tell you that, right.
We have the greatest nuts the world has ever seen.
Rolding all the tors. We're holding them like nobody's ever
held them before. We have it's called an ace in
the hole, right, or beautiful things. You know, we have
a beautiful it's called pocket aces. When you're playing Texas,
hold them. We have them. It's beautiful. We're holding so
(28:34):
many cards, right, like Zalinski, he's not holding any cards.
He came to the White House. He thought he was
playing cards. We shut that down. We shut that whole
thing down. But you look at you look at what's
going on. These are very bad people, and they're not
holding any cards. We're holding them all. And you look
at the polling numbers. The polling numbers are so bad.
(28:55):
You know, there's so bad. Nobody wants the illegal alien
dead ombre animals in their country or they don't want
them here. Abrego Garcia is coming back because he's being charged.
But you have Senator Van Holland, who's very stupid. I
call it wasted away again in kill Margaritaville. He was
down there sipping with the gang member. The people don't
(29:18):
want to do, you know, they don't want to talk
about it. The knuckles and all the things. The American
people want to get rid of. The bad MREs is
ten to twenty million of these people, and they're not
good people, and they have to get the hell out.
We have the polling, we have the data, we have
all of the people we are on They call it
eighty twenty, right, eighty twenty. This is a ninety nine
(29:40):
to one issue. Ninety of the people want the bad
armbres app including you're in Colorado, you have a problem
with I call them, they call them PBA trend de Aaragua.
They're taking over apartment complexes, doing bad things. And your
fat governor, Your governor is very fat. To say that
he's a fat guy and he needs to stop eating, right,
(30:04):
you know, he needs to be more like the Jared
from Subway and lose a little weight. He keeps getting
it whatever weight Lizzo lost, Jared Paulus fun. But there
are few sacknowledge it's a problem. It's a huge problem,
and the American people elected me to solve that problem,
and that's what we're going to do.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Mister President, appreciate your time. Just one final question. I
know that over the weekend, going into the weekend, there
was the story about the feud that had erupted between
you and Elon Musk, and you had a very unlikely
person come to your defense, and that is your former attorney,
Michael Cohen. Let's hear what he had to say. Is
there a world in which these two transactional guys Musk
and Trump figure out.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
That it's better not to be fighting and come back together,
or you think this?
Speaker 7 (30:47):
I think once Elon went so low in terms of
talking about Epstein, and if we can stay on that
topic for a quick second. Look, I have extensive knowledge
of Trump being by his side for almost a decade
in a half, right, let me dispel all of that notion.
While he knew Jeffrey Epstein, and while yes, he may
(31:07):
be in the files in the form of Trump being
in the Black Book, so were hundreds and hundreds of
very nameworthy, influential individuals. I have zero knowledge of any
relationship between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. And I would have
seen it over the course, literally because you're.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You're mister president. Like you, I'm a big pro wrestling fan.
This feels like a heel turned by Elon Musk. And
suddenly Michael Cohen's a good guy? Can you straighten this
out for us?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Well, Michael Cohen is a bad guy, right, he's what
he's looking for. He looks he's looking for a pardon.
He's looking for my help. He's not going to get it.
You know, he said very nasty things in the stormy,
stormy stormy Daniel's case, right with fat.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Alvin Bragg, and I'm a fat guy.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I called him the Walrus right cool Kuka Chew. You know,
the courtroom was very called. But when Alvin Bragg walked in,
his sun desigh were rubbing against each other so much
it made us very warm. I could say that when
he walked into the courtroom, that guy, he's a big
we call him twinkies, that he has a twinkie problem.
Michael Cowan is a bad guy, but he was telling
(32:14):
the truth.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
They call it the blind squirrel. Uh and he sounded
nut and uh and you look at it. So he
was doing all of that and he's right. I have
nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein and what Elon did.
Elan did something very bad. He lost his mind. He
called it. We call it cracking under pressure. He cracked
(32:35):
under a lot of pressure. And it's not what you
want to see, right. He was a worse performance than
the Colorado Rockies, who can't seem to win a baseball game.
It's really horrible with their record is a band record.
You look at that, but it's you look at what's
going on. Elan lost his mind. Now he was the
pretend leg it never happened. Though it happened. He lost
(32:56):
his mind. But we're gonna call it a shoo. We
don't want to keep fighting with him. He doesn't want
to keep fighting with me. He knows that I would
have won. I already did win. But Michael Cohen is
a bad guy. But he happens to be right this time.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Well, we know you have a lot on your plate
with everything that's going on in Los Angeles, mister president.
Always appreciate your time, and thank you for joining us
here today. We'll talk again down the line.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Thank you very much. You're a wonderful person. And by
the way, don't quite your dad job. Yeah, you try
to sound like me. Don't quite your dad job. You
know what, I'm in this job.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
He always gets that note in about my subpar Trump impersonation,
and he's not wrong. We think mister President joining us.
As portrayed by Sean Ferrish. You can follow him on
x at Sewan shaw N Underscore Farish fa r A
s H. He is Captain Deplorable host of the Ungoverned
podcast on LFA TV. A timeout will let Kelly recover
(33:51):
and maybe you as well. I I'm going to pee
my pants and she'll go do that right now on
out he pants. She's gonna make it to the bathroom,
unlike Joe Biden Aaron rein Shielding Live.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
So what we have as a lawless president and a
lawless administration and now finally we have a Brago Garcia
able to be in a court of law, which is
all that I have asked for from the beginning, and
we have an administration and you just heard from them.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
They said they weren't going.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
To bring him back to allow him to have due process.
They've had to do that in response to the Court's
decision and ninety zero Supreme Court decision. We don't see
those very often. So I am always glad to stand
up for people's constitutional rights, and that's what we're doing
(34:44):
in this case.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So proud in this case on behalf of a human
trafficker has been alleged against Kilmar A Brago, Garcia, Debs.
Keep dying on this hill, keep going for the twenty
percent of this eighty twenty issue. As Harry Enton of
CNN showed you, the polling absolutely decimates the Dems on
this
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