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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Verishow is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatola Amine is dead. This wretched
and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even
thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for
the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across
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many countries. Last night, all over Iran, the voices of
the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in
the streets when his death was announced. I call upon
all Iranian patriots who yearned for freedom to seize this
moment to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take
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back your America is with you. I made a promise
to you, and I fulfilled that promise.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The rest will be up to you, but we'll be
there to help.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
It's an incredible dissonance that they had to choose war
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over a regime, but they were willing to do it.
Thank you Donald Trump, Thank you Benjamin nettyah who thank
you America. It's not death to America after they killed
the leader. The Americans and the Israelis did it. It's
not death to Israel and death to America. It's thank you.
It's a new day dawning, but very early days, very
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very early days, so we'll have to see what comes.
But it's the Iranian people that have been telling me
over and over and over again, we want this. We're
not Regimis, We're not Islamic. I don't even say oh
my God to my Iranian friends because they don't want
God to be any part of this.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's about.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
This is about national security. This is about what is
possible in the Middle East. This is about being a
good name, good partner to the Gulf States and what
their aspirations are. This is about supporting the people of Venezuela.
This is about dismembering our relationship with or not dismembering,
but resetting our relationship with China.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Right now, fifty five.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Percent of the oil production that Uran produces go to
China despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine,
you want to end that war, you have to. There
is no getting around dismembering this Islamic republic. It is
non negotiable. It is not a want to have, It
is a have to have. And it's not just for
the Iranian people. I think you have to trust the
Iranian people.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
We know this.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Government better than anyone else.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
When you dismember and decapitate this regime, you are going
to see a change of them, at least in Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And China, in Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
And I think, quite frankly, their ideology has really it's
caused a lot of problems for US worldwide. We need
to take it seriously, and I think at this point
we have a tremendous opportunity. This will be like ending
the Soviet Agin, the Berlin Wall. This is a transformational
moment for humankind.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Last thing I'll say about the Senate race, I see
we have one call. Take that, and then I want
to talk about Iran abroad and terror cells and how
that affects US domestically. On this Texas Independence Day. Let
me say I spent some time, quite a bit of
time over the weekend reviewing John Cornyn's record. And there
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is the twenty twenty two hymn quarterbacking gun control laws
that has not made its way as a campaign issue
to the extent that it should. If gun grabbers freak
you out, John Cordon should frighten you. He led the
charge more than the Democrats in twenty twenty two for
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a bill that they did not make manage to get
over the finish line. But it wasn't for lack of
effort by John Cornyn. And my guess is his calculation was,
it's four years before I go before the voters. I've
fooled them before twenty four years. At this forty one
years in public office, I've gotten away with everything else.
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I'll just slide over into a little gun control. And
what will it matter when it comes down to it.
The most important thing that can happen this year in Washington,
DC is passing the Save Act, so we save our elections.
John Thune, the Republican leader, supposedly of officially in a
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titular fashion anyway, is refusing to make that happen. Mitch
McConnell is against it. I don't know if he knows
where he is, but that's where his vote will be cast.
Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski against it. If you are
left with a Republican majority, that has to be Republican squish,
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Republican squirter proof. And any other time John Cornyn would
be working right beside this group. These are his fellow travelers.
October eighteenth, twenty twenty, John Cornyn was up for election
and he had decided that Donald Trump was a liability.
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John Cornyn doesn't stand for anything, only his own survival
and the power he has built. Besides, his daughter has
a lobbying business. She went from being someone nobody knew
because she's a kid straight out of school, to being
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hired by an Austin lobbying firm as a secretary, to
being the face of that firm, to them opening a
DC firm, to them making a bunch of money in DC,
almost overnight. It's incredible what happened in a business that
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typically takes years, if not decades, to build relationships. Overnight,
they hired John Cornyan's daughter. They made her the face
of the company. Nobody knew her before they opened a
big DC office. They get big lobbying contracts, and who
do you think is paying those lobbying contracts? Every put
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big in front of them industry. John Cornyan's daughter is
getting paid to lobby the United States Senate. When he's
been the whip, he's been one of the senior Republican figures.
You wonder why he can't leave this office, why he
can't retire at seventy four. There is a fortune to
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be made, not just for him, because you have to
have straw men. You have to have other people who
pull in the money. October eighteenth, twenty twenty, headline, Dallas
Morning News, John Cornyan defended Trump for siphoning Pentagon budget
to pay for border wall, but now claims he was
against it. So John Cornyan said he was against the
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border wall when nobody was looking. What else do we
need to know about this Michael Berry Show? You know
where the balloon we go, Bob, You're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
We have a sitting House member, Will Metcalf who is
centered by and not supported by the Republican Party because
he votes with Democrats. He's one of the twenty six
the Texas Scorecard listed as the Rhinos who elected the
current Speaker of the House. He has two deceptive pack
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voter guides, lots of paid quote supporters, and very pushy
at the polls. But I think people need to know
that Will Metcalf is not supported by the Republican Party,
has been censured, and is a Rhino.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Wouldn't you throw Cecil Bell in there as well?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
It's personal for me. Cecil Bell has never lied to me.
Metcalf has a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Okay, well to me, it's whatever someone says to me
or not. I'll be dead. We'll all be dead. The
question is what policies are put in place. This primary
is an opportunity. This is why a low voter turnout
is not necessarily a horrible thing, because the people who
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are going to vote wind or rain, high storms or desert,
it does not matter, are people who remember that in
the last legislative session we have an opportunity to elect
a conservative Republican to be the Speaker of the House.
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There are one hundred and fifty members of the House
in Austin. There one hundred and fifty members. We have
the majority. But the Democrats gather together their minority. I
don't mamb what is sixty of them, whatever it is,
and they come and they make a deal because all
they need is let's say they have sixty out of
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the one fifty, then all they need is sixteen of
the remaining ninety one out of every almost six. And
the deal they cut is, y'all get all the committee chairmanships.
You give us a few, and you give us an
influence in the House. If the ninety Republicans would inlock
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step support a speaker, the Democrats would be pushed out
that have no influence in Austin. But that's not what
they do. Sixteen of them break ranks. These are the
sixteen that don't like Paxton. These are the sixteen that
don't like Toth. These are the sixteen that are not
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Conservatives and are not going to Austin doing what they
campaigned on, and they want some power, so they start
trading their vote to the Democrats in exchange for a
committee chairmanship. These are the guys that are there to party,
not there to fix the problems. So once they get
their sixteen, they lay their cards on the table to
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the other seventy four. So now our ninety is reduced
to seventy four. We're in the minority. We're not going
to win the speaker's race. And they go, all right,
you seventy four, who wants to come over here on
our side because they don't want to win seventy six
seventy four that would make those Republicans look bad. Who
you know, eighty percent of their vote are Democrats and
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a few turncoat Republicans. So They go guys, who wants
some committee chairmanships, who wants some positions, who wants that
bill in? The Speaker of the House has all the power,
and now I Dustin Burrows Dad, drunk Dade's hand picked successor,
I got all the power. So they start falling and
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there are some that hold out. Steve Toath ken Paxton
was a holdout. He ran for Speaker against the Uniparty candidate.
That's why they hated him twelve fourteen years ago. Then
he ran for the Senate against their candidate and beat him.
That's why they hate him. Then he runs for Attorney
General against their candidate, and he beat him. That's why
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they hated him. So they ran George P. Bush. Surely
a Bush could get over, right, and they couldn't win.
Three months after he wins that election, at the end
of the session, what do they do At the very
end of the session. They don't try drunk Dad, and
the Uniparty doesn't try to pass anything. They were literally
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on the last day of the session impeaching Ken Paxton,
send it over to the Senate where it failed split
the party. So are some Republicans pissed off what happened
very does that make them radicals? John Corny call them
what you want. Maybe it makes some true believers. Maybe
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they're the poor dumb bastards that actually believe what you
people campaign on every year. Maybe they're the poor dumb
bastards that actually believe that we should fix these problems
that actually take you at what you say. Look, if
the squish left wants to be the squish left and
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team up with the Democrats to pick the speaker and
impeach a very popular attorney general and do the bidding
of Karl Rove, which is where that came from, so
the he wouldn't be able to run against Cornyon, which
he's doing. Now, that's what all that was about. If
they were to do that fine campaign on that, don't
come home and tell the base everything they want to
hear and go to Austin or DC and do the
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exact opposite, which is what they do, and that's what
I get angry about, and then call them radicals. So
those guys drunk day, that's why he's not speaker anymore.
By the way, drunk date he had to fall on
the sword. He almost lost his seat in Orange, Jefferson
and Jasper Counties in fact, he won his seat by
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about three hundred votes, and well over a thousand Democrats
came over and voted in the Republican runoff. We ran
him to a runoff. It is going to be the
first time a sitting speaker had been defeated in his
own district. The writing was on the wall for the swamp.
We got to replace him. So they put in Burrows. Okay,
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when they went to impeach ken Paxton. They did that
because there's some big money, big dollar money donors in
Texas that were but hurt that Paxston had beaten them
in the state Senate race and in the Attorney General's
race twice, and this was their shot to get him.
So they gave a lot of money to drunk Dad
Burrows Metcalf, Cecil Bell, and that whole crowd. So those
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folks they get together and they put poor old Briscoe Caine,
poor little Briscoecane. They put him up. This was like
Marco Rubio when he went over to the game six.
They said, look, brisco you've been out there running about
talking about how conservative you are. You went and grew
a Yosemite sam mustache. You talking tiff and Caine a
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getting out of time being kibole and real conservative. But
nobody believes that you believe that. So here's what we're
gonna do. We're gonna let you run the impeachment of
Ken Passton and he did, and he did all the
while he's taking money from Colony Rich. Look, you could
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say I don't like these people or whatever else, these
are verifiable facts. He took money from Colony Ridge on
multiple occasions. He called it the American Dream. It has
since been built fined sixty eight million dollars in a
massive settlement. Do you real that's how big that is
for what was going on there? It is a cartel hotspot?
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Why were they giving Brisco so much money? So now
those guys are up for reelection, and anybody who remembers
what happened and what they did is being called radical
and nut jobs and all that. They're not. They're the
dumb bastards that actually believe what we say. We believe.
Mike Bachist runs a long Star chef in Eldridge in
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two ninety and when he took that store over that
had once been the number one, number one store for
Silverado's in the country. They sold a lot of Solados there,
but that store had kind of fallen off over the years,
and Bachis was brought in to fix And he's my
kind of guy. He's uh. I was gonna say he's
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Lane Kiffin, but I think a lot of people don't
like Lane Kiven. He's He's a personality, charisma driven guy.
I send him a lot of deals to his personal
cell phone, which every one of our listeners is entitled to.
If you want to email me, I'll connect you directly,
and he puts he closes every deal, he charms the
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face off of you. He gets the best deal he can.
He goes and finds cars for people all over the country,
not just Chevies. I mean he takes care of my people,
and he's got a heart for people, and he's built
a good team. But anyway, so I called him and
he is rebuilding that store to be there'll be number
one in Silverado's again in the country. And that's saying something. Now,
this is the number one state for trucks, but still,
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you know, there's a lot of dealerships around the country.
And I called him just during the break to see
how we closed out February, and he said, Friday and
Saturday are the best Friday Saturday we've had in over
a year.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We have been partners with them for just under a year. Ramon,
you do the math. We've been your partner for a
year and now you've had the best Friday Saturday you've
had in a very long time. I love helping businesses
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prosper when they take good care of our listeners. Love it.
Got a message from Tom Haynes earlier. Let's see what
he says. March is our twelfth month with you building
something special here. Love your people. They're fun to connect with.
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They just had see I think they sold forty vehicles
for the month of February just out of car Pro.
Carpro is every kind of vehicle you want. You just
you can email me. I'll connect you with Tom. He
calls the dealership. They have his person waiting there when
you arrive, so you're not waiting on whoever's available or
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whoever is behind on their Morriyar's payments. Trying to get
you closes they get and then you get a scoring
system as you go. You go through the process and
I get a report. Carpro gets a report throughout the
process to make sure you're happy. It has worked. It
has tended to work. All right, let's talk about Iran
and let's talk about Stateside. I don't feel the need
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to talk at length about news stories that I feel
like you probably already know the details of, and you do.
There's no reason for me to replicate that. But after that,
there was a terrible shooting, a mass shooting in Austin
on sixth Street, and these burgers. I forget the name
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of the place starts with a B. It doesn't matter.
Michael t knew the place and said, it's it's a
it's a nice enough place. It's it's not a dive bar,
A weirdo bar. Uh, you know, a real violent bar.
This guy wanted to f some people up. He wanted
to undertake a terrorist attack. He is from Senegal. He
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came to this country in two thousand on I think
it's a B one tourist visa. Came here on a
B one tourist visa, overstayed that visa, gets married. Man
manages to go through the process and get permanent residency
so that he can stay in this country. And there
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are online comments he's making that are increasingly threatening and disturbing.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Supposedly the FBI was on to him uh and had
been for some period of time when he pulls up,
walks out at a very very busy time where a
lot of college kids are going to be out on
Sixth Street at this bar, and proceeds to start blasting away.
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He's wearing a T shirt underneath. I have read but
not seen that makes reference to Iran. Again, I've not
seen that photo posted. You may have, or that may
be an exaggeration. I have seen the sweatshirt he was wearing,
and it says property of Allah. The Austin Police Department
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deserves a commendation for arriving and engaging in fifty seven
seconds less than one minute. Now. It helps that this
is on Sixth Street, and Sixth Street tends to have
a pretty heavy Austin presence. I follow was it Sixth
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Street Fights or some I follow up website because I
have a son in Austin that will show you the
fights that happened the night before on Sixth Street. And
usually they're the ones out on the street because you
can't film well inside a bar and the bars will
throw you out if you're fighting. But on the streets
you get a bunch of drunk young people strolling along
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and somebody bumped somebody or says something or that's his
ex girlfriend, or that's you know, they played ball against it,
whatever the deal is. They get into a pretty nasty fight.
Wigs are snatched, teeth are knocked out, blood is spilled.
It is nonsense, but you will notice a heavy police presence.
Austin police department reacted nobly. Their district attorney is awful,
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their city government is some left wing Portland wanna be
nut jobs Seattle type. But those officers responded and engaged,
and they put this dude down, finished him off. He's
from Senegal. Interestingly, if you look up Senegal illegal alien border,
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you will see a bunch of young military aged men
coming into this country illegally being interviewed by some of
the citizen journalists who over the years have exposed this
sort of thing. He's only the first one we've seen.
You don't have to have a kid at UT to
be terribly concerned over the details coming out in this case.
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By the way, the first person killed in his spree
young man named Writer Harrington, who was a student at
Texas Tech University. If you got a kid college age,
whether they're off in the Marines, the Army, the Navy,
tech school, a job posting or college, and you get
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a call that your kiddo has been killed. How about
when you learn that the guy is a radicalized Muslim
who came to this country and overstate his visa, making
him an illegal alien. How about the fact that it
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is believed I cannot confirm this yet, so I'm not
going to say the name that an NNGO helped him
stay here throughout all of this when he broke our
laws to stay and I don't think he came here
as a tourist. What do you think We're going to
see these terror cells. We're going to see the effect
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when you bomb Iran their sleeper cells here and their
affiliates and their cohorts. We're going to see those attacks
on American soil in the coming days. That's going to happen.
The neocons will tell you we got to fight the
wars over there, so we don't have to fight them here.
The problem is the neocons want to fight wars over
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there and open our bord here. The neocons have been
consistently open border types, but even more, the neocons want
to fight wars abroad and then bring their buddies home here,
and it turns out a lot of people they bring
back are unvetted, unstable and end up committing terrible, terrible crimes.
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I'll guarantee you. Dan Crenshaw regrets signing a letter with
Sylvia Garcia pushing the Biden administration to bring Afghan quote
unquote refugees not just to the United States, but to
bring them to Houston to expedite that, theory being it's
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good for the Houston economy because you get some federal funds.
So how would you like to know that the guy
who moved in next door just rape the lady who
lives on the other side of you, but the local
government got some money out of it. How would you
like to know that the people over there were brought
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over here? Why? Why it's two different discussions. Should we
fight other people's wars, but these people it's part and
parcel the same package. We go fight other people's wars
and then we bring people here from those wars. Why
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we don't need to do that. We are not putting
America and Americans first when we do that. Let's talk
about it. Erron again, I think most of the facts
are in evidence anybody who cares much about them. I
don't want to be a program that just repeats what
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everybody else is out there saying. I'm as enamored as
the next guy at the technological advances, how cheap these
drones are, how powerful they are, the bunker busters, and
the way I'm as interested in all that as the
next guy. But I think we have an opportunity to
talk beyond all of that, and I think it's interesting
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to get a perspective. I'm going to open up the
phone lines as to your thoughts. I posted this to
Facebook yesterday and I have read every single response, and
I'm going to try to gel down what I think
the majority of responses come in at. And this is
basically any response that has five percent or more. One
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of them is Israel and the Jews. This war is
Israel and the Jews. Israel and the Jews control American
foreign policy. It is in Israel's interest to take out Iran,
and that is uses ill gotten influence over the United
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States government in order to ensure that people do this.
Maybe that's the source of the Epstein files, so that
people are compromised and have to support that that's one.
One is a less sort of conspiratorial view, and that
is that this is an Israeli war that needs American
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muscle and we shouldn't be fighting other people's wars at all.
Another one is a fear of a World War three. Now,
anytime bombs start bursting, there is a fear of a
world War three. But I was reading yesterday. Let's see
if I can find this. I was reading about the
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energy markets. Now this could have changed in the meantime.
Let's see if I can find it. Here we go,
oil prices dropped back below seventy dollars a barrel. This
is yesterday afternoon. So oil prices had popped as you
would imagine a straight of horror moves. There's a lot,
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a lot of oil that moves through that straight. If
that oil can't move, and if Iran's capacity is taken offline,
China is going to suffer from that. But it's going
to mean a shortage of oil. And we know supply
and demand reduce the supply. Maintaining steady demand drives the
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price up. Very simple stuff. But by last night, over
seventy percent of the opening spike had been clawed back.
So the energy markets are not predicting a spike in energy,
which means the energy markets are not predicting a sustained, prolonged,
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quote unquote war. I don't know that you would call
this a war just yet. I guess there's legal terminology,
but it is not the moment we put boots on
the ground. This is a full on war. I don't
believe Donald Trump wants to do that. Now. The Irani
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regime as of last night, had launched four hundred and
sixty missiles three hundred and fifty drones at eleven countries
across the Middle East. Obviously Israel, we expected that, but Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain,
Cutter Uae, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, and Syria. Now you
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could argue that's just them hitting American installations and Americans
where they know them to be. That's why they're attacking
the biggest hotels, the most famous hotels, including in Dubai
that is world famous. That's why they're attacking those hotels.
It is because the Americans who are working there, particularly
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in some form of the State department, have evacuated the
offices and repaired to the hotels. So the idea is
hit the Americans where they are in their hotels. But
when Iran's Shia Muslims are attacking almost all Sunni Muslims
in eleven countries or ten non Israel, you would expect
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them to attack Israel. It starts to look like Iran
has been marginalized in the region. And that's an interesting
position because if a president manages to put together a
diplomatic team and a diplomatic coalition that includes Muslim nations
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when there is a Muslim war skirmish engagement in the past,
that has been described as a diplomatic genius. Somehow it
would appear that Donald Trump has done that. To my knowledge,
there has not been another Middle Eastern nation come out
and condemned this president. Even the French got involved, but
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I think we're going to pull them back and say no, no,
we don't need you to surrender. Keir Starmer had to
speak up because he's so unpopular in the United Kingdom.
The Chinese response has been at most muted. The Russians
have not engaged, and a lot of that is Russian technology.
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Whatever one may think of Trump, whatever one may think
of if we should even be in Iran. By the way,
those were a few of the anti Iran comments that
made up about fifteen to twenty percent. I would say
that over eighty percent of the comments were very very
pro this either you know Iran going back to nineteen
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seventy nine and the hostages, Iran's involvement in Iraq, Iran's
involvement in Eastern Africa, Iran's saber rattling, the Obama deal
with Iran. But I thought we'd open the phone lines
and just let you share openly your raw opinion in
a no judgment zone. Seven one three nine nine nine
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one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Verishow is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatola Amine is dead. This wretched
and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even
thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for
the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across
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many countries. Last night, all over Iran, the voices of
the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in
the streets when his death was announced. I call upon
all Iranian patriots who yearned for freedom to seize this
moment to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take
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back your America is with you. I made a promise
to you, and I fulfilled that promise.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The rest will be up to you, but we'll be
there to help.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
It's an incredible dissonance that they had to choose war
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over a regime, but they were willing to do it.
Thank you Donald Trump, Thank you Benjamin nettyah who thank
you America. It's not death to America after they killed
the leader. The Americans and the Israelis did it. It's
not death to Israel and death to America. It's thank you.
It's a new day dawning, but very early days, very
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very early days, so we'll have to see what comes.
But it's the Iranian people that have been telling me
over and over and over again, we want this. We're
not Regimis, We're not Islamic. I don't even say oh
my God to my Iranian friends because they don't want
God to be any part of this.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's about.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
This is about national security. This is about what is
possible in the Middle East. This is about being a
good name, good partner to the Gulf States and what
their aspirations are. This is about supporting the people of Venezuela.
This is about dismembering our relationship with or not dismembering,
but resetting our relationship with China.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Right now, fifty five.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Percent of the oil production that Uran produces go to
China despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine,
you want to end that war, you have to. There
is no getting around dismembering this Islamic republic. It is
non negotiable. It is not a want to have, It
is a have to have. And it's not just for
the Iranian people. I think you have to trust the
Iranian people.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
We know this.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Government better than anyone else.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
When you dismember and decapitate this regime, you are going
to see a change of them, at least in Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And China, in Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
And I think, quite frankly, their ideology has really it's
caused a lot of problems for US worldwide. We need
to take it seriously, and I think at this point
we have a tremendous opportunity. This will be like ending
the Soviet Agin, the Berlin Wall. This is a transformational
moment for humankind.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Last thing I'll say about the Senate race, I see
we have one call. Take that, and then I want
to talk about Iran abroad and terror cells and how
that affects US domestically. On this Texas Independence Day. Let
me say I spent some time, quite a bit of
time over the weekend reviewing John Cornyn's record. And there
(04:37):
is the twenty twenty two hymn quarterbacking gun control laws
that has not made its way as a campaign issue
to the extent that it should. If gun grabbers freak
you out, John Cordon should frighten you. He led the
charge more than the Democrats in twenty twenty two for
(04:58):
a bill that they did not make manage to get
over the finish line. But it wasn't for lack of
effort by John Cornyn. And my guess is his calculation was,
it's four years before I go before the voters. I've
fooled them before twenty four years. At this forty one
years in public office, I've gotten away with everything else.
(05:21):
I'll just slide over into a little gun control. And
what will it matter when it comes down to it.
The most important thing that can happen this year in Washington,
DC is passing the Save Act, so we save our elections.
John Thune, the Republican leader, supposedly of officially in a
(05:45):
titular fashion anyway, is refusing to make that happen. Mitch
McConnell is against it. I don't know if he knows
where he is, but that's where his vote will be cast.
Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski against it. If you are
left with a Republican majority, that has to be Republican squish,
(06:06):
Republican squirter proof. And any other time John Cornyn would
be working right beside this group. These are his fellow travelers.
October eighteenth, twenty twenty, John Cornyn was up for election
and he had decided that Donald Trump was a liability.
(06:29):
John Cornyn doesn't stand for anything, only his own survival
and the power he has built. Besides, his daughter has
a lobbying business. She went from being someone nobody knew
because she's a kid straight out of school, to being
(06:50):
hired by an Austin lobbying firm as a secretary, to
being the face of that firm, to them opening a
DC firm, to them making a bunch of money in DC,
almost overnight. It's incredible what happened in a business that
(07:14):
typically takes years, if not decades, to build relationships. Overnight,
they hired John Cornyan's daughter. They made her the face
of the company. Nobody knew her before they opened a
big DC office. They get big lobbying contracts, and who
do you think is paying those lobbying contracts? Every put
(07:36):
big in front of them industry. John Cornyan's daughter is
getting paid to lobby the United States Senate. When he's
been the whip, he's been one of the senior Republican figures.
You wonder why he can't leave this office, why he
can't retire at seventy four. There is a fortune to
(08:00):
be made, not just for him, because you have to
have straw men. You have to have other people who
pull in the money. October eighteenth, twenty twenty, headline, Dallas
Morning News, John Cornyan defended Trump for siphoning Pentagon budget
to pay for border wall, but now claims he was
against it. So John Cornyan said he was against the
(08:22):
border wall when nobody was looking. What else do we
need to know about this Michael Berry Show? You know
where the balloon we go, Bob, You're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
We have a sitting House member, Will Metcalf who is
centered by and not supported by the Republican Party because
he votes with Democrats. He's one of the twenty six
the Texas Scorecard listed as the Rhinos who elected the
current Speaker of the House. He has two deceptive pack
(08:55):
voter guides, lots of paid quote supporters, and very pushy
at the polls. But I think people need to know
that Will Metcalf is not supported by the Republican Party,
has been censured, and is a Rhino.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Wouldn't you throw Cecil Bell in there as well?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
It's personal for me. Cecil Bell has never lied to me.
Metcalf has a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Okay, well to me, it's whatever someone says to me
or not. I'll be dead. We'll all be dead. The
question is what policies are put in place. This primary
is an opportunity. This is why a low voter turnout
is not necessarily a horrible thing, because the people who
(09:46):
are going to vote wind or rain, high storms or desert,
it does not matter, are people who remember that in
the last legislative session we have an opportunity to elect
a conservative Republican to be the Speaker of the House.
(10:09):
There are one hundred and fifty members of the House
in Austin. There one hundred and fifty members. We have
the majority. But the Democrats gather together their minority. I
don't mamb what is sixty of them, whatever it is,
and they come and they make a deal because all
they need is let's say they have sixty out of
(10:30):
the one fifty, then all they need is sixteen of
the remaining ninety one out of every almost six. And
the deal they cut is, y'all get all the committee chairmanships.
You give us a few, and you give us an
influence in the House. If the ninety Republicans would inlock
(10:53):
step support a speaker, the Democrats would be pushed out
that have no influence in Austin. But that's not what
they do. Sixteen of them break ranks. These are the
sixteen that don't like Paxton. These are the sixteen that
don't like Toth. These are the sixteen that are not
(11:15):
Conservatives and are not going to Austin doing what they
campaigned on, and they want some power, so they start
trading their vote to the Democrats in exchange for a
committee chairmanship. These are the guys that are there to party,
not there to fix the problems. So once they get
their sixteen, they lay their cards on the table to
(11:38):
the other seventy four. So now our ninety is reduced
to seventy four. We're in the minority. We're not going
to win the speaker's race. And they go, all right,
you seventy four, who wants to come over here on
our side because they don't want to win seventy six
seventy four that would make those Republicans look bad. Who
you know, eighty percent of their vote are Democrats and
(12:01):
a few turncoat Republicans. So They go guys, who wants
some committee chairmanships, who wants some positions, who wants that
bill in? The Speaker of the House has all the power,
and now I Dustin Burrows Dad, drunk Dade's hand picked successor,
I got all the power. So they start falling and
(12:22):
there are some that hold out. Steve Toath ken Paxton
was a holdout. He ran for Speaker against the Uniparty candidate.
That's why they hated him twelve fourteen years ago. Then
he ran for the Senate against their candidate and beat him.
That's why they hate him. Then he runs for Attorney
General against their candidate, and he beat him. That's why
(12:44):
they hated him. So they ran George P. Bush. Surely
a Bush could get over, right, and they couldn't win.
Three months after he wins that election, at the end
of the session, what do they do At the very
end of the session. They don't try drunk Dad, and
the Uniparty doesn't try to pass anything. They were literally
(13:08):
on the last day of the session impeaching Ken Paxton,
send it over to the Senate where it failed split
the party. So are some Republicans pissed off what happened
very does that make them radicals? John Corny call them
what you want. Maybe it makes some true believers. Maybe
(13:31):
they're the poor dumb bastards that actually believe what you
people campaign on every year. Maybe they're the poor dumb
bastards that actually believe that we should fix these problems
that actually take you at what you say. Look, if
the squish left wants to be the squish left and
(13:51):
team up with the Democrats to pick the speaker and
impeach a very popular attorney general and do the bidding
of Karl Rove, which is where that came from, so
the he wouldn't be able to run against Cornyon, which
he's doing. Now, that's what all that was about. If
they were to do that fine campaign on that, don't
come home and tell the base everything they want to
hear and go to Austin or DC and do the
(14:13):
exact opposite, which is what they do, and that's what
I get angry about, and then call them radicals. So
those guys drunk day, that's why he's not speaker anymore.
By the way, drunk date he had to fall on
the sword. He almost lost his seat in Orange, Jefferson
and Jasper Counties in fact, he won his seat by
(14:35):
about three hundred votes, and well over a thousand Democrats
came over and voted in the Republican runoff. We ran
him to a runoff. It is going to be the
first time a sitting speaker had been defeated in his
own district. The writing was on the wall for the swamp.
We got to replace him. So they put in Burrows. Okay,
(14:55):
when they went to impeach ken Paxton. They did that
because there's some big money, big dollar money donors in
Texas that were but hurt that Paxston had beaten them
in the state Senate race and in the Attorney General's
race twice, and this was their shot to get him.
So they gave a lot of money to drunk Dad
Burrows Metcalf, Cecil Bell, and that whole crowd. So those
(15:20):
folks they get together and they put poor old Briscoe Caine,
poor little Briscoecane. They put him up. This was like
Marco Rubio when he went over to the game six.
They said, look, brisco you've been out there running about
talking about how conservative you are. You went and grew
a Yosemite sam mustache. You talking tiff and Caine a
(15:40):
getting out of time being kibole and real conservative. But
nobody believes that you believe that. So here's what we're
gonna do. We're gonna let you run the impeachment of
Ken Passton and he did, and he did all the
while he's taking money from Colony Rich. Look, you could
(16:00):
say I don't like these people or whatever else, these
are verifiable facts. He took money from Colony Ridge on
multiple occasions. He called it the American Dream. It has
since been built fined sixty eight million dollars in a
massive settlement. Do you real that's how big that is
for what was going on there? It is a cartel hotspot?
(16:23):
Why were they giving Brisco so much money? So now
those guys are up for reelection, and anybody who remembers
what happened and what they did is being called radical
and nut jobs and all that. They're not. They're the
dumb bastards that actually believe what we say. We believe.
Mike Bachist runs a long Star chef in Eldridge in
(16:44):
two ninety and when he took that store over that
had once been the number one, number one store for
Silverado's in the country. They sold a lot of Solados there,
but that store had kind of fallen off over the years,
and Bachis was brought in to fix And he's my
kind of guy. He's uh. I was gonna say he's
(17:05):
Lane Kiffin, but I think a lot of people don't
like Lane Kiven. He's He's a personality, charisma driven guy.
I send him a lot of deals to his personal
cell phone, which every one of our listeners is entitled to.
If you want to email me, I'll connect you directly,
and he puts he closes every deal, he charms the
(17:25):
face off of you. He gets the best deal he can.
He goes and finds cars for people all over the country,
not just Chevies. I mean he takes care of my people,
and he's got a heart for people, and he's built
a good team. But anyway, so I called him and
he is rebuilding that store to be there'll be number
one in Silverado's again in the country. And that's saying something. Now,
this is the number one state for trucks, but still,
(17:48):
you know, there's a lot of dealerships around the country.
And I called him just during the break to see
how we closed out February, and he said, Friday and
Saturday are the best Friday Saturday we've had in over
a year.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We have been partners with them for just under a year. Ramon,
you do the math. We've been your partner for a
year and now you've had the best Friday Saturday you've
had in a very long time. I love helping businesses
(18:30):
prosper when they take good care of our listeners. Love it.
Got a message from Tom Haynes earlier. Let's see what
he says. March is our twelfth month with you building
something special here. Love your people. They're fun to connect with.
(18:51):
They just had see I think they sold forty vehicles
for the month of February just out of car Pro.
Carpro is every kind of vehicle you want. You just
you can email me. I'll connect you with Tom. He
calls the dealership. They have his person waiting there when
you arrive, so you're not waiting on whoever's available or
(19:12):
whoever is behind on their Morriyar's payments. Trying to get
you closes they get and then you get a scoring
system as you go. You go through the process and
I get a report. Carpro gets a report throughout the
process to make sure you're happy. It has worked. It
has tended to work. All right, let's talk about Iran
and let's talk about Stateside. I don't feel the need
(19:36):
to talk at length about news stories that I feel
like you probably already know the details of, and you do.
There's no reason for me to replicate that. But after that,
there was a terrible shooting, a mass shooting in Austin
on sixth Street, and these burgers. I forget the name
(19:58):
of the place starts with a B. It doesn't matter.
Michael t knew the place and said, it's it's a
it's a nice enough place. It's it's not a dive bar,
A weirdo bar. Uh, you know, a real violent bar.
This guy wanted to f some people up. He wanted
to undertake a terrorist attack. He is from Senegal. He
(20:21):
came to this country in two thousand on I think
it's a B one tourist visa. Came here on a
B one tourist visa, overstayed that visa, gets married. Man
manages to go through the process and get permanent residency
so that he can stay in this country. And there
(20:44):
are online comments he's making that are increasingly threatening and disturbing.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Supposedly the FBI was on to him uh and had
been for some period of time when he pulls up,
walks out at a very very busy time where a
lot of college kids are going to be out on
Sixth Street at this bar, and proceeds to start blasting away.
(21:15):
He's wearing a T shirt underneath. I have read but
not seen that makes reference to Iran. Again, I've not
seen that photo posted. You may have, or that may
be an exaggeration. I have seen the sweatshirt he was wearing,
and it says property of Allah. The Austin Police Department
(21:37):
deserves a commendation for arriving and engaging in fifty seven
seconds less than one minute. Now. It helps that this
is on Sixth Street, and Sixth Street tends to have
a pretty heavy Austin presence. I follow was it Sixth
(21:57):
Street Fights or some I follow up website because I
have a son in Austin that will show you the
fights that happened the night before on Sixth Street. And
usually they're the ones out on the street because you
can't film well inside a bar and the bars will
throw you out if you're fighting. But on the streets
you get a bunch of drunk young people strolling along
(22:21):
and somebody bumped somebody or says something or that's his
ex girlfriend, or that's you know, they played ball against it,
whatever the deal is. They get into a pretty nasty fight.
Wigs are snatched, teeth are knocked out, blood is spilled.
It is nonsense, but you will notice a heavy police presence.
Austin police department reacted nobly. Their district attorney is awful,
(22:43):
their city government is some left wing Portland wanna be
nut jobs Seattle type. But those officers responded and engaged,
and they put this dude down, finished him off. He's
from Senegal. Interestingly, if you look up Senegal illegal alien border,
(23:05):
you will see a bunch of young military aged men
coming into this country illegally being interviewed by some of
the citizen journalists who over the years have exposed this
sort of thing. He's only the first one we've seen.
You don't have to have a kid at UT to
be terribly concerned over the details coming out in this case.
(23:30):
By the way, the first person killed in his spree
young man named Writer Harrington, who was a student at
Texas Tech University. If you got a kid college age,
whether they're off in the Marines, the Army, the Navy,
tech school, a job posting or college, and you get
(23:55):
a call that your kiddo has been killed. How about
when you learn that the guy is a radicalized Muslim
who came to this country and overstate his visa, making
him an illegal alien. How about the fact that it
(24:16):
is believed I cannot confirm this yet, so I'm not
going to say the name that an NNGO helped him
stay here throughout all of this when he broke our
laws to stay and I don't think he came here
as a tourist. What do you think We're going to
see these terror cells. We're going to see the effect
(24:36):
when you bomb Iran their sleeper cells here and their
affiliates and their cohorts. We're going to see those attacks
on American soil in the coming days. That's going to happen.
The neocons will tell you we got to fight the
wars over there, so we don't have to fight them here.
The problem is the neocons want to fight wars over
(24:57):
there and open our bord here. The neocons have been
consistently open border types, but even more, the neocons want
to fight wars abroad and then bring their buddies home here,
and it turns out a lot of people they bring
back are unvetted, unstable and end up committing terrible, terrible crimes.
(25:27):
I'll guarantee you. Dan Crenshaw regrets signing a letter with
Sylvia Garcia pushing the Biden administration to bring Afghan quote
unquote refugees not just to the United States, but to
bring them to Houston to expedite that, theory being it's
(25:49):
good for the Houston economy because you get some federal funds.
So how would you like to know that the guy
who moved in next door just rape the lady who
lives on the other side of you, but the local
government got some money out of it. How would you
like to know that the people over there were brought
(26:11):
over here? Why? Why it's two different discussions. Should we
fight other people's wars, but these people it's part and
parcel the same package. We go fight other people's wars
and then we bring people here from those wars. Why
(26:35):
we don't need to do that. We are not putting
America and Americans first when we do that. Let's talk
about it. Erron again, I think most of the facts
are in evidence anybody who cares much about them. I
don't want to be a program that just repeats what
(26:57):
everybody else is out there saying. I'm as enamored as
the next guy at the technological advances, how cheap these
drones are, how powerful they are, the bunker busters, and
the way I'm as interested in all that as the
next guy. But I think we have an opportunity to
talk beyond all of that, and I think it's interesting
(27:18):
to get a perspective. I'm going to open up the
phone lines as to your thoughts. I posted this to
Facebook yesterday and I have read every single response, and
I'm going to try to gel down what I think
the majority of responses come in at. And this is
basically any response that has five percent or more. One
(27:39):
of them is Israel and the Jews. This war is
Israel and the Jews. Israel and the Jews control American
foreign policy. It is in Israel's interest to take out Iran,
and that is uses ill gotten influence over the United
(28:03):
States government in order to ensure that people do this.
Maybe that's the source of the Epstein files, so that
people are compromised and have to support that that's one.
One is a less sort of conspiratorial view, and that
is that this is an Israeli war that needs American
(28:27):
muscle and we shouldn't be fighting other people's wars at all.
Another one is a fear of a World War three. Now,
anytime bombs start bursting, there is a fear of a
world War three. But I was reading yesterday. Let's see
if I can find this. I was reading about the
(28:52):
energy markets. Now this could have changed in the meantime.
Let's see if I can find it. Here we go,
oil prices dropped back below seventy dollars a barrel. This
is yesterday afternoon. So oil prices had popped as you
would imagine a straight of horror moves. There's a lot,
(29:13):
a lot of oil that moves through that straight. If
that oil can't move, and if Iran's capacity is taken offline,
China is going to suffer from that. But it's going
to mean a shortage of oil. And we know supply
and demand reduce the supply. Maintaining steady demand drives the
(29:35):
price up. Very simple stuff. But by last night, over
seventy percent of the opening spike had been clawed back.
So the energy markets are not predicting a spike in energy,
which means the energy markets are not predicting a sustained, prolonged,
(30:00):
quote unquote war. I don't know that you would call
this a war just yet. I guess there's legal terminology,
but it is not the moment we put boots on
the ground. This is a full on war. I don't
believe Donald Trump wants to do that. Now. The Irani
(30:23):
regime as of last night, had launched four hundred and
sixty missiles three hundred and fifty drones at eleven countries
across the Middle East. Obviously Israel, we expected that, but Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain,
Cutter Uae, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, and Syria. Now you
(30:47):
could argue that's just them hitting American installations and Americans
where they know them to be. That's why they're attacking
the biggest hotels, the most famous hotels, including in Dubai
that is world famous. That's why they're attacking those hotels.
It is because the Americans who are working there, particularly
(31:07):
in some form of the State department, have evacuated the
offices and repaired to the hotels. So the idea is
hit the Americans where they are in their hotels. But
when Iran's Shia Muslims are attacking almost all Sunni Muslims
in eleven countries or ten non Israel, you would expect
(31:29):
them to attack Israel. It starts to look like Iran
has been marginalized in the region. And that's an interesting
position because if a president manages to put together a
diplomatic team and a diplomatic coalition that includes Muslim nations
(31:51):
when there is a Muslim war skirmish engagement in the past,
that has been described as a diplomatic genius. Somehow it
would appear that Donald Trump has done that. To my knowledge,
there has not been another Middle Eastern nation come out
and condemned this president. Even the French got involved, but
(32:15):
I think we're going to pull them back and say no, no,
we don't need you to surrender. Keir Starmer had to
speak up because he's so unpopular in the United Kingdom.
The Chinese response has been at most muted. The Russians
have not engaged, and a lot of that is Russian technology.
(32:37):
Whatever one may think of Trump, whatever one may think
of if we should even be in Iran. By the way,
those were a few of the anti Iran comments that
made up about fifteen to twenty percent. I would say
that over eighty percent of the comments were very very
pro this either you know Iran going back to nineteen
(32:58):
seventy nine and the hostages, Iran's involvement in Iraq, Iran's
involvement in Eastern Africa, Iran's saber rattling, the Obama deal
with Iran. But I thought we'd open the phone lines
and just let you share openly your raw opinion in
a no judgment zone. Seven one three nine nine nine
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