PM Show Hr 2 | What's Next for Iran

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck, and load of
Michael Verie Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatola a Mine 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

(00:34):
across 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

(00:57):
take back to your country. America is with you. I
made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
The rest will be up to you, but will be
there to help you.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's an incredible dissonance that they had to choose war
over regime, but they were willing to do it. Thank
you Donald Trump, Thank you Benjamin Netya who, Thank you America.
It's not death to America after they killed the leader.
The Americans and the Israelis did it.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's not death to Israel and death to America. It's
thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's a new day dawning, but very early days, very
very early days, so we'll have.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
To see what comes.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
But it's the Iranian people that have been telling me
over and over and over again, we want this. We're
not regimists, 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 5 (01:47):
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 a about dismembering our relationship with or not dismembering,
but resetting our relationship with China.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Right now, fifty five.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Percent of the oil production that Iran produces goes to China,
despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine,
you want to end that word, you have to. There
is no getting around dismembering this Islamic republic. It is
non negotiable. It is not a want to have. It
does ay have to have And it's not just for
the Iranian people.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I think you have to trust.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
The Iranian people. We know this government better than anyone else.
When you dismember and decapitate this regime, you are going
to see a change in them, att least in Venezuela,
in China, in Ukraine. 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

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will be like ending the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall.
This is a transformational moment for humankind.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Terribly concerned that coverage of the attacks on Iran and
now the Iranian or the Irani attempts to bomb other
countries and American sites, and terror cell activity in the
United States and foreign reaction to all this. I am

(03:14):
worried that with all of this sucking the oxygen out
of the room and occupying all of our attention round
the clock, we won't be getting updates on the Savannah
Guthrieses mommy story. How else will we know that the

(03:34):
FBI is en route to Nancy Guthries' home for the
thirteenth time. And now we go live to the FBI
walking onto the property escorted by the sheriff. Oh, are
there new developments? It's a who done it? And then

(03:55):
I will hear from people when I make this statement.
They'll say it's true, it's true. They're over the top
with the coverage. And by the way, she's already dead.
And then people will give you their theory. With all
due respect, I love my father, I love my family.
I don't want them to go missing. But I'm not
emotionally invested in Savannah Guthrie's mother's story. I'm sure she

(04:21):
is because it's her mother, and I'm not going to
feel bad that I'm not going to be told to
be emotionally invested in somebody else's case. I'm not. I'm
not on a jury of her murderer, or her kidnapper
or her extortionist. There is no reason I need to

(04:44):
care about that case. Fox doesn't really want me to
care about it save and except they want me to
stay plugged in, and as we've seen, they'll move to
the next hot thing. An OJ Simpson car chat Momming's
in Iran. If the only thing we're supposed to care

(05:06):
about is Nancy Guthrie's whereabouts, what has happened to her?
Then how did we choose Nancy Guthrie? Would your mother
get that attention? Well, Michael, that's a big case. A
woman is missing. Do you know how many people go
missing in this country every day? And nobody gives a

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damn not even a little day, not even a tiny bit.
Children go missing, they flee the country, the mom or
the dad gets custody for the weekend. We never see
them again. It's a very unhealthy and may I say,

(05:50):
naive thing to think that what's going on in the
world is what's being covered. That's a that's a little
uh what was that thing ramon that they had that
you what, No, not the polaroids, you would click it viewfinder,
that's a viewfinder perspective on the world. News directors had

(06:15):
nine and more, incredible power in the world, incredible power
in America to tell you what was important and what wasn't.
The problem is the decline of network and even cable
television news has been a decline of their influence. So
if you want to go surf porn, thousands of pages

(06:36):
for that, You care about classic cars, thousands of pages
for that, You want true crime, and that's really what
this is it's a true crime of some sort. It's
true crime in an era where the network's got lazy
and they could go round, But it's really a true
crime podcast. It's nothing more than that. And yeah, all right,

(07:01):
lots to get to the Texas primary tomorrow. I do
want to talk about that because I think that's going
to have a lot to do with the United States
Senate come January. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been
the most active secretary of State at President Trump's direction
in quite some time. Do you remember who Joe Biden's

(07:21):
secretary of state was? Do you remember who President Trump's
secretary of state his first administration?

Speaker 6 (07:29):
Who?

Speaker 1 (07:29):
There were more than one who that was. Do you
remember who was Barack Obama secretary of state? Probably only
because it's Hillary Clinton, and Hillary Clinton could be the
county clerk of Jefferson County, Texas, and you'd pay attention
because you'd want to know what that witch is up to.

(07:53):
But Rubio is having quite a run. I think he
has burnished his reputation that was that was harmed terribly
with his twenty sixteen presidential run. And I think I
think Marco understands that he made a huge mistake. What
happened to Marco Rubio happens to a lot of guys

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when they go to DC. They go there with this. Remember,
Marco Rubio in twenty ten was a MAGA guy before
there was maga. He was a tea party guy. And
he came out of the House of Representatives in Florida.
He beat a powerful Republican with National Republican Senatorial Committee money.

(08:38):
He started at four percent in the polls. Marco shot
he was a tea party guy. He was talking about
a lot of what Trump would end up talking about.
He's Latino, he's Cuban descent, he's from Florida. He was young,
I mean, he was it. And then he got there
and he was perceived as that kind of guy, much

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like Ted would do two years later. But the money
came to him, the evil temptress, and they said, hey, Marco,
come sit over here at the cool table, just like
in the movies or just like at prison. Oh you mean,
I won't get butt raped if I get to sit
at the cool table. Come on over here. We're gonna

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let you sit with the grand pooh bahs. And Marco
was very interested in this, and they said, hey, look,
we got to cut a deal here, We got to
be reasonable. We admire what you've done. You've made a
real strong case to stop illegal immigration, no amnesty. You've

(09:39):
become a leader. But what's the point of building all
that clout in capital if you don't use that. Let's
get a real solution to this problem.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
And you could be.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Part of the solution, not just out there throwing rocks
and complaining. You can show you can govern, you can
be president. And Marco bought it. Wo line and Sinker.
The great evil temptations do not have evil temptation written
on their face. They don't say to you, hey, do

(10:10):
what we want you to do and ruin your career.
Quite the opposite. And so little Marco there he was,
he was he They rolled him out. Hey, look it's
all those walk creatures and we've got an amnesty deal
that the base is going to hate. But wait, we've

(10:30):
got your guy. And there was little Marco. And rather
than the Bass saying, well, you know, if that's what
the swamp wants, and Marco says it's the best deal,
we'll go along, the Bass said, just like we thought
you played tea party when tea Party was working then

(10:53):
you got there and you sold out. So Marco was
struggling and it hurt him in twenty sixteen. Trump is
very very astute, astute judge of people's motivations. I describe

(11:13):
him as at the dog park. He's the dog to
know which dog will bite and which one will bark.
And he put Marco in as Secretary of State, and
I think Marco has had a greater rise in his
stock as part of the Trump administration than any other person.
If you look at the marginal increase in his stock,
he has had the greatest increase in his stock of

(11:37):
anyone serving in the administration. And it's not even closed.
This is what he said after the attack, the strikes
on Israel's changing very fat bred Vunneberg so old Walds
gone frankly, I how up can we live in a
new era at geopolitics? And it's going to require all
of us and sort of re examine what that looks
like if we're all roll of point of beatable. And

(11:58):
I've had many of these conversations that many of our allies,
if you are our light, and we need to continue
to have a conversations. The challenge is going to be
what does regime change look like. I think Trump learned
a lot from the Iraqi debacle. The focus was get
Saddam Hussein out of office and kill off everybody who

(12:20):
was around him, the scourge of the Bath Party, and
that happened and it worked. The problem is you cut
off the head and there was nothing to replace it.
You create a power vacuum at a moment like this,
so Iran starts sending in insurgents. They're going to take
this government. You had various factions within and without Iraq

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who wanted the prize of the Iraqi government, and we
ended up installing some very weak leaders who did not
have public support. And I fear that's what's going to
happen in Iran. You can you can cut off the
head of the entirety of that administration and you can
kill them off. And President Trump has made the statement

(13:05):
that the folks that he predicted would be the next
round of leaders are now dead. There's been some criticism
that you idiot, you killed your own bench. No, that
wasn't his bench. He predicted those would be the people
who would fill the breach. The question is going to
be in a country that does not have an open

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political culture and does not have institutions, the pillars that
underpin democratic government. Where's your farm team? So what tends
to happen in a situation like this is there's a
military junta that takes over because they've got the guns,

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or some sort of police organization or some sort of
radical that can manage to mobilize young people. Usually that
can win the hearts of the military, and that can
happen too. That could be a Equialessa type deal in Poland,

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or a labor but you don't really have labor in
Iran the way you would in an Eastern European country,
particularly forty years ago. So when you're looking for the
folks that would return to lead, well, one thing Israel
didn't want was Amadinijhad and so he was killed after
all this because I think he was a natural, if

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only because he was the name you knew and he
was a civilian. Clearly Israel didn't want him, because they
killed him. You've got some senior members of the military cabal,
but some of those are now perceived and very likely
to have been the case, to have been working with
Israel to give away the whereabouts. So the question is

(14:49):
do they survive in the short term, long enough to
be able to leave Iran. This is not going to
be an easy regime change and attempt to stabilize this country.
Probably pure cants or and the left and their media
would declare he was creating unemployment among the pharmaceutical industry.
It wouldn't matter. It really wouldn't matter, you know. Amidst

(15:13):
all the laughter at the silliness of the left and
the media, and whatever your position on the Irani strikes,
anytime an American puts on our uniform and gives their life,
no greater love hath any man than to lay down
his life for a friend. It is the most Christlike

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thing you can do with These folks give their lives
for our country. Politics stops where our compassion and appreciation begins,
and President Trump understood that and said.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
This Earlier today, Sentcam shared the news that three US
military service members have been killed in action. As one nation,
we grieve for the true American patriots who have made
the ultimate sacrifice for our nation, even as we continue
the righteous mission for which they gave their lives. We

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pray for the full recovery of the wounded and send
our immense love and eternal gratitude to the families of
the fallen, and sadly, there will likely be more before
it ends.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
That's the way.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
It is likely be more, but will do everything possible
where that won't be the case. But America will avenge
their deaths and deliver the most punishing blow to the
terrorists who have waged war against basically civilization. They have
waged war against civilization itself. Our resolved. Likewise, that of

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Israel has never been stronger. So we have to.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Address the fact that there was a terrible terror attack
in Austin. Obviously, I'm mindful because my son goes to
school there. Fortunately he was at home in Houston visiting US,
so he was not out on Sixth Street or in

(17:24):
Austin where this was going down. But this individual came
to this country on a tourist visa, applied for asylum
after having been here a number of years, and donning
a property of Allah hoodie with the Koran in his car,

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and we're told was wearing an undershirt. I still haven't
seen it, but I haven't watched much news an undershirt
featuring the Irani flag and other Irani symbols. When he
opened fire on Buford's backyard beer garden near the UT
Austin campus, a site that is mostly UT students, and

(18:09):
the first person to die, Writer Harrington, was a Texas
tech student visiting some friends there. This has got to stop.
This is why you have deportations. This guy should have
been deported. The story from KTVTTV out of Dallas.

Speaker 7 (18:27):
Yes video shows people taking cover inside a bar as
a gunman fired shots toward them from the window of
an suv. Then police said he parked and got out
with a rifle and started firing again. Within less than
a minute, three police officers patrolling the busy entertainment district

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shot and killed the gunman. Paramedics immediately started trying to
save the lives of the nineteen people shot. Two of
them died, three more who were in critical condition. Sources
identified the shooter to CBS News as Indiaga Danye, a
naturalized US citizen originally from Senegal. There were indicators that
on the subject and in his vehicle that indicate potential

(19:10):
access to terrorism. The gunman was wearing a sweatshirt that
said property of a law and had a Koran in
his vehicle. Investigator searching his home north of Austin found
an Iranian flag and pictures of Iranian leaders. According to
officials close to the investigation, this is what keeps the
intelligence community up at night, not people directly associated with
terrorist groups, but people who.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Become inspired because of things that are happening in the world.

Speaker 7 (19:34):
Law enforcement officials have also told CBS News that this shooter, Steve,
had a history of mental health issues that law enforcement
was aware of.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
So I'm all for liberating Iran for the Irani people
and creating a better place for them to call home.
But my focus is on the American people on our streets,
and I assure you there will be the terror cell
attacks or there will be attacks, whether they are lone

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wolf as they're called. You know, you see some of
the things coming out of these these mosques today, Some
of these some of these im moms are nothing more
than terror provocateurs calling on people to do awful things.

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And invariably you're going to get some poor dumb ass
who's gonna think that he's doing something for Allah. It's
gonna happen, and this is why we need the deportation.
I think there is there's gonna be a lot of
ups and downs and developments in Iran over the coming

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days and months. The overnight success of this effort will
be forgotten by summer if there is a civil war,
and particularly if America is putting boots on the ground,
and there will be a pull from Iran, an emotional

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plea to send our boys, and there will be a
push in this country. Iranians living in this country, of
multiple generations are a very influential group, very very They
are doctors, to a lesser extent, lawyers, businessmen, activists, professors,

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and there is a deep understandable desire by the way
every group of immigrants who comes to this country and
the generations after it, who identify with their homeland. When
I say that they should not be setting American foreign
policy is not to criticize them.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
That is to.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Remind you that America is America. It's not a country
of Jews from Israel or Saudis from Saudi Arabia or
Lebanese or Iranis, or Indians or Pakistanese or Chinese or
Japanese or Vietnamese or Mexicans. That is to remind you

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that there are people among us who have a loyalty
to another country, even if it's not a primary loyalty,
and that does not always put America's best interests first.
And one has to be careful of that because most
Americans are walking around without this deep connection to a

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foreign country. There are Indians who live in this country
whose primary allegiance is to in or at least enough
of it. Same is true of Pakistan, same is true
of Israel, the same is true of Ukraine. And we've
seen what kind of mess that can get us into,

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and you're going to see that with Iran. The fall
of Iran in seventy nine was a precursor to a
lot of human and financial capital coming to Europe, but
especially to the United States. And they're very, very successful people,
much like the Cubans. A lot of the Cubans game here,

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in fact, probably more so per capita, and so those
individuals are now going to flex and they're going to
and they're not necessarily wrong. We just have to be
careful to make good decisions for this country. We have
to we have to make decisions that are in our

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best interest as a name. And it is my fervorent
prayer that we not put boots on the ground. That
would be a terrible, terrible, thing, a terrible, terrible thing,
and that would hurt Trump in the polls. It'll give
him a boost and then hurt him bad.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
Hey, it's ramon about independence. Webster defines independence as the
fact or state of being independent, freedom from control, influence, support, aid,
or the like of others. Let us celebrate today Independence Day.

(24:42):
You no doubt know the stories settlers on New Land,
angry at their tyrannical ruler ruling from far away, en
active defiance, a declaration of independence, fighting a bigger army
with a rag tag squad, a general who was quickly
losing his troops to injury, disease, famine, and an uncertainty
from their troops who would wonder if their leader was

(25:05):
one worth following. And of course you remember the River
crossing and the final battle that won the war and
changed the United States and her young history forever. Nothing
I can say now will give those heroes the proper
respect or those stories their proper contexts. Those words are
just beyond me. How must it have finally felt, after

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losing battles, finally miraculously winning and becoming your own country,
gaining independence, able to govern your citizens as they see
fit and not by the hand of some distant ruler.
Monuments would be built so that generations would know these battles.

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Statues erected so generations may be reminded of the soldier's greatness.
And a flag, a mighty flag who's existence represented defiance, pride,
and mostly its independence.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
End.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Oh what a flag, the red, the white, the blue,
and its lone star, representing the Republic of Texas. See
the United States story of freedom is a great and
powerful story, arguably just as great and powerful as the
story of another band of ragtags that fought and died

(26:27):
for freedom. The general whose tactics were doubted until that
final victory, Except this country would be Texas. Sam Houston
was losing his soldiers, not just to sickness and injury,
but to doubt too. After retreating past the Colorado River,
many troops deserted. Finally, on April twenty first, the Battle
of San Deracino was fought and won by the Texians

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in only eighteen minutes. When time came to bring Texas
into the United States, it entered as the twenty eighth
state in the Union. Given the US more push west
and upsetting Mexico so much that they declared War on
the United States. The US, with Texas now in tow,
won that war and added an additional five hundred and
twenty five thousand square miles to the United States territory,

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including the land that makes up all or part of
present day Arizona in California, in Colorado and Nevada, and
New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Our declaration of independence at
Washington on the Brazas was declared on March second, eighteen
thirty six, one hundred and fifty two days after the
Battle of Gonzales, only four days before the fall of

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the Alamo, and fifty days before Texas ultimately won her independence.
Cacinjasono declaring her independence and taking her independence in one
month and nineteen days later. Anyone from Texas would expect
nothing less from Texas. Happy Independence Day, Texans. God certainly
has blessed us and those of you not lucky enough

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to live in Texas. Bless y'all hearting for Texas.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Poor world.

Speaker 8 (28:05):
Would never cross my mind have been Austin city of
its sun, the no long stall it it comes.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
If it wasn't for Texas, it made me the man
I am.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Thank God for my whole stomping ground.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Wouldn't be standing ride here, riding now if it wasn't
for Texas, If it wasn't for Texas, if it.

Speaker 9 (28:55):
Wasn't for Texas, Lay the gentleman Alas has left.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Good budding, thank you, and good night

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Sh