Jason talks about the US strikes in Iran, the Democrats opposing the military operation, the Texas bar shooting that appears to be a terrorist attack, plus calls and texts.

On Monday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," Dan reports on the latest from Operation Epic Fury, debunks every leftist lie about the attack and Iran, and dives into the history of Iran's nearly half-century of unspeakably evil attacks on the United States.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One of the more unbelievable weekends that we have experienced
as an American community and as a global community. We
will attempt to make sense of all of it here
on the Dan o'donald Show. The Ayatola is dead, the
Iranian military is in shambles, and it seems as though

(00:23):
pretty much every Democrat is furious about this. Why because
President Trump has succeeded where presidents of both parties have
been unable to for quite literally forty seven years. We
will get the history behind what happened this weekend and

(00:44):
why all of this was all but inevitable throughout the
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Just a couple of minutes ago, Secretary of State Marco
Rubio provided an update on why it was this weekend

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that the United States military and the Israeli military needed
to strike against tay Rosson.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Have been asked, is why now, Well, there's two reasons
why now. The first is it was abundantly clear that
if Iran came on to attack by anyone, the United
States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond
and respond against the United States.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
The orders had been.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic, and
in fact it bare to be true because, in fact,
within an hour of the initial attack on the Leadership compound,
the missile forces in the South and in the North
for that matter, had already been activated to launch, in fact,
those that already been prepositioned. The third is the assessment

(02:27):
that was made that if we stood and waited for
that attack to come first before we hit them, we
would suffer much higher casualties. And so the President made
the very wise decision. We knew that there was going
to be an Israeli action, We knew that that would
precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that
we didn't preemptibly go after them before they launched those attacks,

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we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even those killed,
and then we would all be here answering questions about
why we knew that and didn't a going back to
the purpose, the purpose of this is to destroy that
mis capability. Why does Iran want that blistic missile capability?
What they are trying to do and have been trying
to do for a very long time, is build a
conventional weapons capability as a shield where they can hide

(03:11):
behind or nuclear ambitions. They are producing, by some estimates,
over one hundred of these missiles a month. Compare that
to the six or seven interceptors that can be built
a month. They can build one hundred of these a month,
not to mention the thousands of one way attack drones
that they also have. They've been doing this for a
very long time, and by the way, they've been doing.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
It under sanction.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
You see the attacks they're conducting right now. They're attacking airports,
they're attacking hotels, They're hitting not just military bases, they're
attacking our embassies directly. They're attacking facilities that have nothing
to do with war or with military And that's a
weekend Iran that's in Iran despite years of sanction. Imagine
a year from now or a year and a half
from now, the capabilities they would have to infer damage

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on us. It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands
of a regime that's run by radical clerics. The Iyatola
is a radical was a radical cleric, That entire regime
is led by radical clerics.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Secretary of State Marco Rubia literally just a couple of
minutes ago explaining why there was in fact an imminent
threat to United States interests that necessitated allowing Israel to
undergo that strike. When it was known that the Ayato Lahamine,
as well as dozens of his top advisors were all

(04:26):
going to be gathered in one place. The idea was
to cut the head off the snake and then follow
up by just completely neutering any ability for a meaningful
retaliatory strike. That is what you've seen over the past
couple of days. Now, Democrats who completely forgot about the
War Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three from the years

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two thousand and nine to January twentieth, twenty seventeen during
the Obama administration, where he literally took out Momar Kadaffi
in Libya without ever filing a declaration of war, getting
a declaration of war from the United States Congress. So
this has been debated pretty much all weekend whether or

(05:08):
not this was somehow an illegal strike.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
It clearly is.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
You just heard Secretary of State Marco Rubio outline was not.
Warpowers resolution was passed in nineteen seventy three actually over
the veto of then President Richard Nixon, and it actually
limits the president's ability to commit armed forces to any
sort of hostilities abroad because Nixon was doing this essentially

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expanding the Vietnam War well beyond what was initially intended.
Interestingly enough, as you have undoubtedly heard, Congress retains the
war power. Congress has the ability to declare war. Do
you know the last time that war was formally declared
by the United States Congress, it was ahead of the
United States's entry.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
In World War Two.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
While it is true that Congress does have that congressional authority.
The President does have the inherent authority already as the
commander in chief of the United States Military. Now, the
conflict between these two inherent powers, the declaration of warpower
of the Congress and the president's inherent commander in chief power,
came to a head in the early nineteen seventies with

(06:14):
the expansion of the Vietnam conflict, and this led to
the War Powers Resolution. The President, under it, must consult
with Congress quote, in every possible instance before introducing any
sort of US force into a hostility abroad.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
That is the standard.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Congress must be notified in writing within forty eight hours
of committing forces to hostilities. That clearly happened. Now the
President must consult Congress. But what we now have is
a situation in which there are four hundred and thirty
five members of the House of Representatives, one hundred members
of the United States Senate, and roughly fifty percent of

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them I'll give you a hint, it's those with a
D next to their name probably can't be trusted not
to tell the enemy the war plans. This is fundamentally
what happened here. The United States obviously can't inform all
five hundred and thirty five members of Congress in the

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House and the United States Senate, regardless of whether they've
got loose lips that might sink ships or not. It's
simply not practicable. So what the Secretary of State actually did,
and this got lost in the shuffle, nobody remembers this
because it happened on the day of the President's State
of the Union address last Tuesday, is he actually briefed

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top members of both Democrats and Republicans on the Hill,
including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, about the imminent threat
of Iran. There was a very famous picture that, of
course immediately got lost in the sort of news vacuum
of the President's State of the Union address. After the
President gives that speech, it's sort of like everything that

(07:57):
happened before just gets sucked up and all of the
folks is simply on the speech. But there was a
picture of Schumer looking ashen faced and positively terrified after
coming out of that briefing with Secretary of State Rubio.
Clearly that was the President and his designated administrative aid Rubio,

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the Secretary of State consulting with Congress. So under the
war powers resolution, the president must withdraw forces within sixty days,
which is extendable by an additional thirty more days to
allow for a safe withdrawal if it's certified in writing
and delivered to the Congress. Unless Congress declares war, I

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will not disagree with the notion that Congress has over
the past eighty years essentially delegated its war powers under
the Constitution. However, because war is simply not fought like
it was in World War two or earlier, you'll notice
that there are no Americans in trenches right now. In fact,

(09:01):
it is almost certain that while the President did say
that this is likely to go four or five weeks,
or in his words today even longer, because he said
he's not going to get bored, it is very likely
that this conflict is going to be over relatively quickly.
How do I know that, Because we thought we were
going to be embroiled in a global conflict in Venezuela

(09:25):
when the United States executed an arrest warrant over former
dictator Nicholas Maduro, that conflict was.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Over in a matter of hours.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Already, the United States in Israel have established air superiority
over the entire region and it is entirely possible that
Iran's entire naval fleet is sunk. The President keeps repeating
the same message to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. Lay down
your arms, you will be completely pardoned. We will absolutely

(09:56):
allow you to surrender peacefully, and you will have full
immuni And what he said in a video message yesterday
that we will get into on the daily Trump date
coming up in about an hour or so. What he
said was, look, Iranian citizens, ultimately, this is up to you.
This is your country. It is time for you to

(10:17):
strike down the last of that snake that has poisoned
your beautiful culture for the past forty seven years. We
have cut the head off. It is time for you
to do the rest. And the President earlier today during
a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House, outlined
the four major objectives of this conference.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Our objectives are clear. First, we're.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
Destroying orends missile capabilities.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
And you see that happening on an hourly basis, and
their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good
ones they make. Second, we're annihilating their navy. We've knocked
out already ten ships. They're at the bottom of the c. Third,
we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terra

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can never obtain a nuclear weapon, never going to have
a nuclear weapon. I said that from the beginning, they're
never going to have a nuclear weapon. They were in
the road to getting one legitimately through a deal that
was signed foolishly by our country. And finally, we're ensuring
that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and

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direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Coming up on the Dan O'Donnell show today, the idea
that this was somehow a war the United States started
is utterly laughable. In fact, Iran started this all the
way back in nineteen seventy nine, amid the chaos of
the revolution that overturned the reign of the Shop. We

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will get into that history, the very long history of
Iranian aggression and deadly assaults on American troops and Americans
civilians alike, that is coming up in the four o'clock hour.
Coming up in the five o'clock hour, we are going
to debunk in very short order, every single left wing
talking point that you have undoubtedly heard since the invasion,

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or rather since the strike was first announced. There is
no invasion. It is almost certain there are going to
be no American boots on the ground. That's just another
one of the myth that you're hearing. There's not going
to be a forever war. This is not going to
be a quagmire like Afghanistan or Iraq. Quite simply, American

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technological superiority is so vast that there is literally nothing
that a nation like Iran or its allies which have
gone suspiciously silent in the last couple of days, such
as China and Russia, there's nothing that they can do
about it. In fact, both Iran and Venezuela were using

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supposedly the most state of the art anti missile technology
coming from China. Turns out that, just like most other
stuff that comes out of China.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
It was revealed to be cheaply made junk.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Now hours before Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed the
country on just what the imminent threat was that allowed
the War Powers Resolution to kick in and authorized this strike.
President Trump also said fundamentally the same thing at this
Medal of Honor ceremony this morning, that there was an

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imminent threat that anything that was about to happen would
have led to American troops in jeopardy, American interests being threatened,
and almost certainly an attack on American lines.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Today, the United States military continues to carry out large
scale combat operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats
posed to America by this terrible terrorist regime. Following our
obliteration of Orend's nuclear program and Operation Midnight Hammer a

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short while ago, we warned aren not to make any
attempt to rebuild at a different location because they were
unable to use the ones that we so powerfully blew up.
But they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their
pursuit of nuclear weapons. In addition, the regime's conventional ballistic

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missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically, and this posed
a very clear, colossal threat to America and our forces
stationed overseas. The regime already had missiles capable of hitting
Europe and our bases both local and overseas, and would
soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
And that's fundamentally where the threat lay. As Rubio sort
of further elaborated after briefing the so called Gang of
Eight key leaders in Congress. There is going to be
a more full briefing from the President of the United States,
which I believe may be going.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Now. That's why we are going to be waiting.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
It is entirely possible the President is not scheduled to speak,
but it is entirely possible that he holds an impromptu
press conference following that congressional briefing. If there is in
fact a broader briefing following the one from Secretary of
State Rubio that just wrapped up. We were told that
it is entirely possible that the President could be coming

(15:28):
out and speaking, so we will be on alert for that.
But fundamentally, that's what this was all about. It was
Iran trying to restart its nuclear weapons program under the
guise of dramatically increasing the number of potentially intercontinental ballistic missiles.
It was dramatically increasing its supply and its ability to

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produce regional ballistic missiles, and it was attempting to go
bigger and bigger and bigger, and all the while it
was simultaneously it was adjudged by American and Israeli intelligence
that it was trying to restart its nuclear program. After
said program was utterly decimated by the destruction of the
Fodoh nuclear facility in Operation Midnight Hammer over the summer.

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When we come back here on the Dan o'donald Show
in about three minutes, we will elaborate further on the
War Powers resolution why this was not only legally justified
but necessary to strike Iraq. Just a couple of minutes ago,
right before the Dan O'Donnell show started, Secretary of State

(16:35):
Marco Rubio, after briefing the Gang of eight key congressional leaders,
talked about the imminent threat that necessitated an American Israeli
strike over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat
was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and
we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately
come after us. And we were not going to sit
there and absorb a blow before we responded, because the
Department of War assays that if we did that, if
we waited for them to hit us first after they
were attacked and by someone else Israel attacked them, they

(17:06):
hit us first, and we waited for them to hit us,
we would suffer more casualties and more deaths. We went
proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting
higher damage. Have we not done so, there would have
been hearings on Capitol Hill about.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
How we knew that this was going to happen and we.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss
of life.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
That is exactly true.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
We are, by the way, also going to answer questions
throughout the day that you might have about the Iran airstrikes,
because I understand that for a lot of you this
can be difficult to understand. And by a lot of you,
I mean people like Bill from Ocontomo Walk. He must

(17:48):
have been just amped up all weekend waiting for today
so he could call up and ask what I can
only presume to be a disingenuous question. Bill, the floor
is yours, sir, go away, pretending not to understand something
that's easily understandable.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
Good, good afternoon, Dan, and thank you for giving me
a time to represent real Republicans, not rhinos. Now the
Chess story has changed. According we just heard Mark Rubial
less than seventy two hours this was a preemptive strike. Okay,
I'm not even going to talk about that. What I'm
going to talk about what about the Why.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Wait, hold on a secd hold on a second.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Why why bring up something that you're not going to
talk about, Bill, You're going to bring up something that
is Okay, go ahead, go ahead. I realize that I'm
dealing with a forty point gap in the IQ, so I'll.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Let you go.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
In America, there's Iranians in America. One, how are they
prepared to handle when they let off their stuff in America?
How are you prepared? How is the rhinos prepared?

Speaker 3 (18:57):
How are you prepared?

Speaker 7 (18:58):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a said, hold on
a sec. Did you just accuse Iranians in America of
all being terrorists?

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Bill?

Speaker 6 (19:07):
No, you didn't. Damn that's what That's exactly.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
No, this is exactly what I'm sort of talking about.
There's a whole lot of Iranians in the United States.
What's going to happen when they let off all their stuff?
It seems like what they were letting off was like
whoops of celebration.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Bill.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
I want to play something for you because earlier today
I know what you actually.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Wanted to talk about.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
You have a tendency to sort of get discombobulated here,
but I guess that's sort of understandable.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
It's an excitable time I want to play for you.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
This is actually just a statement today from a War
Department attorney because you wanted to talk about the War
Powers Resolution, right, you wanted to talk about why this
is not an authorized strike, correct, and why it's totally illegal. Okay,
here is I want you to respond to. This is
Harold co saying that the War Powers Resolution. This is

(20:03):
from the Defense Department. Okay, so from the Department of Defense.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
When US forces engage a limited military mission that involves
limited exposure for US troops and limited risk of serious
escalation and employees, limited military means we are not in
hostilities of the kind and visioned by the War Powers Resolution.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
What do you make of that?

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Exactly what it is? It's called extraction. I mean, it's
a military term for a you know, hit him and go.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
So you think it.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Wasn't you think Harold Coe was was wrong that this
is not an authorized strike.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
Jim Santel, a US district attorney, who said, and.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
No, no, I want you to respond. I want you
to respond specifically to what Harold Coe just said.

Speaker 6 (20:52):
Okay, if we're a limited strike as he just said
by Friday.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Okay, what happens.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
But what happens though we took out the leader of
a sovereign nation. I mean, clearly, Harold Coe is probably
wrong about that.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
Right, No, Obama and Biden knew why not to do this?
Really the guy who just so wait.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on Obama. You're saying
Obama would have never done something like this. Absolutely okay,
because I've actually got news for you, Bill. I mean,
people might have thought it's mean when I talked about
a forty point IQ gap.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
This is what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Harold Coe was actually a Defense Department legal counsel under
Barack Obama. This SoundBite was from twenty eleven, when he
was justifying the strike that took out Momar Kadaffi. In fact,
in twenty eleven, the Obama administration launched a concerted campaign
to oust Kadaffi, and even though there was no widespread

(21:56):
concern about war powers resolution or the Constitution, and everybody
just sort of went along with it. So how do
you reconcile that, Bill? How do you reconcile the fact
that you were totally fine with fifteen years ago the
exact same thing happening when you thought it was actually Trump,

(22:21):
you were opposed to it. How about this? Also twenty eleven,
then House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asked, hey, is there
a constitutional, you know, requirement that Congress intervene?

Speaker 9 (22:36):
Here my heart condolence.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
That would be Melania Trump. Here's actually Nancy Pelosi right
over here.

Speaker 10 (22:44):
Adam, leader, you're saying that the president did not need
authorization initially and still does not need.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
Any authorization from Congress.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Ie Libya, Yes, thank you, thank you all very much.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Wow, that is actually kind of amazing. You don't need
congressional authorization when you're a Democrat. We'll get back to
that when we come back here on the Dan O'Donnell show.

(23:25):
You know, all weekend long, I got liberals up and
down comment sections on X on Instagram, on Facebook. Just
it's remarkable how they are experts on the war powers resolution,
on the president's inherent commander in chief authority.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
But then when I call them out and.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Say hey, you should call in, they all end up
sounding like Bill from Oconoma walk.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Half of me felt bad? Should I have felt bad?

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Him into that trap, knowing full well that he had
no idea who Harold co was that the Obama administration
was making the exact same argument for regime change in Libya,
where there clearly was no imminent threat. I mean, by
twenty eleven, Momar Kadaffi had unilaterally disarmed and in the

(24:25):
wake of nine to eleven, actually in the wake of
the Second Iraq War in two thousand and three, he
saw the light and realized that his decades of being
a pain in Americans, you know what, was eventually going
to come back and bite him. And he basically acceeded
to pretty much every single American demand under the Bush administration. Well,

(24:47):
Obama got it in his head during the Arab Spring
movement that Kadaffi had to go. So there were airstrikes
against Kadafi and there was military action aimed at supplanting him,
aimed at removing him from power. Wouldn't you know it,
the Obama administration was making the argument that he didn't

(25:08):
need to go to Congress, that somehow the War Powers
Resolution of nineteen seventy three applied. House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi agreed, and every single Peacenik liberal just sort of went.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Along with it.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Would you believe that President Obama in one year dropped
twenty one thousand bombs on eight different sovereign nations without
a single declaration of war for any of them. Senator
Tom Cotton, very very well spoken on issues of war,

(25:45):
very knowledgeable, on Fox News.

Speaker 11 (25:47):
To President Trump has the inherent power under our Constitution
and as commander in Chief to use military force to
keep our nation safe, in this case from the vast
missile arsenal that Iran has and was expand much bigger
than our missile defenses. And we've had presidents conduct this
kind of operations going back to the beginning of our republic,

(26:08):
for that matter, conduct them in the Middle East. Thomas
Jefferson struck the Barbary pirates just off the coast of
Libya more than two hundred years ago without a vote
in Congress. And speaking of Libya, Barack Obama toppled Mumar
Kadaffi in Libya fifteen years ago without a vote of Congress,
even though he was a de facto American ally by

(26:28):
that point. The difference is that President Trump is attacking
a forty seven year implacable enemy.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Not only that John Fetterman, who is clearly not an
ally of the Trump administration, on all things, as he
is a Democrat senator from Pennsylvania, but is very strong
on national defense. Also said today that there is no
need for a congressional declaration of war, just as there

(26:59):
hasn't been a single declaration. Would you believe Congress did
not declare where an Operation Desert Storm in nineteen ninety one?
Was there a single Democrat outside of the radical far left,
which was thankfully underground back then, that opposed that war?
How about how about the war on Terror that was

(27:22):
just sort of unilaterally declared. The last formal declaration of
war was the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. It
I don't know, I don't even know what to say
at this point. Even Fetterman Densie.

Speaker 12 (27:35):
Look up and read read the Warp Powers resolution from
nineteen seventy three, and what that requires. What that requires
is that provide forty eight hours of notification, and President
Trump had done that, and then that means after sixty
days then they have to withdraw those soldiers or perhaps
even for an extra thirty day extension. Neither of those

(27:58):
things have been broken.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Let's go to j In Mechwan up next on the phones.
Welcome to the DAN O'Donnell show.

Speaker 7 (28:05):
Jay, Oh, thank you Dan, the first time listener.

Speaker 13 (28:09):
Actually, yeah, it's a couple of comments, you know, as
far as what Trump does and his critics. Please don't
confuse them as facts because it's it's just it's.

Speaker 14 (28:20):
Nothing you should do. It's too much for anyways.

Speaker 13 (28:23):
I and also i'll quote to John Lennon.

Speaker 14 (28:27):
Let me say, let's just give piece of chance dand okay.

Speaker 13 (28:31):
But aside from that, I want to bring up with
a very nuanced argument if you'll give me just a second.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Here, sure, so off, you're already setting this up to
be a spectacular call, Jay, I'm just gonna let you
go possibly till the end of the top of the hour.
Till the top of the hour, sir.

Speaker 14 (28:48):
A lot to live off to you. So let me
ask a few questions here.

Speaker 7 (28:51):
So, who is.

Speaker 13 (28:53):
The greatest threat to the United States? Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Boy, that is that is actually as that's a multifaceted question.
The single greatest threat to the United States on a
global scale.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah, I mean most likely an ascended to China if
I had to guess.

Speaker 13 (29:11):
Exactly, are correct, sir. So my second question, or my
second point is, as far as Tucker Carlson's camp is concerned.
Everybody said, oh, we are just a lackey of net Yaho. Ever,
we're just doing the bidding of the Zionist et cetera,
et cetera. But what they don't realize is that countries

(29:32):
act for their own benefit. Yes, our president is thank god.
Here's my other question for you. Then, who gives China
the most oil?

Speaker 1 (29:42):
That would be Iran. That well, technically it's Iran in Russia.
I know they well they faced significant secondary sanctions on that.
So yes, it was Iran for a long time. I
believe it was Russia. But yes, I think recently it's
been Iran.

Speaker 13 (29:57):
That is very correct. So if you all of a sudden, Oh,
by the way, and who was the second second large
source of of of oil Tehran happened to be Venezuela
at the no mistake, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, they were all that was actually I'm sorry to
interrupt real quick, that was actually a major and and
all of this is seen as a deterrent towards China.
That this is to stop what we believe to be
potentially going on next year, which would be a full
scale military takeover of Taiwan, which China has wanted forever,

(30:34):
and I think a lot of this is aimed at
economically weakening it in the ongoing trade war, but also
such a massive, overwhelming show of force that the Chinese
wouldn't dare to act out under Trump's watch, otherwise you'll
get Shi jin Ping driving around coked out of his gourd,
like Henry Hill driving around watching for helicopters at the

(30:56):
end of Goodfellas, keep going though, Jay great, such a
great movie and and a good metaphor.

Speaker 13 (31:04):
By the way, So but what I'm saying, no, so
so okay, so excellent, excellent points. So what do we
have now?

Speaker 7 (31:11):
We have a.

Speaker 13 (31:11):
Situation where the where oil is now the oil that
that that flows to China, our greatest enemy is now
seemingly after regime change in Iran, which is inevitable. Obviously,
we are going to see the flow of oil being
controlled by whom, the United States, to China. And and

(31:32):
I'm just trying, let's pull it all together. What runs what?

Speaker 7 (31:35):
What?

Speaker 6 (31:36):
What?

Speaker 10 (31:36):
What?

Speaker 13 (31:37):
What asset runs war? But more than anything, it's oil.
You cannot run a a an aggression on any country
without energy. So therefore, if we are able, so, if
we are able, so.

Speaker 15 (31:52):
Right, now.

Speaker 13 (31:53):
So, so my point to you is we are not
only are making the world safe from Iran, but top
of that, and tuck with Carlson needs to know this,
and I'm sure he does, but of course are making
we are we are. We are lauding power and control
over Red China for for decades to come.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
As far as the oilers, Okay, I gotta, I gotta
just cut you off real quick. You said you were
first time listener of the Dan o'donald Show. Uh, Jay,
is that because you were spending all your time advising
the State Department? Because that was about the best, just
way to put it all together. So succinctly, I'm actually

(32:33):
scared Jay that the next time you're on the the
Dan o'donalds Show, they're going to call it the Jay
and Mechwan Show, and I'm going to be calling you brother.
That was fantastic and absolutely correct. Thank you so much
for the call. This is This does not exist in
a vacuum. It is not an actually you want to

(32:53):
you want to use another mob movie metaphor? How about
President Trump in twenty twenty six, like Michael corleone right
before he takes out all of the other mafia bosses.
He says, today, I settle all family business. Well, in
twenty twenty six, President Trump is settling all family business.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
The number one.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Bad actor in the world is China, and China, believe
it or not, despite all the propaganda coming from the
American left and its mouthpieces in traditional media, is remarkably weak.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
They are facing a debt bubble that is about to collapse,
and even more significantly, they are facing an aging population
bubble thanks to their decades long one child policy that
has just decimated their ability to grow. It sounds bizarre
that a nation with one billion people, and by the way,
there are those who are convinced that China has been
lying about its population for decades, that it really has

(33:49):
far less than a billion people, that it's just dramatically
overcounting the number of people in the far off provinces,
the rural areas where it's just impossible to verify counts.
How the twenty twenty census was run here in the
United States, it was just kind of a fraud designed
to give more political power to leftists. That, by the way,

(34:09):
is a discussion for a different I was actually prepping
that for I spent much of Friday evening while I
was getting ready to coach a couple of soccer games,
gonna talk about the twenty twenty census and how it
was essentially rigged by a new formula that was designed
in fact, to take political power away from the southern,

(34:31):
more conservative states and give it to northern states. And then,
of course I woke up in the middle of the
night on Saturday night to about fifteen different notifications on
my phone that we were apparently at war with a run.
That was an absolutely fantastic phone call.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
We will take more of your calls throughout the show
here on The Dan O'Donnell Show four to one, four seven,
nine to nine, eleven thirty and one, eight hundred eighty
three eight nine, four seven six more calls, more fun
and the unhinged Liberal of the Day coming up next.
Sorry to make you wait a little bit there, folks,
I just kind of vibe into the bumper music here.

(35:09):
By the way, if you like the bumper music you
hear on the Dan o'donald Show, we know it's unique.
It's designed to be. Check out the Dan o'donald Show
Bumper Music playlist on your Spotify app. I'd love to
put it on my iHeartRadio app. But well, long story,
iHeartRadio easily easily. And I am telling you the best

(35:31):
podcast app, the best app for news. I was actually
while I was watching, I had Fox News on one television.
I had CNN on another, just to kind of get well,
you know, you got to get the you gotta monitor
what it is the enemy is saying. So I'm getting
you know, the story from Fox News. Then I'm getting
the Iranian propaganda from you know, Mahmoud. I'll Tapper, uh,

(35:58):
just providing all of the left. Look, don't believe, folks.
If you do not believe that left wingers will side
with any American enemy, look no further than this weekend
time now for the unhinged liberally, we are in.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Pre Nazi Germany.

Speaker 7 (36:20):
Oh Cofer's dangerous because he's evil.

Speaker 14 (36:28):
America.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Today's unhinged liberal of the day is someone named Zach Jacobsen,
who writes about the Green Bay Packers for something called twenty.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Four to seven Sports.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
I'm told it is a big deal and I'm told
he is apparently a writer there. Here's what he posted
twelve thirty two pm on Saturday, that fat draft dodging
slab of dog bleep is drag us into war and
sacrificing the lives of Americans and innocent civilians on the

(37:05):
ground to distract from the fact that he bleeped kids.
By the way, I'd say stick to sports. But someone
that truly vile and mentally ill probably is saying that
same sort of crazy stuff about Jordan Love whenever he
throws an interception not even close.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
In a weekend of.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Truly deranged, awful left wing takes, Zach Jacobson is your
unhinged liberal of the day, Stay tuned daily Trump date
next here on the Dan o'donald Show. And my deepest
condolence is to liberals across the United States of America
on the death of the Ayatola Kamine. I know that

(37:52):
while you didn't necessarily support everything he did, you were
deeply allied with him because he was an enemy of
the United States of America, and of course, ultimately that
is what matters. Truly, Welcome back to the Dan o'donald.
I don't think I have seen a more revealing weekend

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out of the online left than the one that I
saw this past weekend.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Have you.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Honest to goodness, if you spent any time online, anytime,
you would have heard and see. Honestly, I have to
go back to, oh the last time a prominent conservative
died and was actually gunned down in cold blood?

Speaker 3 (38:42):
To you, it just it's it's shocking now, folks.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
I was nine years old when the Gulf War broke out.
I came of age politically during nine to eleven. I
was twenty years old when nine to eleven happened, and
it changed the trajectory.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Of my life.

Speaker 13 (39:05):
It.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
You know, I didn't really know.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
I knew I wanted to do something in broadcasting, but
I didn't totally know what I wanted, you know, to
focus on. Well, that changed it, and ultimately what what
did was so when nine to eleven happened, I went
into my room right, I went home. I'll never forget this.

(39:29):
I really walked out of Paul Joseph's meteorology class at
Marquette University because he was just going to go on
with class as normal.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
I did, you know, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Every other class I had that day on nine e
level was canceled. Paul Joseph, God bless him. That man
loved meteorology so much. He was going to keep going
with the meteorology lesson. I said, you know what, I
just I can't today. I'd never skipped. I just I
gotta go back. And all I did in my free
time for weeks and weeks and weeks was just follow

(40:02):
what was going on, and it built sort of this
lifelong obsession with learning more about the world around me.
And one thing I noticed very very quickly, this is
before I started listening to Rush Limbaugh and Mark Belling.
I mean, I was sort of generally politically a conservative.

(40:23):
I voted for George W.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Bush.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
I just sort of had conservative principles. My family very conservative. Yes,
I know, my great uncle was a Democrat. He was
the county executive of Milwaukee County. But my god, he
be a conservative Republican or all those old Irish Democrats
back in the day would be Republicans today too. This

(40:50):
is sort of in hyper speed what I noticed back
twenty five years my goodness, almost twenty five years ago. Now,
what I saw very slowly was Democrats on a you know,
you remember when everybody came together and you know, the
candlelight vigils and singing God Bless America on the set.

(41:13):
Every member of Congress singing God bless America, and you know,
we were all behind the militariat. It gradually as we
got closer to the two thousand and two mid terms,
they couldn't keep up the facade. Democrats just could not
keep up the patriotism, the support for the president of

(41:35):
the United States, and it just steadily waned. And I
was seeing this in real time and say, hey, wait
a second, to the point where one of the first
ideas I ever had for a recurring bit when I decided,
you know, someday I really want to do conservative analysis.
I really want to do this on the radio. I
think this is just the purest form of broadcasting, of

(41:59):
education and entertainment.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
I said.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
One of the first bits I ever came, I think
the first bit was called democrat or terrorist, and I
was just going to read a quote with no context,
and you had to decide whether it came from a
democrat or a terrorist talking about the United States.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
It's twenty five years.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Ago, and it took months and months and months for
them to get to that point where they were literally
spewing the exact same propaganda that Oh remember when Osama
bin Laden would put out a new video every couple
of months. It was like MTV would like debut the
new bin Laden track. He was in a cave somewhere

(42:42):
and he would say it was shocking to me. It
was almost like he was reading the New York Times
editorial page and just kind of going from that as
to what he was going to talk about to denigrate
the United States of America. We went from zero to
echoing Bin Laden in about.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Three point five hours on social media.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
And look, folks, the reality is is that the radical socialist,
frankly communist leaning left was always out there.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
It's always out there. Now it's just mainstream.

Speaker 7 (43:25):
You know.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
We had a caller in the last hour referencing Tucker Carlson,
who's he's now on the alt right? It is this
I think, who is it that calls him the horseshoe right.
I think that's Michael Knowles or somebody. And I always
talk about how politics, at its extremes, it is not
a straight line.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
It's a circle.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
The far left and the far right, like the alt right,
are shockingly close in their political ideology, and they are
both upset because we're supposedly doing the bidding of Israel. This,
I mean, this is going back to thousand year old
tropes about Jews controlling entire kingdoms with their shekels, and

(44:08):
neither extreme really has a problem with sharing that same
anti sec It never dawned on these morons who said, well,
we're just doing Israel's It never dawned on you idiots
that maybe Israel is doing the bidding of the vastly richer,
vastly technologically and militarily superior country, and that Israel essentially

(44:32):
exists because of the protection of the United States of America,
and that Israel, which has about the most incredible human
intelligence operation I've ever seen. The masade knew exactly where
the Ayatola is going to be, and one of the
reasons that he was in the same room seems pretty stupid,

(44:53):
with not one but two American aircraft carriers right there
at your doorstep, two carriers groups, and pretty much the
entire air force of the United States, to get in
a room with your top commandits. They're terrified of carrying
around cell phones or pagers because of what happened to
Hamas a couple of years ago, where they got pagers

(45:16):
to try to coordinate their terror attacks, and turns out
the pagers were bought by a company that was just
a front for the masade, and they all simultaneously exploded,
killing a whole bunch of terrorists and shall we say,
making the rest of them sing soprano for the rest
of their days. All right, all right, But my point
is that you have people who fundamentally hate this country,

(45:42):
and they're not the Uranians.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
We had, Bill, the token liberal.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
I'll give him credit for what he lacks in brain cells,
he actually lacks in or he makes up for in
cahone's because he's the only one who actually is man
enough to call and try to debate me. He actually
would you believe he said, what are we gonna do
when all the Iranians here start blowing things up? A

(46:11):
that's super islamophobic. B It sort of makes the point
that conservatives have been making for oh, I don't know,
several decades, that the borders need to be closed because
we have no idea who's coming into this country. But
it also denies the reality that the actual Iranians in
this country have all been celebrating.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
This is a brutally repressive regime.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
The Ayatolas, the Mullahs, the despotic leadership that they have
been subjected to has been a living nightmare for nearly
fifty years. And we're going to get into later this hour,
we are going to get into that long, disturbing history

(46:57):
of just how terrible these people have.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
We got to go very very quickly here with the
Daily Trump Date, because we're gonna get the impact on markets,
the impact on finances with Dave Spono, the CEO of
Annex Wealth Management, in just a second.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
First, though, it is the Daily Trump Date.

Speaker 5 (47:14):
We're gonna win so much, you may even get tired
of winning.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Trump just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 14 (47:20):
It's also a big win for the United States.

Speaker 5 (47:24):
We have to keep winning.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
We have to win more. We're gonna win Moore.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
President Trump, addressing the weekend strikes on Iran at a
ceremony today giving the Medal of Honor to three soldiers,
one from World War Two, and President Trump said that
he mourns the four Americans who gave their lives in
the Operation Epic Fury.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
This today, we agree for the four heroic American service
members who have been killed in action and send our
love and support to their families. In their memory. We
continue this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush the
threat this terrorist regime poses to the American people, and

(48:09):
a threat indeed, it is.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
First Lady Milania Trump is echoing those condolences.

Speaker 9 (48:16):
My heartfelt condolences to the families who have lost their
heroes who sacrifice their lives for freedom. Their bravery and
dedication will always be remembered. I extend my earnest wishes
for a swift and smooth recovery to all those who
have been injured. You are in my thoughts and prayers

(48:38):
during these challenging times.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
The First Lady in New York today to chair the
meeting of the UN Security Council. It was previously scheduled
she was going to talk about education being the bridge
to peace. Obviously that changed a little bit. ABC News meanwhile,
is now reporting that the American death toll has now
increased to six and we here in the News Talk

(49:02):
eleven thirty Wis and family urge all of you to
pray for our brave men and women who are serving
in harms way, especially the son of our morning show
host and my dear friend, Ben y Out, who was
subject to an Iranian bombing. I did not want to
say anything about that, ladies and gentlemen. I guess they

(49:24):
turned it into a promo today. I was not listening
to Ben's show. I actually unfortunately had a little bit
of a health issue this morning that I'm fine, a
little battered, but unbroken. I may elaborate on that a
little bit longer President Trump.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
So I didn't get a chance to listen.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
I listened very briefly to Jason Gotch, but I had
known that Ben's son was in harms way, you know,
and just say a little prayer for him, because you know,
for those of us calling, you know, talk show hosts
chicken hawks and what ever, you know, age old insult
that they've got left over from the Bush administration, we've

(50:05):
got skin in this game as well. And President Trump
today at that Medal of Honor ceremony saying, it's going
to take as long as it takes to rid the
world of this evil Iranian.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Regip substantially ahead of our time projections.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
But whatever the time is, it's okay.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
Whatever it takes.

Speaker 16 (50:22):
We will always and we have right from the beginning
we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
To go far longer than that. We'll do it.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well President wants
to do it really quickly. After that, he'll get bored.
I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this. Do
you agree with that, Pete? I don't think there's anything
mister General, there's nothing boring about it.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
That, ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump date. Remember
coming up in the five o'clock hour, we are going
to debunk pretty much every bit of misinformation that you
have undoubtedly heard about Operation Epic Fury over the weekend
coming from people on the left and the media mouthpieces
that amplify their bile, including that this is somehow going

(51:14):
to be a forever war. We don't fight forever wars anymore,
our forever war in Venezuela. You remember that this was
going to be a quagmire, that we were going to
be stuck in Venezuela. How dare we kidnap a sovereign
leader of a sovereign nation that lasted all of.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Thirty minutes thirty five?

Speaker 1 (51:35):
Maybe joining us now to make sense of the economic
impact that this is already having. Dave Spono, the CEO
of Annex wealth management helping us know the difference. Dave,
welcome back, sir. What did we see on the markets
today because it looked mixed.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
I don't know. There was no big dip, there was
no big spike.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
So what is it? Is there no more war profiteering?
Is Trump no longer going to destroy the economy with
his endless wars?

Speaker 3 (52:06):
What's going on here?

Speaker 17 (52:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (52:08):
For sure.

Speaker 18 (52:08):
So you looked at it, and the S and P
five hundred did finish in the green today, and Dan,
we went back in. We checked S and P performance
with some major historical events over the last save forty years.
And you know, Golf War one in nineteen ninety one.
If you look three months after that, the markets were

(52:29):
up twenty two percent. Golf War two, three months afterwards,
the S and P was up twelve percent when it
was down. We're for financial major events, things like the
dot com, the bear Stearns, the Lehman, you know those issues.
So the markets are more concerned about financial crises than
they are military crises. And so that is the reason

(52:52):
why we looked at it. We're not surprised what happened today.
We saw oil up six percent, as you know, it
could be expected because you know, all of that oil
that goes through the straits her moves is a significant amount.
And by the way, about forty percent of that oil
goes to China, so you know they're watching this very closely.
But what a week in news. We started obviously with

(53:14):
the Supreme Court last week and the AIPA. We all
became experts in sections, you know, of the code that
we haven't heard before. Then we went through, of course
a two hour State of the Union, we saw Nvidia,
and then of course we ended on Friday in the
market with all of that craziness seems to be shrugging
it off.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
That is actually fascinating when you give the history of
how markets are just sort of able to okay, I
guess there's no more ayatola.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Oh well, you.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Know, it's like all right, well, and this is sort
of the point I'm going to kind of get to
in the five o'clock hour that wars are no longer.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Technology.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
It has advanced so quickly, Dave, just in the last decade,
wars are no longer fought, even like they were when
the United States invaded Iraq, even like the hunt for
Bin Laden in Afghanistan. I am firmly convinced that if
nine to eleven were to happen, like let's say nine
to eleven happened on September eleventh, twenty twenty five, and

(54:20):
not September eleventh, two thousand and one, and one hundred
percent convinced Osama bin Laden would have already been found
and killed. There's just there's no doubt in my mind.
There's no doubt in my mind that the invasion of
Iraq the first of all the and what does this
say about? Just to be clear, this is not Dave
Spano talking about Dan o'ddell.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
What does it say?

Speaker 1 (54:42):
I was talking about what kind of shaped my politics.
It was a situation very similar to this where we
were told in the run up to the Iraq War
invasion that, oh, my gosh, Saddam's troops, these are the greatest,
best trained forces in the world, and our boys are
gonna they all laid down their arms because they were
terrified of American Marines and Army rangers, and they should

(55:04):
be okay. But it is my very strong conviction that
the Iraq War would have gone very differently because we
have advanced as a nation technologically so far beyond every
other that we can just rain death from above with
pinpoint accuracy pretty much anywhere we want. And I think

(55:27):
the Venezuela, uh, the Venezuela situation taught us that we,
by the way, are.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
I don't know did we lose Dave, you're still listening.
I guess there was the circle.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Okay, there is this because I'm here like a little
what I'm like, Oh, boy, is that his? Is that
his two way dying on me? I'm gonna like throw
it to David. He's not going to be there. Okay, No,
what Venezuela. What Venezuela taught us is? First of all,
did you have any idea of the United States as
a weapon called the discombobulator, which basically can uh, it

(56:07):
basically destroys your inner ear, sense of balance and everything
and and and it just floors.

Speaker 18 (56:16):
It's a sonic cartoon character. What was the cartoon character
who had that little gun?

Speaker 15 (56:21):
Right? Oh?

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Yes, yeah, okay, so that that exists, would you believe
that the reason the United States faced no missile defense
is that we just turned off their missile defense system
before we went in, Like the same thing happened with
her on It's just like the Israelis just kind of
turned off their missile defense system like that. That's so

(56:45):
beyond the power of any other nation to do that.
It's almost terrifying. And war just is not fought in
the same way. And I think what this is.

Speaker 18 (56:56):
Yeah, it doesn't hard to have the Mussad, you know,
give them.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
I heard a story over the weekend, and I'm still
not sure if it's entirely verified. One of the ways
that they were tracking senior leadership of Iran because they
don't use technology. They're terrified of using technology because it
can be tracked.

Speaker 13 (57:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
That Masad infiltrated dentist's office in Iran and they were
implanting tracking devices in fillers that they were putting in cavities.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
I mean, I can't even like the the technology I have,
you know.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
Okay, all right, oh god, it's the Masad. The massade
on the way home. Be careful with your be careful
with your injury.

Speaker 18 (57:50):
What they're going to implant.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
I know, I suppose I should probably I kind of
alluded to it. By the way head to annexwealth dot
com for.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
No other way, have so much to talk about it too, I.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Could, you know, I could just talk.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
I could talk to.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
You for the rest of the hour, but I gotta
get this history of Iranian terrorism. We got some we
got some other stuff. Go to annix, Yah, honest is
coming back. My goodness, it's a what a what a
what a newsy day?

Speaker 7 (58:17):
All right?

Speaker 1 (58:18):
All right, get the hell out of here. Dave spawna
anixewel dot com. Uh, go to them simply because Dave
and his teeth, they're just good people.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Uh. They share our values.

Speaker 7 (58:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
And you hear Dave every week. He's just a he's
a very dear friend. And uh unfortunately he outed, Uh
what I think he's violating my hip? Hop, I think
that you know what it was that beeping was. Don't
violate Dan O'Donnell's hip. Howrites No?

Speaker 13 (58:46):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (58:46):
I tore my a c L playing basketball with my
son on Saturday. It's going to be confirmed in an
mri I next Saturday.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Boy, By the way, I'm telling you people, I'm having
an mri I on Saturday before. I think even my
wife knows about that one. And yet Mom and dad,
if you're listening, don't be worried. I'm fine. Producer Doug
was I not hobbling around just fine.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Today. They gave me crutches.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
I'm not using them, but yeah, I've had a bad
knee for years, and finally it just gave out. My son, Chris,
flagrantly fouled me. It was no I went up for
a jump shot. We were just playing. We were playing
one on one, having a great time, and I landed
and it was like I didn't even have a left leg.
That's the only way I can describe it. It's like

(59:34):
I landed and it was like I was so off
balanced because I was only really landing on my right leg.
My knee just completely collapsed. It basically pulled. I wouldn't
be surprised if there's a tear in the back of
my leg because of how it just was sort of
flopping around. And yeah, I was kind of laying there
on the court for a while. You know what my

(59:55):
son said, in what very likely could be the last
shot I ever take on a basketball court. He goes
to me, he goes, he goes to me. He's like, well, Dad,
at least you made the shot. Like I'm like, thanks, Chris,
Like that's not helping a lot, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
But yeah, So I went to the doctor.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
I spent all morning in the doctor's office and confirmed
torn ACL. MRI will formally confirm it. But so at
some point I'm gonna need surgery. I'll be off a
couple of days, but I am fine. Don't worry about me.
On the plus side. On the plus side, it means

(01:00:33):
my wife has got to do all the laundry tonight.
I am officially out of laundry duty. Back with more
phone calls coming up after the quick break.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
I got a lot of texts here.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Hey, Dan, just had to let you know that comment
your son made made me laugh out loud. Tell him
thanks for the chuckle. My fifteen year old son, Chris
collapsed in a pile on the basketball court while shooting
a jump shot. First thing he says to me, at
least you made the shot. Dan, Uh, yeah, yeah, I'm

(01:01:13):
sort of on the shelf torn ACL. It looks like
but hey, at least we get Jannis. Bet you know
what this is.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
This is. This is karmick justice, right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
I'd much rather have a healthy y Honis than a
fully healthy Dan o'donald as producer Spencer just text, if
Lindsey Vaughn can ski on a torn ACL, you can
certainly continue.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
To host a radio show. Thank you, Spencer.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
I get no love, no love. Another Texter says Dan,
does your wife know about injured reserve? You've got a
torn acl You are on injured reserve for laundry duty
for at least six to nine months. Back to the
phones we go. Let's go to Mike in Mechwan. You're
on the Dan o'donald show. What's going on, Mike, Good.

Speaker 10 (01:02:01):
Afternoon, Dan. Thanks for having me back on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Oh, the pleasure is all mine, sir, I call what's.

Speaker 10 (01:02:06):
That a couple of time caller?

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Okay, well, welcome back, sir.

Speaker 10 (01:02:10):
I'm gonna have to up my game after j oh.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Yes, Jay in mechwan, is is that your neighbor? Because
like he just if you guys are neighbors. This is
like the equivalent. His call was so good. It's like
he just pulled up next to you in like a
brand new corvette, right, So you got to reclaim you
got to reclaim mechwan.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Honor here, Mike. No, I'm teasing you, buddy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
I know you're gonna have a great call.

Speaker 10 (01:02:35):
The reason, PAULI is all this stuff is really dragging
me crazy. And there was a great segment from the
West Wing where the president's physician and a medical team
is shot down by a Middle Eastern government and he says,
I'm going to strike them down with the wrath of God.

Speaker 14 (01:02:50):
And then he talks.

Speaker 10 (01:02:51):
About citizen Romans, where citizens of Rome could walk the
known world without fear. Yes, because of the because wrong
rain down on them.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
If they'd heard correct.

Speaker 10 (01:03:03):
We've had forty seven years of getting our fandkicked in
our face by s and we just pat them on's head.
We're going to blow up a building, but don't do
it again. And we've had nine to eleven Marines killed,
Americans killed, foreign people killed by this mad man and

(01:03:26):
the people around him. And to have people in our
country say, what is he doing when they have convenient memory, Yeah,
you mentioned it before buying Bush, Clinton, Obama, They've all
done this, and somehow Trump does it. And he says,
enough is enough. I gave you ten days. You didn't

(01:03:46):
stand up for it. You're going to get your nose wrapped, ye,
And I'm tired of this. We must stand up for ourselves.
America first makes everybody better, not that they're one of
the most perfect country in the world. God knows where
not we make mistakes, but we are the best country
in the world.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Amen to that, my friend, And bonus points for bringing
up the West Wing in a context that actually makes
the West Wing sound rational, believe it or not. That is,
I never watched that show because I was always super
upset that it would win Emmys when clearly The Sopranos

(01:04:25):
was the best show on television in that era. Sopranos
is widely considered that in Breaking Bad, it's like one
in one a the best shows in the history of television.
Who here would put the West Wing up there, But
the West Wing constantly won the Emmy for Best Drama
Series because it was just a whole bunch of leftists,
And I do wrote that's one of the few clips

(01:04:47):
that I can remember watching because of the concept of
Civis Romanas, that citizens of Rome would enjoy the protection
of just being Roman, because of the fear of the
Lord that the barbarian world had of harming an American citizen.
Now we have a president who doesn't just have the result,

(01:05:07):
but also the technology to be able to rain death
and fire down upon anybody who threatens American interests, and
the idea that somehow. And I'm so glad, Mike that
you gave us such a good call because it transitions
perfectly into what we're going to get into next. This
notion that America just struck Iran out of the blue,

(01:05:29):
that we started this war, you absolute morons. This has
been a war that has been going on for forty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Years, and we will get.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
You the history that undoubtedly the rest of the media
will not when the Dan O'Donnell show returns coming up
in the five o'clock hour. Pretty Much everything you have
heard Democrats say about Operation Epic Fury is a complete

(01:06:05):
and demonstrable lie. Absolutely everything from the fact that somehow
there needed to be a congressional authorization for any sort
of action to the idea that somehow the United States
started this war, all of it is a lie. The

(01:06:28):
truth is that the United States has been at war
with Iran and has been the victim of terrorist attacks
from Iran since literally nineteen seventy nine. On November fourth
of seventy nine, Iranian students backed by the new revolutionary

(01:06:53):
government under the Ayatola Komeni, stormed the US embassy in Tehran,
looking sixty six Americans hostage.

Speaker 19 (01:07:03):
Some sixty Americans, including our fellow citizen whom you just
saw bound and blindfolded, are now beginning their sixth day
of captivity inside the US Embassy in Tehran. It's Friday
morning there now, but throughout this night in Washington, officials
will continue their search for some way to negotiate the
hostage's freedom.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Most of those hostages were diplomats and embassy staff members.
Fifty two people were held for four hundred and forty
four days. In addition, four Americans died in a failed
rescue effort of those hostages. In July of nineteen eighty two,
the acting president of American University of Beirut, David Dodge,

(01:07:44):
was also kidnapped. He was held for a year The
following year. April of nineteen eighty three, a suicide car
bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut by the Islamic Jihad,
one of the precursors to hez Belah, killed sixty three people,
including seventeen American diplomats and military personnel. October of that

(01:08:09):
same year, one of the deadliest terror attacks in.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
World history, and now the number is one hundred and
ninety one.

Speaker 19 (01:08:16):
In the Beayroot massacre, one hundred and ninety.

Speaker 8 (01:08:18):
One Marines dead, and the explosion at their headquarters at
the Beayroot Airport.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
The final death toll two hundred forty one American service members,
two hundred and twenty Marines and several others, the deadliest
attack on US Marines since Ewojima. The following year, March
nineteen eighty four, CIA Beirut Station chief William Buckley was kidnapped, tortured,

(01:08:45):
and eventually killed in nineteen eighty five. A video of
him being tortured was sent to President Ronald Reagan. June
of nineteen ninety six, the Coobar Towers bombing in Dahan,
Saudi Arabia by the Iran backed Hezbala al Hashaz killed
nineteen US airmen and injured nearly five hundred.

Speaker 19 (01:09:08):
Sixty Americans, including our fellow citizen whom.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
In two thousand and three, the Iraq War started, and
for the eight years that that was in effect, Iranian
backed Shia militias trained and armed by Iran's Kuds Force,
including the use of IEDs and improvised devices, killed at

(01:09:34):
least six hundred three American troops, roughly one in six
combat deaths in Iraq were two Iranian terrorists. January two
thousand and seven, Karbala Provincial Headquarters was raided in Iraq
by Kuds Force operatives disguised as American soldiers. Five US

(01:09:58):
soldiers were killed. Flashed forward to January eighth, twenty twenty,
in response for the attack on Kassam Sulimani, there was
a ballistic missile assault on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.
This caused traumatic brain injuries to more than one hundred
US service members, but fortunately no deaths were reported. March

(01:10:22):
twenty third, twenty twenty three, a drone strike on an
American base near Hasakra, Syria, killed one American contractor injured
five American troops. January twenty eighth, twenty twenty four, a
drone strike by Kataib Hesbalah on Tower twenty two base
in Jordan killed three US soldiers and injured more than

(01:10:43):
forty others. In fact, over the past three years, we've
seen a surge in proxy attacks more than one hundred
eighty reported on US forces in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan
as part of the broader Gaza and Israel conflict, resulting
in three US service members being killed in more than
one hundred and eighty being injured. The end result hundreds

(01:11:07):
of Americans killed, captured, terrorized, brutalized, all by a force
that is now decapitated. This was not a strike that
came out of the blue. In reality, this past weekend
was forty seven years in the making. You know what

(01:11:33):
forever confuses me is I get a whole lot of
trolls on social media, and I found that one of
the best ways to find out whether they actually know
their stuff is to say, hey, you should call into
the show three to six pm Monday through Friday four one,

(01:11:54):
four is seven, nine, nine eleven thirty say you want
to debate, We'll go you on.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
You get a minute, I get a minute. We go
back and forth.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
This show is two hours old, and I must have
spent an inordinate amount of time while monitoring the situation
in Iran, as pretty much every dad did. It is
it is an ongoing joke whenever there's something going on
in the world that dads all over need to monitor

(01:12:25):
this situation, that pretty much means plopping their butts in
front of the TV and putting on Fox News to
watch the coverage of whatever it is it's going on.
I actually was sort of monitoring to try to determine
whether we needed to break in and do live coverage
or anything like that. If I needed to do live streaming,
then of course that was interrupted by me completely shredding

(01:12:46):
my knee. But while I was doing I was entertaining
myself on social media by just saying, look, if if
you've got something to say, come on and debate me
on the air, user Doug. In the two hours of
the three we were on today, has there been anybody
calling up who wants to debate? This is so weird.

(01:13:09):
No no one named Mary p No, No, that's weird.
No one named Matthew, No, no one named Malcolm. No, hmm,
that's so weird, so so weird. Time out a name

(01:13:36):
the unsung hero of the day. Of course, this one's
pretty obvious. Our unsung heroes today are all of the
heroes engaged in Operation Epic Fury. Those are Americans, those
are Israeli's are those from any other country that is
joining the fight against the despotic regime in Iran, and

(01:13:59):
that include it's the civilian populations of those countries and
here in the United States supporting the war effort, doing
whatever it takes to make sure that the single greatest
evil in the world, the world's leading sponsor of terrorism
for half a century, cannot rise up again and cannot

(01:14:20):
kill or subjugate innocent people. All those taking part and
fighting in Operation Epic Fury, your unsung heroes of the
debt coming up in the five o'clock hour. I would
love love for anybody to call up and give me

(01:14:40):
some of those left wing talking points about the War
powers resolution, about the fact that we're all of a
sudden super concerned about Congress not issuing a war declaration,
about the fact that this is going to be a
forever war, about the fact that this was just.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
A war for oil.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
It's almost like they're dusting off all of the same
talking points from the first or the second Bush administration,
that this is going to be the Iraq War quagmire
all over again. And the bottom line is that, quite simply,
wars are not fought like they were fought twenty five
years ago. That we have seen such dramatic technological advances

(01:15:21):
that we're just not going to see. And in fact,
President Trump has been repeatedly calling on the Iranian people
to step up for themselves and to rule themselves to
finally have the freedom that they had for eons before
these truly insane radicals took over thanks to the ffeckless

(01:15:45):
leadership of what do you know a Democrat president in
the White House?

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
In Jimmy Carter?

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
This was I almost said Billy Carter there by the way,
I don't know why Billy Carter suddenly popped in my head.
We would have been better off with Billy Carter and
his Billy beer in the White House. Then, not only
did you have Jimmy Carter usher in the Islamic Revolution
and basically stand by with the fall of the Shaw

(01:16:16):
and allow dozens of Americans to be held hostage for
four hundred and forty four days after he was president,
would you believe that he was out there basically through
a back channel to the Iranian regime, providing information and
doing his best to undermine the United States. All right,

(01:16:39):
we'll take your phone calls. We'll debunk some liberal myths.
Four one, four, seven, nine, nine, eleven thirty. When The
Dan O'donald's Show returns, Welcome back to the Dano Donald's Show.

(01:17:00):
So as the United States has struck Iran, decapitating the
terroristic regime. The Ayatola is dead, so too are many
members of his senior leadership team. The US and its
Israeli allies have spent much of today actually trying to
ensure that there is no power vacuum through which an

(01:17:23):
even worse regime can jump through, essentially destroying Iran's navy,
gaining air superiority in the entire region pretty much instantaneously,
and ensuring that there are no there are no sort
of splinter groups that sort of rise up. What President

(01:17:46):
Trump has been doing all weekend long. He did so
in another video posted this morning, directly addressing those in
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and the people on the street. Remember,
it was just a couple of weeks ago that Iranians
were taking to the streets in massive demonstrations, possibly the

(01:18:07):
single greatest threat to the Iranian regime's power in a
long time. Well, what happened these spontaneous protests which were
not backed by Israel, they were not backed by the
United States, They just sort of sprung up. The proof
there is because if this was an astro turfed thing,
that was going to sort of be the precursor to

(01:18:28):
the air strikes that ultimately killed Kamene, it would have happened,
that the strikes would have happened immediately afterwards. Unfortunately, Iran's
cracked down on those protesters, killed upwards of I mean,
nobody is quite sure. The most pessimistic estimates are somewhere
near thirty two thousand people killed.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
I mean, think about that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
That's the size of like Greenfield in southeast Wisconsin, maybe
New Berlin. I don't actually know the populations off hand,
but this is a incized city of protesters who just
want freedom, killed by this despotic regime. And in a
video posted today, President Trump again said, look, we stand
with you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Lay down your arms. If you are loyal to the.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Past regime, you will have immunity. Now it is up
to you to take back your country.

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
I once again urged the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military
police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity
or face certain death.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
It will be certain death won't be pretty.

Speaker 5 (01:19:34):
I call upon all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom
to seize this moment to be brave, be bold, be heroic,
and take back your country. America is with you. I
made a promise to you, and I've fulfilled that promise.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
The rest will be up to you, but we'll be
there to help.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
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(01:20:40):
force on the radio, but also in the podcasting space. Now,
the biggest talking point that I have heard emerge over
the last forty eight hours or so is that the
president somehow did not have the authorization, that this was unlawful,
that the president would dare to do something like this

(01:21:01):
without a congressional declaration of war. Can any liberal I
will I will give liberals one hundred dollars of my
own money if they will call up right now and
tell me the last time Congress authorized war. Seriously, just

(01:21:24):
tell me, because we've had let's see War on Terror,
Iraq War, We've had Operation Desert Storm, we had the
Vietnam War, we had the Korean.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
War, World War two.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
It was nineteen forty two the last time Congress declared war.
Now we can debate over whether or not this is
ultimately a good thing. Do we have the president who
does have the inherent authority as commander in chief of
the United States Military to engage in limited military action

(01:22:01):
when it is not possible to inform Congress or gain
the consent of Congress. For example, let's say we went
to Congress very publicly and said, Okay, Congress, Congress, ehm,
this thing on. We need you guys to declare war
on Iran. We're going to strike Iran. We're going to

(01:22:21):
wait until the Ayatola and all of his top aids
are in the same place, and then either US or
Israel we're just going to bomb the hell.

Speaker 3 (01:22:27):
Out of them.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
What do you say, What do you think would happen?
Would such a thing be possible if you had four
hundred and thirty five people in the United States House.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
Two of them are Rashida to leave an elon Omar.

Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
Is there any doubt that Rashida to leave an elon
Omar would tip off the Iranian regime seriously? And I'm
not saying they're loyal to the Iranians. I'm saying the
two of them have demonstrated that they despise America that much.
Would you believe that Rashida Talib actually, in a tweet

(01:23:04):
this weekend, referred to the United States as they they
a representative of the government, an elected member of the
House in the United States.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
They referring to the United States the.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
War Powers Resolution Absolutely Authorized.

Speaker 7 (01:23:28):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
War Powers Resolution is a law pass actually over the
strenuous objections and veto of Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy three,
which accounts for the more modern ways that wars were fought.
The War Powers Resolution allows the President, and the wording

(01:23:49):
here is to introduce US forces into hostilities without prior
congressional approval in a case of quote national emergency created
by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions,
or its armed forces. Now, people who support a broad

(01:24:09):
interpretation of the WPR extend this to repelling imminent threats.
Ever since the law was passed, presidents have obviously said, hey,
we have an imminent threat here. Now you can argue whether, okay,
the War Powers Resolution itself just the text would say, okay,

(01:24:36):
is there an attack on American forces?

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
Even then, I ran.

Speaker 1 (01:24:41):
Down forty seven years of attacks on American forces. American
troops have been killed by Iran and its terror proxies
for nearly five decades. Now we've got them attempting to
rebuild their nuclear program under the guise of only building
up their intercontinental ballistic missile supply, trying to build missiles

(01:25:06):
that could literally hit the United States from Iran bad enough,
bad enough that they have choked off the Straits of
Hormuz that we've had Houthi militants literally attacking American ships
for months and years before Trump finally did something about that,
and then threatening and attacking American military and civilian installations

(01:25:31):
across the region.

Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
You defy.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
All logic reason when you suggest there has been no
attack by Iran. But let's even use the broader interpretation,
as pretty much every president has done since nineteen seventy three.
Iran's rapid advancement towards nuclear weapons and long range icb

(01:26:01):
ms necessitated this assault. In fact, Secretary of State Marco
Rubio had the best, most succinct answer when asked, Okay,
how was there an imminent threat? I want you to
listen for two minutes and twelve seconds. This should be

(01:26:22):
required viewing for every single person who doesn't understand the
imminent threat that Iran posed and would have continued to
pose had the iatolain his top aides been allowed to
stay in power.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
Ersson, I've been asked, is why now? Well, if there's
two reasons, why now. The first is it was abundantly
clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the
United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to
respond and respond against the United States. The orders had
been delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic
and infect it bare to be true because, in fact,
within an hour of the initial attack on the Leadership compound,

(01:27:00):
the missile forces in the South and in the North
for that matter, had already been activated to launch. In fact,
those that already been prepositioned. The third is the assessment
that was made that if we stood and waited for
that attack to come first. Before we hit them, we
would suffer much higher casualties, and so the President made
the very wise decision. We knew that there was going

(01:27:20):
to be an Israeli action, We knew that that would
precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that
if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched
those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even
those killed. And then we would all be here answering
questions about why we knew that in dact going back
to the purpose, the purpose of this is to destroy

(01:27:41):
that missile capability. Why does Iron want that holistic missile capability?
What they are trying to do, and have been trying
to do for a very long time, is build a
conventional weapons capability as a shield where they can hide
behind or nuclear ambitions. They are producing, by some estimates,
over one hundred of these missiles a month. Compare that
to the six or seven interceptors that can be built

(01:28:02):
a month. They can build one hundred of these a month,
not to mention the thousands of one way attack drones
that they also have. They've been doing this for a
very long time, and by the way, they've been.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Doing it under sanction.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
You see the attacks they're conducting right now. They're attacking airports,
they're attacking hotels, they're hitting not just military bases, they're
attacking our embassies directly. They're attacking facilities that have nothing
to do with war or with military And that's a
weekend Iran that's in Iran despite years of sanction. Imagine
a year from now or a year and a half
from now, the capabilities they would have to infer damage

(01:28:33):
on us. It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands
of a regime that's run by radical clerics. The Ayatola
is a radical was a radical cleric. That entire regime
is led by radical clerics.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
So you've got religious fanaticism, a deep abiding hatred of
Jewish people, and a repeated desire, stated desire, a blood
oath to destroy the state of Israel, one of America's
closest allies, where, by the way, a whole lot of
people who have duel Israeli and American citizenship live. And

(01:29:09):
you're telling me that Iran, of all nations, Iran posed
no imminent danger to the United States. It's almost laughable,
the idea that somehow there's no legal or moral justification
in striking Iran. But seeing as Democrats don't seem to

(01:29:34):
understand anything until you put it in terms that they
can understand, Let's say I'm going to use a hypothetical
for you Libs. Let's say the year is twenty twenty eight,
Trump's last year in office. He just says, screw it,

(01:29:55):
and he authorizes the United States military to drop twenty
six six thousand, one hundred and seventy one bombs on
seven different sovereign nations Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan,

(01:30:15):
and Somalia. What would you say to that that would
be awful?

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Right? How dare he?

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
Twenty six thousand, one hundred and seventy one bombs were
in fact dropped during the last year of Barack Obama's
presidency on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.
The fact that we just dropped bombs on Iran is
no different legally, it is no different morally, and if anything,

(01:30:47):
it was far more legally and morally justified than dropping
bombs on any of those nations because Iran has been
the global leader in terrorism five decades. Now we'll dispel
some more myths, some more lies about Operation Epic Fury. Next,

(01:31:13):
debunking a whole lot of liberal myths and outright lies
that you have undoubtedly heard about the Operation Epic Fury
that killed the Iatola Kamani, a whole lot of his
top aides.

Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
Possibly.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
I'm getting conflicting information about the former President of Iran,
Mahmoud Ahmadinijhon. I believe he is dead, but some sources
are reporting he's still alive. This is what's known as
the fog of war. We won't entirely know, ohthough we do.
I mean Iran State TV reported the death of Haminae
and that's about his official as it gets. Also, there

(01:31:51):
is a picture floating around social media which I have
led to believe is genuine, of the body of Hamani
lying in the rubble, obviously and warnings about it. It's
not super graphic, but it is a dead old guy
lying in a pile of rubble. Let's go out to
the phones. Anthony in Brookfield. You're on the Dan O'donnald show.
What's going on? Anthony?

Speaker 3 (01:32:11):
Hey Dan, thanks for taking me by.

Speaker 7 (01:32:13):
Call uh you know, I'm one of those good old
not getting involved in foreign interventionless guys. No, George Washington's
fair well addressed style. And what I wanted to bring
up here about the I believe that was Marco Rubio.
You're playing the clip from so I came in like
right when he started.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
Yeah, that was Rubio, Secretary of State Rubio.

Speaker 7 (01:32:29):
Okay, okay, So he said, well, field commanders of Iran
had received orders that if they were to be attacked
by anyone, they would attack America. Therefore, when we since
America knew Israel was going to attack them, we had
to preemptively attack. Therefore we did that. So how come

(01:32:50):
we wouldn't just reach out to Israel and be like, hey,
we're still in the middle of negotiation.

Speaker 1 (01:32:57):
Great minds, my friend, great minds. I said the same
thing when I heard that right before my show. I'm like,
you couldn't like Trump couldn't have been like bb bb
my brother, Hold up a second. No, Apparently, as I
understand it, Israeli intelligence knew that there was going to
be an imminent attack on Israel, that there was going

(01:33:18):
to be a massive, deadly attack, and then Israel was
going to necessarily preemptively. This is sort of the old
entangling alliances.

Speaker 7 (01:33:27):
Confirm that though because it's difficult, it's difficult to tell
it's well to welcome, Welcome to intelligence, Anthony.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
It's you know, it's The reality is is that we
can never quite be sure you know what I'm saying, like.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
What I can tell you.

Speaker 7 (01:33:48):
And we need to make an appeal to the American Well.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Hold hold on a secon hold on a second. What
I can tell you. What I can tell you is
that right the day of Trump's State of the Union address,
Marco Rubio actually briefed members of both parties in Congress
about apparently an imminent threat that Iran was like, this

(01:34:10):
was the briefing was the day of the State of
the Union. We have obviously no idea. This about as
classified information as classified information gets. But there was a
picture of Chuck Schumer walking out of that meeting looking
ashen faced. For the first time in possibly Chuck Schumer's life.

(01:34:31):
He did not want to talk on camera, and it
was believed, holy crap, whatever Rubio just told.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
Him, it's bad.

Speaker 19 (01:34:38):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
We obviously have no idea what has been sent in
that what was said in that meeting. What we also
know though, with the diplomacy with Iran is they're not
a good faith actor. Like they were not negotiating with
us in good faith. Essentially they were stringing along American negotiators.
And it was either it was either wit Cough I

(01:34:59):
think it was Jared Pishner said, look, all they're doing
is a delay tactic, and what we know is that
they're trying to rebuild their missives.

Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
Everything we were asking reasonable though as well, like to
get rid of someone's entire missile program. Would America agreed
to get rid of their air force if any condition?

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
Ever, if we.

Speaker 1 (01:35:16):
Vowed that all Jews were going to die and were
sponsoring terror networks all over the region in.

Speaker 7 (01:35:22):
A public speech, I believe in what twenty ten something.

Speaker 1 (01:35:27):
Like that, buddy, the Iatolahamine, the Iyatolahamine has been calling
for the death of Jews and America for thirty years.
You're not going to get very far arguing that this
was just some old peacenik who is kicking around the
hacky sack in between lectures at Columbia University. This was

(01:35:49):
an evil regime that was not just not just saying.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Oh, hey, you know we're gonna we're gonna kill a back.

Speaker 1 (01:35:56):
They were targeting our merchant ship, not military ships, merchant
ships through their houthy proxies for years. I mean the
Straits of Horrormuz, where where something like twenty percent of
the world's oil goes through. That was for a long
stretch impassable. The idea that you can negotiate in good

(01:36:18):
faith or even frankly, I think it's a little insulting
that you would equivocate. Well, if someone was saying the
United States can't have missiles, yeah, okay, we don't just
kind of shoot those missiles. We don't kind of give
them to like terror groups. If we were given missiles
to the KKK, right, and we were saying, hey, why

(01:36:39):
don't you go shoot those babies at some black churches
in Mississippi, I could see other countries stepping in and saying, yeah,
you know what, we should probably take.

Speaker 3 (01:36:47):
Away America's missiles.

Speaker 1 (01:36:49):
That's what Iran has been doing for nine on five decades.
And you see how that's a massive, massive problem. You
can't allow an actor like that. And what happened, by
the way, when Iran was attacked, did it just attack Israel,
did it just attack the United States. It launched missiles

(01:37:12):
in every direction, all but ensuring all of its Middle
Eastern allies were not going to come to its aid.
Negotiations simply couldn't continue because I'm not entirely sure these
were actual negotiations. The other myth that has been propagated

(01:37:33):
over the past forty eight hours is that somehow this
is a forever war, that somehow this is going to
be a quagmire that you know, we're going to be
in forever and ever and ever, like Afghanistan or Iraq
or Vietnam. This actually, this myth got kicked into turbo

(01:37:56):
drive because of comments made today by prayer is it
in Trump who said, We're going to be in there
as long as it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:03):
Takes substantially ahead of our time projections. But whatever the
time is, it's okay, whatever it takes. We will always
and we have right from the beginning, we projected four
to five weeks, but we have capability to go far
longer than that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:21):
We'll do it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:21):
Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, if President
wants to do it really quickly after that, he'll get bored.
I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this. Do
you agree with that, Pete, I don't think there's anything
mister General. I think there's nothing boring about it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
Okay, So this has people think, well, Trump is saying
it's gonna be. It's gonna be a forever war. Secretary
of War Pete Hegsith shut this down immediately, first thing
this morning.

Speaker 20 (01:38:51):
To the media outlets and political left streaming endless wars.

Speaker 14 (01:38:55):
Stop.

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
This is not a rack.

Speaker 20 (01:38:58):
This is not endless.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
I was there for both.

Speaker 20 (01:39:02):
Our generation knows better, and so does this president. He
called the last twenty years of nation building wars dumb,
and he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is
a clear, devastating, decisive mission, destroy the missile threat, destroy
the navy, no nukes. Israel has clear missions as well,

(01:39:25):
for which we are grateful capable partners. As we've said
since the beginning, capable partners are good partners, unlike so
many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and
clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force.

Speaker 1 (01:39:43):
Here's the thing about our traditional allies. Though, by the way,
a great statement by the Secretary of War Pete heg Saith.
Our allies in Europe are well behind US. Mark Rute,
Secretary General of NATO, I.

Speaker 17 (01:39:57):
Really commend what is happening here. Taking out and taking
out the nuclear capability in the in iramit also taking
out to ballistic missile program in irm This is crucial
and what I see in Europe I spoke, is all
the key European leaders over the weekend is wide split
supports what the PLEASANT is doing and also making sure
that when it comes to logistics access defending key US

(01:40:21):
interests in Europe and in the region, the Europeans are
really stepping up.

Speaker 1 (01:40:26):
So Europe is behind this. Much of the Middle East
is behind this, And if it wasn't before Iran just
sort of started randomly firing weapons after it was attacked
on Saturday morning, it certainly is right now. Much of
the entire world is behind this. Even Iran's so called

(01:40:46):
closest allies in Russia and China. They're suspiciously quiet.

Speaker 3 (01:40:51):
Right now, aren't they.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
We'll bust some more myths, take some more phone calls,
and be right back to it when The Dan o'donnald
Show returns in just a second. Welcome back to the
Dan o'donald Show. We are busting some myths about Operation
Epic Fury. Pretty much everything you have heard about it

(01:41:14):
is a lie, including this. Gas prices have gone up today, folks.
This you sweet summer children who have never lived through
Middle East conflicts. Gas prices always spike national average, according
to TRIPAA today two ninety nine for a gallon of

(01:41:37):
regular unleaded gasoline. Now Trump is just, oh god, he's
been terrible for gas prices.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Guess how many days.

Speaker 1 (01:41:45):
Out of the fourteen hundred that Joe Biden was in
office gas prices were higher than they are today. Roughly
one thousand, So until we get to year four of
three dollars gasoline. Yeah, there's a temporary spike, but don't

(01:42:06):
forget gas prices have dropped by about a dollar in
the last year.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
This is actually kind of surprising.

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
I got to give Matthew in Madison a heck of
a lot of credit. I called him out saying, hey,
come on in debate, and he actually is right here, Matthew,
welcome to the Dan O'Donnell show.

Speaker 14 (01:42:27):
Well. I might not be many things, Dan, but I
try to at least be a man of my word.

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
Hey, I appreciate that a lot and you know what.
You are a man who has the courage of your convictions.
And hope this didn't interfere with your job or anything
like that. But the floor is yours.

Speaker 3 (01:42:45):
I'm going to give you one.

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
So here's how it works, just so we're clear. I'm
going to give Matthew one minute to make a point.
I'd love to go longer, Matthew.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
I would.

Speaker 1 (01:42:55):
It's already five point forty two and we got to
keep this thing moving. I'm going to give you a
minute it's actually a lot longer than you think, to
make your points about Iran. Then i'll refute them, and
then I'm going to give you thirty seconds. And I'll
get thirty seconds.

Speaker 14 (01:43:08):
Sound good, that's fair. I have one question I want
to ask you at the end, and I promise it's
not a gotcha.

Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
Okay, fair enough, all right, go ahead, sir. The floor
is yours.

Speaker 14 (01:43:20):
Okay. Well, I don't know that I'll take a whole
minute or not. You might be a little disappointed in
my position. I'm probably not the the radical left that
maybe if you think I am. But regardless, I think
this issue when Iran is very different from some of
the other ones you've compared it to with Libya or Syria.

(01:43:41):
I'm not trying to make the argument that this is
an illegal war. I'm not trying to defend anything Iran
has done. We are obviously better off with without this regime.

Speaker 3 (01:43:54):
Sure.

Speaker 14 (01:43:55):
My concern was that I think this, this whatever we
want to call it, war, whatever we want to call it,
I think is more closely aligned with what happens with Iraq.
I have obviously major concerns about that, and I think
as a country, this should have been debated more. This
should have been something that should have gone to Congress. Again,

(01:44:16):
I'm not saying it's illegal. I think this is something
that should have been debated. I think this administration should
have shown up, should have made its case, and we
should have gone from there.

Speaker 1 (01:44:25):
Matthew, how dare you actually sound perfectly reasonable and make
excellent points? Frankly, I don't think there's a whole lot
to refute there, because honestly, you take a very rational,
moderate understandable position.

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
I will disagree with you.

Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
Libya was always about regime change back in twenty eleven,
so it is very akin to that. Your fears about
a forever war like we had in Iraq and Afghanistan
are obviously insanely well founded. Why because we just had
forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the reality is

(01:45:07):
is that the War Powers resolution and the history of
declarations of conflict going all the way back to nineteen
forty two clearly allow this sort of action. Not only
that wars are fought very, very differently than they were
even twenty five years ago, even fifteen years ago in
Libya and in Iraq and in Syria. The reality is

(01:45:29):
we don't need American boots on the ground. We have
such vast technological and air superiority. The last war we
supposedly fought in Venezuela was over in about thirty five minutes.
So I'm very curious, Matthew, what is the question you
want to ask me?

Speaker 14 (01:45:49):
Yeah, so my question. I don't want this to talk
a gotchiu.

Speaker 3 (01:45:51):
No, no, no, not all.

Speaker 14 (01:45:52):
I don't mean it like that. But you know, I mean,
I am not a fan of Donald Trump, never have been, sure,
probably never will be. He campaigned on America First, no wars,
et cetera, et cetera. If to you, do you think
that this was what he meant by America First? Back then,

(01:46:13):
or do you think something has changed that this has
become America first. Now I'm just trying. I'm not making
the connection to No, No, I can't be talked about
America first and the lack of wars and now here
we are and we're trying to spin this as well,
this is America first? Was this what he meant back then?

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
Sure? Change, Matthew.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
I got to tell you, I am really not liking
this because I am genuinely liking how thoughtful your questions are,
and you seem like a really good dude. I'm not
gonna lie. So Hey, you are welcome on this show anytime,
my friend, and I really do appreciate you calling up
to answer your question. My guess is this obviously is

(01:46:53):
so I am much more of the and it's become
a slur in conservative circles. I am much more in
neo conservative wing. So I came of age politically a
quarter century ago with nine to eleven, with the Iraq War,
understanding the threat of radical Islam, and also understanding that
what underpinned pretty much everything in radical Shia Islam was

(01:47:18):
coming from Iran. Like Iran does not just exist as
a nation state. Iran has its tentacles in Hezbollah. Before that,
Islamic jihad in the Huthi militants, which we're attacking American ships,
in Hamas, in the Palestinian authority, in pretty much every
entity that has attempted to kill Jews in Israel and

(01:47:40):
across the world, that's all been Iran. I think something
did change in President Trump. I mean, the man, the
man is the only person I've ever seen brag about
the well, is it the FIFA Peace Prize? Like FIFA
Soccer gave him a peace prize? Right, he wants that
Nobel Peace Prize so badly. But I think what happens

(01:48:02):
is every president and every person who goes in before
they know the intelligence that frankly you and I don't see,
they say, okay, we can just give piece a chance
so we could talk about all of this. I think
the issue was Iran was so unspeakably evil and was
moving towards the bragging about completely destroying Iran's nuclear program.

(01:48:24):
They put a lot of eggs in the four to
dough basket in Tehran, but clearly there were still scientists,
there was still enriching capability and the information I think
was coming in that Iran was rapidly building up not
just its regional ballistic missile technology but also its ICBM technology,
and the fear was they could either develop their own

(01:48:50):
enriched uranium or potentially get some from their ally in
Russia and deliver a payload on those innercontinental ballistic missiles
to the US homeland or at the very least Israel
or some other American base in the region. I mean
they've been doing this literally since the attack on the

(01:49:10):
Marine barracks in nineteen eighty three. I mean, it's consistently
been Iran or its proxies attacking the United States. Ultimately,
I think Trump saw, and frankly, there's a sound bite
that's going around.

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
I didn't have time to play it today. I think
we'll get it tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:49:26):
Trump in nineteen eighty talking about this was right after
the hostage crisis, talking about Iran and what he would do,
and he sounded shockingly consistent. Not only that he did
say on the campaign trail, to be fair, Matthew, he
said something to the effect of I will bomb the
bleep out of them. So he's always kind of straddled

(01:49:48):
that line between America first and swinging his you know
what around.

Speaker 3 (01:49:54):
If that makes any sense.

Speaker 14 (01:49:57):
Yeah, it definitely does. And I think that's the hard
part that many people on the other side, on the
left half is just just trying to square that together
and put that together, just the inconsistencies. And that's that's
what he is. I mean, he's there's yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:50:13):
There's Hey, I am not I will concede the point
that there are a lot of consistent inconsistencies about Trump
and he seems to sort of waffle day today. Hey, Matthew,
really do appreciate your call. See how reasonable minds can disagree.
It happens. Hey, you're a good dude, buddy, And drinks

(01:50:34):
are on me next time I'm in Madison. Do we
have time to go to Tammy. Let's go to Tammy
down in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
Tammy.

Speaker 1 (01:50:42):
I didn't like that last call because he was a
really nice guy, making reasonable and very good points. I
just don't like you because you're down in Florida and
it's like thirty five degrees here.

Speaker 15 (01:50:55):
Well, that's okay. We've had we've had four Florida. I've
had a hard winter.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
You know what I used.

Speaker 15 (01:51:02):
A lot of my plants are dead.

Speaker 1 (01:51:04):
You know, my mom is down in Naples, and she
says she's been wintering in Naples forever. And she says
it's been the worst winter weather in Naples probably since
she's been down there. She's been down there since like
twenty twelve.

Speaker 15 (01:51:18):
I've been down here since oh four, and this is
the worst one.

Speaker 3 (01:51:21):
That's it. I feel you. So what's going on, Tammy.
I don't really hate you. We love you down in Florida.

Speaker 15 (01:51:27):
First, I want to thank you for the commercial break
because it helped me pull myself together because I was
getting really emotional with your call screener.

Speaker 3 (01:51:35):
Oh he wasn't being mean, was he?

Speaker 15 (01:51:39):
No, he was not. I got up in the morning
after finding out what had happened overnight, and I looked
at my husband and said, finally, finally somebody is taking
retribution for the friends that we lost. My husband was
in Beirut in nineteen eighty three.

Speaker 3 (01:51:59):
Oh my goodness, was.

Speaker 15 (01:52:00):
In the navy. I was nineteen married. I'm sorry of
getting water.

Speaker 3 (01:52:06):
Eat No, no, that's okay.

Speaker 15 (01:52:07):
Three months old and for ten days I didn't know
if I was a widow or not. My husband had
men shot off the back of his ship. What people
don't know is how absolutely evil these people are. They
would come out with girls in bikinis and speedboats during
the day, waiting to the guys, flashing them, doing all

(01:52:30):
the things to get a bunch of horny sailors to
you know, waves. But what they were really doing was
tagging where that ship was. And then if anybody went
out at night and had a cigarette, which they weren't
supposed to do, but people don't always listen. They did
after the second guy got shot.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
And was killed, Oh my goodness, off.

Speaker 15 (01:52:52):
The back of the ship. So President Trump is the
only person who seems to have.

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
Tired.

Speaker 15 (01:53:02):
Debab Root happened. People don't even remember it. I have
spent decades with people going, oh, there was something that
went on in bab route. I'm like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (01:53:12):
Over three massacres?

Speaker 5 (01:53:13):
We're killed?

Speaker 15 (01:53:15):
And what about the coal people? Just forget about that?
So am I am? I thrilled with this?

Speaker 5 (01:53:23):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:53:23):
No, I'll be honest, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (01:53:25):
I don't think anybody happened.

Speaker 15 (01:53:27):
No, but did it need to happen? Yes? You know,
I have a son in law who did two tours
over in the sandbox Kuwait and Afghanistan. Like I said,
my husband was in Bei route. None of us are
enjoying this. In fact, we are trying to avoid the
media because it just ramps up the PTSD to a

(01:53:50):
level twelve. The nightmares my husband's been having the last
few nights, they're expected. But thank you, thank you President
Trump for finally.

Speaker 13 (01:54:04):
Given the darn.

Speaker 15 (01:54:05):
I'm sorry. I'm also trying to really watch my language.

Speaker 3 (01:54:08):
It's tammy uh.

Speaker 1 (01:54:10):
Wow, that that is an incredible story. I can see
why I'm getting emotional listening to you. Tammy uh how
many of Yeah, Well, that that's the thing that absolutely
boggles my mind. In last hour, I kind of ran
down all of the various attacks that Iran was responsible for.

(01:54:32):
I even left out I left out the coal, the
USS coal that was al Qaeda.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
Al Qaida was.

Speaker 1 (01:54:37):
Getting material support, you could you could include Iran in
nine to eleven because they were providing material support and
intelligence for al Qaida for pretty much all of al
Qaeda's existence, right, you know, al Qaida in Iraq, I
all of this, all of this was Iran's doing. And
it's like people don't remember, or they don't care, or
they just hate Trump so much. And what I think

(01:54:57):
is is more diabolical. They dislike this country so much
that fundamentally they just they have tendency to side with
our enemies. Tammy, I'll tell you what we are running
up against the end of the show. I'm so sorry
your husband had to go through that. Give him a
big hug, and know that all of our listeners Dan

(01:55:22):
Nation is with you.

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (01:55:24):
We support you, and this one is for all of
your and your husband's old buddies. Okay, all right, God
bless you, Tammy.

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:55:34):
I did not expect for it to be that emotional.
Are we out of time for the show man? I
guess we got to end a little early by apologies
back tomorrow right here on the Dan o'donald Show.

Speaker 15 (01:55:45):
Talk to you though,