June 13, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Sen. Alex Padilla at Kristi Noem's presser
- Tech related challenges & a Padilla follow up
- Operation Rising Lion
- Gavin Newsom & the CA National Guard
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty, I'm strong and Jack Katie
and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
As our law enforcement officers have been assaulted, They've been
pelted with rocks and bricks, their cars have been set
on fire, Molotov cocktails have been used. So I want
to say thank you to every single person that has
been able to do this. Also, I want to talk
specifically to the rioters and to the politicians in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
As you're rotating on your.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I also want to sound specifically how many of ours?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's fine?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Michael's Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Nome, doing a press
conference in LA being interrupted by a loud, belligerent man
who approached rapidly from the back of the room. He
was accosted by law enforcement, then began shouting I am
Senator Alex Paddela Badia and how dare you something something
and got wrastled out of the room and to the
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ground and cuffed in the hallway.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm just trying to eat a delicious Chinese meal.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Chinese me, did you say that there's some man who
touched my titeness.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
And so then they took a US senator out into
the hallway, put him on his knees and then on
his stomach and cuffed him.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But that's correct, it's going on there. Yeah, why'd they
hold back? A couple of licks to the nagain would
have been what? Wait? Who have said that?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
So here's the story, friends, so nakedly performative.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
What the senator did?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I mean, he's not wearing any senate identification. He doesn't
let the secretary know he's coming. He doesn't say, excuse me, madame.
Secretary started to interrupting, I'm Senator Alex Padilla, California, and we,
the people of California, won't have it. No, he intentionally
provoked a scene, so obviously.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Well, I gotta tell you I live in California. I'm
a voter in California for a long time. I couldn't
have recognized him. I didn't know what he looked like.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Right.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
If he walked into the room, I wouldn't have known,
oh my god, it's Senator Padilla. I would have thought,
who are you? If he started, if he walked in
this room yelling at me yesterday, I don't have thought,
oh my god, who's this crazy person, Senator Alex.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I have questions for the secretary?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
So and some of the fake anger you're about to
hear from Democrats is just so precious. But let's get
to the senator himself, who's able to talk. When the brutes,
the fascists finally let him up off the carpet, he
had statements to make.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Next clip, Michael, I was there peacefully.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
At one point. I had a question, and so I
began to ask a question. I was almost forcibly removed from.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
The I was forced to the ground forcibly enough, and
I was handcuffed. I was not arrested. I was not detained.
Can you get me an age on him by the
way there, Katie Green? How old is he?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Because they had him down on his knees and then
pushed him down on the ground, and I thought, I
didn't look very comfortable. Of course, don't lunge at a
protectee of the Secret Service is a good way to
avoid that. Yes, Katie, I have a follow up question.
He's fifty two, he's not that old? And was he crying?
Speaker 7 (03:33):
And that he sure sounded like he was that I
heard crack like voice cracking.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
He might have been, you don't realize what an awful
day this was for democracy. I was watching Laurence O'Donnell
on MSNBC. I got the end of this show and
and he went into the hole we live in Trump's
world now, where we cannot question our government which has
been enshrined in the Constitution for all these years. And
then he said, at one point, we are all Senator Padilla.
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Today is the worst and most evil president we have
ever had.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm Laurence o'donnald.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
This moment we have feared has arrived, right.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Has arrived.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
And here with here I am, with my loins ungirded.
Let's say, oh this is this is the good clip
from Fadilla next one.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
If this is how this administration responds to a senator
with a question, If this is how the Department of
Home out Security responds to a senator with a question,
you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers,
to cooks, two day laborers out in the Los Angeles
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community and throughout California and throughout the country.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Ye it, well, we got we got to call out
this sort of stuff when it happens. But in terms
of a political move in the age of all performative
politics might be a win.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It might be a win.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I mean, I watched the way it was portrayed on
MSNBC yesterday and you know in social media for that side,
so it might be you know when in Rome it
might be a win.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I disagree because I think it may be a big
win for their unshakable core of progressive ninnies. I don't
think any moderates are going to go for that. It's
just too obviously performative. Now, Senator Secretary Christy Nome, who
bravely continued on the press conference, somebody needs to tell
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her that's enough collagen in the lips. Now, you look
like you're in anaphylactic shock and your hair is too luxurious.
Just take it down a notch. Yes, how big do
your lips need to be? Anyway, she made her own statement.
Speaker 9 (05:54):
I think his statement is absolutely ridiculous. This man burst
into her room, started advancing towards the podium, interrupting and
opening statement, elevating his voice, shouting questions. People tried to
stop him from interrupting the press conference. He refused and
continued to launch towards the podium, and that is when
he was removed from the rooms.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
If that's how they treatd sitting US editor, imagine how.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They treat the bus boys, the hotel cladies. So he's
like a little baby.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I had some insight from a source in or near
the Secret Service who knows about these sorts of things
that anonymously Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Can we wait fifteen seconds, just skip to forty six, Michael,
I just.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
You know, I I'm so sick of the politics, Martha.
This is literally people's lives. We have criminal gangs and
terrorists out on our streets that were trying to remove
from Los Angeles. I mean, people just need to get
over themselves and have the backs of law enforcement and
this president who just want to clean up America and
make it safe again.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
So our Secret Service adjacent source sat gno him as
a USS protectee. If you have any questions, ask and
I responded, that's interesting, no exceptions for US senators. Did
they not know he was a US senator? And the
response was, honestly, doesn't matter. Nobody is allowed to move
aggressively at a protectee while verbally accosting them. Hey, it's
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just John Wilkes Booth. He's a famous actor, he's cool.
Uh wow. Padilla displayed several pre attack behaviors. He was
actively resisting the police, who were very gentle. The only
reason he wasn't violently put down was because he was
a senator. All of this is to say, it's exactly
the reaction Podilla wanted.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Probably right.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, they used minimum fource so although I'm sure
they were prepared to escalate as needed.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, yeah he got off. He got off easy.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
If you had not been a US senator and you
were screaming and lunging and like not like immediately responding
to the police when they say hey, hold on, back off,
you're continuing to fight forward.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
The Secret Services job is to take you down, all right.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Speaking of great actors, it's Jack mentioned John Wilkes Booth,
better known for his performance as assassin of our Greatest President.
You're gonna hear some just spectacularly bad performative acting here.
I mean, this is this makes like your second tier
soap opera actor look like Sir John Gielgud.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I mean this is bad.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You're about to hear Chuck Schumer and Senator Ben Lujohn
here in clip forty four.
Speaker 10 (08:38):
It's a president I just saw something that sickened my stomach.
The man handling of the United States senator. We need
immediate answers to what the hell went on?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
How can these federal agents get away with this is
the President of the United States telling.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Folks to go down and shard resting United States senators.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Use, that's what happened. Oh my, got it. So how
are we ever going to break out of performative politics?
Because it's all performative politics now, everything's a stunt.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well one more for you.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
This is, as Jack mentioned, the great Lawrence O'Donnell is right.
Speaker 11 (09:14):
It's not about him, it's about all of us. We
are all Alex Padilla tonight. Any one of us could
be the next one on the floor in handcuffs, right.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
If we do what he did.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yeah, precisely, we lunation of laws, not of men. The
law applies to him too, man. I mean, I just
I don't know. Is this misogyny, Katie? You'd tell me.
I'm looking at her right now when she came out
of there. Her hair is too luxurious. She looks like
she's doing a commercial for a hair care product.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
No, it sounds like you can't handle the hotness. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, but if I'm the president and I've like got
you know, my my hair and beard all conditioned, and
I'm dressed like the most interesting man in the world
from those great toes Sechy's commercials, and I mean I'm
really dressed like I'm on a red carpet somewhere. Well,
I think a better example for the men would be
like when Hegzeth wears his extra medium T shirt, which
I also mock.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Like, Okay, I mean, what are you doing there.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Or open to like the fourth button. Yeah, there's just
the whole sex appeace. I guess you're a good look
and you show it off.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
As a chick.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I think you get taken it more seriously if you'd
now you don't be homely, just not just so visibly
trying as hard as you can.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
To be sexy.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Right, yeah, exactly, Yeah, come on, let her do her
thing well she is, there's no doubt. Well, were distracted
Jack's inane comment from the fact that we are all
Alex Padilla, the First Amendment has died. Anyone live in
a country where any one of us right on the
ground in cuffs, who rushes a sec Service protectee bellowing
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at them. Could he wrestled gently to the ground and
cuffed for five seconds.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It's terrifying.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
He wasn't wearing his US senator pin, which is a thing.
I mean, he still can't do it even as a senator,
as was explained, but I mean he was. He wanted
most people to not know he was for a while
so he could get that treatment.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Clip forty seven is Senator Bernie Marino, a Republican from
Ohio who I think he can actually hear his eyes rolling.
Speaker 12 (11:25):
The Secret Service have one job, which is to protect
the Secretary.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Of Homeland Security.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
When when she's out about in different places and you
can't lunch towards a podium, you can't interrupt.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
The live press conference.
Speaker 12 (11:38):
It's a behavior, quite frankly, that's not becoming of anybody,
let alone the United States senator. But again, being a
senator doesn't absolve you from being able to act and
unruly matter.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
If any regular citizen.
Speaker 12 (11:50):
Had done it, Secret Service would have done the exact
same thing.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Only much rougher, according to our source. Yeah, yeah, and
it was interesting. I don't I don't see we have
the audio.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
But Mike Johnson, speaker of the House was being asked
about this, and the Democratic Caucus had just broken up.
There here the official words you use over and over
again and how you're supposed to act meeting, and so
they were working their way past the press gaggle shouting
do you.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Condemn that brutality out of senator shame, mister speaker, shame,
and he just smiled and rolled his eyes. It's the
world we live in, man.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
So we got the Israel attack in Iran's story and
their details coming out constantly. The fact that the Masade
had set up a drone base, both bases inside Iran
kind of Ukraine style to pull this off is really something.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Was it labeled Uncle Bbe's ice cream parlor or what?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
How did they? How did they do?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
I have a feeling that this was announced by Israel.
I have a feeling they wanted to put that out, like, hey,
you keep your head on a swivel today.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You know, we got a lot you don't know about.
So don't relax there.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Mohammad, oh the death to the Jews dry cleaner down
the street to Muhammad.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Turns out that was the Israelis. You're kidding me, really clever,
bad you can't trust anybody, They say to themselves. We
got more on the way. Stay here. I'm Senator Alex Padia.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I have questions for the Secretary.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
We are all Alex Padilla.
Speaker 13 (13:21):
Tonight, arm straw Heetti, Meta announcing it is cracking down
on apps that use AI to undress people in photos.
Meta writing in a lawsuit against joy Timeline, a company
marketing these apps, that it was violating metapolicy by displaying
ads consisting of nudity and or non consensual intimate imagery
with captions like erase any clothes on girls and click
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the button for the NUDI version.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Here's how some of these apps work.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Easily upload a normal photo like someone at prom or graduation.
Some apps allow you to easily make edits, changing colors
or pieces of clothing or removing them entirely create a
realistic looking nude AI image.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Good luck banning that.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I mean, I understand why you try, and maybe you
can keep it off apt platform like Facebook, but that
technology exists for AI. Every single human being is going
to be able to do it on their phone if
you can already.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Very soon. Yet another terrible tech related challenge for parents.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I just came across the story of a Kentucky lad
who was a victim of the sextortion schemes that we've
talked about in the past. These scumbags would pose as
a young woman who had seen you know, your son's
picture online, thought he was really cute, and send him
a picture of her bear breasts or something like that,
and in exchange asks for a picture of him with
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some nudity. And then the scumbags, who are secretly blackmailers,
say we will send this picture to you everybody in
your school and your family if you don't find a
way to wire three thousand dollars for instance. And that
happened to this kid. But the twist is now they're
using apps like that. So this kid never bared his body,
but he was so humiliated by the idea of this
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happening to him he killed himself.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
That's really too bad, because I get the feeling from
talking to people that the for the younger crowd, all
of the internet and social media, everything is so a
wash in DPS that I mean, I don't know how
you'd tell one from another. I mean, it's just they're
everywhere all the time, people sending them legitimately. But in
relationships or making them up or sending you know whatever.
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There's so many of them around, I'm not sure they'd
have any impact very soon or now.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Actually right, yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
And granted it's not like thousands of kids are committing
suicide around the country because of this, But I just
I want parents to mention it to your sons, especially
because if you've got a horned up sixteen year old son,
he will make terrible decisions. Believe me, I was one
and I made them. But just let them know that
these scams are out there.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
But the trying to stop the AI's ability to give
a naked version of some that's over like a month ago.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Go to the beach stand there and yell at the
tide until it stops coming in.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Well, I really wish I wasn't raising teenage boys in
the age of the Internet.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But I am back to Senator Padilla of California who
got wrestled down by the Secret Service too gently for
my taste. But he says it was not planned. It
was he didn't even know Christynom was there. He was
in the building for something else, and it was frustrated.
Wasn't getting answers on DHS's extreme enforcement actions. So he
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was there to stand up for the people and it
wasn't performative at all. Ryan from Houston Rights, Hey, let's
play everybody's favorite game. What was the senator's real game plan? A.
He's so eager to pass an immigration law that he
just couldn't stop himself. B. He truly believes we're a
fascist state and he has to protect his state and
the people. Or see, he got visibly aroused thinking that
he's going to be the face of the resistance so
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he could raise more money. I'm guessing C because the
legislative branch is always doing C.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Nome claims they had a perfectly congenial fifteen minute phone
call shortly thereafter and everything is fine.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Israel attacks next Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 14 (17:20):
The mission included massad smuggling vehicles and drones into Iran,
setting up a drone base in Iran, and activating the
drones this morning to hit Iran's surface to air missiles.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah, as we mentioned earlier, so that's very reminiscent of
what Ukraine did in Russia just recently. So that whole
sneaking drones into your country and all of a sudden,
they're blowing stuff up. Trick has been done now twice
in two weeks. And uh yeah, well, I hope we
can prepare against that. But Operation Rising Lion is Israel's
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Oh there he is in questions. Look at him rising. Yes,
Israel striking Iran hard last night, like really hard, and
much more to come. Here's Jonathan Carl ABC talking to
Trump recently.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Yesterday, he seemed to be suggesting that he was concerned
that an Israeli attack would he said, blow it in
terms of the peace negotiations, the nuclear negotiations that his
administration is having with Iran. This morning, he sounded all
in on this Israeli attack. He said, I think it's
been excellent. We gave them a chance and they didn't
take it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
They got hit hard, very hard.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
And then this they got hit about as hard as
they're going to get hit. And it's going and there's
going to be more. There's more to come, a lot more,
a lot more to comm he says.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
So there's other reporting that we mentioned earlier that the
whole Trump being against Israel attacking was planned disinformation between
Trump and net and Yahoo. So that's stuff in the
new York Times last week where Donald Trump tells Israel
not to attack that we talked about was disinformation and
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made Iran possibly thinking. They probably thought, Okay, Israel's not
going to go if the president. If President Trump's against it, right,
letting down their guard just a little bit. Yeah, so
Trump truthout today. Oh, I agree with this. Jodah Goldberg
the other day wrote, let's just decide as a country.
Everything posted on one of these sites blue Sky Twitter,
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whatever it is is a tweet. Let's just call him
all tweets. It's just easy for everybody. I'm in favor
of that. Yeah, he truth thout. Oh snop it, but
so he tweeted on truth Social Donald Trump. I gave
a ran chance after chance to make a deal. I
told them, in the strongest words, to just do it.
But no matter how hard they tried, no matter how
close they got, they just couldn't get it done. I
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told them it would be much worse than anything they
know anticipated or were told. That the United States makes
the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the
world by far, and that Israel has a lot of
it with much more to come.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Wow, and they know how to use it.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn't know what
was about to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
They're all dead now in all caps. Whoa yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
So the whole question which was raised last week, I
think it was. Look, Trump has issued a number of threats,
whether to Hamas or you know, various other organizations at
various times, and he hasn't carried them all out. Is
his credibility shaky? Well, no, this is a bigan.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Well somebody pointed out that when remember a while, well,
sixty days ago, sixty one days ago, sixty one days ago,
Trump said I gave a ran sixty days and we
wondered at the time, Okay, is this a real deadline
or is this one of those old rights. Yeah, Israel
attacked at like sixty days in fifteen minutes, according to
people who were paying attention. So again, certain Iranian hardliners
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spoke bravely. They're all dead now and it will only
get worse. There's already been great death and destruction, but
there's still time to make the slaughter. With the next
already planned attacks being even more brutal come to an end,
Iran must make a deal before there's nothing left and
say what was once known as the Iranian Empire.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
No more death, no more destruction. Just do it before
it's too late.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
If you haven't heard some of the particulars, the strike
took out a number of nuclear facilities and a shocking
number of like individual apartments housing. For instance, Mohammad Bagari,
the commander in chief of the military and the second
highest commander after the Supreme leader, as was General Hossain Salami.
He was a hard man Salami commander in vd's been
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sliced down.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
He was the.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Commander in chief of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
That's Sulamani's old gig, right.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
So Ali Shamkhani, a leading politician who was overseeing the
NUK talks with the US, was also killed.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Officials said, I never know, I never know how disruptive
that stuff is. I mean with a group like al
Kader something like that, you know, whoever's at the top
might be a singular figure that you can't replace. You
get into the military, I mean, you take out whoever
the head of our army is. The number two is
gonna step in immediately and be able to do the
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job just as well. So I just wonder I wonder
how devastating that is. I don't have any sense of that.
The scientists is a different deal. They probably aren't just
you know, as capable scientists ready to step right into
the spot. Or even if they are, they're probably thinking,
you know, I've decided to retire or do something different
for a living.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I'm a lot about I work on AI instead on
the nuclear program.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Yeah, so were those drone attacks if you've seen the
apartment buildings, first of all, an attack in Tehran on
the capitol and having apartment buildings splode in just residential neighborhoods.
I mean, obviously that's an act of war, but that's
a serious act of war.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You are at war.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
But yes, so those like individual apartments and an individual
individual floor. Were those drones you're supposed It's not known
at this point whether those were like missiles or drones, But.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yeah, I'd be guessing the Israelis are. But they were
incredibly capable at minimizing collateral damage when they walked.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
To But having seen the drone attack on those planes
in Russia, they might have just flown those drones, you know,
looking at the camera right at the apartment and just
hit the very spot they wanted to hit. Yeah, they
had a drone base on Iranian soil in Turan, near
Turan in Turan.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
And part of the announcing that, I'll like TV's fried
chicken or what was it like a cover business or.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I can't wait to hear more about it. Did they
do the same sort of thing? Did they get them
on trucks unbeknownst to Iranians that thought they were hauling
camel saddles or something?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
And I'm so an unfortunate stereotypes there. Yeah, whatever it is,
I'm sure it was very very clever.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
And they the fact that they announced it the next day,
I think there's a good idea, because that's got to
make you the Iranians think.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
How many are there more drones? Or do we have people?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Do we have moles in our system? Or what the
hell is going on?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yes and yes.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Net Yahoo vowed that the attack would continue for as
many days as was necessary. Nothing in the last you know,
hour or two, I don't think.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
So. What I was watching last night as I went
to bed, Iran had a launched one of their drone
retaliation strikes at Israel, or at least that's what they
were re reporting on the Open source network on Twitter,
and it was going to take seven hours from to
get to Israel. Is there any more on that or
did that turn out not to be true or do
they all get shot down?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I haven't heard a word about that today, don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Yeah, yeah, Trump saying, as we just read that the
next attack will be even more brutal.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I think it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Oh yeah, And Trump told the Wall Street Journal today
that he and his team were aware of Israel's play
to attack. So the story last night was we had
no idea, and this morning Trump says, oh yeah, we know.
Of course we do, which I think is partially Trump
has just got to be the guy that you know, knows.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
He can't be the guy who didn't know. Yes, that's true.
I think it has a lot to do with his ego.
Plus it's an ass kicking military attack. He wants to
be part of that too. Right, Normally you leave these
things cloudy. I refer you to my statement of yesterday
about how we did not authorize nor have knowledge of
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well, generally you keep it cloudy. Not Trump.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
I had a point in the drone the retaliation attack.
I don't know, we mentioned it earlier. Worth mentioning again,
we do have forty thousand troops in the Middle East
on about a dozen bases, so we do have.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
To mention the ships. Oh yeah, so we gave he
as al of a presence. We do have some exposure.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
You start attacking US troops on military bases or a ship, though,
and then you're really getting attacked. So it seems like
that would be a bad move.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh I know. Oh.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
My point was Trump is the reason that Marco Rubio
put out the statement, and we wanted to like distance
ourselves from it.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Even if we knew about it.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
We're claiming we had no we had no participation in
any way whatsoever. That's so Trump can say, wow, that
was some Israel. Huh, what are you gonna do? He
can say to the iatola at Israel man, they can
bring it if they want to. Anyway about those negotiations,
It just seems like we really ought to get back
to this.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
He wants to keep working on that before you have
nothing left, as we said in a statement, right right, right,
They might have put something in your beard.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Dude, You don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Israel's wide ranging strike against Iran was years in the
making the result of extensive intelligence gathering on the country's
nuclear sites as well as on top military officials. To
pull it off, Israel in part would have needed detailed
information about the whereabouts and the movements of the officials
and scientists, at least four of whom were at the
upper levels of the military command.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
What God dangy you read some of that same book
I did about Iraq's nuclear scientists when sodom like would
kidnap these scientists and make them work on these these
weapons that they didn't want to work on, and torture
them if they if they made any noises they didn't
want to. I'm wondering that's probably the way it works
in Iran. These scientists.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
After holding them in a selling beating them for a while,
they'd they'd say, all right, you're leaving, and they'd show
them to a very nice apartment in Baghdad with a
view of the river and say, hey, we expect you
at the lab nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Yeah, so that's quite possibly the case with these are
these Iranian nuclear scientists. Yeah, I mean, in fact, it's
almost certainly true. I doubt they're hardcore MOLLA supporting you
know whatever. Iran calls itself theocracy of whatever they are.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I wonder I doubt they're on board with that.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
I had one more point I wanted to make, but
oh yeah, yeah, I llun's the last time you checked
your turbine. Yeah, you might have a drone in there,
you don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Oh wow, that's again, that's not good analysis at all.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's just silly coming up.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Gaviy K Newsome desperately trying to parley the unrest in
La into a presidential run.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
How's that going.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
We'll update you and then we'll get back to Some
are calling it the operation with the Strength of a Lion,
not Rising Lion.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Was like Rising Lion better.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Well, it was rising Line when it was reported first
last night. Was that a misinterpretation or a mistranslation?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
According to one Israeli official, it's with the Strength of
a Lion.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I don't like that name.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
It's cumbersome in English, but it might roll off the
tongue better in Hebrew. Anyway, we'll be back to that
topic at the top next hour with a reporter from Jerusalem.
We can talk to them about the incoming drone attack
from Iran. The reaction in Israel and much more.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Yeah, Gavin had like an hour to claim he beat
Trump in this thing. Really get all excited. And it
didn't last if you don't.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Get him that big cart rule and he wanted, yes,
take that Trump.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You wait what, it didn't last long. That's coming up.
Speaker 11 (29:11):
Yet.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
These folks are now being commandeered to do ice rates.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You've seen the photographs.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
That ends tomorrow at noon. Courts have ruled on the guard.
They will be back under my command and he'll be relieved.
Donald Trump were believed of his command at noon tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, that lasted like an hour. Hey hey, oh, what
did you just.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Play the donkey sound after Governor Newsom? Are you implying
some sort of jackass Michael, I'll thank you to keep
your little sound effect commentary to yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
God.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
So, when I got the beep on my phone that
Israel was attacking Iran, holy crap, it's on.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That's a big deal. I'm running some eron's driving.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I start flipping around the cable news channel CNN, as
they always are on this sort of stuff. Was on
it live reports from the Middle East, et cetera. Fox
was doing its Fox thing MSNBC had Gavin Newsom on
because Gavin Newsom was crowing over this one judge that
came out and said Donald Trump doesn't have a constitutional
right to send in the National Guard over your authority,
blah blah blah blah blah, with some really dumb reasoning.
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And then very shortly thereafter even the Ninth Circuit said, no, wait,
hold on a second, I don't think you're right about this.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Yeah, during the roughly hour and a half that indeed,
the judge who will talk about in a minute or
two had said, no, this is terrible, this is un American.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Trump's a dictator. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, Gavy took to the airwaves to crow about his
great victory. Then the Ninth Circuit Court said, now we
got to look at this. Trump, do what you want
till Tuesday. We'll get back to you and it'll be
over by tuesday. So, in all likelihood, and even if
the Ninth Circuit Court joins the single district court judge
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in San Francisco, of all places, the Supreme Court will
take a look at it quickly and we'll get probably
a good solid ruling one way or the other. So,
in an extraordinary thirty six page ruling, George Charles Brier,
brother of longtime liberal Supreme Court Judge Briar, of the
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Federal District Court in San Francisco blah blah blah, told
the administration seizure of the Guard had violated federal procedures.
President Trump's quote actions were illegal, both exceeding the scope
of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to
the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of
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the California National Guard to the governor of the State
of California forthwith. The ruling accused Trump of setting a
dangerous precedent for future domestic military activity. And let me
scroll down to my favorite quote. Oops, my highlight went away.
How about is that there?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It is?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
How about if the governor does not protect federal buildings
in Texas, the governor of Texas habboit has sent out
twelve thousand National Guards, some really large number to protect
federal buildings, so the President doesn't have to step in.
So the state of California, he said in his scathing ruling,
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this Judge Briar quote, and the citizens of Los Angeles
face a greater harm from the continued unlawful militarization of
their city, which not only inflames tensions with protesters, threatening
increased hostilities and loss of life, but deprives the state
for two months of its own use of National Guard
members to fight fires, combat the fentanel trade, and perform
other critical functions.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
He wrote, So it's the classic.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Oh, if you send the cops into where the crimes are,
then there could be violence.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
So just let the crimes happen. Let them happen.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Let's talk a little bit about Judge Briar. He's according
to a source deep within the judiciary, he is eighty.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Three years old. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
He is a senior judge. He has a reduced case load,
still getting paid. Went to UC Berkeley, was an attorney
for the Watergate Special Prosecution way back in the day.
I'm going to quote our deep source here. I excuse
the language. He is a Democrat and a total lib tard.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
No, I don't like that. We don't use that. It's
a quote, it's a direct quote.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
His brother was Stephen Bryer, was supreme super liberal Supreme
Court justice who when he retired, was replaced.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh, I can't read that.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
With a crazy woman who couldn't define a woman during
her confirmation hearing.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Yes, well, I I took in a lot of legal
scholars on this topic, and not just people that back
Trump all the time, and the vast majority of them,
in fact, I think all of them said, Yeah, the
one thing Trump does have the right to do is
send in the National Guard to protect federal buildings if
they're not being protected.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Right, and these statements by the various police officials in
LA about being overwhelmed and the rest of it, that's.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Plenty of pretext and for the.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Sake of reality and not just constant spin and gas lighting.
What they're doing is just guarding the federal facilities and
the federal officials, and they're there, is backup. Really, nothing's
happened with them yet, has it? No fact I've got
insight on that. See if I can find that from
(34:32):
I don't know if I can find it quickly, But
as somebody who's in the National Guard, who's been there
and saying, we're incredibly bored, we're not doing anything, we're
just hanging out.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
So you know, they wouldn't be just hanging out if
the rioters attack the federal buildings. But they're not going
to attack the federal buildings with all the National Guard
around them.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
That's why they're there.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
So here's the only other thing you need to hear about,
this blip in the legal process that will go away quickly.
At the hearing, Justice Department lawyer argued that mister Hegzath
had complied with the call up statue even if he hadn't,
Trump had legal authority.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Sporting a light blue bow tie, Judge Bryer interrupted the
Justice Department's lawyer repeatedly, and at one point waved a
small copy of the Constitution in the air.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
All right, all right, yeah, so that's that.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
But Gavin got to have his moment there for an
how or where he looked like he'd beaten Trump as
part of the resistance back into Israel. Iran with a
great guest in our three Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty, I'm strong and Jack Katie
and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
As our law enforcement officers have been assaulted, They've been
pelted with rocks and bricks, their cars have been set
on fire, Molotov cocktails have been used. So I want
to say thank you to every single person that has
been able to do this. Also, I want to talk
specifically to the rioters and to the politicians in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
As you're rotating on your.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I also want to sound specifically how many of ours?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's fine?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Michael's Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Nome, doing a press
conference in LA being interrupted by a loud, belligerent man
who approached rapidly from the back of the room. He
was accosted by law enforcement, then began shouting I am
Senator Alex Paddela Badia and how dare you something something
and got wrastled out of the room and to the
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ground and cuffed in the hallway.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm just trying to eat a delicious Chinese meal.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Chinese me, did you say that there's some man who
touched my titeness.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
And so then they took a US senator out into
the hallway, put him on his knees and then on
his stomach and cuffed him.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But that's correct, it's going on there. Yeah, why'd they
hold back? A couple of licks to the nagain would
have been what? Wait? Who have said that?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
So here's the story, friends, so nakedly performative.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
What the senator did?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I mean, he's not wearing any senate identification. He doesn't
let the secretary know he's coming. He doesn't say, excuse me, madame.
Secretary started to interrupting, I'm Senator Alex Padilla, California, and we,
the people of California, won't have it. No, he intentionally
provoked a scene, so obviously.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Well, I gotta tell you I live in California. I'm
a voter in California for a long time. I couldn't
have recognized him. I didn't know what he looked like.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Right.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
If he walked into the room, I wouldn't have known,
oh my god, it's Senator Padilla. I would have thought,
who are you? If he started, if he walked in
this room yelling at me yesterday, I don't have thought,
oh my god, who's this crazy person, Senator Alex.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I have questions for the secretary?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
So and some of the fake anger you're about to
hear from Democrats is just so precious. But let's get
to the senator himself, who's able to talk. When the brutes,
the fascists finally let him up off the carpet, he
had statements to make.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Next clip, Michael, I was there peacefully.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
At one point. I had a question, and so I
began to ask a question. I was almost forcibly removed from.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
The I was forced to the ground forcibly enough, and
I was handcuffed. I was not arrested. I was not detained.
Can you get me an age on him by the
way there, Katie Green? How old is he?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Because they had him down on his knees and then
pushed him down on the ground, and I thought, I
didn't look very comfortable. Of course, don't lunge at a
protectee of the Secret Service is a good way to
avoid that. Yes, Katie, I have a follow up question.
He's fifty two, he's not that old? And was he crying?
Speaker 7 (03:33):
And that he sure sounded like he was that I
heard crack like voice cracking.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
He might have been, you don't realize what an awful
day this was for democracy. I was watching Laurence O'Donnell
on MSNBC. I got the end of this show and
and he went into the hole we live in Trump's
world now, where we cannot question our government which has
been enshrined in the Constitution for all these years. And
then he said, at one point, we are all Senator Padilla.
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Today is the worst and most evil president we have
ever had.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm Laurence o'donnald.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
This moment we have feared has arrived, right.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Has arrived.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
And here with here I am, with my loins ungirded.
Let's say, oh this is this is the good clip
from Fadilla next one.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
If this is how this administration responds to a senator
with a question, If this is how the Department of
Home out Security responds to a senator with a question,
you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers,
to cooks, two day laborers out in the Los Angeles
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community and throughout California and throughout the country.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Ye it, well, we got we got to call out
this sort of stuff when it happens. But in terms
of a political move in the age of all performative
politics might be a win.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It might be a win.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I mean, I watched the way it was portrayed on
MSNBC yesterday and you know in social media for that side,
so it might be you know when in Rome it
might be a win.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I disagree because I think it may be a big
win for their unshakable core of progressive ninnies. I don't
think any moderates are going to go for that. It's
just too obviously performative. Now, Senator Secretary Christy Nome, who
bravely continued on the press conference, somebody needs to tell
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her that's enough collagen in the lips. Now, you look
like you're in anaphylactic shock and your hair is too luxurious.
Just take it down a notch. Yes, how big do
your lips need to be? Anyway, she made her own statement.
Speaker 9 (05:54):
I think his statement is absolutely ridiculous. This man burst
into her room, started advancing towards the podium, interrupting and
opening statement, elevating his voice, shouting questions. People tried to
stop him from interrupting the press conference. He refused and
continued to launch towards the podium, and that is when
he was removed from the rooms.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
If that's how they treatd sitting US editor, imagine how.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They treat the bus boys, the hotel cladies. So he's
like a little baby.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I had some insight from a source in or near
the Secret Service who knows about these sorts of things
that anonymously Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Can we wait fifteen seconds, just skip to forty six, Michael,
I just.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
You know, I I'm so sick of the politics, Martha.
This is literally people's lives. We have criminal gangs and
terrorists out on our streets that were trying to remove
from Los Angeles. I mean, people just need to get
over themselves and have the backs of law enforcement and
this president who just want to clean up America and
make it safe again.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
So our Secret Service adjacent source sat gno him as
a USS protectee. If you have any questions, ask and
I responded, that's interesting, no exceptions for US senators. Did
they not know he was a US senator? And the
response was, honestly, doesn't matter. Nobody is allowed to move
aggressively at a protectee while verbally accosting them. Hey, it's
(07:19):
just John Wilkes Booth. He's a famous actor, he's cool.
Uh wow. Padilla displayed several pre attack behaviors. He was
actively resisting the police, who were very gentle. The only
reason he wasn't violently put down was because he was
a senator. All of this is to say, it's exactly
the reaction Podilla wanted.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Probably right.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, they used minimum fource so although I'm sure
they were prepared to escalate as needed.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, yeah he got off. He got off easy.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
If you had not been a US senator and you
were screaming and lunging and like not like immediately responding
to the police when they say hey, hold on, back off,
you're continuing to fight forward.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
The Secret Services job is to take you down, all right.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Speaking of great actors, it's Jack mentioned John Wilkes Booth,
better known for his performance as assassin of our Greatest President.
You're gonna hear some just spectacularly bad performative acting here.
I mean, this is this makes like your second tier
soap opera actor look like Sir John Gielgud.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I mean this is bad.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You're about to hear Chuck Schumer and Senator Ben Lujohn
here in clip forty four.
Speaker 10 (08:38):
It's a president I just saw something that sickened my stomach.
The man handling of the United States senator. We need
immediate answers to what the hell went on?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
How can these federal agents get away with this is
the President of the United States telling.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Folks to go down and shard resting United States senators.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Use, that's what happened. Oh my, got it. So how
are we ever going to break out of performative politics?
Because it's all performative politics now, everything's a stunt.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well one more for you.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
This is, as Jack mentioned, the great Lawrence O'Donnell is right.
Speaker 11 (09:14):
It's not about him, it's about all of us. We
are all Alex Padilla tonight. Any one of us could
be the next one on the floor in handcuffs, right.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
If we do what he did.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yeah, precisely, we lunation of laws, not of men. The
law applies to him too, man. I mean, I just
I don't know. Is this misogyny, Katie? You'd tell me.
I'm looking at her right now when she came out
of there. Her hair is too luxurious. She looks like
she's doing a commercial for a hair care product.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
No, it sounds like you can't handle the hotness. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, but if I'm the president and I've like got
you know, my my hair and beard all conditioned, and
I'm dressed like the most interesting man in the world
from those great toes Sechy's commercials, and I mean I'm
really dressed like I'm on a red carpet somewhere. Well,
I think a better example for the men would be
like when Hegzeth wears his extra medium T shirt, which
I also mock.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Like, Okay, I mean, what are you doing there.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Or open to like the fourth button. Yeah, there's just
the whole sex appeace. I guess you're a good look
and you show it off.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
As a chick.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I think you get taken it more seriously if you'd
now you don't be homely, just not just so visibly
trying as hard as you can.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
To be sexy.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Right, yeah, exactly, Yeah, come on, let her do her
thing well she is, there's no doubt. Well, were distracted
Jack's inane comment from the fact that we are all
Alex Padilla, the First Amendment has died. Anyone live in
a country where any one of us right on the
ground in cuffs, who rushes a sec Service protectee bellowing
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at them. Could he wrestled gently to the ground and
cuffed for five seconds.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It's terrifying.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
He wasn't wearing his US senator pin, which is a thing.
I mean, he still can't do it even as a senator,
as was explained, but I mean he was. He wanted
most people to not know he was for a while
so he could get that treatment.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Clip forty seven is Senator Bernie Marino, a Republican from
Ohio who I think he can actually hear his eyes rolling.
Speaker 12 (11:25):
The Secret Service have one job, which is to protect
the Secretary.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Of Homeland Security.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
When when she's out about in different places and you
can't lunch towards a podium, you can't interrupt.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
The live press conference.
Speaker 12 (11:38):
It's a behavior, quite frankly, that's not becoming of anybody,
let alone the United States senator. But again, being a
senator doesn't absolve you from being able to act and
unruly matter.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
If any regular citizen.
Speaker 12 (11:50):
Had done it, Secret Service would have done the exact
same thing.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Only much rougher, according to our source. Yeah, yeah, and
it was interesting. I don't I don't see we have
the audio.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
But Mike Johnson, speaker of the House was being asked
about this, and the Democratic Caucus had just broken up.
There here the official words you use over and over
again and how you're supposed to act meeting, and so
they were working their way past the press gaggle shouting
do you.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Condemn that brutality out of senator shame, mister speaker, shame,
and he just smiled and rolled his eyes. It's the
world we live in, man.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
So we got the Israel attack in Iran's story and
their details coming out constantly. The fact that the Masade
had set up a drone base, both bases inside Iran
kind of Ukraine style to pull this off is really something.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Was it labeled Uncle Bbe's ice cream parlor or what?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
How did they? How did they do?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
I have a feeling that this was announced by Israel.
I have a feeling they wanted to put that out, like, hey,
you keep your head on a swivel today.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You know, we got a lot you don't know about.
So don't relax there.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Mohammad, oh the death to the Jews dry cleaner down
the street to Muhammad.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Turns out that was the Israelis. You're kidding me, really clever,
bad you can't trust anybody, They say to themselves. We
got more on the way. Stay here. I'm Senator Alex Padia.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I have questions for the Secretary.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
We are all Alex Padilla.
Speaker 13 (13:21):
Tonight, arm straw Heetti, Meta announcing it is cracking down
on apps that use AI to undress people in photos.
Meta writing in a lawsuit against joy Timeline, a company
marketing these apps, that it was violating metapolicy by displaying
ads consisting of nudity and or non consensual intimate imagery
with captions like erase any clothes on girls and click
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the button for the NUDI version.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Here's how some of these apps work.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Easily upload a normal photo like someone at prom or graduation.
Some apps allow you to easily make edits, changing colors
or pieces of clothing or removing them entirely create a
realistic looking nude AI image.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Good luck banning that.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I mean, I understand why you try, and maybe you
can keep it off apt platform like Facebook, but that
technology exists for AI. Every single human being is going
to be able to do it on their phone if
you can already.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Very soon. Yet another terrible tech related challenge for parents.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I just came across the story of a Kentucky lad
who was a victim of the sextortion schemes that we've
talked about in the past. These scumbags would pose as
a young woman who had seen you know, your son's
picture online, thought he was really cute, and send him
a picture of her bear breasts or something like that,
and in exchange asks for a picture of him with
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some nudity. And then the scumbags, who are secretly blackmailers,
say we will send this picture to you everybody in
your school and your family if you don't find a
way to wire three thousand dollars for instance. And that
happened to this kid. But the twist is now they're
using apps like that. So this kid never bared his body,
but he was so humiliated by the idea of this
(15:12):
happening to him he killed himself.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
That's really too bad, because I get the feeling from
talking to people that the for the younger crowd, all
of the internet and social media, everything is so a
wash in DPS that I mean, I don't know how
you'd tell one from another. I mean, it's just they're
everywhere all the time, people sending them legitimately. But in
relationships or making them up or sending you know whatever.
(15:37):
There's so many of them around, I'm not sure they'd
have any impact very soon or now.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Actually right, yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
And granted it's not like thousands of kids are committing
suicide around the country because of this, But I just
I want parents to mention it to your sons, especially
because if you've got a horned up sixteen year old son,
he will make terrible decisions. Believe me, I was one
and I made them. But just let them know that
these scams are out there.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
But the trying to stop the AI's ability to give
a naked version of some that's over like a month ago.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Go to the beach stand there and yell at the
tide until it stops coming in.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Well, I really wish I wasn't raising teenage boys in
the age of the Internet.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But I am back to Senator Padilla of California who
got wrestled down by the Secret Service too gently for
my taste. But he says it was not planned. It
was he didn't even know Christynom was there. He was
in the building for something else, and it was frustrated.
Wasn't getting answers on DHS's extreme enforcement actions. So he
(16:44):
was there to stand up for the people and it
wasn't performative at all. Ryan from Houston Rights, Hey, let's
play everybody's favorite game. What was the senator's real game plan? A.
He's so eager to pass an immigration law that he
just couldn't stop himself. B. He truly believes we're a
fascist state and he has to protect his state and
the people. Or see, he got visibly aroused thinking that
he's going to be the face of the resistance so
(17:05):
he could raise more money. I'm guessing C because the
legislative branch is always doing C.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Nome claims they had a perfectly congenial fifteen minute phone
call shortly thereafter and everything is fine.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Israel attacks next Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 14 (17:20):
The mission included massad smuggling vehicles and drones into Iran,
setting up a drone base in Iran, and activating the
drones this morning to hit Iran's surface to air missiles.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah, as we mentioned earlier, so that's very reminiscent of
what Ukraine did in Russia just recently. So that whole
sneaking drones into your country and all of a sudden,
they're blowing stuff up. Trick has been done now twice
in two weeks. And uh yeah, well, I hope we
can prepare against that. But Operation Rising Lion is Israel's
(17:57):
Oh there he is in questions. Look at him rising. Yes,
Israel striking Iran hard last night, like really hard, and
much more to come. Here's Jonathan Carl ABC talking to
Trump recently.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Yesterday, he seemed to be suggesting that he was concerned
that an Israeli attack would he said, blow it in
terms of the peace negotiations, the nuclear negotiations that his
administration is having with Iran. This morning, he sounded all
in on this Israeli attack. He said, I think it's
been excellent. We gave them a chance and they didn't
take it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
They got hit hard, very hard.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
And then this they got hit about as hard as
they're going to get hit. And it's going and there's
going to be more. There's more to come, a lot more,
a lot more to comm he says.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
So there's other reporting that we mentioned earlier that the
whole Trump being against Israel attacking was planned disinformation between
Trump and net and Yahoo. So that's stuff in the
new York Times last week where Donald Trump tells Israel
not to attack that we talked about was disinformation and
(19:02):
made Iran possibly thinking. They probably thought, Okay, Israel's not
going to go if the president. If President Trump's against it, right,
letting down their guard just a little bit. Yeah, so
Trump truthout today. Oh, I agree with this. Jodah Goldberg
the other day wrote, let's just decide as a country.
Everything posted on one of these sites blue Sky Twitter,
(19:23):
whatever it is is a tweet. Let's just call him
all tweets. It's just easy for everybody. I'm in favor
of that. Yeah, he truth thout. Oh snop it, but
so he tweeted on truth Social Donald Trump. I gave
a ran chance after chance to make a deal. I
told them, in the strongest words, to just do it.
But no matter how hard they tried, no matter how
close they got, they just couldn't get it done. I
(19:45):
told them it would be much worse than anything they
know anticipated or were told. That the United States makes
the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the
world by far, and that Israel has a lot of
it with much more to come.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Wow, and they know how to use it.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn't know what
was about to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
They're all dead now in all caps. Whoa yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
So the whole question which was raised last week, I
think it was. Look, Trump has issued a number of threats,
whether to Hamas or you know, various other organizations at
various times, and he hasn't carried them all out. Is
his credibility shaky? Well, no, this is a bigan.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Well somebody pointed out that when remember a while, well,
sixty days ago, sixty one days ago, sixty one days ago,
Trump said I gave a ran sixty days and we
wondered at the time, Okay, is this a real deadline
or is this one of those old rights. Yeah, Israel
attacked at like sixty days in fifteen minutes, according to
people who were paying attention. So again, certain Iranian hardliners
(20:51):
spoke bravely. They're all dead now and it will only
get worse. There's already been great death and destruction, but
there's still time to make the slaughter. With the next
already planned attacks being even more brutal come to an end,
Iran must make a deal before there's nothing left and
say what was once known as the Iranian Empire.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
No more death, no more destruction. Just do it before
it's too late.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
If you haven't heard some of the particulars, the strike
took out a number of nuclear facilities and a shocking
number of like individual apartments housing. For instance, Mohammad Bagari,
the commander in chief of the military and the second
highest commander after the Supreme leader, as was General Hossain Salami.
He was a hard man Salami commander in vd's been
(21:36):
sliced down.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
He was the.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Commander in chief of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
That's Sulamani's old gig, right.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
So Ali Shamkhani, a leading politician who was overseeing the
NUK talks with the US, was also killed.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Officials said, I never know, I never know how disruptive
that stuff is. I mean with a group like al
Kader something like that, you know, whoever's at the top
might be a singular figure that you can't replace. You
get into the military, I mean, you take out whoever
the head of our army is. The number two is
gonna step in immediately and be able to do the
(22:14):
job just as well. So I just wonder I wonder
how devastating that is. I don't have any sense of that.
The scientists is a different deal. They probably aren't just
you know, as capable scientists ready to step right into
the spot. Or even if they are, they're probably thinking,
you know, I've decided to retire or do something different
for a living.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I'm a lot about I work on AI instead on
the nuclear program.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Yeah, so were those drone attacks if you've seen the
apartment buildings, first of all, an attack in Tehran on
the capitol and having apartment buildings splode in just residential neighborhoods.
I mean, obviously that's an act of war, but that's
a serious act of war.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You are at war.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
But yes, so those like individual apartments and an individual
individual floor. Were those drones you're supposed It's not known
at this point whether those were like missiles or drones, But.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yeah, I'd be guessing the Israelis are. But they were
incredibly capable at minimizing collateral damage when they walked.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
To But having seen the drone attack on those planes
in Russia, they might have just flown those drones, you know,
looking at the camera right at the apartment and just
hit the very spot they wanted to hit. Yeah, they
had a drone base on Iranian soil in Turan, near
Turan in Turan.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
And part of the announcing that, I'll like TV's fried
chicken or what was it like a cover business or.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I can't wait to hear more about it. Did they
do the same sort of thing? Did they get them
on trucks unbeknownst to Iranians that thought they were hauling
camel saddles or something?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
And I'm so an unfortunate stereotypes there. Yeah, whatever it is,
I'm sure it was very very clever.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
And they the fact that they announced it the next day,
I think there's a good idea, because that's got to
make you the Iranians think.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
How many are there more drones? Or do we have people?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Do we have moles in our system? Or what the
hell is going on?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yes and yes.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Net Yahoo vowed that the attack would continue for as
many days as was necessary. Nothing in the last you know,
hour or two, I don't think.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
So. What I was watching last night as I went
to bed, Iran had a launched one of their drone
retaliation strikes at Israel, or at least that's what they
were re reporting on the Open source network on Twitter,
and it was going to take seven hours from to
get to Israel. Is there any more on that or
did that turn out not to be true or do
they all get shot down?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I haven't heard a word about that today, don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Yeah, yeah, Trump saying, as we just read that the
next attack will be even more brutal.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I think it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Oh yeah, And Trump told the Wall Street Journal today
that he and his team were aware of Israel's play
to attack. So the story last night was we had
no idea, and this morning Trump says, oh yeah, we know.
Of course we do, which I think is partially Trump
has just got to be the guy that you know, knows.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
He can't be the guy who didn't know. Yes, that's true.
I think it has a lot to do with his ego.
Plus it's an ass kicking military attack. He wants to
be part of that too. Right, Normally you leave these
things cloudy. I refer you to my statement of yesterday
about how we did not authorize nor have knowledge of
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well, generally you keep it cloudy. Not Trump.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
I had a point in the drone the retaliation attack.
I don't know, we mentioned it earlier. Worth mentioning again,
we do have forty thousand troops in the Middle East
on about a dozen bases, so we do have.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
To mention the ships. Oh yeah, so we gave he
as al of a presence. We do have some exposure.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
You start attacking US troops on military bases or a ship, though,
and then you're really getting attacked. So it seems like
that would be a bad move.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh I know. Oh.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
My point was Trump is the reason that Marco Rubio
put out the statement, and we wanted to like distance
ourselves from it.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Even if we knew about it.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
We're claiming we had no we had no participation in
any way whatsoever. That's so Trump can say, wow, that
was some Israel. Huh, what are you gonna do? He
can say to the iatola at Israel man, they can
bring it if they want to. Anyway about those negotiations,
It just seems like we really ought to get back
to this.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
He wants to keep working on that before you have
nothing left, as we said in a statement, right right, right,
They might have put something in your beard.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Dude, You don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Israel's wide ranging strike against Iran was years in the
making the result of extensive intelligence gathering on the country's
nuclear sites as well as on top military officials. To
pull it off, Israel in part would have needed detailed
information about the whereabouts and the movements of the officials
and scientists, at least four of whom were at the
upper levels of the military command.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
What God dangy you read some of that same book
I did about Iraq's nuclear scientists when sodom like would
kidnap these scientists and make them work on these these
weapons that they didn't want to work on, and torture
them if they if they made any noises they didn't
want to. I'm wondering that's probably the way it works
in Iran. These scientists.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
After holding them in a selling beating them for a while,
they'd they'd say, all right, you're leaving, and they'd show
them to a very nice apartment in Baghdad with a
view of the river and say, hey, we expect you
at the lab nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Yeah, so that's quite possibly the case with these are
these Iranian nuclear scientists. Yeah, I mean, in fact, it's
almost certainly true. I doubt they're hardcore MOLLA supporting you
know whatever. Iran calls itself theocracy of whatever they are.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I wonder I doubt they're on board with that.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
I had one more point I wanted to make, but
oh yeah, yeah, I llun's the last time you checked
your turbine. Yeah, you might have a drone in there,
you don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Oh wow, that's again, that's not good analysis at all.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's just silly coming up.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Gaviy K Newsome desperately trying to parley the unrest in
La into a presidential run.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
How's that going.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
We'll update you and then we'll get back to Some
are calling it the operation with the Strength of a Lion,
not Rising Lion.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Was like Rising Lion better.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Well, it was rising Line when it was reported first
last night. Was that a misinterpretation or a mistranslation?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
According to one Israeli official, it's with the Strength of
a Lion.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I don't like that name.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
It's cumbersome in English, but it might roll off the
tongue better in Hebrew. Anyway, we'll be back to that
topic at the top next hour with a reporter from Jerusalem.
We can talk to them about the incoming drone attack
from Iran. The reaction in Israel and much more.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Yeah, Gavin had like an hour to claim he beat
Trump in this thing. Really get all excited. And it
didn't last if you don't.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Get him that big cart rule and he wanted, yes,
take that Trump.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You wait what, it didn't last long. That's coming up.
Speaker 11 (29:11):
Yet.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
These folks are now being commandeered to do ice rates.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You've seen the photographs.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
That ends tomorrow at noon. Courts have ruled on the guard.
They will be back under my command and he'll be relieved.
Donald Trump were believed of his command at noon tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, that lasted like an hour. Hey hey, oh, what
did you just.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Play the donkey sound after Governor Newsom? Are you implying
some sort of jackass Michael, I'll thank you to keep
your little sound effect commentary to yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
God.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
So, when I got the beep on my phone that
Israel was attacking Iran, holy crap, it's on.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That's a big deal. I'm running some eron's driving.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I start flipping around the cable news channel CNN, as
they always are on this sort of stuff. Was on
it live reports from the Middle East, et cetera. Fox
was doing its Fox thing MSNBC had Gavin Newsom on
because Gavin Newsom was crowing over this one judge that
came out and said Donald Trump doesn't have a constitutional
right to send in the National Guard over your authority,
blah blah blah blah blah, with some really dumb reasoning.
(30:20):
And then very shortly thereafter even the Ninth Circuit said, no, wait,
hold on a second, I don't think you're right about this.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Yeah, during the roughly hour and a half that indeed,
the judge who will talk about in a minute or
two had said, no, this is terrible, this is un American.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Trump's a dictator. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, Gavy took to the airwaves to crow about his
great victory. Then the Ninth Circuit Court said, now we
got to look at this. Trump, do what you want
till Tuesday. We'll get back to you and it'll be
over by tuesday. So, in all likelihood, and even if
the Ninth Circuit Court joins the single district court judge
(31:00):
in San Francisco, of all places, the Supreme Court will
take a look at it quickly and we'll get probably
a good solid ruling one way or the other. So,
in an extraordinary thirty six page ruling, George Charles Brier,
brother of longtime liberal Supreme Court Judge Briar, of the
(31:21):
Federal District Court in San Francisco blah blah blah, told
the administration seizure of the Guard had violated federal procedures.
President Trump's quote actions were illegal, both exceeding the scope
of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to
the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of
(31:42):
the California National Guard to the governor of the State
of California forthwith. The ruling accused Trump of setting a
dangerous precedent for future domestic military activity. And let me
scroll down to my favorite quote. Oops, my highlight went away.
How about is that there?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It is?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
How about if the governor does not protect federal buildings
in Texas, the governor of Texas habboit has sent out
twelve thousand National Guards, some really large number to protect
federal buildings, so the President doesn't have to step in.
So the state of California, he said in his scathing ruling,
(32:18):
this Judge Briar quote, and the citizens of Los Angeles
face a greater harm from the continued unlawful militarization of
their city, which not only inflames tensions with protesters, threatening
increased hostilities and loss of life, but deprives the state
for two months of its own use of National Guard
members to fight fires, combat the fentanel trade, and perform
other critical functions.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
He wrote, So it's the classic.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Oh, if you send the cops into where the crimes are,
then there could be violence.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
So just let the crimes happen. Let them happen.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Let's talk a little bit about Judge Briar. He's according
to a source deep within the judiciary, he is eighty.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Three years old. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
He is a senior judge. He has a reduced case load,
still getting paid. Went to UC Berkeley, was an attorney
for the Watergate Special Prosecution way back in the day.
I'm going to quote our deep source here. I excuse
the language. He is a Democrat and a total lib tard.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
No, I don't like that. We don't use that. It's
a quote, it's a direct quote.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
His brother was Stephen Bryer, was supreme super liberal Supreme
Court justice who when he retired, was replaced.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh, I can't read that.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
With a crazy woman who couldn't define a woman during
her confirmation hearing.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Yes, well, I I took in a lot of legal
scholars on this topic, and not just people that back
Trump all the time, and the vast majority of them,
in fact, I think all of them said, Yeah, the
one thing Trump does have the right to do is
send in the National Guard to protect federal buildings if
they're not being protected.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Right, and these statements by the various police officials in
LA about being overwhelmed and the rest of it, that's.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Plenty of pretext and for the.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Sake of reality and not just constant spin and gas lighting.
What they're doing is just guarding the federal facilities and
the federal officials, and they're there, is backup. Really, nothing's
happened with them yet, has it? No fact I've got
insight on that. See if I can find that from
(34:32):
I don't know if I can find it quickly, But
as somebody who's in the National Guard, who's been there
and saying, we're incredibly bored, we're not doing anything, we're
just hanging out.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
So you know, they wouldn't be just hanging out if
the rioters attack the federal buildings. But they're not going
to attack the federal buildings with all the National Guard
around them.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
That's why they're there.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
So here's the only other thing you need to hear about,
this blip in the legal process that will go away quickly.
At the hearing, Justice Department lawyer argued that mister Hegzath
had complied with the call up statue even if he hadn't,
Trump had legal authority.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Sporting a light blue bow tie, Judge Bryer interrupted the
Justice Department's lawyer repeatedly, and at one point waved a
small copy of the Constitution in the air.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
All right, all right, yeah, so that's that.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
But Gavin got to have his moment there for an
how or where he looked like he'd beaten Trump as
part of the resistance back into Israel. Iran with a
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