Breaking during Dan's show is President Trump's announcement that Israel and Iran have reached a 'complete and total ceasefire' after bombing raids by the United States on Saturday targeting Iran's nuclear facilities, and a tepid, measured response by Iran to save face. Can Trump help broker a lasting peace with the ayatollah remaining in charge of the Islamic nation?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, that an American way we saw this.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Weekend, right, And I bet there are a whole lot
of Americans proud who will never admit it, right, not
because of the military, but because of President Trump. They
don't want to give them the credit, but deep down
they've got to be very proud of the execution, first
by the military but also by the administration.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
There were no leaks by all accounts, executed flawlessly and
a beautiful thing to see and very important for America's security,
our great Ali Israel, and the world's security.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Is it a silver bullet that ends at all?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Of course not, That's not the nature of evil, and
evil will continue and good will continue to be called
to fight evil and do everything possible to defeat evil.
But this a very important step forward. So by now
you know from all the news accounts that the President
has announced via Twitter a cease fire. I want to
get you that verbatim again, because it's just so important
(01:08):
and fascinating. Should the President get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Will he get the Nobel Priest Prize? Is this a
success without regime change? Mark Levin says it is not,
But what say you on that? And much more ahead
in this hour, we've also touched on the very important
US Supreme Court ruling in President Trump's favor. This is
(01:29):
not a final decision on the merits at the end
of the process, but very important that Supreme Court stepped
in and stayed.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Put on hold a lower court order.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Is now the president free in his administration to continue
deporting people here illegally to third party countries, in other words,
to port people to countries other than the one they
came here from. And I think that's probably going to
be very helpful to the President's efforts to get people
to self deport right if you're not what country you're.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Going to be sent to if they do deport you.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So here is the verbatim on the President's message about
the ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Congratulations to everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It has been fully agreed by in between Israel and
Iran that there will be a complete and total cease
fire in approximately six hours from now, when Israel and
Iran have wound down and completed their in progress final
missions for twelve hours, at which point the war will
be considered ended officially. Iran will start the ceasefire, and
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upon the twelfth hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and
upon the twenty fourth hour, an official end to the
twelve day War will be.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Saluted by the world.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
During each ceasefire, the other side will remain peaceful and
respectful on the assumption that everything works as it should,
which it will. I would like to congratulate both countries,
Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence
to end what should be.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Called the Twelve Day War.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This is a war that could have gone on for
years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't
and never will. God bless Israel, God bless around, God
bless them at least, God bless the United States of America,
and God bless the world.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Trump, President of the United States of America. Three at
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it go from here? Will continue to work in text calls,
et cetera. Dan, there were no leaks for the operation
this weekend because President Trump did not include any Democrats
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in the briefing.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And that's the reporting, right Ryan.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The Democrats were not included in the briefing until after
Americans were out of Iranian airspace.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah. Good, Yeah, I don't know how any reasonable person
could disagree with.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That, even Catherine Herridge, who's no hack, I mean, she's
a respected reporter. Dan, going back to her days at
Fox News, CBS News, et cetera. She said, you know,
there are many members of Congress, in particular Democrats who
have cozy relationships with the media, and they would set
up shop, We'll say a Senator Mark Warner whoever I'm
just naming him because he's part of this whole.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Gathering.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
They'd go right out the door to like Manu Rajo
of CNN, and they'd be the source off the record that.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Would confirm certain aspects of reporting.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And can anybody think and there may be one that
I'm not thinking of, Can anybody think of a single
Democrat I'm talking about elected Democrat who President Trump, who
is the administration, could have informed of this mission before
it was concluded with any confidence whatsoever that it would
be kept confidential, right, I can't.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Say who John Fetterman, I'd be it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I would agree with that. Yeah, But here's the question.
Would he tell his staff? Because right now that the
Democrat Party right is so completely in the grip of
the far left, radical lunatics that virtually any Democrat, maybe
Fetterman is the exception, Ryan good suggestion, but virtually any
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Democrat would feel an obligation to let somebody know, for
fear that if they didn't, they would then be crushed
by that radical left that funds and controls the party.
Now Fetterman may be immune to that, but certainly there
would be some people on his staff who are not
Dan Is Ryan mattatchuw. He's uncharacteristically silent, doesn't he like
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what Trump did?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I believe that you do.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I did not get a chance to listen to your
fine show today, but I believe that you're very supportive
of the mission and Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's why I keep playing the music. Yeah, I'm playing,
and you caught on figure that one out.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
One of the reasons, well several, for my silence is
I am in pretty much uniform agreement with what Dan's
saying and certainly one hundred percent in support of what
President Trump decided to do, why he decided to do it,
and the results.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Speak for themselves.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Dan, these freezing cold takes from the like of AOC
Bernie Sanders, a Keem Jeffries not aging very well in
light of the news of the ceasefire within the last hour.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Right and listen, and not to be you know, to
be down or anything. I just think we have to
be clear eyed and realistic that evil is what evil does, right,
and so at this point, given the very large numbers
of Iranian agents who almost certainly crossed through the wide
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open southern border that Joe Biden and the other Democrats created,
I think there is still a very very real possibility
of attacks on our soil, American interest abroad, attacks on
our soil and abroad from other evil agents in the
world who feel the timing's right, and they might be
able to blame a run. None of which changes my
deeply held belief that the President did absolutely the right
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thing over the weekend, the gutsy thing, in a very
effective and highly sophisticated way.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Anytime you take on evil, right, there are risks that
arise from.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That, And you can't just sit back and say, oh,
I'm not going to take on evil because it creates
this risk over here. If that was the attitude of
this nation from the beginning, we certainly wouldn't be free Americans.
But the risk posed by the evil outweighs the rest.
So you've got to go get him, and he did.
And I'm glad, but I'm not sitting here assuming that
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we're out of the woods.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Scott Jennings his take today on the Iranian response.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
If this in fact effectively sets back the program and
doesn't lead to wider escalation, the president seems to have
accomplished all the objectives that he set out to achieve.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Of course, I told you yesterday I didn't think we
were at war, and that this represented a de escalation
of the situation. And that's exactly where we are with
this flaccid Iranian response. In the words of the Great
Box of Robertodran, no Moss, No Moss.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's what Iran is saying.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
After Israel has degraded their military capabilities and the President
of the United States has taken away their ability to
make nuclear weapons. This is capitulation, in my opinion, from
Iran today and it is a complete total vindication of
the Trump strategy, which was to let Israel beat these
guys to a pulp. We show up and take away
their nukes. Yes, let's have a deal now. I think
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it'd be great to have a deal with.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Iron about right now.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
This is not an escalation, This is a de escalation.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Well, Trump promise, escalation is not ta.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Bunker busting bombs is not an US because well she said,
she said, President Trump promised his peace. I ask you,
can we have peace if Iron has a nuclear weapon? Well,
we had a deal, and you're you're litigating the past.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I'm not the past. I have peace. They have a
nuclear weapon. He wanted. We had a deal.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
He's trying to get back to that deal and he
he he withdrew from that.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And not only that, now he's trying to.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Have an bribery.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Bribery and appeasement does not work with terrorists.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I mean, yeah, and it was a deal that would
have handed around a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I mean you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You can't hand Hitler that that the weaponry he needs
to wipe out the Jews and the world, right, the
civilized world.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You can't hand that to the Iranian Mulah's and I
had told us that to the.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Biggest no brainer in the history of Earth three or
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five seven seven three nine. So here's the question, right,
And again I hate to be the guy talking about
these he's concerning things, these dangerous things, these horrifying things,
but it's the truth, it's the reality we have to
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and the reality is Iran has been trying to assassinate
President Trump for years. I don't have enough information without
subpoena power to know if Iran was directly behind one
or both of these very serious assassination attempts. Butler, I
think truly I believe the President only survived because of
divine intervention. Hopefully someday I'll know that for sure. But
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but Iran's not going to stop trying to kill President Trump.
And I'm certain the President and his team aren't going
to let.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Their guard down.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And so we know that the that horror is going
to continue. This effort to kill President Trump. Iran is
going to continue. I think another question is will Israel
at this point actively attempt to have the iatola comin
a eliminated. Do you think that Israel should. I'm quite
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confident America will not be part of that. But Israel,
which has proven itself to be stunningly, remarkably effective in
covert operations, will Israel take out comedy three or three
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Speaker 2 (10:40):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
His joy will record that President Trump acted to deny
the world's most dangerous regime the world's most dangerous weapons.
His leadership today has created a pivot of history that
can help lead the Middle East and beyond to a
future of prosperity and peace.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know, it's one of the most interesting things to
me in history is you know, with both America and Israel,
how God has provided these critical leaders at these watershed
moments in history.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's like the Founders, I mean they put it in
the declaration they were betting on God's help when they
decided to take this long shot risk of independence, and
they knew if they failed, which was highly likely on
their own, that they'd be hung, and so you know,
the stakes were high, but they just wrote it right
there in the document with reliance on divine providence. We
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pledged your lives, our fortune, our secret honor, and so
America at all of these critical moments, has received, you know,
these tremendous leaders. Now we've had some bummers too, right,
but at these true life or death watershed moments, we've
had these great, enormous leaders. Some have been Democrats, some
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have been Republican, but we've had them, and Trump is
one of them. And then you look at it with
in Israel's case, Israel so very fortunate to have Netan Yahoo.
And Israel's had a lot of great leaders at a lot
of different points in time, but certainly Netan Yahoo now
and so together the world is a safer place today,
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not not out of the woods.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I mean, this evil isn't going to just go away.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It'll be very interesting to see if Israel does take
out the Iatola commedye and in a way with plausible deniability,
no Israeli fingerprints, et cetera. At this point, you would
have to think there are plenty of people in Iran
very upset, and they have been for many many years
at being held prisoner, you know, by their own so
called leadership. Three all three someone three eight two five
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the ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
If you're just joining us, thank you, but that I do.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I've read this a number of times, but I want
to keep reading it because just here in the headline AA,
this is a ceasefire doesn't quite capture the tweet from
the President announcing this happened during the show. Thank you
for that, mister President. Congratulations to every one exclamation point.
It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and
Iran that there will be a complete and total cease
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fire in approximately six hours from now, when Israel and
Iran have wound down and completed their in progress final
missions for twelve hours, at which point the war will
be considered ended officially, Iran will start the ceasefire, and
upon the twelfth hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and
upon the twenty fourth hour, an official end of the
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twelve day war will be saluted by the world. During
each seats fire, the other side will remain peaceful and
respectful on the assumption that everything works as it should,
which it will. I would like to congratulate both countries,
Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence
to end what should be called the Twelve Day War.
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This is a war that could have gone on for
years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't
and never will. God bless Israel, God bless around, God
bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
God bless the world.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Ryan, do we happen to have that great sound from
the President Saturday night where he thanked God at the
end of his address to the nation.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I just thought that was so cool. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Ryan can do anything and everything and he will. There
because we were off at a wedding. I don't know
where you were, but we were off at a wedding
for my nephew. And this is in Milwaukee, and it
was i'd have to say, a very very largely probably
registered Democrat kind of crowd, a.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Lot of really nice people.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I'd say probably ninety six percent Democrat. And so, you know,
just be for the bride and groom are gonna make
their toast.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know, I've got my phone.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I'm kind of monitoring the phone, and the message comes
in that presidents An announced me the strikes have been completed,
and so I'm trying to just you know, get a
glance at it, but then I got busted. But then
I saw he was going to speak at nine. So
our son, Joe was at the wedding, and Joe a
great active conservative. So Joe and I then snuck out
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at nine, which would have been Was it nine their time?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
We're in the Central time zone, so yeah, nine their time.
We snuck out and we're watching the President's address live
on I have YouTube TV on my phone, which is expensive,
but it works really really well, and so we were
able to watch it and thoroughly enjoyed it. And I
just loved when the President finished by talking about how
he loves God, and I thought that is really really
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cool and necessary. Three or three someone three A two
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Speaker 2 (16:03):
I do believe.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I've never met President Trump, but I believe him when
he says that he believes that God saved him in
that Butler field. I personally believe that myself as well.
But he believes it, and I think it has changed him.
I mean, you know, you're growing or you're dying, right.
We all hope we're getting better, we're changing for the
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better every day. But I think that really had a
profound impact on him. And if he's right, and if
I'm right, much less importantly is this what he was
saved for part of what he was saved for? I mean,
I think the President has saved this country first and foremost.
But can you imagine, can you really imagine if Joe
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Biden or Kamala Harris or some other lefty was president
right now, how would everything look different? We'd need five
shows just to go through the parade of horribles, right,
but also the world so in Israel, the biblical significance
of that. I happen to be a Catholic Christian and
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we've talked about it before on the show. But in
addition to being just this nation's great ally and a
beacon of democracy and just a great nation that deserves
all the support that it needs to stay free, you know,
there's real biblical significance with Israel, our big brothers in
the faith. And so yes, I'm very glad that this
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nation did what it did over the weekend, and the
great men and women of the military, the President, everybody
involved in the operation as team that kept operational security
not easy to do in this day and age, right,
but did great things for the safety of the United States, Israel,
the world. This isn't the end of it, obviously, but
a very guts the important critical step. So we'll see
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if the ceasefire holds. We hope it does. Do you
think Israel will still try to take out the Ietola Company.
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
I want to say something, Christen, just to the Iranian leadership. Look,
they have tried to build a nuclear weapons program.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
That program is now destroyed.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
They tried to build a conventional missile program to attack
neighbors in the region. That missile program has shown to
be a failure. They have funded terrorism aggressively in the region,
and now most of their terrorism.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Proxies are destroyed.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
The Iranians are clearly not very good at war.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Perhaps they should follow.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
President Trump's lead and give piece a chance if they're
serious about it. I'd guarantee you the President of the
United States is.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Too very well said.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And hopefully there are a lot of people inside Iran
who've been held captive right by the Itolos and mulas
now for how many years, since nineteen seventy nine. Hopefully
a lot of people thinking that you have to believe
if there's ever a moment for that Arab spring.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
This would be it.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So as the ceasefire is an announced and you know,
Iran has to abide by it for twelve hours, then
Israel will kick in its twelve hours, and then after
twenty four it'll be done. Now, none of this starts
for another few hours because there are missions in progress.
That's all recognized in the president's announcement. And so the
question obviously is where does it go from here? You know,
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and as JD. Vance went through that tremendous list of accomplishments,
obviously the United States has the beacon of the world,
takes takes credit for a lot, but make no mistake
about it. Right without the mind blowing ingenuity, determination, courage
of Israel, you know, you don't have Hamas wiped out
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right now, you don't have Hespala wiped out right now.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Israel obviously needed, you know, backing from the United States,
but it's Israel that has wiped those two out.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then beyond that, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Israel executing flawlessly. You know, this surprise attack on Iran.
Now again, none of that can happen without us support
or in the absence of of, you know, a lack
of US opposition. Sorry for the double negatives, but bot
but Israel itself had to execute so courageously and brilliantly
to make that happen, which is a great service to
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this country. But then you know, there were things only
America could do. And when you look at the way
our great military performed on you know, Saturday night and
a Sunday morning, got to be very very proud of
the administration, the guts of the president to order it up.
I mean very few presidents would have been that gutsy.
And then the operational security, no leaks, etc. So CNN
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now putting up a headline Aron Ziatola reportedly and a
bunker refuses to surrender. Brian, It's hard for me to
imagine Israel after all that it's been through, all the
success that it's had, that the constant thread it has
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been posed to it, the fact that the Iatola has
ordered these strikes on Israeli civilians and hospitals, while Israel
has limited itself to military targets. It's hard for me
to believe that Israel leaves the Ayatola alive.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
What do you think it's not exactly a strong bargaining
position that Iran finds itself in at the moment. Dan,
It's like Scott Jennings said, it's their No Moss moment,
Roberto Duran. They've been pummeled both in terms of their
military capacity, their missiles, they're about out of those, and
then Israel further destroyed a lot of those capabilities, and
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then the United States comes in levels their nuclear facilities,
three of them. I don't know what other leg they
have to stand on here to keep the Ayatola in power. Now,
much of this, in my view, this is where I
don't know if I depart from you on this, Dan,
but it's got to come from within. It's got to
come from within the Iranian people. They've got to want it.
They've got to want to fight for the right to party,
got to want to fight for their independence and new leadership,
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and they're going to have to be the ones to
determine it.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, And I'm not sure that's incompatible with what I'm suggesting.
And again I'm just looking at this from the outside,
and when you look at the brilliance of Israel in
these different military efforts, whether you're talking about I mean,
look Hesbla, the pagers right, let alone the surprise attack
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on Tehran that's gone so beautifully. It's just hard for
me to imagine Israel leaving the Ayatola alive, which ties
into your point about how it has to come from within.
But can it come from within while he's still alive?
And so if Israel does end up eliminating which is
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that the terminology Israel military uses for terrorist targets. If
Israel does end up eliminating the Ayatola, then at that point,
my guess is there will be no way whatsoever to
trace that to Israel. I mean, Massad has been so good,
right and done so many things that from the outside
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you would.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Think are impossible.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, if they're going to take them out, unless Israel
wants it to be known, my guess is there would
be no way to trace it Israel, and it will
look like it was done internally. But I would love
to see the people of Iran free, and I think
that would end up being great for the world. Again, listen,
I'm I get it right. Evil doesn't die easily, and
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there's no guarantee of any kind of smooth transition to
anything resembling a democratically elected government. But I think a
key first step would be getting freed from this regime.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And we'll see.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The ceasefire obviously doesn't envision publicly any of that, but
just hard for me to imagine Israel allowing this regime
to have a chance to rebuild.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We'll find out together, right, three all three, someone three
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Speaker 1 (23:59):
Let's get to some Texters as well at dam five
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Speaker 2 (24:03):
And of course, big US Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Today, not a formal opinion that's issued at the end
of all the legal process, but the US Supreme Court
putting on hold a judge's order. So now the Trump
administration is free to resume deporting large numbers of people
to countries not their own, which is a critical part
of the Trump strategy to get people to self deport.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Right, if you self deport, then.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
You pick where you go, and if you don't then
not the Trump administration could send you a lot of
different places. Dan, is there any evidence that Aron moved
some of the equipment from the enrichment site before the
US strike? There was a photo from space that showed
a long line of vans lined up at the site
before the bombing, Bob from Arveda Bob, I would assume,
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I would assume that the regime had, whether it's enriched uranium,
whether it's other types of equipment.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I mean, there was there was no secret.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I mean, certainly since the time Israel brilliantly launched their attacks,
but probably even before that, you know, there was no
secret that there might be a strike in those facilities.
So I would assume that some stuff got moved. I
don't think there was ever any realistic expectation by this
administration or the Israelis that they were going to be
able to wipe out all enriched uranium or all centrifuges
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or anything like that. I think the mission was intended
to severely disrupt and delay the program, and from everything
I can read from the outside, that was very successful. Dan,
I'm not understanding something regarding the leaks, because I heard
radio talk show hosts say last Thursday, we were about
to attack sometime over the weekend, of course, right, and
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the administration didn't hide the fact it was looking at that,
and the President gave that two week time frame in
terms of operational security. I'm talking about at the time
the mission was down that the particular details of the mission.
You know, how many bombers, how many bombs, that sort
of stuff. I mean, the president obviously was trying to
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peace through strength and trying to get around to voluntarily
agree to end the program by promising to take this
very action. I'm just saying that, how great is it?
How great is it to see something like that come
down without any leaks from the inside regarding launchtimes, operational details, etc.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I think that's.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Very encouraging to me, confirming because it's what I've been
seeing anyway, but very confirming about the quality of Trump's
team and operation. Going back to the point that, man,
this is one of the more fascinating discussions to me available,
which is, if you had a choice, if you could
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wave that magic wand would you have had President Trump
serve consecutive terms or would you have split them up
the way they've been split up, Because there's no question
now he has learned so much and he was ready
to hit the ground running, and you know, he had
a historically great first term, especially given what he was
up against the coup attempts and everything. But no question
(27:14):
he learned a lot and is operating at a higher level. Now,
on the other hand, man, in good conscience, it would
be hard for me to vote against consecutive terms because
if there are consecutive terms, then Ukraine has never raped
in pillage Putin doesn't go into Ukraine, then he might
go in after Trump leaves. But if trumpet had consecutive terms,
(27:36):
I think highly likely a conservative is is elected president
to follow him because the conservative thing would have been
working so well under eight straight years of Trump and
obviously the horror of October seven never would have happened. Yeah,
interesting to think about, but out of our control. Three
or three seOne, three eight, two five five text d
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an five seven seven, three nine.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
She was maybe my favorite part of just an epic
address to the nation on Saturday night by the President
that I watched from the lake shore in Milwaukee when
I stepped out of a phenomenal wedding, one of the
greatest weddings I've ever been to to along with our
son to watch the President's address, but love the way
he landed it.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
And I want to just thank everybody, and in particular God,
I want to just say we love you God, and
we love our great military, protect them. God bless the
Middle East. God bless Israel, and God bless America. Thank
you very much, thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I want to play that again because real time, and
again it was very windy back there, so I couldn't
be entirely sure, but real time I thought I heard
the President get emotional when he talked about I want
to thank.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
God, and I want to just thank everybody and in
particular God. I want to just say, we love you God,
and we'll love our great military, protect them. God bless
the Middle East. God bless Israel, and God bless America.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Thank you very much. Thank you. Did you hear that, Ryan,
did you hear that? In his voice?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
There was definitely authenticity and was a genuine emotional response.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I think to the gravity of that moment, Yeah, And
I think that's the point.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I mean, first, I do think he sincerely believes he
said it, and I'd happen to agree with him that
God saved him in that Butler field. And then he
had just pulled off a very gutsy move that very
few presidents would have undertaken, even though it was so
obviously necessary and things can go wrong, right, and all
(29:46):
of a sudden. You have these lives in your hands,
and these are America's best and bravest who are up
there flying over this enemy territory. And now the mission
has ended successfully, which means so many great things for
this on tree and Israel in the world. And those
men and women who you send into harm's way, you know,
are now safely out of that airspace. I'm sure there
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are a lot of things coming together. I just want
to play it one more time because I don't know
if the way he said it was was scripted there,
but whether it was or not, yeah, I just heard
something in his voice, and when you look at it
on our little read out here audio readout, it even
looks a little bit different in that section where he says,
I want to thank God.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
And I want to just thank everybody and in particular God,
I want to just say we love you God, and
we love our great military.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah. I've never heard his voice.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You can call it crack or break, but something in
that family right there. I just thought it was beautiful
and moving. So the way I started the show not
to be Debbie Downer or anything. You just have to
stay clear out in these moments, right, Gutsy decision beautifully
executed by everybody, very important to American Israelian world.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Pureity bought far from out of the woods. I mean,
the Biden.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Administration allowed an untold number of Iranian operatives into this
nation through the southern border by having the border open.
Is my point, not that they picked him out individually
and said come on in, but they knew that sort
of thing would happen and left the border open anyway.
So you've got that threat inside, you've got the evil
Iranian regime. I still believe that they will plan something
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and try to execute an implausible deniability, so there's not
blowback others who may take advantage of this moment thinking
it would get blamed on Iran some of the other
evil in the world. So I just think here or abroad,
certainly not out of the woods. But it had to
be done. It creates some dangers anytime you take on evil.
But you've got to take on evil because first it
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is the right thing to do, It's why we're on
this earth. But second, you don't take on evil. There's
far more danger in not taking on evil. So he
did the right thing. But it's not a movie, it's
not a TV show. It's never going to be perfect clean,
and yeah, we're not out of the woods. I also,
you know, I would be very very surprised if comedy
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was left in power, left in power long term, et cetera.
But if he is taken out, I'm sure it'll be
done in such a way that it appears, or hopefully
is the people of Iran ending that regime. So much
more to come, but important didn't necessary start. Words of wisdom,
my young friend, before we call it a day.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I still think the Ayatola would be wise to accept
asylum somewhere where there was Katar somewhere else. Now, you
said that you don't know that the Katar would be
willing to offer him aside.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I think they're trying to get out of that business.
But you think so, I mean, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
But I think if that was, let's say that the
final move, the final straw to say, look, we don't
want to take.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
You out, Russia would take him. Yeah, there you go,
Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, and that might be a cudgel, a little key
hole to help broke or maybe a piece in that conflict.
Putin does this solid Okay, we're moving on that front
now too, and will end the Iranian regime.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And one of the reasons not a bold prediction, right,
but one of the reasons I predicted last week this
would happen is first, it's the right thing to do.
But second, right, obviously, President Trump has been very effective
because of peace through strength, and now you have had
Putin given him the middle finger, and Zelenski hasn't been
exactly fully cooperative and ge et cetera. And so for
peace through strength to work, you got to show the strength.
(33:29):
And I think President Trump he did the right thing
for the right reasons. But the added benefit of now
that he's put back in place some of that unpredictability
i e.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Maddog factor.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I think he'll be more effective in negotiating a piece
in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Even the former president, you know, figurehead Medvedev backed off
a comments where he said, oh, well, gladly give nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh yeah, you know what Trump would do the next day,
give Ukraine nuclear weapon. There you go, right, So no
peace through strength and this strength President showed over the
weekend will will help leverage more peace.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I am convinced.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Thank you, my friend, for your great work. As always
three or three seOne three eight two five five the number.
Write it down, be ready to go tomorrow at four six. Kelly,
you're the best and very moving to think of your
father's great work which ties into these bombers living on
in this mission that served the world so well.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Over the weekend, hope you have a beautiful evening. Join
us tomorrow on the Dan Kapla Show.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, that an American way we saw this.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Weekend, right, And I bet there are a whole lot
of Americans proud who will never admit it, right, not
because of the military, but because of President Trump. They
don't want to give them the credit, but deep down
they've got to be very proud of the execution, first
by the military but also by the administration.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
There were no leaks by all accounts, executed flawlessly and
a beautiful thing to see and very important for America's security,
our great Ali Israel, and the world's security.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Is it a silver bullet that ends at all?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Of course not, That's not the nature of evil, and
evil will continue and good will continue to be called
to fight evil and do everything possible to defeat evil.
But this a very important step forward. So by now
you know from all the news accounts that the President
has announced via Twitter a cease fire. I want to
get you that verbatim again, because it's just so important
(01:08):
and fascinating. Should the President get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Will he get the Nobel Priest Prize? Is this a
success without regime change? Mark Levin says it is not,
But what say you on that? And much more ahead
in this hour, we've also touched on the very important
US Supreme Court ruling in President Trump's favor. This is
(01:29):
not a final decision on the merits at the end
of the process, but very important that Supreme Court stepped
in and stayed.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Put on hold a lower court order.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Is now the president free in his administration to continue
deporting people here illegally to third party countries, in other words,
to port people to countries other than the one they
came here from. And I think that's probably going to
be very helpful to the President's efforts to get people
to self deport right if you're not what country you're.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Going to be sent to if they do deport you.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So here is the verbatim on the President's message about
the ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Congratulations to everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It has been fully agreed by in between Israel and
Iran that there will be a complete and total cease
fire in approximately six hours from now, when Israel and
Iran have wound down and completed their in progress final
missions for twelve hours, at which point the war will
be considered ended officially. Iran will start the ceasefire, and
(02:34):
upon the twelfth hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and
upon the twenty fourth hour, an official end to the
twelve day War will be.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Saluted by the world.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
During each ceasefire, the other side will remain peaceful and
respectful on the assumption that everything works as it should,
which it will. I would like to congratulate both countries,
Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence
to end what should be.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Called the Twelve Day War.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This is a war that could have gone on for
years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't
and never will. God bless Israel, God bless around, God
bless them at least, God bless the United States of America,
and God bless the world.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Trump, President of the United States of America. Three at
three someone three eight two five five. The number text
d an five seven seven three nine. So where does
it go from here? Will continue to work in text calls,
et cetera. Dan, there were no leaks for the operation
this weekend because President Trump did not include any Democrats
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in the briefing.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And that's the reporting, right Ryan.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The Democrats were not included in the briefing until after
Americans were out of Iranian airspace.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah. Good, Yeah, I don't know how any reasonable person
could disagree with.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That, even Catherine Herridge, who's no hack, I mean, she's
a respected reporter. Dan, going back to her days at
Fox News, CBS News, et cetera. She said, you know,
there are many members of Congress, in particular Democrats who
have cozy relationships with the media, and they would set
up shop, We'll say a Senator Mark Warner whoever I'm
just naming him because he's part of this whole.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Gathering.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
They'd go right out the door to like Manu Rajo
of CNN, and they'd be the source off the record that.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Would confirm certain aspects of reporting.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And can anybody think and there may be one that
I'm not thinking of, Can anybody think of a single
Democrat I'm talking about elected Democrat who President Trump, who
is the administration, could have informed of this mission before
it was concluded with any confidence whatsoever that it would
be kept confidential, right, I can't.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Say who John Fetterman, I'd be it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I would agree with that. Yeah, But here's the question.
Would he tell his staff? Because right now that the
Democrat Party right is so completely in the grip of
the far left, radical lunatics that virtually any Democrat, maybe
Fetterman is the exception, Ryan good suggestion, but virtually any
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Democrat would feel an obligation to let somebody know, for
fear that if they didn't, they would then be crushed
by that radical left that funds and controls the party.
Now Fetterman may be immune to that, but certainly there
would be some people on his staff who are not
Dan Is Ryan mattatchuw. He's uncharacteristically silent, doesn't he like
(05:26):
what Trump did?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I believe that you do.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I did not get a chance to listen to your
fine show today, but I believe that you're very supportive
of the mission and Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's why I keep playing the music. Yeah, I'm playing,
and you caught on figure that one out.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
One of the reasons, well several, for my silence is
I am in pretty much uniform agreement with what Dan's
saying and certainly one hundred percent in support of what
President Trump decided to do, why he decided to do it,
and the results.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Speak for themselves.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Dan, these freezing cold takes from the like of AOC
Bernie Sanders, a Keem Jeffries not aging very well in
light of the news of the ceasefire within the last hour.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Right and listen, and not to be you know, to
be down or anything. I just think we have to
be clear eyed and realistic that evil is what evil does, right,
and so at this point, given the very large numbers
of Iranian agents who almost certainly crossed through the wide
(06:25):
open southern border that Joe Biden and the other Democrats created,
I think there is still a very very real possibility
of attacks on our soil, American interest abroad, attacks on
our soil and abroad from other evil agents in the
world who feel the timing's right, and they might be
able to blame a run. None of which changes my
deeply held belief that the President did absolutely the right
(06:49):
thing over the weekend, the gutsy thing, in a very
effective and highly sophisticated way.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Anytime you take on evil, right, there are risks that
arise from.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That, And you can't just sit back and say, oh,
I'm not going to take on evil because it creates
this risk over here. If that was the attitude of
this nation from the beginning, we certainly wouldn't be free Americans.
But the risk posed by the evil outweighs the rest.
So you've got to go get him, and he did.
And I'm glad, but I'm not sitting here assuming that
(07:18):
we're out of the woods.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Scott Jennings his take today on the Iranian response.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
If this in fact effectively sets back the program and
doesn't lead to wider escalation, the president seems to have
accomplished all the objectives that he set out to achieve.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Of course, I told you yesterday I didn't think we
were at war, and that this represented a de escalation
of the situation. And that's exactly where we are with
this flaccid Iranian response. In the words of the Great
Box of Robertodran, no Moss, No Moss.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's what Iran is saying.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
After Israel has degraded their military capabilities and the President
of the United States has taken away their ability to
make nuclear weapons. This is capitulation, in my opinion, from
Iran today and it is a complete total vindication of
the Trump strategy, which was to let Israel beat these
guys to a pulp. We show up and take away
their nukes. Yes, let's have a deal now. I think
(08:07):
it'd be great to have a deal with.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Iron about right now.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
This is not an escalation, This is a de escalation.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Well, Trump promise, escalation is not ta.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Bunker busting bombs is not an US because well she said,
she said, President Trump promised his peace. I ask you,
can we have peace if Iron has a nuclear weapon? Well,
we had a deal, and you're you're litigating the past.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I'm not the past. I have peace. They have a
nuclear weapon. He wanted. We had a deal.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
He's trying to get back to that deal and he
he he withdrew from that.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And not only that, now he's trying to.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Have an bribery.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Bribery and appeasement does not work with terrorists.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I mean, yeah, and it was a deal that would
have handed around a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I mean you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You can't hand Hitler that that the weaponry he needs
to wipe out the Jews and the world, right, the
civilized world.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You can't hand that to the Iranian Mulah's and I
had told us that to the.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Biggest no brainer in the history of Earth three or
three someone three eight two five five text d An
five seven seven three nine. So here's the question, right,
And again I hate to be the guy talking about
these he's concerning things, these dangerous things, these horrifying things,
but it's the truth, it's the reality we have to
(09:24):
and the reality is Iran has been trying to assassinate
President Trump for years. I don't have enough information without
subpoena power to know if Iran was directly behind one
or both of these very serious assassination attempts. Butler, I
think truly I believe the President only survived because of
divine intervention. Hopefully someday I'll know that for sure. But
(09:47):
but Iran's not going to stop trying to kill President Trump.
And I'm certain the President and his team aren't going
to let.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Their guard down.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And so we know that the that horror is going
to continue. This effort to kill President Trump. Iran is
going to continue. I think another question is will Israel
at this point actively attempt to have the iatola comin
a eliminated. Do you think that Israel should. I'm quite
(10:20):
confident America will not be part of that. But Israel,
which has proven itself to be stunningly, remarkably effective in
covert operations, will Israel take out comedy three or three
someone three eight two five five Love to hear from
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Speaker 2 (10:40):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
His joy will record that President Trump acted to deny
the world's most dangerous regime the world's most dangerous weapons.
His leadership today has created a pivot of history that
can help lead the Middle East and beyond to a
future of prosperity and peace.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know, it's one of the most interesting things to
me in history is you know, with both America and Israel,
how God has provided these critical leaders at these watershed
moments in history.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's like the Founders, I mean they put it in
the declaration they were betting on God's help when they
decided to take this long shot risk of independence, and
they knew if they failed, which was highly likely on
their own, that they'd be hung, and so you know,
the stakes were high, but they just wrote it right
there in the document with reliance on divine providence. We
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pledged your lives, our fortune, our secret honor, and so
America at all of these critical moments, has received, you know,
these tremendous leaders. Now we've had some bummers too, right,
but at these true life or death watershed moments, we've
had these great, enormous leaders. Some have been Democrats, some
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have been Republican, but we've had them, and Trump is
one of them. And then you look at it with
in Israel's case, Israel so very fortunate to have Netan Yahoo.
And Israel's had a lot of great leaders at a lot
of different points in time, but certainly Netan Yahoo now
and so together the world is a safer place today,
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not not out of the woods.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I mean, this evil isn't going to just go away.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It'll be very interesting to see if Israel does take
out the Iatola commedye and in a way with plausible deniability,
no Israeli fingerprints, et cetera. At this point, you would
have to think there are plenty of people in Iran
very upset, and they have been for many many years
at being held prisoner, you know, by their own so
called leadership. Three all three someone three eight two five
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five text d A N five seven seven three nine
the ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
If you're just joining us, thank you, but that I do.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I've read this a number of times, but I want
to keep reading it because just here in the headline AA,
this is a ceasefire doesn't quite capture the tweet from
the President announcing this happened during the show. Thank you
for that, mister President. Congratulations to every one exclamation point.
It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and
Iran that there will be a complete and total cease
(13:23):
fire in approximately six hours from now, when Israel and
Iran have wound down and completed their in progress final
missions for twelve hours, at which point the war will
be considered ended officially, Iran will start the ceasefire, and
upon the twelfth hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and
upon the twenty fourth hour, an official end of the
(13:44):
twelve day war will be saluted by the world. During
each seats fire, the other side will remain peaceful and
respectful on the assumption that everything works as it should,
which it will. I would like to congratulate both countries,
Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence
to end what should be called the Twelve Day War.
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This is a war that could have gone on for
years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't
and never will. God bless Israel, God bless around, God
bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
God bless the world.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Ryan, do we happen to have that great sound from
the President Saturday night where he thanked God at the
end of his address to the nation.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I just thought that was so cool. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Ryan can do anything and everything and he will. There
because we were off at a wedding. I don't know
where you were, but we were off at a wedding
for my nephew. And this is in Milwaukee, and it
was i'd have to say, a very very largely probably
registered Democrat kind of crowd, a.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Lot of really nice people.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I'd say probably ninety six percent Democrat. And so, you know,
just be for the bride and groom are gonna make
their toast.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know, I've got my phone.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I'm kind of monitoring the phone, and the message comes
in that presidents An announced me the strikes have been completed,
and so I'm trying to just you know, get a
glance at it, but then I got busted. But then
I saw he was going to speak at nine. So
our son, Joe was at the wedding, and Joe a
great active conservative. So Joe and I then snuck out
(15:27):
at nine, which would have been Was it nine their time?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
We're in the Central time zone, so yeah, nine their time.
We snuck out and we're watching the President's address live
on I have YouTube TV on my phone, which is expensive,
but it works really really well, and so we were
able to watch it and thoroughly enjoyed it. And I
just loved when the President finished by talking about how
he loves God, and I thought that is really really
(15:56):
cool and necessary. Three or three someone three A two
five five the number.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I do believe.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I've never met President Trump, but I believe him when
he says that he believes that God saved him in
that Butler field. I personally believe that myself as well.
But he believes it, and I think it has changed him.
I mean, you know, you're growing or you're dying, right.
We all hope we're getting better, we're changing for the
(16:24):
better every day. But I think that really had a
profound impact on him. And if he's right, and if
I'm right, much less importantly is this what he was
saved for part of what he was saved for? I mean,
I think the President has saved this country first and foremost.
But can you imagine, can you really imagine if Joe
(16:46):
Biden or Kamala Harris or some other lefty was president
right now, how would everything look different? We'd need five
shows just to go through the parade of horribles, right,
but also the world so in Israel, the biblical significance
of that. I happen to be a Catholic Christian and
(17:07):
we've talked about it before on the show. But in
addition to being just this nation's great ally and a
beacon of democracy and just a great nation that deserves
all the support that it needs to stay free, you know,
there's real biblical significance with Israel, our big brothers in
the faith. And so yes, I'm very glad that this
(17:32):
nation did what it did over the weekend, and the
great men and women of the military, the President, everybody
involved in the operation as team that kept operational security
not easy to do in this day and age, right,
but did great things for the safety of the United States, Israel,
the world. This isn't the end of it, obviously, but
a very guts the important critical step. So we'll see
(17:55):
if the ceasefire holds. We hope it does. Do you
think Israel will still try to take out the Ietola Company.
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
I want to say something, Christen, just to the Iranian leadership. Look,
they have tried to build a nuclear weapons program.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
That program is now destroyed.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
They tried to build a conventional missile program to attack
neighbors in the region. That missile program has shown to
be a failure. They have funded terrorism aggressively in the region,
and now most of their terrorism.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Proxies are destroyed.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
The Iranians are clearly not very good at war.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Perhaps they should follow.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
President Trump's lead and give piece a chance if they're
serious about it. I'd guarantee you the President of the
United States is.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Too very well said.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And hopefully there are a lot of people inside Iran
who've been held captive right by the Itolos and mulas
now for how many years, since nineteen seventy nine. Hopefully
a lot of people thinking that you have to believe
if there's ever a moment for that Arab spring.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
This would be it.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So as the ceasefire is an announced and you know,
Iran has to abide by it for twelve hours, then
Israel will kick in its twelve hours, and then after
twenty four it'll be done. Now, none of this starts
for another few hours because there are missions in progress.
That's all recognized in the president's announcement. And so the
question obviously is where does it go from here? You know,
(19:23):
and as JD. Vance went through that tremendous list of accomplishments,
obviously the United States has the beacon of the world,
takes takes credit for a lot, but make no mistake
about it. Right without the mind blowing ingenuity, determination, courage
of Israel, you know, you don't have Hamas wiped out
(19:47):
right now, you don't have Hespala wiped out right now.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Israel obviously needed, you know, backing from the United States,
but it's Israel that has wiped those two out.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then beyond that, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Israel executing flawlessly. You know, this surprise attack on Iran.
Now again, none of that can happen without us support
or in the absence of of, you know, a lack
of US opposition. Sorry for the double negatives, but bot
but Israel itself had to execute so courageously and brilliantly
to make that happen, which is a great service to
(20:21):
this country. But then you know, there were things only
America could do. And when you look at the way
our great military performed on you know, Saturday night and
a Sunday morning, got to be very very proud of
the administration, the guts of the president to order it up.
I mean very few presidents would have been that gutsy.
And then the operational security, no leaks, etc. So CNN
(20:44):
now putting up a headline Aron Ziatola reportedly and a
bunker refuses to surrender. Brian, It's hard for me to
imagine Israel after all that it's been through, all the
success that it's had, that the constant thread it has
(21:04):
been posed to it, the fact that the Iatola has
ordered these strikes on Israeli civilians and hospitals, while Israel
has limited itself to military targets. It's hard for me
to believe that Israel leaves the Ayatola alive.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
What do you think it's not exactly a strong bargaining
position that Iran finds itself in at the moment. Dan,
It's like Scott Jennings said, it's their No Moss moment,
Roberto Duran. They've been pummeled both in terms of their
military capacity, their missiles, they're about out of those, and
then Israel further destroyed a lot of those capabilities, and
(21:39):
then the United States comes in levels their nuclear facilities,
three of them. I don't know what other leg they
have to stand on here to keep the Ayatola in power. Now,
much of this, in my view, this is where I
don't know if I depart from you on this, Dan,
but it's got to come from within. It's got to
come from within the Iranian people. They've got to want it.
They've got to want to fight for the right to party,
got to want to fight for their independence and new leadership,
(22:02):
and they're going to have to be the ones to
determine it.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, And I'm not sure that's incompatible with what I'm suggesting.
And again I'm just looking at this from the outside,
and when you look at the brilliance of Israel in
these different military efforts, whether you're talking about I mean,
look Hesbla, the pagers right, let alone the surprise attack
(22:25):
on Tehran that's gone so beautifully. It's just hard for
me to imagine Israel leaving the Ayatola alive, which ties
into your point about how it has to come from within.
But can it come from within while he's still alive?
And so if Israel does end up eliminating which is
(22:48):
that the terminology Israel military uses for terrorist targets. If
Israel does end up eliminating the Ayatola, then at that point,
my guess is there will be no way whatsoever to
trace that to Israel. I mean, Massad has been so good,
right and done so many things that from the outside
(23:09):
you would.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Think are impossible.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, if they're going to take them out, unless Israel
wants it to be known, my guess is there would
be no way to trace it Israel, and it will
look like it was done internally. But I would love
to see the people of Iran free, and I think
that would end up being great for the world. Again, listen,
I'm I get it right. Evil doesn't die easily, and
(23:31):
there's no guarantee of any kind of smooth transition to
anything resembling a democratically elected government. But I think a
key first step would be getting freed from this regime.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And we'll see.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The ceasefire obviously doesn't envision publicly any of that, but
just hard for me to imagine Israel allowing this regime
to have a chance to rebuild.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We'll find out together, right, three all three, someone three
eight two five five the number.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Let's get to some Texters as well at dam five
seven seven thirty nine.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And of course, big US Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Today, not a formal opinion that's issued at the end
of all the legal process, but the US Supreme Court
putting on hold a judge's order. So now the Trump
administration is free to resume deporting large numbers of people
to countries not their own, which is a critical part
of the Trump strategy to get people to self deport.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Right, if you self deport, then.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
You pick where you go, and if you don't then
not the Trump administration could send you a lot of
different places. Dan, is there any evidence that Aron moved
some of the equipment from the enrichment site before the
US strike? There was a photo from space that showed
a long line of vans lined up at the site
before the bombing, Bob from Arveda Bob, I would assume,
(24:52):
I would assume that the regime had, whether it's enriched uranium,
whether it's other types of equipment.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I mean, there was there was no secret.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I mean, certainly since the time Israel brilliantly launched their attacks,
but probably even before that, you know, there was no
secret that there might be a strike in those facilities.
So I would assume that some stuff got moved. I
don't think there was ever any realistic expectation by this
administration or the Israelis that they were going to be
able to wipe out all enriched uranium or all centrifuges
(25:26):
or anything like that. I think the mission was intended
to severely disrupt and delay the program, and from everything
I can read from the outside, that was very successful. Dan,
I'm not understanding something regarding the leaks, because I heard
radio talk show hosts say last Thursday, we were about
to attack sometime over the weekend, of course, right, and
(25:48):
the administration didn't hide the fact it was looking at that,
and the President gave that two week time frame in
terms of operational security. I'm talking about at the time
the mission was down that the particular details of the mission.
You know, how many bombers, how many bombs, that sort
of stuff. I mean, the president obviously was trying to
(26:08):
peace through strength and trying to get around to voluntarily
agree to end the program by promising to take this
very action. I'm just saying that, how great is it?
How great is it to see something like that come
down without any leaks from the inside regarding launchtimes, operational details, etc.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I think that's.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Very encouraging to me, confirming because it's what I've been
seeing anyway, but very confirming about the quality of Trump's
team and operation. Going back to the point that, man,
this is one of the more fascinating discussions to me available,
which is, if you had a choice, if you could
(26:52):
wave that magic wand would you have had President Trump
serve consecutive terms or would you have split them up
the way they've been split up, Because there's no question
now he has learned so much and he was ready
to hit the ground running, and you know, he had
a historically great first term, especially given what he was
up against the coup attempts and everything. But no question
(27:14):
he learned a lot and is operating at a higher level. Now,
on the other hand, man, in good conscience, it would
be hard for me to vote against consecutive terms because
if there are consecutive terms, then Ukraine has never raped
in pillage Putin doesn't go into Ukraine, then he might
go in after Trump leaves. But if trumpet had consecutive terms,
(27:36):
I think highly likely a conservative is is elected president
to follow him because the conservative thing would have been
working so well under eight straight years of Trump and
obviously the horror of October seven never would have happened. Yeah,
interesting to think about, but out of our control. Three
or three seOne, three eight, two five five text d
(27:57):
an five seven seven, three nine.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
She was maybe my favorite part of just an epic
address to the nation on Saturday night by the President
that I watched from the lake shore in Milwaukee when
I stepped out of a phenomenal wedding, one of the
greatest weddings I've ever been to to along with our
son to watch the President's address, but love the way
he landed it.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
And I want to just thank everybody, and in particular God,
I want to just say we love you God, and
we love our great military, protect them. God bless the
Middle East. God bless Israel, and God bless America. Thank
you very much, thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I want to play that again because real time, and
again it was very windy back there, so I couldn't
be entirely sure, but real time I thought I heard
the President get emotional when he talked about I want
to thank.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
God, and I want to just thank everybody and in
particular God. I want to just say, we love you God,
and we'll love our great military, protect them. God bless
the Middle East. God bless Israel, and God bless America.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Thank you very much. Thank you. Did you hear that, Ryan,
did you hear that? In his voice?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
There was definitely authenticity and was a genuine emotional response.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I think to the gravity of that moment, Yeah, And
I think that's the point.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I mean, first, I do think he sincerely believes he
said it, and I'd happen to agree with him that
God saved him in that Butler field. And then he
had just pulled off a very gutsy move that very
few presidents would have undertaken, even though it was so
obviously necessary and things can go wrong, right, and all
(29:46):
of a sudden. You have these lives in your hands,
and these are America's best and bravest who are up
there flying over this enemy territory. And now the mission
has ended successfully, which means so many great things for
this on tree and Israel in the world. And those
men and women who you send into harm's way, you know,
are now safely out of that airspace. I'm sure there
(30:09):
are a lot of things coming together. I just want
to play it one more time because I don't know
if the way he said it was was scripted there,
but whether it was or not, yeah, I just heard
something in his voice, and when you look at it
on our little read out here audio readout, it even
looks a little bit different in that section where he says,
I want to thank God.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
And I want to just thank everybody and in particular God,
I want to just say we love you God, and
we love our great military.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah. I've never heard his voice.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You can call it crack or break, but something in
that family right there. I just thought it was beautiful
and moving. So the way I started the show not
to be Debbie Downer or anything. You just have to
stay clear out in these moments, right, Gutsy decision beautifully
executed by everybody, very important to American Israelian world.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Pureity bought far from out of the woods. I mean,
the Biden.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Administration allowed an untold number of Iranian operatives into this
nation through the southern border by having the border open.
Is my point, not that they picked him out individually
and said come on in, but they knew that sort
of thing would happen and left the border open anyway.
So you've got that threat inside, you've got the evil
Iranian regime. I still believe that they will plan something
(31:26):
and try to execute an implausible deniability, so there's not
blowback others who may take advantage of this moment thinking
it would get blamed on Iran some of the other
evil in the world. So I just think here or abroad,
certainly not out of the woods. But it had to
be done. It creates some dangers anytime you take on evil.
But you've got to take on evil because first it
(31:47):
is the right thing to do, It's why we're on
this earth. But second, you don't take on evil. There's
far more danger in not taking on evil. So he
did the right thing. But it's not a movie, it's
not a TV show. It's never going to be perfect clean,
and yeah, we're not out of the woods. I also,
you know, I would be very very surprised if comedy
(32:07):
was left in power, left in power long term, et cetera.
But if he is taken out, I'm sure it'll be
done in such a way that it appears, or hopefully
is the people of Iran ending that regime. So much
more to come, but important didn't necessary start. Words of wisdom,
my young friend, before we call it a day.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I still think the Ayatola would be wise to accept
asylum somewhere where there was Katar somewhere else. Now, you
said that you don't know that the Katar would be
willing to offer him aside.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I think they're trying to get out of that business.
But you think so, I mean, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
But I think if that was, let's say that the
final move, the final straw to say, look, we don't
want to take.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
You out, Russia would take him. Yeah, there you go,
Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, and that might be a cudgel, a little key
hole to help broke or maybe a piece in that conflict.
Putin does this solid Okay, we're moving on that front
now too, and will end the Iranian regime.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And one of the reasons not a bold prediction, right,
but one of the reasons I predicted last week this
would happen is first, it's the right thing to do.
But second, right, obviously, President Trump has been very effective
because of peace through strength, and now you have had
Putin given him the middle finger, and Zelenski hasn't been
exactly fully cooperative and ge et cetera. And so for
peace through strength to work, you got to show the strength.
(33:29):
And I think President Trump he did the right thing
for the right reasons. But the added benefit of now
that he's put back in place some of that unpredictability
i e.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Maddog factor.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I think he'll be more effective in negotiating a piece
in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Even the former president, you know, figurehead Medvedev backed off
a comments where he said, oh, well, gladly give nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh yeah, you know what Trump would do the next day,
give Ukraine nuclear weapon. There you go, right, So no
peace through strength and this strength President showed over the
weekend will will help leverage more peace.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I am convinced.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Thank you, my friend, for your great work. As always
three or three seOne three eight two five five the number.
Write it down, be ready to go tomorrow at four six. Kelly,
you're the best and very moving to think of your
father's great work which ties into these bombers living on
in this mission that served the world so well.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Over the weekend, hope you have a beautiful evening. Join
us tomorrow on the Dan Kapla Show.
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