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All right. Thank you, Scott Shannon. And thanks to all of you for being with us. Write down our toll free telephone number. It's 800-941-SHAWN. If you want to be a part of the program. And what was the surprise? We have a lot of developments as it relates to Israel and Iran. But let me start with the news of the moment. And right now, the president has landed in NATO and he is at the NATO summit.

And based on the mood that he seemed to be in when when he left the White House today, NATO allies are in for an earful. And there's plenty that the president is rightly going to be critical of, not the least of which is everyone. Most of these countries, not every one of them. He's in the Netherlands.

And they're just taking a NATO leader shot right now. And it's just entertaining. That's all I can say. There are certain things that are just Trumpian and define Donald Trump. And one of them was the moment this morning when he was on his way early to get on Air Force One to fly there. And anyway, so what's fascinating about this is

is we we have a situation that i kind of took the world by surprise uh at least took me by surprise yesterday when he announced that israel and iran agreed to a ceasefire declaring the beginning of an end in to what he referred to and hopefully he says would be referred to as a 12-day war

He's talking about the Six-Day War historically, if you're wondering where those words came from. And he said it's been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete total ceasefire for 12 hours, at which point the war will be considered ended.

And Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social and the president wrote that both sides would wind down their military operations within six hours and begin what he expected to be a peaceful, respectful ceasefire on both sides. After 24 hours, the conflict will be declared over.

If that comes to fruition, it will end a rapid de-escalation of a conflict that some feared could spiral into an international war. And Trump then thanked the parties involved for their dedication to avoiding the outcome.

and said he'd like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, intelligence to end what would be called the 12-day war. And this is a war that could have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will. He made the announcement, but there was a period of time where it was still, they had time to get in their last shots,

And the Iranians were still firing missiles into Israel. And and then Israel just unloaded on Iran and within the window and the time frame. And then when by the time I woke up this morning, that was late last night. And it took everybody I know by surprise. I was talking to a lot of different people.

And by the time I woke up this morning, the first thing I read is the Iranians broke the ceasefire and they fired a missile past the deadline into Israel. And Israel just they were about to unleash holy hell. President Trump apparently got on the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and said, no, no, no, no. Hold off. And to the credit of the prime minister, he pulled back and is going to give this an opportunity for peace and

Now, I'll be honest, I'm of mixed minds about it. I absolutely want peace. I don't want anybody to die. The only people that were at risk of dying in this conflict were on the Israeli side because the Iranians were targeting these densely populated civilian areas in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere.

The the Israelis were targeting military targets and military personnel and nuclear scientists, which is a very different way to fight a war, but that they respect human life. Anyway, the president was pretty angry this morning, was able to get the prime minister to pull back.

Now, do I think there is a certain risk to this? I do. And I'll get into that in a second. But in as much as you know, right now, Iran is defeated. The Iranians can't really fight back. I mean, the Israelis have, you know, systematically dismantled.

and taken out many of their missile batteries so that they can't fire their ballistic missiles or as many of them. They've degraded the number of ballistic missiles they have. President Trump took out their nuclear sites, so they're relatively defenseless. We control the airspace over Iran. The Israelis made sure that happened by knocking out their air defense systems.

So it's the perfect situation. If you want to wipe out Iran, now's the time to do it. And, you know, there's certain, you know, target rich environments that are very simple. You could take out their refineries, which would destroy their infrastructure and their entire economy and take out their power grid, which is gas driven, which would, you know, put the whole country into darkness.

And neither the Israelis nor the Americans have done that because they're not really at war with the Iranian people.

And they they didn't want to escalate it to that point. They just want to make the world a safer place and ensure that this regime that is chanted forever, death to Israel, death to America, could no longer be fighting proxy wars through Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad and the Houthis and the militias in Syria and Iraq and firing these missiles directly into Israel.

Now, the Israelis, I think I was a little surprised on their end that they would agree to this. But they did. And, you know, that's that's really up to Israel and the prime minister. I know there are internal pressures. I know that they have taken on a lot of fire and and the people of Israel probably are sick and tired of living in underground bunkers, which is where they've been living for a better part of of this conflict.

because civilian areas that are heavily, that are densely populated have been targeted. We have learned an awful lot about President Trump and the Trump doctrine, peace through strength, certainly won the day. He's done it again. He got the ceasefire.

And the United States decimated their nuclear program, which he said that he would do. He gave them an ample period of time to come to an agreement. They didn't heed his warnings. And as a result, these nuclear facilities were wiped out by our military. And what is an incredible military execution with incredible precision and deception was

And, you know, then we had the ridiculous Iranian launched handful of missiles at this base, our largest military base in the Middle East, in Qatar, causing no damage, no casualties. And we now have confirmed that

that the Iranians gave the United States and the Qataris a heads up that six missiles were all going to be fired at the base and gave them time to prepare for them. And all of them were taken out of the sky. One report that there may have been as many as 14, but I've not confirmed that. So it was nothing but a weak face saving retaliation effort telegraphed and

and communicated well in advance. Now, it shows here that's very revealing the fear that the Iranians truly have of Donald Trump. It's very similar, if you might recall, in 2020 when President Trump took out General Soleimani, the number one, you know, leading terrorist, uh,

And the Iranians needed a safe face in that environment. We were told in advance that they would, quote, be targeting us, but that all of the all of the missiles would miss their targets on purpose because they don't want escalation, but they just want propaganda so they can go to the people in Iran and lie to them.

and tell them what a great job that they did and how they devastated the United States and they defeated them, which is just nothing but a big lie. But that's what they do.

you know, if it remains a 12-day war, there's certain things that have to come out of this. Now, there's going to be ongoing negotiations. It is a ceasefire. It doesn't mean it's a peace agreement. World War III has not happened. It doesn't mean that we're not out of danger, because we are, and in large part, we're in danger because of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Mayorkas, and Democrats, and their complicit media, and I'll get into that in a minute, but

You know, the president stood up to the worst bully terrorist nation in the region and on the planet. And now they have no chance, probably in our lifetime of getting nuclear weapons. At least I hope not, because their program has been obliterated. Their proxies are absolutely in tatters.

The countries in the region won't say so publicly, but they're all breathing a sigh of relief. The Revolutionary Guard has been depleted. They've been ripped to shreds. One general after another has been killed in this effort, in large part to the Israelis. And so, you know, this is what peace through strength looks like.

And in many ways, you can argue, you know, well, what what should America's goal be? Well, I don't know what America's goal should be. That's up to the president of the United States. We know what Donald Trump's stated goal was.

And that is Iran can't have nuclear weapons. Check. You can check that box. He doesn't want America to be part of forever wars. You can check that box, too. Doesn't mean we're out of harm's way because there are a lot of bad actors and proxies around the globe. You know, we just had 11 Iranian nationals in the last 48 hours arrested in this country. And I reported to you yesterday.

You know, some people say, well, this is going to result in an attack on the homeland. I have been saying on this program for years that Joe Biden's preventable open borders policies that have allowed in all of these, you know, 12 to 20 million illegals that were unvetted, many of them from countries with terror ties. We know specifically that over 1500 Iranian nationals illegally entered the U.S.,

that we know of between ports and entries nationwide. And we know that a whopping, you know, nearly 750, the Biden administration, newer Iranian nationals and let them stay in the country to be specific, the number 729 released by Joe Biden. Well, you know, let me ask you a question. I understand why a lot of people from Mexico and Latin America might come to the country to

because they see that they might have a better opportunity for a life and freedom for themselves and their kids and the opportunities they don't have in their countries. And so they may make the dangerous, perilous trek to the United States of America. But you're telling me people in Iran, that many of them are going to make their way to our southern border because they want a better life for themselves and their families? Now, I could make the argument that some of them probably do. But what are the odds that

that many of these Iranian nationals were sent by the regime in Iran that have, you know, that are terrorists that entered our country because of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Mayorkas lying to us, telling us our borders closed, our borders secure.

And that lie echoed by other Democrats or other Democrats seeing that the borders are wide open and standing idly by and saying nothing. They're as guilty as Joe and Kamala and Alejandro are. And then you got the complicit media that never covered the story about the preventable national security disaster at our southern border. They're complicit as well. So, you know, for people that say, well, Donald Trump, he may trigger a terror attack on our homeland. I'm like, no.

How many times, Linda, have I said, and I could put a montage together, that it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when, this country's going to be attacked by terrorists because of Joe Kamala, Alejandro Mayorkas, Democrats, and their allies in the complicit media. How many times have I said, Linda, that...

That Joe, Kamala, Alejandro, they all have blood on their hands and will have more blood on their hands. How many times do you think if you had to? Yes. How many times? As many times as monoclonal antibodies or more? No, it's a lot. It's got to be thousands. Because it's a fact. I'm preparing people for what is inevitable. And I always say it's a matter of when, not a matter of if.

Because it's just you can't have known terrorists in the country. We have Iranian assassination squads that we know of in the country. And they would people, you know, if if God forbid this happens, I pray to God that I'm wrong. I don't want one American to ever get hurt.

But if it happens, it's not going to be because Donald Trump knocked out the Iranian nuclear capability. It's going to be because Joe and Kamala and Democrats and a complicit media stood by and let it happen. And they didn't stop this preventable national security disaster. And it would have been it's it's it's inevitable anyway.

And I pray to God I'm wrong. I hope in 10 years I can come on and say, you know what? 10 years ago, I predicted this would happen and I'm wrong. Any of you at home think I'm wrong? I don't think so. But if it happens, they will have blood on their hands, more blood because they already have blood on their hands.

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I am shocked by this. Linda, are you shocked by that? I'm shocked by this. I am shocked, outraged, surprised. All those words surprised on all of these things that, you know, as a New Yorker, I would never expect. So anyway, the Democrat, you know, you think about this. They've got this this virulent anti-Semitic wing in their party.

It's really remarkable to me, the rise of anti-Semitism and hatred in this country. And it disgusts me. It just totally, completely, utterly disgusts me. It is repugnant. It is repulsive. It is anybody with a conscience and a soul that buys into this sick, twisted hatred and ideology. I don't know where it's coming from, but it's in the halls of Congress.

It's on college campuses, as you know. You got this lunatic running for mayor of New York. We'll get to him later in the program. I'm Donnie. I mean, you know, he wants antifada. That means holy war. It's insane. And the people that support them or the people that remain silent. It's pretty incredible. But anyway, then you got the squad. And it's interesting, you know, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, you think they would have applauded?

getting rid of Iran's nukes, because I can go through the list of times and that the Democratic Party has called for the removal. You know, we played Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They have said it. Bill Clinton, we're determined to prevent the Iranians from ever requiring nuclear weapons. George W. Bush, Iran must never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

Obama, I have stated Iran will never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. Biden, we will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. Donald J. Trump, Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Thank you for your attention to this matter. I mean, that's the end of it.

And anyway, the House on Tuesday torpedoed an effort by Al Green to impeach President Trump. That's the guy that stood up during the joint session with his cane. He's a lunatic. And he wanted to impeach Trump over the U.S. strikes on Iran. The chamber voted 344 to 79 to table Green's resolution, which charges Trump with abuse of power.

You know, the only problem is, and I'm not going to waste my time in reading this to you, and we'll have Greg Jarrett weigh in on this at the top of the hour, is, you know, they're supposed to be lawmakers and they don't know the law. And Greg Jarrett, I've been quoting him now all day yesterday, and I'll quote it again and let him explain it in detail at the top of the hour. But after the September 11th attacks, Congress passed a joint resolution saying

known as the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, which grants the president exclusive extraordinary powers to target those groups and nations that he determines aided the terrorist attacks or harbored the perpetrators. And the stated goal was to prevent any future attacks of international terrorism against the United States. Well, we know that the Iranians have killed

you know, hundreds, if not thousands of Americans. And we've gone through that list in great specificity and detail on this program and on television. You know, they were at war with us. We weren't at war with them. Remember the 9-11 Commission report? And you read about Iran's complicity. And for years, the government of Tehran actively aided and abetted attacks on Americans by offering al-Qaeda terrorists extensive training, intelligence, transit, logistics, weaponry, and funding.

And some of the terrorists that Iran supported were the very same future 9-11 hijackers. I mean, I'm not sure what part people are missing here. None of these Democrats seem to give a rip. You know, when Barack Obama was president, let's see. Well, he was bombing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan. They didn't talk about impeaching him. George W. Bush, Afghanistan, and Iraq, they didn't talk about impeaching him.

Bill Clinton, Iraq, Serbia, Sudan and Afghanistan. George H.W. Bush, Iraq and Panama. Ronald Reagan, Libya, Grenada. They didn't talk about that. And then others are stupid enough. They have no understanding of the War Powers Act either. It's from 1973. And first of all, it's unconstitutional by every measure because it violates Article two of the Constitution, giving the president the

you know, power over the military. After all, he is the commander in chief. No president has ever accepted the War Powers Act as having any limits to their capacity as commander in chief to wage war and conduct military strikes when they deem it necessary. I mean, could you hang on? I want to we have to bomb them now, but I've got to wait and get permission from Jasmine Crockett. It's insane. And by the way, if you want to quote

The War Powers Act, you might want to read some of the specific details because even it allows a president to use weapons and military action for a maximum of 60 days without explicit congressional authorization. That's the War Powers Act of 1973. The president must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops into potential hostilities. Well, the president did inform Hakeem Jeffries and Chuckie Schumer.

And their silence on all of it has been deafening. And I'll tell you why they're silent, because they are afraid of the lunatics in their caucus. That's what they're afraid of. Now, a lot of people are asking me what I think is going to happen. I don't know. I don't have an answer. You know, is I was surprised that Israel went along with the peace agreement.

I assume that there's a certain level of indebtedness that they feel towards President Trump because this number one greatest existential threat of a nuclear armed Iran is gone because of President Trump. And meanwhile, they while they may not have been able to take out their nuclear sites, especially at Fordow, and that they needed bunker buster bombs, I would imagine the Israelis are going to probably build their own sooner rather than later.

I would hope it's a lasting peace. You know, the word repentance means to have a change of heart. Do I think that the mullahs in Iran that were chanting last Friday, death to America?

And that always chant death to Israel. Do I think they've changed their ideology or philosophy? No, their back is against the wall. Their regime is about to collapse. And if the Israelis took out their refineries, their economy would collapse. If they took out their electric grid, the entire population will rise up against them. Only time is going to tell.

But, you know, now the devil will be in the details. And the secretary of state, Marco Rubio and Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, they will hammer out the details of this. And why do I have doubts that the Iranians will actually if they even sign it? And there's a big if to that, whether or not they would abide by it.

The Iranians, as part of this deal, would need to stop providing money and weaponry and support to their proxies in the region. That's Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the militias in Iraq and Syria, and they'd have to stop all of it. Or we have to assume that they simply want to build out a bigger, more lethal ballistic missile system in the short term and maybe go back to their nuclear ambitions in the long term.

And, you know, but, you know, maybe maybe this isn't the right time to talk about it. Maybe just a pause in the hostilities will be a good thing. But what has happened here is something that I promise you, Obama, Biden, Hillary, no Democrat could ever accomplish by, you know, Obama's plan was to appease the Iranians with billions of dollars in cash and other currency and in cargo planes that he dropped off for the mullahs in Iran.

And Joe Biden just turned a blind eye towards the sanctions that Trump put in place on them selling oil in the world market, which was bankrupting them and resulting in the citizenry of Iran rising up against its leadership. And then Joe comes in and lets them get rich again, which allows them to continue their nuclear ambitions and pursue them and also allows them to foment terror in the entire region because they have the money to do so.

I mean, you know, to get within weeks of a nuclear weapon, you know, developed in facilities deep in a mountain underground, you know, the Fordow site in particular took how many years to build and fortify? You know, it's a safer world tonight, but the technology, the logistics, the skill of the U.S. military is unmatched. But having a president that has the courage and the wisdom and the understanding and the need to do it now is

Nobody wants forever wars. Now, that leads me to this other threat, because there are people out there saying, well, if if if if an Iranian makes an attack on the homeland, that it will be a direct result of military action of Donald Trump. I've heard this argument now. I've seen this argument now and I'm listening to it. And it is the most dishonest, intellectually lazy argument.

I think I've ever heard in my life. We are in this situation for one reason and one reason only. And in other words, the reason that we have all of these Iranians in the country are because of the insanity of the open borders policy of Joe Kamala and Alejandro Mayorkas.

I mean, ISIS arrested 11 Iranian nationals in the last 48 hours. How did they get here? Joe's open borders. And, you know, I gave you the statistics yesterday. Over 700 unvetted Iranians, 729 that they apprehended.

Now, they were able, they had the Border Patrol apprehended 1,504 Iranian nationals who illegally entered our country, unvetted. And Joe Biden's policies allowed 729 released into the U.S. None of them were vetted. I have been saying it's a matter of when, not if, that we're going to get hit. I say it over and over again.

And even President Trump rightly is blaming Biden for allowing these Iranian sleeper cells that everyone is worried about into the United States. President Joe Biden let a lot of stupid people in here, he said. And among everything else, he let a lot of super cells in, many from Iran. Hopefully we'll be able to take care. Hopefully. Tom Holman's on TV today. He's trying. And so is Pam Bondi and Dan Bongino and Kash Patel.

It's like finding a needle in a haystack. How do you find them all? By the way, Israel acknowledged the striking a radar installation near Tehran hours after the start of the ceasefire, but it was within the window of time before they had to stop, but said it refrained from further attacks because Donald Trump asked him to. And I think that was, you know, it shows the friendship and the deep respect that these two men have for each other.

ICE arrests are up to a 70, a new high. Criminally illegals make up 70 percent of recent apprehensions. The reason we have sleeper cells in this country is because Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Alejandro Mayorkas opened up the borders, lied to the country for four years and

Their fellow Democrats lied to the country for four years or they remain silent, which makes them complicit for four years. And the media never did their job and pointed out to the American public that this is the most preventable national security disaster because it's not just Iranian sleeper cells. We have people from from over 200 plus countries, many of which are coming from countries with terror ties.

Now, what president in their right mind would ever allow that to happen? So the threat of sleeper cells existed with or without Donald Trump's actions in Iran. This is an I Heart podcast.