June 23, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| And Todd, once again, Israel has endured a couple of waves of missile barrages here as sirens wailed from the north to the south. | ||
| And as I tell you that, I can show you images of something that gets played out time and time again here in Israel. | ||
| And this is people crowding into the underground train station in the port city of Haifa to the north of Israel. | ||
| That being said, we know that one projectile got through the missile defenses and struck about halfway between Tel Aviv here and the Gaza Strip. | ||
| No reports of injuries, but there are reports of power outages. | ||
| That being said, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is explaining that Iran had enough uranium enriched just below weapons grade to make about 10 bombs. | ||
| And he says after Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Asrallah was killed, Iran began a desperate rush to build a bomb. | ||
| They had enough of that, nine or ten bombs worth of enriched uranium. | ||
| But they needed to make the bomb itself. | ||
| And the bomb itself they rushed to do right after the collapse of the terror axis and the removal of Nasrallah. | ||
| Therefore, we had to act. | ||
| The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency says the enriched uranium was not destroyed in the U.S. strike on Iran because Iran moved it ahead of time. | ||
| Speaking to the U.N. Security Council, Rafael Grossi continues to push for negotiation as a means of stopping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. | ||
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We have a window of opportunity to return to dialogue and diplomacy. | |
| If that window closes, violence and destruction could reach unthinkable levels and the global non-proliferation regime, as we know it, could crumble and fall. | ||
| Grossy does not disagree with President Trump's claim that substantial damage was done to Iran's nuclear sites. | ||
| The president posted on Truth Social, the biggest damage took place far below ground level, bullseye. | ||
| Grossi noted that the centrifuges spin very fast, and something as simple as a power disruption can cause them to break. | ||
| They're very fragile. | ||
| Carly, Don, back to you. | ||
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Mike, what has the reaction been among the Israeli people to the U.S. strike? | |
| Is it all anybody's talking about right now? | ||
| It really is, and they're very encouraged. | ||
| I've talked with several different groups of friends out here in Israel, and they're all very encouraged from the left to the right, really with the hope that this could bring a rapid end to Iran's nuclear program and get them past this point where they just move from one conflict to the next. | ||
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| Who's your go daddy? | ||
| target acquired Oh, that's gonna leave a mark. | ||
| We uh we call that gallows humor around here, right? | ||
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| A new week. | ||
| There are some decades when absolutely nothing happens, and then there are days when decades happens, and we are living inside of that time hyperloop right now. | ||
| So we're gonna cover all of it today in an absolutely action-packed rock and roll show. | ||
| That poor goat. | ||
| I keep thinking about that poor goat. | ||
| Oh, man, can we get some Fs in the chat for the goat? | ||
| Too bad, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Today is Monday, June 23rd, 2025. | ||
| Iran vows to kill 50,000 U.S. soldiers in revenge for massive Israeli airstrike and American airstrike. | ||
| Holy smokes. | ||
| Let's not do this, please, shall we? | ||
| Okay, can we not? | ||
| They also closed down the Strait of Hormuz. | ||
| That means that a lot of oil is at risk. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Bad news. | ||
| We want to not have this happen. | ||
| We're going to cover on the show. | ||
| We've been, of course, warning against this. | ||
| And obviously, we're not smarter than President Trump. | ||
| But we think that President Trump is playing a game here, and we're going to explain it today. | ||
| A bit of a game, right? | ||
| It's a high-stakes game, but it's the kind of game that President Trump has played before. | ||
| And one, let's talk about all of it. | ||
| Church staff stops mass shooting yesterday, an absolute miracle that we were able to witness on camera. | ||
| Something that will give you some uplifting, a silver lining in this dark cloud of time that we live in. | ||
| Former Representative Matt Gates will be on the show, along with Representative Corey Mills from the great state of Florida, also from the great state of Florida, live in studio. | ||
| We love doing this live in studio. | ||
| The Attorney General for the state of Florida, James Youthmeyer, will be here today, locked and loaded, right here, live in the studio. | ||
| A lot to talk about with all of these three great men. | ||
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| All right, ladies and gentlemen, I want to show you a quick poll from this morning. | ||
| Less than about 95% of the country doesn't want to go to war with Iran. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So whatever, wherever you are on this issue, and I know that people are all over the place, and we're going to state what we stated during our emergency live on Saturday night. | ||
| I'm not smarter than President Trump. | ||
| I'm not trying to second guess President Trump. | ||
| We're going to give you the hard data and information, much like we expect the administration to give us the evidence and hard data for their actions, okay? | ||
| But I don't have that. | ||
| A lot of that's classified. | ||
| You can see these kick-ass photos of President Trump in the situation room here, surrounded by a strong team. | ||
| Tulsi was there. | ||
| Obviously, Marco, Hegseth. | ||
| There's a strong team. | ||
| Raisin Kane doing his little, doing his thing. | ||
| Do we have this photo? | ||
| My favorite photo. | ||
| Okay, whatever's going on in here with this photo. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I'm not going to second guess the president. | ||
| You're going to find that on this show. | ||
| You're not going to find me saying that I'm smarter. | ||
| President Trump has earned my respect and my trust. | ||
| I'm part of the MAGA coalition. | ||
| I've gone to thousands of MAGA rallies. | ||
| Followed the president very closely. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| That's a great photo. | ||
| Put that up. | ||
| Whatever's going on here. | ||
| Yeah, please, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Anybody from Texas is going to be very offended by this. | ||
| I'm here to state that the MAGA coalition, as we have regularly pontificated from this position, did not vote for forever wars. | ||
| We don't like that. | ||
| Joe Biden was a forever war creation, a regime change creation, a spend billions, if not trillions of dollars on wars, and so was Obama, and so was Hillary, and so was Bush, and so was Clinton, and so on and so on. | ||
| And Donald Trump actually ran against that. | ||
| And here he is with J.D. Vance. | ||
| That's a perfect photo. | ||
| Please keep that up. | ||
| J.D. Vance is somebody who, unlike me, actually fought in these forever idiocy wars. | ||
| He calls them idiotic. | ||
| His words, not mine. | ||
| And J.D. Vance is out this weekend saying this is not a regime change war. | ||
| This is not a forever war. | ||
| As of course, you know and the entire world knows, American B-2 delth Strataforcher spombers yeeted the Iranian nuclear facilities this past weekend, directly involving America in the war then. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| This country, if you don't mind, Klein, this country right here, did not voted against forever war. | ||
| This country voted on the main thing, keeping the main thing the main thing, which is our nation and America first. | ||
| And recognizing that the nuclear weapon and the atomic bomb is already here, meaning the weapon's already been built and it's already been deployed against our country. | ||
| This is not hypothetical. | ||
| 20 million criminal aliens here juicing and milking, raping, pillaging, and ravaging our welfare systems and our people parasitically. | ||
| This is a cancer on our country and needs to be addressed as the threat that it is. | ||
| Now, Iran is threatening to initiate an operation to activate splinter cells here in our country. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Well, how? | ||
| Because of our open border. | ||
| Do you understand? | ||
| Like, America voted for that to be taken care of. | ||
| And you can see here in the polling, wherever you land on this issue, and I'll tell you my take very quickly in just a second, not like anyone asked, okay? | ||
| I'm no expert on this, and I don't pretend to be. | ||
| I don't pretend to sit here and be this like wise man, and I'm going to sit there and scold Trump. | ||
| That's not what this is about. | ||
| This is about keeping the team together, because what we have is a winning team. | ||
| And this is a winning issue. | ||
| So let me explain. | ||
| Nobody's made the case that Iran should have nuclear weapons. | ||
| I haven't. | ||
| I don't like Iran. | ||
| They're not good actors. | ||
| I got buddies who've been blown up by Iran. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Go find any GWAT veteran. | ||
| We'll have a GWAT veteran join us in just a second, Corey Mills. | ||
| How many of these people lost arms, limbs, eyes, friends, plotted deep into the soil of some other country, defend a border for another country? | ||
| No, America's done with that. | ||
| And this proves it right here. | ||
| 5% of the country thinks that we should go to war with Iran. | ||
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Okay, fine. | |
| But close to 95% of the country says no. | ||
| And in a world of hype, like in a country broken by hyper-partisanism, this is a uniting of the clans. | ||
| This is an unbelievable testament to the fact that all Americans of all stripes really don't want war with Iran and don't think that this is a wise decision that's in our best interest. | ||
| This is something that really breaks against age groups, too. | ||
| Young people really don't want to go to war with Iran. | ||
| That's just a matter of fact. | ||
| And those are the kind of people that like Trump won in a historic rout. | ||
| President Trump did numbers with the youth vote this last election cycle, unlike anything we've ever seen, mainly in response to the forever wars in Ukraine that of course is plundering our treasure and so on and so forth. | ||
| Obviously we have troop boots on the ground in Ukraine. | ||
| They won't tell, no one will ever say anything about it, but it's true, you know, obviously. | ||
| So yeah, people were done with that and we were done with it. | ||
| And so I want President Trump to keep this coalition together. | ||
| So let me, just very quickly, because I see the breaking of the, I see the breakdown of the coalition. | ||
| Anybody could see it. | ||
| Anybody could look at it. | ||
| And I'm going to do my level-headed best on this program. | ||
| You are in the right place if you actually want to keep winning. | ||
| Because this is what I want. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We're going to put up like hard data like this. | ||
| It's not an attack. | ||
| It's like just the data. | ||
| Nobody in a, there's no zero appetite in America for regime changer forever rewards. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| And we want to use our platform to keep together actually the winning coalition, which is what Trump created. | ||
| And Trump created it with his own blood. | ||
| He created it with like taking bullets, taking bullets to the head. | ||
| Nobody gave up more than President Trump, which is why, of course, I implicitly trust President Trump. | ||
| And he has more information than I do. | ||
| It's so unbelievably pretentious, morally presumptuous to say that I know more than him, right? | ||
| No, you're not going to get that. | ||
| But here's what I will do. | ||
| I'll analyze what we know of President Trump. | ||
| Here's what we know of President Trump. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| President Trump, in maybe what some argue is his best tweet ever, yeeted Kim Jong-un. | ||
| Kim Jong-un was like talking about how much he loved the bomb. | ||
| And President Trump says, yeah, okay. | ||
| Little North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, this is in the year 2008. | ||
| Is that correct, Klein? | ||
| 2018. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Little Kim Jong-un says his nuclear button's so nice. | ||
| It's so nice. | ||
| It loved me wrong time. | ||
| Problem is that his nuclear button doesn't work. | ||
| I have a much bigger and more beautiful and more powerful button and my button works, says Donald Trump to Kim Jong-un. | ||
| Yikes. | ||
| You know, at the time, if you go back and you have a time machine like we do, and you have sort of an autistic memory level, understanding exactly how these news cycles work, you'll recall that people were very upset at President Trump for doing this. | ||
| They all thought that Trump was going to get us into the war. | ||
| And that President Trump was going to start nuclear war with North Korea. | ||
| Now, according to the Atomic Energy Agency, North Korea does indeed have nukes. | ||
| Okay, so this is quite the thing to say to the North Korean leader. | ||
| What happens next? | ||
| I'll show you. | ||
| What happens next is one of the most remarkable things in the history of the world. | ||
| After all the tough talk, after all the raging, yeah, after all the tough talk and all the raging, the nuclear button and all the talk and smack, Kim Jong-un comes and welcomes Donald Trump into a active war zone with America, which is insane. | ||
| Something we don't have with Iran. | ||
| Iran doesn't have nukes. | ||
| Look, understand that this is so much more high stakes than what we just witnessed. | ||
| Iran doesn't have nukes, to our knowledge. | ||
| We're not actively at war with Iran, to our knowledge, right? | ||
| We are technically at war with North Korea. | ||
| There's no peace treaty signed. | ||
| We went and slaughtered like millions of North Koreans in the 1950s and they killed 55,000 Americans in another idiotic war. | ||
| But anyway, a war that's totally forgotten about called the Korean War. | ||
| Please understand the profoundness of this moment. | ||
| That the dictator that we are at war with is like clapping Trump on the back and welcoming him into North Korea. | ||
| And Donald Trump's walking straight into the war zone, a country that we're at war with. | ||
| Donald Trump was able to use hard power, strong words, tough talk, peace through strength, and like, let's just call it what it is, abject belligerence in order to get the best relationship we've had with North Korea ever. | ||
| It's pretty freaking awesome. | ||
| And then Donald Trump straight up fat shamed Kim Jong-un to his face. | ||
| Yo, do you even understand that this is the best clip in the history of the world? | ||
| Okay, like, like, listen, I got a favorite Trump moment. | ||
| It ain't better than this. | ||
| I got a best Trump moment ever. | ||
| It's not better than this. | ||
| Something that is so unsung. | ||
| Donald Trump walks into North Korea, walks into North Korea. | ||
| We're at war with North Korea. | ||
| Trump walks in and then fat shames the dictator to his little fat chunky face. | ||
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| Listen to this. | ||
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It's getting a good picture, everybody, so we're nice and handsome, thin, perfect. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Please. | ||
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| Uh, ALX, is that the fat channel? | ||
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Is that the did I miss that? | |
| Did I miss that? | ||
| Yeah, there's a different. | ||
| There's there's there's a there's there's a different that's it? | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, the ball's on this guy. | ||
| He yeeted Solomania. | ||
| He went and killed the guy. | ||
| He used tough talk and strong power in order to exact in a very exacting moment the opportunity to make the world a safer place. | ||
| Trump orders attack that kills Iranian general Qasim Solemani and other military officers in Baghdad, Pentagon says. | ||
| This is the way that Trump plays. | ||
| He plays hard, and he plays strong, and then he talks smack. | ||
| Alex, where is Abu Bakar in Baghdad? | ||
| Where is it? | ||
| Because I'm going to give you one final example of this. | ||
| Abu don't cry. | ||
| Alex, Alex knows what it is. | ||
| You have this leader of ISIS who's sitting there as his caliphate gets systematically destroyed in the first administration. | ||
| So whether it's fat shaming him to the news face, whether it's yeeting Soleimani, who's personally responsible for the naming of Americans and the putting into the soil thousands of American lives deep into the earth, in foreign lands and foreign sands, | ||
| or whether it's this, which is killing the head of ISIS live on TV, and then roasting him in like the meanest shit talk that you've ever heard from the White House that went on for like 40 minutes. | ||
| This is the way that Trump plays. | ||
| And the game has worked well for him, and it's worked well for us. | ||
| It seems this has been like crystallized in a Shane Gillis comedy sketch. | ||
| So it's worth going back and actually establishing, like, it's worth going back and actually establishing, like, what did Trump actually say? | ||
| And what he said was the comedy sketch. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| He died like a dog. | ||
| He died like a coward. | ||
| He was whimpering, screaming, and crying. | ||
| And frankly, I think it's something that should be brought out so that his followers and all of these young kids that want to leave various countries, including the United States, they should see how he died. | ||
| He didn't die a hero. | ||
| He died a coward. | ||
| Crying, whimpering, screaming, and bringing three kids with him to die. | ||
| Certain death. | ||
| And he knew the tunnel had no end. | ||
| I mean, it was a closed-end, they call it a closed-end tunnel. | ||
| Not a good place to be. | ||
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So this was going on before you made the announcement that you're going to be able to do. | |
| I've been looking for him for three years. | ||
| I've been looking for him. | ||
| I started getting some very positive feedback about a month ago, and we had some incredible intelligence officials that did a great job. | ||
| That's what they should be focused on. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, President Trump gets results. | ||
| Now, Donald Trump was talking, loss of smack, and following it up this weekend. | ||
| But in every single one of these situations, the world is a better place. | ||
| You can't really argue against it. | ||
| Like, find me the good faith argument against yeeting Solomani, against Trump walking into North Korea and making peace, fat-shaming him to his face. | ||
| I guess I missed it. | ||
| I got to play it again. | ||
| I'm going to play it again. | ||
| I'm going to play it again, Klein. | ||
| I'm going to play it again. | ||
| Clip two. | ||
| Play beside. | ||
| Fat-shaming Kim Jong-un to his face. | ||
| Good picture, everyone. | ||
| Is everybody looking thin? | ||
| There we go. | ||
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Nice and handsome and thin. | |
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| Is everybody looking thin? | ||
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That ain't good! | |
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| There it is. | ||
| All right. | ||
| My apologies, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| It's been so long since I saw that clip. | ||
| It's like a 10-year-old clip. | ||
| Everybody looking thin? | ||
| Dumpling. | ||
| Can you argue against the results? | ||
| You argue that, like, can you argue against what Trump did against ISIS? | ||
| That totally worked. | ||
| It was a very good thing. | ||
| The yeeting of Solomania, good thing. | ||
| The smack talk to Kim Jong-un didn't lead to nuclear war. | ||
| It led to peace. | ||
| It led to good things. | ||
| And so the president has earned and deserves our trust on this, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So Operation Midnight Hammer went down this weekend. | ||
| And we're going to say the same thing. | ||
| There was a lot of hysteria with the way that President Trump, remember, the Solemani killing was supposed to lead to nuclear war with Iran. | ||
| The systematic destruction of ISIS in targeted attacks that did include American boots on the ground, so on and so forth. | ||
| Nobody can argue against the results there, the total and complete decimation of ISIS. | ||
| And then, of course, the results with Kim Jong-un were inspiring. | ||
| And so, as we said, if this remains an attack to simply project American power and to rid the world of an Iranian nuclear program, we can't make the argument that Iran should have nukes. | ||
| And given President Trump's track record inside of an ecosystem like this, we're going to give them time to cook, which is what's going to happen, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So we have our first satellite imagery of the Fordow nuclear base been completely blown to smithereens. | ||
| Freaking unbelievable attack. | ||
| And we played to the mushroom clouds and everything on Saturday night. | ||
| So we're going to look at this. | ||
| I mean, hopefully, like, not do it through an overly emotional and very feline, feminine energy. | ||
| You know, there's a lot of people that are losing their minds on both sides right now. | ||
| And we don't want that. | ||
| We want to just establish Trump's incredible track record in high-stakes situations like this. | ||
| That Donald Trump knows that he was elected not to start a new forever war, that Donald Trump ran against the Bush doctrine, the first thing that President Trump ever said on the campaign trail to me, I have it, on camera. | ||
| I'll go fish it out and find it for you is like the oldest footage I have of Donald Trump in New Hampshire in 2015. | ||
| And Donald Trump on camera says, no new wars, no more Bushes in the White House. | ||
| The first thing he ever said to me. | ||
| He's just driving past. | ||
| He's just driving down the road. | ||
| And Trump rolls down the window and yells it, right? | ||
| Not allowed to do that anymore. | ||
| Too bad. | ||
| That's what Trump ran against. | ||
| Trump has been very successful in very systematic strikes like this. | ||
| And so I'm going to give him time to cook. | ||
| I think people are going to regret being overly emotional and having these psychotic meltdowns right now on both sides. | ||
| And we're just going to stick to the facts, which is frankly that nobody in the MAGA coalition voted for a new forever war or regime change. | ||
| And So ladies and gentlemen, we're simply going to let them cook. | ||
| This is the overview of the attack that took place this weekend. | ||
| That's my take on it. | ||
| It's intellectually consistent. | ||
| We've done an enormous amount of thinking about this. | ||
| I haven't stopped thinking about this for 48 straight hours. | ||
| And I think that this is the way to thread the needle, honestly. | ||
| And it requires a nuanced historical look at President Trump and his actions, and then an understanding that there's a lot going on here, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Here's an update of what happened this weekend. | ||
| Let's rock and roll. | ||
| The mission began with deception. | ||
| Under the cover of darkness, shortly after midnight, Operation Midnight Hammer launched early Saturday morning. | ||
| Nine B-2 stealth bombers took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but two acted as decoys, flying west over the Pacific for all to see and a scheduled refueling in the skies near Hawaii with a follow-on flight to Guam. | ||
| But seven B-2s did not fly west. | ||
| They quietly peeled away and secretly flew east with minimal communication. | ||
| Their destination, Iran's underground nuclear facilities. | ||
| First into Iran were American fighter jets to also serve as decoys and draw fire from the Iranians. | ||
| The B-2s then entered Iranian airspace at 6 p.m. | ||
| Eastern, just after 2 a.m. | ||
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| 40 minutes later, 14 massive bunker-busting bombs were released by the B-2s. | ||
| 12 hit the underground nuclear site in Ford. | ||
| 2 hit Natans. | ||
| At the same time, those 15-ton bombs from the B-2s hit their targets, 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from a guided missile submarine slammed into Isfahan, with its centrifuges buried even deeper than Ford. | ||
| Strike Package then bugged out of Iranian airspace and returned to their base in Missouri this afternoon to complete their 37-hour round-trip mission. | ||
| The B-2s were fueled at least three times in mid-air each way. | ||
| Over 125 aircraft were involved in the strike. | ||
| The initial battle damage assessment was provided by President Trump last night. | ||
| Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. | ||
| His top military advisor said this the morning after. | ||
| Initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction. | ||
| Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth says the mission against Iran is not open-ended. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, somebody who has an enormous amount of experience with all of this, and we're very interested for his take, is the great Florida Congressman Corey Mills. | ||
| He's an Army combat veteran. | ||
| Enjoy the slide now. | ||
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| Congressman, what's going on, man? | ||
| Your take on this weekend? | ||
| Well, look, it was an amazing military operation with key and precision strike capabilities. | ||
| I've been talking about this for quite a few months now about Quam, which is Fordham, Esferhan, and Natans with their centrifugal enrichment capabilities. | ||
| We know that the IAEA had come out, who's not a friend to Israel, America, or any others, and even talk about the escalation and enrichment to a nuclear weapons-grade capability. | ||
| The thing that the president has done consistently, and I like the way that you've kind of built this up, Benny, is that he has consistently reiterated time and time again, I am open to diplomatic peace talks and a treaty, but the Iranian regime cannot at any point in time get their capabilities to a weapons-grade nuclear armament. | ||
| This is something that he's talked about ad nauseum. | ||
| And there's people who are trying to claim that this is an unconstitutional utilization of military force. | ||
| It is not. | ||
| Under Article 2, Section 2, the President and the Executive Branch has limited war power authorities, not to mention the fact that while I disagree with it and wish that they be repealed, before I came to Congress, Congress had passed in 1957, 1991, 2001, and 2002 an authorized use of military force. | ||
| The 0102 AUMS talks about the targeting of the global war on terror. | ||
| Iran is the largest state sponsor of terror, named the Houthis, name Hamas, name Kitab Hezbollah, name all of the individual proxy Shia militias across the globe who continue to target our allies as well as for the U.S. So what this means is that does the president walk us into warfare? | ||
| No, he utilizes key position strikes like he did in the first administration with the elimination of Qasim Soleimani, like he did in the first administration with the elimination of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS. | ||
| This has continually been a non-nation building, non-regime change, non-forever war plan to eliminate key strategic targets with accuracy, without collateral damage, and ensuring that we can keep the West and our allies safe. | ||
| This is very clear, and it was a very successful operation. | ||
| So my biggest concern here is America being dragged into war. | ||
| Nobody voted for that. | ||
| We put up the polling this morning, which is atrocious in favor of the war. | ||
| It's 5% in favor of the war, almost 95%. | ||
| You can add me to the 95%. | ||
| Against America going to war. | ||
| And I know that because you've actually seen it up close and you've done it and you've lost friends, probably due to an Iranian munition and a Kasim Soleimani operation plotted deep into the sand, you know, in a foreign land. | ||
| And nobody wants that, right? | ||
| And nobody wants more of that. | ||
| And Poland's very clear on this. | ||
| So with so many American assets out in the region here, how do we stop America from being dragged into war? | ||
| Because the moment that a belligerent Iranian in either a false flag attack or otherwise attacks an American, well, then it's game on, right? | ||
| It's like, you know, I just, I see it so it's so perilous. | ||
| I want to prevent it. | ||
| Well, myself and many of my colleagues have argued, why do we have troops in Syria? | ||
| Why do we have troops still in Iraq? | ||
| They are obviously in harm's way. | ||
| They are within reach of your mid-range ballistic missiles, Katusha rockets by Shia back militias, and other types of harm. | ||
| I still don't understand why we're in countries that we have no operational agenda, that we have no actual battle plan and we have no status of forces Agreement in place. | ||
| So I understand mentor protege programs. | ||
| I understand the idea of training the leads to be able to go after ISIS to ensure that it doesn't have a resurgence. | ||
| But again, when we're doing these types of key strategic targeting, we have to also bear in mind that it does have the potential for retaliatory attacks. | ||
| And that attack, as President said in the very first administration, if even a single American has been struck, he has targets already identified. | ||
| He has proven to be a strong and bold leader. | ||
| But the way that we don't get ourselves into a never-ending war is by having strong leadership. | ||
| We have that under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsteth. | ||
| We have that under Secretary of State Ramarco Ruga. | ||
| And we certainly have that under President Trump, who has proven time and time again that he understands the art of negotiations. | ||
| So I do not see us walking into a forever war. | ||
| I do not see anything other than an increase in our missile defense capabilities, whether that be a FAAD Patriot battery capability in the Iraq region, whether that be in other areas until we can withdraw our troops. | ||
| But you're right. | ||
| We do always border on that threshold of where do we draw the line of ensuring a non-nuclear capability by a malign actor and the protection and the safety of our troops from retaliatory attacks. | ||
| And this is where preparation, repositioning, pre-positioning of military hardware and equipment and defense, and then knowing the actual battlefield assessments really comes into play. | ||
| So this is something that I've been struggling with. | ||
| And perhaps you can help me out because you are on the Foreign Affairs Committee, House Armed Services Committee. | ||
| You have far more intel than I do. | ||
| But can you explain to me why the rush to do this? | ||
| Because obviously, I can go back into articles from the New York Times nearly on the date of my birth in the 80s, Congressman, and find articles saying Iran's like a second away from getting a nuclear weapon. | ||
| This has been going on for 30 years. | ||
| I'm not saying it's a good thing. | ||
| I'm saying their nuclear program is a bad thing and that Iran, especially their leadership, are bad actors in the region, obviously. | ||
| But what I'm trying to say here is like, why the immediate urgency to go do this? | ||
| I think that the IAEA report was certainly very alarming. | ||
| I think that Iran's regime, having the inability of wanting to even have a negotiation at the table, shows that they were closer than they thought and they thought it had a position of strength. | ||
| We also have to bear in mind that as you talked about from the 80s and now, you know, Iran has spent over $2 trillion in their nuclear enrichment programs. | ||
| Over time, they're going to get the necessary capabilities to be able to actually weaponize and use the armament possible. | ||
| But there's also been a geopolitical shift where China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have geopolitically aligned to become this axis of evil. | ||
| The last thing that we want is to allow us to have a existential threat against Israel or any of our allies or the U.S., but also the idea that there was tens of millions of people who crossed our borders under the previous administration. | ||
| There are potential sleeper cells here in the United States. | ||
| Imagine, if you will, for a moment, Iran getting to an enrichment nuclear capability and sneaking a dirty bomb across the border to target Westerners here in the U.S. So there's a lot of intel that even I don't have as a member who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee. | ||
| I'm the chairman of the Oversight and Intelligence Committee, but there's things that even we haven't been briefed on yet. | ||
| And I'm sure that we'll get that briefed whenever I get back and go into the SCIF. | ||
| But there are always a precipice of intelligence gathering and intel that's been afforded to us, either by ourselves or five Eye partners, that allow us to say, okay, look, we can't take another moment on this. | ||
| And we know that the escalation between Israel and Iran could have actually been to a precipice where we said, you know what? | ||
| Iran has enough of a capability to be able to strike inside of Israel. | ||
| And we have, remember, we have so many Americans that are dual citizens who stay in Israel that this is now a time that we must strike. | ||
| And it also forces this regime to come back to the table to say, all right, no moss. | ||
| You've done what you've said. | ||
| I'm now willing to come to the negotiation table. | ||
| But last point, this also sends a direct message to China, who's been threatening the unification of Taiwan and wondering what America's capabilities are. | ||
| We continue to show it. | ||
| We are the strongest armed force in the world. | ||
| We are the greatest volunteer warriors that you'll ever find any place in the world. | ||
| And I can tell you right now, with Pete Heg said focusing on a warrior-focused ethos, that we're going to continue to strengthen ourselves. | ||
| Our recruitment's already reaching its numbers first time in many, many years. | ||
| And we are moving forward and our adversaries are paying attention. | ||
| Now, when we get to an economic strong point, America becomes the global world leader once again. | ||
| I appreciate the projection of strength. | ||
| I understand that when it comes to Solomani. | ||
| I understand that when it comes to Kim Dragoon. | ||
| I understand that when it comes to beheading ISIS. | ||
| I just know that the stakes are really high. | ||
| Trump's a really great player at this game. | ||
| The stakes are super high. | ||
| Maybe in conclusion, Congressman, can you, at the very least, admit to us, given the fact that you just talked about splinter cells here in America, that it is far more exigent and important to our nation to rid ourselves of the 15, 20 million criminal aliens that exist here in this country that are already a weaponized bomb that is inside of our homeland right now? | ||
| That needs to be like the top priority. | ||
| That needs to be like the number one priority. | ||
| The main thing? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| As Secretary Noam of the DHS, as well as for Tom Holman, have said they are on high alert right now to look at potential sleeper cell capabilities, to look at lone wolf attacks. | ||
| That is something they're very focused on. | ||
| The FBI under Cash Patel, who I trust implicitly, has continued to try and move forward in Dan Bongino to look at different types of counterterrorism capabilities within the United States. | ||
| So, yes, it's an existential threat or an existing threat. | ||
| It's something that we're looking at every single moment of every day to keep Americans safe. | ||
| But again, we're making a huge cleanup of the previous administration. | ||
| Iran would not be where it's at today if the Biden administration had not released $10 billion in fungible assets, stopped the enforcement of sanctions on oil exportation to China, which has driven up their money more than they've ever seen. | ||
| They were on the ropes under President Trump. | ||
| They opened the borders and allowed tens of millions of people. | ||
| They delisted the Houthi Rebels as a terrorist organization disrupting 12% of global trade. | ||
| And now President Trump is coming here and having to clean this up, secure our borders, keep Americans safe, our allies, and prevent Iran from a nuclear weapon. | ||
| That is what the president is actually forced to do. | ||
| And so he's doing a great job. | ||
| And I have full trust and confidence and I support him in every way. | ||
| You know what, Congressman, I really hope that it plays out like that. | ||
| You know, we've done our show best to like keep the coalition together. | ||
| This is what I want. | ||
| I view that as actually the greatest single. | ||
| Nobody wants to break it. | ||
| I can tell you, especially those who fought on the Benny, none of us want a never-ending war. | ||
| We don't want to go back to the George W. Bush, neocon, neolib, conservative thoughts. | ||
| We want to stay on the America first agenda. | ||
| And I promise that this strategic strike, which does not thrust us into war, we will not have boots on the ground. | ||
| We will not spend trillions of dollars on thousands of lives like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. | ||
| We are doing strategic strikes that keep America and the homeland safe. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Every single GWAT veteran in my timeline is saying the exact same thing. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Corey Mills follow him, obviously. | ||
| Nearly 300,000 Americans do. | ||
| He's one of these clear voices that just rings like a bell, especially in times like this. | ||
| Thank you for saying that, Congressman. | ||
| I do appreciate the understanding. | ||
| Like, dude, the first term, Trump was cleaning up ISIS. | ||
| ISIS was created, clearly, as Trump said in the debates against Hillary Clinton. | ||
| Man, we shouldn't be, get that clip, ALX. | ||
| I want to play that later in the show. | ||
| Trump tells Hillary Clinton to our face, you created ISIS. | ||
| Like, you made ISIS, and now I have to go clean it up. | ||
| And I think it's worth saying, like, how does Iran get so much money to do this? | ||
| Well, I mean, obviously, like, Obama and Biden appeasement operations. | ||
| And don't forget it was Obama who actually flew a plane load of Swiss francs into Iran because he couldn't fly U.S. dollar spats in violation and literally flew pallets of cash into the Iranian regime. | ||
| Keep the main thing, the main thing. | ||
| Mass deportations. | ||
| You want to talk about strength. | ||
| You want to know what weakness looks like? | ||
| Weakness looks like having 20 million criminal invaders into your country. | ||
| That's weakness, actual. | ||
| Like real strength is in part bombing Iran's nuclear power. | ||
| Real strength is mass deportations. | ||
| That's what we're doing. | ||
| Mass deportations. | ||
| We have a 600% increase in apprehensions right now. | ||
| Our borders have never been more secure. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Well, I appreciate it, Congressman. | ||
| Godspeed. | ||
| Everybody follow us. | ||
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| God bless you, man. | ||
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| you you you Ladies and gentlemen, such a rowdy day. | ||
| Honestly, we're so honored to be able to bring in in-studio guests and have such clout here in the studio. | ||
| In a moment, here, we'll have the Attorney General of the State of Florida joining us live in the studio. | ||
| And we are building up our capacities here. | ||
| Speaking of building up capacity, Carolyn Levitt at the White House this morning. | ||
| This is the first time that somebody from the White House grounds within the White House walls is out talking about President Trump's stance on this saying Donald Trump does not want regime change. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| We're going to play that clip. | ||
| And then afterwards, we're going to play Carolyn and her hit from the White House this morning. | ||
| I think it's very important to listen to. | ||
| It, again, rings like a bell when it comes to the efforting of President Trump's thinking on these issues. | ||
| And then we'll be live in studio with the Attorney General of Florida. | ||
| A lot of big things to talk about. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
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The president is pleased. | |
| The country is pleased. | ||
| And frankly, Brian, the whole world should be pleased with the courageous action that President Trump and our United States military took on Saturday night. | ||
| I want to thank, and the president wants to thank, the brave pilots who flew nearly 40 hours and more than 7,000 miles from the middle of America to the Middle East to conduct this highly successful and complex precision strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. | ||
| This is an operation that presidents of the past have dreamed about, but no president had the guts to actually do it. | ||
| But President Trump did to take away this imminent threat, not just to the state of Israel, but to the United States and the rest of the world. | ||
| So the country is a safer place today because of the president's bold action, and he has prevented a nuclear conflict. | ||
| He has prevented a rogue radical regime from obtaining a nuclear bomb and threatening our people. | ||
| So I know the president's very decisive, but he also likes listening to all angles. | ||
| And he's used to Democrats fighting against him. | ||
| How much harder was the decision when you have people like Steve Bannon coming over for lunch saying don't do it, Marjorie Taylor Greene saying don't do it, and other voices like that? | ||
| How did the president digest all that, knowing these people weren't necessarily against him, they're against pending action he more than likely was going to take? | ||
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One of the great things that makes President Trump a great leader is his ability to listen to people with different perspectives, but then ultimately make a decision based on his own instinct and the intelligence that he saw. | |
| And he saw, based on U.S. intelligence, that Iran is just weeks away from obtaining a nuclear weapon. | ||
| And President Trump has been saying his entire life, not just as a presidential candidate or as president of the United States twice, but also as a private citizen that Iran could not obtain a nuclear weapon. | ||
| And that's something that leaders around this world and on both sides of the political aisle agree with. | ||
| Again, presidents dating back to Democrat Bill Clinton have said that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon, but none of them have the courage to actually do something about it, and President Trump did. | ||
| And nobody knows what it means to accomplish peace through strength better than President Trump. | ||
| He is the one who came up with that motto and that foreign policy doctrine, and he successfully implemented it in his first term. | ||
| And this is one of many steps he is taking to successfully implement peace in his second term. | ||
| The president wants to see a peaceful and prosperous Middle East. | ||
| He talked about that extensively when we took that historic trip to Saudi Arabia. | ||
| And he talked about how the Iranian terrorist regime was bringing down the rest of the region. | ||
| And our Gulf partners and allies agree with that sentiment. | ||
| So the president wants peace. | ||
| Sometimes you have to use strength to achieve it. | ||
| And he's not afraid to use strength. | ||
| And as Saturday night proved, the United States has the best and most lethal fighting force in the history of the world. | ||
| And we can use it if we must. | ||
| So the president tweeted out the next day, and I agree with you, by the way, and I think most of everyone watching does, says it's not politically correct to use the term regime change. | ||
| But if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change? | ||
| Does he think we should do that? | ||
| Is he asking the Iranian people to do that? | ||
| What's he saying there? | ||
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The president believes the Iranian people can control their own destiny. | |
| And what he said last night makes complete sense. | ||
| If the Iranian regime refuses to come to a peaceful diplomatic solution, which the president is still interested in engaging in, by the way, why shouldn't the Iranian people take away the power of this incredibly violent regime that has been suppressing them for decades? | ||
| And so, our posture has not changed. | ||
| Our military posture has not changed. | ||
| These were decisive, precision strikes that were successful on Saturday evening. | ||
| But the president is just simply raising a good question that many people around the world are asking. | ||
| you Thank you. | ||
| Gentlemen, it is our honor to have in studio the Attorney General of Florida, James Uthmeyer, who is fresh off of some massive breaking news here in the city of Tampa. | ||
| Thank you, Attorney General, for being with us. | ||
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| Thanks. | ||
| I already got my challenge coin, just letting you all know. | ||
| Okay, I got, bam, got my challenge coins. | ||
| I got free drinks in Tallahassee. | ||
| Nobody really wants to hang out in Tallahassee. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| What's up, man? | ||
| We'll have you up there anytime you want. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| It's a long quiet, but we like it. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Congratulations on the news this morning. | ||
| You just busted up a bunch of child predators, a massive child predator sting, I think in coordination potentially with the FBI. | ||
| Yeah, we've been working on this one for about a little over a month, but it was a two-week operation. | ||
| I'm told the most successful in U.S. history. | ||
| We were able to rescue 60 children, many victim of horrific human trafficking and other just atrocities, many of them impregnated by their traffickers. | ||
| So we're glad to get them home. | ||
| We worked with the federal government. | ||
| I can't say enough about the help of the Trump administration, the FBI, the U.S. Marshal Service did the Lord's work on this. | ||
| So we've got them back. | ||
| We're going to help them recover now. | ||
| And I promised people, and I took the oath, protecting our kids is my number one priority. | ||
| We're not going to stop. | ||
| We'll bring the fight. | ||
| And if you're trafficking in this state, we're going to get you. | ||
| The strong father energy. | ||
| The strong dad energy. | ||
| How many kids you got? | ||
| Three. | ||
| Yeah, I got a five, three, and one. | ||
| So it's near and dear to me. | ||
| Keep for you. | ||
| Keeps you young. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So this, like, something that you really feel like, right? | ||
| And you're deep in your bones in your head. | ||
| Like, I moved to Florida because I wanted my kids to be protected, right? | ||
| And I saw the leadership here in the state. | ||
| I saw the work that they were doing that was way ahead of his time, by the way, like against the predations of children, whether that's in the schoolhouse, the library, or whether it's in like the bathrooms at Disney World. | ||
| Like the predation of children was an issue that was taken on strongly in the state. | ||
| I'm like, I'm going to live in this place like that. | ||
| I'm going to raise my family and my kids in a place like that. | ||
| We're not going to tolerate it and we're not going to apologize for protecting our kids from the physical harms. | ||
| This trafficking stuff is dangerous, from the ideological harms. | ||
| We've redone the curriculum here in the state. | ||
| We're busting anybody that wants to let little boys and girls restrooms, anybody that wants pornography in the classrooms. | ||
| No tolerance in Florida. | ||
| We're going to be the number one state for public safety. | ||
| So you talk about child trafficking. | ||
| Some of these criminal aliens, you have a new place for them here in the state. | ||
| Your team has told me, and your team has told my producers, that we might have some breaking news on the new Alligator Alcatraz. | ||
| Can you please inform the audience? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Well, so we rolled out this proposal last week. | ||
| It's a location we've been looking at with law enforcement for a while, 30 square miles surrounded by the Everglades down in South Florida. | ||
| It prevents the unique opportunity for a low-cost detention facility because the perimeter is already set by Mother Nature. | ||
| A lot of people thought maybe it was just a joke, but no, we're serious. | ||
| We care about immigration enforcement. | ||
| We're leading and helping the federal government. | ||
| We've had a great relationship with ICE and Homeland Security. | ||
| I was with Border Czard Tom Homan yesterday as we were talking about this stuff. | ||
| As of this morning, the federal government has approved our detention facility plan. | ||
| So we're going to have 5,000 beds up and running. | ||
| Yeah, there we go. | ||
| Okay, this is a massive roaring applause sound effect. | ||
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| We'll have 5,000 beds by early July. | ||
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Really? | |
| A couple facilities, including what I call Alligator Alcatraz. | ||
| So hold, okay, so wait a second. | ||
| This is, and we have it right here, right? | ||
| This is the location. | ||
| This is a big airfield. | ||
| Is this correct? | ||
| It's an old, virtually abandoned airfield. | ||
| At one point, they wanted it to be the largest airport in the world. | ||
| It didn't happen, but you've got an 11,000-foot runway there. | ||
| So big planes can land. | ||
| We'll process there. | ||
| The National Guard will be on site. | ||
| They're going to help. | ||
| We'll give them the due process that all these courts say they need on the way out, though they never care to ask about it when the border was open and people were flowing in. | ||
| And we'll detain deport and get people out of this country that don't belong here. | ||
| This is amazing. | ||
| Okay, so here you are on site. | ||
| How are you going? | ||
| Wait, hold on. | ||
| You just said that you'll have it open in July? | ||
| It'll be open, yeah, first week of July. | ||
| Are you just going to put tents out there? | ||
| Lean twos? | ||
| Like, how's it going to work? | ||
| You know, in Florida, we've gotten very good. | ||
| You're going to change people to alligator? | ||
| No, we'll have some light infrastructure, a lot of heavy-duty tent facilities, trailer facilities. | ||
| We don't need to build a lot of brick and mortar. | ||
| Again, it will be temporary, and thankfully, Mother Nature does a lot on the perimeter. | ||
| We'll have a little bit of additions needed, but there's really nowhere to go. | ||
| If you're housed there, if you're detained there, there's no way in, no way out. | ||
| My brother in Christ, in the first administration, President Trump, in an interview to the New York Times, proposed potentially putting alligators at the border wall and filling the Rio Grande with alligators. | ||
| And now you're literally doing it. | ||
| You're making his dream come true. | ||
| Well, we believe in the swamp down here in Florida. | ||
| We're swamped creeps here. | ||
| No, it's a great facility. | ||
| The state will be a little bit more. | ||
| We'll be using it for a long time. | ||
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It'll be a good thing. | |
| This is using the swamp to your advantage. | ||
| Do you understand? | ||
| This is Sun Tzu, art of the swamp. | ||
| Okay, so you're telling me, you're breaking news right now that this is happening. | ||
| Alligator Alcatraz is going down. | ||
| We have commenced with the construction. | ||
| Again, we don't need a lot. | ||
| It's light infrastructure, 5,000 beds by early July. | ||
| Many of them will be at Alligator Alcatraz. | ||
| Are these going to be criminal aliens from all around the country or what's apprehended here in Florida? | ||
| Both, yeah, around the country and in Florida. | ||
| We'll prioritize criminal aliens as the Trump administration has called on us to do, as was discussed with Tom Homan yesterday. | ||
| And there's 600,000 or so criminal aliens in this country that have already been convicted of other crimes. | ||
| So there's a lot of low-hanging fruit. | ||
| We've got to get these dangerous people off the streets first and foremost. | ||
| But then we've got to enforce rule of law across the board. | ||
| If you are Not legally in this country. | ||
| You should not be here. | ||
| And we've got an obligation to support the Trump administration. | ||
| If I may, and I'm not sure your take on this, but it happened in your backyard. | ||
| So let's talk about that massive ice raid that happened in Tallahassee. | ||
| It was a huge construction site. | ||
| And we all saw it. | ||
| It was like the biggest raid I've ever seen. | ||
| And, you know, we saw this hollering from farmers or from the hotel industry being like, don't raid our criminal aliens are the better ones, right? | ||
| Like they are protected. | ||
| And that's not what people voted for, actually, right? | ||
| Like, and so could you give us a take on how you're dealing with that from a Florida perspective? | ||
| Again, that happened in your backyard. | ||
| I don't know if you knew about it. | ||
| I don't know if you're involved in it. | ||
| We were involved. | ||
| Yeah, our state law enforcement was actively involved working with the sheriffs and the feds. | ||
| It was a collaborative effort. | ||
| Law enforcement works together in Florida, which makes us a great rule of law state. | ||
| But I'll give you an example. | ||
| Two weeks ago, I announced a lifetime sentencing of a guy that was here on an ag worker permit, overstated. | ||
| He was here illegally. | ||
| And we caught him brutally sexually assaulting and trafficking young girls, a young child. | ||
| I mean, that's what's happening when these people get into our country. | ||
| I announced in Bay County last week this driver's license scheme where people working at the DMV were selling fake IDs, including some, you know, the class of license needed to drive a semi-truck to people that are not going through the training. | ||
| They're not taking the tests. | ||
| They're getting these things. | ||
| They're making money on the side and they're putting Floridians in danger. | ||
| They're putting Americans in danger. | ||
| So I think we have a duty. | ||
| We need to detain and deport everyone. | ||
| Yes, we'll focus with the criminal aliens, but rule of law has got to be rule of law. | ||
| It's very interesting that you brought that up because Cash Patel announced that there's a huge driver's license scheme last week, that the Chinese were trying to bring in millions of legal driver's licenses to vote in the 2020 election. | ||
| Have you seen anything about that? | ||
| Could you talk about how that would, how would that work, right? | ||
| Like, have you seen the potential for that to happen here in the state of Florida? | ||
| We have. | ||
| Thankfully, you know, we were the first state in the country to start an election crimes office. | ||
| So our Secretary of State and elections investigators work hand in hand. | ||
| Getting the fake ID doesn't necessarily enable you to vote. | ||
| You've got to get through the registration process that we scrutinize. | ||
| But I think it is evident that people do come here illegally and they do illegally vote. | ||
| I'm not sure at what scale, but it's a danger to our republic. | ||
| You talk about Chinese. | ||
| We're aware of hundreds of Iranians that have come into this country illegally recently. | ||
| There's no telling how many dangerous people, how many terrorist sleeper cells could be in the country actively plotting because of the Biden open border. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, I'm glad that they're at least talking about it. | ||
| This has been a we'll keep investigating. | ||
| We'll crack down. | ||
| You know, we've got to keep our families safe. | ||
| So there's straight up election fraud, right? | ||
| There's like those like, let's bring millions of illegal driver's license so that Chinese students can vote. | ||
| And we know Chinese students did vote in the election. | ||
| Some guy's getting charged in Michigan for that. | ||
| So the scheme actually ended up working. | ||
| Then there's a far more aggressive election fraud, which is just straight up killing the candidate. | ||
| Now, one of those near-murders happened here in the state of Florida. | ||
| Now, I know this is a federal case and they're bringing it in federal court. | ||
| Can you give us anything on Ryan Ralph? | ||
| Look, what the hell's going on with that guy? | ||
| He was like working with Ukraine. | ||
| He was like working with Afghanistan. | ||
| Did you raise more questions? | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| What the hell is up with that? | ||
| What I can tell you is we started trying to prosecute this in Florida while the Biden administration was still in place under state law challenges. | ||
| We did not trust the federal government to go and do their job, so we wanted to do it in Florida. | ||
| And they obstructed our investigation. | ||
| They would not allow us access to the crime scene. | ||
| They would not share witness interviews, evidentiary documents. | ||
| Now, all that changed when A.G. Bondi and Cash Patel took over. | ||
| We've enjoyed working with them. | ||
| We were able to move forward with our investigation. | ||
| Right now, we're fully supporting theirs. | ||
| Don't want to do anything to get out ahead of them or mess up what they're doing. | ||
| But we will pursue rule of law again, thankfully, with a collaborative federal government. | ||
| You know, enforcing the law should not be political. | ||
| It should not matter what party's in charge. | ||
| We should want to protect our citizens, especially former presidents and candidates. | ||
| And thanks be to God, Trump is our president today. | ||
| Yes, that's right. | ||
| I'm really surprised that a district judge in D.C. hasn't freed Ryan Routh and given him his gun back. | ||
| Like that, that shocks me. | ||
| I was like, I was waiting for that one. | ||
| Don't jinx it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| District judge rules that Donald Trump has to rebuild the nuclear facility in Iran. | ||
| Too bad. | ||
| Sucks. | ||
| Yeah, too bad. | ||
| Okay, so really quickly, we have a friend, lives with TikTok, and she wanted us to ask a question about something that was going on that's very strange here in the state of Florida. | ||
| Now, I know that DeSantis versus Disney is one of the hotter topics of the last couple of years. | ||
| You ended up winning that brawl straight away. | ||
| And I don't think Disney's functioned ever better, actually, quite frankly. | ||
| A lot of things are changing in that area and region and for the better, right? | ||
| Universal just opened this massive new park. | ||
| I haven't been there, but a lot of cool stuff going on there. | ||
| A lot of big dynamic energy in Orlando. | ||
| Tying through to what you just announced this morning about child trafficking and tying through to predation of vulnerable peoples here in the state of Florida, there was a TikTok influencer named Lily Tino who is taking videos and photos inside of the women's bathroom in Disney. | ||
| And I'm thinking, well, wait a second. | ||
| There's no way that this can be legal in the state of Florida, right? | ||
| This is a transgender influencer. | ||
| This seems to be like, first off, like you shouldn't be allowed to film inside of bathrooms. | ||
| It seems really creepy. | ||
| But then here in Disney, it's like extra, extra layers of creepy and wrong. | ||
| Is there anything happening from a state level on this topic? | ||
| Yeah, we're investigating this. | ||
| We do not tolerate men or boys and women's and girls' restrooms, gyms, private spaces, no tolerance. | ||
| We're investigating this one. | ||
| We've already cracked down on some gyms in South Florida. | ||
| They were allowing people that identify as women to go into women's locker rooms. | ||
| We put them on notice that legal action was coming. | ||
| Thankfully, they changed their ways. | ||
| Alachua County, a public school system, they had a camp, Camp Crystal Lake, where they were allowing fifth grade elementary age boys to identify as girls and stay in the girls' bunks. | ||
| We shut this down right away too. | ||
| Thankfully, you know, they did not fight us on it. | ||
| It's amazing we have to have these conversations today. | ||
| But here in Florida, we believe there are two sexes, men and women, and we are going to protect our girls at all costs. | ||
| I got girls. | ||
| I got boys. | ||
| I think you do too. | ||
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| I got, yeah, girl, two boys. | ||
| All right, my man. | ||
| I looked at like child predator laws. | ||
| There's the death penalty here in the state of Florida, right? | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| That's the state I'm moving to. | ||
| That's the state I'm moving to. | ||
| Like I want to move to a state where I can defend myself in my home, where I have castle law. | ||
| We just saw the sheriff, I'm sure, I think you were there at that press conference, right? | ||
| Where that sheriff went viral. | ||
| And he's like, yeah, he's like, we will put you graveyard dead into the ground if you mess with cops. | ||
| We are not messing around with cops here. | ||
| We are the number one state for public. | ||
| You were behind him when he was saying that, right? | ||
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| You were laughing. | ||
| We were announcing, you know, all these violent protests you were seeing in California. | ||
| We were putting people on notice as we saw some murmurings. | ||
| If you do that in Florida, like riding is illegal here. | ||
| If you throw stones, if you light things on fire, if you obstruct traffic, you are going to jail for as long as we can put you in there. | ||
| Thankfully, we didn't have any of these violent demonstrations because I think people know we're going to hold them accountable. | ||
| But the other thing we announced at that event was, you know, we're seeing the doxing of ICE agents. | ||
| These leftist groups want to put out the personal identifying information to intimidate, threaten, you know, jeopardize the safety of these federal officials and their families. | ||
| We're not going to tolerate that. | ||
| So our state troopers, our state law enforcement, we've got a partnership now with the feds, where if there's any personal information of an ICE agent or family members going public in Florida, we're going to give them personal protection and keep them safe. | ||
| We want them here. | ||
| They're doing their job. | ||
| And while they're protecting our families, we're going to protect theirs. | ||
| Locked in, man. | ||
| What an advertisement for the state of Florida. | ||
| What an incredible advertisement for the state of Florida. | ||
| Something we didn't even cover here is the anti-swatting legislation that we just passed. | ||
| It's the strongest in the entire nation. | ||
| We got a great guy. | ||
| We really appreciate this program. | ||
| We lead through examples. | ||
| We get swatted like every single day. | ||
| It has been really, really annoying. | ||
| I'm very tired of getting pizzas delivered to my house that I didn't order. | ||
| Mainly because my wife's trying to keep me in shape, okay? | ||
| And I just want to eat that. | ||
| I want to eat dominoes. | ||
| Okay, so what's next here for the state of Florida? | ||
| What's next to be worked on for the rest of the year? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Well, we're going to get these detention facilities up and running. | ||
| We're going to continue to protect our kids. | ||
| We sued Snapchat. | ||
| We're investigating other social media companies. | ||
| We've seen grave dangers where child predators are using these social media sites to prey upon our kids. | ||
| Snapchat being the preferred avenue. | ||
| So we've already busted dozens of people that are trying to prey on our kids. | ||
| They deceive kids. | ||
| They pretend to be young people themselves. | ||
| They start asking for information, ultimately trying to meet up with kids. | ||
| Parents at home need to wake up. | ||
| If you don't know what your kids are doing with their cell phones, get on it. | ||
| You got the decision to make, should your kid even have a phone to begin with? | ||
| Should they have access to the internet? | ||
| Are they mature enough? | ||
| But if you choose that there is utility, learn about the resources to block access, to track what they're doing, to monitor the behavior of their kids. | ||
| There are dangerous people out there. | ||
| A lot of them just kidnap the 60 or so people we rescued over the last two weeks. | ||
| It's real. | ||
| It is not just something you see in a movie. | ||
| It is real, and you are the first line of defense. | ||
| Let me tell you, I speak from very limited first-person experience. | ||
| I went to community college, okay? | ||
| I went to community college. | ||
| Not a super, I think I'm a room temperature IQ, but let me tell you, the smartest move I've ever made in my life was deciding to raise my children, which is my most precious asset in life, but then also build my business here in the state of Florida. | ||
| Because the leadership in Florida just ain't messing around. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So if you're thinking about it, if you're thinking about it, and there's a lot of young people in the audience and want to have kids and families, this is a good place to lock it in. | ||
| We're ready for you. | ||
| Come on down. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Young daddy, young dad. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Thanks for keeping the state clean, brother. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Hey, the great attorney general here. | ||
| And please put up the social media. | ||
| Let's make sure that we get 22,000 people follow our great attorney general, James Uthmeyer, here in the state of Florida. | ||
| We are going to bump those numbers up. | ||
| The future looks very, very bright. | ||
| Thank you very much, AG. | ||
| Thanks for having us. | ||
| As always. | ||
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| Thank you, sir. | ||
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| A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Ford, Natans, and Isfahan. | ||
| Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. | ||
| Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. | ||
| Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. | ||
| Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. | ||
| Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. | ||
| If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. | ||
| For 40 years, Iran has been saying, death to America, death to Israel. | ||
| They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. | ||
| That was their specialty. | ||
| We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate. | ||
| In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani. | ||
| I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. | ||
| It will not continue. | ||
| I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Phoebe Netanyahu. | ||
| We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before. | ||
| And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. | ||
| I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done. | ||
| And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those Magnificent machines tonight, and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades. | ||
| Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity. | ||
| I hope that's so. | ||
| I also want to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisenkane, spectacular general, and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack. | ||
| With all of that being said, this cannot continue. | ||
| There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. | ||
| Remember, there are many targets left. | ||
| Tonight's was the most difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal. | ||
| But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill. | ||
| Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes. | ||
| There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close. | ||
| There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago. | ||
| Tomorrow, General Kane, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, will have a press conference at 8 a.m. | ||
| at the Pentagon. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I just want to thank God. | ||
| That's how we should do our verse of the day, ladies and gentlemen, every single day. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| Is it as great as our next guest? | ||
| I'm not exactly sure. | ||
| The man of the myth and the legend, the great Matt Gates, who needs absolutely zero introduction, but I'll give him one anyway. | ||
| He was a congressman from the Panhandle here in Florida, what many people call the Redneck Riviera, the Emerald Coast, one of the most beautiful places on earth. | ||
| He's also the host of One America News. | ||
| A brand new bombshell hit show called The Matt Gates Show. | ||
| And he joins us live now. | ||
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| Matt, what's going on here, man? | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| What a fit, dude. | ||
| This is great. | ||
| I'm out here in Southern California, man. | ||
| This is how people roll. | ||
| It's the cozy coast. | ||
| Yo, you got like the Kendall Jenner hat on. | ||
| You know, you remember that Pepsi ad with Kendall Jenner? | ||
| I'm rooting for it. | ||
| And you know what, Benny? | ||
| In that site you just played of President Trump, he's rooting for it too. | ||
| I think there are a lot of people out there who are bloodthirsty for regime change war, and they hope that somehow at age 78, President Trump has abandoned his reticence to do those things. | ||
| But if you really know President Trump and you listen to what he's saying there, he does not want this to continue and he sees these strikes akin to the Solimani strike. | ||
| So there is precedent for the United States having a limited engagement, coming home and not devolving into a regime change war. | ||
| And the view I've expressed on my program, and it's drawn me a little bit of criticism, but I don't think Israel is in this fight for denuclearization. | ||
| Like you already have Israel's main voice in the United States, the shrill and shrieking Mark Levin, saying that we need to give nuclear weapons to Ukraine. | ||
| So we're not like against proliferation as a doctrine or a theory. | ||
| They're just using denuclearization as a veneer for their real goal of regime change. | ||
| Now, why would Israel want regime change in Iran? | ||
| I don't believe it's because they think what's coming next after the Ayatollah is like a new Jeffersonian republic that's going to be eager to sign the Abraham Accords. | ||
| I think the chaos is the point. | ||
| I think Israel has noticed the fact that on President Trump's visit to the region, he did not stop there. | ||
| He went to these emerging, rising Middle Eastern markets. | ||
| And more and more business people are saying, look, it's Riyadh, it's Abu Dhabi, it's Dubai, it's Doha that matter as much as New York and London. | ||
| And that is unsettling to a lot of folks in Israel. | ||
| And I think that the refugee crisis that would follow regime change in Iran is something nobody has planned for. | ||
| Tens of millions of people moving across the Middle East, starving, desperate, primed for terrorism. | ||
| It would topple governments and cause sectarian violence in Iran, Iraq, Syria. | ||
| And that's the point. | ||
| Because as these emerging Middle Eastern monarchies are trying to say, we are the capital markets. | ||
| Come here for technology, investment, sports. | ||
| Israel wants that to be a place of bloodshed and violence and chaos. | ||
| That might be good for some of the elites in Israeli society. | ||
| It's not good for everyday people in Israel. | ||
| It's sure as heck not good for everyday people in America. | ||
| So, you know, like I don't pretend to be a member of Congress who's on the Foreign Affairs Committee, right? | ||
| And who has been read in on all these things. | ||
| This isn't really a diplomatic show. | ||
| I'm not like, I went to community college, Matt. | ||
| I'm not here to pronounce every single name inside of the Iranian leadership. | ||
| But you made a point that I think really stuck with a lot of people and it went viral on our page. | ||
| And I know it went viral at One American News, where you said, hey, listen, if we're about denuclearization, then will Israel give up its nuclear program? | ||
| I'm not sure anyone's ever said that before. | ||
| You had the balls to say it. | ||
| Could you explain? | ||
| I think every country should give up their nuclear program. | ||
| I wish every country in the world would denuclearize. | ||
| And by the way, so does President Trump. | ||
| President Trump hates nuclear weapon. | ||
| He literally calls it the N-word. | ||
| And so I think that there is a desire for peace in this president that runs contrary to more nuclear weapons everywhere. | ||
| But here's what I take exception with. | ||
| The nerve of Israel to try to draw the United States into a war over a secret nuclear weapons program when they have a secret nuclear weapons program is astounding. | ||
| And I don't believe Israel's nuclear program is really a threat to anyone. | ||
| But if we're Going to have broad anti-prolif efforts, they should apply to everyone. | ||
| And really, I said that, Benny, because it's revealing that this isn't about denuclearization. | ||
| That is just a fiction. | ||
| Now, I think it's that for President Trump, but you're going to see very quickly here how the Trump and Israeli goals are not aligned. | ||
| And by the way, if you don't believe me, there was already an effort by Israel to execute the supreme leader that Trump had to rein them back on, right? | ||
| So I don't think it's a credible argument anymore that this is about denuclearization for Israel. | ||
| And the point I made about their own nuclear program, I think, showcased that hypocrisy. | ||
| Yeah, dude. | ||
| I mean, let me tell you what, man. | ||
| Just by sharing your clip and going wrong, you wouldn't believe. | ||
| Well, maybe you would. | ||
| You wouldn't believe who we heard from. | ||
| Just by sharing that clip. | ||
| I mean, it's wild. | ||
| Which, I mean, I don't have any dog in this fight. | ||
| I don't hate Israel. | ||
| I don't hate Iran. | ||
| I don't want war. | ||
| I actually like love America and I would like to like maybe zoom I don't hate Israel either, but like, I think you have to be able to be honest with your friends. | ||
| Maybe, yeah. | ||
| Zoom out late. | ||
| A friend is not someone you just accede to every one of their demands. | ||
| A friend is someone you could say, no, you're choosing a suboptimal path that is bad for you and bad for us and bad for the world. | ||
| And so you need to not do that. | ||
| Does that mean you hate Israel? | ||
| But what I fear, Benny, is that we are very closely entering the era where if you do not support U.S.-led regime change in Iran, they're going to call you, you know, weak. | ||
| They're going to call you a never-Trumper. | ||
| They're going to call you an anti-Semite and maybe a war criminal. | ||
| And I just think you can have reasonable disagreements with the government of Israel and still love the people of Israel, love the Jewish people, but not want to go fight a war with Iran over sort of a phony rationale. | ||
| We spent the morning highlighting the Trump doctrine, which the Trump doctrine at its core seems to be very surgical, very smart, very strong, shit talk, and then strikes, whether it's with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which led to Donald Trump entering a literal war zone. | ||
| America's still at war with North Korea. | ||
| There's no peace treaty signed. | ||
| It was like amazing. | ||
| This is one of the best moments in history, okay, period. | ||
| In American political history, this is one of the best moments. | ||
| Trump should have won, in a fair world, Trump would have won the peace prize for this alone, all right? | ||
| And this was after Donald Trump like roasting Kim Jong-un, Soleimani, the destruction of ISIS. | ||
| Nobody can argue with these things. | ||
| And that seems to be the Trump doctrine here. | ||
| What we don't want is obviously things to spiral out of control and get to this point. | ||
| Here's a polling this morning, Matt, saying that 95% of the country does not want a war with Iran. | ||
| And we just don't want this to somehow spiral into like being on the wrong side of the American people. | ||
| It's such a vast chasm here. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| There's always a lot of cheerleading for these regime change wars on the front end. | ||
| Like remember back in the early 2000s, a lot of the people that we admired and looked up to in politics, they thought, well, we really like President Bush and we think he's really treated unfairly by the media. | ||
| So we're just kind of going to have his back through this. | ||
| And George W. Bush made a big fat mistake dragging us into a war with Iraq. | ||
| And President Trump brilliantly rescued us from the failures of neoconservatism. | ||
| And I think like whenever you've got a policy that's got like Mike Pence and David Frum and like the Lincoln Project and Liz Cheney and John Bolton all excited, I mean, that's got to give you a little bit of pause, right? | ||
| Like we didn't go win this election to deliver John Bolton the foreign policy he wanted, did we? | ||
| Was that why we won? | ||
| You should never be on the same side as like being excited with the Lincoln Project. | ||
| That's always going to, that's always going to land you in jail. | ||
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| And so I just, I think that you're right that the Trump doctrine is sort of like stick and move, right? | ||
| And it's not this excessive entanglement. | ||
| But this is a very dangerous time because right now the world is watching really two things. | ||
| One, what is Iran's next move? | ||
| And they better not kill any Americans. | ||
| Otherwise, this really does escalate. | ||
| But it's also what is Israel's next move? | ||
| Like I put a poll on my X account. | ||
| Like, do you believe Israel will now execute the Ayatollah? | ||
| Tens of thousands of people voted. | ||
| More than half of them believe that Israel will. | ||
| So then what happens, right? | ||
| What is the planning that has been done in the Congress for the day after the Ayatollah is executed? | ||
| There are 13 different ethnic groups in Iran. | ||
| There are warring factions kind of among Iranian generals. | ||
| And so I have asked a number of my former colleagues on the Armed Services Committee, on the Foreign Affairs Committee, tell me about the planning that has gone into the day after. | ||
| Universally, they say there is no plan for Iran post-regime change. | ||
| So just I'm old enough to remember that you shouldn't go into a Middle East regime change war with absolutely no plan just because Israel says there are weapons of mass destruction. | ||
| We've already got that bloody merit badge. | ||
| So you know President Trump really well, obviously. | ||
| You know the team really well. | ||
| You know, Hegseth and Vance, Pulsi, RFK, like these are people who have really like spoken out against this kind of stuff. | ||
| And Hegseth and Vance, their great credit, took up arms and fought for our country when our country called them to. | ||
| And they've called these wars idiotic, forever wars. | ||
| I mean, they're vice president in charge of the Pentagon. | ||
| I have a lot of faith. | ||
| You know, I have a lot of faith in the, and the President Trump chose them, right? | ||
| So like in the first administration, John Bolton was part of the administration. | ||
| In this administration, you have people like Tulsi and Vance and Hegseth. | ||
| And that's Trump's choice, right? | ||
| And so it seems like of all times to trust President Trump's thought process here, like we're in an even better position than we were in administration one. | ||
| The first thing Donald Trump ever told me, and I'm not, I'm not nearly as close to him as you are, Matt, but first thing he ever told me in New Hampshire in 2015 was no more new wars, the end of the Bush doctrine. | ||
| He yelled that at me out of the window of a moving car. | ||
| Like, this is deep in the guy's bones. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And so I guess my question is this. | ||
| How do we prevent escalation? | ||
| You know, how do you prevent this from being from spiraling? | ||
| Cause I just worry about this. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| The way to prevent escalation is Uranian Israel, And then we have to construct some sort of face-saving theater with Iran, right? | ||
| Like, let Iran go lob some missiles into some sand pit that's somewhere near a U.S. military base, not hurt anybody, and then allow them to claim some sort of phony retaliation. | ||
| That's what happened after Soleimani. | ||
| Like, you heard President Trump reference the precedent that he wanted to activate. | ||
| So that's how you deal with Iran. | ||
| But then Trump has to reiterate to Israel that they can't just go execute the supreme leader and then walk away. | ||
| Like Mark Thiessen, who's not a high IQ person, who was in the Bush administration, just posted on Twitter that you don't have to buy it after you break it. | ||
| That Colin Powell was wrong. | ||
| You can just break it and walk away. | ||
| What an insane thing to say. | ||
| That puts Americans at risk of more of a permissive environment for terrorists. | ||
| We do not want that to happen. | ||
| And I think you're so right that the number one thing that is different about this administration as opposed to our first term is that the cabinet is fully aligned. | ||
| They all are supporting President Trump. | ||
| And so you don't have to like spend your day wondering whether or not Jeff Sessions was going to drop the ball or Jim Mattis was going to undermine the president. | ||
| Like you have a really, really great team there. | ||
| It's got flashbacks, dude. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And by the way, by the way, whenever anybody like wants to offer a criticism of Pam Bondi or Pete Exeth, I'm like, do you remember the last ones that we had in these roles? | ||
| Like, you're mad that like Pam Bondi hasn't arrested half of the Democrat Congress yet when like literally, you know, Bill Barr was out there saying Donald Trump was somehow culpable for January 6th. | ||
| So I think that we've made a lot of progress. | ||
| I'm really proud of this team. | ||
| And I think you're right. | ||
| That has to give us, that has to give us some sense of calm. | ||
| But at the end of the day, the only way I see us getting off of the path to another forever war in Iran is the pure strength of President Trump to deter Iran while at the same time restraining Israel. | ||
| That is the dual fact that saves us. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| It's because nobody voted for it, man. | ||
| Like just, it's just like literally the opposite of what everyone voted for. | ||
| And everybody's looking at like where you are, where you reside right now, which I believe is like the San Diego, but definitely the Southern California area and being like, yeah, deploying the Marines to protect American cities, that's what we voted for. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And I don't know that there was ever a call for this on the campaign trail. | ||
| And we have to look at our coalition, Benny. | ||
| I mean, you're very smart about this. | ||
| You're exactly right. | ||
| Like, if you would have told us when we were in high school, college, that the under 30 crowd would be the best performing demographic for a Republican president, we would not have believed that. | ||
| That would have been out of the realm. | ||
| And thanks to, I would say, Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, like there's some very charismatic figures who have built this durable coalition of young people that could deliver victories for Republicans for the next 40 years. | ||
| And the greatest threat to what Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk and J.D. Vance, yourself, have built, the greatest threat to that is to demoralize a generation of young men with yet another regime change war in the Middle East. | ||
| We should not do that. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Because who goes and fights it, right? | ||
| Who goes and fights it? | ||
| We all do, you know? | ||
| Who goes and gives up their lives? | ||
| 10,000 Americans. | ||
| Hex X has to kick the transsexuals out of the military, so we can't even send them to the front lines anymore. | ||
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| Okay, well, let's look at the front lines. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Here's Matt on the front lines in El Salvador. | ||
| It has to be, right? | ||
| Everyone thought this was AI. | ||
| Can you confirm to us this wasn't AI? | ||
| No, that was a photo I took down in Saccat prison in El Salvador. | ||
| And let me tell you something. | ||
| The president down there, Naeb Bukele, he knows what's up. | ||
| He knows what time it is. | ||
| He knows that if you confront the criminal element and if you create an ecosystem where law-abiding people can thrive, it is the natural human condition to succeed. | ||
| And so there in that facility, there are tens of thousands of MS-13 18th Street gang members who have like thousand-year sentences, who will never get out. | ||
| But what locking up tens of thousands has done, it has freed a country of 6 million people. | ||
| I am so bullish on the future of President Bukele and El Salvador, and certainly their security posture has made that success possible. | ||
| They're rebooting the Matrix. | ||
| You now live in Southern California. | ||
| Many people were putting this together and saying you're going to star. | ||
| Hardly, man. | ||
| I'm just here. | ||
| I'm just here on a side. | ||
| Florida, I'm still a Florida man. | ||
| Florida's the home, but the great folks at One America News have a headquarters out here, and I love making the Mac Gage show here when I can. | ||
| My man. | ||
| Okay, so really quickly here, you made a huge amount of news the last time you were on the show. | ||
| Last time you were on the show, there was hurricanes hitting Florida. | ||
| You came and I was in the panhandle. | ||
| You just came and we just kind of like spit fire, like did just did it live, right? | ||
| Just on like a back patio. | ||
| And dude, that clip has gone so thermonuclear of you saying, listen, I think that they let a foreign government go kill Epstein. | ||
| And I think this goes way deeper than anybody ever thought and that America allowed it. | ||
| And to a man, Matt, we continue to put up this, whether it's Dershowitz or whether it's members of the first administration, we put up this article of Alex Acosta backing you up saying that Epstein was Intel. | ||
| And nobody's been able to explain it. | ||
| No one. | ||
| No one's been able to explain it. | ||
| Since you're not in Congress anymore, I thought we might as well just take a shot in the dark. | ||
| Still seems to be a prescient issue. | ||
| What the hell is going on here, Matt? | ||
| Well, at the time when Epstein was involved in these activities, there was a strong desire to keep the United States engaged in the regime change war in Iraq and to keep the UK engaged in that war as well. | ||
| And so one of the things that intelligence does in the United States and around the world is get people in compromising situations and then use those compromising situations to control behavior. | ||
| And like you look at some of the people who have had great proximity to Epstein and it's people who are prominent in business, academia, politics, and that was an op that like was lather rinse repeat elsewhere. | ||
| So I think one of the reasons why there is reticence with some in every U.S. government to really tell the truth that Epstein was but an operator for a foreign government, they don't want to do that because they don't want to have to acknowledge the extent to which the United States does similar stuff. | ||
| I'm not saying Epstein Stuff, but U.S. intelligence absolutely leverages compromise over people in other countries in order to get them to do what we want. | ||
| And I'm not criticizing that, but the problem is once you start peeling the layers of the onion back on Epstein, it starts to expose the modus operandi that is used by MI6, Massad, CIA, Indian intelligence, you name it. | ||
| So that's what do you think was going on here? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, obviously we've covered it. | ||
| The Mossad, we've covered extensively the Mossad connection, you know, gone through as much as we can add nauseum on this program. | ||
| And this has clearly been a hand grenade. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Like, just a real quick follow-up on this, Matt. | ||
| This is like a hand grenade that like everyone was on our show promising like day one, we're going to show you here. | ||
| Here's a good example. | ||
| Here's a box of hard drives that they found in Epstein's house. | ||
| Wow, look at all these hard drives. | ||
| They're marked evidence, Matt. | ||
| That has an evidence tape on it. | ||
| FBI special agent in charge says we didn't put that evidence tape there. | ||
| That's Jeffrey Epstein putting the evidence tape on all these box of hard drives. | ||
| Haven't seen any of it. | ||
| And it's like this hand grenade that was handed to the Trump administration that the pin was pulled and like no one's been able to figure it out. | ||
| Well, I think there are probably some of your viewers who would just say, well, create a website and load all that stuff up there and let the internet sleuths work it out. | ||
| But let me just posit a countervailing theory, right? | ||
| If the Justice Department and the FBI become in the business of publishing investigative records from cases that were never tried, like Jeffrey Epstein was never tried, then what is the limiting principle on that? | ||
| Because you know what would happen if Democrats took control and your show continues to blow up, they're going to go and find some curated piece of evidence and they're going to cast it out of context and say, Benny Johnson was an agent of the Russian government because he, you know, we all know that. | ||
| That'd be crazy if that happened, Matt. | ||
| That'd be wild. | ||
| But how? | ||
| Right? | ||
| What a fiction. | ||
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| And so, but, but you could see how the process of selectively leaking investigative materials on cases that were never subjected to rigorous evidentiary review, cross-examination, admissibility standards, chain of custody. | ||
| If you just allow all that to flood into the public square, then I do wonder, like, is it just every time a government switches power, do they go find anything derogatory? | ||
| Or they could even be miscast as derogatory regarding anyone and say, well, you know, aha, Benny Johnson is actually Vladimir Putin. | ||
| We've never seen them in the same place at the same time. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's like mission impossible. | ||
| Pull the rubber, you know, skin mask off. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I can get that. | ||
| They did this on Trump. | ||
| Well, listen, like, they did this on Trump. | ||
| I mean, how much, how much discovery do they have on Trump? | ||
| Right. | ||
| So, like, I guess you're right. | ||
| Like, what, I suppose, what is the limiting principle there? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the, you know, a lot of these people are like dead or dying. | ||
| I mean, Bill Richardson, George Mitchell, like, they're not alive anymore. | ||
| So what is your advice in this moment, Matt, to President Trump? | ||
| Like, what, like, what, you know, considering everything that he went through, like, I'm just sitting here going, you know, the guy didn't take a bullet to the head, you know, and build this coalition just to like, just to shatter it to pieces. | ||
| Like, he didn't do that. | ||
| And that has become like the main goal of this program. | ||
| And the main efforting of all of my energy is going to be like doing my very level-headed best to keep together the good energy, positive vibes of the MAGA coalition that is a winning coalition and winning coalition for the next 100 years, for the rest of my life. | ||
| By the way, since Trump has been elected, has that ever been a harder job than this morning? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And why? | ||
| Because these young men don't want to support regime change in Iran, right? | ||
| I mean, isn't that a lot of young men watching shows? | ||
| They're not for this. | ||
| They are concerned when they see this. | ||
| And so, I mean, my advice to President Trump is to be true to himself. | ||
| President Trump has excellent instincts. | ||
| He does not want this to be an extensive engagement. | ||
| I could tell you that based on the conversations I've had with him just over the last few days. | ||
| President Trump does not want to drag the United States into another forever war. | ||
| The issue is you've got to very delicately thread the needle where you don't create a permission structure for an Iranian response or an Israeli execution of leadership that brings you to that end state without you having control over it. | ||
| So I trust President Trump's hand on the tiller. | ||
| You talk about the people around him. | ||
| But one thing that's unique about President Trump, he does not constrain the inputs like to just his cabinet members, right? | ||
| Like Trump will take a phone call, an input from friends, from experts, business leaders. | ||
| And I do worry. | ||
| From guys in Pepsi hats. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, just random dudes like me. | ||
| But I do worry that like the crowd that wants him to fight Israel's forever war against Iran, they are so relentless and persistent in their communications to President Trump. | ||
| And so I would advise the president to really dig into the quality of his own instincts rather than accede to the quantity of demands from those who I think are giving him poor advice to enter this war. | ||
| Yes, really sound advice. | ||
| And just prying here, and I know that this is going to be privileged. | ||
| And the last question for you, Matt, but how have those conversations gone with the president? | ||
| And can you give us like a 30,000 foot like sort of perspective on this? | ||
| Yeah, you know, I mean, I don't really do readouts on that stuff, but what I could tell you is he is upbeat. | ||
| He's very focused. | ||
| He's very dialed in on this. | ||
| And he is taking a lot of advice and input. | ||
| And I think he's the best guy to synthesize it. | ||
| The most important thing for your viewers, and I think for his administration is he wants to make this a repeat of the Soleimani strike, not a repeat of the Iraq war. | ||
| That is the central thing that comes out of our discussion. | ||
| And we need the policies to be able to provide him that decision-making space. | ||
| It rings like a bell, Matt. | ||
| Rings like a bell. | ||
| And, you know, I just freaking love the work that you're doing on your show. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| We always remind everybody, you're one of the, I think you might have been like the first person I ever met in Washington, D.C. And it's been great to watch all your than like some of your speeches from the house floor and some of the haymakers and Moltoff cocktails you threw like in the house. | ||
| There I go. | ||
| Being a Russian agent again. | ||
| But like, yeah, like I didn't think I could like it more. | ||
| But man, you're doing, you're doing God's work, dude. | ||
| Awesome, man. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Best of luck to you, brother. | ||
| Everybody, follow Matt, obviously. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| And millions and millions of Americans already do. | ||
| And will he be Neo in the next Matrix? | ||
| We'll wait and see. | ||
| Godspeed, dude. | ||
| Take care, man. | ||
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Take care, man. | |
| What a rowdy show. | ||
| What an exciting time. | ||
| Because what you need to do in moments like this is to have a broad range of thinking. | ||
| And so you need to hear from all sides. | ||
| You need to listen to people. | ||
| And it sounds like that's actually exactly what the president is doing right now. | ||
| Not, sounds like. | ||
| That's what we know. | ||
| We can see that Donald Trump's having lunch with Steve Bannon. | ||
| And we know that President Trump is taking calls from Charlie Kirk, and obviously from Matt Gates and so on. | ||
| And the president didn't take a bullet to walk in there in the first hundred days and then like atomize MAGA. | ||
| That's not that like what? | ||
| Stop freaking out. | ||
| Everyone chill, you know? | ||
| Like let the man cook. | ||
| And the people who have let him cook, it's amazing. | ||
| You can go back to the news articles from 2018. | ||
| Trump is going to inspire, Trump is going to get Kim Jong-un to nuke us. | ||
| That's what they were saying. | ||
| That's what so many people were raging, including some people that claimed to be Trump supporters. | ||
| They were raging about this. | ||
| Trump's going to inspire nuclear Holocaust with North Korea. | ||
| That's what they were saying. | ||
| And what did we end up getting? | ||
| Trump yeets Solomani, and everyone was saying the same thing. | ||
| We're all going to die. | ||
| We're all going to die. | ||
| Trump destroyed everything. | ||
| He ruined it all. | ||
| Like, really, these people have really dark and really broken personal lives. | ||
| They're very unhappy people. | ||
| I know some of them personally. | ||
| They're unhappy. | ||
| They're miserable people. | ||
| And don't listen to people that, especially don't listen to men who have that kind of strange, estrogenetic, feminine, feline, passive-aggressive energy, right? | ||
| The men who could never fight wars themselves who are sitting there banging the table, screaming that we need to send as many young American men off to die in the sand as possible. | ||
| Like, don't listen to that. | ||
| But also don't listen to the doomers either, right? | ||
| Oh, Trump's betrayed us. | ||
| It's all over. | ||
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It's over. | |
| I wake up. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| Don't, don't, blackpill, okay? | ||
| We're not blackpillars here. | ||
| We've stuck through it on so much. | ||
| We've like been through so much together. | ||
| And it's such an honor, ladies and gentlemen, to be able to do this program through like President Trump assassination attempts, like to be able to steady the ship through moments like that and indictments. | ||
| Think about what we just went through the last couple of years, right? | ||
| This show's only like three years old. | ||
| And we've been through like hell and back. | ||
| Mar-a-Lago raids. | ||
| That was happening live on the show, right? | ||
| Like, can you get a lower point in feds, guns drawn with a kill order going through Trump's house, going through Milania's closet and Baron's bedroom, getting his Nintendo Switch, checking his high score? | ||
| No, man. | ||
| No. | ||
| No. | ||
| We went through the darkness together and we're going to come out into the light together. | ||
| And we're going to do that through staying strong. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to stay strong. | ||
| I want your financial situation to stay strong. | ||
| Unfortunately, especially in times like these, Americans' finances are tough. | ||
| Credit card debt is higher than it's ever been. | ||
| My friends in American Financing can help you out. | ||
| The rising costs of inflation, Jerome Powell continued to have interest rates. | ||
| We're not going to change interest rates. | ||
| Well, inflation has been cut in half, but they're still not going to change interest rates. | ||
| Stuff's expensive, man. | ||
| Stuff's expensive. | ||
| And it's crippled a lot of American families. | ||
| American families are running higher credit card debts than ever. | ||
| And those interest rates are straight up criminal. | ||
| This is math that nobody wants to face. | ||
| It's costing people a lot. | ||
| But here's the truth. | ||
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| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Exciting times. | ||
| Let's end on a high note. | ||
| All right? | ||
| Let's end on a high note. | ||
| Freaking coolest thing ever. | ||
| Not the coolest thing ever. | ||
| Okay, let me couch this correctly. | ||
| In Wayne, Michigan, there was a psychotic gunman who attacked a church. | ||
| This was a Christian church that had little children playing in it. | ||
| They were doing vacation Bible school in the church. | ||
| And these little kids were setting ducks. | ||
| This gunman had a, I think like an AR-15 duck. | ||
| So, I mean, you could have really. | ||
| Okay, so you could have done a lot of semi-auto-pistol. | ||
| You could have done a lot of damage. | ||
| Little kids, you could have done a lot of damage. | ||
| Got a little list. | ||
| The hand of God. | ||
| The hand of God protecting our children. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| As a father, like just sends a children on my spine. | ||
| The hand of God was protecting our children. | ||
| First thing that happens is a deacon at the church noticed this individual with a firearm and decided to hop in his F-150 truck and run him over. | ||
| The next thing that happened is church security shot him dead. | ||
| And he injured no child. | ||
| There was no loss of life except for the Christian-hating madman, sociopath, evil demon. | ||
| The security guard did get shot in the leg, but he's expected to make a full recovery. | ||
| Some of the parishioners inside of the church are quoted to have been said, evil came to our church today, but God was already here protecting us. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is a this needs to be our prayer right now. | ||
| We need God's protection. | ||
| We always do. | ||
| And we need to remember that it's very, very real. | ||
| And that you get down on your knees and you humbly pray. | ||
| We pray every single day. | ||
| Make us fast and accurate, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Our verse of the day protections now. | ||
| From Romans 12:8 as much as life in you to live peacefully with all men right now, live peacefully at all men. | ||
| There is so much energy that is bent in the nature of God. | ||
| Peace is something that is bound constantly throughout the scriptures. | ||
| Like you want to live peace, you want to live peacefully. | ||
| There's the descriptions of Satan. | ||
| Lie, kill, and destroy. | ||
| Steal, kill, and destroy. | ||
| Like, that is the opposite of peace. | ||
| People, oftentimes in war, someone will tell you they're on the sides of the angels. | ||
| And the truth is that most of the time it's just kind of two demons fighting each other. | ||
| And that includes a lot of conflicts that America's been in. | ||
| We don't have time to go through all of the various wars throughout the last hundreds of years that America was either dragged into or started themselves or psyoped into by evil forces inside or outside of our government. | ||
| Peace is the side of the evil. | ||
| So let's go for that, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| That's what this show is all about. | ||
| Pray for President Trump right now and pray for the leadership of this nation and for peace. | ||
| And know this. | ||
| No matter what happens, A Martian with us, we're going to win in the end, right? | ||
| It's your boy Benny. | ||
| In the end, we win. | ||
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| Who's your go daddy? | ||
| Oh, that's gonna leave a mark. | ||
| Benny shows where the truth gonna be. | ||
| Faith and freedom on your TV screen. | ||
| Stand up strong, battle through the night. | ||
| The Benny shows here, bringing liberty to life. | ||
| From the speeches to debates, Benny's sharp like a blade. | ||
| Cover through the lies, once the truth cascade. | ||
| With the warrior's heart, this man never fades. | ||
| You know it's primetime when Betty invades. | ||
| From saving the nation, the stories untold. | ||
| The Benny shows us dorm, see the truth unfold. | ||
| Stay in the loop, let freedom take hold. | ||
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| Stand up strong, battle through the night. | ||
| The Benny shows here, bringing liberty to life. | ||
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| Bringing liberty to life. | ||
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| From the speeches to the baits, Benny's sharp like a blade. | ||
| Cut me through the lies, watch the truth cascade with the warrior's heart. | ||
| This man never fades. | ||
| You know it's primetime when Benny invades. | ||
| From saving the nation to stories untold. | ||
| The Benny shows a storm, see the truth unfold. | ||
| Stay in the loop, let freedom take hold. | ||
| Salting all the lips, soul never sold. | ||
| It's the Benny show where the truth gon' be. | ||
| Faith and freedom on your TV screen. | ||
| Stand up strong, battle through the night. | ||
| The Benny shows here, bringing liberty to light. | ||
| Bringing liberty to light. |
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