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| It's the Kennedy administration going back and forth with activists like Martin Luther King Jr. and others about what to do next. | ||
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We see a right-wing insurgency. | |
| George Wallace becomes one of the pivotal figures of the year. | ||
| And people like William F. Buckley in the National Review are engaged in a war of ideas with people like James Baldwin, who becomes the best-selling author and really perhaps the most pivotal figure in the entire year. | ||
| So it's really an extraordinary year. | ||
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| In a nation divided, a rare moment of unity. | ||
| This fall, C-SPAN presents Ceasefire, where the shouting stops and the conversation begins in a town where partisan fighting prevails. | ||
| One table, two leaders, one goal, to find common ground. | ||
| This fall, ceasefire on the network that doesn't take sides, only on C-SPAN. | ||
| This story is leading the news all over the world, including on the front pages of newspapers here in the United States. | ||
| Here's the New York Times. | ||
| U.S. attacks Iran's nuclear sites. | ||
| B-2s drop payload of bombs as nation enters Israel's war. | ||
| The United States dropped some of the largest bombs in its arsenal on three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, President Trump announced on Saturday night, bringing the U.S. military directly into Israel's war with Iran and once again into the battles for influence in the Middle East. | ||
| We have completed our very successful attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran, the president wrote on Truth Social, his social media site. | ||
| He added that a full payload of bombs had been dropped on Fordo, the heavily fortified underground facility where Iran has produced near-bomb-grade uranium, leading to fears it could be on the cusp of building nuclear weapons. | ||
| All planes are safely on their way home, Mr. Trump wrote. | ||
| The Washington Post also has front-page coverage of this story, going on to report, the president did not immediately say what kind of aircraft was used, but the strikes came after a fleet of B-2 spirit bombers departed Whitman Air Force Base in Missouri overnight Friday into Saturday, a U.S. official familiar with the issue said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. | ||
| The assault followed days of mixed messaging from the Trump administration. | ||
| The president had warned all of Tehran to evacuate, demanded the Iranian government's unconditional surrender, and threatened that its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would be targeted unless demands were met. | ||
| Trump shifted again Thursday, saying he would wait as long as two weeks before deciding to attack, apparently signaling that he was intent on giving more time for diplomacy to work. | ||
| Now, here's President Trump's full address from last night. | ||
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| Thank you very much. | ||
| A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Ford, Natanch, and Esfahan. | ||
| 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 Bibi 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 Raisincane, 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. | ||
| Now, earlier this morning, Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Aragaki, held a press conference in Istanbul responding to the attacks and accusing the United States of betraying diplomacy. | ||
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The Islamic Republic of Iran calls on the Security Council to convene an emergency session to unequivocally condemn the criminal act of aggression by the United States against Iran and to hold the administration in Washington accountable for its violations of fundamental principles of United Nations Charter and of norms of international law. | |
| The responsibility of the IAEA and its Director General, who through evidence by us in favor of warmongering parties, paved the way for the current violence and bloodshed, is now clearer than ever. | ||
| We call on the IAA Board of Governors to immediately convene and carry out its legal responsibility in response to the dangerous U.S. attack on Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities, all of which have been under the agency's full safeguards and monitoring. | ||
| The world must not forget that it was the United States which, in the midst of a process to forge a diplomatic outcome, betrayed diplomacy by supporting the genocidal Israeli regime's launch of an illegal war of aggression on the Iranian nation. | ||
| Not content with such malain actions, the United States itself has now also opted for a dangerous military operation and aggression against the people of Iran. | ||
| In doing so, the U.S. administration holds sole and full responsibility for the consequences of its actions, including the Islamic Republic of Iran's right to self-defense under the principles of the United Charter. | ||
| In accordance with the UN Charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its security, interests, and people. | ||
| President Trump also commented on Truth Social last night. | ||
| In regards to any potential retaliation, any retaliation by Iran against the United States of America will be met with force far greater than what was witnessed tonight. | ||
| Thank you, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. | ||
| Now, President Trump mentioned in his comments last night about that press conference coming up at 8 a.m. Eastern this morning. | ||
| That is going to be a news conference scheduled with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chair Dan Kane. | ||
| We'll be airing that here on C-SPAN. | ||
| We'll also be carrying it on C-SPANNOW and C-SPANRA and C-SPAN.org. | ||
| Let's go to your call, starting with Vincent in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Vincent. | ||
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Thanks, Tim. | |
| I don't know when I started a listener to this, but there's a big Satan and a little Satan, and I'm getting it wrong with Satan. | ||
| Is Israel the big Satan or is the United States still big Satan? | ||
| Okay, let's go to Jeffrey in Greensboro, North Carolina, on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Jeffrey. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Thank you for taking the call. | ||
| Please allow me to address a couple of things. | ||
| It's a very sad day. | ||
| It's a very sad day worldwide. | ||
| No one should be praising this man that's sitting in the White House. | ||
| And absolutely, the atrocities that's still going on with Gaza. | ||
| You don't hear about it no more. | ||
| Those people are dying and starving. | ||
| They have a right to live. | ||
| There are circumstances that surround all of this that we now take the word of a political opponent that can say for years, Benjamin Aladdin has been saying that for years, that they had nuclear capability going way back 20 years, the same speech over and over. | ||
| It is just sad and disappointment that there is no diplomacy now. | ||
| It's just going by being like bullies. | ||
| You might as well call America bullies and remember this. | ||
| And I don't say this and wish this for our country because innocent lives, just like them, is going to get caught up and swept up here in this country one day. | ||
| God is almighty will oversee the wrong that's being done. | ||
| And for people to think that we had a right without getting definitive confirmation to just do that, that is horrible, despicable, disgraceful, and we have so much. | ||
| In eight months, he's been in office. | ||
| What's going on still here in this country is absurd. | ||
| It's wrong on every level. | ||
| And if anybody does support that, you really need to look at yourself deeply as a human being because they have a right until definitively know the facts or you saw it. | ||
| We heard that once before. | ||
| Weapons of mass destruction. | ||
| Didn't we hear that before? | ||
| By one of our great presidents? | ||
| Didn't we hear that? | ||
| And what we do? | ||
| Invade another country for what, really, the prophecy of the oil. | ||
| So you got to question everything they're doing. | ||
| And what they already done is set in motion something very dangerous that is going to come. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Sue is in Southbury, Connecticut on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Sue. | ||
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Hi, good morning. | |
| Thank you for taking my call. | ||
| I just want to say myself that I look at things like a timeline. | ||
| And I think back to Trump when he was at the G7. | ||
| You know, the whole time he was there, he was leaving. | ||
| So already, I think there was things being planned, and diplomacy was not one of them. | ||
| I don't think Congress is informed until after the fact. | ||
| I do believe a gang of eight, the Democrats, were not informed of this either. | ||
| I don't think there's any intelligence that the U.S. has that wasn't supplied from Israel. | ||
| So whose intelligence were we relying on in doing this? | ||
| Are we having our own? | ||
| We are relying on our foreign influence from Israel. | ||
| And I believe Israel has wanted to do this for a very long time. | ||
| And it does, again, it does take the burning question of why is Gaza still being bombed? | ||
| Why are people still being killed? | ||
| And it deflects totally now because now we could just say, oh, it's Iran. | ||
| It's a deflection. | ||
| And it's sad because people are dying. | ||
| And it's just chaos. | ||
| This is just creating a hot mess. | ||
| And to say this was an accessible mission, they have nothing to document that. | ||
| They're just saying we bombed these areas with our big, beautiful bombs and saying, oh, we're pretty sure, yeah, that this was successful. | ||
| I mean, I think they should give time to see and show some reporting that there's an actual outcome that benefited this action because it was not a legal action. | ||
| They never went through Congress. | ||
| I believe the president is supposed to do that. | ||
| So, Sue, I do want to read a bit from some reaction that we have from Congress. | ||
| House Speaker Mike Johnson posted on X, the President made the right call and did what he needed to do. | ||
| Leaders in Congress were aware of the urgency of this situation, and the Commander-in-Chief evaluated that the imminent danger outweighed the time it would take for Congress to act. | ||
| The world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, which chanced death to America, simply could not be allowed the opportunity to obtain and use nuclear weapons. | ||
| The president fully respects the Article I power of Congress, and tonight's necessary, limited, and targeted strike follows the history and tradition of similar military actions under presidents of both parties. | ||
| Patrick is in La Miranda, California on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Patrick. | ||
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| Yes, I believe that the president did the right thing. | ||
| They talk about diplomacy. | ||
| Iran has been a thorn in the side of our country for 46 years. | ||
| I'm telling you, the president did the right thing. | ||
| God bless America and God bless Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Ellis is in Augusta, Georgia on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Alice. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| It's really sad that people is following President, well, I say President Trump, elected president. | ||
| It's really sad because he just can do anything he wants to do. | ||
| Republicans are not doing any, again, Congress are not doing anything. | ||
| You know, this man should have gone to Congress first before he has done that. | ||
| These people don't remember 9-11. | ||
| Do you remember 9-11? | ||
| It took years before they planned that. | ||
| And believe me, these people are not going to just lay down and let President Trump elected Trump do what he did last night. | ||
| It was against the law. | ||
| House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries made a statement on X echoing similar concerns, saying Donald Trump promised to bring peace to the Middle East. | ||
| He has failed to deliver on that promise. | ||
| The risk of war has now dramatically increased, and I pray for the safety of our troops in the region who have been put in harm's way. | ||
| President Trump misled the country about his intentions, failed to seek congressional authorization for the use of military force, and risks American entanglement in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East. | ||
| First, the Trump administration bears the heavy burden of explaining to the American people why this military action was undertaken. | ||
| Second, Congress must be fully and immediately briefed in a classified setting. | ||
| Third, Donald Trump shoulders complete and total responsibility for any adverse consequences that flow from his unilateral military action. | ||
| Juliet is in Rockport, Massachusetts on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Juliet. | ||
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Good morning, Kimberly. | |
| Thank you so much for taking my call. | ||
| So I think we are witnessing a historical, monumental time in American foreign policy in the United States of America. | ||
| And what Donald J. Trump was able to pull off last night was nothing short of brilliant. | ||
| If you think about how he approached the weekend, on Friday, he said two weeks, two weeks. | ||
| His common refrain was, everything is two weeks, and they were making fun of him on NPR about this. | ||
| And so people thought he's going to retreat to his golf for the weekend and go on to a little junket, whatever. | ||
| And this was the biggest surprise ever. | ||
| I didn't even know about this until three hours after it happened, and I was literally shocked. | ||
| It brought new meaning to the term shock and awe, if you remember that, from Bush's doctrine of a preemptive strike when he went into Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein within mere, you know, weeks. | ||
| They found him in a little tunnel hiding. | ||
| But I'd like to just say a few things. | ||
| This is the Trump doctrine, and this is historical. | ||
| This will be studied the world over, what he did and was able to accomplish. | ||
| Now, right now, we're sort of in a phase where there is a like a maybe there'll be a rough Hashman. | ||
| Maybe there will be. | ||
| Maybe they'll finally get Ayatollah Kachimi to come to the table. | ||
| He's been very recalcitrant, that is, Ayatollah Kachimi, and obstinate. | ||
| He should have known this is coming. | ||
| Donald J. Trump, what he was able to pull off. | ||
| Now, there's a Russian word called Moskyrovka. | ||
| Look that up, Kimberly. | ||
| Moskyrovka. | ||
| It's the hallmark of Russian warfare. | ||
| And what that word means is little masquerade. | ||
| You might recall the little green men who went into Crimea. | ||
| Now, that's not a Dennis is in Delphos, Ohio on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Dennis. | ||
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Hey, good morning. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | ||
| Donald Trump has set this up. | ||
| In his first term, we had an agreement with Iran, and they were following that agreement, and he tore it up because he's petty as can be. | ||
| And so now, whatever happens, he's caused this. | ||
| He wanted this, and now he's got it. | ||
| I pray and hope that our troops that are over in that area do not get attacked, and we do not have Americans getting killed over there. | ||
| This is a disgrace. | ||
| I cannot believe this man. | ||
| He lies about everything. | ||
| It's just a sad, sad day for America that we've got a guy in the White House who won't help Ukraine fight Russia. | ||
| He's turning back on that, and now he's going to drag us into another war. | ||
| That's about all I got to say. | ||
| Next up is Patrick in Florida on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Patrick. | ||
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Well, thank you for taking things. | |
| I've been watching C-SPAN for a little while, but did you guys ever mention that Ambassador Mike Succobi has ties to the Israeli toll takers? | ||
| And a little history about Iran, which surprised C-SPAN didn't bring up. | ||
| You showed 50 books about Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| Looks like we've lost you there, Patrick. | ||
| Next up is Alan in Cleveland, Ohio, on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Alan. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Hi, thank you for giving me a chance to speak my feelings. | ||
| Well, I've been supportive of the president. | ||
| I think that, you know, a lot of folks calling in, maybe they don't understand the history of Iran, but, you know, countries, I know they say Bolrano and all of that, but when you start saying death to America and death to this or that, who does that? | ||
| That's mental illness. | ||
| I think the idea, you know, the people of Iran are beautiful, wonderful people. | ||
| I think that hopefully this will help liberate them to decide what government they want now, whether they want the same government or whether they want a different government in the future. | ||
| But I think it was a beautiful thing. | ||
| And I think that the people that are calling in that are against it, I think 50% of the country is anti-American. | ||
| And I think that a lot of these people calling in would have loved it if Iran would have said a nuclear. | ||
| I just think it was a beautiful thing. | ||
| We need to liberate the country. | ||
| There's some recent polling on whether or not Americans support U.S. involvement in the Israel and Iran war. | ||
| This is reporting here from Axios saying a majority of Americans don't want the U.S. to get involved in the escalating war between Israel and Iran. | ||
| A poll this week, this was last week, found the big picture. | ||
| President Trump was slated, and again, the story is from last week, is slated to make a decision within two weeks on whether to join Israel in the effort to eliminate Iranian nuclear program, the White House said on Thursday. | ||
| And 60% of 1,512 polled Americans think the U.S. military should not get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran. | ||
| According to an economist YouGov poll released this week, only 16% support U.S. military action and 24% are unsure. | ||
| This largely holds up across party lines, with 65% of Democrats, 61% of Independents, and 53% of Republicans opposing U.S. military intervention in Iran. | ||
| About as many people see Iran's nuclear program as a threat as those who oppose military intervention in the Israel-Iran conflict. | ||
| 61% of Americans view Iran's nuclear program as either an immediate and serious or somewhat serious threat to the United States. | ||
| Similarly, most Americans think the U.S. should engage in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. | ||
| That's true across 58% of Democrats and 61% of Republicans. | ||
| Ernie is in Toledo, Ohio, on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Ernie. | ||
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Yes, I would like to say, as a Republican for 40 years and retired, I live in Toledo, Ohio, this whole thing that Donald Trump did, he didn't go through the right channels. | |
| He just did it on his own. | ||
| When you escalate stuff like that, it should be the House, the Republicans, everybody come to agreement on something. | ||
| But this whole thing was written in Revelations. | ||
| Ernie, can you turn down your TV in the background and then continue your point? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Yeah, this is all written in the revelations in the Bible. | ||
| All the final war to end all wars will be in the East. | ||
| Right now, we're involved with Russia, and he don't go after Russia, Donald Trump, because he's scared to death of him. | ||
| He's insecure, Donald Trump. | ||
| He's a big bully. | ||
| And he's no good for this country. | ||
| He should be impeached a long time ago. | ||
| But this whole thing is going to turn into, if it turns into a lot of problems where we're involved, we have put men on boots on the ground and everything there to Israel to help them. | ||
| This is not going to turn out good for the Republican Party. | ||
| They will doom their party. | ||
| And I just don't understand this. | ||
| I've said this to several Republicans in the House and Senate over the last years. | ||
| Donald Trump should have never been president the first time. | ||
| He is dangerous. | ||
| He's nothing more than a con man, a coward, and a bully, and a prejudiced man. | ||
| And he just is trying to do everything he can to get attention. | ||
| Well, this really brought attention to him. | ||
| But we don't need this going on in our country. | ||
| We need to get this country back to normal. | ||
| I grew up in the 60s and 70s, and that's when the country was pretty decent. | ||
| All this came about from the 90s on. | ||
| But in the last 10 years, we've had more things in this country against us because of Donald Trump. | ||
| This guy wants all the attention he can get, and it's a shame the Republican Party can't understand this because they're dooming their party. | ||
| And the Speaker of the House, in my opinion, is no better than Donald Trump. | ||
| He sticks with Donald Trump all the time on everything to protect him. | ||
| And it's a shame what's going on right now. | ||
| We're going to break away from this program and take you live to New York City, where the Israeli ambassador to the UN is speaking to reporters ahead of an emergency meeting on Iran. | ||
| You're watching live coverage here on C-SPAN. | ||
| It was a necessary act and a brave decision to remove the greatest threat to global security. | ||
| The world and the Security Council should say clearly and without hesitation, thank you. | ||
| Thank you to the United States and President Trump for acting when others would not. | ||
| Thank you for standing firm when others looked away. | ||
| Thank you for protecting the free world with strength and moral clarity. | ||
| The Council will soon meet. | ||
| I have no doubt that some will denounce the United States. | ||
| Some will continue to condemn Israel. | ||
| But where were they when Iran waste throw the bomb? | ||
| Where were they when it built underground fortresses to house weapons of mass destruction? | ||
| Where were they when Iran used diplomacy as camouflage while it prepared for our extermination? | ||
| They were silent. | ||
| They were complicit. | ||
| They were afraid. | ||
| Last night, the United States acted with incredible bravery and morality. | ||
| Now, the rest of the world must show its gratitude. | ||
| Iran's reach extends far beyond our borders. | ||
| It arms militias in Iraq. | ||
| It commands terror in Lebanon. | ||
| It funds Houthis in Yemen. | ||
| It plots murder in Europe. | ||
| And it threatens every capital in the West with its growing arsenal of ballistic missiles. | ||
| You cannot see this one out. | ||
| You cannot condemn the firefighters while the Arsenist tries to light more fires. | ||
| You cannot protect peace by appeasing evil. | ||
| To the Iranian regime, understand this. | ||
| Any further attacks against our civilians will be met with overpowering, righteous force. | ||
| Unlike your actions against our civilians, our strikes will continue to target military and nuclear facilities. | ||
| We will defend our people. | ||
| We will not hesitate. | ||
| We will do everything necessary to secure our future. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Just one very simple question. | ||
| Do you think after this operation Israel is safer now? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Not only Israel. | ||
| I think the entire world is safer. | ||
| You don't have a radical regime which threatens to destroy member states of the UN. | ||
| And today I think we have historic days. | ||
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Now that the nuclear facilities were bombed, what's the next step for Israel? | |
| Are you going to continue targeting the Islamic Republic inside Iran? | ||
| And also, is there a regime change in the plan for Israel? | ||
| Is Khomeini personally a target for Israel? | ||
| We have many targets still. | ||
| And I think today the question should go to Iran. | ||
| They should think very carefully about their steps. | ||
| I think President Trump said it very clearly. | ||
| Prime Minister Netanyahu was very clear about it. | ||
| They should calculate their steps. | ||
| You know, the regime change, you know, that's up to the Iranian people. | ||
| I pray that there will be change for the people of Iran, but that's for the Iranian people to decide, not for us. | ||
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And it threatens to be modern by now. | |
| You're nuclear side. | ||
| You know, we have very strong defense capabilities. | ||
| We have proven it. | ||
| The problem is that the Iranians target civilian cities, not military bases. | ||
| Unfortunately, we have casualties. | ||
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Ambassador, what is your response to Secretary General Guterres, who issued a statement last night saying that he was, quote, alarmed by the U.S. attacks on the nuclear facilities and that only diplomacy is the answer to achieve peace? | |
| It was very disappointing because the Secretary General failed to, in his remarks, to mention the threat of nuclear Iran. | ||
| He knows better. | ||
| He knows that diplomacy has failed for the last decades. | ||
| And he should thank the U.S. for bringing stability and bringing peace through power. | ||
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When did the United States tell Israel that it was going to go ahead with this plan? | |
| And given that one of your cited Aiengs is going to destroy the nuclear program has enough damage now that you thought that Israel will stop its strikes on Iraq? | ||
| So, you know, we have very close coordination with the United States throughout the last few days, before the attack, during the attack, and after the attack, and it will continue to be the same way. | ||
| You know, I think still it's early to assess the attack, but we can tell you one thing: you know, the capability of the United States are the strongest ones that you can find around the world, you know, especially if you compare it to Israel's one. | ||
| So I think not only Israel, the entire world is grateful for the U.S. for this very impressive operation. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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You've been watching live coverage. | |
| We return now to our scheduled program. | ||
| We joined it in progress. | ||
| Please be sure to include your name and where you're writing in from. | ||
| We're also on social media at facebook.com/slash C-SPAN and on X at C-SPANWJ. | ||
| Now, back to your calls. | ||
| Rosemary is in Buffalo, New York on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Rosemary. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| How are you this morning? | ||
| Fine, thank you. | ||
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I am so just devastated by this war. | |
| Why are we really in this war? | ||
| It is ridiculous. | ||
| This man has caused so much terror and hate and racism in this country. | ||
| It is ridiculous. | ||
| I just can't see us fighting in this war. | ||
| You want to go over there and attack these people. | ||
| It's bad enough what they're doing in Ukraine and Russia. | ||
| It's bad enough. | ||
| Our children and everything growing up with this hate and everything in this country. | ||
| This is just ridiculous. | ||
| Like my mother used to say, we're going to hell in a handbasket in this country, and we're the laughingstock of the world. | ||
| I don't see it being a Democrat, Republican, Independent. | ||
| How about just being a human being? | ||
| We all are not blind. | ||
| We can see what's going on with this man. | ||
| But they put him back in office anyway because they didn't want a woman. | ||
| So I am just devastated. | ||
| And it's going to affect all us poor people because most of us, Buffalo is poor. | ||
| We're poor. | ||
| How about helping homeless and veterans and people that really need help in this country? | ||
| How about you take care of us? | ||
| How about Donald Trump take care of us? | ||
| All right. | ||
| This is all I have to say. | ||
| And thank you very much for letting me say my opinion. | ||
| David is in St. Paul, Minnesota on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, David. | ||
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Hey there, good Morgan. | |
| Yeah, this whole thing is really crazy because they say attacking nuclear sites was bad when Russia did it, but somehow when Israel and the U.S. bombed them specifically to destroy them and potentially cause radiation leaks, it's totally still cool and righteous. | ||
| That's a little complex to understand. | ||
| And I want to explain the death to America thing. | ||
| It's more of a turn of phrase. | ||
| It's like saying the F word America. | ||
| They're not literally saying kill every American. | ||
| It's a turn of phrase of frustration. | ||
| They also say death to traffic or death to the heat. | ||
| You know, it's not a threat to you. | ||
| There is a threat to you, however, and it is the terrorist state of Israel. | ||
| They are one of three countries that have bombed nuclear sites, and they have a secret nuclear program they will not let be inspected, and they are not signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, which Iran was. | ||
| So the only country illegally pursuing nuclear weapons is Israel. | ||
| And we are also arming them, which is against the non-proliferation treaty, which we're not supposed to be arming countries that illegally seek nuclear weapons, which Israel has. | ||
| And again, Israel struck Iran first. | ||
| Israel's bombed every hospital in Gaza. | ||
| They bombed cities in Lebanon. | ||
| They're bombing Syria. | ||
| They've bombed Yemen. | ||
| There's one belligerent aggressor here, and it's not Iran, which we also staged a coup in in 1959 because they wanted to nationalize our oil, just like we did in Egypt, just like we did in Libya. | ||
| This is all about their resources, and we want to control them. | ||
| So, David, because you mentioned the risk of potential radiation leaks, I do want to read this post from the International Atomic Energy Agency from about 1 a.m. Eastern saying, following the attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordo, the IAEA can confirm that no increase in off-site radiation levels has been reported as of this time. | ||
| IAEA will provide further assessments on the situation in Iran as more information becomes available. | ||
| Let's go to Kerry in Locust Grove, Georgia on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Kerry. | ||
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Good morning, Kimberly. | |
| Thank you for accepting my call. | ||
| I'm retired from the United States Navy. | ||
| And during that time, I spent two tours in the Persian Gulf, escorting oil tankers in and out of there. | ||
| And also was on the multinational force in Beirut, Lebanon. | ||
| This is really sad what's going on. | ||
| In my mind, it's just a repeat of some of the things that I went through. | ||
| And I really feel terrible for the people that are caught up in this, that are going to probably die. | ||
| And God forbid if we send boots on the ground again. | ||
| And I think that the economy is really going to be affected because I was a navigator. | ||
| The Straits of Home Moves is only 21 miles wide. | ||
| They're going to shut that down. | ||
| They're going to shut it down. | ||
| And everybody's going to be affected. | ||
| I'm praying for us, praying for everybody in the world, but this is sad, really sad. | ||
| Bill is in Bethesda, Maryland, on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Bill. | ||
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Hello. | |
| Good morning, Bill. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| What do you think of the U.S. entering the Israel and Iran conflict? | ||
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Well, I'm against it. | |
| I think that the Israelis, the great Israeli army, should put troops on the ground in Iran. | ||
| I mean, they could send a demolition combat team in to take care of all those nuclear sites. | ||
| All we hear about is how great the Israeli military is, but the only thing I see on the evening news is that they're killing people who are queuing for food in Gaza. | ||
| Unarmed civilians. | ||
| And that's all I have to say. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Stanley is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Stanley. | ||
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Hey there, how you doing, Kimberly, this morning? | |
| Good, thank you. | ||
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Kimley, I don't agree with war, period. | |
| But as my Indian brother and sister would say, this president speaks with a fork tongue. | ||
| So you don't know what's true and what's not true. | ||
| But I want to say this before I hang up, Kim Lee. | ||
| Anybody that has loved ones in the military, you hug them. | ||
| You let them know you love them. | ||
| Because a lot of soldiers are not coming back home forever. | ||
| Thanks a lot. | ||
| Have a good day. | ||
| Lois is in Lewiston, New York on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Lois. | ||
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What I want to say is that they have to look at the wider picture of what President Trump is trying to do. | |
| He's taking a page from Vivi Netanyahu's progress to a sustainable presidency, even though the man was under a corruption indictment, and he then brought the country into a larger war that keeps on escalating so he can continue in power. | ||
| Lest we forget, during the twenty sixteen reign of the current president, he wanted to declare a national emergency, and that would then justify him retaining power in America as well. | ||
| The two of them are both corrupt and have you have their purpose to retain power and achieve greater corruption and money. | ||
| I cannot see now anyone could say that I'm not a person who is in favor of war, but I had five uncles, five, who served in everything from the Second World War to the Korean conflict. | ||
| I had two daughters in the military who were both officers and two grandsons today who are both officers. | ||
| So you tell me I'm not a war hawk, but I am also not in support of anyone who presumptively takes the decision to go forward in a lawful, unlawful escalation of a war that we don't even belong in. | ||
| And we should not have continued to provide them with armaments when we can't even support the war against Ukraine against Russia. | ||
| I am baffled at how little historical context the American people have. | ||
| Now, I'm a retired college professor, and then maybe that's why I read a lot. | ||
| But I have to say, anybody who looks into the history of America as an imperialistic country, no wonder the Iranians have this death to America. |