Mike Lindell and Allison Steinberg dissect global tensions, from Iran's blockade and Israel-Turkey clashes to domestic accountability. They highlight Eric Swalwell's campaign suspension amid rape allegations, contrasted with Democrats like Sheila Sherfulis McCormick facing theft charges, while exposing a $17 million slush fund shielding members. The episode condemns Netanyahu's war strategy and calls for bipartisan ethics reform, arguing that unchecked corruption and foreign policy failures threaten national stability. [Automatically generated summary]
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Mike Lindell's Angry Protests00:14:42
See this guy with the pillows on Fox?
My pillow guy, Mike Lindell.
He is the greatest.
The My Pillow guy, Mike Lindell.
And he's been with us right from the beginning.
Happy Monday, everybody.
I'm back here hosting the Mike Lindell show for him this week after dealing with a little bit of a cold here.
Shout out to Patrick Colbeck for hosting last week, a few days for me.
But I took a little ivermectin and I'm feeling, you know, quite, quite better actually, despite the fact that I'm unvaccinated and this might be my third time beating COVID and I'm just fine.
So no vaccines needed here.
But we do have a lot of news to go over today and joining me now to.
Unpack the unfolding chaos in Minnesota is none other than Neil Johnson, the host of Lumberjack Logic.
Thanks for joining us, Neil.
Well, thanks for having me on, Heather.
I noticed that you got a little COVID cold, maybe, or something of that effect.
I had that as well.
Oddly enough, I mean, you won't believe this.
Yeah, but I was not vaccinated either.
I mean, I'm just saying.
I got like this little.
And I got over it.
That's about it.
Yeah, I got a little lingering cough.
It's more of like a reflexive thing.
But, you know, it does, it puts you out, but no more than like the typical flu or, you know, any other stuff that's been going around for generations.
And again, I'm unvaxxed as well.
And the doctor gave some ivermectin.
I think it was like an amoxiclav type of antibiotic thing just in case.
And I feel much better, but it is a cold and it was pretty, pretty tough there for a few days.
But, Back in the saddle, and we have no shortage of news to unpack, especially in your state of Minnesota, Neil.
It's just like dominating the headlines, it feels like, for last year.
And we're back out there this time.
Now, we have a Turning Point correspondent that was out there covering one of the anti ICE protests, and she was viciously attacked by a family of protesters there.
I want to go ahead and play this.
Yeah, we have.
Yeah, and they're actually throwing adult objects, as you can see there, they brought to these protests.
I don't know why, Neil.
Maybe you can break that down for me, but they're attacking Savannah here pretty aggressively.
It was a mom and a daughter.
And then the father also came and put his hands on her.
And we have that sound bite as well.
So let's go ahead and play Savannah getting attacked by the father here.
Nope, just a little bit of bad language in there, but um, to see a man put his hands on a woman, like, regardless of what you're there protesting, just to witness a grown man put his hands on Savannah like that, Neil, is just like.
Makes me sick to my stomach.
I mean, what's your reaction to seeing these horrible videos?
So it's, I mean, it's gross.
Okay.
First off, I mean, they're waving, as you call them adult objects.
I'm going to call them immature adult objects.
Okay.
It's, it's, these are perverse, profane, disgusting people.
I mean, as you saw there, I mean, they're obviously perverse with the objects they're waving around.
They were slapping her in the face with it.
That's, that's assault in and of itself.
Not only physical, but, Sexual assault as well.
Then they're profane.
They can't speak without using a cuss word and they're disgusting.
All of it's gross.
And to see this guy who's probably 250 pounds, Savannah, what does she weigh?
100 pounds?
I mean, she's tiny.
And he just shoved her like he came at her with force more by like the initial was like a hit and then just followed through with the shove, threw her to the ground.
You know, and she's just there recording, she's just doing work.
Now, if she was like physically assaulting him, I know that we've seen this footage, but even so, I mean, she's 100 pounds.
The guy could have just walked away from that.
I mean, and look at how angry he is.
This is great that you're showing this because look at he's still following up.
Even after that, he's been recorded and look at his face.
And this is the guy Jen Saki paraded out and tried to claim was like a soccer dad, you know, when released in Antifa Dad.
It's, it's, this is just terrible.
I, I, I don't have words for it, really.
I mean, that was the, I guess I gave you some words, but I mean, it's, it's, It's gross.
These people are gross.
Here's the three individuals.
FBI Director Kash Patel did say they're opening an investigation into the family.
That's the father there.
That's the mother and that's the daughter.
All three of them attacking Savannah.
The daughter had mentioned actually at one point, I don't know if it's true or not, but claims that she's Iranian and Ukrainian at the same time.
And they brought race into it.
They were.
You know, actually putting their hands on her, and there could be some federal charges.
I did read that they're going to be charged at the state level with possible federal charges, but we actually also have the soundbite.
The father, in particular, goes on Instagram.
I believe his handle is Minnesota Angry Man, M N Angry Man on Instagram.
And it's so funny because he went on Jen Psaki's show and started saying, We need more peace and we need more love.
But then the video shows him attacking Savannah, and his handle on Instagram says he's an angry man.
So let's go ahead and take a listen to the hypocrisy here of this father when he was on with Jen Psaki.
Chris now goes by the nickname Minnesota Angry Man, and he's using his newfound fame to encourage others to stand up for community too.
Ahead of nationwide strikes and protests tomorrow, we asked Chris if he had any words of wisdom to share, and here's what he had to say.
We need some peace and harmony in our state and across our country.
We've been dealing with enough tyranny.
We're done with that.
We need some peace, love, and harmony.
Please come out.
Please show up.
Get off that couch.
If I can do it, you can do it.
We can march.
We can dance.
We can sing.
We can hug it out.
We can swear at the sky.
From the couch to the streets, what a rallying cry there.
I'd love to hear it.
What a rallying cry, Neil.
I mean, he said we need peace, love, and harmony, and we're done with tyranny.
But what does tyranny actually look like?
It looks like exactly what that family just did.
They said, if you don't think like us, we're going to physically harm you.
That is tyranny in a nutshell, it's the definition of tyranny.
And yet, this guy is sitting there on national television with a former White House press secretary, like preaching this message of peace and love.
Now, make it make sense.
Well, you can't.
And this reminds me, my friend George coined a word and he calls them projectocrats instead of Democrats because they project onto you the very thing that they're doing.
So when they talk about stolen elections, okay, and they're talking about somebody's going to steal, like Trump's going to steal the election, Trump was never going to steal the election.
Okay.
They were going to steal the election and so on.
This is what they do.
It's the plank in the eye in the Bible.
When you consistently focus on the sins of others and keep railing against the sins of others and act like it's a big personal offense to you, you invariably develop that same issue.
And that's why the plank in the eye is so real.
That's why we need to get let go of bitterness, wrath, anger, all that kind of stuff.
So going with the handle, angry man.
He pitches himself as a soccer dad.
I don't know if you noticed, Heather, but the sister, the estranged sister, she's the younger sister in that family, has basically posted that she has disassociated herself with the family.
And she said, I know what they are capable of.
So imagine if somebody is willing to not only physically assault a small female like that in front of cameras, in the open, in public.
What do you think is going on behind closed doors?
Because it's typically going to be a lot worse than what you're seeing in the public display because people try to put on a public face.
He may call himself Angry Man, but he's talking about hugging it out, right?
We need more peace.
We need more tranquility, more love, baby.
We need more love.
And yet, his daughter, his younger daughter, is saying that she doesn't agree with anything the family's doing.
She doesn't want anything to do with them.
What they've done is wrong.
Savannah had to speak out.
She's talking about what's going on behind closed doors.
It's a crazy story.
I think there's some associations with Antifa here, obviously, typically.
So if you look to, he was also seen posing with Don Lamont.
This is around the time of the church raid and also with that other nut job from the church raid, not Kyle Wagner.
He was the other Antifa clown, but that other guy.
I can't remember his name right now.
He had the F Trump hat in the green, like worker vest and the big beard.
But, anyways, he's got, there's pictures of him with both of them.
Dustin Grage had posted that to X.
So it's like Don Lamont's got a great, it's always the same people, Heather.
It's always the same people.
They hang out, they cause all this mischief together.
It reminds me, my friend in law enforcement says he's constantly dealing with the same 10% of the population 90% of the time.
He's always going back for domestic assaults, he's going back for abuse charges, all this different stuff.
He's always going back to the same people.
It's the same people constantly committing welfare frauds, the same people constantly stealing cars.
It is 10 to 20% of the population, or, you know, 10 to 20% of the calls that they get are committed by, you know, the vast majority, the majority, the 80% of the calls to 90% of the calls are committed by this small 10 to 20% of the population.
It's the 80 20 rule, the Pareto principle applies to everything.
Seeing it here.
Sorry, what's really disturbing about all this is really like the fact that even though it is a small group of these like Antifa radicalized protesters, right?
Like if Savannah hadn't gone down there trying to ask them, hey, why are you here?
What don't you like about Trump?
What don't you like?
And like trying to have those conversations, nobody would probably talk to those people because nobody's going to drive by a group of people holding, you know, you know what?
There you go, right there.
We have a tweet from Mike Davis saying the attacker who slapped her in the face was one of those.
Should be charged with the sexual assault charges.
I mean, absolutely.
It's pretty disturbing, but nobody's going to go up to people like that and have a conversation.
So I don't know what strategy these people think that they're having, what impact, are they really thinking people are going to take them seriously and want to come over and engage them?
Obviously, Savannah did as a journalist to go document.
And we know we've seen with other sort of conservatives that go into these situations, they always generally end up hostile and people are fighting back and forth and things like that.
But what's really scary is some of those people like have jobs in the community and like healthcare.
We've seen in the past like, you know, like disturbing statements.
Like, if you're that angered by somebody that just doesn't think like you, that you're going to physically put your hands on a young girl half your size.
Like, when people like that end up working in hospitals, treating your loved one in a nursing home with your grandparents, like, what if your grandparents are conservative?
Are they just going to like, you know, like that's what really scares me the most.
And there was actually another tweet.
That I started looking into that said the young daughter of those two people that attacked Savannah, her boyfriend is apparently in the Marines, like just went through a boot camp.
And if you see there, I'm trying to vet this, but it's gotten like millions of views across social.
And he apparently started to go fund me because his father was taken by ICE or something of that nature.
But this guy's in the military, right?
Like, Like, imagine the boyfriend of a family so radicalized, and now your son is embedding himself into our armed services.
Like, I just don't know.
I just, it gives me a feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Like, what is this guy like?
Is he really loyal to the United States when he is protesting the apprehension of people that illegally came here?
So, how can you then serve the country when you don't even believe in defending its borders?
You know, Heather, I want to go back and pick up a point that you made before.
And you said, you know, I don't know what their strategy is.
Do they actually expect anyone to take them seriously?
Well, here's the sad reality they have been taken seriously.
I want you to think back to, you know, the anti ICE protests in Minneapolis.
And basically, Tom Homan was sent to Minneapolis.
Propaganda War and Hamas00:10:23
It created this whole thing.
Greg Bavino was reassigned, all because a bunch of radical lunatics went out to sow discord and a couple of them got shot.
Now, I look at that situation and I say, well, you know, if you're going to start running your vehicle at police officers, if you're going to disobey orders, if you're showing up at protests with guns while trying to fight police, things probably aren't going to turn out well for you.
That's really a bad life choice.
And what they should be doing is staying away and allowing ICE to actually arrest criminal illegals because that's how we have law and order, but they're not into law and order.
This is all of Saul Linsky, it is the playbook of communist Marxists.
They are trying to sow discord.
Never let, I think it was Rahm Emanuel who said that during the Obama administration, never let a good crisis go to waste.
They want to sow this discord, this chaos, so they can create crises, what they can then actually capitalize on.
And interestingly enough, and sadly enough, I mean, there is enough sway here, apparently, amongst the majority of the American populace where they start getting cold feet as soon as things start going south.
And I remember when Trump got elected, I told my audience, I said, no matter what, Steal yourselves right now.
I mean, get that inner grit because they're going to pray to every kid, every mom out in front of the camera.
They're going to do all this stuff to try and get us to back off the deportations.
And they put the kid out in the blue hat.
That was actually, they said ICE, you know, took him from his family.
No, his dad ran off.
ICE had to take care of him.
What were they supposed to do?
Not take care of the kid?
So, but that was that moment.
They used that picture.
It doesn't matter if it's true.
It doesn't, the truth doesn't matter to these people.
And then they use that as a moment to create a backlash against ICE.
And I'm sitting there going, I want ICE to deport more people.
They haven't done enough.
And other people are like, oh, they need to back off.
I'm like, I don't know.
Like, what's the path forward, you know, now, Neil?
Like, how do we get people and Americans on the same page?
Because, you know, once upon a time, there was a point in America where like people disagreed on things, but it didn't turn to violence in the streets.
And the way that it's sort of morphed into that, you know, makes me wonder what can we do to get back to the place we were before, right?
Where how do you get these people to understand that, you know, conservatives, for one, we're not anti immigration.
And like, yeah, it's sad, you know, when people break the law and come here and their families get sent back, it's no different than when American citizens break the law and they go to jail for it and their families are broken up, right?
The law applies to Americans too.
And if you or I break the law, our kids are going to pay the price for that.
It's no different than the illegal aliens that break the immigration laws and come here.
Is it sad when that happens?
Yeah.
But like the law is the law and we can work to change it, but it still exists for what it is.
Like, how do we get these people that are just sort of championing lawlessness to sort of walk back from the ledge and understand, you know, the purpose of it?
Well, I mean, first off, I mean, these people who are championing lawlessness.
So, again, you're dealing with a small sector of the population that's actually creating massive movement on their side.
And it's alarming to me to watch this.
I mean, look at what happened with Eric Swalwell, right?
So, he gets these allegations, they come up against him.
Obviously, it appears some of them are true, but that's not the point.
The point is all those allegations were true before, and nobody cared because the Democrats wanted to maintain that position of power.
And then all of a sudden, He's outed as an abuser.
But then one of the other top contenders, Katie Porter, is throwing mashed potatoes on her husband's head, scalding him, throwing books at him, calling him an effing loser, and everything else.
So there is a complete pattern of people on the left that are continuing to do this.
I mean, I want you to think back to the bombing of the U.S. Capitol back during the Reagan administration.
That was by some radical nut jobs from the left and so on.
And there have been, obviously, Politicians, I mean, look at Tony Gonzalez on the Republican side, too.
These are some of the most maniacal, egotistical people.
So, how are they going to create the unity when we're looking at them and thinking they're a joke themselves?
So, the unity has to come from us actually engaging with people we disagree with in a kind manner.
So, that's your family, your friends, your neighbors.
I get into these conversations at the sauna, at the health club, all the time with people who disagree with me.
And I actually Listen to them and have a conversation with them.
And I actually get a lot of them to come around because they just don't know.
It reminds me of that scripture.
What is it?
I'm looking it up here.
Yeah, Proverbs 15 that says, A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
And it's so, you know, like when you're in a situation like Savannah was in just there, it's like, yeah, the harsh words are going to come at you.
But if you can keep your composure in those moments and not respond back with harsh words and respond back with kindness and love as much as you don't want to in those moments, like I feel like that's where the deprogramming of some of this craziness will happen is by saying, you know what, even though you don't agree with them, I admire the fact that you're out here, like, you know, championing.
I don't want to like give these people credit because they're crazy and nutjobs, but like we do have to.
Need the change that we want to see, and a lot of these people are sort of victims of a propaganda war, right?
Like where they've bought into so much stuff that's not true that it's literally made them crazy.
And so, you know, two quick points on that, Heather.
You're right, but some of these people are just flat unreasonable.
So, like Savannah, she's in this situation where she's just getting assaulted and trying to get out of there and push them away at arms.
Like, crazy situation, never wish it on anyone, feel bad for her.
Secondly, though, I was watching a crazy video today, and it was a bunch of people who brought 20 people into a room and they were watching how Palestinian children were programmed, how Hamas was programming children in schools.
And all these kids were running around talking about their goals in life were to kill Jews and get guns and kill Jews.
And it was all part of their children's programming on their TV network over there.
So, you know, you get these people that are so programmed like this.
And then what was wild was the 20 people watching it, they'd only been fed one side of the narrative.
Most of them were liberals.
So they had no idea that Hamas was programming children in these ways.
And one of them just piped up and said, you know, I feel like a moron at this point because I had never actually seen the other side of this.
I just thought Israel was bad and, you know, they were supporting Hamas or supporting the Palestinians.
And, you know, the reality is Hamas was getting elected by wide majorities over there.
And then they're watching this crap on TV.
So, if we're, you know, it's tough to get past some of that programming and then some of the ignorance of people.
Well, like the Virginia AG race when the attorney generals talked about killing Republicans' kids, okay?
He was still elected.
Not enough people even knew the story.
The media didn't cover it.
And it's, you know, one of the things that really bothers me, Heather, I see new media, whether it's myself or other podcasters, Lindell TV, whatever it is.
Making some strides, right?
But you know what?
When I talk to people over 60, they're all still watching mainstream media, they're all still watching network news.
It's going to be a hard time getting to those people.
I don't know that we will.
It may just be like those generations have to kind of die off before finally we make the curve where the majority are people that are up to speed like you and I. You know, so I mean, at the end of the day, I think this is why it's so important that like following Christ is our true north because there is so much propaganda, there is so much brainwashing.
You and I probably believe things that, you know, aren't true because, you know, somehow like we just learn and we grow and we evolve as we go through life.
And what's important is that we just use Christ as like our north star.
Like, let's just act the way he acts.
Let's always be humble, admit that maybe there's something else we could learn, listen as much as we talk.
You know, try to make the world a better place, one conversation at a time, because I've been thinking about this a lot, just you know, working in the Pentagon, covering the Department of War.
It's like, you know, when I say like, I'm more of like, at my core, like, I'm more of a lover than a fighter.
I know I'm a little feisty at times, you know, like, and I go after some people on Twitter, but like, I'm making the world better and I want to bring people together.
And it's been so challenging to try to navigate like this role, like at the Department of War, of all.
Places like how can I turn it into the department of love?
You know what I mean?
Bring a little Jesus in there and like shine some light, like because I understand like all sides of every issue.
And I'm like, the Israel, some people love Israel, some people hate Israel, some people love Iran, some people hate Iran.
Like, it's just like there's always a side to everything.
And I'm trying to be that like person who's like humble enough to not latch on to any one side, but like just understand everyone so we can bridge those.
Saving America with Tim Walz00:02:28
Disagreements.
And maybe that's why God's got me in this position, but sometimes I just don't feel cut out for it.
But let me just get your final take on one last topic.
And that's the Tim Walz hearings that we keep hearing about impeachment hearings.
What can we expect from those, Neil?
Are you confident that maybe we could see him gone?
No, nothing's going to happen.
I think I have gotten to the point where I am so immune to politicians with performative theater kind of stuff.
Now, it is good that in this moment, Tim Walz, there will be more exposure.
Media will have to cover it.
And there will be more brought to the forefront.
But in reality, I mean, nothing significant will happen in terms of getting rid of Tim Walz, which is what Needs to happen.
And now he's obviously dropped out of the governor's race.
There was too much there, too much fraud.
But he's still going to go away and he'll probably get some job as a lobbyist.
I don't know.
And I think that's the problem.
We're looking for accountability for these politicians and it's accountability we're not seeing.
But I get on my phone, I don't know how many texts a day.
And the funniest is I get them from John Thune, who I've made probably 10 videos slamming about the Save America Act.
And yet I get these texts.
You know, where are you at on the Save America Act?
And they're just trying to raise funds off of it.
And I'm like, you guys aren't getting this done.
And it's always from the Senate.
You know, they're, well, you know, Save America, John Toon's bringing it to the floor for a show vote.
And I just can't with these people anymore.
And it's kind of the way I feel about the whole Tim Walz thing.
I'd rather what needs to happen in Minnesota our vehicle tabs have increased 400%.
My property taxes went up 50%.
We have potholes all over our road like you've never seen in your life, Heather.
You think New Hampshire has potholes?
There are no potholes up there.
I mean, it's almost insignificant compared to Minnesota.
You can go to a lot of states, and Minnesota is one of the worst.
I swear you could win the governor's race in Minnesota if you just ran a campaign saying, we're going to fix the damn roads, because everybody would get it.
And we have bad governance that is going off on all these ancillary issues, trying to do DEI crap when we just want roads and bridges.
We want police and fire.
Iranian People Demand Ceasefire00:15:46
We want a military and we want a secure southern border.
That's what we want.
We want national defense.
And safety in our communities and infrastructure.
And the government could quit every other freaking thing they're doing, and we would be so happy.
They're just, I can't take them anymore.
I couldn't agree more.
I couldn't agree more.
And it's crazy because it would benefit them too, because you'd think they'd want their own country where they live with their families to be more prosperous and beautiful.
So, but hey, here we are.
But thank you so much, Neil, for joining.
And I look forward to it.
Forward to having you on again.
So stay safe out there in Minnesota.
I'll do that.
Thanks, Heather.
Thanks, Neil.
All righty, we are going to move on to our next topic of today, and that's to give you guys as current of an update as I can on the situation with Iran.
We do have a tweet from the White House this morning they put out that said the United States to blockade ships entering or exiting Iranian ports on April 13th at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So, there has been a lot going on with the Strait of Hormuz.
And sort of the battle and the negotiations, it's really difficult to keep up with the negotiations because one minute I'm hearing there's a ceasefire.
You know, you look online and then it's, oh, Israel violated the ceasefire.
Oh, no, Iran violated the ceasefire.
Oh, Israel's going after Lebanon and oh, Iran, you know, struck this.
It is literally a constant stream of information trying to stay on top of this.
I can only imagine what it's like in Trump's.
Situation room there going over all this stuff because it's hard for me to follow.
But we also have another tweet from President Trump on Iran's Navy.
He posted this this morning saying Iran's Navy is laying in the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated, 158 ships.
What we have not hit are their small number of what they call fast attack ships because we did not consider them much of a threat.
Warning if any of these ships come anywhere close to our blockade, they will be immediately eliminated using the same system of.
Kill that we used against the drug dealers on boats at sea.
It is quick and brutal.
P.S. 98.2% of drugs coming into the U.S. by ocean or sea have been stopped.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
You got to give credit where it's due with that.
The amount of drugs coming into America has significantly gone down.
And the war on our youth when it comes to the fentanyl overdoses can't be understated.
I mean, we've lost more Americans to drug overdoses than the wars that we've been fighting.
For decades.
And so you've got to give credit, regardless of your thoughts on the Iran situation, give credit where it's due when it comes to the great work that President Trump and his administration has done, keeping the fentanyl and deadly drugs out of our country.
I do have a soundbite from Trump.
He was asked on the Iran negotiations, and here's what he had to say.
Oh, I don't know.
I don't care if they come back or not.
If they don't come back, I'm fine.
Their military is gone.
Missiles are largely depleted.
The manufacturing capability for missiles and drones is largely defeated.
We've been very nice.
We haven't ripped down too many bridges.
We did one only because they broke their word.
They broke their promise.
And remember, their promise was that they were going to open the Harmony Strait.
They didn't do it.
They lied.
And so that's the update from the president at this point.
Our very own Dylan here, he's one of our camera operators, decided to take it upon himself and go interview some Iranian American protesters that were actually supportive of President Trump's efforts over in Iran.
He did a great job going out, getting their side of the story, talking to them, seeing what brought them out there and what they think about the situation in general.
And I will say, regardless of what your position is on the Iran war, it's always good to do real journalism and speak to people.
Of all different positions on the issue to try to get a deeper understanding.
So I thought this was a fantastic package by Dylan, and we're going to go ahead and play that now.
You cannot negotiate with our majors.
I had my headscarf, but the Morality Police van stopped me.
They don't know.
They never lived in Iran.
We wanted this regime gone.
Hey, everyone.
We're out here in Washington, D.C. for an Iranian American Freedom March.
President Trump recently brokered a ceasefire deal.
We're going to talk to some people to see what they think about the ceasefire.
Fighting for the freedom of the Iranian people that have been oppressed by this regime for so many years.
The flag itself is the flag of Iran before it was occupied by the Islamic regime in 1979.
They changed the flag, they also changed the name of the country.
So when people talk about Iran and Iran being terrorist, they really mean the Islamic Republic.
My father was an Imperial Iranian naval officer.
My son is a U.S. Marine.
And I'm an American.
I was born here, but I'm also an Iranian.
As we were marching over to the White House, we ran into an anti ICE protest.
Here's what followed.
Donald Trump and they you.
Fight your own war.
Fight your own war.
What do you have to say to the people that want to stop the war?
No, they don't know.
They never lived in Iran.
They don't know.
They cannot represent Iranian people.
Go live in Iran and then come and see if your world will be changed.
When I asked the rally goers what they thought about the ceasefire, most of them confirmed that they were not happy with it.
You cannot negotiate with our members.
You confirmed that 45,000 Iranians have been killed just for simply protesting in the streets.
And now you come and you negotiate with our murderers?
This is not acceptable at all.
We say thank you, President Trump, for killing the supreme leader, but it doesn't mean that we are going to accept whatever you do.
No negotiations with Ayatollahs, no negotiations with IRGC.
We're not happy about the ceasefire.
We wanted this regime gone.
What do you think would be necessary to actually do that?
Do you think boots on the ground might be necessary?
If it's necessary, yes.
Get rid of all the rest, the remnants of the terrorist regime.
You can't leave any.
It's like a cancer.
You have to cut it all out.
If you make a deal with these people, they're going to get a nuclear weapon from Russia and China.
They don't follow any rules, they do whatever they want.
I'm 26 years old, and I'm telling you, after this 26 years old, we've always been like under this regime, and most of the people, they don't want it.
Like, I can't talk about the 90% of the country.
What do you think a better solution would be than the ceasefire that's in place?
The better solution would be to meet with the real leader of the Iranian people, which is, of course, Prince Reza Pahlavi.
He's one of the true Iranian leaders.
We know with him we can get the democracy very soon in Iran.
He believes in the democracy, he believes in freedom.
January 8th and 9th, millions of Iranians poured to the streets answering his call, calling his name, writing his name on the walls.
President Trump, finish the job!
Even though they are pushing President Trump to be more aggressive, they still support him 100% and trust that he will still make the right decision.
What do the people of Iran think of President Trump?
One, two, three, four.
Mainly positive.
They are positive that the one, two, three, four will have a best decision for the Middle East and for the Iran, as far as I know.
And we support Mr. President Trump all the way.
We trust the president, all of the Iranian people, diaspora, and outside of Iran.
Thank you, President Trump.
He gave his word to the people of Iran.
That help is on the way, and I have to stand by that.
He's the president of the United States, and I don't see him going back on his word.
There's absolutely no way that there will be peace in that region with that regime intact, and we believe that President Trump knows that.
We're here to reiterate that message.
You brought the Israel flag as well.
Do you want to tell me about that?
Yes, because we Iranians have a long history with Israelis.
It goes back to Cyrus the Great.
What happened on October 7th happened in Iran 47 years ago.
So we understand Israelis' pain.
Israel and America is helping Iran to get rid of this regime.
Why do you think this regime is so bad and so evil?
First of all, they are not Iranian.
They are all like.
Arabs or Indians who occupied our country for 47 years.
I couldn't go back to my country for eight years because of this regime.
Because whenever I just put my feet in the airport in Iran, they're gonna catch me.
I also wanted to know firsthand from women who lived in Iran what it's like living under the oppressive regime.
What is it like for women like yourself?
Oh my god, not good.
When I was 18 years old, I was walking down in my hometown.
I had my headscarf, but the morality police van stopped me, they arrested me.
Pulled me into the car, and this is only 14 years ago because I was not wearing the proper hijab.
It was not like I was not wearing a hijab, and I had to call my parents.
They brought my birth certificate, they made me sign a bunch of paperwork promising that I would never ever do that again, or the next time they would take me to the court.
For 41 days, there is like a complete internet blackout.
Any footage that comes out from Iran are from the regime propaganda.
My parents didn't have internet for 41 days, they called me every Every few days with their landline, and they have to pay an extraordinary amount to just make them focal, and they cannot talk for over two, three minutes.
I converted to Christianity because even though I was a child in Iran and a revolution happened, and I firsthand experienced that the lies that they are saying through their religion.
So when I grew up and I came to America, I learned about Jesus and I converted to Christianity.
Interesting as well, there is a large Turkmen population.
In Iran, they are not allowed to speak their native language or wear their traditional clothing.
We are the Turkmen people.
We are the minority in Iran, northeast of Iran, in the Turkmen Sahara, near the borderline of the Turkmenistan.
This is our traditional dress.
This is for Turkmen people.
This is a don, this is a talpek.
Anytime we wanted to wear it because we wanted to share our culture with the other people.
But unfortunately, we don't have any permission.
For the wearing this dress, this beautiful dress, you cannot talk in your native language.
My native language is the first Turkmen, and then we learn about the Persian language.
But we cannot speak.
In the office, in the university, in a school.
In Islam, it is like this that if a woman, a virgin girl, is captured before execution, they have to rape them because they say if they are not raped, they will go to heaven.
So they have to rape these innocent children.
Where are the liberal feminist women?
We see nobody coming to rescue any Iranian.
What happened to these people?
Do you think that boots on the ground might be necessary?
For actual regime change.
Well, the regime has been deteriorated in a point right now.
I think it's just the tipping point.
With the small help, we should be able to overcome it.
We need arms to be passed to the people so they can fight and get themselves free.
My brother was in the Marine Corps.
His friend in 1983 Marine barracks bombing was killed.
His name was Lance Corporal San Pedro.
He was killed by the Islamic regime, Hezbollah.
Which is part of the Islamic regime.
He was blown up.
My brother's lucky he took Pacific Duty.
He told me the same thing.
He says, if they have to put ground troops on the ground, do it, because then they can arm the citizens.
We asked President Trump for the help that he promised to Iranian people, and he delivered, but now he's talking about negotiations and he's talking about regime change.
The regime is not changed.
We have been grateful for the amount of outreach that we've received from.
From people from all over the world.
If all these pundits, if all these Iranian pundits are telling you that the Iranians are being massacred by dying in the war, etc., where's the footage?
Why are we not seeing?
Why are we not hearing from real Iranians?
Why is CNN not inside Iran providing true coverage?
Why is Fox News not able to enter Iran to provide true coverage?
It's because there is a media blackout.
There is an internet blackout.
There is an active censorship program to shut the voices coming outside of Iran.
Right?
Because they want to portray certain narrative.
The only way forward is the overthrow of the Islamic regime.
Any remnant of the Islamic regime staying in place is just that.
It's going to be more people chanting death to America, death to Israel, wanting to conduct terror against Americans on our soil here as well as abroad.
We just want people to understand that, you know what?
Just forget about the politics.
It doesn't matter who you support, who you don't.
Understand that there are people inside that country.
That are being massacred in the dark.
We are not only fighting for Iran, Iranian people in Iran, not only fighting for Iranian in Iran, but also they're fighting for the world, for America.
After hours of raw testimony, one message echoed through the entire rally.
The Iranian people do not want a ceasefire.
They do not want negotiations with the regime.
They want the Islamic Republic gone completely.
From women who've been arrested for not wearing their hijab to families who've lost loved ones in the January massacre.
To minorities stripped of their culture.
The call was unanimous.
No more half measures.
To support the Iranian people and finish the job.
Forty seven years of oppression has not broken them.
On the streets of Washington, D.C., New York City, and various countries around the world, thousands made it clear.
They believe a free Iran is no longer a dream.
It is coming.
The Iranian people have spoken.
The question now is whether the free world will listen.
Israel Government Crimes Alleged00:06:23
So that was a great package by Dylan, really capturing what those protesters were there for that day.
Interestingly enough, back when I was covering CPAC, there was actually an employee of the Gaylord Convention Center there that was from Iran.
And at the time, the crown prince, I guess, that they had in Dylan's package, it was Reza Pahlavi.
He was the Iranian former crown prince under the Pahlavi.
Dynasty of Iran.
I had asked him, I was like, is that who you're supporting for, you know, like, because he was from Iran as well.
And he actually said that that gentleman he didn't support, while he did support, you know, taking down the Iranian regime over there, he said that Paul Riza Pahlavi has actually been living in California for like 50 years, I guess, and hasn't actually been in Iran.
And he said he wants his people free over there.
But doesn't exactly back him.
So, even amongst the Iranian Americans, there's some unity on the fact that the regime over there is not good, but there's some disagreement on who should be the rightful person to lead the nation.
So, that's interesting.
But that's what the Iranian Americans feel.
I know Americans tend to be a little divided on the issue.
A lot of Americans wanted no new wars, were sort of war weary because of the decades of neocons getting us.
Tied up in Syria and Egypt and Libya and Iraq.
And I mean, the list goes on that a lot of Americans are like, let's just fix our own country.
We can't solve everybody's problems.
And there's some people that have been more vocal than others when it comes to those issues.
I want to, real quickly, just touch on a battle that happened over the weekend between Netanyahu and Turkey.
We have a tweet from Netanyahu, if we can put that on the screen.
He said, Israel under my leadership will continue to fight Iran's terror regime and its proxies.
Unlike Erdogan, I don't know how to pronounce all these Middle Eastern names, but who accommodates them and massacred his own Kurdish citizens.
Now, he is the leader of Turkey, and Turkey responded to his statements as well.
The Republic of Turkey put out a letter saying that Netanyahu has been described as the Hitler of our time due to crimes he has committed.
It is well known a figure with a clear track record and arrest warrant has been issued against Netanyahu by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Under Netanyahu's administration, Israel is facing proceedings before the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide.
And so, as you can see, this is just the war culture we're in, right?
Netanyahu says Turkey's bad.
Turkey says Israel's bad.
This is the nature of war that we really have to unpack and.
And do our due diligence and hear all sides to every story in order to have a good head on our shoulders and wisdom on this subject.
I also want to put a tweet out just to end the whole conflict over there.
Donald Trump pushed back on some of his own MAGA base.
As many of you saw this tweet, he took shots at Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones.
In particular, those four people, the common thread is they've publicly condemned the situation in Israel.
They take Issue with the Israeli government.
Not to confuse that with full blown anti Semitism, which is wrong.
Tucker Carlson went on the BBC for an interview to explain his position and was sort of met with that false accusation of anti Semitism and fought back.
Take a listen.
I mean, I am going to point out, I probably don't need to because our audience can see and hear for themselves.
Pretty much everything that you've said in our conversation, Tucker Carlson, you have put at the door of the Israeli government.
Now, to some people, that will be evidence that you are anti Semitic.
You are anti Jewish.
No, I'm very anti Semitic.
Well, first of all, the state of Israel does not speak for all Jews at all, despite its claims.
It does not.
There are many, many Jews, many of whom I know, who don't think the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu speaks for them.
No, I'm speaking of a government, not religion.
No, no, hold on, hold on.
Because I wasn't suggesting that.
I wish you were suggesting that.
What I was suggesting was that a lot of people would say that.
I've been in this business longer than you, and I understand what a slur looks like.
And you're attempting to call me an anti Semite in a passive aggressive way.
Some people would say that.
Well, I'm responding to your slur and saying that it's untrue.
It does not apply to me.
Doubtless there are anti Semites who don't like Israel.
I'm not an anti Semite.
I don't hate Israel.
The Israeli government, this is documented, and I saw it personally, steered the United States into a war that hurts the United States and the world.
I'm offended by that.
I didn't want it, and I'm mad about it now.
I have every right to feel that way.
That does not make me an anti Semite, despite your insinuation.
And I think it's important that I say that.
And by the way, I hope that you run this.
I can't control whether or not you air this exchange.
I hope that you will.
Because I think it's important to push back against slurs like that because they limit our ability to understand what's actually happening.
This is not an attack by Jews on the United States.
This is Benjamin Netanyahu moving the United States to do something he thinks will benefit him, but that does not benefit us.
It's that simple.
And so there you have it.
No matter what side of any of these issues you're on, just remember to always have Jesus Christ be your North Star.
Treat people with respect.
Listen to people that don't think like you and try to have conversations because, in this world full of division and war, the only thing that's going to move us forward is good faith, communication, and conversation.
So, moving on to our next and final topic, we're going to switch over to what's going on on the hill with our very own Allison Steinberg.
Hi, Heather.
Good to see you.
I'm like trying to get in frame here.
Yes.
It's kind of a slow day on the hill, but not for long because finally the two week recess is coming to an end.
Accountability for Bad Congress Members00:09:53
It is actually over now.
So today's a travel day for Congress.
They will be here in full force tomorrow.
So lots to catch up on them with.
Obviously, a lot has gone down in the time that they have been on their two week vacation.
So I think first and foremost, you know, we're all very eager to try to track.
Down Eric Swalwell to get the latest from him on whether or not he thinks it is appropriate for him to remain serving the people in Congress here.
I mean, he, as we know, just announced that he will be stepping down from his gubernatorial campaign.
He's no longer running for governor in the state of California.
He wrote that on X, said, I'm suspending my campaign for governor to my family, staff, friends, and supporters.
I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I've made in my past.
I will fight.
The serious false allegations.
So he's still denying that, you know, any of these things are true.
But I think there's more than enough evidence circulating on the internet right now to, you know, let us all know the truth of the matter and to really then know that Democrats have been covering for this sycophant for years.
I mean, the fact that this is all just now coming to light is really disturbing and it really makes you question the morality of many of these Democrats.
Nancy Pelosi, one of the top ones, Dogs who ran cover for Eric Swalwell for years.
So it definitely begs the question of judgment here in Congress.
We know that is running very thin amongst Democrats.
But I think there's going to be a lot of moves this week from actually both Republicans and Democrats and a bipartisan effort to try to move forward with holding Eric Swalwell and even other members of Congress accountable.
We're actually hearing now that there's a motion to move forward with.
Expelling not only Eric Swalwell, but Texas Congressman, Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez, who was involved in some just insane sexual misconduct earlier this year.
Very inappropriate text messages exchanged with a staffer of his who then later went on to commit suicide in a very devastating situation in which she lit herself on fire.
So it's sounding like this may actually snowball into a much bigger situation where it's not just Swalwell, it's also Tony Gonzalez.
And then two others we're also hearing about as well Sheila.
Sheila Sherfulis McCormick.
I always mess up her name because it's such a long one.
Sheila Sherfulis McCormick, who is documented and currently under investigation for stealing COVID relief funds.
She's also one that's being looked at, as well as Republican Congressman Corey Mills, who's been under fire for other allegations related to assault and stolen valor.
So it's going to be a really interesting and very busy week here in Congress to see what comes of this.
It's sounding like it could actually come to fruition that all four of these, Individuals are held accountable, and it's two Republicans again and two Democrats.
So, this could sort of be, you know, somewhat of a trade off here in which, you know, it wouldn't affect the majority or anything like that in the House, which I know is why probably Republicans were apprehensive to move forward with reprimanding Tony Gonzalez.
But it sounds like this would sort of be an even playing field in which two Republicans and two Democrats would finally be held to account, which should just be a given.
There shouldn't be any politics behind that.
We should just get honesty and transparency and accountability as needed.
Yeah, unfortunately, if we actually got the accountability we needed in Congress, it'd be a lot more of them leaving because Lord knows that, you know, the stories are real, right?
The parties that they all engage in, the weird stuff many of them are involved in.
Like, I highly doubt Eric Swalwell and the others are just alone on their little island there.
It just seems like it comes with the territory.
Like, I'd actually anticipate the number of.
I guess morally sound members of Congress is quite small while the majority are engaged in all these different things.
That I've even heard there's like these, not like maybe these law firms that do damage control for members of Congress.
That, if they go out and they have too much to drink and they sleep with some random person, that the organization goes in and makes it all go away.
There was like a TV series that was based off of it, but I've heard this is actually real.
This is real stuff that, like, you know, in the DC bubble, there that all of the, you know, people that right and left that get caught up in these scandals have ways to make it go away, but then they end up sort of bought and paid for, bribed, and things of that nature.
Like you pointed out, Eric's been doing this for how long now?
How long ago did he sleep with a Chinese spy?
When has he ever been held accountable for that?
Right.
It's like, so just because he's being held accountable now doesn't necessarily give me.
Faith that the system itself is better.
Yeah, it's all very disheartening.
I mean, none of this would be tolerated in the private sector yet.
You come to Congress and I guess you get a free pass and there's zero accountability for anyone.
And yes, to your point, you know, the amount of good members of Congress that are actually decent human beings is far outweighed by the number of bad members of Congress who have participated in some very shady, very questionable things that they literally only get away with because they are in a position of power.
It is so wrong.
It's so corrupt.
But I think what is the most disturbing part of it all is to your last point there about the protection measures that are in place for these members of Congress.
I just want to highlight the fact that we are literally paying for that.
There is a $17 million taxpayer funded slush fund, which Nancy Mace has repeatedly highlighted.
In fact, she brought it to the floor for a vote to expose this, to try to rescind this from being an option for members of Congress.
But of course, it failed miserably.
Most Members of Congress voted to keep this hidden, to keep this information protected and sweep it under the rug so it didn't have to be dealt with.
I wish I had the list for you, but it was just amazing to see some of these names on this list.
Some people that you think are actually have decent morals and decent values.
They were on the no list to reject bringing this to the floor for a full vote.
So it is deeply concerning to know that this is happening in mass here in Congress, and even more disturbing that you and I are paying for all of these sick.
Disgusting criminals, really, to be protected.
I mean, it's absolutely disgusting.
Yeah, I mean, 100%.
And I think it was Madison Cawthorn at one point in time that when he was, you know, the new member of Congress down there was talking about all the crazy parties and stuff that they have.
That, like, when you're a new member of Congress, they invite you to all these things so that you get roped up into that culture.
And it reminded me of like the same parties that you hear about in Hollywood, right?
When people go to the entertainment industry to try to make it, and you go to these, you know, crazy, wild, adult type parties with all these nefarious, like, things going on, scandalous stuff.
You know, with like celebrities, it's almost like the exact same thing, but like the political version.
It's like there's these political parties where you get invited to and you're with all the big money people and you're doing all this stuff, but it's like those parties become like the basically like the blackmail operation almost, it seems like.
Yeah.
Yeah, it does.
And I, you know, I can definitely attest to what you're saying.
I know that these parties happen, not that I've ever been to one or ever have any interest in going, but you hear a lot of things here on the Hill.
It is definitely something that happens regularly and it is sort of an initiation type process once you, uh, you know, are sworn in here into Congress and, and it's just sort of like part of the deal.
You know, you go out, you hang out with all these big donors, lobbyists, and it's like one giant club that we're not a part of.
I guess I probably could be a part of it if I wanted to, but I have zero interest.
Uh, not even for like reporting purposes would I ever want to be caught up in something like that.
I'm just so disgusted by the whole thing.
I think it's so sick and, um, just, uh, Really, a slap in the face of the American people.
Like these people were sent here to represent us, to do a job, to get things done, to codify critical legislation.
And what are they doing?
They're more, you know, too busy prioritizing these disgusting, sick sex parties in which they all partake in, most of them partake in.
So it's just disgusting.
And it's really sad to know that this is, you know, more of a priority to many of these people than actually getting the job done that they were sent here to do.
Amen.
Amen.
Well, final question then.
Are we going to see Eric Sval stepping down or?
Real quick, in about 30 seconds.
I sure hope so.
I did see right before coming on with you, Heather.
Let me find my note here that he was actually, that the House Ethics Committee just launched an investigation into Eric Swalwell following these, what they are deeming credible rape allegations.
So he is currently under an investigation again by the Ethics Committee.
But then we have to ask ourselves, well, is the Ethics Committee actually ethical?
That's the question I'm constantly asking.
It seems like they protect themselves time and time again.
So you're going to really be looking to hardcore.
Staunch Republicans like Anna Paulina Luna and Nancy Mace to really get this done this week.