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Jan. 29, 2026 - Rudy Giuliani
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Russian Casualties Confirmed 00:14:56
Giuliani, and this is America's mayor live.
We're live and alive and fighting back.
So we haven't talked and we haven't talked and there hasn't been real serious attention paid.
I mean, when I say that, it's been in the news, but the focus of the news in the last couple of weeks has been the two incidents in Minnesota, Iran, and it will be tonight also because the Armada showed up.
And there's every indication, there's every indication that sometime soon there's going to be some attempt to carry out the president's threat that if you kill innocent protesters in Iran, you're going to pay a very heavy price.
Now, they did kill innocent protesters.
The number keeps increasing every day as more and more intelligence emerges from Iran.
And the president may not be talking about it.
And if I were them, I'd worry about the fact that he's not talking about it if he kept my point.
So before we get to that, which we're going to spend some time on, because I think I have an analysis of it that you will find interesting.
And also an analysis of what happened in Minnesota that you may also find interesting.
I mean, it's mine and you can accept it or reject it.
But I mean, I did investigate a lot more crimes than most people, maybe not than everyone, but it is something that was my profession.
It wasn't just an avocation.
So I'm pretty confident with the hypothesis I develop.
And I'll tell you the degree of certainty I have about different things.
But Ukraine, in the Ukraine, which we haven't paid attention to, they now say that the casualty toll, the number of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers killed, wounded, or missing during the war has either reached or will by the spring reach 2 million.
That is the big, and Moscow has suffered, Russia has suffered the majority of those.
They've suffered 1.2 million.
The latest estimates show that Moscow has suffered about 1.2 million casualties so far, double than that of Ukraine, 600,000.
So they're really at 1.8 million right now.
They're saying by spring, they think they'll be at 2 million.
And that's the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, which is not connected to the Ukrainian government or the Russian government.
The Russians are going to tell you they lost 100 troops or whatever.
The Ukrainians would be more likely to tell you the truth.
And actually, the numbers they have put out about the Russian casualties have pretty much been borne out by independent analysis.
And they've been, since they're not a since I guess they operate more as a Western government, even though they have financial type corruption, I think their statistics are probably more reliable than what Russia really inherited from the communist era, which is the lie about everything.
So right now it stands at 1.2 million casualties for Russia and 600,000 casualties for Ukraine.
They've lost 325,000 soldiers in that group.
That's dead.
That's a big number.
No major power has suffered anywhere near those number of casualties since the Second World War.
This is nothing compared to Vietnam or, I mean, way beyond Vietnam, Afghanistan.
They lose about 35,000 a month.
He had 415 casualties.
And if he had stopped it before 2025, he would have saved 415,000 lives, his lives, of his own people.
Why they keep him, I don't know.
The guy treats the lives of his soldiers like they're scumping the Institute that looked at this attributes the high laws of life to Russia's failure to train,
address morale, plan for defenses, or in any way really care about the lives of their soldiers in the military actions they undertake.
Ukrainians have been saying this from the very, very beginning.
It's insane.
They just, the drones are hitting, hitting, hitting, and they keep running toward the same place and getting killed.
They send their soldiers to the meat grinder, and they figure they'll eventually overwhelm the Ukrainian forces because they outnumber them.
And they haven't been able to take the big installation in Donbas, and that's why they want the Ukrainians to give it to them so that the next time they invade Ukraine, they won't have to deal with it.
And we should tell the damn murderer to stuff it up his backside.
Time to get tough with him.
Only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them.
And this is a bully, and he's gotten away with murder, literally and figuratively.
And if we want to save these lives, what we're doing by trying to pacify isn't working.
And it's time to hit him with sanctions that starve the place, and maybe they'll take them out.
The Russian people got rid of the communism when they were starving.
And it would be a terrible thing.
I feel bad for the Russian people, but they're the ones who are inflicting the damage on others.
Nobody's inflicting damage.
Nobody invaded Russia.
Russia invaded the country next to them after promising in a treaty that they wouldn't.
And America had actually promised to defend Ukraine.
And we have broken.
I mean, let's all be honest with each other.
And we've broken our promise.
Our great, wonderful, moral country has broken its word.
Venezuela, Venezuela has had a big influx of dollars.
And their economy is beginning to, oh, gosh, I can't say, you know, hum along, but their economy is no longer over the cliff.
It's hanging over the cliff now.
been brought up from the from the bottom and it's hanging over the cliff up here um this uh one of these some someone interviewed there said i would not have said this a month ago but it actually feels like things could improve for a change Now, you got to be really, really careful here.
We've got to be really careful.
We're walking a very, very difficult line here.
The Maduro, the Chavez-Maduro regime, except for Chavez and Maduro, is running Venezuela.
The people running it are some of the worst murderers, including Del C. Pelsi under Chavez and Maduro.
Some actually were considered worse than Maduro.
I don't know about worse than Chavez.
I mean, Chavez knew what he was doing.
There are people that think Maduro was fairly dopey and that his wife was the brains of the operation.
Sounds familiar.
But in any event, there's been no improvement as far as we can tell in the human rights condition for the people of Venezuela.
They are still living in a very, very repressive dictatorship.
It does appear that they are doing what the United States is telling them to do when the United States can observe and hold them accountable.
We do not and don't want to micromanage, right?
So we don't really know what they're doing day to day.
We do know if we tell them to give us the oil, they'll give it to us.
We're pretty sure if we tell them not to send any oil to China, Russia, et cetera, or Cuba, they won't do it.
And if they do do it, we're going to catch them.
So, I mean, we pretty much had sealed that off even before we took them over by taking their boats that all the liberals were upset about.
And I thought, what's great?
Oh, we've already sold some of the oil and put it in our treasury.
So that seems to be working out fine.
The real question is, what kind of reforms are they making within so the people can have a decent life so that they can have a real election that can be overseen?
Maybe they got to get rid of, since they helped to invent, if they weren't the ones to invent the crooked machines, maybe we got to do paper election there and oversee it.
There's every reason to believe that Madame Machado would win that election.
The outside observers who were part of it say that she won over Maduro by a landslide.
It wasn't even close.
She was somewhere in the 65, 70% range, which is understandable.
That's what Zelensky had when he ran for president of Ukraine, even though he was an unknown, because the president was considered by the entire country to be a massive crook.
And it ran up to a 70% number.
The people of Venezuela, among other things, know that Maduro and Maduro's people, including the woman now running it, have stolen the money and the food out of their mouths.
They're not in any way inside Venezuela considered benevolent dictators.
They rule by force and by terror.
And they are the worst country in South America.
We have got other communist countries in South America, but there's none that cooperated more with Iran, Russia, and China.
There was none that offered the clear and present danger of allowing China to put missiles there, and they were going to allow them to put a port there.
And we have a complete Chavista in charge of the government.
I do not know of, but I do hope there is a secret plan to transition this as soon as it can be done.
Because the people of that country deserve freedom.
And I am not one of those.
I'm sorry.
I'm just not.
That doesn't think that that's part of our role.
When we have the chance, America should always try to bring freedom to people.
Because I believe that my children and my children's children, when we live in a better world, the more democracies, peaceful democracies rule by law we have in the country, in the world.
Look, we got lots of disagreements, right, with European countries.
We're not going to go to war with them.
We're not going to go to war with Denmark.
We're not going to go to war with Canada.
You know that.
They're not going to go to war with us.
And it's not just because we're so much more powerful than they are.
We'll find some way to work it out with money and negotiations.
Could we go to war with one of these tin horn dictator pieces of shit?
Yeah.
They're crazy enough to do it to keep themselves in power.
The minute you are controlled by a dictatorship, the possibilities of war and the possibilities of violence and destruction and war being used to keep power in place, the minute you become socialist, you're putting, by being socialist, you're putting people in charge of the fundamentals of life that you run for yourself.
You make the decision, at least up until now, you know, what school your child goes to or what profession with them they're going to pursue.
Maybe you don't.
Maybe your child does.
But President Trump doesn't tell you what your kid can do or governor so-and-so or, well, that's what happens in a socialist country.
Since everybody has to contribute and everybody gets equal, they get to decide how you do that.
Socialist countries are well known for five-year plans.
The five-year plans tell you that your kid can't be a doctor, your kid has to be a shoemaker.
Or your kid better be in the Olympics.
Grassroots Resistance Effort 00:14:01
Or you have to have enough family.
The lack of education about socialism and the necessary connection between socialism and dictatorship is pathetic.
And it only comes about because our educational system is controlled by Marxists who just conveniently leave out the final result of all the socialist experiments that they talk about.
The final result was they got destroyed and they ended up in mass violence and the death of many people.
So the sooner we get rid of Del Celsi the murderer running Venezuela, supposedly under our direction, the better.
Saudi Arabia has announced that it is not going to allow the United States or anyone else, I don't know who else it would be, to use Saudi Arabia as a place to either attack or defend themselves against Iran.
The big scheme of things, I guess that's all right, given what they have to live with and how important they are.
In the little scheme of things, it pisses me off.
I mean, I like people on my side, 100%.
I don't like people that have to play two sides against the middle.
So they're becoming like Qatar, right?
is jeff here jeff is okay i guess we'll do that and then we'll take a break Sure, right?
Okay, yeah.
Jeff Barden is the chief intelligence officer at Treadstone 71.
And he's going to join us to talk about the situation in Iran, which is kind of very questionable right now.
We don't really know exactly what's going on, Jeff.
It seems like the protests have calmed down somewhat, but the undercurrent seems as strong.
And putting the armada in place makes you very suspicious that we're going to do something.
So I'd like to get your view because I know you know quite a bit about it and you've got very good instincts.
Well, the situation there is still very active.
I mean, the economy's collapsed, the prices have exploded, currency has failed.
You have workers out there, shopkeepers, students that have moved first and the protests have grown, grew out of daily survival.
And this is not really from politics from abroad.
This is really a grassroots effort that's going on inside of Iran.
And so you've got things where Iran has shut down the internet and they're only allowing people out that are sympathetic to the government, actually to the regime, actually those that have signed off on agreements using what they call the white SIM cards that allows them to poke holes through the Iranian firewall to get information out.
So it's hard to get information out from inside without being targeted.
They have tried to use Starlink and other ways to get the information out, but it really is grassroots.
This has not been an outside in with former leaderships like Reza Pahavi II, who we've just issued a major report on that activity.
You actually issued a startling report about, and it, well, first of all, I congratulate you on it.
But second, I do need you to explain to me the conclusion that you came to, if you did, as to why, if I understand it correctly, the regime was promoting him.
Yes, Reza Pahlavi II is really not well known in Iran anymore.
It's been, I mean, he left when he was a teenager at age 17.
He was still growing himself.
So he's been outside the country since then.
That's been since the 80s, so early 80s.
So a lot of the people that are protesting today, the students who are well-educated students, they really know their stuff.
Want something different and they don't know Reza Pahlavi.
So, when he is pushing his, he's used a lot of bots and a lot of artificial intelligence and methods to puff up his followers from direction driven from Telegram into X and Twitter.
And that has actually made him look like he's got all these followers.
It's exploded exponentially into the millions, even on Instagram as well.
And most of it is false.
Most of it is manufactured.
Inside of this, all this activity that's been going on over the past few years and really exploded in late 2025 and into this year as well, or into actually early 2025 and through this year.
The IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has actually been monitoring this.
And their technical capabilities on the internet are very astute on this.
And they saw an opportunity where they could actually kind of Trojan horse inside of the messaging that Reza Pahlavi was using online and push their own messaging.
They use Pahlavi as well as kind of a, I'd say this, a useful idiot because they don't like him in Iran.
They don't know him that well.
They relate him back to the days of the Shah.
And those days were not good, right?
So it doesn't have a good messaging there for him.
And so they use that kind of this technically inside this Trojan horse to push out their own information, right?
The regime really doesn't fear Reza Pahlavi.
They don't, they benefit from him.
It basically lets Tehran claim that all the protests are foreign plots every time he comes in and claims that they're chanting his name and he's trying to see that.
And so that actually plays right into their messaging, right?
They're very shrewd, right?
I mean, it's very, very shrewd, but it's exactly what you would expect of them.
I mean, they've done a remarkable job almost as much as the Chinese of infiltrating, even in America.
I mean, they have a lot of support in a strange way in America.
They've got their pockets around the world where they have a lot of support.
They have financial support, even political support in the U.S.
But this footprint that he's built has allowed them to just slide inside of that footprint, technically, through the internet.
And it helps them distract from the real issues.
This is a foreign plot, and it takes it away from the hunger and the wages and the joblessness.
And they're using him as cover.
They're using him as a dupe in this.
And they've just slipped into the monarchist spaces and they pose as loud supporters of it.
They push their own extreme slogans, hashtags, and they create fake amplifiers out there.
And so this proves to the people that this is all foreign control.
This is all foreign push.
And therefore, what is really not what's going on in the street?
It's coming from the outside, agitators and paid folks to do this when in fact it's not.
It is a grassroots effort.
But they've used him to do this, and they've been pretty successful for that up to this point, I believe.
Well, what is your best?
And of course, you know, it's all speculation, but where is this all going?
How do you see this progressing?
Is this a revolution?
Is it going to continue?
I think it will definitely continue.
It's not abating, even though Iran wants to make it look like it's abating and slowing down.
I think any outside influence right now would play right into Iran, the resilience favor.
I think that would.
If we came in ourselves at the U.S. and tried to bomb different groups, I think that may be the wrong thing to do right now.
Isn't that interesting?
I mean, that's a very interesting point of view.
It does seem if you have all those assets there, that the chance we're going to do that is pretty high.
It is.
But as you said moments ago, Saudi says you can't use our land from this because they realize, I think the Saudis realize not only do they have to live with this, but they're looking at this as well as grassroots.
And they don't want to be associated with an attack that actually will kill everyday citizens, no matter how we try to minimize that.
The fact that we're on the doorstep is a nice deterrence ourselves to do that.
On the other hand, there are different ways to help push this along internally.
How would you push it along?
Well, I come from an intelligence background.
I know, I know that.
My whole idea would be to leverage that as much as possible through social media, through boots on the ground that are people there that would listen to our messaging if we could get that across internally without being seen as the great Satan and how we were back in 1980.
So, along with other folks that do this, without, it's a real balancing act here to go after this.
But I think force right now is the wrong message to send.
It's the wrong thing to do.
Having that force out there, I don't think it's a bad thing.
Setting it up is a nice deterrence to do that.
I think it's too soon.
I don't think the Iranian people know exactly what they want either, what they want this to look like when they're done.
They just know that they don't want what they have today.
I think they believe in a lot of cases the young folks there, who, as I said, are well-educated, sharp people.
Yeah, that seems to be true.
That they have a very well, also, you know, if you dealt with the Iranian people, both the diaspora and some, these are very almost uniformly very intelligent people.
Very, very sharp, very intelligent, very able to understand what's going on.
And if anybody could pull this off, they could do it.
I think they don't want to be told what to wear, what to believe in, how to act, how to behave, right?
They've grown up with the internet where they've seen how the rest of the world lives.
And they basically, I think a lot of them feel that when the Shah was removed, Islam took over and basically Islam became something that the young don't necessarily they.
It's not that they don't believe in it, it's not that they don't want Islam, they just want a different version of Islam.
They don't want the heavy hand right.
They, they want to believe in this in a different way.
Well your, your uh view and and and and uh, like the Iranian people want to be able to do this on their own.
They don't feel they need any boots on the ground.
They just feel, in essence, they need support from the outside.
That's very much the view of the leadership of the NC.
Uh, what is it?
The NCRI yeah, and the MEK.
Now, what do you think of them as uh, Influencing this and having a role in this?
Well, the MEK or the People's Mujahideen of Iran, right, they pushed forward where they want to bring a democracy.
They do support, they are Islamic as well.
They want to open this up.
I mean, the leadership there has a 10-point plan that they've put forward.
So to share that with them, and the people inside know what that is.
Let the people inside decide how they want to manipulate that and shift that around into something that fits the boots on the ground there, the people there.
I think what would help is promises from Europe, the United States, in different large countries out there that would say, hey, look, if you do overthrow it, we'll be there to support you.
We'll support you politically.
We'll support you financially.
We'll start opening up avenues of growth for you.
We'll tear down the sanctions we put forward.
But until then, until that happens, we can't give an inch to this regime.
Well, it's a very interesting point of view.
I really appreciate it, Jeff.
Do you mind if we keep checking with you?
Because this could go on for a while.
I get a sense you got a pretty good idea of what's going on inside there.
If you were able to uncover that very, very intricate scheme, that's pretty hard to do.
Congratulations to your group.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Great work.
God bless you.
Thank you.
I mean, that's really true.
I understand intelligence work too.
And to pull out, the regime had to do everything in the world to cover that.
Savak's Brutality Described 00:02:09
That they were promoting, you know, the baby Shah, the Nepo Shah, it's a joke.
The first time I heard from the MEK people, which is only a couple of years ago, I've been involved in this for 15 years, and this guy hasn't been there at all, never taken the slightest little risk, ever, slightest little risk.
He hasn't risked his little toe.
All of a sudden, he comes along, son of a murdering dictator, whose only claim is because he has that name, doesn't disavow what his old man did, who got thrown out of there for the Savak and the killing of people.
I mean, I know there's this whole romantic thing, the Shah, because Hollywood liked him and the television people liked him.
And even my friend Barbara Walters liked him.
And he, you know, he would charm women and all this other stuff.
Meanwhile, he was killing people left and right.
And he put together, he actually, his father was supposed to be even more brutal than him.
People doubt that.
There are people who say he was more brutal because he was much more of an introvert and a scaredy cat, a little pussy.
So he developed, his father was a great warrior.
He was a very timid soul, very timid little soul.
So he had to develop, like my father said, he couldn't fight for himself like the mafia.
So he had to go get a gang and the gang was called the Savak.
And the Savak turned out to be one of the most feared secret police in the world.
And that was a world in which we had communism all over.
There are people who felt they were worse than the secret police in East Germany.
You got story after story of somebody's father, mother, cousin, friend who was tortured by the SaVak before they were killed or tortured and let out by the Shah.
Torture and Oppression 00:03:56
You've got, and we had them on last night, and several others from the Iran is made up of, oh gosh, a lot of people, but we can make a division of some kind.
So this, the number of you get a different number, even if you look in different source books, but somewhere between 51% and 59 to 60% of Iran is theoretically, and this is very theoretical because it goes way back, Persian origin.
Farsi, they speak Farsi.
They originally practiced, they practiced a Zoroastrian religion.
And they consider themselves the principal owner of the name Persia, which was changed to Iran by the second Shah's father, the first Shah.
Then there are 40 to possibly 48% that are called, for want of a better term, and we'll have to come up, they have to come up with a better term if they want to be a nation, ethnic minorities.
And some of the minorities are quite big, like they make up 15 to 20% of the population, the Azeri.
The Azeri are in the northwestern part of Iran, and they bought Iran, Azerbaijan, Aziri, Azerbaijan, which is very closely related to Turkey.
And maybe their background is the same as the Turks.
And they may have been put there by the Ottoman Turks way back.
And they are at times comfortable with being part of Persia, Iran, and sometimes very uncomfortable.
They were extremely uncomfortable under the Shah because he killed them.
He would kill them.
He wanted them to disavow their Azeri background and nationalize as Persians.
They wanted to retain their Azeri-Persian identity.
And I would say, talking to them both, interviews that you have observed, and also talking to them off the record, if for some reason they would have put some kind of pure Persian nationalist in charge of that government, they would rebel.
You'd have a civil war as soon as he got rid of the Ayatollah.
And the Shah would be the worst choice.
The baby Shah would be the worst possible choice because the old man was brutal to them.
And every single one of them has some relative that he tortured or killed.
It is basically true then of all of the other ethnic minorities.
They don't speak with one voice on everything and they even oppose each other on certain things.
But the ethnic minorities, the second biggest group of the Kurds, the Balushi, and then a lot of other groups, they unite on one thing, and that's what helped to overthrow the Shah.
They despise the Pahlavi family.
They see them for what they are, murderers and thieves.
And it affected until now, because they've, of course, have not done very well under the Ayatollah either.
It affected their original view of America because America and Britain forced the Pahlavi family on them.
There is no Pahlavi family.
Why They Hate the Pahlavi Family 00:15:14
The guy was a Cossack soldier, middle-class Cossack soldier.
He invented the name Pahli.
They weren't a royal family.
The British put him in so the British could control British Petroleum.
And every intelligent, educated person in Iran knows that.
And Iran is heavily educated, very poor, but heavily educated.
So I'm glad we had him on.
He really straightened out a lot of things.
We'll take a short break and we'll be right back.
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This is what goes into Rudy's coffee here to show you this because I want to give you a little good news.
Bad news is that people are leaving the state now losing.
There's a big race that has been going on for some time between New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois.
And it is how many people are going to leave.
And at times, New York has not won that.
New Jersey has won it.
There was a period of time that California was losing half their state to Texas.
But New York has now jumped way ahead.
Now, that all is interesting, and it should show you the horrible corrupt, incompetent leadership they keep electing and for some reason aren't aware enough to figure out.
Because the most effective voting is with your feet, right?
And they're leaving really.
New York is the high is now, again, this was a competition and New York has not always been ahead here, but New York is now ahead by quite a bit on the tax, most heavily taxed state in the country, even more than California.
In fact, New Yorkers pay per person, and of course that's a very silly number because half the people don't pay taxes, but per person, New York pays $7,000 more per year than I now do in Florida and $5,000 more than just about everybody else in the United States.
Now, for an individual person, tell us what that is, Stephen.
I didn't know what that was.
Do people see that?
Sorry, yes, they can see it.
That was actually the predicted change in representation based on the population demographics.
I'm going to show you what that means for New York, California, Texas, and Florida.
New York is going to lose two, for sure.
It could be three.
California is going to lose four, no matter what cheating Big Hare does.
Texas is going to gain at least four, possibly five.
And Florida, depending on what happens in the next two years, could go from four to six.
What I'm showing you are minimum numbers.
I mean, that probably gives you four.
Let's say Republicans can win 10 of the, what is that, 10 of this, four, eight, four.
And it's likely going to be more than that.
Probably 10 to 4.
Republicans pick up 10.
Democrats maybe could squeeze out four.
Could be all of them.
Could be all of them.
It's also going to make redistricting even more difficult and have it pass constitutional muster.
New York just has tried to redistrict the Staten Island away from the Republicans and the crooked Democratic judge ruled in favor of it.
They take Staten Island, which is connected to Brooklyn by the Verrazano Bridge and by, you know, people in Brooklyn end up in Staten Island.
Half the people in Brooklyn, old-fashioned people, have relatives in Staten Island and vice versa.
They're going to take Staten Island and connect it to Manhattan so they can try to defeat the only Republican, a Republican congressional representative from the city of New York, Nicole Maliotakis, who's probably the only one you can really count on to be honest and work hard for the New York City like I could with the Malinari family and Fido Facella.
Poor Mr. Grimm, Congressman Grimm.
He got hurt.
But in any event, in any event, The population shifts to the blue states are becoming greater and greater.
And this is what happened in New York, why New York shot to the top very quickly, is the complete, I'm not going to call him a moron or a jerk or anything.
I'm going to call him exceedingly dangerous individual that they put in charge of New York, a dedicated communist and an admirer and supporter of Islamic terrorism, and a guy who is a pathological hater of Jewish people.
Now, that two, I guarantee you, by the time we get to the new census, New York's going to lose four.
We've lost about 18 over the last.
And so, what happens also?
A little more good news.
It changes the electoral vote.
New York's electoral vote goes down.
California's electoral vote goes down.
And by the same process, Texas goes up and Florida goes up.
Now, if you're a Republican candidate for president, you think you'd like that better?
Of course you would.
And by the way, there are five more examples of this.
But they are.
I want somebody, and there probably is.
I'm going to say, I have this feeling, but I haven't had time to do the research because I have a lot of other things to do, more important.
I have a feeling there are some Democrat cities that are run well.
I have a feeling there are.
I do.
I mean, I don't mean this sarcastically.
But I wouldn't be able to tell you.
When I was mayor, I could.
That's not a lot.
Democrats are terrible administrators.
One of their big weaknesses is they don't know how to run anything.
I mean, they're also crooks, a lot of them.
It goes back to Boss Tweet and the history of their party.
But the other thing they are because they're silly, crazy, irrational liberals with these silly solutions, you know, like let's have a city-owned grocery store and give people food for nothing.
As if other people are going to stay around and just support lazy bums.
Okay, I'm racking my brain here because I was trying real hard to think of a good run off the top of your head, right?
No, not at all.
I'm trying to like look at.
Maybe there's a Democrat in our audience, and you can tell where should they, where should they email it to, Ted?
They can comment it.
But also, I was thinking Ted says.
It'll probably be somewhere in the South.
I'm assuming where the woke stuff just isn't quite as palatable.
Well, you know, in the South, when they have high crime rates, it comes from the Democrat cities.
Well, of course.
Well, of course, right?
Yeah.
Huh.
Well, Ann Arbor, maybe?
No, Ann Arbor is still a mess too.
No, I'm not going to count a city that's the size of a New York apartment business.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
It's got to be a reality.
Well, then there aren't any that.
It got to be at least 250,000 people to 300,000.
At least.
I mean, if it's 100,000, I mean, my God, that's on one block in New York.
I used to love it when mayors from cities like that would come and tell me their problems.
Mayor Pete?
Oh, Mayor Pete did a terrible jam.
He was a terrible mayor.
Yeah.
He was a terrible Secretary of Transportation.
As we know, he was never on time for anything.
He didn't even do anything.
He was on vacation.
He was on paternity leave.
Or on vacation.
He was on paternity.
You're a cabinet secretary and you're on paternity.
You know, get someone else, right?
Yeah, the new Secretary of Transportation has about 145 kids, right?
San Jose, California.
It's well run.
I know they had a pretty, when I was mayor, we had a pass them in murders per capita to be the best large city in terms of murder, or the largest city with the least number of murders per capita.
The last city we had a pass was San Jose.
So it probably has been a good city for quite some time.
Usually if a city has a reputation as a good city, it remains that way.
See, we have the opportunity.
In Michigan, we have the opposite.
We have the most terrible cities at one point.
Flint, Detroit, and Saginaw was like a triangle.
So whatever your metric you were proud of, we had the opposite of it.
Most shots per formerly great cities.
Right.
Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.
Are you basing it on a murder rate?
I think we have to go beyond that.
First of all, there are going to be some cities that got the benefit.
Oh, look at Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., in terms of crime, had an incredible decline.
That's because Trump brought in the National Guard.
That's actually on the list.
And also, also, if ICE has been there, I know these liberals hate ICE, but they got rid of an awful lot of rapists, which are crime, just petty crime.
They took out the crime machines.
Only a few people commit most of the crimes.
And if you can get a good one, you have an actual impact on the crime rate.
And they litter too, and it makes it dirty.
Professor Wilson used to make this point.
He makes the point in a very old book now called Career Criminal.
And it is that if you let a burglar out in four years rather than six, you know how many burglaries he commits in that two years you have him out?
It actually has an impact on your burglary rate.
Well, we have with us another expert and we're really, you know, Iran right now is kind of closed off to us in the sense that they have cut off the internet.
And Claire Lopez is a national security expert.
Claire has a deep knowledge of Iran.
So I would like to ask her, because this is the only way we can really look inside Iran through people who know it, if you could explain to us your view of what's going on, because it feels from the outside a little bit like the protests and what's called the revolution has slowed down from where it was two weeks ago.
Not gone, not gone, and capable of being revived, but it seems like it slowed down.
Now, is that true?
Is it wrong?
And how do you see it?
And what do you think can be done so we eventually can get rid of this regime?
Well, thank you, first of all, Mayor, for having me on.
Very glad to be with you.
We met just one time last year at the Nowruz celebration.
I'm very happy to see you again.
Protests Continue Amid Regime Crackdown 00:03:49
As far as Iran goes, after the absolute massacre of Iranian protesters in the streets, typically more or less over the days of the 8th and the 9th of January, that's a few weeks ago now.
They're saying, I mean, it's so hard to know the numbers, but perhaps as many as upwards of 30,000.
Yeah, that's what I hear.
Protesters, Iranian people were slaughtered and tens and tens of thousands more arrested And facing probably torture and execution.
So, yes, the volume, the scope, the span of the protest has diminished since that time, earlier in January.
People are afraid, naturally so.
The regime came out not just with their own IRGC, Pazduran, Basij thugs to gun people down, including machine guns mounted on the backs of pickup trucks, mowing people down in the street.
But that regime in Tehran was so afraid for its own survival, and it should be, that they brought in Arab, Arabic-speaking Arabs from the Hashdashabi,
these Shiite militias established by the Quds force, the not so dearly departed Qasim Suleimani, the Shiite militias inside of Iraq, militias like Qatayzballa,
the Badr Brigade, and others, because they knew the regime in Tehran knew that they would be less hesitant to slaughter civilians in the streets than perhaps their own forces might be.
So, yes, the protests have diminished, but they've not gone.
They're not done.
We're also having trouble getting imagery, videos, information, photos out of Iran, despite the best efforts of thank you very much, Elon Musk and Starlink.
But the regime is, of course, hunting down the people with the receivers, you know, the dishes, the equipment you need to actually receive the signals, confiscating them and killing the people who've got them.
So hard to get current and updated information out.
But from what we can see, protests continue.
The resistance forces, incredibly courageous people inside of Iran, are on the streets still in places, including the capital of Tehran and other cities across Iran.
But what can be done?
Well, maybe we should talk about the armada that President Trump is amassing in areas around the Middle East and surrounding Iran.
Well, I have an instinct, and really just all, that's all it is, an instinct that we're going to do something.
The president said that he would deal with them very, very harshly and he would attack them if they killed protesters.
Of course, they kind of symbolically satisfied that by not killing, not executing.
Well, did they?
In fact, they killed 30,000 people, and he knows that.
He knows that.
And I think he realized, particularly after his talk with Netanyahu, that although we're capable of doing tremendous damage to them and could have done it two weeks ago, we weren't capable of completely protecting ourselves.
Two Carrier Strike Groups Amass 00:02:50
14 bases, who knows what they could hit.
And I think he wanted as complete a shield there as possible before.
And for Israel, too, of course.
And Israel.
And I think now with the, I mean, we've got a tremendous.
We've got probably two and a half to three times what we had in Venezuela outside of Venezuela.
And I don't think he wants to keep them there a long time because he wants to get them back to the South China Sea, but we've got to worry about China and Taiwan.
So something's going to happen.
They're not there.
They're not there to take the sun.
Well, I mean, you don't amass that much firepower and then just send them all home.
What we're talking about is two aircraft carrier strike groups, the Abraham Lincoln coming out of East Asia, out of the South China Sea, now on post, as we've understood, in the Arabian Sea, I guess just south of Yemen.
And then coming out of Norfolk, the U.S. eastern coast, the USS carrier strike group, the George H.W. Bush carrier strike group.
And that means not just the aircraft carriers themselves with all the planes on board and thousands of Marines, but all the accompanying naval vessels, including destroyers, other kinds of support vessels, and maybe submarines too.
So they are now on post.
The Mediterranean from the one side, and I think that other one, the Abraham Lincoln down the Arabian Sea.
But in addition to that, we've got, I don't know how many KC-135 aerial refueling tankers positioned at Diego Garcia and also at the Aloude, great big U.S. Air Force Base in Qatar, plus an entire squadron of U.S. fighter jets positioned in Jordan, which perhaps might be the base of operations for this whole operation and more and more.
So I don't think you amass that many forces and then just say, oh, well, you know, go home.
But I do think that President Trump is trying to sort of visibly check off boxes to say, we really tried.
Oh, no, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I mean, he wants to be in a position that he was in with Maduro, which is so that Marco Rubio and the others at the UN could say, we offered him every opportunity.
And he just required us to do this.
And that would be true with the Ayatollah.
And the Ayatollah has been completely defiant.
And all they do is talk about how they're going to kill us.
Shiite Messianic Beliefs 00:03:31
They put out a thing the other day with American coffins.
I mean, but I don't think, even to this day, I don't think the American people understand how insane this regime is.
Well, you know, they don't understand.
And I heard you talking about Zohran Mandani a bit earlier.
They don't understand the ideological component that's involved here.
And of course, Zohran Mandani is an Islamic Shiite 12er, just like the senior leadership right now of the Iranian regime, to include the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, those, you know, mullahs around him, the entire IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, tightly vetted for ideological purity and allegiance to the 12th Imam.
And then I would add to that the judiciary in Iran, the ones handing down all these thousands of death sentences after a quick five-minute trial with no representation.
And so I think that both, you know, we here in the West and others maybe don't understand the commitment, the depth of the commitment to this Islamic Shiite doctrine.
12th Imam, of course, is believed by the 12vers, as they're called, followers of the 12th Imam.
They believe that that's the Mahdi, the messianic figure of Islam, but this is the 12th Imam for the Shiites in a line down from Muhammad, 1, 2, 3, 4, all the way to 12.
Father Sa's.
He was martyred, right?
No.
And they think he's going to return?
Well, here's the thing.
They don't know what happened to him exactly.
We're talking about the early 800s.
And either he was hidden away as a child for fear of assassination because they were all killing each other back then.
Well, now too.
Or possibly he fell down a well in Jamkaran, which is a village not very far from Qom, the theological seminary city, kind of in the center of Iran.
So he died.
Anyway, there was no 13th Imam ever.
So what to do?
So what they said is, oh, that's the Mahdi.
He's the messianic figure.
He's coming back at the end of time to usher in the day of judgment.
And the thing about the kicker for the regime, and apparently Zohran Mamdani is all on board with this too, is that these 12ers, unlike Sunnis, who also believe in the messianic figure of the Mahdi, but the Shiite 12ers believe they can hasten his return back to Earth, make him come back sooner than he otherwise might have by instigating literally Armageddon on Earth.
Okay.
This with a regime driving for a deliverable nuclear weapon, developing the ballistic missiles to deliver that, and Zohran Mamdani in the city of New York that was hit on 9-11 by an Iranian operation.
That was an Iranian operation on 9-11 in New York City, the Pentagon, and the flight in Pennsylvania.
So I think, Claire, we should let people know that what you're saying has a very solid support in the Quran.
Well, of course.
Regime Support and Nuclear Threat 00:10:54
Yes, it does.
And that's the book.
That's the book that he took the oath on is a book that tells them to dedicate themselves to eliminating us.
Absolutely.
So many verses in the Quran dedicated to jihad, to Jew hatred this day after the Holocaust remembrance, and the annihilation of anyone who refuses to submit to Islam.
Before we have to go, would you tell me what you think the role, the positive role, could be for MEK and the NCRI and the group that is put together and has been in existence for quite some time with Madame Rajavi and all the people that could help with the transition.
Absolutely.
Well, as you know, I have known them and worked with them and supported them for a very long time.
The NCRI, National Council of Resistance of Iran, is the umbrella political group within which the MEK or Mujahi Kalk, Mujahi Kalk, by the way, means the fighters who support the people.
Yes.
The people's fighters who support the people.
That's what that name means.
But in any case, the leadership of the NCRI, whose office is literally in Washington, D.C., two blocks down from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, they have set out a set of 10 points.
Madame Rajavi, whom I've met in Paris, a 10-point plan first written, published out in 2006, so 20 years ago.
And this 10-point plan outlines the vision of the NCRI for which Madame Rajavi is the president-elect.
And it outlines a vision for Iran after the fall of this regime, which is inevitable from internal corruption and mismanagement and everything else, as well as any push we might help from the outside.
But the 10-point plan envisions in Iran that will be a non-nuclear, democratic, and secular republic with gender equality, no WMD of any kind, nuclear, chemical, or biological, universal suffrage, protections for minorities, an independent judiciary, a free market capitalist system of an economy.
All of these things and more are in the six-point plan, which you can find if you'd like to read through it to our listeners, viewers.
Yeah, I think we'll, you know what I'll do, Claire?
I'm going to promise to listen is that tomorrow night we'll show it to them.
Yeah, okay.
They can just go to the website.
I think we have quite some time ago, but it's worth reviewing.
It is.
Yeah, because particularly with the, I call him the Nepo Shah, particularly with him inserting himself in this, I worry that this thing is going to get hijacked.
And yeah, I mean, that's a concern of mine, too, that were this, you know, Ayatollah-led regime collapse.
And again, this has to be by the will of the people.
This cannot really be done from the outside.
It must be the Iranian people who take charge of this and bring down that regime from inside.
But were that regime to fall, the Ayatollah's and the Mullahs to be out of power, the leadership currently no more in power.
But would the IRGC survive?
Would the pillars of support for the regime survive?
And of course, we've heard so many times when Reza Pahlavi talks about his desire to work with the Pasduran, with the IRGC.
Well, he's been in con, I don't understand this, but he's been in contact with them numerous times.
They're a terrorist group.
I don't understand why he isn't under investigation or he shouldn't be in contact with them.
No, I don't think so either.
And I think the worst outcome.
So I come to the worst conclusions about that.
And I mean, the worst outcome to my way of thinking would be that the mullahs regime falls, the Vilabi regime falls, but the IRGC remains in power, even a worse outcome.
And then would Reza Pahlavi, what, be their puppet monarch?
Right before you, we had on Jeff Barden, whose organization did a remarkable cyber investigation in which they revealed the fact that the regime was boosting his post into Iran with their own message and making his support seem bigger because they feel it will disillusion the revolutionaries.
In other words, they'll say to themselves, we're going to die and lose our children just to get the Shah back.
A very shrewd strategy.
It could also be that the revolutionary guard figures, okay, we'd rather have the Ayatollah, but if we have to deal with the Shah, he's been friendly with us for 20 years.
We can manipulate him.
Perhaps terrible outcome.
What we have to remember, of course, is that this regime and its intelligence operation, the MOIS, Ministry of Intelligence and Security, visa talat vamnidieshvar, that plus the IRGC itself has its own intelligence unit.
They are really, really good at information operations, cyber operations, and that's what they're doing here.
Well, thank you very, very much, Claire.
I'm really delighted that we could have you on, and we'll have to do it again.
All right, please.
Thank you, Mayor.
Very, very, very glad to come back again.
Thank you.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Well, there's a very, very knowledgeable woman and very sound.
So that really leaves us with the question which we'll pursue tomorrow night, which is what's the best course for America to take?
I think Jeff was urging that America be there, show strength, give support behind the scenes.
I didn't ask him if we should supply weapons or whatever, but I kind of think he would have said yes, but not actually do an attack.
Claire, it seemed to me, was leaning more toward we should take some kind of definitive action to speed this along.
I can see either, I'm always in favor of definitive action, but that's my personality, and therefore I have to temper it with hearing advice on the other side.
But I think that's something worth pursuing, which we'll do tomorrow night.
But I think it's time for us to do something.
And I think the president has set this up brilliantly so that we can do it, as always, with the least amount of loss of human life.
And I think that's what he's going to attempt to do.
And I do think from his statement that he doesn't want to meet with Pahlavi, that he's pretty aware of the problems with this guy, how crooked the family was, how brutal the family was, and how much of an opportunist this Nerdewell has been.
Never had a job, lived off wealth.
What's the wealth that he lived off?
The money that his crooked family stole from the people of Iran who were starving.
And I'm sure he's been briefed.
They're going to support that.
Yeah, I'm sure he's been briefed on the likelihood of success of a possible Pahlavi success.
You can walk yourself right into a civil war with the Azeris and then with the group that's probably been the most loyal to us, the Kurds.
We want to help the Kurds.
We don't want to hurt the Kurds.
Exactly.
Well, thank you very much for listening in tonight.
We'll be back tomorrow.
You can see we've got plenty more to pursue.
We probably covered half of what we wanted to, but we've got time to do the rest.
Ted, anything you want to add to what we've?
Well, another very busy night in this Fulton County story.
We'll be following that closely.
Yeah, we want to see what the FBI picks up.
You know, I'm not sure in the fact that they got all these documents.
I don't know if they have 2020 documents.
I don't know.
I have a feeling, I know they destroyed some of them.
I know they destroyed.
Well, I knew they burned some.
I don't know how many.
The ATF agent only could make a very, very general estimate.
It was in the hundreds of thousands.
Then there were 300,000 more that were missing.
Then they found 300,000 that weren't certified, which means they're invalid.
So I don't know if the I don't know if the ballot still exists.
Well, here's what we're doing.
And they're going to be short anyway.
They're going to be short 300 to 600,000 ballots.
One thought, and I've never, I don't know how long it takes to sort of like set up rigging an election, right?
But is it possible that there are already materials and supplies for the 2026 election in there?
Because that one?
Because there's every indication that they rigged the 2018 election.
So I mean, if you really think about it, you're going to probably have overlap from the two elections and that they rigged elections in between.
Yes.
And really, if you think about it, when you rig an election, the remedy just doesn't exist, right?
So it's almost like you have to do it.
You have to be proactive with it.
And if they're catching the cheating ahead of 26 in this instance, that would be good.
I hope it's more focused on 2020, obviously, but or but either way, I mean, it's good to see them doing something, right?
Pray For Wisdom 00:03:29
Yep.
Well, we'll be back tomorrow.
Let's pray for those people in Iran.
I mean, who knows what they're going to have to go through to get out of this?
I mean, they're willing to lose their lives.
I mean, many of them are asking for President Trump to please bomb because they feel that they have no future and their children have no future if they don't get rid of the Ayatollah.
And it's worth risking their lives.
Well, certainly all the protesters feel that way.
They knew they could be killed on site and they were.
Many of them were.
Claire is right.
The number now uniformly is regarded as about 30,000.
And I mean, there are 140 cities this was taking place.
So these numbers are not at all unrealistic.
Let's pray for the people of Israel and the people of Ukraine and for the people of Venezuela.
Of course, for our people.
And let's pray for the president.
These are very, very difficult decisions.
We get to talk about them, right?
And we get to have opinions back and forth.
And we can change our, but he has to make decisions on which human beings are going to live or die.
And that's tough, particularly if you're a good man like he is.
So dear God, help to guide him.
Thank you.
We'll see you tomorrow night.
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It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
There was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past and see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country, a country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
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We are able to apply our God-given common sense.
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