America's Mayor Live (877): President Trump Says New Strikes are Targeting Iran's Leadership
President Trump’s targeted strikes on Iran’s Assembly of Experts and Hezbollah—destroying 60% of its leadership, 11 battleships, and disrupting succession plans—exploit ethnic divisions (Kurds, Azeris) to destabilize the regime. The $150B JCPOA windfall allegedly fueled terrorism, while U.S.-backed protests in 2022 saw 35,000+ civilians killed in state repression. A secular post-regime Iran could realign with Israel via Cyrus Accords, but domestic U.S. concerns—jihadist networks in Minneapolis, MESA’s radical academia, and open-border chaos—threaten stability. Meanwhile, Texas primaries reveal urban-rural divides, while Iran’s collapsing empire in Syria and Yemen underscores its irrational aggression. The episode frames Trump’s policies as both a Middle East reset and a domestic counter to extremism, urging historical reflection over ideological gridlock. [Automatically generated summary]
We have Washington behind us because that's the center of activity.
And I have with me, of course, someone you know very well, Waleed Farris, so that we can try to make some sense of what's going on, which is not the easiest.
And I began with the question we were talking about.
And that was, it was today, right?
This morning, when an America attacked the Assembly of Experts and took them out in the middle of, apparently, their deliberations for what they're going to do about a new Ayatollah.
Absolutely.
I know the Arabic term of it, Majlis Tashis and Nadam.
So people who are expert understand.
This is the top authority.
This is just below.
This is in their crazy constitution.
They have a crazy constitution.
They have these different groups.
Yes.
And this group exists really mostly mostly for the purpose of that.
They're the ones who selected the coming.
Khamenei.
Kameha.
After Khomeini died.
Khomeini dies, comes Khamine, and they help Khamenei in selecting the top people who would rule.
It's like a polit bureau, a Soviet political power.
So when they meet, it's a big deal.
But this time they met in secret, deep secret.
But our intelligence service.
Well, somebody is piercing their deep secrets.
I think so.
I think so.
And so we don't really know yet how successful they were in taking out key people.
Well, that council was successful in proposing names.
Right.
But it was too short because then the missiles came or whatever equivalent.
And then this really has disrupted the regime.
Now at this point in time, we don't know who's going to be next because what the regime has done was to choose for every commander, major minister commander, a deputy.
And then after Israel killed many in the 12-day war, including Hezbollah, they chose three deputies.
So each dude has one and two below them.
But now they are out of deputies.
So it is really serious.
Also see that Israel is spending a little time going back after Hezbollah.
Yes, they have to.
Is Hezbollah still a factor?
Yes, yes.
No, Israel destroyed most of the long-range ballistic missiles, most, because Hezbollah resupplied.
And they have eliminated 60% of their leaders, also two generations of leaders.
60% of the Hezbollah leaders.
Of the Hezbollah leaders.
I'm talking just about Hezbollah.
And Hezbollah was their biggest and most able terrorist group.
That's it.
Much stronger than Hamas or the Houdis.
Oh, by far.
Plus, Mayor, Hezbollah has a huge worldwide network.
Of course, right.
Huge.
Their headquarters in the Americas was Venezuela, so they already lost that.
They have a headquarter in Caracas, et cetera, et cetera.
So to go back to the first point you raised, now there is a problem because they don't know who Israel and the US are going to eliminate.
So probably what they're going to do right now is connect the commanders, the executive commanders on the ground, because they don't have a political at this point in time.
They will produce one, of course.
But they are in very bad shape.
And at that time, the Kurds are moving in the northwestern part of Iran.
Possibly the Belush on the southwestern part of Iran.
These are two ethnicities.
Usually they have weapons, likewise.
The Kurds do for sure.
Oh, the Kurds.
And now they are open.
Are the Kurds in Iran as effective as they were?
I mean, during the Iraq war, they were very effective allies.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And they have liberated their areas three times in three, four decades.
They would actually liberate it, and then the armies of Khomeini will have to take it back.
So what I called Kurdistan, I mean, the province of the Kurds in Iran, Normandy, probably it's going to be the first part of Iran where the regime will recede and then the fighters will take over.
Maybe.
I know our military has tremendous respect for the Kurds.
They do.
And there was a certain nervousness and feeling that maybe they weren't giving enough attention in Syria with the switch over to this new guy.
The new Muslim Brotherhood guy.
And largely that came from the military because they feel such loyalty to the Kurds because they were so effective as partners in Iraq.
So they're capable.
Will some of the Kurds from Iraq come over into Iran?
Great question.
We're not going to answer in public because they're listening to us.
But certainly the Kurds of Iran have enough troops, but elements from the trained elements from the Kurds in northern Iraq.
Said Iran have a lot of troops, but in Iraq, we've trained them.
Yeah, and they're right on the border.
I mean, I'm not going to ask you to answer it, but it just makes sense that they would flow back and forth.
Flow back and forth.
The Kurds in Iran go have dinner in Erbil and come back in the evening.
It's that close, basically.
So it's open, open border.
So who?
Does the IRGC have substantial resources there to contain them?
Or are they?
They had until this morning when the Alliance started to hit the IRGC, the Basij, the Ministry of Intelligence inside Iraqi Kurdistan.
So in the main cities.
So these are, let's call them the Nazi occupation forces.
The Allies are hitting them.
So who did that?
U.S. or?
US and Israeli.
I wouldn't know who of the two.
They were hit by one or the other.
Baiwan, yeah.
So that was done specifically to help the Kurds and give them a little more freedom of action.
Yeah, well, that's reducing their problem.
That's true.
But that will allow more Kurds from Iraq, Ishmaels, to move and help them and train them and deploy them because they have been trained by us.
So we're not really using troops on the ground because we have troops on the ground, trained US-trained troops on the ground, and the Kurds are one of them.
When you talk about the ethnic groups there, they make up about 40, pretty close, not quite a majority, but pretty close to it, right?
Yeah.
42, 43%, 44%.
It goes from 38 to 45.
And that includes the Kurds and the Azeris are the biggest.
The Aziris are the biggest.
The Azeris are Turkic-speaking and they have the largest, it's southern Azerbaijan, in fact, and their areas go all the way to the suburbs of Tehran.
It's that big.
Baku, not Baku, the Azeri cities inside Iran are the backbone of the armed forces, by the way.
Most of the most important officers of the IRGC come from Azeri areas.
Second are the Kurds.
The Kurds.
Or the Balushis.
Balushes have the largest area landmass, but the Kurds probably are slightly higher.
So these are the three major ones.
Then you have the Arabs in Ahwa.
People forget that.
They forget, yeah, the Arabs.
And they have borders with Iraq.
So if we have assets in Iraq, we can help those.
And they are against the regime.
So if you look at Western Iran, you see from the top the Kurds.
Below them, you have the Ahwazis or Arabs.
So 60% of the Iranian border with Iraq is inhabited by these ethnic minorities.
They're going to play a role in this.
They're going to.
The longer it goes on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think the marginal, the margins of Iran are already in rebellion, most of them.
But the big challenge is going to be, of course, Tehran and the rest of the provinces.
But it could be a race between those who want to liberate Tehran and those who are coming from the province.
It could be one or the other.
Like in France, when you have the Gaul and General Leclerc advancing, already pockets of resistance inside France liberated themselves from the Nazis.
Something very close to that scenario.
Well, that could happen.
I see pieces of it happening, but it depends on us also.
Now, what's left of Iran?
The bulk.
We've wiped out a lot of the top leadership.
We seem to be aiming at a lot of the artillery, the missiles, the airplanes.
So what?
Well, you mentioned them, Mayor.
So it sounds like a very, very strategic, seems like a very intelligent and strategic attack.
The best.
A lot more than theirs.
Yeah.
First of all, they don't seem to be going after any of our equipment or any of the things we use against them, either in Israel or the United States.
They're going after civilians to scare people.
And then they're attacking these countries that are...
That is the weirdest.
Well, you know, I can.
What are they doing?
I mean, these countries are at least pretend to be.
Everyone knows these countries hate Iran.
Yes.
Right.
Well, you know, particularly Emirates.
Yes.
So it's like they just want to get even.
What does it matter what the Emirates does?
Yeah.
Yeah.
This was unusual.
Now Saudi Arabia is talking about putting jet fighters in.
Yeah.
And Jordan actually has an air force.
Yeah, and they train against ISIS.
The Jordanians are not bad at all.
The Jordanians could really add something.
And they have the borders also.
But if you want me to answer the first one, first question.
Why are they doing this?
Before that, that first question, how did we proceed?
We took out, we destroyed the Navy.
Of course, 11 battleships.
It's gone.
It's gone.
And why is it important, Mayor?
Because the whole argument, what are you doing?
You're going to choke off the Persian Gulf.
The dollar is going to be there.
Well, we destroyed the only means they have to shut down the Ormus straits.
We're safe.
There's not going to be an Iranian regime action against us economically because we all wipe up the...
And that was the big fear.
The big fear was no matter what, they could for some period of time block up the Straits of Hormuz.
Yeah, and they have the dinghy.
And that would be a massive impact on the world economy.
Exactly.
It would be a massive impact on China, too, though.
Oh, that's the other.
You got it right.
They still have some dinghies.
And those, you know, our guys will have fun bing, bing, bing, getting it.
Second, they are reducing the air at the air force.
Actually, the air force, the Iranian Air Force.
That's not serious.
Even if they have some Sukhois and what have you.
So they're reducing them methodologically.
But then the third one is to find the ballistic missiles and get them because they are hidden.
You find all of them.
All of them.
Yes.
Because some of them could, you know, would reach Israel.
And we don't know much about what kind of equipment they could put in it.
Then, Mr. Mayo, as you said, they are depleting the leaders.
That psychologically has a huge effect on the rest of the country.
Sure, right.
I mean, who's going to bring them together?
Yeah.
And you get to the point where people then start panicking.
Like, I don't want to be part of this.
Yeah.
I don't want to die.
Not everybody wants, not everybody is a sacrificial lamb.
Not only the crazy among them.
And what I was fascinated with is that there was an Israeli report.
I think the prime minister mentioned it, but not in detail.
That says, at one point, we're going to ask the Iranians to demonstrate, start demonstrating, heading towards the big buildings.
And then if any secret police or police, they have units that are designed to repress the population and kill them.
They must have killed most of the 35,000 citizens.
Once they're going to advance, we're going to have assets in the air and we're going to go after them.
After those units will repress the population.
So the population will be able to go through these checkpoints.
And by the way, pick up some weapons.
So the genesis of arming the Iranian population is going to feed itself off.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, how could they have killed 35,000 people?
What was it?
A week?
About a week?
No, less.
Less.
I mean, the bulk.
The bulk was three days.
Three days.
So three days, let's say the bulk of 40,000.
That would be about 30,000 in three days.
So they were just able to do this all over Iran, like press a button, and then all the units all over and just started killing protesters.
Besiege, yes, like the Nazis, like the Holocaust, a version of it.
Just go down with their machine guns.
And I took videos of the heavy machine guns.
It's like the Stalin Soviet massacre of his opposition.
And of course, like the Nazis have done with heavy machine guns called bushkas.
And that's how they killed so many.
And then at night, they went to their houses.
They went to the hospitals.
They went to the schools.
This is going to be tried by an international special tribunal.
It cannot escape.
There need to be Nurembergs.
Yeah, I mean, this was at a scale that I don't know if this has ever happened at this scale.
Not since World War II.
But the speed of it and the density exceeds the Holocaust.
This had to have been very well planned.
They planned that much more than they did their war.
Absolutely.
That was planned meticulously, but it looks like their plan for defending themselves was.
Yeah.
Well, no, well, let me argue one point.
Okay, if you like with me, what I'm saying.
Their strategic protection from us, the Americans, was not military.
It was the Iran deal.
They have, well, you know what, President Obama sent them $150 billion, right?
Now, what is the percentage of for the brokers usually all these deals, like the real estate?
It's 10%.
So they must, they got $15 billion from that one deal.
With the $15 billion, they have gotten influence in the United States all over the place, from academia to media to consulting to law offices.
They had the block force to block us from acting.
Remember under Obama, eight years, under Biden, four years, they tried an antifad on President Trump in his four years, that we all remember very well what they tried to do.
Money was part of it.
Because he killed the Iran deal, and the Iran deal is the mother of their finances.
So they said, we will have Trump stopped.
That's their logic.
But inside the country, they have to have an army specialized in killing the people.
I thought during Obama's era and Biden's era, if you counted up the money, America, in one way or another, was financing Iran more than any other country.
Thank you for making this historical point.
That's it, of course.
We were the chief financier of the largest nation state supporting terror, which is insane.
We were giving them money to kill us, particularly under Obama when they had Soleimani still around.
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We're giving them the money a certain percentage of the people they're killing around us.
Yes.
Yes.
They were killing us.
They were killing Iran's opposition.
They were killing anybody who was trying to stop them, the Israelis.
They were killing their enemies with money we had released to them.
That's a big deal.
And there needs to be an answer by the Obama administration.
But let me bring about a point that very few are thinking about.
The lobby that the Khomeinis, the Islamic regime, have in America, and that's why they are so determined to stop us from defeating them.
Guess what it is?
Guess the fear where that fear is coming from.
Once we're going to have the archives and the information from the regime's agencies, we will know.
Like for the Soviet Union, we will know.
You got it.
They're going to expose everybody in the world.
We have plenty of help here.
Yeah.
That would do it.
That's why they are ferocious and stopping us.
It took me a long time until I guess Trump won and I got to see a few things, but it took me a long time to figure out.
I understand Marxism and communism.
I hate it and despise it, but I understand their tremendous influence on American young people and why people have very stupid ideas about the Chinese and the red Chinese.
But I never got this affection for Iran.
The Ayatollah, not Iran.
Yeah, of course.
The Ayatollah.
I mean, from the very beginning, he took hostages.
He killed Americans.
The Marines in Lebanon.
This is a guy that today the Democrats were arguing over, was there an imminent reason for the attack?
There's been an imminent reason for 47 years.
At any day in the last 47 years, the American president would be perfectly justified in taking them out.
Any time.
Half a century.
Because they're sitting there and you actually never know, particularly with domestic terrorism, when they're going to strike you.
And they have that capacity.
Oh, absolutely.
So This has to have been one of the great liberations in the history of the world.
And sudden liberation, because you know how our president he maneuvers and maneuvers and give you a chance and give you a chance, but he's planning at the same time.
They wanted to kill him.
And of course, they have penetrated a lot of our institutions under the Obama and Biden administrations 12 years.
It was even in the news that some of the analysts, some of the people who had high clearances, including in the Pentagon and other places, were propagandists for the Islamic regime of Iran.
Now they have been reduced, but they were inside the fortress.
You kind of knew that.
You just could not put your finger on it.
Yes.
You kind of knew that that was going on, but it was hard to put your finger on the specific person.
And the media was their ally, the media here, most of it, of course, which is very much like the New York Times and Washington Post, are still protecting the regime.
Even after 40,000 people killed, this is really a moral issue for the left in general.
There is the good social democratic left, and then there is the hardcore left collaborating with the jihadists.
And that's a big deal, as they've done with the Muslim Brotherhood.
They have these alliances between the left, the far left, and the Muslim Brotherhood, and an alliance between that same left and the Khomeinists.
Well, I mean, that doesn't really, what's happening now helps us a great deal there.
But how much does it help us with the sort of takeover that appears to be happening in some of our cities?
Like it's happening in London.
You look at Minneapolis.
Gone.
Seems like it's a Muslim city.
And worse, it's more of a jihadist city.
Yeah, a Muslim extremist city.
Exactly.
New York.
New York is.
The mayor is an outright supporter of Muslim extremism.
He supports the people who are the murderers, not some kind of a benign, decent interpretation of the religion.
And I'm concerned about some of the appointments of your successor.
Yeah, the appointments are pretty much the same as him.
If you put in charge people who have sympathies to the jihadists of immigration, this is the Trojan horse coming in.
Who would stop the actual jihadist?
They will be coming legally.
Forget about the Mexican border.
They will be coming through this process, and that's very, very dangerous.
I was just at a wedding, a group of Texans.
It was in South Carolina, but they're all worried about Texas.
Yes.
And I think it's a joke.
I mean, how could Texas ever become anything but John Wayne, right?
But I mean, they tell me They very smartly focused on specific cities that they could get control of, a little bit remote, and they can get control of.
And now they're building up pretty strong, they're building up in Austin and in Houston.
So they're making an attempt on the bigger cities.
Of course, of course.
I've detected this about 18 years ago when I published my first one, no, 20 years ago, a book I titled Future Jihad, Terror Strategies Against America.
I have already spotted them.
But the layers of people who wouldn't be able to listen to me, it was very fast we got into the Obama administration.
And the end of the Bush administration, I was advising DHS, I was advising FBI, you know, it was easy at the time.
And they were very concerned.
But then eight years of the Obama administration, we've seen the brotherhood whom we were analyzing sitting in the government.
So that is what worries me is who the jihadists have converted politically among Americans.
I'm not talking about people like myself coming from the Middle East originally, about Native Americans.
Yeah, but I think they have done a lot.
I mean, when you look at some of these, when you look at some of these mass murderers and some of these people demonstrating, a lot of them are people that have been radicalized, either on the internet or directly.
Or in the classroom.
Or in the classroom.
The classroom has, in my view, indoctrinated millions of Americans.
I mean, when you have across the nation, I was told about 300,000 permanent demonstrators for globalized intifada, 300,000.
And 90% of them are not jihadists coming from outside.
Those are the cadre.
You know, they explain to them what to do, but they put in the front plain Americans who were born Americans with no ideology.
They were indoctrinated by 2,800 professors of Middle East studies.
There is an association called Mesa, which actually is the NRA of the Middle East Islamist scholars here.
I was a member of it.
We were about 50 to 60 only versus 2,000, et cetera.
So how many classrooms have been taken over?
And how many classrooms have produced graduates who went to the media and went to the war rooms, who went to the art room, Hollywood, and obviously into the legal rooms, into the law rooms?
It took place surreptitiously, although in the open.
And nobody paid attention to it.
Yeah, because they put those glasses on our eyes and we cannot see them.
Yeah, they were paying some attention to the Marxists.
Yes.
Because we're familiar with them.
Because Americans understand Marxism.
Marxism goes back to 1850, 1848.
But this was a surprise to most Americans.
And it's interesting how it kind of plays together.
Many of the pro-Islamic terrorists are Marxists also.
Yeah, that I'm very, very strange combination, but it's a Marxism because I wonder with these people who are supportive of Muslim extremism, how much of it is religion?
And how much is it just ideology?
President Obama was the one to answer the first question I remember during his first or second term.
He said, you know, the Islamic phenomenon is like a big boat that we can sail and reach our goals.
So what was funny about it, and not so funny, is that the Marxists think that they are controlling the Islamic world like a big boat.
But the Islamists are using the left window and think that they are moving.
So it's like a mutual control situation.
But I think the Islamists are the ones who are controlling.
Why?
Because the Marxists are wrong, number one, but two, because they have limited funds coming from at least two major countries.
Can I name them?
Please?
Well, one is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Of course.
And then an Arab country in the Gulf that has been funding a lot of our educational system.
Qatar?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What happens with Qatar now?
That they lose Iran and also got pounded a little by Iran.
They were pounded a little bit.
They could absorb that.
But their whole architecture of them and Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood and everybody.
Do they remain that way even if Iran turns?
They will remain because they started alone without Iran.
I always wondered if Iran is indigenous to Iran or it's something affected by their fear of not Iran, Qatar.
Qatar was affected by Iran.
Well, Qatar's problem is not Iran.
It's really the Muslim Brotherhood who took the control of Qatar from the inside.
And actually, through a coup in 1997, Qatar was like Saudi Arabia and UAE.
And it seems to me that the prior emir was less inclined that way than the present emir.
What happened in the transition of the two emirs?
The Ikhwan.
When the son sort of overthrew the father.
That's the father.
But it seems that when that happened, he sort of played both sides against the middle, but he was more inclined toward us than he was.
Qatar was an ally, actually.
Fresh out of America.
Until about 2010, 2008, 2009, whenever they got rid of him and brought in the son.
I think it's a little bit earlier, 1997, at the time when Al-Jazeera was launched.
But it was before 9-11, nothing counted yet.
Nobody cared.
After 9-11, Al Jazeera moved, they brought in a lot of educated teachers and instructors, etc., trained by the British School of Middle Eastern Studies, which was Muslim Brotherhood.
So they were devoured from the inside by a brotherhood influence.
And once that happened, you cannot get rid of it.
So it's your intellectuals that you brought in that brought you down.
So now, let's say over a period of time, Iran changes and it becomes some form of a decent country.
I like that.
Decent.
What's going to happen?
Yeah.
Does that mean that Qatar remains?
You know, Mayor, it's going to be surrounded.
I mean, technically, not just physically speaking.
So you have to remember anything when we speak about the next Iran, it's going to be a power in the region.
Because those other Arab countries are very opposed.
I mean, they almost went to war a couple of years ago.
Almost.
We saved Qatar.
And the Emirates, there's no question that you can see that the Iranian, the Iranian mullahs and their real anger is they really hate it, the Emirates.
That's why they're doing most of them.
The Emirates are the most serious.
Because they know the Emirates really hate them.
And they're professional.
The Emirates have the most advanced and sophisticated counter-jihadism process and system.
Even the Saudis didn't get there yet.
They were under MBS, of course, great changes, what have you, but the Emirates are way far ahead.
And they don't have, I always try to explain to people one of the things that holds, and you know this better than anyone, one of the things that holds Saudi Arabia back is the fear of the street.
Yes.
But you don't really have a street.
They have control of the street.
And the emirates and Abu Dhabi.
Everybody's rich.
Yeah.
If you if you want to be.
Yeah.
I remember I did security work for Dubai years ago.
And I said, how come you don't have much of a police department?
Because they worried about crowd control.
And they said, well, we don't really need much of a police department.
I said, why?
Well, if somebody causes trouble, if it's really bad trouble, we put them in prison.
But if it's trouble, they protest.
We call them in and we ask them, why are you unhappy here?
It's a rich country.
Everybody's rich.
If you don't have money, we'll give you some.
But if you're going to carry around signs and you're going to protest, you're going to be with these people.
We're just going to throw you out.
He said, when we do something, you can't do.
I said, what?
We put them on a plane and we send them to India.
And India absorbs, absorbs.
That is something.
That's something.
But they are very serious.
I spoke with all the leaders, including long sessions with Minister Abdallah for Foreign Affairs, and they seem to understand the depth of the ideology of the jihadists.
I thought, you know, I did work in both.
Then I got fired by Qatar.
You know why I got fired by Qatar?
No.
Because I went to work for Bahrain.
Oh, really?
Well, the ambassador to Bahrain to the United States was a good friend of a good friend.
He wanted me to meet with the king to give them a security program because at that time they were getting attacked every month by the Iranians.
And they would just come in and kill police officers.
They didn't kill civilians.
They went and they would specifically focus on police officers and assassinate three or four just to show that they who they were.
And they wanted to show that they could penetrate their police department.
So we came in, they hired us, my security company, and we did a program for them on how they could secure the police departments better.
I had done work for Qatar way back.
I helped to design their crowd control for the Asian games when they first did the Asian games.
And I was close to the prior Emir who had donated $10 million to 9-11.
He made up for the $10 million I gave back.
When he found out that Arab Princeling gave us a $10 million, he called President Bush.
He came to New York and he gave us $10 million.
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And he was very nice.
And he was very open.
And I had a good relationship when we were working with the police.
They were wide open.
They let me work with them.
I've worked in both places, Dubai, and back and forth, doing the same thing.
Then all of a sudden, I take this contract with Bahrain, and the Interior Minister calls me and says, You can't take that if you're working for us.
I said, Well, first of all, I'm not working for you.
I haven't done it, work for you for three years.
Well, if you ever hope to.
I said, I don't know who the hell you think you are, but you can't threaten me like that.
Oh, my goodness.
Now I'm going to work for Bahrain even more.
Yes.
And I don't really give a shit if you hire me again.
Unbelievable.
But they put me on some kind of a list where, you know, because I went to work for Bahrain.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah, they fear Bahrain.
They fear UAE.
And Bahrain's a beautiful country in many ways.
I mean, they're probably the most advanced.
I mean, they're the one that had a Jewish Jewish minister to the UN.
They had a Jewish member of the government.
They allow churches and temples to put out their signs, which a lot of the countries don't allow.
They allow the maybe they allow it now.
I'm going back about 12 years.
But most of the countries wouldn't, even if you could have a church, you couldn't put a cross out.
And if you had a Jewish temple, you couldn't put a star of David out.
They're very proud.
The king, who I met several times in golf clothes.
I'm driving up to meet the king of Bahrain.
I'm sitting in the car and we're getting up really, really close.
See if you find the picture.
I'm looking at the crowd of people that are waiting there.
And I'm saying, oh, the king must be inside.
They're going to bring him out.
All of a sudden, I pull up, no king comes out.
This guy with a golf sweater on and a golf shirt walks up to me.
He says, I'm the king of Bahrain.
Hello, king.
And I have to tell you, I had such a nice impression of that country.
And I see what they're doing.
They're attacking Bahrain.
That's just cruel.
Because what can Bahrain do to Iran?
It's a little country.
Yeah.
They just bully them.
Yeah.
But their symbolism is important.
You mentioned, Meir, the synagogue and the church.
Bahrain had the oldest synagogues and churches from before Islam.
We're talking about like 500, 400 AD.
It's an old thing.
And the synagogue or the Jewish presence in Bahrain is since the diaspora, since the expansion of the Jews in year AD 70 when the Roman dispersed them.
And the Christians since the second century.
Because those Christians were, I'm not sure which Apostle, which, you know.
Paul, maybe.
Maybe Paul or the one who went down south, who reached India, they went through Bahrain and then created Christian communities.
I mean, it's a lot of that, a lot of that Christian, which we call Eastern Christian community, right, has been wiped out by the Islamists, the Jihadists, the Ichwan.
I mean, there was, imagine there was a bishop from Mecca, bishop in Mecca.
The Christians were the third.
The Jews were the third.
And the local deities.
So some have survived.
The Coptic churches survived.
The Coptic, yes, because there's one river, the Nile River.
That's a pretty healthy.
It's a powerful.
Tragedy is what happened in Lebanon.
The Christians of Lebanon have lost and lost in battlefields.
Lebanese Christian areas in Mount Lebanon, which is the closest to Israel, by the way.
And there's a whole special relationship between the Lebanese Christians, since they were Phoenicians, the ancestors called the Phoenicians, and the Hebrews.
And even that goes older than the Persia relationship with Israel, because the King Hiram of southern Lebanon, he helped the Israelis, King David Kumsalm, to build the temple.
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It goes that far back.
So they became allies, but then Hezbollah and the PLO at the time and Assad, they persecuted the Christians and the Christians lost a lot of people.
Many went to the international diaspora.
It seems to me for certain there'd been no chance for peace in the Middle East so long as you have that regime.
Is the opposite true?
If the regime is gone, is the elements for peace as easy as we think they are?
I still think there are issues that have to be dealt with that are ancient.
Yeah, one would think there's always issues between France and the United States.
There are always issues.
But I can guarantee you, I lived a chunk of my life there, that if it flips in Iran, give it the time to establish a government.
The Iranian people now, especially those persecuted, are so adamant about signing a peace treaty with Israel.
I mean, it's even an overreaction.
Now, where?
In Iran?
If the regime of the Mullah goes down, I'm telling you, Mayor, this is something I can assert.
That is fabulous.
That would change the history of the Middle East.
And they have a name for it, the Cyrus Accords.
They have a name for it, the Cyrus.
King Cyrus.
Yes, who liberated the Jews.
Now, the Lebanese are competing.
Oh, there's the king.
Yeah, there he is.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at that.
So, can you imagine?
That's the way he was dressed, sure.
Can you imagine driving up and you're supposed to meet the king, right?
And that's just the guy standing in front.
I thought he was the gardener.
He's historic.
This picture is historic.
Yeah, he's like.
I'm sitting there.
I think I'm still a little in shock.
I'm still a little in shock.
I mean, it's one of those days of my life.
I'll never forget.
We're pulling up, we're pulling up.
And the ambassador, who was a great, the ambassador was the son of his foreign minister or his ambassador here.
Their ambassador here.
Brilliant guy, fabulous guy.
And he's the one who put us together and recommended me to do that.
And he warned me.
He said, you know, he's going to be dressed up casually.
Yes, like that casually was a jacket and no tie.
He's standing and he just walks up to me.
Nobody even comes up and says, this is the king, or he just wants it.
I'm the king.
I said, oh, monsieur, I am the king.
I'm the king.
Okay.
You're a great guy.
Yeah, this is a great picture.
Love it.
Love it.
But I was very impressed with them.
And I thought, my goodness, is that what the Middle East could become?
But I think you're probably, it's got to also be that a lot of people there are just tired of this.
Yes.
I mean, there's been years and years of brutal warfare going nowhere.
Yeah, nowhere.
And they have this brutal reaction, not brutal reaction, legitimate reaction against jihadism.
They have been so much pressured.
I can guarantee you, Iran will become the most secular, westernized, even more than France and Britain who are jihadizing day by day.
So we're going to have a shift.
I do see some of that.
I do see some of that of that happening.
And I think that President Trump has handled this really, really well.
He's acted very respectfully toward the Arab countries.
Yes.
Even with his, you would say he's the best president for Israel.
At the same time, he's the best president for the Arab country.
Oh, he has been.
I mean, it's amazing that he could do that because you end up being one like Obama.
I remember somebody in Israel, I said very high to the government.
I said, it must be very difficult not to know where the American president is, meaning Obama.
He said, I know where he is.
He's on the other side.
Yeah.
That's what the demonstration is.
That's usually what happens.
They ended up on one side or the other.
He's been able to keep good relationships.
And it seems to me he spends an endless amount of time on the phone with those Arab leaders.
Possible.
Possible.
Yeah, to make sure they understand.
Even if they don't agree, they understand what's happening.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
No, President Trump in history will be remarkable.
And he also, I think, got a real break with their attacking these countries.
Yes.
Well, Valid, you've turned out to be, I go back to four or five years ago listening to you.
I mean, this is like, it must feel wonderful because you saw this coming.
I saw it coming and I saw it happening.
This is the greatest feeling for a scholar, for somebody who researches and for somebody that tries to warn and warn and warn.
And then you see it happening.
That's the sense of my life.
I mean, I spent, what, 35 years here as an American?
That was my own.
And there had to be times when you thought there was no way out of this.
Yes, it's true.
So I did.
I thought there was no way out of it for a while.
Yeah, and I was depressed under at least two of these administrations because I thought they're going to allow them to come further and deeper here.
I mean, President Trump last year saved America by shutting down the border.
Imagine what happened in Mexico.
You know, that fight between the cartels, by the way, who were trained by Hezbollah.
I looked at them at their tactics.
I thought, is Hezbollah in Mexico?
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Imagine if those forces were fighting in the Midwest here.
Yeah, of course.
Going against our police, going.
Thank God he was.
That's the biggest, that's beyond Iran.
That's just shutting down the border and saving us as Americans.
That's the last border.
Well, thank you.
Thank you, Mayor.
Thank you for having me.
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Right.
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I'll have you a fly on the wall for that one.
Well, I've got to tell you, he's a very happy man because he spent his whole life by and large on this.
And when you start seeing this happen, which you predict, you think is going to happen, there's always in the back of your mind the idea it may not happen, or I might die before I get to see it.
So this is wonderful, wonderful for him, and wonderful for all of us that have worked on this.
I mean, I've been dreaming about going to Tehran for 25 years.
I look at pictures of it.
I think about it.
It breaks my heart what they've done to the people there.
And I think this could be so wonderful.
This could be so wonderful for changing things because you need big things like this to change big movements like the movement that we have going on.
Well, here's an interesting thing you should know about.
And I usually don't like to spend a lot of time on these Hollywood, on these Hollywood people, or but you should know that Gwynnett Paltrow's business partner, business partner in a business, in a very successful business that she has is Iranian.
Iranian and as you might imagine from Hollywood, a Democrat.
Now that's the somewhat negative news, right?
Now you want the positive news, right?
His name is Maj Mad Dari.
He's 48 years old.
He's an Iranian American.
He owns kinship ventures with Gwyneth Paltrow.
He has compared what President Trump has done to his former country as the decapitating of the Islamic regime in Tehran, which is just like the fall of the Berlin Wall.
There's a Hollywood guy.
I don't know how long they're going to let her, I'm sorry, let her stay in Hollywood.
This is another quote from Maj.
It is imperative the Democratic Party wake up and get past their dislike of President Trump.
Whoa.
Wow.
Madhara's business partner, Paltrow, you got to probably these are things that pass you by.
They passed me a little.
She was previously attacked by people on the left because she expressed support and sorrow and sympathy for the Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th.
She was condemned for taking hostages.
It's a violation.
No matter what side you're on in a war, it's a violation of international law.
It's a war crime to take hostages.
You're allowed to conduct a war if you've got a reason for it.
You're not allowed to take hostages.
You can take prisoners of war who are people that usually are wounded or who surrender, but you can't take people that you're trying to trade for advantage.
Paltrow also signed an open letter in October of 2023, No Hostage Left Behind, which called for the immediate release of every Israeli held captive in Gaza, for which she was very much condemned.
Gwendolyn.
And she's also been very vocal about sexual violence carried out by Hamas.
I mean, if you're Hamas, it's okay to rape.
Well, I think Mandami certainly thinks that.
He's not going to say it, but he supports them left and right and down the middle over everything.
She is encouraging.
She is encouraging her audience.
Now I'm talking about Manhari.
And she has an episode of her podcast called The Good Podcast.
We got to get a copy of it, Ted.
Yeah.
Because I'm tantalized by this title for obvious reasons.
Here's the title.
A woman-led Iranian revolution, encouraging her audience to listen to Iranian women on the ground.
Well, we know one Iranian woman they should be listening to, right?
Right.
Madam Rajavi.
Right.
We have a tremendous opportunity, she says.
This will be like ending the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall.
This is a transitional moment for humankind, for security.
And as an American, this is our interest.
This is in our interest to complete.
I am a Democrat.
I have been a huge Democrat.
I am incredibly disappointed with my party.
God, there's one more other than Fediment.
There's two.
I do not see myself in them at this moment, she added.
There is no getting around dismembering this Islamic republic, she says.
That's about as strong as you can get.
I'm sure she'll get no attention.
She says to trust the Iranian people who have taken to the country's streets to celebrate the attack, that they should make the choice about their future, which sounds to me like she's saying this to the baby shop.
And then she says it is imperative the Democratic Party wake up and get past their dislike of President Trump, who has described herself as a massive Democrat during an interview on CNN Saturday evening.
So we'll try to get that interview so we can play it for you tomorrow.
Even if it's one or two Democrats who say this, you know they're expressing the views of many, many other Democrats who are just too afraid to speak out.
Normal human beings, Republican or Democrat, are just not going to support animals like this.
Hamas had a plan going into Israel of killing civilians only.
Their killing of the IDF was incidental or collateral.
It's the opposite of what the Israeli army strives to do for humanitarian reasons and practical reasons, which is to kill the soldiers.
And God forbid, you know, collateral civilians will get killed, particularly with these animals, because they put the civilians out front.
They understand they will be able to manipulate, very, very easy to manipulate European opinion by announcing large numbers of children killed.
So they're more than willing to sacrifice their own children to their insane beliefs.
Many Democrats, including the bartender and the one married to her brother, and Zoron the communist.
And gee, I shouldn't say this about Tlaib.
Tlaib really, let me just say, let me put it this way.
Tlaib should not be allowed on television.
Not free speech.
You let her on radio because she frightened, when you look at her, I see my little granddaughter with her, when they see her on, they start crying.
I mean, they just start crying when they look at her.
It's the face of evil.
How we get these people in Congress is amazing.
Here they are denouncing the United States, denouncing our best friend, Israel, supporting terrorist murderers, and then running a fraud program that's astounding.
It's almost, I mean, I've investigated all kinds of frauds, including some of the biggest in the history of the country, like Milk and Bowski.
$9 billion to these Somali make-believe schools, schools with no children in them.
I mean, you go there and hasn't been a kid there for five years, and they've taken down $40 million.
Nobody bothered to check.
And when it was brought to Tampon Tim's attention, he did nothing.
He probably quietly said, I know.
And somehow, miraculously, the one who married her brother, her bank account goes from minus zero to 30 million.
And it was very interesting why this happened.
It happened by osmosis.
Did you ever make money by osmosis?
That is, you have a bank account, you hold it here, and the money comes in through the air.
Just And it had nothing to do with the law that she passed that made it easy to collect all this money and never be held accountable.
So you could set up a school.
You could say you had a school.
You could say you had 500 students.
You could make up their names or pick names out of a book.
Nobody ever checked.
And somehow somebody told the Somalis how to do this because I'm sure they didn't come out of Somalia knowing how to do this.
Someone had to teach them to do this.
Now they learned it really well because Somalia is one of the most crooked countries in the world and one of the most backward countries in the world.
But there's a comedian who has a joke saying they obviously didn't send us the best of Somalia in the group they sent to us.
That would be an interesting endeavor to find the best of Somalia.
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You go there sometime.
See what you can do.
What they do represent, however, is the United Nations.
This is what a lot of the United Nations is like.
You think we have these little countries that are extremely anti-American, anti-Western, and dishonest as hell, right, from top to bottom.
And when they come here, it's an opportunity for them to steal money, make money, get bribes, cheat, not pay their rent, not pay in restaurants because they claim they have diplomatic immunity.
The net for New York City is a big loss, having the UN.
But none of the liberals want to tell you that.
New York City loses enormous amounts of money.
Its police department is diverted with all kinds of crime where they could be using it in order to protect the people in New York City because the UN delegation commits a disproportionate amount of crime.
It's a criminal group.
And it commits an alarming disproportionate number of crimes of perversion.
Just like these illegal aliens that came in have disproportionate numbers of crimes of perversion.
Because once the border was just flipped wide open, these countries sent us their worst people.
It isn't like the older immigration, legal or illegal.
Legal, fine, that was a lot of scrutiny on that, and good people came in.
Illegal, there was enough scrutiny.
So sure, you're going to get some bad people, but you're also going to get some really good people who committed a violation of the law because they wanted a better opportunity.
That was for real.
So that if you look at the breakdown of the people coming over, let's say in 1983, you could legitimately say that they're going to commit less crimes than we were committing.
It wasn't they weren't committing crimes, and it wasn't they weren't bringing in drugs, and it wasn't that they were a net negative in many ways, but they had positives that were balancing it, like working on the farms, working in the restaurants, sometimes being remarkably successful.
This group is very, very different.
There was no scrutiny of any kind.
So the worst people came in, the people that couldn't possibly come in otherwise.
And they took, they didn't have to take a risk so they could bring in endless amounts of fentanyl, endless amounts of drugs, endless amounts of children who were used in human trafficking.
America went from a country that was somewhere on the list of human trafficking in the number one country in the world for human trafficking of children.
Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
And that's what the Democrats brought us.
And that's what they stand for right now, because they don't have the courage to stand out, except when you see a person like Moj, if that's the right pronunciation, Madara, who was willing to speak out on this because of her particular information as an Iranian.
So thank you.
It helps a lot because no matter how much I make this point or someone else, if you come from Iran, if you know the background and you're a Democrat nowadays and you can speak out as to something contrary to the dictates of the party that's run like the Communist Party, you're just remarkable because the only person who's ever said anything like this that I know of is John Fetterman.
Used to be the Democrat Party was in favor of a wall to keep out illegal aliens.
I mean, it's really amazing.
You can take Pelosi from Baltimore, from the Delessandro family in Baltimore.
You can take Pelosi and you can show it talking about we have to have a wall, we have to have a wall back in 207, 8, 9, 3, 5, way back.
Wall, have to have a wall, have to have a wall, have to have a wall.
And all of a sudden, Trump says we should have a wall.
Only people who want walls are racist and xenophobes.
That one required me to go look it up, the xenophobe part.
How did it turn out that putting up a wall so criminals can't come in or people can't come in without being checked out to make sure they're not criminals?
How did it become racism and xenophobia?
It became that because Donald Trump supported it.
And in that has been the complete degradation and corruption and disintegration as any kind of moral force of the Democrat Party, which is the point that this woman is making on something on Iran.
They will support the most evil, horrible propositions if it's contrary to what Trump is supporting.
Or they will fail to support the most necessary protections for you if it's seen as a victory for Trump, which is very, very damaging because, you know, for the next three years, Trump is the president.
And by and large, his ability to carry out the things that he's doing and do the right thing will guide this nation as to whether it's successful and safe.
And if you're going to oppose everything he does, then you're going to just consign America to great failure.
And they're intelligent enough to understand what I'm saying.
It's almost pathetic to see the locked step that they follow, Ted.
It's pathetic.
I mean, when you would see the people who were making all the anti-Semitic statements for so long, anti-Jewish hating statements.
And the Democrat Party has always been, or hasn't always been, but it has been since Roosevelt at least, the party with the large percentage of the Jewish vote and Jewish contributions.
So, you know, 50 years ago, something anti-Semitic was said.
They'd all come out against it because they wanted to, obviously not because they believed in anything.
I'm not sure they ever believed in anything.
The party of slavery has a hard time believing in anything, but they wanted to collect Jewish money.
Now, I guess there's enough money on the other side that they don't give a shit, right?
I mean, right?
So you'll get Talib or one of the others to say the worst things about the Jewish people.
And it's hard to get even one, aside from Fediment, it's hard to get even one member of their party to condemn them.
And when Republicans do bad stuff, it's not that hard to get a bunch of Republicans to condemn them.
Look at the guy they threw out of Congress, right?
Right.
And we've had examples over the last 10 years of Republicans who have said things that were arguably insulting and prejudicial.
But you don't have a problem getting Republicans, at least a fair number to stand up and say, we're not going to accept that.
Look at Fuentes when he went on.
I certainly made a big deal out of it, but I wasn't alone.
I don't feel isolated as a result of it.
And I don't feel like a big hero because I did it.
There were plenty of others who did it with me.
But the man is obviously anti-American, anti-Jewish.
And I don't want him as part of my party or nothing I can do about, I mean, you can't really throw people out of a political party, but you can disassociate yourself from.
You can say he does not stand for what I stand for, and I wish he wasn't a part of this party.
You ever hear them say that?
We've been saying it all our lives about different people as Republicans.
Right.
Because we have a certain number of people attracted to the Republican Party that are anti-American and disgusting.
They just have a lot more people that are anti-American now and disgusting.
But the worst part is they're too damn cowardly to say anything about it.
That's right.
That's that bingo.
That's right, Mayor.
So let's see.
With Iran.
Obviously, that's been dominating the news.
So, but we have, of course, other news mayor, including with the polls closing, the primaries in Texas.
Well, those are interesting primaries.
Before you give me the results, have you looked at anything yet?
I have.
Okay, well, that's not fair.
I'm going to do it with Stephen then.
Yeah, I can't do it, but I would have been right.
I'm just going to say it.
Okay.
And the Senate race.
And you know, I've been.
Well, the Senate, Paxton.
Double Stephen.
Paxton is going to be one and Corn is going to be two.
That's what you think?
Absolutely.
I'm not going to.
You're right.
I can't say.
And then the other.
You know I've been with Cornyn.
But you know, I've been, not like, I've thought Korn is in a, not a great spot, but I feel like he's.
Well, he's in a great spot in the runoff, but I can't imagine he's going to be number one in this.
I'd be very disappointed if he is.
Okay, so yes.
Yeah, so remember Hunt being in the race, Leslie Hunt.
Right.
Right.
And it might help Paxton because having Hunt in there likely keeps any of the three getting to 50, right?
When you have one-on-one, I'm not sure.
But what Hunt isn't as easily definable.
So Cornyn would be definable as a rhino, and Paxton would be definable as the MAGA guy.
Maybe by us.
But I think, remember, in Texas, Cornyn's been there for a while.
Yes.
And he was a judge.
And I like Cornyn, but he's hardly a really loyal.
I mean, is he a rhino or is he the establishment?
He's both.
I mean, I think he had several nervous breakdowns after January 6th.
But before we get into treatment to get him, hey, John, he really didn't do it, John.
Before we get a bullshit.
Yeah, exactly.
But before we get into too much detail on the particular candidates, it might be useful to just give the mechanics of how the Texas races work overall.
Well, pretty simple.
I mean, they have a primary.
You got to get 50%.
If you don't get 50%, they have a runoff.
And so when is the runoff?
May.
May.
So now these guys are going to be all campaign.
This is not, it's not great for Texas Republicans to have.
Well, I would assume that's easy to pick out.
It's going to be Cornyn and it's going to be Cornyn and Paxton in the runoff, right?
And it's going to be Crockett and Tallarico in the runoff.
And that one is hard for me to figure out who's number one.
Jasmine Crockett's a big name, but Tallarico sounds good.
So I don't know.
It's Texas after all, right?
Yeah.
So I'll make a guess that it's Tallarico one and Crockett two.
Okay.
May not be the end result May, but I think it might be that way.
I mean, the way he's looking at me, he's saying to me he knows that the other guy is ahead, but I still think he knows me too well.
It should be that Paxton would be beating him by four or five points.
So I'm going to bring up the results.
I'm just trying to find out if you're not sure.
The Democrats have been positioning themselves.
Do we have, and I know Jasmine Crockett's kind of a lunatic, but is there like a clear attorney lane versus the establishment lane?
Or how would you even characterize the Democrat primary?
The Democrat Party has tried to help Tallerico.
So they see a general election against Cornyn or Paxton.
Once you put her in a general election, she'll get narrowed as a real crazy person.
But that's her liability is her biggest asset.
She can make news, right?
But it is Texas, and it is a Republican state after all.
So let's see.
I'm trying to see if there's a way to do this where you guys can see it.
Well, you can just tell us.
Right.
Actually, we do something like this.
So this is the current results.
Look, Cornyn's leading by just four points, so, and my thought being- Well, how much is in?
37%.
Oh, okay.
So we don't know where these votes are from either.
Well, we do know on the map.
But again, Texas is a big state.
The mayor knows the state better than that could that could change.
It could change.
That could change or not.
Well, it's hard to know where they're where they're from.
It looks like Dallas is coming in already pretty significantly, but we have a lot of the oil companies.
I mean, I would assume that Cornyn wins the big cities and Paxton wins the more rural areas and suburban areas.
But see, Paxton, though, Paxton has a good following among the institutional Republican base.
He does.
He does.
But I mean, it's sort of challenged by Cornyn, who also does.
And Cornyn's been there for how long?
A long time, right?
Paxton is an institution in his own right, though.
Is he?
Yeah, absolutely.
So Cornyn, right, being in office for a long enough time, that name ID, right?
Not everyone's following it day to day like you and I.
And the AG, the Texas AG is like, he's pretty forefront.
So actually, that's why this is such a race, right?
Right.
Well, Ken Paxton, yeah, he's definitely a national.
Tell us what the numbers are because I can't see that.
38% reporting.
John Cornyn with 43.7%.
Ken Paxton with 39.3%.
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And Wesley Hunt with 13.4%.
That's Cornyn's about 380,000 votes.
Ken Paxton, 340,000.
One thing for sure it's a runoff.
The question is, how is it?
Who's going to be one?
Who's going to be two?
And I should tell you that more often than not, the number two wins the runoff.
Right.
So the question here is where does Hunt's votes go?
We don't know.
We don't know, right?
Because I don't know enough about Hunt.
And I, I, I, I sorry, this is the.
I don't think, I don't, I don't think I think he's a little bit more of a moderate than Paxton and probably a little less of a rhino than Corner.
So he's somewhere in the middle.
So this is interesting.
So with similar numbers.
He could be taking votes from both.
There are more.
The Democrat primary is seeing a higher turnout than the Republican primary.
That's been a trend.
Which is a trend right off presidential years.
The opposing party is more fired up.
Tell Rico in the Democrat primary side.
Tell Rico with 52.4%.
Jasmine Crockett with 46.4%.
Ahmad Hassan at 1.2%.
With only 37% with 37% reporting.
That could be over because they could get over 50.
And as we had predicted, Tellerico.
Tellerico looks like he makes it impossible for either one of them to get over 50.
Yes.
Even with 36% counted.
Here, the third and fourth party candidates have negligible votes.
Yeah.
The third candidate just coming in at 1%.
So that's right, Mayor.
And as we predicted, Tellerico holding about a six-point lead.
I agree with you.
National Party would prefer him in a state like.
Texas, the Democrat National Party, Jasmine Crockett, likely seen as a little bit more of a flamethrower, right?
She goes on TV and likes to hit Trump, get the nice social media sound bites, which will help her with fundraising because there's some people that really love that.
But your average voter.
I really do think she'd be a very bad candidate for Texas.
And I think Democrats know that point of view.
Right.
So like you said, they're boosting Teller Rico.
I'd much rather run against her.
It's just hitting me.
Senator Jasmine Crockett.
Are you kidding?
That is nuts.
What's the spread there?
About six points?
Six-point spread with 38% reporting.
And more Democrats vote than Republicans?
Well, if this is accurate, 38% of the Democrat primary vote in, that's 930,000 votes.
On the Republicans.
Well, we have to say, we have to say Republicans have now.
How much do Republicans have?
About 929,000.
But they're calling that 40%.
The cities are the ones that are coming in.
40% of the Republican pilot.
So the numbers wound up being closely aligned.
Who participates in both parties, but there's a chance that Democrats.
It should be.
So are there darkly colored places where more have come in?
Red is counties that Cornyn is leading in.
Yellow is counties that Paxton's currently leading in.
And green, which we may see just one of those, if maybe none, that's where Wesley Hunt is blue or white ones.
White ones are the likely votes haven't come in yet.
And those are, you're seeing a lot of rural counties.
So bad or not.
The cities typically look like they've been.
Well, you can see that Dallas has come in.
Dallas has come in.
What about like Houston?
Dallas County, you've got half the votes in.
Half the votes in John Cornyn, 34,000, Ken Paxton, 20.
So that's, as we mentioned, right?
These are the city votes.
Look at Houston will be Democrat too.
Houston, Houston County, or Harris County, right, which is where Houston is.
Ooh, Paxton and Cornyn, neck and neck.
Literally a difference of less than 100 votes.
That's strange.
With 58% reporting, John Cornyn, 47,000, Ken Paxton, 47,000.
How's Hunt doing there?
Hunt, 22,000.
So Hunt's got enough.
Oh, that's where he's from, right?
Down there?
What's that?
That's where he represents.
Well, no, that's just, I just feel like that's the demographic that my government is.
Now, take a look at the candidate.
Take a look at Austin.
Austin's very Democrat.
Austin, that's Travis County.
Oh, probably a Democrat county.
Surprise, surprise.
No votes counted yet.
Typical Democrat county, right?
Hmm.
Houston's getting their votes in.
Dallas is getting their votes in.
Fort Worth is getting their votes in.
Well, that's bad news for Paxton because Austin will go for Cornyn.
Right.
Austin Republicans, yeah.
Whatever.
Boston Republicans will tend to be more Travis County.
Well, they've designed his pamphlets before.
And, you know.
Corpus Christi, where President Trump just visited with half of the votes in.
Cornyn with a sizable lead.
Let's see.
What is North Texas, like the real rural, like where are they leaning?
So you're seeing, again, yellow indicates counties that Paxton is winning.
Red.
No clear trend among like the very rural.
Right.
And again.
Take a look at El Paso.
El Paso.
No votes yet.
Oh, no, they have to get the trucks.
The trucks have to get out.
El Paso could be good for Paxton.
Very affected by immigration.
Paxton has done a lot about immigration.
Paxton is catching up.
42.8% to 40.2%.
Cornyn, 404,000.
Ken Paxton, 378,000 with 40% of the vote in.
That's on the Republican side.
Let's get back over to the Democrat side.
38%, no movement there.
Tell Rico maintaining a six-point advantage over Crockett.
We took a little bit.
He gained 2.2, it looks like almost.
Right.
So we'll scroll down, see what other races we have here in Texas.
The House races.
Dan Crenshaw, former Navy SEAL, is facing a conservative challenger that's in State Representative Steve Toth.
Let's take a look at Crenshaw here.
Crenshaw used to be much more.
Crenshaw is losing only 28% of the vote in, but Crenshaw is who is the incumbent, right?
Is losing to Steve Toth.
How much?
52% to 43%.
That's a 10-point difference.
But in votes, that translates to 2,000 votes about.
Yeah, and you never know.
Again, what's been counted?
Only 22%.
Only 28%.
28%.
28% reporting.
This is a third, almost a third.
Right.
It's not, I mean, I wouldn't be happy if I were a Crenshaw person with that vote.
Right.
But it's not unmanageable.
That's right.
Yeah, you're not like, you haven't resigned to the loss at this point if you're Crenshaw.
Crenshaw has become that much of a non-Trump guy.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, big time.
He's been thought of as a non-Trump guy.
It's very interesting.
But you know, he's become much more quiet, though.
I think he realizes he's facing a tough reelection, right?
So he stopped.
But I mean, you would see him on television when he was first in office all the time.
Now you hardly ever see.
I haven't seen him.
Oh, you know what?
But mayor, you know why?
These guys, I think they get in there.
They think they're the biggest star.
I haven't seen him on for a long time.
You know what?
He's learning that you go up against, you know, President Trump's the president, not Dan Crenshaw.
These guys get into office, you know, they get a little, you know, they get a little action.
They get some TV time and they think, oh, I'm God's gift to humanity.
So all of a sudden they think I'm bigger than the president, right?
And so then when someone challenges him, he realizes, oh, and then he starts seeing the polling.
Oh, I'm not going to win this thing.
So I bet I don't know this.
I'm almost sure he shut up and started being a congressman and trying to serve his constituents.
He dropped the Trump derangement syndrome in hopes, realizing that he can't do that to win reelection.
And now he's probably one of the things.
Did Trump get involved in that?
Good question.
Well, Trump is always sort of involved in the ethos, but Crenshaw, one of his big roles was when they were talking about banning congressional stock trading.
He went out to try to sell the opposing position of, no, congressmen should be allowed to trade stock.
Like that was his rollout that he had to do.
So that, I mean, not saying that that's going to like really hit the numbers super hard, but you know, that's not a feather you want in your cap, right?
I don't think that's a big electoral issue.
Right.
No, but I mean, unless your opponent really makes hay of it.
Another race we're following is Texas 23 that involves always got it.
Always with the jokes there.
That's with Tony Gonzalez, an incumbent Republican who's facing a lot of criticisms and calls to resign after a staffer of his committed suicide.
And this young staffer, female, it came out that the sitting member was having an affair with said suicide.
Is that for sure or is it an alleged affair?
It's an alleged affair with strong evidence, including text messages and such.
Wait, just an affair, no like abuse or anything?
Well, the problem is the woman then killed herself.
Oh, the staffer suicide.
So it is an alleged affair.
There's strong evidence, but you're right.
We want to say alleged.
And she killed herself because she was pushed aside.
That's what we don't sort of emotional.
We don't know the concern of her death.
I have to say, I've seen it.
I've read about it, but I haven't really paid attention to it.
But Gonzalez, even facing all of this criticism and heat, is still leading by just 10 votes and only 7% reporting against Brandon Herrera.
He's also known as the AK guy.
What?
He's a big pro-gun guy.
All right.
That should be due.
Brandon Herrera.
Republican primary.
He picked the right nickname.
A.K.A.R. Texas is more AR.
Where are the Texas Muslim places they were telling us about at the wedding the other night?
We were at a wedding, not in Texas, but for involving a Texas family.
Yeah.
And boy, they are really worried about Muslims moving in in Texas.
And I'm saying to myself, this is completely impossible for a guy who grew up on Cowboy Movies to even think about.
Yeah.
For you to have Muslims in Texas.
Oh, Tellerico.
I wish we had a good idea.
I just said John Wayne take care of the whole thing.
I wish we had some sort of alert for, like, you know, when a big new batch of votes come in, we had something we could push to like.
You know, if I had election update.
44% in the Democrat primary.
James Tellerico is widening his, widening his lead.
He's now up by seven points over Crockett.
Yeah, he's going to, it looks like he's going to, he's going to be a 44% report.
Thank you, Steve Colbert.
But I mean, she is, she is really, I can't imagine how she could possibly even have 40, whatever percent.
Well, these are, these are died-in-the-wall Democrats voting, right?
So modern day, I don't know how you can be a modern Democrat woman, mayor, just because she's a black woman.
Is that right?
I didn't even know she was a black woman.
No, that's no, None of our, look, let's be very clear, right?
None of our criticisms of Jasmine.
You haven't heard either of us.
Right.
That's the first time.
That's the first time Race came out because it's not about that, right?
Jasmine Crockett.
She makes racial kinds of, she's just really dumb, stupid thing.
Right.
And like mean.
Right.
And unserious.
Yeah.
And she's very, what's the word?
When you're full yourself and like it's all about her narcissist.
She definitely displays narcissistic qualities, which I guess it is Congress, right?
So yeah, actually, you're right.
Let's bring everybody up to date on the death toll in the war as of a couple hours ago, I guess, as compiled by Stephen.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society, which is the Red Cross, but God forbid they should use the word cross, right?
Think about it, right?
They can't use the word cross.
Jesus was a fraud, claimed to be God.
He wasn't.
But they actually, their theory is that Jesus wasn't a fraud, that his apostles made all of that up, that he never thought that Jesus, who Muhammad met when the angel Gabriel took him to paradise, told Muhammad, it's not me, Muhammad.
I'm not the one who claimed to be God.
It's all those stupid apostles that did.
They're the ones who did it.
Those damn apostles.
You really, never mind.
I'm going to get in so much trouble making fun of Muhammad, the perfect man.
Well, right.
I mean, you hear Muslims say that he's the perfect man, which gets you really scared about Muslims who say that since he was a pedophile.
Well, he's the only and a mass murderer and a guy who hated shoes.
We grew up.
That's pretty perfect, huh?
We grew up in a country where we weren't allowed to criticize Islam or make fun of it.
Problem with that is just because you call it a religion doesn't make it a religion.
If I put together a group of people that was dedicated to killing, I don't know, Asians or something, right?
And I said that that's a religion.
That's sort of what Muhammad did.
You know, I put together a group that wanted to kill anybody that wouldn't convert, which was a great way of getting them to convert.
He didn't have the benefit of a St. Paul and a St. Peter that he could go preach, but he did have an army of illiterate Bedouins.
The educated Arabs rejected him.
They threw him out.
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Went out to the desert, got the army together, and then he went and killed all the educated Arabs.
Killed as many Jews as he get his hands on and Christians.
It's also how he took Iran.
He didn't take Iran.
His successor did.
He took him by warfare and genocide.
They killed all the Zoroastrians.
So Iran, according to the Red Crescent Society, has lost 787.
That is not true.
They lost a lot more than that.
Anything they tell you is a massive lie.
The Red Crescent Society is an operative of the reign of terror.
Well, and even there's just like constraints on the ground of actually just, you know, getting all the information and having it be accurate.
So yeah, these are definitely preliminary estimates and likely undercounts.
Right.
And they claim there was a strike on a school that killed 150, which is questionable at best.
And if they produce a school that was bombed, don't put a pass and they have done it themselves.
These people are complete animals.
They're not, well, they're not human beings, really.
Look what they did in, look what they did in Israel.
Raping children.
Raping children?
Part of the plan.
part of the plan, the written-down plan.
We've eliminated, of course, Ali Khamenei, Defense Minister, Nazir Zadeh, the top five leadership of the Revolutionary Guard.
In Israel, there are a reported 11 people dead.
In Lebanon, the health ministry reports 52 people dead, 154 wounded based on Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah.
United Arab Emirates, which was gratuitously attacked by Iran for reasons that kind of indicate how irrational they are.
Three killed, 58 injured.
Intercepted debris from a downed Iranian missile killed at least one foreign national also there in a residential area.
In Iraq, there are two killed and three injured following strikes on the headquarters of the Iran-backed Qatayb Hezbollah paramilitary group near Baghdad.
In Kuwait, there's one killed and 32 wounded.
Kuwait is where the Americans who were hit by friendly fire, Kuwaiti fire, were all saved by the Kuwaitis.
So we thank them very, very much.
Bahrain, the country we talked about with Walid, which is such a really beautiful country, and beautiful in the sense of beautiful in terms of physically, but beautiful in terms of morality and decency.
It's a country that could be a model for every country in the Middle East.
One killed and six injured.
And Bahrain is a particular nemesis of Iran, and Iran bullies them.
Literally bullies them.
They're a small country.
They don't have an army.
And they go in there periodically and just do gratuitous terrorist killings.
For a while, they were killing cops.
They just like killing cops to show their superiority.
And they do it once a month.
In Qatar, we have 16 injured.
Now, how much of that is incidental to the attack on our base?
How much is attack on civilian population in Qatar?
I don't know.
Jordan, no one dead, five injured.
Jordan, I would think they'd be very, very careful about.
Of all the groups that I've mentioned here, although the Emirates has, and even Saudi Arabia has a bit of an Air Force, but Jordan has the Air Force I'd like flying for me.
Oman has one injured, which is, of course, strange.
Oman was trying to get them to hoodwink us into an agreement.
I was surprised when they hit Oman.
And in the Strait of Hormuz, there's one killed and four injured.
And what they were, it was a drone that was trying to hit an oil tanker, which didn't succeed.
And possibly that was to block the Strait.
That was an attack hoping to sink the merchant ship, and you don't need much to block the strait of Hormuz.
Uh, can we put up?
I have it here.
Can we put up the?
Um yes, we can there.
It is so that so the strait of Hormuz is really small, so i'm gonna put a little red line right where it is.
That's it, right there.
That's the strait of Hormuz.
Now you say, oh, gee, that's just a little thing there.
Why?
Why is that?
That's because of all of the oil, right, that comes out of here, But look what it's got to go through.
There.
Now, this has nothing to do with us.
We don't get any of that.
This amounts to 60% of the oil for China.
So it would have a massive impact on the world price of oil.
But there would be a side benefit if this were to be blocked, and that is China would get its head kicked in.
And its economy is suffering mightily, mightily.
And they'd have to put pressure on Russia.
And Russia doesn't have the oil and it can't move the oil.
So is that preventing Iran from blocking the Gulf of Hormuz?
They haven't made many rational decisions, but that would be a rational decision.
Now, if you want to know where our military force is, it's basically the largest percentage of it is along here.
And also going out this way.
This is the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
It depends on which side you're on.
If you're on this side, it's Persian, because that's Persia.
If you're on this side, it's the Arab Sea.
But when you get down here and then you head over that way, that's the Indian Ocean.
We have ships.
They got an entire carrier group here, an entire carrier group here.
And then we have another one, if not an entire one, an almost entire one over here, which is the Mediterranean.
So this gives us access to this whole area of Iran, right?
And then we got pretty easy access to this whole area of Iran.
This happens to be a place where they do a lot of missiles.
And this happens to be a place where they do a lot of delivery systems.
That's the Parchin Desert discovered by the MEK, by the way, that they were doing this.
And getting missiles that got them beyond got them beyond the Middle East to our best estimate right now is they can reach Britain.
They can't get beyond Britain with whatever they had.
That's whatever they had before our first strike.
We don't know exactly what they have now for two reasons.
We can never be absolutely sure that we got everything on the first strike.
We believe we did.
The UN says we didn't.
The UN says that they retain one very, very large deposit of uranium.
I would assume we're taking that out now.
There's also been some enrichment since they were defeated.
We don't know how much there was, but we're concentrating on the wrong thing.
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I'll tell you what there has been, because they're looking for justifications for why would Trump attack them, right?
Which is kind of ridiculous.
I mean, as I say, an American president could make the case that we were in imminent danger from Iran from the day they took the hostages.
Any day in the last 47 years, it would have been perfectly legitimate for an American president to bomb the living daylights out of them.
After they killed the Marines, after Solemani just was kind of invented IEDs and killed so many American young men and women and left us with many of these young men and women without legs and arms.
We need when they started sending groups around the world to kill us, like me.
They planned at least three different parts discovered on Trump.
So it's really the Democrat Party has gone so far away from being a party that has anything to do with the good of the United States of America.
I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican.
If you do not understand why this act by this president is probably going to be one of the greatest transformative acts in human history is stupid or so prejudiced.
You can't see the nose in front of your face.
This um, just right before he came into office, Iran was sitting very strong.
They controlled Uh due to, due to the inability of the most crooked, traitorous president of the United States, Joe Biden.
They controlled Iraq because um Biden was unable to negotiate with Iraq a status of forces agreement.
Now that sounds strange, but what is a status of forces agreement?
Status of forces agreement says that our soldiers in Iraq would have to be tried in a United States military court.
They would not be subjected to the Uh Law Of Iraq, given the fact that Iraq was, you know, coming out of the dark ages.
Right, and we have that in.
We have never been turned down until we sent Joe Biden who, as his co-cabinet member in the Obama administration said never, ever made a right decision about foreign policy.
Well, he made the wrong decision about that.
We didn't get our status of forces agreement, we had no soldiers there and Iran basically took it over and it became a client state of Iran based on, based on Assad, Hezbollah and others.
So did Syria, and so did Lebanon, where they have slaughtered.
If you want to talk to Lebanese who despise them, talk to Christian Lebanese who were slaughtered by the Ayatollah because he hates Christians as much as he hates Jews.
They all do, by the way, Muhammad taught them that way.
So basically, you had the Iranian Empire right here.
Okay, see it that's it inside that red line they controlled all of that well what's gone Syria that guy's hiding in Russia Iraq they got nothing in Iraq right now Lebanon?
Yeah.
Right.
Israel's bombing them as we speak.
It's all gone.
It's all gone.
And down here, the Houdis, down there, I haven't seen them fly a plane in months.
So this is a remarkable, this was all done by Donald J. Trump and B.B. Netanyahu.
They accomplished this.
Before them, that empire existed.
Since them, it's gone.
And that's where we stand today.
And the real key now is to have that regime fall and put a decent government in there.
The Israeli, there is a method to the madness in the strikes that we're doing.
Israel has launched very, very large scale attacks.
And they're focusing on the nuclear facilities.
They're focusing on the missile-related production sites.
And they're focusing on the IRGC command centers.
Their goal is to degrade Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, which every day makes Iran less dangerous, less dangerous, less dangerous, less capable of retaliating against us.
And for every missile that they use up, flying it toward us, the Israelis are taking out 10 that they never get to fly.
And there's got to be a point at which the missiles are gone.
That's within sight, like weeks.
The United States is doing a tremendous amount of air defense support for Israel and now for the Arab countries.
If we weren't using our air defense, you'd see a lot more than one killed or two injured and nobody killed in some of these countries.
No one has better defense system than we do.
Israel has the Iron Dome and it has Jacob's sling, I think it's called, and a couple of others, but they all come from us.
And we are engaged right now in a massive buildup of that.
And I don't think the Iranians have the capacity to really challenge it all that much.
We also are doing targeted hits based on intelligence.
Well, that means like trying to put a bomb on a success's head and going after major IRGC figures, major scientists, and warding off attacks on American bases.
The fleet itself, which is deployed in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, in all those places, of course, has its own defense systems, which are so far appear not to have been penetrated.
So I gave you a logical breakdown of how we're dividing up between the United States and Israel, which is very, very coordinated.
On the other hand, the attacks by Iran seem to be panic attacks.
There seems to be no attempt to try to degrade our military capacity.
None, which they didn't do last time either.
So Israel is, except for what Israel's had to use against them, or we've had to use against them, we retain everything we had when we started.
We've got the same number of missiles, the same number of troops, basically, except for a few that we've lost tragically.
Israel's losses have been very, very small, and they look like they may be civilians rather than military.
Which means they're doing very little, if anything, to degrade our effort against them.
We're doing everything we can to degrade their effort against us, which isn't very great anyway.
We've also done proxy attacks that don't get much attention, except the ones in Hezbollah, against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
There apparently have been a number of attacks in Yemen to keep the Houdis at bay.
Also a number of attacks in and around the Gulf of Hormuz to make certain they don't block it.
But I'm not certain they are going to block it because of the impact on China, except for the fact that they're irrational.
Should have thought of that myself.
So everything I'm saying is usually based on the motto of rationality.
Attacking these Arab countries is completely irrational.
The idea that you'll attack them and they'll go to Trump and tell them, stop attacking, it's more likely they're going to go to Trump and say, destroy Iran, Then they're going to say make peace with Iran so they can be around to attack us another day.
And they really also have to understand there isn't much love for them.
This has all been based on fear.
The Saudis hate them.
The Emiratis hate them with a passion.
The Bahrainis hate them with a passion.
Only the people in Qatar have a mixed view.
I've got to believe that's changing.
The risk of a wider war.
Who's going to be their allies in the wider war?
Please tell me who.
Russia?
They're going to leave Ukraine and come and be their ally.
China, that they're not even sure they have anybody, a general left in China.
He's fired every general.
He has fired every general with combat experience in China.
They'll come over here and get lost.
China's, and China's too smart.
China wants to come in and back a loser.
Russia can't do it unless they like to see Zelensky throw them out of Ukraine.
They can't get troops to fight in Ukraine.
They're borrowing North Koreans and Africans.
They're going to get troops to come and help these characters.
And then who else is left?
China?
Russia?
Oh, Venezuela.
Oh, that's not going to work, right?
They just got their guy.
Cuba?
They don't have any food.
Hard to fight if you're starving to death.
Okay, who else is left?
Let's see.
Well, the Arab countries, they're attacking, so they're not going to go help them.
Even England and Germany are on our side, right?
Well, they make them believe they're making them believe they're on our side.
They're not going to go fight for them.
You know, who might help them?
Spain.
That could be a long war with Spain.
I think Spain would probably be easier to defeat than Iran.
Right.
And France, you don't want France.
They're bad luck.
So analysts say the escalation could occur in several ways.
Strikes on Saudi Arabia or UAE oil infrastructure.
Well, that would be terrible.
But how's that going to escalate things?
You can make things worse.
It's not going to make it into a wider war.
It just means we're probably going to take them out faster.
Hezbollah launching large rocket barrages into Israel.
If they could do that, they would have done it already to defend themselves.
U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities deeper inside the country.
Tell me how that extends the war.
If you mean extends it in terms of time, yes.
expands it in terms of participants in the war.
This is, tell me who.
Who's going to come and fight for Iran?
Maybe Mandami will come over and fight for Iran.
He's a real fighter of that one.
Well, Mandami, I mean, Mandami seems to be rather sympathetic with them, right?
The one thing they could do, but it wouldn't make the war wider is block the Straits of Hormuz, which we said could have a very big impact on the world economy and maybe create pressure on the United States to end the war.
Maybe.
On the other hand, the United States, if it wanted to, could just sit there and say, well, we don't care.
We don't get any oil from them.
Not going to affect us.
All we have to do is stop selling our oil and using it for ourselves.
We have enough, way more than enough oil to play.
This is not like the rare earth minerals or some of the other things where there's a fear that China has too much of a hold on it.
This is an area where China doesn't have a hold on it, and we do.
We export oil because it's cheaper for us to buy it from overseas.
We can just stop buying it and using it.
So, sure, it could have an impact on the rest of the world in terms of economics.
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But I actually don't think it would get the rest of the world to say, oh, let's be nice to Iran.
I think it would have just the opposite effect.
Just like their attacks on these Arab countries, if they were intended to pressure the United States to stop, have actually gotten the United States allies.
So there's nothing rational or sensible about them.
If there was, they would beg for peace right now and say, you can have anything you want.
No nuclear, no nuclear of any kind.
And I will recognize Israel.
So let's see what happens.
Let's see what happens.
But we should be able to get Epic Fury or Roaring Lion, whichever you prefer.
Epic Fury is our name for it.
Roaring Lion is the Israeli name for it.
I do wonder, and I'll try to find out a little bit more about what we're doing with nuclear facilities because there was always the fear that we hadn't gotten them all.
And, you know, no great shame if we didn't.
That was a hell of an attack anyway.
And it certainly set them back who knows how long, but for a very long period of time.
But if we get a second shot at it, no reason not to take it, right?
So I think we've used up our welcome.
We did a lot of soccer time.
I think I reported earlier that basically, effectively, they don't have a navy anymore.
We've sunk all of their large ships.
Of course, they only had 11, but they're all gone.
And they're sunk and cannot.
The other advantage of that is they can't sink them in the Straits of Hormuz.
Iran's main oil export terminal is now gone.
Do you know who the major buyer is in that terminal who is buying oil from there and can't buy oil from there anymore?
Never, never again.
China?
China.
Red China.
Because I like China.
I don't like red China.
And we're.
Of course, well, explain that we're saying it as President Trump says it.
That is our goal there.
China.
How does he say it?
China.
Just a quick update there before we go, because we on this show, the mayor, his mandate to Stephen and I is to make sure we're keeping the audience up to date on everything happening around the world up to the minute.
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in the Texas Republican primary for Senate.
Oh, yeah, yeah, let's get a final on that.
John Cornyn maintaining a slight lead over Paxton.
42.9% to 40.5% with 47% reporting.
A little slow, a little fast.
42.9% for Cornyn.
Okay.
40.5%.
So that's about 2.4%.
And where are we on?
47% reporting.
That's it.
That's pretty slow.
But again, still just 50% of Dallas County where Cornyn has a owner.
You know, Lyndon Johnson once stole an election in Texas.
That's how he started his career with a stolen election.
His wife allegedly the guy who stole it for him was later a Supreme Court justice, Abe Ford.
That we're going to have to dig into a little bit further.
And the Democrat side, 46% reporting.
James Tellerico, who Stephen, he's got to thank Stephen Colbert for this one.
James Tellerico with 53% to Crockett's 45.8%.
That's with 46% reporting.
So we'll watch that.
Of course, all the congressional races.
I believe North Carolina has elections.
Well, he's doing this serious thing.
Where's Raleigh?
He's on the balcony.
Well, I want to report to everyone before we close out that there have been reports put out that dogs can extend your life.
About 43% of U.S. households, particularly those that are run by millennials, have a dog, like this one here.
There he is.
Raleigh, I want to congratulate you because there are now studies that you're extending Stephen's life.
Okay?
You're extending Steven's life, Raleigh.
He's saying, what he wants is a treat.
What do I do?
I'm on TV, guys.
Can we get him a treat of some kind?
We have real doggy issues to talk about today.
Yeah, we do.
We have doggy issues.
Look, look.
Look at these dogs here.
They're in the newspaper.
You should be in the newspaper.
Oh, yeah.
You're a very, very good dog, Raleigh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Doggy.
Well, he gets chicken.
You want chicken?
Oh, he says, thank you.
He says, thank you, mister.
He says, thank you so much.
Yeah, look it up.
Yeah, look it up.
Look at you.
That's it.
That's good.
Look at you.
Oh, good boy, Riley.
He's a very, very good dog, but this is serious.
This is actually serious.
Owning a pet can get expensive.
You have to know that, right?
It can become a bit of a training issue if you're impatient.
And it can become really devastating when you lose it.
But on balance, people who have people who have dogs, this is a study that's only about three years old, have a 24% lower risk of dying from all causes over the course of a decade.
24% lower risk.
Part of that's too is due to the more diverse microbiota community.
2019 study in Sweden found that canine ownership was associated with a lower risk of death from a heart attack.
Having a pet has been tied to lower blood pressure, better resting heart rate.
A British study found that there are roughly four times more likely to meet the UK, US recommended 150 minutes of moderate to rigorous physical exercise if you own a dog.
Because you take him out to walk, unless you're a, you know, you're like the baby Shah, who probably has somebody that does it for him.
Um, so there you go.
Most dog owners meet the standard exercise, even a little better than maximum uh guidelines, but only 60 of owners actually walk their own dogs.
Seems weird.
And maybe the kids do like, maybe they mean the kids in the house walk the dog, or.
I can't believe that 60, only 60 that 40 of dog owners would spend the money to get a paid dog walker.
So if you take my dog uh, my uh goalie, when I was mayor, he would go out himself, but we didn't start walking him until I stopped being mayor because he had a whole backyard for himself.
Right yeah, we did go clean up for him, though.
Now here's something very interesting, if the dog is sick, you're probably going to be sick too.
Research from 2020 found that if a dog has diabetes, its owner is 38 more likely to have diabetes.
At that point, they probably have a bad snack exactly they're buying.
You're buying shitty dog food and you're eating shitty food.
Just petting a dog can boost your mental health.
It's terrific for depression, it lowers hormone cortisol and it raises the chemical oxytocin, which is a feel-good chemical.
I don't know what that is.
I'm just telling you what it says here, 95 of pet owners rely on their pooches for stress relief Relief.
And I can tell you there were many times when I was the mayor of New York where my only friend in the whole world was Goli, my dog, who you can see on that wall.
If you bring it down, I can show you my dog Goli, who, by the way, got an award for meritorious service from the city of New York for getting us through a terrible snowfall so that we could all get to the police department and help the 911 workers because he was a Labrador retriever.
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See him there?
You should know that my dog Goli was a trained-seeing eye dog who washed out of training because he had cataracts.
Can you imagine the bad jokes that they would tell me at Guiding Eyes for the Blind?
Look at him.
Wasn't he beautiful?
That's Goli right there.
Beautiful dog and a New York City hero.
And no nepotism.
The police put him up for the award because we used him to get ourselves through the snow during the bad snowfall in 1996.
And he was extremely helpful also to get us to the pizza restaurant where we made pizzas, 24 of them for our 911 workers.
Well, got to have a little fun with some of the news stories.
We'll be back.
We'll be back tomorrow.
We're keeping up with what's going on there, minute by minute, as much as we can, talking to as many people as we can talk to, getting every report we can get.
Tomorrow we'll do a report on the progress of the MEK because it is so important that the leadership here be guided by people like Madame Rajavi, who you saw last night on the video that we had, which I guess they can get again if they want, right?
Yeah, we'll put it up to you.
I recommend showing that to your friends and contrasting that to the baby Shah, who has no plan.
She has a very specific 10-point plan.
She's in the process of already implementing it.
She's got tremendous resources on the ground.
The attack on Monday on the compound, the pasteur compound that eventually was bombed, was done by MEK.
The bought for and owned press of Iran actually admitted that it was a very heavy casualties on the Iranians.
And we can go back and maybe we'll compile those for you with comments from the Ayatollah, which tell you how afraid he was of the MEK and how he saw the MEK as the only group that could actually replace him, had the capacity to replace him.
And isn't it that they would replace him, but that they could guide a transition that would bring into government a wide range of people.
They also have very close relationships with the main minority groups, one of which the Shah has already kind of threatened to go to war with.
So we'll be back tomorrow.
And tonight, we're going to pray, of course, for the people in Iran.
Let's hope this happens with the minimum amount of losses for us and for them.
Let's pray for the people of Israel, who are once again having to go into tunnels.
And what brave people, huh?
And for the people of Ukraine, who we're not thinking about right now, but still are under the gun of that other monster over in Russia.
And pray for the president.
There's always on him.
He's got to make these decisions.
He does make it look like it doesn't affect him.
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Of course, he's human, and of course it does.
So dear God, give him the strength and the health.
And he's a great president.
He's made great decisions.
He's already in the category of a great president.
We're going to start arguing as to whether he's the greatest.
But in any event, keep him healthy and keep him safe.
We know he's here because of you.
God bless America.
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.
It 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.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason.