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March 27, 2026 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (895): President Trump Extends Deadline for Iran to Reopen Strait of Hormuz

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Yo, that's not Mayor Giuliani.
Good evening.
Welcome to America's Mayor Live, episode 895.
The mayor will be with us momentarily.
It was what we call a travel day, and I'll let the mayor kind of fill in where he's at tonight.
I'm coming to you live from Palm Beach.
And we, you know, obviously want to make sure we're still talking to you, giving you the latest.
Another big day, day 27 in the ongoing Iran conflict with Israel and the United States.
And now, you know, what appears to be additional Gulf allies, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain.
Iran doesn't seem to be taking both Israeli warnings and from the United States to stop with their missiles.
They're continuing to strike locations.
We're going to give you the latest.
One person is dead in Tel Aviv and two are injured after a missile strike.
This being reported just an hour ago, EMTs and paramedics are also caring for two additional people who were injured.
This happening in central Tel Aviv.
And just a few hours ago, we learned that several American service members were injured by an Iranian missile fired at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
This has been confirmed by multiple U.S. officials and reported by NBC News.
Today, the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Aragachi, a person that we've seen a lot of, has promised and, of course, threatened payback against Israel after a wave of attacks on steel factories,
a power plant, and nuclear areas inside the Islamic Republic, civilian nuclear areas, is what they are being described as.
Aragachi says Iran will exact heavy price for Israeli crimes.
Aragachi additionally says he believed the Israeli attacks contradicted President Trump's extended deadline for diplomacy aimed at solving the war.
Again, we are following all of the news today very closely.
U.S. crude oil ended the week at more than $101 a barrel.
That is as of 5 p.m. tonight.
Today alone, the price of U.S. oil surged an additional 7%, bringing the rise since the beginning of this conflict a month ago to more than 50%.
And since the beginning of the year, U.S. crude oil prices have soared more than 75%.
Israel says, and this is being reported just a few hours ago, it says that it's currently intercepting missiles that are being fired towards its territory by Iran.
This coming from the IDF, quote, a short while ago, the IDF identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the state of Israel.
Defense systems are operating to intercept the threat.
So again, we are following the latest as we await Mayor Giuliani to join us again on a very, very busy Friday night in the news.
This today, Israel is promising to both intensify and expand its attacks in Iran.
And this comes just a day after the president, President Trump, has delayed the deadline for the Strait of Hormuz, right?
Originally, it was five days from Monday.
I mean, we'd be coming up on the deadline.
The president has extended it by 10 days.
Now the deadline is April the 6th, I believe at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
I think the president was specific in timing.
Now, Iran says it will help get humanitarian aid through the Strait of Hormuz.
This, according to the United Nations, but again, you want to question anything you hear from these humanitarian groups over at the United Nations.
This comes as reports that the United States is sending additional troops to the region.
And we're going to try to get a number on that as far as how many.
Today, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that the Iran war would conclude in weeks, not months.
This is something he said to reporters today, insisting that the U.S. military campaign was on or ahead of schedule.
He added that the Trump administration expects the operations to end in a matter of weeks, not months.
Of course, Secretary Rubio, he's our top diplomat.
He also said that progress is going very well, but we have some work to do.
The president, the United States has sent, negotiators on behalf of the president has sent Iran a 15-point plan.
Yet we are yet to hear back from Iran on this plan.
So we will continue to follow the latest and we want to get the mayor's insight on everything happening over in Iran.
Now, Iran, again, has come out strongly against what it calls retaliatory strikes that Israel has made on steel factories.
Six steel factories in Iran and five other countries are expected to be struck by Iranian forces.
That's according to Iranian state media.
This comes after Israel, according to Iran, has hit steel factories in Iran.
So the question is, does Iran have the capability of striking back and will they target civilian steel factories?
This is something we'll want to watch closely.
Again, thanks for joining us.
America's Mayor Live, episode 895.
We are awaiting Mayor Giuliani, who is traveling today.
I'll leave it to him to kind of fill you in on where he's at.
And we're coming to you live from West Palm Beach, Florida.
So day 27, the G7 foreign ministers are calling for an immediate end to all attacks on civilians.
This coming from the foreign ministers from the group of seven democracies, quote, an immediate, they are calling for a quote, immediate cessation of attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Iran war.
This coming earlier today.
Secretary of State was also present at the meeting along with the foreign ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
And this is the meeting at which point, at the end of which Secretary Rubio promised, or at least told reporters that he expected military operations by the United States to conclude in a matter of weeks,
not months.
Strikes are hitting key parts of Iran's nuclear program.
This according to Iran state media.
No danger threatens the people in the area.
However, the strikes did cause some damage on the Khandob, the Khandab heavy water complex.
So we'll want to get some more information on where exactly that is located.
So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back, hopefully with the mayor.
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It's not like a factory, it's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
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Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know all Arabica beans.
No Robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
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Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory, it's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep green, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know all Arabica beans.
No Robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at these.
My goodness.
You're going to want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy's coffee.
Are you ready for some action?
I'm ready for action.
Get the Elite TV plan only through the portal.
218 channels, and it's only $69.95 a month, including your free portal.
That's cheaper than everyone else.
Your favorite sports, movies, news, even daytime dramas.
We're talking about ESPN, OAN, Newsmax, channels you can't get anymore in certain areas.
Compared to the competition, this is a way better deal.
Endless selection.
Not to mention all the free music channels.
There's over 700 premium and classic movies all ready to go.
Wow.
Plus, they got catch-up TV that allows you to go back and watch what you've missed or want to watch again.
Cut your cable in half and get twice as much for free.
Way more channels for half the cost.
After the first year, the subscription then drops to $57.95 monthly, where you change or upgrade anytime.
Go to QUXNow.com and get yours today.
Use promo code Rudy.
Act fast.
These deals are selling out.
U.S. Army Major Scott Smiley paid a high price serving on Nation.
Scott was leading his platoon in Iraq when a blast sent shrapnel through his eyes, leaving him blind and temporarily paralyzed.
Scott would become the first blind active duty military officer before medically retiring years later.
Thanks to friends like you, the Tunnel of the Towers Foundation gave Scott and his family a mortgage-free, specially adapted smart home.
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Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory, it's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep green, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know, all Rabaca beans.
No Robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at these.
My goodness.
Boarders and true American patriots here tonight.
You know, Richard just told me backstage that we have more donors here tonight in terms of not only the dollars, but in terms of the individual people we want to thank you.
It's a record.
And it's a nice place, by the way.
Looks nice.
Very nice.
They don't build too many of them like this anymore.
But with your help this November, we'll defeat the radical left Democrats and we'll win a midterm victory like our country has never seen for whatever reason.
I don't know what it is.
But a president who wins, Republican or Democrat, almost always does poorly in the midterms.
Nobody knows why.
Even if it's a successful presidency.
And there are those that say this has been the first, I mean, really the best first year ever for a president.
And I agree with them, I must tell you.
I agree with them 100%.
But I do.
We did a lot.
We settled eight wars.
People sort of forget.
And we're winning another one, I tell you.
We're winning so big, nobody's ever seen anything like we're doing in the Middle East with Iran.
And they are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly, but they're afraid to say it because they figure they'll be killed by their own people.
They're also afraid they'll be killed by us.
There's never been a head of a country that wanted that job less than being the head of Iran.
I don't want it.
We listen to some of the things they say.
We hear them very clearly.
They say, I don't want it.
We'd like to make you the next supreme leader.
No, thank you.
I don't want it.
But I want to express my gratitude to the tremendous leader in this effort.
And really, he's just an incredible speaker.
He's going to go down as one of the great ever.
Ever.
Mike Johnson.
And the boss and his family, by the way, Kelly.
And because of the fact that these lights are so bright, I can't see a thing in the audience, but what the hell.
I know you're all friends.
Otherwise, I'd get out of here very quickly.
But what a job he's done.
You know, think of it.
We have, when we have a majority of three, we feel so thrilled.
Then it goes down sometimes to two.
Then it goes down to one.
And then it goes back up to two or three and we feel rich again.
It's crazy.
And we're getting all of this past.
Think about the great, big, beautiful bill.
Think of that.
The great, big, beautiful bill.
We got it done.
And remember, that was a four-year deal.
That was four years.
I said at the time, and Mike agreed, and Jon Thune agreed.
We agreed, let's get everything done, let's put it in one.
And everybody said we were crazy, we'd never get it passed.
And that was four years' worth of goodies.
But now that we have that, we're going back for more.
And we're going back for more pretty quickly.
I think you're going to see some pretty good things which we should win.
But of course, the thing that we should win, and who would believe that you can't get voter ID because all of the Democrats, every single one of them, they stick together.
They have lousy policy.
They're not good people, but they stick together.
They have horrible policy for this country, but they're like glue the way they stick together, and you have to respect that.
We have some very interesting things in store, and I think we're going to have a great, a great election, despite the fact that if you look historically, for whatever reason, you win the presidency, Republican, Democrat.
So in 50 years, it's two.
Think of that.
In 100 years, it's four.
And we're going to do it.
We're going to do it.
We've done, nobody's done more than we have in this last short period of time.
Nobody.
It doesn't make sense.
I've gone to people, I've asked them, I've asked the greatest political leaders in the country, why is it that whoever wins the presidency, not Republican, not Democrat, whoever wins the presidency doesn't do well in the midterms.
And most people can't explain it.
The professionals try and give you an answer.
The Democrats would say, if you ask them that question, it's racism.
But they said, but it pertains to you too.
Oh, well, in that case, it's not racism.
They always use racism.
Whenever they ask a question, like voter ID, why don't you it's racist?
Do they ever have another answer other than racism?
And no, it's unbelievable.
It's not racism.
It's voter ID.
It's important for our country.
And proof of citizenship is important for our country.
This is Bruti Giuliani and American women's sports should not be allowed.
That's very important.
We arrived late, but we're all set to go, assuming everything else is working.
We're here to endorse and to do an event for a great, great man, Jackson Laymeyer.
He's a pastor.
He's been on our show any number of times.
And Pastor Laymeyer is running for Congress as a very, very dedicated Republican, a very dedicated supporter of President Trump.
And I've known the pastor for quite some time.
And this is an extraordinary man.
And I think the times that he's been on our show, you probably testify to that.
But he runs one of the most significant churches in Tulsa.
He is an extraordinarily well-educated theologian.
He's got a great deal of experience in building the church from the ground up.
And he will be a...
I just wonder how Jackson's going to handle all those scoundrels that he's going to have to deal with.
Right now, I'm sorry.
I actually hit the phone myself.
I'm worried that he's going to have a hard time dealing with the scoundrels who here they are on vacation again.
And I do not, as a human being, understand how any of them could not be there trying to figure out how to make sure that this government isn't functioning 100%.
I also don't understand how they can tolerate people working as indentured servants for the United States of America.
I can't find a government in the world that does what we do.
Because the politicians can't do their job, the people don't get paid.
Now, somehow I don't think George Washington and Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson and I don't know who would ever agree with that.
And it's insane that we can't fix it.
This started somewhere in because of the animosity toward President Reagan.
And this is a complete indication of why the Democrat Party is ready for the scrap heap.
I mean, they agreed now, theoretically to end it.
However, they accomplished nothing.
This was all for nothing.
They say they removed ICE from the funding.
ICE was removed from the funding.
ICE is funded through 2029.
This never had to do with ICE.
This had to do with four or five things that they wanted to impose on ICE, even though ICE is not part of this bill, none of which they got.
None of which they got.
They just got scared because everybody's getting angry at them because they can't get on a flight in less than four hours of waiting.
And they're sitting there knowing that they're not only putting the quality of life of Americans in grave jeopardy, they're putting their safety in grave jeopardy.
The part of the government they're not funding is critical to safety.
And here they are willing to do it, but after putting us through hell for weeks and weeks.
And now it looks like the Senate and the House aren't going to agree with each other.
And they have to agree with each other completely in order to do this process.
So the president has exercised his discretion under a law that is rarely used where he's declared an emergency.
And based on that emergency, the president can use unspent funds of the federal government.
Now, people say, well, why didn't he do it earlier?
Because at the very beginning, there wasn't an emergency.
But the fact is they created an emergency by stubbornly not agreeing for this length of time.
Even what he's doing now could be questioned in court.
But I mean, we can worry about that later.
But there's at least some basis now for what he's doing.
And lucky we have a president like President Trump.
I don't think any other president has ever done this before.
He just basically said, the hell with it, I'm going to pay him.
Of course we should pay them.
These people who are not getting paid earn about $40,000 or $50,000 a year, by and large.
I don't know how many of you, I mean, no possible way that I can know how much the audience makes or what category you're in.
But I venture to guess that most of you make more than that.
And no matter how much you make, unless you're independently wealthy, try missing one or two regular checks and see what happens.
And if you're making only 40 or 50,000, I really doubt you got a lot stashed away somewhere.
Now, I had on the show the other night, you might remember my son Andrew, and he runs a division of homeland security and one that's very critical right now,
and that is to do all the security planning for the 73 games of the World Cup that are going to be played in 12 different venues, each one of which is equal in terms of audience to the Super Bowl.
And they're going to be in different cities, some of which are quite well prepared for events like this because they have big events, you know, New York and Los Angeles.
And some of them just don't usually have events like this.
And they're going to need help.
And I can tell you from my own experience in safety and security, the level of preparation is very, very different depending on where you are in America.
And to cut off funding for this, who knows what you're going to mix.
I'm not exactly sure how many people work directly for Andrew.
I think it's about 70.
And they tend to be people with high expertise because they have to understand the security in Kansas City and they have to understand the security in Dallas and the security in Houston.
Of course, New York and Los Angeles and Chicago.
And we go through all of them.
And I don't know.
I don't know.
I imagine they're in different financial circumstances.
But they've been working without pay.
And they're up against a June 11 deadline for the first game.
In fact, there was a there was sort of, I don't know what you could call it, sort of a warm-up game played yesterday at Foxborough.
I think it involved Brazil, maybe France.
I'm not sure of the other country.
And it was not, I think it was sort of like an exhibition soccer game.
I think Foxborough was standing room only.
This isn't even a game that counts.
If I recall correctly, Andrew told us that there are 73 games in America, and there were 12 of 13 in Mexico, 12 of 13 in Canada.
Of the 73 games in America, at least as of two days ago, 72 of them have 1 million requests for seats per game.
I don't think there's a stadium in America that holds a million people.
By and large, they're going to be played in the NFL stadiums in their cities.
And they hold about 70 or 80,000 people, which means that these cities are going to be loaded with people from different parts of the world seeking to get tickets, many of them probably thinking they can get tickets.
And it's going to be, I mean, it's going to be great if it works, right?
They'll be in the restaurants and the bars and the hotels and homes and places they rent because they're not going to be able to get into the stadium, but they want to be near their team.
I don't know if you've ever been to a World Cup match.
I had the honor of hosting it in New York back in 1994.
And Andrew was a kid and went with me.
Now he's running the damn thing.
And quite exciting for his dad, but quite nerve-wracking too.
And he's in a business that I used to do.
And I understand the vagaries and difficulties of it.
The fact that his people aren't being paid is crazy.
The fact that the people at TSA aren't being paid is crazy.
And we have to fix it.
And thank God we've got a president who's got a pair of collons.
Otherwise, these people would be, you know, in any event, let's talk a little about the war, which the complexity of which is absolutely understandable to me.
And it should be to you.
It just makes it difficult for any of us to give you really solid information about exactly what's going to happen.
First of all, some of the complaints that I've, I had time on the plane, come in here to read a lot of different versions and a lot of different newspapers in Asia and Europe and here.
And a common complaint on all sides is, nobody knows the strategy.
Nobody knows exactly what's going to happen next.
How stupid can you be?
If the president or Pete Hanksett or General Kane would have laid out the strategy, put them in jail.
If you lay out the strategy, the enemy find out the strategy.
They've laid out the strategy in general terms.
It's really simple.
It stayed the same.
For President Trump, it's probably stayed the same since 1981, 82, when he first made the statement.
I don't even know how he knew about Charge Island back in 1980 or 81.
He said if they blocked up Charge Island, we should pull them to Smith Marines.
Something like that.
The goal of the United States is that first, let's begin with Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.
It is everything, if you needed any proof of that, this war is proof of it.
They're being attacked by the United States and the state of Israel.
They're fighting a war with all their Arab brothers and sisters.
They've attacked those countries much more than they've attacked Israel or the United States.
In fact, the biggest source of attack is the Emirates, United Arab Republic.
Now, they're also wasting a tremendous amount of energy on a country that is completely non-military, Bahrain, because they hate them.
Because this isn't a war about anything you would understand rationally.
This is a war about a so-called religion that goes back to the seventh century.
And I always wondered, too much, wondered, when Push came to shove, do they really want to die?
Because they would say that, right?
We'll die for Allah and we'll be glorified and we'll go to paradise.
And yes, yes, yes, there's a whole hunt about how they'll get.
The big dispute is the 72 or 79 virgins.
And you wonder, do they really believe that?
And since they're thieves and murderers, and they kill their own people in large numbers, it's hard to understand how they're actually religious.
So, I mean, when push comes to Shav, are they really going to want to die?
Well, it turns out they do.
It turns out they're as insane as Ronald Reagan thought and every president has thought.
What that means is they cannot have nuclear weapons because they don't care if they die, but we do.
And the thing that has kept us free of atomic attack, nuclear attack, since Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the concept of mutually assured destruction,
something that Ronald Reagan hated and I think Donald Trump hates it even more.
Mutually assured destruction means if I have nuclear weapons, big ones, you know, the real big ones, the ones that can blow up cities and countries, and you have nuclear weapons of similar dimension.
Well, we're not going to attack each other because we're surely going to die.
If Russia were to attack us, I mean, Putin isn't going to be able to hide.
He's dead.
I don't think Putin wants to die.
I don't think Xi Jinming wants to die.
So they're not going to use, well, that works as long as Donald Trump, Xi Jinming, and Putin, no matter how good or bad they are,
even no matter how smart they are, are they vaguely rational?
And as long as they are, we're safe from that.
But the Ayatollah, Khomeini, Khomeini, the guy who doesn't appear anymore now, that maybe he doesn't have a face, I don't know.
They want to die.
The Ayatollah, the Ayatollah would have settled this thing a long time ago if he didn't.
I mean, he realized that he's committed suicide.
So they really do believe this.
So for the safety and security of the United States of America, the safety and security of the world, particularly the people around them, they cannot have nuclear weapons under any circumstances or in any way,
which means critical to this, whether we have to do it by destroying them or we can do it by some kind of an agreement.
They've got to be willing to give up all their enriched uranium.
They have to be willing to give up anything that will enrich uranium.
They have to be willing to give up all their missiles and delivery systems.
And they have to be willing to be wide open and inspect it and cede their sovereignty to a legitimate international force that will inspect it at the beginning daily.
Are they going to do that?
I don't see it.
I think inevitably this is going to have to be resolved militarily.
And rather than kicking the can once again down the road, let's get it over with for the safety of our children and our grandchildren.
So the president has taken Aragachi and Galibov.
Aragachi is sort of in charge of all of the security and Golubov is the speaker or the head of the parliament.
And the two of them have apparently asked that they be during this 10-day period now to April 11th.
Isn't that the date, Dr. Maria?
April 6th.
April 6th or 11th.
Well, until that date, Aragotsky and Golibov have been taken off the hit list so they can negotiate.
And I assume possibly others.
Well, that makes some degree of sense, really.
We're going to take a short break because there's a lot of confusion about, number one, the amount of damage that's been done to Iran.
What condition are they in?
What do they have left?
And what are we looking forward to in this period?
And how does this thing actually get resolved?
I'll give you a pass that I think it'll follow.
I think I'm probably right, but I usually think I'm right.
And we'll see.
But I do have to say, I don't know that we've had a president that could get us this far.
In fact, we know we haven't had a president like that because they all had the opportunity to do this and keep us safe.
And none of them did.
Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory.
It's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep green, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they'd like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know all Arabica beans.
No Robusto, all Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh, my goodness, look at these.
My goodness.
They're going to want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy's coffee.
U.S. Army Major Scott Smiley paid a high price serving our nation.
Scott was leading his platoon in Iraq when a blast sent shrapnel through his eyes, leaving him blind and temporarily paralyzed.
Scott would become the first blind, active duty military officer before medically retiring years later.
Thanks to friends like you, the Tunnels and Towers Foundation gave Scott and his family a mortgage-free, specially adapted smart home.
Show your support for America's heroes.
Now, donate $11 a month to Tunnels and Towers at t2t.org.
Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory, it's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep green, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they'd like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know all Arabica beans.
No Robusto, all Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at these.
My goodness.
They're going to want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy's coffee.
U.S. Army Major Scott Smiley paid a high price serving our nation.
Scott was leading his platoon in Iraq when a blast sent shrapnel through his eyes, leaving him blind and temporarily paralyzed.
Scott would become the first blind, active duty military officer before medically retiring years later.
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Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory, it's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep green, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they'd like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know all Arabica beans.
No Robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at these.
My goodness.
They're going to want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy Scoffee.
Welcome back to America's Mayor Live.
And this is, and this is Rudy Giuliani, of course.
And I am in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to do a campaign appearance and a dinner for the Pastor Jackson Laymeyer, who's running for Congress.
He is an extraordinary, extraordinary candidate.
He's going to lift, he's going to lift the quality in Congress quite a bit.
And of course, this is a terrible time to be talking about Congress, so I won't get started on that.
I would like Ted, who is, I'm not sure where.
He can tell us if he wants or he can remain an undercover agent.
But I'd like Ted to bring us up to date of the things that happened while I was traveling.
Ted?
I'm on mute here.
Hello, Mayor.
I am coming to you live from West Palm Beach, Florida.
Can you hear me?
But we are connected.
So, Mayor, today, of course, we had updated the audience at the beginning.
Ted, I'm not able to hear you.
Okay.
Can you hear me now?
Now I can hear you fine.
Okay.
You're hearing me from the phone right now.
So let me go ahead and mute you and A update while, yeah, uh, as we mentioned earlier, to start off the show, the president, of course,
has extended the deadline by 10 days in order for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
If they aren't, if they don't adhere to the president's new deadline set for April 6th, he has promised U.S. strikes on its power plants.
The president also said today that talks to end the war are going very well, but that, of course, is not what Tehran is saying.
Tehran says it's not negotiating.
Additionally, today, we had the Secretary of State Marco Rubio promising, well, at least indicating that he believed this war would come to a close in a matter of weeks, not days.
However, Israel is telling Iran that it will continue.
Not only will it continue, but it will expand ongoing strikes in Iran if Iran doesn't immediately stop launching missiles itself into towards Israel and some of these Gulf states.
So I think the key takeaway today, Mayor, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, telling us that he expects this to be done in a matter of weeks, not months.
I thought you said he expected it to be done in a matter of weeks, not days.
Or did he say weeks, not months?
My understanding is weeks, not months.
So he thinks it's going to be over fast.
I mean, that would be the conclusion from that.
And Israel is basically saying no matter what, they're going to go on their own if they have to.
That's right.
I mean, so how do you, how do you interpret all that?
Well, it's very clear that Israel is dedicated to seeing this thing through.
And you wonder what sort of domestic political pressures Prime Minister Netanyahu is facing.
Of course, they've got to pass a budget internally.
Otherwise, they face an election even sooner than the current schedule, which is for October.
Of course, the Israeli parliament and the Knesset has their elections.
Sorry, repeat that, man.
Israel.
Israel would have to face an election.
We're talking about Israel right now.
Of course, Israel, they seem dedicated to seeing this thing through.
We've heard reports that Saudi Arabia and the UAE have indicated to President Trump that they would like to see the strikes continue against Iranian military structures.
And so we have that on one hand.
The president, of course, facing some domestic pressures, maybe even within his own administration, to bring this thing to a close.
Of course, the media, the West, our European allies love to talk about the price of oil and how that is going up and how much can we take.
And Iran has indicated that it is also dedicated to using its influence over the market if the United States and Israel does not end its military.
How short-sighted and how stupid can the European leaders be when Iran is saying we're going to use whatever we can uh to dominate you and extort you with the price of oil so stop the war so this way we can continue to do it for the next 10 years or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50.
I mean these.
These are the most Short-sighted p-brains or who the hell knows what.
They are communists or frightened or useless people.
The simple, the simple fact is, we got, we got to win.
This isn't a matter of winning like a football game or a basketball.
We have to remove this cancer, which is just going to get worse if we come to this point and we end up with a negotiated settlement with these people.
They're going to get worse.
Not, it's not going to get better.
Are they still denying that they are having negotiations?
The the latest yes, Quran says it's not currently uh, negotiating with the United States.
That, of course, is not what we're hearing from the?
U.s side of things.
Uh, and so let's see, go ahead.
Man, definitely lying about that.
There obviously are negotiations going on.
You wouldn't have all these points coming out and if there wasn't, so they're lying about that.
The president even warned them the uh yesterday.
I think it was not to lie about it, so they're lying about.
If they're going to lie about what the negotiations are going on, they're going to lie about everything they agree to, like they did last time.
Uh, the last agreement that they did with with with Obama, was a disaster.
The disaster for the United States.
It's the one that catapulted them into the ability to be able to enrich uranium up to 60 percent.
Right, because they never let anybody come in and inspect, and and Obama did nothing about it.
Not only did Obama not put sanctions on, he gave him money.
So, of course, there's a lot of a division of opinion uh, from different people, but I I can't imagine that you'd be in the Trump administration and not be in favor of ending the regime of terror that has killed so many Americans and has lined up to kill more.
I don't know what they have to do to convince us they're a danger to us.
I mean whether, whether it's the hostages they took, the marines they killed, the Ieds that they put all over Iraq and and and sent so many of our young men and some women to an early death.
The attempts to kill president Trump, the attempts to kill me and many, many other people, not just me and the people that work with me right, so I am hoping praying, actually that the president is doing this as a um, as a uh, fake.
If we were, if we were talking football the way he did twice before, I mean the last time, the last time he hit him hard.
He was negotiating with him, we were gonna have an agreement and then all of a sudden Baboom uh we uh we we uh, we took out the ayatollah.
Goodbye, ayatollah.
You go find your virgins, you miserable killer.
So i'm really hoping that that's the case.
So there are there.
So there are, there are.
It's a really uh, horribly fascinating situation in that you've got, we've got indications of both.
Right, you have the president talking about he wants it over with early.
You have the secretary of state now saying it would be over in weeks rather than in months.
Uh, you've got.
Um, you've got a lot of a lot, a lot of uh discussion of the president saying he wants to have peace and he wants to negotiate it.
And you have have them.
You have him saying that they are getting close in their negotiations, which sounds like he's more interested in a negotiated agreement than Iran is.
On the other hand uh, he's sending over and the number keeps going up every day.
He's sending over our uh, some of our best uh, uh assets.
The 82ND Airborne is it's not just a group of paratroopers who are going out for a skydive.
These guys are trained killers of of uh, of uh.
You know, unbelievable ability.
Think right, think uh, think special forces, you know, coming down from the sky right right, he's got the United States Marines that are the best amphibious force in the world um ready, ready to uh, to take an island that um, they've already destroyed all of the ability of that island to defend itself.
And you take that island now and you take uh if, if the estimates are correct yeah, you destroy them.
80, 80 of their oil either is there or goes through there.
Exactly why they did it that way, I don't understand.
If you look at the United States, it there's certainly no one place where all of our natural gas or oil is exported exported um, so it is.
It is frustrating uh, Iran still seems to have missiles right right, and it almost seems that they're getting a little better in the damage they're doing, particularly with um, with these cluster bombs uh, which become impossible to completely uh, stop.
Maybe, if you, even if you stop the main bomb, it breaks off into fragments, and maybe 30 that spread out for miles and uh, they're using that primarily against Israel and they're getting some casualties, But it's still not numbers that are debilitating.
I mean, they're horrible.
One person dying is horrible.
But if you look at the number of casualties on the Israeli side and the number of casualties on the Iranian side, or our casualties, are they still at 1310?
Yes, and we learned today, of course.
We reported this earlier on the show.
A number of U.S. service members were injured in an attack on an airbase in Saudi Arabia.
We'll get further information on that.
These individuals, U.S. service members, were part of a refueling team at an airbase.
We'll get that.
We'll get those details.
Did they result in any deaths?
No deaths.
No deaths.
And what about the attack?
Was it successful or unsuccessful?
Well, successful in that they were able to injure numerous U.S. personnel.
We will get...
Were they able to take the base?
Of course not.
Okay.
Well, I mean, so if the Alamo had resulted in people being injured, but not everybody being killed, they would have kept the Alamo and won.
And we get, of course, we get what you're doing with that, Mayor.
And it's a very good point to make when the media talks about this ongoing conflict.
They're so disingenuous and they lie about the fact that...
Well, that's insane.
I mean, it's insane to say Germany attacks the base that we have in France, right?
And we get 20 people injured, nobody dies, and we repulse them.
Who won that?
Obviously, we did.
I mean, their objective was to take it.
But the reality is that their objective is just to do something because the media will blow up whatever it is they did and give people a completely false impression of what happened.
Meanwhile, they're being decimated.
Absolutely decimated.
They have missiles left, which is frustrating.
But they're down to something like a dozen a day.
Something like 70% of their missiles, of what they have left, and their firepower and their drones are directed to Arab countries.
The Emirates is by far number one.
If you look at the size of Bahrain, probably per capita, Bahrain is number one.
So while the United States and Israel are hitting nothing but Iran, they're hitting 20 other countries.
Right.
And I wonder in the calculus now of who's arguing to end it and who's arguing to continue it to a devastating conclusion for Iran.
I got the sense now that Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, certainly Bahrain, they were probably there on day one, are probably arguing to continue this so that Iran can never do this again.
I think it's Europe that's arguing for concluding it.
And then I imagine it's the isolationists among the so-called MAGA people.
However, 100% of them in the recent polls support what the president's doing.
So I don't know how big this group of isolationists are.
And as I, I think I did a little post on this or whatever you call tweets now.
I mean, you got to be like a child, like an immature, I'm sorry, asshole, and to actually be an isolationist when a massive military power wants to destroy you and has spent 47 years trying to figure out how to do that.
And it's working really, really hard to have a missile that'll reach you.
And that's, I mean, by the way, they don't hide their objectives.
They attack Diego Garcia to show that they can send a missile 2,000 miles.
Actually, that's another one in which they made fools out of themselves.
But dangerous fools.
They couldn't reach Diego Garcia.
The two missiles did no damage.
One went off course and just sailed off to nowhere.
And the other we knocked down, we knocked out very easily with a Tomahov missile.
So the president has expressed his deep, I wouldn't even call it anger, I would say disgust at NATO.
Here we have, here we are, been funding them for years.
And they've helped us, that's true, but just helped us.
We've had the major burden of all of the things NATO has done.
And they've helped us sometimes.
And now they're walking out on us.
And Iran has made it clear to them that they're the first target.
Before the missiles are going to get across the Atlantic Ocean, they're going to hit England.
It's going to take a while for them, given the fact they can't get to Diego Garcia yet.
It's going to take them a while to be able to harm us, which they will do.
But what kind of people are running these countries?
And they just say, well, stop it and we'll take it.
We'll let you extort us on oil.
We'll let you keep trying to hit us with missiles.
But we don't want to go through having to pay more for oil for a while.
Meanwhile, if we were to keep this pressure on, the country that's getting hurt that would get hurt the most is China.
Whatever happens to our pricing oil, their price of oil is going to go up three times if they get it at all.
Most of that oil that comes out of that area through the Strait of Hormuz heads to China and India and Asia.
In fact, I think about 70% of it goes to China.
And that makes up about 20 or 25% of China's energy supply.
And they get it at bargain rates.
Well, I mean, you cut off Diego Garcia and, you know, the Asian countries better come and open it up.
We are, I mean, it would cost us somewhat more, but nothing like them.
And if we want to be, we're completely energy independent.
We don't have to sell that energy to other countries.
Right now, we sell a lot of our energy because the price differential is favorable to us.
What that means is we can buy their oil and gas.
And it's cheaper than using our own.
Or not so much cheaper as using our own, but we could make a profit on selling it to other countries.
And we've got plenty that we've, because of the stupid green movement, we've got plenty in reserve.
It may very well be that we're probably third or fourth in the world for oil.
I really believe we're number one for natural gas.
The only one that can compete with us is Qatar, and we're so much bigger than they are.
And I probably know that better than I do anything else because of the law firm I was with for 10 years.
And we can thank Texas for that.
I mean, Texas, the Texans are the ones who developed fracking and horizontal drilling.
And they've been doing it for a long time and everybody used to make fun of it.
And now it's a savior.
So I don't know.
I just thought I'm trying to figure out what our plan really is.
Is it really that we're worried about the price of oil and we're worried about the election and we're going to let this monster continue?
You leave them anything and they're just going to regrow.
Or have we gotten them to such a point which we may never again get them to?
They're on the ropes.
They can be knocked out.
And it's about time.
So let's pray to God that this gets done without the since the Second World War.
Almost every one of our results has been a compromised result.
We fought the Korean War to a tie, and then Clinton turned it into a victory for North Korea when he wouldn't do anything about their nuclear weapons.
The Vietnam War, for all intents and purposes, we lost.
Probably never should have fought it, but we lost it.
Yeah, we saved Kuwait, and we were successful in the Iraq war, but we fouled up the peace so much that it turned out to be a negative.
And so much of that is because we don't have the will anymore to follow through on something that's difficult but necessary.
And I hope that isn't true.
I hope the president turns that around and that all of this, the one side of it talking about let's make peace and it's going to be a couple weeks or whatever,
that it's a strategy.
It's a strategy to get to the result that seems to me much more consistent with who he is, which is to do what he said in 1981.
If they affect effective world oil supply, blowing the smithereens uh, and it's a lot worse than that.
I mean these, these people are monsters, they're absolute monsters.
Uh, it's it's impossible for me to do the interview here that I wanted to do, but we'll.
We'll do it uh, on monday, but I I, I I was talking earlier to a man who's been tortured by Iran and uh, a very, very substantial uh gentleman uh, who wants to speak out about it.
So hopefully hopefully, we'll put him on on monday or tuesday when we have it.
We have the uh, so he can get his thoughts together too.
I don't know they've ever spoken about it in great detail uh, but he's just one of so many uh, most of them we've known through Mek.
This is just an individual, an individual who um, both he and his family have been um, have firsthand seen how seen, how evil this um, this regime is um, right.
So what about the attacks today?
Do we know um?
If you look at the attacks yesterday, they were like two-thirds were aimed at Saudi Arabia and uh and the Emirates right, and the ones in Israel.
I don't know that they had any any any, um.
I don't know if they had any casualties.
There's a video.
There's a video you might want to show it.
There's a video uh, of Iran using their cluster bomb and it was um in Kafar Qasim and they wounded and um, there were seven salvos seven seven, seven attempts in Israel, uh and the West Bank which, by the way, they're hitting the Palestinians.
But uh, I mean nobody wants to point that out, but some of the places they attempted to hit is part of the Palestinian Authority.
They're attacking the Palestinian authority.
Where, where are the protesters?
I mean it's it's okay for the, for the, for the Iranians to kill the Palestinians.
They're supposed.
There is a.
There's a video I saw a piece of it uh showing, showing the uh that part of that bombing at Kefar Qasim.
We're playing it now on the screen.
I'm not sure if you can see it.
Yeah, and there are.
There are conflicting, there are cluster bombs from Iran had the torch yeah and, as you might expect, with a cluster bomb it gets difficult, but there are conflicting reports as to whether there were, whether that so far no casualties, whether there were five or nine uh people uh wounded.
A lot of a cluster, a lot of cluster bombs end up with uh shrapnel injuries.
I mean those are very uh dangerous, but they're not always fatal.
So if we, if we could show that it might be helpful for people to understand what we're talking, because it might be helpful for people to understand what these cluster bombs are.
Now I just give you this for your own thinking.
There there is a um, there are, there are some reports accurate inaccurate, uh that Both Israel and the United States have given up the goal of regime change.
And you haven't heard, and some of the evidence of this, for those who believe this to be the case, is that you don't hear Bibi and Enyahu or the president in the last week or two talking about Iranians overthrowing their government.
Remember, the president and a number of times would say it would be a great result if they were able to overthrow the government, but the Iranian people have to do it.
And Bibi would say similar things.
And according to this group of leaks, both the United States and Israel have come to the conclusion that within Iran,
there's not the capacity to do it.
And the people don't have enough weapons.
Now, I know our people at MBK believe that they do.
And there are people that actually do believe they can.
And there are leaks to the contrary.
But there's a whole group of people talking to the press saying that both Bibi and the president both are now convinced that they can't overthrow the government.
And that's one of the reasons why the president thinks we should get this over with quickly, because it's not going to result in regime change.
I guess, unless we were to put troops on the ground, which is something that we don't want to do.
So what Israel has done, what Israel has done and might continue to do, as you say, is Israel wants to neutralize them completely as a military power and have had a lot of success doing that.
If you notice, last night we had some video and it was just you could just see one after another, and I think the Israelis put it out, one after another of hits on trucks.
There must have been six or seven hits on trucks.
Those trucks are missile launches.
And they're either offensive or defensive, probably offensive.
I don't think they do any defensive action at all in Iran.
So they've taken out hundreds of trucks.
They took out a major facility that created a great deal of worry because it is very, very close to where Iran,
it's on the Persian Gulf coast, just a little somewhat north of the Strait of Hormuz.
It turned out that it was a massive facility and there's worry that there was nuclear leakage from it.
Not confirmed, maybe just hysterical reaction, but that's the kind of thing that makes this a very,
very sensitive situation.
Now, one of the things that the people who say that Israel has come to terms with the fact that they can't overthrow the regime is that They stopped their focus on attacking the leadership.
And their focus now is getting rid of the military hardware.
Now, that's contradicted by the fact that yesterday they took out two enormously significant people.
Ali Reza Tang Siri was the leader of the IRGC's Navy.
In other words, he was in charge of the Iranian Navy that I think now have tugboats left.
Well, he's off looking for his 79 virgins now or 72 and not finding them because he's gone and Israel took him out.
I believe they did.
And the second was, it was a second one they took out too.
And they eliminated the entire fleet in Bandar Abbas, which is also quite close to the Straits of Hormuz.
They also eliminated the IRGC's new intelligence chief.
They held the job for about four days.
Ben Nam Razai.
He was hit in a separate strike and some undetermined right now group of his top commanders.
So the idea that they're not continuing to wipe out the leadership of the IRGC is wrong and gives some doubt about the credibility of these reports that Israel has given up hope that the Iranian people,
if you thin out the IRGC and the Kudj force and the militia, would have the capacity of being able to take over the government.
So as I said, there are indications on both sides.
I'll tell you one thing that's for sure.
And when you see Marco Rubio doing this, it really tells you how bad it is.
Yesterday, right before he left for France for the G7 meeting, he said a couple of the leaders in Europe said, Rubio said,
a couple of the leaders in Europe said that this was not Europe's war.
Well, he said, Ukraine's not our war, but you sure as hell have been using us for it.
And we've had the biggest burden of support for Ukraine.
And that's really your war, because you're afraid that if Russia takes Ukraine, they're going to take the rest of Europe.
And we're, so what is this crap?
This is not your war.
Of course it's your war.
Why do they think that Iran's working on missiles that can go 2,500 miles?
You don't have to go 2,500 miles to hit Israel and Saudi Arabia.
And that's the distance you have to go to hit England.
So basically, it sounds like Rubio is fed up with NATO as well.
He said, very little of our energy comes through the Straits.
It's the rest of the world that's got the greatest interest in it.
And maybe they better step up and do something about it.
The president, of course, as usual, is even more direct about it, right?
He basically said NATO wasn't there for us.
In the past, I've expressed a doubt about that, and I've been criticized President Trump.
Remember what he said a few times, well, I'm not sure NATO would come to our aid.
Well, like on so many other things, he's proven to be right.
And this is maybe more in their interests than ours in terms of immediate threat.
And he said, now he says, I'm not sure they're going to be there for the big one.
I'm so disappointed in NATO.
This was a test.
Can you help us?
You don't have to, but if you don't do that, we're going to remember.
And we're going to have to remember because we're going to have to rethink our defense of ourselves.
We're not fools.
I think the whole NATO alliance is in grave jeopardy as a result of this.
And offering help, like Kier Spoopydo did, after we went, you know, even France said, they sent a ship,
but the ship will only help us after the hostilities are over.
Who the hell needs a ship like that?
Strangest thing is the only European country that stepped up is Ukraine.
Ukraine has sent people there to show us how to use the super duper improved defensive drone.
This is a fascinating situation where when the war started in Ukraine, Ukraine saved itself because we were way ahead of Russia on drones.
Russia, using Iran as their source, developed the Shadar, I think you should call it the Shaddar drone that was superior to the Ukrainian drone.
And in the last three months, Ukraine has developed a drone that can defend against it.
So they have now sold those drones to us and to some of the Arab countries, but they turn out to be like we had to do for them, they turn out to be different in terms of how to operate them.
So they've sent over, I don't know exactly how many of it, the recent group that went over were about 200 Ukrainian air defense personnel.
And they'll be operating those drones until we learn the ins and outs of it.
And what that means is that what we accomplish now very often with a tomahawk missile that costs us what $5 million.
If this is correct, we can accomplish it with a drone that costs us about $2,000.
So you can see, I think the president was quite correct when he said that Pete Haytseth and General Kane want to keep going because they're having such great success.
And the president, the president, now, this is again the other side of it.
The president was very, very annoyed yesterday, if people took a good look at it, that the Wall Street Journal says that Trump is desperate.
He's desperate to get out of this war.
He described it as fake news.
He said, I read a story that I'm desperate to make a deal.
I'm not.
If I was desperate, if I was desperate, I'd make the deal.
Mayor, why do you think you're seeing these constant headlines in whether some Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, or not maybe not the post as much, but obviously all the...
Usual suspects, the New York Times, the Washington Post.
Why?
Is it as simple as their disdain for President Trump?
Yeah, they can't.
I mean, Mike Goodwin did a great piece on this where he said that Trump derangement syndrome has now moved into the level of insanity.
People can't see the nose in front of their face because of Trump derangement syndrome.
I mean, they're rooting for mass murders.
Now, it is true.
At the same time, the Wall Street Journal is writing editorials like Don't Stop Now, Don't Click Now.
They can't be allowed to be in a situation where they can rebuild all this.
So there are pressures both ways.
And I don't think I finished the thought before, but we know about the airborne.
But now there is, and I don't know how far along this is, but it sounds like they're going to send another 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East.
So they have 5,000 Marines.
They're going to have about 3,000 from the 82nd Airborne.
And it looks like they're going to be sending another 10,000.
I don't know, that's a lot to send there.
It's a lot.
So I think the best analysis of this is David Harsani in the Post today.
So he points out that one way or another, we have to completely dismantle their nuclear facilities in the Tanz, Isban, and Ford.
And he doesn't see how that can actually happen without military action.
So I think that's probably correct.
So I think that's where we're headed.
Meanwhile, tomorrow, we're going to have a no-kings demonstration.
I guess we're going to have it in a number of different cities.
And so this will be a group of Americans rooting for a maniacal enemy of the United States that every week chance death to America.
And our juvenile delinquents are going to be protesting for that, along with American traders Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez,
and Hanoi Jane.
I mean, Hanoi Jane, I don't know, she's 85 or 86 or something.
I mean, she looks like an old hag.
She was a hag before she was old.
So somebody posed a question.
I don't want to act like I came up with this first, but I can't remember who.
They're having a no kings demonstration.
O'Bernie Sanders is going to be part of it.
But they're in favor of dictators.
Let's not have kings, but let's have dictators.
They're protesting in favor, not just of a dictator, maniacal, theocratic dictators.
So when you see it tomorrow, yeah, no kings, but we can have dictators.
Now, I don't know if we have this on video, but this one I think really disgusted me.
This was in Philadelphia.
And this was one of the demonstrators in Philadelphia, the city of our birth, really, right?
America's birth.
And this is what he is alleged to have said.
For every U.S. soldier that returns home in a casket, we cheer until we have done everything in our power to bring the United States to its knees.
Let us not lose sight of the enemy, the man yelled with the crowd cheering loudly.
The masked hooded ringleader lauded Hamas and Hezbollah.
So this is this is this has gone way way too far.
Do we have do we have a video, yeah?
So tell me when it's ready, okay?
It's ready.
We're going to play it now.
Okay, because the other thing I also want to point out is that the Economist, the piece of shit British publication, Economist,
has a cover called Advantage Iran.
Are you playing it, Ted?
Yep, play it now.
Okay, tell me when it's over.
Hamas, Hezbollah, Osama, all of the voices we celebrate.
These popular voices on the ground spend every waking moment in direct confrontation with Zionism, and they rely on a strong Iranian state to maintain their fighting capacity.
Do you hate America and stop?
May I stop the American until we have on screen a cover of the Economist Advantage Iran.
I mean, no use even, I mean, I read the articles are The articles are very, very solid evidence that once again,
Michael Goodwin of the Post is correct, that Trump derangement syndrome, which used to be a psychosis, is now pure, utter insanity.
Whether we're going to finish them off or not is a choice that we're going to get to make.
I mean, they're a few more steps and they're going.
You take that island and the regime is gone.
And unfortunately, and tragically, Iran is gone for a while.
I mean, one of the reasons that one of the reasons that we hesitate is, you know, you're not going to have, there isn't going to be much of a regime change.
You take that away, and this is a country that is headed for utter poverty.
I mean, they're pretty close to it now.
So let's quickly go through some quick items so that we get everybody up to date.
I should describe only because I had so much fun doing this.
I had a debate today with Chat GPT.
And I did to artificial intelligence what I used to do to liars on the witness stand.
I got it down to finally answering my question after they dissembled for, oh gosh, about, yep, I have it here if you can see about seven pages of dissembling.
The major, the question that I asked was, in the resolution that took place in the Senate of this terrible blockage of government,
particularly the Department of Homeland Securities.
Did the Democrats achieve any of their substantive objectives?
So they begin by saying that they were able to get the Republicans to take ICE funding out of the bill.
They kept ICE funding out of the bill and they avoided policy concessions going the other way.
But what they didn't get was no ICE reforms, mass IDs, body cams, warrant rules, no limits on enforcement practices, no rollback of existing ICE funding,
and no broader immigration deal.
So they say, substantively, you're right.
No real policy wins.
Politically, strategically, they blocked Republican additions and forced a narrower bill.
So they had a political victory.
Then I asked them again to explain that, and they said they prevented changes they oppose and they failed, but they have failed to achieve the changes they wanted.
And finally, I said to them, so Who won and who lost?
Who won and who lost?
And they finally conceded at the very, very end.
I'll see if I can find it here because I finally got their weasel words and stuck it up their backside.
Oh my gosh, you should see all the stuff that they're coming up with here.
The real takeaway, plain English, this was the last Schumer forced ICE funding out of the bill.
But of course, ICE funded until 2029.
Why don't you gain anything?
However, he gave up all his main demands.
So then they say, you're basically right.
The Republicans got everything they wanted, and the Democrats got very little.
But the little they got was important.
They just keep going on.
They just keep going on.
And finally, I said, well, if we just have to describe this, so Democrats essentially did all this and got none of the reforms on ICE enforcement, which was the core of their strategy.
And they said yes, after I exhausted them.
That's what you do on cross-examination with dissemblers and liars.
You get them.
So Chat GPT has now agreed that the Democrats got their ass kicked in.
But the people that really got their ass kicked in were the American people by Schumer.
There's also a report that Zhinming wants to have this meeting with Trump, which now has been put off until May, because he wants to flip Trump on Taiwan.
Good luck.
I don't see that.
But we'll go into that in more detail next week.
There's some time for that.
But this is, I mean, I imagine it's true.
I have my own experience with how obsessive the Chinese communists are about Taiwan.
On the other hand, Taiwan is a much more complicated situation than what's going on here.
I mean, you've got other countries that are involved in this that don't want to see China do this.
Japan, Philippines, South Korea, to some extent, Australia.
And they used to be able to fight.
I think there's quite a revolution going on with the social media that we're going to really have to get into as we move a little away from the war, because those two cases that got the juries, that the juries decided were very,
very controversial and very important.
And it's going to be interesting to see what happens with the appeals because, yes, the social media can be very, very damaging to young people.
Yes, they do deliberately try to engage them in things that are destructive and know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
At the same time, you end up with the free speech and a government that's going too far.
And finally, whatever happens, Trump is going to pay TSA.
And how, I'll close with how I started, Ted.
How these guys can go off on vacation while we're still not sure that people working for the government who are good, decent people, working hard, putting their lives at risk,
aren't getting paid is an outrage.
Doesn't happen in any other country.
And how, as a matter of conscience, they can do that.
And here, here, as far as I can tell, we run the House and the Senate.
So what the hell did they let them out for?
Why didn't Johnson and Thun just keep them in all through Easter?
They're getting paid.
So why should they be required to work?
And if they can't agree, they'd be like detention in high school.
Sit there until you agree, damn it.
Every day you're coming in.
We're going to have a session every day.
There was a period of time where they thought that they tried hard to take their payaway if the government's close.
Some states do that if they can't reach a budget.
No wonder the Congress is the most disliked, disrespected institution in America.
I think ambulance chasing lawyers do better.
It's disgraceful.
So we're coming up on a weekend.
So everybody make sure it's going to be Palm Sunday.
If you're a Christian, you're getting close to Passover if you're Jewish.
There's plenty to pray about.
I wouldn't, whatever your Christian denomination or whatever your level of Judaism, I would cling to God this weekend.
We need his help.
And let's pray for Israel.
Let's pray for Iran.
Let's make sure we pray for Ukraine and thank you for helping us.
I appreciate it.
And pray for our men and women who are being sent there and are sitting there.
And it kind of reminds me a little bit, not as dramatic, but it reminds me of the D-Day invasion where it was called off three, four, five times and they finally just had to do it because they thought the morale of the troops was going to run out if they didn't finally do it.
It got to be tough sitting there and not knowing that, but we've got the greatest military in the world, which they've proven.
This military action may be the most successful in our history.
And that's why it should conclude the right way, not with some kind of negotiated agreement with a bunch of insane murderers.
So thank you, God, for the guidance that you've given our president and the guidance you've given us.
And we'll be ready if anything happens over the weekend.
I'm here for a great pastor, Jackson Laymeyer, who wants to be in Congress and would make a great member of Congress.
We'll talk more about him and we'll have him on.
And then I'm going to, we'll put this gentleman on next week who, if he decides he wants to do it.
It gives you a kind of an upfront and close view of what we're dealing with.
Ted, how did, are we?
Okay great, you're gonna get a little rest, a little bit of rest.
Uh well, i'll be.
I'll be in Michigan.
We got a big convention tomorrow, oh really.
Oh yes, that's right, that's right, but I stuck around.
I'm glad I did.
We had to work all this out.
So, you're right, you're going, you're going to, you're going to be in Michigan with the Republican Party in Michigan.
That's right, Of course, they're big fans of yours.
You know, we've been there together.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A number of people.
Well, good luck.
We'll talk.
We'll talk.
All right.
We'll talk.
We'll talk.
Great show tonight.
And let's be available.
God forbid anything happens that we have to cover.
I say God forbid because usually if you have to cover it, it's not good.
Right.
But we'll stay in touch and we'll be talking this weekend.
And stay tuned.
We'll post some clips on there's social media.
And we'll be in touch this weekend as we enter week five of the war.
Well, we'll see you on Monday if nothing else happens.
And of course, very, very heartfelt.
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.
We're able to talk.
We're able to analyze.
We are able to apply.
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