Rudy Giuliani opens his March 31, 2026 show by condemning Iran's execution of MEK members Puya Gobadi and Babak Alipur, labeling the regime a suicidal terror state comparable to historical isolationist dangers. He details President Trump's strategy to end military operations only after destroying Iranian nuclear facilities at Natanz and Isfahan while reopening the Strait of Hormuz, alongside plans to pressure Europe and deploy Marines. The broadcast further covers an executive order on election integrity, Supreme Court hearings on birthright citizenship, and a government shutdown impacting Homeland Security ahead of the FIFA World Cup, framing these events as critical tests of American resolve against global threats. [Automatically generated summary]
This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is the Rudy Giuliani Show on Lindale TV.
And welcome to all of you.
And let's start off with a very sad note.
Probably, I'm not going to say we ignored.
I'm talking generally now, meaning even the good media.
I never want to speak for the entire media because nobody can, actually, because they're so terrible.
But in any event, there hasn't been that much attention paid to the extraordinary number of people that this regime has murdered during this effort to try to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power,
to stop Iran from supporting terrorism all over the world, and collaterally, whether it's acknowledged or not, to give Iran an opportunity to be a free country for a group of very, very decent people who have been tortured for a century.
First, the Shah, the Pahlavi family that tortured them, killed them, and stole all their money.
And they're subjected to the painful presence of the sign of that family, the Nepo Shah, who's a man of no accomplishment of any kind, nothing he can point to that would qualify him to run what might turn out to be one of the more complex governments in the world, right?
When you think about what they're facing, he has no qualifications for that or anything else.
He's basically been a jet-set rich kid who's living on money that was stolen from the Iranian people by a crooked father and mother.
And his father also was a murderer.
And again, I keep telling you, we don't want to blame the sins of the father on the son, except when the son's only claim to being able to do something as complex as this is because of his father.
So his only claim to being able to run Iran is he had a father and a grandfather who were murderers and massive thieves.
And although not as bad as the Ayatollah's, I mean, there, you got maybe a handful of people that can reach that level.
Stalin, Hitler, maybe Xi Jinming, don't know, can't say for sure.
Putin different.
In the case of Putin and Xi Jinming, the reason we put them in a separate category is not that we should treat them nicely or anything like that.
But in their case, they don't really fall into the category of irrational in the sense that they want to die, world leaders.
So the deterrent effect of mutually assured destruction, you can never count on anything completely, but it's about as effective against them as it has been against everybody else, including some pretty bad people.
That's not true with regard to the Ayatollah.
And why do we know it's not true?
Because he tells us it's not true.
They're suicidal.
And they act that way.
The way they have acted during this war or this action or whatever you want to describe it just underscores the fact that they are as irrational as Ronald Reagan said they were way back when he said they shouldn't be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons should not be in the hands of anyone, really, but they certainly shouldn't be in the hands of irrational people.
That is a prescription for disaster or without slightest exaggeration, the end of the world, possibly.
We are very, very sad to announce that two more people fighting for freedom in Iran were executed, slaughtered by the regime of terror.
The president did say that this regime is better than what was there before.
I believe the president is saying that because he's setting them up.
I don't see any difference between what's there now and what was there before.
Today, today, March 31st, two more members of the main Iranian opposition movement, and they're described as a main opposition movement by the regime and have been and have been from just about the beginning.
That meaning the PMOI or the MEK, depending on which translation you use, I believe those are the ones that were executed today.
And they're rather young men.
One is Puya Gobadi, who is an electoral engineer.
He was arrested in March of 2024 and has been held in the Evan prison, Ivan prison.
The Ivan prison, by the way, you should know, was built by the Shah and used by the Shah, not just for arrests and harsh detainment, but for torture.
And of course, it's been carried on in the right spirit by the two Ayatollahs.
So we pray for the soul of Puya Gobadi and for his family who joins 100,000 Iranian martyrs.
100,000, I think, just in the MEK and PMOI itself.
We'll ask Ali Reiso when he comes on.
The book that I have, which some people think contains all of the people who were killed in the MEK, is just the people that were killed during the slaughter in 1988.
And that's 20,000 people.
But I mean, they've just gotten worse and worse.
I mean, they just proceeded in a few days, weeks, to kill now, they think, upwards of about 50,000 people, certainly 30,000.
You can't allow this regime to continue if you want to have a safe world for yourself and your children.
This is as critical and maybe in some ways more critical as domestic war enforcement.
When we say America first, right, we mean that we want America to be safe, don't we?
If we consider ourselves MAGA people or we consider ourselves conservatives, or we consider ourselves a middle of the road or even left-swing, but we consider ourselves people who respect law and order.
And why do we do that?
For the safety of ourselves and our children.
Well, that's just as strong a goal with regard to other nations, which is why you don't have, if you're a president or a mayor or a governor, you don't have the luxury of being an isolationist any more than you would be acting responsibly if you were just a knee-jerk interventionist,
which is why I find the isolationists in my party, some of whom are friends of mine and I respect very, very much, I find this to be a highly immature and uneducated position.
If there is a country that is building weapons aimed to destroy you, has in fact killed 100,000 of you or 10,000 of you or whatever number they have killed of Americans, and they've killed another 100,000 of your allies.
And every week, for 47 years, they chant that they want to destroy you.
You tell me how you're practicing America first by ignoring them.
Aren't you practicing America last?
Is that the same thing as ignoring a massive number of serial killers within the domestic United States?
So I do not understand the position of isolationists.
I understand how it emerged.
I understand its history.
I understand its history between the First and Second World War.
I also know it was used very effectively by the Nazis to undercut us.
The original America First movement was a Nazi movement, which inveigled people like Charles Lindbergh.
So I'm not saying there's any connection between the two.
What I'm saying is I don't know where anyone got the idea that America first meant being an isolationist.
America first meant not making stupid decisions and getting involved in things you shouldn't get involved in, where it's not necessary.
And it's just the opposite when it is necessary.
Also, yesterday we announced this, but as long as we're focusing and asking God's blessing for these people, let's also remember Mohammed Taghavi and Akbar Daneshvar Kar, both of whom were executed yesterday.
So are we going to get to a day?
As I said, Mr. Gobadi was an electrical engineer.
He was arrested in March of 2024.
Babak Alipur, 34, just a year older, was arrested in January of 2024.
He's a lawyer.
He had earlier been arrested in November 2018 in Rasht.
That was during the demonstrations.
Remember, in 2018, we thought there was a possibility there might be an overthrow of the government.
And he spent four years in prison.
Couldn't have been out very long, if I'm counting it correctly.
He'd have been out in 2022 and then they had him back in prison in 2024.
This was announced by Reuters and by the French news agency, AFP.
And the other two MEK members, Mohamed Takhavi and Akbar Danish Varkar, were executed yesterday.
There they are.
They obviously are.
You see that the movement spans many generations, including sometimes you'll see the young people that we put on who speak very eloquently about their goals and the work they're doing.
And as the numbers of the guard reduce, particularly as the numbers of the militia are reduced,
and just was yesterday or the day before, Israel did a sweep of their local police stations.
What I mean by that is they hit about 30 local police stations in the various cities and towns of Iran.
Well, those police stations were the, and they really weren't police stations.
They were the headquarters of the Vasij, which is the, the Vasij is the volunteer security officers.
They're sort of a volunteer SS, whereas Revolutionary Guard is the paid SS.
But they do receive enormous benefits from the government for what they're doing.
As we'll explain to you later, a lot of what holds together what remains of Iran is patronage.
To the extent that polls have been taken, which you're risking your life doing it, right?
But to the extent they've been taken, there doesn't seem to be one where the support for this regime is better than 20%.
The support for overthrowing this regime isn't a straight out 80%.
The 80% is hope.
Some hope they go away and others want to overthrow it.
But the overthrow is well over 50%.
But the support for it, wanting to keep it is 20%.
Those 20% are all living off the corrupt regime of terror made up of, you know, these mullahs do not think that a mullah is a religious person.
The mullah is an organized crime boss of a particular area, like the mafia, the mafia had.
You know, certain parts of Brooklyn or certain parts of the Bronx run by this one and that one and this one and that one.
And they collect the money that then gets distributed to the party, to the party members.
It runs a lot like a cross between the mafia and the Communist Party.
The executions are taking place while the war is still going home, hoping that they generate very little interest.
But they demonstrate the regime's fear of another uprising that could lead to its overthrow.
At least 19 other political prisoners are on death row, and they've been transferred to solitary confinement yesterday, which appears to be sort of just a step away from being executed.
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So if then two days obviously doesn't a pattern make, but I think our people believe that this is going to continue.
Probably add a few more people as they do these executions.
They're not going to do 20 or 30 or some large number because they're trying not to get attention for this.
Remember, the president has said that he'll basically hit them in a way that has never been seen on earth if they kill the protesters.
Well, they're killing the protesters.
I mean, they already have killed 30,000, 40,000.
Right now, they're carrying out these executions.
This does not in any way suggest that they aren't also killing people in the street.
We just never find out about that.
And urgent action is needed.
Tehran pays attention to the statements of President Trump and the White House.
And we urge the president to make a statement about this.
They should cut out executing people.
The reality is that these charges are absurd.
These are not people that were arrested as part of this uprising.
These are people that were arrested a year ago or so that were part of the earlier uprisings.
But this goes to show you rather clearly that this all has built on itself.
You could trace this back, depending on how deep you want to get into it, 2018.
You could trace it back to 2014 when Obama turned his back on him.
Gosh, you could trace it back to the 1980s.
This movement has been building, All throughout this period, every year in the 47 years of the history of this regime, at least some members of MEK have been killed.
And because of their superior ability to manipulate the message the way communists do, they have succeeded in the minds of many of making MEK appear to be not able to do this.
At the same time, if you dig carefully and you pull out the Ayatollah's quotes, you'll see him saying about a year ago: the only organization that I really fear can overthrow us is the MEK.
And this, of course, is the organization that, and you hear these words even today, that originally uncovered the nuclear enrichment going on at Natance and at Ford and at La Visan Chiang, and also recently helped.
In this case, There was a good deal of help from the CIA, but also helped in uncovering the missile, the new missile factories, missile facilities that were also embedded deep into the ground, not quite as deep, but deep into the ground.
Because what they were doing there, which if they had had it in the open, you know, you would have seen it by satellite, was extending, furiously working on extending the range of their rockets.
And of course, they denied it, denied it, denied it, denied it.
And then a week ago, they go ahead and shoot two of them off to Diego Garcia to show us how far they can send their rockets.
And the rocket is supposed to go 2,500 miles, which would get it to Britain.
I don't think it made it.
It didn't make it to Diego Garcia.
One went off course and the other was taken down, I think by a tomahawk, but whatever it was taken down by, we hit it and took it out.
Now, who knows?
That might have made it 2,500.
I don't know.
But it shows you their aim, right?
Their aim is, let's get it across that ocean and kill the big Satan.
Death to America, they do not idly say death to America.
We're put in there right with Israel.
And believe it or not, every Friday afternoon in Tehran, when they say the prayers, the evening prayers, which conclude their Sabbath, right?
Death to America, death to Israel, and death to the MEK, to the hypocrites.
They're described in the vernacular by the regime as the hypocrites.
And it may have actually a slightly different meaning to them than it has to us, but that is the word, the closest word that you can translate the slang that they use for it.
President Trump, of course, every day confuses us more, right?
Which means every day he confuses them more.
It's very hard to confuse them and also not confuse us because anything he says is public and they hear it, right?
So now he said yesterday.
Did he repeat it today?
I don't think so.
I listened to him very carefully today.
I don't think he repeated it today.
But yesterday he said that he is willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran, even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed.
That the U.S. should and must achieve its main goal of hobbling and destroying the Navy, Iran's Navy.
It should make certain that all of its nuclear capacity is destroyed and put under control.
Few other of the critical objectives.
But that as far as the Strait of Hormuz, if that isn't open, and we've achieved all the other objectives, including removing their nuclear capacity and And their military, both their military capacity and their ability to rebuild their military, which is what we're doing right now, hitting the factories.
He would then conceive of leaving in about two to three weeks.
And he then added the kicker, which is the one that you've got to pay attention to.
Washington would press allies in Europe and the Persian Gulf to take the lead in reopening the Straits.
After all, it affects them a lot more than it affects us.
He would destroy the Iranian energy sites and water infrastructure unless there's an agreement.
And as far as the reopening of the Strait of Hermouth, he would not consider that a critical necessity if everything else was achieved.
After all, that should be left to the people that it affects the most, which is the countries in Asia and the countries in the United States, I mean, the countries in Europe, those are affected considerably more.
Now, when I come back, I'm going to tell you my interpretation of that, because I think this one is just a little too transparent.
And then we'll also listen to what he had to say today.
Do we want to take a break?
Yep, take a break, and we have a Kara right outside the break.
Excellent.
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And we've been joined by my granddaughter Grace, who's just returned from the beach.
Where were you?
What?
Oh, the playground.
Sorry, she was at the playground, but I wasn't supposed to say that.
I don't know why I wasn't supposed to say it, but I wasn't supposed to say it.
But I think it was okay for me to say she was at the playground.
So we have on the line with us our excellent White House correspondent.
There she is.
Kara, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you, Mr. Mayor?
Good, good.
What's going on?
What's going on in the White House?
As if, you know, as if we don't know.
Well, we really don't know completely.
So you got to tell us about it.
What you've covered so far in your show, but the news that the ballroom project is being halted by an activist judge, basically calling a stop work order on President Trump's construction of the ballroom.
So that happened today.
And of course, the mainstream media was gleeful and taking photographs of the crane.
But President Trump doesn't seem like he plans on stopping work because he said that in the order, the judge actually said as long as they could finish any work that has to do with safety.
And he said, well, the whole thing really is about safety because it's covered in bulletproof glass and the roof is drone proof.
So it doesn't seem like he's going to stop building it.
And the administration is, of course, going to appeal this decision by this Bush-appointed judge.
So that was sort of breaking as I was on my way out earlier today before I came back.
Also, President Trump opened up the Oval Office at five o'clock to make an announcement that I'm sure you heard about and would be excited about.
That was that executive order about election integrity.
Really the exciting stuff coming out of there.
A new executive order directing federal agencies to help create a national system to confirm voter eligibility, pushing states to rely on federal data to ensure only citizens are registered.
It also targets mail-in voting, restricting ballots to voters on verified roll and calls for stricter controls on how those ballots are distributed and tracked.
So, really interesting soundbites coming out of the White House today.
I have a few for you.
Here is right before President Trump signed the executive order, the executive order being explained to the president.
Take a watch.
Mr. President, as you said, you have in front of you an executive order that deals with a number of issues relating to election integrity.
As you've consistently identified, two of the biggest problems we have with election integrity in this country are: one, inaccurate voter rolls that allow ineligible people to vote in various federal and state elections all over the country.
And then, secondarily, you've consistently identified that vote by mail in this country has become rife with fraud.
People returning ballots who aren't eligible to return ballots, ballots being sent to people who aren't confirmed to be eligible voters.
So, what this executive order is going to do is: one, we're going to take federal data, we're going to ensure that each state's election officials are provided with a comprehensive view of who the eligible voters in their jurisdiction actually are, allowing them to properly verify that everybody voting in their elections is legally able to vote.
And then it orders the Postmaster General, the U.S. Postal Service, to take bold new measures to verify that ballots both being sent to people are being sent to people who are eligible to vote, and then that ballots being returned are being properly returned by eligible voters only.
And we believe that combined the measures in this executive order will help secure elections in the future and ensure that the many abuses of our election system in the past aren't repeated in future elections.
So, obviously, something that President Trump, and I'm sure you're very happy about as the Save America Act.
We're not sure if that's going to get passed because Democrats are not wanting election integrity.
So, interesting stuff coming out of the White House.
I'm sure you were happy to hear that, Mr. Mayor.
Well, you know, I wouldn't, I think I'd be a fool if I didn't conclude that the Democrats are fighting so hard because they want the opportunity to cheat if they have to and leave as big an opportunity to do that as possible.
And, you know, you know, this, I'm preaching to the converted when we talk, but people should know that I can't say every European country, almost every European country has done away with mail-in ballots for the reason that when they had it, they had massive cheating.
You almost don't even have to go investigate.
All you have to do is look at mail-in ballot means cheating.
Mail-in-ballot means cheating.
France has done away with it.
England's done away with it.
Switzerland's done away with it.
I don't know about Italy, we'll have to check.
But President Carter and former Secretary of State Baker, when they wrote a report about election fraud, said this is the most obvious way to cheat in an election.
It's done all the time all over the world.
And we should either ban paper ballots or we should put them under very strict rules like they used to be.
I mean, I've voted by mail several times.
I had to sought a whole affidavit explaining why I couldn't be there.
Well, interesting stuff coming out from what you just said, because Howard Luttnick actually explained how this is going to work and how it will be more strict the way you said.
So it's very interesting.
Howard Luttnick did explain that.
So here is Howard Luttnick talking about that just a little while ago.
Great.
So the fundamentals of our democracy are built on voter integrity, right?
We all need it.
You've said it time and time again.
It's a total agreement amongst everybody.
So here's the idea.
The states, right, run these elections.
They will, if they want to use the U.S. mail, the U.S. Postal Service, they're going to get a code, a barcode from the U.S. Postal Service, and they're going to put that on the envelope, and we will have one envelope per vote.
None of this time where we have no idea.
There's no observers to mail.
There's no envelopes.
There's no certainty.
That's all going to go away.
And what the president is doing today is he's going to make sure that mail-in ballots are safe, secure, and accurate, and will have a clear distinction.
If you voted by mail, you will have it on the envelope.
Obviously, not on the ballot, but on the envelope.
So we will know a million mail-in ballots.
There'll be a million envelopes, and you'll be able to know exactly correctly that citizens voted.
That's really terrific.
And it looks to me, and who wants to predict this?
It's terrible.
I shouldn't do it.
Every lawyer says you can't predict the court, and then we do it.
I think the court is going to do away with you being able to change the ballot after the election, which is, of course, absurd.
As soon as election day is over, all voting stops.
Sorry.
But I mean, that's one of the ways they stole Pennsylvania.
They just kept putting ballots in.
Oh, they came in late.
They came in late.
And in Pennsylvania, they also allowed them to change their ballots.
Only the Democrats, not the Republicans.
You know better than anybody, obviously, Mr. Mayor.
So, you know, we're obviously looking forward to seeing President Trump go through with this executive order.
And hopefully it will be in time for the midterms where we could have a safe election.
Because like I said, the Save America Act won't pass.
So President Trump signed that today.
And now tonight he's heading over to the Kennedy Center, the Trump Kennedy Center, to get to watch the opening night of Chicago, which is there.
It's playing here in Washington, D.C.
So he's heading over there actually right now.
The show should be starting.
So that's the president's plans for tonight.
And he also said that tomorrow he would be attending likely, and this is what he said during that press conference a little while ago, the Supreme Court hearing, which is being heard tomorrow on birthright citizenship.
So President Trump said he actually intends to go to the Supreme Court and watch it.
And he said he's interested in seeing you in there.
I didn't listen to all the press conferences.
Most of it, I didn't hear that.
He's actually going to attend.
He said he might.
He said, I think I'm going to go.
And then all of the journalists were surprised.
Like, they were like, oh, you're going to go physically?
And he's like, yeah, I think I might.
So we'll see what comes out on the schedule tomorrow.
I think he just started out at that moment that he wants to go see that.
And he's interested in seeing it.
So, you know, President Trump's unpredictable, but he said he is planning on going down to the Supreme Court.
He's thinking about it, going down tomorrow and actually watching the arguments for himself.
Has a president ever done that?
I don't know.
I'd have to look into it and get back to him.
I can't remember.
I can't remember in my head a president going to a Supreme Court argument during my rather long lifetime.
But that's really fascinating.
It is very important.
And, you know, particularly with what China is doing.
I mean, China has a massive industry, not quite as big as their sale of organs, which they take from live people, which is probably one of the most disgraceful things ever done in the history of the world.
And we just sit by and watch it.
But they send thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people to America, including to one of the islands that technically is within the United States, to have babies.
And the babies are American citizens, so then they're taken back to China and brought up in China.
But then when they want to come into the United States, presumably as spies 20 years later, they're citizens.
They don't have to go through, they don't have to go through even the phony entry process.
And those numbers have increased over the last four or five years.
They do thousands and thousands of those a year.
Yes.
They do.
They just come in.
President Trump did mention something about that today, saying that this law obviously wasn't made when the Founding Fathers crafted.
He said it was for slaves, obviously, slaves that were going back obviously to the Civil War.
It wasn't so Chinese billionaires could come here and have 100 children.
That was a direct statement from President Trump in the Oval Office at about five o'clock.
So he is very interested in this.
Obviously, immigration and illegal immigration and obviously keeping the country safe is one of his main priorities.
So this is happening tomorrow.
It should be the decision should be interesting.
I'm interested to see what the Supreme Court comes up with.
I don't know if you have any predictions on it.
I think it could go either way.
I do think that there are some conservative, quote-unquote, justices that will possibly side with birthright citizenship.
So I think it's going to be a very close decision.
Yeah, when they had an argument on the preliminary and the pre-injunction phase, it looked like he had three and a chance for two of the other three.
A chance.
So it's going to be very interesting.
I think the argument will give you a pretty good idea of where they're coming with their questions.
So it would be very interesting.
So what's your best calculation on the president's statements about the war?
The president said that he, oh, there was some interesting statements he went and he made, and it sort of trumps what I heard earlier today with Pete Hegseth, because I was at the briefing at the Pentagon at 8 a.m. I was in the front row watching the briefing.
So I have a couple clips from you from there.
But at that briefing, Pete Hegseth didn't really address when he thought the war would end.
He said that wasn't really something that anyone even asked, actually, which I was surprised.
So he didn't really address it.
But President Trump said he thinks it's only going to be a few more days, very soon, maybe a few weeks before we get out of there.
Somebody had mentioned oil prices, a reporter, and he said, well, it's going to go down soon because we're going to get out of there pretty soon.
I think it's only going to be a few weeks, a couple of weeks, maybe even a few days, which was interesting when the president said that because we did not hear that earlier today from Pete Hegseth, but of course, the president is the president.
And I did believe earlier today when we didn't hear anything from the Secretary of War that it really is the president who makes these decisions and that we would have to wait until his next big Oval Office briefing with the press, which was today, when we would get more information on to when the war, they're expecting the war to come to an end.
So that's what the president said.
He's also putting the pressure on European nations to get their own oil.
He said they could just go get it themselves.
They could go to the Schwarz-Hermuse.
We're not going to really support them.
If we pull out of there, it's their problem.
So that's basically the president's attitude when it comes to the oil and trade of our moves.
And that was echoed today by Pete Hegseth.
If we have time, I do have two clips from today's briefing.
Yeah, I would like to say that.
I think those are very valuable.
Yeah, it was rather short, but this is Pete Hegseth really just giving a rundown on his visit that he had a surprise visit with some of the troops of Epic Fury.
Take a listen.
Good.
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to visit our troops fighting in Operation Epic Fury.
We were in the ground or on the ground, excuse me, in CETCOM on Saturday for about half the day.
For reasons of operational security, so those troops are not targeted.
The places and bases will not be named.
Suffice it to say, the trip was an honor.
I had a chance to bear witness, and I witnessed the best of America.
But if Iran is wise, they will cut a deal.
President Trump doesn't bluff and he does not back down.
You can ask Khomeini about that.
The new Iranian regime should know that by now.
This new regime, because regime change has occurred, should be wiser than the last.
President Trump will make a deal.
He is willing.
And the terms of the deal are known to them.
If Iran is not willing, then the United States War Department will continue with even more intensity.
Yeah, I think it's very interesting that he didn't repeat that.
Now, let me ask you this, Kara.
Did the president repeat what he said yesterday about a couple of weeks?
And even if Hormoz is not open, we'll leave it to them to do it.
Did he repeat that today?
I think he did.
Briefly, today was really about the executive order and oil prices, which is a concern to Americans.
The president is very in tune to that.
But he did repeat that.
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Yes, he did say that.
I think he put that out on X this morning.
I believe there was another X post about that.
I think he's doing this to challenge them.
I think he's basically saying, he's basically saying, you wouldn't help me.
I asked you to help me with the Strait of Hormuz.
I didn't ask you to help me with the whole war.
I just asked you to help me with the Strait of Hormoz so we could get the ships through.
These are ships that will help you, not me.
We don't get any oil from there.
And of course, it has some effect on our price, but not dramatic.
And he said, you know, if I don't get that done, I'll leave it for you because it doesn't affect me.
I think he's hoping, not hoping, I think he's creating a pretty big groundswell, particularly from the Arab countries, not to do that.
Because there were leaks from even statements from the Emirates and from Saudi Arabia that unlike at the beginning of the war, where they wanted it over really quick and make an agreement, they want the regime really hobbled because they don't want this to happen again.
So both Saudi Arabia and the EAU are pushing him not to get out too quickly, but basically destroy them.
So let's see.
We'll see.
We'll see.
I mean, France has sent a ship, but we can only use the ship when the hostilities are over.
What good is that?
Well, thank you very much, Kara.
You've got a heck of a job, I tell you.
What a puzzle, Dallas.
And every day is a puzzle.
It's very good for your brain.
Very good for Kara's brain and everybody else to figure out what's going on because, as I told you, the president plays 10-card Monty.
Three-card Monty is, you know, they put a little thing under the shell and move it around, and then you got to bet on where the shell is.
And of course, when they do it, when they do it on Times Square, the really good ones, you'll pick it out.
They'll let you win.
They'll let somebody win while you're standing there.
Somebody wins theoretically like lots of money, right?
Then you go play.
You never guess it.
I mean, one out of three times, you should be able to guess it.
But on the other hand, they don't open up all the little cups and show you where the little P is or whatever they have, the little marker because it's probably in their pocket or up their sleeve.
So just giving you a little New York trivia.
No, it's important.
One of the things that we should remind you is that before the president wraps up, whatever happens there, there is no doubt that we are going to have to make certain that we've extracted all the enriched uranium.
And as best we can tell, they do have some.
They have a substantial amount at Isfahan, which is in that area, you know, with Natans and a whole group of the others south of Tehran.
And there, it's believed, more than believed, that they have about 440 pounds of 60% enriched uranium.
Now, that facility, 18 of the buildings there have been damaged, which I think is pretty much all of them.
Question is: have we absolutely gotten down to where this uranium is?
And it's not certain it's there, but it's not certain that it's not there.
And before we leave, it seems to me that a lot of these troops that are being sent over there, particularly the paratroopers, are really skilled at extraction.
So the Marines might very, very well be for Charge Island, but I think the paratroopers ought to make certain that this uranium is extracted.
Now, there's also at or around Natanz, in a place called Pickaxe Mountain, a facility that is supposedly deeper than all the rest, goes down 330 feet.
Well, 260 to 330, but they think it's at 330.
And there is either solid information or suspicion that there's enriched material there as well.
Those are not right next to each other, but they're in pretty much the same vicinity.
So you could conceive of a paratrooper operation in that area, sustained and supported by tremendous air cover and also possibly troops to protect them within that area while they go through the process of either extracting,
doing the final extraction, or assuring itself that it has been extracted.
That won't be necessary if you make a deal with them because I'm sure one of the conditions of the deal is going to be that we have to have the right to inspect.
So when you see all these troops going there And you take a look at their expertise, it gives you some of the indication as to what the president has in mind, what he has in mind as an option if it's necessary.
So, all the Marine, extra, it's another, they just sent over another 3,000 Marines, they're going to send over another 5,000.
Why do you need all those Marines?
What do Marines do?
Well, yeah, they fight and they fight better than anybody else, but what do they do?
They do amphibious landings.
That's what you would have to do at Sharge Island and some of the other islands there that are in play as well, if you really want to shut them down.
So let's see what happens.
Let's see what happens next.
The birthright citizenship case, which Kara so ably described, will come up tomorrow.
And it all rests by what the Congress meant when it put the words under the jurisdiction of the United States.
Now, a broad definition of that is anybody here is under the jurisdiction of the United States.
But that was intended to also exclude diplomats whose children may be brought here.
So if you're illegally here, was it really intended in a more general sense to say people who are here lawfully and in a recognized way?
I'm simplifying the argument, and there could be other things that prevent them from getting to that.
Because what they're really reviewing is an executive order that the president signed that said that you can't become a citizen unless you actually live here and this is your permanent residence.
You can't do what the Chinese do and go to one of the islands in the Pacific that happens to be owned by the United States and like Puerto Rico is American territory, get born there, stay there for two days, go back to China for 20 years, and then send your kid over here as an American citizen so he can spy on us or go kill Chinese that they're trying to get even with.
So we'll see what happens with the birthright case.
It's going to be a tough one.
And I do think it's an uphill battle, but not an impossible one.
And over the months, as it's been explicated and described, it has become a closer case.
And when you look at the earlier discussion the court had about it, the path is there to determine that this was exclusively intended for the children of slaves who were emancipated.
And therefore, there was a question as to whether they were born in the United States.
The shutdown, the shutdown is on for everyone now at Homeland Security, but ICE, which is funded through 2029, I believe.
Coast Guard is still not being paid.
The border services are still not being paid.
Oh, all the support, all the support personnel for TSA is not being paid.
All the support personnel in general for the Department of Homeland Security is not being paid.
And of course, I focus because of Andrew on FIFA and the World Cup coming up now, right around the corner on June 11.
And those people are not being paid.
And they have to make sure that all these venues are safe by June 11 or June 12.
And it's quite a task.
I mean, you've got 73 games, 72 of them already have a million people applying for tickets from all over the world, from some of the hotspots of the world.
And this period of time was going to use up a lot of those support people doing the research to make sure you have a very solid intelligence base.
And I probably more than most understand the need for that.
That's probably the critical thing you do in security for an Olympics, for a World Series, for a Super Bowl, which I used to do in private and private.
My company used to do that.
And one of the most interesting ones we did was the first game, first time that Qatar ever had a game like that.
They literally didn't know what they were doing.
They didn't have crowd control, much less the sophistication of it.
But we had three years to train them, and we didn't have a government shutdown.
And they sure as hell paid us.
Well, thank you very much for tuning in.
And make sure you go over now to X, where we will continue with the rest of the information concerning the war and this whole terrible situation with children who are manipulated into becoming addicted to social media.