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You know, it's an amazing rescue attempt that took place, and four Israeli hostages, they were saved.
Remember, they were taken on October the seventh.
They were saved over the weekend.
Today's date is June 10th, so I think they got them on June 8th or 7th or 8th.
And now the United Nations and officials at the UN, which I have argued forever, has historically been anti-American and anti-Semitic, and now the European Union foreign policy chief on top of the ICC wanting to, you know, take uh uh charge Benjamin Netanyahu, uh, who's defending his country against the worst terrorist attack in its history and charge him with war crimes.
I mean, this this is so sick, it's unbelievable, but the UN, the European Union, they're they're literally faulting Israel for rescuing their own hostages.
Want to think about how absolutely upside down, twisted and topsy turvy the the world is here.
Some any death that took place in Gaza, you could put squarely on the shoulders of Hamas, the terrorist organization, and Iran, which helped them plot ple plan and scheme through the Cud's forces, the Iranian Iranian revolutionary guard forces uh for this attack against Israel.
You know, everyone seems to forget the murder.
Idiots like George Clooney and his wife that supported this, you know, this ICC holds Netanyahu uh accountable for war crimes, nonsense.
I mean, how we how many people have to be murdered before you realize that they're the victim of terrorism?
How many women had to be raped?
How many children had to be murdered?
How many people had to be beheaded?
How many people had to be taken hostage before you realize that radical Islamic terrorists that have in their charter the destruction of the state of Israel, that Israel has every right and frankly responsibility to win their war on terrorism.
The worst part of the equation is not this idiot George Clooney, or is it you know his dopey wife, you know, going forward with blaming the victims.
You know, it's the it's our own president that has been pressuring Israel from the beginning, and just because Joe Biden wants to surrender on the war on terrorism, doesn't mean Benjamin Netanyahu ever will.
I mean, it was kind of ridiculous.
I read this weekend that there was a CIA assessment that concluded Netanyahu is likely to defy U.S. pressure to set a post-war plan for Gaza.
I'm like, yeah, no kidding.
He's gonna defend his country and he's gonna win the war.
That's what Israel does.
That's what they've had to do throughout their whole history for crying out loud.
You know, and this this is why these international organizations, be it the United Nations, the the WHO, which ran interference, and they were the propaganda arm during COVID for China, or the WEF, the World Economic Forum,
or these idiotic, you know, international agreements like the Paris Climate Accords that Joe Biden put us back in after Trump got us out of them, where China and India are classified as developing countries, and we pay, you know, a thousand times more than they do.
No, we should not be a part of these organizations, these globalist groups anymore ever, period.
End of sentence.
Hamas started the massacre.
Hamas started the war.
Hamas took the hostages.
Hamas hid them in a crowded civilian area.
Israel has a right to free them.
Hamas responded with heavy fire, including RPGs.
Yet people are condemning Israel.
You know, how dare Israel rescue their own citizens held hostage since October the seventh?
These people's lives will never be the same again.
I mean, uh, it's unreal.
The BBC asking whether Israel gave a warning about the rescue raid and whether it was coming.
Are you really that stupid?
That's how corrupt the mob and the media is in this country and all over the world.
The IDF says a Palestinian journalist was actually holding the Israeli hostages for Hamas.
Anyway, the IDF said that Abdullah Al Jamal, who wrote for the Palestine Palestine Chronicle, a U.S. based nonprofit news website, may have had some connections according to one report.
He was once had written for Al Jazeera, which has been banned in Israel.
But anyway, in a post on Twitter, the IDF asked the Cutter Own news channel, uh, what's this terrorist doing on your website?
The IDF did what they had to do.
They stormed the home by ladder.
They had to kill the homeowner, Jamal and his father and his wife to free the Israeli hostages.
They held they held Israeli hostages.
What do you expect's gonna happen?
You that's an act of war.
Anyway, it's the is the Al Jazeera biography for the quote journalist calls them a Gaza-based reporter and photojournalist.
Yeah, okay.
Really?
Anyway, Senator Cotton called for a January 6th style investigation after pro Hamas protesters blockaded the White House.
Did you see this mess over the weekend?
No arrests, by the way, were made.
The Secret Service literally had to retreat in the middle of this.
He had a person, you know, they attempted to arrest a person who climbed a statue but were unsuccessful because the crowd intervened.
Now Tom Cotton is calling on the Biden Justice Department to launch an investigation after thousands of pro-Hamas protesters descended on the White House on Saturday.
Sounds like they wanted an insurrection of their own.
Where's Liz Cheney when you need her?
Cotton.
Anti-American pro-Hamas thugs desecrated the statues of our veterans literally across the street from the White House.
A blatant violation of federal law.
On video, he said, I expect the Department of Justice to use every technique against them that they used against grandmas in MAGA hats on January 6th.
If it doesn't now, it will next year.
Pretty amazing.
Over at Fake News CNN, a guest calls out a Chiron, which referred to Israel's rescues mission as a hostage release, but what do you want to call it?
And in 18 days, fake news CNN with fake Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, two leftist liberal talk show hosts are going to be moderating this debate.
Oh, that's going to be a fair debate.
They're incapable of being fair, as we have pointed out, and we'll continue to point out and just play them in their own words, so you know exactly what Trump is walking into.
Did we really need a CIA assessment, concluding Netanyahu's likely to defy pressure to set a post-war plan?
Netanyahu has one job right now to ensure that his country's survival, they're getting hit in the north from Hezbollah out of Lebanon, they're being hit out of Gaza, they're being hit by the Houthi rebels with Yemen, all three of those terror groups have one thing in common, and that would be Iran.
Good grief.
These are not good times, by the way, for the people in this country.
Look at this headline on Fox Business today.
Nearly two-thirds of middle class Americans say they're struggling financially, quote, gasping for air.
Americans feeling pessimistic about their finances amid ongoing inflation.
Well, Joe Biden has been spending how many, you know, over a year now telling everybody the economy is good.
It's really good and everything.
It's good to fight an economy.
Vidonomics.
It's doing great.
The economy taking away choice.
Biden administration now is cementing in their latest rule to force electric vehicles, which cost a fortune more than Americans don't want into your driveway Because they locked in a weakened fuel economy standard on Friday.
Experts are still describing the final version of this as stringent designed specifically to force electric vehicles on Americans who don't want them.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled their final update for the corporate average fuel economy standards on Friday, trimming down some of the proposals' excesses while keeping other aspects unchanged or of similar.
The final rules are going to be onerous for consumers.
Why?
Because they're forcing EVs into your driveway.
On Fox News.com, one economist, Harry Dent predicting a stock market crash worse than the 2008 crisis, the bubble of all bubbles.
Artificial stimulus has delayed the inevitable in terms of a big crash, he said.
Look, I'm not an expert on the economy.
Don't take my advice.
But I have reduced my exposure as much as humanly possible to the stock market, because it seems to me that a massive correction is inevitable.
But what do I know?
talk to your own financial people.
Uh, I was, it was interesting to watch this weekend over at CBS, another liberal news bastion, The host of the lowly rated face the nation, Margaret Brennan, was taken aback by a new poll showing nearly two-thirds of Americans favored the deportation of all undocumented illegal immigrants.
In other words, Joe Biden's eleven million unvetted illegal immigrants, spent tens and tens of thousands from China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and all over the world.
And now we see the increase in crime going on with it.
Anyway, Brennan complained that Trump's deportation plan would be unworkable.
I don't think so.
You find people that are in this country illegally that didn't respect our law, our borders, our sovereignty.
Joe Biden lecturing Trump on the rule of law.
By the way, closing arguments, the jury's about to get the case in the Hunter Biden case, the gun case.
Should be interesting to see how this works out.
That to me is the low-hanging fruit.
I'd like to get to the money.
I'd like to get to the big Joe Biden lie.
Never once did I speak to my son, my brother, or anybody about their firm business dealings.
Then I'd like to get into the fact that Hunter, who admits he was addicted to crack, if he's really off it, good for him.
That does not negate that he might have violated this gun law.
It doesn't negate the fact that he admitted on Good Morning America he had no experience in energy oil, gas, or coal or Ukraine, and he got paid millions of dollars.
It doesn't negate Joe Biden leveraging a billion taxpayer dollars, even in spite of Obama administration policy number one, and in spite of the fact that his son was going to be the direct beneficiary of him leveraging that billion to get a prosecutor investigating the company paying Hunter millions fired, which he got done in six hours, son of a bee, they fired him.
Anyway, the illegal immigrants already, you know, but Joe Biden's big announcement or pronouncement last week about his his big border security plan.
I told you it was nonsense.
Well, anyway, the the illegal immigrant crossings appeared undeterred at all by Joe Biden's executive order.
We see 10,000 individuals in custody that day.
It's just all that was was a show move because they're scared to death.
The American people have figured out how bad this is, and they see the rising crime, they see the rising costs, they see that they themselves, their schools are burdened with having, you know, English taught as a second language for a half a million to a million kids of illegal immigrants.
It's unreal.
Wall Street Journal, this was in Zero Hedge, admitting that the big all jobs in America in the past year have gotten to illegal immigrants.
Oh, how did that happen?
And sixty-two percent of Americans, yeah, actually want the rule of law enforced, and they want all Joe's unvetted illegal immigrants deported.
Oh, that's so mean, that's horrible.
The Sanctuary State of Rhode Island released a serial sex abuser, another Joe Biden illegal immigrant.
I keep telling you they have blood on their hands, and when that next 9-11 thing happens, which will happen because of Joe Biden's not vetting people from hostile nations.
And I don't I hope and pray I'm wrong.
I'm not wrong.
He'll have all the blood on his hands too there as well.
So sad and it's so stupid.
You don't think this election matters, it matters.
You want to get mad at me because I tell every Republican and conservative, get over your reluctance and resistance to voting early, voting by mail.
Well, you better get over it.
Because you don't know what's going to happen on election day.
Bank your vote.
It may be like New York, where it actually snowed in that runoff election in George Santos's district.
Oh, a lot of good that did to help Republicans.
Democrats had banked their votes.
That's a case in point.
And while you're at it, you might want to talk to your state representatives about voter integrity issues, voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter roles, partisan observers watching the voting all day and the vote counting all night, up close, not a thousand at 5,000 feet away, or in another building like they did in 2020.
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Uh we have some Biden news.
You know, the mother it we have talked about this for years.
There's Hunter Biden has a five-year-old daughter.
I don't really give a flying rip what the circumstances are involving the birth of this child.
I don't care anything about her background.
I don't care how it doesn't matter.
She's a five-year-old little girl that deserves to be loved, acknowledged, and recognized.
And then we had brought this issue up, and we didn't have much luck.
And then finally, of all people, Maureen Dowd to her credit at the New York Times, just ripped the Bidens for ignoring their own grandchild.
And it's insane.
they have such a monopoly on compassion.
Joe Biden sitting in the in the courtroom with Hunter, except for when she went to Normandy and there every day.
But anyway, she this this woman, her name, the mother's name is London Roberts.
I don't care what she did for a living.
I don't care that she was with Hunter.
But I care about a five-year-old kid.
The kid was four when Maureen Dowd wrote the column.
And then Joe finally and Jill Biden finally recognized the daughter exists.
Anyway, London Roberts agreed last year to a reduction in child support payments from Hunter from twenty grand a month to less than five.
She extracted a promise from Hunter that he would establish a relationship with his daughter, which he has done through Zoom calls and acknowledge that she was in fact a Biden.
And then after the column came out by Maureen Dowd, Joe and Joe Biden for the first time publicly acknowledged Navy Joan Roberts.
That's their granddaughter.
But that was only, you know, the only grudging acknowledgement Navy, this five-year-old girl, ever got from the first couple.
There's a missing chip here.
There's something really wrong here.
Later that year, the Bidens broke with their tradition of the previous two Christmases, hanging six Santa stockings embroidered with the names of each of their grandchildren over the mantle.
By the way, they even had one for the dog that bit twenty-four or so or twenty-eight Secret Service agents in the state dining room at the White House.
There were even extra personalized stockings for the pets, but anyway, Navy had been left out of every family Christmas, first family Christmas display, and then in 2023, when Roberts expected she would be included, oh, they decided no display at all.
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable.
It's pretty hurtful.
I I mean the idea Joe Biden purposely excludes this five-year-old granddaughter of hers, you know, in a book.
It's a this kid's innocent.
Not even just, oh, I acknowledge it publicly because I'm getting the crapbeat out of me politically.
There's a reason.
Joe and Jill Biden blame for their daughter-in-law for publicizing Hunter's screw ups.
When Kathleen Buell divorced Hunter Biden while she was in the while he was in the throes of this crippling crack cocaine addiction, she also earned the private ire of the rest of the Biden clan, according to the Daily Beast.
This is a sad story.
And Axios also printed this.
But President Biden and much of the family ostracized her, blamed her for letting some of the most embarrassing details about Hunter's addiction become public.
It's not her fault.
Thank you.
In particular, they were bitter at her decision to pen a 2022 memoir about their 24-year relationship about his addiction.
And anyway, later friends and defenders were livid that she had been left out of a cover shoot about her daughter Naomi's wedding.
The shoot included only Naomi and Jill Biden snubbing the mother of the bride.
Something off about this family.
James Kermer, the Comer this weekend went out on a limb saying the criminal referrals against Hunter and Jim Biden are just the beginning.
This is going to get interesting.
We'll check in with Peter Schweitzer and Eric Eggers later in the program about this.
One thing Jonathan Turley said that I think is bad news for the Bidens as the trial now is winding down and uh seems uh that it's about to be headed to the jury as he gave credit to the strategy and tactics employed by the prosecutors in the case, and said that explaining that their choice to recall a witness who testified on Hunter Biden's laptop will allow them to reframe their case before going into closing arguments.
He said it was a great move.
The prosecution recalled the FBI agent on the laptop after the defense rested, and that allows the government to reframe before going into closing arguments.
The prosecution's team performed superbly, points out in the case in a follow-up post, Turley said the prosecution's team, you know, was working to make it as difficult as possible for the jury in the Biden friendly Delaware venue to let the president's son off the hook.
But he does rightly point out the risk of jury nullification.
Votes could could not be higher.
It's not certain, and prosecutors are driving home the overwhelming strength of the evidence.
They want to make it as difficult as possible for jurors to ignore the obvious.
That's when the process by which a jury can determine that a person is guilty of what they're accused of, but choose to acquit anyway on the grounds that the accused does not deserve to be punished even though they're guilty.
A lot of people think that might have been part of what happened when the O.J. Simpson case, but I don't know.
I wasn't in the room.
What do I know?
We have other news out there.
I'll go through this more later in the program as things get going.
My expectation is I have no expectations.
It's a friendly venue.
It is what it is.
It's the Bidens.
It's Delaware.
It's not the sad reality of American justice today is this.
That everything is pretty much dependent on what venue you're being investigated in.
Who the prosecutor is, what your political leanings might be or not be, uh, what whether or not that the judge is is slanted or the judge is fair and follows the law.
There's so many other factors beyond which you know what it should be.
It's pretty sad in so many different ways.
Really is sad.
Uh we have some interesting comments made by James Carville are going to get in a second.
But by the way, as Biden was leaving France, at least for the third time during his presidency, he mistakenly referred to Iraq when discussing delayed funding to Ukraine.
That occurred as Biden addressed reporters after honoring fallen U.S. Marines at the American cemetery outside of Paris, and Biden apologized to Zelinski and then went on, you know, so much for politics ends at the water's edge.
No, because then he went on to blame Republicans.
Then on top of that, Vice President Harris stated it at a Democratic Party dinner in Michigan that she mourned the innocent lives lost among Palestinians in Gaza during the Israeli rescue mission that freed four hostages that were held since October the seventh.
Meanwhile, the Israeli IDF forces were facing RPG attacks in the in the process of saving those hostages.
I mean, that was like the scariest thing you can ever want to see.
And did you see this protest over the weekend?
Protesters surrounding the White House calling for antifada.
And then, of course, you have more of the mob.
They actually got the Secret Service to back off and retreat.
You know, they encircled park police and Secret Service near Lafayette Square by the White House in front of the White House.
Police retreated.
Protesters continue to chant F the police, kill yourself.
It sounds to me like they wanted an insurrection.
Does anybody have Liz Cheney's cell phone number when you need it?
It was so interesting.
The New York Times even did a fact check of all of Biden's lies and they call it hyperbole and embellishment.
No, they would be called lies.
That he literally convinced Strom Thurman to vote for the Civil Rights Act at 21.
No one making less than 400 grand a year will pay more in taxes.
He claims he got his start out of an historically black college and university, Delaware State.
He claims that he taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nope.
Not one class.
You know, his voting lies.
I ask every elected official in America how do you want to be remembered?
Don't forget, this is the same guy, Joe Biden, a partner with the former Klansman, his friend and his mentor, his words, to stop the integration of public schools and stop bussing in the 70s, but then claims at length to be involved in the in the civil rights movement again and again.
And then repeating a lie of an Amtrak conductor who congratulated him when he was vice president for riding more miles on the train home to Delaware than on uh Air Force II.
Lie.
That he traveled 17,000 miles with President Qi of China wrong.
Remember he rushed to judgment, blame those border agents for whipping illegal immigrants?
Wrong.
Claiming that he attended a black church and fought segregation in the civil rights movement.
Even said he was arrested.
Wrong.
That he was arrested in South Africa after trying to see Nelson Mandela.
Lie.
Why?
I mean, this guy lies with impunity.
He used to drive an 18-wheeler.
Lie.
His house almost burned down with my wife in it.
Lie.
He was sort of raised in the in the Puerto Rican community at home.
Lie.
Went to Israel to serve as a liaison during the Six Day War.
Lie.
He visited the Tree of Life Synagogue, site of the anti-Semitic murder.
Lie.
His first job offer was from an Idaho lumber company, Voisey.
Wrong.
Lie.
That he awarded his uncle Frank with a purple heart that he earned at the Battle of the Bulge.
Lie.
You know, that his grandfather was a coal miner.
Lie about the number of times he visited Iraq and Afghanistan.
30 to 50 combined visits.
No.
Lie.
That he spoke to the man who invented insulin.
Yeah.
Well, sorry about that, but uh the two people involved died two days.
Uh died, two died before Biden was even born, and there's no evidence he ever met any of the others.
Multiple scientists credited with discovering insulin.
Falsely claimed his grandfather died in the hospital.
I was born two weeks before I was born.
Yeah, well, his grandfather died in September of 1941.
He wasn't born until November 42.
Claimed he was responsible for the revival of the quad.
I mean, I could just keep going.
He just lies with impunity.
Don't worry, the mob won't call him out and he'll be protected during these debates with these friendly liberal talk show hosts, so-called moderators.
It's unreal.
Oh, kill yourself to Secret Service.
I can't believe this is our country.
This is what's happening.
Look at these headlines on the economy.
Are you paying attention?
Look what's happening at the border.
Two-thirds of the middle class Americans say they're struggling financially and gasping for literally gasping for air.
Wow.
What about Bidenomics?
On the election front, Trump has a five-point lead in Georgia.
This on top of the 12-point lead in North Carolina.
Those are must-win states.
I mean must-win states for Donald Trump.
And there does not seem to be much movement in the polls at all since Donald Trump's conviction.
Guess they'll have to raise the ante and try to put him behind bars.
But since the conviction, Donald Trump has raised a whopping 400 million dollars.
Wow.
Never saw anything like that.
He watching what's happening around the world?
That the world is now moving more conservative.
Why is that happening?
Anyway, the Washington Post credit a Trump-style immigration revolt for stunning conservative victories in European elections.
The vote is grim for people like President McCron and the Chancellor of Germany.
Germany's socialist Democrats, according to exit polls, slated to finish a humbling third behind the main center right rivals and far right alternative.
You know what a big issue is in Europe?
It's called immigration.
It's a huge issue.
Why do you think Joe Biden tried to create a false image last week?
Or watching all of this very closely.
And then you've got, you know, Democrats, they're now sounding the alarm big time.
What Mark Liebovich pens a scathing piece.
Biden is too weak and too old to run.
James Carville screaming again.
Saying that I thought President Biden would not seek reelection, but it's him and Trump.
That's where I am.
He argued the Democrats have a deep bench, and they would have been a better fit for the times than an 81-year-old Biden.
The underappreciated thing about the current state of the Democratic Party is there's enormous talent.
I mean, there's no Bill Clinton, but there are a number of current people.
He didn't name them.
Says Biden should not have run against Trump.
Regrets that Biden is running, worries the younger generation.
They're not interested in politics.
Why would they be interested in a guy that doesn't know what day of the week it is?
That makes no sense, James.
You're too smart.
And he does know better.
He's not stupid.
Anyway, 800-9410.
This is nice.
Chicago's progressive mayor spent $30,000 on personal grooming.
Linda, what's personal grooming mean?
I can't talk about that in the three o'clock hour.
What hour can you talk about it?
Uh, I mean, it could be a massage, it could be a Manny Petty, it could be whatever it is.
It's not for his constituents, that's for dang sure.
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