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	News, I promise you'll never get from the state-run corrupt legacy media mob officially dead as of November 5th last year because nobody trusts them because they lie so often.
	We have a lot of polling that has come out today.
	We'll start with that.
	And this is joint polling, two of our favorite pollsters.
	I remind you that both Trafalgar, the Trafalgar group, that's Robert Cahaley, and Insider Advantage, that's Matt Towery, both nailed the 2016 presidential election, 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election.
	And what's amazing about them is they poll Donald Trump correctly more than anybody.
	They have one question that they put out.
	What is your opinion of President Trump's position that Iran must be prevented from developing a nuclear weapon by any means necessary?
	That is a very strong question for a pollster.
	What is your opinion of President Trump's position that Iran must be prevented from developing nuke from developing a nuclear weapon by any means necessary?
	They approved 74.4%, disapproved 22.9%.
	And it just tells me that, you know, regardless of the chatter and the radicalism of the left and some isolationist others, uh the world understands, and this is why why why do you think all the countries in the Middle East have been eerily silent because they're all cheering for Israel to knock out these these nuclear sites because they all fear Iranian hegemony,
	which is why Donald Trump very successfully in his first term was able to create an an unprecedented alliance that he never got credit for intelligence sharing among the U S and Israel and the Saudis and the Emirates and the Jordanians and the Egyptians and all of it against the Iranian hegemony.
	Not one country in that region wants the Iranian regime to ever have a nuclear weapon because all they do is foment terrorism.
	And each country individually has radicals within their ranks, and so they're constantly threading needles.
	And unfortunately, it often results in them play trying to placate both sides or turning a blind eye towards the radicalism.
	And by the way, that has to stop in these countries.
	They they have to start arresting, and they have to start eliminating those people in their countries that are have bought into this radicalism.
	Another poll is out.
	Harvard Harris, 85% say Tehran must never get the bomb.
	54% directly back a U.S. strike on their nuclear assets.
	60% would support Israel if talks fail.
	It goes across party lines, and it couldn't be any more specific that you know giving up a nuclear enrichment program has got to be a precondition should the U.S. accept any deal.
	Um and that would have to be immediate, although I don't I don't I uh the it's what the one of the most amazing things is and Elon Musk did link up Starlink for people to have some connection to the outside world because the regime shut off any access to the internet.
	However, people are able to bypass it with the Starlink connection.
	Um, but they are leaving Tehran in droves because President Trump said, get out now while you can.
	And they're leaving.
	I mean, the the convoy is it's it's unbelievable to see.
	It's bumper to bumper traffic.
	It's sort of like in the lead up in the days leading up to, you know, a hurricane that is projected to hit your town or your city.
	You have one top Democrat, and this this now goes to the heart of where the Democratic Party is.
	And you know, Democratic leaders have sided with these, you know, they've been silent or complicit with these pro-terrorist campus protesters.
	They've tolerated virulent anti-Semitism in their own ranks in the halls of Congress on these college campuses.
	They've taken up the cause of, you know, wife beating, gangbanging, criminal illegals.
	They've tried to block the National Guard from interfering with anti-ICE rioters, even as they're arresting and doing the job, and the Constitution gives them jurisdiction through the supremacy clause, uh, but interfering with anti-ICE rioters that they try to burn cities cities down and then lie to us like they did about Joe's cognitive state and open borders and the economy and pretty much on everything else about Donald Trump.
	Well, now they found another noxious cause to get behind.
	Democrats are now lining up what to support the Iranian regime's desire and ambition for producing nuclear weapons, which Iranian leaders have vowed to use to wipe Israel and the U.S. off the face of the earth.
	You have a top Democratic senator, Hillary Clinton's vice presidential nominee, no less, now trying to block President Trump from helping Israel take out Iranian uh Iran's nuclear program.
	Good, by the way, good luck defending that position in the 2026 midterm.
	Senator Tim Kane introduced a resolution seeking to prevent the U.S. from getting involved in a military conflict with Iran without congressional approval.
	Uh the resolution reaffirms existing law directing the president to end any use of U.S. armed forces for hostilities against Iran, blah, blah, blah.
	I mean, this is now the party of radicalism.
	The only exception to that rule, and we'll play him later in the program today, is Senator John Fetterman.
	He's actually calling on Israel to show no mercy and to take out the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamani.
	And Fetterman told the Washington Free Beacon Israel should use its successful campaign against against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which culminated in the assassination of their 32-year leader, Hassan Narazla Narazza, I'm sorry, Nasralla, a model for how to deal with Iran.
	And just like Nasrallah, Fetterman replied when asked whether the Jewish state should target Khamani, he said, in fact, it should have been when Israel began to dismantle Iran.
	Now they've taken out their nuclear scientists.
	This Democratic Party, before we get into this, a lot of specifics and a lot of news to share with you today, but this the the we saw it this weekend.
	The party of compassion and love.
	You know, the base of the Democratic Party.
	I would argue it is the Democratic Party.
	There are no moderate voices but for John Fetterman, who's under constant attack by the by the radical left and the likes of Chucky Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, they are scared to death of their own party members.
	It's controlled by Jasmine Crockett and the squad and AOC and Elizabeth Warren and Grandpa Bernie.
	I mean, you saw all these left-wing protesters this weekend in cities all across the country.
	In some cases, they were left-wing protesters in New York openly supporting Iran.
	The Democratic Party is the crazy party.
	They're the party of radical coastal elitists that, you know, that champion the rights of men to play women's sports.
	I mean, think about this.
	They are so out of touch.
	You've got people out on the street.
	They're dressed like Islamic extremists calling for the destruction of Israel from the river to the sea.
	How often have we discussed that being said on college campuses?
	You know, virulent hatred, anti-Semitism.
	These protests have gone on now for nearly two years since October 7th.
	I'm not sure what part of murder, rape, torture, beheading, and kidnapping they don't understand, but they clearly don't understand or don't want to understand it.
	The same party that turned this, you know, suspected human trafficker, gang member, illegal immigrant.
	They bec they've become the party of a Brago Garcia.
	They turned this guy into a folk hero until the polls show, uh, yeah, this is backfiring on you.
	Okay, well, we'll abandon that position now.
	The party that blocks highways, attacks law enforcement, federal buildings, all because IC, you know, went into Los Angeles, and they found criminal illegal immigrants convicted of murder and child rape and gang activity And other heinous crimes to keep the people, the law abiding citizens of Los Angeles safe.
	The same party that, you know, turned a blind eye, didn't say a word about the calls for assassination of President Trump or Elon Musk at burned Tesla's in dealerships around the country, firing bullets into Tesla dealerships, you know, burning Tesla charging stations.
	Oh, what did Elon Musk do?
	He rescued astronauts and he found, you know, hundreds of billions in waste fraud and abuse.
	You know, they think it's corrupt in a constitutional crisis that hundreds of billions of dollars on DEI ism, wokeism, transgenderism, LGBTQ ism is being spent not even in this around the around the globe.
	You know, this U.S. Senate, Democrats supporting championing the right, the rights of men to play women's sports, the same party that supports supports racist DEI policies over meritocracy and hard work.
	The same party that believed the Russia hoax, FISA abuse, they sat silent.
	As long as it was against Donald Trump, the same party that didn't care the statute of limitations had run out on this issue of which was a misdemeanor in New York, turned into a novel legal theory by Alvin Bragg, just so they can call Donald Trump a convict.
	I mean, the things that they didn't care about the phony valuation of Mar-a-Lago.
	They didn't care about the double standard when it came to rating Mar-a-Lago, but not rating Joe Biden's four locations where he had top secret classified information.
	The same party that lacks any self-awareness with this ridiculous nationwide no kings protest this weekend.
	You know, we had an election, they lost, Donald Trump won, and they helped him win.
	And he won every swing state and the popular vote, and now they're acting like, you know, they they don't care about acts of violence.
	They're mostly peaceful.
	Vandalism, mostly peaceful.
	Intimidation, you know, attacking law enforcement, mostly peaceful.
	You know, it's it's it's pretty bizarre.
	Donald Trump is now demanding the unconditional surrender from Iran.
	The sternest language to date.
	The president warning earlier today, he's losing patience with Iran and for quote unconditional surrender, saying that he wouldn't target the country's leader.
	We know where he is, he said, but we're not going to target Khamani for now.
	Doesn't mean it's off the table.
	In a series of social media posts, uh, as of uh uh this afternoon.
	He said the U.S. knows where the Iranian Supreme Leader is hiding.
	He is an easy target, but it's safe there.
	We're not going to take him out or kill him at least for now.
	Our patience is wearing thin.
	Unconditional surrender.
	He wrote in a separate post.
	He said Tehran has lost control of Iran's airspace.
	We now have complete total control of the skies over Iran, and they have good sky trackers and other defensive equipment and plenty of it.
	But it doesn't compare to American-made, conceived, and manufactured weaponry.
	Nobody does it better than the good old U.S. of A. And Trump used the word we, but it wasn't immediately clear if that meant that the U.S. is taking a more active role in Israel's unfolding attacks.
	The president returned to Washington, got home about 4.30 this morning on Air Force One to deal with matters at home.
	He's not being specific about it.
	He has never wavered in his space in terms of where he stands.
	Let me tell you what the three options are where we are right now.
	The Israelis took out two of their three nuclear sites.
	The third site, I'll go into great specificity.
	There are really three ways to take out that site.
	The first two options are not good options.
	One, the Israelis can go it alone with a tactical nuke.
	Nobody wants that option.
	Not a good option.
	Option two, they can send in commandos.
	That would be a great risk and harm potentially to Israeli fighters, not the best option.
	But controlling the skies, the best option would be bunker buster bombs.
	But Israel, according to reports, I can't confirm 100%.
	they don't have bunker busters.
	That would take the U.S. not only to provide it, but probably to complete the mission because they don't have the B-52 that would be necessary to deliver that bomb, the mother of all bombs, thirty thousand pounds, and it's a whole process to knock out this one site, it's buried three hundred feet deep into the ground, and and so those are the three options on the table now.
	And the question is the world better without the number one state sponsor of terror having nuclear weapons.
	How many rockets would need to be fired into America before you would demand as an American citizen that your country fight back?
	Because Israel, and I've told the story many times.
	I've been to these border towns and cities that have been hit with tens of thousands of rockets.
	I've seen the Golden Dome in uh the Iron Dome in action.
	I have I have been in the terror tunnels.
	They have taken enough.
	They deserve a peaceful solution.
	Assuming this mission can be completed, it is not without risk.
	I want to be very clear.
	But the Trump doctrine is clear.
	They can't have nukes, and he still doesn't believe in forever wars.
	He wants this knocked out and done and over with.
	Then it will be up to the Israelis if they take out their power grid, which is gas-driven, and take out their ability to make money, which would be to knock out their refineries, an easy attack, considering most of the refineries are on one little island.
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	We're going to go on the ground in Tel Aviv.
	What has life been like there with all the hundreds and hundreds of ballistic missiles?
	They've been able to shoot down, according to the IDF about ninety-five percent of them, but it's still, you know, pretty unbelievable.
	Uh the president now demanding unconditional surrender from the Iranians.
	And we know exactly where the so-called Supreme Leader is hiding.
	He is an easy target, but is safe there.
	We're not going to take him out, kill, at least not for now.
	But we don't want missiles shot at civilians or American soldiers.
	Our patience is wearing thin.
	Thank you for your attention to this matter.
	Uh I mean, it is uh, you know, i there is some internal con I am staying away from the noise among certain people, but I will tell you there is a lot of noise, and there's a lot of people that have agendas.
	Here's my agenda.
	My agenda is frankly in sync with what the president believes.
	I believe in the Trump doctrine in this case.
	The Trump doc.
	What is the Trump doctrine here?
	The Trump doctrine is Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.
	If I if you don't understand that, I can't I can there's no way I can educate you to the level you need to be educated at to understand it.
	I'm not going to waste my time.
	The American people get it.
	You know, I go back to the insider advantage and Trafalgar poll coming out today.
	What is your opinion of President Trump's position that Iran must be prevented from developing a nuclear weapon by any means necessary?
	74.4% approved, 22.9% disapprove, 2.7% no opinion.
	Harvard Harris, 85%, say Tehran must never get the bomb, 54% back a U.S. strike on their nuclear assets.
	If talks fail, it goes across party lines.
	America backs the strength.
	That's where we are.
	The inner circle of Iran's supreme leader has been hollowed out.
	Uh...
	This is a report that the 86-year-old Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has seen his main military and security advisors killed by Israeli airstrikes, leaving major holes in his inner circle.
	I mean, they took out a s his nuclear scientist.
	They took out some of the top leaders of the Iranian revolutionary guard, uh, and one report that he is even negotiating a potential asylum move out of Iran and into uh Russia.
	I'm sure Putin will be there arms open.
	Uh but you know, the president is now seeking a real end to the escalation.
	Now the question is there are there's one site remaining.
	To me, the most important thing, and if you ask what the the goal should be, um, and I know people have different views on this, and I accept that people have different views on this.
	Um I think the Israelis have, you know, the Israelis are the country that have withstood the t the you know hundreds of thousands of missiles being fired into their country.
	The Iranians have been, you know, they they help plot plan and scheme with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and their cud's forces, the October 7th attack.
	That's the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in a day based on extrapolated out population sizes, etc.
	But also the kidnapping, the torture, the beheading, you know, the the rape and everything else in between.
	So the Israelis, you know, at the end of the day, as far as I'm concerned, once the nuclear threat is forever neutral neutralized, the world is a safer place.
	The Israelis have every right in my view, and if you had let's say there's one town that I was in in what, 2014 or 15, Sterot, a border town with Gaza in the previous 10 years have been hit with 10,000 missiles, one little town, and I mean little.
	This is the town where kids play in underground uh bunker playgrounds because it only takes 12, 13 seconds for one of these missiles when they're fired from Gaza, which you can see with the naked eye to make it into that town.
	And uh it's amazing to me that this town has been able to survive in spite of this never ending onslaught.
	How many how many missiles fired into America would you take before you would wipe out the enemy that did this?
	And the, you know, look, we have at least 24 dead in Israel.
	They are targeting, you know, large civilian population areas like Tel Aviv, and we'll get a report at the top of the hour about that.
	Uh they have now activated their new aerial defense system for the first time since its inception.
	It's the Barak Megan, meaning lightning shield for the first time Sunday night, saying they intercepted and destroyed multiple Iranian drones.
	And if you're Israel, how many more it has to stop?
	This is now the missiles are getting bigger.
	2,000 pound ballistic missiles.
	They're building four their ambition is 4,000 pound bombs.
	I mean, now you're talking about mass casualties.
	And does anybody ask yourself, maybe you do doubt.
	Maybe you don't think they would do it.
	I personally think they would do it.
	And that is if you marry radical Islamic terrorism with the number one state sponsor of terror that is take that is provided funding to Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic jihad and the Houthi rebels, they fired directly into Israel,
	and then you add into that the Iraqi militia, the Syrian militia, and it it you have one common denominator, and that is that is the mullahs in Iran.
	And they have been hellbent on this whole thing.
	Now, what do what to know about the three options?
	Option one, not a good option to use a tactical nuke under any circumstances.
	However, Iran's uh for Dow fuel enrichment plant is the one remaining.
	It is a fortress.
	It is built deep within the mountains up to 300 feet underground, located about a hundred miles south of Tehran.
	Remember the people of Tehran have been born by Donald Trump to get out of town and get out quickly.
	There's one facility remaining on Israel's hit list and the world's hit list.
	And it may take American buster bunking bomb uh buster bunker bombs to do it.
	You know, short of commandos, you know, getting into the facility, a very dangerous operation by any measure.
	Uh, but 300 feet underground, and you know, America has these, you know, 30-ton bunker buster bombs uh and you know, this what's called a 57 AB massive ordinance uh penetrator is thought to be capable of of reaching the facility.
	Maybe it would take two of them.
	I'm not sure.
	I'm not an expert in bunker busters.
	But while Israel has surprised Western intelligence in the past with the scope of its arms and strategies, we don't know.
	Nothing suggests that they have the means to penetrate this one nuclear site's defenses and get deep into the ground where it is to inflict the damage so that no more enrichment of uranium can take place.
	Now, anyway, this this one place was was first completed in 2009.
	It's about a hundred miles south of Tehran, one of three major nuclear enrichment sites.
	Iran spent years fortifying this facility, which has been able to avoid most major attacks from Israel and elsewhere.
	Tehran has made sure the facility can survive air strike attacks, making this a much harder target.
	And the way a bunker buster works is the bomber pilot uses a guidance system to lock the bomb onto the target, then exit the area as the bomb travels to its orbit.
	The first charge will detonate, clearing a path for a second charge.
	The second charge would then enter the target following the opening created by the first charge, and the thing would then explode.
	Now, sounds a little complicated.
	I can show you and make visuals for you on TV tonight so you fully completely understand it, but that that's what it's going to take, and that would probably be us.
	Look, as far as the left goes, and you know, I for years I I always knew Pat Buchanan and understood that there were certain things we'd never agree on.
	And I always viewed Pat as kind of like an isolationist.
	And, you know, had certain America first policies, but then had views about other countries that I found at times even reprehensible, but you know, we we just agreed to disagree, and I agree to disagree with some other people.
	Mark Levin actually had the great one, had a great article in the New York Post today, and he talks about isolationists, and he he really rightly points out that isolationism.
	I mean, it's it's not the Trump doctrine of taking out Iran's nukes is not an America first and not believing in long protracted wars is not isolationism.
	I mean, if we learned anything from World War II and Neville Neville Chamberlain meeting with Hitler in Munich and coming back and proclaiming peace in our time, peace in our time, uh, that that was naive and dumb and stupid.
	And you know, isolationism can also be appeasement.
	And you can also the one of the biggest parts that is unspoken about the MAGA agenda is common sense and nuclear weapons in the hands of the number one state sponsor of terror that chant death to America, death to Israel, it just goes against common sense when you have the opportunity to prevent them from ever getting that power.
	And you can and and when you listen to people that almost, and Mark is right, they're incoherent.
	They they don't even agree upon themselves, and there's there's different factions of of that ideology, but it's you know it's certainly not peace through strength.
	It's certainly not common sense.
	It's certainly if you think it's okay and you want to try to call this program and explain to me how allowing the Iranians to continue their pursuit of a nuclear weapon and likely getting one and building out these two thousand and four thousand pound ballistic missiles, uh, where are we going to be in six months or a year?
	The world will be held hostage.
	And this is an opportunity with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump at the helm, where you deal with genocidal terrorists, this Nazi regime, and you know, and the president did to his credit, he bent over backwards to try to convince them to choose the path of peace.
	And they have chose not to do that.
	And he said it's a big mistake, you know, and it it's been brilliant.
	It doesn't mean it is without risk.
	It doesn't mean it is not dangerous, but this is a dangerous world.
	You don't define peace as the absence of conflict or the absence of war.
	Now, for those that may have concerns, we don't want to be dragged into a long quagmire, as they say, or a long protracted war.
	Um That's part of the that's part of the Trump doctrine, too.
	And that's not the plan here to send American troops on the ground.
	And nor should it be, in my view.
	I think the president has it exactly right.
	They can't have nukes.
	And if it's a joint operation or an American operation to take out this final site, it's going to be what it's going to be.
	And then Israel, at that point, will make up their minds whether they want to take out the Iranian ability to have power in their country, because that grid can be taken out because they own the skies.
	And then they'll decide if the regime will have any opportunity to make money if they decide to take out their refineries.
	Again, an easy target when you control the skies.
	The most amazing thing that I've seen in terms of video is when Trump called for the immediate evacuation of Tehran, everybody's leaving.
	They're taking Donald Trump's word for it.
	You know, but it's this bunker buster would have to be dropped from an American aircraft, which would have wide-ranging ramifications.
	We have troops in the area that would need protection.
	Again, there's nothing, nothing, nobody that can make an argument that this is a risk-free operation.
	There is always risk.
	You know, and he said Iran should have signed the deal.
	I told them to sign.
	What a waste of human life.
	Simply stated, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
	I support the Trump doctrine.
	And also the doctrine that we can't have forever wars.
	It's going to be go in, strike, achieve the direct the directive, and warn them if they dare to come after one American, one American installation, that there will be hell to pay.
	And then if they do it, then there should be hell to pay.
	You know, uh whatever motivations other people have, that's on them.
	I know what we have to do here.

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