Operation Epic Fury details the U.S.-led strike killing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and 40 senior figures, framed as a preemptive move after failed negotiations—Trump’s 10-day ultimatum followed a decade of Iranian nuclear defiance, terror sponsorship, and threats like "Death to America." The attack dismantled succession plans (targeting Ahmadinejad) while Iran retaliated with drone strikes on Bahrain and Dubai, exposing its aggression. Texas’s Iranian-linked mass shooter—wearing a flag shirt—amid 12M+ unvetted border crossings under Biden fueled claims of migrant-linked threats. The host contrasts Trump’s decisive "doctrine" (Soleimani, ISIS, Afghanistan nukes) with allies’ weakness, tying Iran’s collapse to broader geopolitical shifts and urging defectors to abandon the regime. [Automatically generated summary]
In all seriousness, on Friday's show, I could just tell something had turned.
I'm going to tell you what made me read into and why I was, as I might, you even said, what are you thinking?
Why are you acting like this?
Remember, you said that to me Friday?
I did.
And because I was asking people to pray for our troops.
And today I'm asking people to pray for the four families that we know lost our brave servicemen and women.
It is devastating.
War is brutal.
It is horrible.
And I'm going to get into what has been at stake here, what this means, and all of that.
But when Steve Witkoff, the Middle Eastern envoy, came out with a statement that, in fact, they're not giving up their hopes, their ambitions for nuclear weapons.
At that point, it was just obvious to me that those negotiations had failed.
I know Donald Trump well, so I'm adding, I'm putting A squared, B squared, C squared together.
I knew Donald Trump means what he said.
He gave him a 10-day deadline.
He said help was on the way.
We went through great specificity on Friday's program of all the military assets we had in the region.
They weren't sent there for no reason at all.
It was the largest military buildup since the Gulf War.
And I just was rightly reflective because anytime there is any military confrontation, you just know there is risk associated with it.
Even when they're doing maneuvers and practice and so on and so forth, you are dealing with the most sophisticated equipment on the face of this earth.
But if I would have said to you, we would find out in very short order that Ali Khamenei and 40 senior Iranian security regime figures were killed in the opening seconds of this operation.
I don't think there's anybody, Linda, if I told you that, would you have believed it?
I don't think anybody would have believed it.
It was fast.
One of the most evil people in history, dead.
This is not only justice for the people of Iran, but people in the region and all over the world.
Although I do have a lot of bones to pick with a lot of people, including some of our so-called allies, and that would be Macron, and that would be Starmer.
Hey, Starmer, you know Winston Churchill.
Let's put it that way.
Macron, pathetically weak.
And it just is, it is the world has a chance.
The people now in Iran have a chance for a better future, a better tomorrow.
And it is all thanks to a president that understands what we were dealing with.
And this is why towards the end of last week, I kept going through this history of the last century.
And if we don't learn the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.
And I have no interest at all this week in arguing with people.
that want to either insinuate that we did this for Israel.
No, we did this for the United States.
We did it for the world.
We did it so we didn't have to hand off this problem to our children and our grandchildren.
And if you don't understand what we're dealing with with this death cult and the danger, the significant real danger of radical Islamo fascists that chant death to America, death to Israel, that have been fomenting terror in the region, then I'm never going to convince you.
So I'm not going to waste my breath and I'm not going to waste my time.
The Iranians could have avoided all of this, but they were clinging to a death cult in the weeks and days leading up to what happened this weekend, late into Saturday morning.
I mean, what's really spectacular about it was done in the daytime.
And there was a window of opportunity as far as everything I've been able to put together in terms of the backstory.
This was all put together very quickly.
They just kind of, they moved everything up a little bit, a little bit quicker.
It is a death cult.
And the president really tried.
I mean, hard.
They were trying hard.
Witkoff was trying hard.
Jared Kushner was trying hard.
All the Iranians had to get to was, okay, we agree we will abandon our nuclear ambitions.
Now, whatever enriched uranium for civilian use that they might have wanted or needed would have been given to them for free in perpetuity.
I can report that today.
And they even rejected that.
That is a death cult.
And, you know, the fact that Operation Midnight Hammer, when Donald Trump, you know, he gave him a 50-day lead up to that too.
And on day 51, the Israelis struck, and then we obliterated, we dropped 14 bunker buster bombs and took out their nuclear facilities.
And they have been trying to reconstitute them.
They've been rebuilding their ballistic missile systems.
They just cling to this, you know, being the number one state sponsor of terror and their death cult.
And this was going to have to be dealt with sooner than later.
And this is why I kept referring to history.
Now, we should have learned something from the last century.
My father, I know, spent four years in the Pacific and he didn't enjoy any minute of it, rarely talked about it.
But if you look at Mao in China, Stalin in Russia, Hitler in Germany, and Mussolini in fascism, and Tojo in Japan, and Pol Pot in the killing fields, if you let evil get out of hand, it's estimated over 100 million human souls were destroyed in the name of some ism.
And Donald Trump fundamentally understands that people that cling to sick, ugly, twisted, evil ideology you cannot negotiate with, you cannot have a reasonable conversation with.
He did give them a choice.
He did go the extra mile.
And this is what makes Donald Trump so different, transformational, consequential.
He's not afraid to take risks.
And he understands the history that I just laid out for you and was taking out these threats before more innocent people were killed.
There's only so many people.
Now, for those that don't understand the Trump doctrine, I'll try to explain it again, but some people just rigidly decide that they want to use their own interpretation, which is not based on reality or based on facts.
But if you go back to Donald Trump's first term, we know that he defeated the ISIS caliphate that grew and grew and grew and grew and grew under Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
And it was becoming an existential threat to the world.
That was the convert or die, you know, death cult there.
And he defeated them.
He defeated Soleimani.
They were following Soleimani very similar to, they've been following this guy according to reports now for weeks and monitoring his every move.
And when they saw that all of his top advisors were in the same spot, they're like, okay, let's go.
Game on.
Time to start.
And that's how this happened.
Now, it will be up to the Iranian people, as the president said.
We'll get into that later.
But the president knew that they just would cling to this ambition.
If you don't understand the Trump doctrine, it is so obvious and transparent.
I don't know what you're missing.
It's very frustrating.
Do you find it frustrating?
You ever turn on any other network for just like 10 seconds?
I can't stand it, you know, Linda, because they have no understanding of who Donald Trump is because they don't want to understand him.
But he took out the ISIS caliphate.
That is not isolationism.
He took out Soleimani after they followed him for weeks and weeks and weeks.
They took out Baghdadi and associates.
They followed him for weeks and weeks as well.
They dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan, and he took out their nuclear facilities because they were getting awfully close to a nuclear weapon.
Now, I don't think it's very hard for people with simple, basic, fundamental common sense to understand that Iranian radical death cult mullahs, Islamo-fascists that think that they're doing Allah's will, and if they die in the process, get rewarded with 72 virgins, that if they had nuclear weapons, that they would use them.
I mean, we now see in the aftermath of this, I think they've attacked now, what, seven, eight countries, just indiscriminate firing, and we don't even know who's in charge at this particular point in time.
And we, you know, the president decided not to let what would be similar to Stalin and Russia build in Iran and create an existential threat to the world.
He decided to nip it in the bud.
He decided he saw where this was headed and had the wisdom, the insight, and the understanding that it had to be taken out and it had to be neutralized.
And the same, you know, in every other instance, he's used force.
What is really frightening in this, and I've been saying this now for some time, is you learn who your friends are in the end.
And Starmer, he's no Winston Churchill.
And Europe has the same problem.
They have unfettered, illegal immigration without insisting on assimilation, which is why Great Britain now has, what, some 85 Sharia courts.
You know, Macron, another one, another loudmouth, another idiot, you know, another weak appeaser.
You know, you want to know why parts of Europe have no-go zones where state and local police are not allowed to go into certain communities because they've decided to isolate themselves within the country that they immigrated to?
It's breathtaking to me.
So, you know, they've created their own dangers also by clinging to socialism and climate alarmism and ignoring their own national security and defense needs.
It took Donald Trump to force them to start paying their fair share of NATO and more than double their contribution.
He shouldn't have had to do that while they were trying to rip us off, which is a separate issue, hands down, for another day.
So I couldn't be more grateful to the president.
He is showing a level of understanding.
Unfortunately for the left in this country, I mean, now they want to discuss the War Powers Act, and this is madness on their part.
But what the president had to do, he did.
We can't have 535 commanders in chief.
It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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And, you know, at some point now, it is, as the president said, this is now going to be in the hands of the Iranian people.
We have some audio of Iranians celebrating after hearing about the death of Ali Khamani, the supreme leader, the grand pubah mullah of Iran.
It really
does now end up in the hands of the people of Iran.
And I'm hoping that somebody, someplace, is able to get arms to those people.
The president has been very clear to the local police and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces.
Either lay down your weapons, you will be given amnesty if you do, and stand with the people, or you will face certain death.
And we're watching to see what's happening.
Hopefully that'll happen.
But if you want to know the mindset of Ali Khamani and his henchmen around him, I mean, they were just firing up rockets any which direction they can.
Bahrain International Airport targeted by a drone.
Dubai media says that debris resulting from an aerial interception.
Abu Dhabi airports confirmed that an incident took place at their airport there.
And it went on.
Iran's ambassador to the UN.
All bases, facilities, assets of hostile force shall be regarded as legitimate military targets.
Iran's ambassador to the UN, by the way, the UN, just like Europe or many European countries, there were a lot of countries that actually did step up, and I give a lot of credit to them.
And we'll go through that list in a little bit.
But the Iranian ambassador, the UN, and of course, the UN in general has historically always been anti-Semitic and anti-American.
But the Israeli military, the U.S. military, I mean, you're dealing with the single greatest military forces on the face of this earth, which thank God, you know, made this successful.
Now, there's just a lot to get to.
We definitely want to get your calls and your thoughts on all of this as we go through the show today.
I will say the world is a safer place.
Not only will Iran never have nuclear weapons, but now the Iranian people have one chance, maybe the one chance in a generation to get the freedom that they have wanted and desired for so long.
But they've got to take that into their own hands.
It's not up to us to do that.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
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One of the things, and I've been reading about it all weekend, is under Biden, Harris, Mayorkis, in spite of the big lie that the border is closed, the border's secure, we knew it wasn't, that among those people from over 200 countries, we know at least 12 million plus.
We don't know the exact number because of, quote, gotaways.
But among the people that they allowed into this country, unvetted, included known terrorists and murderers and rapists and child molesters and other violent criminals and cartel members and gang members.
And now we don't know how many sleeper cells, maybe sympathetic to the Iranians, might be in this country.
There was an incident that took place outside of an Austin, Texas bar on Sunday.
In the end, 14 people were injured, three killed, if you include the gunmen.
And here's audio of what happened outside that Austin bar.
Oh, my God.
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What is going on?
What the f is going on?
Jesus Christ.
And Senator Ted Cruz weighed in on this, saying we don't, you know, for sure, you know, know that this is related to terrorism, but here's what he said on CBS Sunday morning or with Margaret Brennan.
There are reports of three people dead, more than a dozen injured following a mass shooting in that city.
The FBI is saying this morning that their Joint Terrorism Task Force has joined the investigation.
Is there any nexus to terrorism or anything that is going on in regard to the worldwide caution at this moment?
We don't know for sure.
There are some early reports that this shooting may be connected to terrorism, but we need to follow the evidence and see in particular what motivated the shooting.
We are certainly Heidi and I are praying for those who were wounded and the families of those who were killed.
But at this point, we don't know what the evidence will show in terms of whether this was an act of terrorism.
Now, we do have other Texas politicians, Democrats.
Apparently, she's now winning.
There's a primary in Texas tomorrow.
That's the one with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn.
But on the Democratic side, you have Jasmine Crockett apparently leading by double digits.
Here's what she said about the Iranian strikes.
Listen.
Congress was not asked about this.
No, we were not, and that's the problem.
You know, there are people that will land on all sides of this conflict and what should be happening or shouldn't be happening.
But the one thing that I want to remind the American people of is that we have a Constitution, and frankly, as members of Congress, we have swore an oath to the Constitution as well as the President.
And right now, what we are clearly witnessing is lawlessness yet again from this administration.
And my question to my colleagues in a very serious way is: will you put aside your loyalty to this orange man and actually focus on your loyalty and your oath to the Constitution, which says that only Congress has the power to declare war?
I personally am endorsing Jasmine Crockett to get the Democratic nomination in the great state of Texas.
God bless Texas.
Anyway, looking into any possible connection is the current Attorney General of Texas, currently running for Senate.
Ken Paxton is back with us.
First, our thoughts, our prayers, our love being sent to people in Texas.
God bless Texas.
Not something that happens frequently there, but you, you know, the specific motive remains unknown, but you have to wonder, don't you?
Yeah, and I appreciate your prayers for the victims' families and those that were injured.
Yeah, it was a horrible situation, but think about this.
I sued Joe Biden, I think it was at least 20 times over illegal immigration policies that he was pushing forward that were absolutely unconstitutional.
One of those we fought him on was criminal, just criminals being in the country.
He fought us on bringing criminals to this country.
It's kind of hard to believe, but that's actually what he did.
And now we have, I don't know, 14, 15 million people that are unvetted.
We have no idea who they are.
And then you see this guy who has some, you know, has this t-shirt that has the Iranian flag on it and something about Allah.
And I'm concerned.
I'm concerned that there are sleeper cells here.
There's no doubt that that could have been planned and under Joe Biden would have been easily done.
Well, I've got to be honest.
I mean, when you see that, you almost have to come to the conclusion and have deep suspicion that it's connected, right?
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, it was my first thought when I saw his connection.
And then after they shot him, they went to his, with a search warrant, they went to his place and they find pictures of Iranian leaders and an Iranian flag.
I mean, how can you not be concerned?
I certainly am, and I certainly am making connections that this, he could have been connected to other people.
Certainly, I hope that we find out.
Well, I mean, this is where the job of law enforcement really matters.
And this is the difference between a state like Texas.
Let's go back in time.
When all of this was unfolding during the Biden-Harris years and Majorca's years, and they were just flat out lying to us, they were lying about Joe's cognitive state, number one, but maybe more importantly, you know, we had, you know, known terrorists crossing that border.
There was no vetting at the border.
We had murderers, rapists, child molesters, other violent criminals all crossing that border.
And they were allowed in the country.
Now, at the time, and I'll give him credit again today, your governor, Governor Abbott, you know, he said, okay, well, we're not a sanctuary state.
We don't have sanctuary cities in Texas.
We're not going to.
Fine, we're going to put these people on a bus or a plane, and we're going to send them up to a sanctuary city or state like New York.
My governor, Ron DeSantis, did the same thing.
And how unfortunate that the taxpayers in Texas, you know, had to bear the brunt of all of this.
But I blame all of this on them.
And there's been a lot of death and a lot of mayhem.
And last year alone, they've got 2,100 convicted or charged murderers that are illegal, accused of killing or found guilty of killing Americans, 5,400 Biden illegals that were found guilty of either rape or other sexual assault or charged with such.
And it's like, what is it going to take to wake people up?
Yeah, well, look, there's no doubt that Biden knew that some of these people were criminals because we were fighting him in court.
And the governor not only did what you were talking about, busting people out, but he was trying to put up fences.
He was trying to defend our state.
We were sending billions of dollars that was being authorized by the legislature.
And the governor was accessing to put our own people on the border and try to help the forces that were there.
But when you have a policy that says to the cartels, which Joe Biden announced on his first day in office, I'm not going to deport anybody.
Feel free to come here.
We're going to help you.
I mean, that's where we got in trouble.
He opened the borders on purpose.
And now we have, you know, we have enemies that no doubt sent people here.
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Yeah.
I know this is probably a day that you had planned to go out and campaign, but I'm assuming this has taken up the majority of your day, considering the level of importance we got to find out if this guy's connected to other terror cell members.
I would assume that investigation is going on.
There's no doubt.
And my office is always available to help us out because there's the federal, you know, FBI, other state agencies are involved, and we're here to help in any way we can.
So yes, we are definitely available and accessible for those investigations.
All right.
We'll be watching Texas very closely tomorrow.
We appreciate your time.
Thank you, Ken Paxton, the AG of the great state of Texas.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, have a great day, and I encourage your people to get out and vote tomorrow.
I hope so.
Now, President Trump, by the way, says that, you know, they were very close to getting this nuclear weapon, far closer than we knew.
Now, after Operation Midnight Hammer, we did discover one thing that we had not known, which does not surprise me because we did obliterate those nuclear facilities, so the enriching part stopped.
What didn't stop was the fact that they had already previously enriched uranium.
But if you remember in the lead up to this, Ali Khamani was out there saber-rattling and showing images of Iranian missiles taking out U.S. ships around the country and trying to scare America out of any type of military action, proclamations made by the Iranian government that Donald Trump will be in a coffin in just months.
The president responded to that yesterday after it was confirmed that we had taken out Ali Khamenei before the Islamic Republic supreme leader was able to assassinate him, apparently telling Jonathan Carl, I got him before he got me.
They tried twice.
He said about previous attempts on his life.
Well, I got him first.
And Trump also claimed Saturday's attack on the regime was so successful, it knocked out most of the candidates who would have been expected to succeed Khamani.
And, you know, it's not going to be anybody that we were thinking because they're all dead, including Ach Medinejad.
How long has it been since we talked about Ach Medenijad, Linda?
It's been a while.
It's too soon.
I can't stand hearing his voice or his name.
Well, he's dead now.
And I would imagine hell is a little bit more crowded these days.
Just my thought.
Now, the three-sentence response that would shut down any critic of Trump's Iran liberation, I really don't have any appetite, desire at all to talk to people that have taken on this conspiratorial tone that this is not an America first, in America's best interest, long-term strategic interest, especially in light of history and the last hundred years.
I'm just, I don't have any patience for it.
And I know they're out there.
I know they're all over social media.
These keyboard warriors in their underwear in their parents' basement or they're naked in their parents' basement.
I don't know what they're doing, but the stuff, Sweet Baby James actually showed me my own ex-account this weekend, Linda.
And I was reading, you know, I put up a post, as you know, to pray for our troops when this all started.
But then you read people, we're doing the bidding of Israel.
No, we're not doing the bidding of Israel.
This is in America's first best interest.
I mean, if you had an opportunity through the prism of history to change anything that the world did in handling Stalin and Russia, Mao or Mussolini or Tojo in Japan or Pol Pot in the killing fields, would you not have learned from this?
We had a regime that led people and chants a death to America.
What part of that did you miss on a regular basis?
And they've been doing it for 40 years, and they were getting so close, as the president described earlier today, they were getting so close to a nuclear weapon.
And when people chant death to your country, death to America, and it's a national motto, and they're getting closer with each passing day to successfully building nuclear weapons along with missiles that would carry them to the U.S. and Europe.
I mean, what do you think Donald Trump was supposed to do?
And do you not think that history, if in fact he did nothing, and in fact these people did achieve their sick, ugly desire and they became a nuclear power and one day use them, who do you think would get the blame for it?
Do you really think that Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamani, had no intention of using these weapons?
I mean, are you that dumb and stupid and naive?
And for those of you that are, I can't help you.
I can't argue with you.
You know, you think they were joking with their Death to America chance?
Do you think their constant threats to assassinate President Trump and dozens of other top U.S. officials?
Do you think this is a game to them?
No, they meant it.
All those thousands of rockets they and their proxies were firing into Israel, culminating on what happened October 7th, which based on Israel's population size versus ours, you know, would be the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in the day.
This intervention this weekend, that was the trajectory we were on.
Without this happening, we were looking at the real possibility of your children, your grandchildren, maybe us in the next couple of years, you know, potentially being wiped out.
And learning from the lessons of history, we decided to act preemptively after giving them every opportunity, including low-grade enriched uranium for civilian use in perpetuity.