Trish Regan celebrates a major U.S. victory in the Middle East, citing over 2,000 strikes and Israel's Operation Lion which neutralized Iranian air defenses and reduced missile capabilities by 86%. She defends President Trump's use of Article II executive power for Operation Epic Fury against CNN bias accusations, arguing intelligence revealed Iran possessed material for 11 nuclear bombs. Regan dismisses diplomatic failures due to Iran's religious extremism and Dr. Zudi Jasser's views on Islam reform, while criticizing Democrats like Timmy Kaine and Jasmine Crockett for election fraud claims and media bias, ultimately framing the conflict as a necessary preemptive strike against nuclear proliferation. [Automatically generated summary]
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Winning Strikes in the Middle East00:09:26
We are winning.
Do not forget that.
Incredibly good news that we're hearing from our side in terms of the Middle East today.
Over 2,000 strikes we've enacted upon the soil of Iran, and those strikes have been extraordinarily successful.
Israel, as well, with Operation Lion, is out in full force.
And guys, you know what?
I don't think.
That you could necessarily expect a better outcome than this this early in the game.
So we've had a new wave of airstrikes and it's a little strange.
I get it to talk about this in terms of winning or losing, but you know what people win or lose wars.
You win or lose this one and and, by the way, it's not just ours to win, it is the world's to win.
We have Germany on our side.
We have NATO on our side.
You know Spain, Uk they're a little flighty, But most of the free world is on our side with this.
And as a result of what we are undertaking at this moment in time, history will be changed forever and for the better.
Welcome to today's show, everyone.
I am Trish Regan.
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All right, we begin today on the victory that is the United States of America right now at this point in time on day five.
We are winning.
This military campaign against Iran is certainly the most sensitive headline in the world right now.
We have a new wave of intense airstrikes that struck Tehran and other Iranian targets throughout the night and into today.
Broad-scale attacks that have effectively made them powerless in terms of fighting back against us.
Their air defenses have been taken down.
That's a big deal, okay?
A really, really big deal.
Today, we want to get into why did this happen?
Now a lot of people are saying like well, why?
I mean, Iran's always been a threat, why would you possibly do something like this now?
We have a lot of information to share with you on that, including some of the things that Steve Wickoff, who was trying to negotiate for some kind of peace deal with them, has shared, and we also um have information that's coming to us via Israeli intelligence as to why this timing was now.
But first I want to go to the success of the mission.
It is very clear that America is seeing tremendous success, Pete Hagg says my former colleague at FOX.
It's kind of funny how one knows all these people.
It's a small world, shall we say.
Pete Hegseth out there today explaining the success of the mission.
Listen to this.
We're playing for keeps.
Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly.
Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it.
This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight.
We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be.
Not a fair fight.
No, not a fair fight.
But you know what?
They knew that getting into this.
It's their fault.
In other words, they had plenty of opportunity to wind down their nuclear program.
They chose not to, and instead were doing the antithesis to that, the absolute antithesis.
They were producing 100-plus ballistic missiles per month, thousands of one-way attack drones.
They were aiming to build this retaliatory shield that would make their nuclear program untouchable.
So we couldn't allow for them to reach that quote unquote point of immunity and thus had to act.
There was an opportunity, a window to act, and the president chose to use that window.
Now, I realize a lot of people in the mainstream media are taking issue with that.
You know, why couldn't we just let bygones be bygones and, you know, continue on as is and allow everybody to have the status quo?
Well, that was not okay by this president.
It was not okay by this administration.
And frankly, it's not okay for the world.
I mean, what are you going to do?
What is your choice here?
You're going to arm Iran?
You think that's a good one.
I got news for you.
It's not.
And before anybody sits there and tells me, oh, the president can't do this, he can't declare war.
He can't do this, that, and the other.
It's like for 80 years, guys, go all the way back to FDR.
We have been doing it this way.
Every single strike.
And we got many of them, right?
It has all happened because the president has used the power of Article II and has used his executive power to be able to inflict these strikes.
Just ask Nancy Pelosi.
Oh, gosh, I watched the tape.
I'm going to have to pull that one for you guys.
She's out there years ago when we were striking in Libya, telling everybody, oh, Obama was perfectly fine to do this.
Yeah.
Well, again.
I reiterate that this is going well.
Thus far, so far, very, very good.
We are ahead.
Thus far, Operation Epic Fury has delivered twice the air power of shock and awe of Iraq in 2003, minus Paul Bremer and the nation building.
The campaign has seven times the intensity of Israel's previous operations against Iran during the 12 day war, seven times.
And as President Trump said, more and larger waves are coming.
We are just Getting started.
We are accelerating, not decelerating.
Iran's capabilities are evaporating by the hour while American strength grows fiercer, smarter, and utterly dominant.
More bombers and more fighters are arriving just today.
And now, with complete control of the skies, we will be using 500 pound, 1,000 pound, and 2,000 pound GPS and laser guided precision gravity bombs, of which we have a nearly Unlimited stockpile.
We used more exquisite standoff munitions at the start, but no longer need to.
Our stockpiles of those, as well as Patriots, remains extremely strong.
The enemy can no longer shoot the volume of missiles they once did, not even close.
And the chairman will lay out some of those percentages.
I want to ask you, Mr. Chairman.
So we can go to General Kane, who actually talks about some of those percentages.
But what's remarkable here is how, you know, the first couple of days you saw Iran fight back with all it had.
And what has been tremendous to see is the reduction in its ability to do so.
So a massive decline, if you would. in the amount of missiles that they're sending back at us.
And that's significant.
In other words, I think that the theater ballistic missiles that were being fired are actually down some 86%, down 23% on top of that within the last 24 hours.
So this is significant.
And General Kane actually laid this out this morning.
I want to bring this to you.
We got lots to talk about.
We got to get into Jazzy, Jazzy Crockett, right?
We got to get into what's going on in Minnesota with the fraudsters because that's quite a hearing and we have some tremendous fireworks.
This is the news of the day, and I really want to spend some time on this so that you understand the state of play.
Let's go right now to General Dan Kane, who was speaking this morning about it.
Watch.
Central Command is making steady progress.
Iran's theater ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of fighting, with a 23% decrease just in the last 24 hours.
And their one way attack drone shots are down 73% from the opening days.
This progress has allowed CENTCOM to establish localized air superiority across the southern flank of the Iranian coast and penetrate their defenses with overwhelming precision and firepower.
We will now begin to expand inland, striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory and creating additional freedom of maneuver for U.S. forces.
That's significant, okay, guys?
So we have basically cleared the way.
Okay, we've cleared the way so that we can now begin going in and tackling them on the ground and getting everything bad out and all the bad guys out.
That's a big deal.
Cat Crazy Sam making a very good point in the chat I just saw about the sort of role that we're playing with China and the signal that we're sending to China, which is one of force.
We've just said to China's little proxy guy there, you know, Ron, hey, we have the ability to take out the top player.
We can take out the guy at all, just like we took out Maduro.
Okay, I get it.
It's a little bit harder than Maduro, and we're going to be there a few more weeks than we were.
Clearing the Way for China00:09:04
You know, Maduro was like a couple hours, right?
Just go in and boom, get them and go.
Well, we're going to be there a little bit longer.
And unfortunately, we have already, we've learned, lost six true American patriot soldiers.
But, but you got to think about the long game.
And if you're president of the United States, this is what he has to tackle.
He got intelligence that suggested they were themselves trying to play for the long game.
And they themselves in Iran were trying to take over the entire Middle East and call all the shots.
And they were doing so with China's backing.
Well, guess what?
China, we just told you, I think you're going to think twice before you try and mess around in Taiwan in the near future, don't you?
Look, there's been tremendous advancement in the last few years in our military capability, our military intelligence, and our military software that enables us to do a lot of the stuff that we're doing today.
I mean, you know, I talk about the markets a lot.
I'm always looking at these companies within the market sector.
You know, I'm a big believer in AI, as scary as it is.
But this is the future, guys.
And so we have to embrace and own the future, not just as investors, but on the international stage.
Okay, on the international stage, the United States, you want a world where the United States is in charge.
A world where the U.S. does not reign supreme is a dangerous, dangerous world.
As for the timing of all of this, I realize a lot of people are, why?
Why now?
Why now?
It's been going on for 47 years.
Why not now?
It's like now or never.
Okay, that's really what it came down to.
I want to go to Marco Rubio on the timing.
He was pretty explicit with some reporters just yesterday.
The president determined we were not going to get hit first.
It's that simple, guys.
We are not going to put Americans' troops in harm's way.
If you tell the president of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president's going to go first.
That's what he did.
That's what the president will always do.
He will always put the safety and security of our men and women in uniform and of all Americans before anything else.
He's always going to do that.
And that's what he did here.
Good.
Like good.
Okay.
That's why we put him there, right?
That's why we elected him.
Because we should certainly hope that in the event Iran was to get a nuclear weapon, we would have an administration that would stop it from happening.
Full stop.
I mean, I don't get it.
All these people are why, Because you know what?
They were going to be able to get the nuclear weapon and they were therefore going to be able to take out the entire world.
You really want to put a nuclear weapon in the hands of the Ayatollah.
I think not.
I repeat, I think not.
And the president echoes this.
Listen, at times I've worried about him being a little too isolationist, full disclosure.
I've had discussions with him in the past off camera.
Like, why, you know, why don't you care about doing more here, there, or whatever?
I remember when we pulled out of Syria and I had a conversation with him on the phone and I'm like, you know, I just don't get it.
Like, why aren't you keeping more troops there?
Keep them there.
We want to make sure that the caliphate never rebuilds.
You can see where I come from.
I'm all about strength.
Yeah, it's important to me.
It's important to me we stay safe.
I want a strong economy and a strong military, okay?
I don't want to have to use it that much, but I really want it to be strong.
And occasionally when it's needed and when we have to use it, we have to be strong enough and thoughtful enough and willing enough to be able to make these hard calls.
So I remember asking him and he said, listen, Trish, you try being the one to look these parents in the eye and say, I'm sorry.
Your son has died, and it's for the sake of the world.
It's for the sake of our country.
It's for the sake of America.
I do not want to risk one American boy or girl in any kind of endless, who knows what war to nowhere.
They've been fighting for thousands of years.
I'll never remember.
This is a direct quote.
And they're going to fight for thousands more.
Not our problem.
That's fundamentally how he feels, okay, guys?
So before you sit there and say, oh, he shouldn't have done this, he shouldn't have done this, and he's dragging us into something, I'm going to remind you this is fundamentally how this man feels.
And so when he gets dragged into something, he doesn't go that willingly.
He goes because he has to, because it's in the best interest of keeping every boy and girl in America safe.
And this is what the mainstream media just doesn't want to believe.
Look at CNN, for example, going after my friend Scott Jennings here.
He's such a good sport, right?
Imagine having to go on that show every single night and deal with these eight little maniacs around the table and he just takes them on.
It's like watching WWF or something.
I'm like, woo, pow.
Anyway, Scott gets on this show and he's got the anchor who's like, I don't understand.
I don't understand.
Like, why are we doing it now?
And like, can't we just allow them to, she effectively says like she's perfectly fine with them going after our embassies.
They've done it before.
And they're going to continue to do it again.
And it's like Jennings is like, hello, people.
I'm in some kind of twilight zone.
Yeah.
He is.
It's CNN.
He's been talking to the press.
He has not suggested that there was an imminent threat.
He absolutely has said that there's an imminent threat of them having ballistic missiles that they were A, possibly planning to shoot at U.S. military installations, B, and in the short and medium term, continuing to manufacture ballistic missiles that would allow them to shield a nuclear program that they would not give up.
This is a pretty clear rationale.
Let me play.
The bottom line is.
They don't want them to have ballistic missiles.
They don't want them to have a nuclear program.
They don't like that their Navy makes trouble for everybody in the Gulf.
And that is the stated rationale.
You could throw on other things.
For the last 47 years, they have killed American troops.
They've maimed American personnel.
They've exported and funded terror around the world and around the region.
And you seem to be suggesting we have no allies in this.
I watched the president with the chancellor of Germany today.
He strongly supports what we're doing.
The U.K. is feckless.
Spain is feckless.
But we have plenty of allies in the region and around the world who know we have done the right thing.
So, to be clear, I just want to just reiterate.
You just listed a bunch of things.
None of them were an imminent attack.
But Rita's question is actually about.
Ballistic missiles, Abby.
Drones.
These are imminent attack weapons.
What proof is there that there were ballistic missiles, that they actually had ballistic missiles that could reach the United States?
Reach U.S. bases.
Look at your television.
They're falling right now.
Iran has been attacking through their proxies U.S. military bases for some time now, okay?
You want to keep that going?
The argument that the administration may be making sometimes.
Is that they might have had capabilities to attack the United States.
What about that is imminent?
Are you all arguing that they are not, were not prepared and are not currently firing missiles and drones into things that are still safe?
It's not that.
I mean, everybody understands the threat of Iran.
It's been there, to quote Tom Cotton, for 47 years.
The question is, what changed in the last 30 years?
We got a president that had the ball rolling.
What changed in the last 30 years?
What changed?
Okay, so Abby has not seen the intelligence that the President of the United States saw, of course, but she's still willing to clearly make her own presumptions about things.
As CNN is, in general, you can believe the fireworks that just went down in today's press conference moments ago.
I'm going to get to that in a second.
I got to share with you.
But first, I want you to know the intelligence that at least they're now willing to share with us, okay?
So let's go to something that Abby apparently was not aware of.
Steve Wyckoff, who had been working with Jared Kushner to do these negotiations, et cetera, to try and get Iran to give up its nuclear program, basically laid it all out when he said he went into the meeting and the Iranians started it like this.
In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly, with no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%, and they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs.
And that was the beginning of their negotiating stance.
So that's, they were proud of it.
They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.
You see that?
Okay, so this is what you're up against, okay?
So maybe Abby doesn't really understand that.
Maybe the left doesn't really care.
I get it.
They have TDS.
So anything they can say and use against Donald Trump, they're going to continue to use.
By the way, I want to just point out that the Iranians have since backed that up and said, yeah.
We do have that much.
And oh, we weren't bragging.
We were just telling them we had that much.
Okay, guys, you got that much.
President Bad and Media Defiance00:04:14
Whoop-de-doo.
Well, guess what?
That's a problem.
You were told not to do that.
And yet you're continuing to defy us.
And I'm sorry, but we can't allow you to have it.
Period.
Full stop.
End of story.
You ought to know that.
You want to come and be part of the major global economy that, I'm sorry, we still control?
Or you're going to have to play by our rules.
Yeah, that's just the way it is.
I know.
I know it sucks.
You know what?
We're all lucky we were born here and not in Iran.
But it's just the way it is.
And if Ron were smart.
If Iran were smart, it would actually recognize that it needs to listen to the big kid in charge.
We are the principal, effectively, okay?
We are the principal and we'll let you do great.
You know, you can be on all the sports teams, but you're going to have to play by the rules.
And these are the rules and we're laying them out and they continue to disobey.
So I don't know.
What are you going to do with that?
I want to go, however, to the CNN getting beaten up by one Caroline Levitt.
Caroline Levitt has had it with the media because she's probably looking at it like I am, like you people, you know, you're a bunch of fools.
You seem to think it would be great to just roll over and play dead and allow for people to strike us.
To strike.
You know, completely redefine the Middle East as they want to see it.
The next thing, you know, everybody's going to be wearing a hijab because well, that's what, that's what Sharia law would allow for, right?
You want Sharia law all through the Middle East and possibly the United States Of America?
I think not.
And yet these idiot reporters out there, they just keep saying, well, why?
The answer is because we had intelligence that suggested they were an imminent threat to us.
Period, full stop.
Let's go to Caroline Levitch's beating up on the CNN correspondent because again, Feeling that CNN is hardly anything but fair.
Watch.
Hexap was complaining that it was front page news about these six service members who were killed.
That's not what the secretary said, Caitlin, and that's not what the secretary meant, and you know it.
You know you are being disingenuous.
There is not, we've never had a secretary of defense.
Who cares more?
Times get through where tragic things happen.
It's front page news.
I get it.
The press only wants to make the president look bad.
Yes, you know we can't get deaths of U.S. service members under every president.
The press does only want to make the president look bad.
That's a fact, especially you.
No, listen to me.
Especially you and especially CNN.
And the Secretary of Defense cares deeply about our war fighters and our men and women in uniform.
He travels all across this country to meet with them, to connect with them, and your network has hardly ever probably reported on that.
You also had the Chairman of the Joint Peace Chiefs, Chairman Kaine, who's a brave patriot, standing alongside the Secretary at the Pentagon this morning, again expressing his condolences to these families.
And I just told you that the President of the United States will be attending their dignified transfer.
So please.
So please.
That's not making the president look bad.
That's showcasing that.
We expect you to cover that as you should.
We expect you to cover that as you should, Caitlin.
But you and your network know that you take every single thing this administration says and tries to use it to make the president look bad.
That is an objectible fact.
I don't think covering troop deaths is trying to make the president look bad.
If you're trying to argue right now that CNN's overwhelming coverage is not negative of President Donald Trump, I think the American people would tend to agree.
And your ratings would tend to disagree with that as well.
Right?
I mean, is she right or is she right?
What do you think?
I mean, Carolina, I'm proud of her today.
She always does a great job, but at some point it just gets a little silly.
I mean, did you see the way they eulogized him in the Washington Post, the Anatolia?
He was avuncular.
He had a great laugh.
This, that, and the other.
I mean, it's sort of unbelievable.
It's like, guys, he was a terrorist who killed thousands of people, including just recently in the last.
A couple of weeks, some 35,000 protesters.
And you're celebrating him like he's some kind of hero.
Like, what's wrong with this world that I'm living in?
Really?
I mean, Pete Hex said, talking about the media as well, the media that just can't stand Trump and they're like willing to just roll over and play dead and allow themselves to get taken over by Iran if need be.
Regime Change and Scared Extremism00:15:51
We've taken control of Iran's airspace and waterways without boots on the ground.
We control their fate.
But when a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it's front page news.
I get it.
The press only wants to make the president look bad, but try for once to report the reality.
The terms of this war will be set by us at every step.
As I said Monday, the mission is laser focused obliterate Iran's missiles and drones and facilities that produce them, annihilate its Navy and critical security infrastructure, and sever their pathway to nuclear weapons.
Iran will never possess a nuclear bomb.
Not on our watch, not ever.
And this is why President Trump's moral clarity on Iran today is so vital.
Unlike the past, where vague red lines and endless negotiations let Iran fund terror and inch ever so slightly toward a bomb, this president sees the threat plainly and acts decisively.
No more.
I mean, you kind of have to, right?
When the threat's right there in front of you, and you can't just sit there and say, well, maybe I'll give you 56 million billion, forgive me, more.
Okay?
Or how about.
Biden with his $6 billion.
And what do we see?
October 7th, days later.
In other words, you cannot satisfy these people.
It's in part because of their extremism.
The extremism is not going to change.
So you have no choice but to take out the extremists.
And right now, we're looking to do that.
We're looking for the help of the Kurds.
It's my understanding that we are speaking with them.
They've been very helpful, for example, in Syria in the past.
The Kurds, remember, are the people without a land.
There are a multitude of different religious factions.
But what binds them together is their ethnic similarity.
And they're there, they border Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
And so they love a country of their own.
It's hard because, you know, Turkey's a member of NATO and Turkey's not so psyched about this.
And then you get Syria and Iran and Iraq to deal with.
And of course, all of these countries want their pound of flesh because the Kurds happen to be sitting on some very, very important oil fields.
So that's a hard one.
But they've been very helpful to us in the past.
And the expectation is they probably will be very helpful.
To us again in terms of ground intelligence and warfare, because they've had to protect their different factions as they exist in each of these countries there within the mountains, on the outskirts, so they will be valuable.
Of course, Israel has been enormously valuable to us throughout this, so much so that the mainstream media is actually accusing us of trying to do Israel's bidding.
I mean, there's a whole conspiracy thing going on out there, of course, of course, and it's, you know, pushed by our enemies.
Just listen to Rashid Tlaib's mosque there in Dearborn, Michigan.
I don't know if she goes to the mosque, but it's in her district.
And they were going on and on about Jews and Americans and Satan worshipers that they think we all are, okay?
And they were praising the Ayatollah.
These are people that are here in America.
I'm like, you know, you might want to leave.
Hey, you know, if you really feel that strongly, if we are Satan, then why don't you just go back home?
Because we don't really, in that case, need you hating upon all of us while you are living.
In the wonderful United States of America, by the way, on our 250th anniversary year.
You're welcome to have your own opinion, okay?
And I realize that not everybody agrees with everything, and that's fine.
But, you know, when you come here and you start calling us Satan and you think that we have to live by your way of life and you're going to suppress every independent thought we might have, including, you know, the ability of a woman to show her hair, I'm sorry, you lost me.
You lost me big time.
And any.
Buddy who says that they care about women's rights and then says they're gonna, they're gonna stand up for that.
I mean wow, you're just frankly, you know, really bonkers.
But this issue of Israel, etc.
Look, Israel is a tremendous ally of ours.
We helped create Israel.
We rely on Israel.
Yes, okay.
So Marco Rubio is out saying, listen, Israel presented us with an opportunity.
You think we're not going to take that opportunity?
We're going to take it.
This threat from Iran, they are hiding behind these missiles and hiding behind these drones.
They wanted to reach a point where you couldn't touch them and then they could do whatever the hell they wanted with their nuclear program.
And there is no way in the world that this terroristic regime was going to get nuclear weapons, not under Donald Trump's watchdog.
So the U.S. attack, that's what it is.
It has nothing to do with Israel.
It has nothing to do with this operation.
There's a general question of why the president gave the green light.
And then there's a question of why did it have to happen this weekend?
Are you saying it had to happen this weekend because of that Israeli action?
No, this weekend presented a unique opportunity to take joint action against this threat.
And I've just, we wanted this to have maximum success.
We want this operation to be successful at achieving its objectives.
I'll repeat the objectives.
The president laid them out yesterday.
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
It cannot have, and therefore it cannot have the things it was hiding behind to have a nuclear weapons program.
What are those things?
Number one, we are going to destroy their missiles and their missile launchers.
We are going to destroy their capability to make these missiles and these launchers.
And we are going to destroy their Navy.
Those are the objectives.
And this weekend, acting at this time, gave us the highest.
Probability of success in achieving those objectives, and as the Department of War will brief you, we are on or ahead of schedule to do that.
The U.S. attack would have happened no matter what.
Would the U.S. attack have happened no matter what Israel was planning to do?
The President had already made a decision to act on the timing.
The President acted on the timing that gave us the highest chance of success, and that's what you're seeing play out right now.
You're seeing it play out right now, and you'll see it in the days to come.
We will systematically take apart their missile program.
We will destroy their ability to sponsor terrorism, by the way.
We will destroy their fact.
We will destroy their Navy.
Those objectives are going to be met.
We're well on our way to meeting them.
It will not be easy.
There will be a price to pay for it, but that is a much lower price to pay than having a nuclear-armed Iran.
I would say, I mean, what kind of upside-down world are we living in?
And the mainstream media thinks, and the lefties, I get it, you know, they just hate Trump so much.
And you get a bunch of little influencers out there doing the same darn thing.
They seem to be wanting Iran to have nuclear capability.
Like, that makes any sense.
Again, it's kind of a weird world where, you know, somehow that's considered a good thing.
We want to give them that opportunity.
No, we don't.
We want to do everything we possibly can to prevent that, to prevent that big time.
But you know, listen, I mean, you've got the left out for blood, whether it's the ladies on the view, whether it's some former colleagues of mine, whether, you know, all going into Influence City, or whether it's these representatives on the left from Rashida Tlaib to Ilhan Omar to, oh, even the guy in Massachusetts, Sethy Babe. Moulton, represented from Massachusetts.
Listen to this winner.
This isn't a war for America.
This is Trump's war for Trump.
And every service member deserves a commander in chief who gives a damn about them, not just himself.
Okay.
What would be in it for Trump?
Let's just indulge him for a moment.
What would be in it for Trump?
Joy Behar on The View yesterday saying, maybe this was just a dog and pony show to distract from other stuff.
Why?
How is this ever helpful?
Look, I'll tell you, I've looked at the polls and Americans are divided on this.
People get scared.
They shouldn't be scared, by the way.
Just look at the markets.
That'll tell you you don't need to be that scared.
But people are scared, okay?
So they're scared.
That's never a good thing politically.
This is not scoring him brownie points, but he's not worried about his brownie points and his polls right now.
He's playing the long game.
He's swinging for the fences because he actually wants to keep America safe and his promise to keep America safe.
So he is doing what a president does in a situation like this.
And all the left can do is bicker about it and say, ah, he's going in for this endless war and this, that, and the other.
It's his war and blah, blah, blah.
We got the guy who ran for vice president.
I keep confusing him with timmy Walsh, who by the way is in big trouble, I guess I have to that because he's on Capitol Hill just getting crucified by the likes of the House Oversight Committee today because he looked the other way on all that fraud.
But the Timmy Walsh guy who I confused with Timmy Kane because gosh darn it, like they're dead ringers for each other.
I'm sorry.
Then they're both named Timmy.
And they both were vice presidential candidates for a strong woman, one for Kamala and one for Hillary.
Anyway, remember this guy, Timmy Kane?
He's trying to make something out of this that he shouldn't.
Have we learned nothing from 25 years of war in the Middle East?
Apparently, Donald Trump hasn't.
I am pressing my Senate colleagues on a motion of mine to vote on whether we ought to be at war with Iran.
I think it's a bad idea.
I think the president is waging an illegal war.
Just as importantly, it's an unwise war, putting our sons and daughters' lives at risk for no clear reason.
And I'm going to do everything I can to stop them.
And the first step in that is a war powers resolution to basically say simply no war against Iran without a vote of Congress.
I believe I'll have virtually every Democrat supporting.
Because the Democrats, whatever they think about Iran, and that nobody mourns the loss of the Ayatollah, nobody challenges that Iran commits a lot of bad actions within its own country and certainly in its region.
But should we send our sons and daughters into war against Iran when there are other options like sanctions, diplomacy, et cetera?
I'm encouraging Republicans to vote for it as well.
And I'm asking them the question of whether we've learned anything after 25 years of war in the Middle East, losing tens of thousands of lives, multiple scores of that.
Injured, hundreds of thousands of civilian injuries, trillions of dollars spent.
So stay tuned.
It's a very important vote.
Okay, Timmy Kaine.
Thanks for that, buddy.
You know, for what it's worth, I just want to remind you what your own candidate at the top of your own ticket was saying back in 2008 about Iran.
And I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran.
Whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons program in the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel.
We would be able to totally obliterate them.
That's a terrible thing to say, but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish, and tragic.
Okay, so I just want to remind everybody of that.
One of you guys was just saying, hey, apparently it was not against the law when Barack Obama decided to use any kind of weapons against Libya.
No, of course not.
No, Nancy Pelosi sat there and told us with a straight face, totally possible.
Well, it was actually totally possible.
You see, you can go back 80 years and presidents have done this over and over and over again because that's not really the way it works.
Why would it work that way?
Think about it.
Why would you give 500 and some odd members of Congress, some of whom don't really seem to be playing for the home team, Rashida?
Ilhan, I'm looking at you.
Yeah, not playing for the home team.
Why am I going to give them any kind of heads up on anything?
Think about that.
Because you're only going to jeopardize then U.S. forces.
You're only going to be running all kinds of risks that you do not need to run by giving them any kind of anything.
And yet this is the nonsense we're having to deal with, whether it's from the little guy molten in Massachusetts or the other little Timmy that once ran for vice president.
That doesn't seem to remember what his own party and his own top of his candidate, top of his ticket candidate was saying, or, you know, again, this lady, this little one on The View.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
Finish your sentence.
I was just going to say, you know, the bottom line is that this is an illegal war.
This is an unconstitutional war.
Only Congress can wage war and declare war.
And so that's the first thing.
I think we have to call a thing a thing.
So this is an illegal war.
This is a presidential war.
I will also say, I think what Anna was about to say, did the regime really change?
No.
At this point, Donald Trump has come out and said, I had some choices for who would lead, but they are dead now, too.
And so now you have people that are in Iran picking their own people.
So you don't have a regime change, just like you don't have a regime change in Venezuela.
Also, what I'll say is it's very easy to start a war, right, without a plan.
It's very difficult to end a war.
We've seen in Russia invading Ukraine, thinking that it was going to be over.
Russians are either maimed or killed.
No, 1.2 million Russians maimed or killed.
We've got 600,000 Ukrainians maimed or killed.
That war is not over.
I thought this was going to be the president of peace.
I thought this president wanted to win a Nobel Peace Prize for peace.
Is she hanging out with Tucker?
Listen, this president wants peace through strength.
I'm going to tell you that again.
He wants peace through strength.
And if you roll over and play dead and you allow the Iranians to run.
all over us and to continue to work to elevate their nuclear weapons program.
What are you going to do then?
to fire off a nuclear weapon, what are you going to do then is our understanding that they were very, very close.
We took one operation, right, and tried to get what we could.
And then they doubled down and did some more.
So we had to go in for the big kahuna.
And that's what we did.
And now you want to sit there and pretend like, oh, we shouldn't be doing this and we're not getting regime change anyway.
I don't think anybody cares about regime change.
You know that?
Let me repeat.
No one cares about regime change.
We don't really care.
What I tell you earlier about Donald Trump saying they're going to fight for thousands more years in the sand together, let them fight.
as long as they don't have weapons that can kill us.
Okay, that's the distinction.
So this is America first, you see, because we're protecting America and America's interests while simultaneously saying, you guys want to fight?
You can fight all you want, okay?
Sure, we'd like a regime change.
We'd welcome a regime change.
And if you guys decide to keep on with the same old regime, by the way, they put the son of the Ayatollah in there, well, then fine, go for it.
But if you continue your aspirations to become a nuclear superpower, well, we are going to stop that.
Every chance we get, at least so long as the Republicans are in charge, so long as Donald Trump is in charge, and I would hope so long as the Democrats are in charge.
You know, this doesn't need to be a partisan issue.
This is like life or death, okay?
Do you want to live or do you want to die?
Do you want to live under a world in which we have to deal with a nuclear Iran?
Or do you want the peace of the world guaranteed for the future because you have taken out the threat of this horrific, horrific enemy?
I think the answer is pretty darn easy.
Using Bases and Cutting Trade00:10:25
Meanwhile, the president saying just yesterday that he was going to cut off all trade with Spain.
Because you see, Spain decided to play like the youngest child.
Spain decided to get all, you know, temper tantrum-y like.
And Spain came out and said, well, we're not going to allow you.
They volunteered this.
We never even asked to use their bases.
We're not going to allow you to use any of our bases.
And it's like, well, first of all, we never asked.
Second of all, if we want to use the bases.
Let's just say, you know what, guys?
We're going to use the bases because that's kind of how it works.
You know, we have the ability through various treaties and just once again, I mean, I hate to be like so, you know, rah-rah USA and we are the all-mighty and powerful, but I'm sorry we are.
And when you're top dog, if you don't use it, you know, and you just try and play nice and you just worry about DEI nonsense, well, that's what landed you in this kind of trouble in the first place.
Anyway, Spain decided to be like the naughty, bratty.
Three-year-old.
And Donald Trump put him in its place.
Of the European, like Spain, has been terrible.
In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain.
Spain, first of all, it started when every European nation, at my request, paid 5%, which they should be doing.
And everybody was enthusiastic about it Germany, everybody.
And Spain didn't do it.
And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases.
And that's our little enemy.
We could use their base if we want.
We could just fly in and use it.
Nobody's going to tell us not to use it.
But we don't have to.
But they were unfriendly.
And so I told him, we don't want to.
Spain has absolutely nothing that we need other than great people.
They have great people.
But they don't have great leadership.
And as you know, they were the only country that in NATO would not agree to go up to 5%.
I don't think they would have agreed to go up to anything.
They wanted to keep it at 2%, and they don't pay the 2%.
So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain.
We don't want anything to do with Spain.
Anyway.
He set Spain straight pretty fast, didn't he?
I want you to hear what Caroline Levitt had to say about Spain in today's press conference.
Moments ago, let's go to it.
Because Spain is a member of the EU, does that at all put a wrinkle in the president's plan for a trade embargo with them?
With respect to Spain, I think they heard the president's message yesterday loud and clear.
And it's my understanding over the past several hours, they've agreed to cooperate with the U.S. military.
And so I know that.
The U.S. military is coordinating with their counterparts in Spain.
But the president expects all of our European allies, of course, to cooperate in this long sought after mission, not just for the United States, but also for Europe, to crush the rogue Iranian regime that, again, not only threatens America, but also threatens our European allies as well.
Yeah.
So that was quick.
It's like, oh, Spain suddenly realized, gee, you know, nobody's going to buy that manchego cheese anymore, right?
I'm trying to think, like, what do we get from Spain?
I mean, really, considering France is smaller than California's economy, I'm guessing Spain's really pretty far down low on the list.
Germany's economy actually matters.
And Germany came out.
fully in support of this, by the way, as did the entire NATO organization.
You had the head of NATO, one, thanking the president for this, and then two, saying, look, we were really close to seeing them be able to have a nuclear weapon, and we can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
And fortunately, we have the technology, I mean, the intelligence to be able to do something about it.
I repeat, this is not a president that's going looking for war, okay?
It's just not his way.
It's not his style.
He doesn't want that.
But he also wants to make sure that we're not down on our knees begging for anything.
Just consider what he was saying all the way back in 1980.
I mean, you can go back in time.
There's nothing else.
You know, we certainly have gotten ourselves a president who is consistent, consistent over the decades.
I want to go back in the archives.
Ladies and gentlemen, 1980, Donald J. Trump watch.
When you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do, and you can create the right attitudes.
The Iranian situation is a case in point.
That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous.
That this country sits back and allows country such as Iran to hold our hostages to my way of thinking, is a horror, and I don't think they'd do it with other countries.
I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries.
Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, etc.
And brought our boys out.
I absolutely feel that.
Yes, I don't think there's any question and there's no question in my mind.
I think right now would be an oil rich nation and I believe that we should have done it and I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it.
And I don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance.
I don't think anybody would have been angry with us.
And we had every right to do it at the time.
I think we've lost the opportunity.
I was playing that for you because I just sort of want to point out again that there's consistency here.
A lot of consistency.
I mean, he really has not deviated.
He hasn't deviated.
And he told us, by the way, on the campaign trail, you know, my favorite soundbite.
When they said, What are you going to do about Iran?
He said, I'm going to bomb the you know what out of them.
Yeah.
I mean, he's been very consistent.
I will sort of qualify that by saying, I don't think he would have taken this opportunity to do that if for some reason they said, hey, we're going to play ball.
We're going to be your friend.
We're going to stop our nuclear ambitions.
But that's not what they did at all.
All right.
That's not what they did at all.
I played you the soundbite from Steve Witkoff, who was working with them to find some kind of diplomatic solution.
Same with Jared Kushner.
They couldn't get to first base with these guys because these guys could only talk about how much arsenal they had and how it was 60% developed, 60% developed.
So they were very close along.
And then the funny thing is.
They think that somehow it was misinterpreted that they were bragging, and they want you to know they weren't bragging.
They really had this stuff.
Let's go to this the Iranian foreign minister telling MSNBC this little nugget right here today.
So we were not bragging.
We were just saying that this is the results of our scientific achievements, but we are ready to get rid of this, provided that we will get something good in return.
Well, you guys just don't know how to negotiate, I guess.
Hey, thank you, Michael Russell.
And thank you, Cat Crazy Salmon.
Oh my goodness, Leslie Crimble.
That's very generous of you.
Thank you so much.
You know we're getting to Jasmine Crockett.
How could I do a whole show without talking about Jasmine Crockett?
Leslie saying in the chat that we got to talk about how she got beaten by that Dem.
But you know what?
He's a total nut.
He's a total nut.
Wait till you see what he was saying about the border.
I am going to get to that, Leslie.
Thank you again for the generosity.
It is much appreciated.
I don't know why we don't have more people tuning in.
We got to spread the word, right, guys?
We're already up to 1.2 million subs here on the Trish Regan channel.
We're growing every single day, like nearing 20.
It's a tiny little channel over on Spotify.
So please do what you can there to promote the Spotify channel as well.
And maybe even, gosh, let me put that into the show notes.
If I find that link, I'll include that so that you guys can also watch on Spotify.
It's not live.
It's not live.
It goes up shortly thereafter.
But I'd sure appreciate your help.
It's all free, of course.
So do what you can to spread the word on Spotify as well.
And you got to give me a minute because I do have to find that.
But we move on and I will do that momentarily as that becomes available.
I do at least want to get to a little bit more here on Iran and then we can tackle Jazzy Babe, Jazzy Babe, who's out of the market, shall we say.
I just think that the Iranian foreign minister going in there and leading with, well, we got this much uranium and we're at 60%.
Like, you moron.
I'm sorry.
That is not the way you negotiate.
Okay.
It's just not like.
By the way, you guys didn't have any negotiation.
Let's be perfectly honest.
I mean, I hate to be mean, but there was nothing.
There was no opportunity.
Zip zero, zilch, nada, okay?
Pick your language.
I'm sorry, I don't speak Persian, but there was no chance that you were going to be able to really negotiate here other than to say, we're getting rid of everything.
We will never touch this stuff again.
We will never even dream about it again.
We would like to join the world economy, and we are going to let our nutty religious nonsense go bye bye.
But you see, they can't because if you look at their nutty religious nonsense, and this was sent to me in a note by somebody today who speaks Arabic Arabic and who ran the translation for me.
And I'm going to share with you what he was saying.
I mean, it's bad.
Like, in other words, their religion is all about, you know, killing the infidel and doing so with a certain amount of glee and promoting the religion there at the sword.
And I don't think that you're ever going to be able to work with people diplomatically or economically when that is what they're about.
Would you agree?
I mean, it's just, I'm sorry, you know, you lost me.
You lost me big time.
But this is the problem, frankly, with Islam as a whole.
And it's why some people, Zudi Jasser, he's actually Dr. Zudi Jasser, I've had on the show over the years, and he's wonderful because he's all about reforming Islam.
He feels that it's incredibly important to actually reform Islam because of all of its hate and its constant echoing of sort of, you know, death to the infidel.
It's really a tough thing to see.
Cheating Means a Better Country00:03:00
We can go through the translation a little bit later, but you know the drill, right?
It's bad, bad, bad stuff.
And it saddens me that, you know, there are people in the world like this, but I'm a realist, like Trump, okay?
I'm a realist.
I don't want to fight.
Do you want to fight?
Nobody wants to fight.
No one.
But if it's kill or be killed, you know, you're really not leaving us with much of an opportunity.
We've been very generous, we've given you multiple chances, and yet you still stand there.
With a straight face and brag.
Oh, you say you're not bragging.
You tell us.
Okay, forget about the bragging.
You tell us.
You get all this uranium that you've enriched to 60% capacity.
For goodness sakes, not happening.
Not happening.
All right.
Jazzy, this is pretty funny.
I got to say, bye bye.
Bye bye, Jasmine Crockett.
I'm going to miss you.
I really am.
I'm going to miss you because, you know, I think if nothing else, she was good for ratings.
It's better for the country this way, though.
Much better for the country and certainly better for Leslie down there in Texas that she doesn't have to worry about a potential senator named Jasmine Crockett.
Jasmine Crockett, who, by the way, is crazy enough that she gets out there last night and she starts saying, oh, gosh darn it, I thought you weren't supposed to talk about this.
That maybe the election was stolen from her, that people were cheating?
That's her allegation because she just can't understand how she couldn't have possibly won.
Oh, no, you know, she was Texas' golden girl.
Not.
We encourage each and every one of you to remain resilient.
We cannot allow this type of behavior to be rewarded because so long as they know that they can win, even if it means cheating, then they will continue to do it.
So I am asking you, I am begging you to make sure that you go ahead and figure out where it is that you are supposed to vote, stand in line, wait in line.
Even if it means cheating?
What's that about?
I thought that you weren't supposed to say things like that.
Or is that just if you're Donald Trump?
I mean, if you're jazzy, you can say it all day long.
Oh, if you're Stacey Abrams down in Georgia, you never even have to concede.
You can pretend like you actually won the governorship.
And then the New York Times will do a giant Sunday magazine spread on you.
It happened where they just talk about your dating life.
Gosh, I didn't want to know about that.
I really didn't want to know about that.
That's what happens.
That's the difference between being a Democrat or being a Republican, given the media bias that we know is so rampant.
So, so rampant.
But anyway, yeah, Jazzy is out.
And, you know, it's no surprise.
I often wonder if the real Jazzy would please stand up because she's got more accents than Hillary Clinton.