President Trump revokes 4,000 Iranian elite visas and suspends infrastructure attacks following Pakistan's two-week ceasefire extension. While Israel destroys 90% of Iran's oil exports, the host criticizes NATO allies for spending only 1% on defense, threatening to withdraw 75,000 to 100,000 troops from Europe if obligations aren't met. The episode also exposes alleged fraud by Ilhan Omar and Gavin Newsom, contrasts historical tariff prosperity with current deficits, and warns that without reform, America risks becoming like France while China rises. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hypocrisy of Iranian Elites00:15:14
The countdown is on.
There's a lot on the line at this moment in the time with the president promising to destroy a civilization.
Yes, you caught that?
Destroy a civilization.
Pakistan pleading for a two-week extension on this negotiation.
Iran reportedly coming to the table desperate to negotiate at this point in time as we are just moments away from D-Day, so to speak.
Europe terrified.
Standing by the sidelines at this moment, incapable of meeting its NATO requirements, incapable seemingly of doing just about anything, we are seeing the real-time effects of incompetency, total hypocrisy, and the dangers of appeasement.
We've seen this before, right?
World War II, the dangers of appeasement are significant and have lasting consequences, and somebody has to step up to the plate.
It's usually us.
And it's going to be us again.
The United States and the Trump administration will not be fooled by Iran, will not be forced to do nothing by the likes of Europe.
We are cracking down on all of this hypocrisy and appeasement in real time, beginning with Iran.
Now, for years, the Iranian regime was allowed to continue as it did, over and over and over again, getting bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger, working to grow that nuclear arsenal.
And grow it, they did.
With the help of our money, I might add, thank you, Barack Obama.
Thank you, Joe Biden.
So they grew its nuclear arsenal.
These jokers just kept doing it and doing it and saying they were doing something else.
And it was all about appeasement.
We could have taken them out years ago when we should have.
So here we are now at the 11th hour with the world on edge as these zealots continue to enrich their uranium at every chance they can get, all trying to hurt their foes in the meantime.
Consider October 7th.
That didn't happen in a vacuum.
All those Hamas, Hezbollah, you name it, all the Al-Shabaab, you know, the one that some allege may have gotten some money from Minnesota, all of these organizations are sponsors of terrorism and who backs them at the end of the day?
Iran.
They get more money from Iran than anywhere else in the world other than perhaps Minnesota.
I'm not kidding.
And by the way, the DOJ is cracking down on that.
We will have more on that in this show today.
But I'll tell you, enough is enough.
Iran sent its elites, its own family members related to the regime that's oppressing everybody right here to the US of A. Think about that for a second.
We get the two nieces of Soleimani getting booted out of the country by the likes of Marco Rubio.
And guess what, ladies and gentlemen?
There are 3,000 to 4,000 more.
I'm not talking about Iranians that come here for a better chance.
I'm talking about Iranians that are related to the very people that are engaging in this horrific repression.
I'm talking about the Iranians who are filled with hypocrisy, right?
They come here and they flaunt their fancy outfits, these two nieces anyway, all while the women at home. cannot live freely, cannot dress freely, are first forced to cover up with the burqas.
And, you know, it's a complete sort of antithesis, right?
I mean, this is the land of the great Satan, so to speak, if you listen to these people.
And yet this is where they come to study.
This is where they come to live.
And we give them green cards.
Why are we giving them green cards?
Why are we giving them visas?
Why are we allowing this?
That hypocrisy, that contradiction, both with them in their lifestyle and us and our willingness to just, you know, allow them to be here, that appeasement that's going to end and it is ending and this is what Marco Rubio has announced.
It doesn't stop there.
Meanwhile, you've got the hypocrisy escalating, to the likes of Europe, European governments, claiming, oh, we don't have any money, we can't pay for NATO.
No way we, we can't fund it, we just don't have the budget.
Think about what's going on at the un, same kind of similar scenario there right, Nobody wants to pay for their obligations.
And yet, in many cases, certainly when it comes to the Europeans, they are spending massive amounts of their budget on social welfare programs, social welfare programs to help all of the migrants that are fleeing these areas like the worst parts of the Middle East and the worst parts of Africa.
And they're bringing their culture there to Europe.
And let's just say the integration is not going so well.
And let's just say this, they're still on social welfare.
years after they arrive.
So you got to ask yourself, how's that working out?
All while NATO says, well, we don't have any money to give to you.
No, you're too busy giving it to every Tom, Dick, and Harry.
Muhammad and Muhammad and Muhammad that comes in.
Ahmed, let me not forget Ahmed, you know.
Ilhan was married to two Ahmeds that comes in the door.
So that's not working out.
It's not working out for them.
It's not working out for us.
Those systems are under a tremendous amount of strain.
And now you have the native.
Europeans sort of waking up to this, saying, Woo, woo, what is, wait a second, what's going on?
just like Americans are waking up to what's going on here.
The Manhattan Institute's Chris Ruffo has estimated $180 billion is just gone from California.
Every bad group you can imagine was doing business in some way, shape, or form with the government in California.
You know why?
Nobody was mining the store.
Same old story out in Minnesota.
So we got more promises.
We got more spending.
We got no accountability.
We got nothing getting fixed.
And the United States has had it.
Like some Europeans have had it.
We don't want to be Europe.
The Department of Justice today is bringing forward charges.
We'll talk about those Todd Blanch to the tune of millions of dollars.
People pleading guilty to all of this fraud.
And analysts are warning that this health care fraud is just on such a massive scale there in California.
You've got JD Vance at the White House and his entire task force looking at all of this fraud.
We're talking about a lot of money, okay guys?
A lot of money.
And it's all kind of wrapped up in one.
All this fraud, all this money spent, similar to what we're seeing over in Europe with all this money spent on social programs, social programs that really do nothing.
I mean, they definitely do nothing in here, all at the same time while there's another kind of social welfare going on with the likes of Iran.
We gave them billions of dollars.
Over the years, including as recently as right before October 7th, when the NSC director thought that he had somehow solved the challenges of the Middle East.
And then, of course, October 7th happens.
You see, you cannot appease.
You cannot give.
You cannot allow a nuclear Iran.
And so right now, we are on the verge of something massive.
The president has a decision to make.
The Iranians are begging to negotiate.
Do we trust them?
They've lied to us over and over and over again.
People have appeased them and appeased them and appeased them.
At least, if nothing else, for goodness sakes, we're in the driver's seat at this moment.
We're not appeasing anyone.
They will be lucky to exist tomorrow.
Pakistan begging for a two-week extension, urging Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz as a sign of good faith.
Do not forget, Pakistan needs its oil.
China needs its oil.
None of this is done in a vacuum.
The question becomes: do we believe Iran will negotiate in good faith?
Can this last-minute diplomacy work?
Work?
I mean, let's be honest.
Has it ever worked before?
I mean, the Iranian regime says one thing and does another.
And the risk right now is that the entire world gets fooled again, most especially us.
And I don't think we're willing to allow for that to happen.
Europe's made that mistake over and over again.
The United States does not want to.
So as this unfolds, there are serious questions about influence and alignment here at home.
We need to, one, Ensure that Iran's never going to get that nuclear weapon.
We need to ensure that they are serious about negotiations if we decide to prevent the destruction of their civilization tonight.
We need to also think about what's going on at home.
Who is aligned with who?
Because when I look at Rashida and I look at Ilhan and I see them campaigning for the likes of Iran, I have my doubts.
When I see Ilhan Omar's daughter down in Cuba, sponsored by the likes of Code Pink.
Its founder is married to Neville Singman, who Congress has called out repeatedly, along with the New York Times, for being an agent of China.
And when I see her there in a hotel in Cuba, when the rest of the island has no electricity, but she's lapping it up in the life of luxury in a five-star hotel with that Hassan Piker and the rest of them, I have my concerns.
Who is in this country?
Who are we allowing in this country?
Who are we extending citizenship to or visas to in this country?
We need to think about this at a moment in time that's as crucial as this one.
A lot's about to change.
And it can't happen soon enough.
4,000 visas being denied.
To Iranians that are here in the United States, between 3,000 and 4,000.
The administration is revoking them all because these are people that have ties to the bad guys.
Here's Katie Miller, wife of Stephen Miller, talking about it on Fox earlier.
I know that President Trump and Secretary Rubio are working so diligently to revoke the visas of nearly 3,000 to 4,000 Iranian elites who currently live in this country.
The administration wants them out.
I'm not talking about the Iranians that come here to have a better opportunity and a better life.
And there are certainly plenty of them.
I'm talking about a very small subset.
There are some 750,000 American Iranians here.
Somewhere around 445,000 were actually born in Iran.
They came here for a better shot at things.
Many of them are very well educated.
65% have a college degree or higher.
They are very successful in many different fields.
I'm not talking about them.
I'm talking about the 3,000 to 4,000 that the administration has identified as being close to the regime.
Now, how do we have 3,000 to 4,000 people in this country that are somehow close to the bad guys in Iran?
How did they ever get in?
You might want to ask.
I'm certainly asking in the first place.
I mean, what's going on with the vetting process?
Apparently we don't look at things like this.
No, no, apparently we don't because these ladies that were just sent packing were both nieces of Soleimani.
Soleimani who caused so much death.
And destruction, including to so many Americans, that Donald Trump took them out in the first term.
And these ladies were whooping it up, apparently all happy, according to Marco Rubio, on October 7th.
Well, they had to go.
And they're going.
Listen to the Fox report.
Well, ICE agents have arrested the niece and grandniece of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, whom the U.S. assassinated during the first Trump administration.
His niece and grandniece have been living in Los Angeles and flaunting a very lavish lifestyle online.
All while bashing the United States and supporting the Iranian regime.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that he has revoked their green cards and they will remain in custody pending deportation.
He adds this The Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti American terrorist regimes.
Yeah.
Like that can't happen, okay?
But somehow we've allowed it to happen.
Somehow we've allowed all of these people in because we don't check. who they're related to.
We don't check to see whether or not maybe their uncle was a general in the Iranian army.
So they come here with family sponsorship.
They've got employment visas.
Sometimes they have student visas.
Sometimes they make asylum claims.
Ilhan, I'm looking at you.
The rap on Ilhan Omar.
This is the rumor, anyway, unconfirmed by me at this point, but believe me, Homeland Security is looking into this.
The DOJ is indeed looking into this.
And the vice president is looking into this.
He has confirmed that she committed fraud on her immigration application.
So, immigration fraud is what they're accusing her of.
And that could be one of many things.
One could be the hubby, the hubby that second round.
may not have been on the up and up.
The president has said she married her brother.
It doesn't even need to be her brother, okay?
It could have just been a false marriage altogether.
Who knows?
She could have done it for a few bucks.
Again, big, problem and one that is worthy of deportation.
That law is on the books.
You don't even need to go reinvent the law for that one.
You can get her out real fast.
There's that.
There's also concern that her father may have misrepresented himself.
If he misrepresented himself, then she no longer qualifies for citizenship.
But we got to look at this stuff.
Right now, we just look at criminal records.
We look at whether or not you're on a terror watch list.
We look at whether or not you have any affiliations to known terrorists.
Visa Rules for Activists00:04:45
But clearly, we're not looking hard enough because somehow we miss the Soleimani girls.
All right?
And 3,000 to 4,000 others that the administration now wants to rid our country of.
Let's go back to Katie Miller, wife of Stephen Miller, for more on this.
And look what Keir Starmer has in his own country.
You look at the nephew of Khomeini, you look at the niece of Rouhani.
And you say, why are there so many elites from the Iranian regime being given safety not only here in America, but in European countries for so long?
I know that President Trump and Secretary Rubio are working so diligently to revoke the visas of nearly 3,000 to 4,000 Iranian elites who currently live in this country.
The double standard, not only in their wardrobe, but in the fact that they get to live here in the greatest country in the world with safety and prosperity.
Man, you couldn't make it up, Sean, if you tried.
You couldn't make it up if you tried.
I mean, really, how did that one happen?
And how do we make sure that it does not happen again?
How do we make sure that the people coming here really, really want to be here?
I mean, we've had people that come here to protest.
I do recall there was the guy at Columbia, remember, that was out there leading his crusade on campus, shutting down the entire campus.
The kids couldn't even have their lousy graduation at Columbia University because this guy was creating quite a ruckus.
And yet there were people fighting for him to stay in this country as though he had a right.
We had another woman doing this.
Marco Rubio took pretty good care of her really fast, and he took a lot of heat for it.
But he brings up this point, and I want to go back to it because it's a good one.
You're a guest in our house.
You do not behave like this.
If you tell us you're going to be good, but it turns out you're bad, we're going to get rid of you.
Fast.
Watch.
We revoked her visa.
It's an F1 visa, I believe.
We revoked it, and here's why.
And I'll say it again.
I said it everywhere.
Let me be abundantly clear.
If you go apply for a visa right now, anywhere in the world, let me just send this message out.
If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you're coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we're not going to give you a visa.
If you lie to us, and get a visa and then enter the United States and with that visa participate in that sort of activity, we're going to take away your visa.
And once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States and we have a right, like every country in the world has a right, to remove you from our country.
So it's just that simple.
I think it's crazy.
I think it's stupid for any country in the world to welcome people into their country that are going to go to your universities as visitors.
They're visitors and say, I'm going to your universities to start a riot.
I'm going to your universities to take over a library and harass people.
I don't care what movement you're involved in.
Why would any country in the world allow people to come and disrupt?
We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses.
And if we've given you a visa and then you decide to do that, we're going to take it away.
I encourage every country to do that, by the way, because I think it's crazy to invite students into your country that are coming onto your campus and destabilizing it.
We're just not going to have it.
So we'll revoke your visa, and once your visa is revoked, you're illegally in the country and you have to leave.
Every country in the world has a right to decide who comes in as a visitor and who doesn't.
If you invite me into your home because you say, I want to come to your house for dinner, and I go to your house and I start putting mud on your couch and spray painting your kitchen, I bet you you're going to kick me out.
Well, we're going to do the same thing if you come into the United States as a visitor and create a ruckus for us.
We don't want it.
We don't want it in our country.
Go back and do it in your country.
but you're not going to do it in our country.
No, you're not going to do it.
And if you do do it, or if we now believe that you're connected to people who want to do it back in Iran, then we're going to get you out.
So to be very clear, this is not for the nearly 1 million Iranians living here.
This is for a very select group of 3,000 to 4,000 that ICE has identified that will be deported, that are in the process of being deported as we speak.
because they are seen to have alliances and allegiances that are at odds with who we are.
Targeting Iran's Rail Bridges00:15:16
And it's coming at a time of increasing heat.
Just within the last few hours, a lot of pieces of this puzzle have been moving.
We found out that Pakistan is coming forward.
You know, keep it all together with a grain of salt here because Pakistan is very close to China, so think through that.
Pakistan needs its oil.
China needs its oil.
They just want to get that Strait of Hormuz open.
I don't know how much they really care about the nuclear weapon.
They should care because I don't think Pakistan really, when push comes to shove, wants that either.
But they want their oil.
And so they've come forward and they have said to the president in a very public tweet, hey, can we get a two-week extension?
They've been kind of manning the shop here.
They've been running the show in terms of a lot of these negotiations.
Pakistan has pulled up to the plate, stepped up to the plate.
And this is here from the prime minister of Pakistan in Islamabad.
Shabazz Sharif writes, diplomatic efforts for peaceful sentiment and the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in the near future to allow diplomacy to run its course.
I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks.
Pakistan, in all its sincerity, requests this gesture.
We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.
So a very public call to get an extension.
Don't forget, the president already gave a few extensions, right?
We've given a few along the way, and now they want two weeks.
The U.S. is apparently looking at this.
According to the president, Iran now wants to negotiate.
But I just got to say, can you trust it?
You got to think about what's really at stake here, what kind of maneuvers they are putting in play.
As we consider an extension on this deadline, Pakistan again pleading for this extension, Iran allegedly coming forward saying, We will negotiate, we will negotiate, we will negotiate.
And it's in part because we've made it so abundantly clear.
The President of the United States warning Iran that at 8 p.m. tonight, civilization as they know it will be destroyed.
And as of this morning, you had Israel.
Getting ready.
Already bombing many of the bridges that go in and out of Karg Island.
Karg Island is like the bomb.
I mean, I don't mean that the way it sounds.
That was an unintentional slip, but it is the bomb as far as oil goes.
You need Karg Island.
Karg Island is the whole show, okay?
90% of the oil in Iran comes out of Karg Island.
That's where everything is being transported.
That's what they need.
Well, they are already, Israel is already bombing those bridges there in Karg Island to set the scene for us to do our thing.
Watch.
Official confirming to Fox News that the Israelis have started strikes against Iranian rail infrastructure.
Remember earlier today, the Israelis warned civilians to stay off the trains in Iran.
They have started to target the bridges of the rail system in Iran as we speak.
Additionally, you have these strikes overnight against Karg Island, the largest export facility in Iranian territory, accounting for around 90% of Iran's oil exports.
And you have ongoing U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iranian military infrastructure.
What we are looking at right now is a staging operation.
The United States and Israel are preparing.
If a deal is not made, there will be an increase in strikes against the Iranian regime.
The president described it as power plant day and bridge day to go after this critical infrastructure inside of Iran.
But what's very interesting here, I spoke with a high ranking source last night and I asked what happens next if the president orders these strikes.
And they said, again, this is the Achilles heel of the regime targeting energy infrastructure and what it may actually do.
is force their hand at the negotiating table.
Because again, the president has time and time again, even before Operation Epic Fury began, preferred a diplomatic option.
But the Iranians have been unwilling to take a diplomatic option.
And that is how we ended up in this Operation Epic Fury that is unfolding before our eyes as we and there you have it.
It's like you just can't talk any sense into these people.
They're thick-headed.
I think the president had some other words for them.
Not smart.
Not smart.
JD Vance out warning them today.
Hey, you know, he's over in Hungary.
You guys better pull it together.
We don't want to have to do this.
But we'll do what the president tells us to do.
I want to go to another report.
This coming to us on Kuwait.
Kuwait warning its people to stay indoors and to stay off the trains tonight.
It is anticipating a very big showdown.
Moments ago, Kuwait demanding that people stay home throughout the night out of caution as the clock ticks down to President Trump's deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
And Israel carries out strikes against key routes inside Iran used to move weapons and military equipment.
Correspondent Matt Finn is live in Dubai with the very latest from the Rage of Matt.
John, within the past couple of hours, Israel announced that the IDF targeted eight bridges.
In Iran, the IDF writing the armed forces of the Iranian terrorist regime use these bridges to transfer weapons and military equipment, equipment that these forces employ to advance and carry out terrorist actions against the state of Israel and other countries across the Middle East.
And Iranian state media is reporting that Iran is instructing people to form human shields around power plants and bridges in Iran.
As President Trump has warned, the U.S. may bomb bridges and power plants in Iran today if the U.S. and Iran.
Cannot come to a ceasefire deal.
Now, internet access is believed to be at about 1% in Iran right now, so it's not clear if Iranians are aware of President Trump's 8 p.m. deadline tonight.
The IDF posted a short while ago why Mochtaba, the leader, has not shown himself since the start of the war.
His agents hide in schools and hospitals, and he conceals himself behind the women and children standing on the front lines.
But there is no cause for surprise.
This is the very regime of terror and repression in Iran.
And Iranian Say TV reports that the IRG Says it will target America and its allies' infrastructure in a way that will deprive the region's oil and gas for years.
These threats come after the U.S. used bunker buster bombs against the IRGC, their underground headquarters outside Tehran, over the weekend.
And not too long ago, the UAE put out a statement saying, Deeply regrets that the U.N. Security Council failed today to endorse a clear framework for international cooperation on the Strait of Hormuz.
Keep in mind, the UAE says that the United States is now its greatest.
Security partner in the world, greater than any country here in the Gulf or in Europe.
And the UAE says it will double down on its relationship with the United States and will continue to partner with them here on trying to find a solution or peace deal on the straight.
John, back to you.
It's pretty amazing.
I mean, where's NATO when you need them, right?
But it looks like the UAE is going to be there.
Looks like Kuwait's going to be there.
So we get some new friends.
Saudi Arabia is there.
I mean, wow.
Shame, shame on NATO.
I have a lot more to say on NATO, but first, think about JD Vance right now over in Hungary.
He's got no use for NATO either.
I'll tell you, Hungary's got no use for NATO.
Does anybody have any use for NATO?
I don't think so.
But he said right there earlier today, listen, we want Iran to come to the table.
We want for them to negotiate, but these silly bastards, my words, not his.
No, maybe those were the president's words.
I mean, what?
Bad people.
To be putting your women and children outside the power plants on the front lines.
This is what they do.
This is disgusting.
This is messed up in the head.
This is what we're up against.
This is not a normal foe in a time of war.
This is a very sick, twisted, religious-minded extremist that we're up against.
And it's why, let me remind you, why they can never have a nuclear weapon.
Period.
Full stop.
Not happening.
Everybody knows that.
And now the time has come.
It is now or never.
Listen to JD Vance in Hungary today.
I'm confident that we can get a response, whether it's positive or negative.
We're going to get a response from the Iranians by 8 o'clock tonight.
I hope they make the right response because what we really want is we want a world where oil and gas is flowing freely, where people can afford to heat their homes and cool their homes, where people can afford to transport themselves to work.
That's not going to happen if the Iranians are engaged in acts of economic terrorism.
So they've got to know.
We've got tools in our toolkit that we so far haven't decided to use.
The President of the United States can decide to use them, and he will decide to use them if the Iranians don't change their course of conduct.
Did you hear what he said?
We've got tools in our toolkit that we haven't used, that we can use, that we may use, that the President is going to use.
How would you interpret that?
I interpret that that we can do way more, right?
We can go after all of their oil facilities.
We can go after the power plants.
We can go after a whole lot.
But if you're Kamala Harris, this is how you interpret it.
This is her little website there, HQ, whatever.
JD Vance doubles down on Trump's new post, threatening a whole civilization will die tonight and implies, they write, Trump might use nuclear weapons.
Woo!
I mean, gosh darn it, and men can have babies.
Ha!
I mean, these people are unbelievable.
The left, you've got to wonder whose side they're on.
Nutso thing to say.
And yet, you know, this is what she said.
And I loved it because the White House called her out immediately.
And they said literally nothing.
She says here, or he says here, implies this, you absolute buffoons.
Yeah, you morons.
But no surprise.
After all, we know who runs your site.
and that would be one Kamala Harris who can't run a darn thing.
You know, we still wonder about how she got all that money from Act Blue.
And we did that story the other day.
It turns out all those donations, they weren't being properly screened to see whether or not that was foreign money coming in.
Think about that.
Oh, there's going to be hell to pay on that one, too, from the DOJ.
They're going after it.
They said so the other night.
Anyway, let's go to Kamala.
Back in the day when she was running for office and she was trying to string together some word salad answer on Iran because, yeah, everyone knows, even Kamala, deep down, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
Which foreign country do you consider to be our greatest adversary?
I think there's an obvious one in mind, which is Iran.
Iran has American blood on their hands, okay?
This attack on Israel, 200 ballistic missiles.
What we need to do to ensure that Iran never.
Achieves the ability to be a nuclear power, that is one of my highest priorities.
Okay.
Well, glad we cleared that one up, okay?
Look, everybody knows this.
Everybody knows you cannot allow for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
So I think at this moment in time, the president wants, look, he wants to do a deal.
He absolutely wants to do a deal.
And if they're serious about this and willing to do a deal, I think he'd entertain it.
I think the question is, At what point do you say is enough is enough?
Like we've given you every possible warning imaginable.
We don't think that you are actually capable of negotiating in good faith.
And as a result of that, we're out, right?
It's like, what does that show?
Shark Tank, I'm out, I'm out.
I don't know how much more bandwidth we can give them.
Meanwhile, I don't know as we're going to.
I want to go to a report coming in just moments ago showing that Israeli airstrikes are actually pounding the Iranian regime infrastructure in a new wave of strikes as we speak.
Again, we had talked about those eight key bridges in Karg Island that were so strategic, those getting knocked out, rail links that were used to move weapons and military gear.
Another great report.
I got to hand it to my former employer here on Fox.
Fox doing this one.
Very good stuff.
Let's watch.
Strike in Tehran.
This video released by the Iranian Red Crescent.
The Israeli Defense Forces say they hit eight targets in Iran railways and bridges used to ferry weapons, raw materials, and combatants.
Israel says civilians were warned before the strikes.
These actions, which I approved, are not intended to attack the Iranian people.
They are intended to weaken and crush the terrorist regime that has oppressed them for 47 years.
With the deadline looming before President Trump's promise to destroy bridges and power plants, Iranians form human chains at those key pieces of infrastructure.
With internet access across the country at 1%, it's unclear how many know of President Trump's warning about destroying those targets.
Still, local leaders are rallying their people, particularly youth, to gather at the sites.
To the Iranian youth, gather to tell the world that attacking public infrastructure is a war crime.
With people gathered around possible targets, hope for a negotiated settlement looked even more bleak with word through Pakistani media.
Disgusting.
They're getting their young people, their women, their children to be gathering outside the very sites they know are going to be hit because they have no backbone, no moral fiber.
And as a result, it once again echoes the reason why they can't go anywhere near, anywhere near a nuclear bomb.
Europe Clamps Down on Wealth Transfer00:08:26
Europe's nowhere to be found on this issue, right?
No.
They're the ones inviting everybody in, giving them everything they can.
I mean, it's like us during the Biden days, right?
Come one, come all.
Come to Europe and, you know, we'll pay for your health care.
We'll pay for your food.
You're never even going to have to work.
Wow, what a great deal this is.
Not.
Not for the people of Europe.
Hungary's figured this one out.
Hungary knows better.
Viktor Orban's like, thanks, Europe.
I realize I'm part of your little European Union thing here, but I actually want to protect.
My borders.
And he protected his borders back in 2015 by putting up a razor fence.
I mean it's very symbolic.
The Europeans didn't like that at all.
What are you doing?
I mean, we have this Shengen area right, we're all supposed to be able to be able to go freely back and forth.
Only problem with the Shengen area and everybody going back and forth freely is when you have all the people coming from Syria and all the people coming from other rogue areas in the Middle East bringing their problems and their very different culture that has no interest in meshing say, with the European culture with them.
You have a problem.
Just ask Sweden, just ask Germany.
Just ask any woman who can no longer walk comfortably down the streets there in these places it is a problem.
So Viktor Orban, standing up to this problem and getting heat from the rest of Europe, considered a crazy pants just because he's like, no I, I don't want to have everybody coming in, I need a little border action.
Thank you very much.
He's running for president Jd Vance flying over to give him some support and he got the president on the line.
A very busy president chump today.
Watch All right.
I'm sorry, the person you were trying to reach has a voicemail box that has not been set up yet.
Okay.
Try one more time.
Hello, Mr. President.
How are you?
Hi.
Hey, JD, could you give me a second?
Mr. President, you are on with about 5,000 Hungarian patriots, and I think they love you even more than they love Viktor Orban.
I'm just.
Well, I can't believe that.
Oh.
I can't believe that because I love Hungary and I love oh, he loves Hungary and he loves the people of Hungary.
Wow, that's so.
That's so.
I'll tell you what.
This is highlighting the problems that we have faced on another level, right?
Like Europe's dealing with this big time.
And, you know, you just look at the numbers, and they're pretty startling.
So Hungary put up this border fence.
And it just enraged all of Europe because they had this idea that, you know, they wanted to share borders and they wanted everybody who came in.
If you came in from Syria and you went to Germany because Angela Merkel said, I'm going to take everyone, then great, you could just walk right over to Hungary.
And then Hungary was supposed to take you.
And Hungary's like, I don't think so.
I mean, how's that fair?
I didn't sign up for that.
I don't want any part of that.
We're going to protect our own culture.
And then they were like the pariah.
And everybody blames Viktor Orbán.
Oh, he's the bad guy.
But think about this.
Germany now has 25 to 30% of their population that's migrant.
You look at Belgium.
Wow, that's quite a story there in Belgium.
The entire country is looking at 35 to 40% being migrants in the city of Brussels alone, where the number one name is Mohammed.
You guessed it.
70% of the population in Belgium now, in Brussels, is all migrant.
I mean, my goodness.
You compare it with us, right?
We're still 85% native born.
We have 15% that are foreign born.
That skyrocketed, of course, during the Biden years.
It's changing now.
They're clamping down on this, as we discussed in the beginning.
We've got to have some vetting processes.
We need to know that you can come here and you're not going to be a drain on the system.
Most importantly, you're going to come here and not actually have ties to a rogue regime back in who knows where.
Yeah, Ilhan, I'm still looking at you.
So that's the allegation on her, anyway.
Now you consider what the cost is, right, on society.
In a place like Belgium, 60% of unemployment benefits recipients are migrants.
70% of migrants are on some kind of social assistance.
I mean, that's a lot of money.
And they're taxing up the wazoo.
I mean, their taxes are looking kind of similar to ours.
I mean, we're just about as bad as Europe.
You look at our tax rate for the highest income bracket, 45 to 50%, depending on what state you live in.
Go Florida, right?
Go New Hampshire.
Go Texas.
Tennessee, too.
Look at Germany.
47 to 48 percent, France 50 to 55.
Uk is up in that 50 zone, same with Spain and same with Belgium.
Well, where does their money go?
It goes to social programs for all of these migrants they're bringing in.
They got pensions, they got universal health care, they got unemployment benefits, family benefits.
You wonder why they can't contribute to NATO?
Oh, their defense budget is one to three percent, I see.
So they're just living high off the hog, giving out everything to every Tom, Dick and Harry, and Mohammed and Ahmed, and They don't have any money to contribute to NATO, or the UN for that matter, which is why the UN is going broke And NATO won't survive.
So that's not a good economic equation, right?
If you ask me, not that we're that much better.
Because take a look at this chart that I got here.
Social programs in the United States of America, guess how much they're costing us?
50 to 60% of our overall federal spending.
Yes, we spend 12 to 15% on defense.
We got a lot of interest on our debt that we have to account for as well.
That takes about 10 to 15% education infrastructure, other things like that, about 10%.
But you've got health care expenses for Medicaid and Medicare.
At roughly 25 to 30 percent, retirement expenses 20 to 25 percent.
Well, this is why you need to figure out where the fraud is.
We need to clamp down on who's here.
We need to clamp down on these benefits, especially the fraudulent, illegal ones, and Europe needs to get a reality check.
I mean, it sounds like, politically speaking, it may soon be forced upon them because you're seeing a rise of the ultra-right.
Why it's ultra right to say, hey, gee, I don't think we should bring in everybody and give them all free stuff.
I mean, it doesn't actually seem like it's that excessive a viewpoint, but to them it is because they believe in the open borders.
They believe in all the green energy giveaways.
They believe in a wealth transfer.
I don't quite know how on tomorrow's program.
I've got a great interview for you with my friend Buck Sexton, who just wrote a book on this.
He used to work for the CIA before he got into the news business.
I think he made a good choice.
But anyway, before he worked in the news business, he was in the CIA, and he knows exactly what an information op is when they try and twist your mind to make you think that men can have babies.
There's a lot of that going on in Europe.
A lot of that has been going back on here at home.
Back here at home, we've had a lot of it, but you know what?
People have woken up to the insanity.
And we're going to keep waking up because we will not be France.
We will not be Brussels.
We will not be the UK.
We're the United States of America and we stand strong on our own two feet.
You know, we didn't even have an income tax way back when.
You go back to the 1840s.
A lot of my ancestors came here during the potato famine.
There was no handout.
There was nothing.
You came here and you either made it or you didn't.
And our economy was doing just fine.
In fact, those were boom years.
Boom years.
We had tons of immigration, but immigrants came here because they wanted to work.
not because they wanted a handout.
And I'm not saying everybody does, okay?
Consequences for Immigration Fraud00:04:33
Let me not tarnish everybody with one big swoop.
I am thinking about the fraudsters in Minnesota.
I am thinking about the daycare owners in Minnesota.
I'm thinking about the Feeding Our Future ring, led by, or at least introduced with legislations by Ilhan Omar.
We're clamping down on fraud.
We're clamping down on fraud, and the DOJ is going after these people.
Ilhan Omar, they're closing in on you and all your coonies.
Yeah, she likes to say that.
Trump and his coonies.
I'm telling you, they're going after people every day.
I mean, they just got a bunch of guilty convictions.
As of Tuesday, I mean, we're not even two days into the week here.
I want to go to Todd Blanch, the acting interim DOJ head, taking over for Pam Bondi.
Just this week, and it's only Tuesday, a criminal defendant was sentenced, and the department obtained two additional guilty pleas in matters totaling over half a billion dollars in healthcare and COVID fraud.
If you think about that, just since yesterday, we had a guilty plea in a $160 million healthcare enrollment fraud scheme.
And a sentencing in a $100 million COVID 19 fraud and a guilty plea in a $160 million healthcare fraud scheme as well.
Each of these cases represents countless hours of dedication from the prosecutors and the federal agents and local law enforcement who work them.
The Department of Justice is holding criminals accountable.
They're going after them, and it can't happen fast enough.
Meanwhile, the White House.
Task Force is looking at Medicare and Medicaid spending to the tune of $2 trillion.
Department of Labor's unemployment insurance, $43 billion.
Department of Agriculture's SNAP program, $101 billion for SNAP.
Health and Human Services.
You know what gets me on this stuff?
You get like a credit card.
You can use it on Amazon.
I mean, there's no shame in any of it.
You don't to go down and stand in line at a welfare office.
No, you get a nice little credit card that you get to use on Amazon.
Wow.
Health and Human Services temporary assistance for needy families, $16 billion.
Department of Housing and Urban Development's rental assistance, public housing, $64 billion.
Small Business Administration loans and assistance, which we've already figured out has been just overrun with fraud, $100 billion.
I mean, this is crazy stuff.
Andrew Ferguson on the task force talking about it today.
Americans have turned over trillions of their tax dollars to social welfare programs to help their neighbors and fellow citizens through hard times.
They've done so on the basis of social trust, the belief that their governments, state and federal, will do the right things with their dollars.
If we fail to address it, the fabric of our nation will swiftly unravel.
Yes.
Yes, right?
We can't allow for this.
Period.
Okay?
There's got to be serious, serious, serious consequences.
Discovered was really shocking.
Not only are these top line numbers somewhere between.
Let me jump back in just to give you some context around this.
I want to go right now to Chris Ruffo.
He's at the Manhattan Institute.
He's been conducting an investigation into this massive amount of fraud.
He's found a ton of it out in California, which doesn't bode well for you, one Gavin Newsom, because apparently you've really been asleep at the switch.
I mean, you might make Timmy Walsh look like child's play before it's all said and done.
Again, back over to Ruffo.
Discovered was really shocking.
Not only are these top line numbers somewhere between 180 billion and 280 billion dollars in fraud under Gavin Newsom in California, but when you dig into it and you read all of the court documents, the indictments, the other investigations, we found out that virtually every criminal group on planet Earth has been looting the state of California.
Romanian international fraud rings, you had rap groups in Memphis, Tennessee, you had neo Nazi prison gangs, you had people actually in California death row applying for fraudulent unemployment benefits.
And what we found is that essentially every criminal group saw that Gavin Newsom was opening the floodgates of state spending.
NATO Military Base Access00:11:53
They could take whatever they wanted.
And he's losing now an estimated up to $50 billion a year to fraud with no end in sight.
Well, we can't lose that kind of money.
We just can't lose that kind of money.
And something must be done about it in the here and now.
And we need to figure out what Ilhan's role in all of it was.
I'm worried about the immigration fraud.
I'm also worried about what did Elion Omar know about what was happening in the Somali community and why was nobody looking into it until, frankly, Donald Trump came along?
Good questions.
Big questions.
All right, we have some breaking news to report to you at this hour.
I want to bring you here's a report right out of the Epic Times, one of the first with the news.
It looks as though the president has suspended those end of civilization attacks on Iran.
Moments ago, this coming in, he is going to give them an extension.
He is going to give them a two-week opportunity.
This is the ceasefire that they are looking for based on conversations with Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, as well as Asim Munir, both of Pakistan.
The president is deciding to wait on the Iran attacks.
I'm sure this is making one Ilhan Omar very, very, very happy right about now.
Ilhan Omar, who Is increasingly, of course, under a tremendous amount of.
Uh, let's just say she's under the microscope.
Okay, we say that.
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I want to turn back now to, we were just discussing what's been going on with NATO.
I think it's really interesting.
At this moment in time, we're seeing news that Pakistan is negotiating.
Pakistan is the one coming forward and saying, okay, we've got two weeks now to come to some kind of agreement here with Iran.
I mean, the pressure was on.
You've got Israel bombing those bridges, eight of them to be exact.
You've got Pakistan trying to work the back channels to get something else accomplished.
The president saying earlier as we came to air.
per my sources, that he was encouraged because the Iranians were seemingly willing to negotiate like nobody's business all of a sudden.
So it took a tremendous amount of pressure.
I will tell you this.
When the president decides to do something, he's not backing down.
So like, I don't think this is bluff.
I don't think this is bluster.
I know that if eight o'clock hit tonight, he would have taken this move and this opportunity, which is why I also say when he tells NATO, I'm sick of you.
When he tells NATO, hey, it's not working out very well for us because you guys just, for whatever reason, don't want to do your fair share, you don't even want to allow us the use of your airspace, I'm telling you, the president is serious.
At this moment, they are looking at pulling somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000 troops right away from those European bases because who the heck needs the Europeans when they won't even allow you to fly over France, for goodness sakes?
Here's the president calling out NATO just in yesterday's presser.
Watch.
And it's not just NATO.
You know who else didn't help us?
South Korea didn't help us.
You know who else didn't help us?
Australia didn't help us.
You know who else didn't help us?
Japan.
We've got 50,000 soldiers in Japan to protect them from North Korea.
We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong un, who I get along with very well, as you know.
Do you notice he said very nice things about me?
He used to call.
Joe Biden, a mentally retarded person.
Okay, so.
Well, I think everybody called Joe Biden just about by the end of that.
That was the president not just calling out NATO, by the way, but also calling out the United Nations.
In other words, where is the whole world?
Why is this always our problem?
I mean, throughout history, right?
You know, the U.S. always gets sucked in because nobody else is willing to step up and do their part.
It always defaults back onto us.
Well, he's had it.
He's like, see ya.
I do think the exact words were bye bye.
Secretary General is great.
And Mark Rutte, he's a great person, but he's got.
And you know, it all began with if you want to know the truth, Greenland.
We want Greenland.
They don't want to give it to us.
And I said, bye bye.
Bye bye.
He wants Greenland.
Again, for security reasons.
And.
I don't think he's going to back down from any of this, including his threat to reform NATO.
I mean, this is going to be a very different kind of NATO when it's all said and done.
Marco Rubio has already given the warning going on Fox's recently, I think it was Friday night, where he said, hey, you know what?
This isn't working out.
When we do all this for you and you aren't even willing to allow us the use of your airspace, I mean, think about this.
Some of you who tuned into the show yesterday may have seen this clip.
that I showed you of our pilots having to do a massive workaround to get to Israel because they're not allowed to fly over Europe, for goodness sakes?
What kind of ally is this?
You see it?
There you have it.
Okay.
So we got to do this giant workaround because our own ally won't allow for us to use airspace.
So why do we have the bases there?
Let me ask you.
And how soon can we get rid of them?
This is what is being discussed when they're not discussing Iran right now in the Trump White House.
He has communicated this to multiple reporters, including the UK's Telegraph.
They did an interview the other day.
The president did with the Telegraph.
And he said it loud and clear, I don't think NATO is for us anymore.
What do I really think is going to happen?
I don't think they're going to fully back out of it, but I think they're going to change the terms of this agreement big time because we cannot be stuck allowing for NATO and those European countries to keep bringing in the problems and giving up the social welfare without doing their part to defend themselves.
You understand.
They got no military.
They spend 1% of their overall budget on their military.
They got squat.
They don't even have ships in the UK right now.
The Navy in the UK, they have six of them.
And two of them were kind of in not great shape.
Four of them were actually out being serviced.
They had to borrow one from Germany just in order to meet their basic NATO requirements.
So no, this is not working.
And what you're going to find is that we have to change the terms of the deal.
We're going to have to put restrictions in place.
Again, it's like the little kid, right?
That just can't manage on their own.
So you got to come up with a plan.
A plan so that they can eventually be sustainable themselves without putting the rest of the world in jeopardy, as they have allowed for in Iran.
Here's Marco Rubio the other night.
Allow us to use their military bases.
Their answer is no.
Then why are we in NATO?
You have to ask that question.
Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars, and all these American forces stationed in the region if we can only use it in our time of need?
We're not going to be allowed to use those bases.
So I think there's no doubt, unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded, we are going to have to reexamine that relationship.
We're going to have to reexamine the value of NATO and that alliance for our country.
Ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make, and he'll have to make it.
We're going to finish the job here.
As I said, we're very, very close to achieving our objectives on all of these things that I've outlined.
But I do think, unfortunately, we are going to have to reexamine whether or not this alliance that has served this country well for a while is still serving that purpose, or is it now become a one way street?
Where America is simply in a position to defend Europe, but when we need the help of our allies, they're going to deny us basing rights and they're going to deny us overflight?
I think these are very legitimate questions that we need to be asking, and this is going to have to be very carefully examined after this conflict is over.
You better believe it.
We're going to examine all of that.
A piece of my mind writing those tariffs are sounding better and better.
You know, I was looking at how exactly we sustained ourselves in the 1800s, 1840s.
Again, all these migrants coming in from Germany and Poland and Ireland.
And we did great.
We actually did have a lot of tariffs.
That was a huge source of revenue for the U.S. government.
We stayed out of war at that time.
I mean, there was a small tax that went in during the Civil War, but then it was repealed.
So we didn't have any income tax.
And somehow we made it.
And our economy was growing, growing, growing, growing.
And we made immigration work for us because immigrants wanted to come here for a better chance at a better life.
And maybe that still happens today.
Don't let me, you know, somebody's going to misquote me and say she's talking about all immigrants.
And I absolutely don't mean that in that way.
There's plenty of people that come here that are hardworking and want a better opportunity in life.
and they're willing to work hard and, you know, roll their sleeves up and great.
If you're willing to embrace America, America's willing to embrace you.
But here's the thing.
Work.
Don't get handouts.
Don't get the Snap cards that are like Amazon, you know, credit cards, for goodness sakes.
Don't be asking, what can we do for you?
Get out there and work and do for yourself.
Back in the 1800s, you know what?
You had to rely on the charity of communities.
I mean, we didn't really have income taxes.
I mean, not until maybe it was 1918.
And of course, then it ballooned under FDR and then under World War II.
And JFK, amazingly, came in and slashed taxes.
There you go, a Democrat.
You see, we don't need to be so partisan.
It's unfortunate the Democrats have become as crazy as they have become because, you know, there was a day when they were actually willing to cut taxes.
Just ask JFK.
But we've gotten ourselves in a very, very bad situation, and we have increasingly turned into Europe while China gets to sit back and laugh all the way to the bank.
Prosper in the Smart Economy00:01:30
And they will, trust me.
We're going to wake up one day, and if we're not careful, we're France.
We're France.
And China is the next U.S. of A. I'm not going to let it happen.
I know you're not going to let it happen.
I know this president is not going to let it happen.
We are committed to a prosperous, free, successful future for the United States of America and a nuclear-free Iran.
Thank you for being here.
We have much more to talk about tomorrow.
So don't go anywhere.
I told you I'm going to get my friend Buck on.
He wrote a great new book, New York Times bestseller.
former CIA agent, now he does the Clay and Buck show.
He's in radio and all this stuff and a podcast, but we've been friends for years.
And he said, this is all by design.
They have been manipulating us.
They have been trying to twist us.
They have been trying to twist our kids.
And you know what?
Americans have had it.
We're saying enough is enough.
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