Protest in Iran spreads to several other cities on the third day of the protests. The Iranian government said it recognizes the protests, and will listen with patience even if it is confronted with harsh voices. But this has not stopped the regime from using tear gas and rubber bullets on the protesters.
00:04:20.480Protests and strikes in Iran over inflation and currency devaluation has spread from the capital, Tehran,
00:04:25.480to several other cities on the third day of unrest.
00:04:28.480Protests began on Sunday after shopkeepers in Tehran's Grand Bazaar staged a strike when the Iranian Rial hit a record low against the United States dollar on the open market.
00:04:42.480Persian have shown demonstration in the city of Karaj, Hamadan, Qasham, Mallard, Ishanavan, Kirmashah, Yazid, basically across the country.
00:05:17.480Remember, I think what we said back in July when we had the 12-day war, this just came up with Bibi the other day, this obsession now with the ballistic missile campaign.
00:05:30.480If you want to do regime change, and to me, if you want to do regime change in Venezuela or if you want to do regime change in Persia, if you want to do regime change in Beijing, it has to come from the bottom up.
00:05:43.480And normally that comes with economic pressure when people, you know, have had enough and are prepared to overthrow the government.
00:05:50.480Tiananmen Square back in 1989 was a perfect example of that, where it came from the bottom up.
00:05:57.480And if the United States government had not inserted themselves to back the Chinese Communist Party, you would have had an overthrow of a regime then.
00:06:06.480I think you've seen it here in Tehran.
00:06:08.480For those of you in the audience old enough to remember, I certainly do because my destroyer a year later was sent over to the Persian Gulf into the North Arabian Sea when it started against the Shah.
00:06:20.480And those protests started small and then they started to build.
00:06:23.480And once they used live fire, they started firing on them.
00:06:26.480Remember that day, I think they killed 12 or 15 students and other protesters.
00:06:48.480Tankers are coming out of the Persian Gulf every day.
00:06:51.480They're selling oil to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:06:53.480I think that the oil they get from mullahs is 40 or 50 percent or even more of the entire energy consumption of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:07:02.480So here and this is what the other day when BBC about another, you know, bombing campaign, the ballistic missiles, they're getting the ballistic missiles ready.
00:07:11.480You know, I call that shifting the goalposts.
00:07:13.480But just continue to put economic pressure on them and the mullahs are going to be are going to be gone.
00:07:19.480They're going to they're going to collapse here.
00:07:22.480You're seeing this spreading throughout the country.
00:07:24.480And this is another example where you put the appropriate economic sanctions on these on these dictators and these rulers.
00:07:33.480The people eventually rise up and you don't need American troops.
00:07:36.480You don't need American combat troops.
00:07:38.480Now, President Trump spent Sunday and Monday huge opportunity calls for him spending basically the entire day dealing with the situation in Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East with Bibi Netanyahu.
00:07:50.480The prime minister of Poland came out earlier today and said, oh, yeah, the Americans have agreed.
00:07:57.480Zelensky is telling people the Americans have agreed to actually put American troops on the line of contact.
00:08:03.480Now, the line of contact when these negotiations are talking about security guarantees would actually be the negotiated point of where kind of the the demilitarized zone starts.
00:08:15.480It would be essentially where the Russian troops on one side, the NATO or allied or Ukrainian troops on the other.
00:08:22.480And he's telling people the United States has agreed.
00:08:24.480Now, we're hearing from people that's absolutely not true.
00:08:28.480And this looks like some of the I think the most anti Trump forces in the EU trying to force trying to force us into the corner and try to make a decision.
00:08:39.480So in both in both situations, explosive results over the last couple hours, there was discussion about Putin has said that Zelensky ordered, I think, a 10 or 15 drone hit onto one of his palaces.
00:09:03.480Also, Kash Patel in the FBI have arrested an ISIS affiliated individual in Texas.
00:09:10.480Can we go ahead and play that? I want to play that.
00:09:12.480I've got Karen Siegman is going to join me from AFA Alliance for Freedom, American Alliance for Freedom, who's our co-sponsor and one of the driving forces of this of this event that we're going to have down in Texas on 9 January tickets.
00:09:29.480I talked to Glenn story came on this morning.
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00:10:11.480We have to be honest at times with the problems that we're having in our community and we need our community to help us fix those problems together because it's real and it's serious.
00:10:21.480At the same time, if people have taken anything that I have said out of context in a way that's caused harm, I apologize and I'm sorry for that because that's not my intention at all.
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00:17:04.480So many hotspots around the country seem to tie back to one common denomination.
00:17:09.480I'm going to get Karen Sigmund joins me from American Freedom Alliance.
00:17:13.480Karen, you're actually bringing over Gert Wilders, I guess, early.
00:17:17.480He's going to do, I think it's right before or right after, going to do an event in LA.
00:17:22.480Why would Gert Wilders come all the way to Los Angeles to do an event for American Freedom Alliance?
00:17:28.480Why do people in California have any interest in what he represents?
00:17:32.480Well, and thank you so much for having me on and for drawing such tremendous attention to this key, just absolutely fundamental issue, a major threat to the United States and the West generally.
00:17:45.480We are bringing Gert Wilders over for an event in Los Angeles.
00:17:50.480He's been a longtime friend to the American Freedom Alliance.
00:17:53.480AFA has always had the threat of Islamization, global Islam, local Islam, every facet of it, its incursion, the violent aspect, the less violent aspect, all the means for this ideology to seek to undermine Judeo-Christian values in the West.
00:18:20.480And we were noticing that video clips from his talk in 2017, warning about the incursion of Islam, those clips from eight years ago were getting huge traction.
00:18:37.480And he's been on the rise politically.
00:18:40.480Not only has he been speaking out about Islamification in a way that makes us sit up and take note, but as one of the preeminent politicians in the Netherlands,
00:18:51.480he has his number one platform has been against the Islamification of the Netherlands, simultaneous with trying to assert that it is perfectly acceptable for a country to support its own culture in the face of threats.
00:19:08.400So specifically the Dutch culture, but Judeo-Christian, Western civilization culture in the Netherlands.
00:19:15.400And what we've seen throughout the Netherlands, throughout Western Europe, California, now Texas, and across the country, is a lack of confidence in our own culture, in our own civilization, in our Judeo-Christian values.
00:19:31.920And when that happens, that opens the floodgates to incursions by various bad actors.
00:19:38.240We talk about the red-green alliance, I would include, as Frank Gaffney does, the blue, the globalists.
00:19:44.140If you don't have confidence in your own culture, in your own sense of what's right, in your own political and social backbone, bad people really find a way to take over.
00:19:58.500So he's been fighting in the Netherlands, both of these fronts, against the Islamic incursion and for Dutch culture.
00:20:06.220We've seen the Netherlands fall, in large part we've seen the UK fall, we've seen France fall, Germany.
00:20:12.740Across the West, we're seeing city after city cancel their own holiday, their Christmas parties, their New Year's Eve parties.
00:21:02.300But where he's really needed is Texas.
00:21:05.320Because Texas, as you've been pointing out, has been the epicenter of a massive takeover.
00:21:11.060I would also say that Mamdami's election in New York, having New York City fall to a Muslim, Democrat, socialist, communist, was kind of the epitome of it's the absolute intersection of the red-green axis of all of these threats that are coming together against us.
00:21:32.100When New York City fell, it was a huge wake-up call.
00:21:35.220And now that they're going after Texas, we have to do everything we can to shore up Texas.
00:21:40.520So we're delighted to have them in LA.
00:21:42.680You talk about these countries falling.
00:21:46.760I mean, the middle class and working class, I think, get this, even though there's suppression in the news.
00:21:51.400And to show you about this oppression, I think we're about to play a clip from CNN, which I believe is the first clip of CNN actually covering the news now, Scott Jennings and Abby Phillip.
00:22:03.040And I think a guest threw down last night on Abby Phillip's show about this situation in Minneapolis.
00:22:10.040It is the elites of Western Europe that rolled over so quickly, that showed the lack of confidence.
00:22:15.460The very people that garnered the wealth, the very people that have political control, what I call the party at Davos, are the ones that rolled over and wouldn't allow the Nigel Farage even to talk about it or the Tommy Robinsons to get into the streets are the ones that sent Tommy Robinson back to jail so many times.
00:22:31.400And Tommy Robinson had that rally a couple of months ago.
00:22:42.720We're trying to pull together more working class and middle class because the elites, you can see here in the United States, this is why they haven't wanted to address this ongoing corruption.
00:22:51.840So is your view that it's the elites that are folded and shown the lack of confidence in their civilization, I think mainly because they don't believe the religious underpinnings or the spiritual underpinnings of that civilization?
00:23:04.920They only believe the material part of it, ma'am?
00:23:09.560We've been seeing the massive secularization effort, which undermines all the main foundational, the foundation literally of our civilization.
00:23:21.920You knock those pillars out, literally the load-bearing walls of our civilization.
00:23:48.680They hate that there's any kind of spirituality that looks to something bigger than the secular for answers, for guidance, for support, for meaning, and for purpose.
00:23:59.900They'd much rather replace all of that with themselves, with government.
00:24:04.880And, of course, we would toss in AI as a big aspect of that.
00:24:09.060So these entities are – Jamie Glassoff wrote a book.
00:24:22.500They are absolutely 100% united to take us down, and they do that by finding our greatest strengths, which are our values, Judeo-Christian values, our looking to God, our families, our men, our women, our schools, our children, our identity, our cultural identity.
00:24:42.980And they've been doing the long march through the institution in various ways, under various guises, all too successfully.
00:24:54.180We don't – yes, it's the elites, but they have done an all-too-effective hatchet job on our culture, the 1619 project, just to throw that out as an example, that we don't have pride in who we are at all.
00:25:18.160It's the elites in Paris, in Berlin, in London, now in New York.
00:25:23.480And Geert Wilders, to his absolute credit, is one of a handful of politicians in Europe, in the West, who has been ferocious in fighting exactly this.
00:25:36.020And the price that he has paid is incredible.
00:25:39.120It's such an honor to have him come and talk to us about the fight that he has been undergoing.
00:25:44.900And they're the canary in the coal mine.
00:25:47.180And whatever we can do to alert people here to the dangers and, again, how to fight back, it's just such a key fight.
00:25:56.980I think it was 12 or 13 or 14, Roger Ailes was still there, Lou Dobbs at Fox, and they brought Geert in for the first time after he had the fatwa placed on him by the Mullahs.
00:26:10.620And he had like a 20, he came in an armored car up to Fox, a side entrance, not the main entrance.
00:26:18.760And had an armored car and had to be, looked like a team of 10 or 15 SWAT people because they had actually taken out his life.
00:26:27.720And I think at the time they had moved him to a military base in the Netherlands where he and his family were living basically in isolation.
00:26:34.080Because every time they tried to go out, they tried to, they were trying to assassinate him, given that he was the first person that really stood up boldly.
00:26:42.480And not just in Netherlands, but really in Europe and said, hey, this is coming.
00:26:45.760Everything that Geert Wilder said years ago, and he's risen now to be, essentially he should be the head of the Netherlands.
00:26:52.200But they always keep trying to jockey every time he wins an election, they always jockey around him.
00:26:57.160Because the last thing they would want is an anti-Islamist government actually in Europe.
00:27:04.960That would break the EU's, the whole pact with the EU.
00:27:08.140So they keep trying to thwart him, or he would be the guy running the Netherlands.
00:27:11.960But he has fought this and stayed on message, I don't know, for 10 or 15 years.
00:27:17.040And everything that he has said was going to happen has happened.
00:27:20.840And that's what we're bringing him to, that's what we're going to, after you guys have him, or right before you have him in LA, we're going to have him in Texas.
00:27:27.900And the reason is, the situation in Texas is absolutely critical.
00:27:31.560Why don't we take, I tell you, we're going to take a break.
00:27:33.460I want to play this first time that CNN is actually showing what's happening in Minnesota.
00:27:38.660We're actually going to put up, tickets are flying out.
00:27:41.820In fact, this morning we had Glenn's story on, a ton of tickets sold.
00:27:45.000We want to make sure everybody in the Warren Posse that wants to attend is going to attend.
00:27:48.760And we're also going to do some other things around the 8th and the 9th in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area.
00:31:49.720Right now, in Minnesota, federal law enforcement officials are surging into Minneapolis to investigate allegations of widespread fraud.
00:31:58.520The Department of Homeland Security sharing this video showing agents going door-to-door at businesses it says are suspected of abusing federal funds.
00:32:07.680All of this surge of law enforcement resources coming after this viral video created by MAGA YouTuber Nick Shirley, shared widely by Trump administration officials.
00:32:19.560In the video, Shirley visits businesses connected to Minneapolis' Somali immigrant community, businesses that he alleges are abusing or stealing taxpayer dollars.
00:32:30.220The video, however, contains little evidence to back up those claims, and Shirley has previously created and shared anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim videos.
00:33:06.460That is the YouTuber who has kicked off this enormous firestorm.
00:33:10.260It is Nick Shirley's video that has caught the attention of Elon Musk, of J.D. Vance, of Attorney General Pam Bondi, Kash Patel responding, as you said, the Department of Homeland Security, now saying that they're launching investigations.
00:33:22.660A source telling CNN's Holmes Lye brand that it was Shirley's video that prompted that.
00:33:27.680Basically, what Shirley's video does is he's going door to door at these different daycares and, you know, attempting to open the door, attempting to talk to people.
00:33:35.300And his accusation is that he was, you know, showing cases of fraud.
00:33:40.640Again, as we said, the facts here are that fraud cases have plagued Minnesota for many years.
00:33:45.620As far back as 2015, there have been cases of fraud involving daycares.
00:33:50.620Within the last several years, there have been at least 80 indictments involving different types of fraud.
00:33:57.240Many people who are defendants in those cases are concentrated in the Somali-American community here in Minneapolis.
00:34:02.780It is a problem that has plagued Governor Walz for years.
00:34:07.940CNN wrote about this in October of 2024.
00:34:13.360Here is more from House Speaker Lisa Damuth.
00:34:16.400She shared her thoughts with us because she was it is her perspective that the responsibility for for, you know, stopping this fraud really falls on Governor Walz.
00:34:26.900She says he did not do enough to hold leaders here accountable.
00:34:30.240She is a Republican. She is running for governor.
00:34:33.340But again, she says that she's been trying to take measures in the state legislature to stop this flow of fraud for years.
00:34:41.380Here's more from House Speaker Lisa Damuth.
00:34:45.400These are state dollars, but a lot of these programs have federal dollars in them, too.
00:34:49.620So we have had a lot of assistance from the U.S. attorney's office where they have been noting almost nine billion dollars of fraud across multiple programs, not just child care, but non-emergency medical transport, autism services, adult daycare, that we have been getting that attention a little bit more from the feds now.
00:35:11.360And it is needed. The question begs, though, is why have the Democrats in Minnesota, because they've been the ones in charge, they've been in control of state government.
00:35:20.940Why have they ignored it for this long?
00:35:22.660Jim, just again, for context, for what you're seeing right now, again, Mr. Shirley and a man named David, who also appears in his video, are back here at one of the daycares he featured.
00:35:35.340As you can see, people are confronting him.
00:35:39.140He's been here for about a half an hour or so back again at one of the scenes that he featured in his video.
00:35:47.540So that is the ground truth here. Back to you, Jim.
00:35:50.760Let me ask you, just Whitney, there were prosecutions, right, with dozens of people who were charged, am I right, in previous investigations of this fraud?
00:36:16.540There was a program called the Housing Stabilization Services that was rife with fraud.
00:36:20.900The list of fraud cases here in Minnesota is so extensive that even when the U.S. attorney for Minnesota announced their most recent indictments,
00:36:32.700they called it this ongoing fraud investigation.
00:36:34.620So it has been going on for quite some time.
00:36:36.720This is just the latest chapter in a story we have.
00:36:39.660No indication is going to end anytime soon, Jim.
00:36:43.040And we should note that there are some 100,000 residents of Somali descent in Minnesota.
00:36:49.260No one is alleging and has no evidence that a large number of that community are involved in the fraud.
00:37:35.940And just encourage other folks to show up, support our Somali businesses, support our immigrant neighbors.
00:37:44.800And I know that things are scary right now.
00:37:48.360And just know that there are more people who are looking out for you.
00:37:52.640There are more people who are here to support you than you know.
00:37:56.480I will continue to stand with the Somali community to be with you and to do all I can to return the friendship and community that the Somali community has shown me.
00:38:09.740We stand with the Somali community every day.
00:38:11.760There are more than 8,000 Somali Americans who call Greater Boston home.
00:38:15.740These are our neighbors, doctors and nurses, teachers, first responders, Boston police officers.
00:38:21.180You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs, and economic development, in education, without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.
00:38:33.840We are proud and we are grateful for our Somali community and for our Somali American neighbors.
00:38:38.940Boston and the country are clear that hate has no place in our society.
00:38:42.860We will use every attack to actually strengthen and expand the services available, to empower and work alongside our community members who are already doing so much good in the world and setting an example for the rest of the country.
00:39:03.000Nothing to see here except bad old Nick Shirley over there stirring it up, right, with no evidence.
00:39:08.500He's got no evidence, but he came to some sites.
00:39:10.460This is how they're going to run interference, right?
00:39:13.260The mainstream media, MSNBC and CNN has not covered this, although with dozens and dozens and dozens.
00:39:18.180In fact, the first thing that comes to mind when I think of CNN and their coverage of Walls in the 2024 campaign and with Walls as vice president was all the investigations they were doing on all the massive fraud in every different aspect.
00:39:44.740You see the – and by the way, this is why Jared Stepman – and I really want to thank Citizen Kane over at Citizens Free Press.
00:39:51.100He linked to the Daily Signal to this article that Jared Stepman wrote that was really, I thought, quite – he talked about the heart of this, that this is not a bug.
00:40:00.560This is a feature when they bring these immigrant, these asylum communities in, they get them into the social welfare programs.
00:40:15.820They're just – they're catering to these Somalian votes and they're going to run interference for them full stop.
00:40:23.020This is why now you're finally seeing a surge of federal authorities because a lot of this is federal dollars.
00:40:28.580Karen Siegman, everywhere we look, there's another problem.
00:40:32.540This is the reason that they go to the Supreme Court to fight the Trump administration from federalizing the National Guard to protect ICE agents to actually go in and do mass deportations, ma'am.
00:40:49.100And, you know, you and I originally started talking about the Chinese Communist Party and the whole notion of unrestricted warfare, which is every means of fighting to win up to and including kinetic warfare.
00:41:02.360And I think we're seeing the exact same kind of playbook here with Islamic incursion and invasion, which is coming in – yes, there's the violent jihad, the ISIS sympathizer being arrested earlier.
00:41:14.660But it takes many, many other kinds of various tactics that are being employed, including the fraud, including economic, including civilizational, including the voting.
00:41:27.560But in large part, it's also just generally bringing upon chaos, destabilization, undermining our very way of thinking of ourselves.
00:41:39.980Peter McIlvenna, who's a fellow of AFA, you've had an on a number of times, the other various ways imposing halal, calls to prayer.
00:41:47.940There are many, many, many, many ways of bringing this kind of – a social, an ideology, a philosophy, and a global jihadist tactic into undermining who we are.
00:42:14.820I'm going to hold you through the break.
00:42:15.600Karen Siegman of Alliance for Freedom, one of the co-sponsors, actually with Patriot Mobile, for our event with Gert Wilders, 9 January 2026 in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area.
00:45:19.600We'll do our year in review, as we always do, here on The War Room.
00:45:24.740And then Real America's Voice is going to have a year in review with Bo, Brian Glenn, and Ben Burquam, and, of course, Neil McCabe will be in the field.
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