Join us as we discuss the latest on the latest in the Iran crisis, including the news that Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire and a cease-fire, and what that means for the future of peace in the Middle East.
00:00:27.200There's no reason why we needed to cross that threshold.
00:00:30.440And my concern is that, although maybe the immediate crisis may have ebbed, long term, I mean, Iran's in this for the long game.
00:00:39.740You've got 91 million Iranians, and, you know, there's no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
00:00:47.160There's lots of people that are willing to die for their religion.
00:00:51.480And I think that there's lots that they could potentially do to us in the United States.
00:00:56.540Might not be this week, might not be next month.
00:00:59.420But this could very well come back to haunt us.
00:01:03.040And again, I think that this proves that Operation Midnight Hammer was not needed, that the Israelis could definitely have taken down the nuclear capability of Iranians by themselves.
00:01:11.640And we did not need to get involved and cross this threshold.
00:01:14.920This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:09:18.980And we decided to look past all the just simple tin worded questions that you were seeing in other polls to get down into what people really think the role of the U.S. should be in the Middle East and around the world.
00:09:33.060And of course we asked them whether they supported or opposed the airstrikes on the nuclear facilities and a host of other questions.
00:09:39.160But when you get down to it Americans just don't want this much of a war hawk posture in the rest of in the rest of the world.
00:09:47.260And if you have the graphic we can show it that'd be great.
00:09:54.820This is a guy who is telling his audience and followers in one breath that the president of the United States was senile.
00:10:01.620And in the other breath was advocating for the U.S. to get involved in a war with another great nuclear power on behalf of Ukraine.
00:10:10.740Just understand what that means folks.
00:10:12.420He wanted 20-something-year-old progressives and the deep state to basically just run the show in a war.
00:10:19.120I mean just marinate on that and take that in for a second.
00:10:22.980But what you just saw on the screen basically is that there's a larger percentage in this country who actually want the United States to have no role in stabilizing the Middle East than having one that involves a military posture.
00:10:36.600The biggest percentage, of course, is coming from people who do want somebody like Donald Trump, which is why he got elected, who his instincts are to pursue negotiations and to pursue peace, not to lay down and spout these myths of empire like I was telling you before with Lindsey Graham.
00:10:54.280It's the Neville Chamberlain of our time.
00:10:57.360There is a way forward, of course, through negotiations.
00:11:00.960There always has been, and that's what the American public wants to see.
00:11:04.720This is the entire public, not just a Trump voter.
00:11:08.160I think it's important for people to understand they have to look below the top lines when we poll these things, Steve.
00:11:14.420You cannot get to 50 plus one in this country with just the core support of Republican or core support of people who would vote for any Republican nominee.
00:11:25.680It is Donald Trump who gets to 50 plus one and wins these battleground states because of the other one in four who want a different way forward than what they have seen over the last – their entire lives.
00:11:38.560Their entire lives, all right, so for us, support for the bombing was – it wasn't great, especially among Trump's own supporters.
00:11:48.920There's about a quarter of them that were really left scratching their heads, wondering what's going on here.
00:11:58.900But I do think there's a window here where his instincts, if he moves forward with this path that you just laid out, is going to be popular.
00:12:40.620If you can pull up Trump's voters too, which is something that is key to understanding why these numbers came up.
00:12:45.860And just so people know, to stabilize the Middle East, even though it might mean a military action or conflict, is only a quarter of this entire country.
00:12:53.220When it comes to MAGA, it's even less.
00:12:57.240And MAGA – by MAGA, I mean Trump's supporters.
00:13:00.260And MAGA – this shouldn't surprise anybody, right?
00:13:03.060So MAGA is deeply distrustful of government.
00:13:05.920They feel like Donald Trump was their last chance to get this country on the right track.
00:13:10.880So I don't know why anyone suspected that they would not get pushback from a greater involvement, which, by the way, when it comes to the entire country, 26 percent told us, Steve, they don't think the U.S. should play a role at all in the Middle East.
00:13:25.200That's a very large percentage for this country considering its recent memory of American conflicts.
00:13:34.860And you say that we should have a role and we should try to stabilize the Middle East and get involved with Iran's – preventing Iran's nuclear program.
00:13:44.060But you're talking about only – it's 37 percent.
00:13:46.660So when you combine it all together, 75 percent of the country does not, does not believe that we should be doing that.
00:13:53.860And the reason why is right up on the screen right now.
00:14:19.44070 percent, you're just below 70 percent who think that it's at least somewhat likely that continued involvement in bombing these facilities would lead to escalation.
00:14:29.760And escalation was defined in different ways, terror attacks, right?
00:14:33.220It wasn't just lobbying a safe-faced attack at Qatar.
00:14:36.820They're concerned about future terror attacks.
00:14:39.060They remember that the Kuwait war was – Harold, it was a great success, Steve, and then this guy, Osama bin Laden, used it as a rally cry to build up his organization called Al-Qaeda.
00:16:28.120And this relates to another key deportation policy of the Trump administration.
00:16:33.440And this is sending convicted, violent criminals who are also illegal aliens, sending them to third countries.
00:16:40.080And this is part of negotiations by the President and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to take some of these illegals, whose own home countries won't take them back, and send them to other countries with which we have agreements.
00:16:55.780And this related to deportation of eight violent criminals, illegals, who are being sent to South Sudan.
00:17:03.500A Boston judge, Brian Murphy, in April, halted those deportations, that deportation policy.
00:17:10.740And then what happened is these illegals, and I think it was ICE agents or U.S. Marshals or whoever had custody of these illegals being transported to South Sudan.
00:17:23.980Now they're in this small country in the Horn of Africa.
00:17:27.040I think they're on either some sort of military base or some constructed camp where they have been languishing for the better part of now two months, waiting for the Supreme Court to step in and halt this madness from Judge Brian Murphy.
00:17:44.940And that's what the court in 6-3 decision did today.
00:17:48.000So those deportations will continue with the Department of Homeland Security just announcing within the past hour that they will continue those deportation flights, sending violent criminals who are illegal aliens to third countries because their own countries will not accept them back.
00:18:05.440Because of this war, we have not had you on for a while and talk about the whole judicial insurrection, which is, as we say, in this kind of global war, the most important front is in the United States of America to repel this invasion that the illegitimate Biden regime brought on.
00:18:24.660You've been covering this better than anybody.
00:18:27.220Where do we stand with everything we haven't focused on in the last couple of weeks, ma'am?
00:18:30.940So we still have a lot of these key deportation immigration cases progressing.
00:18:39.340What we will have next week, Steve, is a key appellate oral arguments in Texas, and this is over the Alien Enemies Act.
00:18:49.580And this is a case that the Supreme Court has really made a huge mess out of.
00:18:55.020So you and I talked about this back in April.
00:18:57.160We had Jeb Bosberg in March, you know, order the return of planes that were out of U.S. airspace about to land in Central America with illegal Venezuelans who were subjected to the newly signed Alien Enemies Act proclamation signed by President Trump on March 14th.
00:19:19.420The Supreme Court intervened, the D.C. appellate court and the Supreme Court claiming that these illegal Venezuelans were entitled to some sort of due process, some sort of notice that they couldn't just be pulled off of, you know, out of their cars or wherever they were, and then immediately taken to El Salvador and then returned to either Venezuela, stay in El Salvador or other countries like we were just talking about.
00:19:44.800So this is really one of the president's key signature deportation policies that not just the Supreme Court and Jeb Bosberg, but several other D.C. district courts have attempted to sabotage, have thwarted as well.
00:20:01.080So there will be another appellate court review oral arguments on Monday, June 30th, and this is in the 5th district.
00:20:10.420And may not fare as well for the defenders, the ACLU, which is the organization that's filing all these lawsuits to ban the deportation of these illegal Venezuelans, may not go over as well in the 5th circuit as it did in the D.C. circuit.
00:20:26.740But this is the case that will then end up back at the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court kicked this back to Texas.
00:32:14.880President Trump has announced a ceasefire timeline.
00:32:16.820He says, will end the war between Israel and Iran on the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will.
00:32:22.000I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should be called the 12-day war.
00:32:29.440Right now, Grace and Moe will tell me, I don't think we've heard any response from Israel or Iran.
00:32:38.260CNN had a story up that they pulled down saying, hey, they talked to some people.
00:33:04.960Ten Nobel Prizes are not enough for this guy.
00:33:08.600When everybody else, they're going down the vortex to a brutal war, right?
00:33:15.820President Trump pulls it out and says, no, we're going to have a ceasefire.
00:33:18.760In that ceasefire, he'll hammer out something.
00:33:20.400Julie Kelly, so the answer, and in President Trump, I just want everybody to know that it's the Article II powers that they're challenging because they hate Trump and they don't think he deserves to be president of the United States.
00:33:33.880So what they're going to try to do is go to the office of the president, what the Constitution says, as his Article II powers.
00:33:39.880And they're going to say, no, you're not chief executive officer of the United States government.
00:33:44.600Therefore, you cannot stop spending that you think is wrong and you cannot fire people that you think ought to be fired.
00:33:51.520Number two, as commander in chief, as commander in chief.
00:33:54.820Yeah, if you're doing things we'd like, like sending arms to Ukraine or bombing over in Persia, the apparatus in the deep state, we'd like those.
00:34:06.620We won't challenge your Article II powers.
00:34:10.120But if you want to deport the 10 million illegal alien invaders here, invited here by the illegitimate Biden regime and Mallorca's in that crowd, no, we're going to stop you.
00:34:20.460And by the way, if you want to take the neo-Confederates and the California government and say there's not going to be sanctuary cities and I'm not going to let the cities burn.
00:34:28.300And if I have to send the National Guard and then federalize them, I'm going to do it as my powers as commander in chief.
00:34:33.240And oh, by the way, eventually, if I've got to take away the habeas corpus and ship some of these folks out of here, I'm going to do what Abraham Lincoln did.
00:34:42.100Okay, not there yet, but that's his Article II powers.
00:34:44.280And Article II power, he's chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer.
00:34:49.800Right there, and they're trying to hinder him.
00:34:52.040So across the board, Julie Kelly, are we at ebb tide finally, or is it kind of just quieted out because they were running the tables there for a while, were they not, ma'am?
00:35:07.680We're still seeing these decisions come down.
00:35:10.280And we had this magistrate judge in Tennessee, Barbara Holmes, who last night issued this ridiculous 51-page order defending our favorite Maryland dad,
00:35:23.300Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was hit with a two-count federal criminal indictment for human smuggling, also allegations in there of drug, narcotics, and firearms, and transporting minors as well.
00:35:38.700And what she did in this order, and I'm reporting on this, I'll have a piece on my substack tomorrow on this.
00:35:45.160What she did is just dismantle the DOJ's indictment against the Maryland dad, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who, of course, became the cause celeb of the left.
00:35:57.940He is an illegal El Salvadoran man who was ordered removed in 2019, but not to go back to El Salvador amid alleged fears that rival gangs or gang members would retaliate against him.
00:36:12.200While he was deported to El Salvador, the government said, DOJ said, okay, we recognize that's not where he's supposed to go.
00:36:18.780But it was too late because he became the poster child of the, you know, the first Trump administration, we had, you know, kids in cages.
00:36:28.960And this time around, we have illegal El Salvadorans or Salvadorans and Venezuelans who are gangbangers, which there's no question Kilmar Abrego Garcia is.
00:36:40.740A member of MS-13 caught on body-worn camera footage in 2022 in Tennessee, transporting several individuals in a vehicle that did not belong to him that was later tied to another human smuggler.
00:36:57.780So the Trump administration did return Mr. Garcia, and his welcome mat was this two-count federal indictment.
00:37:05.800The DOJ sought what's called pre-trial detention, Steve, which means he will be held behind bars pending trial because he is a dangerous individual.
00:37:18.160And this judge, Barbara Holmes, knowing that he won't be released on the street because he's going to be in custody as an illegal, as ICE deals, as the DHS deals with his outstanding removal orders where he's going to go.
00:37:31.860So instead, she turned this order into a political instrument to produce headlines to deconstruct on her own without any testimony, any trial, any significant number of hearings.
00:37:45.580She determined on her own that this indictment was bogus, that there was not enough proof that he indeed was a human smuggler.
00:37:54.940So she spent 15 pages, Steve, explaining why, even if he did transport minors, meaning individuals under the age of 18, even if he did transport them, they are not victims.
00:38:10.400This is what she said, among other outrageous claims.
00:38:13.220But, of course, Barbara Holmes produced the headlines that she wanted.
00:38:18.580We saw wall-to-wall Politico and ABC News and NBC News saying, you know, judge blows holes in the federal case against Marilyn dad, Kilmark Garcia.
00:38:30.940But, of course, the DOJ, this is not the last word on it.
00:38:34.120They have sought again to vacate Barbara Holmes' to overturn her ruling to keep him detained.
00:38:40.400And then, of course, again, we'll deal with his criminal indictment as well as his outstanding removal order.
00:38:47.540So these judges are still playing political games.
00:38:51.040But as it does reach the higher courts, especially Supreme Court, we see better outcomes.
00:38:59.580This is what I said about opportunity cost, right?
00:39:04.480And the convergence of these crises, remember you heard that?
00:39:09.120The convergence of these crises, the Third World War, the invasion on our southern borders and our sovereignty, the financial and economic are now converging into one thing.
00:39:19.180And you see this judicial insurrection, which is part of the sovereignty and also President Trump's ability to execute his office under Article 2 of the Constitution.
00:39:31.620This war, clearly, President Trump is sucked into it 24 hours a day, right?
00:39:39.500Because you've got the national government.
00:39:43.300If justice has to come because they brief him, he demands to be briefed on what they're, you know, to read the briefs or what they're going back with.
00:39:50.360And to have Pam and the rest of the folks over there, Todd Blanche, walk him through with a stand.
00:39:57.560This is they're trying to tie him down.
00:39:59.740If you look at the big, beautiful bill, if you look at the complexity of all this.
00:40:04.260How does a guy in 24 hours even get up, get an hour of sleep?
00:40:08.820This is my point about the pressure on him.
00:40:12.020These cases right here, Julie Kelly, you're the best around and you can barely keep your head above water, right?
00:40:18.020Just just in the volume of what they're throwing out of him.
00:40:20.480And this is their strategy to delay is to deny.
00:40:22.980Think about think about having Pam Bondi or Todd Blanche.
00:40:26.860I'm sure these guys come over and brief you every other day where we stand and how it's moving through courts.
00:40:32.240Just the complexity, you would have a migraine headache and that even get you to working on the war or working on the finance and economics and the tax cut.
00:40:41.040They're trying to break him by overwhelming him on this.
00:40:47.260I mean, this is the court version of the special counsel Robert Mueller investigation, which sucked up so much time and resources and attention the first half of President Trump's first term.
00:41:03.720And, of course, monopolized the headlines.
00:41:06.840And this is exactly what you're getting with these various lawsuits and court proceedings.
00:41:11.260So I don't know how anyone at the Department of Justice can really get anything done aside from playing whack-a-mole with these lawsuits and these court orders and then having to file appeals and then having to go to the Supreme Court on every single one.
00:41:26.740And, I mean, you're still talking about an extremely systemically corrupt Department of Justice who they've already identified prosecutors who did not represent the administration's views on certain things and they had to be fired and removed.
00:41:43.440So you're going in there sort of blind.
00:41:45.560You and I talked about this last week.
00:41:47.080Okay, we've got great leadership at the DOJ.
00:41:49.200We've got a handful of really good men and women there.
00:41:52.160But you still have tens of thousands of employees you don't know who you can trust.
00:41:58.980So these court proceedings, these lawsuits are absolutely one of the ways to wear down the administration, take away time and resources and attention from other priorities.
00:42:09.400But, Steve, this also goes to, okay, what if the Supreme Court eventually says this fall that under the Alien Enemies Act, which almost every judge, even Judge Bosford, even the Supreme Court, judges who have declared that his invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was unlawful because there was no invasion.
00:42:31.760These are some of the elements that are in the AEA.
00:42:36.080What if the Supreme Court ultimately rules sort of what they are signaling in today's decision, that there is no right of notice for illegal Venezuelans or any illegal covered by an Alien Enemies Act proclamation?
00:43:03.360Eight months of being able to remove some of the most dangerous illegal aliens in our country.
00:43:10.080Steve, we had more than 600,000 illegal Venezuelans cross the border under the Biden regime.
00:43:16.980Most of them, the overwhelming majority, were young men.
00:43:20.940We already know that Venezuela is a hostile regime working with, yes, countries like Iran to try to destroy America, shipping these young men tied to Trenderagua into the United States where they're getting footholds in certain areas, in certain cities and communities.
00:43:39.660So he has now been hamstrung for months, will continue to do so for months while this slowly winds its way through the appellate courts back to the Supreme Court.
00:43:52.340Where I can't imagine a scenario, even if, even if the Supreme Court says, okay, alien enemies need 48 hours notice.
00:44:00.900So we used to go back to every single case now and give them 48 hours notice, but you've already lost a huge chunk of your first year in office.
00:44:10.820We saw this playbook, the first Trump administration, and this is how they're doing it this time around.
00:44:25.340And in the next, let's say this next week as he's hammering out the additional ceasefire and try to get even something more, even better than what they've got right now on a ceasefire.
00:44:35.480What is the next big thing you see and what should we be prepared for and looking for?
00:44:40.820So I'm going to write up this piece I'm working on right now, this order from Barbara Holmes, which was another crazy one about Abrego Garcia.
00:44:51.680As I said, next Monday, key appellate oral arguments in Texas related to the Alien Enemies Act, but also kind of starting to look also at the weaponization, what's happening with the 2020 election investigation disclosures that we got last week that you and I talked about, about potential interference.
00:45:10.240Well, we know interference by China, but to what degree in the president's call for a special prosecutor, special counsel to investigate 2020 election fraud.
00:45:20.260I am told there's more coming on that front.
00:45:22.560And so we will, I'll be seeing what's happening there and something that's kind of been under the radar, President Trump mentioning one of our favorites, Lisa Monaco, a few weeks ago, as perhaps one of the ghost auto pen writers.
00:45:38.780But I have to suspect that she also is under investigation for nearly a decade of trying to sabotage the president and use lawfare against him to do so.