Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - March 07, 2026


Ep 1314 ｜ 3 Reasons Trump’s Strikes Were Justified ｜ Ron Simmons


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00:01:09.040 Well, hello, everyone. Happy Saturday or whatever day you're listening to this for. Thank you for
00:01:14.820 being with us again on Allie's Relatable Podcast. And I am Allie's dad, Ron Simmons. Glad to be here.
00:01:21.520 And we've got a lot of stuff to talk about. I don't know if you listened to my last episode a couple
00:01:25.760 of weeks ago, but we got lots of things have happened since then, including the starting of
00:01:30.320 a war. And we're going to start off talking about that. The United States has named it Operation Epic
00:01:39.300 Fury. And epic, it means like the best of all time. And fury means it's going to be big. And it has been.
00:01:48.140 And of course, this has been done in conjunction with our friends in Israel. And it is against the
00:01:54.840 Republic of Iran. Although I want to get in just a minute, I'm going to get to something else about
00:02:00.580 why it's really not about the country of Iran and why that's a little bit of a misnomer. We're going
00:02:07.880 to talk about that in a few minutes. But anyway, let's kind of go over a little bit of the details.
00:02:12.020 This happened on February the 28th is when it began, which was about a week ago from the time
00:02:18.820 this episode is going to be coming out. And we launched the attack on the Islamic Republic of
00:02:24.480 Iran. And the first, I'd say the first thing, one of the first things we did is we were able to kill
00:02:29.640 their supreme leader, who really has been the one that has been for years shouting death to America
00:02:35.500 and also has ordered the killing of its own citizens, tens of thousands of them that protested.
00:02:41.740 And so that was one of our first goal was to wipe out the leadership.
00:02:47.260 And so far, the efforts by Israel and Iran have been very, very successful. I mean,
00:02:54.040 they essentially don't have any air force left. We've sunk a bunch of their ships as well.
00:02:58.360 I wrote down some, or I got some information that I looked up today as to how much, you know,
00:03:04.020 exactly how many specific bombs have been, you know, that we've done and whatever. There's been
00:03:11.420 2,000 targets hit, 300 missile launchers destroyed that Iran had hidden around their country.
00:03:18.760 We've taken out their leadership. The funny thing, it's so funny. I don't really know. Maybe these
00:03:23.940 guys aren't the sharpest people in the drawer, but when you're going to call for a breakfast meeting
00:03:29.280 right about the time, you're probably hearing rumors that there's going to be a bombing in your area
00:03:34.800 and you get all the leadership together and Mossad knows exactly where you are. I mean,
00:03:40.780 you just made it easier for us. And not only did they do that once, but then the next group of
00:03:44.940 leaders a couple of days later did the same thing. I mean, why in the world would they do that?
00:03:49.400 But anyway, we've taken out primarily their leadership. It's never a total void. There's
00:03:54.580 never a vacuum when it comes to leadership of terrorist organizations. Somebody's always
00:03:59.980 willing to step in. But we have really dismantled it and certainly made it more difficult.
00:04:05.600 We've focused our attacks on military targets like military bases, military operations.
00:04:11.320 Their nuclear, as you know, even though we bombed their nuclear, their big nuclear facility last June,
00:04:17.840 they've continued to try to enrich uranium, which is the key component for making a nuclear warhead.
00:04:24.220 And so we've been attacking that and we've had a lot of success on that. Of course, their ships. In fact,
00:04:29.260 it was interesting. I didn't, I didn't, I don't know that it surprised me, but I just thought, wow,
00:04:33.400 that's, that's really quite interesting that the, we fired a torpedo from one of our submarines to one
00:04:39.240 of their biggest ship, the military ships and, and sunk it. And that's the first time that a torpedo
00:04:45.300 for the United States has taken out a enemy ship since World War II. So that's really pretty
00:04:52.300 interesting. I had not, not thought of it that way. And of course, Iran's response has been to fire
00:04:57.440 rockets kind of indiscriminately, really kind of at Israel. They fired thousands of rockets at Israel.
00:05:04.080 They've also made the huge mistake of sending rockets into other Middle Eastern countries. Now they
00:05:10.840 claim they're just trying to kill U.S. citizens or U.S. military people over there. But when you send
00:05:15.980 a bomb into one of your neighboring countries, that automatically is going to have them against you.
00:05:21.940 And so they've done that. So we thank you for that, Iran, for doing that, because that just helped us
00:05:26.280 build our resolve. They also sent one against a United Kingdom base, not in the UK, but in another
00:05:33.860 country that now that drew UK back into being more supportive of what we're doing. And they've also
00:05:39.720 tried to hit some oil and gas facilities, which of course will temporarily raise the price of oil,
00:05:45.780 but that's not a long-term phenomenon. All that will get straightened out over the next few weeks is
00:05:50.840 what my opinion is. But a couple of things that you might not have known since October of 2023,
00:05:58.200 three, you remember the October 7th, 2023, October of 2023, there have been 32,948 missiles or drones
00:06:07.940 that have been sent into Israel. Now think about that. Just think about it where you live in your
00:06:14.320 area, you're part of the country. Just think about since for the last two and a half years, there's
00:06:19.820 been, if there were 32,000 missiles and drones sent into your area, do you think you would be pretty
00:06:24.780 upset about it and want to do something about it and want to try to, once and for all, try to get
00:06:29.260 something done? Because, and it's been Iran that has been supporting most of this and funding most
00:06:37.200 of this. So I don't, you know, I don't blame Israel at all, not at all. So anyway, the way,
00:06:44.900 what's happening now, according to President Trump, is that he's getting calls or they're getting calls,
00:06:49.980 probably not him personally, from people in Iran saying, hey, we want to make a deal. We want to
00:06:54.600 make a deal. Let's see what he has to say about that. All of their airplanes are gone. Their
00:07:00.380 communications are gone. Missiles are gone. Launches are gone. About 60 percent and 64 percent
00:07:08.900 respectively. Other than that, they're doing quite well. I said, what's left? But they're tough
00:07:16.700 and they want to fight. And they're calling, they're saying, how do we make a deal? I said,
00:07:22.320 you're being a little bit late. And we want to fight now more than they do.
00:07:28.420 So, I mean, and I can see how that would be happening. People are saying, hey, let's see if
00:07:35.420 we can figure out a deal. Now, the funny thing is, is that President Trump, just like, honestly,
00:07:40.100 just like President Biden and President Obama, they all wanted to negotiate a deal with Iran.
00:07:45.260 All right. And I don't blame President Obama or President Biden for wanting to negotiate a peaceful
00:07:50.360 solution to the problem. We cannot afford, in the Middle East, cannot afford for Iran to have a
00:07:56.700 nuclear weapon. Because what happens when they have a nuclear weapon, it puts everybody over there at
00:08:03.240 risk. And yeah, it puts us at risk too. But all of our friends over there are at risk. Remember the,
00:08:09.920 whatever you want to call it, Islam, 85 to 90 percent of Muslims are Sunni and only about 15 percent are
00:08:18.680 Shiite. And Shiite is what the majority is that are Muslims in Iran. Now, there are a lot of people
00:08:23.880 in Iran that are not Muslims at all. There are other religions or totally secular. In fact, the majority
00:08:31.180 of people in Iran, from my understanding, would not be considered radical Islams at all, Muslims at all.
00:08:41.100 So pretty interesting. President Trump tried to negotiate with them. He tried to do that for 15,
00:08:50.400 20 days, gave them some red lines. Now, the deal with President Trump is when he says there's a red
00:08:55.160 line, that means there's a red line. We've had some past presidents who have said there's a red line
00:09:00.420 and then nothing ever happens. And then we see the disaster after that, which was what happened in
00:09:05.760 Syria. But President Trump has called on them, before all this happened, to lay down their arms.
00:09:11.420 Listen to what he had to say in Satu. And I'm once again calling on all members of the Iranian
00:09:16.540 Revolutionary Guard, the military, and the police to lay down their arms. They're only going to be
00:09:21.800 killed. And now is the time to stand up for the Iranian people and help take back your country. You're
00:09:28.560 going to have a chance after all these years to take back your country. Accept immunity. We'll give you
00:09:34.660 immunity. And we'll be giving you really the right side of history because that's what it is. So you'll
00:09:42.300 be perfectly safe with total immunity or you'll face absolutely guaranteed death. And I don't want to
00:09:50.460 see that. Yeah, those are pretty strong words. But it's the truth. He's given them a fair warning
00:09:58.120 to lay down their arms and let's come to a peaceful solution. There's, and we don't have any video on
00:10:06.620 this right now, but if you have the chance to go watch or listen to what the crown prince, which was
00:10:14.580 the son of the Shah of Iran, which was exiled back in the late seventies, he lives in the DC area and he is
00:10:24.100 calling obviously for, for peace and supporting what we've done and also supporting the uprising
00:10:34.160 of what we hope would be a demo, a democratic solution that there would end up being Iran would
00:10:40.580 be a democracy, which is what it, which is, is kind of the way it has run in the past. Even when the
00:10:46.120 Shah was there, there was more, uh, there was, there was more freedoms for the people. Uh, so this is how it
00:10:53.120 all started. A lot of you weren't born during this time. Uh, but back in the seventies, the Shah of
00:10:58.500 Iran, which is kind of like a monarch, uh, was deposed and taken away by an uprising through radical
00:11:07.680 Islam. And it was done by someone that we, the Ayatollah Khomeini who was originally, actually his
00:11:14.580 ancestors came out of India. He was living in Turkey, but a lot of his radical, uh, messaging and
00:11:22.700 words and things like that were getting filtered into Iran. And so there was an uprising. They,
00:11:28.640 they kicked the Shah out. We took him back in exile. He died shortly there later from some type of
00:11:34.700 medical problem. And, but since then, Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism. As a matter of
00:11:42.420 fact, if you really want to know what this war is about, and the reason I said earlier, it's not about
00:11:49.220 Iran really as the country. It's really about the leadership of Iran, which turned out to be a
00:11:56.440 theocracy, not any other type of government. And it was a radical Islamic theocracy. And so it wasn't
00:12:05.180 about the borders because it was really about people around the world, not just in Iran, but people around
00:12:12.260 the world that supported radical Islamic theology. And that meant death to America, death to any Western
00:12:20.380 civilization, that we're all infidels and all that. And that's why you saw some, uh, protest after we took out
00:12:27.940 the Ayatollah, uh, here a few weeks ago. That's why you saw some protest. I'm sorry, not a few weeks ago, a few days
00:12:33.680 ago that were all upset that we had done that from other countries. And that's because there are radical
00:12:42.440 Muslims in other countries as well. In fact, there are some radical Muslims in this country. The one
00:12:48.280 that in the, you guys probably read about the shooting down in Austin, Texas, that in my opinion,
00:12:53.280 was a radicalized, probably lone wolf, uh, terrorist and radicalized through the stuff that people like
00:13:00.260 the Ayatollah were putting out. So it's really not about the country of Iran and those specific
00:13:05.540 borders. It's about what the leadership of Iran supported. As a matter of fact, uh, I pulled up a
00:13:11.800 list today of all the major terrorist organizations that they supported here. Hezbollah, which is in
00:13:18.300 Lebanon, which if you remember, uh, back in the eighties, they're the ones that blew up the Marine
00:13:24.420 barracks that we had and killed 200 and something of our, uh, uh, soldiers. Hamas, which was
00:13:30.140 responsible for what went on in Gaza. When they attacked on October 7th, uh, the, uh, uh, Israel
00:13:36.480 and killed 1200 people, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad called the PLJ longtime Iranian beneficiary,
00:13:43.340 the popular front for the liberation of Palestine supported financially by Iran. These are all
00:13:49.420 organizations that are not in the country, but are outside organizations supported by that theocracy.
00:13:55.560 Iran-backed militia groups, okay, were, uh, Harakata, that was a foreign terrorist organization.
00:14:02.880 Uh, Khatib Saeed, that's another Iran-aligned militia designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
00:14:10.560 Harakata Ansar Allah, another one. Khatib Ali, the Houthis, you've heard about the Houthis and
00:14:17.820 several Syrian militias as well. And then there's a Baharani Shia militias. Iran has,
00:14:23.680 they provided support to that militia group attempting to destabilize Batran. Well, come on.
00:14:29.940 I mean, I don't understand how there could be one person in the United States of America
00:14:35.740 that wouldn't say that this was something that we should have done, that it actually protected
00:14:41.840 America. In fact, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was the Secretary of State under
00:14:47.660 George W. Bush, she was interviewed on Fox News recently, and she talked about this,
00:14:53.320 about Operation Epic Fury. Let's see what, uh, Secretary Rice had to say.
00:14:57.480 I think if the goal of the administration, uh, is to render Iran incapable of using its military
00:15:05.680 forces, uh, outside of its borders, of threatening our neighbors, our, our allies, of threatening our
00:15:11.640 bases abroad, which we're seeing, uh, they are capable of doing. If it is, uh, trying to deny them
00:15:17.700 a conventional umbrella for their nuclear ambitions, uh, I, that is, uh, a worthy, uh, goal.
00:15:25.460 So I really appreciate her coming out and saying that, uh, I think that helps, uh, uh, get support
00:15:32.280 from a broader range of people in the United States. Condoleezza Rice is very well respected.
00:15:38.820 She doesn't have an axe to grind, but she understands being former Secretary of State.
00:15:43.520 She understands the backdrop of what's been going on in Iran for the last 40, 47 years. She also said
00:15:50.360 that, that rendering Iran, uh, incapable of military action would make the region more stable and protect
00:15:58.020 U.S. allies. She also noted that up to 75 to 80% of American casualties in Iraq. Think about that.
00:16:05.300 75 to 80% of the casualties in Iraq of our own soldiers were caused by Iranian made roadside bombs.
00:16:14.980 So when you see these young men and women that have been paralyzed, or you read about them being
00:16:20.840 killed from the roadside bombs in Iraq, uh, just, just point that right back at Iran and what they,
00:16:27.160 uh, provided those, uh, the, the Iraqi military over there. Uh, in October 23rd of 1983,
00:16:35.300 this is what I talked about a minute ago, the Hezbollah suicide bomber, uh, directed a truck
00:16:40.680 drove into the, uh, the building in Beirut and killed 241 American service members, 241 fully
00:16:50.240 funded by Iran. So those of you that think, okay, we shouldn't be in a war. I get all of that,
00:16:55.460 but it's just a matter of time. If we didn't don't do this and didn't do this before they were going to
00:17:03.940 do more damage to us directly and to our allies. And we have a, not only a, uh, treaty based
00:17:13.380 responsibility to protect our allies. We have a moral base reason for doing that. If we're going to be,
00:17:20.360 you know, like the Bible says, there's no, you know, you can, there's no greater person than a
00:17:26.640 friend that you're loyal to. And so we're loyal to our allies and we're going to support them.
00:17:31.540 And that's what we do as a country. And I support that a hundred percent. Uh, obviously a lot of the,
00:17:38.940 what we would call regular Iranians that are not involved in the theocracy are very happy that this
00:17:43.600 is going on. There's been, uh, uh, there, there, uh, there's been a lot of joy. I, in fact, there's,
00:17:49.800 we'll show you a video in just a minute of some of the stuff that they're doing, but it's kind of
00:17:54.520 got started at the end of last year, their economy went down because of some sanctions and what have
00:17:59.820 you. And then there were protests that really kind of started in the colleges and kind of built from
00:18:05.540 their universities, 31 different provinces had, all of them had protested that, uh, that came around.
00:18:12.880 And then what the leadership tried to do was to shut those protests down. And when they couldn't
00:18:18.560 just shut them down by telling them to go home, they began indiscriminately shooting people and
00:18:23.540 killing people. Tens of thousands of Iranian citizens. Now think about that. Tens of thousands
00:18:30.260 of Iranian citizens have been killed by their own government because they were, they were protesting
00:18:36.780 and another 42,000 were arrested. And if we didn't get involved in this, you would never
00:18:42.860 going to see those 42,000 again. Uh, so it's really, it's, it's really interesting. And then
00:18:49.240 you say, well, why in the world do we worry about Islam? Well, in addition to the, to the military
00:18:54.700 threat to they, that they pose to us and to the threat to our citizens, think about this. They,
00:19:00.760 you know, it's really a theocracy under Sharia law. We talk about Sharia law sometimes here in Texas
00:19:06.580 about being worried about whether Sharia law is going to, you know, uh, come into play in the
00:19:11.760 United States, uh, which there, there, I do not believe it will be, but there'll be some attempts
00:19:17.020 in some sections for that. But here's some of the things that here's kind of just one of the things
00:19:22.480 that happens in Sharia law. After the theocracy in Iran took over, the legal age of marriage for
00:19:28.380 women was lowered from age 15 to age nine. Now think about that. I mean, that is nothing but child
00:19:36.240 abuse. Yet there were 53 Democrats in a vote on the house floor yesterday that would not say that
00:19:44.740 Iran was a terrorist nation. So basically they're supporting this by saying that, I mean, it's just
00:19:50.940 unbelievable what some of our friends on the other side of the aisle will do. Uh, so, I mean,
00:19:57.880 it's, it's, it's been a mess. And, uh, there's one, uh, U S a lot of U S senators, but one
00:20:02.500 senators, Senator, Senator Tuberville from Alabama said it the best when he talks about what, how the
00:20:08.480 treatment of women in Iran, you know, in America, women are allowed to dress, go to school, work and
00:20:15.040 marry whoever they like. Iran used to be like this too, before they were taken over by radical Islamists
00:20:22.540 in 1979. This is them post 1979. Sadly, under the sick leadership of these terrorists, women are
00:20:32.620 treated like dogs. You hear that women are treated like dogs. They are forced to cover every part of
00:20:38.520 their body of their skin, except for their eyes. They aren't allowed to leave home unless they're
00:20:42.440 with a sink, a male escort. They aren't allowed to get an education or work job. And there aren't
00:20:48.080 forced, and they are forced sometimes to marry young to six years old, pedophilia and inbreeding
00:20:54.480 are rampant. And women are lucky if they are allowed to drive. It's just a shame that we've
00:21:00.720 allowed this to go on as long as we have, honestly. I mean, it is absolutely sick. Uh, and where are all
00:21:06.980 the feminists? Why aren't the feminist organizations praising president Trump for helping, helping to
00:21:12.120 liberate these women? They're trying to do what we can. Obviously it's going to be up to them to make
00:21:16.360 it totally happen, but where are all the feminist organizations? I don't hear, where are you Jane
00:21:20.620 Fonda? Jane, Jane, wake up. Where are you? You should be praising president Trump and what they're
00:21:27.680 doing here, but no, you're so, you have such derangement syndrome. And you know what? It would
00:21:34.840 be the same way if this was president Bush and he had done this, they wouldn't praise him either. I mean,
00:21:39.160 but it's just unbelievable how, uh, hypocritical that they are. Now, some of the Iranians, they kind of
00:21:46.040 like president Trump and let's see what they're doing to show that. Oh, they're doing the Trump
00:21:51.260 dance. Look at that. Now you got to admit, I mean, there's not much funny in a war, but that's
00:21:59.220 pretty funny. And I'm not sure exactly where this is, but, uh, that's some Iranians and maybe that's,
00:22:04.640 maybe it's in downtown New York or someplace, but it's really pretty funny. That really appreciate
00:22:10.100 that. Oh me. And we have to have a little, uh, laughter in all of this. Oddly enough, though,
00:22:17.380 60% of Americans disapproved of the attacks. Now you tell me why you disapproved of those. Please
00:22:25.220 write to me, Ron at ronsimmons.com. Tell me how in the world that we're on the wrong side of history
00:22:31.280 by doing this. Cause I just would not understand that. Uh, we'll see how it ends up. Some of these
00:22:36.720 things that go on this early in, uh, a conflict like this, they tend to level out a little bit
00:22:43.280 more, but I'm sure there'll be continued to have polling done. But our, you know, we talked about
00:22:48.280 our friends on the other side of the aisle, uh, and, uh, the leadership in the house is, uh, is
00:22:53.920 representative, uh, uh, Hakeem Jeffries. And they talked about that. Uh, you know, he was pressed by Fox
00:23:03.140 News reporter, Bill Lugan, uh, on, on the democratic hypocrisy because Nancy Pelosi, our friend, friend
00:23:11.640 Nancy Pelosi in 2011, she supported president Obama's unauthorized Libya airstrikes versus
00:23:17.620 Democrats current insistence on congressional approval for president Trump strikes. Now, when he was
00:23:23.820 pressed on that, here's what representative Jeffries had to say in SOT 6. Thank you, leader Jeffries.
00:23:29.260 Back in 2011, Nancy Pelosi said that then president Obama didn't need congressional approval to bomb
00:23:34.720 Libya. Now house Democrats say president Trump needs that approval to bomb Iran. What's the
00:23:39.480 difference? Well, obviously Libya and the circumstances connected to that were very different than the
00:23:44.920 circumstance that we face in Iran right now. Hello. What were those differences? We had people
00:23:53.340 that were, that were, that were, you remember the Benghazi scenario that were, that were killing,
00:23:58.620 uh, American diplomats and citizens. And, and they were attacking what we were trying to do in Libya,
00:24:06.700 the terrorist organizations we were trying to overthrow over there. So I don't understand what
00:24:10.960 representative Jeffries is talking about. Question always comes up. Will this be a forever war?
00:24:17.220 Well, I don't think it will be. Obviously there can always be conflict and what have you,
00:24:22.020 but let's take a look at what happened in Venezuela. In fact, recently in Venezuela, you know,
00:24:28.040 we went down there, took Maduro out and a different, it was a different type of operation.
00:24:33.120 Venezuela didn't pose the same broad threat. They weren't trying to get a nuclear weapon. They
00:24:38.500 didn't have a whole bunch of missiles stationed all over their country. Their main problem was that
00:24:43.480 their leader was cutting deals with a lot of our enemies. And we asked him to quit doing that.
00:24:49.380 And, uh, we even offered them the opportunity to get out of the country and get into exile,
00:24:53.180 but he didn't want to do it. So we went down and got, uh, Maduro on January the 3rd. And,
00:24:59.800 uh, they, what's happened since then though, and there'll be a, uh, you'll see, I think it was
00:25:06.500 yesterday or today where we did a, we cut a deal with them that will be a historic agreement to
00:25:13.000 reestablish diplomatic ties. We haven't had diplomatic ties there for years. And they came to a deal
00:25:18.800 as well as a deal on gold, those golden, uh, in, uh, Venezuela as well. So we hope that's the type
00:25:25.020 of thing that lasts. And also it's the type of thing that happens in Iran that we can reopen
00:25:29.220 diplomatic ties to them. We'd love that nothing more than to have a embassy in Tehran and work
00:25:34.600 with those people over there. That's they've got, there's something like 90 million people in the
00:25:38.580 country of Iran. They have a lot of resources. They have a lot of very obviously wonderful people
00:25:44.120 as president Trump talks about all the time. And, uh, we just hope that we'll be able to
00:25:49.080 develop a relationship with them. And if we can provide them some guidance and ideas on setting up
00:25:56.140 a, uh, working, a democratic or Republican government, or a republic government, then we're
00:26:02.080 happy to do that. I do not see any opportunity, no matter what crazy Democrat senators say that there
00:26:08.340 will be boots on the ground in Iran. That, that is, that is, Trump has said no on that. And it's
00:26:12.860 really not needed. We don't need to do that. We can, we can take out almost everything we need
00:26:18.060 to do from the air and from the ocean. And we're doing a good job of that as well. So
00:26:22.600 anyway, that's the information on Iran. If you've got any more questions on that, you want to
00:26:26.380 write to me, feels free to do that. Ron at ronsimmons.com. I'm certainly not a, you know,
00:26:31.520 the top expert in the country. Uh, I do try to talk to a lot of people that are involved in this and
00:26:36.980 know more than I do. And so I try to give you the information that I know and that I can discover.
00:26:42.060 So please, if you have more questions, just give me a, give me a shout on that. Now
00:26:46.040 our friends in the immigration and the department of Homeland security, and they are our friends.
00:26:53.200 They've done those men and women there have done a really hard job, a good job in a very tough
00:26:58.500 situation. And if you remember currently that whole department has not been budgeted for,
00:27:04.940 it's not been funded for the last two or three weeks, because in order to get, keep the rest of
00:27:10.200 the government open, they had to cut a deal to say, we're going to leave the department of
00:27:14.420 Homeland security that we're not going to fund them. Although the people are still working at
00:27:18.840 the airports and our immigration officers are still working and what have you, and they'll get
00:27:22.560 back pay when it all gets settled. But they had to cut a deal because the Democrats wanted to make
00:27:28.220 a statement and possibly put some additional rules and regulations on immigration, uh, ICE.
00:27:35.560 And in order for it to get out of the Senate, remember you have to have 60 votes. You have
00:27:40.660 to have 60 votes in order for there to be what they call cloture, which is stopping debate and
00:27:46.420 then taking a vote. Once you take a vote, it's only requires 51 to pass the bill. But in order for us
00:27:54.400 to get the rest of the government continue to stay open, we had to agree that the department of
00:28:00.080 Homeland security would remain closed until they could reach an agreement. And that's how they end up
00:28:04.940 getting, that's how they ended up getting it done. But the head of department of Homeland security was,
00:28:11.000 uh, former governor, Christy Noem. She's the secretary of that. And, uh, just this week,
00:28:17.720 she has been reassigned. Well, reassigned in the government world means you've been fired,
00:28:24.580 but we just haven't kicked you out because we don't want to be embarrassed by it either.
00:28:28.180 But she was reassigned because of primarily, I think there was some belief that she was not as
00:28:39.360 good of a leader as we hope would be. If you remember in Minnesota, when things got really,
00:28:45.060 really kind of out of hand there, the president sent in Tom Holman, who was head of the ICE and
00:28:52.960 kind of calm that situation down as much as you could with those lunatics that are in government
00:28:57.940 over there. But he, and he able to draw down some of the ICE officers and what have you got more
00:29:03.380 cooperation out of the local sheriff's departments, uh, so that there wouldn't need to be as many
00:29:09.500 arrests in a sense on the street of illegals. They would be able to get them out of the jails that
00:29:15.260 they were being detained in. And so that was kind of a signal that maybe the president didn't have as
00:29:22.020 much faith in secretary Noem as thought. And then she had a hearing this week, uh, which, you know,
00:29:28.940 and it's a Republican led hearing because Republicans control all the committees. So the Republican, um,
00:29:35.280 chairman had to call it in as a Senate committee. And she was grilled over a lot of different things.
00:29:40.120 And of course the Democrat senators get to ask questions, but one of the things that appeared to
00:29:44.960 be the straw that broke the camel's back was an advertising campaign for the department of Homeland
00:29:50.840 Security, whereby these contracts were given in a no bid basis. These contracts were supposed to be
00:29:57.860 competitively bid, but she, she stated some type of emergency border security clause that allowed her
00:30:05.500 to give these contracts out that were no bid. And it appears that some of them went to firms that were
00:30:12.200 closely affiliated to her or her organization without, uh, again, a competitive bidding process.
00:30:19.660 And it wasn't a small number. It was a $220 million ad campaign, which a lot of people say
00:30:26.680 appeared to be really more promoting secretary Noem than it did promoting the efforts of the men and
00:30:32.840 women of her, uh, department. The ad campaign did come back to haunt miss Noem, but she wasn't very
00:30:40.880 happy about it. And here's what she says. The president approved ahead of time. You spending
00:30:48.380 $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently.
00:30:55.900 Yes, sir. We went through the legal processes. Did it correct?
00:30:58.900 Did the president know you were going to do this?
00:31:00.900 Yes. He did. Yes. Okay. Um, and one thing Senator, I think would be helpful to know is how effective
00:31:09.180 that communications has been that overwhelmingly in your name recognition. I mean, to me, it puts
00:31:15.780 the president in a terribly awkward spot and it, it, it, and I just, I'm not saying you're not telling
00:31:23.380 the truth. It's just hard for me to believe. Now, chances are I've been in hearings when I was in
00:31:30.060 the legislature sitting in similar to position where Senator Kennedy would be obviously not at that
00:31:35.880 level, but usually we know the answers to the questions before we ask them. So chances are Senator
00:31:44.060 Kennedy had already checked with the white house on whether or not the president knew or not. And so he
00:31:48.560 kind of knew what the answer was, not always, but a lot of times that's the case. You don't,
00:31:53.300 the last thing you want to do is one asking the questions to be, put yourself in a position of
00:31:59.760 looking foolish or not having the correct information. But president Trump has said he
00:32:05.240 did not know about it, or at least he doesn't recall ever doing that. And I think something that
00:32:11.500 big, uh, there probably would have, there's probably a record of that somewhere. And then what happened
00:32:17.360 after that is president Trump got wind of that was not very happy about it. He did name her to a new
00:32:24.880 role as special envoy for the shield of America, which I'm have no idea exactly what that means,
00:32:30.960 but he did do that. And, um, he, uh, then has named a new person to be, uh, take the secretary of DHS.
00:32:41.320 And the guy's name is Mark Wayne Mullen, who is a Republican from Oklahoma and Oklahoma, a native
00:32:47.000 American. He's a current U S Senator and he'll take over as a new DHS secretary. Of course, he will
00:32:53.000 initially be acting and then he'll have to be approved by the Senate, which shouldn't be a
00:32:57.740 problem. And we have a statement on a, I think it's probably from true social at president Trump
00:33:02.860 talked about. So he's pleased to announce it, uh, under the current secretary who he obviously
00:33:09.640 doesn't throw under the bus served. Well, she's going to be a special envoy. He thanks her first
00:33:14.760 service. And then he goes on to talk a little bit about, uh, what, uh, Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator
00:33:21.320 Mullen had done in the past. He was in the United States house of representatives. And then he went on,
00:33:26.920 uh, to be, uh, a represented Oklahoma. And he's, he obviously is a native American. He understands,
00:33:35.080 uh, community, different types of incredible tribal communities. He's going to do it. He's
00:33:40.300 going to do a good job. According to him, he's going to make America safe again. And I think it's
00:33:44.580 a great pick. Uh, I think when you can pick a minority for a role that deals with a lot of
00:33:49.480 minorities, which illegals, uh, a lot, mostly are minorities that are coming across. Then I think
00:33:54.800 that's a really, really good pick for him. And I think that'll be a good, a good spot. Anyway,
00:34:00.000 we'll see what happens with that. But again, he appointed Senator Mullen and, uh, and sought
00:34:05.160 eight. This is how they honored Senator Mullen. What was your first reaction to just the news
00:34:10.120 that you were nominated for this position, just to miss everything. And that's humbling
00:34:13.800 because I had to call my dad and, uh, I mean, cause it happened quick, right? I had to call
00:34:20.040 my wife and call my dad both. And it's just, you know, pretty humbling when you start thinking
00:34:24.520 about it. A little kid from Westville, Oklahoma, uh, gets to serve in the president's cabinet.
00:34:27.900 That's pretty neat. So obviously he's humbled and honored. You know, the other thing is he's
00:34:32.900 an MMA fighter. So I really wouldn't want to mess with him. Yikes. Uh, we're glad to have
00:34:38.320 him there. Thank him for serving. And, uh, uh, the press secretary, uh, also, uh, put out
00:34:45.460 a post on, uh, on Senator Mullen and, uh, also thanking Christy Noem for her work as well.
00:34:52.220 All right. Uh, why don't we go to some questions from our great audience? You guys are always so
00:35:00.220 good about that. I mean, I, I'm never, again, never cease to be amazed at the questions that
00:35:05.160 you have and there's always more than I can answer. So if I can't get to your particular
00:35:09.020 question, uh, but it's something that I haven't covered otherwise specific to you, please feel
00:35:15.180 free to email me. I try to get to those as much as I can. If, if you've sent me something and I haven't
00:35:20.220 responded, please email me again. Cause somehow it got past the first or second page of my emails
00:35:25.400 and I'll be happy to do it. I'm not, I don't ever avoid any questions. So if you send them to me,
00:35:30.120 please just, uh, and I haven't done it, please send them to me again. All right. All right. Who
00:35:36.100 replaces Senator Mullins in the Senate? That's a really good question. This is how things work.
00:35:42.340 I think in every state, if a Senator leaves their position during the middle of their term or any time
00:35:50.140 during their term, then the governor of the state, in this case, that's governor, I think it's S-T-I-T-T
00:35:57.320 or Stilt. Not sure exactly how you say his last name, but, uh, he will appoint someone to take over
00:36:05.580 for the remainder of the term. Now in some States, the appointment may be more temporary than that,
00:36:12.480 where they have to have a special election. I'm not sure what happens in Oklahoma, but he'll appoint
00:36:16.620 someone. Sometimes they like to appoint themselves. I don't know that the governor will do that in this
00:36:21.900 particular case, but there'll be a mad rush. You can, you can believe me, his cell phone is getting
00:36:27.760 blown up right now. And he may ask also Senator Mullin, what his thoughts are on that, but they'll
00:36:33.740 do that. And the reason Senator Mullin is a good pick from a political standpoint is because, uh, Oklahoma
00:36:40.280 is a solid Republican state. So you don't have a chance where even if there is a special election,
00:36:46.520 or in the next election, uh, the Republicans should not lose that seat. So that's how that'll
00:36:52.360 work. Uh, and then how concerned am I about Texas flipping blue, especially with sleazy Tallarico?
00:37:00.300 Well, Tallarico is a wolf in sheep's closing. No question about that. He is as far left as Jasmine
00:37:07.980 Crockett would have ever been. I was rooting for Jasmine. I want you to know that Jasmine,
00:37:12.000 um, I was rooting for you. All right. But you didn't quite get it over the line. And of course,
00:37:17.780 then you claimed that, you know, it was your election denier in your own election already,
00:37:22.740 but I don't see any of your friends saying you shouldn't be an election denier, but that's all
00:37:26.260 I read in the paper yesterday. And then it was a Republican's fault. Even though you were in a
00:37:30.140 Democrat primary, you blame the Republicans for your election being rigged. Uh, you have to explain that
00:37:37.660 one to me again, email me Ron at ronsimmons.com. We'll talk about that, but I don't have a concern
00:37:42.920 about Texas turning blue. I do think that we can't ever sit, you know, sit on our hands. We have to
00:37:47.940 get the vote out. Um, and Tallarico is going to be a formidable opponent. There's no question about
00:37:53.940 that. Uh, cause he will have all the money behind him. He kind of, you know, he kind of looks the part
00:37:59.800 and says, says the right things and whatever, but he is dangerous. Let me tell you something. He is
00:38:05.600 very, very dangerous. All right. How do we convince people no to Tallarico and list his
00:38:12.980 political failings, his crazy beliefs? We're going to talk more about that. I know Allie
00:38:16.640 will be talking more about that over the next couple of months. So we'll put some stuff together
00:38:20.860 that'll help you with that. Um, and get to some facts so you can get some facts out, uh, to all of
00:38:26.780 the friends and the people that you're talking to rising gas prices. Where will it stop? I don't know
00:38:31.740 exactly the amount, but I do think it'll be, uh, neutralized over the next few weeks. It could
00:38:37.400 spike up a little more before where it is here. I'm sure, uh, there'll, there's all, there's going
00:38:42.460 to be some continued disruptions a little bit. They're going to have to get the Strait of Hormuz
00:38:47.680 figured out. It doesn't really have much of effect on the oil supply here in the U S but, but remember
00:38:53.980 oil, oil prices and oil commodities are worldwide. So it affects the flow of oil in some
00:39:01.620 parts of the world that has an effect on us as well. And, but I do think that'll get straightened
00:39:07.680 out over the next few weeks. I was reading something the other day that, uh, you know,
00:39:11.600 China gets quite a bit of their oil 20% or something like that from Iran. And I think that
00:39:16.900 we are trying to work out, uh, to help them as far as that to kind of replace that. I don't
00:39:22.420 know if it would come from us directly or come from Saudi Arabia or someplace like that, but
00:39:25.900 trying to, trying to get that worked out so that it doesn't have a major disruption on the
00:39:30.360 world economy, which is a smart thing to do. You know, it's interesting. You, you may be
00:39:34.920 arguing with somebody or something or some country over here on this issue, but then you've got to
00:39:40.460 work together on another issue. And that's what a lot of our, uh, a lot of the people here in the
00:39:45.760 U S and maybe around the world don't understand that a lot of people think, well, you only can be
00:39:50.700 this way. It's got to be this way on everything a hundred percent of the time. That's not the way it
00:39:54.640 works. That's not the way the sausage is made. And you just have to understand that it's okay.
00:39:59.220 If, you know, Mr. Democrat and I agree on this and disagree on that, that that's the way things
00:40:05.860 work and that's the way they should work. How, let's see here. How did I maintain a strong religious
00:40:12.820 household through, through the different phases of life? You know, you hope that it's happening
00:40:18.800 like that. I will tell you that in our house, uh, and I've said this before, a lot of it was my
00:40:24.840 wife, Lisa and the kid's mom, you know, she was on her knees, um, every morning she still does it.
00:40:30.480 Uh, I heard her in there yesterday morning, uh, having a conversation with God on an issue that
00:40:36.940 we're working on in our family right now. Um, and she was just claiming it. I mean, she was just
00:40:43.100 claiming these truths that are in the Bible and continuing to do that and put in the, trying to
00:40:48.560 put those on the hearts of our kids. It's obviously best if you start that when they're
00:40:53.420 young so that you're, so that that is deep into their heart. Cause when they're young,
00:40:57.620 it's so much like a sponge as they get older, they get maybe some more resistance and things
00:41:03.020 bounce off. But when they're kids, it just, it just, they just absorb that. And so the younger
00:41:09.000 you can do that, the better as they, as you go through life, one of the things that we had to
00:41:13.880 learn in our household. And really when I say we, that's kind of the Royal we, it's really me.
00:41:17.900 I was the one that didn't know it is that there are preferences, there are rules and there are values.
00:41:26.980 And when your kids are little, you have mostly rules. All right. And that's the way it has to be
00:41:34.660 so that they know what to operate under as they get older into their teenage years. You got to really
00:41:40.180 separate those. There are a lot of things that were my preference. I wanted Allie Beth and my other
00:41:45.720 kids to get up and make their bed every morning, keep a clean room, really a preference, honestly.
00:41:51.160 All right. I wanted to make it a rule. In fact, I would have said it's one of my values, but that
00:41:56.500 would be wrong too. And so we had to learn that you have to make sure that you're, you're, you're
00:42:03.420 definitely flexible with your preferences. You might, you might say, Hey, I wish you would do that
00:42:07.380 sweetheart. And your rule would say, Hey, you know what? The rule is we have a curfew at 11
00:42:13.000 o'clock and that's not going to change. We can talk about it, but unless you have a really good
00:42:17.440 argument, which honestly, Allie was a really good arguer. So that was kind of hard to argue with
00:42:20.980 her that, uh, but that's not going to change. She didn't ever push that envelope hard. Uh, but then
00:42:26.380 the values, which hopefully you instilled early on that those never change that value of being
00:42:31.620 truthful, the value of being honoring each other, the value of worshiping our Lord, those types of things,
00:42:36.880 those types of things are values that you never change, no matter what phase of life that your
00:42:42.980 household is in. All right. Newly married couple. How can we protect our future children from worldly
00:42:48.660 views? Just kind of like what I said a minute ago, just get them, get them in implanted in them early
00:42:56.700 of what your views and your values are and allow that to be the sounding board that they test everything
00:43:03.860 against. If you put somebody's values in them, what they believe in, then as other things are
00:43:09.800 presented to them, they will measure them against those values and they may question those values.
00:43:16.220 And when they do, hopefully you have a relationship where y'all are open enough where you can have that
00:43:20.640 discussion. They may not be mature enough to, uh, to be able to defend them as well as you want to.
00:43:27.760 So you may have to help them do that and you should encourage them. Hey, if, if you ever come across
00:43:33.280 something that goes against what you know, that the, our values are, and you don't know why, um, our
00:43:40.100 values are that in that particular situation, let's sit down and talk about it. Right. That that's what I
00:43:44.420 would do. All right. Um, Cornyn versus Paxton would Trump endorse Cornyn and replace Bondi with
00:43:52.100 Paxton. So Bondi is our U S attorney general. Paxton is the state of Texas attorney general and
00:43:58.080 Senator Cornyn is the sitting U S center. Cornyn and Paxton are going against each other. And what
00:44:02.600 will now be a runoff, uh, my preferences is Senator Cornyn on that. Uh, I think he'll be, has been a
00:44:09.480 really good Senator and will continue to be a good Senator. He votes with president on president Trump's
00:44:14.760 agenda, 90 something percent of the time. Uh, I don't think that A.G. Paxton will do a better job
00:44:21.540 than him. And, uh, there is some, uh, what would you say? There are some issues with, uh, attorney
00:44:30.660 general Paxton's past that I think would have a big negative effect on us in a general election.
00:44:37.640 It'd be much harder for him to beat Tallarico than it will for Senator Cornyn. I don't know if
00:44:43.440 president Trump obviously is going to endorse Cornyn. I keep hearing that's going to happen from
00:44:48.200 some sources that I have, but I do not know that haven't certainly haven't talked to the president
00:44:52.820 on that. One of the, one of the things that president Trump has said though, is that whoever
00:44:59.220 it is that I endorse, the other person really should drop out of the race. And Paxton has come
00:45:04.160 out and said, well, I'm not doing that. That makes me think that Trump is leaning to Cornyn.
00:45:09.740 And so they may be trying to cut a deal behind the scenes. Like you're talking about here. I doubt
00:45:14.380 that Pam Bondi would, uh, unless she wants to leave, I don't think she would be pushed out.
00:45:19.580 Uh, it's not unusual for some of the cabinet secretaries to leave in the second year or so,
00:45:24.820 uh, after they've been in these, these jobs are incredibly 24 seven. Um, so I doubt he would be
00:45:31.400 the attorney general. Cause I don't know that he could get through the Senate, uh, confirmation
00:45:36.720 election scenario. But there may be something he's working out to appoint, uh, Paxton to something
00:45:42.800 that would, that would, uh, allow, allow there not to be a hugely contested runoff election. That
00:45:49.160 would be best for the Republican party for sure. Uh, what do you do when your 21 year old is heading
00:45:55.120 down the wrong path? Well, you know, and I know you're doing this, but we got to have to have
00:45:59.860 unconditional love. We have to realize that they've come to a point in their life where they
00:46:05.760 absolutely have free will and that hopefully you've instilled in them a foundation of what's
00:46:13.740 right and what's wrong and a, uh, a belief in God and a belief in Jesus. And that you keep the
00:46:22.440 communication channels open enough to, uh, that they will come back to you. All right. You cannot
00:46:29.140 just continue to beat on them and beat on and beat on that doesn't work. I wish it did. If it, if,
00:46:34.280 if it did, I'd be really, really good at that, but I just know it doesn't work. Um, and you also
00:46:40.640 have to go on about your life. You can't let their scenario totally stop you from whatever else you're
00:46:47.380 supposed to be doing. And then finally, if they're putting your rest of your family in a dangerous
00:46:52.560 situation, you have to separate yourself from that. You cannot put, let them put the rest of your
00:46:57.440 family at risk if it's a dangerous situation. So hopefully it's not that just maybe kind of veering
00:47:02.680 off the path. I veered off the path for a little bit when I was in my late teens, early twenties,
00:47:07.160 got back corrected mainly because of the foundation that, that I had been brought up with.
00:47:14.180 Tucker Carlson's narrative on Israel, man, I don't know. I don't know if you listened to the
00:47:19.000 Huckabee interview with him or his interview of Huckabee. I thought it was really good. I thought,
00:47:23.300 uh, Ambassador Huckabee did a great job on that. If you haven't go back and watch that,
00:47:27.660 uh, I'm not sure what's going on with Tucker. I really don't know. I mean, I think it's internal
00:47:34.020 for him. It's maybe it's a spiritual battle. Uh, he's talked about that a little bit that he's,
00:47:38.760 that he's had some challenges with that in the past. Uh, but I'm, you know, I'm, I'm worried about
00:47:44.700 him personally and don't know why he's doing the things that he's doing. So anyway, um, really
00:47:52.740 appreciate y'all being here today. It's been another good day. I hope that you'll remember
00:47:57.080 to do a couple of things to get your tickets to share the arrows and guys, if you haven't bought
00:48:02.580 those for your, uh, special loved one yet, then do that. Go on there and get those tickets.
00:48:08.700 I've already been thousands sold and it'll eventually be sold out. So make sure that you
00:48:13.420 do that. It's going to be in October of this year. You can go to share the arrows.com and get that.
00:48:18.120 It's going to be another great event. Allie does a great job with that. As you know,
00:48:21.460 I'll be walking around, hopefully you'll see and get to meet a bunch of you, but make sure you do
00:48:25.640 that. The other thing is if you're interested in, uh, anything else related to what I think about
00:48:31.340 things, not emailing me, also get a copy of my book, life lessons from the little red wagon.
00:48:36.000 You can order that on Allie's merchandise website. You can also order it from amazon.com.
00:48:41.680 Um, if you want to get one, I keep some of them at my house. Want to get one directly from me,
00:48:46.160 you can just send me your email. I'll tell you, I'll be happy to sign a copy and send it to
00:48:51.420 you. And you can just mail me a check or something like that. So, uh, make sure you do that. And also
00:48:56.160 toxic empathy. There's no better time to read that book, toxic empathy, to understand how the
00:49:02.200 Democrats use our good nature that we have against us. So make sure you read that it's a New York
00:49:08.480 times bestseller that Allie's written. And, uh, she's working on another book that she'll be talking
00:49:13.280 about soon. So thanks. And, uh, we'll look forward to seeing you again soon. Take care.
00:49:16.980 Bye-bye.
00:49:17.980 Bye-bye.