One of the most historic geopolitical moments of our lifetime is happening right now, as Israel takes out the Iranian nuclear regime, taking out its top military leaders. We ll talk with sources on the ground in Israel, top military members, all the information coming up. Plus, Democrats continue to shout into the void.
00:00:00.000Already, folks, tons to get to on today's show.
00:00:02.000One of the most historic geopolitical moments of our lifetime happening right now as Israel takes out the Iranian nuclear regime, takes out its top military leaders.
00:00:11.000We'll bring you all the operational details, all the intelligence spilling out into the public.
00:00:15.000We'll talk with sources on the ground in Israel, top military members, all the information coming up.
00:00:22.000Plus, Democrats continue to shout into the void.
00:00:37.000So, last night, Israel began striking targets inside Iran, striking a wide variety of targets in Iran.
00:00:44.000Those strikes have continued all the way into the daylight hours, which suggests that Israel has complete control of the skies of Iran, an astonishing geopolitical, unprecedented situation.
00:00:55.000Understand that Iran is located some 2,000 miles from the state of Israel.
00:01:00.000That Iran is a country of 90 million people and Israel is a country of 9.8 million people or thereabouts 2 million of whom are Arab.
00:01:08.000Israel is now projecting power 2,000 miles across a variety of countries from Syria to Iraq all the way into the heart of Iran, striking sites in Tehran, taking out top IRGC commanders, taking out nuclear facilities.
00:01:25.000As it currently stands, an interactive Iran nuclear sites map showing where they have been building.
00:01:30.000You can see that there are uranium mining facilities and suspected weaponization facilities in places like Natanz and a wide variety of other sites.
00:01:43.000Israel has been striking these all night long.
00:01:46.000Natanz has been reduced to rubble, according to contemporaneous reports.
00:01:50.000Sites have been struck in Isfahan, which is another area.
00:01:53.000Where they're supposedly building nuclear weapons.
00:01:55.000There are a wide variety of Iranian nuclear facilities around Tehran.
00:01:59.000Israel has been striking those all night long and into the morning hours.
00:02:02.000The video that has emerged is very clear.
00:02:05.000Here's video of mushroom clouds in Iran.
00:02:08.000Again, this sort of video is being put out there, not by the Israelis.
00:02:11.000It's being put out originally by Iranians who are on the ground.
00:02:15.000Again, many Iranians support all this because the Iranian people in general do not support the Iranian revolutionary Ayatollah regime.
00:02:27.000And you can see the extent of the strikes.
00:02:31.000The strikes have continued all night long.
00:02:36.000The IDF has announced the death of a wide variety of top IRGC officials, including the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, the commander of the IRGC, the commander of Iran's emergency command, all eliminated in the Israeli strikes across Iran by more than 200 fighter jets.
00:02:53.000So far, Iran's response has been minimal because their capacity has been absolutely degraded in extraordinary, extraordinary ways.
00:03:00.000In fact, there is video of Israeli Air Force jets refueling over Iranian airspace, which is absolutely unthinkable.
00:03:07.000And you have to understand that this is the culmination, not only of decades of Iranian threats and Iranian attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, this is also the culmination of the Israeli campaign to chop off the arms of the Iranian octopus that has been ongoing since October 7th.
00:03:25.000Hamas is now on its last legs, thanks to the work of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
00:03:28.000Hamas is no longer being supported by the UNRWA, which means they're being starved of funding and they're being starved of logistical support.
00:03:36.000Israel then went and completely defenestrated Hezbollah in one of the most stunning military operations in modern history.
00:03:41.000With minimal loss of Israeli life, Israel not only knocked over the Hezbollah forces in Lebanon with their beeper attack, followed by the killing of Hassan at Nasrallah, They hit Hezbollah so hard and destroyed so many of their weapons caches throughout Lebanon that Hezbollah was unable to defend the regime in Syria.
00:03:59.000That regime has fallen, of course, and the new regime is attempting to make agreements with the United States and with Israel, among others.
00:04:07.000Meanwhile, Israel has been heavily striking the Houthis in the south.
00:04:09.000All of these different terrorist groups are run directly from Tehran.
00:04:53.000It is very rare that I suggest that the President of the United States is playing 4D chess.
00:04:57.000This appears to be an actual, real-life 4D chess move by the President of the United States to put Iran in a box, to keep them there, and then to allow for the possibility of Israel to destroy their nuclear facilities, large swaths of their military capability, with no risk to American troops.
00:05:15.000So President Trump was, in fact, asked by the Wall Street Journal about whether he was given a heads-up by the Israelis.
00:05:27.000So, again, President Trump being very clear about this, it appears the United States is not just read in on the operation, you know, the extent to which this was, in fact, a 40 chess plan in which the appearance of negotiations with Steve Whitcoff, for example, were actively put forward by the United States in order to sort of.
00:05:49.000It's quite plausible that the United States was in fact involved in a sort of disinformation operation operated directly at the Iranian government.
00:05:57.000In any case, tactical surprise was not only achieved, it was achieved in historic fashion.
00:06:02.000And that looks a lot like 4D chess with plausible deniability from the United States.
00:06:06.000I mean, that's what it looks like from the outside and from all of the information that's being released, including from President Trump.
00:06:14.000So again, the extent of the strikes is extraordinary.
00:06:18.000The way that the operation went down is extraordinary as well.
00:06:22.000According to Axios, the strike was eight months in the making.
00:06:26.000Axios reports, Israel's stunning and sprawling operation overnight targeting Iran's nuclear facilities, missile sites, scientists, and generals followed eight months of intensive clandestine preparations.
00:06:36.000The operation launched a new war in the Middle East that could draw in the United States, says Axios.
00:06:41.000It did not launch a new war in the Middle East.
00:06:44.000When people think of war, they think of full-scale ground invasion of Iraq.
00:06:47.000All the people today who are talking about a full-scale ground invasion of Iran are delusional, insane, or liars.
00:06:52.000That is not a thing that is happening.
00:06:54.000Israel, through air power alone, has left the Iranian regime on its knees.
00:07:00.000Israel has been attempting to eliminate Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities in an operation expected to last at least several days.
00:07:06.000The IDF is suggesting it may last all the way up to two weeks.
00:07:09.000Around 25 nuclear scientists are already dead.
00:07:13.000Israel targeted the entire top brass of the Iranian military.
00:07:17.000There is a story out that suggests that Israeli security officials said that Israel deliberately manipulated events to lure Iran's top air commanders into a meeting and then ensured they stayed there and then killed all of them with an airstrike.
00:07:30.000Many of the top commanders were killed in their beds because they were so sanguine about the possibility that Israel would do anything.
00:07:40.000Israel's Mossad had operatives on the ground conducting covert sabotage operations on missile and air defenses.
00:07:46.000In fact, the Mossad released video of its agents in Iran releasing sophisticated technology in order to target Iranian surface-to-surface air missiles.
00:07:58.000You can see it happening here in the background.
00:08:01.000According to the Times of Israel, the Mossad spy agency revealed rare footage showing its actions against Iranian air defenses and ballistic missile launchers in Iran.
00:08:09.000Showing two covert agents launching missiles from inside Iran.
00:08:16.000Okay, this is truly insane levels of competence.
00:08:19.000If you like competence, this is your morning.
00:08:22.000Mossad built a secret explosive drone base in Iran.
00:08:26.000In Iran, 2,000 miles away from Israel, Mossad built a drone base building explosive drones in Iran.
00:08:33.000And then the drones were used to strike ballistic missile launchers at a base near Tehran, preventing Iran from firing projectiles at Israel as the strikes began.
00:08:42.000Additionally, vehicles carrying weapons systems were smuggled into Iran.
00:08:45.000Those systems took out the Iranian air defenses and gave Israeli planes air supremacy and freedom of action over Iran.
00:08:51.000There's a third covert effort that involved Mossad commandos deploying precision missiles near anti-aircraft sites in central Iran.
00:09:02.000Folks, we have all the information coming to you.
00:09:05.000It is a firehose of information, plus sources on the ground in Israel.
00:09:09.000The ambassador to the UN from Israel stops by as well.
00:09:12.000And updates on California, immigration rights, tons coming up.
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00:10:51.000According to Axios, the idea for an operation simultaneously targeting Iran's missile and nuclear program.
00:10:57.000Which Netanyahu has described as existential threats to Israel, took hold after Iran struck Israel in October during a cycle of tit-for-tat escalation between the countries.
00:11:06.000Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered the military and intelligence services to begin planning.
00:11:11.000Also, Iran has been announcing continuously that they're upping their game with regard to their nuclear program.
00:11:17.000Israel has been preparing for the strike for months.
00:11:21.000According to Axios, the preparations alarmed some in the White House who worded Netanyahu might move even without a green light from Trump.
00:11:27.000These would be the so-called restrainers who aren't interested just in restraining the United States from taking action, but interested in restraining Israel from taking action.
00:11:34.000Netanyahu assured Trump that he would not move without Trump knowing about it.
00:11:39.000The White House, for its part, told Netanyahu that if Israel attacked Iran, it would do so alone.
00:11:44.000Trump himself had said several times in recent days, including several hours before the strikes, he opposed an Israeli strike that could blow up the negotiations.
00:11:51.000But, apparently, Trump has now revealed all.
00:11:56.000Two Israeli officials claimed that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public.
00:12:01.000We had a clear U.S. green light, according to one.
00:12:03.000The goal was to convince Iran no attack was imminent and to make sure Iranians on Israel's target list would not actually move to new locations.
00:12:10.000In fact, according to Israeli officials, you remember there were reports earlier this week that were made that President Trump called up Netanyahu and tried to talk him out of a strike.
00:12:21.000Well, it turns out, in reality, the call likely dealt with coordination ahead of the attack.
00:12:26.000Now, the Trump administration has been publicly distancing itself, or at least was originally.
00:12:30.000So originally, Secretary of State Marco Rubio put out a statement saying, quote, Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran.
00:12:36.000We are not involved in strikes against Iran.
00:12:38.000Our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.
00:12:41.000Israel advised us they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense.
00:12:44.000President Trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners.
00:12:51.000Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel.
00:12:54.000And so from Secretary Rubio's assessment, the idea was Israel acted alone, will act to defend Israel from missile or drone attack, which is the proper response, because you don't want this thing escalating even more if thousands of Israeli civilians were to die, for example, in Iranian missile barrage, then Israel would take even harsher action that would presumably target the Iranian oil fields and perhaps the Ayatollahs themselves.
00:13:16.000Secretary of State also making clear that if Iran fires on American troops, that there will be hell to pay, and presumably the Ayatollahs themselves, Would be cooked physically by American armaments.
00:13:29.000So that was what Secretary Rubio was making clear.
00:13:32.000But this morning, President Trump put out a series of statements himself.
00:13:36.000First of all, he was talking to John Carl of ABC.
00:13:40.000And he says, quote, I think it's been excellent.
00:13:46.000They got hit about as hard as you're going to get hit.
00:13:47.000And there is more to come, a lot more.
00:13:50.000President Trump's first statement last night, quote, Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen.
00:14:29.000Anyone who is surprised by this has been ignoring what President Trump has been saying and doing for his entire time as President of the United States.
00:14:36.000There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal come to an end.
00:14:43.000Iran must make a deal before there is nothing left and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire.
00:15:21.000Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn't get there.
00:15:24.000Now they have, perhaps, a second chance.
00:15:26.000Well, Iran has basically blown that second chance already.
00:15:29.000Reuters is reporting that they are full-scale pulling out of any sort of negotiation.
00:15:32.000There is no one to negotiate with at this point.
00:15:34.000Also, they actually have no leverage at this point.
00:15:38.000What Iran should do, if they had any brains at all, would be to come to President Trump on bended knee and beg him, beg him to give up their nuclear program in exchange for the Ayatollahs remaining alive.
00:15:50.000And the regime not being threatened and sanctions and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:15:54.000Because right now, the Iranian regime does not have the forward operating capacity.
00:16:20.000They were essentially the de facto government of Lebanon.
00:16:23.000They had taken over large swaths of Syria and they were operating on behalf of the Assad regime.
00:16:29.000And Israel hit Hezbollah so hard that here is Hezbollah's statement about Iran being struck.
00:16:38.000Quote, the Lebanese group, this is from Al Jazeera, which of course is a Qatari propaganda outlet, meaning an Iranian proxy.
00:16:45.000The Lebanese group calls the strikes a dangerous escalation and an Israeli violation of all controls and rules under full American cover and sponsorship.
00:16:53.000A statement on Telegram said Hezbollah affirms this enemy abides by no logic or laws and that it only knows the language of murder, fire, and destruction.
00:17:00.000They said the people and countries of the region must realize that if this aggression is not met with rejection, condemnation, and support for Iran and its people, this criminal entity will only increase its aggression and tyranny.
00:17:09.000Hezbollah expresses its full solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran, its leadership, and people in the face of this dangerous attack.
00:17:16.000Now, normally, what you might expect from Hezbollah, a gigantic terror group, is, and so we are joining in and firing rockets into northern Israel.
00:17:22.000Or, so we are joining in and we will be attempting an invasion of northern Israel.
00:17:26.000Instead, this is basically the high-five drowning meme.
00:17:29.000For those who have not seen it, man drowning, putting up his hand out of the water, somebody else coming along and giving him a high-five as he drowns.
00:17:36.000That's Hezbollah saying to Iran, good luck.
00:17:42.000The Lebanese government, which was so weak, Just a few months ago that they had no capacity to stand up to Hezbollah has now informed Hezbollah it will not tolerate Hezbollah joining in Tehran's response because they are afraid that Israel will then strike in Beirut.
00:17:56.000According to Saudi news outlet Al Arabiya, the time when the organization bypassed the state in deciding to go to war is over.
00:18:01.000That is what the Lebanese government is now telling Hezbollah.
00:18:45.000Well, I can tell that that's not true.
00:18:47.000And the way that I can tell that that's not true is here is a list of countries that participated in intercepting Iranian missiles and drone attacks in response against Israel as of this morning.
00:18:56.000Israel, the United States, the UK, Saudi Arabia.
00:19:02.000I thought that they would be upset about the heinous Israeli aggression against Iran, but there they are shooting down drones that are aimed at Israel.
00:19:10.000Azerbaijan, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, and the UAE.
00:19:13.000Qatar, of course, is doing so at the behest of the United States, where the United States has a major airbase.
00:19:20.000So, Iran, for its part, is still bloviating.
00:19:24.000Iranian President Masoud Pajekian said that Iran will not remain silent, warning a powerful response that will make the enemy regret its foolish act.
00:19:31.000Now, they've been doing this stuff for quite a while.
00:19:39.000But the reality is that Iran's capacity has been so degraded that the possibility of a massive response seems to be shrinking moment by moment.
00:20:19.000We've been told by the IDF this can go on for days and days and days.
00:20:23.000That Israel is going to run continuous bombing raids against Iranian missile factories, against top scientists, against members of the Iranian military regime, the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:20:37.000More information on the United States.
00:20:39.000What exactly was the involvement between the United States and Israel?
00:20:42.000President Trump speaking out about that.
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00:23:18.000That is something that Prime Minister Netanyahu made absolutely clear last night.
00:23:21.000He released a statement in Hebrew, of course, and then he released a statement.
00:23:27.000Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival.
00:23:39.000This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.
00:23:45.000For decades, the tyrants of Tehran have brazenly, openly called for Israel's destruction.
00:23:51.000They've backed up their genocidal rhetoric with a program to develop nuclear weapons.
00:23:57.000In recent years, Iran has produced enough highly enriched uranium for nine atom bombs.
00:24:05.000In recent months, Iran has taken steps that it has never taken before.
00:24:11.000steps to weaponize this enriched uranium.
00:24:14.000And if not stopped, It could be a year.
00:24:20.000It could be within a few months, less than a year.
00:24:23.000This is a clear and present danger to Israel's very survival.
00:24:28.000Eighty years ago, the Jewish people were the victims of a Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazi regime.
00:24:35.000Today, the Jewish state refuses to be a victim of a nuclear Holocaust perpetrated by the Iranian regime.
00:24:43.000Now, as Prime Minister, I've made it clear time and again, Israel will never allow those who call for our annihilation to develop the means to achieve that goal.
00:24:54.000Tonight, Israel backs those words with action.
00:24:57.000We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear enrichment program.
00:25:01.000We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear weaponization program.
00:25:05.000We targeted Iran's main enrichment facility in Natanz.
00:25:09.000We targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb.
00:25:14.000We also struck at the heart of Iran's ballistic missile program.
00:25:18.000Last year, Iran fired 300 ballistic missiles at Israel.
00:25:22.000Each of these missiles carries a ton of explosives and threatens the lives of hundreds of people.
00:25:29.000Soon, those missiles could carry a nuclear payload, threatening the lives not of hundreds, but of millions.
00:25:37.000Iran is gearing up to produce 10,000 of those ballistic missiles within three years.
00:26:21.000So clear, there were early reports that Iran had been attempting to send up its jets, which would have been the stupidest possible thing that they could do.
00:26:28.000The problem for Iran is that its Air Force is absolute trash.
00:26:32.000They just don't have any updated jets.
00:26:33.000So, according to reports, The jets that Iran was activating were Su-24 military jets.
00:28:04.000In close range scenarios, the Su-24's poor maneuverability and lack of helmet-mounted cueing systems make it vulnerable to the F-35's high off-bore sight missiles.
00:28:13.000So, How about the F-16 versus the Su-24?
00:28:18.000Basically, it would not even be a contest.
00:28:22.000The Su-24, designed for ground attack, lacks the survivability or countermeasures to evade advanced fighters.
00:28:27.000As seen in real-world engagements, non-stealthy bombers like the Su-24 are highly vulnerable.
00:28:31.000To fourth and fifth generation fighters without heavy escort and electronic warfare support.
00:28:35.000Essentially, it would be a biplane against a modern military jet.
00:28:38.000And that is precisely, apparently, what happened.
00:28:41.000Again, we've been reading new statements for weeks in which the Mullahs have been saying, we're not giving up our nuclear program come hell or high water.
00:28:46.000We are not going to stop developing nuclear weapons.
00:28:50.000We are not, under any circumstances, going to make a deal that ends with a denuclearized Iran.
00:28:58.000Again, Iran could have prevented this at any time.
00:29:00.000There's a point President Trump has made over and over and over.
00:29:02.000Iran could have stopped this at any time.
00:29:04.000All they had to do was say, fine, no nuclear program.
00:29:07.000And that would have been the end of it.
00:29:09.000The Trump administration wasn't even looking for them to stop developing ballistic missiles or funding terrorism.
00:29:29.000And the United States is saying, listen, Israel is our ally.
00:29:33.000Our interests and the Israeli interests align in Iran not having a nuclear weapon.
00:29:36.000But this is Israel's fight predominantly and foremost.
00:29:40.000And Israel is an independent country making its own decisions.
00:29:43.000And that is the thing that really matters here, is that Israel was saying to the entire region that if you screw with Israel, these will be the consequences.
00:29:51.000Joining us on the line to discuss all of this is Ambassador Danny Danan.
00:29:55.000He's Israel's ambassador to the United Nations.
00:29:57.000He is also a leading voice in the ruling Likud party, which is the head of the coalition government in Israel.
00:30:02.000Ambassador Danan, thanks so much for joining me.
00:30:23.000You know, last night, more than 200 Israeli aircraft flew all the way to Iran, attacked nuclear facilities, ballistic missile infrastructure, and we also assassinated the military leaders.
00:30:38.000You know, for years, we heard discussions, debates.
00:30:53.000Today in Israel, we embrace for the attack from Iran, and we are ready to continue with the operation.
00:31:01.000So, Ambassador Danon, obviously a lot of questions in the last few weeks about the relationship between the United States and Israel, the conflict or coordination between the Israelis and the American government.
00:31:13.000What do you know or what can you tell us about the levels of coordination between Israel and the American government?
00:31:17.000Obviously, the Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that Israel acted alone in all this.
00:31:21.000President Trump has suggested that he did know that the operation was going to happen and that he had warned the Iranians that this was an eventuality if they did not come to the table with a proper offer.
00:31:30.000What is the level of coordination and conversation that was happening between Israel and the United States in the run up to the attack?
00:31:35.000Ben, you know, we talk with the U.S., but at the end of the day, those kind of decisions...
00:31:43.000You know, we are the one who are at risk.
00:31:46.000We are the one who we saw that the missiles from Iran flew to Israel a few months ago.
00:31:54.000And also when you look at the history, you know, when we attacked the reactor in Iraq in the 80s, also it was made in Jerusalem, that decision.
00:32:03.000Also when we attacked the reactor in Syria.
00:32:06.000So I think, you know, not only the U.S., but many countries will thank Israel for what we did last night.
00:32:30.000We are not going to wait for Iran to have a nuclear bomb and attack us.
00:32:37.000And in fact, Israel's attack came after an IAEA report this week suggesting that Iran was bucking all of its obligations under international law, developing nuclear weapons.
00:32:46.000And apparently, as of this morning, Prime Minister Netanyahu held talks with world leaders, including world leaders with whom he's not particularly friendly, including the Prime Minister of France, Germany, India.
00:32:56.000And there are more conversations expected soon.
00:32:59.000Apparently, those leaders are expressing understanding for what Israel did, considering the nature of that IAEA report.
00:33:08.000You know, you have the IE report which talked about the uranium, that they have enough in which uranium to produce many bombs, not one, many bombs, two digits.
00:33:51.000Israel's dominance of the Iranian airspace is astonishing.
00:33:54.000I mean, Israeli airplanes are refueling in the airspace over Iran and doing daylight raids.
00:34:00.000I mean, essentially operating with impunity above the airspace in Iran.
00:34:03.000How long do you expect the operations are going to last?
00:34:06.000And when will Israel have achieved its strategic goals here?
00:34:10.000Well, it just started a few hours ago.
00:34:13.000It's not going to be a short operation.
00:34:14.000I think it will require more efforts from our side.
00:34:18.000It also depends on the retaliation from Iran into our civilian population.
00:34:24.000But we are determined to finish the job.
00:34:27.000You know, for years we heard the threats, and history has taught us to take very seriously radical regimes who threaten the Jewish people.
00:34:35.000And as long as it takes, we are willing to pay the price.
00:34:38.000The Israeli people, even though we are in the middle of a war in Gaza, the people are ready and committed to allow the government and the military to finish the job.
00:34:50.000Ambassador Dennington, known Israel's ambassador to the UN, leading voice in the Likud party.
00:34:53.000Really appreciate your time and your insight.
00:34:57.000All right, coming up, folks, the left, they seem to believe that if they just yell at things, this is somehow going to be a massive boon to them.
00:35:03.000We'll get to a bunch of leftists yelling at Republicans like this is a strategy.
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00:36:09.000Meanwhile, joining us on the line is Doron Spielman.
00:36:12.000He, of course, is the former IDF International spokesperson, former VP of the City of David, and New York Times bestselling author of When the Stones Speak to give us more insight into the actual activities on the ground.
00:36:23.000Doran, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:37:02.000I mean, this is the most precision strike, not only in Israeli history, but in world history.
00:37:07.000What you have here right now, it's incredible.
00:37:09.000You have Israeli fighter jets that simultaneously took out the Iranian leadership.
00:37:14.000You had an inside Mossad plan that took out the nuclear scientists.
00:37:19.000And you had their ballistic missile facilities all go up in error in the And then Israelis were sent into their shelters before we knew anything, just to make sure that we woke up and knew that something was going on.
00:37:33.000At this point in time, Ben, Iran is in our hands completely.
00:37:39.000And I see wave after wave taking place.
00:37:42.000And the refueling, by the way, I'm seeing online, Syrians are filming the refueling over their heads.
00:37:48.000I mean, this is happening over the skies of the Middle East.
00:37:52.000So I think that folks need to understand the timeline here, that without the last year and a half of Israeli action in Lebanon, yes, in Gaza, against the Houthis, the fall of Syria, none of this is possible.
00:38:04.000Israel spent a year and a half, the IDF and the IAF, destroying all of the various tentacles of the Iranian regime.
00:38:11.000Iran, of course, entered into two rounds of fighting with Israel, where they fired two series of missiles at Israel ineffectually.
00:38:17.000And then in the last round, Israel basically took out all of Iran's air defenses.
00:38:21.000When we say that Israel has complete control over Iranian airspace, we have to understand that Iran is located 1,700 miles from Israel.
00:38:42.000It's like a chessboard where the other person is 2,000 miles away from you, and they have put their pawns, they have their knights, and they have their king and queen.
00:38:50.000The mistake that Iran made was they played their pawns.
00:39:31.000I think that that last point is really important because there are so many foes of Israel, and I think of the West, who have been suggesting that if Israel were to take this sort of action, it would lead to a widespread war or regional war or a massive conflagration, not understanding the reality, which is that the only way that anything would lead to a conflagration, a serious regional conflagration with Iran, it's if Iran got a nuclear weapon.
00:39:52.000Because right now, Iran was essentially naked and alone.
00:40:09.000Despite the kind of crocodile statement from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, no one is happier today than Mohammed bin Salman to watch as Israel absolutely devastates Iran's nuclear capacity and military capacity.
00:40:21.000Again, this, I think, was the driving force.
00:40:24.000Because the question I think a lot of folks have is, why now?
00:41:25.000The first people that they would probably warn would be the United States.
00:41:29.000It's much easier to hit a U.S. base in Syria, where they're left open, or in Iraq.
00:41:33.000And can you imagine the U.S. if there was a nuclear threat against their army personnel in this area?
00:41:38.000So by striking now Israel, it's not only precise, it sends a very, very clear message.
00:41:45.000So, meanwhile, there was a lot of consternation, a lot of heartburn over the relationship between the United States and Israel leading up to this attack.
00:41:53.000Obviously, President Trump had stated very clearly that he wanted negotiations.
00:41:56.000Steve Whitcoff, the special envoy, have been engaged in negotiations with Iran.
00:41:59.000It appears from all available information that over the course of the last couple of weeks, the United States came to the They had no intention of giving up their nuclear program.
00:42:10.000The IAEA report that came out a little bit earlier this week saying that Iran was already cheating on its nuclear obligations may have been sort of the death knell of any real negotiation.
00:42:19.000What do you think was the level of coordination here?
00:42:21.000Obviously, you have a bit of conflicting information.
00:42:23.000The Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a statement that Israel acted on its own.
00:42:27.000And then President Trump suggested that there was, in fact, advanced knowledge of the attacks and that it was connected with the American negotiating strategy.
00:42:34.000What do you think is the truth about the levels of actual knowledge by the United States, coordination, and why was it done this way?
00:42:43.000I don't think that there's any daylight between the U.S. and Israel.
00:42:47.000And I think that Israel, yes, we wanted to attack a couple months ago.
00:42:50.000President Trump said, I'm going to exhaust my diplomatic solution.
00:42:54.000He just posted on Truth Social a few minutes ago that he gave them 60 days to negotiate, and today is the 61st day.
00:43:02.000And because they made that mistake, Those same people won't be coming back to the negotiation table because they've been sent up to meet their maker, who I don't think is very happy with them at this point in time.
00:43:11.000But in any case, that's what we're looking at.
00:43:14.000We're looking at the Israel understood this.
00:43:15.000Now that we've struck, in my opinion, again, I don't have absolute verification for this.
00:43:20.000I know, or it's been reported, that the cabinet meeting last night was to create a ruse so that Iran would think that Israel is still debating about this, while at the same time, our jets were already on their way.
00:43:32.000And I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. words that have been coming out the last few days were very reserved in order to help our enemies go to sleep.
00:43:40.000Let's keep in mind, the people that we took out, the 76 major commanders and their seconds we took out, they were all struck in their homes, except for one small group.
00:43:51.000They were completely taken by surprise, except one aerial group, which means the ruse worked.
00:43:58.000So, Daron, one of the things that we were talking about off-air briefly, You were suggesting that the internet around Iran was essentially taken out, that Iran's communications capacity has been dramatically degraded.
00:45:16.000The question is, is the world going to follow up on what Israel's doing bravely and courageously and pretty much alone?
00:45:23.000Well, I mean, it looks like that is going to have to be initiated from within Iran.
00:45:26.000And the Iranian people have tried this multiple times before, but the regime has literally never been weaker than it is right now.
00:45:32.000Iran, for its part, is suggesting massive retaliation against Israel.
00:45:36.000Obviously, Israel is prepared for this.
00:45:38.000Israel's been preparing for this for months, if not years, at this point.
00:45:42.000So far, there have been a few desultory drone attacks from Iran.
00:45:46.000There were expectations that there would be, at least by this point, significant missile barrages coming the other way from Iran.
00:45:52.000But it appears that one of the things that the Israeli Air Force did was take out a huge cache of ballistic missiles that Iran was preparing to shoot surface to surface against Israel.
00:46:34.000And by the way, we are getting more and more reports that the initial The attack that we made on the Natanz nuclear site has now been followed up by additional attacks.
00:46:42.000Every hour, we're getting more and more reports that Israel's just moving through.
00:46:45.000And so, therefore, I think there will be a response.
00:46:48.000I don't think it's going to create the kind of damage that Iran would like it to do, but he has to show some sign of force in the coming days.
00:46:55.000But, you know, for the Iranian people, to your point, you know, they're going to rise up.
00:47:00.000But if the world doesn't meet them halfway, the one thing Iran has been is they have guns.
00:47:04.000And they will simply shoot down those people in the streets.
00:47:40.000Now, meanwhile, as we say, President Trump has been urging the Iranian government to come back to the negotiating table saying, guys, like, I warned you.
00:48:00.000So according to The Hill, Iran no longer plans to engage in nuclear talks with the United States that were scheduled to take place in Oman on Sunday.
00:48:07.000Oman News Agency and Iranian state media reported that the talks have been suspended indefinitely.
00:48:13.000Oman Foreign Minister Badr Abu Saidi, who of course is a cutout for Iran, said Israel's unilateral attack on Iran is illegal, unjustifiable, and a grave threat to regional security and stability.
00:48:23.000Again, the irony of Iranian proxies saying this.
00:48:26.000I mean, these sorts of threats are continuously being made, obviously, all the time.
00:48:53.000Now, the question is, what comes next?
00:48:55.000There are questions as to whether the United States, given the fact that Iran has now pulled out and said that the negotiations are over, whether the United States, you know, there are a few options.
00:49:04.000The United States could just let Israel continue doing the bombing raids.
00:49:06.000It's not like the United States is going to step in and stop Israel from doing that.
00:49:10.000And Israel has every intention of going forward regardless.
00:49:12.000There's also the possibility that some of these bunkers are incredibly deep in America.
00:49:17.000You know, flies one raid over some of these bunkers and knocks out a couple of the nuclear facilities wholesale with a B-2 or a B-52.
00:49:24.000And I think that that is significantly less likely.
00:49:26.000And the tactic that the administration has taken, which is arguable but justifiable, is that if Israel acts alone, then Iran will be less likely to attack American military personnel in the region, knowing that if they were to do that and draw America in, America would go absolutely ape bleep and just eviscerate the Iranian oil fields.
00:49:48.000And we'll have to see what Iran's response is.
00:49:51.000So far, it has been not even lackluster.
00:49:53.000Lackluster would be too strong a word for the Iranian response thus far.
00:49:56.000They've sent a few disultory drones toward Israel that were shot down.
00:50:00.000Their missile capacity seems to have been wildly degraded by the Israelis at this point.
00:50:06.000And so again, we'll have to wait to see what the weekend brings.
00:50:08.000Suffice it to say, the sort of insane suggestion that there was going to be a broader World War III level event led off by Israel.
00:50:55.000He must be having the worst day ever because yesterday was his big moment, his moment to shine.
00:51:01.000So there was a press conference held by Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, to talk about the fact that there were, in fact, federal forces working in Los Angeles to quell rioting.
00:51:09.000And Senator Alex Padilla, no one knows his name and no one knows who he is.
00:51:13.000He decided it would be an amazing job to simply charge into The middle of this press conference.
00:51:19.000And again, she wasn't taking questions.
00:51:21.000And he's so anonymous that security did not recognize him.
00:51:24.000And so he was pushed out of the room while shouting at Kristi Noem.
00:51:27.000And this, of course, was a grandstanding attempt to get attention because the entire Democratic Party is now about getting attention.
00:51:33.000The entire Democratic Party is now about grandstanding.
00:51:36.000So Senator Alex Pedia thought he was going to have himself a day and then Israel attacked Iran, relegating the schmuck to the back pages of the newspapers.
00:51:43.000In any case, here's the video of what happened.
00:51:47.000I have a question for the secretary, because the fact of the matter is a half a dozen criminals that you're rotating on your hands off!
00:52:03.000And then he says, hands off, and he starts to resist the agents who are pushing him out of the room, at which point they put him on the ground and they handcuff him.
00:52:10.000And this is the end of the world, according to the left.
00:52:13.000According to the left, this is fascism in action is when you When you barge into a press conference with the Secretary of Homeland Security and start making your way up toward the front while yelling at her, and then you are pushed out by security, this is the end of the world.
00:52:31.000Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, explain exactly what happened.
00:52:36.000We were conducting a press conference to update everyone on the enforcement actions that are ongoing to bring peace to the city of Los Angeles.
00:52:43.000And this man burst into the room, started lunging towards the podium, interrupting me and elevating his voice, and was stopped, did not identify himself, and was removed from the room.
00:52:55.000So as soon as he identified himself, appropriate actions were taken.
00:52:59.000But I would say that I had a conversation with the senator after this.
00:53:03.000We sat down for 10 to 15 minutes and talked about the fact that nobody knew who he was.
00:53:08.000He didn't say who he was until he was already had been lunging forward and people were trying to detain him for quite a period of time.
00:53:15.000And that this, you know, we're leaders, we're public servants.
00:53:18.000And if he had requested a meeting, I would have loved to have sat down and had a conversation with him.
00:53:23.000That coming into a press conference like this as political theater, it's wrong and it does a disservice to this country and the people who live here.
00:53:31.000Of course, Kristi Noem is correct about this.
00:53:33.000Homeland Security released a tweet saying, quote, Senator Padilla chose disrespectful political theater and interrupted a live press conference.
00:53:39.000Without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged toward Secretary Noem.
00:53:44.000Mr. Padilla was told repeatedly to back away and did not comply with officers' repeated commands.
00:53:48.000Secret Service thought he was an attacker.
00:55:52.000Their rallying point is a middle-aged senator being pushed out of a room, handcuffed, and then released within like, Speaker of the House, former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, put in her dentures and she said, this assault is not only on Senator Alex Padilla, but on freedom of speech and expression in our country.
00:56:13.000These actions taken by Trump's DHS communicates a message to all Americans that none of us is safe.
00:56:20.000I'm just going to point out all of us are safe.
00:56:23.000When was the last time you decided to crash the Secretary of Homeland Security's press conference while yelling at her without wearing any sort of identifying?
00:56:56.000Meanwhile, Ro Khanna, representative from California, he said, A United States senator seeking clarification from a cabinet secretary should not be assaulted or treated like this.
00:57:05.000Well, I mean, that seems like not a good description of what you just saw on that tape.
00:57:09.000That did not seem like seeking clarification.
00:57:11.000Seeking clarification is where you say, pardon, madam, but what did you mean by X?
00:58:02.000But the big lesson here is if they can do that to me, if they're willing to do that to me, a United States senator with a question doing my job on behalf of the people of California and our country, what are they doing to a lot of the folks that are out there when the cameras are not on?
01:00:02.000Now people who listen to the show may have heard of Salud Carbajal, but that's about it.
01:00:06.000And I think that Secretary Hegseth's response is indeed quite proper, which is just laughter.
01:00:11.000Meanwhile, Senator Michael Bennett of Colorado felt the necessity to scream at somebody.
01:00:15.000Again, Democrats have been relegated to, what if we just scream?
01:00:18.000They've all turned into the meme from 2016 of that rather overweight woman in the glasses and the beret screaming into the ether because President Trump won.
01:00:52.000He's the first president to come back after a four-year hiatus, after we know exactly what the last tax cuts did, which was blow a massive hole.
01:01:49.000But I'm not sure that the cameras have been amazing for the American body politic because it's just a way for all these legislators to read their little speeches and then grandstand as much as possible.
01:01:59.000But the reality is, when it comes down to what democratic policy is on key issues of the day, they are just out of touch with the American people.
01:02:05.000So yesterday, an astonishing exchange between a member of the L.A. City Council named Imelda Padilla talking to the LAPD chief, a guy named Jim McDonald.
01:02:14.000And she literally asked the head of the LAPD to violate federal law.
01:02:17.000What can your department do to do more to warn us, to warn the business community that outside of our L.A. borders, coming in from Inglewood, coming in from.
01:02:59.000This is what many Democrats would like, is for the LAPD to be told to actively violate the law, and then they would be arrested by the members of the federal government.
01:03:07.000Well, Democrats were trying to claim a victory lap yesterday based on President Trump's statement online regarding his immigration policy.
01:03:15.000So President Trump put out a statement yesterday, quote, Our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good longtime workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace.
01:03:27.000In many cases, the criminals allowed into our country by the very stupid Biden open borders policy are applying for those jobs.
01:03:38.000So this led Gavin Newsom to triumphantly announce that he was victorious.
01:03:44.000That now that President Trump has said that he is not going to deport a bunch of migrant farm workers or members of the leisure and hospitality business who are illegal immigrants.
01:03:54.000Gavin Newsom put out a statement, turns out chasing hardworking people through ranches and farms and snatching women and children off the streets is not good policy.
01:04:00.000Well, cool, because that wasn't the policy.
01:04:11.000No one who watches this issue thought, truly speaking, that President Trump was going to deport all 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
01:04:18.000President Trump likes to talk about absolutes because that is the language of politics.
01:04:23.000He understands people get that language.
01:04:26.000But in reality, everyone who watches the policy knew that President Trump, as a pragmatist, was never going to spend what it would cost to deport 20 million people.
01:04:35.000You're talking on the order of somewhere between $600 and $800 billion just to do those deportations.
01:04:42.000President Trump was never going to do that, which is why he so far has been focusing on criminal illegal immigrants.
01:04:47.000But because Trump said that he's not going to focus on, say, farm workers and leisure and hospitality workers, Now Gavin Newsom is trying to claim victory.
01:04:54.000Well, the truth is that Gavin Newsom is now playing in Donald Trump's sandbox.
01:05:00.000So just moments ago, Donald Trump made a major reversal in his mass deportation policy.
01:05:06.000Indiscriminately, he's been sending armed agents into farms and fields and ranches all throughout California and increasingly across the country.
01:05:15.000I was in Oxnard, California yesterday.
01:05:36.000Donald Trump may not care about him, but he's finally listening to you calling out these indiscriminate acts of cruelty.
01:05:45.000Let's keep up the pressure and let's do it peacefully.
01:05:49.000So again, Gavin Newsom is now claiming the Democrats in the streets being jacked forced President Trump off the point here.
01:05:56.000The notion that President Trump was ever going to start deporting en masse hospitality workers who are illegal immigrants or farm workers who are illegal immigrants, that's fantasy.
01:06:07.000And President Trump himself has talked about the dependence of so many industries upon illegal.
01:06:12.000Now, again, you can make a very strong case, and I have colleagues who do, that it would be beneficial for the United States to deport everyone.
01:06:19.000But in a realistic, pragmatic way, that was never going to be the case.
01:06:37.000That is one of the signal victories in politics of my lifetime.
01:06:40.000Truly, one of the great victories in the history of American politics is moving from completely open border to completely closed border in the space of one day.
01:07:05.000And so, Gavin Newsom is forced to argue on the margins of the actual issue.
01:07:09.000He's forced to argue on the most innocent illegal immigrants.
01:07:14.000He can't actually argue to the heart of the issue.
01:07:16.000I want to see Gavin Newsom, if he wants to win the ideological battle with Donald Trump, I want to see Gavin Newsom make the argument that the border ought to be open and that we ought not deport criminal illegal immigrants and that actual immigration enforcement overall is a bad thing because that's the argument being made in the streets.
01:07:30.000That is not the argument that Gavin Newsom is making there.
01:07:33.000Gavin Newsom is making the argument that you really shouldn't raid some sort of farm and pick up a dude who's picking the vegetables out of the ground.
01:07:41.000And President Trump's like, okay, maybe that's true.
01:07:50.000And the argument has moved so far in the direction of President Trump that Democrats are forced to tacitly admit he was right about shutting the border and that he is correct about supporting criminal illegal immigrants.
01:08:01.000And if, by the way, if they want criminal illegal immigrants deported, then they might actually want to stop with their sanctuary city and sanctuary state policies.
01:08:08.000So no, it's not a loss for President Trump.