Trump announces the strike on Iran and calls for an end to all U.S. military operations in Iran. President Trump also says Iran must now agree to end this matter. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, responds to the news and says, "This is a historic moment for the United States of America, Israel, and the world."
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00:01:07.000If you're here, you all know what's going on.
00:01:10.000About an hour ago, President Trump announced via Truth Social, how else?
00:01:15.000He just said, quote, we have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
00:01:25.000All planes are now outside of Iranian airspace.
00:01:29.000A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site for Doe.
00:01:34.000All planes are safely on their way home.
00:01:37.000Congratulations to our great American warriors.
00:01:41.000There is not another military in the world that could have done this.
00:02:39.000It's one of those little red cylinder shapes.
00:02:42.000That is a major underground facility where uranium enrichment for potential nuclear weapons was conducted.
00:02:50.000The reason that was a big deal, the reason there was a lot of people in Israel and in the United States arguing for the U.S. to strike it is it's an underground facility, deep underground, so normal bombing.
00:04:52.000We don't really want to do another one of those in a country that is three times as big as Iraq, has four times as many people as Iraq did when we invaded it.
00:05:10.000You can hit their nuclear facility, keep them from getting a nuclear weapon, show that we are dead serious about that, but then signal that is as far as we want to go.
00:05:20.000Our goal is not to destroy your country.
00:05:23.000Our goal is not to overthrow your government.
00:05:25.000Our goal is you can't have a nuclear weapon and we won't let you.
00:05:29.000And that's something President Trump has been saying.
00:05:31.000For the past decade, he said in his very first speech as a candidate about 10 years ago, he said Iraq was a disaster, and he said Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:05:42.000And that would chart out to, I am willing to bomb Iran to stop their nuclear program, but I am not interested in regime change.
00:05:50.000Now, one of the dangers is, once you've struck Iran, you don't have full control on whether the war escalates or not.
00:05:58.000The Revolutionary Guard of Iran, that is a branch of their military, they have an ex-account, of course, everyone does, and they tweeted something in Persian that said, now the war has begun for us.
00:06:17.000I think a few days ago they said, what happens tonight will be remembered for centuries to come, and I don't remember anything else happening that night.
00:09:11.000And this is why the U.S. decided to drop six.
00:09:16.000We've confirmed six bunker busters on Fordow.
00:09:20.000There was some speculation, Blake, you and I both know, that they were going to use two.
00:09:24.000But apparently there's three entrances into Fordow, and they dropped two bunker busters on each of those entrances, completely destroying that nuclear facility.
00:09:35.000The first bunker buster leaves about a 20 to 25 foot open hole, gaping hole.
00:09:47.000It's like, maybe you've been targeted by, you know, maybe you're part of the Iranian military with some of the spotty internet.
00:09:54.000But, no, we'll work on making sure you stay plugged in.
00:09:57.000As he was saying, yeah, Fordow, quite the complex.
00:10:01.000It's kind of funny, of course, that it's this deep underground, you know, secretive nuclear facility, yet we also, like, seem to know everything in the world about it.
00:10:15.000It doesn't speak that well for the Iranian state security, or maybe it speaks very well for our own military intelligence and, you know, the military intelligence of Israel.
00:10:55.000Definitely a bunch of sane people who run it.
00:10:58.000But yes, so this was their big underground facility.
00:11:01.000Now, a big debate that was happening before this occurred was, can the U.S. bunker busters destroy it?
00:11:07.000And if they do, how far back does it actually set their nuclear program?
00:11:12.000Iran has already claimed they were able to evacuate the most important things from this facility, which would be some of the equipment and the actual uranium itself.
00:11:21.000They're using this to say that there's not a risk of general nuclear contamination from enriched uranium getting blown all over central Iran.
00:11:31.000Now, if that's true and it's enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb then theoretically they could still build a nuclear bomb if they have the other facilities that you need for putting one together I'm not a technical expert on that but that's clearly something that we need to be worried about Blake, I mean, to your point, they call it a secretive nuclear facility.
00:11:53.000We have three-dimensional maps of this place.
00:11:56.000We know Mossad has already kind of infiltrated Iran at a very deep level.
00:12:04.000And meanwhile, we're supposed to believe, as Iran is claiming they've evacuated all of the nuclear materials, that we wouldn't have seen that.
00:12:58.000How great are the potential downsides?
00:13:01.000And I think we can all agree, whatever our point of view going in, now it's happened.
00:13:06.000Our job is to make sure that the results after this are what is best for America.
00:13:10.000So even if you oppose this strike, Our job now is not to pout about it.
00:13:15.000Our job is how do we make sure this works out the best for the American people?
00:13:20.000And I think from my perspective, and I'm sure Charlie will say something similar, our perspective is we don't like the Iranian nuclear program.
00:14:01.000And I think President Trump has earned our trust that he assessed the situation.
00:14:06.000He determined this was the best route forward.
00:14:09.000And we have to believe that he has intel that we don't have as far as Iran's capabilities on striking our troops and striking back.
00:14:20.000And by the way, Blake, I will just say that President Trump's tour through the Middle East and the Arab states recently is looming very large in my mind.
00:14:31.000He consolidated a lot of support, a lot of financial partnerships and cooperation.
00:14:56.000I first just want to say we have to, regardless of your opinion of this operation, which I do want to hear about, this operation was done seamlessly.
00:15:05.000And you better believe the military capacity and military might of the U.S. military was on full display for the world to see.
00:15:11.000This is an operation that really only the U.S. military can handle.
00:15:15.000And not even the Russian military would be able to do something like this.
00:15:17.000And I got to be honest, like, we did not even know what happened until it announced.
00:15:21.000Now, I had my phone off because of Shabbat.
00:15:23.000But now that I'm looking back at text, I was getting a little bit.
00:15:54.000Well, actually at the top levels for top level sophistication, like...
00:15:58.000We still, for the most part, if it really matters, if it's like you have to fly the bomber that drops the bunker buster or you have to be the special forces who rescue the president when he's condemned, those guys are pretty good.
00:16:17.000It's a very difficult operation and they crushed it.
00:16:19.000And so now to the, and it's not at all to an easy assignment.
00:16:24.000I sent out a couple tweets, and this is my personal perspective on this.
00:16:28.000And the president's going to be going live in about 20 minutes, because his address is going to matter a lot.
00:16:32.000It's going to be one of the most important presidential addresses of the last 10 years, and definitely one of the most, if not the most important, primetime presidential address in President Trump's career.
00:16:43.000President Donald Trump has been clear for 20 years that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.
00:16:53.000For some people that are criticizing President Trump, your criticisms would have more potency if President Trump did not try to have a diplomatic solution beforehand.
00:17:02.000There was a 60-day diplomatic window, and Iran was just playing games.
00:17:06.000They were just going, wishy and washy, I don't know if you want that.
00:17:09.000And President Trump said, look, on day 61, you're not going to like what happens.
00:17:13.000President Trump let Israel off the leash, and Israel did what Israel did.
00:17:18.000And President Donald Trump, he was very, very patient.
00:18:16.000If Iran were to get a nuclear weapon and proliferate nuclear technology, the chances of them using it is one thing, but it changes how seriously you must take that nation immediately.
00:18:29.000We have to take Pakistan a lot more seriously just because they developed a nuclear weapon.
00:18:34.000So here you have a terrorist state that could potentially have a nuclear weapon.
00:18:40.000When Trump speaks, you should absolutely listen.
00:18:43.000President Donald Trump in November of 2011 said, quote, Iran's quest for nuclear weapons is a major threat to our nation's national security interests.
00:18:53.000We can't allow Iran to go nuclear, period.
00:18:57.000Now, the tweet that I sent that has gone very viral, I'm going to read for you right on air.
00:19:27.000Sometimes in life there's more than just a sloppy binary.
00:19:31.000And especially in this situation, you must have a lot of heaviness and say, okay, first of all, weight of the world on his shoulders, sitting in the Oval Office looking at two separate options.
00:19:46.000And he made the choice with prudence and decisiveness and practicality.
00:19:50.000He saw this as a threat to United States national interest.
00:19:57.000For a decade, he has been adamant that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon.
00:20:01.000Iran has decided to forego diplomacy in pursuit of a bomb.
00:20:04.000This is a surgical strike operated perfectly.
00:20:06.000President Trump acted with prudence and decisiveness.
00:20:10.000Now, additionally, there was another This is how amazing these B-2 bombers are.
00:20:23.000I think when Israel launched their initial strikes, there was people in Lebanon being like, oh, yeah, all these planes are flying overhead.
00:23:57.000That there might be a ballistic missile launch near Qatar, one of our bases, there will be an evacuation order.
00:24:04.000Now, understand, when they struck one of our bases in Iraq in 2020 after we took out Qasem Soleimani, they literally hit a tent that a lot of service members would be sleeping in.
00:24:15.000They hit their target, and they killed how many troops?
00:24:18.000Because our military was properly prepared.
00:24:21.000So the prayer right now is if Iran tries to go after one of our military bases, that all of this preparation ends up kind of coming to fruition.
00:27:30.000Number two, though, and I think this is a very important component, which is how many Americans might get caught in the crosshairs in response.
00:27:38.000We should pray that that number is zero.
00:27:40.000We should pray that that number is zero.
00:27:42.000And then number three, which I think is critical and that I've kind of been insistent about, is can we make sure that...
00:28:05.000Here's where it might get very hairy, and this is where, for those of you at home, should pray, and we should keep a close eye on this.
00:28:09.000By the way, this all might happen right now.
00:28:11.000There might be Iranian response tonight.
00:28:13.000We got President Trump speaking in 15 minutes, because President Trump said if you even lay a finger on a U.S. service member, they're going to have problems.
00:28:20.000If they take out a U.S. service member and then President Trump responds with more bombs, that could end up being an escalation.
00:28:39.000I mean, we're going to trust Iran's, you know, They said a lot of things in the last week.
00:28:44.000By the way, I mean, first of all, can we just say, whether you're for or against this, the Iranian social media game is the worst in the history of the digital world.
00:29:10.000And so the final point on this, and again, I've been very, very consistent, both privately and publicly, in all of my advocacy and my commentary.
00:30:48.000Even at times when I would waver or when Blake would throw out contrarian positions, you have been steadfast.
00:30:54.000And you have succeeded in frustrating both sides, remaining true to your beliefs that we should not rush into this with some sort of zeal or a fevered desire for war and just to drop bombs.
00:31:34.000and it's been an unusual week because I've had friends in different camps annoyed and it seems that everyone that isn't And by the way, the show is doing better than ever as a result.
00:31:50.000People seem that are very, I think, fair and nuanced and take measuring in the complexities has been, you know, very well received.
00:32:02.000And by the way, so tonight, my take is very simple.
00:32:05.000We trust the Commander-in-Chief and his judgment.
00:32:08.000We don't know all the intelligence that was in front of him.
00:32:11.000Now, by the way, there has to also be an understanding that for those of you that are overly celebratory, I just want to try to humble you.
00:32:22.000You don't know how tonight is going to end.
00:32:23.000You might say, tonight is an awesome night.
00:32:25.000It is in some ways so far, but we don't know how tonight's going to end.
00:33:49.000We're going to get Jack Posobiec on here in a second.
00:33:51.000And so the situation, and that's where we're seeing right now, we just want to make sure all that is real B-roll, by the way, as we're playing it.
00:35:44.000But as soon as they know that there's going to be a launch, airplanes will get up in the air.
00:35:47.000Back when they did this with the Iraqi retaliation, when they went after an Iraqi base, There were 15 planes that got up in the air, and they literally circled in the air, Blake, until the ballistic missiles hit, and they actually hit where the planes were.
00:36:05.000Now, the most important and trickiest part was, where do you land the planes?
00:36:10.000And so there were some close calls, actually.
00:40:33.000By the way, we are about 180 seconds out from the scheduled start of President Trump's speech that he will be giving here.
00:40:41.000By the way, let me just say, I'm going to be listening to every word, every syllable.
00:40:46.000And you're going to want to tune in here right when President Trump is done because we can decode and kind of give you a little bit of an interpretation of what's going on, I think, better than anybody else.
00:40:56.000Because, I mean, look, I've known the man for 10 years and I've spent a lot of time with him.
00:41:01.000And so this is going to be one of the most important, one of the most high stakes, one of the most pressure-filled, one of the most important speeches in President Trump's career.
00:41:15.000This is one of the highest stakes foreign policy primetime addresses since Barack Obama addressing the nation when he took out Osama bin Laden.
00:41:23.000Do you remember where you were in that?
00:42:21.000Well, Charlie, of course, and yes, we're all waiting to hear President Trump go live.
00:42:24.000It does certainly seem like an incredible precision strike by the U.S. military.
00:42:29.000And of course, Charlie, this is what those pilots train for.
00:42:31.000This is what those military aircraft train for every single day.
00:42:35.000the refueling capabilities, the operational security that was done here.
00:42:40.000Of course, this is in many ways a routine run, at least in terms of training, but also not routine in terms of the target and in terms of the height But of course, with the air defenses degraded, as we've been reporting all week with Iran, it seemed like a time that President Trump was able to make his decision.
00:43:46.000What's really the situation on the ground?
00:43:48.000And of course, whether or not Iran responds is going to be the big question.
00:43:53.000NBC saying that President Trump is expected to address that very question because there's a lot of...
00:44:05.000A lot of bases that are going to be on edge tonight.
00:44:07.000And for folks that are sitting out there, I think that they know, those folks that are in uniform, the men and women are in uniform right now, they know that they have a commander-in-chief who absolutely has their back.
00:44:18.000They have a secretary of defense and Pete Hegseth who always puts the warfighter first.
00:44:24.000And that's exactly who they are going to be listening to when they tune into the president's words.
00:44:30.000So, by the way, at any moment here, we might throw to President Trump.
00:44:34.000It's 7 to 1. I know the White House very well.
00:44:52.000They've got to make sure every word is correct.
00:44:54.000And so, by the way, the emails were getting freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:44:58.000The younger you are, the emails we're getting, the more critical you are of this operation.
00:45:03.000The older you are, the more supportive.
00:45:05.000And so that is playing out freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:45:08.000And by the way, in our podcast all week, and you guys can subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, we're going to be covering this in great detail with unbelievable specifics.
00:45:46.000A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out Massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
00:46:01.000Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
00:46:09.000Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat.
00:46:17.000posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
00:46:21.000Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
00:46:29.000Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
00:46:35.000Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.
00:46:39.000If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.
00:46:44.000For 40 years, Iran has been saying, death to America, death to Israel.
00:46:49.000They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs.
00:46:57.000We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate.
00:47:06.000In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani.
00:47:13.000I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen.
00:47:19.000I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
00:47:23.000We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before.
00:47:28.000And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.
00:47:33.000I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done.
00:47:38.000And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.
00:47:52.000Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity.
00:50:18.000Donald Trump bombed the Houthis without getting us into an endless war.
00:50:22.000Donald Trump took out Soleimani without getting us into an endless war.
00:50:25.000Donald Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem without getting us into an endless war.
00:50:29.000And so the elements and the details around this are Donald Trump decided to act with the authority given to him to go take out Iran's nuclear facility.
00:50:42.000I want to try to get to Jack here in a second, but first, I want you guys to email us, freedomatcharliekirk.com, your thoughts on President Trump's address.
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00:51:11.000Jack, on President Trump's address and this very important night.
00:51:15.000Well, Charlie, you know, and I'm looking at the transcript now.
00:51:19.000President Trump saying we've gone a long way into eliminating this threat, saying that I decided a long time ago I would not let this happen.
00:51:30.000And it's true, Charlie, and we've been highlighting online, you've been highlighting online as well, how President Trump's statements going back to the 1980s are directly targeting Iran and not allowing them to have a nuclear weapon one way or the other.
00:51:45.000Now, of course, Steve Witkoff was pursuing the diplomatic route.
00:51:49.000President Trump has decided that that diplomatic route was not bearing fruit or certainly wasn't bearing fruit as quickly as he had hoped, and that's why he authorized this strike.
00:51:58.000Trump has gone back even to day one when he came down the escalator.
00:52:04.000And people have, of course, focused more on his statements about mass deportations, and certainly we support that.
00:52:11.000And he also said, though, on that very same day, it was kind of overlooked, but he also said in that initial speech 10 years ago this week, 10 years ago this week, I'm looking at the date, that he was.
00:52:25.000So 10 years ago, he made that promise to the American people on day one.
00:52:29.000And as of today, he is coming out and reporting that he has obliterated the nuclear weapons program of Iran.
00:52:36.000All right, so now I want to try to get into some of the politics here and break it into our team here.
00:52:40.000We got Blake, we have Andrew, we have Jack Posobiec.
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00:53:55.000There is some dumerism, losing all of his base.
00:53:58.000What I'm saying is it's less than I would have predicted.
00:54:01.000And so I think that's a good sign that – I think President Trump is going to rally the base around him.
00:54:10.000I think President Trump has earned our support.
00:54:12.000If this gets drawn out and messy, obviously...
00:54:18.000But I think President Trump is going to get the base around him.
00:54:22.000I think this press conference with Hegseth in the morning is going to be telling.
00:54:26.000I think the messaging that we see out of the White House for the next week is going to be really important, and they need to be on their game.
00:54:33.000But, you know, listen, we didn't want this.
00:54:36.000We didn't want war, but we trust the president, and we certainly don't want Iran to have nukes.
00:54:43.000We're going to see how it plays out in the next couple days, Charlie.
00:54:45.000But I predict that he's going to win the base.
00:54:50.000Andrew, your internet's breaking up a little bit, but I think we got the last part of that.
00:54:54.000And so, now, there's some people that are doing super chats.
00:57:34.000actually I'm not sure if that's pro or anti Dhruv Rajan $20 thank you I worry that Trump I believe is destroying his bench Tulsi Gabbard JD Vance Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio have lost their anti-war credibility who So, a wide spectrum of opinion that we're getting here.
00:57:59.000So, online things are getting pretty hot.
00:58:01.000And, look, I've been around this for 10 years.
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01:01:17.000You know, it's going to be very, you know, the, A lot of folks saying, hey, can we can we focus now back on deporting illegal aliens and saying, look, you know, this foreign policy contest was obviously the biggest foreign policy test of President Trump going forward.
01:01:40.000And so and so now can we get back to domestic?
01:01:46.000Other people say, you know, a lot of people actually asking about what the, you know, what the actual SITREP is, the tactical report, strategic report, what happened at the basis.
01:01:55.000You're seeing a lot of interest in that.
01:01:57.000You know, we haven't seen, you know, a lot of released footage from the, you know, from this as well.
01:02:02.000But a lot of Gen Z, you know, I got to say, Charlie, it echoes what you're saying in that YouTube chat.
01:02:07.000Gen Z very much saying, why are we putting...
01:02:19.000They didn't live through the war on terror.
01:02:21.000They didn't live through so many of these things that a lot of other people have been through.
01:02:25.000They've only lived through, you know, they lived through a world that's in the shadow of 9-11.
01:02:30.000You know, they probably don't even have any direct memories of 9-11 itself.
01:02:34.000And so, you know, you're seeing a lot of that backlash among Gen Z. Can you read some of Sean Davis' tweets here?
01:02:44.000Yeah, so we have Sean, and I'll acknowledge Andrew said these were his thoughts as well, so I want to get here.
01:02:50.000America is now in a very difficult and dangerous spot.
01:02:53.000Our next steps depend entirely on the response of a regime we were told is suicidal, insane, and an imminent threat to us and everyone else.
01:03:06.000Those claims about them being suicidal and aggressive, which were used to justify our attacks, were wrong and that no retaliation occurs.
01:03:13.000A thing I don't hear a lot, this is now me talking, you know, like modern Iran, the reason Iran is Shia, it was founded by kind of a...
01:03:22.000I don't know how else to describe it, like an apocalyptic Islamic movement.
01:03:26.000There was a founder of modern Iran claimed he was the Mahdi, who's kind of a messianic figure in Islam, that he is basically the...
01:03:40.000Multiple Muslims since have claimed to be that figure, but the founder of modern Iran claimed he was that, and then he lost a big battle, and he really believed it.
01:03:49.000I think he died an alcoholic, basically, as a result.
01:03:52.000So yeah, their legacy is they follow a religion that kind of has a vision of what the end of the world will be like, and it involves a messianic Islamic figure destroying the enemies of Islam.
01:04:55.000Because they really thought for whatever reason, President Trump was not...
01:05:01.000Now, I also have to simultaneously caution everybody in the audience that is cheerleading the bombing of this facility, which is, by no measure is this a death blow to the nuclear program.
01:07:19.000Tom Cotton was on Sean Hannity's program, and Sean Hannity's program was really good about an hour ago, and Tom Cotton said something that was just not right.
01:08:20.000And so we got to read a lot of these Super Chats.
01:08:22.000But I just want all of you guys to understand that this, by the way, this might have delivered just about a demoralizing death blow where the Mullers are like, we're done.
01:08:30.000This is like, we still all the, by the way, they took 20 years building Fordo and a ton of money.
01:09:54.000And also Sir Ianokai, who gave $100 early, gave another $10 and said he's not pissed, he's not happy, he's plain wait and see, and he trusts Trump.
01:10:05.000Mike Camoro gave $50 and said, quote, not a Christian unless you support Israel, says the, quote, Christian supporting wars based off of a Schofield Bible, not an actual Bible, from a, man, I'm not even...
01:13:43.000well if you come I bet if they come to our events they could Alejandro Castro ten dollars Jerome Powell should cut them rates Trump is not playing Blake Mann five dollars thank you Charlie and Turning Point USA for all that you do.
01:13:58.000Oh no, Ryan just sent me a bunch more.
01:14:25.000If you have any concerns, Has President Trump not earned the benefit of the doubt here?
01:14:32.000That doesn't mean you have to agree with everything.
01:14:33.000That doesn't mean you have to agree with all the components here.
01:14:35.000But has President Trump not earned the benefit of the doubt at this moment?
01:14:40.000After all that we've been through, after all of the components, has this not, have you not, has Donald Trump not shown you and demonstrated that he is not for foreign wars?
01:16:01.000Some people wanted to extend that war forever.
01:16:03.000He pursued getting U.S. troops out, paving the way for a full withdrawal, and of course Biden botched some many aspects of that, but I think we agree it's a good thing we don't have thousands of troops still getting shot at in Afghanistan.
01:16:15.000Trump has repeatedly shown he is not a fan of open-ended, no-objective, long military campaigns.
01:16:24.000When he does use military force, he prefers it to be shortened duration.
01:16:29.000Pretty strong and decisive, and just go for your thing, shoot your shot, and get out.
01:16:34.000And obviously there's hazards to this.
01:16:37.000This is definitely the biggest intervention we've done, but as you say, I think he's earned some trust from us.
01:16:44.000Also, breaking news, unrelated, but big, Fred Smith, the head of CEO, has passed away.
01:19:15.000So kind of if you were in the bottom sort of There's one or two cities and then not much else.
01:19:26.000big desert uh but yeah so you're kind of bombing a string of sites in the mountains where it's still 92 million people in an area about two and a half times the size of Texas.
01:19:39.000That's more densely populated than Texas, actually.
01:19:42.000So lots of people there, pretty spread out.
01:19:44.000So you have a good way of thinking in a contrarian fashion.
01:19:47.000What do you have to say to people that say, I didn't vote for this.
01:22:02.000Quote, reports out of Iran are that officers are refusing to fire missiles because Israel has been striking launch sites immediately after they fire.
01:28:55.000They also speak Persian in Afghanistan.
01:28:56.000Not everyone, but like the largest group of people there.
01:29:01.000So Persian, Persia, that's just to name it.
01:29:03.000There's like Persis is a region in Iran, and that's where the ancient Greeks kind of got their name for them.
01:29:10.000So the ancient Greeks called them Persia, and obviously we have a great heritage from the ancient Greeks, and so that just kind of became the Western name for them.
01:29:18.000But generally their own name for themselves was some, I'm not exactly sure how they pronounce it, but basically Iran.
01:29:25.000And about 100 years ago, the Shah of Iran actually said, I think we should be called the Iran in the West.
01:29:32.000And then his successor, the famous Shah who got overthrown, he said...
01:29:39.000And then he got overthrown and they went back to preferring Iran a lot.
01:29:43.000So what's very funny is if you're in L.A. and you know the Persians there, they often prefer to be called Persians because they see that as a way of showing they're not in line with the regime, which pushes the Iranian name.
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01:32:42.000So civil war in Lebanon, and we kind of had the humanitarian send U.S. troops to try to keep order.
01:32:50.000Very much just a humanitarian mission.
01:32:53.000And as such things go in the Middle East, it didn't go well for us.
01:32:57.000One of the first big suicide bombers in the Middle East, they were not a super common practice at the time, but a guy drives a truck bomb into the barracks where the Marines are in Beirut and detonates it and kills, I want to say, did he kill 300 U.S. troops?
01:34:30.000there was not a regime we could go and just get overthrow as retaliation it would be different here if there's And that is, I would say, it's risky.
01:34:46.000I understand why President Trump said this.
01:34:48.000But at the same time, when he says, if you attack us, I'll retaliate much worse, it commits us.
01:34:53.000I think that it's rhetorical deterrence.
01:35:24.000If Iran says, okay, we're going to lob a bunch of missiles at you, to maintain his credibility, he's going to have to respond more intensely than they hit us.
01:37:34.000American and British forces have begun attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan tonight in a wave of military strikes aimed at crippling their air defenses and wiping out their military aircraft.
01:37:45.000The attacks began just before half past five this evening, half past nine in Kabul, when 50 cruise missiles were launched from submarines and ships in the Arabian Sea, supported by what's been described as the most sophisticated bombers and strike aircraft in the American arsenal.
01:38:01.000And so let me just kind of give another viewpoint here.
01:38:06.000From that broadcast in 2001 to 2025, it's been 24 years.
01:39:23.000And by the way, he has proven time and time again, it'd be one thing if all of a sudden he had five, six, seven, eight, nine different iterations of messes.
01:39:54.000So, Jack, how do we go forward here to keep MAGA together in the midst of all this?
01:40:01.000Well, Charlie, look, you know, there's obviously divided opinion on this, and, you know, I'd be remiss as calling balls and strikes if I didn't say that.
01:40:09.000But, Charlie, let's remember that MAGA has always been a coalition focused on the domestic policy, the domestic agenda.
01:40:18.000What are the, even Kayleigh McEnany, who's someone who is massively in favor of these strikes all throughout the week, has said that the issue that President Trump polls highest on has consistently been.
01:40:32.000And prior to that, these ICE raids that have been ramping up, I think, 500% earlier in the week was a number that I had seen come out.
01:40:39.000A lot of the videos coming out of Los Angeles and other major cities.
01:40:41.000President Trump also putting out a major tweet saying that he would be focusing on major cities with these ICE raids.
01:40:47.000Look, you got to ramp up the domestic agenda.
01:40:49.000And I think that's something that brings everybody, you know, people who were against this in the bases, people who were, you know, potentially, you know, Gen Z was against this.
01:40:58.000I think if you ramp up that domestic agenda and really focus on this, as well as, by the way, getting the funding to the domestic agenda through this big, beautiful bill, that's going to be something that works very much to put everybody at ease to understand that, yes, this is President Trump.
01:41:40.000So this is what now remember back to our program, which is why you guys should subscribe to our podcast.
01:41:45.000Cause we're, we're one of the only shows that's been telling you this.
01:41:48.000Remember back on Friday, on Thursday, Friday, we were talking about how a nuclear program is a mindset.
01:41:55.000And so they, They, insofar that the regime breathes, there is still a nuclear program.
01:42:03.000And so this has not deterred, and we'll say, I mean, this could be rhetorical BS.
01:42:07.000This could just be, we're going to get you, and then they realize all their, they realize all their, We have to bomb the nuclear program in their hearts.
01:42:16.000The NASA Fire Information System detected a significant heat-generating event near the Fordow nuclear facility, the New York Times reported.
01:42:23.000One detection was about 30 minutes before President Trump announced the U.S. strikes.
01:42:36.000It could be something within the plant blew up.
01:42:40.000Okay, so this Trita Parsi, founder and former president of the National Iranian Council on MSNBC, says, quote, I think the most important thing to understand in this situation is that Donald Trump has now ensured that Iran will be a nuclear weapons state in five to ten years from now, particularly if there is regime change.
01:42:59.000Nothing motivates a country more to actually go for nuclear deterrence than having being bombed.
01:43:06.000You do not know how a population is going to respond when you bomb them.
01:43:10.000It could break their will, or it can strengthen their will.
01:43:15.000Now, the argument probably to bomb Fordow, the best case argument is this.
01:43:20.000It buys you a lot of time, and this regime is probably not going to last another decade.
01:43:24.000They've had multiple waves of major protests against them, and I think some people believe it's a very weak regime that could just get toppled.
01:44:28.000But getting rid of the technology is tricky because it is a technology.
01:44:33.000You would almost akin it to trying to get rid of Bitcoin, right?
01:44:36.000You could get rid of, you know, a lot of the infrastructure for Bitcoin, but some of it would exist somewhere and it could be reconstituted.
01:44:46.000And so there's another line here, too, that looking at these strikes, this is something that we saw in Iraq.
01:44:52.000This is something that we saw in Afghanistan.
01:44:55.000So let's just, you know, total devil's advocate here.
01:44:58.000Let's say the regime falls, the Ayatollah is assassinated or he's overthrown and there's a power vacuum.
01:45:05.000Some one of those scenarios takes place.
01:45:07.000There's a real possibility that there is a power vacuum.
01:45:11.000There are multiple successors who claim to be the next Ayatollah, and yet perhaps, just perhaps, the military, the IRGC of Iran, says we want to be in charge.
01:45:26.000They install their own supreme leader, someone who is completely outside of the current system, whatever you want to call the system in Iran right now.
01:45:37.000Basically creates a military dictatorship that is much, much, much more aggressive than the current leadership of Iran and works to launch their ballistic missiles, bomb the Straits of Hormuz, mine the Strait of Hormuz, go after merchant shipping, go after U.S. bases.
01:45:59.000And by the way, all of these things have happened within this region in just the last 50 years.
01:46:05.000So this isn't like something that, you know, that we're just shooting from the hip here.
01:46:09.000These are all things that have taken place within the Middle East, Central Asia region over the course of the last 50 years or so, and certainly in the post World War Two environment.
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01:46:27.000Blake, we might have to throw to Steve here, but can we...
01:46:34.000Yeah, so a friend of mine sent me a message that got me thinking.
01:46:36.000He said, thinking everything can be done with air power is an error we've been making since Korea.
01:46:43.000And it got me thinking about that, because it's true.
01:46:45.000In Korea, we have the United States Air Force.
01:46:48.000It was one of the most powerful things ever.
01:46:50.000It was a lot of stuff we had from World War II.
01:46:52.000And we basically fought China to a draw, and China had essentially no planes.
01:46:56.000And yet it just ended up being a draw.
01:46:58.000We couldn't bomb our way through to winning that war.
01:49:09.000This is by no means the majority, but I would say a lot of younger people are emailing us something similar.
01:49:15.000Charlie, I supported Donald Trump and voted for him.
01:49:17.000I will be voting for anyone that is explicitly anti-Israel next election.
01:49:21.000So Jack, I know this is not the primary thing on people's mind, but what has the last week done, in your opinion, for the Israel advocacy or the people have the belief pro or against?
01:50:05.000That's kind of 50-50 in Gen Y. But for Gen Z in particular, they've shifted in a big way.
01:50:13.000I saw one poll from last week, over 50% anti-Israel.
01:50:17.000And I think that's going to continue moving in that direction because Gen Z particularly views Israel as the aggressor in many of these cases.
01:51:02.000Why isn't anyone doing anything to fix the economy in the United States, to fix the health situation in the United States, to fix housing without having to sell off all of our public lands, which is a conversation we were having the other day, at least behind the scenes.
01:51:18.000And they're saying, when is our government going to do something for us?
01:51:24.000And whenever I talk to Gen Z and I talk to Gen Z all the time, I have them on the program.
01:51:27.000That's exactly what that's the first words out of their mouth any day of the week.
01:51:32.000And it seems like they feel that they're not heard.
01:51:35.000They feel that other people's interests always seem to come ahead of theirs.
01:51:40.000Yeah, and so, Jack, if you were to give advice to the pro-Israel advocates and community, and also a warning, what would they be?
01:51:48.000Because I think that there is a cautionary tale here that, like, hey, the last couple of weeks have not necessarily improved American sentiment of Israel.
01:51:59.000But secondly, what would your advice be?
01:57:14.000Well, Charlie, look, you know, and I read Cernovich's tweet as well, and, you know, we've all been pushing for it.
01:57:20.000We've all been pushing for it every single day.
01:57:21.000Stephen Miller champions it every single chance he gets anywhere near a microphone, one minute on or even one second on mainstream media.
01:57:30.000And that is mass deport all the illegals that are in the United States right now.
01:57:37.000Make and fulfill the promise and the mandate that was sent to the American people regarding this question of the massive invasion crisis and the massive migrant crisis that is affecting the American people, the people who live within the confines of the United States of America, who face so many issues in terms of economics, jobs, wages, labor, housing, health care, etc., writ large, not to mention security.
01:58:06.000issues of having all of these all of these transnational gangs operating throughout our country.
01:58:12.000By the way, not to mention potential even sleeper cells and many people have pointed to this.
01:58:18.000We'll see how true that is, and we'll probably find out very quickly if so, or, you know, hopefully Kash Patel and the boys over at FBI can make short work of them if that does come to fruition.
01:58:30.000But, you know, really politically speaking, what I'd love to see and what I have loved seeing is the ramp up.
01:58:35.000Of the ICE raids and these mass deportations because the domestic agenda is really going to come into focus now for the MAGA coalition going forward between now and those critical midterms.
01:58:47.000The most important thing, it's called Project 10 Million.
01:58:49.000Jack, we need 10 million deportations in this first term.
01:59:39.000So Jack, what do we now, we need to pass the big beautiful bill, Project 10 Million.
01:59:43.000We need to write it down, by the way, because if we don't measure it all of a sudden, we're going to end up in the summer of 2026, or the summer of 2027, be like, how many people have we deported?
02:00:30.000And so when we're looking at this, by the way, getting the no taxes on overtime, the no taxes on tips, and we've also seen it floated a couple of times here about, and we know that Secretary Lutnik, as well as a few others,
02:00:46.000floated this idea of dropping taxes on anyone under, I believe one of the thresholds they were looking at was $150,000, so I guess it would be potentially $300,000 or so, maybe $250,000 for joint filing for married couples, dropping income taxes federally writ large for everyone under $150,000.
02:01:12.000And again, Charlie, this is a huge part of what won Trump, the swing states, was the economic agenda.
02:01:18.000And this is something that, you know, we talked about for, I've talked about for a long time.
02:01:22.000I've always said the two biggest issues for MAGA are trade and immigration.
02:01:26.000So you deliver on trade and immigration, and of course, economics is all a function of trade, then that's going to do a lot to keep the MAGA coalition together, not just for now, but even after Trump's term in office going into 2028.
02:01:40.000And so, by the way, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling for impeachment of Donald Trump.
02:01:46.000So it's a day that ends in Y. And so, just so we're clear, a lot of presidents exercise military action without prior congressional approval.
02:01:57.000The War Powers Act is pretty broad in its scope, right, Blake?
02:02:03.000Yeah, and a lot of it is like if the president does...
02:02:09.000It restricts, like, open-ended commitment of the U.S. to conflicts.
02:02:14.000And so, really, like, one bombing strike, I can't imagine that actually does violate the War Powers Act.
02:02:19.000What it would be is if he's bombing them every single day and all of that, then you actually have to, like, get congressional approval to keep things going long-term.
02:02:30.000You know one of the biggest lies being sold to American people right now is that you're in control of your money, especially when it comes to crypto.
02:02:36.000But the truth, most of these so-called crypto platforms are just banks in disguise, fully capable of freezing your assets the moment some bureaucrat makes a phone call.
02:02:45.000That is not what Bitcoin was built for.
02:03:01.000not some three-letter agency that thinks it knows better than you do.
02:03:04.000This is how it was intended by the original creators of Bitcoin, peer-to-peer money, free from centralized control, free from surveillance, and free from arbitrary seizure.
02:03:13.000So if you're serious about financial sovereignty, go to Bitcoin.com, set up your wallet, take back control, because if you don't hold the keys, you don't own your money.
02:03:48.000But, Jack, let me throw it back to you.
02:03:50.000So, Jack, from a military standpoint, I want to get the map of all of our military bases up.
02:03:55.000What are the precautionary measures that U.S. troops have to go through in preparation to an Iranian ballistic missile attack against a United States base in the region?
02:04:07.000Yeah, Charlie, well, a lot of that, you know, fortunately has already been done.
02:04:10.000And so these are going to be some of the messages that Secretary Hegseth sent out to the force earlier in this week, as well as force dispersal.
02:04:19.000So what do we mean by force dispersal?
02:04:20.000That means, so in a Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, let's go back to Pearl Harbor.
02:04:25.000As, you know, December 7th, 1941, as a successful, quote-unquote, military strike of the Japanese on a naval base.
02:04:32.000Well, one of the reasons it was so successful in large was because of the fleet sitting there tied pier side, tied dock side.
02:04:42.000So you had so much of it right there at the Pearl Harbor Air, excuse me, Navy base, obviously in Hawaii that weren't able to get off.
02:04:50.000And so those kamikazes, the bombers, everything that, Interestingly enough, a number of the aircraft carriers were actually out on maneuvers on that day, and that's one of the reasons that the United States Navy switched to aircraft carrier strike following Pearl Harbor.
02:05:11.000But so since then, one of the strategies has always been disperse your assets.
02:05:16.000So get your ships over operating in different areas, move your aircraft over, get them to different places.
02:05:22.000If you've got civilians, Billions, obviously many of these bases.
02:05:27.000I had a family member who was living on the Bahrain naval base at one point.
02:05:32.000They're not there currently, but had their entire family there and was living on base.
02:05:38.000So a lot of these families have gotten out.
02:05:40.000And at the same time, though, there are still people that are within range there.
02:05:45.000So you're going to be looking for what's our force protection level?
02:05:49.000What are we looking for in terms of air defense to make sure that those are all manned?
02:05:55.000And so hopefully all non-essential personnel have been evacuated at this point or at least safe places, simply just outside of the base and getting to places.
02:06:06.000And this is what, by the way, a lot of the embassies in any of these areas are focused on a regular, You'd call it a NEO or a noncombatant evacuation operation.
02:06:24.000And we haven't seen a NEO in any of the locations really around the Gulf since the start of this conflict.
02:06:31.000Now, there have been limited evacuations, but not a full-scale NEO.
02:06:35.000And so that tells me that they're expecting potentially some reprisal, but not anything, at least at this point.
02:07:33.000I'm going to go with the president on what he said, because that's the only real official word that we have thus far.
02:07:37.000Perhaps Secretary Hegseth or his office will put out something a little bit more clarifying or definitional in terms of what came out, because there's a lot of strange details.
02:07:51.000And when I say strange, I mean, they're sort of, you know, one person says it was 12, one person says it was six, one person says it was two.
02:07:57.000And so I'm really waiting to hear some kind of official word, you know, if we get one or not on what specifically was dropped.
02:08:04.000But then writ large, of course, Charlie, as you've been saying, you know, we really do need to figure out what the battle damage assessment here is of these facilities, in particular, the facility of Fordo.
02:08:15.000You know, it's almost like it's almost like bombing a pyramid and then trying to figure.
02:08:24.000And so this is something where whether or not Mossad has that network still in place within Iran is going to be very critical, and whether or not CIA has assets as well, because you really need that human intelligence to understand what was lost, whether the centrifuges were taken out, how much of this thing is, you know, still.
02:08:51.000So a lot of these questions are directly tied to the amount of ordinance used.
02:08:56.000And by the way, this is a process called battle damage assessment.
02:08:59.000It is an art, it is a discipline, and it would follow any military strike, large or small, as you're going through.
02:09:05.000And so, you know, when I'm asking these questions, these are the same questions I would ask about any strike package or target package that were being put together in the military, because that's what we do every single time.
02:09:15.000Blake, let's get to some of the super chats here.
02:09:17.000But first, I want to just encourage you guys.
02:10:29.000I pray that my great-grandchildren will experience a more peaceful world one day because of President Trump's decision today, June 21st, 2025.
02:10:37.000Now is the time to move forward with calm emotions and pray for God's direction.
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02:12:08.000Ben says, Charlie, come visit the cyber city in Chongqing, China.
02:12:12.000You are going to want to see how much China has progressed infrastructure-wise while the Biden-Harris administration have made America lag behind.
02:12:19.000I think that would be a fun trip if we ever got Charlie to go to China and, like, see what it looks like.
02:13:06.000But let me just read one important email here, freedom at charliekirk.com, because there's reports that Iran now claims they're going to accelerate themselves towards a nuclear bomb.
02:13:15.000This could potentially be a series of bombing campaigns over months and years.
02:18:25.000So thanks to the Internet, we have the ability to read both sides.
02:18:30.000And so I'm reading what the U.S. is putting out.
02:18:32.000I'm reading what Iranian sources are putting out, Israeli sources.
02:18:35.000And it seems like Iran is doing everything they can to downplay this.
02:18:40.000And certainly that's being done for internal consumption.
02:18:45.000The Com Province Crisis Management Center is saying there's no threat to the residents of Com or the surrounding areas.
02:18:54.000There's a report where they're saying that the Iran State News Agency is saying the traffic in the city and along the Kalm-Isfahan Highway is reportedly flowing normally.
02:19:05.000No traces of contamination following strikes on U.S. nuclear facilities.
02:19:11.000And sort of back and forth, they're saying that, let's see, let's see, let's see.
02:19:16.000Okay, so this is Iranian MP says, there's no serious damage to Fordow.
02:19:20.000Only ground structures were damaged, which are easy to restore.
02:19:25.000The evacuation was carried out in advance.
02:19:27.000And so they're really putting out as much as possible that saying, hey, there's no fire, there's no debris.
02:19:33.000So they're really doing as much as they can to downplay this.
02:19:36.000But at the same time, they're also publicly stating They're putting up the same maps that we are of all the U.S. military bases within range of Iranian forces.
02:20:00.000And just again and again, pretty much exactly what you would expect them to be saying right now.
02:20:04.000Let's go to cut 286 to the CNN report here, 286.
02:20:09.000Here's the latest developments on this major breaking news that we're following, breaking news in Iran.
02:20:16.000American bombers have struck three, not one, not two, but three nuclear sites, major nuclear sites, inside Iran.
02:20:25.000Those sites, Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz, they're considered the heart of Iran's nuclear ambitions.
02:20:32.000Israel had struck targeted, Israel had tried to target them in the past, but a U.S. official tells CNN that the U.S. used not one, not two, but six B-2 bombers and 12 Bunker Buster bombs.
02:20:50.000Sources tell CNN that the U.S. told Iran, through back-channel discussions, that the strikes would be contained.
02:20:58.000And no further strikes were planned, at least not yet.
02:21:01.000Okay, Israeli Army Radio reports the U.S. did not attack the enrichment facility in Istvahan that Israel had attacked, but another site that was carved into a mountain where enriched material was hidden.
02:21:14.000That makes you, that actually makes me worry a little bit.
02:21:17.000It's good if they found a spot where material was hidden, but I feel like, okay, if there's one site where they were hiding stuff and we found it, Where are they hiding things?
02:21:35.000The Persian people were once great people with very high IQs.
02:21:38.000Let me read to you from a top reporter who will remain nameless but very well sourced.
02:21:42.000By the way, just so you know, from this, the text I got at 4.20 a.m., which I didn't read because my phone was off, from a different source, hey, I think it's happening tonight.
02:21:55.000Again, my phone was off, so now it's happened.
02:22:31.000But remember, people said, oh, no one's pushing for regime change.
02:22:34.000I think it's fair to say that we actually saw where this argument was going in advance.
02:22:39.000Now, by regime change, what do we mean?
02:22:42.000If the people want to rise up and do it themselves, legit, respect, we'll cheerlead them on, we'll give them moral support, we'll pipe internet, whatever.
02:22:49.000We're talking about forcibly displacing a leader with military assassination.
02:23:06.000If they strike back, we have to then hit them back.
02:23:11.000And at that point, if nuclear weapons is a mindset, like you said, if the only way to get rid of nuclear is to take out the regime, the leaders of the nation.
02:23:23.000You cannot predict how they will respond.
02:23:26.000At this point, you may have radicalized them.
02:23:30.000There was a mention that Polymarket, the odds of them trying now to develop an actual weapon has now gone up because now they know that they are – And that's the big risk here.
02:23:46.000And that's why we've been against this the whole way.
02:23:48.000And by the way, Charlie, if you wouldn't have spoken up so loudly, some other voices like Jack, Bannon, Tucker, saying, hey, no regime change, do you think these insane people in D.C. would have stepped back even an inch?
02:24:03.000No, they would have, like, it only would have gathered momentum if nobody would have pushed back.
02:24:08.000And so now that you've unleashed Pandora's box, there's no way to fully predict what's going to happen next.
02:26:03.000I mean, I wouldn't say drugs, but, you know, there are certain, you know, there are certain certain supplements that have been known to be.
02:26:12.000Andrew knows this friend, our former Intel friend.
02:32:29.000I think that would be the best case outcome would be if we could step away from the Middle East because we have allies who are ready to step forward.
02:34:23.000As a Jewish person, I am thankful for President Trump, for the freedom of the Iranian people and the long-term safety of the U.S. and the world, and for Israel's survival.
02:35:02.000Joe, because if all of a sudden the economy's booming in December and we're getting spending cuts and the border's secure and we're on Project 10 million, be careful just saying you regret it.
02:35:11.000This just might be one night you don't like.
02:35:13.000Just be careful with such a statement like that.
02:35:53.000The truth is, we don't know what will happen yet.
02:35:56.000President Trump has intelligence we don't have access to.
02:36:00.000I think he's at least earned the benefit of the doubt for now because we've had military ventures before and they did not escalate beyond our control.
02:36:18.000Sure, and for folks looking to get my thoughts on anything else, 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com.
02:36:26.000We're going to be putting stuff out throughout the weekend on this, probably be up tomorrow.
02:36:31.000But summarizing the evening, look, President Trump had signaled earlier in this week that strikes were on the table.
02:36:38.000He has signaled for decades that an end to the Iranian nuclear program was one of his key goals in running for office, even the very first time all the way back 10 years ago this week.
02:36:52.000President Trump, though, has been resolute on two things for that entire decade.
02:36:56.000One of them was the Iranian nuclear program.
02:36:57.000nuclear program, that's now been wiped out.
02:37:03.000A lot of people are talking about the fracture in the base right now, the division, the skepticism that some have.
02:37:10.000And as healthy as that is, the best way that I believe to move forward is to keep the promise on illegal immigration, the 30-plus that are here right now, 30-plus million, deport.
02:37:38.000We want to see absolutely that same type of movement.
02:37:40.000President Trump has been resolute on the Iran nuclear question, and now it's time for President Trump and everyone to support his efforts on illegal immigration as well.
02:38:30.000You get off your phone if you get a little too emotional.
02:38:33.000President Donald Trump acts with phenomenal discretion and decisiveness and prudence.
02:38:40.000And we're going to see where this goes next.
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02:39:11.000So keep our troops in your prayers right now because a lot of our troops are literally on military bases where they could be basically attacked by an Iranian ballistic missile.