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00:01:19.000Okay, everybody, there's a fair amount of domestic news happening, but we want to take our eye to a looming Middle East war that is just waiting to explode.
00:01:28.000And we've been covering this for a couple months now, off and on, but this is a hair trigger away.
00:01:35.000And I do not have faith in the current neoconservatives that are running our government, or I should call them neoliberals, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, to keep us out of a kinetic war in the Middle East.
00:01:47.000We are one errant missile away from a permanent war where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not equipped to let alone navigate it, win it, what does success even look like, and why do we have so many bases in the Middle East in the first place?
00:02:01.000Joining us now is John Gay, Executive Director of the John Quincy Adams Society.
00:02:08.000John, for our audience that is understandably distracted with domestic news, vice presidential selections and such, what is going on in the Middle East?
00:02:31.000Everybody has been waiting for several days now since the killing of Hezbollah big man Fuad Shukr in Beirut and the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, both apparently at the hands of Israeli assassins or defense teams.
00:02:51.000We're not quite sure on the case in Tehran.
00:02:55.000And so we've all been waiting for some kind of response.
00:02:58.000There are some indicators that it's going to be a bigger response than we saw in April when Iran was retaliating for the strikes on its diplomatic facilities in Damascus.
00:03:11.000It's not clear if the response will come directly from Iran, from a combination of Iran and its proxies in Iraq, in Syria, and of course, through Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:03:23.000There's a whole lot of tension in Israel right now.
00:03:26.000I would note that there were some orders earlier this morning for people in the northern border areas near Lebanon, within the easiest reach of Hezbollah, to remain particularly close to bomb shelters.
00:03:40.000Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, gave a big speech In the minutes before that speech, Israeli fighter jets flew at supersonic speed over Beirut to create a big sonic boom as kind of a show of strength.
00:03:55.000So everyone, as you said, is waiting on pins and needles.
00:03:59.000And I would note in the background of this, we've got troops in Syria, we've got troops in Iraq, we have an embassy in Lebanon.
00:04:07.000So we are very much on the hook if this starts to go sideways.
00:04:12.000So it seems last time we went through this a couple months ago it was somewhat performative where Israel struck Iranian proxies and then Iran launched a bunch of missiles and basically forecasted it and the dome intercepted it and they said okay we're good.
00:04:29.000And I don't want to call missiles performative, but it seemed orchestrated.
00:04:32.000It seemed a little bit, you know, we're trying to appease our population that we're still strong and we responded.
00:04:39.000Do you think Iran will act or react in a similar fashion?
00:04:43.000Or are we going to get a far more lethal response from Iran against Israeli proxies or the Israeli nation?
00:04:55.000That's what I'm expecting is some attempt to actually cause loss of life.
00:05:00.000There was one person severely injured in the last attack, but this time I would note that on Khamenei's own website, the Supreme Leader of Iran, the word that they're using to describe their quest for revenge, I would translate it as something like seeking blood You know, that this time they are going to be trying to achieve lethal effects with their military action.
00:05:27.000How that would look in particular, I think the question is really at what scale they act.
00:05:33.000They will have to overwhelm or act faster than Israel's defenses and its partners' defenses in order to achieve that effect at all.
00:05:43.000But I think that they could be more targeted.
00:05:45.000They could bring better weapons in to use against the Israelis.
00:05:49.000And the real risk factor for broader conflict is if they involve Hezbollah, because Hezbollah is very capable.
00:06:34.000Yeah, well, I'm not waiting on peace breaking out in the Middle East.
00:06:38.000I think A president that was focused on this region in a way that's closely aligned with U.S.
00:06:45.000interests would recognize and would have recognized several years ago that our true presence in Iraq and Syria is no longer fit for purpose.
00:06:54.000Right now, those guys are sitting out there on those bases.
00:06:57.000They're basically hunkering down, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
00:07:03.000The militias in those regions that are sponsored by Iran have started taking shots at them after several months.
00:07:10.000Without that, I think The best time to get those troops out would have been a long time ago.
00:07:15.000Trump tried to do it during his administration, but got slow rolled by forces within his administration.
00:07:22.000I mean, if he comes back, I hope he appoints better people who will actually deliver on his agenda on things like that, because those troops are still in Syria.
00:08:08.000Those drones have released footage in recent weeks of Israeli sites that they were flying over, including an Israeli Air Force base.
00:08:18.000They have the ability, despite all the work Israel has been putting into defending itself against the Hezbollah threat, there is still a significant risk in that region for civilian and military people in Northern Israel.
00:08:34.000And so, It would put a whole lot of pressure on the Israelis to act very quickly to destroy Hezbollah's capability to attack them.
00:08:43.000And the Israelis have been clear and have warned for a number of years that this would be a very ugly conflict.
00:08:52.000The Israeli Air Force had an exercise that was publicly reported a couple of years ago, where in 24 hours, the Air Force alone hit 3000 distinct targets.
00:09:03.000And it was seen as practice for a scenario in Lebanon.
00:09:08.000They would be trying to destroy launchers as quickly as they could.
00:09:12.000They would likely be sending troops in over the border.
00:09:16.000They would be likely bombarding Beirut as well because Hezbollah has a whole lot of presence in southern Beirut.
00:09:24.000And so this would get very ugly very quickly.
00:09:27.000It's why a lot of countries have been telling their nationals to get out of Lebanon on the next flight.
00:09:35.000Iran has warned that they would get involved, so there'd potentially be ballistic missiles and drones coming in from Iran as well.
00:09:42.000The proxy militias could be getting involved, so it could get really ugly really quickly.
00:09:49.000And I think the key difference between this and the war in Gaza is that I think the challenge for the Israeli population would be sustained over a longer period of time.
00:09:59.000I think Israel could experience in a full-scale war More damage than it has ever faced in its history on its home front.
00:10:08.000And that, I think, is what's really shocking about this.
00:10:11.000It's why the Israelis are taking this threat so seriously, but it's also why they haven't invaded Lebanon yet since the October 7th war broke out.
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00:11:50.000So you would think that if you pass by a house in Pennsylvania that has a Trump flag,
00:12:02.000you would assume that everyone in that house is voting. You would also assume at the very
00:12:08.000least that everybody in that house is registered to vote.
00:12:11.000I want to just read an email here, which is remarkable, about the need to go do the work.
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00:16:42.000I just love the amount of success stories that are pouring in, emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com, all about how you are registering voters.
00:16:51.000Let me tell you about Tiffany from Nevada.
00:16:53.000I'm sending her a signed hat because she is a patriot.
00:17:44.000Patty says, I have a 33-year-old daughter who has never registered her vote.
00:17:47.000I've been begging and pleading her to do so.
00:17:48.000However, she does not want to be called for jury duty, and jury duty is an excuse.
00:17:52.000She's very engaged in the political fight we're having, and as Trump's supporter, honestly, your daughter is not a patriot if she will not just register her vote and fill in a ballot.
00:18:00.000The rule for life is if everybody did what you did, how would the world look?
00:18:03.000And if everybody did what your daughter is doing, the world would look like a socialist hellscape.
00:18:08.000Who cares if you get called for jury duty?
00:18:40.000Thanks for having me back on, Charlie.
00:18:42.000I would say the evidence shows he is anything but.
00:18:45.000We're going to see the media do their part and portray him as something he clearly is not.
00:18:50.000We've been covering him for years at Alpha News.
00:18:53.000Much, I think, is exposed in the fall of Minneapolis.
00:18:56.000I know that's when I was last on your show talking about how he handled the riots, I would say mishandled the George
00:19:03.000Floyd riots and the evidence is all there in that free documentary for people to see for
00:19:07.000themselves. The city of Minneapolis was allowed to burn for days before calling in the National Guard. 1,500
00:19:14.000businesses either damaged or destroyed, 500 million dollars in damage, a police force in
00:19:19.000Minneapolis that has dwindled now to nearly half of what it once was in the beginning of May of 2020.
00:19:27.000And he helped to push this very dangerous and divisive narrative when there was so much evidence that really countered what he was telling the public and nobody was pushing back on this.
00:19:37.000So those lies were allowed to be told in Minneapolis and spread all across the world.
00:19:42.000And in a way, it seems as if he's almost being rewarded for some of those things that took place in 2020.
00:19:49.000But this goes beyond what took place, even with the rioting and his anti-police rhetoric
00:20:52.000Yeah, so very early on you had protests, you know, even that night and such.
00:20:58.000Things were gathering the next day, but nothing to the extent we saw in days two, three, four of all of this.
00:21:06.000I know my husband was serving as the police union president at the time, so I actually even have a lot of video on my phone from back then with him calling.
00:21:14.000People he knew at the Capitol to say, you know, we need the National Guard here.
00:21:18.000And that was the very first day just to sort of quell some of these tensions they were seeing.
00:21:23.000But rather than following through, and keep in mind, Walls is a retired National Guardsman himself.
00:21:29.000And I know that there's more to come out that we've covered on Alpha News about his military past as well, how he was using a rank that he did not serve in.
00:24:15.000The lies start decades ago with Tim Walz.
00:24:19.000But you're right, he lied to a police officer, said he was deaf in one ear.
00:24:24.000And this is actually why he left the state of Nebraska.
00:24:27.000He was fired from his job back then as a coach and teacher and relocated to Minnesota where his wife Uh, is from, uh, the area and, uh, he claims, you know, to be this, as you said, this Midwesterner, this Minnesota native.
00:24:42.000I mean, he's anything but, uh, but our local media does their best.
00:24:46.000Uh, I think giving out his tater tot hot dish recipe was an actual news story I saw a couple of days ago.
00:24:52.000And then there was a list of his top 10 dad jokes.
00:25:29.000So I spoke at great length to the man who took his place, who eventually became Command Sergeant Major Tom Behrens is his name, a farmer in Minnesota who took his place.
00:25:40.000But there was this feeling among his unit that You know, why would you do this to us?
00:25:46.000They had known him for quite some time.
00:25:47.000Not only that, but he then takes that command sergeant major title that they gave him only to deploy.
00:25:54.000That was part of the promotion, certainly, and he was using it in his run for Congress and basically used it up until just a couple of years ago, until many of these men came forward in much of our reporting to call him out for it.
00:26:07.000But this was a story they tried, you know, stolen valor.
00:26:10.000Seems to be newsworthy, that's for sure.
00:26:12.000But these guys tried to get the attention of our local media in Minnesota.
00:26:17.000They all agreed, hey, this is a good story, but we're not gonna cover it.
00:26:20.000So I did a long, detailed story about that.
00:26:37.000If a 13-year-old wanted to get their breast chopped off, which I'm sure happens frequently in Minnesota, can they do that without parental consent in the state of Minnesota?
00:26:45.000Yeah, as far as I know, they are the most extreme laws in the country, even more so than, you know, other states that certainly are in the news more, you know, like California or Oregon or whatnot.
00:26:57.000But yes, if parental figures are not willing to go ahead and go through, you know, so-called gender affirming care with their children, they can come to Minnesota and do just that.
00:27:09.000And that is also on Governor Walz's watch.
00:27:12.000You know, I know that the fall of Minneapolis It's getting a lot of attention.
00:27:16.000We put this documentary out about eight months ago now, which I'm thankful for.
00:27:20.000People do need to wake up and watch this.
00:27:22.000But even after putting that documentary out, Charlie, there have been five first responders murdered in Minnesota in a 13-month period.
00:27:30.000Four police officers and a fire medic.
00:27:32.000That doesn't make the news much here either, but that's all under Governor Walz's watch as well.
00:27:39.000So Liz, can you talk about the feeding our future fraud?
00:27:43.000There's just so much here when it comes to Governor Walz.
00:27:48.000Yeah, Charlie, so this is the highest dollar amount of fraud in the wake of COVID recorded across the country, $250 million.
00:27:59.000But we have, I think, more than 70 people who were charged in the wake of this.
00:28:05.000Basically, these different sites were popping up all around Minnesota, mostly the metro area.
00:28:12.000And people would say that they were serving, you know, thousands of children these meals
00:28:17.000each and every day and submit to the state for reimbursement and the federal government as well.
00:28:22.000Well, this was not actually happening.
00:28:26.000This was all just part of fraudulent checks that were coming in the mail to these people.
00:28:34.000Many have been found guilty at this point, but some other cases, I'm not even sure where they will end up going.
00:28:41.000People bought homes, boats, different things, but the largest fraud perpetuated in Minnesota.
00:28:48.000Not only that, that totaling $250 million also on Governor Walz's Watch, you have about 250 million more in fraud that has been discovered recently.
00:29:01.000This is Medicaid fraud, different things that were happening, fake trips that were being reimbursed to different doctors' offices and whatnot.
00:29:13.000on Alpha News about this fraud as well.
00:29:15.000It's really shocking that this has all happened just in the last few years.
00:29:21.000It receives just a bit of attention here locally, but this state has now become ripe with fraud, again, all under the leadership of Governor Walz.
00:29:32.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:29:33.000Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:29:37.000Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.