Mayor of Keller, TX, Armin Mizani joins Glenn on the show to talk about the latest on the election, and all of the stats that have been coming out since the results were announced. Glenn also talks about the Bernabyrna Launcher and why it would be a great Christmas present for Lisa.
00:03:14.560So yesterday, Biden said that the supporters of Donald Trump were garbage, and that's because a comedian on stage who is known for his destruction of everything he takes on said that there was a big floating garbage just off the eastern seaboard.
00:04:37.120And one of the things that really, obviously, bothered me when, you know, I think what's wrong currently with its Democrat politics or the political class or the media classes, I think they've taken Latinos and minority voters for granted for a long time.
00:04:56.380And Latinos, like the millions of Americans that make up this country, care about the core principles that you and I care about.
00:06:37.140But I will tell you, I think we can live in a world where you can either be for or against a joke and still realize that at the end of the day, it's about the policies that will impact us on a daily basis.
00:06:55.360I mean, he's trying to make a reference to what the supposed – which, by the way, does not exist – floating island of garbage in the –
00:07:01.060Yeah, I get that part, but I don't understand the comparison.
00:07:03.980I mean, I think the thought – the accusation would be he's just calling Puerto Ricans garbage.
00:07:08.960I think that's what they're – is that how you took it?
00:07:11.160I will tell you, I – so personally, I was not offended because as a Puerto Rican, I've been there and I know it's such a great island.
00:07:42.420You know, with the power grid there, that's an issue.
00:07:44.780You can't account for the fact that the infrastructure is not where it's supposed to be.
00:07:48.900I mean, there are potholes where there shouldn't.
00:07:51.500And so, frankly, what, in my opinion, is garbage is it's the fact that you've got a government in Puerto Rico that should be attending to its people, great people.
00:08:01.580But you saw it with the hurricane that happened back in 2017.
00:08:07.840And so I think a lot of Puerto Ricans, to answer your question, Glenn, are awakening to that fact.
00:08:13.220And you see change actually happen within Puerto Rico, within their government.
00:08:16.860And that's what I'm attesting to is Latinos in the U.S. who are voting in these elections see those things, whether you're Puerto Rican or Mexican descent, whatever minority you are or wherever you come from, minorities see that.
00:08:57.560They're strong, strong families, good values.
00:09:02.120I mean, the Hispanics that I know make us stronger because they're living, quite honestly, the way a lot of us in America used to live or should be still living.
00:09:12.040And the they've always pandered to the left is always pandered to the Hispanics by by saying, you know, we need to bring more illegals in.
00:09:22.300That just doesn't that never seemed right to me because the people who that I know that are Hispanic that moved here, they spent like 10 years trying to get citizenship.
00:09:31.540They understand the value of that citizenship.
00:10:09.840But the good news is Latinos, Hispanics, minorities are awakening to it and have seen through it.
00:10:16.520And again, it's, you know, the numbers for Donald Trump as far as the Latinos, it's historic.
00:10:21.660When you look back at presidential cycles, probably the best comparison is maybe George Bush, but Donald Trump is actually pulling better than that.
00:10:30.020And so I think it's going to mean well for November 5th.
00:10:33.840So what does Donald Trump bring to the table that other Republicans haven't?
00:10:56.700Donald Trump, whether you like the man or not, said he was going to do certain things when he ran.
00:11:03.660And when he got into office, he did those things.
00:11:06.200And I think for President Donald Trump, that is what bodes well with Latinos and with minorities, is you're doing what you say you're going to do.
00:11:13.080For the millions of people that have come to this wonderful country legally, Donald Trump has been clear.
00:11:20.060We want to open up the doors for legal migration, but you have to have a country that abides by our laws.
00:11:26.940Otherwise, you have no country at all.
00:11:29.040And I think for the many migrants and legal immigrants that have come here, they see that and they say, it is not fair for us to have gone through.
00:11:36.700I've got family members, whether from my Iranian culture or that have come here, but did it the right way.
00:11:43.960And I think for many of us, we look at what's happening in our southern border and we say, that is not fair.
00:11:51.120And you, being from Iranian descent, know that the Iranians that are coming across now, not the Iranians that you would like to have come across the border.
00:11:57.800Well, you've got to vet everybody, right?
00:12:07.440But I will tell you, I think for the many folks that are coming here and doing it the right way, you know, the biggest concern also, one of the concerns actually is for the folks that are here illegally, they're unaccounted for, undocumented.
00:12:19.480And frankly, if you really kind of break it down and look at its core, it's not right for them because they're essentially living in the shadows.
00:12:47.520But Mexico, they just elected a communist, and Central America has communism running through it.
00:12:55.860Do Hispanics, when they get here, the kind that do it the right way, do they recognize the roots of communism and, like Cubans, say, uh-uh, we've seen this movie before?
00:13:08.660I mean, in Texas, we've got a great senator in Ted Cruz who talks about that, who's got an election of his own, and so I want to encourage everybody to support him as well.
00:13:28.140And for all those reasons, it's why, again, many Hispanics, many minorities, I think in this cycle more than any, have paid attention to the policy, not to the rhetoric.
00:13:38.140We don't want to be taken for granted anymore, which I believe we have in many years past.
00:13:43.600And so we are awakening to it, and we're looking past some of this rhetoric, and a joke is not going to motivate us.
00:14:52.280We're in the fight for their lives as well as ours.
00:14:56.080We have to change the hearts and minds in this country.
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00:19:58.120But if your turnout is that good in the days leading up to the election, and then there's still more Republicans that turn out than Democrats on election day, it's pretty much in the bag, is it not?
00:20:10.700We feel really confident we can get this race closed out by 8 o'clock Eastern, about half an hour after the polls close.
00:20:17.540If everybody listening in Ohio goes out and votes today, make sure they vote early.
00:20:21.820Bring their friends to the polling booth.
00:20:24.060I'm going to give you a stat that blew my mind when we did the polling.
00:20:27.200For every 100 Republicans that say they're going to vote on election day, only 80 turn up.
00:20:33.42098% of Democrats who say they're going to vote turn up.
00:21:26.460They want to know that the taxpayers of this country are funding a government that puts the interest of the United States citizens above all else.
00:21:34.300So you actually became an American citizen at the age of 18.
00:21:38.140Your family's from Bogota, Colombia, right?
00:22:48.580We've got to cut the relationship between Russia and China, Russia and Iran.
00:22:53.020We've got to cripple Iran like we had them, give peace in the Middle East, make certain that China understands while we don't want to go to war with them,
00:23:00.600if they don't treat us fairly, we're not going to treat them fairly.
00:25:58.400We're going to dismantle the administrative state, massively cut government spending, get rid of departments like the Department of Education that's unconstitutional, move that money to the states.
00:26:08.180We're going to unleash American energy, be an energy superpower in this country, get rid of these ridiculous regulations, have a restore the Trump tax cuts, make them permanent.
00:26:21.220I mean, we're going to get to work with peace and stability around the world.
00:26:23.540I think President Trump does that in his first, actually, probably even before inauguration day, he solves a problem in Ukraine and gets that war ended and the killing, which is what I think most Americans want.
00:26:34.460Look, we don't want more endless wars.
00:26:36.060They've already cost this country too much in terms of lost people, lost treasure.
00:26:40.120We've got to have stability around the world, but not wars.
00:26:42.400I'm so sick of hearing about Donald Trump, you know, going out to kill his political enemies and he's Hitler and everything else, because, first of all, never seen that from him.
00:27:15.900I mean, you look at the student debt forgiveness.
00:27:18.120Right in Ohio, about 30 percent of people have a college degree.
00:27:21.560Most of them paid their own debts and paid their own way.
00:27:24.680And yet, Sherrod Brown agrees with Joe Biden that the people who didn't go to college should pay off their studies degrees for the people who did go to college and didn't pay their debt.
00:27:33.080By the way, the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional and they still do it.
00:27:49.920This is a man who loves this country in his heart and soul.
00:27:53.860He's given up more than anybody I know to serve.
00:27:56.940It's what motivates me to run every single day to every corner of Ohio because I know what he's done.
00:28:02.260And I'm going to go out there and match that and put all the effort I can into giving back to this country to give me every opportunity in the world to succeed.
00:30:04.200Millions of Israelis running for bomb shelters.
00:30:07.040A few hours ago, morning time in Israel, millions of Israelis had to run for bomb shelters because they were firing rockets both from Lebanon and from Syria.
00:30:17.460So there's a lot of things that don't transpire.
00:30:23.480With a lot of faith and based on the understanding that, yes, it's tough, it's definitely inconvenient, but this is our ancestral homeland and we fight for it.
00:30:32.800And even if it isn't convenient, this is all we have.
00:30:35.660I talked to several rabbis over in Israel and they all say there is a, I don't know, an awakening going on with the Jewish people in their faith, that there is a great growth of faith in Israel right now.
00:30:51.400I would say that there are more patriots.
00:30:53.560I think that people who perhaps before had dreams of, you know, let's become like, I don't know, Denmark or Switzerland or some other very well-to-do convenient European country, which allegedly doesn't have security challenges.
00:31:11.120But then reality came knocking in the most brutal way on October 7 when Hamas invaded into Israel.
00:31:17.940And since then, we've been fighting for a year.
00:31:20.140I have friends who have been deployed three and four times in Lebanon and in Gaza with leaving their families back home, wife and children, their businesses, and just, you know, going to the front fighting.
00:31:32.120And that takes a toll and it is difficult.
00:31:35.540But at the end of the day, people, you know, we get a reality check.
00:31:39.120And as we are a peace-loving people, we greet ourselves, we greet others by saying shalom.
00:31:47.260But many people have come to the understanding now that in order to achieve that, we have to be strong, protected, and we have to signal to our neighbors and enemies that you're not going to get anywhere by attacking us and by killing and raping and murdering.
00:32:05.420It'll only be suffering for you because we're here to stay.
00:32:08.240So there is definitely a lot of awakening in Israel.
00:32:10.420I have to tell you, I think you're the only country that is fighting the war or fighting a war the way I think it's supposed to be fought.
00:32:19.140You fight hard and you fight with peace always in one hand.
00:32:27.580But until the bad guys' backs are broken, we would never have stopped going after the Germans until they completely broke the back and surrendered with the Nazis.
00:32:47.060With people like this, with monsters like this, with Nazis, with ISIS, with Hamas, with Hezbollah, with the Iranians, there is one way, and it's victory.
00:32:55.260Now, it may sound simplistic, and for people who think of themselves as nuanced and very sophisticated, perhaps it's too simplistic.
00:33:02.980But this is the very real reality of war, sadly.
00:33:06.360I mean, look it, what did we do in Afghanistan?
00:33:18.260And by the way, you know, people who care about the suffering in Gaza, and I can understand, people see horrible images on American media, it is horrible, and there is legitimate human suffering.
00:33:38.360And it's a choice that Hamas has, and they continue to make it.
00:33:41.280By the way, that offer has been on the table for about a year, right?
00:33:45.080Israel has been saying, listen, if you want to end the war, you can do it now, and you can do it totally swiftly.
00:33:51.500Just come out of your tunnels and give us our hostages back.
00:33:54.120You know, I talked to Eric Prince the other day, and he said, you know, we had a plan, his group had a plan to pump seawater into all those tunnels.
00:34:08.880It was a good plan, but unfortunately, we didn't succeed with it and didn't follow through, because our biggest concern was that we didn't know where our hostages were being held.
00:35:03.700There's no definitive information about how many are alive, working to trying to get them out.
00:35:09.320The head of the CIA was at a meeting together with the head of the Mossad and Qatari interlocutors in Doha.
00:35:17.360No big headlines coming out of that, unfortunately.
00:35:19.900Doesn't seem as if Hamas wants to do a deal.
00:35:23.680And the conditions that they put up is as if they're winning the war and not losing it.
00:35:29.440So we're facing an election in six days here in America.
00:35:32.680Tell me the difference between a Harris administration and a Trump administration from the point of Israel.
00:35:42.620So I understand that these elections are crucial for America from a perspective of, I mean, for internal domestic issues in America.
00:35:52.420A lot of things that I know little about, but I watch from the side.
00:35:56.980What I, my perspective is the Middle Eastern one.
00:35:59.260And when I look at the American posture, what matters for me is what kind of policy will Washington be dictating?
00:36:08.120What kind of leadership will Washington have when it comes to the Middle East and specifically Iran?
00:36:13.220And what I'm constantly listening, trying to understand is what are the candidates saying about what are they going to do about Iran?
00:36:22.140What's the policy going to be about their nuclear weapons program?
00:36:25.780Which, as we speak, is going on, they are weaponizing.
00:36:30.740They're not only enriching uranium, but they continue to weaponize and to actually make concrete steps in order to build a nuclear bomb that they say that they will use.
00:36:40.620They call Israel, my country, a one-bomb state.
00:36:44.000And that is what they plan to do, to have a nuclear bomb, to threaten to use it, and to use it.
00:36:48.860They say openly, by 2040, and this is on an official, there's a countdown in a square in Tehran, the Iranian capital.
00:36:58.560The square is called Palestine Square, and they have a countdown there from 2040.
00:37:02.900And they say that until 2040, we plan to annihilate the state of Israel.
00:37:07.200And if they'll have a nuclear bomb in their hands, then, of course, they will use it for that purpose.
00:37:11.500It's so outrageous for people who have a Western outlook.
00:37:26.760It's just rhetoric for domestic consumption, and it's not serious, you know.
00:37:31.320They're more into governance, and they just want to get by, and they want to look tough and hard with their jihadi peers.
00:37:38.160But, yeah, you have to listen to your enemies, and the Iranians, the Iranian regime is a serious, very dedicated, disciplined, absolutely crazy regime, and their intention is to annihilate Israel.
00:37:50.460So, therefore, American policy, in my mind, should reflect America's commitment to prevent Iran from being nuclear and to stop Iran from being the belligerent and source of terrorism in the region.
00:38:04.260And I'll remind everybody, especially Democratic voters that may be listening, there's a thing called the Jerusalem Convention.
00:38:12.620President Biden, about two and a half years ago, he traveled to Israel before Bibi became prime minister the last time, and it was with Prime Minister Lapid.
00:38:21.860And President Biden signed a declaration where he says that the United States will use all of the capacities of its national power in order to prevent Iran from ever going nuclear.
00:41:15.260And that's exactly the spirit that we need in the Middle East, not wars and Iranians and nuclear and terrorists and all of that stuff.
00:41:21.720But we need people to be able to work, to prosper, to practice their faith, all of it in respect to others, in respect to others' history, but also with respect to our right to live in our homeland.
00:41:32.060How will – I've only got about 90 seconds here.
00:41:35.180How will Iran react to a return of Donald Trump?
00:41:41.080I think that the coming three months, the last part of the presidential period, will be a very sensitive one.
00:41:50.920And I think that whatever happens, whoever is elected, it'll be perhaps a time where Iran will try to break out and to really go from being a potential nuclear state to actually having the weapons.
00:42:03.340And I think that if President Trump is elected, then they would perhaps want to establish that as a fact before he goes into office.
00:42:11.920But I think that the Iranians fear, the Iranian regime are in fear of President Trump based on what President Trump did in his first presidency, where he was the first one to take out the terrorist mastermind, General Qasem Soleimani.
00:42:27.460That was a brilliant move for which the people of the Middle East, everybody, should be thankful because that was exactly what was needed.
00:42:36.100More is needed against the evil Iranian regime.
00:42:38.920And especially what the U.S. and Israel should be doing is supporting the Iranian people.
00:42:44.180Supporting the Iranian people against the Iranian regime, that's the way forward.
00:42:48.740And that is what Israel will start focusing on.
00:42:51.220And that is what I hope that the United States of America will do.
00:42:54.020Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Connery, he's a retired former Israeli Defense Forces and spokesperson, and also with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, senior fellow there.