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The Iran attacks, and the way it was covered over the weekend. Later a talk with Melissa Henson from Parents Television Council. New report is out indicating higher suicide from kids addicted to screen time.

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nuclear facilities, three of them hit, and tons of bunker busting bombs. The claim is that all of them are utterly destroyed, and a lot of reaction yesterday on the various shows. First off, if I was going to do anything here, President Trump, of course, looking for blessings moving forward here. Never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kaine, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will have a press conference at 8 a.m. at the Pentagon. And I want to just thank everybody and in particular God. I want to just say we love you God and we love our great military. Protect them. God bless the

Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless America. Thank you very much. Now the details were a little sketchy on Friday night with that first coming up, but then we start finding out more and more about what ended up happening with all the B-2s. And Jennifer Griffin on Fox had an interesting take on the deception that was involved in making this happen. I mean, everyone was looking one direction, the planes came from another, really. It's notable how much deception was involved in this operation. All eyes were looking west towards Guam and the B-2s that took off late last night towards

Guam. It's possible that, but if the distance there would suggest that the B-2s may have also flown east from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Remember, the air refuelers, many of them were placed in Europe and across the Middle East and that is what is known as an air refueling bridge and all of those B-2s would require much air refueling in order to make it, they usually fly round trip from Whiteman. And so what we can say and the president said this in his truth social post is that a full payload of bombs, those massive ordnance penetrators, the 30,000 pound bunker buster

bombs were dropped at Fordow. And as we have reported, there are two entrances to Fordow. So at least two bombs at each two entrants, which suggests at least two B2s were involved over Fordow. My suspicion is that there were more. Now, what is really interesting about this is the talk about having hit the sites really well. There are no reports of any radiation leakage of any sort.

And of course, this could mean a number of things that maybe the Busters didn't really reach all the way down. That's one way of looking at it. It's difficult for us to really confirm this. The craters sure look big, don't they, if you've watched any of that on television, assuming that everything is the way that everybody says it is. And of course, you know, the way I is, even Trump's government, I will just distrust as much as a Biden or anything else.

But you know, stuff happened for sure. Big thing. Or the other way of looking at this is that the enriched material was moved elsewhere before, knowing that these attacks were most likely coming. It could be, right? Could be. Now, Pete Hegseth, this is what he had to say on the press conference over the weekend. This is what he had to say on the press conference over the weekend. The order we received from our commander in chief was focused, it was powerful, and it was clear. We devastated the Iranian nuclear program. But it's worth noting the operation did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people.

For the entirety of his time in office, President Trump has consistently stated for over 10 years that Iran must not get a nuclear weapon full stop. Thanks to President Trump's bold and visionary leadership and his commitment to peace through strength, Iran's nuclear ambitions have been obliterated. One of the more combative conversations that happened over the weekend ended on being face the nation when Secretary of State Marco Rubio was facing it down with Margaret Brennan. Here's how that conversation went. Are you saying there that the United States did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization? That's irrelevant.

I see that question being asked on the media. That's an irrelevant question. They have everything they need to build a weapon. That is the key point in U.S. intelligence assessment. You know that. No, it's not. Yes, it was. No, it's not.

That the political decision had not been made. Well, I know that better than you know that, and I know that that's not the case. But I'm asking you whether the order was given. And the people who say that, it doesn't matter if the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury, why would you bury things in a mountain 300 feet under the ground? Why would you bury six, why do they have 60% enriched uranium? You don't need 60% enriched uranium. The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons because they can quickly make it 90. They have all the elements

they have. Why are they, why do they have a space quickly make it 90. They have all the elements. They have, why are they, why do they have a space program? Is Iran going to go to the moon? No, they're trying to build an ICBM so they can one day put a warhead on it. That's a question of intent and you know in the intelligence assessment that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold state to use this leverage. I'm talking about the public March assessment and that's why I was asking you if you know something more from March. But that's also an was asking you if you know something more from March.

Well, that's also an inaccurate representation of it. That's an inaccurate representation of it. That's not how intelligence is read. That's not how intelligence is used. Here's what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence. What the IAEA knows, they are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program. So why would you enrich uranium at 60% if you don't intend to one day use it to take it to 90% and build a weapon? Why are you developing ICBMs? Why do you have 8,000 short-range missiles and 2,000 to 3,000 long mid-range missiles that you continue to develop? Why do you do all these things? They have everything they need for a nuclear weapon. They have the delivery mechanisms, they have the enrichment capability, they have the highly enriched uranium that

is stored. That's all we need to see. Especially in the hands of a regime that's already involved in terrorism and proxies and all kinds of things around. They are the source of all of this. Yes, and no one's disputing that. I'm not doing that here. And they were censured at the IAEA for that enrichment and for violating their non-proliferation agreements. I was simply asking if we had intelligence that there was an order to weaponize because you said weaponization ambitions. Well, we have intelligence that they have everything they need to build a nuclear weapon and that's more than enough. Okay. Okay. Of course, this goes against what

Tulsi Gabbard had mentioned, you know, the day and I had. After this weekend, one question I'd have for you, how long do you think Tulsi Gabbard has left before she takes off from this administration? I don't know, it could be. All right, next, just kind of want to give you a smattering of some of the talk over the weekend here that continued, you know, so you don't have to watch it necessarily. JD Vance was on Meet the Press Next and saying we didn't want war, didn't really want war. It's like this conversation about having war with the nuclear program, really. What we said to the Iranians is we do not want war with Iran, we actually want peace.

But we want peace in the context of them not having a nuclear weapons program. And that's exactly what the president accomplished last night. I really think there are two big questions for the Iranians here. Are they going to attack American troops or are they gonna continue with their nuclear weapons program? And if they leave American troops out of it and they decide to give up their nuclear weapons program once and for all, then I think the president has been very clear. We can have a good relationship with the Iranians. We can have a peaceful situation in that region of the world. We have to step back a little bit, Kristen, and remind ourselves

that we negotiated aggressively with the Iranians to try to find a peaceful settlement to this conflict. It was only when the president decided that the Iranians were not negotiating in good faith that he took this conflict. It was only when the president decided that the Iranians were not negotiating in good faith that he took this action. He didn't take it lightly, but I actually think it provides an opportunity to reset this relationship, reset these negotiations, and get us in a place where Iran can decide not to be a threat to its neighbors, not to be a threat to the United States. And if they're willing to do that the United States is all yours. Okay, just do what we say, everything's okay. Okay, kind of a one-way negotiation in my opinion. I'm

just talking about the way the world actually works but we'll set that aside here at the moment. But then, oh my gosh, he came out of the neoconservative swamp, John Bolton. John Bolton was on CNN. Were you surprised that President Trump took such decisive action? Well, let me say this unequivocally. I think President Trump made the right decision for America to attack Iran's nuclear weapons program, and I think we're on the verge of potentially seeing regime change in Iran as part of that. I think this is a huge change in the Middle East. It was a decisive action. It was the right thing to do.

I thought somebody should do it for a long time, but better late than never. All right, now we need to have an appropriate one. John Bolton. I can't help it. My knee jerk on anything involving John Bolton is kind of like whatever John Bolton. I can't help it. My knee jerk on anything involving John Bolton is kind of like whatever John Bolton thinks is good, I kind of want to go, woo hoo hoo hoo, because even President Trump for the longest time wanted to just, hey, just get rid of him. Didn't want the neoconservative point of view. But that's all right. You know, every now

and then the neoconservatives could be right. Kind of like the Democrats stopped clocks, right? All right. Interesting, interesting. Whatever your opinion on this, and the opinion is not unanimous here on what should have happened. The one thing I do think is really important to take away here is to watch for the sleeper cells. To me, I think that's realistically what is the next step because of the millions that had been let in during the Biden administration and even prior to that. A lot of people we don't know. And Mr. Serious as a Heart Attack, Tom Holman, was on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo yesterday and had a comment about that. So we have a secure border. So that was President Trump's big win on securing this nation. So we're not releasing people in this country. Special interests aliens aren't crossing that

border undetected. But under Joe Biden, we had over 10 million people cross that border. But my biggest concern from day one, beyond the fat and all beyond the sex trafficking women, children, were the two men known gotaways over 2 million people crossed that border. We don't know who they are, where they came from, because they got away because border patrol is so overwhelmed with the humanitarian crisis that Biden created that over 2 million people crossed the border and got away. That is my biggest concern and that's what created the biggest national security vulnerability this country's ever seen. As Thomas Homan once again. The praise of what happened over the weekend was not unanimous and my libertarian side of my

Republican party gene was kind of flashing right. it's like is this make America great again kind of thing? I'll just kind of lay it out on you. On the other hand, I don't know everything that is involved in the Middle East and what was known perhaps to the administration. So I'm at this point kind of holding back judgment. Congressman Thomas Massie, though, back judgment. Congressman Thomas Massie, though, he ended up raising something which very few people, and I have to say very few people, ended up saying much about, and that was, is this constitutional? Is this constitutional? Massie, on the record, is saying that this is not our war, but if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our

Constitution, and he stated that last week. Now, in the weekend appearances, he was also calling out the Trump administration for—in essence, shielding for Israel and Netanyahu. On Face the Nation yesterday, he was talking about being unduly influenced by a foreign power, and this is what he had to say then. What he promised us was we would put America first. And I think there are still voices in this administration. You've still got JD Vance. You've still got Tulsi Gabbard. You still have RFK Jr. You still got calmer heads that could prevail. They were not persuasive in this case, clearly. Well, somebody was persuasive. APAC is very persuasive. For instance, the Israeli lobby in Congress,

if you look at my colleagues' feeds now, they all look the same. They're all tweeting the same message, that we've got to support Israel and we've got to do this. And looking at the feeds, he may have a point. The Congress in Benz, of course, is supporting the administration, no doubt about that. Ron Wyden, Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon,

saying that it was a reckless action. I don't know if you have an opinion on it. We can certainly discuss it if you wish. As far as making America great again, you know, it's interesting what ended up happening after that. President Trump ended up doing a real blast on social media here. This was on Truth Social. And this is what he had to say about Congressman Thomas Massie. He says, Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is not MAGA even though he likes to say he is. Actually MAGA doesn't want him, doesn't know him, and doesn't respect him.

He is a negative force who almost always votes no, no matter how good something may be. He's a simple-minded grandstander who thinks it's good politics for Iran to have the highest level nuclear weapon, while at the same time yelling, death to America, at every chance they get. Iran has killed and maimed thousands of Americans and even took over the American embassy in Tehran under the Carter administration. We had a spectacular military success yesterday taking the bomb right out of their hands and they would use it if they could, but as usual and even despite all of the praises and accolades received, this lightweight

congressman is against what was so brilliantly achieved last night in Iran. Massey is weak, ineffective, and votes no on virtually everything put before him." You know, there are some people that actually think that voting no on the stuff that's been put in front of him was actually just telling the truth about things. But I guess, are we in a situation where you can't do anything, you can't say no to anything coming out of the Trump administration right now, you can't say no? To me, it takes a lot more courage probably to say no to President Trump than it is to sit around there and say, yeah, go ahead, go ahead and do this.

What is MAGA? What does make America great? So I guess that's the question. There are some people who were expressing some issues with that. And first and foremost all, and I have to agree with Congressman Massey, that whether this is our war or not,

it is up to Congress to decide. Would you agree on that? I do agree with him on that particular point. This should not have been a unilateral operation from the president. That's my opinion. Maybe you have an opinion too. Either way. I have a feeling Congress would have approved it anyway, but that being said, should it not have gone through Congress? We can talk about that if you want this morning too. 7705633770KMED.

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What do you think? Well, Massey is right. It should be Congress, but why should we hold Trump to a higher standard than every other president since World War II? I mean, there's Korea, there's Vietnam, there's Obama in Syria, there's Iraq, there's Afghanistan. All of these things were started by presidents and if we really want to say well we have to be defensive, well didn't Iran bomb one of our Navy vessels about 30 years ago, maybe this is just payback for that. Yeah, I think that's a little thin gruel, honestly, Steve.

Well, the whole thing is thin gruel. I mean, you had Israel bomb the USS Liberty, too. That's right. So what I'm saying is, why hold Trump to a higher standard than we held all the other presidents? The Gulf of Tonkin was obviously a false flag event and that got But at least that was a congressional resolution though. Not originally. Not originally. That was after the fact they decided Congress did a limited Yeah.

Okay, we'll do it. And Obama was serious? Nothing in Congress at all about that. Very true. He even killed Americans. Well, I think, though, this is what's getting involved here. Well, now you have Democrats that, now Democrats are really all wound up and would like to revisit the War Powers Act. But on the other hand, you know, we've needed to revisit the War Powers Act for a long, long time. Yeah, you can certainly say it's an interesting time to want to revisit this after many decades of its abuse. And I will agree. Okay, I'll concede your point there. All right. Thank you.

Yep. All right. 7705633. Caller, I forgot your name. So just tell me who you are. Who's this again? Morning. Chris. Hey, Chris, how you who you are. Who is this again? Morning? Chris. Hey Chris, how are you doing? Welcome. What's on your mind today? Hi, Bill. Bill, I appreciate your commentary on a lot of things that you've been around, I've been around.

I've been in the military. I went in after the Baruch bombing. And I can't believe you would even think that because those Democrats, a bunch of trees in this a-holes and they can't get together to decide anything. They don't want to decide anything. I think we put President Trump in a leadership position for him to make those types of decisions. I'm glad he did it. You are okay but that's why we're asking. All right. Very glad. Would there have been a problem though with going to Congress first?

Bill, you watch the news like I do? The Democrats? No, no, no. Answer my question. What would have been the problem with going to Congress? You think Congress would have said no? I think Congress, like I said, they can't agree on anything. They can't agree on the big, beautiful bill. Well, I think they could have had come up with a yes or no on that, don't you? Maybe Bill, maybe. They just drag stuff out. You watch snooze like I said, I do too, and they drag stuff out forever. All right, all right Chris, all right Chris. So a nice day on that. That's fine, it's all right. I think that's the one point that Congress and Massey actually made pretty well over the weekend.

Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hi Bill, this is Vicki from the Applegate. Vicki, take it away. What do you think? Well, I kind of agree with Chris only in the fact that Congress takes so much time. And you know, Trump, when he was in his first term, he took out some really bad guys. Did he go through Congress then? Did Bush go through Congress when 9-11 happened? I mean, there's situations where he is the

chief and commander. Yeah, I get that. But are we at the point now where all that matters is the President wants to take a nation to war? Well, no. I think it depends on the severity of what's going on. And there's no doubt that Iran and a lot of those Mideastern countries are against America. It's no secret that any one of them

would take us out if they could. So I think it depends on the severity of the situation, whether we're in immediate danger. And what he did was not only just for our country, but other countries. If they bomb us, or they bomb Israel, they could bomb anybody. Okay. Thank you, Vicki. I'll grab one more. We'll revisit this after seven o'clock here too. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Good morning Bill. Hey, Terry. Hey Terry, what's on your mind today? You know what? They can't go to Congress because the Democrats would blur this thing out all over the place

and they would get ahead of it where he couldn't even do it. It wouldn't be a surprise to Iran. They would have just blurted it out guaranteed they would have they would have got it out there I don't know about that because the fact the matter is the Democratic the Republicans most would have because remember all we're talking about is a resolution yep we authorize the president go ahead and do what you feel is necessary on this and then you know they wouldn't you know he wouldn't want that one don't you think yeah Yeah, maybe. Yep, could be. All right. So where do you think that line could be?

Because no matter what anybody says, I think it's nonsense to say that there was an imminent threat to us. Any second that here comes the ICBM with the nuclear weapon. To me, that's just nonsense. And it felt like 9-11 all over again to me. I get it, but you know they've handcuffed this for what, 40 years? You know we've talked about this for eons now and you know what, I'm glad it's finally resolved for the most part and moved forward from this. You know everybody keeps talking about they want to do something, nobody ever has

in 40 years. And they've been a strain on the Middle East for forever. So I think it's a good thing that they've finally taken care of these people. All right. Hey, we'll be, I appreciate your comment. Thanks for making it, all right? Thank you.

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I actually love the smell of the rain. That was great. Joining me right now is the Parents Television and Media Council Vice President Melissa Hansen. Interesting study came out and it's kind of confirming what we already kind of knew, at least from a scientific background, and it has to do with with kids or grandkids and the screen time. Isn't that right, Melissa? You're always out there trying to protect the kids out there with your work. We appreciate that. What's going on, huh? Yeah, well this is an interesting new study because previous research on kids and screen

use have focused on the total amount of time they're spending on screens. But this one's focused on addictive behavior. Hey, Melissa, I'm losing you. I don't know if you're our cell. It's a little bit... I don't know if you can rearrange or something. I just want to make sure I hear you all, okay? Yeah, yeah.

Let me see if I can move to another spot where you can hear me a little better. Is that all right? Yeah, yeah. Let me see if I can move to another spot where you can hear me a little better. Is that all right? Yeah, yeah. Don't you love it? I mean, the whole thing is like, where's the perfect spot in my house or office? Right, that kind of thing. But anyway, let's pick this up again.

So the original studies or earlier studies on this and did what? Here we go. Yeah. So the earlier studies that have focused on kids and screens have focused on the total amount of time that they're spending on screens. This is the first one to really focus on addictive behavior. And what they are finding is that the more kids appear to be addicted or the more addictive tendencies they demonstrate, the higher the likelihood that they're going to have suicidal thoughts or tendencies.

In essence, the more TikTok, the more suicide? That's what you're telling me the study said, Melissa? Well, not just the amount of time. The harder it is for the kid to put the phone down, to put the phone away, the more they act like they're going through withdrawal when you take the phone away from them. So, the more that they act like they're going through withdrawal when you take the phone away from them. So the more that they act like they're addicted to the screen rather than just the total amount of time that they're spending on it. Okay. And what is, was there any general takeaway from this American Medicalist or this journal, this journal study, the American Medical Association, any level in which people or the kids tend to have more of a problem of withdrawal or addictive behavior towards screen time, the phones and the devices? Yeah, it didn't zero in on if they're spending X amount of

time and it's officially addictive. It's really up to the individual child because some kids are going to demonstrate addictive tendencies even at a lower volume of time than maybe a kid who's spending more time online but isn't as strongly hooked to it. So it's really a matter of whether the kid a fit when you take the device away from them. That's going to be a warning flag for you as a parent. Will the kid willingly put the phone away during meal time or bedtime and not put up a fight about it? These are the kinds of things that you need to be on the alert for. Okay. Do you have a report up on that on parentstv.org about this? Because every time we talk about

wanting to try to reduce screen time to the kids, we're kind of told, oh, you can't do that or oh, this is socializing or oh, you have to be the cool parent. And... Yeah. Yeah. We do have a link to this and to other external research. Research has been done not just on kids and social media, but kids across a multitude of devices and how they're being affected by that. But you can find all that on our website, which is parentstv.org. Yeah, parentstv.org. Yeah, parentstv.org. Melissa, is there any recommendation still from the, and I hate to use the term experts because experts get overused. You know, experts were supposed

to turn our brain off the moment we hear somebody call themselves an expert, okay? Right. But still, are there any good overall guidelines, if you were to have a rule of thumb on screen time for the kids these days? Yeah, well there are a few things. One is I would suggest delaying as long as possible getting your kid a smartphone because smartphones are by their very nature highly addictive. The colorful screens, all these sorts of things that keep you wanting to come back to it. So, you know, there are organizations that say wait until late grade. I say wait even longer if you can. Wait until they're 16. 16. Or

even older if you can. My son is now 16 and he has a flip phone, so I can reach him in an emergency, but he's not able to access social media on that. In other words, you are practicing what you preach over at parents television. I try to. But I understand how hard it is when you feel like you're a lone voice in the wilderness. When my son first entered middle school, I was hearing on almost a daily basis how much he needs a smartphone because all his friends have smartphones. And I've seen him, you know, when he's out with groups of friends and all his friends are looking at their phones and he's wanting to socialize and they're all staring at

their phones. So, I find that this is easier to do. It's easier to stand strong on this issue. If you can talk to other parents and find a community of parents who are left-minded, who are also willing to delay getting their kids smartphones, that way your child is not the loner, the outsider, the one who's not in... Yeah, yeah, the outcast, the uncool kid, that sort of thing. Very interesting, very interesting. Now, this research is kind of telling us what we thought just with common sense, the addictive behavior on this.

Well, to me, the takeaway from social media is that all you have to do is look at what the sons and daughters of big computer high tech people and social media mavens like the Zuckerbergs and all these other people, they keep their own kids off the networks. And so that really tells you something. So it's okay, you know, get your kids into it. But, you know, so they can make money, but they see the danger for their own children, which I think is a real big takeaway from all of this. That's exactly right. Yeah. And a lot of them also put their kids in like Waldorf schools, for example, where they're not given laptop computers. Yeah, you're absolutely correct. If you want to know whether or not it's good for your child, look at what they're doing for their own children. Yeah, they take them away from them. I appreciate that. Melissa Hanson once again is the Vice President of Parents Television and Media Council, Parentstv.org,

brand new study published in the JAMA New York Times reporting on this. You can read all about this on Parentstv.org. Thank you so much, Melissa. Always a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. It's 647 at KMED, 99.3 KBXG. You're waking up on the Bill Meyers Show.

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Big bunker busting bombs and a lot of deception. It went out really well. Deception is a good way, you know, deceiving the enemy. Do you have an opinion about this one way or the other? Do you think it worked out okay? My question has been though, why not go to Congress? We're getting to the point where, you know, we elect our congressmen, our Congress Critters,

our senators, et cetera. Well, I should say the, well, the unions probably elect the senators in the state of Oregon, the political contributors, that kind of thing. But let's just say, what would be wrong with a president just saying, hey, I'm looking for authorization? I want authorization. I want your blessing.

This is something that Congress and Massey ended up bringing up. What do you think would have been the reaction had Joe Biden just done this? Do you think it would have been just as positive? Do you think Fox News would have been... Oh, no, no, maybe it would have been. Maybe it would have been. I don't know. I mean, Fox News is such a, in my opinion,

a warmongering channel in the first place. I find it a lot of times, you know it's going to be the aim and choir, the aim and choir on the neoconservative push for world domination, in my opinion. That's kind of the way I've looked at Fox News for a long, long time. Fox News, of course, very anti-Trump there for a long time, and I think it ended up changing things around once it was obvious that he's getting in. And so now there's a more nuanced, I think, relationship between here. So I'm concerned that we're getting to the point where we have no control, where we the people have no say. And I know that, yep, similar things were done in the past. Obama, Bush, all the rest of these kind of things. Just because it has been done in the past, should it continue? Because the one thing that does keep America from being great again is being drawn into former entanglements or foreign entanglements. I'm serious, you

know, foreign entanglements is something that President Trump ran on not getting involved in. Now they're all saying that this is not going to be, you know, a long-term thing, this is not gonna be a permanent deal. I hope they're right, and they very well could be right. But this was something President Trump ran on no never-ending foreign wars. And hopefully he's going to keep his promise on this one. I'm hoping it is. But I also think that one of the ways you keep your promise to not be entangled forever or getting yourself stuck in various Middle Eastern tar babies, like the old Uncle Rema story back in the day.

It's that you go to Congress. Everybody goes to Congress, not just President Trump, President Trump and every future president. In other words, going back to the way it once was. You're trying to tell me that if you had put this, you didn't even have to put this attack in front of Congress saying, hey, I'm going to go on Friday and we're going to attack. I just want the authorization to use lethal force, so you know, in Iran, if need be, on my authority, up into the bunker buster bombs, etc. Give it to me. Is there a problem with that? And if so, why? What do you think? 7705633, 770KMED. We conservatives a lot of times start talking all the time about the

Constitution. Massey is right when he says that you're supposed to go through Congress for these kind of things, but Congress has kind of stepped aside and let the presidents to do what they want. Now, Republican presidents, or Republican, I'm sorry, Congress, the Republicans in Congress get upset about Democrats when they end up doing the abuse of it, and the Democrats get upset at Republicans when they end up doing their thing. Shouldn't we go back to what the Constitution demands? If you're going to have warlike behavior, you declare a war. 7705633, is that an issue?

Or not? Otherwise, why bother with Congress? Why bother with an election? Let me go to one of the lines here. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hey Bill, it's Herman. Herman, good to have you on. Welcome. So the Constitution, you know, words have meanings and definitions. The Constitution solely has the responsibility for a declaration of war. They also have the purse string. However, the executive branch has the right to use the military to protect the US, US interests and our allies interests. And so I disagree with Massey.

You do. There is no declaration of war. Everybody keeps throwing out this word war. That takes a declaration either by Iran or the United States. That has not happened yet. That has not happened yet. So I'll give an example. Somebody launches an intercontinental ballistic missile strike against the U.S. Does Trump have to go to Congress to respond? No, but we aren't talking about that. There is no intercontinental... Yes, you're trying to split hairs. He has the right to use the military to protect our interests or our allies' interests. We are not in war. We have involvement and skirmishes all over this planet all the time. But that's not war. So it would be very hard to go to Congress every time you engage in some of these conflicts,

simply because Congress, one, they can't come to a decision on what time it is. And if they finally do come to a decision on what time it is, and if they finally do come to a decision on what time it is, it takes months. So that's why. So, you know, we have to make sure that we're using the right word. But you see, what you're talking about is true in an existential threat. There is no evidence of an existential threat here. There never was. Not this time. In other words, this is, well, they have this and we think they have this and, well, Tulsi says no, they don't have this and, yeah, you

know, see what I'm getting at here? Well, Tulsi never said that that was created by the press, but I am very mindful also, you know, when President Bush went into Iraq, that was because they had the biological weapons. But the thing is, Kerman... They never found it. They never found it. See, this is the same bullstein, in my opinion, that was being used to get us into... When Boltonton ends up saying this is a wonderful thing I look at him as the contrarian indicator, you know But when you have you have to remember Saddam Hussein Constantly said he had the weapon the ayatollahs in in Iran

Constantly, they say they have the weapon. So you know, if you say, I got the weapon, look out! You may have it come in your direction. So, since we seem to be really upset about countries other than us having the nuclear weapons, should we ask Israel to talk about that too? And India and Pakistan and all the rest of them? Well, you know, you are picking and choosing and I agree with that. I agree about picking and choosing because, well, Iran or Pakistan and India, they got them themselves and that was tied up with the British. That's a long story.

But anyway... And Israel stole it from us, essentially, is what they did, or maybe through the back room. We gave them to them. We gave them to them. So we've always been supporting of democracies and countries that are heading towards a democracy or wants to be free. And we've always supported people like that. That's not Iran. That's not Iraq. That's not Afghanistan. They're the opposite.

Okay? Israel is not saying, death to the US, we want to kill and all that, all that kind of nonsense. Okay, so you disagree with Massey. I tend to agree with him on Congress should at least have authorized the President to do something like that. No, they can't keep, because these things are very expensive. They're very secretive. And as soon as one person in Congress knows what's going on, the whole world will know. They can't help themselves. All right, Herman. I appreciate the call.

Thank you, as always. 770-5633. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Hello. Hello. Hi. I agree with Herman that Congress would take so long that President Trump wouldn't even

be in office anymore when they finally decided. They can't agree that easily on anything. Look at the bill. Well, you see, we're talking about a bill. We're not talking about authorization to go there. That's a's a relatively quick thing it's a quick up-and-down vote it's not a quick up-and-down vote because they would never get to that point okay so I don't listen just dragging their heels on things all right all right Jean I appreciate that 7705633 I'll grab another call. Hi, good morning, this is

Bill. Hey Bill, it's Lucretia. Hi Lucretia. Hi. You know, you look at what the letter to Benzini by Albert Pike, and this is all planned. It's, you know, they said they're gonna unleash the nihilist and atheist. You don't want to even be alive with where they take us. You know, we've got the Mexicans rising up in the streets after coming here, you know, saying the hatred to America and wanting to, you know, make America, I guess, part of Mexico. Trump just named the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America, they're going to take it back. But you also look at what the DC-DC report, highest level British and naval intelligence said, that the Mexicans rise up and we wouldn't have any money to leave the world much less

America. This is all part of the take down. And for us to just fall into this, you know, on Hitler's death was his ancestor Frederick the Great, Vatican appointed vassal king of Prussia. That's a ram. You look at the Nazis that are fighting in the Ukraine. Okay, yeah.

Focus though. Focus on this though, because you're scattering all over the place, all over the globe here again. The point is, why are we jumping into something planned way back in 1871? That's an interesting question, Lucretia, and thank you for making it. See, that's what I needed. That's the question. Are we stepping into it or not? I'm going to err on the side of President Trump's judgment at this point. I still think there should be authorization though

for such actions. I'm not talking about the specific plans because everybody says the same thing, oh Congress would spill the beans. And yeah you're right, Congress would spill the beans. But if you go in there and say, hey you know we're having some issues coming up here with Iran and I think we're going to have to take, I want the, I want your okay to do whatever needs to happen now, you know, and give it a certain timeframe. You know, he talked about, hey, over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to make a decision, right? He already said that he was going to make a decision in a couple of, within a couple of weeks and he made a decision within about 12 hours, I think, said that he was going to make a decision within a couple of weeks and he made a decision within about 12 hours, I think, you know, after that point.

Why not? Anyway, we'll set that aside here at the moment, get back to it also. This is the Bill Meyers Show at KMED, KMED, HD1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass.