The Benny Show - WAR! Trump Breaks Silence After OBLITERATING Iran Leader | Islamic Terror Attack Hits America…

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

Trump breaks silence on obliterating Iran’s Supreme Leader, Islamic Terror Attack hits Austin Texas, Wesley Hunt, Mike Cernovich and  Admiral Robert Harward  join the show. American Financing: Save with https://www.americanfinancing.net/benny NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 888-528-1219 or americanfinancing.net/Benny, for details about credit costs and terms ZIP-RECRUITER: Try ZipRecruiter for FREE https://www.ziprecruiter.com/benny ARMRA: https://armra.com/BENNY or enter BENNY to get 30% off your first subscription order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It was either him or me. I got him first. All right, ladies and gentlemen. What a weekend. Are you ready for more situation monitoring? That's what we have been doing all weekend. Holy smokes. Did everybody else just sit there and refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh,

monitor, monitor, monitor, situations, situations, situations, situations, situations, situation, situation, situation, situation. I certainly did, and here's the one thing that I am missing. And the one thing that I would advise on this beautiful Monday, March 2nd. And 2026, welcome to March. We told you it was going to be an absolutely banger of a 2026. We predicted this. In January, we got Maduro.

In February, we got Edomino. And in March, we got Ayatollah Khomeini. Whoa. Okay. Ayatollahomani killed in massive American and Israeli strikes this weekend. Why did they have to do it? That's the question, ladies and gentlemen. Why?

And it's a question that we're going to wrestle with on this program. We have a stats show. There's no shortage of people that want to pop off on this subject and talk about it. And I don't pretend to be some military expert, nor am I going to sit there and wag my finger because I haven't served in the military. And let me make that very clear. I think there is like a major distinction. Pro war, anti-war, whatever, like there is a distinction. And it's important for me to like sit back and to recognize at the top of the show here that there's many things that I don't know.

And I think that's a level of humility that I wish more people took to subjects like this. Whether you are pro bombing of Iran, whether you're against the bombing of Iran. Can we show some humility and recognize that President Trump has intel and has an understanding about what is actually happening around the world and that we elected him to this position in order to take what is at this point probably, extremely classified and extremely complicated global situation and give like a little bit of breath to let things play out. And I'm cautioning out of experience. Yeah, I was sitting there like quite alarmed when I woke up on one Saturday morning and saw we had black bag Nicholas Maduro.

And it's the same thing when I saw that we had bombed Iran's nuclear program last summer. I've learned to like take a deep breath and to let things play out. And I have a couple of snap judgments, things that I believe are critical in understanding the world around you and that things that have changed forever since the first Iraq war that I hope the administration gets. And so that's what we're going to spend the show wrestling with today. Approaching these kind of situations with humility, understanding that now the fourth American life has been announced lost.

in a devastating series of attacks on U.S. air and naval stations, the U.S. bases being attacked at a rate and at a clip that we've never seen in our lifetimes, certainly not since the GWAT wars. And I lived through those, and I think we've learned a lot. And I think the major thing, and I just want to like announce off the top line, the approach that this show is going to take to situations of, grandiose consequence. It's what we're living through right now, which is this.

That's how we've approached pretty much everything on this program. The world has changed. It's not just because we have GROC. It's not just because we have chat GPT. It's not just because we have a satellite, real-time access to information. I mean, you could watch this war take places,

though it was all happening live in front of you. I mean, there were disciplines and there were portals where you could see every flight, every bomb drop. It's happening like a risk board right in front of us. It's not just because we have all that information, but because the system broke itself is a top line thought on today's program. The system has been broken.

And this is a warning to the Trump administration. I'm not going to sit there and rip up a burn my maga hats like some idiots online. I'm not going to sit there and, you know, cry and scream and rend my garments. Okay. we're going to let this thing play out. And I've been wrong before on this stuff and my gut instinct. And Trump has been right on these things. And I think that there's a massive play that's going on right now that is meant to strangle China.

Obviously, like China got 70% of the oil out of Venezuela. China got 80% of Iranian oil. By taking out these two countries, you could put China back into the dark. ages. China, of course, is our number one geopolitical foe. This is actually a China and Russia play. It's meant to break, actually, the sort of axis, what you would call the modern day axis of evil there. You could very easily fold Russia back in using global trade, using the dollar, using military strength. You could make Russia a like tentative ally, actually. In this, in the geopolitical landscape, I think this is what Marco Rubio is talking about when he talks about like the old order is dead.

The old order of the world is gone. There's a new order and you're watching it happen and it's going to be ugly. It's it's going to get hard and uncomfortable to watch as you watch these new things be created. Trump talking about obviously why he went to war with Iran. Two, you know, two main issues. Again, we're going to talk about that in a second. but I just want to like set the entire tenor of the program up on one incredibly important pedestal, one keystone that is utterly critical in a moment like this. And in major moments of import for this administration, which is the system was broken.

I'm not sure it was broken by you guys, meaning the Trump administration. Like it's not your fault exactly. Like, again, you guys weren't the ones who were. let Epstein off. You know, Epstein was led off by the Bush administration and the Biden administration, the Obama administration. They didn't do Jack. In fact, they helped Epstein. But Trump administration has already learned that they can be knee-capped by the inefficiencies, indolence, crimes of other administrations and systems that have been broken. You can lose your credit with the American people with the sins of the past

and not making them right. And what is making them right look like? Well, it's probably the most common thing that we say in this program. The era of, trust me, bro, it's gonna be good. It's gonna be okay, okay? It's all secret, but shut up and stop asking questions, move along.

You're good, we're all gonna be good, okay? Like everything's fine. And just trust us. We're the experts. And, you know, stop asking questions. That's dead. Did the Trump administration kill it? No.

Do they live under those new rules? Yes. That's dead. And that's my major critical critique. I have eaten humble pie. I've eaten crow on this program because I had a mini freak out. Last time they bombed Iran. And I had a mini freak out when they blackbag Nicholas Maduro.

I just, I worried, you know, you blackback Nicholas Maduro, you get civil war in Venezuela, that creates a refugee crisis. Like, 20 million refugees wash America, you know? Like, I was worried about that. I really was. It didn't happen. So again, I'm approaching this from humility. But I'm approaching this nonetheless, from reality. And the reality is that you must make the case.

I do not personally believe. that the case has been made to the American people. It has to be made. I'm going to use Epstein as an example. It's not the Trump administration that broke Iran. Yes, Iran is the number one state sponsor of terror. Yes, Iran has killed a lot of Americans. Are you dumb?

Did you live through GWAT? Did you have friends who served their sons, daughters, brothers, uncles? Do you have guys who, do you know people who died in the war in Iraq? A lot of people do know people who died in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. 99% of deaths were caused by Iran.

Yes, they've killed Americans. Yes, they continue to fund terror. Yes, they are evil. Yes, the people of Iran actually hate them. Do you know any Iranians here stateside, perhaps? Those people are cheering, celebrating, literally doing parades through the streets. Yes, they are extremely happy in all this. There is good to come up this, and good can come of this.

But it won't happen unless you make the case the American people. Something that didn't happen. I'm just using this as an example. I'm not saying they're related, although I'm sure we can get Mike Benz on here or Alex Jones, and they could talk about how they're all related. Certainly, there are some threads between like Epstein and Iran.

There's a thread between Epstein and everything, seemingly. But I'm just going to like talk about this in a vacuum here. All that needed to be done, I mean, you've released the Epstein list, you were forced to release the Epstein list. anyway. All that needed to be done is like a full-throated, good faith explanation to the American people about what you knew about Epstein. What was going on? The people who have been taken down by this Epstein trash have been like the worst leftist. Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Kathy Rumler, Obama's inner circle, Larry Summers. You have Hakeem Jeffries begging him for money.

You have Whoopi Goldberg begging to be on his jet. You have Prince Andrew going to jail. you know, the Mountbattenes, right? Peter Mendelsohn, these are the people that have been like completely destroyed, the World Economic Forum president. Like, yo, like, why, why try and run the old playbook back? The old playbook is, shut up, stop asking questions. That, that playbook ain't going to work. It's never going to work again, ever.

If you ever try and do that again, it'll fail. Now, I think that actually that's given birth to something much better, which is the way we used to do things or should do things, which is our leaders walk out and explain what's going on. So explain it slowly and carefully and in a way that we can understand and a way that people get. And like, it's a very forgiving and very intelligent American population. We have very high IQ in this nation, on average. It's true. people pay attention people monitor the situation i think they'll get on board if you give them the if you give them information and if you're earnest about it and if you're operating in good faith

not lying like a bunch of bastards in the bush administration's like sitting there weapons of mass destruction like you know if you're actually operating in good faith people will be like okay cool all right all right good and i think people get it i think they really just do. Trump's explaining a little bit now, like on the background, we'll get to that in just a second. But the world has been broken. Now, again, was it broken by Trump? Dude, I would argue that the last gasp, dying gasp of all this, it started during, of course, everything from JFK assassination, Nixon impeachment, all of the ops that have been run for the last 50 years in this country by the deep state, you take giant chunks of credibility from our government institutions every

single time you have a J Edgar Hoover. Every single time, you know, the government kills MLK. You know, every single time they kill the entire Kennedy family, RFK and JFK. You know, you have this big chunk. Think of it as like a big blindstone building, like the institution, you know, the trust in federal government and law enforcement. You have big pieces of the facade come crumbling down. time you do that. You lose more and more people. You can throw UFOs in there. You can throw Iraq War I you can really, I mean, you knock down half the building with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The weapons of mass destruction lie. And then, well, 9-11. You take 9-11, you take the Patriot Act, you put it all together. You've like demolished half the building. So the building's like literally

teetering. It's just a hollow shell, the integrity of the federal government, the institution, trust in the federal government. It's just like on its last dying, it's like barely able to be held together. The facade is just barely able. You don't even want to walk underneath it. And then COVID hits. And that just COVID hits in the 2020 election.

And that bulldozed the entire thing. Now it's in the ground. The credibility of our federal government is through the surface crust of the earth. It's been bulldozed to nothing. There is no more. Trust us, bro. good move along. The experts are on it. The final experts that were able to pull that off

off they did during COVID. They lied. They poisoned people. It led to millions of deaths. Yes, the four American deaths are in absolute tragedy. I mourn for them. We pray for them. It's awful. There have been four Americans that have been killed in this open front against Iran. How many Americans were killed during COVID by our federal government? millions, millions, millions. It's like the single deadliest thing our federal government's ever done. You know, if you add up World War II

and World War and the Civil War, you don't even get to a million dead bodies. No, our federal government killed millions. During COVID. And so, like, you want to talk about credibility gone? That's it. You'll never get it back. You'll never get it back.

And so the only way to get a structure that anyone can live in now because you're going to need to have some faith in the federal government no one's going to pay taxes anymore all right is you're going to have to rebuild something and the only way to rebuild it is to be like extremely honest and open with the american people to like just look down the barrel like i do every single day and have an honest conversation with people in plain language that they understand they didn't do that with epstein they didn't they lie it's true. Look at the memo. Look at the memo.

The memo said there's nothing in these files. That's false. There's a lot of these files. I mean, there's so much. And then the memo also says that there was no evidence of Jeffrey up seeing blackmailing anyone. Dude, I can name a lot of different circumstances, but just the Bill Gates circumstance alone. Is it obvious, obvious blackmail operation? And so you got to like straight up explain this to people. Why you can't just like, why you couldn't just, and again, I'm not trying to be some obsessive here.

And there's a lot of stuff going on. But you can just, you can see it as an Achilles heel for the Trump administration, whom I support, many of whom I know personally. I've known them for a long time. They've been live on this program. I love them. I care about them. I say this out of love, the same way that I correct my children. Maybe it's not my role or position to do that.

But, you know, that's it. This is my household. And I correct my children in my home. That means I love them. And so this is my correction. The correction vector is you've, you, you cannot operate the way that a entire generation, I would argue like my grandparents, right, and parents, there was like an entire generation of like trust the experts. And that is gone.

It's gone. Maybe some people still like it. But the vast majority of Americans, and especially young people, don't and can't live under that style of rule any longer. Trust the experts. You're good. Move along. Don't ask the question. And so this is my main criticism here, which is you have to make the case to the American people why bombing Iran is necessary.

And that is the thing that concerns me, the very most, is I don't believe that that case has been made. I don't. And I would like to see it made. I can come up with a lot of good reasons as to why this is actually a major good. And I am going to be humble enough to say that I don't know everything. Perhaps there is a lot of classified stuff that I have no idea about. There's a lot of, you know, geopolitical stuff. So I'm humble enough to know, like, I'm not.

And nobody elected me and president, right? And I voted for Donald Trump to make these kind of decisions. And, you know, would I have made the Maduro decision? Right. Trump did. It's worked out. I think it's worked out great. And so again, I'm going to reserve judgment.

And we're going to like take the blows as they come. We're going to, we're going to roll with the new cycle. We're going to talk through what's actually happening here. And this is how we're going to operate on this change. channel. This is how we're going to approach this. So if you're looking for unhinged hot takes in one direction or the other, if you're looking for me to cry and to scream and to throw things or set my maga hat on fire or to like, you know, suddenly become like the biggest pro war guy in the world, you've come to the wrong place. But we can, at the very least, approach

these things with humility and with some clarity about how the world that we're operating in today the world we're operating in today is you have to show your work you cannot just trust that everyone's just going to be like to show your work right i say it out of love if the admitted there would be no epstein question if the administration had just shown their work right on that front there wouldn't be and so this is this is uh the going to be the the the stature the positioning of the program when it comes to questions like this we think that it's honest and it's good faith we think it is also like entrusting but you have entrusted us to be level-headed and to not be humiliating and did not not be melt down like children in times like this is the way that

men and like stable people operate. So that's where we're going to be. Obviously. God help us. So help us, God. Okay, we got so much. So much to get to. There is some major consequences and they have been deadly on American soil.

And American soil that is represented by some of our guests today. Wesley Hunt will be on the program, Mike Sernovich on the program. Admiral Robert Hayward also on the show, a stacked show. My name is Benny Johnson, and this is the Benny Show. Our show brought to you by American Financing. This is obviously sending markets into turmoil. Make sure, ladies and gentlemen, that if you are somebody who is part of the millions of Americans

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about how nobody's made an explanation without, like, going over the explanations that have been given, which are, which are obviously, and again, I've prefaced this by saying that Iran is a bad actor. I'm not in favor of Iran. I'm not sitting there saying that this is like a great regime, and we should, I'm going to wrap my head in a turban and, you know, hold up a photo of the Ayatollah. These are evil. I mean, the regime itself is evil. What do you, like, if you don't believe me, go talk to an Iranian, go talk to somebody who lived through it.

It's really, really bad. Okay. it's obviously bad so you can take that you can like you can have things in isolation and like i can say in a vacuum bad and then i can move over to the downstream consequences and say this is also bad and we needed to think through these this stuff again for americans dead american bases have been bombed uh and have been attacked savagely there are multiple cities throughout the mid-east that have burning skyscrapers and have had bombs land on them where innocent people have died.

Obviously, there has been some major changes in Iran as the entire Iranian leadership has just been wiped out, but the rabid dog is the most dangerous when you corner it, and now they're launching everything that they got. They're depleting a lot of American resources. I'm not saying we're helpless, but there's also some friendly fire that happened this morning

with an American jet that was shot down in Kuwait. Friendly fire, thankfully the pilots ejected And as far as I know ALX, please correct me if I'm wrong here. As far as I know, there were no casualties in that pretty remarkable circumstance. We have footage of the jet actually getting shot out of the sky by the Kuwaitis. ALX, do we have that? There's just been insanity that's been happening. And that's just what happens when you open up a war and open up a front against a very, very dangerous opponent.

And I, you know, how was this all going to shake out? Klein, please track with me, clip B, thank you. You know, how's it going to bit? How is it going to shake out? I mean, this is the attack that killed four Americans here on the American military base. You can see just a look at this. You can see the Iranian. Look at that direct hit.

Ah, you know, these kind of thing. this is the real world that we're living in. So I'm not going to sit, you know, I'm not going to sit here and prance around and, like, say, this is great. It's something. It's not. I don't want any American to die ever. And I certainly don't want any American to die on American soil.

And that's what happened this weekend. What happened this weekend is that a Islamic extremist from Senegal went and attacked a bar in Austin, Texas. If you're unfamiliar with Sixth Street in Austin, Texas, is a great. street. Please put up the photo of the Senegalese paperwork American. I call him paperwork Americans because these are the people who like come here because some jackass stamped a refugee card for him. He claimed asylum.

Claimed asylum. The whole system's broken. Comes here and then he wears a shirt that says property of a law. He goes and kills Americans. Kills two Americans. Thank God. The reported number was actually higher than that. I believe the death count as two, but 14 have been injured when he stalked a bar on 6th Street. This is a very popular street. It's, you know, just one of those debauchous streets, bars, and everyone drinking.

At 2 a.m., when people are maximum inebriated, young people are maximum inebriated, and he went and he killed Americans. He had a Quran with him. He had social media just littered with propaganda from Iran. This was clearly a revenge killer. So let me say something that is absolutely, like, that is the most critical thing that I can possibly state on this entire broadcast. This is the single most important thing that must be said on this broadcast to prevent every bad thing happening in our country since 9-11. Since 9-11.

And let's have a totally different conversation about 9-11 and what happened there. We have to do that later, though. And what happened on 9-11 was the CIA brought the hijackers into our country. That's a matter of fact. That's like a bona fide matter of fact. Okay. That's a different conversation for a different time. We're happy to have that conversation.

Let's just carve that out and say, since 9-11, there have been a lot of terrorist attacks on our nation. There's been a lot of homegrown domestic terrorism. All of it. All of it. We're just paid with broad, bold brush shirt. All of it. have been halted and virtually every society crippling attack on who we are as Americans could have been ended if we just closed the border after 9-11 if we would have a hard shutdown of criminal migration

and then third world migration Ilhan Omar see Ilhan Omar style migration chain migration refugees this guy was a refugee. This guy. Put up the al-lash. This guy was the refugee. He's the guy saying, please, America, save me, save me. Strap on as a law shirt and go kill a bunch of Americans whenever he gets the chance. As soon as he gets, as soon as he gets the signal, we have a country filled with people like this. There are eight, we checked before the show. There's 18,000 criminal aliens on the terrorist watch list residing in our home right now in America. We have captured and deported 1800 of them. So only 10%. So 90% of the known terrorists that are currently here,

not just the sleeper cells. I mean, a lot of these people are sleeper cells, right? Because there's no way to like track them. They don't have birth certificates. And we don't know who they really are. They lie. They hop on up. They hop on one of the C-17 globe masters that are taken off on the runway.

They hang out of the wing in Afghanistan. They come here. They plead that they're under threat. And they create like a terror cell. And they wait. Very patient people and ancient people. And then they go kill. This is the single most important thing I will say on this broadcast.

There is no explanation, defense of third world migration that will ever happen in the public space ever again in this nation. It is a sin, a blight, a scar on our people. It must be undone by any means necessary. I am not only talking the deportation of 100% of the people who are here illegally. I am talking a structural remigation, remigration plan for people who are here that are incompatible with the West. It is the only way. You mean, you're going to round them up?

No, I mean, if you cut off the welfare benefits, actually, if you cut the fraud, then a lot of people just want to go home. And that's just a matter of fact. This is an economic play for all these people. They don't actually like it here. They don't actually like American. They don't like America. Then I think that there would be like it.

Like there's actually the vast majority of deportations that have happened under Trump have been voluntary. You can check the HHS numbers. People saying, actually, if you're going to make it really hard to get welfare here, you know, and you're going to get like pay for my ticket, I think I'm going to head home. Like it's, it's very expensive in America. really hard to get started here. And if all the goodies are gone, I'm leaving. I think there's like, I think there's a way, there's a very smart way to do it, but it must be done. America's always seen ourselves as a aircraft carrier, impenetrable by our enemies, because we

sort of exist as an island, like really far away from a lot of conflict zones, really far away. And first off, that's not true in a world of hypersonic missiles, missiles that travel to space, can be here in 30 minutes if fired from China, ballistic missiles, ICBMs that go over the Arctic and can reach America. Those can take 20 minutes. I mean, so technologically, it's just not true. But it's also not true from a biological weapon standpoint. And what I mean by that is human being. because our imbecilic leadership after 9-11 decided that it was actually important for us to bring the unwashed masses of the third world by the boatload, trainload, plane load, infinity into our, onto our shores to change America forever. That that has created the domestic urgency that requires us to act now on these pressing issues because it is a dangerous, dangerous time of that.

This is what I fear the most. You can see the signals from the FBI. Obviously, the signals from DHS, the signals from the Department of War, they're scared about this. They're worried about sleeper cells in this country. President Trump's worried about it. President Trump told reporters this morning that the reason he killed the Ayatollah was because the Ayatollah was going to kill him. Trump breaks silence. President gives bleak warning to Americans and reveals the four-week plan.

in candid interview with the Daily Mail. President Trump said, I got him before he got me. Now, what do we know about the Ayatollah in the Iranian regime? We know that there have been two documented Iranian attempts on Trump's life. We know that Ryan Ralph effectively was begging Iran to help him kill President Trump. we have that in his own writings and federal documents that it was Ryan Ralph this guy again has been sentenced to life in prison

for trying to kill Donald Trump was recruiting in Iran to try and get fighters to try and get munitions Donald Trump's administration so feared that Iran would blow his plane out of the sky that they actually started using a decoy plane obviously the Supreme Leader of Iran

is constantly threatened Donald Trump including but now limited to releasing assassination porn about Donald Trump, where they kill Trump from the weeds of a golf course. I know we played this once or twice on the show, but Iran created effectively a mockup of what it would look like to kill Trump from the weeds of his golf course, from the bushes of the golf course. This included a, you know, small robo drone-like munition. But nonetheless, this was practically played out by Ryan Ralph.

How much of the federal government know? A lot of this stuff has kept secret. Who the hell was funding Matthew Thomas Crooks? Who was helping him train? I know this from the top levels of the federal government, the top levels of law enforcement inside the hell. the federal government that president trump has not released and has chosen to not release the true motive behind ryan ral i know this i've been briefed like i'm and i don't know what

it is was it iran was it iranian actors pushing him to shoot trump in the head which he did i don't know president trump saying this morning i got him before he got me they tried twice, and I just got him first. Trump viewed this as a grudge match between him and the Aitole. The Aitol is dead. His entire family's dead. The devastation, of course, for Iran has been apocalyptic. And I believe that that really plays into a lot of this, quite frankly.

I see some people that are GWAT veterans that are celebrating this because they know exactly what Iran did to them while they were over there. there's a lot of people in the Mideast that do not like having Iran as a neighbor but again I'm not going to sit here in cheerlead and say that it's all sunshine and gumdrop smiles and rivers of chocolate there are a lot of bad things

obviously that are occurring in the region including the four Americans that have lost their lives there have also been attacks on American embassies expect to see this ratchet up a word of caution on this this is how they got Hillary I think that the reason Hillary's not president, arguably maybe the number one reason she's not president, is because the American people saw the way that she behaved in her actions in Libya.

That's like sort of a footnote of history. But Hillary Clinton kind of famously and grotesquely celebrated. Hey, Alex, get me that. This is the one thing I'm going to demand. Get me that. Give me Hillary Clinton. and we came, they saw, he died. Oh, man.

Like, you know, careful about this, though. It's like a cautionary tale. These are our embassies. This is an embassy in Pakistan. Two emacies in Pakistan got stormed and breached until the Marines started firing and then, like, slaughtered the guys that were breaching the embassies, which,

I'm not, let that be a warning. I'm glad that happened. 32, at least 32 people dead when the Marines decided to be Marines. and do exactly what the Obama administration refused to allow to happen, which is to have forces defend our embassies. Well, they just straight up, I mean, it was just a straight of murder mystery at our embassies. In the mid-is, look at that, look at this.

I mean, just just as a cautionary tale. So Gaddafi, Gaddafi gets hunted down and dragged through the streets, violated and vandalized and killed. And it's horrific what they did. I mean, it's animalistic what they did with this man. And here's Hillary Clinton's reaction. So, I mean, that is the land of unconcern. Yes, we came, we saw, he died.

Did it have anything to do with your visit? No, I'm sure it did. It should make your skin crawl, honestly. It really should. What happened in Libya next is the people who died were American soldiers. our ambassador to Libya, American Navy SEALs died when a mob stormed the embassy.

That's why this kind of stuff is really scary to watch clips of our embassy is getting stormed because these kind of things can go sideways fast when you have the destabilization. As you can see here, one of the embassies that were stormed was in Iraq. This is a Pakistani embassy. But inside of an Iraq, they've used a bulldozer

to try in bulldozer. to try and blow through the blockade to crash through the door and to bulldoze, literally physically bulldoze and slaughter the embassy staff in Baghdad. This kind of stuff can go south quickly.

That's why we're not going to be cheerleading. Why you have to have a defensive posture and be extremely smart. And, you know, obviously, these are the kind of like, these are the kind of moments where you can really lose. is Hillary not president because of Benghazi?

Come on, dude. Like, I think so yes. More than the Bill Clinton stuff, more than like bringing Bill Clinton sexual assault accusers and stuff. More than like, because you'd be in jail. Like, I think it's Benghazi. Like, people watch what happened in Benghazi and they said, I don't want that as commander in chief.

So if you want Maga to rule, if you want America first to rule for the next hundred years, you better damn well not create a situation like that. Very scary yesterday. Very tenuous yesterday. And so, ladies and gentlemen, we'd be remiss without showing you, obviously, the Iranian people celebrating. There were parades. There was like a parade of like a million people through L.A.

This is in Australia. There are wild scenes straight out of the future. The iron beam deployed for the first time in history yesterday. as a, as effectively a directed energy weapon shooting munitions out of the sky. You're seeing things that you've never seen before. This is the first use of the iron beam. So we'll see. We'll see.

From this morning, Pete Heggseth's briefing. Let's go. This is not an endless war. Hegsef demanding and trying to draw the harsh outlines of the difference. I can't like sit there and screech and complain that the administration need to explain themselves without showing some of the explanation. So here we go. We hope the Iranian people take advantage of this incredible opportunity. President Trump has been clear. Now is your time. To Iranian security forces, choose wisely. President Trump has also

been clear about your fate in either direction. To the media outlets and political left screaming endless wars. Stop. This is not Iraq. This is not endless. I was there for both. Our generation knows better and so does this president. He called the last 20 years of nation building wars dumb. And he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat, destroy the Navy, no nukes. Israel has clear missions as well for which we are grateful. Capable partners, as we've said since the beginning, capable partners are good partners. Unlike so many of our traditional allies who ring their hands and clutch their pearls,

hemming and hawing about the use of force. Okay. I mean, that's good. That's sharp. Hankseth also saying that you've got to be watching. out. I'm begging you. I love you. I care about you. You've got to carry. You have a, you have an obligation and a duty as an American. You have to carry. You have to train. You have to be sharp. You have to be smart. Hexeth is concerned about Iranian sleeper cells. DHS and the FBI have been

talking about Iranian sleeper cells in America. We already have seen one attack from property of Allah. We have a, we have 30 million of those people illegally in our country. And I say those people, I don't think that they're all from Muslim Caliphate nations. But we have 30 million people who we don't know who the hell they are, who are here. We have at least tens of thousands of them who are on the known terrorist watch list. So please, I beg of you, I want you to be safe, keep your head on a swivel, be on high alert where you are right now. Heg Seth on sleeper cells. Any concerns about Iranian sleeper cells and kind of what has the Trump administration been doing to kind of monitor these threats? All across the interagency in full coordination, of course we're paying attention to any potentialities there.

This is a former regime, a regime that seeks to export that ideology and try to sow terror. We're ready for that. We've seen these types of folks before, and the American people can rest assured that we're vigilant on that. Thank you. Kind of follow up on that last question. There was just this, what appears to be a terrorist attack, in Austin yesterday. Does that change the operation at all?

What effect does that have? It doesn't change the operation at all, and I know the authorities are executing exactly the way they show them. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, just be smart. Raisin Cain operation, the Operation Epic Fury. Raisin Cain is the chairman of the Joint Chief Staff. He was obviously the one who was calling the shots. There are some pretty epic photos of Donald Trump with his war cabinet from this weekend.

Maybe we can pop that up, but Raising Kane sitting there in a Patagonia vest, briefing the president. And here he is on Epic Fury. Let's go. On February 28th, the full strength of America's armed forces came together in a unified purpose against a capable and determined adversary. The United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, and our reserve components integrated across our combatant commands and began coordinated operations with the Israeli armed forces of an unprecedented scale.

As the Secretary laid out, our military objectives are clear. Our mission is to protect and defend ourselves and together with our regional partners, prevent Iran from the ability to project power outside of its borders and be ready for follow-on actions as appropriate. Across every domain, land, air, sea, cyber, the U.S. Joint Force delivered synchronized and layered effects designed to disrupt, degrade, deny, and destroy Iran's ability to conduct and sustain combat operations. On the U.S. side, this marked the culmination of months and in some cases years of deliberate planning and refinement against this particular target set. From precision strikes against key military infrastructure to persistent intelligence

and targeting integration to the close coordination of the components across vast distances, this operation again demonstrated America's reach, readiness, and professionalism and that of our joint United Force. It was historic not only in the operational scope, but in the level of joint integration displayed across every element of the joint force. And as I said earlier, this work is just beginning and we'll continue. All right, ladies and gentlemen, as the production team locks in with our honored guests that will be joining us to give some professional light on what is actually happening right now. I just a reminder that President Trump is a man of his word. Donald Trump said, no mercy for terrorists, you dumb bastards.

He tweeted this, I think, in 2013. He's had a pretty firm, operational stature towards Iran for quite a long time here in 2020. Donald Trump, the first time we ever heard Trump used the F word. Let's go. And Iran knows that. And they've been put on notice. If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.

Right. There you go. President Trump giving a brand new briefing. He obviously said something on the eve of the bombing. I talked on the eve of the bombing saying that Iranian people have to go and to seize their nation. And that this is something that, you know, he was wearing the white hat. I think that it was like a little less fleshed out. Here, ladies and gentlemen, a brand new, a brand new message from President Trump that

in the evening last night with an explanation as to what is happening in the operation. And then what must happen next to Iran? Here we go. Past 36 hours, the United States and its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury, one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen. Nobody's seen anything like it. We have hit hundreds of. targets in Iran, including Revolutionary Guard facilities, Iranian air defense systems. Just now was announced that we knocked out nine ships plus their naval building, all in a matter of literally minutes. Iran's formerly supreme leader Ayatollah Hameh is dead. This wretched and vile

man had the blood of hundreds and even thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across many countries. Last night, all over Iran, the voices of the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in the streets when his death was announced. The entire military command is gone and, as well and many of them want to surrender into saving their lives. They want immunity. They're calling by the thousands. Combat operations continue at this time in full force and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives. They could have done something two weeks ago, but they just couldn't get there. All right. According to Marco Rubio this morning,

briefing the gang of eight, Israel had made the decision to unilaterally attack Iran. The decision to go in with Israel and attack Iran was because Iran was going to obviously target American bases. So you can either retaliate after that targeting or you can just go in and diminish as quickly as possible with the element of surprise. This is the explanation for Marco Rubio. The explanation from Donald Trump is this guy's trying. to kill me. He's killed a lot of Americans. We've done we've done devastation and now what happens

next. That's the big question. What happens next? Here's President Trump, the Iranian people. To again urge the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death. Won't be pretty. I call upon all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom to seize this moment. to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take back your country. America is with you. I made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be up to you, but we'll be there to help.

Thank you. God bless you to our incredible warriors, and God bless the United States of America. All right, ladies and gentlemen. Here we go. Donald Trump. In 2013, no mercy to terrorists, you dumb bastards. This was 15 years ago. This is a 15-year-old tweet.

It has 110,000 reposts, it has millions and millions of views and 335,000 like. So at the very least, like, don't say Trump didn't warn you. I mean, again, at the very least, don't say Trump didn't warn you. And more importantly, let's go talk to people that have actually fought in these wars. I mean, like, let's let's go. Congressman Wesley Hunt is obviously a lot. one of the top people that we're going to call. He flew Apache helicopters, took enemy fire.

He's lived and operated and fought in wars in this region of the world. He supports President Trump and he's running for Senate in the Great State of Texas. He joins us live now. Wesley, welcome back. The world can change so quickly. As I started off the top of the show, I didn't fight in these wars. And so I didn't list. And so there's, you know, and also there's so much intel, there's so much information.

And I think that is critical that people in the position of creating consensus, like approach these kind of situations with some humility and with a little bit of pause and letting some things play out because we just don't know everything. But you know a lot more than I do about fighting wars in the Middle East. So I'll get your initial snap takeaway of what's been happening over the last 48 hours in Iran. This is the definition of when you play stupid games, you win stupid prices. you have been warned. These people have been warned.

The Ayatollah was warned. Iran was warned. Maduro was warned. A year ago, we dropped bombs in Iran to ensure that they wouldn't have a nuclear weapon. That was the warning. We keep telling you over and over and over again that if you continue to fund terror,

if you continue to be an enemy to our allies, that you are going to be an enemy to us. There's blood on their hands. There's blood on the Ayatollah's hands. There are thousands of Americans lives that are no longer here because of Iran and because of what happened in the war that I fought in. What people have got to understand is this is the quintessential definition of peace through strength, and it is on full display as we live and breathe. When a line is drawn, we are not going to release your bank accounts. We are not going to allow you to have pallets of cash.

We're going to send you pallets of missiles, and then you're going to have to make a decision as to how you want to proceed. For those people that think that this is the beginning of the endless war, let's talk about this. Trump is the harbinger of never having endless wars. He is the one that wants to protect our treasure. He is the one that thinks it's ridiculous to get in 10-year wars that cost $3 trillion in thousands of American lives for what. And in fact, he is the one that for his first presidency, we literally had world peace. And he is trying to establish that again by the mantra of people.

peace through strength. When you draw a red line and you cross it, there are consequences. I appreciate Secretary Hegsef for what he said about this not being an endless war. Here are our objectives. Here's what we are going to accomplish. And then we're going to move our chest pieces in the right position. And then now it's going to be their move. And they're going to have a choice.

But again, I hope next time they don't play stupid games so they don't win stupid prizes. And no, when the left was clamoring about us getting into a way, World War III after the first time we bombed them a year ago, clamoring about World War three after we captured Maduro. Last I checked, fourth ID, a second airborne, first cab, no one's deployed. We're just preparing for strength just in case we need us. At the end of the day, this is peace through strength. What happens next? You know, what would you like to see happen next? You know, there's been four Americans who's lost their lives. We've seen some relatively devastating attacks on American bases, the Naval Fifth Fleet Base, for instance.

got a direct hit by one of these suicide drones, very dangerous. We've seen some of the embassies not be completely overrun, but attacked. And then, you know, to the point of the Marines having to fire and exchange, obviously, deadly fire, which I fully support. You should never attack an American embassy. Of course. And then we saw what? It was a friendly fire situation in Kuwait this morning.

So we just like, we just want Americans out of danger. What would you like to see happen, Congressman, in order to ameliorate? Obviously, you know President Trump and you know these objectives. You know Heggseth really well. What would be the objectives here? Well, keep in mind, we signed up to put ourselves in harm's way. I mean, we are less than 1% of the population that's that we're going to defend this country against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, even if it means our lives.

We signed up for that. And we have a president and the commander in chief who was a strong man who understands what's going on and is projecting strength. And sometimes it's going to cost us lives, unfortunately. I am terrified and devastated to hear about those four servicemen that are no longer with us. Tired of partisan noise. America's more divided than ever. But Independent Americans is adding light to contrast all that heat.

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At the end of the day, we have to continue to show American resolve. We cannot relent. We cannot give an inch. And eventually, they're going to break because they're just going to have to, and then they're going to have to make a decision. But again, what I do not want to see, and I think the president has been clear about this for his first president seeing this one, I think Secretary Hague Seth made this very clear. I think General Kane made this very clear.

This isn't about occupation. In fact, he said that the Iranian people are going to have an opportunity should they choose to seize it. And when you look at the celebration that's happening all over the world, based on what we just done by Kinaaitola, I think that these people have been looking for some reprieve

for quite some time now, but it's going to be up to them. In terms of nation building, that's not what our military does. We tried that before. We tried it multiple times. That ain't it. It's up to the people of Iran, and I want to ensure that we support them in any way that we can. There's going to be their choice. By the end of the day, we've drawn a red line. Do not cross it. If you do, there's going to be further consequences. Yes. So that's a great point that you just made about what has. happens, you know, will the people of Iran rise up? What does that actually look like? Who is there to replace the Ayatollah? It's, you know, it's a lot of questions. And then most importantly,

what is the game that perhaps I don't see here, right? What is the game as the relationship between Iran and Russia and China? Because there is a much larger geopolitical move that's going on here. Can you explain that? Of course there is. But that's also going to be up to them. That's going to be up to Axis versus allies of power, but you know where I'm getting at with that. They're going to have to decide that. I think Secretary of Hexeth was very clear,

well, we're going to destroy the missile defense systems and the missile systems. We're going to destroy their aircraft. We're going to destroy their Navy. We're going to leave them powerless. Then once we do that, now they're going to have a choice. And again, that's not anything that the American military

or that the American government that we can do really anything about, whatever they choose or however they choose to move forward. If I were them, I wouldn't mess with President Trump. If I were them, I would wait until we had a leader like Kamala Harris or Joe Biden before I started doing this stuff again. I think a lot of people are wondering what's going to happen. If I'm going to wake up in the morning and if I'm going to eat a missile for breakfast, because I didn't adhere to the negotiation process of this administration. And unfortunately, as mean as that sounds and as crass as that may sound,

There are people in this world that want to see the end of this nation as we know it just because we are Americans. People need to wake up. This is that the time to sing kumbaya. People want us dead. There are dictators. There are leaders that want to see the end of this great nation. And if we are not vigilant and if we are not aware and if we are not proactive and stopping it, they are going to harm us and they are going to murder and they are going to kill us.

It's just that simple. And so the people that are being critics of what, we are trying to accomplish by again displaying peace through strength. We rid the world of another dictator. But at the day, it's up to the people of that country decide how they would like to proceed. And I do believe that we're on the right side of history. The president is operating in the best interest of America. And the president is operating in its best interest of the people to keep us safe. And really quickly, you travel with the president all over the country for the 2024 campaign.

Donald Trump saying this morning, I got him before he got me, he tried to kill me twice. Can you elaborate on that? That's actually what I was kind of referring to earlier. This is not their first radio. It's not the Ayo's first radio. This has been happening for decades.

I mean, people don't understand that these people have been funding terrorist organizations. They have been attacking United States embassies. They've been attacking United States vessels for decades. They've taken hostages. This is not new. So the fact that now we have a president that's going to actually do something about it, this just goes to show you that there's going to be consequences for your access and your behavior. Let's go back to Maduro. He warned Maduro. He said, take the deal, man. All you got to do is take the deal. What did he do? He called

his cowards and he said, come and get me. Okay. Well, we did. And then we gave you a nice flight right over the Statue of Liberty and then Perp walked you right down Madison. Avenue. Congratulations. You got a nice tour of America. Now, everybody watches that. Even these dictators, even some of these strong men nations, they're watching that. And they're on notice. They have to be very careful with how they proceed moving forward. And President Trump doesn't just talk a big game. He proves it. He backs it. And I think that when you look at what happened with Soleimani, you look at what happened with Maduro, look what happened with the Ayatollah. this is peace through strength.

This world is not nice. I'm a person that has engaged terrorists. I'm a person that has been fired at and been shot at in the patched helicopter. I understand what it means to be in a land and to have people that hate your guts because you're there and hate your guts because you are in American.

I understand these things. And so if we are not vigilant and if we don't deal with the number one role of the federal government is, and that is to protect the American citizen, these are the acts that protect American citizens. And when you do sign up to fight in the war, when you do sign up to defend this country,

as somebody like me did, and you're put in harm's way, brother, that's a part of it. That's a part of it. I've been on the campaign trial, I talk about the 55 combat emissions that I flew in Baghdad. 55 times I said the Lord's prayer to get right with Jesus

just in case I didn't make it back home alive. That's what it takes. And when somebody sends us, you when the government sends you it doesn't matter what the conflict is when you're in harm's way it doesn't matter what the conflict is it doesn't matter who the president is it doesn't matter who's in charge we signed an oath to defend this country that's what we did we signed an oath to do the bittings of our commander-in-chief that's what we did and so if it means our life well then so be it but thank god that we do have a president that if we are going to be in harm's way it's going to be for a reasonable

calls. Now, this is a remarkable sort of pivot here because now it seems like, Congressman, there are Texans in harm's way. Again, for decisions that were made by imbeciles that was not the Trump administration. We talked to us so much about, like, how the Trump administration is having to clean up the messes of generations of cowards and cowardly leadership and suicidal policies, whether it be, you know, obviously open borders or letting 18,000 people on the terrorist watch list in here. We saw one of those refugees, asylum seekers, shoot up a Texas bar, a bar in Austin, kill some Texans. It's tragic. You talk us through, how should Texas secure itself?

I saw a lot of people in my timeline talking about the Islamification of Texas and saying that, you know, listen, the enemy's already here. The DHS has not been able to deport those 18,000 people. In fact, they've only been able to report 10% of the 18,000 terrorists that we know are here in America. We also know that there's millions and millions of other unvetted criminal aliens that are residing here. What must be done now? Be vigilant. Be aware. If you see something, say something. These are the consequences of having 20 million people in our country over the four years.

And we have no idea who they are. We have no idea where they went. We have no idea what their intentions are in this country, which is why having a secure border is very, important. As I've been traveling all over the state running for Senate, I was in El Paso a couple of weeks ago, and I was talking to some border patrol agents at the border, and I asked him, I said, how many people have progress, have tried to come to the country illegally yesterday? He looked at me and said, yesterday? None. I said, what about last week? He goes, maybe like one or two. Our board is not secure. We didn't even need any more laws, no resolutions.

We simply needed a new president to enforce the laws on the books. Well, now we are now in a different phase of this. This is why we have to empower ICE so they could do their jobs, so they could find these people and send them and get them to hell out of this country, send them back home. We can't interrupt them from doing that. Yeah, forgive me for the interruption. I just think that if there should be, if there could be silver linings in all of this,

it must be that mass deportations have to happen. Remigration has to happen for people that are incompatible with Western civilization. It has to happen. Of course it does. Yeah. Of course it does. And quite frankly, this is why President Trump won. He ran on this.

You talked about me flying around the country with him and traveling on his plane. He ran on this. He talked about this at every stop at every rally. He talked about correcting this wrong. This is the only way to keep American citizens safe. We had a derelict of duty for four years from the Biden administration. And then now he left the mess for us to clean up. And thank God that President Trump is actually willing to do that.

But what we have to do is also have strong leaders. And I know we're going to get called bad names. We're going to get called xenophobic. We're going to be called racist. I understand all that. But at the end of the day, I am going to be above. When I am, as I'm an American that has babies here. Sir, you have babies here.

And I want to make sure that we keep our citizens safe. You shouldn't be out of bar in Austin and be worried about getting shot up by terrorists. And in the first place. What are we talking about here? This shouldn't be a serious conversation. Also, this is Texas. You talk about open care. You talked about concealed carry and the ability for us to defend ourselves and the strong Second Amendment rights that we have here.

Yes, sir. That is correct. Be vigilant. Be aware for those that have trained, for those who are, they do have a military background or a law enforcement background. We got to keep our eyes open because they are here and they've been here and we let them in the country in the last administration. It's a shame. When I was stationed in Saudi Arabia as a diplomatic liaison officer for two years, do you know that in order to even enter Saudi airspace, I had to have a diplomatic passport. When I left in and out of that country, I had to get a colonoscopy, basically. It was unbelievable. And you mean to tell me that Saudi has that kind of structure,

and we in this country don't? We should know every single person who is here. We should know every single terrorist that enters our country. We need to find them. We to round them up, and we need to send them back. And if they want to harm Americans or if they do, they need to die. That's it. And for those people that don't understand that, you are being very polyanous in the way that you live your lives.

This is the reality of life. And I understand why only 1% of us raises our hand to defend that. I get it. But we do it because we understand exactly how important it is. And we are the ones that are willing to take the fire. We are the ones that are willing to die. Don't stop us. Don't get in our way.

Allow us to do our jobs. I was so relieved because oftentimes, and a good example, and a good example of this is Parkland shooting here in Florida where the police officer hid, in fact, and didn't engage the shooter. And I was reading about what happened in Texas. It's like 57 seconds. They were able to take this guy out in 57 seconds, not a full minute passed before this man was sent straight to hell.

This guy with his property of Allah shirt on with his refugee card right here in America. The madness has to end, Congressman. I'll give you the last word here because, of course, you are, You are running. You have a critical election that starts tomorrow. Is that correct? That would be the date tomorrow. Perhaps a message to the law enforcement in Austin, Texas law enforcement that took out in the shooter in 57 seconds. It could have been so much worse. Praise God for law enforcement here. Praise God for law enforcement. That's why they must be respected. I thank them every day for all that they do.

I have their backs and I always will. And even as their next center, I can assure you that I will support. for every law enforcement officer to the best of my ability, because without them, you are correct. It would have been more deaths. God bless them and thank them so much. Tomorrow is a big day for me for the United States Senate, obviously. Please come out, turn out, vote if you're in Texas. Lord knows we need you.

This is for the Republican primary. I've been working my butt off. I've done over 50 stops all over this great state. Texas is a big state. It's kind of more like the country of Texas, but it's been great to look at voters in their eyes. It's been great campaigning. And I think we've got to feel.

finish up strong tomorrow, we'll be in good shape. All right. 55 Apache missions inside of this war zone. Nobody knows it better than the great congressman, soon to be Senator Wesley Hunt. Godspeed. God, thank you for having me. Everybody follow.

And big day tomorrow. We'll be tracking. Thank you. Thank you, brother. God bless your beautiful family, man. God bless you. These and gentlemen, the great Sernovich will be joining us in just one moment.

We have a quick update from the White House. We're going to be taking President Trump's remarks on Iran soon. has a Medal of Honor ceremony. Of course, President Trump will be speaking at the White House at 11am. Medal of honor ceremony. We're going to pop over live. You can see right here. They're still getting preparations.

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The quote is, it's going to get less safe. We haven't even started to hit them hard, meaning Iran. The big wave hasn't happened yet. The big one is coming soon. Okay, you ready to cook? Lids and gentlemen, the great Micah Sernovich, joining the show live right now for his take. I love your, I just, it's so comforting, Cerno, to, like, open up my X feed in all of my situation monitoring. And if there was a situation monitoring, you know, gold medal, I'd be, I'd be looking like the Russian general, right?

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What's happening? It's a good question. It's a good question what's happening because the situation in Iran is complicated one. People don't want to hear it. They mix up the politics with the morality, with the truth of it. I understand why because we've lied to so much. So when I talk about Iran, I always start with the position that what I, knowing what I know, I have done these airstrikes, almost certainly not.

Trump perhaps knows things that we do know, but I don't think you have to trust the plan and somebody should wag their finger and say, how dare you not trust the plan? But it's also frustrating when people wind up almost defending the Mullahs, right, and denying that the Mullahs have killed 30,000 of their own people. Anyone who is in touch with the Iranian diaspora can see video after video. Whole streets lined up where everyone in that street has lost a child. It's a horrible regime. Now, does that mean that it's the duty of the American people to go in and take out the Mullahs and do regime change?

That's an open debate, and I'm glad to see it. And unfortunately, most of what I'm saying is we have to do regime change, and if you oppose it, then you're a terrible person. and then from way too many people that I like, they're questioning me. They're saying, well, how do you know that 30,000 people died? And go to hookabar and OC or L.A., right? I don't mean to be glib about it,

but this information is ascertainable with a reasonable amount of diligence. So then why not just work with the facts? So there are reasons to do this. There are reasons to take out the Moulas in this way to exercise the military might. It could work. Again, what I do it, that's a whole different conversation. But I think that people, especially as you get older, I understand why the young men are angry, but especially as you get older in my age, I try not to pick a hard line and zoom in on it. I try to synthesize what everyone else is saying and then offer my own analysis, which is usually, I think, circumspect. So can you talk about where I think probably 90% of the people are in? It's amazing what a, that's like probably the best example.

It's probably the best metaphor I've ever heard. Somebody called X, the smoking section of the internet the other day. And I was like, yeah, man, that's perfect, man. That's perfect. Most people are just inside the restaurant. They're not in the smoking section. The smoking section is just like, right. Rowdy and it's a lot of degenerates.

It's a lot of alcoholics. And it's a lot of people that are like a bit spaced. And so I think that there's a middle way here where the vast majority of Americans align, where we're suspicious of our government because we've been lied to so much. But we're also not going to sit there and say that it's, you know, it's good. Like we're not going to defend the Ayatollah. And we're not going to defend this regime. And I think what they're looking for is permission and an explanation, like a calm explanation in plain English,

about what's actually going on. I think that the American people are very open, quite frankly, to good faith explanations and to having the world sort of presented to them in a way that they can understand and not being lied to about weapons of mass destruction, but being given like the hard evidence. And we're an intelligent people will come, I think, to the right conclusion given the right evidence. Maybe I have a little too much hope for that. But I think that's where most people are.

I think the conversation on X is obviously spiraled between camps that you don't even know if half these accounts are in America. most of them aren't. You don't know who's being paid. And I think there's a lot, there's a lot of like deep inauthenticity and like psycho babble. And most people are kind of in the middle. It's kind of like waiting for a like rock solid explanation to like come up, you know, to to determine like where we should, where they should stand on this issue. And that's what I'm calling for. Right. You, you, right. What you're saying raises several issues. I don't. believe that Trump administration has given that explanation. I don't think this is a popular measure. I don't think it's what people want.

I think people want the Save America Act. My hope is that this was part of a broader deal for the Save America Act. So the way that I've made a lot of people upset is people think it's an insult to claim that, well, you're just a political calculation. And so I don't know what to tell you, man. Yesterday was Sunday. That's church for Christians. Temple, you go to Temple. There's a lot of places to go moralize and wag your fingers and talk about

this and that. But the reality is that we need political outcomes. And if we don't get the Save Act, if we don't get results, if this doesn't compel John Curtis from Utah and other people, if this wasn't what was holding them back, because of course John Curtis viciously went after Jeremy Carl, a very kind and thoughtful man who had to take a struggle session, essentially from a Republican, which was repulsive, a Republican in the West. if this doesn't lead to something more, then I view it as politically damaging because Charlie Kirk,

the work of so many other people like you, Turning Point, they got young men who, it's almost impossible to get young men to vote. Young men will argue all day on Twitter. They'll argue all day on Instagram. I watch their channels. I always see what the Jim Bros are up to,

and they are mad. And we need the vote. We need the vote in the midterm. So the politics of the Iran thing, I'm really frustrated with and I'm bothered by. Killing the Mullahas, I think, is amazing. I can hold all of these in my own head. The Mullahs deserves to get murked. The Iranian people are not tribalistic the way they are in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They have a national identity. I could bore people of tears on Iran and how it was the Islamic Revolutionary Guard that elevates Islam above Iranian nationalism. So you have Islamic nationalism, and then you have Iranian nationalism. The people, the high-e-Q productive people are Iranian. They see themselves as Iranian, right? The Mullahas and others see themselves as Islamist globalists.

So when we talk about globalists, people always say, oh, that's a code word for the Jews. Islamic jihad is globalist. That's why the Mullahas could have just lived in Iran. And I'm not saying you or I would live in. way but you could be a law you have money beautiful women why don't you just sit in your country and be rich like the shakes do right well because the iranians are globalists and they want to export terrorism jihad this is just objectively true so then the question becomes is it a good thing that

they were murdered murdered right killed because people are calling it murder and illegal war and i'm just thinking what's what the world am i reading here the answer is i was i was thrilled. I'm happy for the Iranian people. The people will be wrong. I'm happy for the diaspora. I know a lot of them do want to go back. I know a lot of people who want to go back to Iran. It's not an insult because I've seen some videos and they're saying, well, those people are protesting or dancing in the American streets is so happy. Why don't they go back to Iran? They want to go back to Iran. They didn't want to come over here. A lot of the people came over. They came over after the revolution. That's something that people misunderstand. They're extremely productive. Persian Jews and Beverly Hills, high income.

But Iranian, secular Iranians are, they have a, they're still very traditional. I call them secular Muslims, which is a contradiction. But the idea is that they're very traditional people, very productive, people economically. They're not welfare drains. They want to go back. So it isn't even a good comment to say, well, if you're so happy, go back to Iran. They're thinking, we want to. We want to.

I hear this all the time. At the cigar lounge that I operate, you know, I always hear from a lot of people. and I was talking to a wonderful Persian woman, and she goes, we can't wait, we can't wait to go back. We want, we want to go back. We weren't hearing that with Iraq and Afghanistan. So it is different.

Again, people listening who want to argue and say, well, I don't, that doesn't mean we should do it. That's a whole separate question. The question is we're doing it. The question is, should we do it? I don't have a wand. You're not in control. Bedi Johnson.

Comments, the chat's not in control. We're in there. So then can it be different this time? And I do believe sincerely it can be. So how? I think that's the ultimate question is how. And I started at the top of the show. I started the top show talking about how there is no more.

It's not the Trump administration's fault because they weren't in power. But over the last 40 years, over the last 60 years, actually, since the JFK assassination, like entire wings of the superstructure facade of the federal government's credibility have been demolished. And through the assassinations, through multiple lies, Iraq War I, Iraq War II, weapons of mass destruction, COVID, now the building has been demolished into the earth. And there is no more credibility for the federal government. And so you have to show your work and you have to explain, you know, there's going to be no more people. There's going to be no more people that are like going to just straight up believe you just because you're the federal government. And so that, like, I guess that would be my my simple warning. And we found that out during the Epstein saga is like the shut up, move. along, that doesn't work anymore. Right? Like, shut up, stop asking questions, move along. That will backfire worse than

it's ever backfired because the last shreds of credibility have been bulldozed into the ground. And so you have to build back up and you have to do that by telling people the truth and explaining your moves, honestly. So that's my question is how.

How is this going to be different? Well, the way the outcome could be different, the messaging and everything I agree with. The thing that I've noticed is that the neocons think it's 2003 and you can just say, oh, Betty Johnson, you opposed this. You're a coward. That's what they did. The National Review expelled every war skeptic.

And they even called everybody cowards. But it's been 20 years. Everybody under 50, they all could have gone and they didn't want to go. So that, of course, is right. And that's why they're flailing around. Now, me speaking for myself and the way I view the situation, the way it could be different. Think about it like this. Spiritually or, you know, energetically.

We have never in our lifetimes seen a war executed in a manner of the right-wing masculine. We always got this hodgepodge of compassionate, conservative, coalition of the willing, or we had the toxic feminine Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton allowing Benghazi to happen. Right? Yesterday, a bunch of Pakistani lunatics tried to invade the embassy in what happened. They all died. They all died. They all died really bad deaths.

You can see the video. They all got headshots, headshot deaths. Yeah. Yeah. And the toxic feminine on my timeline, the Twitter is, this is so bad. And we're all saying, no, no, we're not living. And by toxic feminine, I don't mean feminine is toxic. I mean the version of that, the smothering mother.

The boss you have who will give you an instruction and an hour later tell you it's a different thing. And why are you working on that project? and you go, well, you told me to work on this project. And you wouldn't need to work on this, the other thing now, and you're going, where do I stand? You don't know where you stand, right? So the loving feminine, the embracing feminine, of course,

is a loving mother, it's Mary. The toxic feminine doesn't mean feminine is toxic. It's a toxic form of the energy. Just like toxic masculinity can be too callous and toxic, right? So we've never had, I'll be right out, guys. So we never had a situation where we're just going to say, Mullah 1, you're up. Are you going to do what we say?

No. Boom. Mullah 2, you're up. Are you going to do it? No. Boom. Mullah 5. Can you and your five friends run the government?

Yes, sir. We're willing to do it. Okay. Here's what you're going to do. You're not going to murder your citizens in the street. You're not going to keep doing the nuclear enrichment. You're not going to keep using proxies to commit terrorism. We know that you can't.

democratic elections within the next year. Everybody knows that. The people of Iran do not expect elections this year. But you're going to run a stable government and you're going to do it the way that you're supposed to do it, or we're just going to kill you. That's the masculine. The right wing is, here's a line.

Remember Obama would draw these red lines, and then he wouldn't follow him. That's, again, that's not right wing. Right? So you just say, you know, Trump even said, the people I was going to put to replace committee, we killed them too. we've killed so many so eventually you will get a coalition that's willing to play ball and then

you regulate them and the way that i think most people respond well to special in the middle east in the middle east there's an expression that says a thousand years of tyranny is better than the day of anarchy Libya is anarchy the tyranny of Gaddafi was far preferable to the the anarchy now of Libya so in Iran it's going to of course be a deal different form of government than maybe we're used to, but it isn't going to be the Moolahs. They're not going to be murdering people in the streets. And there's a way to pull that off, which is, again, you're next man up. You got a problem. Okay. You're gone. You're gone. Could you very quickly go into the geopolitics of this and what this does to China and what this does

to Russia? We talked about earlier in the show, how much of the Iranian oil is sold to China. China has, of course, no oil. How much of the Venezuelan oil is sold to China? Trump went and secured that Venezuelan oil before taking out Iran. And this seems to be preemptive, actually, more on China than it is on any other individual nation. I mean, obviously, it's raw against Iran, but this is a structural play to tighten the noose around China effectively. And that seems to be clearly what's going on here with both of these plays in Venezuela and Iran, but I don't pretend to know it all. So, Serna, what's going on geopolitically?

That's my hope, too. So I was talking to a first-time Trump voter who is a part of Iranian but also American. And he said, well, he said, well, Trump needs to bomb the Mullahas. This was weeks back. I mean, I'm going to hear this for months. And I said, well, what would you say to the people who claim that this is just being done for Israel? This guy is not a Zionist. he's very much

he's not an anti-Zionist but this guy's not a Zionist and he said why does everybody think it helps Israel then it's for Israel right and that helped me shape a lot of my thinking about this he goes sure it'll help Israel

but that doesn't mean it's for Israel and then he went on to talk about the mullahs the murders that the 30,000 were true and I of course had heard that before and knew that was true and then there is the China angle where we need to China is a geopolitical threat and rival

and the more oil in natural reserves we can contain is in our benefit. Russia, which I think that we should see differently, but if you look at the current map, and I think Trump sees it more realistically the way I do, you would say like as follows. We didn't want to do anything with Iran years ago because China and Russia were seen as more powerful. And we did have a, there was a risk for World War III.

But I think a lot of people don't understand that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has jammed it up. China, they have their own problems back home. Their economy isn't what it is. There's now some claims that their population is not even what it is and that a lot of things we don't believe about China are true. A lot of things that we do believe about China are not true. and this might be the time to strike because you notice China hasn't done anything. The war game scenario was if the U.S. does anything with Iran,

China's coming in, Russia's coming in, hostilities could break out worldwide. And now we're seeing no, no, the tech is just too good. Our American tech is just too good. And anybody, like the Venezuela raid, they went in, that was unreal. And we have tech. We just have, you know, people call it the alien technology. We have alien technology and we can pull things off that we couldn't pull off 20 years ago. And that, again, is why I think this kind might be different.

And if we can control more natural resources and control more oil, the future is energy. We're behind China on energy. Why not do that, right? Why not do that? That's the way I look at is. And Tucker and I talked a lot about this within the context of Venezuela. And he obviously disagree with me on Venezuela. But philosophically, I just think that international law is all fake.

And if we are able to pull off regime change and make it work, I'm not against regime change on a moral basis. Right. Oh, the Pope told me, war is bad. That's not why I'm against it. I'm against it because it's always been done badly and it's led to more human suffering. It's led to Libya, a human rights travesty. And then, of course, all the migrants and the Libya fall. Libya is tied to mass migration of Europe and the Islamization of Europe. That's why I'm against it.

But if we could pull off regime change and it would work, why wouldn't we install our vassal? Why wouldn't we be wronged? Why wouldn't we? But the most moral people in the world, the American people, the American Christianists, most moral people that have ever, not that were perfect, but has ever walked the face of the earth, why wouldn't we go in and run it and control it? all the energy and govern people justly. Why wouldn't we do that? Right? So the question for me is it a philosophical one. It's a practical one. And is the politics good on it? Will it work? I don't know. That's a bigger question. Yeah. Again, that is the major question that requires answering President Trump getting ready to walk in at a Medal of Honor ceremony. We're going to cut to it live right now. Thank you, Cerno. Perfect setup for us. Godspeed, man. Thank you.

Yes. For the smart takes, my man. Here we go. President Trump will be entering the room right now. This is live. Ladies and gentlemen. Medal of honor ceremony, President Trump. I ask God's blessings upon this ceremony.

Almighty God, your steady hand has guided this republic for nearly 250 years. From its birth in the wilderness to this very hour, we come to you now with grateful hearts. We assemble here today to honor men who, when the test came, were steadfast and unmovable. We thank you for the unyielding conviction of Master Sergeant Roderick Edmonds, who looked evil in the eyes and did not flinch. And we thank you for the battlefield grit of Command Sergeant Major Terry Richardson, courage that saved lives in Vietnam, and courage that stands before us today. And Lord, we thank you for Staff Sergeant Michael Allis, who, in a final selfless act,

made his own body a shield for a friend. Bless the family and friends of these great men of honor, O Lord, and forbid that we leave this place as mere admirers of their heroic deeds, plant in our hearts a measure of their courage that we might prove worthy of the freedom for which they and generations before them defended. Lord, now let the light of liberty continue to shine. on our great nation. We pray in the strong name of the one who guides us. This will defend. Amen. Thank you very much, Chaplin Green. Wonderful, I appreciate it. And thank everybody for

being here, and please feel free to sit. So before we begin this important ceremony, and there's no ceremony that can be much more important than this, let me provide a brief, update on Operation Epic Fury. Today, the United States military continues to carry out large-scale combat operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist regime. Following our obliteration of Iran's nuclear program in

Operation Midnight Hammer a short while ago, we warned Iran not to make any attempt to rebuild at a different location because they weren't able to use the ones we so powerfully blew up, but they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. In addition, the regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically, and this posed a very clear, colossal threat to America

and our forces stationed overseas. The regime already had missiles capable of hitting Europe and our bases both local and overseas and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America. The purpose of this fast-growing missile program was to shield their nuclear weapon development and make it extraordinarily difficult

for anyone to stop them from making these highly forbidden by us nuclear weapons. We were the ones that were complaining. We were the ones that wanted it stop. But everybody was behind us. They just didn't have the courage to say so. An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat

to the Middle East, but also to the American people. Our country itself would be under threat, and it was very nearly under threat. I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran nuclear deal by President Barack Hussein Obama. That was a horrible, horrible, dangerous document. They would have had nuclear weapons three years ago, and they would have used them.

But I'll not let that happen. For almost 47 years, this regime has been attacking the United States and killing Americans. Every time you see someone with missing arms and legs or a face that's been absolutely shattered violently, It was almost certainly caused by an Iran roadside bomb. They were put there by General Soleimani, who was the father of the roadside bomb. Very proudly, he thought, but I terminated him in my first term.

This was our last best chance to strike what we're doing right now and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this. sick and sinister regime, and they are indeed sick and sinister. Our objectives are clear. First, we're destroying Aran's missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make. Second, we're annihilating their navy. We've knocked out already ten ships. They're at the bottom of the sea.

Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Never going to have a nuclear weapon. I said that from the beginning. They're never going to have a nuclear weapon. They were in the road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was signed foolishly by our country. And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders. And we thought we had a deal, but then they backed out.

And they came back, and we thought we had a deal, and they backed out. I said, you can't deal with these people. You've got to do it the right way. Today, we grieve for the four heroic American service members who have been killed in action and send our love and support to their families. In their memory, we continue this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush the threat this terrorist regime poses to the American people, and a threat indeed it is. We have the strongest and most powerful by far, military in the world, and we will easily prevail.

We're already substantially ahead of our time projections, but whatever the time is, it's okay, whatever it takes, we will always, and we have right from the beginning, We projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that. We'll do it. Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president wants to do it really quickly after that. He'll get bored. I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this.

Do you agree with that, Pete? I don't think there's anything, Mr. General's. There's nothing boring about it. Somebody actually said from the media, I think he'll get bored after about a week or two. No, we don't get bored. I never get bored. I got bored. I wouldn't be standing here right now.

I guarantee you that to go through what I had to go through. We also projected four weeks to terminate the military leadership. And as you know, that was done in about an hour, so we're ahead of schedule there by a lot. But please join me in thanking every American service member who bravely is standing in harm's way. They really are incredible. And I just want to thank you. We have a lot of them right here.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. We have a lot of great service members here with us, too, in this beautiful building, isn't it? Beautiful? We're adding on to the building a little bit. We're improving the building. See that nice drape? When that comes down right now, you see a very, very deep hole, but in about a year and a half from now, you're going to see a very, very beautiful building. And there's your entrance to it right there. In fact, it looks so nice. I don't think I'll even, I think I'll save money on the doors because it can't get more beautiful than that. I picked those drapes in my first term. I always like gold, but I think we can save a lot of money. I just saved I just saved curtains. But, and it will be, it will be spectacular. It'll be the most beautiful ballroom. I believe it, because I built many of all of them. I believe it's going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world. And when you hear all that hammering out there, you know why the first lady is not thrilled exactly. She said, will the pile drivers ever stop? You know, they go from six in the morning till 11.30 in the evening. Can you imagine? Here? You know what? To me, that's a beautiful

sound. She doesn't like it. I love it. You know what, to me, other than here, because we're donating it, not a penny to the taxpayer. It'll be under budget ahead of schedule. It'll be 400 million or less. Most people say 400 million or more. No, it'll be less. But when I hear that sound, that beautiful sound behind me, it means money, so I like it. But my wife isn't thrilled. She said, this is getting crazy.

I said, don't worry about it. We'll be all finished up in a few months. But now for the reason that we're gathered this morning to recognize the unsurpassed courage of three really incredible American heroes, one living and two no longer with us. So together, we recognize the exceptional valor of Master Sergeant Roderick Edmonds. And maybe I could ask you families to stand because they're beautiful families. I got to meet them.

And please. So staff sergeant Michael Wallace and Command Sergeant Major Terry Richardson as they receive our nation's highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor. And we're pleased to be joined by Secretary of War, Pete Hegesat, he's busy, very busy guy. In fact, they said, if you want Pete, you can avoid it. General Raisin Cain also, and they said, we don't avoid this one. This is one you wouldn't avoid for anything, right? So we appreciate that you hear a Secretary of Veterans Affairs who's doing an incredible job,

Veterans Affairs. Doug Collins, Doug, thank you. Stand up, Doug. You're doing such a good job. 92% approval ready. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Cain, who's known as Raisin Cain. I liked him when I heard that name. Raisin Cain, I said, if it's true, you have my guy, then it's true.

It's true. He's a great guy and a great general. Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, and Army Chief of Staff, Randy George, thank you. Thank you both, Dan. as well as senators Tom Cotton, Bill Haggerty. You guys were great on television this weekend. I'll tell you what, can't have a better representative that both of you. Thank you very much. And representatives, Tim Burchett, Jack Bergman, and Nicole Maliatakis.

So we have a few others sitting here, but I'm not going to go through it because we have far more important people to honor today. Oh, we have Tom Holman. I've got to at least mention Tom Homer. I would be a stand-up time. job. Zero, zero people coming in. We had millions and millions of people pouring into our country now that, I mean, I'm not even sure I can believe this number is zero, but it is given out by Democrats, Democrats from the West and they're rated for the last nine months. We had zero

people come illegally through our border, right, Tom? So I want to thank you very much. And I also want to salute six former Medal of Honor recipients William Swenson, Jim McLuhan, Walter Marm, Thomas Payne, Sammy Davis. That's an interesting guy. And where is Sammy Davis? We have a big story here, Sammy. You've heard that all your life, how bad, huh? And Edward Byer, stand up, please.

You all look good. We all look good. Remember the ceremonies? Oh, great. It's a great honor. There's no great honor. I tried for myself. I've tried numerous times to get one by myself.

I keep getting shut down. They say, you can't do it, sir. Bad protocol. Very bad. I would say the worst. But I'm only kidding. You don't have to say I'm only kidding. Otherwise, the press will come out with, which they actually did.

Donald Trump wants a congressional medal of honor, but he's been shut down. But now you are brave, amazing people. And I want to thank you all in 1941. Roddy Edmonds of Knoxville, Tennessee, enlisted in the U.S. Army. and soon rose to one of the youngest master sergeants in the military. In 1944, he sailed to Europe to fight in World War II, and he was so enthusiastic and young and full of vim and vigor. Roddy soon found himself on the front lines of the Battle of the Balls.

That was a big one, massively outnumbered by enemy forces. His 1,200 soldier unit fought valiantly until they were completely overrun, the force was massive on the other side, many times number. After a four-day death march, one that was covered very well by the history books, through Bittercult, they were put into a German POW camp. Roddy was the top-ranking infantrymen in the camp. He was number one, meaning he was responsible for the lives of his fellow service members On July 26th, 1945, a Nazi SS officer issued an order over the camp loudspeaker, loud and strong.

He said that only American Jews were to show up to roll call following this morning. He added, all who disobeyed this order will be shot immediately. There were more than 200 Jewish American soldiers in the camp in Roddy Nunes. their separation from the group would mean certain death. So that night he summoned his team and devised a plan. The next morning, all 1,200 American men fell in line together, shoulder to shoulder, enraged the Nazi commandant rush forward, drew his luger pistol, and pressed a barrel between Sergeant Edmund's eyes.

He barked at Roddy. They cannot all be Jews, he screamed loud and again and again, and staring straight back into the raging face of evil. Sergeant Edmonds replied fearlessly, we are all Jews here. The Nazi officer lowered his weapon and the soldiers erupted in cheers. With total disregard for his own life, Roddy had saved over 200 of his fellow service members there. Camp was liberated two months later.

We're honored to be joined today by Roddy's son, Chris. Please stand up as... Thank you, Chris. Today your father gets the honor he so courageously earned and really amazing, right? It's an amazing story. Congratulations to the family of Master Sergeant Roddy Edmonds. The next two we recognize today served in the first

Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment of the First Infantry Division, better known as Big Red One. Do you know about that, Pete, right? Command Sergeant Major Terry Richardson, we are honored to have you with us. On September 12, 1968, 102 brave men of Terry's Alpha Company were asked with securing Hill 222 deep-been behind the enemy's line in Vietnam. They didn't know it at the time. Had no idea, but the area was totally infested with nearly 300 enemy bunkers and many, many enemy soldiers,

far outnumbering them by at least four, five, even six to one. As Terry led Lima platoon up Hill 22, the enemy launched an ambitious and violent attack back, unleashing a withering fire of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. Just didn't stop. It just kept coming. Pinned down in hell on earth, Terry summoned unimaginable courage. Three times he exposed himself to enemy fire to rescue severely wounded comrades,

and three times he dragged them back to the group. Terry soon realized that the 82 remaining men had one chance of survival. That was air support. Acting without regard of his own life, he grabbed the radio and charged up Hill 222 alone. He needed to be there. It was the only place you'd get reception. He withstood a storm of enemy bullets eventually reaching the top where he spent the next eight hours calling in tactical strikes completely exposed. An hour in, an enemy sniper shot rang out and the bullet tore through his right leg.

violently. He was in bad shape, but Terry disregarded that and pushed through. And after seven more hours of calling in American fire from above, the enemy retreated. Later that day, his team found him with both eardrums, totally ruptured and a mangled right leg and foot, but still barely living, but living, nevertheless. Due to Terry's actions above and beyond, beyond the call of duty, 82 men, Alpha Company survived this battle, including two in this room, Norm Meyer and Dave Himmer. Where are you? Can you understand that, Norm and Dave?

Where is Norman Dave? Very good. And that store is 100% correct, isn't it? How much have you paid him over the years? Have you said, take everything we have? We wouldn't be here, right? That's great. That's a great story.

Terry, today you entered the ranks of the bravest warriors ever to stride the face of the earth. Please stand up, please. Thank you. That's great, Terry. That's a great brave man. I met him back there. He said, he's central casting.

Look at him. He looks great. He looks great. You feel like fighting? I think we could take him today. What do you think, Pete? We'll make a little. We'll make a little deal with him, as you are a brave man.

Finally, we honor one more American soldier, a fallen warrior of world, of wars, and really a really terror. Staff Sergeant Michael Hollis, born in 1988 on Staten Island. Michael grew up seeing the World Trade Center across the bay. I know Staten Island so well. The people in Staten Island are amazing. After 9-11, Michael enlisted in the Army, and by 24 years old, he was in, he was locked in, he loved it, he wanted it so badly. He was a squad leader serving in Afghanistan with the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, First Brigade Combat Team of the legendary 10th Mountain Division.

On August 28, 2013, terrorists detonated a 400-pound car bomb on the east wall of the forward operating base, Gansi, ripping open a 60-foot-wide breach into a compound that housed NATO coalition forces, a lot of them. Ten Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests swarm through from across the compound Michael saw the pillar of white smoke rising and ran to join the fight, rushing without his gear, wearing almost no gear, no Kevlar helmet, no body armor, just one magazine in his rifle. Along the way he encountered a Polish soldier, and together they advanced under heavy fire, very, very heavy fire. At one point, shrapnel ripped through the Polish soldier's legs, rendering him unable to walk,

very, very severely hurt. In that chaos of gunfire explosions and charred human remains, a terrorist insurgent appeared, rounding a corner with his suicide vest, fully armed, and you could see it. It was gonna happen. He charged the wounded Polish soldier. Without hesitation, Michael raised his gun

and forced himself between the insurgent and the man he just met, shielding him with his own body. He knew it was gonna happen, he shielded him. with his own body. You know, bravery is amazing. You never really know who's brave, who's not until they're really tested. We think some people are brave, Pete, and they're not. We think others aren't, and they are. You never know. But he was tested. That's called the ultimate test, right? And perhaps his final heartbeat, Michael fired his weapon, and the terrorist

detonated his vest simultaneously. Staff Sergeant Olus was killed just weeks before his 25th birthday and nobody was any more brave than that. In his final act on earth, Michael absorbed the blast, sparing the life of that Polish warrior, who we are grateful to have in the room with us today, second lieutenant Carol Serpica. Carol Serpica, where are you, Carol? Would you like to come up? Please. Please.

I'd love to have you come up. Thank you, Carol. Mr. President, Mr. Walsk, Mr. Wolf, my Minister, Polish of National Defense, distinguished West, everyone gathered here today, dear May. Basha, Michael and Jacob, especially De Orlando and Robert, and the entire old. and the entire always family. What do you have that you did not receive? This is how I would like to begin these few words,

to speak to you all here. In the special place and on the occasion of this incredibly important ceremony, one that is significant for many, but truly especially expectional for me. It's a particular privilege and a greater honor A bovalow, however, it is my commitment. It is part of my new mission which began 13 years ago.

A soldier is not something you are from time to time. It is who you are forever. It is just like you are not a mother, a father, a sister and brother. Or only for a moment. These are not rules given to us for a while. They are a great gift, but also a great lifelong commitment. Yes, today my commitment and my greatest gift is to cultivate the memory of true, heroic act of courage

that I witnessed performed by your beloved son, Michael. Please forgive me if my words have not fully captured what I truly feel today. However, sometimes words are simply not enough. I'm deeply moved, happy, and grateful to God for my service, for my parents, for my family, for my beloved homeland, Poland, for my second family from Stated Island, and for my second homeland America. God bless you all. Michael Fereux, thank you for your service, and I will see you in our heavenly homeland.

Thank you for your service. Thank you so much. And Carol is joined by his wife and their two wonderful sons, Jacob and Michael. Michael is named after the American hero who saved his father's life. So say now, Michael. Let me see him. That's great. We're also pleased to be joined by several members of the Polish government,

including representatives of the president, who I think is a fantastic man, by the way. I must be honest with you. I endorsed him and he won, and he came from behind. He won, and he was a big historian in Europe. And he's going to be a great president. He already is. But as well as Poland's Minister of Defense to honor the blood and sacrifice that has helped

seal the Polish-American bond. We have a great bond, we have a great relationship with your country. And I just want to thank you to Michael's parents, Bob and Linda, your son's selflessness In the face of real evil reminds us of the courage that keeps our country free. And I just said the genetics in that family are very strong, right? I said that before all three families.

I said, good. I see some of the young ones today. And I said, you have good genes. They were asking me, what does that mean? They said, don't worry about it. You'll figure it out. But you have the best genes you can have, actually. So thank you for giving America your beloved son.

And now I would like to ask the military aid to come forward and read the citations, and then we will do the honors. Thank you all very much. This is a tremendous honor for me to be here. Thank you. Please, military aid. Edmonds, accepting on behalf of his father, Master Sergeant Roderick W. Edmund. The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1863, has posthumously awarded in the name of Congress the Medal of Honor. to Master Sergeant Roderick W. Edmunds, United States Army.

Master Sergeant Roderick W. Edmonds distinguished himself by acts of gallantry, above and beyond the call of duty from January 27th, 1945 to March 30th, 1945 as a prisoner of war in Germany. Upon arrival at Stalach 9A in Zetentine, Germany, on the evening of January 26, 1945, the Germans announced that only Jewish American prisoners would fall out for roll call, the following morning at the threat of execution. Master Sergeant Edmund directed his senior leaders to have all 1,200 American prisoners present themselves for roll call.

The Nazi commandant became incredulous after realizing that so many Americans were standing in formation. The commandant removed his pistol, pressed it hard against Master Sergeant Edmund's forehead between his eyes, and demanded that he order all Jewish American prisoners to step forward, or he would be shot. Master Sergeant Edmonds fearlessly held his ground, refusing to conceive. The commandant lowered his weapon without further attempts to segregate the Jewish-American prisoners. Several weeks later, in March 1945, the Germans ordered all prisoners to assemble outside the barracks for evacuation. Master Sergeant Edmonds ordered all American prisoners to form in front of the barracks,

and when the enemy transports arrived, it would break ranks and rush back to the barracks. Master Sergeant Edmonds gallantly led these prisoners in a relentless pursuit of opposition and resistance, forcing the Germans to abandon the camp leaving the 1,200 American prisoners behind. Master Sergeant Edmund's conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit in the United States Army. Command Sergeant Major Terry P. Richardson The President of the United States of America, authorized by active Congress March 3rd, 1863, has awarded in the name of Congress the Medal of Honor to Staff Sergeant Terry P. Richardson,

United States Army. Staff Sergeant Terry P. Richardson distinguished himself by acts of gallantry above and beyond the call of duty on September 14, 1868, in the vicinity of Loch Nings, Republic of Vietnam. On this date, his company was tasked with the mission of securing Hill 222 in hostile. and enemy territory near the Cambodian border. Staff Sergeant Richardson directed one of his squads to be the point element leading the way. Shortly after the assault began, three of the squad members became severely wounded and pinned down between three enemy machine gun bunkers. Staff Sergeant Richardson advanced forward under heavy enemy fire and recovered his wounded soldiers between heavy machine gun fire. By the time he was able to make it back to join his unit,

His entire company had been completely surrounded by the enemy. Staff Sergeant Richardson recognized that the only way to keep his company from being overrun was with accurate tactical air strikes. Staff Sergeant Richardson advanced to the top of Hill 222 under heavy enemy fire for better sight lines to direct the tactical air strikes. He began to direct the tactical airstrikes and shortly thereafter became wounded by an enemy sniper. Staff Sergeant Richardson continued directing the tactical airstrikes for seven more hours. before the enemy broke contact. Six soldiers from his platoon found him still alive. Staff Sergeant Richardson declined medical evaluation for his gunshot wound and requested that he be allowed to stay to lead his soldiers. Altogether, his actions directly resulted in 85 lives being spared on that faithful day.

Staff Sergeant Richardson's conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism at the risk of his life, above and beyond the call of duty, are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service, service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit in the United States Army. Robert and Linda Allis accepting on behalf of their son, Staff Sergeant Michael H. Alas. The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress March 3, 1863, has posthumously awarded in the name of Congress the Medal of Honor to Staff Sergeant Michael H. Alas, United States Army. Staff Sergeant Michael H. A. A.A.A.A.A.A. St., Michael H. A.A.A. beyond the call of duty on 28 August 2013 in Afghanistan. On this date a complex enemy

attack involving multiple vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, suicide vests, indirect fire and smaller inspire was launched against forward operating base Hanzi. Staff Sergeant Alas ordered his federal fellow soldiers to move to bunkers to shield themselves from enemy fire. After accounting for his soldiers he moved toward the enemy force that had penetrated the perimeter of the forward operating base. Staff Sergeant Allis located a coalition forces officer and together they moved toward the point of attack, armed with only their rifles. Upon reaching the attack point, they linked up with other friendly forces and began a coordinated effort to repulse the enemy. While under continuous fire, Staff Sergeant Alas moved from position to position, engaging the enemy with accurate and effective

fire. While fighting along the perimeter and insurgent came around the corner, staff sergeant Allis fired on the insurgent and incapacitated him, but as he approached the downed insurgent, the insurgent suicide vests detonated and mortally wounded him. Staff Sergeant Alas' exceptional courage and complete disregard for personal safety were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon him, his unit, in the United States Army. Ladies and gentlemen, please bow with me as we give the benediction. eternal God, our unfailing light in every darkness, the rock on which we stand.

As we depart this place of honor, may the courage of these heroes be our example, righteousness our choice, and hope in you our guiding light. We especially ask for your protection over our military service members who are protecting the interests of our nation, at this very moment. And Heavenly Father, grant us the will to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before you.

In your holy name we pray, this will defend. Amen. President, from taking new questions, as he describes, that it was imperative to rip the mullahs of Iran from power and leadership.

that they are ahead of schedule when it comes to their military bombing, and that they were looking effectively for an off-ramp with the Iranian people and a new leader for Iran. Some of the major takeaways, but Donald Trump saying that America is willing to go as far as is necessary in order to finish the job here. Pete Hexsath clapping backs with one of the Medal of Honor winners. obviously an incredible opportunity to showcase American bravery, stature, love of country, in a moment where a lot of that is going to be required.

What will be the political ramifications of strikes on Iran? More importantly, what will happen globally in this region? Will it descend into madness, chaos, secretary in violence? Or is this the 4D chess? from a global perspective to isolate China, to rip China asunder by taking away all of their capacity to deliver energy to their failing economy and dying population so that they wouldn't be able to fight

a war for Taiwan. That's the dog that hasn't barked in all of this is what's happening right now with China and Russia. I personally believe what I've seen from this administration, you know, Jared Kushner's in Russia like most weekends doing negotiations inside the Kremlin. Trump administration agents like Steve Whitkoff have had open dialogues and traveled to Russia. I think that the goal here is to bring Russia back into the fold, sell gasoline to Europe, sell gasoline to America, become tentative icebreaker allies with Russia.

isolate entirely China, China and Russia hate each other, take away China's capacity for energy and to eliminate our greatest global threat, which of course is China. Why is that our greatest threat? Because we made it our greatest threat. When I was born in the 1980s, China was a disgusting third world backwater that barely had electricity or indoor plumbing. Of course, our own stupidity and greed and our ruling class of stupidity and greed created this monster and now we are president Trump is uncreating it that seems to be the play here we're going to explore that further on tomorrow's show ladies and gentlemen we pray for strength and health for you we don't want any american to die we don't want any american to live a miserable life we want

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And we have a stack show tomorrow. We had an admiral that was unable to join the program today because of technical difficulties. And I wanted to talk with you just very quickly about another technical difficulty, or let's just call it a human difficulty inside of our family. It's something that my wife and I announced this past weekend, something I don't really know how to put to words. but we announced that my wife and I were pregnant with our fifth child and we went in for a 10-week ultrasound and there was no heartbeat.

And sometimes God puts you to the test. That's what faith is. It's very easy to have faith when everything is sunshine on your shoulders. But when you're facing extreme loss, as they say, there are no atheists in the foxholes. I have long said the last few months, certainly, since we all watched, since we've all been able to see death up close. Whether it is four service members that died over the weekend,

we pray for them. Or whether it is all of us watching in 4K as Charlie Kirk has killed. I just don't. People will ever get over. I'm not sure there's any way to process this. That I am a simple Christian, and that I believe that God is the author of life and death. God's spirit, he creates them,

and by his spirit they are created. And then God returns us to himself, says the Psalms. And who am I to argue with God's spirit? This has been difficult for us. So I would ask for your prayers. There's an opportunity to lean on the perfect will of our Lord and Savior and our Christ and it is only, frankly,

in the times when you have no explanation for what life throws at you, that your faith has made real. And so this is a moment for our family that our faith is made real. Our God is, in fact, the author of life and death. And that those, the miracle of our four children can only be explained through God's mercy

and love giving them to us. And we see this as the world's greatest blessing. And we will proudly stand on what we know is the truth. And the truth is the light. And the truth is that God loves us. And Jesus loves you. And in times of loss and struggle, that is guaranteed, read through every single passage of scripture

is guaranteed in your life, that that is what your relationship with. Christ is all about. God lost a son. God lost a child. And then he saved the world. And so as a simple Christian, we have bowed our heads to God's providence in this moment with renewed faith in our creator. Praise God through it all. That's all you can do. A final word to whatever you might be going through because it's been my wife announced this on Saturday. Without pouring has been incredible, but I just wanted to tell you this audience, obviously we care about you and we have a community here.

You know, everyone's going through something really tough. And a lot of people have had miscarriages or have lost children or estranged from their children or have suffered unimaginable tragedy. It is remarkable how that is just the way of the world. That is just the way of life. and you are only given two options. Whatever situation that is life-altering and painful that is currently happening with you right now, you are given two options.

Because let me tell you something. God did create the world. And Christ is real. He lived and he is the Savior. And those are, those are, fact, that's real. The Bible is real. The truth is the light. And if you're dealing with an almighty creator, which you are, then you either fight God. I talked a lot about battles today. You either fight the most unwinnable battle imaginable, which is you versus God,

God's will, in your life, or you accept that a loving God created you and that your life isn't a mistake. And you're not some ant on an ant hill with a magnifying glass burning you. This isn't some sick joke that God made and designed this world and all of the beauty in it, the air that you breathe, the water you swim in, everyone can enjoy a sunset or a sunrise, everyone can go out and get a jog, everyone can feel the sun on their face. everyone can experience God's design for your life and his gifts unto all of us. You accept that you are not a mistake

God loves you and that he has a purpose for your life because he doesn't actually need one of you. He doesn't need a Benny. He needs me as God. He created me for a purpose. He created you for a purpose. Part of a master design by an image.

intelligent creator. So you either fight God or you roll in these moments and then draw you nearer to God and nearer to His purpose. If you choose that, what does the Apostle Paul say? All things happen for the good of those who love the Lord. There's a time for everything. To live and to die and to celebrate, fight, joy, peace, love, understanding, there's time for all of it. And this is just one of those seasons in life. So I would ask for a simple thing, which is your prayers for my family, my wife and I, and that's it.

God's goddess. God's got us all. Our verse of the day from 1st Peter 5-7, cast all your anxiety on him, for he cares for you. Don't fight God. Life's not supposed to be perfect. It can't. be perfect.

The nature of living in a fallen world. The nature of living in the world with free will, honestly. But you can depend and lean upon your perfect creator. Casting all of your anxiety, all of your cares on your creator. And that makes for a good life. It's not a perfect life. It can make very good life. I join us in this good life.

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