The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Missiles, Airstrikes & Evacuations: Israel‑Iran in Escalation

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

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Really target Democrats? I want them to focus on the cities because the cities are where you really have what's called sanctuary cities and that's where the people are I look at New York. I look at Chicago. I mean you got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor But the governor is probably the worst in the country, Pritzker, but I look at how that city has been overrun by criminals and you know New York and LA look at LA LA. L.A. Those people weren't from L.A. They weren't from California most of those people. Many of those people. those people, many of those people. And yeah, that's a focus. Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country. Of that vast numbers of those people were murderers, killers, people from gangs,

people from jails, they emptied their jails out into the U.S. Most of those people are in the cities, all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities, and they think they're going to use them to vote. It's not going to happen. I mean, that's POTUS. He's speaking right at the start of G7, which we're going to, there's a lot of stuff to unpack today. And he had some really interesting sound bites there. Of course, he was talking about some of the protests, we're not protests, the riots. That's, yeah, the riots that have been happening ongoing in California. And they, they still, and they've, I mean, now you have the Portland weirdos that have been getting into it. What do you got Seattle? You got Portland. You got a number of other. I mean, the usual suspect blue city. You know what I mean? The ones where you're like, oh, there's not already a protest over something there? I mean, I know that sounds kind of weird to say, but I'm just so used to those people constantly in the streets protesting over some sort of perceived injustice that it's not actual an injustice. It's people who are mad about having to follow the law. So I'm just kind of used to that always, you know, kind of happening. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. Like I said, we've got a ton of stuff to, uh,

jump into and we've got the issue with the, well, we've got the update with the Minnesota assassin. We've got him. And we're going to dive into that. We also have a lot of the latest as with the protests and then with Iran and with Israel and G7 because G7's kicking off. And there's been some interesting sound bites that have come from POTUS from that, especially like I said, right as he was there with Mark Carney, who's the new Canadian Prime Minister. And it was interesting because POTUS went and was talking about how Russia, it should have been G8, he said. But he said that it was Obama and Carney's predecessor, Barack Obama that kicked out, that had them remove Putin, I guess, from consideration. And Trump had said, well, you wouldn't have a war if he was still in G8.

if it was still G8 and if Russia was being, you know, considered, he's like, you probably wouldn't have a war as what he said, which I thought was an interesting sound bite. Listen to this. This is what this really struck me this morning is we were preparing to come into the studio. Listen. I look forward to that. The G7 used to be the G8, Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn't want to have Russia in. And I would say that that was a mistake because I think you wouldn't have a war right now if you had Russia in and you wouldn't have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago.

But it didn't work out that way. But it used to be the G8 and now it's, I guess, what's that, nine years ago, eight years ago it switched over the year. They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a very big mistake, even though I wasn't in politics and I was very loud about it. It was a mistake in that you spend so much time talking about Russia and he's no longer at the table. So it makes life more complicated.

But you wouldn't have had the work. One of the things that POTUS said was, well, and he was saying that, well, Putin only talks to me now. I'm the only, like he was lamenting like, gosh, I'm the one that's got to be the only person to take the calls. That's what it sounded like when I heard that. I was like, hmm, that's kind of interesting. Now, speaking of Russia, it also looks like, as, you know, it relates to some of the latest with Iran and Israel. At this point, I think it's, because there have been so many sites that have not just been decimated, but entirely. destroyed over there. And this is all based off of Israeli intel, wherein their position was that

they were just right on the cusp of developing nuclear capability, which is something that they, I mean, they would have immediately probably struck out at Israel and the United States if all of this intelligence, which I'm sure sometime will later learn, if everything is entirely accurate. It's been a destabilized region for a long time. I mean, it's been a destabilized region since before I was born and before any of us here, most of you listening, this is the Jimmy Carter era, right? This is what happened when Jimmy Carter overthrew the Shah and then reinstalled in place this religious, it's not even religious, this fanatical regime. And that's, we're seeing the consequence of that still to this day. And now one of the things that POTUS had said too is that

this is going to come down to the people of Iran standing up and pushing back at their government. But there have been tons of sites that have been absolutely and utterly destroyed. They still have a little bit left of missile capability. But there's question as to how they're able to control it. Because in the very beginning, I mean, actually when they first launched, this was back in, I think, July of last year, because you remember, this is simply retaliation that Israel is taking against Iran. Iran bypassed in what was the true escalation using the Houthi. and Hezbollah to the north, Hamas to the south, using those longstanding three terror proxies, they always used them to carry out their attacks and not just carry out attacks

against Israel, but also against United States assets and soldiers themselves. There have been a lot of Americans killed by Iran, a lot of soldiers killed by Iran. And so the bypassing of those terror groups and directly attacking Israel, sometimes a few, several, a handful of months ago, almost July of last year, that this response is not an escalation. It's a response. And I just reject the idea that just because they waited to make sure that they had everything in place properly and that they had a good plan that somehow that means you forfeit your right to self-defense, like you're supposed to go out and just, you know, throw haymakers. That doesn't make any sense. So I can't stand that narrative from the media.

But that said, now we're hearing that Iran might be, I mean, it looks like everybody's reporting and everybody, I mean, all of the usual suspects in the legacy press, it almost feels like they're begrudgingly reporting that Iran is wanting to come to the table for some kind of negotiations because the missiles now, as I was mentioning, the missiles now that they are firing seem a lot more reckless than previous because there was one that landed near a U.S. consulate and that's pretty dangerous. But I remember the air command capability in Tehran was taken out and number of other command centers were taken out in addition to a ton more missiles and storage. So I think that they are, they're out of resources. I think that they're out of any kind of capability. And I don't know what their, their response is going to be what, they're not going to be able to send any kind of ground soldiers over because they don't have any support from Syria, whether it's airspace or anything. Their airspace right now is entirely ruled by Israel. So this is, this is the state of things. There was a refueling aircraft that was headed east. The, the strikes are ongoing. But now,

it's more about taking out any further, any remaining regime military leaders. And you remember the IRCG, it's that Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The IRCG, they lost all of their top dudes in precision strikes because these guys were so stupid. They stayed in their penthouses in Tehran instead of reading the room like everybody else was on social media and realizing that when POTUS was evacuating embassies around the Middle East, something probably was amiss. And so they had these guys still stay in these high rises taken out by a precision strike so that the next morning all the people who would be meeting to talk about a response were dead. So right now at this point, they're taking out the rest of the IRCG. And the IRCG, those were the people that were on top of the

buildings, sniping citizens who were protesting in the street for the Green Revolution in Iran. That was the entity that shot in the head and killed Nita Sultan while she just literally got out of her car because they were approaching an intersection. that was blocked off and there were protesters in the streets and her dad had picked her up from somewhere and they were on their way back home and she got out and one of the IRGC shot her in the head and she was shot and died and bled out right on video and it was a video for everybody to see. So yeah, those are bad guys that are being taken out at this point. And I think at this stage of this operation it's about taking out those military heads

and then kind of making sure that there any capability that they have to strike is entirely decimated. But POTUS said, yeah, Iran is not winning this war. They should talk to us immediately and get this settled. I mean, are they? Iran, I mean, are they going to surrender? There's a lot of discussion from coming out of Dubai, the Wall Street Journal, their Dubai Bureau. They've been signaling that they want to seek an end to hostilities and a resumption of talks over their enrichment programs. because prior what they had proposed was, well, we will stop, but we want to keep our enrichment programs. Well, that's a non-starter from everyone involved. And notice how they're not getting any other support from any other Arab nations. I don't know if you saw what happened over the weekend, but there were a bunch of peacnicks and hippies and pro-Hamas,

wannabe Ghazans that marched to the border in Rafa. You know, because Egypt has a giant multi-level wall at the border of Gaza. You want to talk about walls? Egypt doesn't just have one wall. Egypt has layers of walls, barbed wire and snipers in towers at the Rafa border. And what happened was these protesters and these wannabe Gaza Hamas simps, they decide to approach the border and the Egyptian police beat the hill out of them. They thought they were going to do what they are doing in California and just push through and go on and that was not happening. Egypt's military wasn't allowing. it. The police and their border control at the Rafa crossing weren't allowing it. And they beat and detained every single one of those people that tried to pull Gruta von Thunberg and Gruta Thunberg and crossover into Gaza. It wasn't happening. So that was pretty, that's pretty unbelievable. I don't know if you've seen some of the video footage of that. I don't think we can play any of the audio because, Kane, didn't you tell me that any kind of cussing in any

language is probably not allowed? Even if Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC with whom we have, Arcadda, free jail card, does speak it. I'm just airing on the side of caution. That's all I'm doing. Okay. I just, it's very good. It's very, because it was very interesting, I got to say. It's very interesting audio. But yeah, I'm pretty sure there was a lot of, because I recognized one word and it kept being repeated. And I'm like, I have a knack for knowing all the bad words and all the, I don't know. I don't know what happened. But they're signaling, apparently, that they, they're wanting to, they're wanting to reduce. Oh, yeah, after, now they want to reduce hostilities.

Israeli officials says that they have more weeks of strikes prepared. And they're not, they've prepared this for a long time. I mean, the fact that they were able to create in Iran's borders, this drone base, it's pretty amazing. So Arab leaders, you know, we told you, Saudi Arabia's statement last week was sort of like, oh, no, stop, wink, wink. They're not really, because they don't like Iran. You have the Shia versus Sunni power struggle there, and they've never been friendly with Iran. And Iran actually has been destabilizing every ability the Saudis have of getting involved in making investments, right? Remember, the Saudis have been wanting to go and build. They got a new

crown prince and they've been wanting to go and they've been turning into capitalists and they've been westernizing their nation. I mean, everyone says that the Saudis have been sports washing. I think the sports are capitalized washing the Saudis. Really, ultimately, I kind of think that. We'll talk more about that. We also have Stephen Yates later on in the program for probably what's going to be the longest segment effort that he's ever had on the show because he can never leave this is what happens when he leaves as we move we've got a lot still underway uh headlines coming up our friends at gold co precious metals gold co gold co knows uh i mean they understand smart investors get it and they understand the market through and through and they want to help you add actual gold and silver to

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And CBP under DHS, they said that it was necessary to help track people of interest. ICE purchased the data per public. So wait a minute. We are customers. We get turned into a product. and then it's sold to the government that uses our tax dollars to buy it. This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.

I'm going to bookmark this because we're coming back to it. That's insane that this is... Okay. Also, let's see here. Scientists have to... I've seen this movie. Doesn't end well. Scientists have detected mysterious radio waves

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like that. I don't want to see anything when I look under the ice or hear it except for like seals and fish and whales. It's all I want. But it was the physical review letters and they said that the mysterious waves were discovered by the Antarctic impulsive transient antenna and they were

analyzing these signals and they were using bullet on all they used a whole bunch of stuff to try to. They have no further idea. Let me just shorten, save you a click. They have no idea. It's somehow like neutrinos and waves that, I don't know, dude, this is, I think, I feel like they're making this up to a bunch of excuses to try to, you know, get past sane aliens. I'm just saying, 20-somethings are taking up grandma's favorite hobbies. Why is this a fascinating thing for people? They said that people are going to old-timey extremes

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I would, I'm just never, I would never make a scrapbooker mad because they probably have like a million different ways to like dispose of you. Just saying. The National Weather Service, they've issued. shoot a heat advisory for Alaska. Well, it is June. So we got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. It's the Keltic Gen 3 Sub 2K, the gun that folds in half. And I've told you, I've been the one to describe it as gun origami. And it's from American Florida-based company, Keltec. The Gen 3, and they have, there's a lot of variety with the sub-2K, a lot of variety with it. And the

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heard from the Iranians. They'd like to talk, but they should have done that before. I had 60 days, and they had 60 days. And on the 61st day, I said, we don't have a deal. They have to make a deal. And it's painful for both parties, but I'd say Iran is not winning this war. And they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it's too late. Yeah. I mean, I think that that's a sensible thing. that's POTUS just a little while ago as he had arrived for G7. And it was, and he had made, he made remarks, too, about how it should be G8. We'll talk more about that coming up. But the news that Iran could be seeking discussions to end it, yeah, yeah, I think so.

I mean, yeah, I would imagine. I would imagine. And the Iranian military or the Iranian leadership, they've been asking for, apparently asking for some assistance, but it's not happening so much. In fact, the news is that they were asking Russia for assistance or for some sort of help. And I think Russia then turned right around

and pulled his dudes out of their embassies. I'm just saying, I think, I mean, we're on how many days of war is those? No. We're on conflict, 7, 8? Yeah. The Mullahs wanted Putin to, talk to Trump. And apparently, according to multiple reports, Trump said he wasn't going to stop Iran

from finishing off what Iran started, or wasn't going to stop Israel from finishing off what Iran started. And then apparently he ordered, Putin asked the diplomatic personnel for Russia to get out of Tehran. I mean, reportedly, but apparently that's what, and I've seen that from a couple of different sources. There, nobody wants Iran. And Iran doesn't, Iran only serves. a useful purpose so long as it is a perceived threat. But, you know, there's that old adage that, you know, prove your God can bleed. And I think that that, you know, this has been a long time in the making. This has been a long time in the making when Iran, when Israel hit back at Hezbollah, really, really nearly incapacitated Hezbollah after the fall of Syria. And you have Bashir al-Assad.

It was very, very friendly to Iran, the new regime leader. I'm not saying that he's any better because it's always kind of a worse of the lesser of the two devils in this situation. But you got this guy who advertises himself as a reform jihadi who's taking over Syria, but he closed airspace and was not allowing Iran to use Syrian airspace for any purpose. And now with this, they've, Russia's been involved in some of these diplomatic efforts. But, and Putin initiated it at Iran's request, this discussion with Trump, but Trump said, no, we're not doing that. And then apparently after it was made very, very clear that Trump was not going to in any way inhibit Israel from responding. That's apparently reportedly when Putin sent a warning to the Supreme Leader of Iran saying,

stating, you in danger, girl, need to go. So, well, I just don't know how much longer Iran can play out, play this out at this point. And we're going to talk at length to Stephen Yates about this. In the meantime, we had the protest. I don't think the No Kings protest. Did it really make any kind of headlines? They had all their thunder stolen sort of in a way, didn't they? Yeah, they tried, though. They really tried, but I just don't think it made a lot of headlines.

Oh, except for there was, and this is one of the things that Lorraine had noted this morning. They had a guy who apparently brought his, who is it, this guy, like brought a rifle and ended up, A leftist shot a leftist at one of the protests is from what I understand. They, otherwise, I mean, they were trying to shut down roads, et cetera, and I just don't, I mean, I don't think that they, they sold merch. Did you see this? Over the weekend, CBS was advertising. Oh, here's the merch for no Kings. They tweeted it out like it was a news story, but it's really, it was an ad.

I mean, for all intents and purposes, it was an ad. I remarked about something on, I can't even remember what I said, but I'm sure. It's not safe for air, but I responded to it. But CBS, shocker, shocker, it was like they were advertising for this. Oh, here's their merchandise. How do you have merch? You know, quick note, do these people not realize that for however long, we have always had a No Kings Day? It's called July 4th.

July 4th has been our No Kings Day for since. the late 1700s. Yeah, yeah, a long time. 1776. It's been a long time. So I'm not quite sure what they think that they're accomplishing here. But there is a difference in approach. No kings, apparently, their leftist protest is about, they actually do want a king, but it has to be their political bent. And also destruction and arson, et cetera, et cetera. And really, it's about illegal immigration. And then you have, you know, the 4th of July, which is about country and the republic, etc. This was a grown adult man. This was audio somebody to.

A protest. A physical adult actual male. Who was beating a Trump doll in Beverly Hills. Did you just misgender someone? Well, I mean, let's roll the tape. Oh. Is this entertaining to somebody? Is this entertaining to this guy?

I think it's supposed to be therapeutic. Thera Trumpy, Trump-induced anxiety help. I mean, that explains it. It's TDS. They actually have a little TDS booth there. You know, when you hate capitalism, don't you just love using capitalism against capitalism? I know. My favorite thing about people who hate capitalism is that they engage in it.

And then they protest against it, and then they go engage in it some more. It's actually stunning. That guy, how old was that guy, do you think? Ah, 60-something. Oh, dude, you had to be older than that. I don't know. Hate ages you, though. Right? Hate makes you ugly.

It does. So my grandmother said, but then she'd say something hateful. The, that was their little protest there. That seemed, you know what that reminded me of when I, when I first saw that clip? It reminded me of the clueless fare that they had for Pizmo Beach cleanup, their environment. It reminded me of a clueless scene. Like that was some of the little, those were some of the little booths that they had. But I don't, I mean, I really, what did they accomplish? What was the point of it? I mean, oh, and then they got this. Is this a chick that's running?

I'm watching some of the video that Juan's preparing. She's in one of those inflatable suits, and it just says no king on it. We just collected some B-roll for the folks today. I mean, what is, what is this? What purpose is this? No king. So the little, I don't, I don't know, man. She's her own airbag.

She is. She's her own orbit. Look at her. She's in one of those little inflatable suits. I don't know. I really don't understand the point of what they are that they are doing. I don't know. Also, the Minnesota suspect, I know we've got so much.

We're going to try to cover everything today. The killer in Minnesota, there was a lot of discussionist to motive on this. And I think we're still trying to get facts out because everything's weird. It's just all weird to me. There's a piece that Lorraine has up right now over at Substack that gets into all of it. If you are a subscriber over at chapter and verse, you have all of the latest. She's been running this down. She's also been running down the socialist movements behind the L.A. riots, too.

But this suspect that they arrested, he was found and arrested near his home over the weekend after a two-day manhunt, the Ramsey County Sheriff's. Apparently, the way that they found him was a trail cam. He got picked up on some dude's trail cam. And then from that, they were able to kind of run him down. He was still armed when police arrested him, according to reports, but they didn't, you know, say exactly what he had. They had a statement on Facebook where they said he's the face of evil, et cetera. He's in custody. They have multiple agents.

His wife released a statement to the press, John Hoffman's wife, Hoffman and his wife, that they made it through surgery. They were shot by this guy. but thankfully they made it through surgery although the other lawmaker and her spouse they were not but this all I mean you guys remember this guy had a

police SUV and was able to go to these people's houses in the middle of the night and I think everyone immediately wants to know because they're trying to place blame what were his politics but it's all over the place like he had no king's stuff in his car and then he had a hit

list that made it kind of seem like it was related to abortion. There was reports of a manifesto that were circulating online, but nobody really knows if it was true or not.

If it was just a hit list or if it was a manifesto, something, you know, it may have been just the hit list. They did have that. And the individual he apparently texted his roommates

because he had a roommate and he texted one of his roommates and said that he loved the guys and that he made some choices you guys don't know anything about and I'm going to be gone for a while. It's just weird. He says, sorry about all the trouble that this is caused. I mean, what is this guy's motivation? It's all over the place. This is very weird. And of course, obviously, the fog of tragedy, there's all kinds of information that comes out.

and everybody wants to be first and they don't want to be right. And the media doesn't help because immediately everybody started pushing a political agenda. And I think the quickest thing they tried to do was blame POTUS. The authorities, this is the manifesto, Audios Kempadso, Minnesota authorities say they're not going to release this manifesto of this guy. And remember, a state lawmaker, Melissa Hortman, was killed. Listen to this audio here. At this point in time, it would be premature. The question was, is the manifesto and the environmental.

information that we have received as their motivations. We are working diligently on that. There's certainly some indications within that, but there's not specifics enough. We have been, this is a very active and fluid investigation. Throughout the day as you've been waiting and these teams have been out working out in the field and they have been gathering more documents and information. So it would be pretty mature for me at this point to really say exactly what the motivation might be from these writings, but we will be continuing to do.

to work on that and provide that information when we're able. But if it's, just know this, if the guy was, if the guy's on the left, that's nobody's ever going to talk about it again. And if he's on the right, that's all you're going to hear about. From the same people who pretty much brushed off the two, not one, but two attempted assassinations on the sitting president. Just pointing that out. I, I mean, it shouldn't really matter because I think if you are shooting at lawmakers,

you're evil. if you're out there trying to kill lawmakers for any reason, then you're evil. I mean, there's no other way to put it. There's no nothing. So this, I don't know, he seems, what do you think, what do you think, Kane? Does it even matter? I'm just like the guy's evil. I don't care.

I don't want anybody shooting at anybody over politics. No, the guy's definitely evil. The media is trying to paint him as though he's this Trump supporter and this evangelical and all of this. And it's not true. unravel at all. And data Republican had a great post that sort of did that. And you can see exactly all the systems

he had set up to make it look as though and to sort of create some clout for him in certain circles. But that's not exactly the story. And I think people need to see that. So I think our media again is garbage. Yeah, incredibly garbage.

Incredibly garbage. Indeed. At this, I don't know. I it's sad. It's sad that this, because now I'm seeing it repeated over and over again, oh, well, violence now seems to be commonplace with politics now. I keep hearing this over and over again. And I don't want that to become a norm. I don't want that to be feta compli. It's a cemented standard now just because, and I see a lot of people on the left saying it. And I don't know why. I don't know why anyone would accept that. I reject that nonsense. We've got more

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labor. I don't know why that's so hard for them. Make your mouths, make the words. It's not hard. Immigrant and illegal. They're immigrant. There's a way big difference, way big difference. Why does this, no one's saying that, no, we hate people who are immigrating to the country legally. No, nobody's saying that. Everybody, including immigrants who came here to become Americans, they're all, everybody's like, wait, no, no, no, you don't just get to roll up and not state your purpose and who you are and just like roll on through. No, we're not doing that. We're not doing that at all. Not at all. I mean, remember, one of the things that came out and there was a lot of discussion about this, you know, going back to these Minnesota lawmakers, assassinations, that Hortman, Representative Hortman,

she was one of the only actually she was the only democrat in minnesota that voted against or voted for excuse me she voted for a bill that was removing illegal immigrants people who recently came into the country illegally from receiving taxpayer subsidized health care it was like a state health care program for lower income families lower income folks and taxpayer funded and And they Democrats were pushing to have illegal immigrants placed on it. You know, people who are not paying into state taxes that does, why would you do that? And she was the lone Democrat. And she's like not a Democrat Democrat Democrat.

She's like a Democrat, socialist, whatever. She's like a specific genus of Democrat. But she was the only one who voted against it. And a lot of people were wondering, does that play into this? Does this have something to do with that? but the idea that anybody would do that, that is overtaxing a system that is not able to adequately serve everyone, including people who are not paying into it.

And nobody, I mean, I don't know. But I'm so tired of the language from the left on this. And they conflate this so that they can try to argue that, well, if you don't agree with us, then you just hate immigrants. And it's not the case. Second hour on the way. We got so much to cover, you guys. We haven't even gotten into a lot of the stuff that happened on Saturday.

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They were all Democrats. Beyond that, I think it's just way too speculative for anyone that's reviewed these materials to know and to say what was motivating him in terms of ideology or specific issues. There's a lot of... For abortion rights supporters? There were some abortion rights supporters, I believe, on the list. Again, there was dozens and dozens and dozens of names on, you know, hundreds of pages of documents that were recovered with his writings on them. Do you confess and give more details after he's apprehended last name?

I'm not going to comment on that at this time. Then release them if it's not a manifesto. I mean, can anybody give me a good argument for not releasing it? Well, I mean, I think at this point, and this is, you know, kind of what's weird, about our society because I really ultimately put this on the left that always wants everything to be so politicized immediately as opposed to waiting for the facts to come in

because that also is incredibly dangerous in the wake of stuff like this. But I do think that it is important to share with the public how they view the motivation of this. I mean, clearly it's a political motivation, but what type of political motivation? I mean, is this something that comes from the right?

right as it come from the left. I mean, I'm with you. I think that, I mean, if you're shooting lawmakers, does it matter if it's because that you disagree with their politics? It's just that you think that that's an acceptable way to express disagreement. That's what's insane. And just evil. I don't even think it's insane. I think it's just evil. And everyone wants to point fingers. I just want to know what made why, what this guy believed and what made him believe that. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, we're at the top of this second hour, and we'll have Stephen Yates coming up at the bottom of the hour. We have a lot to discuss with him. I just think, too, if you are, if it's not a manifesto, what did they say, hundreds of notebooks, Kane, is that how they put it?

Hundreds of pages. He had all kinds of plans and ideas and names. written down. Apparently there were tons of names in his list. I'd like to know who they are. I mean, are they going to go and contact all the people that are in there and say, hey, by the way. Also, Kame brought up a good point when we were on break. The guy has a wife. You know, he had a family, but he's been living with this, with roommates. What's going on there? And how much influence, I think it's a legitimate question to ask whether or not these inmates were influential on him, how this guy came to believe the stuff that he did. Was it a recent development? I think all of

this stuff is completely fine to ask. In fact, I think it should be part of the investigation to ask something like this. But good heavens, tons and tons of books and all kinds of stuff that they had that this guy had. So he's been booked in the county jail and murder. He showed up to his first court appearance today. I think it's supposed to, is at 130 Central's, when he shows up? I think so. Okay, so he's supposed to be in court today. The hit list

apparently includes tons of politicians, a lot of Democrat leaders with abortion clinics. Now, that's the thing. Also abortion clinics on there? A lot of people were trying to make this out

to be about abortion. I still think that that's really new to do. I think that's, again, there's still stuff coming in. The reason I like to wait, and of course, we always do this. I mean, you want to wait for a full fact of the matter. You have people like, who was it that was out there blaming, I've got audio. Let me go to the audio. Let me go to the audio list.

Because you, I think you had Tim Walls that blamed Trump and mean tweets. Audio something like 14. This is not helpful. Listen to Tim Walls here. That's the embodiment of how things are supposed to work. It's not about hatred. It's not about mean tweets. It's not about demeaning someone. It's leading with grace and compassion and vision and compromise and decency. That was taken from us in Minnesota. Why is he so sure that this has to do with mean tweets? What does this have to do with mean tweets?

That seems to be pretty unsubstantiated. This 57-year-old guy, this was he? I don't know if he was left wing. I don't know what he was. Here's the thing. You know, on the right, if someone on the right or if someone who, I don't even want to say that someone's on the right, if someone thinks that they have beliefs that lean right, if they commit a crime, I mean, that's something that's condemned.

I don't know why it wouldn't be. The left operates in the way that they're approaching this. They're operating like, oh, well, this is something that's a commonplace with the right. and also the right is not going to hold accountable anyone that would subscribe to any kind of belief set. I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm against murder. So this guy is not on my side. What was up with all the no king stuff that was found in his car? That's the other thing.

I thought that was weird too. All of the stuff that was in the, I mean, just all it said was no kings on it. It looked like Xerox copies of it. it didn't look like, just literally just like a white piece of paper and eight by 10 and it just said no kings on it. And there was just stacks of that in his car. What is that? That's weird. What is that?

What would you even use that for? Lorraine has written about this. The guy didn't like his job that he had and he was staying at the house with roommates on days that he was working apparently came. Hmm. I just, was he always like this though? I do think that that's something that you could share with the public. Oh, it looks like he had, you know, he, he had this, these viewpoints for years or he had this, uh, dissatisfaction for years. Juan's showing you on the simulcast. Like, what do you do? That's all Xerox. What do you do with that? It all says the same thing. Big giant stack of it. It's weird, right? I'm not quite sure what that indicates, but I don't know. It's important to figure out the motive and more about this guy before everyone starts. rushing. I don't know. I've got, there's like all kinds. I mean, it's, he's got a hit. I mean, it says hit list on this. It literally says hit list. Some of the, and I'm looking, and this apparently

was given to some of the local news, agencies that are there. I know Alpha News has some. I think that some other local reporters have them as well. But, I mean, just a ton of, a ton of lawmakers. on this list. So he was mad when he's blaming these lawmakers for his job. Not quite sure. We're still learning more about it. But they got him and they used a drone as well. When he saw the drone in the air, he lifted his hands up and walked towards a SWAT vehicle. So, and they got photos of him. The photos that you saw where he's like in this rural area, those are the photos that they took of him upon his arrest. But he remained at large for a couple days and they finally got him. I'm looking at this, the hit list that he has. There's a lot of, there's a lot of different names on here.

They, I don't know. Something does, just this whole thing, and I made, I told this to Lorraine over the weekend. This doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense, does it? I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist. He did not like his job. He stayed at another house while he was working. I don't know what his home wife is like with his wife, etc.

He's got all of these different indicators that are suggesting a million different things that were found in his vehicle. he's got this hit list. It's like all over the place. Nothing makes sense here. It doesn't make sense. They're never going to, even if there was a manifesto, I don't know, maybe there is. I just think if you have like tons of notebooks of writings in them, probably some of that's a manifesto. You know what I'm saying? You have a hit list. Might as well be a manifesto. A lot of, a lot of weird things on here. They have the, like for instance, he has the Anoka County Legislature Delegation. Just, just, randomly on there. It's odd. And then just other names. Very odd indeed. As far as the rhetoric and the violence, I think that the only time that I've ever seen violence actually protected is when the media tries to say that these are mostly peaceful protests. I mean, you would literally watch stores burn and you're told that they're mostly peaceful. Or you watch cops get hit with giant chunks of concrete and you're told it's mostly peaceful. Or someone's, I mean, I just read that there was Actually, this was like a couple of hours ago.

Wasn't there another foot locker looted? I'm not kidding. Like there literally was. And yeah, this was ABC eyewitness news. This is in Los Angeles. This is an AutoZone. Just let me share this headline for you. AutoZone store looted again in southern Los Angeles following another street takeover with these riots.

It was, they triggered an investigation. It was broken into and looted following a street takeover. in LA. And they said a large number of people walked in. Suspects were gone by the time the officers got there. You have video of people looting it, but they can't catch anybody. They don't have the resources to. I doubt they even report this. You know, California, as we talked about last week, doesn't even report a lot of their crimes of the FBI. Like felonious activity. So that's just mostly peaceful, uh, mostly peaceful protest, King. That's all that is. Yeah. Mostly peaceful protest. so just saying

I mean, I I don't know I don't know this is the roommate of this alleged killer audio somebody 12 who was interviewed by the police

listen to this again none of this makes sense listen you talk about his politics a little bit I know that you had some discussions well

everyone's calling him a Democrat he would be offended if people call him Democrat. But he because of this board thing he was on him for

Governor Walz, it wasn't he wasn't, he was a serve in the community. I mean, Wals did say at one point that he became friends with shooters. He did? I mean, he did say that. Remember Tim Walls making a speech and he said, yeah, yeah, you know, he even become friends with shooters talking about, I mean, actual killers. So I don't know, maybe when he

putting appointed him on this board maybe that's part of it i don't know we're going to come back to it though we got a lot still to unpack here because it's been we've got the ongoing stuff with iran and israel we've got the riots and you've got uh g7 uh all kinds of stuff and then the kings protests as well this uh innocent bystander this is nbc they had so they had quote unquote peacekeepers at the no kings protest in salt lake city right and they these people peacekeepers had no idea what they were doing. They apparently had never had any kind of training to deal with the crowd. And apparently they didn't really have any firearms training either. It's like when they were performing a security role, a self-appointed security role, and they had absolutely no training to do so.

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A lot of kids have been using it to write papers and all of this other stuff. And then, of course, there was a teacher, a headline made because a teacher actually used AI as a way to cheat in grading papers. How can you cheat in grading papers if you're using AI, though? Isn't that like a tool? Like a teacher? Apparently got in trouble for it, so I don't know. Anyway, let's see. Also, Alberta's,

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the attack that Israel made. Remember against Iran? And I did not think about that though. Having pizza delivered and you're burning the midnight oil because something's big is about to happen. I did. Actually, that makes a lot of sense. Maybe they want to not do that. Because now anytime there's like an inordinate amount of pizza

that's ordered by anyone over at the Pentagon, people are going to be like, what is up? So that's really the way to track to see whether or not something's going to go sideways. What is the pizza delivery like? They said that it's literally an account called the Pentagon Pizza Report. And they said that literally all the establishments, all the pizza establishments nearby the Pentagon had a huge surge in activity right before that attack in Iran by Israel.

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or wherever you get your podcast. Senator Graham, you said you believe it's in America's interest to go all in to help Israel finish the job. It sounds like you mean offensive support. So the worst possible outcome for the world is for the Iranian nuclear program to survive after all this. How do you destroy their program? Through diplomacy, I prefer that or through military action.

If diplomacy is not successful and we left with the option of force, I would urge President Trump to go all in to make sure that when this operation is over, there's nothing left standing in Iran regarding their nuclear program. If that means providing bombs, provide bombs. If that means flying. Busting bombs? Whatever bombs. If it means flying with Israel, fly with Israel. Israel. Lindsay Graham, he has not, I mean, he's the hammer and everything's a nail. First off, welcome back. Danilash, bottom of the second hour. I don't even think that you need, the United States doesn't need to do anything like that. I mean, it's our ally, but one of the reasons why they

end up having difficulty with regard to defense is because they listen to all the stupid people in the United States that are like, no, let's be nice. No, if someone hits you and they kill your people, you turn them to ash. It's just my thoughts on it. It's the whole reason why this is a lot, this is continued as long as it does, because we get into this mission creep of insane defensive strategy where we think that by kissing the hand of the boot that's stepping on your, the toe of the boot that's stepping on your neck, that somehow that's going to make, you know, then put less pressure on it. No. That's the reason, honestly, why all of this stuff has happened and it drags on for as long as it does is because of this, this overly cautious approach

to a problem that has continued for decade after decade after decade after decade after decade, It's just crazy that there are multiple generations now of people who've seen the exact same regime in Iran do the exact same thing for forever. They hit Israel. Israel responded. That's it. I mean, we don't need to get involved beyond any kind of aid or support. And not that Israel has asked. We don't need to. Just get out of their way and let them do what they do. My gosh. I mean, it was the op that took out the Air Command and Tehran and so many of these other. assets in Iran that was a master class. They don't need anybody to go in and help them. They can do it. Just get out of their way. We don't need any of these stupid UN Security Council. Oh, it's so mean, no goodness. I mean, this is the same stuff they've been telling Israel since October 7th. There would not be any problem if people just stop being terrorists over there and killing people

in Israel. There wouldn't be an issue. But I also will say, and the reason why I say that it's, you know, it's Israeli intelligence about any kind of nuclear capability for Iran. It's just because I've been hearing this my whole life, right? My whole life. They're about to get it. They're about to get it. And that necessitates this bullish stance. I'm not saying I wouldn't become alliances at all with the mullahs.

I would love for a regime change, but that's not for the United States to do. It's for the people to do. They've got to decide to rise up and they have to decide, you know, it's going to be tough and there's probably going to be loss of life. but is that the sacrifice to make this, is it a worthy sacrifice to make this happen? It's a tough decision. But it's not one that can be instituted by the United States.

Totally fine with like aiding, whatever. That's great. But to get, for the United States to get dragged into a conflict with Iran, it makes less sense than for like, say, the Saudis that have bigger actual beef and proximity with Iran with Sunni Shia. conflict. I mean, there's going to be a huge list. I mean, there's a huge list of these generals. You got Hussein Salami. He's the guy who was the IRC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was the commander and chief of that. That was a bad guy. You got the chief of staff of their armed forces. You had the commander of their aerospace force. You have all of their deputy intelligence chiefs.

They're a commander of their air defense. They're head of their intelligence. Their deputy to IRGC intelligence. I mean, it goes on and on and on. And apparently it looks like there's like 20 senior level commanders that have just been wiped off the map. And Alcimini is apparently he's on the move going from place to place to place. One of the reports, and I think this was Wall Street Journal, one of the places that he stayed at one night the day after he left it, that very next evening it was destroyed in a strike. They're on his heels. They're on his heels. the district where the Ayatollah's family live was destroyed. Like the building.

That's the difference. Israel is going in with targeted strikes, and Iran is just targeting civilians. They don't care. That's why they, and I think they've lost so much capability, the way that they fire the remaining missiles that they have left their errant, their way where they're not hitting where they're supposed to hit. They get near certain places, but then land in residential areas.

One got near our U.S. consulate. But no, we don't need to get involved and commit any kind of boots on the ground or anything like that. I know that that's what Lindsay Graham would love. He's always been that way, though. There's a little bit more audio here. This is Audio Soundbite 4. This was Ducey reporting. Now listen to this.

There was a plan, and I have a headline that's going to dovetail into this here after the soundbite. There was a plan to take out their Supreme Leader. And this was Trump's response per Peter Ducey. Listen. Radio's right now. Good afternoon, Peter. Good afternoon, Brett. And we can now answer a question that you put to Benjamin Netanyahu that he punted on.

A U.S. official is telling us, just in the last few minutes since your interview concluded, that President Trump did, in fact, in the last couple of days, Nix a plan that the Israelis were putting together to assassinate the supreme leader of Iran. So we can put a bow on that as President Trump. prepares to come and join us here in Canada. And he is telegraphing the way that he will frame this fight between Israel and Iran once he meets with the other G7 leaders. Part of a long truth socially says we will have peace soon between Israel and Iran. Many calls and meetings now taking place.

I do a lot, never get credit for anything, but that's okay. The people understand make the Middle East great again. There's a lot of pressure too to have Trump pressure the Israelis in Netanyahu to come up with some kind of peace agreement between them and Iran. I would not be interested in brokering any kind of peace accord with a nation that also calls the United States the great Satan and I would kill all of us in a second. So I don't, you know, let Israel do what Israel is going to do. Iran played the wrong hand. We don't have any obligation to broker any kind of peace agreement. We don't have an obligation to do anything. If we want to help our friend over there, we absolutely can.

without committing anything beyond, you know, aid and bombs and all that other. So they bought the bombs from us anyway. My gosh, they buy these munitions from us. So it's a capitalist arrangement, Kane. I mean, it would be anti-capitalist not to sell them these things, you know, at a very low price. It would be very anti-capitalist, just saying. But no, nobody wants any, nobody wants any kind of United States to enter any kind of conflict at all whatsoever. I mean, really ultimately, and I went through this last night, I mean, there's not going to be World War III.

And I really feel like it's at this point, it seems kind of like now is just the cleanup, right? It's the cleanup at this point that they are, that they're doing. This is just tying up some loose ends. And it makes sense. But they want to do it. They want, clearly, and especially as the strikes continued all day today, they want to end this. they're also kind of weighing out, well, what if they kind of get some boots on the ground? This is a Wall Street Journal piece where it says Iran has been signaling that it wants to end hostilities

and a resumption of talks because they're getting pummeled by the Israeli air campaign. They said that the Iranian counterattacks aren't really inflicting a lot of damage and there's no incentives for Israel to halt their assault. And so now they're wondering, well, what if we got into a war of attrition? And then, you know, maybe that's the way that Israel would be forced to seek some kind of peace agreement. And they're, some are wondering, well, what is the exit strategy? They just did the Fordow uranium enrichment facility. That's one of the ones, apparently, that they were attacking, striking. And they were saying that, well, and that's a big one, apparently that Fordow facility is apparently a large one. We're going to talk more at length about that with Stephen Yates coming up. But his Iran signaled, though, in a more public way that they're ready for some sort of negotiation and to come back to the table and stop doing what they were doing. Because the reason that they did not, I mean, day 61, they had 60 days to take the steel and stop enriching uranium and they didn't do it.

And I don't like the way that it was, that it's presented by the press. Oh, well, that those talks were cut short by the attacks. The talks weren't cut short by the attacks. the talks ended because they had 60 days to make up their minds, and it was day 61. And they made their choice by not making up their minds by day 60. They could have indicated to Israel, indicated to the United States, we're not going to seek enriching uranium enrichment anymore. They refused to do it.

They absolutely refused. They refused every single offer. Let's not forget who gave them a pallet of cash, by the way. What administration it wasn't with a debt of night that flew over pallets of cash to Iran. let's not forget. So they made their decision. Nothing was cut short by it. They made their decision.

I can't, but for Tehran to signal that they think that Israel might be pressured by a war of attrition is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard of, that you can tell that all their military leaders are dead because I don't know who's making these calls right now. That's pretty dumb. And they're not going to be able to do it through their proxies because their proxies are bought and paid for mercenaries. But the moment you stop paying for them, they'll find other people to pay them. I don't know. Nobody's buying it. Nobody's buying it.

There's more footage that shows the surface to surface missile launchers. Those got hit. I mean, it's, Iran can't withstand this for much longer. In addition to this, there's a few other things. It's been a busy, we've had the Minnesota killer. You also had the New Kings riots, whatever that is. We've had those as well.

It's been a very, it was a very busy weekend. I saw this piece. and the way that it was presented in the press, and we're going to talk more about this at the top of our third hour, Minnesota shooting spotlight growing safety risks facing lawmakers. Remember how I said in the first hour. I'm so tired of this language that's being cemented as like reality. This idea that it's, you know, going into politics is dangerous. It's a growing risk for lawmakers.

How about the growing risk of people killing people with whom they agree? that typically fall on one side of the political spectrum. I'm just sorry, I don't buy a guy that is a conservative going out and killing people. I just don't. When does that happen, Kane? When? Give me one guy who's been on the right, who's been a conservative that's gone out and killed all these people as a political message. I can't think of one.

I don't know, one. Yeah, none. There isn't any. We have more than we. We got Florida man. We got our third hour coming up as we move. Patriot Mobile is the only Christian conservative cell phone service out there. you've got to be so mindful with your dollars.

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It's time for Florida man. All right. So first, this, is it Hunter Biden? Florida men were arrested after a Myrtle Beach hotel staff. They were cleaning the room and somebody left behind their cocaine. This was in South Carolina. Two Florida men were convicted on drug charges after a two-day trial, a 54-year-old and 50-year-old men, both of Fort Pierce, Florida.

They were conspiring, they were charged with and convicted of conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of crack cocaine. And they said that they were just passing through. And of course, it's never ever their crack cocaine. They also had a small half a kilogram of cocaine as well. They have different varieties, I guess. But they said that the hotel staff, they thought that the room was vacated and the guys apparently had gone, I guess, gone out. and when they went to go clean the room, they found this grocery bag

that had over $30,000 worth of dope in a dresser drawer. You know what? And good on the staff, though, because the staff immediately alerted because they knew what was happening, you know, and they were getting ready, I mean, they were getting ready

to package it and sell it is what it looks like by all accounts. So good for them because, who knows? They sound like the type that would sell it to kids and it's, ugh. Let's see this. Okay. Let's do the limit.

lemonade stand. A Florida man makes it a mission, his mission to take down this 12-year-old's lemonade stand. Tampa Bay Times, 61-year-old Doug Wilkie. He emailed his city hall, like four times at least, citing T.J. Guerrero's illegal business of selling fresh-baked cookies and lemonade. All of the neighbors, like the whole neighborhood, told the authorities they have zero problem with us. They said it's a little kid who's trying to engage in entrepreneurship, right? And like for instance, there's all these stories of these kids that are like hit by different, you know, municipalities saying you have to pay hundreds of dollars for this. But this guy, he says that it's illegal that the 12 year old has no right to do it.

You know, no one's making you buy the cookies and lemonade. You do. Nobody's doing it. Nobody's doing it at all. But the 12 year old, he actually, it was really smart. He was testing to see what time of day was best to run his stand, you know, what corners in his, like, subdivision to put the stand at, and he had all the neighbors of permission. The family asked everybody because he wanted to, like, he, I mean, that's like a real entrepreneurial spirit. But the guy apparently had a major problem with it. So, uh, and the neighborhood's fighting back. So good for them. Can you imagine being that much of a cremogne? Like who no one's making you do it. It's a kid who's, who's, that's, isn't that how a lot of businesses got started back in the day? And this guy's like, well, did you

beg the city for permission to do this. He's a 12-year-old. Good heavens. Like that, by the way, like the blessing of a government certificate is going to make it better. I mean, the same government that allows for the sale of cigarettes and all other kinds of stuff that allowed red dye and food and would still allow it had it not been for a change in the last election. So come on. This is so assinine. People like this, we got people like this in our area. And we have friends that live in different subdivisions and we hear about this. And it's always, I kid you not,

it's always some old Democrat. Every time it's some old Democrat that's real mad. There was an old Democrat that got mad because somebody was trying to do a lemonade stand. It was like a little brother and sister. And the neighborhood was like, they shut that guy down. But how insane is that? I would have never been able to make money mowing lawns as a kid if I had neighbors like this all the time. There are tons of kids in our

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Do dreamers deserve better than the limbo that they find themselves in overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis? Yes. And so I think it's important to break down three things. Number one, do we need a safe and secure orderly humane border? Absolutely. No disagreement there. People seeking to come to United States, whether it's to seek asylum on work pieces, et cetera. We definitely have to modernize that system and be more strategic in those

capacities. But we can't forget them. Dude, what in the world kind of retconning is this? People were literally asked, hey, how do you feel about people coming into the country illegally? And most Americans are like, no, we don't like it. So how would you ask that differently, Senator Stude? Welcome back to the show. Top of the third hour, Dana Lash, with you. that's Alex Padilla who's doing a media tour. There was a Sunday morning talk show circuit where he was talking about his goofy like interruption of the DHS hearing where they were talking about the riots and the ice clearouts. Because remember, the stuff in Los Angeles kicked off because there was an ongoing ICE investigation.

Well, a Customs and Border Patrol investigation into a huge money laundering operation run by the cartels. And so they had like a stage. area or a little base camp kind of set up near a Home Depot where they were literally investigating the cartels money laundering organization in California in that Los Angeles area. And someone was like, no, they're here to raid Home Depot. And then the media went with it. All the media headlines, oh my gosh, look at the super secret ice camp. They're raiding Home Depot. So they totally screwed out this super long time investigation that they were trying to close out, ruined that investigation, made up a whole story about people raiding other people's homes and Home Depot

there in L.A. That's how literally all of this got started. All of this got started because of that. That is exactly what happened. Welcome. Again, Dana Lash, top of the third hour. You never, that was never actually told to you, though, right? Was it? It was never presented that way. No one talked about that. What about that investigation? That investigation shot and I think of all the time because I apparently was a couple of years. It was a very long investigation. into this whole money laundering op that they were doing. And now that's like all, it's been destroyed. All of that shot, because, you know, no pun intended.

Because, yeah, I guess they got found out. And then everyone said they were raiding a Home Depot. You know, if I were the cartels and I wanted to try to upend an investigation against my operation, I would claim that ICE is there to raid the Home Depot and arrest people. And then I would con the media into going with it. And that's, I think, exactly what happened. No, that's exactly what happened. but let's assume it's true, right, that they were raiding Home Depot.

Are Home Depot's like some sort of sanctuary home improvement store? No. Yeah, exactly. That's my point. You're like, yeah, mm-hmm. That's my point. It's not a sanctuary just because it's Home Depot. Right.

I mean, it is a man's sanctuary. They do love the Home Depot's. I do feel that. I do think that there's a certain thing with dudes where they like to go. I like to go into certain. I like the way it smells. I like sawdust. I like the way sawdust and gas smell.

And I love going in there and I like the floors are shiny and it smells like sawdust. Is that a Midwest thing? Because I think, I don't know. I think it is. What do you mean? What is? Like the whole smell of gas and sawdust is like a positive. I don't know.

I think that's a Midwest thing. I had grandparents that ran a canoe rental and they also had like an gas pump. but during that summer I'd smell that gas pump I'm like that is summer that's what summer that's what freedom smells like I had no classes it's summer I could do whatever I want to that's it just kind of reminds me of that and then I just like the way sawdust smells because it's like there's like there's like there's opportunities there and you go in and you smell those Home Depot stores of the lows and you're like opportunities I don't know just something about it I love I there is nothing more exciting to me I'm simple where you're like hey do you want to get like a diet sodium wander around a home depot? yes, would love to. I'd love to look at all the power tools I'm not allowed to have because apparently I'm super dangerous with them, but whatever. No, so sexist. I'm just saying all so accurate, but whatever. Anyway, so the, that's how all of that happened. That's how all of it happened. But otherwise, I don't think we have our no kings celebrations on July 4th is when we do our no kings protest. I do think it's interesting that people were protesting about no kings, but how, you. eager they are to make one of themselves. Now, a couple of other things with this. There's a video that just came out. I saw a via right scoop.

Netanyahu says that Israel is completely uninterested in peace talks with Iran. Go pound sand. By the way, I thought about this on break. The pressure on the administration to get Trump to broker some kind of peace deal. How many times did Iran try to kill Trump, by the way? Did people forget this? How many times did the mullahs try to put out a hit on POTUS? At least once, right?

At least one time. And I think Netanyahu said that it wasn't just one time. It was twice that they tried this. Just why would you expect, if you're Iran, what kind of kohannas do you have to sit here and call the president of the United States that you try to murk and demand that they broker a peace agreement? between you and Israel. Like, what kind of answer do you think you're going to get out of that, right? Be like, I wouldn't even take the call. I just, I think people forget that, that that happened.

And that's one of the things that was highlighted, too, when, by Netanyahu when he was giving his press conference. I mean, they've literally, at least once, they literally, like, try to assassinate him. We, all of these negotiations were dragged out. remember when they would not even when he was in Vienna and they would not even they wouldn't even they didn't even want us to they didn't want to meet so I'm not quite sure what you know so what if Trump knew about the attack beforehand and aid at Israel and and all of this discussion where they're begging and pleading and trying to put pressure on Trump they conveniently leave leave leave out the fact that they were trying to murk him to just saying so they said they're not just stay out Israel's way. Everybody just needs to stay out of their way and let them clean up the trash. That's it. One senior official said that the community is in a difficult mental state because everyone that he worked with and that he would go to for any kind of counsel, they're all dead.

They're all dead and they haven't had any, they haven't been replaced yet. It's a real bummer, isn't it? Bummer for him. Real bummer for that one. Supreme so-called leader. Real bummer. So no, the other news headline that came out just literally while I pulled this up, we were on break. So POTUS, so when he got to G7, and we have Stephen Yates coming up, we're going to talk to him about all of this. When he arrived at the G7 summit, there were apparently, there was apparently a statement, a joint statement drafted that was calling

according to numerous news reports here for de-escalation between Israel and Iran and they wanted him to sign it and it was presented to him this is according to people kind of like talking to the press about this it was presented to him and it was spearheaded

by European officials at the summit I think Carney signed onto it and they were saying that oh yes Israel has right to defend itself but Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon and they need to immediately you know they we need to have peace etc. Trump did not sign the statement because

and now everyone's like oh there's an immediate divide between Trump and his counterparts oh what a way you know they're in Canada the summit oh it's already there's already division. Yeah they had drafted up an agreement that they just wanted him to sign demanding and of course it's always you know the the onus is always on Israel to somehow pick up the slack for it to de-escalate No. So he said he was not going to sign it. The reading it said it was Emmanuel Macron, of course. Frederick Mears, who's the German chancellor, Kirstarmer, over from Britain. They wanted to cement or finalize this consensus among these world leaders about this situation and Mark Carney's hosting it. And no, Trump's like, now I'm not signing it. I'm not going to sign this. And why would he? Did these leaders not, again, going back to my original question, do they, do they know that the

Mullahs had tried twice to kill him. There were two assassination plots. Two. So why should he intervene? Why should he be prevailed upon to intervene or resolve anything? Why is everyone, they just don't want to allow Israel to just do what Israel needs to do and be done with it? Why do they always try to intervene and make this worse and drag it out every time? Every time.

Trump told a reporter. that he says that he believes Iran wishes to de-escalate. But it also sounds like he's putting it all on them. He goes, he said they'd like to talk, but they should have done it before. I had 60 days. They had 60 days. I said on day 61, we don't have a deal. And they got to make a deal. They're not winning this war. They should talk for it's too late. I mean, are they going to listen to him now? Instead of having a de-escalation tour, why aren't these leaders drafting a letter demanding that Iran come to the table and talk about Iran's ceasefire in Iran's de-escalation? And Iran stopping this to seek uranium enrichment. Why is that not a letter that they're proposing?

Because that's at the heart of it. They don't want to stop enriching uranium and pursuing nuclear proliferation. So there's your statement. They can come to the table and they can say, we will stop this and then you can have these other G7 leaders sign it. But that's never an option for these people. No, we would like for them to continue the status quo. It's all of you that needs to sign. No, I think POTUS was right to not sign this. And the other issue, too, is apparently Putin, and I told you this, this is like our first hour. It's kind of being a mediator between Iran and Trump, and Trump is like, hey, I'm not going to, that's fine, you can do that, but they're still wrong. And Macron dismissed the idea as saying that, oh, well, this is Moscow's violating some regulations by being a peace broker.

I don't think they're being a peace broker. I don't think that there's, I don't think that Iran is able to just call up the United States. So they're trying to get Russia to do it. We're going to talk about the G8 and G7 because after the crime, after Crimea in 2014, it was Trudeau and Obama that pushed out Russia and it became G7. We're going to talk to Stephen Yates about this year coming up. We have headlines on the way as we move. It's our friends at Goldcoe, Goldcoe precious metals. Goldcoe knows, I mean, they understand smart investors.

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I've just got chills. They're worn to keep their mouths closed on amusement park rides because of cicadas. Because of what? Cicados. Oh my gosh. Brood 14 is out in about in Mason, bringing some invited guests of the tri-state's biggest attractions. So Kings Island and Mason, Ohio. The roller coasters, people are literally, like the workers are telling people on the roller coasters, keep your mouths quiet on the rides or you're closed on the rides, I mean, because you're going to get a cicada in your mouth.

Oh. Oh. Oh. No. Oh, why is this so gross? Oh, they said that they've been emerging a little later in some places. So, yeah. I mean, I love this. sound of cicadas, don't like them flying in my mouth if I'm on an amusement park ride. See, you don't have to worry about getting flung off the coaster, the coaster getting stuck. You have to worry about now eating a cicada on the ride. No. Ooh, right after this, this is a timely. Mouth tape.

Mouth tape is apparently making a big comeback. It's a billion dollar industry. Mouth tape. But experts are like, this is stupid because your mouth and your throat work together while you sleep. so don't do this.

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That's a good one. All right, so this is the dumbest thing ever. The Van Gogh chair. It's not a thing about Van Gogh. It's something that somebody decided to make and name it after Van Gogh. So it is, what is it like a crystal chair? It's a chair covered in crystals. And then this museum, the museum urges people to, you know, they're like, oh, yes, you respect the art, etc.

It was a chair on the wall. It's in Verona. A chair sitting on the floor by the wall. And a woman pretends to sit down. And then a man actually puts his weight on the chair and it breaks it, and then they run away. It's all caught on CCTV, though. They dashed out of the room. It's a chair designed by an Italian artist studded with swar crystals.

The fancy crystals on it. And the guys, why would you sit in the chair, though? Just, if I fits, I sits. That's what that guy thought. If I fits, I sit. And he didn't fit. People are suspecting that this was an American tourist, but the story itself does. actually

specified. I bet they were British. Yeah, I bet they were British. I'm just saying. But now they're like, oh, it's the Van Gogh chair. It's,

oh, it's damaged. But it's just a chair that somebody named the Van Gogh chair. So, you know, don't,

nobody needs to get their bridges and a twist. Let's see, a mother is roasted for naming her daughter after a tragic event and that shocked the world.

The daughter, Chernobyl Hope, Oh my gosh. Chernobyl. She named her daughter Chernobyl. Chernobyl Hope. Oh my gosh, no. Is it hope for another Chernobyl or

that Chernobyl doesn't happen again? I don't know. I mean, oh, this is why George Carlin should be alive to roast this name. My daughter, Chernobyl Hope. This is her baby. It's my baby shower for Chernobyl Hope. Oh, my gosh. Stick with us.

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in a show podcast, delivering timely news with insightful analysis. Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. I look forward to that. The G7 used to be the G8, Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau, didn't want to have Russia in, and I would say that there was a mistake, because I think you wouldn't have a war right now if you had Russia in, and you wouldn't have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago. But it didn't work out that way. But it used to be the G8 and now it's, I guess, what's that, nine years ago, eight years ago it switched over the, they threw Russia out,

which I claimed was a very big mistake, even though I wasn't in politics and I was very loud about it. It was a mistake in that you spent so much time talking about Russia, and he's no longer at the table. So it makes life more complicated. But you wouldn't have had the work. So Codas is a little correction there, because I will say, that Russia was kicked out of G8 and it became G7 after the annexation of Crimea. And that was before Trudeau. But I get his point, though. I mean, I get what he's saying.

And I'm not discussing, you know, I'm not saying I agree with it, but I understand what he's saying. Welcome back to you. We're at the bottom of this third hour. Joining us now, man about the world, our very good friend, Mr. Stephen Yates, who was an advisor, not one, but two presidential administrations, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation as well. You can find him on X at Yatescoms. I just kind of wanted to get your, because I've been reading all these headlines that some, like, like Putin was being prevailed upon by the mullahs to try to get Trump to get Israel to agree to peace. And I just don't know why Iran would expect Trump, who apparently was the target of not one but two of their assassination attempts, to feel like he owes them anything with regards to structuring some kind of peace agreement.

But I also kind of wanted to get your thoughts, too, on the whole thing with the G8. It didn't seem like he was saying that he wanted Russia to be in it. I don't know why he brought that up. And it's always good to see you. We have so much to throw at you today. So sorry. Well, first on the G numbers, I was not a fan of Russia being made a formal member of the G7, making it a G8. In general, the higher the number after the G, the more worthless, the gathering.

And so there's a G20, which is at least twice as worthless as the G7. and so I thought that was a mistake. The idea that you integrate Russia in and somehow it moderates their behavior, obviously it didn't stop them from doing what they did with Crimea. And so I understand what Trump is doing. And I like the guy and I support a lot of the policy. But in this case, Europe had the stinko for a lot of different reasons. But the G7G8 was the least of the reasons that Russia reinvented.

invaded Ukraine. And the G7 also includes Japan. And I don't think any of what he was saying would apply to the U.S. Japan alliance. So I like the press. I like that he disrupts these G meetings, but that G7, G8 thing was a little bit of a tangent for me. Yeah, I agree. I also with regard to everything with Iran and Israel, we keep hearing everyone say, are we going to get into World War III? You can correct me on this if you think I'm wrong. I don't think, I don't think that we would. And I go back to when you had the regime change in Syria and you had Bashir al-Assad who seemed, you know, very amenable to Iran. And now we have, I guess, the lesser of the doubles, the former reform jihadi guy who's now over there. But the interesting thing is they closed the airspace from what was reported. So now Iran has no help from Syria, from their air defense. They can't use their airspace. Then you had Israel hitting at Hezbollah and really decimating Hezbollah. And there were a lot of, it seems like when you look back now, now, there were a lot of things leading up to create this window of opportunity if, based on Israel's intel, everything was as, you know, as it is for them to strike when they did. And I kind of

wanted to get your thoughts on that. And I just don't see this escalating. I don't think Iran can do anything else. Yeah, well, there's a lot to take from this, but I would also be very careful to draw too many conclusions while things are relatively fresh. This is a little bit like the shock and all part of the Iraq War. And there is no talk of anyone going in and trying to remake Iran in our own image. So I don't think there's any repeat of that going on here. But Iran still has a lot of weapons. It's expensive to keep these air defenses up.

More things could land. So I would just be careful about this being sort of a one-lap victory at the same time. Israel has done what most of the world said couldn't be done. And I think you're right that a lot went into this. the Abraham Accords was a massive step in the right direction to make these risks lower. The president's visit to the Middle East with major visits with Arab nations, with big commitments to the United States. That was a major investment in mitigating these kinds of risks. And so as much as China and Russia might have looked at the U.S. and its allies being in decline,

I think that if Israel is able to do this much to Iran, these big bad powers probably want to hit the pause button before they think they're ready to bite more than they can chew. And hopefully that's the rationality that comes out of this because Israel has done a significant amount of damage to Iran's aspirations. Do you think that Iran now being in bricks is something that could benefit them or help kind of bail them out of this situation at this point. I think I don't know. I mean, I realize that it's mainly just, you know, economics and trade, et cetera, and all of that. But still, I mean, is that significant to you? It's not terribly significant to me other than we've known that the bad guys help the bad guys out and that they will help them avoid sanctions. There's energy revenues that can sustain these bad authoritarian sticky regimes. I think the big question mark right now with

Iran is with a lot of the military having been decapitated, some of the political leadership having been decapitated, is there any kind of real change possible or in the not too distant future in Iran? And if it begins to move to a non-Mullah-led kind of government, then the bricks are irrelevant. And then it really is a pretty substantial blow to the idea that there's this condominium that's going to balance against the battle United States under the United States under the bad old Trump. And so we can't know where this is going. For now, they have a severely weakened ally that I think has been embarrassed and decapitated in some ways. And so they may want to maybe keep their arm's length. You know, defeat has a bad odor and they don't really want

that on them. We're talking with our friend Stephen Yates. If you're just joining us at Yatescoms, he is an foreign policy expert man about the world. You mentioned the people too of Iran. And I remember during the Green Revolution, and we've talked about it before the IRCG. They had, you know, these people on their members on rooftops, and they sniped Nita Sulton. And that was the girl and her dad. She just, their car was approaching an intersection where there was a protest. She wasn't even part of it, but was mistakenly assumed such. And she was killed on a live stream video that went around the world.

A lot of people rose up after that. But the rising up by the people was not successful against their, against the regime. Do you think that this time is different? Well, there is one part that's different. I mean, the Obama administration really did nothing to make sure that communications were sustained during that Green Revolution. It really raised a lot of questions whether they were for the Green Revolution happening or whether they rather to make a deal with the bad government that they knew.

This time around, there were quick messages, and Elon Musk quickly made sure that Starlink was on. That meant that those, that mean, when the regime wanted to shut the government. things off again that they couldn't cut off the Iranian people. I have not seen video like we saw of the Green Revolution. We'll see what happens after the initial shock and explosions of the current conflict kind of settled down. But at least this time, there is unfettered access to information. And that is at least a hopeful foundation to see if there's a better future for the Iranian people. I mean, it's easy to forget, but people really should look at those videos that show Iran prior to the radical revolution.

It was a modern place. It was an attractive place. It was one of the more prosperous and interesting parts of the broader Middle East. And so, you know, they can go back to that if they throw off this toxic evil regime. Yeah. China has, they condemned the, I guess, the way that they pre-year. resent it is I guess they forget that Iran actually bypass the Houthis and their regular third proxy when they had struck Israel. Israel responds. And I think it's weird that because they took some

time to get their response, right, that that somehow means they should forfeit a defensive response, which was weird to me. And that seems to be the way that China's coming to this because they're condemning actions by Israel, but not with Iran. Where is China with all of this? Because they're that weird partner that, you know, it looks like Russia's kind of moving away from it, but China hasn't yet. They haven't. Now, I hope that China continues to talk about these kinds of things

because I think it's sobering up some of our allies in the Middle East, the Abraham, of course, countries in particular, including Israel, that had hedged their bets over the years on what kind of interactions to have with China, what kind of markets to seek, what kind of technologies they might have connections to China about.

And this really should end it altogether, for Israel, but really for the Arab states too. And so I hope China keeps talking because their nonsense isn't going to sell well. But really, they are tied in with the bad regimes and that network. And there isn't any escape for them on that. That's what Xi Jinping did, doubling down on this sort of triangle of do-no-gooders at best. They thought that that was an axis that was going to push back against a failing West. And so they own it. I wanted to ask you about switching gears, but still with China, but looking exclusively like this trade deal, because the president established some kind of at least preliminary trade agreement with China, where we still have a percentage that benefits us. They've got, I think, what, 10%. But one of the things that apparently is also involved is allowing Chinese students to come to our colleges and universities, which I was under the impression that if they were allowed to come to our colleges and universities, they had to report back to the CCP. Like they had to be people in good standing with the CCP.

And I remember Rubio had put out a post on X stating that, you know, we're not going to allow. It was like a moratorium on visa, student visas for Chinese students. Where does this stand? And, you know, after the issue with the drones being launched in Iran, this worries me. The CCP owned farmland by military base is worrying me. I think our big defensive position against China is not being met in this preliminary agreement. I wanted to get your thoughts. Yeah, this is just another area where I really like the president and the policies,

but I don't see things exactly the same. And we don't really know how much is shaping the information environment in order to get negotiations to a better resting place or finish line. And I'll give them some grace on that front. But when it comes to the number of Chinese students, I mean, really, it's just wildly out of balance. There are so many more coming our way, not so many of ours going, there and it really is what are they studying? And you can't just sort of put them all in one basket.

It matters if they come from some kind of a military institute or it matters if they're studying nuclear physics or some kind of telemetry and advanced mathematics. You know, we shouldn't be training up a generation of people who can and will use that knowledge against us in a material way. And, you know, we look at even the research labs on agriculture. and medical areas. They're irresponsible and haven't been accountable on COVID, so don't have them in the most advanced medical research fields. And so I'm not a fan of this painting everybody with one brush,

but unless and until you have some kind of a system to vet who these people are and you limit it to some reasonable quantity that could be vetted, then I think it's irresponsible. I think that Senator Rubio, now Secretary Rubio, had their right formula. It's a privilege to be here, not a right, and you have to make sure that the behavior of these people is consistent with our goals, and if not, bye-bye. Exactly. I think well said, agreed, too. This is one of those days where we need a full hour with you on here because there's so much to cut through. We're out of time today, but Stephen Yates, always such a pleasure. Glad that

you've been traveling safely and always appreciate your insight into this and for setting everything straight. Good to see you, my friend. Have a great rest of your week. And happy Father's Day. Happy belated Father's Day. Much appreciate it, Dana. Take good care. Thank you. God bless. We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up this third hour of the program, and we couldn't do it without the people who make it possible. It's our friends at Goldcoe, Goldcoe precious metals.

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They're not just saying like hello for no reason or to be polite. Yeah. It's usually to check to see if you're too drunk or sick to fly. But what if you're a situational extrovert? And if someone greets you, your immediate. response is to overshare and talk incessantly because you don't know how to handle just like a small greeting. I'm not saying that I do that at all, even in the slightest, maybe not at all. But, you know, like, what are you? And you like, hi, how are you? I just don't, what do you do?

Like, why do you agree? When you get on a plane and they're like, hello? Or good afternoon. What do you say to them, Kane? What are you doing response? Now you're being tested. You know you're being tested. Hi, good to see you. That's it. Is it good to see you? I don't care if it's true. This is just the standard greetings. See, that's it. I cannot stand. I don't want to say it if it's not true.

Like, if it's good to see you. It's a flight attendant person. It's not really good to see somebody I don't know, right? Like, I don't care. I see people I don't know all the time and nod and wave and say hi. What's the big deal? Well, that's fine. But yeah, be like, oh, it's so good to see you.

Yeah, that's a little much, I guess. Yeah, that's a lot. Unless, you're kind of paid to say that to you. So you kind of mirror that back. They're judging you. right as you get on the plane. They're like, hey, they're measuring you. Like, is this person a terrorist? Thanks for flying with us today. Is this person drunk or sick? Good to see you. Good to see you. Look at you. Unless you're trying to get like extra snacks.

And then you're, then you would probably lay it on thick, right? Actually, you know what? Now they think about it. I got, you know, what are those Biscoff cookies? Those. Well, you can't ask it right as you get on the plane. No, you can't, but you set it up by being that friendly. That's how you do it. You got to set it. That's like his whole approach. He's laying the groundwork to get those extra cookies. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I didn't. It makes sense because they're like the first point of contact. So it makes sense. Okay, I'm almost out of time.

Today's stupidity. Cut 15, Juan. Cut 15. This is Representative Eric Fartswell. This is what he said gaseously out of his mouth. Donald Trump is America's Hitler. Wow. It's like he's never said that before.

Everybody at the like of Hitler. My gosh, that guy. Folks, does it for us today. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. Find us Facebook, YouTube. like and subscribe. Have a great night.