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Thank you, Bill. It is Monday, January 12, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. Iran uprising, American weapons, space crew, early arrival and a 10 cap. It's all coming up. Then Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the Iranian regime led by the 86 year old Ayatollah has ordered the Internet to be cut off for his nation. This is after electricity problems, water shortages, 50% inflation rates. It's been a massive uprising across the nation for about two weeks now. And now we have reports that hundreds of Iranians have been killed by this regime. Trump wrote on Saturday, Iran is looking at freedom perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help. The president told a reporter, I've made the statement very strong that if they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved. We'll be hitting them very hard where it hurts. And that doesn't mean boots on the ground, but it means hitting them very, very hard where it hurts. So we don't want that to happen. Iran, of course, already knows what the American military is capable of. Six B2 bombers dropping, 12 bunker busting bombs, Navy submarines launching 30 cruise missiles. They know what we're capable of. Speaking of the military, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt shared an account from a WHO someone who claims to be a security guard of Maduro who said that last week during the capture Maduro, all their radar systems went down. They then saw drones overhead, then helicopters. He said only 20Americans came out of the helicopter and quote, it was a massacre. We were hundreds but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed, it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn't do anything. The person then said they launched something and I don't know how to describe it. It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground unable to move. We couldn't resist those 20 men. The Americans without a single casualty killed hundreds of us. We had no way to compete with their technology. I swear I've never seen anything like it. NASA made the unprecedented decision to bring a crew home early from the International Space Station after a medical emergency in orbit. It's the first time in a 25 year history that emission's been cut short for health reasons. A single crew member experienced a medical situation on January 7th. They're now stable, but they decided to bring everyone back. A SpaceX Dragon capsule will bring the four person crew home, disembarking from the space station as soon as Wednesday, and it will land on Earth the next morning. The president has called on credit card companies to cap interest rates to 10% for one year. He said please be informed that we will no longer let the American public be ripped off by credit card companies that are charging interest rates of 20 to 30% and even more, which festered unimpeded during the sleepy Joe Biden administration. Affordability. No words yet from the credit card companies. I'm Mike Slater. From the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message today.