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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Coming up on American Early Edition, more US forces now moving into the region as a conflict intensifies. American power on display, American resolve under pressure. Six Americans now reported dead. So this morning, what's the objective, what's the strategy and what comes next? We're live with the very latest. Now to the White House, President Trump warning the big wave of military action has yet to come, saying the mission is destroy Iran's missile capabilities, cripple its navy and ensure it never obtains a nuclear weapon. The White House signaling this is far from over. We're live with the president's latest message. And then the homeland on high alert for terrorism. The FBI and DHS now on a war footing. What they're tracking, who's under scrutiny and what does it mean for you? Senator Ron Johnson of the Homeland Security Committee joins us live. Welcome to American Sunrise EARLY edition,
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American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION on Real America's VOICE starts now. All right. Good morning. Welcome to AMERICAN SUNRISE EARLY edition. I am Brian Glenn. You're so glad you're with us this morning. Before we go any further, let's get you ready for the day. How this is how you can start your morning with us. Take a look at the bottom of your screen. You'll see a QR code that is your direct line to Weather Nation. Scan it, get connected. And during the 9am hour of American Sunrise, we may feature your hometown forecast live. So head to Real America's voice chat on Getter Rumble and YouTube and you could be next. All right. Let's get a quick check of today's forecast. Joining us now is Adrian Hernandez. Adrian, what's moving across the map this morning you and I spoke off camera. These transitional months like March, boy, they can really pop up some serious storms.
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You know, March only started a few days ago and that's actually the technical start of meteorological spring. Brian. And Mother Nature is wasting absolutely no time firing up some of these severe weather chances because across the nation we are going to be tracking this potential for severe weather. The biggest concern for me at the very least is some of the timing on some of these storms. 5 o' clock in the morning out to portions of Wichita, we're seeing some of these showers and storms start to flare up. They'll get real intense Move across the Ohio Valley. We're expecting the heaviest of some rainfall going into Friday. We'll have another low pressure system moving through, bringing some snow up to the north. But then look at what's going on as we get to Friday night, 11 o' clock at night, all, all across the Central and Southern Plains. A huge line of showers and storms is expected across that region. Like I was mentioning, we have several severe weather outlooks, not just today, which is going to include portions of Kansas and Oklahoma. The major threat will be large hail for this outlook. But then going into Wednesday, into Thursday and then into Friday, notice how a lot of these outlooks are getting much, much larger even all the way out into Friday. Notice how this looks a little bit different. The Storm Prediction center, when they issue some of these outlooks well into advance like Friday, that just means that we have a lot of confidence in seeing some form of severe weather in places like Kansas, like Missouri, like Oklahoma. And OKC is also included in this outlook. So make sure you have a way to get alerts if you are in this region. Of course, tuning into Weather Nation is always a good job, is always a good spot because we are going to continue to cover this potential for severe weather all the way towards the end of the work week, at least for high temperatures today, a lot of warmth down south. One of the major contributors to some of these severe weather chances. We got temperatures in the low to mid-80s down in Texas, down in South Florida also heading into the 80s. And then going into Wednesday and Thursday, those temperatures are going to continue to surge. So we'll still have a lot of warmth, especially down south across the South Central and even the deep south down in South Florida as well, getting down to 79 degrees. We'll probably have some rainfall by the time we get to that point. So yeah, Brian, of course, the best thing that all of our viewers can do at this point is start to tune into Weather Nation because especially if you're living in the south and Central Plains, things are definitely going to get dodgy going into really throughout the remainder of this workweek.
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In a big election day here in Texas, you've got a big primary. So don't let the weather slow you down. Grab an umbrella or, you know, get out before the rain hits and, and get that vote in on this big, big Tuesday there. Adrian, thank you so much. We'll see you back on America Sunrise.
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All right. As we continue with our top story, a new phase in the war with Iran. US Strikes now targeting Iran's Missile networks, naval assets and even digital infrastructure, including cloud systems enabled networks. As more American forces move into the region, the White House says it's about neutralizing the threat. But what is the end state deterrence or degrading or something bigger? And what does expanding military posture signal about the administration's real objective? Joining us now is Brigadier General Robert s. Spalding, retired U.S. air Force, former B2 stealth bomber pilot. General Spalding, welcome to the show this morning. So where do you think this is is headed? It seems like the escalation is getting larger, the war area is getting wider into far more over the region. In your opinion, where is this headed?
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Well, I think the Iranian regime is in its death throes. It's kind of like the end of the fireworks where you have this massive explosion. And I think, but you know, something in this death throws can still be dangerous. And so things like striking at Europe and striking AWS data centers in the region, I think these are things that demonstrate that the regime is almost out of gas.
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So do you think it's almost a desperate attempt to just cause as much disruption as possible? Like you mentioned the AWS center, that would be on my bingo card of what they would target. But it looks like there's all options that they're open to strike. No one's off the table.
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Well, yeah, right. And they're trying to basically put pressure on the governments that are, that aren't involved but could potentially be brought to bear to put pressure on the US And Israel to stop it. And so I think though, as the United States and Israel continue to take out their missile capabilities, particularly their command and control, then they're going to be less and less able to launch these attacks. The things that I would think about though that that could potentially come next are either terrorists or cyber attacks.
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Cyber attacks. Yeah. I was, I was going to ask you, when do we start to see this kind of go into the digital world of cyber attacks and maybe taking on a power grid? Do you see that in the forecast as well?
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I do. And in fact the FBI issued a warning to people to get systems offline to prepare for some kind of attack to come from Iran. So I think, you know, at least the United States is contemplating this and it's not out of the realm of the expected. The other thing is you could expect possibly to see China and Russia support with cyber attacks. So it's not just probably going to come from Iran. Their allies, the Chinese and the Russians are quite upset that this is going on.
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You've got the German chancellor today at the White House, first time President Trump has met with any European leader since the escalation last weekend. What do you think that that conversation will look like today? Would Germany look to help assist the US in any way? Would they put pressure on President Trump and Israel to pull back? What do you think the conversation looks like?
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I don't really expect much help at all from Europe. I think Europe is fractured. Of course, their borders have been overru. They are tremendously uncertain and insecure about their own issues. And so I think they're just hoping to keep their heads low and not be part of the, of the collateral damage that comes of this.
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Yeah. Now, in your opinion of what our military stockpiles look like, what's, what do you think our inventory looks like right now? I know that we have unleashed a lot of, of missiles and other assets since the start of this war. How much longer do you think we can go without having to be in a kind of a crucial point where we're low on inventory?
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Well, you know, I was concerned last year before the election because we, we've completely depleted everything, sended it to Ukraine. But, you know, for a little over a year now, the Pentagon has been focused on replenishing. And Steinberg, especially when he got into his position at the Pentagon, has been diverting almost every spare dollar into munitions production. So I'm not sure exactly where it stands, but I think we're probably okay given the state of the Iranian regime when this kicked off. I mean, they were already quite decimated, and I think now we're just trying to take out production facilities, launch facilities, and make sure that those missiles aren't able to be launched.
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Now, as far as the homeland here, what concerns you of any potential, and we're going to talk to Senator Ron Johnson a little bit later in the show about potential lone wolves here on our own soil carrying out some terrorism on behalf of the Iranian government.
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Well, you know, as you know, the, the open border let in all kinds of people. We don't really know who's here. So I'm, I'm really concerned about that. I'm concerned both in terms of kind of these very loud terrorist attacks that create a lot of fear, but also damage to our infrastructure. You know, it doesn't take much to take down the grid if you've got a concerted effort here in the United States or take down our communication system, which, you know, as you've seen in other places, whether it's a hurricane or the fire in LA or Maui for example can be quite disruptive. And you know, as we saw during Hurricane Katrina, you can see really rapid degradation of civil society when digital infrastructure is attacked.
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Yeah, absolutely. Any advice to our service members right now? I read an article about, you know, basically the amount of prayer that is taking place right now within our military. I know when, when Secretary of War Pete Hessef took over, he implemented a lot of faith, got rid of all the wokeness and all the, the shenanigans that was infiltrated into our military under the Biden administration. But what's your message to us men and women that serve our country right now?
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Well, I mean, we absolutely support what they're doing. And of course, you know, they're well trained and they're just st their job and they're doing a fantastic job. And I think they should know that all of America supports what they're doing. And quietly, the rest of the world, although, you know, as you've seen from some of the European leaders, are not going to be as vociferous, but their populations and especially the population of Iran support everything that they're doing.
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Yeah. Well, we support your service to our country. General, thank you so much for joining us this morning. We will continue to pray for the men and women that are overseas fighting for their for this country and for for Iran. Thank you so much, General. Appreciate it.
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Thank you. All right. Coming up, Wall street braces for the opening bell. And then the latest from the White House and Capitol Hill is American Sunrise. EARLY EDITION continues after the break. Foreign. Welcome back. America's Sunrise EARLY edition. We're in Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall. Good shot there. Good to have you with us this morning. We're tracking the White House, the markets and the latest in the Middle East. You can join the conversation on Getter YouTube rubble right now. Check in with Wall street as we head towards the opening bell. A steady performance on Wall street yesterday, the first trading day since the war began in Iran. The Dow Jones down 73 points, closing just under 49,000. The Nasdaq up 80 points, ending at 22,748. Excuse me. Early swing settled in as the day went on. So far, markets are proving more resilient than many expected. Oil moving higher. US crude closing at $71 a barrel, just up 6%. Global benchmark Brent finishing near $78, up close to 7%. That's our check on the market as we head towards the opening bell. But joining us now to talk more about that is Michael Wickerson. He's the founder of Stormwater Advisors. Michael, your reaction to the markets on this Tuesday morning and what we can expect towards the opening bell.
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Good morning, Brian. I think what we're seeing is continued concern about the effects of the conflict and it's really being split. What you talked about, the equity markets, which are nervous and slightly down, managed to regain territory yesterday, and the commodity markets, which are most likely affected by the physical transport and issues around the war. Couple of cases in point, you mentioned that Brent oil. So European trading of oil up about 8%. That's the same that's happening here in the US for West Texas Intermediate. The real big shocker though is liquid natural gas prices. LNG prices in Europe up over 40% in early trading today. And that is because yesterday Qatar announced that they were going to, you know, they were shutting down the supply of lng. They're the largest or second largest producer in the world. They supply a lot of Asia and some of the European markets. That's going to be a real problem for Europe going forward. Fortunately for the US we have our own LNG supplies, we do have an abundance of our own oil, so we are somewhat insulated. But over time, these prices start to matter and start to affect what consumers pay at retail.
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Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you. And for people watching at home, they see these spikes across the board in the energy sector, the timeline between you see the spike and you start to feel it when you actually put gas in your vehicle, it could be weeks, months. What do you think? What is that timeline?
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You know, it's a good question, typically weeks. But I have to say it's sort of asymmetrical. Meaning that when these producers, when these gas companies see the prices are rising, they are much quicker to raise prices at the pump than they are on the downside when prices are falling. So when prices are rising, it might be only a one or two week lag. When prices are falling, it could be three to four weeks as those companies try to maintain their profit margins. So even as early as this week, we might see impact at the pump as some decision makers start to lift prices to anticipate the rising cost of oil.
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Yeah. So as this escalation moves on, and some say it could go for a month, and obviously I think we all want it to be shorter than longer. What toll does that take on the market? Or does that as a market already factor the war aspect in? But does the longer the war go, the longer we look at more of a kind of a turn, a downturn.
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So I Think you raise a good point. The market, I do believe was anticipating a move like we saw over the weekend. President Trump, the administration were to a degree telegraphing what was going to happen. And it happened according to script. And so the market did largely build in it. Brian, I'm actually worried about another part of the market which isn't general or related to the war specifically. And that is we are seeing a rising level of defaults and what's called the private credit market. This is non bank lending into the software companies, AI companies. We're seeing a big spike there. And why do I raise it as a concern? That is the kind of thing that we saw in the global financial crisis where non bank lenders, in that case into mortgages, in this case into AI and elsewhere, start to get into trouble because they're, they're overspending over investing too much debt against it. And that in turn can have a contagion effect on the rest of the market. That's where I'm keeping my eyes out this week and into into March to see where that goes.
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You know, Michael, real quickly, does the consumer spending habits change under a time of war? Are people buying less cars, going out and buying a house? What effect does war have on consumer spending? I'm curious to know if there's any historicals on that.
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There's a lot of precedents that say that consumer products become scarce because companies start to reallocate towards defense. More companies, more industry. We're seeing that happen. Of course we're going to have to replenish armaments, ammunitions. As you just discussed with your previous guest, we have some issues here and one thing to be sure is a war is always inflationary as those goods become more scarce as resources get diverted to other, other needs. The cost of goods, whether it's because of the rising price of oil, energy impacts almost every other market you can expect in a wartime economy to see inflationary pressures and prices rise, which of course is never great for the consumer.
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That's great stuff, Michael. Hey, how can somebody follow you on social media website? You've got some great information.
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What's the best place for that on Twitter, on XMWStormWall. Also, you can find me StormWall.com where I keep all my articles and video interviews such as this. Thanks for asking, Brian.
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Coming up, the latest headlines from a Denver newsroom. Plus, the very latest from the White House, Capitol Hill as America's SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues after the break. Stick around. Welcome back. America, Sunrise, Earth, the initial a look at our nation's capital. A little bit of a snowy day yesterday. Little cold still. I am Brian Glenn, glad you're with us this morning. As always, we are following the developments across the country and around the world. Join us on Getter, YouTube and Rumble. Let's head over to the Denver newsroom for the latest headlines with the one and only Terence Space. Terence, good morning to you, my friend. What's leading the day? I mean, seems like every morning I wake up, I check the newsfeed, I read, realize there's a slew of new developments. My goodness, where do we start? Right.
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Absolutely. In fact, while you were sleeping, the number of American troops who were killed in retaliation attacks from Iran went up to six people. This is the Trump administration warning American citizens across the Middle east to leave. So far, the Islamist regime has targeted US Forces in Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq as well as Saudi Arabia. In fact, the US Embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are now closed due to attacks. Monday, it was all hands on deck as the president along with the secretary of war and the secretary of state all addressed the developing situation in Iran.
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Right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that. We'll do it. Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, if the president wants to do it really quickly after that, he'll get bored. I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this.
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It's a bit of a different tone on Capitol Hill, though, after lawmakers were briefed on the war, from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on down to CIA Director John Radcliffe and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For one, House Speaker Mike Johnson is emphasizing that this weekend's attack was a Defensive operation.
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Israel was determined to act in their own defense here, with or without American support. Why? Because Israel faced what they deemed to be an existential threat. Iran was building missiles at a radical in a rapid clip to the point where our allies in the region could not keep up. As you know, Iran has long vowed to take out Israel, wipe it off the map, and they have long seen that as a critical threat to their very existence.
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And Brian, Speaker Johnson says intelligence determined that an Israeli strike would have put. Would have caused threats against U.S. personnel and assets in that region. As a result, the US Joined the Israelis in order to try and limit the potential impact on Americans in the region. And Brian, that's, I call it somewhat of a different tone because the President, Secretary of War, Secretary of State are laying out the mission. And now we're hearing from Speaker Johnson that it was really the Israelis that it almost feels like somewhat forced the President's hand on this.
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Yeah, that's what it appears to me, that we were kind of forced into this escalation. Look, I've been very open. I'm not a fan of war. I don't want us going to war on behalf of another country. I still feel like we've heard for a year, 20 years that Iran was on the verge of a nuclear weapon. We've been sold that I think a lie for a long time now. We got baited into war. But now that we're in it, I want to win it. Without a doubt, I'm supporting our military. But this seems like we just kind of followed the lead of what Israel was going to do and we were forced to kind of follow them rather than having a communication on the same page. And that Marco Rubio also had his comments kind of support that narrative as well.
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Yeah. And Brian, beyond that, this isn't just about Israel, the United States and Iran at this point. It really is becoming a regional conflict as the Iranians are, you know, now also attacking US Facilities in other countries. But even though they're attacking and targeting US facilities, the reality is they're also impacting the infrastructure of those other countries and invading the sovereignty of them with their missiles. And that's going to become an issue. We're already seeing, you know, growing concern from regional partners like Kuwait, like Qatar, like the Saudis, and continuing.
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Yeah. And hitting facilities like an AWS facility and there's some other non military facilities that they're striking. So it does break, widen this conflict to other countries and to non, you know, governmental spots. But anyway, we'll continue to Watch that, Terrence, as always. And you can see more Terrence on American Sunrise in about half an hour. More Terrence. Come on.
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Get all the Terrence you need in your life.
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Yeah, get it all you want. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
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Thanks, B.
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All right. Now to Washington, the latest from Capitol Hill. Joining us now is national political reporter Neal McCabe. Neil, good morning to you.
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Hey, good to be with you, Brian.
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Thanks for joining us. All right. So what are you learning from the Hill right now, not only as far as this goes and do you agree with our assessment, assessment, but also all the other hearings that are taking place?
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Well, there's going to be an Armed services hearing today. And on the House side, that should be interesting. Also on the intel, but the the Senate Judiciary Committee is hosting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. That should be the big fireworks because, you know, we're still in the overhang from the operations in Minnesota. And dhs, right. Department of Homeland Security, they haven't been funded for three weeks. You know, the whole federal government was funded except for Homeland Security. Now, one of the saving graces is that roughly 90% of Homeland Security personnel are considered essential. So they're just sort of operating as they always were. But, you know, it's Coast Guard, it's Secret Service, it's tsa, it's fema, it's the cybersecurity agency. It's like there's a lot of people who work at the Department of Homeland Security who are missing paychecks.
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You know what, you bring up a good point because I figure it used to be such a focus on getting all this taken care of. Now it seems like all of our focus is on the Middle East. And I want Speaker Johnson and I want our legislative body to come together and start working on stuff that affects the American people. It seems like this war now it was Minnesota, Minnesota, Minnesota. And then stay with me, Nancy Guthrie, next to Guthrie. Nancy Guthrie, it was all of that. Now it's Middle east conflict. Can we just get back to just doing stuff for the American people from a legislative approach and get this stuff funded and I don't know, work on health care, work on stuff that affects people, work on affordable housing.
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Well, I think that you're speaking to what concerns a lot of people. Today's Washington Post had an editorial saying, why haven't we funded Homeland Security? You know, the department was created out of a bunch of other agencies that were sort of stitched together. But Homeland Security, their job is to protect the homeland. And with the shooting in Austin and whatever else might be coming up. It's a pretty important department. And so I thought it was interesting that the Washington, the Washington Post had come out and say, hey, Congress, let's go. Usually the Washington Post is the one cheering on Democrats and people blocking it, but not this time.
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Yeah, I, I just think our focus needs to be back on here in the states. And I, I, like I said, I'm not a big, I'm not a fan of war. I didn't want to get into this war. But now that we're in it, let's, let's win it and move on. But let's also focus on stuff here. Neil McCabe, you're at on Capitol Hill. We'll check in with you throughout the day. Big day. A lot of, lot of stuff going on. Thank you so much.
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Good morning. Thanks for having me on.
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All right, let's start with the funding of dhs. You and I were talking off camera about the TSA workers When you and I travel, we both express our appreciation for them coming to work and we know that the hardships they might have to endure. Let's start with the funding of dhs. Where are we at?
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That's up to the Democrats. I mean, this is what they're holding up. Again, they want to defund ice, which is not part of the deal here. I mean, ICE agents are getting paid, Customs Border patrol agents getting paid because the reconciliation bill. So you know what their beef is here? They're trying to make a political point. Unfortunately, many in the legacy media continue to bolster their points and refuse to put pressure on them to become reasonable and let's protect the homeland. I mean, the shooting in Austin could be in harbinger. I think this is what so many of us were concerned about when Biden and the Democrats opened up her border, allowed millions of people to flood in this country completely unvetted. We had no idea who these people were. We knew that there were special interest aliens, members of transnational criminal organizations, other terrorists and violent gangs. We knew that 650,000 people convicted of crimes are still at large in America from that flood. So could there be Iranian sleeper cells? There certainly could be. That's always been my concern. I think quite honestly that's one of the reasons past presidents have never taking this action like President Trump has, because that there is that risk. There's a, that's a very realistic risk.
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Okay, so we had the shooting in Austin over the weekend. Young, several victims. One of them, a young college student from Texas Tech was shot there in that bar at 2am now they have this shooter and it almost is too good to perfect description. Property of all our sweatshirt, Mediterranean T shirt. Under that a Quran was found in his vehicle. It almost seems to set up. But what's your, what's your opinion on this individual from Senegal who was a naturalized citizen? Could we see more of that or was that some type of setup? Sometimes I go down these rabbit holes and I just see somebody blatantly trying to play the part of a Islamic terrorist. Your take on the shooting, I really
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do hate to speculate. If I were to guess, I would say this is probably a lone wolf. Somebody just took advantage of the situation. Again, the concern would be more organized sleeper cells that would be activated in one way shape or another. Now Iran would really be taking a huge risk as well. They start unleashing sleeper cells here and they wouldn't even know what hit them. I think if that were the case, I mean, they already been stupid enough to Unleash missile barrages at all the other Arab countries. When you're at war, what you probably ought to do is try and get more allies, not create more enemies. And what they did by unleashing that missile barrage at the Arab states, they created more enemies. So they're not in a real good position. But the problem with Iran is that there are, I heard one estimate, a million people in the Revolutionary Guard. It's a very decentralized command structure. They know that their leaders sometimes are at risk. So they have different layers of leadership. So I don't expect Iran to go quietly into the night here.
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Okay, if they did in fact have a nuclear weapon, would they not use it right now in a time of desperation where they're literally back on their heels, or striking other Gulf nations in an attempt to, to just be disruptive? If they had one, would they use it right now?
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That's always been the concern. And you know what's so absurd about this entire situation with Iran? There could be a highly prosperous nation. You could have it controlled by the Ayatollahs. All they had to do is give up their nuclear weapon ambitions. But that's all. It's, I mean, very simple steps. No, we're not going to create a nuclear weapon. We're not going to enrich uranium. If we want to use a nuclear power, we'll buy the uranium like, like other countries do. And there wouldn't be sanctions. They'd be a successful country. They'd probably be welcomed into the community of nations here. But because they were absolutely dedicated to creating a nuclear weapon, the country's in miserable shape. But understand we are dealing with a regime who executed 32,000 of the citizens in just a couple of weeks. 32,000. I checked about 16 or 17,000 people were executed during the French Revolution. 2 to 5,000 people were executed during the Spanish Inquisition. In a couple of weeks, Iran executed 32,000 of their citizens. It's again, barbaric. It doesn't even begin to describe what this regime. So again, the action President Trump has taken, if we can top that regime, if the Iranian people, the long suffering Iranian people can find freedom, a different form of government, that is unquestionably a good thing.
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And you might have just answered my next question, but there's nine countries that currently have nuclear weapons. Two of them would be Pakistan and North Korea. Why is it different that North Korea and Pakistan and other countries can have a nuclear weapon, but not Iran? And I know it may seem like a dumb question, because I know they're a terrorist sponsored state, but why is it okay if Rocket man and North Korea has one and in Pakistan?
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B
So again, as concerned as I am about both those nations having nuclear weapons, they aren't out fomenting terrorism around the country and within the region. They're not the largest state sponsor of terror. They don't have these proxy groups like Hezbollah, like the Houthis, like Hamas that carry out terrorist attacks. You know, Hamas slaughtered 1200 Israelis. The Houthis are disrupting shipping in the Gulf. Hezbollah of course has rained missiles down on Israel. So it's just they're completely different regimes. And you throw on top of that, the Ayatolls continue to say death to Israel, death to America. And they mean it. They're apocalyptic type of religious zealots and they mean what they say. And we have taken them at their word.
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Okay, let's turn our attention domestically here for a second to Save ak. You know, we're talking off camera about voter id. I mean it seems pretty logical. It's kind of a no brainer if you will. A lot of people overwhelmingly support the idea of providing a photo ID to vote. Where are we at on the SAVE Act? And also where do you see this escalation, this war rather affecting the midterms or does it affect the midterms at all?
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B
Well, understand Democrats view any kind of election security, any kind of controls to make sure that legitimate votes aren't canceled out by fraudulent votes. Any kind of election security that would reduce the ability for them to cheat is literally existential to their plans for a one party nation. So Democrats are utterly opposed to Save America Acts. So that leaves us in the Senate where you steal the filibuster. And again, I understand many of my colleagues reluctance to do away with it because it has kept us from passing awful socialist type of legislation in the past. But again, so we probably won't be able to get rid of the filibuster. But at a minimum, what we ought to do is put the Save America act on the floor and force Democrats to defend why they oppose something 80% of the American people support. I mean, Americans don't want their legitimate vote canceled out by a fraudulent one. Democrats oppose that. We need to expose that because right now they just say, oh, Save America act, that's Jim Crow 2.0 and they get away with that slogan. We need to expose the fact that no, they are opposing what most Americans want, which provides some election security, some measure control so that we can reduce fraud in our elections.
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Yeah, I think getting Rid of the filibuster, takes the offensive approach. I'd much rather get rid of it. Let's push these agendas that make America great and secure America. Because if those, if those policies get pushed through, they get put into law and then the citizens, Americans start to feel the benefits of that. We'll never lose another election again from a Democrats. I mean, people will see that Republican and our policies are better for them. I think it's being on the office and the defense. So I agree with you on that. I think we should get rid of it and do what we need going further. Okay. Big primary day in Texas. I'm not going to put you on the spot to endorse one candidate or another. I have no idea if you've done that or not. But big election day. What do you see? Not only the turnout in some of these primaries that we have, there's also one in Georgia on March 10th. Are Americans going to turn out? Do they see this threat from the Democrats trying to take advantage of the fact that we've got some turmoil and all this other stuff that's going on in the economy. Your outlook on these primaries?
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B
Well, much to the chagrin of many of my colleagues, I never endorse in any primaries, not in Wisconsin, not nationally. I just let the Republican voters select their candidate and then I'll go and support the actual candidate against the Democrat. So I'm always off the hook from standpoint of endorsing. It's very difficult to figure out how the Iranian war is going to impact primary day here in Texas. It is an important primary. That's a Senate seat we cannot afford to lose. Can't afford to lose any of them, quite honestly, because Democrats going back to the filibuster, they've shown us their hand. That's the reason I support eliminating the filibusters. They will do it. They purged the two members of the party that prevented them from ending the filibuster last time. I'm sure every Senate Democrat serving today would eliminate it. Any candidate would do the same thing. So we got to beat him the punch because we'll do it for the benefit of the American people.
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Yeah, I agree. Senator, what's the best website for someone to keep up with you or social media as well generally.
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B
X. You know, that's a send Johnson. I guess don't know that better, but it's just check me out. X. You know, send her. Ron Johnson.
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A
There you go. Senator, always a pleasure. Thanks for coming on the show today.
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B
Have a great day.
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A
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C
I feel like it. I think, listen, where do I begin? The spidey sense of me tells me runoff. Having said that, Paxton's got the momentum. It wouldn't surprise me if he goes over the 50% threshold. Having said that, I'm thinking runoff. Now, having said all of that, you know, it's interesting because everybody, you know, Paxton's getting the ink and Cornyn's getting the ink. But Wesley Hunt's a really good candidate, by the way. I mean, he's really good too. So that race is kind of filled with three kind of formidable candidates in different ways. What's interesting to me is if you look at the Republican side and the Democrat side in Texas regarding the primary, it's outsiders that are making difference, right? I mean, Senator Cornyn in trouble. He's been a longtime insider. Jasmine Crockett in Congress, an insider in trouble because James Talarico could pull off, I guess you would consider it for sure, an upset over Jasmine Crockett. I mean, my understanding is last night at one of her big events, she had like 100 people. Talarico had a thousand people. It would not surprise me if Talarico pulls this off against Jasmine Crockett. And that would bethat would send a seismic message within the Democrat Party to say, hey, we're going to try something different. The Jasmine Crockett AOC wing, the far left, not quite getting it done for us. And Talarico presents at least a different packaged opportunity. He very much has a lot of the same policies as Crockett, but he packages it differently. And that's the key.
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That's the key, David. You just nailed it. That's the key. People seen the kind of crazy videos that she's put out and some of the press conferences she does, people just say, wait a minute, I don't identify with that at all. Okay. Also, Cornyn, here's a good point. Some say they can't name really one thing that John Cornyn has done in his 40 plus years of being in public office in some capacity. Yet Ken Paxton, on the other hand, has filed dozens or hundreds of lawsuits, rather against the Biden administration from everything from election security to border security. So that's going to be, and I agree with you, Wesley Hunt is a good man, good congressman from West Houston, Katy area. I think that has some value there. Okay, Attorney General, you've got Aaron Wright, who worked under Ken Paxton in his office. And you have Chip Roy running. Obviously, he's got the name id. That's what Chip has to his advantage. What do you think about that race?
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C
That's a harder one for me because I'm not as intimately involved with the Texas politics there. Brian, you would know better. What are you thinking? Me, Chip Roy. Anytime you have name recognition, I'm thinking it's Roy. But then again, you know, I'm not quite sure of the inner dynamics there. What's your sense of that, Brian?
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Well, I obviously, I think Chip Roy has the name ID on this. I know Aaron Rice. He's a good man. He worked under Ken Paxton. You'd be getting Paxton 2.0 if he got Aaron into office. But will that name recognition be enough to. To beat Chiproy? I don't know if it is. All right. And of course, you know, I encourage everyone in Texas to get out and vote. Obviously, today is a big day for that. All right. Always something developing in the Middle East. I know. You guys gonna have the very latest on that as well?
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We are Congressman Mark Alford. Coming up at the top of the hour. We'll talk about are there going to be boots on the ground? Oh, my gosh. Time to take Excedrin and Pepto Bismol. If that happens. I mean, MAGA already in a mini meltdown mode. Imagine what will happen if that happens.
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You know me well, David. You know me well. I'm grabbing the. I'm grabbing the Pepto Bismol as you. As we speak. Love you, brother. Thank you so much. We'll see you on the other side. All right. As always, we appreciate you joining us. We'll be back here tomorrow at 7am Eastern. Goodbye and God bless. We'll see you. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.