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American Sunrise EARLY Edition on Real America's Voice starts now. All right. Good morning. Welcome to American Sunrise Early Addiction. We have a packed show today. We're glad you're joining us. I am Brian Glenn. Before we go any further, let's get you ready for the day. Here's how you can start your morning with us. Take a look at the bottom of your screen right now. That is a QR code. That is your direct line to Weather Nation. You can scan it, get connected and during the 9am hour of American Sunrise, we may feature your hometown forecast. So head to a real America's Voice chat on Getter Rumble or YouTube and you could be next. All right, up now, let's get a quick check of Nationals forecast. Joining us now is Adrian Hernandez. Good morning, Adrian. Well, I've got a feeling we're going to be talking about the same thing we did yesterday. A lot of warmer air moving across this country sparking some thunderstorms. Do I have that right?
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Yeah, absolutely. We're already starting meteorological spring, Brian. We started on March 1st and now we already are seeing several severe weather outlooks not just today, not just tomorrow, but well into the end of the workweek where Brian, I do believe that the worst of it will likely be headed towards Friday. So to kind of break everything down, it's going to be one system moving eastward that'll give us severe weather chances at least for today and tomorrow and then a much larger one making its way through Friday. You see a large line of storms from the Great Lakes all the way down through Oklahoma and down towards Arkansas as well. It's going to be a large line of storms potentially getting severe on us as well. Going into Saturday and Sunday. We'll still get heavy rain down in places like Texas. The severe weather outlook will be a slight risk at least for today. So It's a level 2 out of 5 risk for portions of Arkansas out towards Oklahoma, Dallas included in this, and southern Missouri as well in this outlook Thursday. A lot of these storms will be sparked by the dryline going into portions of northern Texas and western Oklahoma, western Kansas as well as is where that slight risk is going to situate itself. But then Friday again is the much larger risk. We'll have an enhanced risk. So it's level three out of five risk for severe weather in this darker shaded orange outlook here in eastern Kansas, portions of okc, Tulsa also included in this outlook. So again, if you are in this area, the SPC's verbiage they use is large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes could be expected in this outlook. And the worst of it is a lot of these time, a lot of the timing of these storms will go into the overnight hours. So Brian, now is a great time more than ever to start getting those severe severe weather plans in place. A severe, well, severe weather plan like I was mentioning, a severe weather kit in place and of course tuning into Weather Nation. We're going to keep you guys updated all throughout the next few days because we're going to be watching these Storm systems like a hawk.
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Absolutely. Thank you, Adrian. Of course. We'll see you back on American Sunrise. Thank you.
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All right, now to our top story. The war with Iran just entered its deadlier phase. Overnight, US forces with Israeli forces and regional allies launching a major military operation with B2 and B1 bombers striking Iranians missile facilities. Naval forces delivering a heavy firepower and US Central Command saying the objective is clear. Destroy Iran's missile threat and break the IRGC's command structure. Now let's listen to CENTCOM's commander, Epic Fury. Take a listen.
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By order of the President of the United States and the Secretary of War, our military in the Middle east is undertaking an unprecedented operation to eliminate Iran's ability to threaten Americans as they've been doing for nearly half a century. Having spent more than 36 years in the military, I could not be prouder of America's sons and daughters in uniform who are answering the call. More than 50,000 troops, 200 fighters, two aircraft carriers and bombers from the United States are participating in this operation. And more capability is on the way. These forces bring a massive amount of firepower representing the largest buildup by the US in the Middle east in a generation. In the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury, US Central Command forces together with Israel delivered overwhelming and unprecedented strikes into Iran. Many of you may remember the shock and awe strikes of 2003. The first 24 hours of this operation were nearly double the scale. And we continue with 24, seven strikes into Iran from seabed to space and cyberspace. Now we're less than 100 hours into this operation and we've already struck nearly 2,000 targets with more than 2,000 munitions. We have severely degraded Iran's air defenses and destroyed hundreds of Iran's ballistic missiles, launchers and drones. And in simple terms, we're focused on shooting all the things that can shoot at us. Our B2 bombers and B1 bombers have executed uncontested surgical strikes against multiple missile facilities deep inside Iran. And then just last night, a B52 bomber force struck ballistic missile and command and control posts. We are also sinking the Iranian navy. The entire navy. Thus far we've destroyed 17 Iranian ships, including the most operational.
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All right, joining US now is Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, a 22 year combat veteran who led troops in Desert Storm in the Iraqi war. Colonel, we're seeing stealth bombers, naval strikes in coordination with allies. From military standpoint, what phase of the campaign are we watching right now?
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Well, I think without a doubt you are in a shaping operations. Maybe not the decisive operations yet. But with what I see happening is that there are centers of gravity that we're going after. The C3I Command and Control, communications infrastructure. We want to decapitate the head. We want them to not be able to coordinate any type of military operations and definitely response, as the Admiral said, they're going after the ability and capability of Iran to be able to shoot back at them. And we see that with the ballistic missiles and the drones. And that really is the means by which Iran sought to hold people the region hostage so that they could make their march toward a nuclear capability capacity. And that is something else that we definitely don't want to see happen. So I will tell you right now that 100 hours into this operation has been very successful. The fact that we have complete air dominance over Iran, that is very beneficial because we can go and attack these ballistic, ballistic missile sites. We can attack the ballistic missile launchers with impunity, and that is key. And also the fact that we are eliminating their naval threat means that we're going to work very hard to open up the Straits of Hormuz. So we don't see any constraints or restraints on the open flow of shipping and especially the oil shipping there in that region. So right now you have to be very impressed with what has happened.
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Yeah. And of course, Iran has spread the conflict a little bit over some of those other Gulf nations, I guess, in a way, trying to be disruptive as possible, perhaps, you know, make this escalation a little bit longer on a timeline. What's your thoughts on their attacking Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states?
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Well, it's a very foolish move. And that shows once again that when you decapitate their centralized command and control, you have maybe some rogue actors out there doing these type of things. Because now you are bringing the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, the GCC countries, against Iran. And of course, we already know about the Sunni, Shia split. But of course, now you see a very logical split to the point where even they're talking about offering up military support by way of aircraft to go in and attack Iran. So Iran is a pariah. Iran is a scourge on humanity. And I think that an important thing that we need to see from a geopolitical perspective is that we're peeling back another onion on this 21st century axis of evil. I mean, we've done that with Venezuela. And remember, there were, you know, very close relations between Venezuela and Iran for quite some time, going back to Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. So now this is affecting Russia because Russia gets militarized drones from Iran, and that's what they've been using in the Ukraine war. And then also you see China, which gets about 80% of their energy shipments from Iran, they're going to see that drying up as well. So this has a greater geopolitical political effect. And not just that we are toppling the number one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, which means that Hamas, Hezbollah and other those, the groups, Islamic Jihad, they're going to dry up as well.
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Colonel, let's bring our attention a little closer to home in Texas. Big primary night last night, obviously, U.S. senate seat there in Texas up for grabs. Your thoughts on now we have a runoff between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton.
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Yeah, we always knew that there would be a runoff between those two. I was kind of surprised that it was Senator Cornyn who had the upper hand in the runoff. But still, when you look at the 13 to 15% that Wesley Hunt was able to garner, now the question is, where does that 13 to 15% go? And maybe what you have seen is that Senator Cornyn kind of tapped out with the amount of support that he will be able to have going into a runoff. And I think that, again, we saw that in the attorney general's race with State Senator M.A. middleton and Representative Chip Roy. So those would be two pretty, pretty preeminent runoff races that we'll have.
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Now, it's been since, if I'm not mistaken, statewide 1994, since a Democrat has won a statewide race, you've got Jasmine Crockett. And of course she was her district was kind of reconfigured. And so she didn't run for Congress. She said, you know what, I'm going to throw my hat in for Senate. Didn't work out like she thought.
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No, it absolutely didn't. And you know, I'm here in Dallas county, where she is based out of, and I really think that she was hoping to get a strong turnout right here in her base of Dallas County, Jasmine Crockett and even James Talarico, the state representative. They're not going to play very well out in West Texas, East Texas or even down along the border where Donald Trump a couple of years ago won 13 or 15 of those border counties, as you well know, Brian. So I don't think that those individuals and definitely Jasmine Crockett, her political career seems to be over. I guess you can go over to some of these leftist news networks and get a show, but I don't think James Talarico is going to play well. His whole woke Jesus, you know, perspective that, that is very sickening to many people.
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I don't think that played well. Colonel west, thank you so much for your time and your wisdom and always thank you for your service. We look forward to seeing you again.
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My pleasure. Thanks for having me on, Brian. And God bless and have a great.
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Sir. Yes, sir. Thank you.
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Coming up, market set to open as investors watch new developments overnight. Then the latest out of Washington from the White House in Capitol Hill. More American Sunrise early edition straight ahead. Stick around. Welcome back. America Sunrise, a live look at Dallas, Texas. Very familiar with Dallas, worked there at one point in my career. Good city, great people, decent sports teams. That's, that's debatable.
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Brian Glenn here. Good to have you with us this morning. We're tracking the White House, the markets and the latest in the Middle East. Join the conversation on Getter YouTube Rumble. Right now. Let's check in with the Wall street as we heard head towards the opening bell. Markets close lower as investors react to the ongoing war in Iran. The Dow Jones closing at 48, 501 down 403. The Nasdaq finishing at 22, 51 6. That's down 232 points. Both indexes recovering somewhat after a much steeper losses earlier in the day. Turning attention to oil moving higher as U.S. crude closing at $74 a barrel. That's up nearly 5% on the day. Global benchmark print finishing above $81. Also more than 4%. Prices spiking earlier as tensions in the Middle east disrupt shipping through the Strait of Harmous. That is your check on the opening bell in about an hour or so. All right. Back with this this morning, Michael Wilkerson, founder of Stormwall Advisors. Michael, the war is escalating. And how are the markets reacting on this Wednesday morning? As we head to the opening bell, you've got two things, the reality in the markets and the reality on the streets in the real world. Let's, let's start with the financial markets. How would they react today?
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It's been interesting, Brian, to watch. I think one of the things that's changing is the market is beginning to contemplate what if this isn't over quickly, what happens then? So the first day on Monday, bonds were relatively unmoved. We've seen over the last two days, bond prices start to fall, meaning yields are rising, which is typically not a great sign for the long term views of the economy. As you mentioned, oil continues to rise. It's been up about 15% as high as 15% from last Friday. And interestingly, overnight, it's important to watch what happens around the world. The South Korean market, which is very heavy on flows of heavily dependent on flows from the Middle east, is off significantly. And big companies like Hyundai affected by that, that rely on auto production, rely on oil and other, other imports. So we are seeing, I think, continued nervousness in the financial markets, continued uncertainty that's likely to persist as we go forward here.
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Okay, so now let's lean into, I guess, the real world effects of all of this. We were mentioning offline, that gas I noticed y yesterday in several locations was up about 50 cents in the area. That's a significant jump within just a few days of this conflict. But what do you see the effects on the Street? For the consumer standpoint, one of the
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things that we noticed and talk about is that gas prices are likely to rise in anticipation of price increases. So they tend to move up faster than they move down when prices are going the other way. And it was quite startling to see over the past 24 hours in some locations, gas prices going up by 50 cents at retail from a relatively low base of, call it, you know, 250 or so, 20% jump over time. That's meaningful. And if the viewer were to take anything away, I think it's important to remember that war is always inflationary. Wartime pressures cause prices to rise as production moves from consumer goods to military uses, defense applications, as resources are redirected, as munitions need to get replaced. And eventually this finds its way to the pocketbook. So, unfortunately, despite in other accounts some deflationary pressures or at least a stabilizing of inflation, this is a, this is a force, a factor that is likely to push prices back the other direction, and we may see inflation start to rise again.
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Michael do you see this having any effect on consumer confidence as far as people going out and purchasing big ticket items like a house, like a car, things like that, do they tend to be a little bit more conservative, waiting to see what happens after all of this? What's your thoughts on that?
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Brian I think it's totally normal human psychology under times of uncertainty to wait and pause. What's interesting is that we've been in this extended period of time when people have been very hesitant to make big purchases already. If you've looked at what we've endured in the last few years with rising inflation, but in particular diminishing purchasing power from the working and middle classes, we've already been in a condition where big purchase decisions are being pushed off where homes are not being bought, autos are being run for longer and longer. We've been in a difficult period. I think it's fair to say this doesn't help.
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Yeah, you're a wealth of knowledge, Michael. How can someone follow you website Best resources to get the most information that
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you have, I suggest stormwall.com on the web and on x@mwstormwall to see what I'm writing and talking about on a daily basis.
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I'm sure you have a lot to talk about as well. What's going on? Michael, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
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Thank you very much, Brian.
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Welcome back.
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American sunrise. My next guest is very familiar with your live shot right now. Brian Glenn with you on this very busy Wednesday morning. And we want you to be a part of the conversation. Join us over on Getter, YouTube and Rumble. Go right now. All right. The war in Iran is escalating rapidly. A massive US Led military operation is now underway with Israel and regional allies. At the same time, US Embassy in Kuwait was targeted by drones and the State Department helping remaining Americans get across more than a dozen countries. Joining us now is former Assistant Secretary of State Bobby Charles. Bobby, you've helped oversee security operations in Iraq and Afghanistan during some very volatile years after 9 11. What are you seeing unfold at this hour? And is the communication, is it effective right now to make sure that we're protected here for any kind of escalation that involve in our homeland? But let's go ahead and start with the very latest at this hour.
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You know, to be honest, that is a, that Brian, that's a very insightful comparison because the threat level rose dramatically. I was an intelligence, I was a naval intelligence officer after 911 as well as later being an assistant secretary of state who helped to train the police over there. But the bottom line is we are, we're in a risky moment right now. Very important that information flow go up and down easily. And what that really means, and it's ironic, I mean I'm running for governor in the state of Maine. We have. Maine has declared itself in the last year a sanctuary state, blocking information flow between the local law enforcement, state law enforcement community and the federal. This is the exact moment when you want intelligence to flow up from the locals as rapidly as possible into the feds so they can support us and the other way around, the federal law enforcement community has access to databases and information. We want that to flow down to state police and down to locals so that you can protect the people of every state. And this is, you know, it's really, it's reckless from the get go not to allow intense coordination between state, local and federal, particularly in a moment when the homeland is under, under fire.
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Now Bobby, having set up security operations around the world, what's your fear that sleeper cells are here in America? I know we talked about the border in previous segments. Is this a realistic threat to America? We saw what happened in Texas last week. Yeah. Can that happen? Yeah.
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No, you're right again. I mean very important. Sleeper cells really do exist. You know, the Biden administration, we know for a fact during 21 to their end of their operation, they actually ended up letting in in the range of 100 people that we know are on the terrorist watch list. So those from the very get go become a threat. But I think we've also got, you know, sleeper cells are a real thing. They, they are, they keep their heads down and they train and they are ready to take orders from abroad. This is a very chaotic situation inside Iran right now. So whether or not they're able to give that kind of an order. But the other thing is you have lone wolves out there. And again this goes to information coordination. A sanctuary state like Maine is giving its, is endangering its people not to Allow a tight coordination between federal, state and local law enforcement. And I'll also add that beyond the need to do it now, we have precedent. Some of the, you know, right at the border, some of the 911 traffickers came down through Canada, through Maine, before they hijacked planes in 9 11. So I will just tell you right now, a governor should be doubly watchful and should be pushing out coordination orders, should be encouraging state and local law enforcement to work closely with the federal government, because this is the moment when it really matters.
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You know what's interesting? I heard a conversation yesterday about immigration, how the need to assimilate some of the people coming here. Now someone can come in this country legally through legal immigration. Check out all the boxes, check off all the boxes, follow the instructions. But then you find out they had no willingness at all to assimilate to the United States. Matter of fact, they may hate this country now. The guy from Senegal did it all. Legal, naturalized, married here in the States, didn't seem to be radicalized at all. Then all of a sudden he shoots up a bar at 2am in Austin. So should we go further to make sure that when people want to come into this country the legal way they, they, they, we assimilate them or we make sure that they will pledge their allegiance to this country and they will be a, you know, a, a productive citizen?
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Yeah, Brian, you're, you're hitting at a very, very important point for people here in the state of Maine, not to mention places like Minnesota, California, all over the country. You cannot literally keep this country safe without assimilation, where we have nine visas that allow this country legally and that individual did. But the assimilation process really means understanding and appreciating the magic, the glory, the miracle that is the United States. The Bill of Rights. What it means to protect yourself, what it means to be able to interact with other people in a way that makes you part of the American dream. And if you're not coming here with the American dream at your heart, you really need to rethink that. And we need to rethink these blocks of people that come in 2, 3, 4, 5,000 at a time. It's very difficult to assimilate people in that kind of a process. You know, historically what we've done is brought people in in small numbers, with the exception really of post World War II. And those were already western loving people. So the ideals of America need to be embraced by those who come here and want to be here, either as permanent residents or as naturalized citizens.
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Yeah, the example I heard was a group were brought into Missouri. They were, they learned English, they learned the civics, they did everything right. And then often some groups are just released into a city like Minneapolis and there's like, okay, go, go have fun. Real quick, we've got two minutes left. I want to turn our attention to your state of Maine and what is. Give me some of the biggest priorities right now of, of the people in Maine. What are they concerned about and what are you going to deliver to them as potentially the next mayor or the next governor? Excuse me.
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Well, the bottom line is I am, I am up by double digits. The there have been three polls out already. Our internal tracking had me up on the GOP field by 20 points. The most recent public one has us up by 16 points. Look, Mainers are. There are three things I would say right off the top. They care about maybe four or five total. The affordability is a big issue. I am going to cut the taxes dramatically in this state. I'm going to help roll back the property taxes, give seniors an exemption because that's vital. Get the income tax down. That is issue number one. Issue number two is public safety. Right now we are in a situation where we have thousands of fatal and non fatal overdoses every year. We're not like other states of our same demography. We need to get the drug traffickers out of here and that also means get the illegal aliens out of here. We have about 8,000 draining our money, taking money from average working taxpayers. And the third big thing I'll say is fraud. Even though we also need to rebuild our schools and rebuild our infrastructure. If we can get the fraud out of the state, get our energy costs down, get our, get our economy back in working order, create a virtuous cycle instead of a vicious cycle. The state of Maine will be a model for how you turn a state from blue to red, get costs down, get public safety up, protect our children and ultimately get the fraud out of this state. This state, Brian, has been wracked by fraud. The Democrats control the governorship, both chambers, constitutional officers, supreme Court. I will reverse all of that. And I was a federal investigator on top of other things. So it's time for real change in Maine.
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Best website for people to go check out Bobby.
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Absolutely. Go to bobby for maine.com and every dollar and every prayer counts. Bobby for maine.com Again you can give up to $2,000, but at the end of the day, this is about us, the people taking back the rights that we were given at our founding and deserve to have now.
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Bobby, as always, thank you very much. Appreciate your time.
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Thank you, sir.
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Thank you. All right. Coming up, top stories making the headlines this morning from our Denver newsroom. Plus, new movement in Washington, the very latest for the White House in Capitol Hill. More America's Sunrise continues after the break. Welcome to American Sunrise EARLY edition, the show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage. Welcome back to america's Sunrise EARLY edition. I am Brian Glenn. Thanks for joining us on this very busy morning. As always, we're following 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 my friend and your friend, Terrence Bates. Good morning, Terrence.
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Hey, Brian. Good morning. So look, I want to start right in your backyard. The midterm elections officially underway after Tuesday's primaries in Texas. That would be your backyard, Brian. North Carolina, as well as Arkansas. President Trump celebrating at least 35 Trump endorsed candidates who won their primaries and are advancing to November's general election. He posted a slew of congratulations on Truth Social. As you see, as we kind of scroll up and down his Truth social page, however, 47 did not endorse any candidate in Texas's closely watched Republican Senate primary between incumbent John Cornyn, former state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Congressman Wesley Hunt. That race, Brian, headed to a runoff between Cornyn and Paxton. There were some clear victories, however, for President Trump, and Trump endorsed candidates, including Michael Watley in North Carolina. The former head of the Republican National Committee is running for Senate in that state. Sitting sitting Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas was unopposed on Tuesday and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who sailed through his primary. Both of them now have a chance to keep their jobs with the help of a Trump endorsement. Brian, what do you think the results on Tuesday said or at least kind of forecast for the midterms in November?
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You know, well, if you look at the overall turnout, though, and this is what was surprising, Democrats turned out big in this primary, a surprisingly large amount. And that might be a referendum on President Trump. Maybe they're just absolutely. It's a stop Trump agenda. What surprised me on the Republican side is that Paxton led in a lot of early polls and even some of the latest polls going into Tuesday's election. But I didn't see the turnout for him that I thought he would have. That's why I think, I mean, I knew it would probably go to a runoff, but I thought he would do a little better. Wesley hunt, surprisingly, with 13, 14%. That might have pulled a little bit of a momentum away from Paxton. I'm assuming that if he was not in the race, those voters would have turned to more of the Magna candidate, which is obviously Ken Paxton. Now, Jasmine Crockett, you can say goodbye to Jasmine. They did a redistrict, redistricting in her congressional seat, decided she didn't want to run for that, went over to choose at the last minute to run for Senate. That didn't work out. But now, Terrence, she's blaming Republicans for that. Lost Republicans, of course.
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It was an interesting night to watch all of the results come back in. Unfortunately, President Trump not going to have a whole lot of time to celebrate his primary endorsement victories. As the war with Iran is continuing to spread, the State Department is feverishly working to bring Americans who are in the Middle east home. The department is facilitating charter flights from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, as well as Jordan, as security conditions allow. In the past several days, more than 9,000Americans have safely returned home from the region. In the meantime, the commander in chief is set to meet with executives from the nation's biggest defense contractors at the White House on Friday. They'll discuss accelerating weapons production as the Pentagon works to replenish supplies amid continued strikes on Iran and other recent military efforts. While hosting Germany's chancellor at the White house on Tuesday, Mr. Trump, addressing the country's weapons arsenal and by the way,
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we have massive amounts of ammunition. We have the high end. A lot of it was given away stupidly by Biden, very stupidly for free. And I'm all for Ukraine, but they gave away a lot. As you know, when I give away ammunition, everybody pays for it. The European Union is paying for it. Then they can do what they want with it. But they are giving it, let's say, to Ukraine and it's okay, but we gave away a lot of high end, but we have plenty. But we have unlimited middle and upper ammunition, which is really what we're using in this war.
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Invited companies for Friday's meeting include Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, parent company RTF and other key suppliers. And Brian, while we may have plenty of ammunition now, the reality is the more we bomb Iran, the more we get involved in other conflicts, Ecuador most recently, the more the potential is that we don't have as large a stockpile and we need to replenish it.
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Yeah, no, that is a true concern. Now, those companies that you just mentioned, as soon as this broadcast is over, I'm going to run over there and buy some stock in those countries. I mean, those companies, because I guess I think I know where the contracts are going. That's called outside trading. That's just very fair balance here. Lots going on. When I saw the thing on Ecuador, it was a little surprising, but then it's not. It's kind of the war that I want to be involved with is stop these drug cartels. I think it's a good move.
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Let's talk about Ecuador a little bit here, Brian. Basically, what's happening is that Special Forces troops are on the ground in Ecuador, but they're acting as an. In an advisor, advisory capacity to the Ecuador soldiers who are raiding various narco terrorist sites there across the country of Ecuador. It's all part of the regional fight against narco terrorism. Again, what we're hearing from the Pentagon and from other sources is that our soldiers are there strictly in an advisory capacity, that they are not engaged in the actual battle, which I think is what MAGA wants, that our troops aren't directly involved. But again, the mission is something that I think is near and dear to the hearts of Americans trying to stop the flow of narcotics into this country.
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I agree, Terrence. This is a great war to lean in on. And I don't know the last time we even had an Ecuador story in our rundown on American Sunrise or real America's Voice ever. So it's nice to include a little bit of Ecuador in the rundown. But you're right, this is the. This is the fight to lean in on and start and stop these drug cartels. Terrence, as always, I appreciate it. On this Wednesday, I look forward to seeing you on the other side of the.
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Of the American sun.
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All right, Brian, Appreciate it, brother.
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Thank you. Yes, sir. All right, now to Washington and the very latest on Capitol Hill. Joining us now is national political reporter Neil McCabe. Neil, let's start with this first. Let's. Let's talk about the big election night. You had Arkansas, you had North Carolina, you had Texas. But let's start with Texas, the big one. Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, Wesley Hunt, we're in a runoff here. What's your thoughts on that?
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Right, So I think the most important thing from a Washington perspective is the message received by Capitol Hill Republicans. Because the pattern is that these Republicans campaign one way back home, and then they perform and execute differently once they get to Capitol Hill. Huge example is for the past, say, 12 years, John Cornyn has filed a national concealed carry reciprocity bill. He gets 40 Republican sponsors, co sponsors. They make a big hoo ha ha. And only once in the last 12 years has this thing even made it to committee. And it's all performative, it's all kabuki theater and people finally caught up with it. And the message to Capitol Hill Republicans, hopefully is that the people back home are watching. We saw that not only in the runoff with Cornyn and Hunt and Paxton, but also with Dan Crenshaw getting taken down. Crenshaw, you know, war hero, Navy Seal, but he's also an acolyte of Admiral McRaven who hates Trump. And he was always there, not so much publicly, but in committees and behind the scenes in cloak cloakroom undermining the president. And the people in Texas just said we've had enough.
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You bring up an excellent point. And I've said this on this network many times, that people go out and they throw red meat on their campaign and all the rallies and they get back in office and they do the exact opposite of what they promised their constituents to do. And I just encourage everybody to go to Liberty Scorecard. Go Google that. Liberty Scorecard you can put in your representative's name. You can find out how they actually vote. And so many people have Fs and Ds and all that stuff. So certainly encourage you to do that. Neil, thank you so much. I appreciate your time this morning. All right. It's a busy morning if you're going to need a good cup of coffee or something. Artillery Tea Company, the only America first veteran owned tea brand and their mission is simple, maximize flavor with whole leaf blends and chemical free tea bags. No junk, just real tea. And here's the tactical advantage. Each bag brews twice. Just go to artillerytco.com and use the code RAV for 10 off your first order. That's artillerytco.com premium tea, mission driven, brewed for the brave. Coming up, we're standing by at the Pentagon briefing for a live broadcast set just minutes from now. What we're expecting to hear and why it matters. Do not go anywhere this morning. We'll be right back. Foreign. Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY edition. I am Brian Glenn. We're awaiting a live press conference right now at the Pentagon at the top of the hour. Let's go straight to real America's voices own David Zier who is on the ground there at the Pentagon. David, give us an update on what you expect today in this briefing.
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Yes, a press briefing here in the press briefing room at the Pentagon about to get underway in just a few moments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and joint chiefs chairman General Dan Kane and US Central Command reporting that 50,000 troops, 200 fighters, two aircraft carriers and Air Force bombers continue to carry out attacks. They went further saying the first day attacks would double the scale of 2003 shock and awe campaign and we've struck over 2000 targets so far. The UK scoring its first combat kill with their F35 taken out a drone yesterday. We've degraded Iran's air defenses and taken out hundreds of ballistic missile launches. Reports yesterday where that ballistic missile launches were down about only 25% of the previous day. There are reports of an Iranian naval vessel that may have been hit by a submarine off the coast of Sri Lanka. With rescue operations underway overnight. We're going to try to ask questions about that. It's a really busy day here and we expect a full briefing from Sec. War and the Joint Chiefs.
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I was just going to ask you what the atmosphere is there at the Pentagon. I mean obviously a lot going on. Were they open to take a lot of questions? Yesterday I noticed that they were kind of limited on the amount of questions they took. What would you take?
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Yeah, I was here the other day and he took about seven, eight questions. Secretary Hegseth and General Kane gave a full briefing but I think there was a little bit of it was tense with the msm, the legacy media and I think Hegseth was getting a little irritated, you know. But it should be a full presser today and there's a lot of information coming out of the department awards.
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I like the fact that Real America's Voice has an up close front row seat in all of this. David, we appreciate I know you got to hustle back to your seat and we'll be all eyes will be on this room as soon as it starts. David Sierra, we appreciate your coverage there on the ground at the Pentagon. I want to shift over to our very own David Brody who's joining us in Washington D.C. and David, I'll bring you in for this conversation as we await the Pentagon press conference here here at the top of the hour. But let's go back and reflect on what happened last night in Texas. No big surprise, David, that we had that we're going to have a runoff between Paxton and Cornyn, but I personally think that Paxton would have gotten a little bit more votes than he did.
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Yeah, there's a lot to unpack. First of all, if you're John Cornyn this morning, you're like crap, we spent $77 million or whatever it was all together and you couldn't even get and you're still on a runoff. So that shows you that the momentum is clearly with Paxton in the base. Here's the problem. And by the way, if you're a Paxton fan this morning, you're not happy with Wesley Hunt. Let's be honest. I mean, you know, that was a situation where he siphoned some of the vote. Now, having said that, Brian here, and I know folks in Ken Paxton Atlanta are not going to be happy with my analysis, but I think this is the way it's going to go down. I think it's going to be that President Trump comes out and endorses Cornyn. I'll explain that in a second. I think Wesley Hunt's 12, 13% or so is going to go call it 8, 4, 8% to 4% to Cornyn, maybe 9 to 3, 7 to 5. I don't think it's going to go as much to Paxton. I think it'll go to Cornyn. And then at that point, because you have the Trump endorsement and the Wesley Hunt vote skewing towards Cornyn, I think he'll probably win the runoff. Now, to be clear, the momentum is with Paxson. There's no doubt about it. But the problem is, is that you've got to be able to get some of those traditional establishment Republicans that Corn is very good at getting. And Wesley Hunt appeals a little bit more to them than to deep Ken Paxton maga that that seems to be the problem here and why Trump would endorse Cornyn. Look, I believe that establishment GOP right now believes that Ken Paxton is the new Todd Akin. And we know about Todd Akin, right? Remember the day when Todd Akin in Missouri was running for the Senate and Mitch McConnell and all the establishment GOP said, oh my gosh, please, not Akin. We don't want him as the candidate. He's going to blow that safe Missouri seat. And indeed, that did happen. They believe. And what President Trump is going to be try to, they're going to convince President Trump. They're going to try to say Ken Paxton will lose you that Senate seat, especially to James Talarico. The worst thing that happened to Ken Paxton last night was Talarico beating Crockett. If it was Crockett versus Paxton, that's different. You got two bases, you know, and then it's like, you know, you got to get the energy out on each side of the base. But the fact that Talarico won because he's deceptively good. That's the key word, deceptively good. And he appeals to. He's going to peel off some Republicans. I know I'm going long here. There's a lot I want to say about it. Bottom line is Talarico is dangerous. He could win that seat, I'm telling you right now. Cornyn versus Talarico, Paxson versus Talarico. I'm not sure it matters. I think Talarico could win that. He reminds me of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. A combination of both. Folksy with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama leaned into his faith and the language and your brother's keeper and the whole thing. He's got both going on, I'm telling you. Dangerous combination for Republicans.
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And the voter turnout for Democrats was really high. So they definitely came out. Lastly, 95% of Texans said no to Sharia law. So you can, we can kind of put that to rest. Texans pushing back, back on Sharia law there in the great state of Texas. As always, David Brody, thank you so much. And you can have more. I love more David Brody. I want more David Brody in my life. You can see that. More cowbell in about five, six minutes. Also, live press conference at the Pentagon as well. David will see you in a few. And as always, we thank you for watching. As always, goodbye. God bless. You can follow me at Brian Glenn TV on Twitter and Truth Social at Brian, until next time, we'll see you. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.