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for healing, learn more and sign the pledge@workingwithcancerpledge.com. All right, 4:00 clock in the East coast and it's 1:00pm on the west coast and there's where those folks are right now on the West Coast. They're in San Francisco ringing a closing bell for whatever reason. No idea why, but the market is closed nonetheless. Let me just tell you something. Very quickly this morning, inflation number came out. It was high, it was elevated. And all of the inflation came from just the energy market. So food was flat, everything else, rents were flat. Everything was even from the prior month. Energy was triple inflationary and that's because it encompassed March. Remember, February 28th is when we started the campaign against Iran. Oil prices jumped up. February 28, March 1 was the first number in this, in this reading, it's a higher oil price. It also started to move up throughout the month. So gasoline prices, inflation to the consumer. Gasoline prices moved up from a $3.25 a gallon on March 2, the first day, first business day of the year, all the way up to of the month, all the way up to where it sits right now, $4.19. That's a massive move throughout the month. So inflation will continue to go higher as we go forward, unfortunately. And that's what you saw most of today. Traders are waiting, wait and see kind of attitude right now. Dow came off, but the other ones were flat to up a little. S and P was down just a touch 8. Nasdaq up 80 points, a couple of stocks, a couple of tech stocks doing well. Nvidia as it was, had a good day over in the oil markets. 90, the oil market ended the day at 98 a barrel. The trading day, it's come off a little bit since then. Trading around 98. That's a very elevated price. All eyes are in Islamabad, Pakistan right now to see if they're going to get a deal done. John Solomon is going to come on in a few minutes and he's going to tell us something I've never heard before. It's a new strategy, a new plan. He's like I saw, he's tapped in to the administration like nobody's business. So what, wait till you hear this. And, and I, I think this is a fascinating idea. Stick around for John Solomon. So when the dollar's convertibility into gold ended in 1971. Gold was fixed at $35 an ounce. Fast forward to today and the US dollar has lost 85% of its purchasing power. The value of that dollar has dropped all that time, just going straight down. Gold, on the other hand, has increased in value by over 12,000%. That's why Central banks around the world really, just not just here around the world, are buying gold in record fashion at record levels. That's why major firms like Vanguard and BlackRock hold significant positions in gold physical gold. And that's why I encourage you to consider diversifying your savings with physical gold from the Birch Gold Group. But it starts with education. Birch Gold just announced their Learn and Earn Precious Metals event. 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He made anti Semitic mark remarks about people he claimed as friends and even used the super bowl ad to drive viewers to a site briefly selling a twenty dollar swastika T shirt. That's very, very offensive. Indefensible. In fact, Kanye west posted a long apology a few weeks ago. Still, those previous comments are undefensable. Indefensible. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's decide. It's decided. No debate here. But the debate is what happens when the government decides to step in and determine who's allowed to speak, who's allowed to perform, or even enter a country not based on criminal acts, mind you, but based on speech. Because that's what just happened. After a run of massive shows drawing tens of thousands, Kanye west was set to headline Wireless Festival. It's called Wireless Festival in London. Instead, the UK government denied him entry. The Festival collapsed without their headliner, and politicians, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, lined up to declare that he should never have been invited in the first place. Cue the applause. But before joining in, it's worth asking a very uncomfortable question. What exactly are you celebrating? If this were just about Kanye west, this would be easy. He's controversial. He's erratic, offensive. This guy's a walking PR crisis. Fine. Don't buy a ticket. Don't stream his music. Ignore him. That's how a free society handles bad speech. What it doesn't do or it should not do is empower the state, the government, Decide what. Which artists, which artists, voices, or worse, what kind of thinking are acceptable enough to be allowed in. Because once that line is crossed, it doesn't stay neatly contained in the most obvious villains like Kanye. It never does stay neatly contained. There's a reason this moment feels like a test, and that's because it is a test. Kanye west is the earliest possible person to ban. Easiest. Also, he's offensive. He's offensive enough that politicians can do their little grandstanding show. He's famous enough that the move to ban him gets headlines, and it most certainly has. And it's controversial enough that many people will cheer. Banning him. Well, chew that activity on by the government. Can you imagine that? That makes him useful. Useful for setting a precedent. Because the real question isn't whether Kanye west deserves a visa. The question is this. Who's next? Once the government establishes that speech, past speech, controversial speech, offensive speech, Kanye. But once they determine that that's grounds for exclusion, then the category expands. And it always expands. Maybe next time it's not someone ranting about Jews. Maybe it's a comedian who made a joke about religion 10 years ago. Maybe it's a writer who posted something politically incorrect about immigration. Or maybe it's a musician who said something offensive about another rock group or another group of people. Lbgtq. Take your pick. The issue is this. That point is no longer about protecting people. It's about policing opinion and words. And that line is a lot easier to cross than people may think. Even though we have the First Amendment to our Constitution. Supporters of the ban will argue about this, preventing harm. But where? Where exactly is the evidence of that? Kanye west has performed elsewhere. Recently. He performed to a massive stadium in Los Angeles just last week. Large venues, massive crowds. No riots, no violence, no public disorder tied to his presence. So what are we actually preventing? Well, as it turns out, we're not preventing violence. We're just preventing speech. Speech. They don't like not even current speech, but past speech filtered through political judgment. And that's a very, very different standard. On its face, it may sound reasonable. Then again, who decides what offensive speech is or what's extreme? Sounds very, very dangerous. Slight slippery slope, as they say. And it is dangerous. That's why it sounds dangerous. Because once governments start treating speech, however offensive, as grounds for denying entry into the country, the standard starts to evolve. It becomes subjective. And what starts as a measure aimed at the most extreme cases, it doesn't stay there. It never does. It creeps and widens. This is a full scale political response to a music festival lineup. Some may call it leadership. The truth is that this is low risk virtue signaling dressed up as a moral clarity. People love to dismiss slippery slope arguments as alarmist, or until they're not. History shows that once government claims authority over speech in one so called exceptional case, Kanye, then magically those exceptions start to multiply, to widen slowly, quietly, and then all at once. The boiling frog analogy isn't dramatic, it's descriptive. Look it up and it's a fact. We saw it in action for four years under Joe Biden about COVID measures and vaccines, about the grooming of children, about Joe Biden's corrupt family. We can't ever forget what those, those on the left did, wanted to do and still propose doing to any dissenting voices. I frankly think that based on this and all we've seen him do before, including attacking members of Congress, that he frankly should be. His Twitter account should be suspended. If the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.
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John Solomon
We have to take steps to detoxify our discourse, particularly the scourge of disinformation and conspiracy theories and hate online that
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Congressman Ralph Norman
has polluted our political discourse.
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Eric
Censorship is the left's dream. Has been for a long time. First it's the most offensive voice, then it's the inconvenient one to their agenda, then the dissenting one. And then by the time people notice the line has already moved, maybe even behind you, you're already offensive to them. Defending Kanye West's right to perform isn't about defending Kanye West. It's about defending a system where the government doesn't get to decide which ideas are too offensive to exist in public. Even when those ideas are truly ugly or offensive. Especially then you can condemn Kanye West. You can reject everything he said, you can refuse to engage with his work and that's your right. But when government steps in and makes that choice for you, for you and for everyone else, that's something entirely different. And it's certainly not a precedent worth celebrating. So let's not take a look at that. At some point you realize something's off. You're working, you're paying attention, you're doing what it you're supposed to be doing, and it's still just not adding up. That's the moment right there. But most people ignore it. I don't. On the Edge we break down what's actually happening, why prices aren't what they seem to be, why healthy isn't always healthy. In fact, sometimes something labeled healthy is actually killing you. Ever wonder why some people keep moving forward while others stay stuck in place in a rut? The Edge we expose the posers, the fraudsters, and the cheatsters on the Edge. No politics, no lectures. No waste of time. Just clarity. Pure thought. Success. New episodes every week. If you're ready for that shift, subscribe to the Edge. The first step to a healthier life is by hitting that subscribe button right now. Do it now. Thousands have already done just that. The Edge
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Congressman Ralph Norman
Where we stand right now, Eric, is a, it's a logger jam. It's a situation where you've got Republicans in the Senate just won't do their job. And to have to think that we've got a battle to keep an agency open, as important as Homeland Security is in a time of war, makes no sense. The Democrat Party is responsible for this. But you know, it's unfathomable that they're not coming to their senses. But as one senator told me, he said, until it affects us personally, we don't really care. That was his exact words. So on the Save America act, who would have thought we've got to fight for, to secure our elections through a voter ID and a proof of citizenship. Citizenship. But that's where we are in this country with the Senate. And I wish Leader Thune would either have a walk in filibuster talking filibuster or do away with it altogether and we'll see where it goes this week. I don't expect anything though to come out of it.
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Eric
Yeah, I think Trump wants that talking filibuster. But sir, can I is this too rudimentary to say that the Democrats by holding out on this are more interested in protecting illegals than they are than, than protecting American citizens, who they represent?
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Congressman Ralph Norman
Well, it's really deeper than that, Eric. I mean, the whole reason that Joe Biden opened the doors to everybody and anybody, including any criminal criminal from every country around the globe is the fact that they wanted a permanent voting base that to keep them in power, as you said. And that's exactly what it is. It could not have been anything else. And thank God we've got a president like President Trump who has taken the rapists and the killers out of the country. And the Democrats are still fighting them. And so the only thing they understand is power. And I hope the power of the people will take them out of power because they don't Deserve it. What they're doing to this country, continue to do, to degrade it down and put this country in a terrible position is not warranted or should happen.
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Eric
You know, it's an 8020 issue across all, all demographics, across all party lines, including independence, left, right, center. And yet they're holding out, they're holding out funding because I, like, I agree with you. I think they just realize that this is a, could be a 20 million vote swing their way and that they're not willing to give that up whether they're illegals here. Now, we know the Democrats are eventually trying to get them on a path to citizenship and the vote. Right?
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Congressman Ralph Norman
We get this. Oh, yeah, that's a given. But you know, Hakeem Jeffries, I think, had a fundraiser and you had to have a photo ID to prove who you were to get into the fundraiser. And you know, it's a, it's insanity, but it shows a basic, just they're disking the American people. And it's an 8020 issue. And I would venture to guess it's even more than 8020 because it's constitutional. First and second, you know, to get on a plane, you have to have a photo ID to get medicine and all that we've heard that, you know, you have to go through anyway. There's no claim of discrimination when that happens, but they sure do. Now, when it comes to voting, which is the most precious right we have, we have to conserve.
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Eric
Congressman, I think this is the, I think the. Yes, the needing a photo ID to get into the minority leaders fundraisers is hypocrisy. But also when you go to vote, and I'm pretty sure it's on the House side too, but in Senate, when you about to cast your vote, you have to show an ID or place an ID somewhere. Is it the same way and is it in one spot, sir? Do you have to walk up and put it in one spot? How does showing your ID to vote work in Congress?
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Congressman Ralph Norman
Typically? Yeah. I mean, in Congress, you've got a, you've got a voting card that's got your number on it, it's got your picture on it, and you put it in the, in the machine behind the chair and vote. We do that every day. And I don't hear any, any charge of discrimination on that. And, and all the precincts that I've known around the country, you know, you have a table set up that you, when you walk in, that you show your credentials, that you're in the right precinc. You are who you Say you are. But it's insanity that what this Democrat Party is trying to do sing a
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Eric
listen to Elon Omar. Obviously she has a problem with all this stuff. Listen, the safe act in itself is coded in this idea of election integrity. But it is a Jim Crow styled disenfranchisement bill that is designed to make it hard for every single demographic that they find undesirable and that they blame in making decisions in electing people like me who they do not think should have the opportunity to represent her neighbors. Congressman, I don't think there's anyone more stupid than Elon Omar to say that the Republicans are trying to disenfranchise voters because they're requiring an id. I mean you literally have to use an id. Almost every people are going to look back years from now going how ridiculous is this argument. They were using IDs for everything. But somehow these Democrats thought the American people would buy into this idea that to require an idea somehow bigoted, racist or disenfranchising.
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Congressman Ralph Norman
Yeah, the American people aren't buying it. Just like they're not buying that a man is a woman and a woman is a man. I mean it's insanity at its, at its height. But I hope they'll pay a price at the polls, which I think they will. And I think that this type of just word silent, there's nothing to it, they know it, but they've gotten by with it for a long time and it'll change this country if they're allowed to continue doing this.
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Eric
No doubt, no doubt, no doubt. You got. This is what probably the most, certainly one of the most, if not the most important voting issues that you need to vote on for the American people. Since, since I've been following politics in my lifetime, certainly. I got a tough one for you. Ready for a read for a slider over the middle of the plate was kind of drifting away for you ready for this? You ready for this pitch, Sir?
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Congressman Ralph Norman
Let's go.
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Eric
J.D. vance is going to Islamabad to negotiate this whatever ceasefire into a peace deal with Iran. Is he the right person to go? And may I offer Marco Rubio your thoughts?
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Congressman Ralph Norman
No, JD is very qualified. I mean look, they, the message is very simple with Iran. They weren't going to produce a nuclear weapon. And the latest is they better open the Strait of Hormuz. That's 20% of the oil supply. 15 ships are allowed. We need 300 to come through the straits. So if they don't allow that then it's going to be a problem and JD Is A perfect example, a perfect person to deliver that message. And the President's been clear on it and all of his spokesman and are saying the same thing. Whether it's Rubio or JD or raising Cain, it doesn't matter. The message is there and they know the President will back it up, which is a great thing.
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Eric
Yeah, yeah. I heard JD get off the plane and it seemed like he was trying not to offend anyone, not to offend Israel, not to offend Iran, not to offend Pakistan. When he, in my opinion he should be like, hey, you guys have been offending us. It's time to sit down. Or as Trump said, we'll wipe the Iranian civilization off the map. I mean he seemed to be. Sorry, I just, it's my observation. I just think Rubio would be a, I have no problem with JD. I just think Rubio is a tougher negotiator.
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Congressman Ralph Norman
Well, JD's Marine, JD is a, you know, he's proved his battle as when he ran when he was vice president in the debates and everything and he'll deliver the message. And I think whether they hear it or not, I don't know. I think what did take the country back is when you had a country like Iran who willing to sacrifice innocent women and children to circle the bases that were going to be extinct, you know, be blown out of the water if they didn't, didn't abide by it. But no, it's going to be delivered and we all know that the President does what he says and, and they'll have a two absent two weeks if they're still doing the things that they're doing in the 10, 10 point negotiation that they want, I understand is not flying. And so it'll be, it'll be interesting to watch but they will have hell to pay if it keeps going.
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Eric
All eyes, all eyes on the news this weekend, sir. Thank you. Congressman Ralph Norman from South Carolina 5 District 5 if I'm not mistaken. Is that right?
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Congressman Ralph Norman
That's it.
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Eric
All right, sir, thank you again. We'll see you back here another time very soon. And folks, have a good weekend. You too folks. We'll be back in two and a half minutes.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I think we have a sense now of what, how this will play out. There's, you know, different contingencies. Right. One is they strike a deal. They make enough progress with the Vice President and the President's son in law, Jared Kushner there, J.D. vance there, and of course, the diplomat in hot spots around the world, Steve Witkoff, they got the A team there for negotiating there could come away with a deal, there could be progress, the straits could open, commerce could resume, and we could be moving towards peace resolution. But if there isn't, one of the strategies that the military is preparing for is for us to create a naval blockade around the Strait of Hormuz. Meaning, all right, the Iranians block what they want, but we're not going to let anything out of the Strait of Hormuz, which will shut China down, it will shut the whole world down, and the game of uncle with Iran will have changed to now it's a game of uncle with America. I think that that may be one of the new solutions that the United States government is considering. The military is building for. That's why these additional assets were sent to the region in the last week or so. That would speed up any resolution. It would put enormous pressure on China, which has a strong need to get more energy out of Iran. Our blockade would prevent that from happening. So I'd be looking for that as a first option as opposed to a complete new round of attacks. There's a thinking that maybe a little pressure from a blockade will make the Iranians even more amenable to a deal because it would shut off their cash spigot and it would cripple those who are still propping up Iran with unlawful oil sales, particularly China. So that's sort of some of the planning that my sources have been telling me going on behind the scenes. I still think option one is very real. I think there's a little bit of optimism among the US Team that this is a different Iran. It's humbled, it's been destroyed significantly. And all the rhetoric aside, the propaganda aside, that they still blast through their airwaves behind the scenes, the Iranians are signaling they're willing to make a more reasonable deal than in years past. So option one is still on the table, but the President has a very short sand clock. And I think they move to a blockade as phase two. And then they could always resume attacks like they had going on at any moment. But I think we're learning more about the strategy today.
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Eric
This is fascinating.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Eric
You know, of all the things, I mean, doing this a long time. I hadn't thought of that. So we, we do a blockade not in the straight, maybe at the mouth of the strait before anyone.
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John Solomon
That's right.
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Eric
And, or, or exit, for that matter.
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John Solomon
Right.
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Eric
And you've, you've, basically, you, you've took, you've actually taken control of the straightforward moves on our, on our own, instead of Iranians negotiating that, so.
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John Solomon
That's right.
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Eric
That would take them, they take off the table that they're going to toll people go ships going through the strait. And it also buys some time before you have to literally bomb the living daylights out of the civilization, as Trump has said before, as that's always still a possibility. Well, who. Can I just. Do you have any idea who came up with that? Is there, is this the Navy that came up with? Is it Hegset?
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John Solomon
Yeah, I think it's, it's, it's the entire national security team. The President has a very strong team, and they're, they're very unconventional thinkers. They look at things that have worked in wars past, and maybe we just haven't tried for a while because we're used to doing things the same way. This is a very unconventional way of going about creating pressure without having to kill a lot of people. And it would cripple the last vestiges of any cash flow that Iran has. One of the things that I have picked up from both foreign intelligence and American intelligence is, is Iran's cash flow has shrunk significantly since February. The bombings have just made it impossible for them to sell anything. They can't sell drones to Russia. They can't sell oil to China. They can't get money to their proxies, the Hezbollah and Houdini terrorists, and vice versa. Those guys can't pay them for weaponry. So Iran's elite now are starting to run cash short. It's not just the people, it's the elites. And I think that's got the attention of, of a lot of the civilian side of the Iranian government. This blockade would almost certainly get the attention of the irgc, which is probably the one part of the Iranian government most holding out for more violence. It's a very novel idea and probably on the table in a big way right now.
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Eric
So just throwing this out there would, Would Naito assist? This is one area that they could probably assist.
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John Solomon
Yeah, you would think, but I don't know. I think the President has thought that Naito is awol. I think that's going to be the new, the new acronym for NATO, awol. I think the United States has the capability to do it all itself. That's why we sent those additional assets out there. It will put China in a bind. And you know, one of the things, the President tweeted this story out this morning and then made some commentary about it, that we're realigning the world order. China's upper hand economic leverage has been single handedly destroyed in the last four months. Their backdoor illicit oil business that they were doing with Venezuela, Cuba and Iran has been completely obliterated. First by the Maduro arrest, then by the negotiations with Cuba and now by the military operation in Iran. China is the biggest loser. It has been humbled and it's very quickly been reminded you might be a major power, but you're not the superpower. America still is. And I think the President enjoyed that story and clearly had his own commentary about it today. But China has even more to lose in a naval blockade carried out by the United States.
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Eric
They have a lot to lose and so does Iran because China and frankly India are Iran's two biggest customers.
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John Solomon
They are.
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Eric
Have they been notified about this plan? Because they may almost. Pressure.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Well listen though, they'll have instant pressure if the blockade begins. There has been some evidence that China has been putting a little more pressure on Iran the last few days. I think that's why we have a constructive conversation in the next 24 hours going on. Doesn't mean it'll be a successful conversation. But the idea that a vice president from the United States is meeting across the table from Iran tells you how serious this is. And the fact that the Iranians are willing to have that meeting is a sign that they're in a different state of mind. They were eight weeks ago a very significant military power in the Middle East. They're now a tiny little me. They went like from being a major league baseball team to being a peewee baseball team in military sense. And that's very humbling to them. Doesn't mean they won't do something stupid still. But they're smart enough to know that they can't win a war with America anymore.
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Eric
So I'm the business guy, John. I've done this my whole life. I'm thinking I just envisioned this, this blockade, right? So you can't enter or leave the string on the, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the Omani side, maybe leave about, I don't know, maybe about a hundred yard opening there and maybe charge a little Bit for the ones you want. Yeah, sure. None of them. Chinese flag. None of them. Maybe India, if you may, if you're friendly. But maybe it's just friends of the friends and family get through. Everyone else has to wait and maybe there's in there, there you, you pay for this.
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John Solomon
One of the, one of the people that I talked to today said that week is out. Iran, Iran. He's basically taken the Iranian tactics and used them against them. Now it started with their drones a few weeks ago. We're using the drones that we got from them and we're using against them and blowing up their people. That has a psychological effect besides the fact that it was very lethal. Then you know, he went rhetorical with them. They like to use really crazy rhetoric. He's like, on Easter morning, I can do that too. You know, I could say I'm getting rid of civilization, but you can't get rid of civilization. Watch this. And on Monday morning, he blew up an IRGC compound and he really hit some of their big talent. It was a devastating take of about 50 IRGC commanders that were all killed at once. So he went head to head with them rhetorically. But then he showed him, I got some guns and weapons you ain't got. And now he's like, you want to block this straight? No problem. We'll just block it more than you can block it. I think that that's what he's doing. He's literally turning Iran's weaponry against them. And it's a very strong psychological tool for potentially getting a deal with Iran.
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Eric
It's an interesting concept. I didn't think to do it. You would, you would be kind of right off the shores of Oman and that's right, Pakistan. Both Pakistan friendly territories. Are they aware, John, Is the administration aware? We had, we had an inflation report out today that showed energy prices just skyrocketing. Tripling the inflation from just the prior month. And that's going to continue to higher the longer this lasts.
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John Solomon
Yeah, yeah, they are. The other thing about that inflation report, very important when you look into it a little bit further, if it weren't for energy and food, which are the two casualties of the operation, it actually under, it actually overperformed. It was actually a good inflation report. The President realizes that getting this war done in a way that's really long term victorious. All that's going to come down very quickly. It'll be almost a cathartic drop in energy prices. They are, they watch it every day. But I think they realize this is a once In a generation, opportunity to end a chronically violent Middle East. And the most interesting thing of all the people advocating for President Trump to hold his ground right now, it is the Arab Sunni states, it's the Omans, it's the Saudis.
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Eric
Hang on, I gotta ask you this. We're running out of time. I gotta ask you this. I'm sitting here thinking, okay, we blockade, right? What is our ask of them? Are we talking complete regime change? What is the ask?
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John Solomon
That's a great question. I haven't been able to get to that strategy. I still think that all the President wants is what he's put on the table, which is open the strait. Divest yourself of any nuclear ambition and any nuclear materials and no rockets, no things and then we'll let you. We're not telling you what sort of government to have. We'd love you to have an election but we're not going to tell you what to do there. But you have to act like a good civilian going forward. And those are the three conditions. I don't think they're going to throw a fourth one on there. I think Israel would love regime change. The President doesn't seem to make that part of the America first agenda. It doesn't matter to us as long as they can't attack us. They can't have a nuclear weapon and they can't attack our allies and they let the commerce go through the strait. Those are the three American interests. I think he sticks that he's pretty disciplined in what he wants.
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Eric
Really, really good reporting, John. Really good information. Thank you for bringing to the bone show for Gotta watch the six o' clock show. Everyone, John Solomon, everyone. Thank you, John.
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John Solomon
Thanks my friend. Yeah, good.
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Eric
All right folks, we'll be back two and a half minutes. All right, that's a White House and someone's microphone with the COVID on it is in the way of our shot. That's the Oval Office and taken from just, just about a little bit of our eye shot beyond the Rose Garden. Trump's I guess in the Oval now He's expected to part but usually he doesn't walk out the Oval Office. There's a row of colonnades that would take him to another area that where he would walk out. But I've never really seen him leave the Oval out of that door and then go to Marine One. I've seen him step out of there and do pre planned speeches there. But they usually keep the press far away from that Oval Office in the Rose Garden. So if he does come to Microphone somewhere. We'll grab it, I promise you. In the meantime, JB Pritzker and Al Sharpton on stage chatting. Imagine that. Productive conversation about America. Nope. Quality input about policies that could help the country improve moving forward. Nope. Slam Donald Trump yet again in an echo chamber. Well, absolutely.
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Congressman Ralph Norman
The investigation into the death of your daughter Megan is still open, but there has been one person who has been charged in association with her death. His name is Luis Mendoza Gonzalez. This is what DHS said about him. Mendoza Gonzalez was charged with abuse of a corpse, two counts of concealing the death of a person that's making an obstructing justice. The charges are Class 4 felonies, but none are detainable offenses under sanctuary Governor J.B. pritzker of Illinois.
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Eric
Consequently, the illegal alien walked free after
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Congressman Ralph Norman
the conclusion of his court appearance on July 19, 2025. U.S. immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
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Eric
in Chicago arrested him.
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Congressman Ralph Norman
What do you think of a state
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Eric
justice system that would take somebody who's
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Congressman Ralph Norman
under investigation for the murder of your daughter and charged with the offenses that he is being let loose on the streets?
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Eric
I didn't understand it at all. It's absolutely insane. I can't even understand how they justified this and argued it in Congress to agree to have this happen. I mean, he was found with a body in his yard that he had in his possession for 51 days, hidden in a garbage can while everybody was looking for her. And the only thing that we know about how she died is what he said.
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Commercial Voice
There was no time for investigation.
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Eric
You know, he said, oh, well, well, she just died at my house.
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Commercial Voice
And so I was afraid, so I
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Eric
put her in the garbage can. Okay, well, go on home then. What does that. Well, unless J.B. pritzker and Al Sharpton are identifying as white women, that wasn't the right. Whenever we see moments like this, we ask ourselves, is this 2018? As expected, Democrats are throwing around that word again, impeachment, like candy. They'll obviously find any excuse to do it. As Massachusetts Democrat Senator Ed Markey, a walking case for congressional term limits among many makes on cnn. Obviously, Senator, the president did not kill an entire civilization last night. Is impeachment really a productive or even feasible tool at this point? With Republicans in control of Congress, Democrats must proceed with the filing of the impeachment article. We need to work as hard as we can to put the Republican Party, which is morally bankrupt, which is spineless, which wants to be in a witness protection program even as moral atrocities are being planned in their name. Oh, impeachment, impeachment that's why this saying. This is why we got to get the gas prices down before midterms. We're going to. The summer. Gas is up. This isn't going to play well. We can't let those jerks get the gavel. That's all they want to do. If they do for two years, you'll just hear, impeach Trump. Impeach Trump. Unless they get the Senate, they're not going to be able to do it. But God forbid they get both. Come on, Come on. If you think it's only Markey, it's not. They're set on getting the majority back in November. And one of the first orders of business and probably second, third, and fourth and fifth is not just impeaching the president, but we must proceed to impeach the president. We must impeach any cabinet official or official who is enabled illegal and unconstitutional behavior. And I believe that whatever administration comes in after this administration has to take seriously the prosecution of any crimes. Yeah, okay. They just want people out. They. You're Republican, you're pro Trump, you're maga. You're. You're out in every way, shape and form. Midterms. Midterms elections have consequences. What do you think of when. Okay, what are we doing here? Ben, get on the horn. Yes, sir. What's going on? Mouse got busted.
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Sponsor/Announcer
Prompter.
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Eric
Can you hear me?
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Sponsor/Announcer
Testing, test.
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Eric
Talk to me. Yep. Can you hear me, Eric? Now I can. Trish, you gotta. You gotta. You gotta cancel yourself out. The prompter.
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Sponsor/Announcer
The mouse on the prompter just.
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Eric
All right, so how's this? What's the next soundbite? We're gonna have to. We got Joy Reid. Let's, let's, let's, let's. Let's give our audience some. Some wonderful joy. Joy Reid. Yes. This race will be far too close because unfortunately, we do have a fascist groundswell in parts of this country, mainly among white men, let's be clear. But in small pockets among black and brown men, too. She is so such a race baiter. You could say racist, but they get mad at you for saying it. But I don't know. She seems racist to me against white people. Am I wrong? How about Don Lemon? Don Lemon maybe, too. No, no. You guys are doing. I. I watch you. You guys. Ms. Now is doing the best job out of any network, I think, right now. So it's not you not to knock. We're not knocking you guys because you guys are standing in the place where
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John Solomon
journalists should be standing.
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Eric
Now, when I. And I said you guys are under pressure that I can't even imagine right now.
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Sponsor/Announcer
I've used to be under, but even it's worse now.
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Eric
And you're doing a great job. Thank you.
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John Solomon
Thank you for that, Don.
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Eric
I mean his aren't his 15 minutes up by now. Don Donnie. Don Lemon. Now he wants to run for President. You heard that? Remember that he was asked what's your next move? Why shouldn't I run for president? Says Don Lamont. No words or phrases are safer on liberal snowflakes. Never mind that certain phrases have been around for centuries because to a tender soft snowflake, soy boy or soy gal, anything can be deemed offensive and anything can lead to an emotional woke breakdown on tv. Lawrence o' Donnell knows all about it. And here's some peak virtue signaling for this wonderful Friday.
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Congressman Ralph Norman
That brilliant rescue was described by the Secretary of Defense and by General Dan
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Eric
Kaine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a long standing American military rule of never leaving anyone behind. We leave no man behind. That is of course the old school version of the idea back when only
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Congressman Ralph Norman
men flew American military planes.
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Eric
General Dan Kane, the chairman of the
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Congressman Ralph Norman
Joint Chiefs of Staff put it this
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Eric
way, we leave no one behind. The General knows, unlike Pete Hegseth, that that could have been a woman they
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Congressman Ralph Norman
were trying to rescue. And it might be a woman the next time.
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Eric
He's so dramatic. He Lawrence. So who watches that guy anyway? Well, if you thought LGBTQIA was too long of an acronym, wait for it. In Canada there's a whole new lengthier acronym to include missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual. And I'm not joking at all. Deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQIA. Plus she said it so fast. Someone spell check that. By the way, when a communist promises anything, the chances of them actually delivering on those any things are very highly unlikely. Communist Jihadist New York City Mayor Joe Bama Mamdani notoriously promised free buses during his campaign. How are you getting that money? The 700 million to make the buses free into the MCA if she's not for raising taxes. You know, I think that they the two clearest ways to raise that money is through the raising of the state's
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John Solomon
corporate tax to match New Jersey.
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Eric
I think that a lot of this is still a case to be made. So personal taxes aren't high enough. So this raised corporate taxes so drive out people, wealthy people also drive out wealthy businesses. Tax revenue producing wealthy businesses Great. He really drove home all these things. Free rent, free buses, blue hair dye, probably. Together, New York, we're going to freeze the Together, New York, we're going to make buses fast and freeze. Together, New York, we're going to deliver universal. Let the words we've spoken together, the dreams we've dreamt together, become the agenda we deliver together, we're gonna make buses fast and free. Everything's free. Social is free. Who pays for that free stuff? We pay for it. Well, it turns out the case was not made. And sorry, Gotham Snowflakes, but it looks like you're gonna have to keep swiping that card daddy gave you to ride the bus. This one? One of the most important pieces of news this week. And it also happens to be one of the most entertaining ones as well. Clearly, the art world isn't being kind to Hunter Biden. So what's he doing with all of his free time? Okay, guys, Hunter Biden here. I just got a call from Andrew Callahan. He asked me to come out on the Channel 5 Carnival Tour at the end of the month. I think we start in Phoenix, and then we go to San Diego, and we end in Albuquerque. And I think he's trying to organize a cage match. Me versus Eric and Don Jr. I told him I do it 100% in if he can pull it off. And if you can't, I'm still coming. And I think he's got a lot of other surprises up his sleeve. A lot of fun. And I hope I can see you guys out there, you can get tickets online right now, and I'll see you out on tour. So I called Eric and Don Jr. Eric Trump, Don Jr. And they said there were two people busy, and I said, mind if I stand in for you? And they said, go right ahead. So, hey, Hunter Biden. I'll take their place. You want to do Cage? Name the place, name the time, we'll bring the cameras. Take a look at this. At some point, you realize something's off. You're working, you're paying attention. You're doing what you're supposed to be doing. And it's still just not adding up. That's the moment right there. But most people ignore it. I don't. On the edge, we break down what's actually happening, why prices aren't what they seem to be, why healthy isn't always healthy. In fact, sometimes something labeled healthy is actually killing you. Ever wonder why some people keep moving forward while others stay stuck in place in a rut? The edge. We expose the Posers, the fraudsters and the cheatsters on the edge. No politics, no lectures, no waste of time. Just clarity. Pure thought. Success. New episodes every week. If you're ready for that shift, subscribe to the Edge. The first step to a healthier life is by hitting that subscribe button right now. Do it now. Thousands have already done just that. Okay, there's President Trump with Eric Trump. Do you think he asked if Eric said, hey, dad, you think I should get in the cage with Hunter Biden? Dad's like, yeah, hell yeah. Hey, Ben, did they actually walk out of the Oval Office door there? Right. Right out towards the West Wing? Did actually walk out of that door. That is. I've never. Literally never seen that. I've never seen a present, any present. Walk out of the Oval Office and then head to the. The North Lawn, the North South Lawn, South Portico line, where Marine One is waiting for him to take off in this. In. In the second. We were going to talk here. Can we. Colin, to. To come over to you. Ben, come over to the voice of God. Can we come over there? Can you jump over here? So, Colin, you keep. Keep the shot on you guys. Colin. Colin, you there, brother? I'm here. You got me, Aaron. So Colin's running the prompter, and there were sound bites that were going here, there. And all of a sudden the thing is going like this, this. And I'm, you know. So, Colin, you came into the. The. The studio before the show. He said, I got this prompter thing. No problem. Water off a duck's butt. And then what happened, my friend? I actually purposely pressed the wrong button and messed you up on purpose. Did you really do that? That's good. That's how much respect I have around here, folks. So you knew it. This thing, it's. It's literally. Just turn it like that, right? Don't you just swivel?
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Sponsor/Announcer
Yeah, The.
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Eric
The mouse.
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Sponsor/Announcer
The mouse tweaked out and started scrolling up.
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Eric
Like, don't. Don't cover for Colin. Don't cover for Colin. Come. Colin, did you just go like this a little, right? It's. It's a little wheel. Yeah, but it. It wasn't working right, but I pressed the wrong button. It was too tough. That. The wheel was too tough. Okay. And this guy. This guy sets up all the deck. I think the guy's brilliant with tech. But prompter, hey. As Trump would say, hey, Colin, you're fired on the prompter. Okay, copy that, Ben. We got. We got one. Time for one. Let's do the wacky Don Lemon one. Copy that.
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Congressman Ralph Norman
Let me just double check it's this one.
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Eric
And make the sign of the cross. Eric Pat from Connecticut. Look, I know you need to maintain perspective and make sure we keep our eye on the prize, but I just had to shut you off. I can't look at Lemon face. It triggers me. I want to grab him by his neck and throw the life out of him, and you keep shoving in my face, I keep shutting you off. Don't do that to me, bro. I want to watch, but I can't look at him or I put on CNN or some stupid podcast garbage. Please stop doing that to me. Sorry. I just want you to see how wacky the other side is. I just got a chatter saying. Every time you put Elon Omar on, I want to smack the. The towel off her head is what he said. Don't shoot the messenger. Smack the towel off her head. I get it. It triggers us because the nonsense they spew and they're representing us and we're paying them to do it, it's infuriating. But if we don't see what they're up to, we can't beat them. I used to watch MSNBC just so I knew what they were saying so I could take them down. So I think the other side of it, so we. You know what they're saying? Because you gotta know. Don't bury your head in the sand and don't turn the show off. And don't watch CNN bowling out for the weekend. We'll see you Monday. Stay tuned for Ban in War room. Oh, by the way, keep your eyes on Rev all weekend, because stuff's gonna fly. We're gonna get some information. See you Monday, folks.