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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, April 10th, 2026
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Chip Roy
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John Solomon
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Amanda Head
I'm a little jealous that the splashdown is going to be after our show is over. I wish it was going to be during our show. That's all right, though.
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John Solomon
Well, we got to send them off.
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Amanda Head
Indeed. Well, on the Iran issue that you mentioned, of course, Vice President Vance along with Jared Kushner and special Envoy Steve Witkoff heading to Pakistan, they're going to negotiate with Iran. Meanwhile, reports indicate that the speaker of Iran's parliament stated there will be no negotiations with the US Without a cease fire in Lebanon and the release of blocked Iranian assets. Now where while there's full confidence in Vice President J.D. vance's ability to broker a peace deal, this agreement, as the administration has outlined, relies on Iran's now fractured leadership and their willingness to meet the US Demands. So let's listen to what Vice President Vance had to say before departing Pakistan earlier today.
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Chip Roy
We're looking forward to the negotiation.
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John Solomon
I think it's going to be positive.
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Chip Roy
We'll of course see, as the President of the United States said, if the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we're certainly willing to extend the open hand. If they're going to try to play us, then they're going to find that the negotiating team is not that receptive. So we're trying to have a positive negotiation. The President has gave us some pretty clear guidelines and we're going to seize.
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Amanda Head
So that's the vice president departing to Islamabad, Pakistan. And although the cease fire between the U.S. israel and Iran remains fragile, the vice president appears optimistic about his peace about this peace deal. So he emphasized that the US Will not engage in negotiations if Iran is, quote, playing games, which, let's face it, that's probably the case now. Speaking of fragility, one can only imagine how these negotiations would unfold if Kamala Harris were sitting in the Oval Office right now. Most likely the tables would be turned against us. Luckily, we are not in that position. But could we be in 2028? Let's hear what Kamala Harris had to say about another potential run.
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Podcast Host
Okay.
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John Solomon
You know, I tried to be subtle, but I just figured I'd go right.
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Rebecca Grant
That's as subtle as Revenue Sharpton could ever be. We love you for many things, but not being subtle. Listen, I might. I might.
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Sam Mierjofsky
I'm thinking about it,
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Amanda Head
John. Are we ready for another Kamala Harris ran?
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John Solomon
She's as awkward today as she was when she was vice president.
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Amanda Head
Not polished up?
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John Solomon
No, she just. I mean, she gets thrown off on the easiest things. She's very nervous.
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Amanda Head
Yeah.
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John Solomon
It's unusual for a politician to be nervous when in the limelight. That's what you're supposed to do. But we'll see. The Democrats have a lot of issues to resolve, starting. Starting with what they're going to do with California because California is just becoming a bigger problem day by day. Amazing stuff. All right. We've been chronicling the last year a really true policy escalation against Islamism in America now, not against Muslims, but against radical Islamism. Things like Shirai law, like groups that support terrorism and overtly talk about overthrowing the American way, the American government. Our first guest tonight has a lot to say on that and he's got a brand new bill to deal with this. Have a watch with the interview we just did with Chip Roy a short while ago. All right, folks, we're really lucky to kick off the show today. He's the leading candidate to become Texas attorney General. He's one of the most important voices in all of Congress right now. Congressman Chip Roy from the great state of Texas is here, sir. Good to have you on the show, John.
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Chip Roy
Great to be with you. Hope you're well.
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John Solomon
We are. And better to have you on the show. We really, really appreciate your insights. You are taking on, I think, one of the most important issues, which is we have a group of extremist Islamist organizations that have flourished in America, particularly during the Obama Biden era. Cair, the Muslim Brotherhood, Others, you are taking them on using the power of legislation. Tell us about that, specifically what you're doing with cair.
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Chip Roy
Yeah, John, I appreciate it. I mean, look, the level step, just for one second. We've got so many issues involving the March of Islam across our country and into the state of Texas. Probably the primary reason, as you mentioned, that I'm running for Attorney General of Texas. We need someone there who's going to stand up and fight. It could have stayed in Congress, but you're 1 435th of a group. And I'm doing my best to change it with legislation and I hope to succeed. But as Attorney General, I think I can actually deliver as an executive in Texas. And let's go back for a minute and let's just level set about the state of things. The last substantive conversation I have with Charlie Kirk was about how he was concerned that Americans didn't fully understand how bad it is with the organizations that are trying to target our country. Not just care, not just the Muslim Brotherhood, but literally hundreds of organizations trying to push Islam into our communities and undermine Western civilization. So I've been talking about this for two years. I gave a big speech on the floor of the House two years ago. I got derided and attacked by CARE and others. I've held hearings as the Chairman of the Subcommittee of the Constitution. I introduced legislation last year to take the tax status away from care. I introduced legislation to vet people for their adherence to Sharia law. I joined with Keith Self to found the Sharia Free America Caucus, which now has well over 60 members and growing. But importantly, we need to get very specific about going after these organizations, CARE in particular. So yesterday I introduced the Designating Hamas Affiliates in America act of 2026 to designate the Council on American Islamic Relations as a specially designated global terrorist organization. Now, that would be very specific to being able to block assets and prohib U.S. persons from interacting with the organization and revoking its 501c3 status. Care is not innocent. Right. They facilitate terrorism while operating under the guise of a nonprofit that is subsidized by American taxpayers. This bill makes it clear we gotta freeze their assets. Their status should be revoked and all Americans should be prohibited from supporting them. That's the important thing we gotta do here, is go on offense. And that's why I'm doing it.
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John Solomon
Important stuff.
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Amanda Head
And, sir, there are myriad reasons why CARE in particular should have this designation. Their founding members, I believe, came from iap, the Islamic association for Palestine. They've been designated a terrorist organization for the last 10 or 12 years, by UAE, by the United Arab Emirates, and states like yours and Florida have designated them a terrorist group. Why is it taking so long?
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Chip Roy
Well, importantly, I want to give a great deal of credit to President Trump and his administration, what they're trying to do in targeting these organizations. Governor Abbott, as you noted in Texas, has declared CARE a terrorist organization. And I think it's really important, what you just said about uae. We have people that we engage with throughout the world, in the Middle east in particular, who are Muslim, who look at what's happening in London and Paris and increasingly in the United States, and they're saying, look, those organizations, those entities are radicalized and we don't associate with them. And I think that should tell you something. And I think that if you look at Paris and London, you're seeing a glimpse into what we're going to have in America. You look at Dearborn, Michigan, you look at Mom, Donnie in New York. You look at the prayer rugs that they had sitting out next to the 911 memorial. And our country has allowed 5 million people to be imported into the United States through a variety of means since 911 from majority Muslim countries. Now, that should be alarming, and it is alarming when you consider what we're now dealing with here at home. The crime that we're seeing, but also the Sharia law that we're seeing pop up in places like Epic City and Plano, in areas where we had two entities trying to operate Sharia courts in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex, which Governor Abbott wisely and properly took action to stop. And things like our, you know, subsidies that we have in place now in Texas for school choice, that we're going to these Islamic schools to push this agenda, that the governor again wisely said, hey, we shouldn't do that, and we're now fighting it out in court. As attorney general, I will fight that. That's what we're dealing with at that level. And the reason, to answer your question, that we're still behind on it is several fold. One, we're allowing this to hide behind the First Amendment, when in fact this is a political ideology they're trying to advance. As they said in their Muslim brotherhood memo from 1991, which we have copies of, a jihad against the west to undermine Western civilization. This isn't about impinging on someone's ability to pray at home or carry out their faith, but it is saying that when you've got a political ideology, that the imams and their leaders are openly saying they want to undermine our Christian nation and our Judeo Christian values in the West. We should stop it. You cannot win a war that you do not acknowledge exists.
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John Solomon
Yeah. It's so important that we get that message out to. I think the American people understand it. It's the elitists that have blocked it from becoming a reality. I want to pivot to something else that you work on. You have been such an important voice on the border, the open border, during the Biden years. You were leading that charge. We've tightened up the border a lot. But there is some interesting legislation. Maybe interesting is not the right word that even some Republicans have signed on to, to give amnesty. I know you have a very different feeling about that idea. But to walk us through, is there any chance that amnesty bill is going to get through on a vote?
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Chip Roy
No. And if it does, with some effort by some of our members to go sidle up with Democrats and it's going to be devastating for this year. I support, you know, the Republican leadership's efforts to push this aside. It does not reflect the opposition of the Republican Conference. The vast majority of the Republican conference thinks this is a bad idea. Laura Ingram took on one of my colleagues directly two nights ago. God bless her. She's a stalwart on this issue and she should. And look, rewind the clock. Three years ago, you know, I put together a border plan, the Texas border plan, along with my Texas colleagues. I recruited them to got them on board, and it became the centerpiece for what we ended up passing as HR2 in our negotiations and agreement with then Speaker McCarthy. We passed it and it was the first time in decades that we have passed a serious border security bill that didn't have amnesty or, you know, future flow policies in it on immigration. Why does that matter? Because it put a stake in the ground of what actual border security looks like. We then pushed aside all of these calls for amnesty. We need to repass that bill. We need to put that on the floor and force a vote on it, because that's what the American people want to do. If we do not codify the things that President Trump is doing right now to secure our border. And as I asked the then Secretary of Homeland Security three weeks ago when she was in front of our committee, what will happen if we have another Biden mayorkas? It'll all start again. They will abuse amnesty. They will abuse parole, they will abuse catch and release. They will allow people to come in no matter what fence and wall you have in place. They will invite them in, release them into our country, and then you will have more dead Americans because we're doing that. And that is, again, why I'm running for attorney general, so that I can lead, decl, declare invasion and fight any future Democrat that wants to stand in our way. You got to have fighters right now who will be willing to do this. We got to fund ice. We got to fund border patrol. We shouldn't let Democrats hijack our funding bills. We need to get that through immediately. I'm tired of excuses. I don't want to hear Republicans think, oh, it's complicated. It's tough. It's like it's D day and you get up to the cliffs and you go, oh, man, those cliffs are tough to scale. I guess we'll turn around. No, let's find a border patrol and ice. Let's do our job.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, that's a big part of the equation. Another big part of the equation is being decided by the Supreme Court, this birth tourism issue. And there are some reputable estimates out there that say that 100,000 Chinese babies were born here as a result of birth tourism. These are babies that, you know, I mean, this has happened for the last 12 or 13 years. So 100,000 a year. That's over a million. They can vote in 18 years. They can even become president. If the Supreme Court goes the other way on this, is there something that Congress can do to make sure that this is not something that destroys this country in 10 or 20 years?
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Chip Roy
Well, it's a great question. It's something I've been talking about for years. There's another issue, by the way, Plowler v. Doe, which I've been talking about, about how the Supreme Court in 1982 demanded that we fund illegal alien children's education that we should also be talking about. And I held a hearing on. As the chairman of the subcommittee of the Constitution, I held a hearing on birthright citizenship, of which I had Chuck Cooper, one of the best legal minds in the nation, testifying on it. And I joined forces with him to file an amicus brief making very clear that subject of the jurisdiction thereof means precisely what it meant. It did not. It was meant to deal with the issue of slavery. It did not mean to say that 20 million Chinese Communist women can come here pregnant tomorrow and create 20 million American citizens. It's the dumbest damn thing I've ever heard of. And it's. And it should be fought vigorously. Whatever the court does, I can promise you as attorney General, I'm not going to allow that to occur in Texas, we're going to fight it, we're going to change it. And I'm very proud that one of the letters that I led, along with my colleague Tom Tiffany, running for governor of Wisconsin, a great friend of mine, we wrote a letter saying that this birther tourism issue is a major concern. It's being exploited by Chinese Communists and our enemies. And that letter was cited in the oral arguments in the Supreme Court. Our amicus brief was one of the court arguments and one of the most well regarded amicus briefs filed. And I filed that along with Eric Schmidt because we're the chairman of the Constitution subcommittees. All of this to say we need to win. I did not love the questions I heard from the Chief justice or Amy Coney Barrett, but I'm still hopeful that they will follow common sense and recognize that the 14th Amendment clearly meant what meant with regard to slavery. But whatever they decide, like I said, as Attorney General, I'll fight it in Congress. We should act. We should pass due statutes. And at the end of the day, the Senate has got to stop hiding behind 60 votes to not lead. There are many ways to deal with it. We can talk about that separately if you want, whether it's the Save America act or other issues. But I'm tired of the Senate giving me excuses. Need to save this country right now or I have a president who's willing to fight.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that moment is with us, right this moment. Before we go, Mike Lee just announced another vote effort next week in the Senate on Save America Act. You think you can wear down the Democrats?
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Chip Roy
Well, at the end of the day, we've got two issues with the DHS funding mechanism and the Save America Act. Look, if I were in charge, I would do the following. I would say from this point forward, what we're going to say is the 60 vote threshold is gone. When you have a government shutdown and you have a continual resolution on the floor of the House to keep funding at current levels, I would say you can do that by 51 votes. I would just change that rule and say let's move on. Then you've got effectively a government shutdown prevention bill that will empower the majority to fund government at current spending levels. And you know what? That's a good default position. If you hold spending flat, that helps on the debt. On the Save America Act, I think Mike Lee is right. We need a talking filibuster. What that means is you have to do your actual job. Show up just like Mr. Smith did when he went to Washington. You go to the floor. You have to debate. You have to argue. And if you're not going to do that, then you're not going to get 60 votes. We can pass it at 51. We should tire them out. We should force them to use up their time and we should get the job done. That's what I would do if I were the majority leader, but. But I'm not. So we'll see what the Senate does.
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John Solomon
Yeah. I think the pressure with the American people is growing by the day. Congressman, it's always a great honor. The Texas senior constituents are so lucky to have you. When I think of the Lone Star State, I think of a lone common sense state. Often. You are the perfect example of why that state does so well. Great to have you on the show, my friend.
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Chip Roy
John, I appreciate it. Anybody out there, help me out. Chiproy.com Attorney General election May 26 John, God bless you. You guys have a great weekend. Last weekend was Easter. We praised our risen savior. And this weekend is Master Sunday in which I praise that wonderful. But appreciate you guys very much. God bless.
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John Solomon
That was a pretty good pivot. We love it. Thank you, sir.
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Chip Roy
Good to be with you.
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John Solomon
All right, folks, we got a quick commercial break. When we come back, more on the Iran negotiations that J.D. vance is presiding over. Canvas can the vice president and his negotiating team score a big and historic deal? We'll get to that next. That's these messages.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. On this Friday, the cease fire between Iran and the United States is still holding together, albeit by a very thin silk thread. So what are we hoping comes from this? Is there a workable deal that the president can get with whoever is left from the regime, or does more need to be done? And can the Iranian people come out of this as winners as well? So joining us now, the deputy director of the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. He's also the author of an excellent book. It's called the Iran Threat. Ali Reza Jafarzada. Ali Reza, great to see you.
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Ali Reza Jafarzada
Great to see you, Amanda. And also, John, always a pleasure to be on your show.
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Amanda Head
Likewise. And you know, I think back in the conversations we've had on this show for the last, what, three years or so. And we are finally at this place where it feels like we are so very close. You've been fighting this regime for 47 years. You've seen plenty attempts to overthrow them. What do you see coming in the coming days like this weekend and in the coming weeks?
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John Solomon
Weeks?
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Ali Reza Jafarzada
Well, this weekend is certainly going to be the focus is actually on the negotiations. And this is not the first time that the ayatollahs have come to the negotiating table. But experience of the past decades proved that only force and decisiveness and firmness works with this regime. And keep in mind that despite all the, you know, smoke screen and all the claims of victory, as far as the Iran regime is concerned, this regime is much weaker and much more vulnerable than they were even a year ago. Not simply because of the military blows they received during the war, but most importantly, they are so concerned about their own population internally. It's not a coincidence that since about two weeks ago, the regime started executing political prisoners in the midst of the war. And they handpicked certain political prisoners who were focused on fighting the irgc. There were six members of the main Iranian opposition movement, the mek, who were executed. And these were all charged with trying to recruit the young people who are arming themselves with the goal of overthrowing the regime, but also extended those executions to the younger people who were arrested during the January of this year during the protests, who pursued the same strategy, disarming the Revolutionary Guards and trying to fight it. These are all signs of a very weak and vulnerable regime. That's where I think we should focus.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's a really great point. Otherwise, I want to ask a little bit about the difference now than any other time that Iran's been at a bargain table. There is no navy left in Iran. There's no air force. There's very few missiles left. The factories that made the missiles and drones substantially reduced. Does that make them more likely to capitulate than in past years where they played cat and mouse and said a lot of things and never delivered on them? Is this a more humiliated regime than prior regimes of Iranian negotiators?
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Ali Reza Jafarzada
It certainly is a more humiliated regime than they have ever been because they relied heavily on their proxies in the region. Much of that is gone or significantly reduced. They lost their biggest ally, Assad, in Syria. But also, internally speaking, the world has seen the population of Iran who are vehemently opposed to the regime. Just this past January, there were protests in all 31 provinces of Iran. People chanting, death to the dictator. Death to Khamenei. Death to the oppressor, being the shah or the supreme leader, making it clear that the desire of the people of Iran is for change. But also the internal opposition is far stronger now than they ever were. Remember, just four days before the launch of the strike, you know, before the war, the main Iranian opposition, the MEK, using 250 of their fighters, they launched a strike against the headquarters of then Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, inflicting heavy casualties of them. But 150of them managed to leave the scene alive, showing the capability and intent of the organized opposition, showing the vulnerability of the regime, showing the world that the desire to get rid of the ayatollahs is not something external. It's not that, you know, the US or other countries have a problem with Iran regime. The biggest problem is actually the people of Iran want to overthrow this regime. And they have shown their desire and their capability. That's why I think this regime is far weaker than it has ever been.
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John Solomon
Yeah, great point.
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Amanda Head
Well, and Ali Razi, you mentioned the people of Iran. And I want to be very delicate with this question, because I know communication is happening a little bit. It's obviously not allowed on a grand scale from the inside to the outside, but I do know that you have communication with people there. What is the morale of the. Of Iranians?
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Ali Reza Jafarzada
Well, you know, the Iranian people, certainly, at least during the war, you know, they. Everything was frozen because there's really not much you can do when, you know, there's bombings, everything, everywhere. But I think, you know, when the ceasefire was announced by President Trump, our leader, Mrs. Mariam Brajavi, welcomed that situation, saying that this will be an opportunity, certainly avoiding the targeting the, you know, the infrastructure, the civilians, but also hoping that this will lead to the fall of the Iran regime. Because the motto of the movement has been always for peace and freedom. This is also the desire of the. Of the Iranian people. I think the ceasefire, and hopefully the end of the war, would create space for the population to reignite not only the protests that we saw before, but adding to all of that is the organized force, the young people who are increasingly convinced that the only way to end the rule of the clerics is not just simply having the protests, but adding to it with a fighting force to confront the Revolutionary Guards. That's why these seven young people who were arrested during the January protests and were executed, all of them were involved in trying to obtain arms from the Revolutionary Guards, different bases. This is a new momentum, new shift of momentum in favor of the young people, in favor of a population that wants to see change, relying on their own force, their own capabilities. And this is the biggest disaster when it comes to the Iranian regime. The main concern that they have, and I think this is a huge asset when it comes to the countries in the region. The United States, I remember very well just last week, the President of the United States. He said that if the Iranian people have arms to fire back against the regime, against the Revolutionary Guards, that would change the whole equation. And that's exactly the direction the Iranian society is going.
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John Solomon
All right, so let's walk through that today. I interviewed Congressman Tom McClintock. He said your sister group, the MEK, is the best armed and the most likely to be able to take on that part of regime change. There have been reports that maybe the Kurds join or help in some fashion. Americans are wondering, when will that start? And we've done a lot of bombing. The bombing stopped. There hasn't been that outpouring onto the streets. And that next violent wave of overthrow. When do you think it starts and how do you think it starts, Al Erazem?
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Ali Reza Jafarzada
Well, you know, revolutions, you cannot plan exactly. You know how these things happen. What is very clear is that when it comes to the people of Iran, nothing has changed. To the contrary, their desire to change the regime is even stronger now, especially after the massacre of the protesters in January of this year. They're more convinced now than they ever were that they need to pick up arms and confront the Revolutionary Guards. You mentioned, you know, the Kurds. There are, you know, a lot of nationalities in Iran who are entirely fed up with this regime. You talked about the Kurds. You have the Baluchis, the Arabs down south, the Azeris, the lords. And, you know, they make up about 30 to 40% of the Iranian population who have a history of confronting the regime both under the Shah. They confronted the Shah, who was very suppressive against these minorities, but also against this regime. And, of course, you know, the talks just started. I don't know whether this. How far this ceasefire is going to hold and what it's going to lead to. But hopefully once it leads to a more permanent cessation of hostilities or peace, that certainly creates an opportunity and space for those who have very, you know, determined to fight the regime. The MEK has a history of fighting the Ayatollahs. They had a very powerful army with tanks, armored personnel carriers, field guns across the border in Iraq. And, of course, the change of circumstances in 2003 changed the whole situation. But they are creating a similar infrastructure inside Iran, the younger ones who are increasingly resorting to organizing themselves, arming themselves, and confronting the Rulshe Guards. This movement has experience of 47 years of fighting the regime. So do other nationalities in Iran. It's a combination of all of that that would eventually lead to the fall of the regime. But most importantly, Iran will not be fragmented like the other nations in the region. You know, Mrs. Rajavi, who heads the parliament in exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. She announced a provisional government that would be in charge for only six months. And their main task would be to set up free and fair elections leading to the election of a national and constituent assembly that would draft a new constitution, appoint a new interim government, and everything will be based on the vote of the population. So the mechanism is there both for the overthrow of the regime, but also for the transitional period. All the elements are out there. It's the outside world that must realize that you don't pin hopes on the regime. You pin hopes on the people of Iran. You do everything to empower them and give them the voice.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. Well, we will know much more in the next 2448 hours. Al Reza Jefferson, the deputy director of the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Great to have your perspective tonight and more on Iran and what we can expect from the negotiations that are coming tomorrow with Rebecca Grant on the other side.
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John Solomon
Time. Welcome back, America. We're all going to be watching what goes on Islamabad in the next 24 to 48 hours. JD Vance leading that delegation. History will be made. Whichever decisions come out of this bargaining table, there is going to be a resolution to this conflict pretty soon. Helping us understand what's at stake, what's possible, and what the United States next moves could be is one of the nation's true security experts. He's a vice president at the Lexington Institute and one of the great national security analysts here, great friend of our show, Rebecca Grant. Rebecca, great to have you back on the show.
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Rebecca Grant
Super to talk with you again.
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John Solomon
All right. I want to talk a little bit about what is at stake in these talks. Is it possible for the United States to make a deal with Iran that we would trust, that we would verify? And what might that deal look like?
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Rebecca Grant
Well, I have great confidence that that negotiating team of Kushner, Witkoff and Vance, that's a lot of brainpower. And if they say it's a deal they trust, I think that's as good as we can get. Now, of course, trust but verify. They're going to be extreme procedures to follow on whether it's with the Strait of Hormuz, whether it concerns what President Trump likes to call the nuclear dust and then all the other issues as well. I mean, we don't want them doing the state sponsor of terrorism. There are going to be a lot of conditions. And remember, there's a huge prize if The Iranian government behaves and that is sanctions relief. So President Trump goes in with all the cards, military, economic, all the cards into this negotiation.
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John Solomon
That's a good point.
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Amanda Head
They go in with all the cards. But Iran is notoriously a wild card. What curveballs should they be prepared for?
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Rebecca Grant
Oh, you're so right. They are a wild card. And we've seen them already. This team that shown up, Arachi Golubaev, these are some slippery devils. Clever and already complaining about the situation in Lebanon. You know, expect this is going to be just the haggle deal of the century. And we've seen this from Iran before for years and years and years. It's remarkable really that these talks are even convening in Islamabad. And I think it's great that the Pakistanis and their military have helped to put this together. But Iran, there will be propaganda, there will be everything. It will really test and try the patience of our team. But again, we really do have the upper hand and military options ready to go, whether large or small, if there are hiccups in these talks.
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John Solomon
Clocks. Yeah. And I have a funny feeling the President has a short sand clock and if he doesn't get what he wants in the first round, the pressure ratchets up. There are two pressure ways. One is they could go back to the Stone Ages, I guess with a military tact that's so devastating, one that I think proved very effective in Venezuela and could be a short term stranglehold, is we could out blockade the Strait of Hormuz and shut everything off, which means Iran could get nothing out, China could not get anything out and nothing could get into Iran. That would collapse their economy even quicker. Is that something we should be looking for in the next phase?
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Rebecca Grant
What an interesting idea. And you hear President Trump and General Kaine talk about air dominance, but let me tell you, we also have maritime dominance. And with the assets, there are U.S. navy assets, the U.S. marine Corps and the Triple A, the Abraham Lincoln, a lot of destroyers, a lot of other craft. It would be very easy for the US Navy to exert complete control over what does and does not go up and down the strait. Now, I've heard about 10 ships have moved in the last 24 hours. One of them was a reflagged Russian tanker. And we know that cargoes have gone out to China, to India and we've seen some inbound traffic. But if Iran gets intransigent, then absolutely the US Navy can set up with great over water surveillance from the phone straits, E2DS and of course land based air power. They can watch everything that goes in and out of that strait. And you'll have to ask the US Navy if you want to move past Larocc island or past that narrow part by Oman.
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Amanda Head
Rebecca, I heard in the last 24 hours or so UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer using the term we a lot, this is coming from a country that has made practically no contributions. In fact, they blocked us from using our own base there. Do you anticipate that as this situation hopefully turns more positive, that a lot of the NATO members who initially said we're not helping, they will immediately rush and say, ok, we're here to help, we're here to help. Just try to try to get credit.
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Rebecca Grant
It could be and Keir Starmer has handled this poorly from the start, especially given that he actually does have two RAF fighter squadrons down there working in Jordanian airspace, F35s and Typhoons in the RAF Regiment, which are key air defenders. And yet, yet he's baubled everything to do with overflight and with standing firm with the US So I hope him using the word we and the powerful words from NATO Secretary General Ruta yesterday are getting this alliance back together. Remember the UK and others helped over in the Red Sea in Operation Prosperity Guardian, helping to protect shipping traffic against the Houthis. It would be super easy for those same countries, Britain, France, South Korea, Japan and many others, to help with keeping calm and suppressing the last of that Iranian threat up through the Strait of Hormuz as well. I hope they do show up.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that could be a really important moment in turning this tale to final stage. As always, Rebecca, we always appreciate your insights. He's got great, great wisdom for us. We appreciate it so much. Thanks for joining us. Have a great weekend.
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Rebecca Grant
Thank you.
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John Solomon
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. Just a quick programming note. In about an hour and a half, our Artemis astronauts will be landing. They have begun the re entry process. That's going to be about 60 miles off the coast of California near San Diego. So we're going to have, of course, coming coverage here. I'm still so jealous that it's not happening during our show, but let's shift our focus to accountability. As I noted yesterday, five individuals have been arrested in the crackdown on hospice fraud in California. And we could expect more arrests in the near future. In addition, new developments in the Minnesota fraud case indicate that some members of the Somali community involved in the scam are now pleading guilty. A whole group of them from the same family, actually. Now, as the crackdown on fraud continues, will Democrats like Ilhan Omar and Governor Walls be held accountable? Joining us to put all of this in perspective, legal expert, conservative commentator and host of what's Right Show, Sam Mierjofsky. Sam, great to see you.
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Sam Mierjofsky
Amanda. John, great to be with you. Happy Friday.
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John Solomon
Happy Friday.
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Amanda Head
Happy Friday. All right. Five people arrested. Just the latest in California. But I've heard a lot of people, well, and government officials said that this is so vast that they may not even be able to examine all of it. And now they are Having to just target the big dogs, for lack of better terms. Talk to us about what?
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Sam Mierjofsky
You know, well, look, there was a major arrest yesterday, so this is breaking news. My impression of it just sort of from, you know, at first blush, is that the state of California here and the Democrats that run California are about a day late and 25 billion short. They are desperate to catch up to the Trump administration, which has rightly led the charge against this type of fraud, which is not unique to Minnesota or California. It's happening everywhere, but in particular in these states that have an enormous amount of public benefits that go out. A lot of it is federal money. So it's certainly within the jurisdiction of the federal government and the administration to investigate it. They've been using this as a, as a piggy bank to fund their political allies. And so the way it worked and it started, you know, we started to get awareness of this when, when info was coming out in Minnesota. But, but California is the same thing. I'm very familiar with it. I lived in California for 35 years. It's a state that ought to be much better than it is. It's poorly run. But the way it fundamentally operated is, you know, it was understood that these operations existed, they were operating in plain sight. This particular group of individuals that was arrested, you know, were operating for years out of, out of the same location. The facts are so blatant. So, you know, and these people also turned around and after collecting millions from these operations, were funding top politicians in the state, predominantly Democrats. So now they're investigating them. Now they're, now there's some arrests. And I think it's a, I think it's just token, you know, activity here to bolster not just Newsom, because, of course, he's got his eyes on 2028, but really to help other Democrats in the state because, you know, they're, they're a little, a little worried in California with the, you know, governor's race that's coming up, that you could end up with two Republicans at the top of the ticket. All the problems Swalwell has. So I think the Democrats are beginning to panic and, you know, maybe they're doing too little, too late.
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John Solomon
Let me ask you about the legal potential. Could a Tim Waltz, could a Keith Ellison, who's captured on video telling some of the perps that they don't worry, we got your back. We're going to protect you. Could you imagine a scenario where this Justice Department actually prosecutes a governor, attorney general, a state official for not pursuing fraud that they had an obligation to pursue.
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Sam Mierjofsky
Well, it's a great question, and it will depend largely on who the next attorney general is and how the dust settles over at the doj. The scenario you're describing is almost exactly what happened with Keith Ellison. I mean, John, he was caught on tape kind of saying as much to a representative of some fraudsters who then later were convicted. I'm sure you've played the tape. You've heard the tape. You know, I've played it on my show. And he basically, you know, he intervened on behalf of this group. And then later the governor there, Tim Walz, intervened. And while Walz himself isn't on tape, you know, Ellison is, who's, of course, the AG out there in Minnesota. So is that actionable? Absolutely. I mean, if you can connect, you can connect a through line, a factual path from, you know, donations, political, you know, capital being, being, being given, being expended by individuals who then are protected by elected officials who they've previously supported and continue to support financially. And there's, there's some quid pro quo prove there. Yeah, I mean, I think it's, you know, it certainly warrants prosecution. Will the, you know, will the administration have the guts to do it? But, you know, we'll see who the new AG is.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I think it's going to be Todd.
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Amanda Head
It's not really surprising that it happens within the health industry. I mean, you look at the budget of hhs, who oversees Medicare and Medicaid. It's not surprising that all this fraud is happening there. Legal expert and conservative commentator Sam, your jobski. Always a pleasure to have you with us.
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Podcast Host
Have a great weekend.
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Sam Mierjofsky
You guys, too.
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Amanda Head
Likewise. All right, everybody, coming up next, remember Fanny Willis and Nathan Wade down in Georgia? Well, our next guest sure does, and he has some updates on them as well as election integrity in the Peach State. After the break.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back to the final segment of the night. Our next guest who questioned Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, claims that Fani acted like an unhinged lunatic and consistently avoided providing clear answers. He also recently subpoenaed Fanny Willis's sidekick, we could call him Nathan Wade, who dodged nearly every question with the words I don't recall. So what lies ahead for Georgia and that state's efforts for accountability of weaponized justice and election integrity? Joining us is Georgia state senator and candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia, Greg Dolezal. Senator, thanks for being with us tonight.
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Greg Dolezal
Hey guys. Good to see you all. Thanks for having me.
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Amanda Head
Talk to us about the nature of Fani Willis personality when she appeared before you to answer questions.
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Greg Dolezal
I've never seen anything like it in my life and I've seen some stuff in my life. But she came in and I didn't see her walk in because I wasn't in the room at the time. She came in and she had this big fur coat on for the entire four hour testimony. She had her $10,000 Louis Vuitton purse sitting in front of her. She must have bought that with the cash she keeps underneath her bed or wherever she keeps it. But she came in and she was on the attack and she did not want to answer questions. She couldn't remember anything as it related to the case of substance. She had no clue what her agency's budget is. She had no clue but that she had paid Nathan Wade with forfeiture funds and she really, she really obfuscated exactly what they were doing, which we know this was. Two things we know this was lawfare and then there was obviously the prosecution for personal profit angle of it where her boyfriend was making hundreds of thousands of dollars on this case.
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John Solomon
Yeah. So I want to ask about something that came up in the recent release of documents that we won from Fulton county, and that is in the middle of this prosecution, all of a sudden, a what should be a competitive grant becomes a no competitive grant. And Fani Wells is given, you know, a large sum of money by the Biden Justice Department just as she's escalating her prosecution of Donald Trump. Is there any evidence that you've been able to find that those two things are connected and that maybe this was a backdoor way for the Biden Justice Department to fund Fonny's antics?
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Greg Dolezal
It certainly appears that's a strong possibility because you don't see these grants go from being bid grants are bid out to being no bid grants that seemingly are targeted and recruited and advertised just to one agency like they were the Fulton County District Attorney's office. So we have a lot of questions about that. That's really going to be the next phase of what we're looking into is the tie to what could have been a carrot from the time that Joe Biden put up the batch signal on November 13, I think it was, where he said, we're going to ensure by any means possible that we demonstrate that Donald Trump will not take office. And then five days, within five days, you see Jack Smith appointed. You see Michael Colangelo leave the Department of Justice and go work for Alvin Bragg. And on that very same day, Nathan Wade spent eight hours on the phone with the White House. Now, of course, he can't remember what that eight hour conversation was about, but we've got our guesses as to what it was about.
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John Solomon
Wow.
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Amanda Head
Senator, we've just got a few more minutes left, so I want to finish with election integrity. Obviously, after the 20, 2020 election, Jim Crow 2.0 was passed in Georgia, which produced record turnout in Georgia elections, unlike what Democrats prognosticated would happen. But there are still some election integrity measures that Republicans are trying to get through. It's my understanding that the mode of voting, the physical ballots, whether it's ballots or computers even, that is still up in the air. Give us a temperature check on all that.
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Greg Dolezal
Yeah, that is still up in the air. I've been trying to get rid of the Dominion machines here in Georgia for years. And we finally passed a bill out of the state Senate to do it. Weren't able to get it across the finish line. But Amanda, the other thing that's crazy here is the maintenance of our voter rolls. Fulton county is usually like the leading culprit for most things nefarious in Georgia. In this case, it's their prime example yet again, where they have thousands of people registered to vote illegally using not their home address, but a UPS store, PacMail storage units, empty parking lots underneath overpasses, homeless shelters that have been closed since 2017. And so we're also trying to force Fulton county to clean up their voting rolls. I think the only way it's going to happen is if the state of Georgia comes in, as they're allowed to do, and take over the elections in Fulton County.
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John Solomon
Unbelievable.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. Trolls under a bridge. My goodness. Who on earth has has allowed this to happen? Sir, tell everybody where they can find more about your campaign.
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Greg Dolezal
Build is all for GA on X and gregdolazal.com Fantastic.
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Amanda Head
Georgia State Senator and candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia, Greg Dolezal. John, in about an hour and ten minutes, we've got our four astronauts.
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John Solomon
Yeah, literally.
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Amanda Head
Are you going to be watching?
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Chip Roy
Of course.
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John Solomon
I'm a big space nerd. I'm going to be right on the. I can't wait.
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Amanda Head
What's going to be your favorite part about it? And do you have a favorite astronaut?
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John Solomon
I love all four. Listen, anyone that's willing to take that level of risk and defy the bounds of gravity, they deserve our respect. I love all four.
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Amanda Head
All right, everybody, tune in. It's in about an hour. We'll see you on Monday.
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Podcast Host
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