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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, January 22nd, 2026
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John Solomon
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Amanda Head
Good evening America. Happy Thursday and welcome to the latest edition of Just the News. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you as always from the nation's capital where there was a Little drama. It just finished a few seconds ago. The United States House of Representatives defeated a measure that would have required President Trump to get congressional approval to take any military action in Venezuela. It's called the War Powers Act Resolution. Republicans defeated it by a narrow hair of their chinny chin chin. This is how close it was. They had to keep the vote open for 20 minutes. So Congressman Wesley Hunt of Texas, who was out of state, had to come all the way back in a flight and he got delayed from the airport. And they just had to keep the vote open so they could defeat it. But this is a win for President Trump. And there were other Wednesdays, some for the American people. There were the final votes today, for the first time in two decades, Congress passed all 12 of their budget bills independently, something they promised they were going to do. They got it done. You can check that one off. In the process, they began cutting more things for the budget. That's why you go through the normal process to get rid of some of the fat that often is snuck in when you do a big omnibus bill like the normal budgets have been done for about two decades now. All 12 bills, they're going to go to the Senate. There's a good chance the Senate will also pass them. That will mean there's no chance for Democrats to shut down the government anymore this fiscal year. The next big crisis will be in September and October. All right. Meanwhile, there were sparks flying earlier today on Capitol Hill as the House Judiciary Committee, led by Jim Jordan, held a hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith. It was bombastic. Smith defended his decision to prosecute then former President Donald Trump for his alleged unlawful retention of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Smith said he stood by his decisions as special counsel, including bringing charges against Trump, as well as saying that if he was asked to do it again based on the same facts, he'd do it again. However, House Judiciary Security Chairman Jim Jordan, well, he read him the riot act several times, starting with his opening statement. He said, quote, it was always about politics to get President Trump. They were willing to do just about anything. No one in this hearing agreed. Jack Smith and the Democrats were literally in another universe compared to the Republicans. We're very lucky. We're going to turn to one of the members of Congress who was in that hearing all day in just a little bit, as well as voting on all of these historic measures that passed through. Before we get to that, and Congressman Tom Tiffany, let me turn to my amazing co host, Amanda Head. Amanda You've got some other things you've been watching all day. A lot of news all around the world.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Yes, I have. Including President Trump, who is on his way back to the United States after his very successful trip to Switzerland and where he spoke at the World Economic Forum. He gaggled on Air Force One just a little while ago. But we also know that he got a deal framework established for Greenland, and he inaugurated the first ever Board of Peace with several world leaders to rebuild Gaza. Here is President Trump officially ratifying the Charter.
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Dr. Ali Safavi
And now, to bring the Board of Peace into full force, I ask Sheikh Isa of Bahrain and Foreign Minister Burita of Morocco to join me in signing.
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Amanda Head
And ratifying the Board of Peace Charter.
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Dr. Ali Safavi
Thank you very much, everybody. Appreciate it. Thank you.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Congratulations, President Trump. The Charter is now in full force, and the Board of Peace is now an official international organization. And after the initial signing, many other countries, including Argentina, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates, joined President Trump in ratifying the Charter. Now, while countries like Canada, the UK And Russia, along with several others, did not attend the event, however, it does doesn't exclude them from potentially joining in the near future. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, for example, stated that he agrees in the principle, but further details need to be worked out as he is concerned about the board's structure set out by President Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also had a message for President Trump and the members of the charter. Take a listen.
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John Solomon
This is not just a Board of Peace.
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Amanda Head
This is a Board of action, just.
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John Solomon
Like President Trump is a president of action.
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Amanda Head
A lot of times, people like to give speeches.
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Amanda Head
They have utility in many cases.
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John Solomon
But oftentimes in international affairs, we often find ourselves at events where people are.
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Amanda Head
Reading these scripted statements, these strongly worded letters that they put out, but no action. Nothing happens.
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John Solomon
This is a group of leaders that are about action. And the President, United States is a President of action.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
The President of Action, of course. And John, Secretary Rubio might actually be the only person on that stage who thinks that there has been good things that have come out of the World Economic Forum and their conferences in Davos. But nonetheless, I mean, President Trump, this is another instance where he goes into a scenario. He's faced with people who criticize him behind his back, criticize him to his face, including Mark Carney and Gavin Newsom.
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And.
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And he goes in there and he plows ahead and he does exactly what he intended.
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Amanda Head
He gets stuff Done.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Yeah, he gets stuff done.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. Whether it's the Board of Peace or a framework for a Greenland deal, there was a lot that was accomplished in a meeting that was tilted against them, but he tilted it back. And I think at the end of the day, America comes away with some wins. They also got some wins in Congress today. And a little while ago he had to run back before the show to get to that vote, that one we just told you about involving the War Powers Act. But he joined us for a few minutes. Congressman and candidate for governor, Tom Tiffany. Take a watch what we talked about. He covered a lot of subjects. Joining us now on a day when fiscal sanity finally reigns supreme in Washington, a champion of that fiscal sanity, Wisconsin Congress and our candidate for governor of Wisconsin, Tom Tiffany. Congressman, great to have you back on the show.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Amanda and John, it's really good to join you. And yes, all 12 appropriations bills. So I'm almost six years into this. I didn't think we'd see that day. It's here today.
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Amanda Head
It is an amazing accomplishment and it puts the country on a path to maybe really start getting on top of its finances like we all have to do in our personal lives. Tell us what you think the long term trend lines are now, now that the Congress can prove that it did, it can do it. How does 27 go and does the courage to maybe cut more continue to grow with this process?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
So I think the thing to celebrate here is that we actually brought some modicum of fiscal responsibility through the reconciliation process and all the things that happened in 2025 to the federal budget. I do not pretend that this is the be all, end all, but it's a start. And we've seen some reductions in spending. It's a starting point to hopefully get us on a path where we can continue to do this. And I hope the voters realize what has happened here, that there's actually some fiscal responsibility starting to go on in Washington, D.C. if we do this long term, we can fix the finances out.
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Amanda Head
Here in Washington, D.C. what a great idea.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
It would be amazing to see and maybe even a cultural shift. I want to ask you fireworks on Capitol Hill today. Special counsel Jack Smith answering questions. And you brought up something that was interesting because I think a lot of Americans, they know Jack Smith within the context of going after President Trump. But you rightly pointed out that this is, this has been a long career, not just the last three years. The last three years look exactly like the rest of his year, the rest of his career that preceded that.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Yeah, I'm really glad you caught that, Amanda, because that's what I was trying to do is set up how did we end up with a Jackson Smith who used extrajudicial means to go after President Trump? And so, I mean, he worked with Lois Lerner when she was denying people there at the IRS back in the Obama years, denying them the ability to have their nonprofit status. We had Jack smith being turned overturned 8, 0 on the Governor McDonald decision in Virginia. Even one of Jack Smith's heroes, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, voted against him in that. And then of course, we had the other two with John Edwards and Senator Menendez, where mistrials were declared. This is a guy that has, at every step of the way has denied people their First Amendment rights to speech and has had to be smacked down by courts to set him in his place.
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Amanda Head
All the things that you discussed with him today, what was perhaps the most important revelation or that he expressed that you think summarizes his approach to the justice system?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
I just, you know, I really think it is the history of what he has done as a prosecutor. I mean, it is clear why he was chosen by the Biden administration to take on this special counsel role. And I think it was Chairman Jordan that laid out really quite well that this was unusual how he went about his job as a special prosecutor. He was there as an attack dog. The Biden administration knew he would be that attack dog. The record that I just cited gave them full confidence in the Biden administration that he would do the Biden administration's bidding. He would not be an honest special prosecutor.
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Congressman, another thing that came out today, we've learned so much thanks to in large part to my co host, John Solomon. We've learned so much about what happened on January 6th, and we know so much more now that it looks very, very different from the narrative that was Spat out on January 6th and in the following months, especially by folks like Nancy Pelosi. But Jack Smith is right there at the beginning. He has not budged. He hasn't moved on his opinion. He is still digging in his heels and recalcitrant that it was Donald Trump's fault that it happened. Is that what you learned from him?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Yeah, that's what he was saying all day. And of course, on the other side, the Democrats were defending him. I mean, one of them saying he was the gold standard of prosecutors, as I said at the end of my testimony or my questioning, I said that he really needs a tutorial in the First Amendment. If this is the gold standard. Somebody that's overturned at the Supreme Court on A major case 8O where all the justices are saying, hey, you got it all wrong here, buddy. If that's the gold standard, God help us. And hopefully Jack Smith is not bad.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, it's a scary standard if it becomes the norm in Washington. There was a revelation that we posted earlier this week documents that Cash Patel found showing that Jack Smith and the Arctic Frost and the January six FBI teams were paying a group called the Sedition Hunters, which were overtly anti Trump, had foreign components, including using foreign software to help the FBI and were admitting they were working with the FBI even though their payments were arranged as confidential human sources, I.e. informants who are supposed to be quiet has all the same hallmarks as Christopher Steele. The idea that the FBI after the Christopher Steele debacle, after Russia collusion would still be hiring anti Trump biased informants, paying them and not being worried about their foreign connections or their blabbery, meaning they're letting people that work for the FBI. Doesn't seem like the FBI learned much from Russia collusion.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
No, they didn't. And it's part of the reason we're having these hearings is you, you have to continue to expose this. You know, people will sometimes be critical of us, the majority on judiciary, because they're like, when are you guys going to throw somebody in jail? Well, that's not what we do. But we highlight those that perhaps should be prosecuted. And this may be another case just like Russia collusion, where there needs to be more digging done. Because I think the more stones that we overturn to show the depth and breadth of the swamp and the critters that are here that will do anything to retain power out in Washington, D.C. the more we do to expose that, I think the better for the American public to make decisions about. Who do you want representing you in Washington, D.C. absolutely.
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Congressman. I want to get into your gubernatorial campaign, Wisconsin being right next to Minnesota. I do think that there are some similarities as far as some of the problems that the people of Wisconsin face. They don't have to, though. They don't have to. As you pointed out, they don't have to deal with high taxes. They don't have to deal with, you know, crushing regulation on their small businesses. Talk to us about what you want to do in Wisconsin to fix it and make sure it never ends up looking like its neighbor Minnesota.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Now that's what the election in 2026 is going to be all about in Wisconsin. Do we end up like the woke and broke in Minnesota and Illinois or are we going to be one of the great states of America?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
And I think it starts by making sure that you have reasonable low taxes. You have. We're going to do a red tape reset. We're one of the most regulated states in the country. Eliminate the duplication of that. We need to fix our education system. It's fallen behind the state of Mississippi. Our energy costs are now among the highest in the Midwest. We have major challenges in front of us, but we have a plan to be able to fix all of those red tape reset. Let's educate kids, not indoctrinate them. Let's get back to keeping baseload power on in our state rather than going and having these wind and solar conversions of our beautiful farmland in Wisconsin. There's a whole series of things that we can do here to get Wisconsin back on track. And we could be one of the shining stars here in America.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. Today, the Justice Department arrested two people who intruded on a Christian worship service Sunday in Minnesota. They interrupted church, but a judge blocked them from arresting a third. Don Lemon was supposed to be the third. The cnn, but we're told that Pam Bondi was blocked and told by a judge she couldn't arrest him. Your thoughts on getting some accountability for that incident and the fact that maybe Don Lemon doesn't face justice?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Well, I sure hope Attorney General Bondi continues to press. And as we've seen so many times in the last year, these local judges that are, I mean, they're just lawless. The Trump administration needs to appeal these decisions just as they have been doing, and get it to a court that will actually, actually study the law. Does the administration have this authority? And I believe clearly it does. The FACE act provides for being able to prosecute someone who denies a person's ability to practice their religion.
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Amanda Head
There's no doubt about it, Congressman. I started my career in Wisconsin. A young governor named Tom was there. He transformed the state into a superpower in the country where people were modeling what Wisconsin's done. His name was Tommy Thompson. I have a funny prediction. We're going to wake up in 2027 with another governor named Tom May maybe named Tom Tiffany, and all the arc of Wisconsin will change again. Great to have you on the show today. Thanks for joining us.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
It's always good to join you guys. Have a great weekend.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, you as well, sir. Thanks so much. All right, folks, a whole lot more. So many things happen in Congress. It's such a big, big day. We got more ahead of us right after these commercial breaks.
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Welcome back everybody. There are a few things that you can say about President Trump's foreign policy, but one thing you cannot say is that it is passive. The President has been taking a leading role in trying to solve many of the conflicts of around the globe and also getting ready to prevent future ones. For example, his pursuit of Greenland. The president also announced shortly before the show tonight that a naval fleet was headed towards Iran. He added that he hopes that we don't need to use it. Joining us now to discuss all of this and more is senior research fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology at the Allison center for National Security at the Heritage Foundation, Brent Sadler. Brent, thanks so much for being back with us.
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John Solomon
Thanks for having me. And good evening.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Good evening. All right, so I want to talk Greenland. This is something that President Trump has been desiring for a long time. We don't know a lot of the deets about the framework, but I have a feeling it has a lot to do with the Iron Dome. Tell us how important this is to us strategically.
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John Solomon
Yeah, well, first thing is the US has been trying to get Greenland from Denmark for very long time, well over 100 years because of its importance to the nation's security, economic as well as national security. So the Golden Dome we mentioned is a missile sensing and defense against a nuclear attack against the United States. And during the Cold War, of course, NATO and the United States had bases and sensors arrayed across the area as well in Greenland to census Soviet attack so they had enough time to respond and hopefully deter a large attack from the Soviets. It was effective. We've reduced that. The Danish authorities have allowed over years a Chinese presence, largely unscrutinized, to get in there and haven't done much to build up the security of the island at the same time. And so that longstanding interest and defense of the United States has been put at risk because of bad decisions in Copenhagen.
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Amanda Head
It's amazing there was such an extraordinary contrast at the Davos Summit because you have President Trump leaning into a security concern in the Arctic with Greenland and Lilly willing the Europeans to do something bigger by forcing their hand. And then you have the British prime Minister saying goodbye to the Chagos Islands where we have our Diego Garcia base. Seems like a good contrast between peace through strength and peace through appeasement. Why did Great Britain take the action it did on the Chagos Islands?
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John Solomon
I mean, the only thing on that, and you look at their logic and you look at their own statements, it all goes back to an international court finding back last decade that said, you know, the last vestige of British colonialism is in Diego Garcia, the Chagos Islands, and it needs to be returned. It's not binding. But this very left of center government under Starmer sees it as their mission to shed this vestige as colonial past of the British security and national interest and the better interest of the British people and certainly their closest and most important allies, interest be damned. It's the only rationale. It's ideological. It's not commonsensical at all.
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Yeah. I mean, it reminds me of the bleeding heart liberalism that causes heart attacks for people. It's just cutting off their nose to spite their faces. I want to ask you about President Trump's posture at Davos. You know, these are a lot of folks there who criticize him to his face, they criticize him to his back, they write op eds and they issue sweeping stuff, statements about him. But then they come face to face with him and it's a very, very. It's a different relationship when they're face to face with him. Is that the peace through strength posture.
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John Solomon
Of President Trump, there's several things going on there. A lot of these political leaders are from Western Europe. They're more liberal governments and everything that American conservatism and they see it inside Trump is antithetical to their ideology and certainly to their political base, which I think most of what you're seeing, the posturing of troops to Greenland, it's all part of political theater and performative kind of politics to try to curry favor with their base. The reality is most of Europe is shifting to the conservative side of the spectrum, to the right. And you certainly don't see anyone in Eastern Europe that are real close to the danger from Russia acting in this manner because its results, its reality, and it's peace through strength that they live every day. And I think you're starting to see a fear in the liberal leaning politicians of what President Trump represents and how it's resonating with results.
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Amanda Head
There was some angry, sulky words from the Canadian Prime Minister Carney about President Trump. One of them is the U. S. Led global order has ended. Is there any possibility Western coalitions can have a security order without the United States leading it?
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John Solomon
Yeah, The Prime Minister Carney's trip to Beijing makes no sense. It might feel good at the moment to try to stick his finger in what he thinks in President Trump's eye. The reality is he went to a country of an authoritative communist regime that doesn't acknowledge or respect religious freedoms, personal rights to freedom of speech. They have a social credit system that you get judged on every day and access to services, let alone medical services and everything else. It's everything that's antithetical to what the Canadian people seem to think and embrace in a liberal society makes no sense. I don't give it more than a year that it's going to survive. And it's going to blow up in his face and it'll be right back to where we've been for well over 100 years. A very peaceful and a very positive economic and military relationship with Canada.
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Amanda Head
Do you think Carney falls early or gets replaced in a snap election, or do you think he just reverses course because of the pressure?
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John Solomon
I think the economic, the political, the fact that he's embracing a genocidal leader that's suppressing the second group, first was the Tibetans, now it's the Uyghurs. I think very quickly a lot of the ideologically aligned people will start to see this hypocrisy. And I think the whole effort will fall apart fairly quickly. And I would put my money on that. I think the Canadian government under Prime Minister Carney is going to reverse course because he is pragmatic and he'll try to cut a deal with President Trump in the future.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Yeah, Brent, I want to shift gears to Iran. As John was talking about at the top of the show. We have sent some hardware their way. What kind of message does that send to the regime? Is it enough to let them know that we are watching you? We are very close by and we are willing to do what it takes?
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John Solomon
Yes. I mean, there's a carrier strike group that got underway, was finishing up preps for deployment from the east coast and similarly another one from the west coast. We'll see where they end up. And clearly the carrier strike group that was in the Caribbean ostensibly is also headed in that. I'm sorry, the one that was in the South China Sea actually is headed towards Iran is probably within striking distance already. So the message to Tehran is we're watching and we have a hammer ready should you get out of line. And again, it's important to note a lot has been made that the protests have subsided. They certainly are not over. And I think it's important that the president and many other Western countries increasingly show solidarity and support outside for what's happening inside Iran. And there's a lot of tools on the economic, the political and diplomatic that can be applied to try to isolate, pressurize and remove options from that regime as it tries to continue to collapse the protest and to suppress violently these anti regime forces that are long suppressed and certainly give the people of Iran a better future if they're allowed to follow their natural course.
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Amanda Head
Does the president act if he decides to take the military option? Does the president act unilaterally just with Israel or does he try to create a world coalition, get some of the Arab states and maybe the UN or someone to kick in. Obviously the un you're going to get vetoed by China and Russia. So that's a dead end. But do you try to build a coalition that are willing to show that this is more than just the United States and Israel acting?
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John Solomon
I think it'll happen organically. I don't think it's necessary to build one. Certainly the United States doesn't need that to act as necessary for its own interest. Should the Iranian regime be stupid enough to attack us at this moment. But I think if there's a need to attack the regime in support of the free Iranian people, the forces are standing up there. It's going to be done very judiciously and very intelligently so that it doesn't look like the United States is taking over this movement, this very popular movement to topple this regime. But there's a lot of things that can go after the authority of these illicit arms like the barge, these armed thugs that the enforcers of the regime on the streets, as well as the IRGC and their ability to raise money and support and get folks like Hezbollah and Yemeni and the Houthis who are now on the streets of Tehran, the muscle of the new muscle for this regime. There's a way to try to interfere with that outside Iran to have an effect that's supportive of the people there. And I think that's the best course if it's necessary.
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Amanda Head
Yeah.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Brent, before we let you go, I want to bring Venezuela into the conversation because you talked about the fundraising nature of IRGC and it's pretty much a plus plus. Venezuela as a country was very poor for its people, but the folks at the top had no problem using the wealth that they had to fund regimes like Iran. How does that play into this whole conversation considering what happened in Venezuela three weeks ago?
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John Solomon
Yeah, I mean, Venezuela was part of a global network of illicit activities. I mean, it's a trillion dollar business. Just looking at the co cocaine narcotic cartels that were flowing through. They weren't necessarily growing the coca in Venezuela, but they were processing it, they were shipping it, they were managing it. They had all of the trappings of a nation state protection racket that they could operate under. Well, that's gone. It's going to complicate their business. But this dark fleet of illicit movement of oil on tankers, the Venezuelans are one of the nodes. The Russians are another major benefactor and players in this. But taking the Venezuelans off of this illicit energy market hurts China and certainly makes it a lot harder for them to get a cheap oil on the market in the black market. So there's a lot that Venezuela had its hand in. And by getting that regime to change, it's definitely good for the United States. And it uproots a whole bunch of nefarious illicit activities across the world. But certainly those that have suffered under addiction and the criminality that comes with narcotics trafficking on our streets, but also across Latin America.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Absolutely. Brent Sadler, senior research fellow at the Heritage foundation, always a pleasure having you with us. Thanks for being here.
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John Solomon
Thanks for having me. Have a good night.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Absolutely. You, too. All right, everybody, we're going to stay on the conversation of Iran and continue the discussion on the other side of this break.
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Amanda Head
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Welcome back. Now we're going to stay on the subject of Iran. So much going on now with the Internet blackout, it's a lot harder to tell what's going on on the ground. But we have a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, one of the main opposition and resistance groups in Iran. They have incredible ground intelligence. Joining us now, a good friend of the show, Dr. Ali Safavi. Ali, good to have you back on.
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Dr. Ali Safavi
Well, hello John and great to be with you. And hello Amanda. Good evening to you as well.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, it's a, it's a great moment. So the leader of the mek, Marian Marianne Rajavi, said that she believes that this protest movement is irreversible, meaning it is just going to continue until there's an overthrow. Tell us what we're seeing on the ground. There are reports that it's some of the protest activity has declined. What do you know from your sources on the ground.
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Dr. Ali Safavi
But naturally, given the tremendous brutality with which the regime reacted to this nationwide uprising, that there's going to be, if you will, some slowing of the pulse of the uprising. But that is a far cry from ending. Remember, even at the time of the Shah, there were ebbs and flows in the anti Shah protests. The Shah even organized counter demonstrations to show that he has support. But at the end of the day, we all saw that the will of the Iranian people prevailed. And I think this is exactly the same case in Iran right now. And there's no question that the developments, especially of the past 25 days since December 28, have made it abundantly clear that the situation as far as the Iranian people on the one hand and the regime on the other is concerned, we will not return to the pre December 28th status quo. It seems to me that in many ways the wall of fear has shifted from the people to the Iranian regime, which is why they have imposed curfews in virtually every city. They have set up checkpoints. The Revolutionary Guards, the Basij, have orders to fire at anybody who moves around. But there are, as we speak, clashes, hit and run skirmishes between the rebellious youth and the IRGC in different parts of Iran. In Kermanshah, in Ahmad, in Shiraz, even in several locations in Tehran, some Basij bases have been set alight and torched. And of course, in many cases, the youth are standing up and fighting. They're not running away, and they're using whatever means that is at their disposal to punish the IRGC and the revolutionary cause. As you know, the regime itself stated that among the casualties, there were 500 members of the security forces. They said 800 different vehicles by the police vehicles, IRGC vehicles, have been destroyed. Many of the Basij centers, IRGC centers have been torched. So the situation, to be honest with you, is a very fluid situation. And I think one should expect this igniting sooner or later. And I think next time around this will be far more ferocious and far more widespread than what we witnessed in the past 25 days.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
I think for a lot of people in the first three days of this uprising, people felt like it was much more durable than anything we've seen in the last 10, 15 years. I want to ask you, you know, President Trump obviously has a very close eye on this situation, and he is constantly weighing the decisions, weighing what he should or should not do. What is the best case scenario for Iran as far as what the United States can do?
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Dr. Ali Safavi
Well, I think Mrs. Rajavi told you in that Excellent interview. You did that. At the end of the day, change is responsibility of the Iranian people and organized resistance and is not going to happen by calls from exile by some, I guess, personalities, or by the will of foreign governments. Without an organized, a battle, capable, organized force on the ground, this regime will not be overthrown. But I think what the United States can do, as your previous guest Brent Sadler said very correctly, is to make a very unequivocal statement that the Iranian people have the right to overthrow this regime and that the United States recognizes the right of the Iranian people to use all available means to them to confront the IRGC. After all, what can you do when the IRGC uses 50 caliber machine guns mounted on jeeps to fire indiscriminately at the people? That's one thing. Secondly, I think the lifeline of this regime must be cut off. Every barrel of oil that they sell turns into bullets that pierces the hearts of Iranian youth industries today. Third, they should be banished from the international community. Why are the regime's ambassador still roaming around in Europe and why are European ambassadors still in Iran? Why are the embassies still operating? Fourth, the regime's leaders must be held accountable, held before international tribunals on the basis of universal declaration, universal jurisdiction, because of atrocities, crimes against humanity that they have already perpetrated against the Iranian people. So there's a whole host of options available to the United States to undertake. And I think when the Iranian people see that, when they recognize that the United States is standing on their side, they will be more emboldened and more encouraged to take the fight with the regime and its suppressive apparatus to the next level.
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Amanda Head
So Ali, there's a lot of hardware that the President moved to the region, at least two battle, two battle group carriers, two carrier groups, and then you got other assets already in the, in the region. Is the expectation that they will strike militarily or is it a blockade that keeps that oil from leaving? What do you think those military assets are likely to do?
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Dr. Ali Safavi
But to be honest with you, I'm not in neither in the Situation Room nor Pentagon Planning department. But I think quite frankly, the moment the Iranian regime and the Mollus get the message that this will not be business as usual and this is not empty rhetoric, I think they will think twice. And to this extent, of course, they are now trying to play the victim and say, well, this was all sedition, these were terrorists. Well, one has to ask. Well, this was all over the country, in 31 provinces, in more than 260 cities, in 400 different locations inside the country. And I think before Internet was shot was caught, a lot of people saw who these folks are, especially young folks, women and men fighting out in many cases with bare hands against the irgc. So quite frankly, I think a decisive and a show of strength on the part of the United States will only enhance what the people of Iran are doing. But I emphasize that change in Iran must come from within. It has to be organic, it has to be indigenous. Any other way, quite frankly, the Iranian people are ready to take the fight to the Malads. And of course the resistance units of the MEK. By the way, among the 3,000 that have been killed, among the 450 we have identified, there are seven members of the resistance units, units ranging in age from 17 to 74 that unfortunately have lost their lives in the fight for freedom in Iran. So I emphasize that the Iranian resistance is prepared not only on the ground but also it has as Mrs. Rajavi told Amanda, a political alternative in place with a ready made plan for post bureaucracy Iran. And of course that plan enjoys the supportive thousands of parliamentarians, including bipartisan support of the U.S. house of Representatives.
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Amanda Head
Important, important because that's the key to transition. Ali, always great to have you on the show. We're watching everything closely and the people of Iran need to know the American public support them. We'll have you on the show again real quickly. Thanks for joining us.
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Dr. Ali Safavi
Thank you very much for the opportunity. Really grateful. Thank you.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, great conversation.
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Amanda Head
All right folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break. When we come back, tomorrow's the big march for life in Washington, a historic moment. There's also a lot to talk about, the extraordinary Catholic Church and what's going on both in America and abroad with Pope Leo. We're going to get all to get all of that with our next guest, Frank Proven after these messages.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
Hey, good to be with you both. Thank you.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
So good to see you. Another historic day happening tomorrow, the March for Life. Tell us what this year is this going to look like.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
Well, this year, of course, first of all, the March for Life is not just one event. There are literally dozens of events. Some of them were today, some will be tomorrow, some will be Saturday. And there's also a big March for Life in San Francisco Saturday. The second largest annual Pro Life event this year, of course, America 250 is one of the big themes. And we have a national prayer service in the morning that I lead over at Constitution hall, and we're really going to emphasize that theme there. We're also going to honor Charlie Kirk, whom I had been working in the summertime to invite to the prayer service. So we're going to give him posthumously an award for his own pro life commitment. But we're going to see Americans from all over the country coming tomorrow, singing, praying, joyful people of all ages, all religious backgrounds, children, the elderly, and everyone in between standing up for the most fundamental right that we have have, as our declaration declares on the eve of.
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Amanda Head
This great event, some announcements by the Trump administration, the end of fetal tissue research taken from elective abortions. That's something that I think the pro life movement's been looking for a long time. There's still large policy progresses being made in the pro life movement.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
There has never been a more effective pro life president than President Trump. And we don't have to be. You know, a lot of the. Even some of my colleagues in the pro life leadership, we worry about, you know, some of the things he says off the cuff and what. Stop worrying about that. Look at the results. We all know he's a transactional man, you know, and he'll say something and then do something and it won't quite. That doesn't matter. Look at the result. Nobody's given more results than he has, and we're grateful.
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Amanda Head
True.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Yeah. And I know a lot of people, even before his first term, they talked about him as a Cyrus type figure coming in the office, isn't it true?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
It is.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
And, you know, you look at the way that he's maneuvering. Exactly. Like you said, the proof is in the pudding of what he's doing. What more can he do in this second term to move the. To move the ball not only for life, but also to bring our country back to its Judeo Christian values.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
Well, here's the thing about what President Trump is doing. You know, I don't need him to give my pro life speeches. I'll give the speeches, I'll articulate the principles, as will all my colleagues in pro life leadership. We need him to defend the tools that the pro life movement needs to advance its goal, and he is doing that. That's what we need more of in the second term, and I'm confident we're going to get it. We can't protect the unborn without freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to protest. Like we're going to march Tomorrow. And he's zeroed in on all these essential tools that we need not only to accomplish our goal of protection, protecting the unborn, but every good movement in America, every good social justice effort, needs these fundamental tools that are there in our Bill of Rights and our Constitution, but that we know have been eroded and attacked by the left.
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Amanda Head
One need to look no further than Great Britain to realize that if those tools are taken, how quickly the ability to even speak up is gone.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
That's right.
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Amanda Head
You have people praying in front on the street and they get arrested because they might be thinking about a political opposing abortion in Great Britain. It's just crazy. I want to turn to an act that I still haven't gotten over. I've always believed there were some lines in politics that weren't crossed. One of those where you didn't take your political protests and interrupt a house of worship. What happened Sunday in Minnesota still has shocked a lot of people. I'd like to get your reaction.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
Well, listen, I wouldn't be too shocked. The left has told us who they are and we should believe them. They hate religion, they hate God, they hate freedom. So what is left to do except to disrupt the church service? Of course they're going to do that. They're going to do more of that unless we stop them. And one of the ways we have to stop them is. Exactly. Again, going back to President Trump's results oriented form of governing. Look at the religious liberty efforts he's doing. The Religious Liberty Commission is going to be meeting again here in D.C. in a couple of weeks. I'll be there for that. And that's what we have to do. We defend our rights by exercising them without fear. So you won't want churches to be invaded. You know what? Let's do a better job teaching, preaching, recruiting and proclaiming the gospel.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Frank, I saw some devastating information a few weeks ago. Despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade, despite the fact that especially a lot of red states have taken measures to pass heartbeat bills to protect life in general, the number of abortions is up.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
You know, here's the thing about that, though. You know, one thing we can say about the statistics on abortion is that since Dobbs, they are more unreliable than ever. People crossing state lines, mailing of abortion drugs and whatnot. Now, the fact that an abortion pill might be sold or mailed, that doesn't mean that it was taken. That doesn't mean an abortion actually happened. So there's actually a lot of uncertainty here about the numbers. But what you say shows that, you know, laws and policies are not enough. The pregnancy center movement needs to be strengthened. The individual advocacy of every American needs to be increased to persuade people. And the voices of Silent no more. By the way, at the end of the march tomorrow, when it reaches the court, we have a gathering of the people who've had abortions. They're going to be sharing publicly their story one after the other. That kind of thing will help these numbers to come down. People will realize, hey, this is not something that helps us in any way.
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Amanda Head
The most powerful story I think I've listened to in the last year was a woman who started the abortion pill process, then had regret and quickly stopped it and was able to. Now, the state went after her for a while in Colorado until they finally came to their senses. But her story of regret and her story of pain and her story of rejoicing that she could hold that baby on her shoulder was probably the most popular, powerful story I've seen in a long time. Before we let you go, I want to get your take on Pope Leo. He's a dynamic figure, an American Pope. We haven't had one before.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
How do you rate his first few months in office?
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
Better than Francis. But then again, anybody would have been okay. But. But that means something, though. I mean, the church, I think, breathed a sigh of relief. No disrespect intended, but face the facts. Right. Pope Francis caused a lot of. Of confusion with Pope Leo. You know, there have been mixed signals. I mean, blessing a block of ice. I mean, climate change is a myth. And, you know, why did he do that? Why did he have to do that? But here's what. Here's my other thought. When a pope first takes over, we have to understand there have been a lot of things already in progress from the previous pope, and it doesn't all get canceled. So even, like one of his first documents, he said, well, you know, Pope Francis. Pope Francis wrote much of this himself. So I would say, yes, let's address. I mean, I think we as Catholics have to have more of a sense of freedom to be able to express our concerns about what a pope does. It's not disloyalty to a pope, a bishop, a pastor, to say, hey, where's that coming from? Or, why are you saying that? There's a certain brand of Catholicism that would say, sit down and shut up.
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Amanda Head
Up.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
And I don't think we need that anymore. I mean, that's. And that's not authentic Catholicism anyway. Any healthy family, you can express disagreement and concern. So I think the jury's still out in a lot of ways in the things that he has done that are questionable. Hey, let's speak up. Let's have a dialogue in the family. And then the final point is give him a little more time in the sense that a lot of these things we're seeing are echoes of Pope Francis.
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Amanda Head
You're right.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
That's very true. Director of Priests for Life and good friend of our program. Thanks so much for being here. Frank Pavlov yes, absolutely. All right everybody, we're going to take a very quick break, but we have some final thoughts on the other side.
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Welcome back everybody. A few thoughts before we head out for the night. John Law and Order is back in style and the proof is in the pudding. 20% reduction in murders last year. The largest drop on record. Absolutely incredible.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, no, it's results driven administration, right? Statistics matter. Data matters. They don't care about the Rhetoric, they care about the results. And I think that long term that's going to create a legitimacy in the, the electorate when people realize I can turn to just about any statistic I was concerned about three years ago and it's different now. You did such a great job on the, on the one year anniversary, President Trump putting 10 or 12 statistics together, inflation and gas price, egg prices and the number of terrorists that were killed overseas, just amazing numbers. This is another big one that really shows the difference between. There's also a story to it. I think when we had cash on the show, not this past time, but last time he talked a lot about the strategy which was it wasn't all about the numbers. It was about getting the big kingpins off. Because if you cripple the top of these crime organizations, the gangs violence goes down because there's just no command structure. There's been a strategy to it that sometimes isn't fully appreciated in the media.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Yeah, well unfortunately when it comes to the statistics and of murderers going down, we also have to couple that with some other statistics that apparently assassination culture is booming, especially among women, which is bizarre. But a new survey shows that 67% of left leaning respondents see political violence as justified compared to 54% on the right. Who are the 54% on the right? First of all, there's never a reason for this, John. Those that number, especially pertaining to the left doesn't really surprise me though.
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Amanda Head
It goes to the culture that we just talked to Father Frank about. Who would have thought that it would be a great idea to go in and disrupt the church and then come out and say the reason I disrupt it was because I think they're white supremacists, people worshiping Jesus. This anger, I mean I will say this very different from the time when I started as a reporter in the 80s and early 90s. The left is the party of angry, anger and hatred. And there are three attributes that. And it is going to collapse under the weight of that. It needs to become nice again. It just needs. We can disagree and battle things out in the courts and the politics without destroying each other, blocking ICE agents and interrupting church proceedings or assassinating people like Charlie Kirk and but I don't think the left mentality has changed it. It hasn't felt the penalty for that conduct yet.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
No. And it, and it looks to me so different than it did. You know, the bleeding heart liberals of the 60s and 70s, they weren't angry, I don't think. I don't know. I wasn't alive but they didn't seem angry.
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Amanda Head
Those Vietnam protests were pretty angry.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
That's true.
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Amanda Head
That is some cities on fire.
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Guest or Secondary Announcer
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
But it's, I don't know, it's more visceral now.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. And it's also, it's just more condoned. You have a judge today that wouldn't let Pam Bondi arrest Don Lemon, even though he clearly is part of the disruption. So it's so embedded that you can't even get justice anymore because some of these judges are off their razor. So, more to be discussed. A lot of history ahead of us.
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Co-host (possibly John or another main host)
Absolutely. All right, everybody, that's going to do it for us tonight. But we hope you have a wonderful evening. And we'll be back here tomorrow night at 6pm Eastern here on Real America's Voice. Grant Stitchfield is going to take you through the next hour.
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