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If your TV sounds funny in the evening. You're watching live from Studio 6B on Real America's Voice.
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It is live from Studio 6B, Real America's Voice on a big Wednesday night, April 1st. There are no April Fool's jokes tonight. This is serious business. President of the United States addresses the Nation at 9pm We've got it covered for you wall to wall. We'll bring in all of our great correspondents. We've got it covered for you. But let me first quickly bring in the boys here at live from Studio 6B. Slickster, how are you?
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Okay.
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Big night for the president tonight.
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Absolutely.
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I expect a big performance from the show. All right, Very good. Rick Delgado's here. Mr. Delgado, how are you?
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I am good, Damon.
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And joining us from West Palm beach is Vinnie Mac. Vinnie Mac, how are you?
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Yeah, I'm doing good. Great day. Had dinner with the Zen master and we've been pregaming about tonight's show. So all good here.
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All right. Very good. On a big Wednesday night show where President Trump is going to get in front of the country on nine o' clock on all the major networks. I feel like it's been a while since we've seen like a 9pm kind of teleprompter to the camera speech from President Trump from the OV office. He's going to talk about Operation Epic Fury and I suspect he's going to make the case for that. They're ahead of schedule, meeting its objectives, many other things. There's been a lot of speculation about what the President might or might not say. Let's bring in the A team we've got for you tonight. We've got many A teams. But joining us right now we've got David Zier at the pentagon, we've got RAB DC correspondent Neil McCabe at the White House, we've got RAV DC congressional correspondent Benny Ray Harmony at the Capitol, David Zier, I will come to you first. A big night for President Trump. He addresses the Nation at 9pm Set the scene from DC there at the Pentagon. I know you've been in these briefings with the Secretary of War. Big night for the President tonight. Tell me what, what you expect to hear.
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Good evening, gentlemen. And we're outside the Pentagon here. And the Pentagon has laid out pretty much what they've accomplished on the ground so far in this five weeks or so of epic fury operations. Like 15,000 targets hit, maybe more when you add in the Israel Air force and other here. But it may be good timing if Trump's able to put together a deal. Maybe good timing for the Pentagon and our forces and other over there because, you know, interceptors are getting a little bit low. We lost some strategic aircraft like the E3 AWACS, the century critical. We can't lose another one. There's only like six working over there. And KC 135 loss and others were damaged on the ground. So we have pulled off this spectacular chain of events with mostly successes here. But as Europe may step up to the plate with a coalition, the UAE stepping up to the plate to guide ships through the strait. And now we've got Saudi Arabia maybe engaging here. Maybe there's something else going behind the scenes. And maybe Trump can make a deal with this guy Mohamed Galiha or other people parliamentarians. And my big question is, will the coalitions be included in there, like some form of Pahlavi, who only has about 30% support, and also the NCRI, the MEK, the People's Mujahideen who've been leading, who led the original revolution. And, you know, what will this look like going forward? But it's probably good timing. We don't want more losses, right?
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Absolutely. David Ziere live outside the Pentagon. And of course, David's been in all these briefings listening to the Secretary of War. Neil McCabe is over at the White House. Rap D.C. correspondent Neil, welcome in tonight. Glad to have you with us on such an important night. President Trump to make the case for the success of what he's done so far. How important is it for the president to put some kind of timeline on this for the American people if he is, in fact going to make the case that the time to wind this down is coming?
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Yeah. I think one of the keys to President Trump's appeal to the American people is that he's so transparent and honest and he, he says what people are thinking and are afraid to say. And even when it comes out wrong or impolite, people appreciate his honesty and his directness. And that's what we're going to get from the president tonight. Obviously, as the president, he's the commander in chief, but he's also the head of this government. He also is the head of the party. And he's got a lot of balls in the air. And he's got to figure out how to get the Save America act passed. He's got to figure out how to fund homeland security. He's looking at the midterms. And so obviously the president was looking at a four to six week excursion. Operation Epic Fury. We're now at that timeline and he's looking to stick the landing. I think that's exactly what he's going to do with the proviso that he can go in and do what he has to do to clean up messes or teach people a lesson, which was what his plan for the evacuation of out of Afghanistan was going to be. He was going to keep Bagram, he was going to keep Special Forces in Afghanistan to handle any kind of incidents or whatever had to be fixed. I think that's what we're going to see. He's going to see a stopping of the major combat operations that will be winding down, but with the understanding that he has the right to seize that uranium and he has the right to go in and straighten people out if he has to.
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Yeah. Neal McCabe is at the White House. Benny Ray, Harmony is at The Capitol. She's RAV's D.C. congressional correspondent. Let me bring her and her in here as well. Benny Ray, a lot of talk about what the President might say tonight. Obviously we're going to get an operational update, but there's also been a lot of talk about what is he going to talk about NATO? What is he going to talk about our allies? What does that relationship look like? Is there going to be some big discussion about NATO? What do you expect to hear from the President tonight?
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Yeah, hey guys, that's been the biggest topic of conversation here today is NATO is, you know, President Trump had a call this morning with Reuters and it was an interview and he said, he said expect in this, in this speech, in this address to hear about NATO. I think, you know, we talked about on Stitchfield a lot how President Trump has these business, business tactics that he uses. And I think it's kind of, you know, it's a way to get a deal done. He's the art of the deal. He's that man. And so I don't think he's going to leave NATO. But I definitely think that this speech in this address is going to put some heat on them and on these foreign countries like Spain, Italy and some of these countries that have been very opposed to this Iranian conflict and won't help, they won't allow the US to use those bases, they will not help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and a lot of different things. So definitely expect that Naito to be a top, top conversation here today. And congressional leaders, I tried to get some comments from them before the show start and they're Kind of, you know, holding back on saying anything until they get that word from Trump and, and kind of teetering to see what he's going to say.
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Say, you know, I have a question for all three of you. I'm interested in Vinnie Mac. I'll bring you in here as well on everyone's perspective. Does David Zier, I'll start with you. Does the president tonight have to be careful in walking a line of kind of making it sound like mission is accomplished? Because what, what are the exact metrics for mission accomplished? If he tries to make the case that the mission here is accomplished, does he have to really set out a hard set of facts that the, the people can really understand? David, let me come to you first. What do you think about that idea?
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It didn't go well for George W. Bush when he flew the A6 Intruder, the 6B Prowler, onto the deck of the Abraham Lincoln with the big banner behind him saying mission accomplished. I don't know if he'll go that far, but I do think he'll be very careful how he lays this out, that we have accomplished our mission over there in the sense that they are rendered useless. Air defenses, their ballistic missile program, the drones, the manufacturing industrial complex and other. And also that, you know, it's time to get the Strait of Hormuz open and he's going to continue to pull these other countries in. I read a report earlier that 35 European nations may be, you know, getting together outside of the NATO framework to do something there. But again, I think he is probably going to talk about how he has people three, four tiers deep within Iran, members of parliament. I heard discussion. They were talking to the former mayor of Tehran who was like IRGC propagandist, hardline guy, but also a pragmatist. He modernized Tehran a little bit. He rides around in his motorcycle. So maybe there's some people that will be there. But I guess as long as they can be under control and not pursuing ballistic missile programs and nukes, you know, we can deal with that for a while. But is that the permanent solution? So maybe I feel he may have some big announcements tonight. Let's see.
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Yeah, we've heard. Maybe there's even talk of a ceasefire. Vinny Mac, let me bring you in. And the boys from 6B as well. Is it important for Trump tonight to have no kind of vague conditions based language, but more of like a hard date, no open ended commitments? What do you expect to hear from the President as far as, not that he uses the words mission accomplished. But to that end, that, you know the end is coming and we've succeeded, what do you expect to hear tonight
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for me is all about clarity. I think at the end of the day with the, what the president needs to communicate and all of the chatter we've heard from all the various medias out there, even internally here at Real America's Voices, all the, you know, sort of speculations on what's happening. And we need clarity. We need clarity, I think on six major points. Our objectives and progress, timeline and exit strategy, the straight of Hormuz and energy security, diplomacy, cease fire and allies, what's going on there, the nuclear threat and long term Iran policy and then domestic and broader issues within our country. He needs to clarify, I think across the board in this speech what's happening right now, where are we going and what are we going to be doing post this and that's what I expect, a very succinct speech short for him and to the point so that there's nowhere to go other than the clarity of what he's talking about.
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Rick Delgado, let me bring you in here as well. Is this tonight purely about the president being able to say the nuclear sites are dismantled, the missile capabilities are in rubble, or do we need more ironclad guarantees that this regime can't rebuild even over the next 10 to 15 years?
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That's going to be, you know what, it's interesting because I think it all comes down to policy, right? It's all, the president won't actually do certain things. He might talk about things and you know what Vin talks about speculation. I don't care about speculation. I don't care who is speculating. Oh well, we think he's going to do this or we think he's going to. Who cares? Nobody cares. Because it's not, that's not what drives this. It's what are the actions, right? What is he actually making sure gets done as opposed to what you think you hear or what you, what you interpret from what his comments are. I mean, don't get me wrong, I believe the comments, what he's going to be talking tonight need to be positive, you know, kind of because there are, let's face it, most of the American people, they don't, they're not in the weeds like we are on this. So they need some clarity. And I understand that part. But when it comes, when it comes to speculation, I don't care what the mainstream news says. I don't care what people are. Oh well, you know, I, I heard this from from certain somebody who heard something about the. Who cares? That's not, that's not President Trump. President Trump is action. What has he actually done versus what does he say? Because what he says, let's face it, is to keep everybody on their toes. He doesn't really want to give away too much of where he thinks he wants to take this. So I think that's, that's what we're probably going to see. And again, you know, laying out a path forward for the people that, like I said, this isn't their life. They turn on the news each day because they're busy. They've got things. They know about gas. And believe me, from the left, if the left's only problem with this, and because it is their only problem is, oh, my goodness, high gas prices, that's your only problem. If that's your only problem, well, then I think, I think we're on a, we're on a winning path here. And whether it's another week, two weeks, I don't, I don't care if he lays out he's never going to tell us a day, it's just going to happen when he says so. So.
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All right, we're going to take a break. We're going to come back with the great panel. We're going to get around to what else we think the president's going to set the table here on the president's speech again, 9pm the president will speak from the Oval Office directly to the nation on all the networks. Steve Bannon is going to take over coverage around 8:50. John Solomon is going to join us when we get back after this break. So let's take that break and then we'll get back Real America's Voice on a presidential address Wednesday night to the Nation. President Trump, 9pm we'll tee it up with the best in the business. We're back right after this. Ram. All right, 17 past the hour. Live from Studio 6B on a Wednesday night, April 1st. President Trump to address the nation at 9pm an update on Iran, an operational update on Operation Epic Fury. We believe the president will make the case for progress that is meeting or exceeding all of its benchmarks. I believe the president will talk a lot about that. It'll be interesting to see where else this goes. NATO related. NATO allies pulling out of NATO. Probably not, but a lot, lots of interesting things could happen. Ceasefire talk, maybe. There's a lot of speculation about what the president might say. We've got the A team with us. David Ziers at the Pentagon, Neil McCabe is at the White House. Benny Ray Harmony is at the Capitol. And let's welcome in now the founder and editor in chief, of course, of just the News, the great John Solomon. And of course, Brian Glenn joins us as well. Gentlemen, welcome in. John, I'll start with you. First of all. Good evening. Great to see you and hear from you as always. Big night for the president. Set the stage. From your vantage point, what do you expect to hear tonight?
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Well, think about the historic moment we're in. We started the morning with the president for the first time in history going to a Supreme Court hearing. No other president ever did that. That was birthright citizenship. Then we found out that the House and Senate come up with a deal to get around the Democratic opposition, get Homeland reopened. Then we learned the President's going to have a 9 o' clock speech to give us an update on Iran. And then we send four astronauts towards the moon, something we haven't done in 52 years. And by the way.
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In all the time since we last sent a moon astronauts to the moon, Iran's been terrorizing the world. And I think what the President will say is tonight it no longer has the capability it had five weeks ago. It is extraordinarily neutered. And that we're on some path to either a detent, a ceasefire, or perhaps a complete peace settlement. And I want to point out two things that aren't getting a lot of attention in the media right now, but I think they're very significant. Iran's president, all right, he's either Iran's president, so you got to take him with a grain of salt, said that they have the will to make a deal. That's not normally how Iran talks. Iran talks like death to America. You don't intimidate us. He signaled today that they're looking at some, they're open and have the capacity to deliver. We won't attack America if they won't attack us anymore. That is a gesture, an olive branch. Doesn't mean it's proof that they're going to do it. We've got 47 years of history say, don't trust Iran. The second thing is the president gave a little brief interview with Reuters, President Trump, and he, I think, really laid out what he's probably going to say tonight, which is, we've achieved our objectives. Iran is neutered. It can't do what it could do before we attack them. And we've got some cleanup to do, but we're heading towards the end of the operation very Quickly. And we expect that Iran will want to make a deal so this never happens to them again. And if they want a deal, it means no nukes and no attacking us. And so I think we got a preview of where the President's going to be. And we definitely got a different type of signal from Iran than the normal death to America thing that we've been hearing ever since they took over our embassy in 1979.
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You know, John, one of the interesting things about the whole night for me is how specific or not I don't want to say not specific. It's not the right way to say it. Probably the president is as far as timelines, upon leaving, what is the real status of Iran's nuclear program again? Remember after Midnight Hammer people said, well wait, why do we have to do this if that was so successful? So the overall question for me to you is, does the President have to be extremely specific tonight or does he not have to be but yet give the idea that the mission is accomplished without saying those words?
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Well, for most Americans, anything he says is going to be pretty specific because in the past it's been filtered by the media, which won't give the American public the truth now. Real America's voice an exception. Brian Glenn, everybody on screen with me right now, they've been telling the truth. But most Americans, you know, are busy. They might get the newscast here, catch a New York Times. There's. They haven't been told what we don't know. I did an event last night and I laid out all the reasons why the President went to Iran that haven't been talked about and what we've achieved. Like we haven't heard any of this. I'm like, you must be reading the wrong site. It's very important tonight that the president tell the American public what they've not been told by the traditional media. It'll sound new to most people. It won't sound new to real America's voice because we've been covering this war fairly. But I think he will set a timetable that in the next few days we'll be able to stop primary forward leaning combat operations. We'll have some cleanup, that's the term he used, I think, with Reuters. But he'll set the expectation that there'll be a moment of detente, cease fire, pick your choice of words. And I think that that's what Iran was playing into, which is, hey, we're on board with the idea of you stop bombing us and we won't launch any more missiles your way either. I think that that is an interesting opportunity. It'll have to be tested just like we had to test whether Hamas would stop attacking Israel. But the president got that done. It's held for nine, 10 months. There's a good chance here that Iran might not fling anything our way for a while. The straits of Hormuz open up, gas prices come down and the world's going to feel like we achieved something.
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Brian Glenn, let me bring you in. You spent a lot of time around this man, the President of the United States. You've been in those, you've been in there for the meetings and for the press conferences. From your point of view tonight, what do you expect to hear? What do we need to hear from the President tonight?
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I think John did an amazing job kind of laying out the game plan for tonight. And I agree with them. I think the American people need to hear from the president, not take a drive by headline. They scroll on social media or they see in some website. They need to hear it from the president. And I don't necessarily looking for specific timelines. I don't want to hold him accountable. If he says two weeks from now and then we go two weeks from now and we're not quite there. I don't want to get all upset about that. But what I do want to hear is that he's going to recap the accomplishments we've had. We've decimated their military. That is not even an arguable topic there. We have eliminated the threat of a nuclear weapon. That's been discussed. So I want to know how we, where's our off off ramp? How do we land the plane here and get our troops back home? And we put it, we close this chapter on quote unquote, Iran is two weeks away from a nuclear weapon. I'm over that story. I want to close it up, get back home and continue to make America great again. And we've got some great things going on. I think the stock market will come back and President Trump said this the other day in the Oval Office when we were in there or in the Cabinet Room, rather the stock market at 50,000. He knew he had to do this right now and knew it would be a slight pullback. He knew gas prices would go up slightly. He actually said, Damon, that he thought gas prices would actually go higher. It has not gone as high as he thought it would go. So I think once the markets, once the American people, once the world sees that we're done here and we're going back home, are they going to See, things go back to somewhat of a normal level. Stock market, stock market wise, and gas prices.
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Yeah, well, I think one of the reasons, I think President Trump's done a pretty masterful job of controlling the oil market. So they didn't go straight up in a straight line. I think he's had some very well timed messaging that he, you know, at the right times to kind of, well, okay, maybe it took two steps up, but then he brought it a step and a half back and then it went up and then he brought it back by kind of timing some of the comments he's made over this. But Neil McCabe, let me bring you back in here to everything you've heard over the last few minutes as far as from the president and how specific he has to be about making the case tonight that Michigan is accomplished without saying that. The other obviously kind of thousand pound gorilla in the room is what Brian just said about oil prices. Do the, do the American people need to leave this speech tonight with a clear understanding that this is temporary and maybe this is when they start to see oil prices and gas prices come back down?
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Yeah, I think my Brian makes a great point. And people are, you know, grown ups understand that if gas is $5 a gallon right now and there's a reason for it that will help us in the future, they'll roll with it. It's just that when everything is a mystery and everything is just sort of these nebulous goals, you know, are we in, are we out? And you know, the only reality for people, for most Americans is when they fill up their gas tank. That's really the only time they get involved in politics is when they see that the gas prices go up. But I think what's going to happen is that the president understands that he has to close down these operations as long as he's achieved his goals. And he'll always have the opportunity to go back in if he needs to straighten people out. And I think that's the bottom line, is everyone has known that for the last 50 years Iran has been a problem. When I was In Iraq in 09 and 10, you know, most of the, most of these soldiers who were being killed when I was there was because of the Iranians. The Iranians were the ones with the IDs, they were the ones with the rockets. There's a lot of people who want to comeuppance with Iran. And so I think people are happy to see them knock down a peg, that's for sure.
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All right, let's take a quick Break. We'll come back, get some more questions in for John, Brian, Benny Ray, Harmony, Neil McCabe, David Zier, the eight team setting the table. President Trump live at 9pm Addresses the nation. We're back. Real America's Voice right after. All right. 30 minutes past the hour. Wednesday, April 1st, Real America's Voice. President Trump addressing this is the nation at 9pm and we are teeing it up for you. We'll bring you right to it. Steve Bannon will take over about 8:50 or so and he'll have a great team with him as well. Jack Posovic, the great John Solomon who's joining us now. He'll stay with Steve. The boys from 6B are here, Aaron and Fran, of course, holding it down. And all the great Real America's Voice staff that's producing this night, all doing a fantastic job as always. Let me bring everybody back in. Let me go to Benny Ray, Harmony. She's over at The Capitol. Our D.C. congressional correspondent, Benny Ray. You talked a little bit before about NATO. We talked in the opening about that Marco Rubio, who, someone who has been literally NATO's greatest advocate. You know, before, before he was a great secretary of state, people used to talk about Rubio and go, oh yeah, he's NATO. He's one of these. And now he says today if we can't use those bases when we need them, then NATO becomes a one way street. I mean, that to me says a lot about where this relationship is and none of it could be that good. Tell me what you're hearing and how much do you think the president focuses on that relationship tonight?
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Well, I watched that interview actually, and one of the biggest things that I took away was that one way street because forever, I mean, for the past decades or, you know, years, the president or not the president, NATO, you know, the United States has always got the short note stick in everything. We continue, the United States continues to help these other countries no matter what it is, they help, they send money, they send, send equipment. I mean, look at Ukraine. I mentioned that earlier, just little things like that. And so for Rubio to get on and say, listen, you know, if NATO's not going to help us, if they're not going to, to, you know, do their end of the bargain, we should get out of Naito's, we should not continue to be in this. And so I will continue to say I really think President Trump will put a big focus on that tonight and really hopefully get some of these countries to rethink their actions and rethink their support of the United States. Now, we know the United States does not need any of these other countries. We have the strongest military in the world. But it comes down to other things. It's the world, it's peace, it's all these things. And so I don't think President Trump will leave Naito, but I definitely think he's going to push some buttons to get what he wants.
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Brian Glenn, obviously Rubio says that obviously, obviously in the end it would be, I guess the Senate's decision to take the US out of that treaty, not the President's. But obviously the President can certainly make the case. What do you think of that comment from Rubio saying, basically, hey, listen, if this is a one way street, I'm going to support the President in making the case that we don't need to be here. Do you think he focuses on it tonight and how much?
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I think he does touch on it some tonight. I don't think it makes it a big part of, of this speech, but he does touch on it. If I was President Trump, I'd get completely out. I want nothing to do with NATO. NATO, in terms of helping the average day American, what is it? I could walk around with $1,000 in my hand trying to give it away to people that would tell me how has NATO improved your daily life? It's not, it's been a money pit for a long time. We've contributed majority of funds there.
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We don't get it back.
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I say see ya.
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Yeah. John Solomon's with us, of course, editor in chief of Just the News. And I know, John, you said you had some other things you wanted to discuss and what you think the President will talk about tonight. But just briefly touch on the Rubio thing for me. Do you think the President spends some time on NATO tonight?
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NATO and America are like a couple that's been married 47 years. And you go to dinner and they're bitching the whole night about each other, right? And then you say, why did you guys get divorced? Oh, we're not going to do that. That's probably what's going to happen here. But listen, there's a very powerful moment that occurred in this war that was an incredible moment of shame for Europe. Europe was constantly impugning the United States saying Iran can't menace Europe, they're never going to try menacing Europe. And then Iran filed a medium range ballistic missile that hit the Diego Garcia, which means it could hit half of the European capitals. And all of a sudden you're like, oh, yes, President Trump was right. I think President Trump scored more in Europe after that one missile was fired at the Diego Garcia base because his predictions came true once again and that he was fighting for more than the United States. He wasn't just fighting Israel's war like some people have said, hey, Europe was that threatened. They had a capability to strike Europe. And oh, by the way, they shot at one of your bases. So I think you'll hear the President mention that. I talked to someone while we're in the break about what the President's going to say. He's going to say, hopefully we're only in Iran just for a short time, longer we'll be more specific, but very short time left to be there. Here's why we did it and why we did it when we did it. And I think you'll bring up a couple things a lot of people haven't heard before. I don't know, a lot of people remember this we reported, but almost no one else did. 3 IRGC, Republican Revolution. Excuse me, IRGC members, yeah, Radical Guard. They were found on our soil in January. We deported them in January. I'm telling you this right now. IRGC people don't come to January vacation here to go to Disney World. They were here for nefarious purposes. Two, Iran was trying to get a hypersonic missile from China. Three, they did buy Stinger missiles from Russia. Those are three escalations that involve US security, not Israel's security, not someone else's. I think the President will explain why those things mattered. Things like that that you haven't heard before in the mainstream media. Then here's what, why we did it. Here's what we've accomplished. I want to get you through a couple things. I just got this from someone inside the White House and inside the Pentagon on our own, with no help from Europe. We got ballistic missiles are now reduced by 90% in Iran or 90% reduction in the firing of ballistic missiles. 90% in drone attacks down 11,000 targets struck. 66% of Iranian missile, drone and naval production facilities and shipyards are broken. That is not only a consequence to Iran. You know who suffers from that one? Russia can't get any more cheap drones from Iran because Iran can't make any more cheap drones. That's a very important thing. 150 Iranian vessels down 44%. 44 mine layers destroyed. 92% of Iran's ships are now inoperable. They can't set sail. This is really, in a three week period, a complete eradication and neutering of A military that was pretty sizable and menacing. Now it's a shadow of itself. I think the President will walk through those numbers. First, here's why we did it, why we did it at the time we did it. We're only going to be a little bit longer and by in three weeks, look what we did. And then I think he'll pitch forward to what the possibility is, hey, Iran, make a deal with us and we don't attack each other ever again. Let's get to that point. I think that'll be the sequence of the speech.
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Yeah. All right. Great stuff. You know, Neil, let me bring you back in here to John's point. One of the things that I think the President can make the case tonight about is this operation proves that America doesn't need any dead weight from Europe if they don't want to be there. Look at what we've done. This is a. This is a broader deterrence message to China, to Russia. I really think the China angle is still almost underplayed. Overwhelming success. 11,000, like John just said, 11,000 targets hit in just weeks. It really sends that signal that aggression is not going to pay, especially with Taiwan and Ukraine in the background. It really does send a message to China and Russia. Neil, what do you think?
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You know, one of the problems Since World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, is that our military has performed flawlessly, tactically and operationally. But geopolitically, the actual war goals have not been achieved. And I think the President is taking up that challenge tonight and in the near future where he's going to be able to exploit the excellence that's been demonstrated by the Pentagon and the US Military and actually achieve a war goal. And I think that's really, really important. I think that the other thing to consider is that, you know, the Iranians, there are Iranians that are pro Americans, and then, you know, the Iranian people, you know, the actual Shia Iranians might be 50% or barely 50% of the population. There are many ethnic groups that have been suppressed by this regime. And so we've been waiting for this uprising. But uprisings don't happen when there are bombs falling in the streets. The uprising happens when the chaos and the war stops and it's safe to come out in the street. And that's what we've seen over and over again. And so I've been frustrated that there hasn't been the uprising I was promised. But I think that will come if we are able to sort of cease the military operations and make it safer
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to go outside all right, very good. I know Vinnie Mac had a question, I think, for John or for Brian. So if we can get Vince, Vinny Buda, who's in West Palm Beach. Didn't hear. Vin, can you hear us?
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Yeah, yeah, go ahead. All good, thank you. Great to see everybody. Great commentary. And I want to stay on a theme that I started with, which is clarity. And we were all at cpac, and CPAC was fantastic and all those types of things, but we did hear a lot of pushback amongst the MAGA base about what's going on in Iran. Of course, of course we need clarity with the, you know, the mainstream media and the whole liberal base with what's going on here because they've been just destroying, you know, the narrative on. But I wanted to ask both of you, Brian and John, about the need for Trump to provide clarity to the MAGA base, which has had division even amongst some of our own talent here at Real America's Voice about what we're doing in Iran, why we're even doing it, and then also the clarity to the liberal audience who's just taken this and thrown chum out to their constituents of every false narrative possible. So wonder if you guys could address that.
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Brian?
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Yeah, well, I've, there's been no secret that I was not for getting into a war with Iran. It's not what I thought we needed to do in an election year. I didn't think there was any credible evidence that Iran had nuclear weapons. We've been told for 20 plus years that they've had nuclear weapons. But I've been very vocal about that. It didn't mean I was anti America, anti Trump, anti Maga. It was the one thing that I, that I had a kind of a disagreement with with President Trump. I do, however, see this as a generational difference. It seems like a lot of I would call baby boomers or maybe more on the pro war, pro Israel at all cost stance. And a little bit more of the millennials Gen Xers seem to be a little bit more on the let's wait a minute, let's not get into another war. But we're in the war. And I, and I want, you know, our viewers know this and I've said it before, I support the president. I support getting out of this war, successfully accomplish the mission. But yeah, it has fractured the base some. And I, and I want to push back on just a second and say, look, we still are funding Planned Parenthood 100%. Okay? So this pro life administration, no, we're still funding Planned Parenthood health insurance is too expensive still. We haven't tackled that. Speaker Johnson said he had a plan. That was months ago. Haven't seen anything on that. And by the way, as we speak right now, PBS and NPR is receiving taxpayer dollars to broadcast. So those are the things that I'm concerned about. Not necessarily war with Iran, but we're in it. So I want to win it.
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All right, Very good. John Solomon to Vince point. You want to take that?
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Yeah.
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I think Vin captured the sentiments that CPAC brilliantly. The one thing they won't get clarity on, he's not going to say we're there for two days more or five days more. He's not going to pigeonhole himself is because military operations sometimes have to adapt to circumstances on the ground. I think he'll make it clear it's a very short time. Days, not months. But I don't think he'll get more specific than that. Then I think he'll bring a clarity to people who didn't know this intelligence, who didn't know that Iran was trying to buy hypersonic missiles that could reach the United States and pierce our missile shield in America now that they were trying to get the Russia missiles. And so I think he'll bring the why we did it to greater clarity to people. And then I think he'll describe what the end game looks like. And hopefully that'll be satisfying to a lot of people. But if someone's looking for we're going to stop bombing at 12 o' clock tomorrow. I don't think we're going to get that level of specificity.
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All right, Very good. President Trump addresses the nation at 9pm I want to thank David Zier at the Pentagon, Neil McCabe at the White House, Benny Ray Harmony at the Capitol, the great Johnson Solomon and everybody who joined us here. We're going to set, let everybody go and get ready for the big coverage at 8:50. Steve Bannon will pick it up at 8:50. John will be back with him. Brian Glenn may be as well. Great coverage starting at 8:50. So I'm going to let everybody go. Guys and girls, thank you so much, everybody. Have a great rest of your night. Live from Studio 6B here, we'll take a break. We'll be back with the boys from 6B. We'll tee it up one more time for Steve Bannon to take it over about 10 minutes or so. Stick with us. We're back right after this. Real America's voice on a Wednesday night as the president addresses the nation in about 15, 20 minutes,
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Sam.