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Barack Obama back then ran nominally on hope and change, but in actuality, Barack Obama was running as a transformative leftist president. He was ditching the old Bill Clinton era status quo ante and ushering in this new Saul Alinsky esque era of radical community organizing, socialism, wokeism, intersectionality. Insert your vogue buzzword of choice. But the Democratic Socials of America, the DSA takeover of the Democratic Party is very much still a work in progress. They have been slowly creeping through the ranks. They've been getting many prominent elected officials, none more prominent than Zorm Hamdani in New York City. And today is one of those very important days to see just how far, just how far the DSA has gotten to the pinnacle, to the top of the Democratic Party. So before we get to New York City, I want to just briefly focus on Washington DC. I actually just returned from Washington dc. I was there in yesterday for a quick trip. My thanks again to the Susan B. Anthony Pro Life America, a wonderful pro life organization, for hosting me last night. A little bit more on that actually later on in today's show. But speaking of Washington D.C. the new mayor of Washington D.C. which we have not covered at great length on the show, is a 38 year old Democratic socialist by the name of Janice Lewis George, who won by a whopping 20 plus point margin in the recent DC primary just this past week. So not only will the nation's largest and most important city, New York City, have a Democrat socialist, but now Washington D.C. is going to have a Democrat socialist as well. Chicago, your mileage may vary as to whether you think of Brendan Johnson as a car carry member of the dsa. I'm not sure if he's formally affiliated, but he is certainly affiliated in virtually every other way as well. So some of the most prominent cities in America are now governed by folks who are car k members, or at least ideological fellow travelers with the Democratic Socialists of America. The dsa, which is the vangu of of wokeism of communist sympathetic America bashing Western civilization, bashing pro communist, pro Islam, pro Russia, you name it. Whatever you are likely for, they are against. And that's that's going to be our mayor coming up coming out next in the nation's capital in D.C. zorm Donnie, though, as we said, is the the singular figurehead for this phenomenon in New York City. And today is actually a very important day for Zorm Hamdani because he has gotten very involved in the primaries happening in New York City and to a lesser extent across all of New York State. Is primary day in New York state is primary day in Maryland. Also the gubernatorial primary runoff for Republicans in South Carolina. Donald Trump coming in this past weekend with one of his signature. I endorse both candidates. He does it sometimes. I don't really know exactly why, but he did it. So we will see who wins there in South Carolina. But I want to focus just a little bit on in New York City. So Mamdani has most specifically gotten involved in three different congressional that's US Congress, Congressional primaries in New York City. And these are for the seats to replace Jerry Nadler, who was a somewhat moderate ish congressman for a very long time. His seat, Jerry Nadler, recently passed away. He has gotten involved also in a very, very, very hotly competitive race for New York's 10th congressional district. This is a primary and Democratic side between the the incumbent Congressman Daniel Goldman, as well as his challenger Brad Lander. So Brad Lander was the comptroller of New York City. It is about as far left as they possibly come. Brad Lander, who is ostensibly is allegedly Jewish, was actually just speaking at a mosque earlier this week. There's one of his final campaign stops was at a mosque and it was at a mosque, reports Memory, which is a wonderful media watchdog organization when it comes to reporting a lot of the crazy stuff that comes out of mosques all throughout the world. According to memory, the very mosque where Brad Lander had a campaign stop, the imam was talking about killing all infidels. That would presumably include Brad Lander. Anyway, Daniel Goldman, who is the ostensible moderate in this race is not exactly a moderate. You can think back to the Trump impeachment scandals, to all the Jack Smith, Merrick Garland lawfare. Dan Goldman was one of the faces, the faces of the Democrat partisan opposition against Donald Trump. So it's a crazy, crazy world that you have people who are somewhat sane like me and you that are forced to root for Dan freaking Goldman, who is no one's idea of a moderate in objective sense, but is the slightly less insane of the two candidates in New York City's 10 congressional districts. Sure enough, Mamdani actually endorsed Brad Lander. He has done much the same in the 7th congressional district where he is backing a radical by the name of Claire Valdez. And perhaps most conspicuously, he is backing a woman by the name of Darieliza Avila Chevalar in New York's 13 congressional district. She has had to apologize numerous times for a profanity laced Internet history, including a time where she posted F. Kamala Harris as recently as 2021. Apparently Kamala Harris is actually not left wing enough for Zormadani's golden girl in New York City. By the way, just to give you an idea as to how crazy things have gotten in some of these far blue strongholds. Again, don't make me root for Dan Goldman. I can't believe that I'm having to say positive things about a man as execrable as Dan Goldman. The media call him this pro Israel guy. Dan Goldman is just not accusing them of genocide or apartheid. I guess that makes you pro Israel in today's Democratic Party anyway because of that. That's actually a segue to what I want to talk about next. So this happened over the past weekend. Apparently Dan Goldman went into a coffee shop in his home of Brooklyn. He apparently walked into a coffee shop and he had the temerity to buy a cup of coffee alongside his daughter. It was Father's Day on Sunday. It was a father daughter cup of coffee. And what happened was the coffee shop declined the coffee and ultimately refunded and said, you are not welcome here. Pro Israel people, Zionists are not welcome here. Again, don't make me root for Dan Goldman. But in this case, I'm rooting for Dan Goldman. It's not just me by the way, it's also the doj. So Harmony Dhillon, who is high up the ranks of the doj, she is the AEG for Civil rights in this doj, reporting directly under Todd Blanche, Harmony Dhillon, doing amazing, amazing work. Really one of the underappreciated heroes of this Second, Trump Admin Harmey Dhillon coming in and saying that there is now an investigation from the DoJ when it comes to the denial of services in a public facility based on your political ideology, perhaps your religious ideology or anything of that nature. So this is gonna be a big day for Mamdani. Will his DSA endorsed candidates help take over the New York Congressional delegation? It is a very, very, very interesting moment in time. This is happening while Graham Platner, as you know, has been nominated formally to take on Susan Collins in Maine. The polling in that race is very, very, very tight when it comes to Graham Platner versus Susan Collins. Graham Plattner very much a car carrying member of the dsa. And no matter how much Republicans may be lamenting their bad luck when it comes to oil prices or when it comes to inflation or when it comes to the declining approval ratings of this, of this administration, which unfortunately are very real, no matter how much they may be lamenting their luck, all you have to do is look at the other side. Negative campaigning works very, very well. When you get into office, you have to actually lead. As we said in yesterday's show, that's what did in Keir Starmer over in the uk. He never actually painted a positive vision of what he wanted to do from 10 Downing Street. Douglas Murray actually had a piece for Barry Weiss Free Press this morning making the exact same arguments. When you have to get into office, you have to actually lead, articulate a vision in order to win re election from the voters or at least not be forced into an ignominious premature early resignation. But on the campaign trail, negative campaigning works really, really, really well. The median American continues to not be where the DSA Democratic Party is maybe in the furthest to far left. BASHT again today will actually be a very interesting snapshot in time in this very, very far left city of New York City. In these very blue precincts of New York City, will they actually endorse and go with the Zormadani Fund the candidates? We shall see. There's a lot of money coming in opposed to Mamdani and some of these, some of these internecine Democrat primaries, AIPAC super PAC is coming in with some fairly big money supporting Dan Goldman. Dan Goldman, by the way, has actually renounced AIPAC in this primary even though they are funding him. So this is the state of the Democratic Party again is even a somewhat anodyne milquetoast organization like AIPAC is now a truly third rail topic when it comes to their primaries. But I noted how one of Mamdani's picks, this woman in the 13th congressional district, Darieliza Avila Chevalier, is so radical that she was condemning Kamala Harris during Kamala Harris first year as Vice president to Joe Biden back in 2021. Kamala Harris, not exactly a moderate figure herself. She absolutely came up on the left side of the Democratic Party. She came up as a Bay Area Democrat, much like Pelosi, much like Gavin Newsom. She came up through the ranks of the very far left of the Democratic Party out in California. And Kamala Harris seems to be sensing something in 2028 and she is adjusting to go even further left to try to meet the Democrats where there are. So we mentioned this on yesterday's show, but I wanted you to see this full clip of Kamala Harris recently going on Don Lemon show talking about abolishing, yeah, you guessed it, the Electoral College. Here was Kamala Harris on Don Lemon's new show. I think that there is some real shaking up that we have to do of the rules and the structure and is that get rid of the Electoral College? I think we should. That should be a discussion that we should have. I don't think we should eliminate that as a point of discussion for potential action. So she doesn't even have the courage or convictions to actually come out in favor of supporting the Electoral College. But the point is, this is a woman who is supporting the abolition of the Electoral College even though she doesn't have the cojones to actually say it on Lemon show. But she is too moderate for Mamdani's pick in New York City. How do you square that circle? I mean, these attack ads literally write themselves, by the way, Joyless Joy Reid, who was so radically left wing and so radically stupid and so radically anti Semitic and anti American that she was fired from msnbc. I didn't even know that was freaking possible until Joy Reid managed to do it. She says that she will not vote for any Democrat who does not pledge to end the relationship with Israel. She says the Democratic Party is as married to this Israel over everything Israel, no matter what. What world does she live in? But this is what they're doing. They're racing to the bottom. Racing to the anti American bottom. Racing to the anti Western civilization bottom, racing to the anti Semitic, anti Christian, anti white man, etc. Bottom. Chris Van Hollen, the US senator from Maryland who is very much eyeing the 2028 bid, similarly came out swinging the other day and said that if he runs in 2028, it will be on essentially a close to a single issue platform of just hating Israel and trying to separate the United States from Israel. Okay, good luck with that, I suppose. But the really good luck here is for Republicans because no matter how much they may think that their lot stinks and that they are facing a bad hand and all this intra Republican fighting and MAGA and this and that, there's just look at the other side, guys. These attack ads write themselves. You got the Nazi tattoo, bro, up in Maine. You got Tofu Talarico who thinks that God is non binary in Texas. And you've got some lunatics in New York City endorsed by the mayor of the nation's largest city who think that Kamala Harris who calls to abolish the Electoral College is not left wing enough. This is gold. This is political gold. If the Republican Party can capitalize it, hopefully they do. So for those of us who want them to keep Congress come January 2027, folks, a quick commercial break. We'll be right back with more after this.
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Welcome back. So let's talk about the state of matter. Let's talk about the state of Republicans. Let's talk about Iran and all of the above. It is very easy, of course, as we just did, to look at the other side and say that they are terrible and they stand for nothing. And what they stand for actually is evil and garbage and subverting civilization and trying to undermine and overthrow the very pinnacles and foundations of what America is, was, and ought to be in the future. And all of that, of course, is correct. But sometimes it is important to take on our broader side in a fairly head on fashion. Sometimes the script basically writes itself. So for instance, Tucker Carlson, who continues, best as I can tell, to be a close friend of the Vice President of the United States despite the fact that he has become an anti maga, anti Trump provocateur. Tucker Carlson was on a show the other day saying that he is going to divorce himself from the Republican Party. He says that he will not vote for the Republican Party. Let's go ahead and actually watch this clip in its entirety. I would not support the Republican Party. There's no chance I would support the Republican Party. Not gonna support the Democratic Party. I don't know what I'm gonna do. But at this point, you know, how could you support, how could I or any American voter support a political party that's not loyal to the United States, that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens? Like that's, that's, you know, it's not possible to vote for people like that. And I'm not going to. And I think I voted Republican my entire life. I worked at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. I've been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party. I mean, very consistent defender. But there's no defending this because it's immoral and it's exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation. And they're not doing that. So no, I'm out. And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out. Let's not forget that In July of 2024, Tucker Carlson not only attended the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee for at least one night, I believe was actually the first night of the convention. He sat right next to Donald Trump, J.D. vance and Byron Donalds, who's likely to be our next governor here in Florida. Tucker was all in for Trump. Vance and now he's saying he will not even vote for the Republican Party. For what? Literally, for what Exactly, Tucker? What exactly has changed? Show us Tucker on the doll where the Jew hurt you. I presume that's what's happening here. Tucker thinks this administration presumably has been not anti Semitic enough to pro Jewish. Insert your modifier of choice. But the category error here. You listen carefully to what these people say. They're saying that the administration when they do things like launch the war against Iran is not serving American interests, is not serving the interests of their own voter base. Tucker in other words, still thinks that he and Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly and the whole group that we refer to here on the show as podcastistan, he thinks that they speak for the MAGA base. The problem for people like Tucker Carlson is that the polls over and over and over again show that is not the case. There was a brand new poll that came out just from CBS News and YouGov showing that roughly twice as many self identified Mac Republicans support full on regime change in Iran when the alternative is presented as a deal that gives Iran a lot of victories. Which I hate to break it to you, is exactly what this current deal does. So self described MAGA supports full on regime change when the binary alternative is regime change versus a deal that doesn't accomplish our objectives here on this show. We have never defined regime change as an explicit goal of Operation Epic Fury because I don't think it was and I don't think it is. No, the goals all along were open the strait actually have it open. More on that in just a second. Two, Iran stops funding its proxies, three, the end of the ballistic missile and drone threat and four, some resolution to the nuclear issue. Pretty common sense I would say. But no. The goal of these people and Tucker is the tip of the spear is not to stand for the common man because the common man according to the polls doesn't agree with Tucker time and time again. The goal is self aggrandizing, it is performative. It is ultimately trying to destroy and divide the party that Tucker now says he will not support is to try and destroy and divide the movement that Tucker came out to Milwaukee in July 2024 to speak on behalf of that being the MAG movement. Megyn Kelly herself actually let the cat out of the bag a little bit last week. She had a couple of the National Review guys, Charlie Cook and Rich Lowry on her show and she was talking about Thomas Massie and how his defeat has really opened the door for a true, true, true populace, to use her nomenclature, someone who truly, truly, truly opposes this and that to enter the fray in 2028. What she's proposing, let's be very clear, what she is intimating and hinting at is a third party run. That's what I've been saying for at least a year and a half, two years, Tucker Carlson is planning to do, mark my words very carefully. I've been saying that Tucker is going to run for President in 2028 and he will not be as a candidate under the Republican Party. He's saying he won't even vote for that party. If you look at the prediction markets Kalshi predicted, you will see right now that for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination, J.D. vance and Marco Rubio are a very close neck and neck one too. And last I took a peek at it, Tucker Carlson was somewhere down the list in third place. He's not going to run as Republican folks. If he runs, it will be his own third party entity. If you know anything about how presidential politics works in America, you know that a third party run is there and everywhere and attempt to play the part of spoiler. Just go back and look at the 1990s. Ross Perot is a very good example. Ralph Nader to a lesser extent. There's plenty of examples. Perot really is the class example from recent modern American political history. But these folks are not running to represent America's best national interest. And how do I know that? Because the current deal that is happening in Iran is not shaping up to be a great deal for the American national interest. I'm sorry to say it, but it simply is not. I see a lot of folks such as the vice presidents who are saying, oh, you know, America's national interest is not the same as all of our allies, and it's not the same as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Israel, etc. Fine. Guess what? That's obviously correct. I could not agree with that more. There are no two countries in the world that have the exact same national interest in every given topic. I would actually probably go even further. In any single conflict or any single issue, two countries will probably never have exactly the same. You look for a large Venn diagram overlap. That's how you identify an ally. Recall our working definition for what an ally constitutes. An ally is a country that, when that country acts in their own national interest, our country, the United States, benefits as a secondary or tertiary factor. That's the definition of an ally. An ally is not a country that agrees with you 1000% of the time on every single thing you do, because that would be an impossible bar to meet. It's not realistic. It doesn't happen. We live in the real world, not in a fanciful world of unicorn farts and rainbows from sea to shining sea. So the deal itself is not a good deal. Not because the Saudis, the Emiratis, the Bahrainis, the Israelis, whoever say that doesn't deal with the Iranian threat. The deal is not a great deal from we can tell because it doesn't redound to the American national interest. As we said on yesterday's show and we've been saying for a long time now the Strait of Horror moves. Being fully open is a sine qua non, if there ever were one, is an indispensable necessary condition for anything else to continue. There is no discussion of anything else. Iran funding Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas proxies, Iran doing the missiles, the drones, Iran having nukes racing towards the bomb. Iran having IAEA nuclear inspectors, by the way, the vice president saying one thing and the Iranians saying something totally different when it comes to the nuclear inspectors. The President, vice president saying that Iran has agreed to IAEA inspectors, which by the way, is not a huge coup. Barack Obama's nuclear deal even had. The point is they don't listen to it, they don't do it. So it's not, it's not the victory that our negotiators think it is. But anyway, United States saying that, Iran saying, no, they haven't agreed to that. None of that matters unless the strait is open. And just this morning, the Foreign Minister of Oman put out a joint statement by Oman and Iran saying that they, those two countries, Oman and Iran, plan to charge for passage across the Strait of Hormuz. A working group will reach agreement on the future administration of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and the services that will be provided in this regard and the costs associated with them in accordance with international standards. In other words, they will charge fees and tolls. A negotiating team worth its salt. If this is real, and I don't know if it is, might be bluster, but if this is real, any American negotiating team worth its salt would say, we're done here and get up and leave. If the straits don't open, there is nothing, nothing to discuss with the Iranians. Folks, another quick break. We'll be right back. Much more after this.
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Welcome back. So just reiterate. If the straight up Hormuz is not open, there is absolutely nothing to discuss with Iran. Period. Full stop. End of story. That is the barest of bare minimums in order to advance to any next level of conversation about any of the other issues that are percolating around Switzerland this week and potentially in the weeks to follow. But the point is broader than that. This deal does not redound to the American national interest because our goals are simply not being achieved. Perhaps down the line that will change. I would love nothing more than for our negotiators to walk out of this bougie Swiss mountaintop resort and to have the legitimate deal of the century. I don't know a single person who actually thinks that is going to happen. Really, I actually don't. So the whole thing ends up being something of a farce, especially if Iran, in this case with the Omanis, continue to just spit in our face and do things like close the strait and subject it to tolling and to fees. What exactly is the point of this entire exercise? But it's plenty of our other allies in the region who are starting to freak out about this. It's really not just the Israelis who comprise a lot of the chatter here in the United States. From the Zorm Hamdani DSA left all the way to the vice president speaking from the White House lectern just last week. I'm thinking in this case about the Christian population in Lebanon. So the way that Lebanon and Hezbollah relate to the US Iran negotiations has been a point of contention for some weeks now. The MOU that was signed by the United States and Iran commits the Lebanese theater of war to wind down. It does not name Hezbollah or Israel. It says that Lebanon is one of the areas of the U.S. iran conflict and will wind down. The problem is multifold. One is that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and they don't listen to agreements. Two, Hezbollah is not even a party to the agreement in the first place. Not that it would matter because they're a terrorist organization. Israel, of course, is not a party to this agreement either. And there have been multiple times over the past week that Hezbollah has murdered multiple Israeli soldiers. But think about this. We mentioned Tucker, Tucker because he is just so, so dripping with seething anti American, pro jihadi bias, anti Semitic animus. He has gone so far as to say that Hezbollah is the protector of Christians in Lebanon, which is such an astounding statement. Hezbollah storms churches. They use churches much like Hamas uses the mosque in Gaza to store weapons and to fire rockets. But get this, don't take it from my mouth. Take it from the mouth of the leader of Lebanon's single largest Christian political party, a man by the name of Samir Gaga, who released a lengthy statement just over the past 24 hours addressed to his Excellency, the Vice President of the United states, the Honorable Mr. J.D. vance. Warm greetings, and it's a very lengthy letter. You can read the full thing if you are so inclined. He basically is begging the president and vice President to change course on this deal. So the leader of Lebanon's largest Christian political party writes in part, quote, unquote, ending the military and security presence of Hezbollah constitutes, in our view, the greatest contribution that can be made to the Christians of Lebanon and to all Lebanese people as it opens the door to building the state we all aspire to an effective sovereign state that is free, strong and capable of ensuring security, stability and prosperity for all its citizens. So Tucker likes to talk about how Hezbollah protects Christians. But the leader of Lebanon's largest Christian party says, we gotta get rid of Hezbollah. And it's not just him. The President of Lebanon, a Maronite Christian, a Catholic guy by the name of Yosef Ayoun, says the exact same thing, that Hezbollah has to go. So we're not just letting down the Jews in this deal. No, we're letting down America's image because we're signing up for a deal that we don't actually benefit from. We're letting down, frankly, all of our allies across the world. We see that America simply does not finish what she started, whether that's Taiwan, perhaps most importantly, or Japan, India, Philippines, in that part of the world, in this hemisphere, you name it. No, but also, also, we're letting down the Christians of Lebanon. You know, these provocateurs, the Megyn Kelly's and Tucker Carlson's, they claim to care a lot about people of their own faith, of Christians. Why are you listening to the Christians of Lebanon? They are openly pleading with this administration to handle Hezbollah or to bare minimum, to let the Israelis do it. Just don't yell at them when they do it. The whole thing is just. It's frankly just baffling in many ways. Tim Sheehy, who is a rising star in the Republican Senate caucus He is a young US Senator from the great state of Montana. He was on Fox News this morning talking with Dana Perino about the Iran deal. And there are signs for optimism and also some signs for caution as well. Here was Tim Sheikhy just this morning on Fox News.
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We have to keep in mind the Iranians are speaking to multiple audiences here. They have to keep their hardliners happy in Iran and of course, their extremist groups. So it's not often we're going to get the same messaging out of the Iranian leadership. And I give the president his team credit because as we know, this isn't jcpoa. They are starting from a position of strength. We've had the most aggressive campaign against them in history over the past six years, from Trump's first term to this term. But the Iranians are going to speak to their extremist base. They're going to try to speak to their existing population, Iran, to keep them down. And of course, they've got to shut the doors and speak to us. So there's going to be some messaging differential here. I think we've got to give the team, the VP and his team some credit. They've got to deal with that. But of course, any red flag, Dana, is us giving any amount of cash of any kind to the Iranian regime. They're not going to use that cash for bridges and schools. They're not going to use it to rebuild their country. They're going to use it for bullets, bombs, rockets, suicide vests and to broadly kill Americans and kill Israelis. We've got to keep that in mind.
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You know, once upon a time, American conservatives like myself, we understood that money is fungible. This is the entire argument. Well, among other arguments, I suppose, against any funding of Planned Parenthood whatsoever or any abortionists. The Democrats and their apologists who like to cite the Hyde Amendment, will say, oh, we're not funding abortions and Planned Parenthood. We're just funding pregnancy screeners or pap smears or various other forms of OBGYN health. But the argument is obvious, isn't it? If you are funding Planned Parenthood to do even something that is good, then you are freeing up resources for them to do something that is bad, AKA the intentional taking of an innocent human life, which we refer to euphemistically as an abortion. Money, in other words, for an organization, for a mafia, for a group, for anyone or anything is fungible. That is certainly the case when it comes to Iran. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besant has announced that he is waiving A lot of sanctions when it comes to Iran. Iran's oil is flowing as I speak. They are now getting money from that oil, most of it to China. China buys roughly 90%, give or take, of the Iranian oil. They are by far the largest purchaser of that sweet, sweet crude. Do you think that money is going to help build Iranian schools? Maybe. But if it does, that just frees up more money to go fund Hezbollah and the Houthis and to send ballistic missiles and drones and yes, yes, to work on their nuclear program. Now, one of the things that we're hearing out of Switzerland is that some of this money that's being freed from the unfrozen assets and bank accounts or the lack of sanctions that are not being dropped in real time. One thing we're hearing is that the money is going to go to Iranians to then purchase agriculture, soybeans, other goods. Tim, she was actually also asked about this this morning on Fox News. Here is what he had to say about that.
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I certainly hope so. But as you know, negotiations with Iran, hope don't float. We can't trust them to do what they say they're going to do. We need to make sure there are concrete safeguards wherein we control those funds. For example, if we're going to unfreeze funds, we don't give it to the Iranians and hope they buy American farm goods. We say, great, we'll take that money and we will buy American farm goods with it. We'll take your frozen assets, buy those farm goods, and we'll ship them to you. But we cannot give them pallets of cash and hope they do the right thing with it. They've shown time and again we can't reward bad behavior. And the Iranian regime is, has a history of very bad behavior. So giving them control over any financial movement with regard to this deal, I think is a huge red flag. So the proper controls are key and controls cannot include trucks. Trust. Trust is not a control. A control means we hold it and we are in control of it.
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Tim Shee is absolutely a rising star there in the Republican Senate caucus. Make sure to keep your eyes on him as this saga progresses and as the years, decades ahead progress. Well, he's a very young guy who I think has a very bright and auspicious future. Listen, we obviously wish the negotiating team, Switzerland, nothing but the best. What we are here to say is to be a voice of caution and skepticism and to say that this has all the makings of a stink bomb, hopefully that changes. But right now, this is looking like just as bad of a deal, you might argue even worse than Barack Obama's deal. Now it's different because Trump pummeled Iran for 39 days. That's very different. Obama obviously never did that. Big, big, meaningful, important difference. But on the actual terms of the deal, from what we can tell right now, I hate to say it, it's not looking a whole lot better. Hopefully that changes asap. Folks, one final break. We'll be right back with more after this. Welcome back. So is Supreme Court season. This is the high season out of the U.S. supreme Court. We are still winning opinions on most of the biggest high profile cases. But there was an interesting opinion that came out this morning. There were a few opinions that came out this morning here on Tuesday, June 23. The most notable to me was a case involving immigration and green card status. So this case was Blanche versus Choi Lau. And the fact pattern essentially is whether or not you can limit travel, whether you can restrict travel abroad. For folks who are here on green cards. They are. They are here as permanent residents. They are domiciled here to use the relevant legal language, but they are facing criminal charges. So can you place before they've been actually convicted while the charges are still alleged or pending, can you place travel restrictions abroad? Are they a flight risk? If they have a green card, they're not here on a short term student visa or travel visa. No, they have a green card. Can you place restrictions on the travel? Interesting very fact specific legal question. The Court says by 6 of 3 opinion that the answer is yes. So just as Thomas delivers the opinion of the court, it is one of those quote unquote ideological cases where you have the three liberal ladies, Sotomayor Katanji, Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, who all dissent, but the majority says that pending allegations of criminality are sufficient to subject in this case the green card holders to whatever proceedings or travel burns restrictions as the relevant authorities, be they Article 1 in Congress or Article 2 in DHS and the executive branch as they deem fit. Seems to me like a common sense ruling is immigration law 101 that you do not have a permanent right to be here. It frankly doesn't matter. Actually, even if you are on a green card, if you are a permanent resident, unless you are a full fledged citizen, really anything less than that, it is we the people, we the people who are sovereign in this country and we the people have the right to boot you out, even if you are a quote unquote permanent resident on a quote unquote green card we can boot you out essentially for any time, for any reason. Now you can't do it arbitrarily. You have to actually write laws. Congress kind of stinks at that. In an alternative universe, you could draft some regulations, but you got to do something. But if you have that something, you can basically do whatever you want in order to kick someone out the country. Unless they're here as a citizen. By the way, if you are a citizen, and you really shouldn't be, if you lied on your paperwork, I'm looking at you, Ilhan Omar. If you have radical ties to organizations like ISIS or Hezbollah or elsewhere, and you really shouldn't be a citizen, you also can initiate denaturalization proceedings. I've been delighted to see that this administration is doing exactly that in some select high profile cases. More of where that came from, please. This is exactly what is necessary to try, to try, try our best to begin digging our way out of the problem. The problem is decades and decades of unfettered one million plus a year new immigrants, many of whom are not only unvetted, but many of whom come from foreign countries and foreign cultures that are anathema to what we believe in. Here in the home of the free and the land of the brave. It's not sufficient to just not bring in new. We have so much rot here that is built up that that rot to some extent simply has to go. It has to. Easier said than done. I'm not saying it's going to happen on a mass scale. Don't get your hopes up. Not trying to mislead you, but at bare minimum, setting the precedent that denaturalization can happen is a very sound thing. Now, as I mentioned, we are still waiting on most of the big cases from this term. We here have our eyes on the Barbara case, which is the Birthright case. That is the case that I am personally most attuned to. Over the course of this term, in these remaining week and a half, two weeks that the court has to release all of the big opinions, I'll make a prediction for you. My prediction is as follows. It's not a very happy one, so don't get your hopes up. My very sober prediction is as follows. We conservatives are going to lose the Birthright decision case in overwhelmingly lopsided fashion. I think a 7:2 decision is the realistic, quote, unquote, best outcome. There is a tiny, tiny sliver chance that Brett Kavanaugh joins Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas. I would not count on it at all. I could actually see a world in which it ends up being potentially 8 to 1. Alito and Thomas over the years have actually both ridden some dicta. It's not binding when they've had some dicta, some legal language in the course of another ruling indicating that there's a blanket rule that if you're born here, you're a citizen. Now, that was dicta. It's not a holding. They could easily walk it back. So I am predicting 7:2. But I could see a world in which is something even other than that. In turn, if that happens, and unfortunately is going to President Trump is going to explode on the court like nothing else. I would actually not be shocked if he threatens to pass the Supreme Court, just trying to send a message to the justice, to the Congress, to the federal society, to all the various other conservative judicial nominations advisors, but really above all to the court itself. I think Trump frankly is going to explode if this happens. And again, I'm quite confident that is going to happen. That then opens the possibility as to what that means. If there is a Supreme Court vacancy this summer, recall that Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas are both rumored to be considering retirement. Alito is celebrating 20 years on the court this year. Clarence Thomas, well, He just celebrated 35 years in the court. He is now the second longest serving justice in the history of the United States Supreme Court and is in our estimation the single greatest American of them all, period. Full stop, end of story. But what if you have a vacancy? What if Alito or Thomas resigns? In the context of Trump just losing on his marquee case, the birthright citizenship case, and exploding like never before on the justice and on the court, that will start to look like a very volatile situation, won't it? I don't really know exactly how it's going to play out, to be honest with you. You can see it playing out in one of multiple ways. My personal preference in my own capacity, if that happens, would be for the relevant actors to respond by submitting and nominating the single boldest pick of them all to be on the Supreme Court next, which would be my former boss, Judge ho of the score appeals for the 5th Circuit. There's actually a new article out this week over at Bloomberg Law. I spoke on the phone for a little bit to the reporter there. I quoted this article at Bloomberg Law about the SCOTUS vacancy sweepstakes there, but you can go ahead and check it out. The author's name is Jacqueline Thompson over at Bloomberg Law. But putting your radar the possibility that conservatives Trump administration could lose the birthright case badly, Trump could explode and then that could precipitate this vacancy mini crisis if you call it. It could be a very, very, very fun summer for those of us who have our eyes on the Supreme Court. Much more to come over these final week and a half, two weeks of the term. Finally, I want to take us back to a story that we covered on the show last week. So it was so called Pride Night out in San Francisco in the Major League Baseball game that was held there between the Giants and their opponent. Now, San Francisco is familiar in the American minds with the LGBT rainbow cause, Harvey Milk. It's a very, very liberal city in general. He had some Christian pitchers who decided to put the book of Genesis verses, Genesis verses about the Noah covenant, the Noah Hyde covenant about the rainbow, how God instituted the rainbow, basically say that he will not flood the world again. They put those verses on their baseball cap and major baseball web this big finger and said, you can't do this. Josh Hawley who actually just saw last night in D.C. joshua was speaking. Josh Hawley, that is, was speaking the same event that I was speaking at this pro life event for Susan B. Anthony, Pro Life America. He as the defender of religious freedom that he is, wrote to the commissioner baseball and said that you can't do this. You can't have it both ways. And last night, around the time that he was getting ready to come to our event, actually based on timestamp, he posted on X the full entirety of this letter that came from the commissioner of Major League Baseball, Robert Manfred. And what he basically says is that it's just the LA Dodgers in terms of Giants who have grandfathered in this club specific Pride Night thing because there are big gay populations, I guess, in both LA and San Francisco. Okay. But he clarified that there will absolutely be no punishment for these pitchers who put these Genesis verses on their caps. On the contrary, he actually blames the Giants, the organization, because they apparently did not properly communicate to these pitchers that you don't have to do this. You don't have to put on the rainbow flag on your cap. You just wear the basic black and orange Giants insignia. So Manfred takes his blame and takes his anger not on the pitchers, but on the ball club for saying they didn't properly give notice and provide a combination to these Christian pitchers. That's a win. And we should take wins where we get it when it comes to these cultural issues like this. Kudos again to Josh Hawley who I don't agree with on everything. I don't agree with Josh Hawley when it comes to some of his economic policies. I don't agree with him necessarily obese when it comes to some of his foreign policies as well. But overall, he's one of my favorite senators for sure. He is all over the religious liberty issue, all over protecting religious Christians, religious Jews. Good stuff from Josh Hawley. Getting a very favorable answer from the commissioner of Major League Baseball there, saying that the Giants were wrong to discriminate against these Christian pitchers there. Hopefully, good news ahead on that front, folks. Have a great rest of your evening. Josh Chambers signing off for now. We will be right back. As always, it.