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The Insurrection They Don't Want You Talking About | Episode 285
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Republicans score a major victory in Tennessee and the Democrats respond with chaos and violence; Violence escalates in the Middle East while peace talks seemingly stagger; and what's next in the redistricting battles?
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Also, I've got updates for you on the the war with Iran. We've got a lot of breaking news on that. It turns out we've got some exchanges of gunfire going on between the United States and Iran. We're better at it, by the way, a lot better at it. But the president says the prospect of a deal is still there. In fact, we could have a deal within a week. I'll bring you all of the latest, kind of walk you through the timeline of what the hell just happened this week. We've got so much to discuss today. Let's just dive right into it. Great to have you with us. As always, I want to thank the great sponsors who make the show possible today, Rumble Wallet. First up, today, Rumble Wallet. We love Rumble. Rumble is where we do the show each day, 8 o' clock Eastern Time each morning. We love Rumble as a free speech platform. But you know what you should also love is Rumble Wallet, which is really freedom for your money. That's what you need. That's the most important thing, I would think. 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Tennessee gets the message. And the Tennessee state legislature moves, moves, moves. In fact, the governor of the state, Bill Lee yesterday signed it right into law the second it popped out of the legislature. That's the legislative process. And it was done like that. It was done very quickly yesterday. You love to see a Tennessee just approved a new map. The New York Times reports very grumpily. They hate this aimed at flipping the last Democratic seat. This is their report from yesterday. Grumpy, grumpy New York Times After a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights act of 1965, Republicans carved up a majority black Memphis seat as the national redistricting wars continue. Yeah, look, the court said this week you can't draw districts based on race. So what did Tennessee they ended the districts based on race. No more race based districts. No more racializing these districts in the United States of America. Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a new congressional map into law Thursday. It slices up Memphis. It slices it up. By the way, if you're from Memphis, how have Democrats served you? Anybody in the chat From Memphis, how exactly have the Democrats served you? You know, you point at, this is a Republican controlled state. There's a lot of Republicans in Tennessee, clearly. But in Memphis, you have all this Democrat concentrated control. Has it helped Memphis a lot? Because last I checked, Memphis has been the biggest problem in Tennessee. And it turns out that Democrat governance has run that city directly into the ground. So wouldn't it be a wonderful thing to have more Republican influence over the affairs of Memphis? I would think so. If you judge it based on the rest of the state. The rest of the state is fine. Memphis not so fine. How about we get some Republican control in there for once? Could be really good for the city. Yeah, it could be. I think it could be excellent. So here they sliced up Memphis to scatter black voters into neighboring districts. That's not why Memphis was sliced up. Wasn't to scatter black voters. It was to eliminate a racialized district. It was a move intended to eliminate the state's last Democrat House seat. Well, good. That's good. That's good news because democrats have stolen 40 seats or more across the country through these rigging schemes. Now we're just correcting it. That's wonderful. It's the first map crafted since the Supreme Court weakened the remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act. It didn't weaken. The New York Times is lying to you. They didn't weaken the Voting Rights Act. They upheld the Voting Rights Act. The Voting Rights act is about not discriminating on the. On the basis of race. And so, by the way, is the 14th and 15th amendment. It's not about. It's about not discriminating on the basis of race. The Democrats were doing that. This is upholding the Voting Rights act, which I will remind you, was passed by Republicans. Okay, okay. Getting worked up. I'm getting too worked up. We've got a victory here. Shouldn't be so worked up. Here we are. By making it difficult for states to craft race based districts, they write majority minority, but race based districts. With Tennessee taking the lead, the ruling has opened a new front, particularly in the south. In a bitter coast to coast redistricting battle ahead of November's midterm elections, the new map passed over. Angry, angry. Now pay attention to who they're talking about. These are Democrats, so they're angry. Emotionally incontinent, out of control children passed over angry, loud protests that sought to at least slow the vote. Even in the state legislature, Democrats are trying to rig the vote. It splits Memphis and Shelby county into three separate districts, blasting apart the Seat of Representative Steve Cohen, Tennessee's last House Democrat. Yes, that's right. Famous black Democrat Steve Cohen is losing his seat. Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen is. Is. I don't know. That guy's as white as drywall that he's. He's a white dude. And. But they're. They're trying to figure out a way to racialize this whole thing so they keep shoehorning race into it all. How about no more race shoehorning? How about no racial prejudice? How about we just draw American districts and allow the voters to have a say over how their affairs are run? And I love seeing this. I think it's great. The Democrat freakout was really. Well, it was really on display yesterday. Here's the moment. It passed the state Senate. Listen and watch this. Cut one. All right, we're going back to the. Live. Live. They're just trying to talk. They're just trying to conduct the affairs. Listen to the screaming eyes.
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It's passed. And off it went. And Bill Lee signed it before the media was done writing the story about the bill's passage. I mean it. Yesterday, Bill Lee signed it in no time. They just. They must. I think they dropped it out of a window in the state House, and Bill Lee signed it. As the thing was coming down out of the air, they instantly got this thing passed. Was great. It was great. Oh, and, man, those Democrats were going crazy yesterday because all they have is election rigging. They don't have good ideas. They just have election rigging, which is why they're panicking. In fact, yesterday there was a. There was a scrawny, like, goofball Democrat with hilarious afro. This guy's called Justin Pearson, and he was caught on camera yesterday attempting to bow up with Tennessee state troopers. You get out of my face. Move the back. Food. He's, like, screaming at these guys. The guy's. He's. He's built like a. Like a human toothpick. He's, like, walking around with a big Afro. So more. More like a Q tip, I would say. He's a. He's a Q tip. Here's a Pearson getting in the face yesterday of the police and acting like some psychopath. Watch this. Screams boy in the guy's face is wrong with you, stupid mother. Listen to that. That's a good way to treat the cops. Yeah. Back the blue. They really support law enforcement. These guys screaming in the faces of the cops. The cops. What did the cop do wrong? The cop did nothing wrong. The cop is there to protect them and he's screaming in that guy's face. Yeah, the guy's, that, that dude's a psycho yelling boy. I'm pretty sure that dude was older than him. I think that Justin Pearson character is like 30. Boy, what a spaz. What a spaz. He's, he's crazy now, him acting like an idiot. I think, I think there were some people calling for him to be arrested yesterday for getting in the face of the cop. I don't know. The point is he's, he's a whack job and he's demonstrated it. You know, it's funny too, because that guy, Justin Pearson, you know, you see him pop up from time to time on social media in Tennessee. He's a, he's very showy. You know, he wanted to run. One of the hilarious things about this, I'll get to Steve Cohen in a second. More broadly, but he wanted to run for that district, the district that's now disappearing that, that Memphis concentrated district that's now leaving because of the redraw. He wanted to run for it. He was going to run in a primary against Cohen. And his anger is actually that he isn't going to be just granted a rigged district now to bring him into Congress. Can you imagine that jackass in Congress? So the Republicans not only did us a favor by getting rid of the rigged racist district and this ill gotten Democrat power, they also did us a favor by keeping that whack job away from D.C. that's, that's great news. Now he wasn't always like this, you know, this Pierson guy. He actually went from sort of like a clean cut overachiever when he was in college. You know, like I want to bring everybody together. And then he started play acting as some sort of civil rights activist with a big afro. Look at this guy. Look at the transformation he has made as he's gone from, you know, overachieving college kid to guy cosplaying as some sort of civil rights hero. Watch this. Cut four.
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Justin J. Pearson and I'm running for President of bsg. There are a few reasons that we're running this campaign this year. One has to do with representation. How can we represent all voices in a conversation? I wanted to do this by partnering with organizations from the Bowdoin Democrats to the Bowdoin Republicans. I want to bring together different voices, dissenting voices, voices that may be more liberal or more conservative in order that we can reach a point of sort of the radical middle.
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Listen to this guy. NRA and gun lobbyists might win. That was good news for us. I don't know how long this Saturday in the state of Tennessee might last, but. Oh, we have good news, folks. We've got good news. That Sunday always comes. Oh, what a dork. I, yeah, that's the authenticity people are looking for. How sad. How completely pathetic. Oh, and I love, I love his like, you know, again he's like just civil rights cosplay. It's like this like, it's like stolen valor or something. It's just ridiculous. It's just ridiculous. You haven't struggled for anything. You tool, you're an absolute tool. And, and, and in fact, again, his freak out. The reason he's getting in the face of these cops, he's mad that he doesn't get a rigged district gift wrapped for him. Sorry, buddy, no gift for you. No rigged district for you. Hilarious. In fact, you know, it goes, it goes back to a fundamental point. There is no such thing in. There should be no such thing in the United States of America as a black district or a white district or a Hispanic district. There should be no such thing because in the United States of America we have American districts. There was a lovely woman yesterday on Will Cain's program who made this point in over on Fox into the face of a leftist who was telling her, and she's a black woman, he was telling her it's a black district. And she goes, that's crazy. Listen to this. Cut 5. We are seeing a black man in Tennessee fight to keep the only black district that they have there being totally erased off the map. And I just think, you know, there needs to be more, you know, those, those, those conversations need to be tied together. There's no such thing as a black district or a white district. It's an American district. You know, people, again, we vote based on our values, not the color of our skin. At least we shouldn't. Yeah, also listen to the slight of hand of that leftist. He's like, oh, there's a black man fighting to keep a majority black district in Congress. The. What are you talking about? Steve Cohen. A black Steve Cohen. Steve Collins is white as toothpaste. What are you talking about? Steve Cohen, the Democrat who's held that seat forever. It's, it's a very inconvenient detail. You're not supposed to mention that Steve Collins a white dude, but we're mentioning it. It's like the whole thing is just nonsense. The whole story is nonsense. It was. It's a rigged district. It shouldn't exist. Goodbye. Absolutely, goodbye. It's great. In fact, let's say goodbye to Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen is raging about this. Now, Steve Cohen may be one of the lesser known figures among the loopy lefties, but he's definitely up there in terms of loopiness, and we'll give him his due here. The guy's a psycho. The guy's a psycho. He is really outraged by this. He's upset by the redraw he posted on X this week. This is insane. Said Steve Cohen. The GOP's newly proposed Tennessee congressional maps would have people in Shelby county all the way to Williamson County, 200 plus miles apart, being represented by the same congressman. Oh, you may want to check in with your boys in Virginia. The Democrats who redrew the map to steal four congressional seats and then made western Virginia have to work at the behest of Northern Virginia, right by the nation's Capitol. Like, okay, spare us, spare us the crocodile tears here. Steve Cohen, you're just upset that your rigged district's disappearing. He says it's a blatant, corrupt power grab that would destroy the black communities and our entire city's voice. He's the voice of the black community, says Steve Cohen. I'm the voice. We would be destroyed. We would be destroyed. Steve Cohen is. Is crazy. And here's some evidence for this. I want to share some, some of the most obvious evidence in the world for his craziness. And let me take you back. I want to take you back. We'll do this chronologically. Back in time. 2018. Steve Cohen has sitting before him in a congressional hearing an infamous person by the name of Peter Strzok, a former FBI agent. Peter Strzok, for those of you who have followed literally any news at all would know Peter Strzok is the guy who's trying to destroy Donald Trump through the Trump Russia collusion hoax. Don't worry, we'll stop him. He was texting Lisa Page. They were talking about how they could smell Trump voters in a Walmart. The guy clearly was abusing his power inside of the FBI. Utter contempt for Trump voters. Hated Donald Trump was trying to stop the presidency of the United States through his nefarious actions. So when he gets hauled Before Congress in 2018, Steve Cohen gives him a tongue bath. Steve Cohen says, peter Strzok, you're so wonderful. In fact, you're so wonderful, I want to give you the Purple Heart. Watch.
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If I could give you a Purple Heart, I would. You deserve One, this has been an attack on you in a way to attack Mr. Mueller and the investigation that is to get at Russia. Collusion involved in our election, which is what this committee should be looking at, a direct strike at democracy and what this country's about and free and fair elections keeping us independent of who is our foe.
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What a jackass. A Purple Heart. A Purple Heart. How do you feel about that, veterans? A Purple Heart for Peter struck. Anybody in the chat know someone who's received a Purple Heart? My brother has a Purple Heart. My brother has a Purple Heart. He got it in combat, not by subverting the Constitution of the United States. That's Steve Cohen. Yeah, yeah. He's a lunatic. He's a lunatic. The veteran's not happy in the chat. By the way, if you're on the audio podcast, join us sometime on rumble rumble.com Vince@ 8am yeah. No, in fact, Peter Strzok is the enemy. He's the adversary. He's the guy who's trying to take down the constitutional republic to undermine the duly elected President of the United States. In Steve Cohen's eyes, he's a hero. Because Peter Strzok, like Steve Cohen, is a rigger. They rigged things for power. Steve Cohen had a rigged congressional district that conferred power on him in an ill gotten way and now he's freaking out that he's losing it. So of course he's making common cause with Peter Strzok who was trying to rig our system against the voters on a national level. Of course. That's why he says you deserve a purple Heart. Steve Cohen's a tool. I've got a lot more fun evidence of that. We'll go down memory lane in just a moment. I'm enthusiastic about the conclusion of Steve Cohen's time in Congress. We've got a lot to talk about, a lot to talk about. Then we'll get to the Iran war too. All ahead on this edition. Event. So I want to thank one of our great sponsors today, Pocket Hose Ballistic. I love the pocket hose. The pocket hose is great. You know why the pocket hose is great? Because every year in my house we would have to replace the garden hose because it would just get all messed up. It would kink, tangle, burst. But you see the pocket hose Ballistic, that's the upgrade that we've been looking for. We love it because it's the toughest pocket hose ever built. It's reinforced with a liquid crystal polymer used in bulletproof vests. So, you know, it's good. And we don't Baby, the hose, we drag it across the driveway, we yank it around the house, we leave it out sometimes, although you don't have to leave it out and you probably shouldn't because it's very easy to put away. That's what makes the pocket oh so awesome. The Pocket O's ballistic handles everything, plus it comes with the pocket pivot for total freedom of movement right at the spigot with full 360 degree rotation. I move, it follows, the water flows. And now for a limited time, when you purchase a new Pocket Hose ballistic, you'll get a free 360 degree rotating pocket pivot and a free thumb drive nozzle. Just text Vince to 64,000. That's Vince to 64,000 and you'll get your two free gifts with purchase. Text Vince to 64,000 message and data rates may apply. Thank you to Pocketos. All right, so Steve Cohen, I think, is probably most famously remembered, infamously remembered in this image. And I looked at video of it and there's really not good video of it because, well, the cameras were in the way. There was a spray of cameras in the way of him. Back in 2019, they held a hearing in the house and there was an expectation that maybe Attorney General Barr would show up, but he didn't show up at the time. So Steve Cohen, in an effort to try and mock him, said, he's a chicken. He's a chicken. And so Steve Cohen decided to get a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken and eat it on the floor of the house, resulting in this disgusting photograph as seen on rumble.com Vince, we have to see a ridiculous looking human being eat. Luckily, the image is not moving. Luckily it's a still image. And now it's gone. Now I've clicked away from it, but that's how that guy was remembered, his stupid bucket of kfc. That's the most consequential thing Steve Cohen ever did in Congress was eat chicken on the House floor. Yeah, yeah. As there he is, Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen also had a meltdown this year. In the beginning of this year, he called for President Trump to be wiped out. He wanted the President of the United States to be wiped out. Kind of sounds like a threat. You know, in the midst of all these assassination attempts inspired by people like Steve Cohen, you may perceive this language as being the kind of thing that's led to the weak and vicious minds attempting to take the President's life. I don't know. But here's Steve Cohen comparing January 6th of 2021 to 911 Pearl harbor and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Here he is.
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Watch one date somebody mentioned dates will always remember it in the September date, January date and Pearl harbor will never forget November 22, 1963. Of those of us who are alive. I remember it all the time. Whenever I think about it, I start to tear up. About to cheer up now.
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Wow. He should be wiped out, he said. Did you hear the tone too? The tone was not. I don't even know what, I don't, I don't even know how to describe that in any way as innocent. He should be wiped out. That sounded like blood thirst from Steve Cohen. Man, I'm so glad this guy is leaving. Aren't you glad this guy is leaving? Chat Amazing. Just amazing. I love, I love what Tennessee has done here. What a gift. Steve Cohen also has been involved in attacking Americans. He says Americans suck. Illegal aliens are great. He, he announced earlier this year that, you know, illegal aliens, they're not really as bad as American citizens. Watch this cut eight people working in
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the front lines and local law enforcement to protect our citizens from the worst of the worst. The worst of the worst are not the immigrants. The worst of the worst, records show, are native born Americans and they are committing crimes that hurt our citizens and our cities. And you're working against it and thank you for that.
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Na na na na, nah nah nah nah. Hey, hey, hey, goodbye, goodbye. Steve Cohen, you jackass. The guy says Americans are worse than illegals. Thank God this guy is leaving. Thank God. Finally, if just to demonstrate how much this dude loves illegal Steve Cohen said that the Save America act, which you and I have been fighting for the bare minimum of election integrity, would make it harder. Here he is admitting it out loud. Would make it harder for people to vote Democrat. Well, why is that? Steve Cohen cut nine Watch this.
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His bill would make it more difficult for people who generally are not inclined to vote for him to vote. It would make it harder to get. They have to show identification and some of that identification is passports or birth certificates that are hard to come up with and most difficult for people who are less likely to vote for, for, for, for, for Trump.
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If we force Americans to prove they are who they say they are, Democrats will lose elections, says Steve Cohen. It reminds me of the Katie Porter clip from earlier this week where she's like, well, all these actual Californians are leaving our state, so we just have to import lots of illegal aliens in order to replace them from top to bottom. These Democrats have gone all in on election rigging and they say it out loud. They're not, they're not in any way hiding it. It's not some sort of like subterranean conspiracy theory. It is the open conspiracy. They don't want the Save America act because they know that election rigging is the way that they obtain power. I don't know how much we can beat how much more we can beat this drum. Which is why it's so crazy to me that to this very second, John Foon continues not to have the Save America act presented to us. In fact, on that, I wasn't even going to mention this today, but I'm going to mention it now. They don't thinking about it. Let me, let me show you a story. This is great from our White House correspondent Reagan Reese, the great Reagan Reese at the Daily Caller. Here's what she has up. This is just in the last 24 hours. Turning Point USA, prepare yourself. This is wonderful. Turning Point USA has now set its sights on John Thune after the win in Indiana this week. This is great. So what we have is this. Turning Point USA Action is preparing to primary Senate Majority Leader in South Dakota, Senator John Thune, after notching that major win in Indiana this week. Because remember Turning Point, just like you, just like me, just like the president of the United States. But they had this, they had the actual activism on the ground here, was fighting in Indiana to throw out all of the incumbents who failed us, who failed the Republican voters in Indiana, failed normal people across the country who wanted to regain ground against the Democrats who've been rigging all of our elections and congressional districts in particular. And all we were asking from Indiana was two Tennessee just did one. We were asking for two of those rigged Democrat seats to be taken away. And Republicans failed to do that. So President Trump and company, including Turning Point USA said, we're taking you out. So after the, after that happened, after that happened, big grassroots organizations like TP USA and Club for Growth, they pledged to primary those Indiana politicians on Tuesday. At least five of the seven were all tossed. Now TP USA Action is telling the Daily Caller, telling Reagan, Reese, their work isn't done. If other states don't redistrict or if Republicans like Thune don't pass the Save America act, they are prepared to turn their attention to those states and those politicians. From Tyler Boyer, this is the chief operating officer at TPUSA Action quote, a lot of Republicans will lose their jobs if they don't get on board if they don't listen to their voters, if they don't do the right thing and fight the manipulation of the Democrats. Other states that decide not to do this, particularly in the south after the Supreme Court ruling, should be on watch. Guys like Thune should be on watch. They're not getting the will of the people done with the Save America Act. Those are the two biggest targets here on who might be next. You got that? So Turning Point, remember, in the wake of Charlie's assassination, the American people donated massive amounts of money to Turning Points operations, and for good reason. The point was to carry on Charlie's legacy, including, and especially in political activism, to achieve the political goals necessary to make America great again. So all that money flows in. How is, how is Turning Point, using all of the generosity of the American people who want to see Charlie's mission fulfilled, is to get rid of the people who are impediments to election integrity. That's it. And I love it, because what he's talking about is exactly right. If you. If you want to get to election integrity, how do we do that? We regain terrain on the map that's been stolen by Democrats. That's what Tennessee just did yesterday. And then you also get rid of the impediments in the United States Senate who are right now blocking us from having the bare minimum. The bare minimum being voter id. Voter id to just prove you are who you say you are. Only American citizens can vote. Only American citizens. So when you register to vote, you prove you're an American citizen. Boom, you're of age, you're an American citizen, you can register to vote. You're good. Non citizens. Purge them from the voter rolls. We've got a lot, we've got many thousands of non citizens on the voter rolls. We know that thanks to the Department of Justice, which, by the way, has been doing great work. Get rid of them, get them off the voter rolls. Prosecute any election official who aids and abets in election rigging. That's a part of the Save America Act. Further consequences for election officials who subvert our system. This is all built in. And of course, the President wants to include these other elements, too, like keeping men out of women's sports, protecting children from what the President refers to as mutilization, typically known as mutilation. But we're adding mutilization to the dictionary now, thanks to the President's efforts. So this is all good stuff. It's what I mean. It's like the American people broadly support this, and you can't do it. Okay, fine. We can get rid of you then. We can get rid of you then. And turning point as now promised, that's where we're going. That's what we're up to. It's good news. Now, Thune, of course, is not up for election this year, but placing pressure here on all of these senators, including to replace Thune in leadership. If he's going to fail us, fine by me. Keep the pressure up. And that includes for us, we should keep the pressure up as well. We want the Save America Act. Let's stay on that drumbeat and let's continue to make this a part of the DNA of what it means to be an American voter that cares about your country. Election integrity. Minimum threshold. Minimum threshold for anybody who wants my vote. Election integrity. All right. More ahead on the program. I want to get to. Well, let's get to the developments in the Iran war because if you've been following the headlines like I have, it's been head spinning, man. It's been, it just been. 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Fly fishing. If you haven't tried this, ladies and gentlemen, fly fishing is like one of the most therapeutic things you could possibly do. And fly tying is cool, too. I haven't really done that much fly tying. I've got the, I've got the fly tying set. I've tied a couple of flies. I don't, I. They came out okay. They came out okay. But it, it's, it's an amazing thing. It's like, it's, it's just really good. I don't know, there's something spiritual about it. It's just like, it just quiets your mind. It keeps you really focused. My problem with fly fishing is I can do kind of like a full cast pretty well. But the roll cast, I'm still trying to get it down, you know, so I need, I need a lot of clearance behind me for my cast. Otherwise this thing's getting snagged in a tree. That's my issue. So I got to, I got to get back out there on the water at some point and, you know, catch some fish. I love it. It's really cool. Really cool. All right, let's get to more important things. Yes, Time flies is very therapeutic. I totally agree, Craig. Let's. Let's get into what's going on with Iran. What's going on with Iran? President Trump just told Fox News that we could have an Iran deal within a week. He said within a week. Now, now, granted, like, look, if you think about the President, what he's been saying on the subject, he's pretty routinely been saying it could come any moment. It could be here in a second. We could have it in a moment. So, you know, look, I think the President, there's a, there's a bit of, I think, forecasting. The way I'm viewing this is like the President when he says things like this, there's wishcasting and forecasting going on. Like, he's very hopeful that this could occur, but it's actually not a full blown commitment that it's going to be nailed down. Because it really takes Iran agreeing to these conditions. You know, we've got them in a chokehold. I mean, dude, you want to, why don't you tap out, cry uncle and just give up your stupid nuclear program? We could have a deal in a minute, forget a week. But the President told Fox News's Brett Bayer yesterday we could have a deal within a week. He Said in a phone interview with Brett. Also, the Pakistanis are saying, because they're the mediators to all of this, they have been, they've played mediator, that the US And Iran is close to a temporary truce right now, Pakistani officials claim a temporary truce. The US And Iran are close to a temporary agreement to halt the war in the Middle east, officials in Pakistan claimed on Thursday as diplomatic activity gathered fresh momentum after a near breakdown of the current ceasefire. Earlier this week, officials in Islamabad said a very basic interim deal could be reached as early as this weekend and that Tehran was reviewing a US Proposal. However, Trump and Pakistan have consistently suggested a breakthrough is imminent and weeks of previous efforts to negotiate a permanent end to hostilities have made little real progress. So in Pakistan, they're thinking maybe by the weekend. And then there's the Iranian side of the equation. The Iranians are claiming that talks are ongoing, according to the New York Times, but their sticking point is kind of the key sticking point, ladies and gentlemen. The nukes. The nukes. Three senior Iranian officials telling the New York Times. Because the New York Times, of course, talks to Iran that Tehran and the United States are discussing a one page plan for both sides to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and into hostilities for 30 days. A 30 day pause. Again, this is just being upgraded ceasefire. I don't, I don't really know functionally how this is dramatically different, but maybe the Strait of Hormuz is wide open. That if it is wide open at that point and the Iranians stop sending their, you know, demented little terrorists after every ship that tries to go through the strait, then yeah, well, that would help the global economy for sure. But that would be an upgraded version of the ceasefire for 30 days while they try to reach a comprehensive deal. The talks over a short term agreement are continuing. The official said negotiators are trading proposals over how to describe the framework for a potential permanent deal. The three Iranian officials, who are close to the negotiations and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy, said a key obstacle was the US Demand for commitments in advance on the fate of Iran's nuclear program and its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Well, I'm telling you, this is the whole ball game and Iran says it's a sticking point, which means Iran is saying, we don't want to give up our nukes. The President's been really clear about this. You want all this stand, you want this chaos to come to an end. Give us the enriched uranium. Swear off any more uranium enrichment at all. You're done, you're done. You do that, we're off to the ball game. You don't do that, we're gonna keep punching you in the face. So you pick one, you wanna go, you wanna be off to the ball game or you wanna get punched in the face. Those are your choices. Choose wisely. That's the President's offer. And so Iran is telling the New York Times, yeah, the sticking point is the degree to which we enrich uranium. No, it's not a sticking point. The President's position is clear. Don't enrich any. That's the position. The reason you're at the negotiating table is not because you love President Trump. It's because you desperately want your economy back open. It's because your military is at the bottom of the sea. Iran is here. The regime, I mean, not the people. The Iranian regime is at the table under duress. They don't want to be at this table with Trump to begin with. The reason they're there now is because President Trump has forced them to be. So that means he's got all the leverage in this conversation. The fact that they're still dead ending on the uranium stuff is a real sign, of course, of what they've always been, which is a nuclear thirsty terrorist regime. But if you want to actually get out of this, get out of it, get out of the nuke business, and we're off to the races. So that's the state of the talks now. What about the state of the blasts going each way? Well, this, this sequence of events, I feel like the media has not done a very good job of explaining this. So I'm going to try and give it to you as tightly as I can. Earlier this week, an Iranian oil tanker tried to run our blockade. It tried to just go sprint right through our blockade. Now, chat. You don't have to be, you know, a ship captain to understand how stupid this is. You don't jump into your Iranian oil tanker and try and blitz the blockade. You don't, you don't blitz the blockade. So they tried. And you know what we did? We sent a fighter jet in and we blew up the rudder. We disabled the rudder on the ship. And so it's dead in the water. It's just sitting there now. And so this, it failed to comply with repeated warnings from the United States military. The Central Command released a statement saying all of this. The US Navy has already turned around 52 different commercial vessels since the start of the blockade. That was on April 13th. This idiot tried to make A run. And so we blew up the rudder. So in response, Iran began targeting US warships this week. I feel like we were pretty generous. We were very clear about the terms. You can't, you can't blitz the blockade. It's a blockade. That's the point. You try and run through it, we're gonna stop you. So they stop. This is for Iran, by the way. It's for Iran's ports. So we stopped this Iranian tanker. Iran started targeting U.S. warships and CENTCOM released a statement yesterday explaining the sequence of events here. So US forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self defense strikes. As US Navy guided missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman yesterday, May 7, Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats at three of our ships that were transiting the strait. No US assets were struck at all. At all. That's how good we are and that's how bad they are. U.S. central Command eliminated inbound threats, so we took out the threats and we targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking American forces, including missile and drone launch sites, command and control locations, and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance nodes. CENTCOM does not seek escalation, but, but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces. So we just blew up all the sites that were launching stuff at us. And the President's position is clear. The ceasefire is not over. But every time you throw these feckless little limp wristed attacks at us, we'll just destroy the source of those attacks. So we did. We did. And the President yesterday described in practically poetic terms precisely how this all played out. It was really great. Here's the President's truth, social description. He said three world class American destroyers just transited very successfully out of the Strait of Hormuz under fire. There was no damage done to the three destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers. They were completely destroyed, along with numerous small boats which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated navy. These boats went to the bottom of the sea quickly and efficiently. Missiles were shot at our destroyers and were easily knocked down. Likewise, drones came and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave. A normal country would have allowed these destroyers to pass, but Iran is not a normal country. They are led by lunatics. And if they had the chance to use a nuclear weapon, they would do it without question. But they'll never have that opportunity. And just like we knocked them out again today, will knock them out a lot harder and a lot more violently in the future if they don't get their deal signed fast. Our three destroyers with their wonderful crews will now rejoin our naval blockade, which is truly a wall of steel. President Donald J. Trump. Like a butterfly dropping to its grave. The dude's a poet. I didn't even know. I didn't even know it. It's so funny. It's like a butterfly dropping through its grave. President of the United States. Yes, official words from the President. So, yeah, we took out the threat. We struck a bunch of their locations yesterday. The Kashmir port, the Bandar Abbas, Bandar Kargan, all these various Iranian locations that posed a threat to us. Now, we also learned a little bit more this week about why it is that we had a pause at all on Project Freedom. On Project Freedom. So remember, the President basically set up a zone defense in the area to get Project Freedom to get, basically to get commercial ship traffic moving except from those Iranian ports which continue to be blockaded. And it stopped the President. It was kind of a head spinner, wasn't it? I mentioned it to you earlier this week. I was like, well, the President must feel like he's closer to a deal or something. There's gotta be some sort of behind the scenes activity going on here that would dictate why we'd have to pause Project Freedom. He says the blockade continues, but Project Freedom doesn't. For now, it's on pause. Well, we just found out, I think, a lot more interesting detail about that. There's a report here from the Wall Street Journal about why exactly this happened. And it involves the Gulf states, it involves uae, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Basically what had occurred, according to this reporting, is that Iran continued to act belligerent. And remember, they fired all of those missiles in the direction of UAE this week. And UAE took some strikes, but most of this was shot down. But the Iranians are spazzing out. They're like attacking all of these locations all around them, including these various Arab states that surround them. And the reaction from the Pentagon that I played for you, that included Pete Hegseth and General Kane, was essentially, look, the ceasefire is not violated. They're just lashing out. We just want a deal. This little nonsense. We'll take care of it. But the ceasefire continues. That was their position. Well, apparently that led to some consternation from some of the Gulf states because they really wanted the United States to have like some sort of forceful response against Iran to protect them. So the reporting from the Wall Street Journal is that Saudi Arabia And Kuwait had essentially shut down the United States military's use of our own bases and airspace, that area in, in order to basically say, like, hey, we don't want to be a part of this for now if you're not going to defend us. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have now lifted those restrictions, says the Wall Street Journal on the US Military's use of their bases in airspace imposed after the start of the American operation to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. officials and Saudi officials. Removing a hurdle that had tripped up President Trump's effort to move ships through the vital waterway, the Trump administration is now looking to restart the operation to guide the commercial ships with naval and air support that it had paused for 36 hours this week. It isn't clear when this could happen, though Pentagon officials gave a timeline of as early as this week, meaning at any moment, the United States operation to force open the strait relied on an enormous fleet of aircraft to protect commercial ships from Iranian missiles and drones, making Saudi and Kuwaiti bases in airspace critical to its execution. But the mission set off the biggest dispute in Saudi American military relations in recent years, triggering a spate of high level phone calls between the president himself and the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in order to resolve this. And apparently that happened. So they had a phone call, things got set, basically, they had a phone call, the de facto Saudi leader conveyed his concerns, advised the President of the decision, and the president was able to get everything back up and running. So this is, once again, this is kind of one of those moments where the President gets involved, everything gets back up and running, we're good to go. But in case you're wondering, what was that? Why did that, why do we get that pause? Apparently it was just the president, as always, he's juggling chainsaws. The guy is trying to navigate international diplomacy, foreign policy, national security, big foreign conflict, all at the same time. So this is, this is just the president kind of navigating all of this, but things are back up and running. It looks like we could have Project Freedom back up and running literally at any second. Perhaps by the time you hear this podcast, it's all, it's all good to go, but the president navigating towards a deal. And then finally in the summary, as I started with, we're looking at perhaps within the next week according to the President, perhaps by this weekend, according to Pakistan. And the Iranians are still being stubborn jackasses saying they want to hold on to their nuclear program. But, you know, let's get rid of that. Let's get rid of that. And we could be good to go. So keep you apprised of that as we get meaningful updates on that subject. Hopefully that was a good, tight description for you. That's what I wanted to give you because even I was looking at some of the headlines, I was like, wait a second, how did this happen? What is this? And I feel like I have a much better handle on where we are right now. Okay. More on other things that are going on in the world. I have an update for you. Yesterday I told you about the United States Department of Justice going after the Soros prosecutors like Steve Discano in Fairfax county and there's others, Larry Krasner, get ready in Philadelphia. There's a lot of these guys. They're all across the country, these Soros prosecutors. And the reason the Justice Department is going after them is because they keep letting illegal aliens free. And American citizens don't get the same sort of privileges that illegal aliens do. So there's, there's an uneven, uneven application of justice here. And so it's a civil rights violation, which is why Harmony Dillon is on their ass, which is great. She's going after Fairfax County Prosecutor Steve Descano right now. And the big headline case here is the death of Stephanie Minter. Stephanie Minter was murdered earlier this year, stabbed to death in a bus stop in Northern Virginia by an illegal alien who this Soros funded prosecutor released over and over and over again until he killed Stephanie. Cheryl Minter. I played some audio from, from her yesterday. It was a flashback to when she had talked to the press about all of this. And she's just been absolutely devastated. She really blames Steve Descano for the fact that her daughter is not with us anymore. And yesterday that great reporter Nick Minoc caught up with Cheryl Minter again and got her reaction to the fact that the Trump Justice Department is finally going after this guy Descano and these other Soros funded prosecutors. Let's take a listen to Cheryl Minter and what she had to say about the breaking news. Cut down.
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Cheryl mentor's daughter Stephanie was murdered at a high Blood Valley bus stop in Fairfax county earlier this year. And police arrested Abdul Jalo, a violent repeat offender who is in the country illegally.
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Cheryl filed a complaint with the U.S. department of justice arguing if Fairfax County Commonwealth attorney Steve Descano wasn't intentionally lenient on illegal immigration suspects, her daughter would still be alive today.
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I truly miss her. I miss her laugh, her smile and the fact that I'll never see her getting hurt so deep. So deep.
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Cheryl's daughter Stephanie, a single mom, was at a bus stop in Fairfax county the night she was killed. Police charged a violent illegal immigrant named Abdul Jalo, who is well known to police, with her murderer. And last year, police warned the Fairfax County Commonwealth attorney three separate times that if Jala was released, he would hurt or even kill someone else. Despite those warnings, decisions by Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano's office allow Jalo to walk free and allegedly kill Stephanie Minter. Up until just a few weeks ago, Steve Descano's own website proclaimed that, quote, wherever possible, Steve will make charging and plea decisions that limit or avoid immigration consequences.
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By the way, I just. This is maybe a product of our editing here. On this clip, I want to, I want to make sure you can hear her reaction to Descano actually conducting the investigation. She's, she says it's bittersweet because she doesn't have her daughter anymore. This is what she sounded like as she described her reaction. Here, take a look. I've got, I've got this pulled up. Take a look at her reaction to this live.
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Today you filed a complaint with the Department of Justice and now the DOJ is investigating. How does that feel that your complaint has helped result into an investigation into the Commonwealth Attorney's office?
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The basis is great. I had to lose my daughter for it to happen. Yeah. So you've got a two sided sword there. I truly. She loves that they're going after him, but she would not in a million years, not in a million years want to lose her daughter again this way. She wants her back. It's hard to blame her. I mean, the fight that she's waging now is not to bring her daughter back. It's to prevent anybody else's daughter from being killed by an illegal. Cheryl Minter's trying to get that source funded prosecutor recalled. At the same time she's trying to stage a, a recall campaign. Good to get rid of that guy. But I love the beginning of this. I love that Herme Dillon's going after all these Soros prosecutors. And there's Cheryl Minter, man, Just, just who's lost her daughter to this. Still staying in the fight, by the way. If she can stay in the fight, the rest of us should absolutely stay in the fight given what she's gone through. If she can stay in this fight, God bless her for it, man. I've got one more, one more big story for you this week. Another kind of fake scandal of the week. Chad, do you want the audio? Do you want the fake scandal the week bumper? I could do it for you if you want. We've got a fake scandal of the week this week. Even before I get your reaction, maybe I'll just dive into it. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. And now it's time for the left Fake Scandal of the week. Extra, extra. Yeah, there's a big scandal going on. Big fake scandal going on that there's like taxpayer funding going into President Trump's ballroom project. And the media is, the media is going absolutely apoplectic about this. I could just show you some of the headlines. This is what it looks like at the moment. Right there, right here on just a Google News. Senate Republican fears $1 billion for White House Ballroom Represents Political Landmine. NBC Republicans propose $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to Secure Trump Ballroom. Trump's ballroom is becoming a political boondoggle. Even the Fox News headline here, once touted as privately funded, Republicans Sneak in Taxpayer Cash for Trump's Ballroom Project. I, you know, I, I thought this is one of those stories where I kept seeing it. I was like, this is stupid, everybody. This is really stupid. And I'll tell you why it's so completely stupid. The money, the taxpayer money is not for the ballroom. I, why don't. These guys should have called me. I could have told them a million years ago before they jumped in on this idiotic scandal. The ballroom is not where the taxpayer funding is going. The ballroom is privately funded by benefactors the same way so many great American projects have been funded. All the monuments on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. all that this is like privately funded by rich benefactors who just love the country, want to donate something back to it. This is not what this is. The money that they're talking about is going to build the national security bunker at the White House. It's for. I, I told you last year when the President was launching this, I was like, look, the east wing, which they just tore down. They tore down the east wing of the White House. When they tore it down, remember they told people in the Treasury Department, don't take photos of the demolition. Don't be taking photos outside of the demo. Why were they telling people not to take photos of the demo? Is it because they were embarrassed by the construction? No, they weren't embarrassed by it. They're telling people not to take photos for national security reasons. It is a well known fact that under the east wing of the White House is the national security bunker for the President of the United States. In the process of doing the construction of A brand new gorgeous ballroom. Underneath it, they're building an epic world class national security bunker for the President of the United States to conduct the affairs of the American people and safeguard this country. That's it. The taxpayer money is for the military operation. It's not for the ballroom. These jackasses just keep lying about it. And it's so obvious to anybody who's been paying attention what they're up to. In fact, yesterday some reporter asked the President about this. Why are the taxpayers funding the ballroom now? And here's the President explaining in so many words, it has nothing to do with the ballroom, you nudnik. Here he is. Cut 11 listen. Not pay for the ballroom at the White House. Why should tax taxpayers now be on the hook for a billion dollars?
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Well, they're not because that's for many other projects. That's for projects having to do with safety in this, in a certain section of the White House grounds. That's not all for the ballroom. And we're putting up $400 million to do the ballroom section of the ballroom. We are putting that up privately. I am doing it along with other patriots that love our country. But if they want to do certain things militarily with respect to the ballroom having nothing to do with us or having to do with the safety of the President, so having to do with a lot of things, but we are going to have a safe ballroom. It's under construction, it's ahead of schedule, it's right on budget.
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By the way, have you, have you seen this anywhere chat? Have you seen this in your social media feeds? Trump said it would be privately funded. Now he's taking our money and now he's building this ballroom. Nobody wants this ballroom and they're taking taxpayer money. It's just. It's just what? Blueski must be going freaking crazy. I'm not even on blue ski, but I guarantee you they're going crazy battles. He's taking his taxpayer money, so I'm getting worked up. He's taking all the taxpayer money. He's not taking taxpayer money. He's giving you a gift of a ballroom. And the taxpayers, insofar as were involved at all, we're upgrading the national security bunker for the continuity of our government. Anybody who watched this show, by the way, for any length of time would have known this. We talked about this last year. In fact, I intuited it immediately. The second I saw they were working on the east wing, I was like, there's no way. You know this. There's no way. Trump is doing this project without rebuilding that national security bunker, there's no way they're not just building a ballroom. Then they're going to leave some crafty 1950s bunker with, like, you know, some old computers and printers with the. With the. Remember the. The printer paper with the little circles on the edge of the. On the edge of the paper you had to rip off? Just that would help track the paper through. That's what I envisioned the old bunker looking like some. Some weird. You know, all the screens are green. Like, there's no color whatsoever. That's probably not what it looks like, but they really need to upgrade it, so I'm glad they're doing it. I'm glad they're doing it. National security, it's one of the few things I'm interested in paying for with my tax dollars. It's amazing. Anyway, as always, great to have you with us, man. It was a. It was a. Our. This week flew. It totally flew. Holy cow. Appreciate you being here as always. I hope you have a fantastic American weekend. God bless you. Love having you here. The best audience anywhere. I'll be back with you on Monday.
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