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SPEAKER 16 : 0:30

I want them to focus on the cities, because the cities are where you really have what’s called sanctuary cities, and that’s where the people are. I look at New York, I look at Chicago. I mean, you’ve got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor, but the governor’s probably the worst in the country, Pritzker. But I look at how that city has been overrun by criminals. And, you know, New York and L.A., look at L.A. L.A., those people weren’t from… LA they weren’t from California most of those people many of those people and yeah, that’s that’s a focus Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country of that vast Numbers of those people were murderers killers people from gangs people from jails They emptied their jails out into the US. Most of those people are in the cities all blue cities all Democrat run cities and they think they’re going to use them to vote and It’s not going to happen.

SPEAKER 13 : 1:28

Hmm. That’s POTUS. He’s speaking right at the start of G7, which we’re going to there’s a lot of stuff to unpack today. And he had some really interesting soundbites there. Of course, he was talking about some of the protests that were not protests, the riots. That’s yeah. The riots that have been happening ongoing in California today. And they they still and they’ve I mean, now you have the Portland weirdos that have been getting into it. What do you got Seattle? You got Portland. You got a number of other. I mean, the usual suspect blue cities. You know what I mean? The ones where you’re like, oh, there’s not already a protest over something there. I mean, I know that sounds kind of weird to say, but I’m just so used to those people constantly in the streets protesting over some sort of perceived injustice that it’s not actually an injustice. It’s people who are mad about. having to follow the law. So I’m just kind of used to that always kind of happening. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. Like I said, we’ve got a ton of stuff to jump into. And we’ve got the issue with the well, we’ve got the update with the Minnesota assassin. We’ve got him And we’re going to dive into that. We also have a lot of the latest as with the protests and then with Iran and with Israel and G7 because G7 is kicking off. And there’s been some interesting soundbites that have come from POTUS from that, especially, like I said, right as he was there with Mark Carney, who’s the new Canadian prime minister. And it was interesting because POTUS went and was talking about how Russia it should have been G8, he said. But he said that it was it was Obama and Carney’s predecessor, Barack Obama, that that kicked out that had them. remove Putin, I guess, from consideration. And Trump had said, well, you wouldn’t have a war if he was still in G8, if it was still G8. And if Russia was being considered, he’s like, you probably wouldn’t have a war is what he said, which I thought was an interesting soundbite. Listen to this. This is what this really struck me this morning as we were preparing to come into the studio. Listen.

SPEAKER 16 : 3:39

I look forward to that. The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in. And I would say that that was a mistake because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia in. And you wouldn’t have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago. But it didn’t work out that way. But it used to be the G8. And now it’s, I guess, what’s that, nine years ago, eight years ago, it switched over there. They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a very big mistake, even though I wasn’t in politics then. I was very loud about it. It was a mistake in that you spend so much time talking about Russia that he’s no longer at the table. So it makes life more complicated. But you wouldn’t have had the war.

SPEAKER 13 : 4:23

One of the things that POTUS said was, well, and he was saying that, well, Putin only talks to me now. Like he was lamenting, like, gosh, I’m the one that’s got to be the only person to take the calls. That’s what it sounded like when I heard that. I was like, hmm, that’s kind of interesting. Now, speaking of Russia, it also looks like, as it relates to some of the latest with Iran and Israel, at this point, I think it’s because there have been so many sites that have not just been decimated, but entirely destroyed over there. And this is all based off of Israeli intel, wherein they were there. Their position was that they were just right on the cusp of developing nuclear capability. which is something that they, I mean, they would have immediately probably struck out at Israel and the United States if all of this intelligence, which I’m sure sometime we’ll later learn, if everything is entirely accurate. It’s been a destabilized region for a long time. I mean, it’s been a destabilized region since before I was born and before any of us here. Most of you listening, this is the Jimmy Carter era, right? This is what happened when Jimmy Carter overthrew the Shah and then installed in place this regime. It’s not even religious, this fanatical regime. And we’re seeing the consequence of that still to this day. And now one of the things that POTUS had said, too, is that this is going to come down to the people of Iran standing up. and pushing back at their government. But there have been tons of sites that have been absolutely and utterly destroyed. They still have a little bit left of missile capability, but there’s question as to how they’re able to control it. Because in the very beginning, I mean, actually, when they first launched, this was back in, I think, July of last year, because you remember, this is simply retaliation. that Israel is taking against Iran. Iran bypassed in what was the true escalation using the Houthis and Hezbollah to the north, Hamas to the south, using those longstanding three terror proxies. They always used them to carry out their attacks and not just carry out attacks against Israel, but also against United States assets and soldiers themselves. There have been a lot of Americans killed by Iran, a lot of soldiers killed by Iran. And so the bypassing of those terror groups and directly attacking Israel. sometime a handful of months ago, almost July of last year, that this response is not an escalation. It’s a response. And I just reject the idea that just because they waited to make sure that they had everything in place properly and that they had a good plan, that somehow that means you forfeit your right to self-defense, like you’re supposed to go out and just throw haymakers. That doesn’t make any sense. So I can’t stand that narrative from the media. But that said… Now we’re hearing that Iran might be. I mean, it looks like everybody’s reporting and everybody. I mean, all of the usual suspects in the legacy press. It almost feels like they’re begrudgingly reporting that Iran is. wanting to come to the table for some kind of negotiations because the missiles now, as I was mentioning, the missiles now that they are firing seem a lot more reckless than previous because there was one that landed near a U.S. consulate. And that’s pretty dangerous. But I remember the air command capability in Tehran was taken out. A number of other command centers were taken out in addition to a ton more missiles in storage. So I think that they’re out of resources. I think that they’re out of any kind of capability. And I don’t know what their response is going to be. They’re not going to be able to send any kind of ground soldiers over because they don’t have any support from Syria, whether it’s airspace or anything. Their airspace right now is entirely ruled by Israel. So this is the state of things. There was a refueling aircraft that was headed east. The strikes are ongoing, but now it’s more about taking out any remaining regime military leaders. And you remember the IRCG, it’s that Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The IRCG, they lost all of their top dudes in precision strikes because these guys were so stupid. They stayed in their penthouses in Tehran instead of reading the room like everybody else was on social media and realizing that when POTUS was evacuating embassies around the Middle East, something probably was amiss. And so they had these guys still stay in these These high rises taken up by a precision strike so that the next morning, all the people who would be meeting to talk about a response were dead. So right now, at this point, they’re taking out the rest of the IRCG and the IRCG. Those were the people that were on top of the buildings, sniping citizens who were protesting in the street for the Green Revolution in Iran. That was the entity that shot in the head and killed Nita Sultan while she just literally got out of her car because they were approaching an intersection that was blocked off. And there were protesters in the streets and her dad had picked her up from somewhere and they were on their way back home. And she got out and one of the IRGC shot her in the head and she was shot and died and bled out right on video. And it was a video for everybody to see. So, yeah, those are bad guys that are being taken out at this point. And I think at this stage of this operation, it’s about taking out those military heads and then kind of making sure that any capability that they have to strike is entirely decimated. But POTUS said, yeah, Iran is not winning this war. They immediate they should talk to us immediately and get this settled. I mean, are they Iran? I mean, are they going to surrender? There’s a lot of discussion from coming out of Dubai, the Wall Street Journal, their Dubai bureau. They’ve been signaling that they want to seek an end to hostilities and a resumption of talks over their enrichment programs, because prior what they had proposed was, well, we will we will stop. But we want to keep our enrichment programs. Well, that’s a non-starter from everyone involved. And notice how they’re not getting any other support from any other Arab nations. I don’t know if you saw what happened over the weekend, but there were a bunch of peaceniks and hippies and pro-Hamas wannabe Gazans that marched to the border in Rafah, you know, because Egypt has a giant multi-level wall there. At the border of Gaza, you want to talk about walls? Egypt doesn’t just have one wall. Egypt has layers of walls, barbed wire and snipers in towers at the Rafah border. And what happened was these protesters and these wannabe Gaza Hamas simps, they decide to approach the border and the Egyptian police beat the hell out of them. They thought they were going to do what they are doing in California and just push through and go on. And that was not happening. Egypt’s military wasn’t allowing it. The police and their border control at the Rafah crossing weren’t allowing it. And they did. They beat and detained every single one of those people that try to pull Gruta von Thunberg and Gruta Thunberg and cross over into Gaza. It wasn’t happening. So that was pretty unbelievable. I don’t know if you’ve seen some of the video footage of that. I don’t think we can play any of the audio because, Cain, didn’t you tell me that any kind of cussing in any language is probably not allowed? Even if Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC with whom we have our get out of free jail card, doesn’t speak it?

SPEAKER 11 : 11:45

I’m just erring on the side of caution. That’s all I’m doing.

SPEAKER 13 : 11:48

OK, I just it’s very good. And it’s very because it was very interesting. I got to say it’s very interesting audio. But yeah, I’m pretty sure there was a lot of because I recognized one word and it kept being repeated. And I’m like, I have a knack for knowing all the bad words and all that. I don’t know. I don’t know what happened. But they’re signaling apparently that they they’re wanting to they’re wanting to reduce. Oh, yeah. After now, they want to reduce hostilities. Israeli officials says that they have more weeks of strikes prepared for. And they’ve prepared this for a long time. I mean, the fact that they were able to create in Iran’s borders this drone base is pretty amazing. So Arab leaders, you know, we told you Saudi Arabia’s statement last week was sort of like, oh, no, stop, wink, wink. They’re not really. Because they don’t like Iran. You have the Shia versus Sunni power struggle there. And they’ve never been friendly with Iran. And Iran actually has been destabilizing every ability the Saudis have. of getting involved and making investments, right? Remember, the Saudis have been wanting to go and build. They got a new crown prince and they’ve been wanting to go and they’ve been turning into capitalists and they’ve been westernizing their nation. I mean, everyone says that the Saudis have been sports washing. I think the sports are capitalized washing the Saudis. Really, ultimately, I kind of think that we’ll talk more about that. We also have Stephen Yates later on in the program for probably what’s going to be the longest segment ever that he’s ever had on the show because he can never leave. This is what happens when he leaves. As we move, we’ve got a lot still underway. Headlines coming up. Our friends at Gold Co. Gold Co. Precious Metals. Gold Co. knows. I mean, they understand. Smart investors get it. And they understand the market through and through. And they want to help you add actual gold and silver to your portfolio because they’ve stood the test of time. Hard assets offer real security. It’s not like paper, right? They’re not tied to the performance of the stock market or government debt. They offer a tangible way to safeguard what you have. And you can get educated before you invest. They have a free 2025 gold and silver kit. Breaks down everything you need to know about how precious metals can fit into your financial strategy. And you can also unlock exclusive bonus silver. And if you qualify, Goldco is going to match your investment with unlimited bonus silver. No taxes or penalties. This is confidence in uncertain times. Visit danalikesgold.com and join the thousands of people like yours truly who have called Goldco the number one rated gold company. And right now you can get a free copy of their 2025 gold and silver kit and qualify for and get unlimited bonus silver. That’s danalikesgold.com.

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SPEAKER 11 : 15:51

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SPEAKER 13 : 15:57

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subscribe to the dana show podcast because who says you can’t make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time subscribe on youtube apple or wherever you get your podcast have you heard any signals or seen any messages from intermediaries that iran wishes to de-escalate the conflict yeah what have you what have you heard what have you heard from the iranians they’d like to talk but

SPEAKER 16 : 20:36

They should have done that before. I had 60 days, and they had 60 days. And on the 61st day, I said, we don’t have a deal. They have to make a deal. It’s painful for both parties, but I’d say Iran is not winning this war. And they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it’s too late.

SPEAKER 13 : 20:56

Yeah. I mean, I think that that’s a sensible thing. That’s POTUS just a little while ago as he arrived for G7. And he made remarks, too, about how it should be G8. We’ll talk more about that coming up. But the… The news that Iran could be seeking discussions to end it. Yeah, yeah, I think so. I mean, yeah, I would imagine. I would imagine. And the Iranian military or the Iranian leadership, they’ve been asking for apparently asking for some assistance, but it’s not happening so much. In fact, they the news is that they they were asking Russia for assistance or from some sort of for some sort of help. And I think Russia then turned right around and pulled his dudes out of their embassies. I’m just saying, I think, I mean, we’re on how much, how many days of war is this? No, we’re on a conflict, seven, eight. Yeah. The mullahs wanted Putin to talk to Trump. And apparently, according to multiple reports, Trump said he wasn’t going to stop Iran from finishing off what Iran started or was going to stop Israel from finishing off what Iran started. And then apparently he ordered Putin asked the diplomatic personnel for Russia to get out of Tehran. I mean, reportedly, but apparently that’s what and I’ve seen that from a couple of different sources. Nobody wants Iran and Iran doesn’t Iran only serves a useful purpose so long as it is a perceived threat. But, you know, there’s that old adage that, you know, prove your God can bleed. And I think that that, you know, this has been a long time in the making. This has been a long time in the making when Iran, when Israel hit back at Hezbollah, really, really nearly incapacitated Hezbollah after the fall of Syria. And you have Bashar al-Assad, who was very, very friendly to Iran, the new regime leader. I’m not saying that he’s any better because it’s always kind of a worse of the lesser of the two devils in this situation. But you got this guy who advertises himself as a reformed jihadi who’s taking over Syria, but he closed airspace and was not allowing Iran to use Syrian airspace for any purpose. And now with this, Russia’s been involved in some of these diplomatic efforts, and Putin initiated it at Iran’s request, this discussion with Trump. But Trump said, no, We’re not doing that. And then apparently after it was made very, very clear that Trump was not going to in any way inhibit Israel from responding, that’s apparently reportedly when Putin sent a warning to the Supreme Leader of Iran stating, you in danger, girl. Need to go. So, well, I just don’t know how much longer Iran can play out, play this out at this point. And we’re going to talk at length to Stephen Yates about this. In the meantime, we had the protest. I don’t think the No Kings protest. Did it really make any kind of headlines? They had all their thunder stolen sort of in a way, didn’t they? Yeah. They really tried, but I just don’t think it made a lot of headlines. Oh, except for there was, and this is one of the things that Lorraine had noted this morning, they had a guy who apparently brought his, who is it, this guy brought a rifle and ended up, a leftist shot a leftist at one of the protests, is from what I understand. Mm-hmm. They otherwise, I mean, they were trying to shut down roads, et cetera. And I just don’t. I mean, I don’t think that they… They sold merch. Did you see this? Over the weekend, CBS was advertising, oh, here’s the merch for No Kings. They tweeted it out like it was a news story, but it’s really… It was an ad. I mean, for all intents and purposes, it was an ad. I remarked about something on… I can’t even remember what I said, but I’m sure it’s not safe for air. But I responded to it. But they… CBS, shocker, shocker. They… It was like they were advertising for this. Oh, here’s their merchandise. How do you have merch… You know, quick note. Do these people not realize that for however long, we have always had a No Kings Day? It’s called July 4th. July 4th has been our No Kings Day for… Since the late 1700s. Yeah. Yeah. Long time.

SPEAKER 1 : 25:28

1776.

SPEAKER 13 : 25:28

It’s been a long time. So I’m not quite sure what they think that they’re accomplishing here. But there is a difference in approach. No kings, apparently. Their leftist protest is about they actually do want a king, but it has to be their their political bent. And also destruction and arson, et cetera, et cetera. And really, it’s about illegal immigration. And then you have, you know, the Fourth of July, which is about country and the republic, et cetera. This was a grown adult man. This was audio somebody to a protest, a physical adult, actual male who was beating a Trump doll in Beverly Hills.

SPEAKER 11 : 26:04

Did you just misgender someone?

SPEAKER 13 : 26:07

Well, I mean, let’s roll the tape. Is this entertaining to somebody? Is this entertaining to this guy?

SPEAKER 11 : 26:26

I think it’s supposed to be therapeutic.

SPEAKER 13 : 26:28

Thera Trumpy, Trump-induced anxiety help. Well, I mean, that explains it. It’s TDS. They actually have a little TDS booth there.

SPEAKER 11 : 26:35

You know, when you hate capitalism, don’t you just love using capitalism against capitalism?

SPEAKER 13 : 26:40

I know. My favorite thing about people who hate capitalism is that they engage in it. And then they protest against it, and then they go engage in it some more. It’s actually stunning. That guy, how old was that guy, do you think? Ah, 60-something? Oh, dude, he had to be older than that. I don’t know. Hate ages you, though. It does. Right? Hate makes you ugly. It does. So my grandmother said, but then she’d say something hateful. The, uh… That was their little protest there. You know what that reminded me of when I first saw that clip? It reminded me of the clueless fair that they had for Pismo Beach cleanup, their environment. It reminded me of a clueless scene. Those were some of the little booths that they had. But I don’t, I mean, I really, what did they accomplish? What was the point of it? I mean, oh, and then they got this. Is this a chick that’s running? I’m watching some of the video that Juan’s preparing. She’s in one of those inflatable suits and it just says no king on it.

SPEAKER 11 : 27:35

We just collected some B-roll for the folks today.

SPEAKER 13 : 27:38

I mean, what is this? What purpose is this? No king. So the little, I don’t know, man.

SPEAKER 11 : 27:46

She’s her own airbag.

SPEAKER 13 : 27:48

She is. She’s her own orbit. Look at her. She’s in one of those little inflatable suits. I don’t know. I really don’t understand the point of what they’re doing. I don’t know. Also, the Minnesota suspect. I know we’ve got so much. We’re going to try to cover everything today. The killer in Minnesota. There was a lot of discussion as to motive on this. And I think we’re still trying to get facts out because everything’s weird. It’s just so weird to me. There’s a piece that Lorraine has up right now over at Substack that gets into all of it. If you are a subscriber over at Chapter and Verse, you have all of the latest. She’s been running this down. She’s also been running down the socialist movements behind the L.A. riots, too. But this suspect that they arrested, he was found and arrested near his home over the weekend after a two-day manhunt. The Ramsey County Sheriff’s apparently The way that they found him was a trail cam. He got picked up on some dude’s trail cam. And then from that, they were able to kind of run him down. He was still armed when police arrested him, according to reports. But they didn’t say exactly what he had. They had a statement on Facebook where they said he’s the face of evil, etc. He’s in custody. They have multiple agents. His wife released a statement to the press. John Hoffman’s wife, Hoffman and his wife, that they made it through surgery. They were shot by this guy. But thankfully, they made it through surgery, although the other lawmaker and her spouse, they were not. But this all I mean, you guys remember this guy had a police SUV and was able to go to these people’s houses in the middle of the night. And I think everyone immediately wants to know, because they’re trying to place blame, what were his politics. But it’s all over the place. Like he had no King stuff in his car. And then he had a hit list that made it kind of seem like it was related to abortion. There was reports of a manifesto that were circulating online, but nobody really knows if it was true or not. And nothing if it was just a hit list or if it was a manifesto something, you know, it may have been just the hit list. They did have that. And the individual, he apparently texted his roommates because he had a roommate to get any texted one of his roommates and said that he loved the guys and that he made some choices. You guys don’t know anything about and I’m going to be gone for a while. It’s just weird. He says, sorry about all the trouble that this has caused. I mean, what is this guy’s motivation? It’s all over the place. This is very weird. And of course, obviously, the fog of tragedy, there’s all kinds of information that comes out and everybody wants to be first and they don’t want to be right. And the media doesn’t help because immediately everybody started pushing a political agenda. And I think that the quickest thing they tried to do was blame POTUS. The authorities, this is the manifesto. Minnesota authorities say they’re not going to release this manifesto of this guy. And remember, a state lawmaker, Melissa Hortman, was killed. Listen to this audio here.

SPEAKER 23 : 31:12

At this point in time, it would be premature. The question was, is the manifesto and the information that we have received, is there motivations? We are working diligently on that. There’s certainly some indications within that, but there’s not specifics enough. We have been, this is a very active and fluid investigation throughout the day as you’ve been waiting and these teams have been out working out in the field and they have been

SPEAKER 13 : 31:37

gathering more documents and information so it would be pretty mature for me at this point to really say exactly what the motivation might be from these writings but we will be continuing to work on that and provide that information when we’re able but if it’s just know this if the guy was if the guy’s on the left that’s nobody’s ever going to talk about it again and if he’s on the right that’s all you’re going to hear about from the same people who pretty much brushed off the two not one but two attempted assassinations on the sitting president Just pointing that out. I mean, it shouldn’t really matter because I think if you are shooting at lawmakers, you’re evil. If you’re out there trying to kill lawmakers for any reason, then you’re evil. I mean, there’s there’s no other way to put it. There’s no nothing. So this I don’t know. He seems. What do you think? What do you think, Kane? Does it even matter? I’m just like the guy’s evil. I don’t care. I don’t want anybody shooting at anybody over politics.

SPEAKER 11 : 32:35

No, the guy’s definitely evil. The media is trying to paint him as though he’s this Trump supporter and this evangelical and all of this. And it’s. Not true. When you unravel it all, and Data Republican had a great post that sort of did that, and you can see exactly all the systems he had set up to make it look as though and to sort of create some clout for him in certain circles, but that’s not exactly the story. And I think people need to see that. So I think our media, again, is garbage.

SPEAKER 13 : 33:06

Yeah. Incredibly garbage. Incredibly garbage. Indeed. At this. I know. I don’t know. I it’s sad. It’s sad that this because now I’m seeing it repeated over and over again. Oh, well, violence now seems to be commonplace with politics. Now, I keep hearing this over and over again. And I don’t want that to become a norm. I don’t want that to be fait accompli. It’s a cemented standard now just because and I see a lot of people on the left saying it. And I don’t know why. I don’t know why anyone would accept that. I reject that nonsense. We’ve got more on this. We’ve got we’ve got a lot to hit today. Just so you guys know, just to get everything set up for the week as we move partners for the program, the burn a gun always. I always carry and I have no problem using lethal force to protect myself. The issue, though, comes from the places that do have issue with you protecting yourself. And heaven forbid they offer any kind of armed security to protect you too, right? Talking about private property restrictions, municipal restrictions, or college kids that are old enough to live on their own and go to school, but they’re not old enough to carry a handgun for protection. This is where the Burna gun comes in. So most stun guns have one or two rounds. Burna gun has five. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. There’s no recoil. Target acquisition is super easy. And the big thing is that Berna is legal in all 50 states. There’s no background checks. There’s no waiting periods. There’s no permits. They ship it right to your door. It’s accessible for everybody. So you still have a means with which to defend yourself. This is why diversity with your weapons array is important. You carry different calibers. You carry rifles and pistols. You have blades. Something like this in those instances is also incredibly helpful. Now, they have rifles, but I think for this explicit purpose, the Berna SD, which is their most popular selling model, and then the Berna CL. The CL stands for compact launcher. That’s 38% smaller than the SD. Everything’s made right here in the U.S. of A., And you can go and look at the different projectiles. You can actually go and look at how it works. Different projectiles, different accessories, the whole nine yards. But you have an effective deterrent still. And you also have the legal access. Visit Burna.com slash Dana and get your hands on the new Burna CL. That’s B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana. Burna, ready when you are.

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SPEAKER 10 : 35:43

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SPEAKER 02 : 35:49

If the raids hadn’t happened, then that protest would have been a no-kings protest. We know that that was planned months in advance. But the disruption and the fear that has been caused by the raids has really had a devastating effect and has been a body blow to our economy. I don’t think the president understands that we have entire sectors of our economy that cannot function without immigrant labor.

SPEAKER 13 : 36:16

Okay, there’s a difference between immigrant labor and illegal immigrant labor. I don’t know why that’s so hard for them. Make your mouths make the words. It’s not hard. Immigrant and illegal. They’re immigrant. There’s a way big difference. Way big difference. Why does this… No one’s saying that, no, we hate people who are immigrating to the country legally. No, nobody’s saying that. Everybody, including immigrants who came here to become Americans, they’re all, everybody’s like, wait, no, no, no. You don’t just get to roll up and not state your purpose and who you are and just like roll on through. No, we’re not doing that. We’re not doing that at all. Not at all. I mean, remember, one of the things that came out and there was a lot of discussion about this, you know, going back to these Minnesota lawmakers assassinations that Hortman, Representative Hortman, she was one of the only actually she was the only Democrat in Minnesota that voted against. or voted for, excuse me, she voted for a bill that was removing illegal immigrants, people who recently came into the country illegally, from receiving taxpayer-subsidized health care. It was like a state health care program for lower-income families, lower-income folks, and taxpayer-funded families. And they Democrats were pushing to have illegal immigrants placed on it. You know, people who are not paying into state taxes. That does. Why would you do that? And she was the lone Democrat. And she’s like not a Democrat, Democrat. She’s like a Democrat, socialist, whatever. She’s like a specific person. genus of democrat uh but uh she was the only one who voted against it and a lot of people were wondering does that play into this does this have something to do with that but the um idea that you that anybody would do that that’s that is overtaxing a system that is not able to adequately serve everyone including people who are not paying into it and nobody i mean i don’t know this but i’m so tired of the language from the left on this and they conflate this so that they can try to argue that well if you don’t agree with us then you just hate immigrants it’s not the case second hour on the way we got so much to cover you guys we haven’t even gotten into a lot of the stuff that happened on saturday with the parade and everything else stay with us and enforcement of existing law i don’t understand what he means here unless this is amnesty so i’m going to set this on the table and we’re going to come back to it we have headlines coming up that i know you also don’t want to miss as we move our partners that will bring you the program it’s our friends over at super beats the super marine product if you are unfamiliar with it well let me tell you it’s like you know you know the super beats this is what i’ve been taking It’s great for healthy blood pressure, to support healthy blood pressure. The Superbrewing is all about supporting healthy metabolism and blood sugar levels. And metabolism is so incredibly important. And I have super crazy high metabolism. And it’s always good to make sure that, you know, you’re supporting healthy metabolism and make sure that your blood sugar, you know, you don’t want to, it just, it helps to, it helps to support healthy regulation. Let’s put it like that. And it’s from the makers of Superbeats. Doctor formulated, plant-based. The berberine that they use is super unique. It’s Italian olive fruit extract. They didn’t just go and get like any hobo berberine, right? They went and got real, they used really top notch stuff. And they actually, you know, include signs in this. The unique berberine that they use, that’s why they call it super berberine, it’s clinically studied to deliver 10 times. higher absorption than standard berberine. And you also have, it’s also super highly concentrated with higher absorption. That means fewer pills to swallow. So it’s one easy to swallow capsule a day. And then they also include grapeseed extract in it. And so that means less, you’re not gonna have GI distress. It’s something apparently that’s common with some folks, so you have greater tolerability. You can find both the new SuperBrewing and the number one best-selling SuperBeats HeartChews at Sam’s Club. Restock your heart health support with these SuperBeats HeartChews, and then expand your routine with a once-a-day capsule from SuperBrewing for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. Start today. Get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.

SPEAKER 14 : 40:24

With respect to the potential motive, let me say this. There’s been a lot of press coverage and speculation and discussion of a manifesto. I’ve seen nothing like a Met Unabomber style manifesto in his writings. He had many, many notebooks full of plans, lists of names, surveillance, efforts that he took to surveil and locate the home addresses and family members relationships with these elected officials. But I have not seen anything involving some sort of political screed or manifesto that would clearly identify what motivated him. Obviously, his primary motive was to go out and murder people. Now, they were all elected officials. They were all Democrats. Beyond that, I think it’s just way too speculative for anyone who has reviewed these materials to know and to say what was motivating him in terms of ideology or specific issues. There’s a lot of… There were some abortion rights supporters, I believe, on the list, but again, there was dozens and dozens and dozens of names on, you know, hundreds of pages of documents that were recovered with his writings on them. Did he confess and give more details after he was apprehended last night? I’m not going to comment on that at this time.

SPEAKER 13 : 41:38

Then release them if it’s not a manifesto. I mean, can anybody give me a good argument for not releasing it?

SPEAKER 09 : 41:45

Uh, doxing, maybe?

SPEAKER 13 : 41:47

Well, I mean… I think at this point, and this is kind of what’s weird about our society because I really ultimately put this on the left that always wants everything to be so politicized immediately as opposed to waiting for the facts to come in because that also is incredibly dangerous in the wake of stuff like this. But I do think that it is important to share with the public that how they view the motivation of this. I mean, clearly it’s a political motivation, but what type of political motivation? I mean, is this something that comes from the right? Does it come from the left? I mean, I I’m with you. I think that, I mean, if you’re shooting lawmakers, does it matter if it’s because that you disagree with their politics? It’s just that you think that that’s an acceptable way to express disagreement. That’s what’s insane. And just evil. I don’t even think it’s insane. I think it’s just evil. And I, Everyone wants to point fingers. I just want to know what made why what this guy believed and what made him believe that. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this second hour and we’ll have Stephen Yates coming up at the bottom of the hour. We have a lot to discuss with him. I just think, too, if you are a. If it’s not a manifesto, what did they say? Hundreds of notebooks? Kane, is that how they put it?

SPEAKER 11 : 43:16

Hundreds of pages.

SPEAKER 13 : 43:18

He had all kinds of plans and ideas and names written down. Apparently, there were tons of names in his list. I’d like to know who they are. I mean, are they going to go and contact all the people that are in there and say, hey, by the way. Also, Kane brought up a good point when we were on break. The guy has a wife. You know, he had a family and but he’s been living with this with roommates. What’s going on there and how much influence? I think it’s a legitimate question to ask whether or not these inmates were influential on him. How this guy came to believe the stuff that he did. Was it a recent development? I think all of this stuff is completely fine to ask. In fact, I think it should be part of the investigation to ask something like this. But good heavens, tons and tons of books and all kinds of stuff that they had that this guy had. So he’s been booked in the county jail on murder. He showed up to his first court appearance today. I think it’s supposed to is at 130 Central’s when he shows up. OK, so he’s supposed to be in court today. The hit list. Apparently includes tons of politicians, a lot of Democrat leaders with abortion clinics. Now, that’s the thing. Also abortion clinics on there. A lot of people were trying to make this out to be about abortion. I still think that that’s. really uh new to do i think that’s again there’s still stuff coming in the reason i like to wait and of course we always do this i mean you want to wait for a full fact of the matter you have people like uh who was it that was out there blaming i’ve got audio let me go to the audio let me go to the audio list uh because you i think you had tim walls that blamed trump and mean tweets audio soundbite 14 this is not helpful listen to tim walls here

SPEAKER 07 : 45:13

That’s the embodiment of how things are supposed to work. It’s not about hatred. It’s not about mean tweets. It’s not about demeaning someone. It’s leading with grace and compassion and vision and compromise and decency. That was taken from us in Minnesota.

SPEAKER 13 : 45:31

Hmm. Why is he so sure that this has to do with mean tweets? Hmm? What does this have to do with mean tweets? That seems to be pretty unsubstantiated. This 57-year-old guy, this, was he, I don’t know if he was left-wing. I don’t know what he was. Here’s the thing. You know, on the right, if someone on the right or someone who, I don’t even want to say that someone’s on the right. If someone thinks that they have beliefs that lean right, if they commit a crime, I mean, that’s something that’s condemned. I don’t know why it wouldn’t be. The left operates in the way that they’re approaching this. They’re operating like, oh, well, this is something that’s a commonplace with the right. And also the right is not going to hold accountable anyone that would subscribe to any kind of belief set. I mean, I’m pretty sure I’m against murder. So this guy does not on my side. What was up with all the no king stuff that was found in his car? That’s the other thing. I thought that was weird too. All of the stuff that was in the, I mean, just all it said was no Kings on it. It looked like zero Xerox copies of it. It didn’t look like just literally just like a white piece of paper and eight by 10. And it just said no Kings on it. And there was just stacks of that in his car. What is that? That’s weird. What is that? What do you, would you even use that for? Lorraine has written about this. The guy didn’t like his job that he had, and he was staying at the house with roommates on days that he was working, apparently, Kane. Hmm. Was he always like this, though? I do think that that’s something that you could share with the public. Oh, it looks like he had these viewpoints for years, or he had this dissatisfaction for years. Juan showing you on the simulcast, like, what do you do? That’s all Xerox. What do you do with that? It all says the same thing. Big, giant stack of it. It’s weird, right? I’m not quite sure what that indicates, but I don’t know. It’s important to figure out the motive and more about this guy before everyone starts rushing. I don’t know. I’ve got… There’s like all kinds of… I mean, it’s… He’s got a hit… I mean, it says hit list on this. It literally says hit list. Some of the… And I’m looking, and this apparently was given to some of the local news agencies that are there. I know Alpha News has some. I think that some other local reporters have them as well. But, I mean, just a ton of lawmakers on this list. So he was mad when he’s blaming these lawmakers for his job. Not quite sure. We’re still learning more about it. But they got him, and they used a drone as well. When he saw the drone in the air, he lifted his hands up and walked towards the SWAT vehicle. And they got photos of him. The photos that you saw where he’s in this rural area, those are the photos that they took of him upon his arrest. But he remained at large for a couple days, and they finally got him. I’m looking at the hit list that he has. There’s a lot of different names on here. They… I don’t know. This whole thing, and I told this to Lorraine over the weekend, this doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense, does it? I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist. He did not like his job. He stayed at another house while he was working. I don’t know what his home life is like with his wife, etc. He’s got all of these different indicators that are suggesting a million different things that were found in his vehicle. He’s got this hit list. It’s like all over the place. Nothing makes sense here. It doesn’t make sense. They’re never going to, even if there was a manifesto, I don’t know, maybe there is. I just think if you have like tons of notebooks of writings in them, probably some of that’s a manifesto. You know what I’m saying? You have a hit list. Might as well be a manifesto. A lot of weird things on here. They have the, like for instance, he has the Anoka County Legislature Delegation. Just randomly on there. It’s odd. And then just other names. Very odd indeed. As far as the rhetoric and the violence, I think that the only time that I’ve ever seen violence actually protected is when the media tries to say that these are mostly peaceful protests. I mean, you would literally watch stores burn and you’re told that they’re mostly peaceful. Or you watch cops get hit with giant chunks of concrete and you’re told it’s mostly peaceful. Or someone’s I mean, I just read that there was actually this was like a couple of hours ago. Wasn’t there another footlocker looted? I’m not kidding. Like there literally was. And yeah, this was ABC Eyewitness News. This is in Los Angeles. This is an auto zone. Just let me share this headline for you. Auto zone store looted again. And Southern Los Angeles following another street takeover with these riots. They triggered an investigation. It was broken into and looted following a street takeover in L.A. And they said a large number of people walked in. Suspects were gone by the time the officers got there. You have video of people looting it, but they can’t catch anybody. They don’t have the resources to. I doubt they even report this. You know, California, as we talked about last week, doesn’t even report a lot of their crimes to the FBI. Like felonious activity. So it’s just mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful protest, Kane. That’s all that is. Yeah, mostly peaceful protest. So just saying. I mean, I don’t know. I don’t know. This is the roommate of this alleged killer, audio somebody 12, who was interviewed by the police. Listen to this. Again, none of this makes sense. Listen.

SPEAKER 24 : 51:38

Can you talk about his politics a little bit? I know that you had some discussions .

SPEAKER 09 : 51:43

Well, everyone’s calling him a Democrat. He’s not a Democrat. He would be offended if people called him a Democrat. But because of this board thing he was on for Governor Walz, he was just serving the community.

SPEAKER 13 : 52:08

I mean, Walls did say at one point that he became friends with shooters. He did? I mean, he did say that. Remember Tim Walls making a speech and he said, yeah, yeah, you can become friends with shooters. Talking about, I mean, actual killers. So, I don’t know. Maybe when he pointed them on this board, maybe that’s part of it. I don’t know. We’re going to come back to it, though. We’ve got a lot still to unpack here. Because it’s been, we’ve got the ongoing stuff with Iran and Israel. We’ve got the riots. And you’ve got G7 riots. All kinds of stuff. And then the King’s protests as well. This innocent bystander. This is NBC. They had so they had, quote unquote, peacekeepers at the New King’s protest in Salt Lake City. Right. And they these peacekeepers had no idea what they were doing. They apparently had never had any kind of training to deal with the crowd. And apparently they didn’t really have any firearms training either. It’s like when they were performing a security role, a self-appointed security role, and they had absolutely no training to do so. So shockingly, one of them shot somebody. We’re going to talk more about this coming up. We’ve got to roll into headlines, though, as we move. Summer is all about making great memories. Backyard barbecues, road trips, lake days, even just relaxing in a hammock with a good book. Spending time with friends and family, catching sunset views. Those future memories can be stolen from you. It’s kind of hard to enjoy the simple moments when you’re in pain. So here’s a thought. Try Relief Factor. Relief Factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement designed to help your body fight pain. It’s a doctor-developed formula made with natural ingredients. And unlike pain meds that just mask it, Relief Factor works to reduce, even eliminate, your pain for good. So whether you’re spending time at the lake or chasing your kids or grandkids or just enjoying a summer stroll, Relief Factor can help you feel better, move better, and do more of what you love. Reclaim your summer. Visit relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF to get the three-week quick start for just $19.95. That’s 1-800-4-RELIEF. Fight pain naturally with Relief Factor.

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SPEAKER 13 : 54:29

So this, uh, I was, Oh, I was reading this this morning. Actually. It’s a huge study that they’ve done on, uh, uh, because we got headlines here right now. Uh, This landmark study, they were looking at genetic faults, perhaps linked to the related to autism. So they were hoping to develop a new generation of treatments as it pertains to autism. It’s Kobe University in Japan. Now, what they studied were mutations associated with the brain’s natural maintenance system, this internal process that clears out waste and damaged material, and it allows brain cells to function as they should. Well, they said that when that system fails, then the waste begins to build up inside of nerve cells, and that’s what complicates the ability to send and receive cells. So it’s very interesting. That’s a fascinating study. I’m going to make sure I have that linked in your prep for tomorrow. Thousands of UK university students were caught cheating using AI. Unbelievable. These have been banned from a lot of classrooms. AI has been banned from a lot of classrooms, or computers anyway, because apparently they have been using it, a lot of kids have been using it to write papers and all of this other stuff. And then, of course, there was a teacher, a headlined, made because a teacher actually used AI as a way to cheat in grading papers. How can you cheat in grading papers if you’re using AI, though? Isn’t that like a tool? Like a teacher apparently got in trouble for it. So I don’t know. Anyway, let’s see. Also, Alberta’s there. They’re trying to secede from Alberta. Prime Minister Carney wants to protect national unity. I don’t know. After everything that they saw under Trudeau, can you blame anybody for wanting to kind of disassociate from the rest of The rest of their country pizza orders are up around the Pentagon. Washington pizza delivery trackers guess something was up before apparently a secret. The attack that Israel made, remember, against Iran. And I did not know. Think about that, though. Having pizza delivered and you’re burning the midnight oil because something big is about to happen. I did. Actually, that makes a lot of sense. Maybe they want to not do that because now anytime there’s like an inordinate amount of pizza that’s ordered by anyone over at the Pentagon, people are going to be like, what is up? So that’s really the way to track to see whether or not something’s going to go sideways. What is the pizza delivery like? They said that it’s literally an account called the Pentagon Pizza Report. And they said that literally all the establishments, all the pizza establishments nearby the Pentagon had a huge surge in activity right before that attack in Iran by Israel. And they said that, yeah, normally it’s like, you know, sometimes it’s like pretty low on a weeknight, but it surged that Thursday evening. Super fascinating. We have a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Hollywood is they don’t put out anything original. Everything is just like it’s all rehash. Right. It is all a rehash of something else, except if you’re Angel Studios. Angel Studios, they have a new record breaking animated faith based film called King of Kings. And it’s based actually on Charles Dickens’ own book, The Life of Our Lord. It’s really magical looking. The animation’s fabulous. The scoring’s great. The all-star voice cast, they have Kenneth Ragnar, who’s an Oscar winner, Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley. I mean, a powerful cast. And it’s great. It got an A-plus cinema score rating, 98% audience rating. It’s a record-breaking faith-based film. And it’s really well done because, A, it’s Dickens, and, B, it’s done by people who actually understand how to script and really put out a good film and not drag the story down with hitting too hard. I mean, it’s just great. And the animation is brilliant. It’s very magical. It has a bit of a Fritz Freeling, in a way, feel to me, just like a very magical kind of animation style. You’re going to love it. And when you join the Guild for Angel Studios, you actually get to help participate in which projects are greenlit. So you’re shaping the future of entertainment. We have to be proactive in this stuff. Become a premium member of Angel Studios’ Guild. And you can watch King of Kings, stream all fan-curated shows and movies, and you get two free tickets to every Angel Studios theatrical release. So visit angel.com today and join over a million Americans taking back control of entertainment. Become a premium Angel Studios Guild member and watch the King of Kings, stream the all fan-curated shows and movies, and get two free tickets to every Angel Studios theatrical release. That’s angel.com slash Dana.

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SPEAKER 21 : 59:10

Senator Graham, you said you believe it’s in America’s interest to go all in to help Israel finish the job. It sounds like you mean offensive support.

SPEAKER 20 : 59:19

So the worst possible outcome for the world is for the Iranian nuclear program to survive after all this. How do you destroy their program? Through diplomacy, I prefer that, or through military action. If diplomacy is not successful, and we left with the option of force, I would urge President Trump to go all in to make sure that when this operation is over, there’s nothing left standing in Iran regarding their nuclear program. If that means providing bombs, provide bombs.

SPEAKER 21 : 59:52

If that means flying— Busting bombs?

SPEAKER 20 : 59:54

Whatever bombs. If it means flying with Israel, fly with Israel.

SPEAKER 13 : 59:59

Israel. Lindsey Graham, he has not… I mean, he’s the hammer and everything’s the nail. First off, welcome back. Dana Lash, bottom of the second hour. I don’t even think that you need… The United States doesn’t need to do anything like that. I mean, it’s our ally, but one of the reasons why they… end up having difficulty with regard to defense is because they listen to all the stupid people in the United States that are like, no, let’s be nice. No, if someone hits you and they kill your people, you turn them to ash. It’s just my thoughts on it. It’s the whole reason why this has continued as long as it does. Because we get into this mission creep of insane defensive strategy where we think that by kissing the toe of the boot that’s stepping on your neck, that somehow that’s going to make them put less pressure on it. No. That’s the reason, honestly, why all of this stuff is happening and it drags on for as long as it does. It’s because of this… This overly cautious approach to a problem that has continued for decade after decade after decade after decade after decade. It’s just crazy that there are multiple generations now of people who’ve seen the exact same regime in Iran do the exact same thing for forever. They hit Israel. Israel responded. That’s it. I mean, we don’t we don’t need to get involved beyond any kind of aid or support. And not that Israel has asked. We don’t need to just get out of their way and let them do what they do. My gosh. I mean, it was the op that took out the air command in Tehran and so many of these other assets in Iran. That was a master class. They don’t they don’t need anybody to go in and help them. They can do it. Just get out of their way. We don’t need any of these stupid UN Security Council. Oh, it’s so mean. No goodness. I mean, this is the same stuff they’ve been telling Israel since October 7th. There would not be any problem if people just stop being terrorists over there and killing people in Israel. There wouldn’t be an issue. But I also will say, and the reason why I say that it’s Israeli intelligence about any kind of nuclear capability for Iran is just because I’ve been hearing this my whole life, right? My whole life. They’re about to get it. They’re about to get it. And that necessitates this bullish stance. I’m not saying I want to become alliances at all with the mullahs. I would love for a regime change, but that’s not for the United States to do. It’s for the people to do. They’ve got to decide to rise up and they have to decide, you know, it’s going to be tough and there’s probably going to be loss of life. But is that the sacrifice to make this? Is it a worthy sacrifice to make this happen? It’s a tough decision. But it’s not one that can be instituted by the United States. Totally fine with like aiding, whatever. That’s great. But… To get to the United States to get dragged into a conflict with Iran, it makes less sense than for, like, say, the Saudis that have bigger actual beef and proximity with Iran, with Sunni Shia. Conflict. I mean, there’s going to be a huge list. I mean, there’s a huge list of these generals. You got Hussein Salami. He’s the guy who was the IRC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was the commander in chief of that. That was a bad guy. He got the chief of staff of their armed forces. You had the commander of their aerospace force. You have all of their deputy intelligence chiefs, their commander of their air defense, their head of their intelligence, their deputy to IRGC intelligence. I mean, it goes on and on and on. And apparently it looks like there’s like 20 senior level commanders that have just been wiped off the map. And Al-Khamenei is apparently he’s on the move going from place to place to place. One of the reports, and I think this was Wall Street Journal, one of the places that he stayed at one night the day after he left it, that very next evening, it was destroyed in a strike. They’re on his heels. They’re on his heels. The district where the Ayatollah’s family lived was destroyed. Like the building. That’s the difference. Israel is going in with targeted strikes and Iran is just targeting civilians. They don’t care. That’s why they and I think they’ve lost so much capability. The way that they fire the remaining missiles that they have left their errant, their way where they’re not hitting where they’re supposed to hit. They get near certain places, but then land in residential areas. One got near our U.S. consulate. But no, we don’t need to get involved and commit any kind of boots on the ground or anything like that. I know that that’s what Lindsey Graham would love. He’s always been that way, though. There’s a little bit more audio here. This is… Audio soundbite four. This was Ducey reporting. Now, listen to this. There was a plan. And I have a headline that’s going to dovetail into this here after the soundbite. There was a plan to take out their supreme leader. And this was Trump’s response per Peter Ducey. Listen, right now. Good afternoon, Peter.

SPEAKER 04 : 65:18

Good afternoon, Brett. And we can now answer a question that you put to Benjamin Netanyahu that he punted on. A U.S. official is telling us just in the last few minutes since your interview concluded that President Trump did, in fact, in the last couple of days, nix a plan that the Israelis were putting together to assassinate the supreme leader of Iran. So we can put a bow on that as President Trump. prepares to come and join us here in Canada. And he is telegraphing the way that he will frame this fight between Israel and Iran once he meets with the other G7 leaders. Part of a long truth socially says we will have peace soon between Israel and Iran. Many calls and meetings now taking place. I do a lot, never get credit for anything, but that’s okay. The people understand. Make the Middle East great again.

SPEAKER 13 : 66:04

There’s a lot of pressure, too, to have Trump pressure the Israelis in Netanyahu to… come up with some kind of peace agreement between them and Iran. I would not be interested in brokering any kind of peace accord with a nation that also calls the United States the great Satan and would kill all of us in a second. So I don’t let Israel do what Israel is going to do. Iran played the wrong hand. We don’t have any obligation to broker any kind of peace agreement. We don’t have an obligation to do anything. If we want to help our friend over there, we absolutely can. Without committing anything beyond, you know, aid and bombs and all that other stuff. They bought the bombs from us anyway. My gosh, they buy these munitions from us. So it’s a capitalist arrangement, Cain. I mean, it would be anti-capitalist not to sell them these things, you know, at a very low price. It would be very anti-capitalist, just saying. But no, nobody wants any kind of United States to enter any kind of conflict at all whatsoever. I mean, really, ultimately, and I went through this last night. I mean, there’s not going to be World War III, and I really feel like at this point it seems kind of like now is just the cleanup, right? It’s the cleanup at this point that they’re doing. This is just tying up some loose ends, and it makes sense. But they want to do it. They want clearly, and especially as the strikes continued all day today, They want to end this. They’re also kind of weighing out, well, what if they kind of get some boots on the ground? This is a Wall Street Journal piece where it says Iran has been signaling that it wants to end hostilities and a resumption of talks because they’re getting pummeled by the Israeli air campaign. They said that the Iranian counterattacks aren’t really inflicting a lot of damage and there’s no incentives for Israel to halt attacks. Their assault. And so now they’re wondering, well, well, what if we got into a war of attrition and then, you know, maybe that’s the way that Israel would be forced to seek some kind of peace agreement. And there some are wondering, well, what is the exit strategy? They just did the Fordow uranium enrichment facility. That’s one of the ones apparently that they were attacking, striking. And they were saying that, well, and that’s a big one. Apparently that Fordow facility is apparently a large one. We’re going to talk more at length about that with Stephen Yates coming up. But. Has Iran signaled, though, in a more public way that they’re ready for some sort of negotiation and to come back to the table and stop doing what they were doing? Because the reason that they did that, I mean, day 61, they had 60 days to take this deal and stop enriching uranium and they didn’t do it. And I don’t like the way that it’s presented by the press. Oh, well, those talks were cut short by the attacks. The talks weren’t cut short by the attacks. The talks ended because they had 60 days to make up their minds. And it was day 61. And they made their choice by not making up their minds by day 60. They could have indicated to Israel, indicated to the United States, we’re not going to seek uranium enrichment anymore. They refused to do it. They absolutely refused. They refused every single offer. Let’s not forget who gave them a pallet of cash, by the way. What administration it was under the debt of night that flew over pallets of cash to Iran. Let’s not forget. So they made their decision. Nothing was cut short by it. They made their decision. I can’t. But for Tehran to signal that they think that Israel might be pressured by a war of attrition is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard of. That you can tell that all their military leaders are dead because I don’t know who’s making these calls right now. That’s pretty dumb. And they’re not going to be able to do it through their proxies because their proxies are bought and paid for mercenaries. But the moment you stop paying for them, they’ll find other people to pay them. I don’t know. Nobody’s buying it. Nobody’s buying it. There’s more footage that shows the surface to surface missile launchers. Those got hit. I mean, it’s Iran can’t withstand this for much longer. In addition to this, there’s a few other things. It’s been a busy. We’ve had the Minnesota killer. You also had the new King’s. riots, whatever that is. We’ve had those as well. Uh, it’s been a very, it was a very busy weekend. I saw this piece and the way that it was presented in the press, and we’re going to talk more about this at the top of our third hour, Minnesota shooting spotlight, growing safety risks facing lawmakers. Remember how I said in the first hour, I am so tired of this language that’s being cemented as like reality. This idea that, uh, it’s it’s uh you know going into politics is dangerous it’s a growing risk for lawmakers how about the growing risk of people killing people with whom they agree that typically fall on one side of the political spectrum i’m just sorry i don’t buy a guy that is a conservative going out and killing people i just don’t when does that happen kane when give me one guy who’s been on the right who’s been a conservative that’s gone out and killed all these people as a political message

SPEAKER 11 : 71:21

I don’t know one.

SPEAKER 13 : 71:22

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SPEAKER 24 : 72:49

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SPEAKER 06 : 72:53

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SPEAKER 24 : 73:11

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SPEAKER 11 : 73:20

It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.

SPEAKER 13 : 73:29

All right. So first up, this is it Hunter Biden? Florida men were arrested after a Myrtle Beach hotel staff. They were cleaning the room and somebody left behind their cocaine. Yeah. This was in South Carolina. Two Florida men were convicted on drug charges after a two day trial. Fifty four year old and 50 year old men, both of Fort Pierce, Florida. They were conspiring. They were charged with convicted of conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of cortisol. crack cocaine. And they said that they were just passing through. And of course, it’s never ever their crack cocaine. They also had a small half a kilogram of cocaine as well. They have different varieties, I guess. But they said that the hotel staff, they thought that the room was vacated. And the guys apparently had gone, I guess, gone out. And when they went to go clean the room, they found this grocery bag that had over $30,000 worth of dope in a dresser drawer. You know what? And good on the staff, though, because the staff immediately alerted because they knew what was happening. And they were getting ready to package it and sell it is what it looks like by all accounts. So good for them because who knows? They sound like the type that would sell it to kids. Let’s see this. Okay. Let’s do the lemonade stand. A Florida man makes it a mission, his mission to take down this 12-year-old’s lemonade stand. Tampa Bay Times, 61-year-old Doug Wilkie, he emailed his city hall like four times at least, citing TJ Guerrero’s illegal business of selling fresh-baked cookies and lemonade. All of the neighbors, like the whole neighborhood, told the authorities they have zero problem with this. They said it’s a little kid who’s trying to engage in entrepreneurship, right? And like, for instance, there’s all these stories of these kids that are like hit by different municipalities saying you have to pay hundreds of dollars for this. But this this guy, he says that it’s illegal, that the 12 year old has no right to do it. You know, no one’s making you buy the cookies and lemonade. You douche. Nobody’s doing it. Nobody’s doing it at all. Uh, but the 12 year old, he, uh, actually it was really smart. He was testing to see what time of day was best to run a stand, you know, what corners in the, in his like subdivision to put the stand at. And he had all the neighbors, uh, permission. The family asked everybody because he wanted to like, he, I mean, that’s like a real entrepreneurial spirit, but the guy apparently had a major problem with it. So, uh, and the neighborhood’s fighting back. So good for them. Can you imagine being that much of a curmudgeon? Like, No one’s making you do it. It’s a kid who’s who’s that’s isn’t that how a lot of businesses got started back in the day? And this guy’s like, well, did you beg the city for permission to do this? He’s a 12 year old. Good heavens. By the way, like the blessing of a government certificate is going to make it better. I mean, the same government that allows for the sale of cigarettes and all other kinds of stuff that allowed red dye in food and would still allow it had it not been for a change in the last election. So come on. This is so asinine. People like this. We got people like this in our in our area. And we have we have friends that live in different subdivisions and we hear about this. And it’s always I kid you not. It’s always some old Democrat. Every time it’s some old Democrat that’s real mad. There was an old Democrat that got mad because somebody was trying to do a lemonade stand. It was like a little brother and sister. And the neighborhood was like they shut that guy down. But how insane is that?

SPEAKER 11 : 77:12

I would have never been able to make money mowing lawns as a kid if I had neighbors like this all the time.

SPEAKER 13 : 77:17

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SPEAKER 12 : 79:19

But details matter. It depends on how you ask the question. If you ask the same people, do they think we should maintain due process in the United States of America? The answer is overwhelming, yes. Do DREAMers deserve better than the that they find themselves in overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis, yes. And so I think it’s important to break down three things. Number one, do we need a safe and secure, orderly, humane border? Absolutely. No disagreement there. People seeking to come to the United States, whether it’s to seek asylum on work visas, et cetera, We definitely have to modernize that system and be more strategic in those capacities. It depends on how you ask the question. But we can’t forget them.

SPEAKER 13 : 79:57

Dude, what in the world kind of retconning is this? People were literally asked, hey, how do you feel about people coming into the country illegally? And most Americans are like, no, we don’t like it. So how would you ask that differently, Senator Stooge? Welcome back to the show. Top of the third hour. Dana Lash with you. That’s Alex Padilla. who’s doing a media tour. There was a Sunday morning talk show circuit where he was talking about his goofy like interruption of the DHS hearing where they were talking about the riots and the ice clear outs. Because remember, the stuff in Los Angeles kicked off because there was an ongoing ice investigation. Well, a Customs and Border Patrol investigation into a huge money laundering operation run by the cartels. And so they had like a staging area or a little base camp kind of set up near a Home Depot where they were literally investigating the cartels money laundering organization in California in that Los Angeles area. And someone was like, no, they’re here to raid Home Depot. And then the media went with it. All the media headlines, oh my gosh, look at this super secret ice camp. They’re raiding Home Depot. So they totally screwed up this super long time investigation that they were trying to close out. Ruined that investigation. Made up a whole story about people raiding other people’s homes and Home Depots there in L.A. That’s how literally all of this got started. All of this got started because of that. That is exactly what happened. Welcome. Again, Dana Lash, top of the third hour. You never, that was never actually told to you though, right? Was it? It was never presented that way. No one talked about that. What about that investigation? That investigation shot. Now think of all the time because I apparently was a couple of years. It was a very long investigation into this whole money laundering op that they were doing. And now that’s like all it’s been destroyed. All of that shot because, you know, no pun intended, because, yeah, I guess they got found out. And then everyone said they were raiding a Home Depot. You know, if I were the cartels and I wanted to try to upend an investigation against my operation, I would claim that ICE is there to raid the Home Depot and arrest people. And then I would con the media into going with it. And that’s, I think, exactly what happened.

SPEAKER 11 : 82:10

No, that’s exactly what happened. But let’s assume it’s true that they were raiding Home Depot. Are Home Depots like some sort of sanctuary home improvement store?

SPEAKER 13 : 82:20

No.

SPEAKER 11 : 82:21

Yeah, exactly. That’s my point.

SPEAKER 13 : 82:25

You’re like, yeah.

SPEAKER 11 : 82:26

That’s my point. It’s not a sanctuary just because it’s Home Depot.

SPEAKER 13 : 82:29

Right. I mean, it is a man’s sanctuary. They do love the Home Depot’s.

SPEAKER 11 : 82:35

I do feel that.

SPEAKER 13 : 82:35

I do think that there’s a certain thing with dudes where they like to go… I like to go into certain… I like the way it smells. I like sawdust. I like the way sawdust and gas smell. And I love going in there and I like… The floors are shiny and it smells like sawdust.

SPEAKER 11 : 82:49

Is that a Midwest thing? Because I think it is. What do you mean? What is? Like the whole smell of gas and sawdust is like a positive. I don’t know. I think that’s a Midwest thing.

SPEAKER 13 : 83:00

I had grandparents that ran a canoe rental and they also had like an N gas pump. But during that summer, I’d smell that gas pump. I’m like, that is summer. That’s what summer, that’s what freedom smells like. I had no classes. It’s summer. I can do whatever I want to. It just kind of reminds me of that. And then I just like the way sawdust smells because it’s like there’s opportunities there, right? You go in and you smell those Home Depot stores or the Lowe’s and you’re like, opportunities. I don’t know. Just something about it I love. There is nothing more exciting to me. I’m simple where you’re like, hey, do you want to get like a diet soda and wander around a Home Depot? Yes, would love to. I’d love to look at all the power tools. I’m not allowed to have because apparently I’m super dangerous with them. But whatever. No, so sexist. Just saying. Also accurate. But whatever. Anyway, so the that’s all of that happened. That’s how all of it happened. But otherwise, I don’t think we have our no kings celebrations on July 4th is when we do our no kings protest. I do think it’s interesting that people were protesting about no kings, but how eager they are to make one of themselves. Now, a couple of other things with this. There’s a video that just came out. I saw it via Right Scoop. Netanyahu says that Israel is completely uninterested in peace talks with Iran. Go pound sand. By the way, I thought about this on break. The pressure on the administration to get Trump to broker some kind of peace deal. How many times did Iran try to kill Trump, by the way? Did people forget this? How many times did the mullahs try to put out a hit on POTUS? At least once, right? At least one time. And I think Netanyahu said that it wasn’t just one time, it was twice, right? that they tried this uh just why would you expect if you’re iran what kind of cojones do you have to sit here and call the the president of the united states that you try to murk and demand that they broker a peace agreement between you and israel like what kind of answer do you think you’re going to get out of that right i’d be like i wouldn’t even take the call I just I think people forget that that that happened. And that’s one of the things that was highlighted, too, when by Netanyahu when he was giving his press conference. I mean, they’ve they’ve literally at least once they literally like try to assassinate him. We all of these negotiations were dragged out. Remember when they would not even when he was in Vienna and they would not even they wouldn’t even they didn’t even want us to they didn’t want to meet. So I’m not quite sure what… So what if Trump knew about the attack beforehand and aided Israel and… And all of this discussion where they’re begging and pleading and trying to put pressure on Trump, they conveniently leave out the fact that they were trying to murk him too. Just saying. So they said they’re not… Just stay out of Israel’s way. Everybody just needs to stay out of their way and let them clean up the trash. That’s it. One senior official said that the… Khamenei is in a difficult mental state because everyone that he worked with and that he would go to for any kind of counsel, they’re all dead. They’re all dead. They haven’t been replaced yet. hmm it’s a real bummer isn’t it bummer for him real bummer for that one that supreme so-called leader real bummer so now the other news headline that came out just literally while i pulled this up we were on break so potus so when he got to g7 and we have steven yates coming up we’re going to talk to him about all of this when he um When he arrived at the G7 summit, there was apparently a statement, a joint statement drafted that was calling, according to numerous news reports here, for de-escalation between Israel and Iran, and they wanted him to sign it. And it was presented to him. This is according to people kind of like talking to the press about this. It was presented to him and it was spearheaded by European officials at the summit. I think Carney signed on to it and they were saying, oh, yes, Israel has a right to defend itself. But Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon and they need to immediately, you know, they we need to have peace, etc. Trump did not sign, did not sign the statement. Because he and now everyone’s like, oh, there’s an immediate divide between Trump and his counterparts. Oh, what a way. You know, they’re in Canada, the summit. Oh, it’s already there’s already division. Yeah, they had drafted up an agreement that they just wanted him to sign. demanding and of course it’s always you know the the onus is always on uh israel to somehow pick up the slack for it to de-escalate uh no so he said he was not going to sign it the reading it said it was emmanuel macron of course uh frederick maersk who’s the german chancellor uh kirstarmer over uh from britain they wanted to uh cement or finalize this consensus among these world leaders about this situation and mark carney’s hosting it and no trump’s like no i’m not signing it i’m not going to sign this why and why would he did these leaders not again going back to my original question do they do they know that the mullahs had tried twice to kill him there are two assassination plots two And so why should he intervene? Why should he be prevailed upon to intervene or resolve anything? Why is everyone they just don’t want to allow Israel to just do what Israel needs to do and be done with it? Why do they always try to intervene and make this worse and drag it out every time? Every time. Trump told reporters that he says that he believes Iran wishes to de-escalate. But it also sounds like he’s putting it all on them. He goes, he said they’d like to talk, but they should have done it before. I had 60 days. They had 60 days. I said on day 61, we don’t have a deal and they got to make a deal. They’re not winning this war. They should talk before it’s too late. I mean, are they going to listen to him now? Instead of having a de-escalation tour, why aren’t these leaders drafting a letter demanding that Iran come to the table and talk about Iran’s ceasefire and Iran’s de-escalation and Iran stopping this to seek uranium enrichment? Why is that not a letter that they’re proposing? Because that’s at the heart of it. They don’t want to stop enriching uranium and pursuing nuclear proliferation. So there’s your statement. They can come to the table and they can say, we will stop this. And then you can have these other G7 leaders sign it. But that’s never an option for these people. No, we would like for them to continue the status quo. It’s all of you that needs to sign. No, I think POTUS was right to not sign this. And the other issue, too, is apparently Putin. And I told you this. This is like our first hour. It’s kind of being a mediator between Iran and Trump. And Trump is like, yeah, I’m not going to. That’s fine. You can do that. But they’re still wrong. And Macron dismissed the idea saying that, oh, well, this is Moscow’s Moscow’s violating some regulations by being a peace broker. I don’t think they’re being a peace broker. I don’t think that just there’s I don’t think that Iran is able to just call up the United States. So they’re trying to get Russia to do it. We’re going to talk about the G8 and now G7 because after Crimea in 2014, it was Trudeau and Obama that pushed out Russia and it became G7. 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SPEAKER 11 : 91:58

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.

SPEAKER 13 : 92:04

Oh my gosh, this headline is like my worst nightmare. Oh my gosh, this is so gross. Okay. Kings Island visitors, according to Lexington Channel 18. I’ve just got chills. They’re warned to keep their mouths closed on amusement park rides because of cicadas. Oh, my gosh. Brood 14 is out and about in Mason, bringing some invited guests to the tri-state’s biggest attractions. So, Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, the roller coasters, people are literally, like, the workers are telling people on the roller coasters, keep your mouths quiet on the rides. Or you’re closed on the rides, I mean, because you’re going to get a cicada in your mouth. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Mmm. No. Oh, why is this so gross? Oh, they said that they’ve been emerging a little later in some places. So, yeah. I mean, I love the sound of cicadas. Don’t like them flying in my mouth if I’m on an amusement park ride. See, you don’t have to worry about getting flung off the coaster or the coaster getting stuck. You have to worry about now eating a cicada on the ride. Right after this. This is a timely. Mouth tape. Mouth tape is apparently making a big comeback. It’s a billion dollar industry. It’s a billion dollar industry. Mouth tape. But experts are like, this is stupid because your mouth and your throat work together while you sleep. So don’t do this. I don’t. Okay, I’m going to also come out with some mouth tape. It’s just literally going to be duct tape. It’s going to be called the Kidnapper’s Friend. It’s for aiding you while you sleep. If you need that while you sleep or if you’re riding a roller coaster in Mason, Ohio with the cicadas, you can use my Kidnapper’s Friend mouth tape. It’s a great product that we should add to our fake storefront. Kidnapper’s Mouth Tape. That’s a good one. All right, so this is the dumbest thing ever. The Van Gogh chair. It’s not a thing about Van Gogh. It’s something that somebody decided to make and name it after Van Gogh. So it is, what is it, like a crystal chair? It’s a chair covered in crystals. And in this museum, the museum urges people to, you know, they’re like, oh, yes, you respect the art, etc. There was a chair on the wall. It’s in Verona. A chair sitting on the floor by the wall. And a woman pretends to sit down. Then a man actually puts his weight on the chair and it breaks it and then they run away. It’s all caught on CCTV, though. They dashed out of the room. It’s a chair designed by an Italian artist studded with four crystals. It’s got the fancy crystals on it. And the guy said, why would you sit in the chair, though? If I fits, I sits. That’s what that guy thought. If I fits, I sits.

SPEAKER 11 : 94:56

People are suspecting that this was an American tourist, but the story itself doesn’t actually specify.

SPEAKER 13 : 95:02

I bet they were British. Yeah, I bet they were British. I’m just saying. But now they’re like, oh, it’s the Van Gogh chair. It’s damaged. But it’s just a chair that somebody named the Van Gogh chair. So, you know, nobody needs to get their britches in a twist. Let’s see. A mother is roasted for naming her daughter after a tragic event that shocked the world. The daughter, Chernobyl Hope. Chernobyl hope. Oh my gosh, no.

SPEAKER 11 : 95:42

Is it hope for another Chernobyl or hope that Chernobyl doesn’t happen again?

SPEAKER 13 : 95:47

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SPEAKER 16 : 97:42

I look forward to that. The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in. And I would say that that was a mistake because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia in. And you wouldn’t have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago. But it didn’t work out that way. But it used to be the G8. And now it’s, I guess, what’s that, nine years ago, eight years ago, it switched over there. They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a very big mistake, even though I wasn’t in politics then. I was very loud about it. It was a mistake in that you spend so much time talking about Russia that he’s no longer at the table. So it makes life more complicated. But you wouldn’t have had the war.

SPEAKER 13 : 98:27

A little a little correction there, because I will say that Russia was kicked out of G8. And it became G7 after the annexation of Crimea. And that was before Trudeau. But I get his point, though. I mean, I get what he’s saying. And I’m not discussing, you know, I’m not saying I agree with it, but I understand what he’s saying. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the bottom of this third hour. Joining us now, man about the world, our very good friend, Mr. Stephen Yates, who was an advisor, not one, but two presidential administrations, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation as well. You can find him on X at Yates Coms. I just kind of wanted to get… Because I’ve been reading all these headlines that sound like Putin was being prevailed upon by the mullahs to try to get Trump to get Israel to agree to peace. And I just don’t know why Iran would expect Trump, who apparently was the target of not one but two of their assassination attempts, to feel like he owes them anything with regards to structuring some kind of peace agreement. But I also kind of wanted to get your thoughts, too, on the whole thing with the G8. It didn’t seem like he was saying that he wanted Russia to be in it. I don’t know why he brought that up. And it’s always good to see you. We have so much to throw at you today. So sorry.

SPEAKER 03 : 99:36

Well, first on the G numbers, I was not a fan of Russia being made a formal member of the G7, making it a G8. In general, the higher the number after the G, the more worthless the gathering is. And so there’s a G20, which is at least twice as worthless as the G7. And so I thought that was a mistake. The idea that you integrate Russia in and somehow it moderates their behavior, obviously it didn’t stop them from doing what they did with Crimea. And so I understand what Trump is doing. And I like the guy and I support a lot of the policy. reasons, but the G7, G8 was the least of the reasons that Russia reinvaded Ukraine. And the G7 also includes Japan. And I don’t think any of what he was saying would apply to the U.S.-Japan alliance. So I like the Prez. I like that he disrupts these G meetings. But that G7, G8 thing was a little bit of a tangent for me.

SPEAKER 13 : 100:42

Yeah, I agree. Also, with regard to everything with Iran and Israel, we keep hearing everyone say, are we going to get into World War III? You can correct me on this if you think I’m wrong. I don’t think that we would. And I go back to when you had the regime change in Syria, and you had Bashar al-Assad, who seemed very… amenable to Iran. And now we have, I guess, the lesser of the doubles, this former reform jihadi guy who’s now over there. But the interesting thing is they closed the airspace from what was reported. So now Iran has no help from Syria, from their defense. They can’t use their airspace. Then you had Israel hitting at Hezbollah and really decimating Hezbollah. And there were a lot of it seems like when you look back now, There were a lot of things leading up to create this window of opportunity if, based on Israel’s intel, everything was as, you know, as it is for them to strike when they did. And I kind of wanted to get your thoughts on that. And I just don’t see this escalating. I don’t think Iran can do anything else.

SPEAKER 03 : 101:39

Yeah, well, there’s a lot to take from this, but I would also be very careful to draw too many conclusions while things are relatively fresh. This is a little bit like the shock and awe part of the Iraq War, and there is no talk of… Anyone going in and trying to remake Iran in our own image, so I don’t think there’s any repeat of that going on here But Iran still has a lot of weapons. It’s expensive to keep these air defenses up more things could land So I would just be careful about this being sort of a one-lap victory at the same time Israel has done what most of the world said couldn’t be done. And I think you’re right that a lot went into this. The Abraham Accords was a massive step in the right direction to make these risks lower. The president’s visit to the Middle East, with major visits with Arab nations, with big commitments to the United States, that was a major investment in mitigating these kinds of risks. And so as much as China and Russia might have looked at the U.S. and its allies being in decline, I think that if Israel is able to do this much to Iran, these big bad powers probably want to hit the pause button before they think they’re ready to bite more than they can chew. And hopefully… That’s the rationality that comes out of this, because Israel has done a significant amount of damage to Iran’s aspirations.

SPEAKER 13 : 103:13

Do you think that Iran now being in BRICS is something that could benefit them or help kind of bail them out of this situation at this point? I think I don’t know. I mean, I realize that it’s mainly just, you know, economics and trade, et cetera, and all of that. But still, I mean, is that significant to you?

SPEAKER 03 : 103:33

It’s not terribly significant to me other than we’ve known that the bad guys help the bad guys out and that they will help them avoid sanctions. There’s energy revenues that can sustain these bad authoritarian sticky regimes. I think the big question mark right now with Iran is with a lot of the military having been decapitated, some of the political leadership having been decapitated, is there any kind of real change there? possible or in the not-too-distant future in Iran. And if it begins to move to a non-Mullah-led kind of government, then the bricks are irrelevant. And then it really is a pretty substantial blow to the idea that there’s this condominium that’s going to balance against the bad old United States under the bad old Trump. And so we can’t know where this is going. For now, they have a severely weakened ally that I think has been embarrassed and decapitated in some ways. And so they may want to maybe keep their arms length. You know, defeat has a bad odor and they don’t really want that on them.

SPEAKER 13 : 104:41

We’re talking with our friend Stephen Yates, if you’re just joining us at Yatescoms. He’s a foreign policy expert, man about the world. You mentioned the people, too, of Iran. And I remember during the Green Revolution, we’ve talked about it before, the IRCG, they had You know, these these people on their members on rooftops and they sniped Nita Sultan. And that was the girl and her dad. She just their car was approaching an intersection where there was a protest. She wasn’t even part of it, but was mistakenly assumed such. And she was killed on a live stream video that went around the world. A lot of people rose up after that. But the the rising up by the people was not successful against their against the regime. Do you think that this time is different?

SPEAKER 03 : 105:21

Well, there is one part that’s different. I mean, the Obama administration really did nothing to make sure that communications were sustained during that Green Revolution. It really raised a lot of questions whether they were for the Green Revolution happening or whether they rather to make a deal with the bad government that they knew. This time around, there were quick messages and Elon Musk quickly made sure that Starlink was on. That meant that those that mean when the regime wanted to shut things off again that they couldn’t cut off the iranian people i have not seen video like we saw out of the green revolution we’ll see what happens after the initial shock and explosions of the the current conflict kind of settled down but at least this time there is unfettered access to information And that is at least a hopeful foundation to see if there’s a better future for the Iranian people. I mean, it’s easy to forget, but people really should look at those videos that show Iran prior to the radical revolution. It was a modern place. It was an attractive place. It was one of the more prosperous and interesting parts of the broader Middle East. And so, you know, they can go back to that if they throw off this toxic evil regime.

SPEAKER 13 : 106:39

Yeah. China has they condemned the I guess the way that the way that they present it is I guess they forget that Iran actually bypassed the Houthis and their regular third proxy when they had struck Israel. Israel responds. I think it’s weird that. because they took some time to get their response right, that that somehow means they should forfeit a defensive response, which was weird to me. And that seems to be the way that China is coming to this because they’re condemning actions by Israel, but not with Iran. Where is China with all of this? Because they’re that weird partner that, you know, it looks like Russia is kind of moving away from it, but China hasn’t yet.

SPEAKER 03 : 107:18

Now, I hope that China continues to talk about these kinds of things because I think it’s sobering up some of our allies in the Middle East, the Abraham Accords countries in particular, including Israel, that had hedged their bets over the years on what kind of interactions to have with China, what kind of markets to seek, what kind of technologies they might have connections to China about. And this really should end it altogether for Israel, but really for the Arab states, too. And so I hope China keeps talking because their nonsense isn’t going to sell well. But really, they are tied in with the bad regimes and that network, and there isn’t any escape for them on that. That’s what Xi Jinping did, doubling down on this this sort of triangle of do no gooders at best. They thought that that was an axis that was going to push back against a failing West. And so they own it.

SPEAKER 13 : 108:15

I wanted to ask you about switching gears, but still with China, but looking exclusively at this trade deal, because the president established some kind of at least preliminary trade agreement with China, where we still have a percentage that benefits us. They’ve got, I think, what, 10 percent, but One of the things that apparently is also involved is allowing Chinese students to come to our colleges and universities, which I was under the impression that if they were allowed to come to our colleges and universities, they had to report back to the CCP, like they had to be people in good standing with the CCP. And I remember Rubio had put out a post on X stating that, you know, we’re not going to allow it was like a moratorium on visas, student visas for Chinese students. Where does this stand? And and You know, after the issue with the drones being launched into in Iran, this worries me. The CCP on farmland by military bases worry me. I think our big defensive position against China is not being met in this preliminary agreement. And I wanted to get your thoughts.

SPEAKER 03 : 109:15

Yeah, this is just another area where I really like the president and the policies, but I don’t see things exactly the same. And we don’t really know how much is shaping the information environment in order to get negotiations to a better resting place or a finish line. And I’ll give them some grace on that front. But when it comes to the number of Chinese students, I mean, really, it’s just wildly out of balance. There are so many more coming our way, not so many of ours going there. And it really is what are they studying? And it’s you can’t just sort of put them all in one basket. It matters if they come from some kind of a military institute or it matters if they’re studying nuclear physics or. or some kind of telemetry and advanced mathematics. We shouldn’t be training up a generation of people who can and will use that knowledge against us in a material way. And we look at even the research labs on agriculture and medical areas. They’ve been irresponsible and haven’t been accountable on COVID, so don’t have them. in the most advanced medical research fields. And so I’m not a fan of this painting everybody with one brush, but unless and until you have some kind of a system to vet who these people are and you limit it to some reasonable quantity that could be vetted, then I think it’s irresponsible. And I think that Senator Rubio, now Secretary Rubio, had the right formula. It’s a privilege to be here, not a right. And you have to make sure that the behavior of these people is consistent with our goals. And if not, bye bye.

SPEAKER 13 : 110:53

Exactly. I think well said. Agreed, too. This is one of those days where we need a full hour with you on here because there’s so much to cut through. We’re out of time today. But Stephen Yates, always such a pleasure. Glad that you’ve been traveling safely and always appreciate your insight into this and for setting everything straight. Good to see you, my friend. Have a great rest of your week and happy Father’s Day. Happy belated Father’s Day.

SPEAKER 03 : 111:13

Much appreciated, Dana. Take good care.

SPEAKER 13 : 111:15

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SPEAKER 08 : 112:22

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SPEAKER 13 : 112:33

And you can also sign up for the newsletter over at Substack, chapter and verse. A lot of good stuff that goes out of there regularly. A lot of good pieces that have been following all of this breaking news. So make sure that you go and sign up. And you can also find us over at YouTube and Facebook. I was reading this story how airline attendants, when they greet you, they’re greeting you for a purpose. Do you know that? They’re not just saying like hello for no reason or to be polite. Yeah. It’s usually to check to see if you’re too drunk or sick to fly. But what if you’re a situational extrovert? And if someone greets you, your immediate response is to overshare and talk incessantly because you don’t know how to handle just like a small greeting. I’m not saying that I do that. at all even in the slightest maybe not at all but you know like whatever they’re like hello and you’re like hi how are you i just don’t what do you do like how do you agree if when you get on a plane and they’re like hello or good afternoon what do you say to them kane what do you do in response now you’re being tested you know you’re being tested hi good to see you that’s it is it good to see you i don’t care if it’s true this is just the standard greetings See, that’s it. I cannot stand. I don’t want to say it if it’s not true. It’s a flight attendant person. It’s not really good to see somebody I don’t know, right? Like, I don’t care.

SPEAKER 11 : 113:50

I see people I don’t know all the time and nod and wave and say hi. What’s the big deal?

SPEAKER 13 : 113:54

Well, that’s fine. But yeah, be like, oh, it’s so good to see you.

SPEAKER 11 : 113:57

Yeah, that’s a little much, I guess.

SPEAKER 13 : 113:59

Yeah, that’s a lot.

SPEAKER 11 : 114:00

But they’re kind of paid to say that to you. So you kind of mirror that back.

SPEAKER 13 : 114:05

They’re judging you right as you get on the plane. They’re measuring you. Like, is this person a terrorist? Thanks for flying with us today. Is this person drunk or sick?

SPEAKER 11 : 114:12

Good to see you. And you’re like, yeah, good to see you.

SPEAKER 13 : 114:14

Look at you. Unless you’re trying to get extra snacks, then you would probably lay it on thick, right?

SPEAKER 11 : 114:19

Actually, you know what? Now that I think about it, I got… You know, what are those Biscoff cookies? Those…

SPEAKER 13 : 114:23

Well, you can’t ask it right as you get on the plane.

SPEAKER 11 : 114:25

No, you can’t, but you set it up by being that friendly. That’s how you do it.

SPEAKER 13 : 114:29

That’s like his whole approach. He’s laying the groundwork to get those extra cookies. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it makes sense because they’re like the first point of contact, so it makes sense. Okay, I’m almost out of time. Today’s stupidity.

SPEAKER 11 : 114:40

Cut 15, Juan. Cut 15. This is Representative Eric Fartswell. This is what he said gaseously out of his mouth.

SPEAKER 04 : 114:49

Donald Trump is America’s Hitler.

SPEAKER 11 : 114:52

Wow. It’s like he’s never said that before.

SPEAKER 13 : 114:57

Everybody don’t like Hitler. My gosh, that guy, folks, does it for us today. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. Find us Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. Have a great night.