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Speaker 2 Hey, on today's podcast, we're of course going to talk about Israel. We're going to talk about President Trump.
What did he know? When did he know it?

Speaker 2 And is that deception or is this just unbelievable negotiation? I mean, he said you have 60 days and you don't want to see what happens the day after 60 if you don't negotiate.

Speaker 2 Well, they didn't negotiate. And lo and behold, it was just after midnight, day 61, that Israel went in and took care of business.
Everybody's upset about it.

Speaker 2 We give you the real scoop, how we were involved, and what it all means,

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Speaker 2 Let me just say this, because I

Speaker 2 have quite a monologue. I spent about three hours on about one o'clock in the morning.
I started it.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I will tell you,

Speaker 2 maybe some anger therapy might have been better. But I took it all out on a monologue, and I'm going to unleash that onto all of the

Speaker 2 onto some people that I actually still refer to as friends.

Speaker 2 I just don't know what the hell people are thinking. But let's start with why this war is not Iraq and yet why it terrifies me.
First of all, I hate war.

Speaker 2 I used to be, you know, in my youth, a little more war happy, you know, because I wasn't going to fight it. And, yeah, we should do that.
And we should go and we got to police the world.

Speaker 2 No, we don't have to do any of that. We shouldn't do any of that.
And I have learned from, you know, my first 30, 40 years of my life that what I was for was absolutely wrong.

Speaker 2 The State Department was wrong. The neocons were wrong.
All of them wrong.

Speaker 2 For one.

Speaker 2 It's not only wrong for America, but it is also, I've seen too many people come home broken or not come home at all.

Speaker 2 And those who do come home, nobody seems to care about them. And I just think it is absolutely abhorrent the way we treat our soldiers.

Speaker 2 And I've watched our country send generation after generation off to foreign battles with no clear ending, many times no clear enemy. Tell me who our enemy was besides Osama bin Laden for 20 years.

Speaker 2 Who is our enemy? Well, it's the ideology of, what is that ideology? You can't even say it. And then we were told that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Speaker 2 You know, we were told we can't afford to wait. And so we went.
And in the end, whether you believe the cause or not, it became another drawn-out conflict, another wound in our national spirit.

Speaker 2 And far too many American families were touched by it. And once again, the world is holding its breath.
Israel yesterday struck Iran hard, precisely, and quietly.

Speaker 2 And before the screaming starts from the headlines, the chambers of the UN, the cable news panels, let's stop and ask ourselves a few hard questions, shall we? First of all, is this America's war?

Speaker 2 The answer is no. Should we be there fighting it? Answer, no.

Speaker 2 Has Israel asked us to fight their war? Answer, no.

Speaker 2 Is this another Iraq? Or is it something entirely different?

Speaker 2 Well, let me tell you what makes this moment unlike anything else we have faced before. First, this was not a call to war.
This was not a land invasion.

Speaker 2 This is not a campaign to topple a regime and then sit around for 20 years trying to rebuild a culture that doesn't want what we have.

Speaker 2 Even though Iran, the Iranian people are good people, the Persians are great people and they do want a life like ours.

Speaker 2 But this was targeted. This was surgical.
This was preemptive. Not against an idea, not against a guess.

Speaker 2 Against the very real, very stated intentions of a regime run by men who do not think like we think. Okay.
They do not want what we want.

Speaker 2 We choose life. They literally choose death.
That is as clear as it is. Do you choose life or do you choose death? That is a culture of death.

Speaker 2 So I want to start with the clerics of Iran, the Ayatollahs, the supreme leader, the mullahs, the puppet masters of the so-called Islamic Republic and their Sharia law.

Speaker 2 I have said this for years and years and years. If you don't understand this, you don't understand Iran.
These are twelvers.

Speaker 2 They are followers of a branch of Shiite Islam that believes not just in the return of the messianic figure called the Mahadi,

Speaker 2 but also that his return can and must be, in their words, hastened or accelerated. And the only way to do that is to quote, using their words, wash the world in blood.

Speaker 2 Okay, I think I'm out at that. You know, that's my first stop on the train, and I'm like, I'm going to get off here, please.
Let me say this again.

Speaker 2 The highest religious leader who actually is in charge of the entire country,

Speaker 2 the one who commands the Revolutionary Guard, who fund the terror groups by Hezbollah and Hamas, the ones who train children to chant death to America in the streets, believe the world must be engulfed in destruction and flames to usher in the end times.

Speaker 2 And they mean that the same way we mean that.

Speaker 2 And that this is the regime trying to build a nuclear bomb. Now, I have a problem with this because I've been talking about this since 2000, maybe 2002.
Oh, they're very close to a bomb.

Speaker 2 They're very close to a bomb. You know, I stopped listening to John Bolton a long time ago.

Speaker 2 It was a kind of cute little oldie thing that he would, you know, he'd bring up once in a while, but I don't know if they were close to the bomb.

Speaker 2 I don't know if anybody knows they were close to the bomb.

Speaker 2 Maybe.

Speaker 2 I will tell you what Benjamin Netanyahu told me in like 2010. I had a meeting with him and I'm like, are they close to a bomb?

Speaker 2 He said, I don't know, but when we believe that they are truly close to a bomb, it doesn't matter what the world will say. We will go in and do it ourself if we have to.

Speaker 2 They cannot have a nuclear weapon. Okay.
So they want a nuclear bomb because they want to wash the world in blood.

Speaker 2 Now contrast that with the doctrine of mutually assured destruction that has kept peace between nuclear superpowers for over a half century. The Soviets, they didn't want to die, okay?

Speaker 2 The Chinese Communist Party, they don't even want to die. Even North Korea, as crazy as that fat dude is, he doesn't want to lose power and his life.
But Iran,

Speaker 2 they're not afraid of death because they got all those virgins coming their way. They see martyrdom as a promotion.
They don't want to win a war. They want to ignite the good old end end of days.

Speaker 2 So ask yourself, what happens when those beliefs collide with the power of a nuclear warhead?

Speaker 2 And by the way, you should answer this now because we're going to have to answer this when France topples to the same kind of radicals and when England topples to the same kind of radicals.

Speaker 2 Do we go in and get their weapons? Because you do not want these regimes with nuclear weapons.

Speaker 2 Now, With all that said, I don't want my son going off to war. I don't want America again to play the policeman or be dragged into another theater of blood and sand.
Enough is enough. It doesn't work.

Speaker 2 But I also do not want to be the father who has to tell his children, yeah, we saw it coming.

Speaker 2 You know, I knew what they believed. We saw what they were building, but we didn't do anything, you know, because, well, I mean, who are we to say?

Speaker 2 When the only country most affected by this did something last night surgically, they are the

Speaker 2 tip of the spear. They're the ones that are going to get speared first, vaporized first.

Speaker 2 And they're the ones that are like, you know what? I don't care what the rest of you guys say. I'm taking care of this.
And they did something surgical.

Speaker 2 Holy cow.

Speaker 2 I've never seen anything like it. War is changing.

Speaker 2 I have to tell you,

Speaker 2 what Israel did matters.

Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 2 I got on

Speaker 2 the social media spheres last night, and I just gave a few opinions, and none of them were bloodthirsty by any. But boy, I got to tell you,

Speaker 2 I am a warmonger and a Jew lover, I found out from a lot of people. I've listened to you for years, and I've always known you were a Jew lover.

Speaker 2 Holy cow, you haven't listened to me for years years then, okay?

Speaker 2 Or you've just been closeted in your hatred. But what Israel did matters because they didn't wait for the mushroom cloud.
They struck not to conquer, but to prevent.

Speaker 2 Tell me the last time our country even that you can say, I used to say this all the time, look, we have never been in it for land or oil or anything else. And I don't know if I believe that anymore.

Speaker 2 We've done a lot of really bad things. Okay.
A lot of really bad things. Every country does.

Speaker 2 But are you telling me that our government, we haven't done a war or two here recently where we haven't had greedy eyes on the wealth of another nation?

Speaker 2 Where's the greedy eyes on Israel? What did they do? They killed their top scientist and they killed the leaders of their military and then they took out the installation that was making the bomb.

Speaker 2 Boy, that's, wow.

Speaker 2 Isn't that horrible? Let me be really, really clear.

Speaker 2 That is really good, but it doesn't mean that it's, you know, the Middle East isn't going to spiral out of control, and it doesn't mean our streets in Europe or in America are going to get more peaceful.

Speaker 2 Okay. It may spiral out of control.

Speaker 2 And I hope not. But let me...

Speaker 2 quote Thomas Jefferson poorly, but after he stopped our first foreign war with the Barbary pirates, which was Islam, who just were coming on the seas and taking everybody's ship and their stuff, and then they were enslaving or killing any infidel.

Speaker 2 Because, you know, you're not a Muslim, and if you won't submit, I can either kill you or use you as, you know, a sex slave or some other kind of slave. And he really didn't understand that.

Speaker 2 And, you know, everybody's like, we got to get out of that war. And so we did.
But he said at the end, you know, I just got to warn you, it's our first foreign war.

Speaker 2 But if we don't understand the ideology that these people have,

Speaker 2 it will be our last war as well. And I think we are going to find, I mean, look at what's happening in Europe.
Look what's happening in our own streets with the Palestinian crap.

Speaker 2 Where do you think that all comes from?

Speaker 2 If you don't think we're going to eventually have a war with Islam, you are mistaken. And I don't want one because I think it is going to be ugly.
But just look at the state of Europe.

Speaker 2 Now, I don't want to rush into it. I don't want it.
I pray that it never happens.

Speaker 2 But not every preemptive strike is an Iraq. Not every enemy is rational.

Speaker 2 And not every country has people in it that don't want what we, they don't think like, you know, we think. The Persians think like we think.

Speaker 2 And they have spent two decades slow walking this game, smuggling uranium, building enrichment centrifuges.

Speaker 2 They have funding proxies. They are slaughtering protesters in their own streets.
The difference is now

Speaker 2 Israel felt the clock was up. And Israel knew if they waited, there'd be no second chance.
So the world can criticize all they want. They can lecture all they want.
They can threaten resolutions.

Speaker 2 Israel stood alone, and they didn't do it out of vengeance, but because the alternative was unthinkable.

Speaker 2 Again, let me say it for the third time. I hate war.
I do not want us to get involved in another war.

Speaker 2 I love peace, but peace doesn't come from pretending evil doesn't exist.

Speaker 2 You know, you're not being asked to rush the gates. You're being asked, can you just stop holding the gates open for these people?

Speaker 2 And that's exactly what is happening on our streets, in our universities, in our business, in our government. We are holding the door open every time somebody else comes across our border.

Speaker 2 Every time you say, I don't want to get rid of those people, we have 8,000 people that we know of

Speaker 2 that are here that are Islamists that are also on the terrorist watch list. 8,000 people here.
You remember what 19 did?

Speaker 2 If you don't think that we're going to be fighting this at some point, because we can't seem to get serious, nobody will even say, I can't tell you how much trouble I'm going to be in for saying Islamists are evil

Speaker 2 it's evil i'm sorry you're 45 she's nine

Speaker 2 nope i'm not going to condone that that's evil

Speaker 2 we cannot present we cannot pretend that evil doesn't exist

Speaker 2 and You know, what happens is, you know, you have to stop it coming. You know, you have to stop it before it gets a bomb.

Speaker 2 And I hope Israel can do that. And I pray for the people of Israel.
I pray for the people in

Speaker 2 Iran. My gosh, they're on our side.

Speaker 2 They want these monsters gone. And I was so happy to see how surgical this strike was.
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Speaker 2 Friend of the program and friend, Lieutenant Colonel retired Jonathan Conrigus.

Speaker 2 John, how are you today?

Speaker 3 So far, so good. Thankful of everything happening and happy to be on your show and discussing what we are about to discuss, Glenn.

Speaker 2 A lot of people were praying for you last night. A lot of Americans are a little freaked out.
I kind of, I'm not freaked out, but I'm very concerned. You know, one of the things that...

Speaker 2 You know, the president, one of the things he really ran and won on is we're going to stop all these endless wars and we don't have an end in sight for Russia and Ukraine.

Speaker 2 And this one, while this is your battle and a very important one, it is going to affect the entire world, what happened.

Speaker 2 What was the convincing evidence, if you can tell us,

Speaker 2 how close were they to Obama?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think you're right. And I think the concerns of the Americans that you referred to, they are very valid, that this will affect other people in the world.

Speaker 3 I think what Israel did has the potential to affect significant positive change in the region. And currently, the ball is in the Iranian hands.

Speaker 3 They have now the option to choose how to respond to what you, I think, correctly described as a quite a magnificent and unprecedented military strike, surprise against Iran, taking out more than 20 of their senior leaders, conducting hundreds of strikes in all across Iran.

Speaker 3 About eight, nine hundred, a thousand miles away from Israel, we struck, and all of our pilots have come home safely.

Speaker 3 Many months of preparations and many years of collecting intelligence, Mossad and Israeli Air Force cooperating together here, maybe also special forces on the ground.

Speaker 3 But bottom line, this is a really, I think, an historic operation that will be studied by military experts, but we'll leave that aside for a second and address the concerns of people.

Speaker 3 Now, the Iranians have to decide what are they going to do, how are they going to respond. They've tried to respond by sending about 100 drones.
They've been intercepted.

Speaker 3 And now we're going to see how the Iranians are responding.

Speaker 3 And the President, I think, very correctly tell them, well, you got the option of going and making a deal because you, the Iranians, are not going to have a nuclear bomb.

Speaker 3 And if you continue going down the path of violence, then this will end badly for you. That's what the U.S.
president is saying.

Speaker 3 Now, in terms of what the tipping point was, Iran has been dashing for the bomb for a long period of time.

Speaker 3 I think the atomic agency report that verified that Iran is not only enriching uranium to weapons grade and has enough fissile material for at least 10 bombs, but that Iran is also in non-compliance when it comes to their obligations to allow international supervision of their sites.

Speaker 3 And I think that and a lot of intelligence that we will, I think, have declassified in the future was the tipping point.

Speaker 3 And at the end of the day, this has been, you know, months, if not years, in the making. Iran has an open goal to annihilate the state of Israel.
They say it clearly in Farsi and their language.

Speaker 3 We know that they mean business. And we also know that if we allow them to develop the tools to do so, they might be tempted to use them.

Speaker 3 And that is what Israel has today started to unravel in terms of those Iranian capabilities.

Speaker 2 So I was a little disappointed today, two Israeli officials, that's all it said in this Axios

Speaker 2 article, that they said that President Trump was instrumental in all of this, et cetera, et cetera, but he and Benjamin Etanyahoo were engaged in deception. And I read this as

Speaker 2 I don't think Israel would have done something this massive without the United States, you know, in their corner.

Speaker 2 But I don't think it's deceptive when the president says you have 60 days to negotiate and you don't want to see what happens on day 61.

Speaker 2 I don't think that's deceptive to make plans to go in on day 61. He kept giving them the same warning over and over again.
Do you read that as deception or a negotiator that is telling you the truth?

Speaker 3 I think actually it's both. It's deception in the good way of how to wage war and how to catch your enemy unaware and

Speaker 3 unprepared. And that is what Israel did.

Speaker 3 Has the U.S. president been deceptive? No, I don't think so.
I think he's been very straightforward, telling the Iranians time and time again, this is the best deal that you're going to get.

Speaker 3 You should relinquish all attempts to enrich material in Iran and you should allow full comprehensive inspection of all of your sites nuclear as well as weapons development and if you do that nothing bad is going to happen and we will probably freeze sanctions and good things will happen to Iran the Iranian leadership heard that but didn't do it and as you said correctly we are today on day 61 of the presidential ultimatum and this is what happens yeah it's just a president that draws a red line and then actually means it Ben Rhodes came out today and said war is breaking out because Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran deal and got humiliated by Netanyahu while trying to negotiate his own and he's going to have a military parade for his birthday.

Speaker 2 This is the weakest strong man ever. Is that why this happened because

Speaker 2 Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran deal?

Speaker 3 I think that sounds like a very bitter former person of influence

Speaker 3 who, you know, was part in devising a lousy deal for America, a lousy deal for the world.

Speaker 3 and he's bitter because the other perspective and the other line of thought is prevailing.

Speaker 3 And I think that if we look at the current situation in the Middle East, the biggest destabilizing and terror supporting country in the region that has its tentacles or had its tentacles in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and that was trying to develop nuclear weapons, Iran, is now being right-sized and put in a tight spot.

Speaker 3 Maybe Mr. Rhodes has sympathy for the Iranian regime.
I do not.

Speaker 3 I do not wish to be to see what happens if that regime is allowed to develop weapons because I know that they are a genocidal and absolutely crazy regime that might do the most horrible things.

Speaker 3 And of course, Mr. Rhodes probably doesn't assess it like that because he lives far away and he isn't Israeli.
But for us Israelis, it is as tangible and as existential as it gets.

Speaker 3 So I think contrary.

Speaker 3 I think just one thing, you know, President Trump in his first presidency, he gave

Speaker 3 the brave and correct order to take out Qasim Suleimani, the very important Iranian general.

Speaker 3 At the time, there was an entire chorus around the world, American media, blaming President Trump for escalating, opening World War III, and all matter of other fabricated nonsense.

Speaker 3 None of that happened. And what President Trump did, what he ordered and what U.S.
troops did was to take out the most important mastermind of Iranian expansionism.

Speaker 3 And I think that today that is also important because had he been around Qasem Suleimani, I'm pretty sure that the Iranians would have fared better since October 7 and we would have had a more difficult situation.

Speaker 3 He is not around. And I give credit to President Trump for doing that.
And I give credit to President Trump for supporting Israel and for working together with Israel.

Speaker 3 Of course, keeping America's interests first and Israel's interests second. That's what the U.S.
President should be doing. But the interests here, they are aligning.

Speaker 3 And I think we're in a very good situation. I hope good things will come.
I hope prosperity. I hope freedom for the Iranian people is just around the corner.

Speaker 3 And I hope prosperity for all the people in the Middle East is around the corner. It can happen.
because the Iranian regime was standing in between that progress. And now

Speaker 3 there's a different time for the Iranian regime.

Speaker 2 It would be amazing if we saw the regime actually topple and the people were free because the Persian people are wonderful. Let me ask you, you know,

Speaker 2 we're seeing riots on our streets. We're seeing it in Europe and it always has either a communist, socialist, anarchist, and an Islamist

Speaker 2 tint to them.

Speaker 2 The Palestinian protests are growing everywhere. And I just look at this and say, this is our future for the entire Western world.

Speaker 2 Should we be concerned that this activity now,

Speaker 2 green lights will be given to, let's say, the 8,000 terrorists that we know are here in America, let alone all over Europe?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think that the West, Europe... to a more severe extent and the U.S.

Speaker 3 to a certain extent in certain states and certain cities, mostly along the coasts, and less inside the country, perhaps barring Chicago and the

Speaker 3 few areas of the Great Lakes.

Speaker 3 But by and large, there's a significant threat to the Western-based system of democracy, civil liberties, law and order, and it is being implemented on the ground and carried and pushed forward by

Speaker 3 many rogue elements, one of them being Islamists Islamists that are espousing terrorist ideologies and that deep down do not agree with the Judeo-Christian values that are today governing the world and led by free democracies.

Speaker 3 And they are trying to import

Speaker 3 their failed system of governance and their

Speaker 3 outlook on life, which they brought from the Middle East and from other places, and enforce that on free democratic societies.

Speaker 3 And they're abusing the system, the liberties, the freedoms and the rights that democracies like the US and in Europe avail people. They're marching on the streets under the guise of free speech.

Speaker 3 They are advocating violence. They are trying to undermine the social fabric of society.
They are espousing terrorism. They are glorifying violence.

Speaker 3 And of course, anti-Semitism is always also in that bag of negative things.

Speaker 3 And I think it is high time that there's a serious debate in the US and in the West. I think the situation in Europe is far worse than it is in the US.

Speaker 3 And I think Americans can look at the streets of London and Paris and heed warning and say, if we want to reach a situation where the streets are dominated by Islamists and where an ordinary white Christian or Jew or someone who isn't a Muslim extremist cannot walk the streets safely in the cities of their home, in the streets of their home country, then we better look at what's happening in Europe and take action before.

Speaker 3 Now, to be clear, I am not

Speaker 3 branding all Muslims as terror supporters. There are many great Americans who are of Muslim heritage, who are loyal American citizens who are not espousing terrorism.

Speaker 3 But those who do, those who seek to undermine Western democracy, those who seek to undermine law and order and a free and right-based society and to import dark world views from the Middle East based on all kinds of extremist ideologies, they should be met with a firm response.

Speaker 3 And in most cases, they are not met with firm responses and then they expand.

Speaker 2 Lieutenant Colonel, I know you have to run. You've got a busy day.

Speaker 2 Thank you for spending time.

Speaker 2 Is this over now or is there more to come? No.

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 3 this is not even the end of the beginning.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Lieutenant Colonel, thank you so much. Appreciate it.

Speaker 2 Thank you, Glenn. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 You know, every show today can talk about the theatrics of

Speaker 2 Senator Padilla and Senator Warren yesterday. But it takes the special podcast to introduce you to

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Speaker 2 Senator Alex Padilla, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Senator Corey Booker. Prepare yourself for a torrent of fear, a deluge of tears, a veritable hurricane of histriotics.

Speaker 2 First, witness Senator Alex Padilla as the poor, downtrodden, utterly helpless, yet inexplicably powerful senator from California. See him bumrush the stage in a mostly peaceful, chaotic sort of way.

Speaker 2 Then, Senator Elizabeth Warren takes the stage with her heart-wrenching monologue, which we've dubbed the Trail of Tears.

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Speaker 2 We join the action now in California at a Christy Gnome press conference. And in the room, somewhere in the back, Senator Alex Padilla.

Speaker 2 Let's listen in.

Speaker 2 The burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into this city.

Speaker 2 So, I want to say thank you to every single person that has been able to do this.

Speaker 2 Senator Alex Padilla, I have a question for the Secretary because the fact of the matter is a half a dozen violent criminals that you're rotating on yourself.

Speaker 2 He's identified himself after he bum rushes the podium for a live press conference. He comes in, bum rushes.
He is not wearing his Senate pin, which would identify him.

Speaker 2 They have no idea if he's a senator or not. I've never even heard of this clown.
Certainly wouldn't have recognized him.

Speaker 2 He looks like somebody you would find, I don't know, sitting in the center of a Wendy's, you know, for lunch. I don't know who this guy is.

Speaker 2 Until they get him out of there, as they should. I don't know if you know this, but

Speaker 2 this was his big stage debut.

Speaker 2 This was his moment.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 before Israel could strike in those waning moments of his fame, Elizabeth Warren takes the stage. And here,

Speaker 2 in the episode we call The Trail of Tears,

Speaker 2 she says this:

Speaker 2 When Senator Padilla

Speaker 2 gets

Speaker 2 pushed, shoved, thrown to the

Speaker 2 handcuffed because he is asking questions, because he is engaging in the very oversight that senators are supposed to engage in, then what we're really talking about here is a Trump administration that just wants to shut down the ordinary functions of government.

Speaker 2 He went there to observe and to ask questions. Oh, here's a bonus.
And I watched with horror

Speaker 2 on video, seeing these agents grab my colleague, my fellow senator from California, grab him,

Speaker 2 push him out of the hearing. And

Speaker 2 I am shocked

Speaker 2 by how far we have descended

Speaker 2 in the first 140 days of this administration. Oh, my goodness.
Because

Speaker 2 Alex Padilla forcibly

Speaker 2 appealed before this executive, when does does it stop?

Speaker 2 When?

Speaker 2 When dare I ask?

Speaker 2 You can force him to kneel to his knees for the

Speaker 2 knee. When does it stop? This is a

Speaker 2 test. This is a crossroads.
This is

Speaker 2 a day in which the character of this body will be defined.

Speaker 2 I say, dare I say, a day which will live in infamy. I shall not bow or even introduce myself or, you know, I'm just going to crash the press conference and then just try to hijack it.

Speaker 2 That's all I'm going to do. That's all I've got to do.
How dare you stop me?

Speaker 2 When did the Senate lose its decorum?

Speaker 2 I mean, I expect this now from the,

Speaker 2 you know, from the Congress. Generally, we've always known there are a few clowns in Congress, but now the senators are all doing it.

Speaker 4 I mean, there's nobody better at it than Corey Booker, though. I mean, you want to talk.

Speaker 2 He was good. He is

Speaker 4 pathetic in every single way.

Speaker 2 He's a titan of the stage.

Speaker 2 Titan of the stage.

Speaker 4 Glenn,

Speaker 4 now you're a bit of a historian.

Speaker 4 You own a museum, right? You've been looking back at our history and throughout it.

Speaker 4 At any point in the Federalist Papers or in our founding documents, was there a path created for a senator to talk to a government official other than interrupting a press conference?

Speaker 4 Has anyone ever thought of a way for them to meet and discuss an issue of importance?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 It's in section two, subshack section three

Speaker 2 of the

Speaker 2 constitutionist part.

Speaker 2 Right. Where they say, you got questions, you got questions, you got to storm the room.
You just got to storm the room.

Speaker 4 Don't tell anyone you're coming. Don't announce yourself in advance.
Don't talk to security. Say, hey, just by the way, I'm going to go talk to my name is Senator Espadilla.

Speaker 2 I'm going to go over and talk to the community.

Speaker 2 If you did say that and they said, sir, this is a closed press conference. She's not taking any questions.
This is just a live broadcast. You can wait for her.
She'll talk to you after.

Speaker 2 And then you say, I have the right to storm the room.

Speaker 2 How pathetic is it that they only had this little

Speaker 2 pathetic little 20-minute period and now nobody's talking about it?

Speaker 4 Oh, I know. I will say,

Speaker 4 the greatest party hurt by

Speaker 4 Israel's actions overnight was not Iran, but it was Alex Padia's fundraising because this was his big plan. This was his big moment in the sun.

Speaker 4 He was going to take in millions of dollars and get all this attention and get all these MSNBC hits and all the things that every senator seems to go to Washington for these days because it's certainly not making laws.

Speaker 4 And he was going to have this wonderful wave of attention, and he's going to instead remain the giant zilch he was yesterday. He's going to remain a giant, pathetic, empty nothing of a senator.

Speaker 4 That I might note, you as a Radio Hall of Fame member and a person who follows this every day did not even know who he was.

Speaker 2 I mean, it was kind of like, you know, this guy named Alex Spadilla?

Speaker 2 Maybe, I don't know. Heard the name.
He's a senator. Perhaps.

Speaker 2 Is that the Where? Is that the ball club in Washington, D.C.? Yeah.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 It's incredible.

Speaker 4 And that's who he is.

Speaker 4 And it's funny, like, the successful version, I suppose, of all of this is Corey Booker, right? Like,

Speaker 4 he did this

Speaker 4 big speech a few months ago that

Speaker 4 everybody was talking about.

Speaker 2 And anybody.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 is on the heels of his, I think, 2%

Speaker 4 presidential run effort, which was impressive as well back in the day. So I think, you know, he's got a huge future as well.
Elizabeth Warren,

Speaker 4 kind of a trail of tears that we saw there.

Speaker 2 There's no acting involved in that.

Speaker 2 She was just going into her kitchen to grab herself a beer, and her husband's going to just kind of pop in unexpectedly. Whoa, whoa, hey, husband.

Speaker 2 Want to brew?

Speaker 4 Well, the fascinating part about this is obviously they're bad at governance, but they're also bad at this.

Speaker 4 They're not convincing people that anyone could take seriously, even if they tried. Well,

Speaker 2 they are all they are now is just storyline. They are just telling a story.
You're watching a play. When you're watching the Democrats and the left now, it is nothing but a play.
What are they doing?

Speaker 2 They're getting ready for the big no kings thing on

Speaker 2 Saturday, right? All over the country. No kings.

Speaker 2 He's a tyrant. He's a king.
So they've been planning this one for a while. So what do they do this week? Well, they make sure that they say that he's acting like a tyrant in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 Then they say he's acting like a tyrant because he's just scooping people up in the middle of the night.

Speaker 2 Then he's acting like a tyrant because he has a giant missile parade. And nobody does that.
A missile parade. Nothing, nobody but North Korea does that.

Speaker 2 And then this, they storm in. They know that they're going to be pushed back.
They're hoping to be pushed back.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 why?

Speaker 2 What do they get out of it? They all

Speaker 2 run to the social media boxes and go, oh my God, he's a tyrant. He's a tyrant.
That's all they're doing is they're setting this up for him to be a tyrant. And it's not working.

Speaker 2 You're just not, I don't, I mean, I'm not buying it.

Speaker 2 I mean, I suppose there are really stupid people in the country that look at that and go, I think those are real tears coming from that

Speaker 2 squaw.

Speaker 2 I think those are real squaw-like tears. By the way, I heard the New York Times, the Daily, with Michael Bobaro.

Speaker 2 Wow. They did the whole thing on the missile parade.
Stu, you've got to listen to it.

Speaker 2 It'll drive you out of your mind.

Speaker 2 So this is what they said. They said, first, it was a bad idea.
Why did he do this? We're talking to experts on parades, on the missile parade. Why would he do this?

Speaker 2 Well, a lot of people are upset because no democracy does this. Only dictators.
Well, I'm actually going to get to that here in a second.

Speaker 2 But we don't do these things.

Speaker 2 Except for Wilson, FDR, Eisenhower, JFK's inauguration, none during Vietnam, and then after the Gulf War with George W. Bush.
But we haven't done these things. We just don't do them.
We never had.

Speaker 2 Also, I would like to point out the, you know, the VFW and the Foreign Legion every year and thousands of parades all around the country. But, you know, they don't usually have tanks.

Speaker 2 But it's a really bad idea because it's also Trump's birthday, you know.

Speaker 2 Now, it takes them almost eight minutes before they also say, and it's the Army's 250th birthday. They never say, and by the way, we're going into the 250th anniversary

Speaker 2 of America, but it's just Trump's birthday. And then they say it's a bad idea because Washington, D.C.
is a dangerous place and people people could get hurt. Dangerous?

Speaker 2 What since when is Washington, D.C. dangerous to the New York Times? Are you a racist? My gosh, it's safe.

Speaker 2 And the new socialist mayor who defunded the police and painted BLM on the streets has that city running like a top. It's completely safe.

Speaker 2 But then it was too expensive. You can't do that military parade because it's too expensive.
Yeah, $45 million. It is.
Now, my problem is you won't cut anything from the budget, even the corruption.

Speaker 2 So how how am I going to take you seriously about the budget?

Speaker 2 And then my favorite is, which is they started with, they said, you know, Trump got this idea because he was over at France and I can't explain France, but, you know, no, no, no democracy does this.

Speaker 2 This is just dictators.

Speaker 2 We don't ever do this. You know, Republicans, I mean, sorry, republics or democracies,

Speaker 2 you know, they don't have these military. And they went on and on and on about how it doesn't happen, except for our closest cousin, England.

Speaker 2 Every year, I know because I got caught in it last year. Oh, geez.
They have something called Trooping the Color. And that's the official birthday celebration of the king or the queen.

Speaker 2 And one of the oldest military traditions in the UK.

Speaker 2 And they have all these guys, the military, and they do all these drills and they all march out into the, you know. And it's not even on his birthday.

Speaker 2 His birthday, I don't even know, is in fall or something. It's a complete sham.
Anyway, they don't have any missiles, but they've been dragging the troops out there, you know, so

Speaker 2 Prince Charles can stand there all day and just look at him and go, yep,

Speaker 2 they're my boys.

Speaker 2 Okay, so you do it in England.

Speaker 2 Then you also do it in France. They've been doing it, Bastille Day, military parade.

Speaker 2 Then you also do it in India. Didn't know that.
Did you know that? They do it in India.

Speaker 2 And they do it in another democracy as well. I'm trying to remember which one it is.

Speaker 2 But so it doesn't just happen in North Korea.

Speaker 2 Shoot. I guess they were wrong on all fronts, New York Times.