Conflict in Iran Sparking Political Fights at Home

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Rosenthal. Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nomes been fired by President

Trump after her appearance at two congressional hearings this week as the

administration remains focused on strikes in Iran. Is it about an imminent threat?

Is it about the nuclear program that were told was devastated last year with the

amazing military operation the US military carried out? What is the

justification? I'm Chris Foster. The US military is on drone defense and

offense in the fight against Iran. It is nothing for someone to fly and clean

to a US airport look completely fine walking through TSA. Go pick up a drone and

with the knowledge of how to weaponize it land one of these things on the

front steps of the White House. That is a real threat. And I'm Jason Rant. I've

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President Trump set on a truth social post that he is moving Homeland

Security Secretary Christy Nome to a special post for the shield of America's a

new security initiative for the Western hemisphere. Fox News correspondent Jackie

Heinrich reported on a pointed statement from someone familiar with the

president's thinking on this quote it was a combination of her many unfortunate

leadership failures from Minnesota to the ad campaign to allegations of an

affair in a statement. Nome thanked the president for the new post. Oklahoma

Senator Mark Wayne Mullin is the president's pick to be the new secretary of

DHS. It was a tough week though for Nome who was questioned about a number of

items before House and Senate hearings including slow FEMA payments and

whether she lied when she said US citizens hadn't been detained during ice

operations. Republican Louisiana Senator John Kennedy also asked the president

approved ahead of time you spending 220 million dollars running TV ads across

the country and which you are featured prominently. Yes sir we went through

the legal processes. Did it correct? Yes. He did. Yes. Okay. This shakeup comes

at a crucial time as the US conduct strikes on Iran. The partial government

shutdown currently involves DHS funding as Democrats have called for Nome's

resignation or firing and Republican Senator Deb Fisher said to that earlier in

the week. The very least that we can do is ensure that the agencies defending

our homeland here at home have the funding the personnel and the operational

capacity to do their jobs. The Senate this week rejected a war powers

resolution meant to pull troops from hostilities with Iran and the House

debated a similar resolution. Kentucky Republican Congressman Andy Barr said

the president has the legal authority to conduct these strikes. As a legal

matter the president of the United States doesn't need the permission of

Congress to engage in hostilities to protect the American people. The House

voted to reject a war powers resolution as well. It's one of those classic

article one versus article two showdowns Fox News Senate Ikr Shan and

Brem is also the host of the live in the Brem podcast and war could not be

probably a better example than exactly how these conversations go. When it

comes to the president's powers as Commander-in-Chief we've all heard the

White House and the administration articulate these arguments that there

were imminent ongoing threats that Iran has been killing Americans directly

and through their proxies for a very long time. We know they have ongoing

plots to assassinate President Trump and you know all you have to do is look

back to October 7th and what homostead and you know devastating one of our

closest allies certainly in that region but also there were dozens of

Americans who were killed and captured in that as well. So the administration

pointing to all of those imminent ongoing threats saying that the nuclear

program continued to progress and we couldn't the world couldn't afford to have

and Iran with a nuclear weapon. On the other hand you're going to hear the

article one folks say listen the legislative branch has the war powers for a

reason that we need to have debate before American men and women are sent into

the active conflict and that you know Congress has got that power but it to me

begs the question of this bigger debate we've been having under the Trump

administration one and now two point oh is how much power is Congress willing to

seed and have they given too much over to the executive branch it really gets

into a glaring spotlight that conversation when something like this happens to

your point about this imminent threat you know Democrats insist the president

and this administration haven't done enough to explain the war like why it was

needed what was the imminent threat even if war powers resolutions don't pass

the administration explained the reasoning enough and that's the question is

it a moving target are there different explanations I mean there were critics

on the left and the right saying we need an articulation prior to the strike what

this is about is it about an imminent threat is it about the nuclear program

that were told was devastated last year with the amazing military operation the

US military carried out what is the justification even post strike there have

been questions about is it a or is it b is it a and b what is it so the left

side of the aisle clearly skeptical about what the justification was for the

immediacy of this and that continues to kind of trickle out from members of the

administration who aren't exactly always on the same page I think that they're

on this general same page they may not be on the same paragraph with some of

the stuff to that point when the strikes happened we were in negotiations with

Iran it wasn't like we weren't talking to their their some of their

leadership and Steve Whitkopf told Sean Hannity that the Iranians

essentially opened negotiations by telling him and Jared Kushner they had

enough enriched uranium to make 11 bombs and that they seemed proud of that

when we talk about imminent threats and and justifications how significant is

that if it's true it's very significant because it gets to the whole point of

do we wait until these guys one day show up and say hey not only do you have

ballistic missiles but we now have new warheads to put on them we now have

nuclear weapons that we could use to our advantage and to insulate ourselves

from any further sanctions or demands I mean once you're a nuclear equipped

power that changes the the dynamic for everybody who has to negotiate with you

over everything or anything and we know that that region with respect to oil

and the state of hormones I mean it's critical for the entire world

so that definitely lends credence to their argument that there was an imminent threat

but again it gets back to the conversation of Iran said they wouldn't even negotiate

over their missile system and that was a major issue for people throughout

that region and certainly for the US as they bettered their capabilities and wanted

something that would reach the US homeland so if you say we're negotiating but also

oh we won't negotiate over our missiles that was always going to be a non-starter I think

for President Trump Shana what do you make of the global response and the level of support

US and Israel are seeing right now from from around the world including from some

these these Gulf nations and even the UK I know Kier Starmer had said we're we're not involved

but now there there is some involvement in protecting certain assets the European assets

are we seeing some quiet support I think we all get why a lot of these countries would want to be

clear that on the front end of this they were not involved in this US Israel joint operation that

they were not allowing their bases to be used I mean things that really ticked off President

for people that he considers or or nations that he considers to be close allies and there's

been a softening obviously with a lot of that I think when it comes to our Arab partners that we

work with in that region Iran decided to go back hard after a lot of them in the region

that doesn't leave them a place to be neutral and so you know now we see them being drawn in

in different ways when you're harming their people and directly firing on their

homeland and their interests it makes it tough for them to be neutral and maybe Iran's

calculation was like listen this is it for us this is potentially an existential threat to the

entire regime and to what we're trying to do our nuclear program here so let's just spark

something that gets bigger and uglier and we'll see if we can survive it it's almost like

their Hail Mary pass like they they really don't have a lot left without an active nuke if we

think that they don't I think if there was something closer to completion we would have seen or

heard about it by now it seems on energy Russia's president Vladimir Putin said he might stop

selling energy to Europe Qatar energy says they've stopped sending out LNG their biggest

customers were in Asia major maritime insurance companies are dramatically increasing coverage

costs for shipping companies that use the straight of war moves all of this is impacting energy

and pricing as we head into summer but we're also then after that heading into midterms how how

do energy prices impact voters goodness well if you've seen the reporting from politico there's a

complete freak out according to them at the White House that everybody has been rounded up to say

what can you do energy secretary right secretary bergum suzy wiles is very sensitive to this and

very upset because the president constantly talks about points to this if you're going to have

the support ability crisis they want him to focus on that issue and he constantly talks about

rightfully that he's gotten the gas prices down under his tenure they come down it's been a real

positive because that not only people get a really you know a daily or weekly check when they

fill up their gas tank that is a real world check for people but it impacts everything else you know

the shipment costs and and you know it drives up everything when it goes up and you don't want

that going into the midterms I mean that's the last thing that you want when you're trying to

convince people the economy is turning around you know but the reporting at least according to

politico is that of course there was a concern that you go after Iran it's going to affect straight

off our moves in that whole region and that's going to drive up prices but the administration's

also going to say listen we've been warning europe to get off your um russia's supply you know

that we've warned them that that's not a place they need to be especially in the middle of this

russia Ukraine conflict and it you know it sparks the conversation here at home too about more

energy production in america and how linear environmentalists in climate groups and and have

really done what they could to slow that down here in the u.s well just about everybody admits

we have great reserves if companies could be reassured they'd be allowed to tap into them because

it's very expensive and it's a long term commitment to be drilling and doing those things that

you know that gets to policy changes here in the u.s as well when it comes over to who could take

over in Iran I found this interesting you know the president noted this week that many in

leadership in Iran have been killed obviously and he brought up Venezuela saying that was the

ideal situation the vice president delsea Rodriguez is now in charge and she's very cooperative

it does sound like he's hoping for someone to emerge in Iran with whom he can negotiate

and as he said you know each time they have these gatherings that we think that we're you know

targeting the next round of leaders it gets you further and further down the chain

but listen it's not just the itola we know that I mean the way that society has set up and

has functioned there with that theocratic leadership runs very very deep I mean the roots are

very deep just like you know the Maduro roots run deep all through Venezuela not just government

through but through industry and through all factors of society the same isn't is true in Iran too

so do you have someone that could be considered more moderate I think there are a lot of people you

could find in in Iran that would be considered more moderate than the itola than the molla

but who can the US work with and for those who say oh the US hasn't thought this through

there's a lot of pushback from the White House like of course we've spent a lot of time digging in

and thinking this through we would never go and bomb and take out the current regime and leadership

without having seriously wargamed and thought through and had conversations and with our human

intel they're about who we can possibly work with so the White House insists that there are

options and that there are conversations ongoing and I think with Delsey Rodriguez you know obviously

they'll try to do the same thing in Iran like we will threaten them and say you work with us or we

make sure you get replaced so I'm sure this is the same conversations they're trying to have in Iran

we have some Fox News pulls out this week Shannon on support for the Iran strikes Americans are

split evenly but another part of the poll asked about job performance of Congress 29 percent

approve of congressional Democrats 36 percent approve of Republicans on the Democrats number

does that number reflect feelings from within their own party that they need to move more to the left

or a reflection from moderates who feel they're too far to the left you're getting both of those

things because what we do continually hear from within the Democratic base is they want more fighting

with President Trump I think that they see kind of a light at the end of the tunnel like we we've

had so much success in these special elections history shows we are going to route this president

in the midterms although the speaker will continue to say he sees the path forward with very specific

seats in the House that they're going to hold on we'll see but I think there is that that frustration

within the Democrat Party that they don't control any of the levers of government listen

there aren't 60 Republican votes in the Senate so they can slow things down there they can

block things but I think very much their base wants more fighting with Trump more roadblocks in

his way there are a lot of legal fights they want to see more of that Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon

Vryne thank you for joining thanks just

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the American military is using for the first time in combat against Iran new one-way

attack drones called Lucas drones stands for the low cost unmanned combat attack system

they're modeled on Iran's drone technology that's been shared with some of America's enemies

and is being used now in retaliatory strikes by Iran they fired more than 500 ballistic missiles and

more than 2,000 drones striking innocent civilian targets throughout the region that was joint

chief chairman general Dan Cain Wednesday with war secretary Pete Hexif he has said some will get

through despite the most sophisticated air defense system ever thousands of Iranian missiles and

drones have been intercepted and vaporized tens of thousands of American allied lives

six members of the army reserve were killed by an exploding Iranian drone hitting a trailer

used as a command center and Kuwait on Sunday the US military has been using unmanned aerial vehicles

for reconnaissance the Vietnam war nothing like what we have now of course drone strikes started

in the early 2000s our guests now use them to hunt down terrorists in Iraq I feel a little bit

of an OG when it comes to military drone technology seems like everyone's a drone expert these days

especially with all the Iranian attacks Brett Velikovic is a former army special ops intelligence

analyst author founder of the drone company power us and a Fox News contributor I like to consider

myself a real drone expert I started out in the US Army shortly after 9-11 I spent my 21st birthday

on the ground in Afghanistan where I saw my first military drone that we were using to do surveillance

on the Taliban and since then I've seen just about every single drone within the US military's

arsenal and spent years in active service managing drones from you know predators and reapers

all the way down to even handheld drones that we use at the tactical soldier level and then most

recently I've spent a lot of time overseas in an active war zones including Ukraine doing work

not just humanitarian but also support to the uses of drone technology out there whether it's

for war or you know for solving you know complex humanitarian issues yeah I mean obviously the

tech in warfare has evolved how is that evolution changed military strategy since their use in

Iraq Afghanistan I mean I remember just even a small handheld drone that fits in a soldier's backpack

back then was would cost you about $250,000 I mean that cost was just incredible and frankly you know

the same systems then you could pretty much buy off Amazon right now for a couple thousand dollars

that are frankly just as capable especially in the hands of people that know how to weaponize them

and I think especially what we've seen from Russia what we've seen from Ukraine is this capability now

to take commercial off the shelf tech that is no longer reserved for nation states with billion dollar

defense budgets that can be weaponized and actually cause massive damage there's a ton of lessons

learned just in the last few years of how low cost highly scalable rapidly manufactured drones are

able to cause just as much damage as you know U.S. military drones that we've spent you know tens

of millions of dollars on procuring and that's that's a scary part that's why we're seeing drones

that cost under a thousand dollars blowing up million dollar tanks every single day in Ukraine

in Iran what's your assessment of their drone program particularly the she had drones I mean

they're called the poor man's cruise missile it's a lot more expensive to shoot them down

than they are to build well that's a problem right Iran really in my opinion has just about

perfected the art of low cost one-way attack drones that was because they had to put these things

in the hands of their proxy forces that were running around the world trying to kill Americans trying

to kill Israelis so chaos and those proxy forces didn't have access necessarily to big budgets

so Iran started creating drones that were capable of reaching significant distances and they in my

opinion in terms of being able to produce that at low cost have surpassed what what we did because

of where our focus was and frankly it's unsustainable right when you talk about what is being used

right now to shoot these things down cheap twenty thousand dollar Iranian Shahids are forcing us to

burn multi million dollar interceptors that's unsustainable math obviously they're starting to get

through some of our sites I think we probably underestimated at least their their ability to send

them into locations that we weren't expecting locations that probably did not have as much counter drone

defenses as we would have wanted I think that's a wake up call right now for the US government when

embassies are getting hit with these drones when we assume that the fight would maybe stay a little

bit closer to Tehran that's going to change I think the way that we fight going forward because at

the end of the day we can't shoot million dollar missiles at twenty thousand dollar drones where

are they coming from are they built domestically where they get the components from and do the American

Israeli militaries have the capacity to at some point curtail some of that production so I think

if I was the military planner going into this epic fury operation my first one of the first strikes

that I look at is knocking out their production capability because they can make these things in

the thousands per month our procurement channels haven't moved that fast we get excited when we can

build a hundred drones a month I don't know where that started but it shouldn't be what we do going

forward I mean my company at power alone can produce thousands of drones per month but typically

the US government has bought these legacy you know companies drones that you know they spend years

building and and when you look at how Iran did it they built massive production facilities all

around the country underground areas that could withstand strikes because they knew at some point

we'd probably be looking from above they've given this technology to their forces in Yemen to

Hezbollah Russia they gave all the schematics to Russia so Russia just basically reproduces copies

of them right and and that's I think a little bit of the danger is how quickly they can stand up

these manufacturing facilities virtually overnight with systems that you don't you don't need a

lot of money to make I've I've personally been on the other end of shahead attacks it's pretty

scary these things move slowly sound like a lawnmower above that's part of the terror that's part of

the psychology I've seen the inside of shaheads when they've been captured when they haven't

exploded what fascinates me it's just how many US parts are inside an Iranian shahead I've seen

multiple US companies parts inside these systems and not to say that they're selling them direct

to the Iran but somehow Iran is getting those those parts and that's a thing that we've got to

get a handle on as well because again they're just looking how to build these things as quickly as

possible at the cheapest and in most effective and over time it's it will continue to get worse as

they they adapt to our defenses what do you know about the Lucas platform that I guess in my

understanding it was sort of reverse engineered after the shaheads that and now it's being used

in combat by the Pentagon what do you know about those Lucas is really impressive I've been paying

attention for paying attention to it for a while I think our strikes really represent a new

chapter in American innovation and capability because we use the Lucas system in actual combat

that's a significant evolution I think and how we're going to fight wars in the future it's a

reverse engineered version of the shahead that essentially was stolen out of Ukraine I suspect that

our government somehow got their hands on a downed shahead that was captured and then reverse

engineered it there's kind of an irony there when you think about it we took a weapon that Iran

developed and fielded against our own forces and sent it right back against him and I think that's

a message to our adversaries when you think about it you might be able to build and innovate a

little bit faster than we can when it comes to drones but in the end we're going to steal that

technology and don't be surprised when we send it right back against your own facilities what are

defense measures that don't involve you know three million dollar a shot or whatever it is missiles

in some cases can we eventually just have fleets of defensive drones nearly everywhere where American

troops might be in harm's way and train them to take out enemy drones 100% so we have

my company has interceptor drones that are about the size of the children's a children's

toy that basically costs less than five thousand dollars each that can be manufactured in the

thousands that that has the capability to be fired up in the air and actually have a proper cost per

kill ratio and when you set something up like that around base perimeter sort of as a last

resort if things hit the fan you can imagine that now we don't have to waste a million dollar

missile so no big deal if one or two of these things fail we'll send 30 of them up into the air

at a time and it'll be much more cost effective in that we're not the only company out there that

that has that capability Ukraine's exploring this every single day they're using them every single

day right now to take out shot heads and our counter drone defenses I think will start utilizing

that as we get more comfortable that we're not going to accidentally take down a commercial

airliner and so pairing that also with like electronic warfare is important electronic warfare

isn't enough to stop shot heads alone you have to be more kinetic but it helps detect them it helps

triangulate them but in the end I think if anything this operation epic fury has taught us in

Iran's responses that we we have to get better at making more systems domestically in quicker

a lot of Ukrainians have been killed in drone strikes and that's in war I wonder what happens if

this doesn't have to be a nation state that puts this together it wouldn't be that difficult I'm

assuming you believe for almost anyone to use these in a terrorist attack in a urban area

I don't know how you possibly defend against it these drones are not things that are restricted

behind state department licenses and military you know hardware situations where before nobody

could get their hands on the technology it is there right now and so it is nothing for someone

to fly in clean to a US airport look completely fine walking through TSA go pick up a drone and

with the knowledge of how to weaponize it land one of these things on the front steps of the

White House and there are experts out there who have been talking about this for a long time

and I think we don't have we don't have time any longer to wait on that that is a real threat

today the world's changing it's changing the battlefield's changed in the last few years

and now non-state actors with access to these systems can cause real damage with just a little bit

of knowledge breath of luck bitch Fox News contributor founder of the drone company power us

from army special ops intel analyst as you said a bit of an OG when it comes to this stuff author

of drone warrior and elite soldiers inside account of the hunt for America's most dangerous enemies on

social media at the drone warrior thanks Brett thank you

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what's on your mind there was a unanimous Supreme Court immigration decision this week they didn't

get any attention because of the military strikes in Iran but that decision actually matters it

decided who calls the balls and strikes and asylum fights the immigration system or left-wing

federal judges who want to re-litigate everything from scratch the case is Urias or Iana

v Bondi and it was decided on March 4th so here's the basic backdrop a salvador and family entered

the United States without authorization back in 2021 they applied for asylum claiming threats

from a hitman back home now the immigration judge said yeah look your testimony sounds credible

but it was still denied for asylum because legally the facts didn't add up to persecution as the

asylum statute uses the term the board of immigration appeals agreed so what was the Supreme Court

fight really about now whether you feel sympathy for an asylum seeker the question was the legal

standard federal appeals courts must use when reviewing whether or not the action qualifies as

persecution by the agency the claimants wanted courts to treat that persecution call more like an

open-ended legal question meaning judges could take the same facts and freely substitute their own

judgment making it easier to overturn denials the government argued the opposite congress said

immigration cases up so courts must be differential and uphold the agency as long as their substantial

evidence supporting the agency's conclusion the Supreme Court sided with the government it held

that courts of appeals have to apply the same substantial evidence standard to the board of

immigration appeals persecution determination now in English that means no judicial duovers

unless the record basically forces the opposite answer now why is this decision good for those of

us who actually believe in immigration enforcement and borders well it's real simple it rains in

judge driven immigration policy it restores nationwide consistency and it cuts down on the law fair

that turns every denial into years of delay making enforcement more predictable and closer to what

congress actually wrote that's a win for us all i'm Jason rants you've been listening to the Fox

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