Jason talks about the US strikes in Iran, the Democrats opposing the military operation, the Texas bar shooting that appears to be a terrorist attack, plus calls and texts.

One of the more unbelievable weekends that we have experienced as an American community

and as a global community, we will attempt to make sense of all of it here on the Dan O'Donnell

show.

The Ayatollah is dead.

The Iranian military is in shambles and it seems as though pretty much every Democrat

is furious about this.

Why?

Because President Trump has succeeded where presidents of both parties have been unable

to for quite literally 47 years.

We will get the history behind what happened this weekend and why all of this was all but

inevitable throughout the Dan O'Donnell show this afternoon.

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Just a couple of minutes ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided an update on why

it was this weekend that the United States military and the Israeli military needed to

strike against Tehran.

The question that been asked is why now well there's two reasons why now.

The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the

United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the

United States.

The orders have been delegated down to the field commanders, it was automatic and in fact

it bared to be true because in fact within an hour of the initial attack on the leadership

compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north for that matter had already

been activated to launch in fact that those had already been pre-positioned.

The third is the assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack

to come first before we hit them who would suffer much higher casualties and so the president

made the very wise decision.

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate

an attack against American forces and we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after

them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps

even higher those killed.

And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and did not.

Going back to the purpose.

The purpose of this is to destroy that missile capability.

Why does Iran want that ballistic missile capability?

What they are trying to do and have been trying to do for a very long time is build a conventional

weapons capability as a shield where they can hide the kind of nuclear ambitions.

They are producing by some estimates over 100 of these missiles a month.

Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month.

They can build 100 of these a month, not to mention the thousands of one-way attack drones

that they also have.

They've been doing this for a very long time and by the way they've been doing it under

sanction.

You see the attacks they're conducting right now, they're attacking airports, they're attacking

hotels, they're hitting not just military bases, they're attacking our embassies directly,

they're attacking facilities that have nothing to do with war or with military and that's

a weakened Iran.

That's in Iran despite years of sanction.

Imagine a year from now or a year and a half from now the capabilities they would have

to inflict damage on us.

It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands of a regime that's run by radical

clerics.

The Iatola is a radical was a radical cleric.

That entire regime is led by radical clerics.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio literally just a couple of minutes ago explaining why there

was in fact an imminent threat to United States interests that necessitated allowing Israel

to undergo that strike when it was known that the Iatola Hamanay as well as dozens of

his top advisors were all going to be gathered in one place.

The idea was to cut the head off the snake and then follow up by just completely neutering

any ability for a meaningful retaliatory strike.

That is what you've seen over the past couple of days.

Now Democrats who completely forgot about the war powers resolution of 1973 from the

years 2009 to January 20, 2017 during the Obama administration where he literally took

out Momarkadafi in Libya without ever filing a declaration of war, getting a declaration

of war from the United States Congress.

So this has been debated pretty much all weekend whether or not this was somehow an illegal

strike.

It clearly is.

You just heard Secretary of State Marco Rubio outline was not war powers resolution

was passed in 1973 actually over the veto of then president Richard Nixon and it actually

limits the president's ability to commit armed forces to any sort of hostilities abroad

because Nixon was doing this essentially expanding the Vietnam war well beyond what was initially

intended.

Interestingly enough, as you have undoubtedly heard, Congress retains the war power Congress

has the ability to declare war.

Do you know the last time that war was formally declared by the United States Congress?

It was ahead of the United States's entry in World War II.

While it is true that Congress does have that congressional authority, the president does

have the inherent authority as the commander in chief of the United States military.

Now the conflict between these two inherent powers, the declaration of war power of the

Congress and the president's inherent commander in chief power came to a head in the early

1970s with the expansion of the Vietnam conflict in this lead to the war powers resolution.

The president under it must consult with Congress quote in every possible instance before introducing

any sort of US force into a hostility abroad.

That is the standard.

Congress must be notified in writing within 48 hours of committing forces to hostilities

that clearly happen.

The president must consult Congress, but what we now have is a situation in which there

are 435 members of the House of Representatives, 100 members of the United States Senate,

and roughly 50% of them, I'll give you a hint, it's those with a D next to their name,

probably can't be trusted not to tell the enemy the war plans.

This is fundamentally what happened here.

The United States obviously can't inform all 535 members of Congress in the House and

the United States Senate regardless of whether they've got loose lips that might sink ships

or not.

It's simply not practicable.

So what the Secretary of State actually did and this got lost in the shuffle.

Nobody remembers this because it happened on the day of the president state of the Union

address last Tuesday.

Is he actually briefed top members of both Democrats and Republicans on the hill, including

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about the imminent threat of Iran.

There was a very famous picture that of course immediately got lost in the sort of news

vacuum of the president state of the Union address after the president gives that speech.

It's sort of like everything that happened before just gets sucked up and all of the

focus is simply on the speech.

But there was a picture of Schumer looking ashen faced and positively terrified after

coming out of that briefing with Secretary of State, Rubio clearly that was the president

and his designated administrative aid, Rubio, the Secretary of State, consulting with Congress.

So under the war powers resolution, the president must withdraw forces within 60 days which

is extendable by an additional 30 more days to allow for a safe withdrawal if it's certified

in writing and delivered to the Congress unless Congress declares war.

I will not disagree with the notion that Congress has over the past 80 years essentially delegated

its war powers under the Constitution.

However, because war is simply not fought like it was in World War II or earlier, you'll

notice that there are no Americans in trenches right now.

In fact, it is almost certain that while the president did say that this is likely to

go four or five weeks or in his words today even longer because he said he's not going

to get bored, it is very likely that this conflict is going to be over relatively quickly.

How do I know that?

Because we thought we were going to be embroiled in a global conflict in Venezuela when

the United States executed an arrest warrant over former dictator Nicholas Maduro.

That conflict was over in a matter of hours already.

The United States and Israel have established air superiority over the entire region and

it is entirely possible that Iran's entire naval fleet is sunk.

The president keeps repeating the same message to Iran's revolutionary guard corps lay down

your arms.

You will be completely pardoned.

We will absolutely allow you to surrender peacefully and you will have full immunity and

what he said in a video message yesterday that we will get into on the daily Trump date

coming up in about an hour or so.

What he said was, look, Iranian citizens, ultimately this is up to you.

This is your country at his time for you to strike down the last of that snake that

has poisoned your beautiful culture for the past 47 years.

We have cut the head off.

It is time for you to do the rest.

And the president earlier today during a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House outlined

the four major objectives of this conflict.

Our objectives are clear first where destroying Iran's missile capabilities and you see

that happening on an hourly basis and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty

good ones they make.

Second we're annihilating the navy we've knocked out already ten ships there at the bottom

of the sea.

Third we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear

weapon, never going to have a nuclear weapon.

I said that from the beginning, they're never going to have a nuclear weapon.

They were in the road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was signed foolishly

by our country.

And finally we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm fund and direct

terrorist armies outside of their borders.

Coming up on the Dan O'Donnell show today, the idea that this was somehow a war the United

States started is utterly laughable.

In fact, Iran started this all the way back in 1979 amid the chaos of the revolution

that overturned the reign of the Shah.

We will get into that history, the very long history of Iranian aggression and deadly

assaults on American troops and American civilians alike that is coming up in the four

o'clock hour coming up in the five o'clock hour, we are going to debunk in very short

order every single left wing talking point that you have undoubtedly heard since the invasion

or rather, since the strike was first announced, there is no invasion.

It is almost certain there are going to be no American boots on the ground.

That's just another one of the myths that you're hearing.

There's not going to be a forever war.

This is not going to be a quagmire like Afghanistan or Iraq, quite simply American technological

superiority is so vast that there is literally nothing that a nation like Iran or its allies

which have gone suspiciously silent in the last couple of days, such as China and Russia,

there's nothing that they can do about it.

In fact, both Iran and Venezuela were using supposedly the most state of the art anti-missile

technology coming from China, turns out that just like most other stuff that comes out

of China, it was revealed to be cheaply made junk.

Now, hours before Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed the country on just what the

imminent threat was that allowed the war powers resolution to kick in and authorize this

strike.

President Trump also said fundamentally the same thing at this Medal of Honor ceremony

this morning that there was an imminent threat that anything that was about to happen

would have led to American troops in jeopardy, American interests being threatened and almost

certainly an attack on American lives.

Today, the United States military continues to carry out large scale combat operations

in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible, terrorist regime.

Following our obliteration of Iran's nuclear program in Operation Midnight Hammer a short

while ago, we warned Iran not to make any attempt to rebuild at a different location

because they weren't able to use the ones that we so powerfully blew up.

But they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons.

In addition, the regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically,

and this posed a very clear colossal threat to America and our forces stationed overseas.

The regime already had missiles capable of hitting Europe and our bases both local and

overseas and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America.

And that's fundamentally where the threat lay.

As Rubio sort of further elaborated after briefing the so-called Gang of Eight Key Leaders

in Congress, there is going to be a more full briefing from the President of the United

States, which I believe may be going now.

That's why we are going to be waiting it is entirely possible the President is not scheduled

to speak, but it is entirely possible that he holds an impromptu press conference following

that congressional briefing if there is in fact a broader briefing following the one from

Secretary of State Rubio that just wrapped up.

We were told that it is entirely possible that the President could be coming out and speaking

so we will be on alert for that.

But fundamentally, that's what this was all about.

It was Iran trying to restart its nuclear weapons program under the guise of dramatically

increasing the number of potentially intercontinental ballistic missiles.

It was dramatically increasing its supply and its ability to produce regional ballistic

missiles.

And it was attempting to go bigger and bigger and bigger.

And all the while it was simultaneously it was a judged by American and Israeli intelligence

that it was trying to restart its nuclear program after said program was utterly decimated

by the destruction of the Fordo nuclear facility in Operation Midnight Hammer over the

sun.

When we come back here on the Dan O'Donnell show in about three minutes we will elaborate

further on the war power's resolution why this was not only legally justified but necessary

to strike Iran.

Just a couple of minutes ago right before the Dan O'Donnell show started, Secretary of

State Marco Rubio after briefing the gang of eight key congressional leaders talked about

the imminent threat that necessitated an American Israeli strike over the weekend.

Absolutely was an imminent threat.

And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believe they

would be attacked that they would immediately come after us.

And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded because the Department

of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit us first after they

were attacked and by someone else, Israel attacked them, they hit us first and we waited

for them to hit us, we would suffer more casualties and more deaths.

We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from lifting higher damage.

Have we not done so?

There would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was going to

happen and we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life.

That is exactly true.

We are, by the way, also going to answer questions throughout the day that you might have

about the Iran air strikes because I understand that for a lot of you, this can be difficult

to understand.

And by a lot of you, I mean people like Bill from O'Connor, Milwaukee, he must have

been just apt up all weekend waiting for today so he could call up and ask what I can

only presume to be a disingenuous question.

Bill, the floor is yours, sir, go away pretending not to understand something that is easily

understandable.

Good afternoon, Dan, and thank you for giving me a time to represent real Republicans

not rhinos.

Now, the chip story has changed, according we just heard Mark Rubio less than 72 hours.

This was a preemptive strike.

Okay.

I'm not even going to talk about that.

What am I going to talk about?

What about the original?

Hold on a sec.

Hold on a sec.

Why bring up something that you're not going to talk about, Bill?

You're going to bring up something that is okay.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

I realize I'm dealing with like a 40-point gap in the IQ, so I'll let you go.

In America.

There's Iranians in America.

How are they prepared to handle when they let off their stuff in America?

How are you prepared?

How are you prepared?

How are you prepared?

How are you prepared?

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a sec, hold on a sec.

Did you just accuse Iranians in America of all being terrorists, Bill?

No, you weren't listening, Dan, that's why that's exactly what I'm sort of talking

about.

There's a whole lot of Iranians in the United States.

What's going to happen when they let off all their stuff?

It seems like what they were letting off was like whoops of celebration, Bill.

I want to play something for you because earlier today, I know what you actually wanted

to talk about.

You have a tendency to sort of get discombobulated here, but I guess that's sort of understandable.

It's an excitable time.

I want to play for you.

This is actually just a statement today from a war department attorney because you wanted

to talk about the war power's resolution, right?

You wanted to talk about why this is not an authorized strike, correct, and why it's

totally illegal.

Okay.

Here is, I want you to respond to.

This is Harold Koh saying that the war power's resolution, this is from the Defense Department,

okay?

This is from the Department of Defense.

When US forces engage in a limited military mission that involves limited exposure for

US troops and limited risk of serious escalation and employees' limited military means, we

are not in hostilities of the kind envisioned by the war power's resolution.

What do you make of that?

Exactly what it is, it's called extraction, it's a military term for a hit him and go.

So you think Harold Koh was wrong that this is not an authorized strike?

Jim Santel, a US district attorney who said, and I quote, no, no, I want you to respond,

I want you to respond specifically to what Harold Koh just said.

Okay.

If we're as a limited strike, as he just said, we're out by Friday.

Okay.

What happens, but what happens though, we took out the leader of a sovereign nation.

I mean, clearly, Harold Koh is probably wrong about that, right?

No, Obama and Biden knew why not to do this.

Really?

The guy who destroyed it.

Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, Obama, you're saying Obama would have never done something

like this.

Absolutely not.

Okay, because I've actually got news for you, Bill.

I mean, people might have thought it's, it's mean when I talked about a 40 point IQ

gap.

This is what I'm talking about.

Koh was actually a defense department legal counsel under Barack Obama.

This sound bite was from 2011 when he was justifying the strike that took out Momar

Kudafi.

In fact, in 2011, the Obama administration launched a concerted campaign to oust Kudafi.

And even though there was no widespread concern about war powers resolution or the Constitution,

he just sort of went along with it.

So how do you reconcile that, Bill?

How do you reconcile the fact that you were totally fine with 15 years ago, the exact same

thing happening when you thought it was actually Trump.

You were opposed to it.

How about this also 2011, then house minority leader Nancy Pelosi asked, hey, is there

a constitutional, you know, requirements that Congress intervened here?

My heart felt condolences.

That would be Melania Trump.

Here's actually Nancy Pelosi right over here.

Madam leader, you're saying that the president did not need authorization initially and still

does not need any authorization from Congress one Libya.

Yes.

Thank you all very much.

Wow.

It is actually kind of amazing.

You don't need congressional authorization when you're a Democrat.

Hmm.

Look at back to that.

When we come back here on the Dan O'Donnell show.

You know, all weekend long, I got liberals up and down comment sections on X on Instagram

on Facebook just it's it's remarkable how they are experts on the war powers resolution

on the president's inherent commander in chief authority.

But then when I call them out and say, hey, you should call in, they all end up sounding

like Bill from O'Connor walk half of me felt bad.

Should I have felt bad walking him into that trap, knowing full well that he had no idea

who Harold co was that the Obama administration was making the exact same argument for regime

change in Libya where there clearly was no imminent threat.

I mean, by 2011, Mohmah Khaddafi had unilaterally disarmed and in the wake of 9-11, actually in

the wake of the second Iraq war in 2003, he saw the light and realized that his decades

of being a pain in Americans, you know what was eventually going to come back and bite

him.

And he basically exceeded to pretty much every single American demand under the Bush administration.

Well, Obama got it in his head during the Arab Spring movement that Khaddafi had to go.

So there were airstrikes against Khaddafi and there was military action aimed at supplanting

him aimed at removing him from power.

Wouldn't you know it?

The Obama administration was making the argument that he didn't need to go to Congress that

somehow the war powers resolution in 1973 applied House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

agreed at every single piece Nick Liberal just sort of went along with it.

Would you believe that President Obama in one year dropped 21,000 bombs on eight different

sovereign nations without a single declaration of war for any of them?

Senator Tom Cotton very, very well spoken on issues of war, very knowledgeable on Fox

news today.

President Trump has the inherent power under our Constitution and as Commander-in-Chief

to use military force to keep our nation safe, in this case from the vast missile arsenal

that Iran has and was expanding much bigger than our missile defenses.

And we've had presidents conduct this kind of operations going back to the beginning of

our republic.

So that matter conduct them in the Middle East, Thomas Jefferson struck the barbaric

pirates just off the coast of Libya more than 200 years ago without a vote in Congress.

And speaking of Libya, Barack Obama toppled Muammar Khaddafi in Libya 15 years ago without

a vote of Congress even though he was a de facto American ally by that point.

The difference is that President Trump is attacking a 47 year implacable enemy.

Not only that, John Federman, who is clearly not an ally of the Trump administration on

all things as he is a Democrat senator from Pennsylvania, but is very strong on national

defense also said today that there is no need for a congressional declaration of war.

Just as there hasn't been a single declaration, would you believe Congress did not declare

an operation desert storm in 1991?

Was there a single Democrat outside of the radical far left, which was thankfully underground

back then that opposed that war?

How about the war on terror?

That was just sort of unilaterally declared.

The last formal declaration of war was the day after the Pearl Harbor attack.

I don't know, I don't even know what to say at this point, even Federman gets it.

Look up and read, read the work hours resolution from 1973 and what that requires, what

that requires is that provide 48 hours of notification and President Trump had done that.

And then that means after 60 days, then they have to withdraw those soldiers or perhaps

even for an extra 30 day extension, neither of those things have been broken.

Let's go to Jay in Mechwan up next on the phones.

Welcome to the Dan O'Donnell show, Jay.

Oh, thank you, Dan.

The first time listener actually.

Yeah, I just a couple of comments, you know, as far as what Trump does and his critics,

please don't confuse them effects because it's just nothing you should do, it's too much

for them.

Anyways, I, yeah, and also I'll quote John Lennon, let me say, let's just give peace

and stand, okay?

But aside from that, I want to bring up with a very new one argument, if you'll give

me just a second here.

Sure.

So you're already setting this up to be a spectacular call, Jay.

I'm just going to let you go possibly till the end of the top of the hour, till the top

of the hour, sir.

I got a lot to live off to.

So let me ask you a few questions here.

So who is the greatest threat to the United States?

Oh, boy, that is, that is actually a, that's a, that's a multifaceted question.

The single greatest threat to the United States on a global scale.

Yeah, I mean, most likely an ascendant China, if I had to guess.

Yeah, exact.

Who are correct, sir?

So my second question, or my second point is, as far as Tucker Carlson's camp is concerned,

everybody's said, oh, we are just a lack of Netanyahu, and we're just doing the bidding

of the Zionists, et cetera, et cetera.

But what they don't realize is that countries act for their own benefit.

Yes.

And our president is saying, God, here's my other question for you then.

Who gives China the most oil?

That would be Iran.

Well, technically, it's Iran and Russia.

I know they, well, they faced significant secondary sanctions on that.

So yes, it was Iran.

For a long time, I believe it was Russia.

But yes, I think recently it's been Iran.

That is very correct.

So if you, all of a sudden, oh, by the way, and who was the second, second-large source

of oil to Iran, happened to be Venezuela, if not on the state.

Yeah.

That was actually, I'm sorry to interrupt real quick, that was actually a major.

And all of this is seen as a deterrent towards China.

That this is to stop what we believe to be potentially going on next year, which would

be a full-scale military takeover of Taiwan, which China has wanted forever.

And I think a lot of this is aimed at economically weakening it in the ongoing trade war.

But also such a massive overwhelming show of force that the Chinese wouldn't dare to

act out under Trump's watch.

Otherwise, you'll get Xi Jinping driving around, coked out of his gourd, like Henry Hill,

driving around watching for helicopters at the end of Goodfellas.

Keep going though, Jay.

Keep going though, Jay.

Great.

It's such a great movie and a good metaphor, by the way.

So, but what I'm saying, no, so okay, excellent, excellent point.

So what do we have now?

We have a situation where oil is now, the oil that flows to China, our greatest enemy,

is now seemingly after regime change and around, which is inevitable, obviously.

We are going to see the flow of oil being controlled by whom the United States to China.

And I'm just trying, let's pull it all together.

Yeah.

What, what, what, what, what asset runs war, but more than anything, it's oil.

You cannot run a, a, a, an aggression on any country without energy.

Okay.

So, therefore, if we are able, so if we are able, so right now, so, so my point to

is we are not only are we making the world safe from Iran.

Yeah.

But I'm not with that in touch with Carlson needs to know this.

I'm sure he does.

Of course, we are making, we are, we are, we are lauding power and control over red

China for, for decades to come as far as oil is concerned.

Okay.

I got to, I got to just cut you off real quick.

You said you are first time listener of the Dan O'Donnell show, Jay, is that because

you were spending all your time advising the State Department?

Because that was about the best, just way to put it all together so succinctly, I'm

actually scared, Jay, that the next time you're on the, the Dan O'Donnell show, they're

going to call it the Jay and Mekwan show and I'm going to be calling you, brother.

That was fantastic and absolutely correct.

Thank you so much for the call.

This is, this does not exist in a vacuum.

It is not an, actually, you want to, you want to use another mob movie metaphor?

How about President Trump in 2026, like Michael Corleone, right before he takes out all of

the other mafia bosses, he says, today I settle all family business.

Well, in 2026, President Trump is settling all family business.

The number one bad actor in the world is China and China, believe it or not, despite all

the propaganda coming from the American left and its mouthpieces in traditional media

is remarkably weak right now.

They are facing a debt bubble that is about to collapse and even more significantly, they

are facing an aging population bubble thanks to their decades long one child policy that

has just decimated their ability to grow.

It sounds bizarre that a nation with one billion people and by the way, there are those

who are convinced that China has been lying about its population for decades that it really

has far less than a billion people that it's just dramatically overcounting the number

of people in the far off provinces, the rural areas where it's just impossible to verify

counts.

Sort of like how the 2020 census was run here in the United States, it was just kind of

a fraud designed to give more political power to leftists.

That by the way is a discussion for a different, I was actually prepping that for I spent much

of Friday evening while I was getting ready to coach a couple of soccer games, going to

talk about the 2020 census and how it was essentially rigged by a new formula that was

designed in fact to take political power away from the southern more conservative states

and give it to northern states.

And then of course, I woke up in the middle of the night on Saturday night to about 15

different notifications on my phone that we were apparently at war with the run.

That was an absolutely fantastic phone call, Jay.

We will take more of your calls throughout the show here on the Dan O'Donnell show 414

799 1130 and 1 800 838 9476 more calls more fun and the unhinged liberal of the day coming

up next.

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news.

I was actually, while I was watching, I had Fox News on one television.

I had CNN on another just to kind of get, well, you know, you got to get the, you got

to monitor what it is.

The enemy is saying.

So I'm getting, you know, the story from Fox News, then I'm getting the Iranian propaganda

from, you know, Makhmoud Al-Tapper, just providing all of the left, look, don't believe

folks.

If you do not believe that left wingers will side with any American enemy, look no further

than this weekend.

Time now for the Unhinged Libra than it is from the silver.

We are in pre-Nazi Germany.

Oh, white people are racist.

Cup is dangerous because he's evil.

America is evil.

Today's Unhinged Liberal of the day is someone named Zach Jacobson who writes about the

Green Bay Packers for something called 24-7 sports.

I'm told it is a big deal.

And I'm told he is apparently a writer there.

Here's what he posted, 1232 PM on Saturday.

That fat draft dodging slab of dog bleep is dragging us into war and sacrificing the lives

of Americans and innocent civilians on the ground to distract from the fact that he

bleeped kids, by the way.

I'd say stick to sports, but someone that truly vile and mentally ill probably is saying

that same sort of crazy stuff about Jordan Love whenever he throws an interception.

Not even close in a weekend of truly deranged, awful left wing takes, Zach Jacobson is

your Unhinged Liberal of the day.

Stay tuned, daily Trump day next here on the Dan O'Donnell show.

And my deepest condolences to liberals across the United States of America on the death of

the Ayatollah hominay, I know that while you didn't necessarily support everything he

did, you were deeply allied with him because he was an enemy of the United States of America.

And of course, ultimately, that is what matters.

Truly, welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell show, I don't think I have seen a more revealing

weekend out of the online left than the one that I saw this past weekend.

Have you?

Honest to goodness, if you spent any time online, anytime you would have heard and see, honestly,

I have to go back to, oh, the last time a prominent conservative died and was actually

gunned down in cold blood, it's shocking.

Now folks, I was nine years old when the Gulf War broke out.

I came of age politically during 9, 11.

I was 20 years old when 9, 11 happened.

It changed the trajectory of my life.

It, you know, I didn't really know.

I knew I wanted to do something in broadcasting, but I didn't totally know what I wanted, you

know, to focus on, well, that changed it.

And ultimately, what, what did was, so when 9, 11 happened, I went into my room, right?

I went home.

I'll never forget this.

I really walked out of Paul Joseph's meteorology class at Marquette University because he was

just going to go on with class as normal.

I did, you know, I didn't, every other class I had that day on 9, 11 was canceled.

Paul Joseph, God bless him.

That man loved meteorology so much he was going to keep going with the meteorology lesson.

I said, you know what, I just, I can't today, I'd never skipped, I just, I got to go back.

All I did in my free time for weeks and weeks and weeks was just follow what was going on.

And it built sort of this lifelong obsession with learning more about the world around me.

And one thing I noticed very, very quickly, this is before I started listening to Rush Limbaugh

and Mark Belling, I mean, I was, I was sort of generally politically a conservative.

I voted for George W. Bush.

I, I just sort of had conservative principles.

My family very conservative.

Yes, I know.

My great uncle was a Democrat.

He was the county executive of Milwaukee County.

But my god, he'd be a conservative Republican.

All those old Irish Democrats back in the day would be Republicans today too.

This is sort of in, in hyper speed.

What I noticed back 25 years, like goodness, almost 25 years ago now.

What I saw very slowly was Democrats, you remember when everybody came together and,

you know, the candlelight vigils and singing God bless America on the set.

Every member of Congress singing God bless America and, you know, we were all behind the military.

It gradually, as we got closer to the 2002 midterms, they couldn't keep up the facade.

Democrats just could not keep up the patriotism, the support for the president of the United States.

And it just steadily went.

And I was seeing this in real time and say, hey, wait a second.

To the point where one of the first ideas I ever had for a recurring bit when I decided,

you know, someday I really want to do conservative analysis.

I really want to do this on the radio.

I think this is just the purest form of broadcasting of education and entertainment.

I said, one of the first bits I ever came.

I think the first bit was called Democrat or terrorist.

And I was just going to read a quote with no context.

And you had to decide whether it came from a Democrat or a terrorist talking about the United

States. It's 25 years ago.

And it took months and months and months for them to get to that point where they were literally

spewing the exact same propaganda that oh, remember when Osama bin Laden would put out a new video

every couple of months, it was like MTV would like debut the new bin Laden track.

He was in a cave somewhere and he would say it was shocking to me.

He was said, it was almost like he was reading the New York Times editorial page and just kind

of going from that as to what he was going to talk about to denigrate the United States of America.

We went from zero to echoing bin Laden in about 3.5 hours.

On social media. And look, folks, the reality is is that the radical socialist, frankly,

communist leaning left was always out there. It's always out there.

Now it's just mainstream.

You know, we had a caller in the last hour referencing Tucker Carlson who he's now on the

alt right. It is this. I think who is it that calls him the horseshoe right?

I think that's Michael Knowles or somebody. And I always talk about how politics at its extremes,

it is not a straight line. It's a circle. The far left and the far right like the alt right

are shockingly close in their political ideology. And they are both upset because we're supposedly

doing the bidding of Israel. I mean, this is going back to thousand year old tropes about

Jews controlling entire kingdoms with their shackles. And neither extreme really has a problem

with sharing that same attitude. It never dawned on these morons who say, well, we're just doing

Israel. It never dawned on you idiots that maybe Israel is doing the bidding of the vastly

richer, vastly technologically and militarily superior country. And that Israel essentially

exists because of the protection of the United States of America. And that Israel, which has

about the most incredible human intelligence operation I've ever seen that the Masad knew exactly

where the Ayatollah was going to be. And one of the reasons that he was in the same room

seems pretty stupid with not one but two American aircraft carriers right there at your doorstep.

Two carrier groups and pretty much the entire air force of the United States to get in a room

with your top command. They're terrified of carrying around cell phones or pagers because of what happened

to Hamas a couple of years ago where they got pagers to try to coordinate their terror attacks and

turns out the pagers were bought by a company that was just a front for the Masad and they all

simultaneously exploded killing a whole bunch of terrorists and shall we say making the rest of

them sing soprano for the rest of their days. All right. All right. But my point is that

you have people who fundamentally hate this country and they're not the Iranians. We had Bill

the token liberal. I'll give him credit for what he lacks in brain cells. He actually lacks in

or he makes up foreign cajonis because he's the only one who actually is man enough

to call and and try to debate me. He actually would you believe he said what are we going to do

when all the Iranians here start blowing things up? A that's super Islamophobic. B it sort of

makes the point that conservatives have been making for oh I don't know several decades that the

borders need to be closed because we have no ideas coming into this country. But it also denies

the reality that the actual Iranians in this country have all been celebrating. This is a brutally

repressive regime. The Ayatollas, the mullahs, the despotic leadership that they have been

subjected to has been a living nightmare for nearly 50 years and we're going to get into later

this hour. We are going to get into that long disturbing history of just how terrible these people

have been. I'll tell you what we got to go very, very quickly here with the daily Trump day

because we're going to get the impact on markets, the impact on finances with Dave Spano,

the CEO of annex wealth management and just a second. First though, it is the daily Trump day.

We're going to win so much you may even get tired of winning. Trump just keeps winning. It is a win

for the administration. It's also a big win for the United States. We have to keep winning.

We have to win more. We're going to win more. President Trump addressing the weekend strikes

on Iran at a ceremony today giving the Medal of Honor to three soldiers, one from World War Two

and President Trump said that he mourns the four Americans who gave their lives in the operation

epic fury this weekend. Today we grieve for the four heroic American

service members who have been killed in action and send our love and support to their families.

In that memory, we continue this mission with ferocious unyielding resolve to crush the threat

this terrorist regime poses to the American people and a threat indeed it is.

First lady Melania Trump is echoing those condolences. My heart will condolences to the families who

have lost their heroes who sacrificed their lives for freedom. Their bravery and dedication will

always be remembered. I extend my earnest wishes for a swift and smooth recovery to all those who

have been injured. You are in my thoughts and prayers during this challenging times.

The first lady in New York today to chair the meeting of the UN Security Council. It was previously

scheduled she was going to talk about education being the bridge to peace. Obviously that changed

a little bit. ABC News meanwhile is now reporting that the American death toll has now increased

to six and we hear in the news talk 1130 WIS and family urge all of you to pray for our brave men

and women who are serving in harm's way, especially the son of our morning show host and my dear

friend Ben Yacht who was subject to an Iranian bombing. I did not want to say anything about that

ladies and gentlemen. I guess they turned it into a promo today. I was not listening to Ben's

show. I actually unfortunately had a little bit of a health issue this morning that I did. I'm fine,

a little battered but unbroken. I've made elaborate on that a little bit longer. President

Trump, so I didn't get a chance to list. I listened very briefly to Jason Gouch but I had known

that Ben's son was in harm's way and just say a little prayer for him because for those of us

calling, you know, talk show hosts chicken hawks and whatever, you know, age old insult that they've

got left over from the Bush administration. We've got skin in this game as well. And President

Trump today at that Medal of Honor ceremony saying it's going to take as long as it takes to

rid the world of this evil Iranian regime substantially ahead of our time projections but whatever

the time is, it's okay, whatever it takes, we will always and we have right from the beginning,

we projected four to five weeks but we have capability to go far longer than that. We'll do it. Whatever

somebody said today, they said, oh well, President wants to do it really quickly after that, he'll

get bored. I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this. Do you agree with that, Pete? I don't

think there's anything, Mr. General, there's nothing boring about it.

That ladies and gentlemen is your daily Trump day. Remember coming up in the five o'clock hour,

we are going to debunk pretty much every bit of misinformation that you have undoubtedly heard

about Operation Epic Fury over the weekend coming from people on the left and the media

mouthpieces that amplify their bio, including that this is somehow going to be a forever war.

We don't fight forever wars anymore. Are forever war in Venezuela? You remember that? This was

going to be a quagmire that we were going to be stuck in Venezuela. How dare we kidnap a sovereign

leader of a sovereign nation that lasted all of 30 minutes, 35 maybe. Joining us now to make sense

of the economic impact that this is already having, Dave Spano, the CEO of Annex Wealth Management,

helping us know the difference. Dave, welcome back, sir. What did we see on the markets today

because it looked mixed? I don't know. There was no big dip. There was no big spike. So what is it?

Is there no more war profiteering? Is Trump no longer going to destroy the economy with his endless

wars? What's going on here? Yeah, for sure. So you looked at it and the S&P 500 did finish in

the green today and Dan, we went back and we checked S&P performance with some major historical

events over the last, say, 40 years. And you know, Gulf War I in 1991, if you look three months

after that, the markets were up 22 percent. Gulf War II, three months afterwards, the S&P was

up 12 percent when it was down were for financial major events, things like the dot com, the bare

stirons, the Lehman, you know, those issues. So the markets are more concerned about financial crises

than they are military crises. And so that is the reason why we looked at it. We're not surprised

what happened today. We saw oil up 6 percent as, you know, it could be expected because, you know,

all of that oil that goes through the streets or her moves is a significant amount. And by the

way, about 40 percent of that oil goes to China. So, you know, they're watching this very closely.

But what a week of news. We started obviously with the Supreme Court last week at the IEPA.

We all became experts in sections, you know, of the code that we haven't heard before.

Then we went through, of course, a two-hour state of the union. We saw Nvidia. And then,

of course, we ended on Friday and the market with all of that craziness seems shrugging it off.

That is actually fascinating when you give the history of how markets are just sort of able,

okay, I guess there's no more Iatola. Oh, well, you know, it's like, all right. And this is sort

of the point I'm going to kind of get to in the five o'clock hour that wars are no longer

technology has advanced so quickly. Dave, just in the last decade, wars are no longer fought

even like they were when the United States invaded Iraq, even like the hunt for bin Laden in

Afghanistan. I am firmly convinced that if 9-11 were to happen, like let's say 9-11 happened

on September 11th, 2025 and not September 11th, 2001. And 100% convinced Osama bin Laden would have

already been found and killed. There's just, there's no doubt in my mind. There's no doubt in my

mind that the invasion of Iraq, the first of all, the, the, the, and what does this say about just

to be clear, this is not Dave Spano talking about Dan O'Donnell. What does it say? I was talking

about what kind of shaped my politics. It was a situation very similar to this,

where we were told in the run up to the Iraq war invasion that, oh my gosh, Saddam's troops,

these are the, the greatest, best trained forces in the world. And our boys are going to,

they all laid down their arms because they were terrified of American Marines and army

Rangers. And they should be okay. But it is my very strong conviction that the Iraq war would

have gone very differently because we have advanced as a nation technologically so far beyond

every other that we can just rain death from above with pinpoint accuracy pretty much anywhere

we want. And I think the Venezuela, the Venezuela situation taught us that we by the way are,

I don't know. Did we lose Dave? No, I'm here. You're still listening. I just, there was,

there was a circle. Okay, there's this because I'm here like a little whoop. I'm like, oh boy,

is that his, is that his two way dying on me? I'm going to like throw it to David. He's not

going to be there. Okay, no, no, what Venezuela, what Venezuela taught us is, first of all,

did you have any idea of the United States as a weapon called the Discombobulator, which basically

can, it basically destroys your inner, your sense of balance and everything and, and it just

floors. Anyway, it's a sonic character. What was the cartoon character who had that little gun,

right? Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so that exists. Would you believe that the reason

the United States faced no missile defense is that we just turned off their missile defense

system before we went in. Like the same thing happened with Iran. It's just like the Israelis just

kind of turned off their missile defense system. Like that, that's so beyond the power of any

other nation to do that it's almost terrifying and war just is not fought in the same way.

And I think with this issue, it doesn't hurt to have the Mossad, you know, given us a little

issue. The myself, I just, I heard a story over the weekend and I'm still not sure if it's

entirely verified one of the ways that they were tracking senior leadership of Iran because they

don't use technology. They're terrified of using technology because it can be tracked.

That massage infiltrated dentist's office in Iran and they were implanting tracking devices in

fillers that they were putting in cavities. I love that. I mean, I can't even like the

the technology. I have no idea what that beeping is just so you know, okay, all right. Oh god,

it's the Mossad. The Mossad. Yeah, the way home. Yeah, be careful with your, be careful with your

injury. What they're going to implant. I know I suppose I should, I kind of alluded to it. By

the way, head to anixwealth.com for no other reasons. I could just talk, I could talk to you for

the rest of the hour, but I got to get this history of Iranian terrorism. We got some, we got

some other stuff. Go to annex. Yeah, honest, honest, honest, honest is coming back. My goodness,

it said what a, what a, what a Newsy day. All right, all right. Get the hell out of here.

Dave Spano, anixwealth.com, go to them simply because Dave and his team, they're just good people.

They share our values. And you hear Dave every week. He's just a, he's a very dear friend. And

unfortunately, he outed what, I think he's violating my HIPAA. I think that, you know what,

it was that beefing was don't violate Dan O'Donnell's HIPAA rights. No, I tore my ACL playing

basketball with my son on Saturday. It's going to be confirmed in an MRI next Saturday.

These, boy, by the way, I'm telling you people I'm having an MRI on Saturday before I think even

my wife knows about that one. And yeah, mom and dad, if you're listening, don't be worried.

I'm fine. Producer Doug was I not hobbling around just fine today. They gave me crutches.

I'm not using them. But yeah, I've had a bad knee for years. And finally, it just gave out my

son, Chris flagrantly followed me. It was, no, I went up for a jump shot. We were just playing,

we were playing one on one, having a great time. And I landed and it was like I didn't even have

a left leg. That's the only way I can describe it. It's like I landed and it was like I was so off

balanced because I was only really landing on my right leg. My knee just completely collapsed.

It basically pulled. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a tear in the back of my leg because of

how it just was sort of flopping around. And yeah, I was kind of laying there on the court for a

lot. You know what my son said in what very likely could be the last shot I ever take on a basketball

court. He goes to me. He goes to me. He's like, well, dad, at least you made the shot. I'm like,

I'm like, thanks, Chris. Not helping a lot, buddy. But yeah, so I went to the doctor. I spent

all morning in the doctor's office and confirmed a torn ACL. MRI will formally confirm it. But

so at some point, I'm going to need surgery. I'll be off a couple of days, but I am fine. Don't worry

about me on the plus side on the plus side. It means my wife has got to do all the laundry tonight.

I am officially out of laundry duty back with more phone calls coming up after the quick break.

Got a lot of texts here. Hey, Dan, just had to let you know that comment your son made

made me laugh out loud. Tell him, thanks for the chuckle. Like 15 year old son Chris, right?

Collapsed in a pile on the basketball court while shooting a jump shot. First thing he says to me,

at least you made the shot, dad. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sort of on the shelf. Torn ACL, it looks like.

But hey, at least we get honest, but you know what this is? This is this is

karmic justice, right? I'd much rather have a healthy honest than a fully healthy Dan O'Donnell.

As producer Spencer just texts, if Lindsey Vaughn can ski on a torn ACL, you can certainly

continue to host a radio show. Thank you, Spencer. I get no love. No love. Another textor says, Dan,

does your wife know about injured reserve? You've got you've got a torn ACL. You are on injured

reserve for laundry duty for at least six to nine months. Back to the phones, we go. Let's go to

Mike in Mekwan. You're on the Dan O'Donnell show. It's going on, Mike. Good afternoon, Dan. Thanks for

having me back on the show. Oh, the pleasure is all mine, sir. I'm Paul. What's that?

Double time caller. Okay. Well, welcome back, sir. I'm going to have to up my game,

after Jay. Oh, yes, Jay in Mekwan is that your neighbor? Because like he just, if you guys are

neighbors, this is like the equivalent. His call was so good. It's like he just pulled up next

you in like a brand new Corvette, right? So you got to reclaim, you got to reclaim Mekwan

honor here, Mike. No, I'm teasing you, buddy. I know you're going to have a great call.

The reason Paul is all this stuff is really driving me crazy and there's a great segment from

the West Wing, but the president's position and a medical team is shot down by a metal

Eastern government. And he says, I'm going to strike them down with the wrath of God. And then

he talks about citizen's romance where citizens of Rome could walk the known world without fear.

Yes, because of the, because Rome will rain down on them that they heard it. Correct.

We've had 47 years of getting our sand, sand kicked in our face by pests. And we just

pat them on his head. Yes. We're going to blow up a building, but don't do it again. And we've had

9-11, Marines killed, Americans killed, foreign people killed by this mad man and the people

around them. And they have people in our country say, what is he doing when they have convenient

memory? Yeah. You mentioned it before, buying, whoosh, Clinton, Obama, they've all done this and

somehow come does it. And he says, enough is enough. I gave it 10 days. You didn't stand up for it.

You're going to get your nose wrapped. Yeah. And I'm tired of this. We must stand up first,

else America first makes everybody better. Not that they're one of the most perfect country in the

world. God knows we're not. We make mistakes, but we are the best country in the world.

Amen to that, my friend. And bonus points for bringing up the West Wing in a context that actually

makes the West Wing sound rational. Believe it or not, that is, I never watched that show because

I was always super upset that it would win Emmys when clearly the sopranos was the best show on

television in that era with sopranos is widely considered that and breaking bad. It's like one in

one a the best shows in the history of television. Who here would put the West Wing up there, but the

West Wing constantly won the Emmy for best drama series because it was just a whole bunch of leftists.

And I do that's one of the few clips that I can remember watching because of the concept of

civis romanis that citizens of Rome would enjoy the protection of just being Roman because

of the fear of the Lord that the barbarian world had of harming an American citizen. Now we have

a president who doesn't just have the result, but also the technology to be able to reign death

and fire down upon anybody who threatens American interests and the idea that somehow and I'm so

glad Mike that you you gave us such a good call because it transitions perfectly into what we're

going to get into next. This notion that America just struck Iran out of the blue that we started

this war. You absolute morons. This has been a war that has been going on for 47 years.

And we will get you the history that undoubtedly the rest of the media will not when the

Dan O'Donnell show returns. Coming up in the five o'clock hour, pretty much everything you

have heard Democrats say about Operation Epic Fury is a complete and demonstrable lie.

Absolutely everything from the fact that somehow there needed to be a congressional authorization

for any sort of action to the idea that somehow the United States started this war. All of it is a lie.

The truth is that the United States has been at war with Iran and has been the victim of terrorist

attacks from Iran since literally 1979. On November 4th of 79 Iranian students backed by the

new revolutionary government under the Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran

taking 66 Americans hostage. Some 60 Americans including our fellow citizen whom you just saw bound

and blindfolded are now beginning their sixth day of captivity inside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

It's Friday morning there now, but throughout this night in Washington officials will continue their

search for some way to negotiate the hostages freedom. Most of those hostages were diplomats and

embassy staff members. 52 people were held for 444 days. In addition, four Americans died in a failed

rescue effort of those hostages. In July of 1982, the acting president of American University of

Beirut, David Dodge, was also kidnapped. He was held for a year. The following year, April of 1983,

a suicide car bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut by the Islamic Jihad, one of the precursors to

Hezbollah, killed 63 people, including 17 American diplomats and military personnel.

October of that same year, one of the deadliest terror attacks in the world history.

Now the number is 191 in the Beirut massacre. 191 Marines dead in the explosion at their

headquarters at the Beirut Airport. The final death toll, 241 American service members,

220 Marines and several others, the deadliest attack on U.S. Marines since E.O. Jima.

The following year, March 1984, CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley was kidnapped, tortured,

and eventually killed in 1985, a video of him being tortured, was sent to president Ronald Reagan.

June of 1996, the Kobar Towers bombing in Doffron, Saudi Arabia by the Iran-backed Hezbollah al-Hashaz,

killed 19 U.S. Airmen and injured nearly 500 Americans. Some 60 Americans, including our fellow

citizen whom... In 2003, the Iraq war started, and for the eight years that that was, in effect,

Iranian-backed Shia militias trained and armed by Iran's coups force, including the use of

IEDs and improvised devices killed at least 603 American troops. Roughly one in six combat deaths

in Iraq were to Iranian terrorists. January 2007, Karbala Provincial Headquarters was rated

in Iraq by coups force operatives disguised as American soldiers, five U.S. soldiers were killed.

Flash forward to January 8, 2020, in response for the attack on Qasim Soleimani,

there was a ballistic missile assault on all Assad airbase in Iraq. This caused traumatic

brain injuries to more than 100 U.S. service members, but fortunately no deaths were reported.

March 23, 2023, a drone strike on an American base near Hasakhra Syria, killed one American

contractor, injured five American troops. January 28, 2024, a drone strike by Kataib Hezbollah

on tower 22 base in Jordan, killed three U.S. soldiers and injured more than 40 others. In fact,

over the past three years, we've seen a surge in proxy attacks, more than 180 reported on U.S.

forces in Iraq, Syria and Jordan as part of the broader Gaza and Israel conflict resulting in

three U.S. service members being killed and more than 180 being injured. The end result

hundreds of Americans killed, captured, terrorized, brutalized, all by a force that is now

decapitated. This was not a strike that came out of the blue. In reality, this past weekend

was 47 years in the making. You know what forever confuses me is I get a whole lot of trolls on

social media. And I found that one of the best ways to find out whether they actually know

their stuff is to say, Hey, you should call into the show three to six PM Monday through Friday,

414 799 1130. Say you want to debate. We'll put you on. You get a minute. I get a minute.

We go back and forth. This show is two hours old and I must have spent an inordinate amount of time

while monitoring the situation in Iran is pretty much every dad did. It is it is an ongoing joke

whenever there's something going on in the world that dads all over need to monitor the situation.

That pretty much means plopping their butts in front of the TV and putting on Fox News to watch

the coverage of whatever it is it's going on. I actually was sort of monitoring to try to determine

whether we needed to break in and do live coverage or anything like that if I needed to do live streaming.

Then of course that was interrupted by me completely shredding my knee. But while I was doing

I was entertaining myself on social media by just saying, look, if if you've got something to say

come on and debate me on the air producer Doug in the two hours of the three we were on today.

Has there been anybody calling up who wants to debate? This is so weird. No. No one named Mary P.

No. No, that's weird. No one named Matthew. No. No one named Malcolm. No. Hmm. That's so weird.

So so weird.

Time now to name the unsung hero of the day. Of course this one's pretty obvious. Our unsung heroes

today are all of the heroes engaged in Operation Epic Fury. Those are Americans. Those are Israelis.

Those are those from any other country that is joining the fight against the despotic regime

in Iran. And that includes the civilian populations of those countries and here in the United States

supporting the war effort doing whatever it takes to make sure that the single greatest evil

in the world. The world's leading sponsor of terrorism for half a century cannot rise up again

and cannot kill or subjugate innocent people all those taking part and fighting in Operation

Epic Fury your unsung heroes of the day coming up in the five o'clock hour. I would love

love for anybody to call up and give me some of those left wing talking points about the war

powers resolution about the fact that we're all of a sudden super concerned about Congress not

issuing a war declaration about the fact that this is going to be a forever war about the fact

that this was just a war for oil. It's almost like they're dusting off all of the same talking

points from the first or the second Bush administration that this is going to be the Iraq war

quagmire all over again in the bottom line is that quite simply wars are not fought like they

were fought 25 years ago that we have seen such dramatic technological advances that we're just

not going to see. And in fact, President Trump has been repeatedly calling on the Iranian people

to step up for themselves and to rule themselves to finally have the freedom that they had

for eons before these truly insane radicals took over thanks to the feckless leadership

of what do you know a Democrat president in the White House in Jimmy Carter?

This was I almost said Billy Carter there by the way, I don't know why Billy Carter suddenly

popped in my head. We would have been better off with Billy Carter and his Billy beer in the White

House. Not only did you have Jimmy Carter usher in the the Islamic Revolution and basically stand

by with the fall of the Shah and allow dozens of Americans to be held hostage for 444 days

after he was president. Would you believe that he was out there basically through a back channel

to the Iranian regime providing information and doing his best to undermine the United States.

All right, we'll take your phone calls. We'll debunk some liberal myths for 14799 1130 when the

Dan O'Donnell show returns. Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell show as the United States has

struck Iran decapitating the terroristic regime. The Ayatollah is dead so too are many members of

his senior leadership team. The US and its Israeli allies have spent much of today actually

trying to ensure that there is no power vacuum through which an even worse regime can jump through

essentially destroying Iran's navy gaining air superiority in the entire region pretty much

instantaneously and ensuring that there are no splinter groups that sort of rise up. What

President Trump has been doing all weekend long. He did so in another video posted this morning

directly addressing those in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and the people on the street. Remember

it was just a couple of weeks ago that Iranians were taking to the streets in massive demonstrations

possibly the single greatest threat to the Iranian regime's power in a long time. Well, what happened?

These spontaneous protests which were not backed by Israel. They were not backed by the United States.

They just sort of sprung up the proof there is because if this was an astroturfed thing that was

going to sort of be the precursor to the the air strikes that ultimately killed Khamenei

it would have happened that the strikes would have happened immediately afterwards. Unfortunately

Iran's crackdown on those protesters killed upwards of I mean nobody is quite sure the most

pessimistic estimates are somewhere near 32,000 people killed. I mean think about that. That's

the size of like Greenfield in Southeast Wisconsin, maybe New Berlin. I don't actually know the

populations offhand, but this is a good sized city of protesters who just want freedom

killed by this despotic regime. And in a video posted today, President Trump again set

look, we stand with you lay down your arms. If you are loyal to the past regime, you will have

immunity. Now it is up to you to take back your country. I once again urge the revolutionary

guard, the Iranian military police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain

death. It will be certain death won't be pretty. I call upon all Iranian patriots who yearn for

freedom to seize this moment, to be brave, be bold, be heroic and take back your country.

America is with you. I made a promise to you and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be

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space. Now the biggest talking point that I have heard emerge over the last 48 hours or so

is that the president somehow did not have the authorization that this was unlawful that the

president would dare to do something like this without a congressional declaration of war.

Can any liberal, I will, I will give liberals $100 of my own money. If they will call up right now

and tell me the last time Congress authorized war. Seriously, just tell me because we've had,

let's see. War on terror, Iraq war, we've had operation desert storm, we had the Vietnam war,

we had the Korean war, World War II. It was 1942 the last time Congress declared war. Now we can

debate over whether or not this is ultimately a good thing. Do we have the president who does have

inherent authority as commander in chief of the United States military to engage in limited

military action when it is not possible to inform Congress or gain the consent of Congress.

For example, let's say we went to Congress very publicly. It's okay, Congress, Congress.

This thing on. We need you guys to declare war on Iran. We're going to strike Iran. We're going

to wait until the Ayatollah and all of his top aides are in the same place. And then either us

or Israel, we're just going to bomb the hell out of what do you say? What do you think would happen?

Would, would such a thing be possible if you had 435 people in the United States house,

two of them are Rashida to leave and Ilhan Omar. Is there any doubt that Rashida to leave and Ilhan

Omar would tip off the Iranian regime? Seriously. And I'm not saying they're loyal to the Iranians.

I'm saying the two of them have demonstrated that they despise America that much. Would you

believe that Rashida to leave actually in a tweet this weekend referred to the United States as they

they a representative of the government, an elected member of the house in the United States,

they referring to the United States. The war powers resolution. Absolutely authorized. A

war powers resolution is a law passed actually over the strenuous objections and veto of Richard

Nixon in 1973, which accounts for the more modern ways that wars were fought. The war powers

resolution allows the president and the word, the wording here is to introduce US forces into

hostilities without prior congressional approval in a case of quote, national emergency created by

attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions or its armed forces. Now,

people who support a broad interpretation of the WPR extend this to repelling imminent threats.

Ever since the law was passed, presidents have obviously said, hey, we have an imminent threat

here. Now, you can argue whether, okay, the war powers resolution itself, just the text would say,

okay, is there an attack on American forces? Even then, I ran down 47 years of attacks on American

forces. American troops have been killed by Iran and its terror proxies for nearly five decades.

Now, we've got them attempting to rebuild their nuclear program under the guise of only building

up their intercontinental ballistic missile supply, trying to build missiles that could literally

hit the United States from Iran. Bad enough, bad enough that they have choked off the

straits of hormones that we've had. Houthi militants literally attacking American ships for months

and years before Trump finally did something about that. And then threatening and attacking

American military and civilian installations across the region, you defy all logic reason when

you suggest there has been no attack by Iran. But let's even use the broader interpretation as

pretty much every president has done since 1973. Iran's rapid advancement towards nuclear weapons

and long-range ICBMs necessitated this assault. In fact, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had the best

most succinct answer when asked, okay, how is there an imminent threat? I want you to listen

for two minutes and 12 seconds. This should be required viewing for every single person who

doesn't understand the imminent threat that Iran posed and would have continued to pose had the

Iatalan as top aides been allowed to stay in power. Question that been asked is why now? Well,

there's two reasons why now. The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by

anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the

United States. The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic and

effective there to be true because in fact, within an hour of the initial attack on the

leadership compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north for that matter had

already been activated to launch. In fact, those had already been pre-positioned. The third is the

assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we

hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties. And so the President made the very wise decision.

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an

attack against American forces and we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before

they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even hire those killed.

And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't add to it.

Going back to the purpose. The purpose of this is to destroy that missile capability. Why does Iran

want that ballistic missile capability? What they are trying to do and have been trying to do for a

very long time is build a conventional weapons capability as a shield where they can hide to hide

their nuclear ambitions. They are producing by some estimates over 100 of these missiles a month.

Compare that to the 6 or 7 interceptors that can be built a month. They can build 100 of these

a month not to mention the thousands of one-way attack drones that they also have. They've been

doing this for a very long time and by the way they've been doing it under sanction. You see the

attacks they're conducting right now? They're attacking airports, they're attacking hotels,

they're hitting not just military bases, they're attacking our embassies directly,

they're attacking facilities that have nothing to do with war or with military and that's a weekend

that's in Iran despite years of sanction. Imagine a year from now or a year and a half from now

the capabilities they would have to inflict damage on us. It's an unacceptable risk,

especially in the hands of a regime that's run by radical clerics. The Iatola is a radical

was a radical cleric. That entire regime is led by radical clerics. So you've got religious

fanaticism, a deep abiding hatred of Jewish people and a repeated desire, stated desire,

a blood oath to destroy the state of Israel, one of America's closest allies, where by the way,

a whole lot of people who have dual Israeli and American citizenship live and you're telling me

that Iran of all nations, Iran posed no imminent danger to the United States.

It's almost laughable. The idea that somehow there's no legal or moral justification

in striking Iran, but but seeing as Democrats don't seem to understand anything until you

put it in terms that they can understand. Let's say I'm going to use a hypothetical for you lives.

Let's say the year is 2028. Trump's last year in office, he just says, screw it.

And he authorizes the United States military to drop 26,171 bombs on seven different sovereign nations.

Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.

What would you say to that? That would be awful. How dare he?

26,171 bombs were in fact dropped during the last year of Barack Obama's presidency.

On Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.

The fact that we just dropped bombs on Iran is no different legally. It is no different morally.

And if anything, it was far more legally and morally justified than dropping bombs on any of

those nations because Iran has been the global leader in terrorism for five decades.

Now we'll dispel some more myths, some more lies about Operation Epic Fury. Next.

Debunking a whole lot of liberal myths and outright lies that you have undoubtedly heard

about the Operation Epic Fury that killed the Ayatollah Khanani, a whole lot of his top

AIDS. Possibly we're I'm getting conflicting information about the former president of

Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejhan. I believe he is dead, but some sources are reporting he's still alive.

This is what's known as the fog of war. We won't entirely know that we do. I mean,

Iran State TV reported the death of Hamanay. And that's about as official as it gets. Also,

there is a picture floating around social media, which I have led to believe is genuine of the

body of Hamanay lying in the rubble. Obviously standard warnings about it's not super graphic,

but it is a dead old guy lying in a pile of rubble. Let's go out to the phone's Anthony and

Brookfield. You're on the Dan O'Donnell show. What's going on, Anthony?

Hey, Dan. Thank you for taking me a cup by call. You know, I'm one of those good old

not getting involved in foreign intervention with guys, George Washington, their well-addressed style.

And what I wanted to bring up here about the, I believe those Michael Rueville you're playing

the clip from. I came in like right when he started. Yeah, that was Rubio, Secretary of State Rubio.

Okay. Okay. So he said, well, field commanders of Iran had received orders that if they were to

be attacked by anyone, they would attack America. Therefore, when we since America knew Israel was

going to attack them, we had to preemptively attack. Therefore, we did that. So how can we

wouldn't just reach out to Israel and be like, Hey, we're still in the middle of my

negotiation. Anthony, Anthony, great minds, my friend. Great minds. I said the same thing when

I heard that right before my show. I'm like, you couldn't like Trump couldn't have been like,

bebe, bebe my brother. Hold up a sec. No, apparently, and as I understand it, Israeli

intelligence knew that there was going to be an imminent attack on Israel, that there was

going to be a massive deadly attack. And then Israel was going to necessarily preemptively.

This is sort of the old entangling alliances. Confirm that though. Because it's difficult. It's

difficult to tell. It's well to welcome welcome to intelligence Anthony. It's, you know,

it's the reality is is that we can never quite be sure. You know what I'm saying? Like

what I can tell you, and we need to make an appeal to the American. Well, hold on a sec.

Hold on a sec. Anthony, what I can tell you, what I can tell you is that right the day of

Trump's state of the union address, Marco Rubio actually briefed members of both parties in

Congress about apparently an imminent threat that Iran was was like this was the briefing was

the day of the state of the union. We have obviously no idea this about as classified

information as classified information gets, but there was a picture of Chuck Schumer walking

out of that meeting, looking ashen faced for the first time in possibly Chuck Schumer's life.

He did not want to talk on camera and it was believed holy crap. Whenever Rubio just told him,

it's bad, right? We obviously have no idea what has been sent in that was said in that meeting.

What we also know though with the diplomacy with Iran is they're not a good faith actor.

Like they were not negotiating with us in good faith. Essentially, they were stringing

along American negotiators and it was either was either Whitcliffe. I think it was Jared

Kushner said, look, all they're doing is a delay tactic. And what we know is that they're

trying to rebuild their missile. Everything you're asking reasonable though as well. Like to get rid

of someone's entire missile program would America agree to get rid of their Air Force? If we vowed

that all Jews were going to die and were sponsoring terror networks all over the region.

In a job in a public speech, I believe in what 2010 something like that. But the Iatola

hominay, the Iatola hominay has been calling for the death of Jews and America for 30 years.

You're not going to get very far arguing that this was just some old peacenick who was kicking

around the hackie sack in between lectures at Columbia University. This was an evil regime

that was not just not just saying, oh, hey, you know, we're going to we're going to kill them.

They were targeting our merchant ship, not military ships, merchant ships through their

hootie proxies for years. I mean, the Straits of Hormuz where where something like 20%

of the world's oil goes through. That was for a long stretch, impossible. The idea that you can

negotiate in good faith or even frankly, I think it's a little insulting that you would equivocate.

Well, if someone was saying the United States can't have missiles, yeah, okay, we don't just

kind of shoot those missiles. We don't kind of give them to like terror groups. What if we were

given missiles to the KKK, right? And we were saying, hey, why don't you go shoot those babies at

some black churches in Mississippi? I could see other countries stepping in and saying, yeah,

you know what? We should probably take away America's missiles. That's what Iran has been doing for

nine on five decades. And you see how that's a massive, massive problem.

You can't allow an actor like that. And what happened, by the way, when Iran was attacked, did it

just attack Israel? Did it just attack the United States? It launched missiles in every direction.

All but ensuring all of its Middle Eastern allies, we're not going to come to its aid.

Negotiations simply couldn't continue because I'm not entirely sure these were actual negotiations.

The other myth that has been propagated over the past 48 hours is that somehow this is a

forever war that somehow this is going to be a quagmire that, you know, we're going to be in

forever and ever and ever like Afghanistan or Iraq or Vietnam.

This actually, this myth got kicked into turbo drive because of comments made today by President

Trump who said, we're going to be in there as long as it takes substantially ahead of our time

projections. But whatever the time is, it's okay, whatever it takes, we will always

use. And we have, right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have

capability to go far longer than that. We'll do it. Whatever somebody said today, they said,

oh, well, President wants to do it really quickly after that, he'll get bored. I don't get bored.

There's nothing boring about this. Do you agree with that, Pete? I don't think there's anything

Mr. General. I think there's nothing boring about it. Okay. So this has people think, well,

Trump is saying it's going to be, it's going to be a forever war. Secretary of war,

Pete Hegseth, shut this down immediately first thing this morning. Through the media outlets

and political left screaming endless wars. Stop. This is not Iraq. This is not endless. I was

there for both. Our generation knows better and so does this, President. He called the last

20 years of nation building wars dumb and he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is a

clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat, destroy the Navy, no nukes.

Israel has clear missions as well for which we are grateful.

Capable partners, as we've said since the beginning, capable partners are good partners.

Unlike so many of our traditional allies who ring their hands and clutch their pearls,

hemming and hawing about the use of force. Here's the thing about our traditional allies,

though, by the way, the great statement by the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. Our allies in

Europe are well behind us. Mark Rute, Secretary General of NATO. I really commend what is

happening here. Taking out Hamani, taking out the nuclear capability in Iran, but also taking

out the ballistic missile program in Iran. This is crucial. And what I see in Europe, I spoke with

all the key European leaders over the weekend is widespread support for what the president is doing

and also making sure that when it comes to logistics, access, defending key US interests

in Europe and in the region, the Europeans are really stepping up.

So, Europe is behind this. Much of the Middle East is behind this. And if it wasn't before

Iran just sort of started randomly firing weapons after it was attacked on Saturday morning,

it certainly is right now. Much of the entire world is behind this. Even Iran's so-called closest

allies in Russia and China, they're suspiciously quiet right now, aren't they? We'll bust some more

myths, take some more phone calls, and be right back to it when the Dan O'Donnell Show returns in

a second. Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell Show. We are busting some myths about operation

epic fury. Pretty much everything you have heard about it is a lie, including this gas prices have

gone up today. Folks, this, you sweet summer children who have never lived through Middle East

conflicts. Gas prices always spike. National average according to AAA today, $2.99 for a gallon of

regular unleaded gasoline. Now, Trump is just, oh god, he's been terrible for gas prices.

Guess how many days out of the 1400 that Joe Biden was in office? Gas prices were higher than they

are today, roughly 1000. So until we get to year four of $3 gasoline, yeah, there's a temporary

spike, but don't forget gas prices have dropped by about $1 in the last year. This is actually

kind of surprising. I got to give Matthew in Madison a heck of a lot of credit. I called him out

saying, hey, come on in debate. And he actually is right here. Matthew, welcome to the Dan O'Donnell Show.

Well, I might not be many things, Dan, but I try to at least be a man of my words.

Hey, I appreciate that a lot. And you know what? You are a man who has the courage of your

convictions and hope this didn't interfere with your job or anything like that. But the floor

is yours. I'm going to give you one. So here's how it works. Just so we're clear. I'm going to

give Matthew one minute to make a point. I'd love to go longer, Matthew. I would. It's already

542. We got to keep this thing moving. I'm going to give you a minute. It's actually a lot longer

than you think to make your points about Iran. Then I'll refute them and then I'm going to give you

30 seconds and I'll get 30 seconds. Sound good? That's fair. I have one question I want to ask you

at the end and I promise it's not a gotcha. Okay, fair enough. All right, go ahead, sir. The floor

is yours. Okay, well, I don't know that I'll take a whole minute or not. You might be a little

disappointed in my position. I'm probably not the radical left that maybe you think I am, but

regardless, I think this issue when Iran is very different from some of the other ones you've

compared it to with Libya or Syria. I'm not trying to make the argument that this is in a legal war.

I'm not trying to defend anything our land has done. We are obviously better off

with without this regime. Sure. My concern was that I think this, this, whatever we want to call it,

I think is more closely aligned with what happens with Iraq. I had obviously made your concerns

about that and I think as a country this should have been debated more. This should have been something

that should have gone to Congress. Again, I'm not saying it's illegal. I think this is something

that should have been debated. I think this administration should have shown up, should have made

its case and we should have gone from there. Matthew, how dare you actually sound perfectly

reasonable and make excellent points? Frankly, I don't think there's a whole lot to refute there

because honestly, you take a very rational, moderate, understandable position. I will disagree

with you. Libya was always about regime change back in 2011, so it is very akin to that. Your fears

about a forever war like we had in Iraq and Afghanistan are obviously insanely well-founded. Why?

Because we just had forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the reality is that the war

powers resolution and the history of declarations of conflict going all the way back to 1942

clearly allow this sort of action. Not only that, wars are fought very, very differently than they

were even 25 years ago, even 15 years ago in Libya and in Iraq and in Syria. The reality is we don't

need American boots on the ground. We have such vast technological and air superiority. The last war

we supposedly fought in Venezuela was over in about 35 minutes. So I'm very curious, Matthew.

What is the question you want to ask me? Yeah, so my question, I don't want this to sound like

a gotcha. No, no, no, no, I don't mean it like that. But you know, I mean, I am not a fan of

Donald Trump. Never have been. Sure. Probably never will be. He campaigned on America first,

no wars, et cetera, et cetera. Do you think that this was what he meant by America first back then

or do you think something has changed that this has become America first? No, I'm just trying,

I'm not making the connection. No, no, I can be talked about America first and the lack of wars

and now here we are and we're trying to spin this as well. This is America first.

Was this what he meant back then? Sure, Matthew, I got to tell you, I am really not liking this

because I am genuinely liking how thoughtful your questions are and you seem like a really good

dude. I'm not going to lie. So hey, you are welcome on this show anytime, my friend. And I really

do appreciate you calling up to answer your question. My guess is this, this obviously is so I am

much more of the and it's become a slur in conservative circles. I am much more in the neo-conservative

wing. So I came of age politically a quarter century ago with 9 11 with the Iraq war,

understanding the threat of radical Islam and also understanding that what underpinned pretty

much everything in radical Shia Islam was coming from Iran. Like Iran does not just exist as a

nation state. Iran has its tentacles in Hezbollah before that Islamic jihad in the Houthi militants,

which were attacking American ships in Hamas in the Palestinian Authority in pretty much every

entity that has attempted to kill Jews in Israel and across the world. That's all been Iran.

I think something did change in President Trump. I mean, the man, the man is the only person I've

ever seen brag about the, well, is it the FIFA peace prize? Like FIFA soccer gave him a peace prize,

right? He wants that Nobel peace prize so badly. But I think what happens is every president and

every person who goes in before they know the intelligence that frankly you and I don't see,

they say, okay, we can just give peace a chance so we could talk about all of this. I think the

issue was Iran was so unspeakably evil and was moving towards like the, the, the bragging about

completely destroying Iran's nuclear program. They put a lot of eggs in the foreto basket in Tehran,

but clearly there were still scientists. There was still enriching capability and the information

I think was coming in that Iran was rapidly building up not just its regional ballistic missile

technology, but also its ICBM technology and the fear was they could either develop their own

enriched uranium or potentially get some from their ally in Russia and deliver a payload

on those intercontinental ballistic missiles to the US homeland or at the very least Israel or

or some other American base in the region. I mean, they've been doing this literally since

the attack on the Marine barracks in 1983. I mean, it's consistently been Iran or its proxies

attacking the United States. Ultimately, I think Trump saw and frankly, there's a,

there's a sound bite that's going around. I didn't have time to play it today. I think we'll

get it tomorrow. Trump in 1980 talking about this was right after the hostage crisis,

talking about Iran and what he would do. And he sounded shockingly consistent. Not only that,

he did say on the campaign trail to be fair, Matthew, he said something to the effect of,

I will bomb the bleep out of them. So he's always kind of straddle that line between America first

and swinging his, you know what, around if that makes any sense.

Yeah, it definitely does. And I think that's the hard part that many people on the other side on

the left have is just just trying to square that together and put that together just the inconsistencies.

And that's that's what he is. I mean, he's, there's, yeah, I am not, I will concede the point

that there are a lot of consistent inconsistencies about Trump. And he seems to sort of waffle

day to day. Hey, Matthew, really do appreciate your call. See how reasonable minds can disagree.

It happens. Hey, you're a good dude, buddy. And uh, drinks are on me next time I'm in Madison.

Do we have time to go to Tammy? Let's go to Tammy down in Daytona Beach, Florida. Tammy, I didn't

like that last call because he was a really nice guy making reasonable and very good points.

I just don't like you because you're down in Florida and it's like 35 degrees here.

Well, that's okay. We've had a, we've had four Florida. We have had a hard winter. You know what?

I used a lot of my plants are dead. I, you know, my mom is down in Naples and she says she's

been wintering in Naples forever. And she says it's been the worst winter weather in Naples probably

since she's been down there. She's been down there since like 2012.

I've been down here since 2004 and this is the worst winter. Yeah, that's it. I, I feel

you. So what's going on, Tammy? I don't really hate you. We love you down in Florida.

First, I want to thank you for the commercial break because it helped me pull myself together

because I was getting really emotional with your call strainer. Oh, he wasn't being mean, was he?

No, he was not. I got up in the morning after finding out what had happened overnight. And I

looked at my husband and said, finally, finally, somebody is taking retribution for the friends

that we lost. My husband was in Beirut in 1983. Oh, my goodness. He was in the Navy. I was 19

married. I'm sorry, I'm getting water. No, no, that's okay. Three months old. And for 10 days,

I didn't know if I was a widow or not. My husband had men shot off the back of his ship.

What people don't know is how absolutely evil these people are. They would come out with

girls and bikinis and speedboats during the day, waving to the guys, flashing them,

doing all the things to get a bunch of horny sailors to, you know, waves. But what they were

really doing was tagging where that ship was. And then if anybody went out at night and had a

cigarette, which they weren't supposed to do, but people don't always listen, right? They did

after the second guy got shot and was killed. Oh, my goodness. Off the back of the ship.

So President Trump is the only person who seems to have finally

cared that the route happened. People don't even remember it. Yeah. I have spent decades

with people going, oh, there was something that went on in the route. Are you kidding me?

Over three. Massacre. Yeah. And what about the coal? People just forget about that. So

am I, am I thrilled with this? No, no, I'll be honest. I'm not. I don't think anybody has. Right.

No, but did it need to happen? Yes. You know, I have a son-in-law who did two tours over in

the sandbox, Kuwait and Afghanistan. Like I said, my husband was in Beirut. None of us are enjoying

this. In fact, we are trying to avoid the media because it just ramps up the PTSD to a level 12.

The nightmares my husband's been having the last few nights. They're expected. But

but thank you. Thank you to President Trump for finally

given the darn. I'm sorry. I'm also trying to really watch my language.

Tammy, wow, that is an incredible story. I can see why you're I'm getting emotional listening to you,

Tammy. How many of you? That's the thing that absolutely boggles my mind. In last hour,

I kind of ran down all of the the various attacks that Iran was responsible for. I even left out.

I left out the coal. The USS coal. That was al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda was getting material support.

You could you could include Iran in 9-11 because they were providing material support and

intelligence for al-Qaeda for pretty much all of al-Qaeda's existence, right? You know, al-Qaeda

in Iraq. I said all of this. All of this was Iran's doing and it's like people don't remember or

they don't care or they just hate Trump so much. And what I think is is more diabolical. They

dislike this country so much that fundamentally they they just they they have tendency to side

with our enemies. Tammy, I'll tell you what we are running up against the end of the show.

I'm so sorry your husband had to go through that. Give him a big hug and know that all of our

listeners, Dan Nation is with you guys. We support you and this one is for all of you're in your

husband's old buddies. Okay. All right. God bless you Tammy. Wow. I did not expect

for it to be that emotional. Are we out of time for the show? Man, I guess we got to end a

little early biopologies back tomorrow right here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Talk to you then.