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Final hour together today on this Monday, the ninth day of March.

Glad you're here. So let's gather around. We've heard a lot of things this morning.

Heard a lot of things over the weekend, a busy weekend of news of political

maneuverings and just all kinds of stuff going on. So let's put it all together.

Nine o'clock hour, just a happy place to assemble things we haven't gotten to yet.

You know the number 866-660-5759, 866-660-5759.

That is also the via scan of lost holiness text line,

which bristled with activity over the last few minutes in our visit with Congressman Chip Roy,

who wants very much to be Attorney General Chip Roy.

I got a thought or two about that race that run off that he will face,

May 26th, with May's Middleton, identifying himself as MAGA Maze,

and lofty spots calling Chip Roy a backstabbing rhino.

Oh my goodness, May. So thoughts about that.

I started the show today talking about some things we learned over the weekend,

about the Paxton Corning Race.

Let's talk about what both of these guys did that made news over the weekend.

As far as Ken goes, the pressure he seeks to exert to get the Save Act past

is designed to enhance his Senate campaign with a bit of logic that says,

look, I'm not even a senator, and look at the people I've got tap dancing to try to get the

Save Act passed. The imagery is the optics here are that even President Trump

is holding off on an endorsement of John Corning or an endorsement of anybody

to see if we can get the Save America Act on his desk.

And the president has said, I ain't signing anything else until I see that puppy on my desk

right here. Let's go. So the gauntlet is down.

The pressure is on. And so the Paxton gambit is to appear so influential,

even before he becomes a senator that simply by saying, look, you want that sweet, sweet Corning

endorsement so much? I'll tell you what, I'll even consider getting out of the race.

If you pass the Save Act now, will Ken Paxton get out of the race?

I will continue to tell you no, until I have a reason not to.

I that just does not seem to be in the cards at all for Senator Corning's part.

He has gone from the on the whip list from the list of people who's, well, who's not on the list

a list of people who are. Senator Corning has now said, I will be on the list of people voting

to move forward on the filibuster, move forward on achieving closure. That the closure is a vote

to stop debating something and go ahead and vote on the dog on thing, which is what everybody wants

to put everybody on the record. And that's what a real filibuster would do, too. It's what a real

filibuster would do. You're a chip Roy talking about the fake filibuster where nothing really

happens just inactivity. The real filibuster was so called the talking filibuster is where people

actually have to stand there on the floor of the Senate and say things. That's spectacle

within the realm of the Savak would involve Republicans talking about election integrity.

Republicans talking about making elections more secure. If they go

broadening the subject matter of it, it could very well involve Republicans talking about some

gender lunacy and putting a stick in a fork in that nonsense. No more males in female sports.

No more carving up children on this demonic altar of sex changes for kids. And it would involve

Republicans saying things in favor of that. And it would involve Democrats opposing it.

So with election integrity and the gender sanity that we seek, those are both both.

Supposedly one of those 80 20s, aren't they? So why not do this? The pressure is on.

The pressure can pass and seek to exert is to convince everybody, look, look at all the

just contortions we're having to go through to get something that the American people provably want.

You elect me. You don't have to worry about me. Issue in and issue out month in and month out. Am I

or am I not going to do the right thing this week, this month? Look what I've done for decades.

The cornon approach is to say, look, here's another example where I'm absolutely lining up with Trump.

And absolutely providing you with the kind of Trump friendly leadership you want.

You don't have to go vote for Ken in order to get a mega friendly vote in the Senate.

And oh, by the way, how have I told you that Ken is a terrible person. That is what John

Cornon's ads are going to be saying for the next 11 weeks. So there's that battle. And again,

I'll say this every day, Paxton's not going anywhere. You will absolutely not be going anywhere.

So we will give that choice on May 26th. And we'll see how that goes. And the challenge

for me or you if you choose to participate because it's all hands on deck is we simply have to

prevent Senator James Tolerico. And I will tell you that this is sort of as the and boy,

thanks Wesley hunt. We could have been done. We could have been done. I know it's America.

He had a right to run. But we could have been done. And I don't know that Ken would have won

maybe, you know, I mean, how much of the Wesley hunt vote was a Paxton vote. It's not like those

were the only three in the race. There was a smattering of other relative invisibles who got to

I don't know. Would those people have voted? I don't know. But we would have been done.

As it is, we do have an additional period of a couple of months going all the way to

May 26th to get this thing settled, meaning that we can't focus like a laser beam on the

the Democrat nominee James Tolerico. But they can't, but I can. And all of you can. And we paid a

lot of attention in the first hour to the just the the putrid attempt on the part of Tolerico and his

Amen chorus to try to portray him as somehow scriptural in his approach, somehow faith based. I

don't know what phony Bible he's toting around. But mine doesn't say there are six genders. Mine

doesn't say Jesus requires open borders. Mine doesn't say God is ambivalent about abortion.

Politicians make stuff up for a living. You make stuff up about God?

An election ain't your worst problem. But our problem is to make sure that woke Opie does not

become a senator. And I have spent a long time describing my confidence that either

Paxton or Cornyn would beat him. I am I'm not unconfident. I haven't lost my confidence in that.

Of course not, please. We remain a red state. But it's going to take one of the herculean

efforts of a lifetime from May 27th the day after the runoff till November 3rd to make sure that the

disgruntled Cornyn people will show up for Paxton or the wounded Paxton forces will show up for Cornyn.

Which is the bigger ask? I don't know. And that may not matter. But I will tell you I have about

added with the notion that only Cornyn can win the general. Really? I will tell you if you just make

and this is thoroughly anecdotal. If you make two lists, I love lists. On one side is the Cornyn

people who have said I could never vote for Paxton. Of the other side is the Paxton people who

have said I could never vote for Cornyn. That second list is way higher. Now that might mean I have more

of a loving lecture to deliver to those folks like guys, we can't have Telleriko, okay?

But they are dug in. And so the battles that we may face are the folks who are so

just so discouraged that their guide didn't win the primary that they really do throw up their hands.

And that's why I'm glad. At least we got from you got through got June, July, August,

September and October to work on people. And we will where they go, eh, whatever.

That doesn't matter even more. And the answer is, of course, it will matter. Of course, it will

matter. Beating the blasphemer, the heretic James Telleriko must be enough to unite every

Republican. Now, so what happens in the attorney general's race? There was Chip Roy. If you missed

it, go grab the podcast, run it, let the podcast up just minutes after we're done at 10 o'clock,

go to 660 AM the answer.com, click podcast, click on my happy face. But there you go, each hour, 7 o'clock,

eight o'clock, nine o'clock. And Chip was halfway through the eight o'clock. On the text line,

somebody said, look, if you're working in Congress, you got to explain stuff. It's explaining things,

it's nuance, it's it's doing things that might on occasion seem counterintuitive for the

greater good. That is a very wise observation. It is also hazardous because I think we are in a time

where there is a cry for clarity. So Chip can make some really good points about

about dialing back some of the trans angles of a particular bit of legislation in order to get

something that would actually pass you to kind of live to find another day kind of thing. But that

is absolutely something that old magma is could say Chip lined up with the trans lobby, which,

of course, is a wild exaggeration. But it works. It works to a degree. Huh. As far as the backstab in

right now, Chip Roy has a John Corning problem. And by that, I mean, stuff you said some years ago,

you said them, you did it. Are you better now? Are you smarter now? I know Marco Rubio is.

I know Lindsey Graham is. I believe Chip Roy is. I don't disbelieve Senator Corning's journey.

Hmm. That 20 some years of establishment comfort. That's a tough crack pipe to put down.

So all of these folks who have things that you can float and from Paxton's own social media

forces to various other people who are all in for him, the weekend, you could, you could float

a battleship over the weekend in some of the old audio of Corning they put up of him with a

16 minute eulogy of George Floyd, him singing the virtues of Merrick Garland, just various things

that he did do and did say what you would say about all of them. Hey, especially the, the, the

vortex of it is it's, I guess I guess was after the, the, the E. Jean Carroll phony verdict that

I just don't know if he's electable might be time to turn the page from Trump. Listen to Corning,

one of the only person saying that. But he's the only person trying to remain in the Senate with

that quote hanging around his neck from a few years ago. And he has said to us on this show,

Trump was right. I was wrong. That enough for you. For some of you it will be for some it won't.

So that's where we are. Already 866 6665759. Where are we on the pesky war with Iran?

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right there. Born this date 1928. Okay 866 6665759 Alice Bar this morning NBC little summary of war

stuff change of power in Iran stuff gas price stuff.

This morning with the US and Israel still trading heavy fire with Iran. The nation is

morning a seventh American service member who US Central Command says died from wound suffered

during an Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia a week ago following this weekend's dignified

transfer for six of the fallen president Trump acknowledged there may be more.

The president not ruling out sending US ground troops into Iran.

That as Iran named a new supreme leader according to state-run media Mojtaba Hamani,

son of the Ayatollah killed in initial US Israeli strikes. President Trump had insisted on having

a say in Iran's new leadership. The Iranian foreign minister rejecting that and calls for a cease

fire without a permanent end to the war. Unless we get to that I think we need to continue fighting

for the sake of our people and our security. As the escalating conflict disrupts critical oil

channels the cost of oil topping $100 a barrel for the first time in almost four years with a

gallon of gas now up nearly 50 cents in a week on average across the US. The administration adamant

that'll be short term. In the worst case this is a week's this is not a month's thing. We're now

seeing the ripple effects of this war with higher gas prices with declining job numbers.

The defense secretary rejecting critics calls for a clear timeline.

You don't tell anybody what what your limits would be on an operation. We're willing to go as far

as we need to in order to be successful. In Washington, Alice Barr and BC News. Yeah, so that was

Hexath on 60 minutes and and of course that's what you don't do and as far as well Trump refused

to rule out boots on the ground. You don't rule anything out. Is there a plan? Is there a wish

to flood Iran with American troops? No. Is it impossible? No. No matter what the president's

thought is, do you rule anything out? No, you do not. It empowers an enemy to rule stuff out.

If the Iranian regime in an obvious state of flux right now, if their heads hit the pillow

a little easier at night because they hear that an American president has said we're not going to

flood the streets of Tehran with US troops, then they probably have a little more resolve.

They have a little more gas in the tank, a little more breeze in the sales of whatever it is

they're trying to do, whatever they're trying to formulate as a response to a war design to end

that regime. So please, this is this is games being played by so many. Well, he wouldn't rule that

out. They won't tell us exactly how long this is going to last guys. It's called a war.

This is called a newscast. Mary Rose has it and then what follows there, what's called or calls

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So within the last hour, we had Marco Rubio speaking at an event to honor American hostages.

It's interesting today has been designated US hostage and wrongful detainee day.

The idea is to lift up a day in recognition of American citizens who have been or are wrongfully

detained abroad for a variety of reasons. Let's go ahead and do this. This is just within the

last hour, Secretary Rubio with some thoughts on that occasion about the current conflict.

And first I think we would all take a moment. Both to offer our thoughts, our prayers, and our

condolences and to honor the families of those who have fallen. The seven Americans who have lost

their lives in the initial hours of this operation. Incredibly brave Americans and you saw six of them

dignified return over the weekend and we all are all in awe of their service, of their bravery,

of their courage, and our hearts and our support extend out to their families in this very difficult

moment and the families of these incredible heroes. And heroic things are happening all the time,

some of which will never make it to the headlines. But American men and women in uniform are

conducting an extraordinary mission with extraordinary efficacy and efficiency and impact.

The goals of this mission are clear and it's important to continue to remind the American people

of why it is that the greatest military in history of the world is engaged in this operation.

It is to destroy the ability of this regime to launch missiles, both by destroying their

missiles and their launchers, destroy the factories that make these missiles and destroy their navy.

I think we are all seeing right now the threat that this clerical regime poses to the region

and to the world. They are trying to hold the world hostage. They are attacking their neighbors.

They are attacking neighboring countries, their energy infrastructure, their civilian population,

their attacking embassies. This is a terrorist government. This is a terroristic regime.

And we are seeing them conduct terrorism using nation-state elements, using weapons like missiles

and one way attacked drones. And the objective of this mission is to destroy their ability to

continue to do that. And we are- That's Secretary Rubio. I want to get back to him in just a second

because as he visits, that moment of the difference between them and us, the difference between

them and us. You know, I'm a big fan of pointing out the myth of equivalency when two things- When

people try to portray two things as the same or similar when they are not, this is the hardest

of things to address. You're aware, I'm sure, of this school and the southern part of Iran.

168 people, mostly kids, killed an air strike at the school in the opening days of Operation

Epic Fury. It is unknown at the moment because you know, at first it was America hit a school

and then it was spun the other way that it was an errant Iranian missile that they blew up

their own school. Then it settled into kind of a stasis. It's a brand new status quo of we don't know

and investigations are underway. On 60 minutes last night, Secretary of War Pnexeth was asked about

that. Have you made any conclusions about whether or not the United States inadvertently or not

was involved in any military strike at that school? Well, we're still investigating and that's where

I'll leave it today, but what I will emphasize to you and to the world is that unlike our adversaries,

the Iranians, we never target civilians. There was a report late in the week from two officials

that it was likely U.S. involvement. Is that report false? I've already said we're investigating.

If you could tell the American public, it definitively was not us, you would tell us, wouldn't you?

I would say that it's being investigated, which is the only answer I'm prepared to give.

So let's talk about those answers and see what might have, what might examine what might have

happened here. First of all, the question, that's journalism, those are not bad questions.

There are reports that said it was us, are those false and his answer yet to be determined.

If you could tell us that it was definitively not us, you would say so, wouldn't you? Of course,

the answer to that is yes, but with an investigation ongoing, that's what you refer to and say there's

an investigation ongoing. So I want to talk about what if it was, because it may have been.

And that's called war as well. Has there ever been a war where there's been no

unintended civilian death? Has there ever been a war where an errant bullet, an errant missile,

an errant bomb, didn't take the life of non-combatants. That answer is no.

Now none of this is meant to wave this off or be cavalier about it. That would be terrible

if a building with 168 people, kids in it. If that was our missile, that would be really bad.

There's a long list of elements of war. There's a reason why they say war is hell.

And you know, not to draw clumsy comparison, but intent about the unbelievably stupid

controversy over the weekend about Trump and the USA hat, is if that was somehow disrespectful

of the returning troops as he was there on the tarmac at Dover, as he did raise his hand in salute,

as he did honor them in word and indeed America's intent is never, never to target non-combatants

or innocent people. Iran does this as a matter of habit, as an absolute matter of habit.

So to fail to see the difference between those two and to have some kind of odd moral blindness,

there was somebody I can't even remember who it doesn't matter. Somebody said something along the

lines of I've never been more ashamed to be an American. If that was us at the school.

I've been, you know, listen, part of life is a, what I always say, father of modern psychology,

William James, there's wisdom in knowing whom to ignore. Joe's to ignore that, at least online,

but I bring it up to you now. Just take into my thought process. Anybody saying that,

if you're walking around saying, man, if that was an American missile, look at that school,

I've never been more ashamed to be an American. You're pretty well ashamed to be an American

right now. You're just looking for an excuse to say so more loudly. So we should never minimize

things like this or sweep one of the rug or say, ah, not a big deal. Of course, it's a big deal.

War is a big deal. And it's, and it's a horrible deal. As I said, there's a reason why people say

that war is hell. Secretary Rubio, again, in the last few minutes.

Well on our way to achieving that objective every single day with overwhelming force,

with overwhelming precision, the military, the United States military, the men and women in

uniform are conducting an extraordinary operation. There are not a lot of cameras down there

covering what they're doing, as opposed to some of the other images that you may see from some

of the cities and capitals nearby. But I want everyone to know, your military is getting the job

done. And every single day, this regime in Iran has less missiles, has less launchers,

their factories work less, and their navy is being eviscerated. And the world is going to be a

safer and a better place when this mission is accomplished. Now, we are here today obviously.

On something that touches right on Iran, but I think, unfortunately, it's not just limited to Iran.

And we're here on the third U.S. hostage in wrongful detainee day. And it's a day that exists

because families and loved ones refuse, because families refuse to let their loved ones be forgotten.

Once again, today, March 9th is a hostage and wrongful detainee day. That is the occasion

that had Secretary Rubio there making those remarks as Secretary of State. So we have scattered

throughout today's program some thoughts about brother Taloriko, as we've as conservatives,

as Republicans, as people who will either be voting for Ken Paxter or John Corden,

that occupies an enormous amount of headspace. But then once we get to the morning of May 27th,

the sweet blessed morning of May 27th, morning after the runoff, then it's time for that victor

to focus on, not it's funny. I say it'll be then time for that victor to focus his fire on Taloriko.

They both already are. And that is smart. That is smart. Because if part of the

the package, a gamble, Freudian slip, is it kind of is a gamble for both of these guys,

because they're both hoping that every word, every utterance, every post, every strategy on the

campaign trail helps people think, because that really is the name of the game, isn't it?

For coin and for Paxton, it's like, hey, I want you to pick me, pick me to go up against

Taloriko. Now, one of my main gripes of the weekend is this notion of somehow knowing

who might be stronger against Taloriko. That is absolutely impossible to know. In a vacuum,

is it possible that the somewhat less conservative option of Corning would earn a crossover vote or

two more than a Paxton would, is there a general conventional wisdom that says that the more conservative

passions that the Republican might draw from for me and more conservative is something that might

lose you a couple of independence. Yes, that can happen, which means you've got a conservative

candidate, better be somebody around whom there is considerable passion and with Paxton there

certainly is. But we also have surrounding Paxton is some people who have said, no way in a million

years am I ever voting for Corning. Now, that is highly unwise. I'll be speaking with those people

between May 27th and November 3rd, because it will be time to unite. Now, are there Corning

people who will simply never vote for Paxton? Of course, there are, because they're as capable of

tantrums as anybody else, but it'll be everybody's job to get over it. And I don't know who gets over

it better or more efficiently or whom I will have to prod harder. You can't go back and re-rack time

and it's it'll be impossible to prove. But enough of this, you know, you somehow know who would be

stronger against Telleriko. I will tell you this, it won't matter if we've got our act together.

If we're not stupid enough to hand a senator's seat to woke Opie because we were all embroiled in

controversies after the runoff. Molly Hemingway was on Fox News Sunday talking about this

Telleriko pitch this supposed appeal of his as being some type of softer, less radical

Democrat. Yeah, I just want to point out really quickly. I'm not sure Democrats are in an

enviable position. People always think maybe we can turn Texas blue. And they just nominated

someone who led the fight to trans children at the state legislature, who believes that

abortuaries should be in every federal court house in the country and that abortionists

should be federal employees. And he said that God is non-binary. This would be difficult to

elect this person in San Francisco. The idea that you would put someone in Texas with these views

is going to be it's going to be very difficult for Democrats. Now it is true that this issue with

the SAVE Act really cuts to the issue in the battle in the Republican Party in Texas.

The establishment very much likes John Kornin. He's been here for a quarter of a century and they

like working with him. The base is very frustrated that he's been oppositional to President Trump.

He has not led the fight on issues that they care about, whether it's the border or election

security. And so they are they are seeming to be behind Ken Paxton. And the fact that John Kornin

couldn't wrap this up to avoid a runoff is a problem. But either way whoever's in there

is going to have no trouble, I think, beating James Telleriko. Now it's funny. Stop talking, stop

talking because overconfidence becomes a worry. No, no, no, no, no. I don't think

under-motivation might be a worry. But I hope to take care of that. All right, well we've

taken care of things today. A couple of other final things to take care of. And I'll exit ramp

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