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I will get to your phone calls here in just a few minutes.

Chris stand by, I do want to talk to you.

And before I get to Chris, though, we got a problem.

We have a Spanish problem.

The president of the United States is not happy with the Spanish.

In fact, a lot of the Europeans aren't happy with the Spanish.

And the Portuguese who have simmering rivalries with the Spanish

have filled the gap.

The Spanish Prime Minister has told the United States,

we're not allowed to use air bases in Spain

for our mid-air refuelers,

many of which were stationed in Spain.

And the president has decided that it is time

to impose sanctions on Spain,

including a trade embargo.

He can't tear off Spain according to the Supreme Court,

but the Supreme Court noted in their decision

that a restricting trade is possible.

The president intends to restrict trade.

He was with the chancellor of Germany yesterday

and the German chancellor said this.

The answer on that is quite simple.

We are trying to convince Spain

to catch up with the 3 percent or 3.5 percent,

which we agreed on in NATO.

And as the president said, it's correct.

Spain is the only one who is not willing to accept that.

And we are trying to convince them

that this is part of our common security

that we all have to comply with this numbers.

And this is 3.5 for military

and another 1.5 for our military infrastructure.

So Spain has to comply with that.

Now, it's not just that.

Here's what's actually going on here.

Spain is run by a far left party

in an alliance with the communists in Spain.

And the Spanish communists have been around for quite a while.

The socialists and communists are in alliance together in Spain.

They're very far left.

They're very anti-Semitic to begin with.

The Spanish Prime Minister's party

has actually sold detonators

and other weaponry to the Iranians.

So part of what we've been battling in Iran

is actually Spanish munitions.

In addition to things from China and Russia,

the Spaniards are deeply anti-Semitic.

In fact, Jews have been leaving Spain over the last number of years

because of the anti-Semitism

festered by the Spanish political party in charge right now.

Spain also has a pretty robust conservative party,

but it had some corruption issues.

Lost the last election.

And Spain is drifting left right now.

So they are deeply hostile to the United States to begin with.

And they're very hostile to Israel as well.

The former Spanish Prime Minister actually went and hung out

with the Ayatollah in Tehran.

We got a Spanish problem.

The Portuguese, God bless them, have stepped into the void.

Now, what you need to know

is that we've had longer continual relationships

with Portugal than almost in the other country.

Portugal has been an American ally since 1791

in diplomatic relations with us unbroken.

Since 1791 we've had diplomatic relations with Portugal.

The Portuguese and the Spanish don't particularly get along.

They have different cultures and languages

sharing the Iberian peninsula together.

And the Portuguese have filled the void.

The Portuguese are allowing us to use Portuguese air bases

including the azeores to be able to land our midair refuelers

and allow them to help the B2s and the B52s

as they fly over to Iran.

So God bless the Portuguese.

Here's Scott Besan on CNBC talking about the deal with Spanish.

Point what we can or a lot of people made the point.

We can do a full embargo,

but we can't tear off something for a dollar.

Now we're hearing maybe that the president

would like to do something with Spain

because of their not cooperating in terms of the effort.

Is something like that possible?

A trade embargo with Spain?

Would you be responsible for that?

Again, it would be a combination effort.

And look, President Trump's frustration

with the Spanish government is justified

that first of all they've been terrible actors.

They are the only NATO member not meeting their NATO requirement

that's known as a free writer.

So the Spanish government is intentionally free writing

all the U.S. government and all the other NATO allies

who have stepped up.

NATO has never been stronger thanks to President Trump.

And the Spanish don't want to pay their fair share.

And they said, well, we've got the pair of knees

between us and Russia.

Well, the U.S. has the Atlantic Ocean.

And we are the largest contributor to NATO.

And then it was unacceptable over the weekend

that the Spanish were highly uncooperative

regarding the U.S. bases and what we could do with our planes

as we began executing the on-operation epic fury.

So anything that the slows down our ability

to engage and prosecute this war

in the fastest, most effective manner

puts American lives at risk.

The Spanish put American lives at risk.

They did, and they don't care,

because the Spanish Prime Minister actually

is more supportive of the Russians than he is of the Americans

and wants to get in bed with the Chinese if he can.

So good for the Portuguese for stepping up.

Now, I want to circle back to the issue of weapons and munitions

because we got to call Chris

this is calling from Oklahoma City,

listening on Freedom 969 there.

I want to talk to Chris about this issue

because I was going to jump there.

Chris, welcome.

Thanks for calling in.

Hi, first time caller, long time listener.

Thanks very much.

What I wanted to tell you, I was an organist

been in the Navy for 10 years.

Call the BB staffer or whatever, but that was my job.

I built and loaded bonds.

I was an ill-sensual California for three years

where I worked at station weapons,

and that was our main job was building bombs.

We built hundreds of bombs on a daily basis.

The difference between regular ordinance

or just a marked 80 series bomb,

which is a, you know, your thousand pound,

two thousand pounders, stuff like that.

They're a lot cheaper to make than your harpoon, your slam.

All these missiles and guided,

any type of ordinance that's guided

or any type of missile is a lot more expensive

than just a regular thousand pound bomb.

That's the reason they're not used.

It's not that we don't have this.

We have stock piles.

We probably got, I'm not sure exactly how many,

I mean, I'm not that high up on the pace kill for that,

but we have plenty and plenty of stock piles

of weapons all over this country

and in other areas of the world.

I mean, for the Democrats or the liberal,

they're just using that as a scare attack.

It's like, oh, no, no, we need to stop it.

No, we have plenty and plenty of ordinance.

Yeah, yeah, okay.

So I'm glad you said that, Chris.

And thank you very much for listening

and for calling in on this.

I got to highlight this for you.

And now he could be fair warning.

I don't think there's any profanity in this,

but I didn't listen to the whole thing,

but it shouldn't.

So Matt Gaetz has become not only deeply antisemitic.

Remember, he left Congress.

He was gonna be the Attorney General,

the Senate Republicans were like, Mr. President,

we're not ever going to support this guy

for the United States Attorney General position.

So now he's at OAN, which is increasingly

deeply antisemitic.

I don't know exactly what the programming choices

there are about or who's funding them,

but he had on Douglas McGregor.

Now, one of the problems with McGregor

is that he's somebody that JD Vance listens to,

which is a concern.

But he, Douglas McGregor, got on with Matt Gaetz

and just had the most buffoonish take on this.

Now, keep in mind, McGregor is one of the people

who has also regularly attacked Ukraine on behalf of Russia

and claimed that Ukraine was losing the war.

We now know today the Russians have themselves admitted

that they have been set back on the battlefield

and lost territory for the first time in two years

to the Ukrainians.

This is McGregor with Matt Gaetz on OAN.

China and Russia are sitting on the sidelines,

monitoring everything.

They're in close touch with the government.

They're providing satellite intelligence,

which accounts for some of the tremendous successes,

particularly in Israel and our US bases,

all of our bases have been destroyed.

Our harbor installations are destroyed.

We're actually having to fall back on India

and Indian ports, which are less than ideal.

That's what the Navy says.

And I just, I think Iran, much to our disappointment

is faring very, very well.

China.

He says we're having to fall back on port in India.

That's not true.

He thinks Iran is very well, that's not true.

He thinks our bases have been destroyed.

That's not true.

This is what, if you're listening, if you watch OAN

and I don't know that anyone watches OAN

in the United States, but if you were,

if you were watching Matt Gaetz put this guy on,

he's painting for you a scenario that's simply not real.

Now, I want to pause and reset with you

on a very important point here.

We live in post-modern times.

And one of the hallmarks of post-modernity

is that everyone has their own truth.

The truth doesn't matter.

What you believe is what matters in post-modernity,

but there are things people believe in post-modernity

that simply are not really true.

Transgenderism could not arise in modernity

when people believe there was an objective truth

because it is not actually biological truth

that a boy can become a girl.

You've got XX or XY chromosomes

that that determines whether you're male or female.

But Douglas MacGregor can go on Matt Gaetz's show

and say that our bases in the Middle East have been destroyed.

Our harbors have been destroyed.

We're relying on India.

And because you're not there,

and he says, well, that's what naval sources tell me,

he hopes you'll believe him.

And one of the other issues of post-modernity

is that we all have our influencers.

The government and the experts

from the government discredit themselves

so you don't believe them.

So you believe these people online.

The Iranians are taking advantage of this

in seeding conspiracy theories

about how they're actually destroying American vessels.

They're destroying American ships.

The Chinese have actually put out AI generated images

of the USS Abraham Lincoln being blown up.

It's simply not true.

But they're hoping that enough people believe it,

enough dumb people on social media believe these things

that they start spreading the rumors in this country

that actually the war is going badly for us.

The Iranians can no longer win the war

so they're trying to win the information war.

And there are enough people on the left

who hate the United States

that they're willing to seed the lies of the Iranian regime.

Be very careful what you're hearing online.

I don't expect you to just adhere to a party line

from the Trump administration.

But with neither the American press corps,

which hates Donald Trump,

nor Donald Trump's administration

is attacking the American war effort

or discrediting the American war effort,

you kind of have the idea

that maybe the American war effort is going well.

The fact that even the Iranians acknowledge

B-52s are in their airspace

and not being shot down as a big red flag

that things are going well for the Iranians.

So what the Iranian fallback position is now is twofold.

One, the Iranians are trying to make the claim

that they've been saving their weapons,

their drones and their missiles

for the Americans running out.

It's not a coincidence you're now beginning to hear

a lot of stories circulating on channels on the internet

being regurgitated by people in the media

as supposedly educated talking heads claiming

we're about out of weapons.

It mirrors the same Iranian talking voice.

These are the same people who peddled the Gaza talking points

about Israel conducting genocide in Gaza.

They're willing to believe the enemy

before they believe the allies.

They're willing to believe the far left

and the communists before they believe

the Jews and the Americans.

When you start hearing people talk about the Iranians

are holding back waiting for us to wipe out our stockpiles.

Maybe you should think, okay?

Why then are we dropping so many gravity bombs

over Iran?

Bombs that we don't have to direct there,

we drop them out of planes.

Why are the Iranians allowing us now to use gravity bombs

to keep blowing up their positions,

blowing up the entrances to the tunnels

where their bombs are,

blowing up the tunnels where the bombs are,

blowing up all their positions.

Why can we do it?

We can do it without with impunity

because the Iranians no longer have the missiles

to launch at us.

They no longer have the drones to launch at us.

They still have some, but not enough.

You gotta think rationally about this stuff

because there are a lot of lies online right now

that are carrying water for the Iranian regime

because they simply do not want the Americans to win

and among them is a contingent of the American left

and media, but I repeat myself,

who they don't care whether we win or lose,

they just want Donald Trump to lose.

And so they're all collectively rooting against America

because they hate Donald Trump.

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Happy to hear from you.

Why now?

Why do this engagement now?

One of the things many Democrats have complained about

is that the President gave the State of the Union

address last Tuesday and I told you

we wouldn't even be talking about it by Friday.

We never do.

But one of the complaints Democrats have been making

over the last 96 hours is that the President

could have explained to the American people

why war with Iran was necessary

and use the State of the Union to do so.

But he didn't.

We now know why he did not use

the State of the Union address.

It is pretty well documented now

and we've got a very interesting piece

in Axios credit to them that essentially

Benjamin Netanyahu reached out to the President

of the United States and said we know

we know when they are going to

that the Iranian leadership is going to

meet together in person.

It's gonna be Saturday.

It has been arranged.

The Israelis had deep intelligence

and they went to the President said

if you want to decapitate

the head of the snake,

you need to engage now

and the President said okay.

And the President of the United States

decided to

act against Iran

and decided not to mention Iran

in the State of the Union address

because he didn't want to tip them off.

He wanted to continue the cover of negotiations.

The President now says that the Iranians

the entire time were bragging about

how much enriched uranium they had

and they weren't gonna give it up.

We offered them free unlimited nuclear power

for eternity basically and they said no.

They bragged about the amount of uranium they had

that was already enriched enough for weapons

and what you need to understand

this is very important for you to understand this.

The Iranians went into the negotiations

with the Trump administration,

Steve Woodcoff and Jared Kushner

and treated them like they treated John Kerry

with the Biden administration

and before that the Obama administration.

John Kerry was one of the point people

as both Secretary of State

and as an outside person brought in by Biden again

to talk to the Iranians

and what we know from those based on lots of leaks

is that the Iranians would come in,

stop their feet, make demands

and John Kerry would accede to them.

The Iranians didn't update the playbook

for the Trump administration.

They went into the administrative negotiations.

They negotiated like they did with John Kerry

and the Trump administration said,

well fine, we'll blow you up instead.

And they did.

This is the President of the United States.

And they had no problems with it.

Also hitting only civilian places, hotels

and apartment buildings

and we're hitting them

where it is much more appropriate.

We're hitting them very hard.

And the big scale heading goes now.

They no longer have air protection.

They no longer have any detection facilities

at all left.

And so they're going to be in for a lot of hurt.

These are bad people.

These are people that killed.

I guess it's 35,000.

It's coming out 35,000 over the last three weeks.

Protesters, 35,000 violently killed.

So these are bad people.

And the leader of the pack is gone.

And as you know, 49 people were taken out

in the first hit.

And I guess there was another hit today

on the new leadership.

And it looks like that was pretty substantial also.

So they're getting hit very hard.

And we'll see what happens.

A lot of people are coming forward.

A lot of the people you would least suspect

want to quit.

They want to have immunity.

They're asking for immunity.

And probably at some point, they'll

be dropping, as you would say, laying down their guns.

We'll see what happens.

In the meantime, we'll just continue

to go forward.

Our military is a number.

Listen, we do know the chatter among the Iran.

You have to first let me back up here.

The Iranian army is separate from the Iranian Revolutionary

Guard Corps.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

is made up of the true believers

of the elite families of Iran who

are dedicated to propping up the regime.

The Iranian army simply functions

as an ancillary service around the country

to maintain law and orders like a glorified police force.

They're the ones who actually fight to the wars

while the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

stands behind the scenes pulling the strings.

The army in their guard corps

appear to be at odds right now with members

of the army signaling they're ready to surrender

before a land war starts.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the true believers,

however, now a little more here because some of what Marco

Rubio said the other day was exerted intentionally

by people to claim that Israel provoked

the United States into this war.

This is Marco Rubio reclarifying that he did not

say what people are claiming he said.

No.

Iran was going to get it.

Yeah, you're statement as far.

So that's not what I was asked very specifically.

Are you there yesterday?

Yes, I am.

OK.

No, did you?

Were you the one that asked me a question?

Did we go in because of Israel?

And I said, you were asking me, are you from the follow-up?

And I said, no.

I told you this had to happen anyway.

The president made a decision.

And the decision he made was that Iran

was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ballistic

missile program.

That Iran was not going to be allowed

to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks.

That decision had been made.

The president made a decision to systematically

destroy this terrorist capability that they had.

We carried that out.

I was very clear in that answer.

This was a question of timing.

Of why this had to happen is a joint operation.

Not the question of the intent.

Once the president made a decision that negotiations were

not going to work, that they were playing us on the negotiations

and that this was a threat that was untenable,

that the decision was made to strike them.

That's what I said yesterday.

And you guys need to play it.

And if you're going to play these statements,

you need to play the whole statement.

Not slipping to reach an narrative that you want to do, all right?

He's right.

And a lot of people made that snippet.

And so now the president has been asked about this.

And this is the president's statement.

Is Israel forced your hand to launch these strikes against Iran?

No, it's a real force your hand.

No, I might have forced their hand.

You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics.

And it was my opinion that they were going to attack first.

They were going to attack.

If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first.

I felt strongly about that.

And we have great negotiators, great people.

People that do this very successfully.

And have done it all their lives very successful.

And based on the way the negotiation was going,

I think they were going to attack first.

And I didn't want that to happen.

So if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand.

But Israel was ready.

And we were ready.

And we've had a very, very powerful impact.

So the president of the United States

disputing the talking point himself

that Israel induced us into doing this.

It's just remarkable how so many people want to blame Israel

for all this.

The reason we did it at the time we did it

is because Benjamin Netanyahu let the president know

that all of Iran's leadership would be

meeting with the Ayatollah.

They had been tipped off.

And they decided to attack.

That's why.

We are seeing a lot of people display how anti-Semitic they

are and how anti-American they are

and how many of them are in it for clicks.

I mentioned yesterday, I'm just, I'm, I got to tell you,

I think the criticisms against Megan Kelly

for her statements about our troops who got killed.

The criticism is on point.

Plame, they somehow died for Israel's war.

This is not Israel's war.

The Iranians have since 1979 as I documented for you

yesterday for 15 solid straight minutes

have been killing Americans since 1979.

Marco Rubio made a point yesterday.

I don't have the audio of it.

But essentially he said that Iran was on the verge

of having a non-nuclear capability that would exceed

our ability to take it out.

They have built so many missiles and so many drones

that they had the effect of being

able to rain downhill on their enemies

without the reciprocal ability to stop it.

And before they got to that point,

we needed to stop them.

We knew it was coming in addition to them bragging about

the amount of enriched uranium they already had.

They had the capability for 11 nuclear weapons.

Now, I want to throw into this, this audio here.

This is a self-declared communist.

She has purple barista hair.

And I want you to listen to this.

There is a Holocaust right now on Muslims.

And the equivalent of the Pope, Diatola, has been murdered.

It doesn't matter what you think of Diatola.

It is a psychological warfare on Muslims.

The attack on Iran is the Holocaust expanding

to a new territory.

It's an attack on Muslims.

It's an attack on the Muslim faith.

It is a spiritual attack.

I, myself, I am living energies and stuff like that.

I'm not exactly religious, but I do understand

that this is a big deal.

This is a big deal.

Diatola has now become a symbol, become a symbol of resistance.

And what the imperialist West thought,

what was going to happen, that people whose faith,

people that would be feel hopeless,

has done the exact opposite.

Diatola was slain in his duties.

He was in his office doing work, not hiding out in the open,

working for his people.

And he was slain.

He is now a martyr.

He is now a symbol of resistance.

And he will be seen that way.

And this makes for a new wave of radicalized youth

for the better.

This is good.

I mean, it's not good that he died,

but he wanted to go that way.

He wanted to go that way on his own terms.

It is an honorable death.

It is just very confusing why people are celebrating

his death in a way that it reminds me of like,

people celebrating Stalin's death or like Lenin's death,

where it's like, no, the USSR will continue.

It's fight against imperialism.

It is the revolution, the Islamic revolution.

It's not a man.

It is not a man.

It is a people.

And people that come on here and say that he was killing

communists and things like that.

He needs to look out history,

because Trotsky was a communist.

And he wanted to overthrow the USSR.

He wanted to keep revolutionizing the USSR.

While it was at war, Iran has always been at war

with the West always.

Since it's beginning,

we cannot go through another revolution

until the West has fallen.

And communists that aren't working with the state

that are working against the state or enemies.

They're not understanding that the Islamic revolution

is fighting the West.

That's how I reconcile with that.

Hopefully in the future, it does go towards

a more socialist system.

And it is what I see free housing, things like that,

taking care of its people, education for everyone,

education for women, was that before the revolution?

I think 30% were illiterate.

Now, I think it's almost 100%.

That's an actual communist justifying the Iranian revolution

has no sense of history with her purple breeze to hear

that would not be allowed in Iran.

I've told you this before, the communist allied

with the Ayatollah regime in the 1970s to house the Shah.

And when the Shah was ousted and the Ayatollah

came back, the Ayatollah systemically exterminated

the communists inside Iran.

They were all either chased out or killed.

This woman were she to go to Iran,

the Ayatollah would kill her.

She doesn't understand that.

And if she did, she so deluded, it sounds like so brainwashed

and indoctrinated by communism.

She would think she was dying for a righteous cause.

To advance the Ayatollah regime,

we have people like this in this country.

And then we have the social media grifters on the right

who are blaming the Jews because they get clicks.

And you've got to understand this.

My Twitter account is monetized.

I don't make a lot of money on Twitter.

I turned it on and people recirculate me.

I'm gonna make some off of it.

But there are people making thousands of dollars

a month on social media.

I am not making that much.

There are people making thousands of dollars on social media

by saying and sendering things by design

to get a rise out of people.

And when I see people on the right who have podcasts

who are making this about the Jews and blaming the Jews,

all I can think is either they're just trying to make money

or they've been captured by their audience.

They don't want to lose their audience

by telling their audience the truth.

I am not captured by my audience.

I get hate mail from a lot of you all the time,

but you tune in because you never know what I'm gonna say.

There are people who are so scared of losing

their audience that their audience has now started shaping

their opinions and their audience is nuts.

And so they become nuts.

They become bitter, they become anti-Semitic.

And they're willing to cheapen the deaths

of American soldiers as a talking point

to be able to blame the Jews

because they've been captured by their audience.

And they think that's what their audience wants to hear.

I just wanna tell you the truth.

I wanna keep you entertained.

My job's entertained you, really.

But I wanna tell you the truth.

I don't wanna entertain you by lying to you

as some of these people are doing.

On the left and the right now,

willful lies whether it scares about the munitions

of the United States and our ability to wage war

or downplaying who the Iatala was or blaming the Jews.

There are a whole lot of people who are invested

in lying to you, to whip you into a frenzy,

to keep you in perpetual anxiety

with them as the only tonic to your anxiety.

And I just think that's abusive.

And I don't wanna be a part of it.

And when I hear a communist like this

who is so indoctrinated,

I hear the echoes of the grifters on the right as well

who have become so indoctrinated

and captured by their audience.

They wouldn't know the truth if they did them anymore.

Welcome back here.

Here's in here 877-977-37425.

If you want to be on the program,

I would be happy to have you very happy to have you.

We have some interesting data on the housing market,

which is kind of what I think you and I have suspected

one of the biggest problems in the housing market now

is that people are living in their starter homes

far longer than anticipated in large part

because they have a 1% mortgage on their starter home,

a 3% mortgage on their starter home.

They don't wanna go get a 5% or 6% starter

on a bigger house.

And the result is that the people who are living

in their starter homes for life now

are hogging the market for people

and we gotta find economic incentives

to get people to move out of those starter homes

for the young.

What's wild to me though,

are the number of people I know

who grew up in the 70s and 80s

and their parents always lived in the same house.

That they never moved to a bigger house.

But then somehow in the 80s and 90s,

as our economy grew and people got wealthier,

they would buy bigger houses as the family grew.

I would love to buy bigger houses.

I got a check and see if I won the lottery last night.

Or did I have a long lost dead relative,

die and leave me everything.

What would love to live on a lot of land

with a big house, just not there yet.

But our interest rate is so good.

On our present house, I would struggle to give it up.

And that's what a lot of people are doing.

And the result is that young people

who are getting married are being forced to rent.

But also, there's something else in it.

And I want to spend a little bit of time

on this later in the show.

But have you noticed, I don't think it's a coincidence.

As the trans movement has begun to collapse

in this country, growing body of data

that basically, if you are in ninth grade or younger now,

there is no one in your class anymore.

How it identifies this trans,

you all think it's nonsense.

There is also, at the same time,

this growing media movement to tell women,

you don't need kids, having kids are bad.

So we've gone from trying to sterilize kids

to just trying to convince women

not to get married and have kids.

It's all about population control.

It's deeply malthusian.

Well, all of this has happened.

We've got the economic turmoil out there

with people trying to get into houses.

They can't with interest rates the way they are.

Swiss America's been warning people about this

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They would love to build a relationship

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