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The no Kings protests over the weekend looked to me like there were a lot more people attending now than there were earlier in the year. What does that mean? Do the Democrats have momentum going into the November midterm? I'm not sure. I'm Booker. This is the truth be told. And as always on Mondays we have Matt Palombo Matt. Welcome back into the program. Great to have you. Good to be back as always. Did you pay attention to the no Kings protests over the weekend? Well, I woke up this morning and noticed that we don't have a king.

So I guess they were successful. Yeah, it's odd to me that these people that are doing this don't even realize that if we had a king they couldn't be doing what they're doing. But concerning to me is the amount of people that were there. There were over 3,100 of these no Kings protests across the country. And it to me it looked like they're far more organized than they were last March when they had the first ones. We talked about it then. Yeah. And it honestly did surprise me because I believe this is the third one. Yeah. Just going to

repeat the same protests every month. And I would have assumed it would have won the other direction. We're just kind of fizzled out. But there does seem to be a lot of enthusiasm coming from the left. There are a lot of. And also this is, you know, the worst news is that independence do seem to be breaking left by significant margins. And that there were some special elections recently in Florida that I will talk about where you know Republicans had, you know, say a five to 10 point advantage in registration.

And they were turning out. It's just that the independence were breaking Democrat by a very, very large margin enough to out to out weigh that. So it definitely is not, you know, great news to see. And you know, I hate to be saying this, but I think we need to be realistic in terms of, you know, where things are trending.

Well, you and I both are very negative when it comes to the House of Representatives in the November midterm. We both say the same thing though. There's a lot of time between now and then things can change.

People can get activated. They need to have some sort of fear, I believe. There's nothing to energize the base on the right right now. And I've said this a lot, Matt, when it comes down to it over the last four or five election cycles, it's been the border. And it's been abortion. And both of those things have really been solved. And now we have a DHS is still no longer funded. The Senate came together with something. The House quickly rejected it. And then they go on vacation for two weeks.

Yeah, they're calling it a Republican shutdown. When every single Democrat is voted to keep the government shut down and ever repumping to keep it open. So, um, and that, though, that they're, you know, the losing all narrative framing still doesn't seem to matter, though, because the mainstream media will just pick it up and spread it. And the sort of normy and slow information voter is just buy it up. So, you know, they're very depressing to see.

And a lot of the no-kins things like I love these give credit for not being, you know, as crazy and violent as the anti-foot people. Yeah, but you look at the interviews with them and they they really don't have any idea what's going on. Like it is like we're living in two different realities.

Yeah, yeah, correct. They are very low information. They only get their news from one source. We know what that source is. And it's not very good for actually delivering the truth and what is really happening. And that's the world that they live in. And it's two different worlds. And I've got a clip from Cory Booker where he addressed that. And I'll get to that in a few minutes. I think he's running for president. I think that's what this clip is about. But let's go to this clip because this is a reporter asking speaker Mike Johnson on Friday.

Something that I believe all of us feel, regardless of whether we're Democrat, Republican or independent. I think we all feel the way this reporter felt when he asked this question.

And it didn't. And I think that question was spot on. Everybody is sick of these Republicans and the Democrats coming to the podium and pointing the finger. The other way we need solutions. We have a Department of Homeland Security that is shut down the only part of the government that is shut down now, which by the way, it's the longest government shutdown in American history over 44 days. Now TSA did get paid on Monday.

Thanks to Donald Trump doing an executive order. That's their first paycheck in a long time. In fact, since the government shut down last November, they have not been paid more than they have been paid if you pay attention to the people calling in sick and not working in these airports across the country. The numbers are phenomenal 25 30% are calling in every day. And they're not going to work when we have a war with the world's largest

terrorist state in Iran going on right now over in the Middle East. We're very vulnerable and the people that we need to protect us on the planes are not going to work. And I put out a post over the weekend about this. And I really just said, you know, after COVID, and we started flying again, that TSA was deemed essential workers. And they are essential every day. But somehow we can't even pay them and take care of them. It's time to take care of the Matt.

Yeah. Um, I mean, I'm tore on a TSA in that they are obviously essential and shouldn't be getting paid, but it is one part of government. I think would function way better if it was privatized in that like there are, I think 70 or so airports in the US that have privatized airport security and it runs way faster than TSA does. So I was kind of a separate discussion. Obviously, I'm pro, you know, funding those and paying those who are currently working.

But I do think the whole system needs an overhaul, though, not like this is going to lead to that or anything, but I thought it was worth noting.

Have you heard a representative John or Jim banks? I'm sorry, representative Jim banks of Indiana. I think the guy should be out front a whole lot more for the Republicans. Here's what he had to say on this government shutdown and about the Democrats.

If you're in an airport and you see these long lines, but you better be, you better know, I think most of them do know it's Democrats and Chuck Schumer that are causing the long lines at airports. And it's because they hate ice officers. They don't just want to defund the police. They want to eliminate ice and the federal law enforcement that's that's deporting violent criminals off of our streets. I mean, this is wild. If you think about it, that that's Democrats top priority. They want to tie President Trump's hands in a row.

To take out a terrorist. We're in a fight with the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. And at the same time, the Democrats have shut down the Department of Homeland Security at home, which makes us less safe. So that's the Democrats priority yesterday as well on the Save America Act. These crazy Democrats, every single one of them voted against a bill to keep boys out of girls sports. I mean, that's a radical and crazy. The Democrats are, I hope we can get Department of Homeland Security reopen this week because it's going to be a great deal.

Because you have so many families who are traveling over spring break. You see these long lines. It's going to affect a lot of people, but it's the dinner.

And there is more finger pointing there from Jim Banks. But I think we are paying way too much attention to the noise. I see this on social media. And I think it's reflected in the way that people are not going to vote when you're a Republican.

What has caused us many races all the way back to November. We've talked about it. And you mentioned those Florida races. Let's talk about that right now because you had the representative for the area of Mar-a-Lago that actually flipped to a Democrat.

And this was a couple of weeks ago. And then there was another race for state Senate in Tampa area where I am. And that was also flipped from a Democrat to the Republican.

You see this repeatedly in all of these races. Republicans are not going to vote. I think a part of it, Matt, is that we're too caught up in all of the noise and the noise being things like the Epstein files, things like whether we should be in Iran or not.

But those things, and Donald Trump, he did say that we're not going to have any more foreign wars. I think this is an offensive measure. And we're going to talk about Iran in the second segment.

But I believe it's an offensive measure so that we don't have to be defensive later. That's the way I see this. But I think it's a lot of noise. I think if you go back 15, 16 months ago, Donald Trump is 14 months into this 47th presidency.

If you go back then and I tell you that in a year, Donald Trump will have completely shut down the border, not allowing any legal immigrants in for nine months in a row.

And if prior to the government shutdown last year, GDP was at 4.3%. Wage growth was out. It was much higher than inflation. Inflation was steady at about 2.7%.

When the top two things in the election of 2024 in November were the border and the economy, everybody would be ecstatic about the job that Donald Trump had done at that point.

And because of the Epstein files, because of Iran, because of all of these other things, which I called noise, we're not paying attention to the fact that if we lose this election in November, the Senate and the House, the House doesn't look good. The Senate's questionable.

And then in 28, we lose the presidency and they have all of them. We're going to get everything that we don't want. And that's the fight that we're in, where we're against vaccine mandates. Remember, they wanted to do that. They wanted to censor your speech with a misinformation board. All of that's going to be coming back. So by listening to the noise and not going to vote, we're costing ourselves and we're creating the very thing that we don't want or don't need in this country.

Yeah, the thing you have to realize is like consider the counterfactual. Like if you're the position where you say, okay, we deported, let's say a million people last year, I think it should have been three or four million or whatever.

Okay, obviously everyone wants the number to be higher, but if Biden was to let off this, we were taking in at least two million a year.

So that's a difference of three million illegals per year. And that's a difference of basically one percent of the entire population increasing just because of illegal aliens every year. It's a massive difference.

And, you know, that's going to compound over decades and so on and so forth. So, you know, just to remember that despite that, you know, any things you might not be happy about with Trump, it would be so much worse if the Democrats were in power.

It is sad that voters attention spans seems to be, you know, the past week or so, but that's kind of where we're at. When it comes to Iran, I agree.

I do think it is a temporary offensive measure to, you know, end up saving us money time lives in the future. Obviously, Iran does want to be a nuclear power despite some liberals who bizarrely deny that.

But I do think the talk of boots on the ground and, you know, $200 billion to fight is going to scare a lot of people.

And I want to get into the boots on the ground here in the second segment. I want to get in dive into deeper into that. But I'm more concerned about this midterm election and the way people are really not paying attention to what's most important because what is most important is to keep us from going back to where we were when Joe Biden allowed 10 to 15 million e-legals into this country when he tried to censor our speech when he worked with big tech to do that.

Those are the things that we don't want to go back to that we can't go back to. We just can't. And if we don't energize ourselves to go out and vote, then that's exactly what we're going to get, unfortunately.

And we have to remember that. We have to remember how bad it was coming through those four years. And I think we're losing focus. And I don't know that the RNC and the GOP really has a good ground game.

But it doesn't seem to me like they do. I spoke to the head of the RNC this last week, Joe Grooters. I speak to him quite frequently. We send messages back and forth. I'm not convinced that they have anything in place to make a difference.

I think going back to Susie Wiles and Donald Trump and what they talked about probably two months ago, her big plan is to get Donald Trump out on the trail.

But I just don't think it's enough though. You know, it has to be more than about a man in rallies. It needs to be about substance.

Well, it should be more, but it's, you know, when Trump is on the ballot, probably can do a lot better. And that is a mobilizing force with a right.

I mean, a lot of the people that voted for Trump in 2024 that pushed him across the line were people who were, a lot of them were not Republicans.

They're people who just like Trump. I mean, I think Trump is the only Republican in history to get more than 50% of a minority racial demographics vote.

He got Hispanic men by I think 52%. And it's a group that normally goes 60, 70% Democrats. So there are like unique attributes of Trump where people who normally would not vote Republican will only vote for him.

He definitely does help to get him out. But yes, I agree. We want to be, you know, we want our ideology to be winning. It makes the job a lot easier.

And when it comes to the RNC versus DNC, the fact that I think it's like 80 or 90% right now, the Democrats are famous to take back the house. But the RNC has, I think it's over $100 million cash on a hand.

If it's not over 100 millions, they high, you know, tens of millions, the DNC I believe is actually in debt. It has very well.

They're broke. They're broke. And they're still beating us. So I, you know, I don't know if they're planning on spending any of the money any time soon. But I think it would probably be a felt that this exact moment.

Do you think Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and the divide that they are creating will also have an effect on it, because I see that on social media.

And I know that social media is a completely different thing than the real world. But I also wonder if in the real world, people are just tired of it. Like that reporter asked Mike Johnson.

Why do you keep blaming each other coming to this podium, Democrats and Republicans saying the same thing? I think the populace, they're just tired of it. And maybe that's the case with the Republicans not showing up. But I think Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, they do have some responsibility in what we're seeing.

Yeah, I mean, I hate people who think everything is a side up, but it does feel like a side off that all these people in unison are pushing basically the exact same narratives about Trump and sort of encouraging Republicans to stay home and public is pushing the sort of like third world this propaganda, whereas I don't know if they actually are being paid off, but it wouldn't surprise me if they are.

When it comes to the internet versus real life, I know Tucker had that guy and he's running for governor of Florida, I think it's causing his fish back on his show to promote him.

And I think within a week of the interview, his campaign raised like $1,000 or something. So, you know, that that would leave you to believe the internet certainly is not real life, although I will say, speaking from people I know in real life, the Iran.

And strike for a lot of people that I know did seem to be sort of a breaking point of, okay, now I'm disappointed in Trump. Now I'm not going to turn up for them in terms.

Although, you know, I'm talking about a number of people I can count on on two hands, but I will say that is the only real thing I've seen that has caused people to attract from Trump.

And that just happened. We are now into the second month. And these elections that we're talking about, they go back to November, November in Virginia.

Yeah, that's where all of this started where the Republicans were not showing up to vote. Now add on top of that, what you just mentioned about Iran striking or America striking Iran and Donald Trump making that decision, the gas prices are up to $4 on average now. And that is what people are concerned about.

I want to go back to the area of Palm Beach County, Florida, Mar-a-Lago. We mentioned that race that took place a couple of weeks ago. Well, a volunteer who participated in a training session at the Palm Beach County at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office was arrested Sunday morning. His name was John Panicci. And he was taken into custody on the 28th of March following an investigation into the theft of an encrypted access key from a voter registration terminal at the Elections Office.

Now the incidents occurred during a volunteer training session on March 19th, which was five days before that election, that special election that the Democrat won, according to the detectives, Panicci stole the encrypted access key during the training at the Elections Office on Cherry Road there in Palm Beach. And so they tell us that there's none of this going on. Yet this guy got arrested. I don't think it had anything to do with this election because that access key was only for training.

However, they say with that access key, somebody could reverse engineer to be able to gain access to the electronics on election day.

Yeah, so it went with this access could he change the vote totals manually? Like is that kind of the conclusion of what he could do? It's so then then the Democrats have something up his sleeve after we give what I did. Right, then this was something that took place in a election that was at one by 800 votes by the Democrat, but it was not for this election.

It was a training access key. The point they're making is that he that somebody with technical knowledge could reverse engineer to do exactly what you just said.

I mentioned Cory Booker. Let's let's go to him. He's a senator from New Jersey, a Democrat, and typically he's full of it. And he is really full of it on this one, but it sounds to me like he's setting up a run for the president. Here he is.

Look, I'm proud of so many things that my Democratic colleagues are doing, but as a whole, our party has failed this moment. It's why I've called for new leadership in America.

I've called for a generational renewal because this left right divide is killing our country and our adversaries know it. They come onto our social media and try to whip up hate in America.

That is one of our biggest crises. It is time for a new vision of our country that's far more uniting that brings people together doesn't deepen divides.

I really believe this is a time where we need new leadership, new moral imagination to pull our country together because the challenges on the horizon,

aren't just this current crisis that Trump has caused. He shouldn't be the main character of our narrative right now.

We have real challenges from new technologies like AI and robotics, new challenges that we need more unity in our country and a reminder that we are not each other's enemies.

In fact, our ability to find common ground has always been our greatest hope.

I think he made a point there that I want to go back to and that is the Democrat party has to quit blaming and putting everything at Donald Trump because Donald Trump's not going to be around forever.

And that strategy is going to be worthless for them in the future unless they stand for something and they really don't and everything else that Cory Booker said is just bull.

Yeah, I agree the Democrats probably need new leadership, which means no one who's even remotely like Cory Booker or anyone currently in the party.

So I guess I can't have any suggestions there.

I was going to say next. No, the common ground thing.

Yeah, I'm all for common ground with people who have shared morals with me, but maybe have a different approach for how to get there.

That is not the divide we have in this country right now that the people who want to generally mutilate top there is the name of transgenderism and have men fighting against women and want to push anti white propaganda and racial quotas and racial hysteria like I actually don't want to find common ground with them.

But there are certain people in politics that we should just defeat straight up. I mean, I'm sure you know what it comes to saying Democrats over many are left.

Yeah, sure I'll do that or the so called moderates if they exist, but most of the people on the left, you know, the type like Cory Booker, the sort of like feeder kid types who are always you always see on social media who are clearly just trying to get a sound bite like I would actually prefer to not have to work with them.

Yeah, no, I agree with you on that. We're going to have more of this conversation continue in just a minute. Let's talk about Iran is coming up more truth in minutes on America out loud talk radio.

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And welcome back to the truth be told I'm Booker Scott alongside Matt Palombo. It is Monday's with Matt. Remember you can find all of the books that Matt has written books like spygate that he wrote with Dan Bon Gino, the man behind the curtain about George Soros is latest the air about Alex Soros.

We find all of those at Amazon just put Matt Palombo's name in the search bar in those books will come up Matt. Well, let's change the conversation into a ran. We got into it a little bit in the first segment.

But as you mentioned, people are not happy about the boots on the ground thing and what are you hearing there?

Well, not much on the headlines, unfortunately, I'm hoping it's not a serious proposal or something that's just a rumor because you know once we put boots on the ground, it, you know, how long you think it's going to last is probably going to last 10 times longer than that at least.

So I think that would be a sort of point of no return, even if it's pitched as a sort of briefing. So that has been very, very concerned.

You know, at first when it's just we're going to wake out leadership and then hope the public sort of rises up. I was much more on board with this is much more objective.

Well, I know and I think it's a narrative. Everybody loves talking about boots on the ground.

But let's take this thing and look at it objectively in the Iranian military between the reservist and the full time military.

You have 950,000 members. Right now, America has about 5,000 Marines that have made their way to the area and there's talk of the 82nd Airborne having 3000 on standby. That's 8000.

If there is any type of boots on the ground, it is nothing like what people fear. It may be some special operations. It may be that they're going to go to some islands to help keep the straight of hormones open.

But it's not going to be a ground war game. It just doesn't make sense. I mentioned this last week with you that back in desert shield and then desert storm.

It took months to build up the force that was in Saudi Arabia, which was 500,000 Americans.

That is a real ground war. I guess people your age, they don't remember that or they don't know the history and none of that is taking place right now.

Back when it did, when that did happen in 91, it was on the news every night because everybody knew somebody that was being called up.

It was a big deal because it had been 25 years since Vietnam at the time.

That's not happening. That's not what we're seeing here. It's a narrative and it's part of that noise that I was talking about in that first segment.

People are falling for it. You can't do anything with 8,000 people. By the way, how many are stationed in Europe right now?

Somewhere between 80 and 100,000 by the way, two years ago, we moved 20,000 US troops right in the Poland, Ukraine border.

People don't talk about that, but it happened. I don't think 8,000 is going to do anything other than maybe a special operation, maybe hopping on an island and helping to open the street of four moves, which needs to be done where at $4 a gallon of gas.

We have this negotiation going on and I've spent time on it on the show without you and we talked about it last week.

I'm not sure. I guess last week when we did our show, we were still under that 48 hours and now we've extended it. Donald Trump has to 10 days of more negotiating and there's 15 points of the framework for America.

There are three big things that I don't necessarily agree with that Iran would get at least in what has been leaked. Have you seen those, Matt?

Educate me.

Okay, well, one of them is all the sanctions are lifted and that's bothersome and of course they can throw it back on.

And another part of it is they're going to remove the snapback, which the snapback was part of Obama's negotiation that if Iran stepped over the line didn't do what they were supposed to be doing, then it snapped back to all the sanctions back into place.

That is what's being leaked as part of the negotiation. Meanwhile, Donald Trump negotiated with them prior to last June when we went after the nuclear sites.

He did the same thing and they kept lying and they're lying again this time. That's what Iran does and they are aggressively going after Arab nations.

And I see a lot of conversation about well, it's a regional war now. It still is not a regional war. Do you see it as a regional war because I don't.

Well, I mean, technically, it's not a war just yet. I guess it's sort of in a preliminary stage, depending on how it goes. So no, I guess I don't see it the way yet.

Well, let me say the Houthis jumped in from Yemen over the weekend. And so some of the people talking on television on Sunday, we're talking about this is no doubt a regional war.

I would push back and say it isn't. It's Iran against everybody else just because his bowl and Lebanon is bombing Israel and you have the Houthis in Yemen bombing Israel and other places.

It means nothing because they are proxies of Iran. That has been the problem from the beginning. They are not other nations in a regional conflict. All the other nations around Iran are against Iran.

So this is not a regional conflict or a regional war. And speaking of a war, you have 60 days from the start of this. We're 30 plus days into this now.

Donald Trump has to do something within 30 days to go back to Congress because of the War Powers Act.

Yes, I'm wondering if we should read into the fact the deadline keeps going to push back. Is this because they're not, you know, are we bluffing them with some sort of consequences and they're not going along.

So we have to extend it to save face or is it because the negotiations are actually getting made and we're just hiring out the details. That's why don't you have an obviously no one knows.

I can't tell who we're negotiating with. Right. And you have this foreign minister that's out there saying one thing and there's a negotiation going on. There isn't a negotiation.

We get 10 tankers of oil. Where are they? Whatever you do. Don't bring them to a port in America because I would think they're booby trapped. I wouldn't take any of those into America. Send them somewhere else.

But that was the big gift that Donald Trump mentioned last Tuesday and then he came out Thursday and said that we're getting 10 tankers of oil from Iran.

And in the middle of all of this is Pakistan negotiating this. I think Egypt is involved as well. Now Pakistan is in their own war with Afghanistan.

So it's a whole mass over there. And I don't see this lasting long. I think what will happen because I mentioned this last week when we were together and I want to say it again because there is not an oil production problem.

When this is over and when the straightforward moves is opened up, you're going to see a barrel of oil probably drop down to 50 bucks a barrel. And you're going to see the inflation drop.

You may see the federal reserve have to lower interest rates, which will boom the economy. All of those things are coming when this is over. I still say that it's going to be over quickly.

I know that you agreed with me on that before. Do you still feel that way or do you think or since this is going somewhere else?

Well, one of those things where I desperately want to believe it all and quickly.

I'll just kind of pretend that's true. If not put a I really do hope so. I mean, listen, Trump is not a dumb guy.

He knows what the consequences to him and the Republicans would be for a prolonged conflict. So if it does end up being prolonged, I assume that was not the plan going in.

No, I agree with that because you do have the midterm that we talked about in the first segment. That is coming up. And if this continues, that's not a good thing for the midterm.

In fact, if it continues, I would say that the Democrats will win 60 of those house races. It will be just like Obama in 2010 with the Tea Party, which was the most that was ever lost 65 seats.

It would be equivalent to that, I believe, Matt.

Yeah, it would be pretty rural.

So I think probably I'm trying to lose any 30 or 35 with yourself is pretty bad.

But you know, the thing is no laws are getting passed anyway. I think it was just the Lincoln O'Reilly Act.

It's really the only piece of legislation we've gotten through from remembering correctly.

So we control all three, we control the House and Senate already and aren't getting anything done.

So if we have the Senate, but not the House, is anything really going to change that much versus scenario? I mean, obviously we'd prefer to have the seats as opposed to not having them.

But already nothing's getting done there anyway. So I guess on the bright side won't change much, even though it's unfortunate to have to say that.

You're going to get impeachments. That's what's going to change that will happen.

Time suck. But I will say I would rather the Democrats waste time with impeachment showboding than whatever like sinister pieces of legislation they're going to try to unfold.

But yes, it is going to be disastrous news cycle.

And this is something I wanted to talk about there in the first segment when we were talking about the elections and what the Republicans need to do.

Because I think this is really important right now because of the DHS shut down and TSA not getting paid Coast Guard not getting paid.

I think that the Republicans need to consider that had they passed a reconciliation before September 30th of 2025, none of this would be happening. None of it.

That is their responsibility to pass 12 appropriations prior to September 30th for the next fiscal year.

I say that to say this. That has to be done by the Republicans right now in the next four months.

They have to pass all 12 appropriations put them in one reconciliation bill and it needs to be done before September 30th or the government will shut down.

The Democrats will keep it shut down until after the midterm election. And then you're looking at losing 65 seats in the house.

It has to be done that way. And by the way, with reconciliation. And I know some people push back on me on this.

I believe that there is a creative way to sneak the save act into the reconciliation.

Now the bird rule makes something like the save act without any budgetary increases or decreases. You can't do that.

However, there was a 2002 law. Hava that was passed coming out of the 2001 election down in Florida with Gore and Bush.

That does give money to the states that is a budgetary item. And I believe that if you put a budget with the save act, there's a possibility to be creative and included in the reconciliation.

And you pass it with 51 that way and you don't have to get 60, nuke the filibuster to a standing filibuster, any of those things.

So I think it's very important that the Republicans get all of that done in a reconciliation before September 30th or we're going to see more of what we're seeing, which is continuing resolutions and more government shutdowns and a huge loss in the midterm.

Let's get back to Iran though. Let's talk about the Iran foreign minister. I mentioned him and I don't know who's in charge.

This guy has never been in charge. He almost reminds me of what was his name Baghdad Bob. Do you remember him?

Oh, yeah, he was funny. I remember it like it was yesterday. Maybe a lot of the people listening to Baghdad Bob would come on the television on CNN and he would talk about how great Iraq was doing in the war.

And right behind him were bombs falling and blowing up and the hotel collapsed with him and but that's what this Iran foreign minister is like.

He was on meet the press this weekend and here is a little bit of that.

How do you go back to doing business with countries you're sending drones into and hitting civilian targets?

Obviously, these are the countries who have even day soil to American forces to attack us.

So what can we do with just sit and watch that Americans are American forces are attacking us from day soil and the drones are going into civilian areas and hitting plants and hotels and civilians?

No, no, this is not the fact. We are only targeting American assets, American installations, American military bases.

If that is true, then their aim sucks because they are hitting a lot of residential areas, hotels and buildings in, you know, in work areas.

So maybe their aim sucks or maybe he's just lying. He's a propagandist. What do you think about what he had to say?

Is he the one that the CIA is spreading rumors as gay or is that?

No, that's the guy that's allegedly in charge with no legs.

I just love that our CIA is now doing middle school rumors. I think it's hilarious.

A little more noise, I think this is noise. I don't know if you saw this over the weekend, but a third aircraft carrier is headed to the area. Did you hear that?

I did not, but I believe you.

Well, it is true that a third one is and that feeds this narrative that this thing is escalating.

Let me clear this up to so that this noise gets dampered down real quick.

What happened is the Gerald R Ford, which was, by the way, $13 billion and the largest American aircraft carrier.

It had to leave the theater. It is now docked in Crete.

They had a very large fire in a laundry room and the shitters are messed up, which has been a recurring problem over the last five years.

They have the eco-friendly toilets and they back up. So it is docked in Crete and that's why another aircraft carrier is headed that way.

But make your comments about the Iran foreign minister there.

It's a shitty situation with the boat.

I don't know how to do it.

But the other foreign minister, back to that point.

Yeah, I mean, the surprise market, Brennan actually made a good point.

I think that's who was talking.

It is probably going to be hard for them to do business with their neighbors, go and clean the immediate aftermath of this.

I mean, obviously I know we do business with plenty of countries we've been at war with in the past.

But we've been separated by a lot of time in those cases. It's going to hurt them in the short term.

Yeah, Ben.

You know, the Abraham Accords come into this. That is what really has forged the relationship with Israel and these Arab nations that are really doing nothing.

And that's the point I was making earlier that this is not a regional conflict because these nations aren't flying their planes.

They aren't bombing Iran back.

They're allowing Israel and America to do all of that.

The United Arab Emirates, they've had 1800 attacks on them from Iran during this.

They're not going to do business with the UAE when this is over with unless there is a regime change, which I think could come later.

Here's more of the Iran Foreign Minister with Margaret Brennan.

Ron has declared it has 440 kilos or so of nuclear material.

Where is that material now? Who has custody of it?

Well, we have not declared. This is verified and declared by the agency.

That's right.

This is not a secret. The agency have said in his many reports the exact amount of already enriched nuclear material.

Yes. So where is it now? Who has custody of it?

I like her questions. They are there under the rubbers.

I like her questions there. Where is it?

And that's the thing that some of these troops may be used for.

It's been put out there that maybe there's special forces that will try to go and get that 60% enriched uranium.

I want to talk about this other clip to Matt that was on a Sunday show and this was the International Atomic Energy Association General Director General.

His name is Rafael Grossi and he was talking about the fact that Iran's nuclear capability is very sophisticated.

But at the same time, these machines, the centrifuges that are used to get enriched uranium from 60% to 90% is very easily replicated, can be redone.

So if we don't get the uranium that they have, then there's a very good chance that in a short amount of time that they can replicate those machines, those centrifuges.

And they can produce nuclear weapons at 90% enriched uranium.

Yeah. I mean, obviously ever the more excuse to justify with a right league to justify our involvement there.

And that's the point.

Yeah, that is the point.

And it is funny that I see all these liberal pundits like trying to deny that Iran has nuclear ambitions and all that.

And it's, there's sort of in the denial stage of why we're even there in the first place.

So yeah, I don't think they have really got the memo there.

Well, I mean Biden said it, Obama said it.

Everyone knows why.

If they're telling us, if the Iranians are ever telling you that anything otherwise, it's because they're allowed to lie to us.

I mean, the religion literally lets them if it's for their own benefit.

And Donald Trump's the only one that has the balls to do what is being done right now.

And I think it's going to be over pretty quickly.

One other thing I want to bring up that happened over the weekend was really a successful bombing of Iran at an airbase in Saudi Arabia.

And what happened there was they bombed a $270 million plane that is used for satellites and reconnaissance.

And then they also damaged a couple of KC 135s that are used for refueling.

So those planes will have to be, you know, replaced because you have to keep them up in the air to keep the jets flying and the warthogs and all the other things that are in the air that it continue to just pummel Iran.

Yeah, I actually said I didn't even hear about that.

So it is said we're not really getting that many, you know, great updates from the progress from making, which I mean, obviously the liberal media doesn't want to portray it that way as they want to present it in a way that is damaging to Trump.

But yes, no, that is very good news.

But what they want to do is create the narrative that to me is noise.

You mentioned in a siop earlier to me every day we get a new siop because we are creating them ourselves.

You know, each one of these things every day that blows up on social media blows up in the news.

It becomes another siop.

We don't need the CIA to run them on us.

We're running them on ourselves at this point.

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Thank you for being here.

Matt, Birthright Citizenship is something that we have talked about over the last year

and it's finally here. It's going to be heard.

Oral arguments are going to be heard in the Supreme Court.

Some people get confused because there was a hearing about birthright citizenship

but it was completely different argument at the time.

This one is going to get to the real issue.

Do people that are born here, and it really it has to do with tourism, the whole birthright tourism thing, birth tourism,

where people come to this country and then they have a child.

That child then has dual citizenship and a lot of people are abusing that

and it's a whole big business really isn't it Matt?

Yeah, it's birth tourism, which is unfortunately very common.

But it's more commonly illegal aliens come here than have a kid.

And then liberals want to say, well, illegals, they can't claim welfare benefits because they're not citizens.

And first of all, there are municipalities that do give benefits outright to illegals.

That's what they're not scamming us.

But once they have a kid on US soil, we're spending 20 grand a year, or God knows,

however much education costs where you live in cities, it's probably way more.

So let's just say 20 can a year to educate that kid, can't do 12.

For some reason, they're going to qualify for some taxpayer funded by minority scholarships if they go to college.

Statistically speaking, their kids earn the less than national average and disproportionately use welfare.

So even if a legal's cost of taxpayer nothing, their kids are a massive expense.

And of course, those never the goal of the 14th Amendment, the 14th Amendment is one of the reconstructed amendments.

It was passed the aftermath of slavery to guarantee that free blacks had the same rates as Americans.

And one of them was to guarantee it so their children would automatically be citizens.

Now, the reason we know that it was not passed to be interpreted the way it is now

is that we had to clarify with the Native Americans where the citizens in 1924.

So that's in this century after the 14th Amendment.

So if the 14th Amendment just meant you being born here, mainstream citizen,

well, there would have been no need to do that with the Native Americans.

So I don't believe it was ever intended to be interpreted to just mean being born here makes a citizen, makes you a citizen.

Not a single country in all of Europe offers citizenship the way we do in America.

So it is a very uniquely American thing and it's a very costly thing.

I was trying to compute the other day, like what is the cost of birth for a citizenship?

And the numbers I found were that something like 8% of all births in America are for legal aliens or to a legal aliens.

And that number was in 2010, a study then.

And so the numbers has to be higher in the Biden years of rotating like 2 million illegals a year,

as opposed to when we maybe had 10 or 15 million in the country back in 2010.

But if you wanted to assume that 2% of all Americans are the children of legal aliens,

the numbers I found and I was trying to compute like what is the average income of someone who might fall in that category

and how much welfare would they be eligible for?

And I just had a wide range of numbers.

It's sort of impossible to know.

But if there are 2% of the population, it's a $4 trillion annual lifetime cost

if the average kid of an illegal lives to 80 years old.

That was when I'm working him up with.

If it's 1% of the population, it's $2 trillion over their lifetime.

So it's a truly enormous amount of money that we are spending on their kids.

They are net net trainers of the they're not net taxpayers.

They're taking far more out of the system than putting in the Supreme Court has decided on birthright citizenship

a few times in history.

And I think we'll probably hear those arguments from the left from the Democrats.

This has to do with an executive order that Donald Trump signed as soon as he came into office trying to shut down this birth tourism.

And what happens is they become the anchor babies.

And then the Democrats, they want to create amnesty to allow the parents and the child to become citizens,

fast track them to become citizens.

Or maybe they just let them become citizens without knowing anything about the country.

Wouldn't surprise me that that's ultimately what they want to do.

I know that one of the cases that the Supreme Court decided on was in 1897,

which would have been about 60 or 70 years after the 14th Amendment.

I guess it would have been about 30 years after.

So that decision came after the 14th Amendment.

And this had to do with a Chinese man that was born in America.

And he went back to China to see his grandparents.

And he was like 20, 21 years old.

When he came back into the country, he was not allowed in.

And they had to go through the process, the legal process,

and the Supreme Court ultimately decided that he is an American citizen because he was born here.

And I think that we will probably hear some of that coming up in this oral argument this week.

It's going to be interesting to listen to.

And let's move into CPAC.

CPAC was over the weekend.

I don't know if anybody noticed.

I think CPAC is on its last legs.

It's going to go the way of the National Tea Party, I believe.

Yeah, it used to be like the event you had to be at.

It was completely packed when I would go back and call it.

It was $300 plus a ticket just for standard admission at that point.

And I was a student at the time.

So I think I was less than a hundred if you were a student.

But it was like, you're out like a thousand or two thousand bucks to go to CPAC back in the day.

And when I looked at it last year, it was like $100 for standard or anybody even been less.

And so it was probably in the same ballpark this year because there was just no one there.

No one was posting about it.

The only viral clips I saw were like one clip or someone was saying,

I think Max Schlapp was up there saying, like, you know, Democrats take back power.

We're going to see non-stop impeachment.

Who wants to see more impeachment?

And I think the audience misunderstood what he was saying and peered on impeachment.

I mean, they obviously misunderstood what he was saying.

I think that they thought that I think that they thought he was talking about impeaching the judges.

That's the way I took it.

I don't think way more says, but like there was enough.

There was no real.

I think Trump skipped it.

So he clearly realized that as well.

And you know, Matt Schlapp, it is Matt Schlapp.

That's correct.

Yes.

Yeah, I don't know.

Like he, he welcomed in people like Van Jones to speak in prior years.

I actually run up a very long article a few years ago about various groups that were funding CPAC.

That were Soros links groups that were trying to pitch criminal justice reform to Republicans and sort of presented as a right wing.

You know, coding and right wing language and all that to try to make Republicans more supportive of it.

And I still haven't saved them my computer if you want to read.

I would love it.

Send it to me.

Yeah.

But my group is where it's like, how is this even possible?

And yeah, I don't know.

I'm just very skeptical of Matt Schlapp.

I need to reread my articles like over more subsistive and wide.

It was like three or four years ago.

I wrote it.

But uh, yeah, he's one of that organization to the ground.

And it is sad to see it used to be such a huge event.

It was quite a lot of fun when I used to go.

One thing that they do every year at CPAC is they have a straw pole for the next presidential election.

And they did that again this weekend.

I found it very interesting, regardless of how many people were there because there were empty seats on the videos that I saw.

That Marco Rubio picked up 32 points from last year in the straw pole for the presidential election in 2028.

He was at 3% last year.

JD Vance was 63, 64%.

This time it was 51% JD Vance and 35% for Marco Rubio.

He has a lot of momentum right now.

And I think JD Vance is maybe a little bit in the background.

Marco Rubio is out front.

He's very articulate.

I think he would be a good candidate.

But I'm glad to see that the CPAC recognizes that in him because I would love to see an actual primary.

And not just, you know, give the crown to JD Vance and say he's the next.

Let's see who's out there and who may be the person that has the right solutions for the country and for the Republican side.

Yeah, no, absolutely agree on the primary.

It will be sad load and see them all fighting.

Yeah, JD Vance and Marco.

That's it.

You know, I really think they will.

I mean, the party more respectful.

It is funny, though.

I suppose some reason the YouTube outer of them a few weeks or months ago suggested to me.

Highlights from 2015 and 2016 of Trump and Rubio on the debate stage and how completely brutal that is.

And it just is hilarious how things change over time and politics.

I hope there was when Mark when JD Vance, even if they do compete is still applicable and all that.

But I think I lean JD Vance.

Yeah, I do like.

Well, I like Rubio.

I think he would be an excellent selection and you put.

Yeah, I do too.

I don't have anything against JD Vance.

But you put Sarah Huckabee Sanders on a ticket with Marco Rubio.

That would be tough to compete against.

If you're a Democrat, you have someone with Hispanic background speaks fluid Spanish.

And then you have a female who has been the governor of the state of Arkansas now for six years.

So I think there are a lot of names that we could consider for 28 before we just jump on the JD Vance bandwagon.

By the way, Donald Trump and Chairman G will meet.

It's been announced and the meeting is in concrete now.

May 14 and 15.

The first lady and Donald Trump will travel to China.

That meeting originally was supposed to happen in March, but it did not happen.

But now it is happening and then G and his first lady.

I don't know what they call them in China, but they are coming later.

That date has not been set.

So don't forget about China in the middle of all of this that's going on in this world.

And Matt, we're at the end of our hour.

I've enjoyed it.

Thank you so much for always coming in on a Monday night and doing Mondays with Matt.

What do we look forward to this week?

Other than the oral arguments for birthright citizenship?

Basically everything we just went the best ever talking about.

I think it's going to be a month of talking about the same topics.

Yeah, I think it will be too.

But I think I think that birthright citizenship will probably be most of what we talk about next week.

And God, I hope it goes to you verbally.

Yeah.

And then there are some things cooking in a grand jury in South Florida with Jack Smith, Brennan Clapper.

We'll have to keep an eye on that, too.

Maybe some news comes out from Tulsi Gabbard in the D&I because there's some news to come.

We'll just wait and see.

Matt, thank you so much for coming on.

I appreciate it.

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