What's the Objective in Iran? plus New DHS Secretary & Big Texas Primaries

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And Center, we've got a big show.

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You've got big movements at the Department of Homeland Security

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Well, and we're going to start with Iran.

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So let's talk about where we are with Iran.

I got to say I am incredibly impressed with the Trump administration,

the Department of War and just the leadership and the bravery,

but also the planning, like it is really incredible to see just how powerful,

how accurate and how good our intelligence has been,

obviously sharing Israel back and forth intelligence, taking out not just the itola,

but virtually everyone around him at this point.

That is a job you don't want, by the way, because every time they keep naming a new person,

we take them out within minutes if not hours of them being named to their new job.

This is a big display of what America can do.

Well, there's no doubt that our military has been incredibly effective.

You know, I will say as we're now just about a week into the attack on Iran,

there are people who are asking what is our objective,

and it has been less than transparently clear to a fair number of folks what it is we're trying to accomplish.

I want to be very clear what it is that we're trying to accomplish.

Iran is a profound national security threat to the United States.

The regime in Iran for 47 years has been the number one state funder of terrorism in the world.

For 47 years Iran has provided 90% of the funding to Hamas, 90% of the funding to Hezbollah,

90% of the funding to the Houthis.

They have killed to date nearly 1,000 Americans.

The Ayatollah, when he was still alive, would lead mobs chanting death to America.

The Ayatollah twice hired hitmen to try to murder President Donald Trump.

The President on Saturday made the decision to go in, to go in with overwhelming force,

and to take out the Ayatollah, to take out this regime.

What's the objective? Let me be very clear. The objective is regime collapse.

It is taking this government out. The Ayatollah was eliminated the first day.

Much of his National Security Council, the top leadership, was eliminated the first day.

They were meeting together. Israel took them out with a targeted bombing and they're gone.

Moving forward, our objectives likewise are taking out Iran's short range and medium range missiles and their drone capacity.

Right now, Iran, we just had a very lengthy classified briefing this week.

I heard from the senior administration officials on all of these issues.

Iran has been producing roughly 100 missiles a month and one of the reasons that the administration acted now is you look.

Today, we have six U.S. servicemen and women who have been killed.

If we had delayed, Iran was building so many missiles. Iran was building so many drones

that an attack at a later date would have likely resulted in substantially more U.S. casualties.

I think a lot of people didn't understand how close they were to actually doing that.

Listen, Iran in the course of the nuclear negotiations had told our negotiators that they had uranium and rich uranium sufficient to produce 11 nuclear bombs.

And their intention, I believe, was to develop nuclear weapons.

And to be honest, they wanted nuclear weapons. I think if they had nuclear weapons, they would have used nuclear weapons.

And the risk was unacceptable that the Ayatollah, when the guy routinely screams death to America,

if there's one principle of geopolitics, it's when someone tells you they want to kill you, believe them.

The Ayatollah, and the Ayatollah Kamani, by the way, his predecessor was the Ayatollah Kamani.

Their names are really similar. They're different dudes. They're both theocratic lunatics who hated American.

And they both have killed vast numbers of Americans. They have been waging war against us for 47 years.

And as you know, I spent virtually the entire day on Friday, right before this war launched with President Trump.

I was on Air Force One with him. I was in the beast riding one on one with him.

And we spent most of that time talking about Iran. It was right before he issued the go order.

And I was urging him. I said, this regime has never been more fragile, never been more vulnerable.

Do not let this opportunity pass. Take them out now because there is very little.

If anything, we can do in the global stage that will improve US national security more taking out the Iranian regime.

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Senator, I want to get back into what we're talking about with Iran a moment ago.

The objective question has been a really important one and an important response.

There are a lot of conservatives that are worried about getting into a never-ending war.

There's a lot of people that will never forget my generation of evidence that was put before the UN about why we should go into Iraq.

We found out that intelligence was well basically crap.

And there's people that worry that we're going to get into another situation like that.

I'm not worried about that. I think the president has been very clear about his objective here.

And I want you to talk more about it because I think there's a lot of people that have those questions for good reason.

The objective is very simple to collapse this regime, to take this regime out of power.

Now I will say the Trump administration has been a little bit cautious in articulating that.

And I think the reason is they are reluctant to say the words regime change.

And you just highlighted why.

Because regime change brings back the Iraq war brings back George W. Bush and a lot of bad experiences.

Now let me be clear.

I think the Iraq war was a mistake.

I've been very clear. I've been on the record for that for more than a decade that the Iraq war was a mistake.

That being said, the Iraq war was a mistake because we went in Saddam Hussein,

who was an evil dictator, was murdering his own people.

He was killing terrorists.

We came in, we toppled Saddam Hussein.

The terrorists took over, they began killing Americans.

It made America less safe.

By the way, we did the same thing in Libya.

Qaddafi was again an evil tyrant.

He was murdering his own citizens. He was killing terrorists.

We came in and toppled him.

The terrorists took over, began killing Americans.

I don't believe we should do something that results in more Americans being at risk.

This is a qualitatively different situation.

The Ayatollah and the Mullahs have effectively declared war on the United States.

They have been waging more actively killing Americans for 47 years.

They have been funding terrorists killing Americans for 47 years.

And so, removing radical, theocratic, homicidal and genocidal maniacs from power

makes America substantially safer.

That's what the administration is doing.

They haven't necessarily articulated that the objective is regime collapse.

What they've talked about is they've said we want to take out the short-range missiles,

the medium-range missiles, the drones, the drone manufacturing capacity,

the missile manufacturing capacity. All of that is right.

But look, there are lots of countries on earth that have short-range and medium-range missiles.

France has short-range and medium-range missiles.

We're not bombing France right now, why?

Because France is not led by theocratic lunatics who want to murder us.

The reason we're acting against Iran is the government, the Ayatollah, who is no longer with us.

Thank you, and I'm very glad he went to meet his 72 virgins.

I'm sure he is deeply dismayed when he discovers that all 72 of his virgins are Nick Fuentes.

I'm sure that is not what he anticipated.

But the reason we are acting is because the leadership of this country has been trying to,

and has been, in fact, killing Americans.

And I want you to listen to President Trump when he talks about number one.

I want you to listen to President Trump when he talks about the successes we've had.

Give a listen.

And before we begin, I think I will say a few words about what's going on with respect to our operation in the country of Iran.

The United States military, together with the wonderful Israeli partners,

continues to totally demolish the enemy far ahead of schedule.

And at levels that people have never seen before, actually.

We're destroying more of Iran's missiles and drone capability.

Every single hour knocking them out like nobody thought was possible.

As soon as they set off a missile within four minutes, the launcher gets hit.

They don't know what's happening.

But we have the greatest military anywhere in the world.

The Navy is gone.

24 ships in three days. That's a lot of ships.

They're anti-aircraft weapons are gone.

So they have no air force. They have no air defense.

All of their airplanes are gone.

The communications are gone.

Missiles are gone, launches are gone.

About 60 percent and 64 percent respectively.

Other than that, they're doing quite well.

I said, what's left?

But they're tough, and they want to fight.

And they're calling, they're saying, how do we make a deal?

I said, you're being a little bit late.

And we want to fight now more than they do.

We've had 47 years, depending on the way you count it.

But 47 years of horror with this group.

And when you see somebody walking down the street without their legs, without the arms,

whose face is so badly affected and hurt,

it mostly came from 95 percent salamone and Iran.

And we, other presidents, lived with it, I didn't live with it.

And so, are people doing a great job?

Again, the greatest military anyone's seen?

Senator, I love that he is so proper military.

But let's go back to the oil part as well, which is really important.

So one of the critical pieces of this that many people don't realize

is that between going after Maduro and Venezuela and going after Iran,

in addition to taking out two very serious enemies of America,

President Trump is also taking a serious step against China,

because both Venezuela and Iran have been sending vast amounts of oil to China.

What percent of Iran's oil exports do you think have historically gone to China?

I'm going to guess it's a significant amount because they desperately need them as an ally.

Well, that was kind of a weasley answer, but let me give you the more precise answer.

That would be 87.2 percent of Iran's oil exports have gone to China.

What percent of Venezuela's do you think went?

It's got to be, let's say, 60 percent plus.

That's actually pretty good, 55.1 percent.

So more than half of Venezuela's and nearly 90 percent of Iran's have gone to China.

And so the effect of taking both of these leaders out has been not only to reduce the threats to America,

but it has done a serious blow to China and their energy sources.

That makes a big difference for America.

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Senator, there was a shake up.

You don't want to ever be the first one to be a cabinet secretary to get the boot,

but it was pretty clear, Christy Known got the boot this week.

One of your colleagues is going to take over a Department of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne.

Moan, I want to get your take on all of that.

Well, the president announced this week that he was removing Christy Known from Secretary of DHS

and replacing her with Mark Wayne Mullen.

I have to say this was not much of a surprise to anyone watching closely.

Christy Known testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.

I was part of that hearing.

I questioned her on it.

The questioning was bumpy and she got, the Democrats of course went after her hard,

but a number of Republicans went after her hard as well.

And I have to say one of those that was the most effective was my friend and colleague

from Louisiana, John Kennedy.

John has been on this podcast and he's someone who's a good friend of mine.

I want to play John Kennedy's cross-examination of Christy Known

because this proved very consequential cross-examination.

Give a listen.

How do you square that concern for waste, which I share,

with the fact that you have spent $220 million running television advertisements

that feature you prominently?

Sir, the president tasked me with getting the message out to the country

and to other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from,

with putting commercials out that told them that if they were in this country illegally,

that they needed to leave, or we would detain them and remove them

and they'd not get the chance to come back to America the right way.

That has been extremely effective.

I asked you to run these advertisements, is that right?

We had that conversation, yes, before.

I was put in this position and sworn in and confirmed and since then as well.

Did you bid at those service contracts?

Yes, they did. They went out to a competitive bid and career officials

at the department chose who would do those advertising commercials.

And the people that you ended up picking were people who had formerly done your political work

back in shop to coat, is that right?

No, that's not correct, sir.

Thank you, he is.

No, it's not, sir.

We, the individuals who, I believe, the careers who they chose were two different media firms.

There's been conversation about their subcontractors,

but we have no legal authority to look into subcontractors on work like that.

Okay.

And you're saying that you're testifying that President Trump approved this,

they had a time, something to understand.

We had conversations about making sure that we were telling people across.

No, ma'am.

I'm asking you, sorry to interrupt, but the president approved ahead of time,

you're spending 220 million dollars running TV ads across the country

in which you are featured prominently.

Yes, sir.

We went through the legal processes.

Did it correct?

Did the president work with OMB?

Yes.

He did.

Yes.

Okay.

And one thing, Senator, I think, would be helpful to know is how effective that communications has been.

Well, I'm overwhelmingly.

Well, I'm overwhelmingly.

I mean, I personally just, I mean, to me, it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot.

And I just, I'm not saying you're not telling the truth.

It's just hard for me to bully you.

I mean, President, as I do that you said, Mr. President,

here's some ads I've cut, and I'm going to spend 220 million dollars

running them that he would have agreed to that.

I don't think Russ Vote at OMB would have agreed to that.

It's something we have to defend.

I'm on the Appropriations Committee.

I mean, my research shows that you did not bid them out.

In fact, one of the people you picked, the strategy group, I'm sorry,

the State of America media was a company formed on 11 days before you picked them.

And that the strategy group got most of the money.

And the head of that is married to your former spokesperson.

And I'm, look, we all have friends who are qualified.

I'm not equipping with that.

I'm just, it troubles me.

A quarter, a fifth to a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money.

When, when we're scratching forever, Penny and we're fighting over recession packages,

I just can't agree with Madam Secretary.

Are you still running those ads?

Senator, I did not have anything to do with picking those contractors.

I had no politicals at the Department of Homeland Security did it.

Are you still running those ads?

Are you still running those ads?

I think the ads are due to end here in March, I think within a week, do I not share the update?

The one that is running is focusing on angel families.

Have you seen that?

It is the one that's talking about this is our why.

This is why we work every day.

It's for the angel families and their victims.

Senator, it was not a good showing there for her.

Your colleague there, Senator Kennedy, asking questions, I think a lot of Americans care about.

The President's also come out saying she did not run this by him in the amount of money being spent either.

That also didn't work well for her either.

Well, and that's something that John Kennedy pointed out.

He said in the aftermath, he said that President Trump was, quote,

mad as a murder hornet that gnome claimed he approved the $200 million dollar ads contract.

And listen, John is a good friend of mine.

I talked to him today on the Senate floor and I just, the number of nominees that his cross-examinations have taken out,

it is quite remarkable.

And I think it was John Kennedy's cross-examination that was pivotal in the decision to shift from Christie.

Look, I like Christie personally.

I had dinner with her just a few weeks ago.

And I do think the results of the Department of Homeland Security in terms of securing the border have been very effective.

And so that is beneficial.

I think John Kennedy's line of questioning here was fair.

And it was incredibly effective.

I also think, and we've talked about this on the podcast before,

that the messaging from the administration, particularly following the shooting of two different Americans in Minneapolis,

that the messaging was wrong.

And it did real damage.

That I think that the messaging was, look, any time an American citizen is killed in a confrontation with law enforcement, it's a tragedy.

And we should see our officials acknowledging it's a tragedy.

We should see our officials saying, listen, if there's an officer involved shooting, there's going to be an investigation

to examine what happened and determine what exactly caused it.

And instead, the rhetoric immediately leaped to really aggressive rhetoric calling both of the individuals using language like terrorists and seeking mass murder.

And that was hard to square with the facts of what occurred.

I think that rhetoric did damage to the administration.

And I think it was one of the things that contributed to the decision of the president to shift from Christy Dome as the leader of Homeland Security.

Mark Wayne, Mark Wayne, I've served with him in the Senate.

He's a good guy. He's someone the president trusts.

I think he will be confirmed. I think it will be a party line vote in the Senate.

We may get John Federman, but I would be surprised if any other Democrat votes for him.

So my prediction is the vote on Mark Wayne Mullen will be 54 to 46, that 46 Democrats will vote now.

And I think Mark Wayne, look, there are advantages to being an experienced elected official.

He was a House member, he's been a senator.

I'm hopeful that he will bring a level of professionalism and effectiveness.

The results of DHS have been quite strong.

But I do think, I do think that the testimony that Secretary Nome gave, it was not an easy day for her.

And I think John Kennedy, Tom Tillis also lit into her really hard.

But I think the Kennedy cross examination was more significant.

There's been quite a bit of reporting that the president was unhappy.

That she said that he knew about the ad she had run.

And I don't have independent knowledge of that, but I don't have reason to doubt that reporting.

And so, look, we need to secure our border.

We've had an incredible success rate doing so, so far.

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It was election day on Tuesday in America.

It was a very big election day in Texas.

There was certainly some upsets on the House side.

There was a lot of people around the country watching Dan Crinchell's race.

He lost that race to someone that you endorsed.

That was a big one that was, I was on national TV talking about over and over again.

And then there's obviously the Senate race that's happening as well.

That's now gone into a runoff between two people that you know well.

Your colleague in the Senate and also Ken Paxton.

So we're going to have to wait and see how that plays out as well.

But then there's also the Democrat running against whoever wins that runoff.

And this is a guy that Democrats are really excited about.

He's talented.

He's radical.

He's extreme.

But he comes across like a very moderate guy if you listen to him today.

Well, we had primary day in Texas this this week.

And it was highly consequential.

Number one, there were a number of House candidates who I endorsed, who prevailed.

We had one Jessica Steinman who was my former regional director in Houston.

She won decisively the Republican primary.

She is going to be in all likelihood the next Republican Congress member from Houston.

We had another Chris Gober who's been my lawyer for 10 years.

She won his primary decisively.

He's going to be a new Republican congressman from Central Texas.

We had another John Bonk who I endorsed, who is a close friend.

He is the son-in-law of one of my closest friends in the world who has been my national finance chairman for years.

By the way, that was a fun night.

Let's take a moment to talk about how fun that was.

We're obviously in DC, but I went to the victory party.

And it's fun to see someone that you and I know personally and the smile on your dear friend Willie's face.

And even Heidi was there as well at your wife.

It was really a cool evening to see someone work hard and win.

I know you had to have a really, that had to feel personal to you.

So Willie, whose John Bonk's father-in-law is one of my two or three closest friends on planet Earth.

And I love him. He's a good man. He's a principled man.

He's a conservative. He's a godly man. He's someone who frankly I rely on for advice, for spiritual counseling.

We pray together. We talk together.

And John is very likely to win.

He did not clear 50% so unfortunately there's going to be a runoff, but I think he's going to prevail.

I actually did a rally for him just a week ago in the middle of the rally while it had several hundred people there rallying for him.

I got the chance to announce from the stage while I was up there that President Trump had endorsed him.

That was a very cool moment.

We knew it was likely to come. I thought there was a chance that Trump would call on the cell phone.

If he had called I would have put the cell phone up to the microphone and let him announce it to the whole crowd.

Instead I got to announce that the crowd went nuts.

That was really gratifying to have three people who are two who are members of my team and have been employees and another who is a very close friend to see three new likely members of Congress coming.

That was a big deal.

We also had Don Huffins who I endorsed for Comptroller in a statewide position in Texas that won decisively. That was a big victory.

Then you noted Dan Crenshaw.

In my 14 years in the Senate, I almost never endorse against Republican incumbents.

There's a reason. If you're serving in the Senate, if you're working in Congress, if you're endorsing against your colleagues, it makes it very hard to get anything done.

That makes lifelong enemies. You just have to be really reluctant to do so.

I endorse and open races, but I almost never endorse in races against Republican incumbents.

I've made two exceptions in 14 years. The first was Liz Cheney.

Liz Cheney lost her mind and became a radical leftist who hated President Trump.

I endorsed her opponent, Harriet Hegeman, who beat her and is getting ready to be the new senator from Wyoming now.

Then I did it again for Dan Crenshaw for much the same reason, because he had really lost his way.

He had got angry with his constituents. There were multiple instances in which he yelled.

There's one instance where he yelled at a 14-year-old girl and just got angry.

In this race, there's a very good friend of mine who's been a longtime supporter and close friend.

Who was supporting Dan's opponent, and Dan decided to just light him up.

This is a banker, a private citizen in Texas, and Dan decided to go after him personally.

I got to say that pissed me off. He's a close friend of mine, and I didn't like Dan just attacking him directly.

I endorsed his opponent, Steve Toath. Steve Toath has been a state legislator for a number of years. He's a very strong conservative.

It ended up that Steve Toath won and won decisively, won by a big margin. That was a little bit of a cannon shot.

Dan also, a couple of months ago, we were on a plane landing in DC, and in the jetway walking off, Dan began screaming and cursing at me.

It was really a little unhinged, and he was like, why are you coming after me?

I was like, well, I'm not. He was mad that supporters of mine were supporting his opponents.

Look, I don't control what my supporters do. They're individuals who have free choice.

He was literally screaming and cursing at me. I told him at the time, I said, Dan, if I come after you, I promise you, you will not be subtle.

It will not be hidden. You will have full awareness of it. I told him afterwards, I said, listen, in 14 years in the Senate, you are the only house member who's ever screamed and cursed at me on an airplane, and that includes all the Democrats.

It pushed me beyond the edge, and the voters of Texas decided that he was not reflecting their conservative values.

They've elected Steve Toath, he'll be a great member of Congress, he'll be a strong conservative.

Now, we've got the Senate race. The Senate race, there is a runoff between John Corden, my colleague right now, and Ken Paxton, the Attorney General.

Both of them, I know very well. Both of them are friends of mine. Both of them, I've worked together.

Closely with for years, I've endorsed both of them in the past, I've campaigned with both of them in the past.

I've got to say, this primary is better and nasty. Look, it is to date the most expensive primary in American history.

John and Ken really dislike each other. It is going to be brutal, it is going to be ugly.

I don't know how it's going to resolve. The President Trump tweeted out this week that he is going to make an endorsement.

He is not yet, so we'll see what the President decides to do on this.

But I will say at the same time, the Democrats nominated a guy named James Talleriko as a state rep.

And this guy is dangerous. He's an ordained minister. He's a radical.

He's a hardcore leftist and will and subsequent podcasts break down just how radical and extreme his record is.

But what makes him dangerous is he sounds reasonable. He masks his radicalism in reasonable sounding soft language.

He masks it in the language of a pastor. It's incredibly deceptive and dishonest, but that makes it dangerous.

And so we've got a real fight in Texas and I don't know what the result will be.

We're going to cover it all. I can promise you that. Don't forget to download Vertic with Ted Cruz wherever you get your podcasts.

And the center I will see you back here on this radio station next week as well.

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