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I know he loses his patience quickly. That's how he's known. I'm only kidding. Bruce Blakeman at the bottom of the hour. Bruce had a fantastic debate, and he needed it for Kathy Hochul.
And when I think he came off, I he did the he did something really difficult. It's easy to go. Up and say, I am a conservative and I am a liberal, but in these blue states, be who you are, but also know where you are. And he's got this thing called the track record in Nassau County. If you take the population of Nassau County.
Nassau County is bigger than 15 states in terms of people, so you can't say, "Well, you're just a mayor in a small town like Mayor Booty Judge." By the way, a bad mayor. This guy is the Nassau County executive, and a lot of people go Nassau County. I don't remember heard of it. It's just Long Island, half of Long Island, Suffolk County is the other half. People know the Hamptons and Montauk.
It's done a great job, and you know he's got the number one police force in the country, pound for pound, terms of arrests and crime and and reductions. And all they say, I think it's three years running. And that's because his his his support of the cops, the way they conduct themselves, what he demands of them is exactly what he would do in New York City, and he made that clear. Look, he's also it ticks off conservatives, but he's also pro-choice.
So if they want to hit him with Roe v. Wade and all that stuff that hurt Lee Zeldin. Two years, four years ago. Good luck with that. Kathy Hochul is just a bad governor.
She is. She's shut down Indian Point. She is forbids pipelines, forbids fracking in the state, jacking up utility bills. Has it? He made an alliance with this, with this socialist called Mayor Mom Donny in New York City.
She refuses to stand up to him. Almost says she works for him.
So.
So let's go to Mark Teeson. Mark, this is the not only are we 20 days until a midterm election; it's the debate season. You're a master communicator, speechwriter. Have you had a chance to see any excerpts from the Blakeman-Holcomb battle? I have.
I have not watched that that exchange at all. Actually, I've been I've been more focused on what the heck's going on in Michigan with El Saeed. Who's a who's a you know claims to be a capitalist and a and a and denies that he's a democratic socialist denies that he's an Islamic radical and just absolutely perplexed at the idea that 25 years after 9 11 we might end up electing an Islamo Marxist to the United States Senate. You know it was addressed yesterday. Do we have that cut, Justin?
When he was engaged by I think the NBC anchor. Listen to this exchange. Let's listen. These tweets have emerged.
Now, had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early '70s while she was in college. #HashtagRespect. My family has long been in MB. Let me finish. Praying for all my family that supports the MB in Egypt.
Can you just explain it? Yeah, Tom. It's funny to me. I was born in 1984, down the street in Rochester Hills. I was raised here in Michigan.
Went to the University of Michigan. Rebuilt the health department in this city. Led the health department in this county. And you want to ask me about what was happening in Egypt? To nineteen seventy, are you serious?
I get it, but you were asked a question. This is kind of like the same. Yeah, I'm telling you, like we, I have no ties. We have no ties.
So your mother had no ties. I have never had these conversations with my mother. I was raised.
So you were unaware. But but but I'm just telling you that like, you're using hearsay evidence from a tweet. Actually, she's not serious. She's not serious. But you've also gone after the president for truthfulness.
You've also gone after the president for truthfulness.
So when people ask you a question, they all do expect the truth. And do you think? Do you think? Are you insinuating that?
Somehow I was lying. I don't know. That's why I'm asking. And I'm telling you, I was not. Of course, he's lying.
Of course, he's lying, and also he has refused to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a U.S. designated terrorist organization. His mother, his mother was a Muslim Brotherhood activist in Egypt. She worked for a group called the Islamic American Relief Agency, which was designated in 2004 by the Treasury Department as a terrorist group for financing Al Qaeda and Hamas. His father is a founding member of the Islamic Society of North America, which Andy McCarthy has pointed out is a partner of the Muslim Brotherhood.
And whose bank account was used to funnel money to Hamas? I mean, his ties to Islamic radicalism. And again, you know, this is a guy who, when when a Islamic terrorist attacked Temple Israel in a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism in Michigan, he said, "Hurt people, hurt people." When when when the Ayatollah Khomeini was killed, he said there were a lot of people in Michigan who are sad today. He refuses to acknowledge that Israel has a right to exist. He can't tell you whether Israel or Iran is a bigger threat to America.
I mean, this guy is a he is a Trojan horse for what's called what is called the Red Green Alliance, which is an alliance between social Marxists and Islamists. To to to take over America, he's a Trojan horse for this movement. He's pretending to be a capitalist. He's pretending not to be an Islamic radical, but he is. And if the the idea that we would attack at elect a man who with family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood who refuses to condemn it as a terrorist organization to the United States Senate is absolutely, 25 years after 9/11 is atrocious.
And so, okay, he's. This is what his sister said about his mother, who's associated with an organization. Affiliated with Al Qaeda, that's a fact. And by the way, and people should understand this: Muslim Brotherhood is the basis of almost all terror. And if you want to know about a threat, it's not a 1970s threat.
Just because they killed Anwar Sadat, yeah, it happened in the 70s, and Zawahiri was there, and he was in jail, and he later would team with with Bin Laden and and and perpetrate 9/11, the Cole bombing, the embassy bombing, and everything else.
So that's all part of it. This may in 1970s it reared its ugly head internationally, but it's been there. And if you want to, if you Want to know about that threat? Ask anybody in the Egyptian government about that threat. That's real.
They're worried about it. And and add to that, he says, "Oh well, you know, why are you worried about what happened in the '70s in Egypt?" In 2011, he wrote in an op-ed advocating for the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt, saying that any concerns that it would that the Muslim Brotherhood would turn out into be Islamist dictatorship in the model of Hamas were were completely over. Were foolish. And then the Muslim Brotherhood comes into power, and they suddenly shut down the judiciary, shut down the free press, and started installing a Islamic radical dictatorship. And there's a popular uprising against the Muslim Brotherhood.
So, you know, he was advocating for a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt.
So, if what what happened in Egypt doesn't matter, because what his mother was doing in Egypt, what about what he was advocating in Egypt in 2011? I hear you a hundred percent. And then, in case you're not worried enough about the Islamic extremist, he's going to be campaigning today with AOC. AOC, she just said, I reup my membership in the DSA. I'm from Queens.
The people of Michigan want to be represented by somebody who reflects the values of Queens, New York. By the way, she never, never in Queens. I mean, that did. That's not the. That's not the Michigan I know.
See Slotkin against. Against Rogers, I get. You know, she's center left and does some things left, but she's CIA background. No one questions her loyalty and patriotism. I don't know, and I I don't know why this is close.
I don't get it. I I don't get it either. And by the way, AOC Ilan Omar receded to leave most virulent anti Semites in Congress. He claims to be a capitalist. He supports.
The entire Bernie Sanders agenda: wealth tax, tuition-free higher education, free government healthcare, abolishing ISIS, Green New Deal, Medicare for all. Medicare for all is socialized medicine. If that if that's capitalism, how do you define Marxism? I mean, he he he is a social democratic socialist pretending to be a capitalist. He is pretending not to be an Islamic radical.
He's he's an Islamic Marxist Manchurian candidate. That simple. You want to talk about another phony? This guy James Talerico. Just say you're a liberal.
Just say you're a liberal. Just say that you're, you know, you study religion and the Bible. Not really that true. Whatever you want to say, but just don't pretend to be somebody you're not. Listen, for example, he says, "I don't want to abolish ice." Cut three.
Do you support abolishing ice or not? No, and I never have. We need immigration and customs enforcement in this country, but that's not what we're seeing. What we've seen over the last year is a secret police force, and that's what we don't want in this country. We don't want masked men in unmarked vehicles coming through and terrorizing our communities.
We don't want federal agents murdering our neighbors before our very eyes.
So, mask, men, but I don't for banning ICE for the last time. They're going after international terrorists. A lot of them are here, hooked up to cartels, and then they have a habit of doxing these ICE agents. They rather not work with masks. You ever put a mask on?
You ever say to yourself, "I feel better now"? Never. But they do it for a reason.
So he's letting his everybody know, "I hate ICE," but he's letting everybody know, "I can't say that and get elected." Literally, the only people in America that Democrats don't want to force to wear masks are ICE. Ice. I mean, I mean, literally, the only people who are not allowed to wear masks are ice. The people who need them to protect their identities from these, you know, terrorists. And I just don't understand how someone like James Talerico could possibly be elected in the state of Texas.
He was asked the other day. He's like, "Who's your favorite drag queen?" And he said, "Oh, it's Ashley Somebody or Others." Like, what Texas man has a favorite drag queen and can name her off the top of his off the off the top of his head? I mean, this this guy, you know. They nicknamed him Talofrico, and that that that that that label fits.
So I want to tell you that there's 500 million dollars, 500 million dollars for that one senate seat, and most people think it's a one point race. One thing about Ken Paxton, Donald Trump, I couldn't count Mike Rogers. I know exactly where they stand. I know exactly where they stand. And and would you want to elect?
It must be so hard to campaign for as someone you're not. Because we see what happened with the governor of Virginia, we see what happened with the governor of New Jersey, campaigning like a reasonable moderate, not the Kamala Harris crazy, certainly not the DSA. And they go out and sanctuary cities run a plenty, and ICEs being vilified, and centers are being protested where illegals are are being detained. They're not moderates. No, they're they're not.
But they but this is what they understand is that because they're they're Marxist Leninists, right? And so what they want is they want they they take power by whatever whatever means necessary. And if it means lying about who they are because they know it's not popular, they'll do it. They're trying to capitalize on the unpopularity of the Republicans right now. They're trying to capitalize on high gas prices.
The the the party. I mean, think about. The party that literally stopped drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, stopped offshore drilling. President who said I want to end fossil fuels. They're the ones you're going to trust to bring down gas prices.
If you look at inflation, I understand inflation is up. People are unhappy about it. If you if you look at the consumer price index. From from the Biden's election inauguration until today, it's up twenty seven percent.
So something that cost one hundred dollars in in on when Biden took office now costs one hundred and twenty seven. Twenty one dollars of that is Biden. It's the 1.9 trillion dollar COVID relief bill that even Democratic economists like Larry Summers said, "Don't do this. It's going to set off an inflationary wildfire." They did it anyway, and now these people, what do they want to do? If what are they promising to do if they come into office?
More government spending, which will unleash worse inflation. I mean, it's like taking it's like saying, "My house is on fire." Instead of calling the fire brigade, I'm going to call an arsonist. To put it out, it makes absolutely no sense. I know the American people got to be smarter than this. I mean, it absolutely—you know—some people say, "Well, they look at the Tea Party; they want to cut too many social services," as opposed to maybe a traditional Republican.
That's a vote. You know, you want to vote for Clinton or George H. W. Bush. There's a difference, but it's not that much of a vote.
There's—it just kind of caught me. I want to talk. I want to talk about. Iran, if I can, and first off, I want you to hear the the Houthi general. They have this interesting way of communicating.
They shout, but I have a translator. Here we go. The Houthis who are who are bombing civilian airports in Saudi Arabia. Cut thirty nine. The Yemeni armed forces affirm that their operation towards Saudi depth will continue in the coming days, targeting Saudi enemy airports and all facilities, and the consequences will be severe for the enemy by the permission and power of God.
And here's what General Keane said, with his research has shown about the Houthis, cut 40. We're going to have to deal with the Houthis for sure. They are quite formidable. Whether he does it now or does it later. Likely later, given the circumstances we're in, with a Netanyahu election coming and an election here in the United States, I think realistically that's where we are.
So, our audience understands the Houthis are not just another proxy. I mean, they are an Iranian-backed proxy. Iran is the anchor. Iran goes away, these all of these proxies begin to go away.
So that's the good news. Eventually, I think we're going to finish Iran.
So, where do you stand on this? I know your contacts with the military as well as international State Department people. When do you think we get back into this, and how long do we leave the Saudis by themselves against the Houthis?
Well, I mean, I think we we need to. The first priority is to cut off the. You know, this is like the the Houthis are the tentacles. The the head of the snake is Iran. And so we have to finish the job on Iran.
It's obviously not going to happen in the next three weeks. I wish it had happened in April or May or June, and this could all be over, and we wouldn't have high gas prices today. But you know we're going to have to finish it. And I think when President Trump keeps saying that this is going to be over soon, what he means is after the midterms he's going to finish the job in Iran. And I think we have to.
I was talking to the general, and he thinks we're well stocked. He thinks the it looks like Cooper went and visited every one of the Gulf states, and we think we know where to go. And this is, to me, Mark, this is the October surprise. We're going to try to stop the Straits. We're going to stop bombing Saudi Arabia.
We're going to get the price of oil over a hundred dollars, and vote Democrat.
So they might as well be a super PAC.
Well, I mean, they they literally issued a letter endorsing the Democrats in the midterms. I mean, it goes. Why they they know if the Democrats take over both houses of Congress, they think they're going to cut off funding for the war. I mean, literally, this is they they they have declared an alliance with the Democratic Party in the United States. And why would they do that?
Because the Democratic Party, from the first day of the operation, has been rooting for failure. And I've never seen a war like this. Where you know you've seen you know wars where you know everybody starts out united and over time the you know the partisan divisions come in. I've never seen one where from the day first day almost united in opposition the entire Democratic Party. And so the Democrat the the Iranian regime the IRGC looks at the Democratic Party today and sees an ally.
And here's why I know you're not a hypocrite and I'm not either. I wanted Joe Biden to go all in harder for Ukraine. And I wanted him to leave the right way in Afghanistan, and every step of the way, I wasn't saying, "How dare you continue that war?" This is not the. We were trying; the bet we could not believe what we were seeing, and was the worst outcome. And we praised Barack Obama when he got Osama bin Laden.
Absolutely, he was unbelievable. You know, I mean, there are certain things that are more important than party politics, and America winning a war, and defeating our adversaries, and disarming Iran of a nuclear weapon is more important than party politics. Mark Teason, nothing's more important than you, and you've always told me that. And appreciate you joining me today, and I will be on my podcast. Yes, listen, your book, Pete, for the record, I want a commitment on the air.
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