UPDATE: Day 1 Impeachment Filing

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And now, your host, Logan Sekulow. Welcome to Sekulow, Friday, April 24th, 2026. We made it here, folks. It's Friday. Hopefully, he's starting to unwind a little bit.

Have a good weekend. Jacket came off.

Well, decided, you know, I'm going to do a little polo for you today.

Well, I mean, it's nice outside. I also had like a school weather had to get to, but you know, I'm here. It's not a ton of news going on, everybody. But there is one piece of information I think you're going to find pretty interesting. Big report.

That came out from Axios. It's not necessarily the most shocking, except for the fact that we can now see that the wheels are already turning, the plans are already in motion, and that is for something we told you likely would come, depending on how the midterms go, and that is. The push for another impeachment. Of President One, President One, President Trump, day one. That's what they say, and that's what this report is leading us on to believe.

That's right.

So, this is a group of House Democrats that have started to coalesce together, and they're putting forward not only just a plan to present an impeachment day one, but they're trying to build a case and create the conditions. They're also talking about potentially holding shadow hearings so they can do all this impeachment work before they even have the majority. Meaning, hearings that will go on preliminary hearings, but they won't be informal. Right.

So, whereas you saw the impeachment hearings that happened in the House of Representatives, the very first impeachment, as we try to forget, but have to remember back, that was related to Ukraine and those issues. They had those hearings in the. Various committees to present evidence almost like leading towards an indictment. That was kind of the way you look at those types of hearings. Then they present it to the House floor for a vote, and that vote passed, which said you are now impeached.

And then they sent that over to the Senate for the trial portion. That is what they're almost trying to get ahead of. And hold these hearings, shadow hearings, they say, where I guess they'd be convening them outside of the Capitol, maybe.

So, exactly. But trying to present. Witnesses and things of that nature in an informal way, not an official hearing because the majority would not have called those yet, but trying to get to a point where they can move. as quickly as congressionally possible. To send an impeachment to the Senate if they were to take the House back in November.

And here's the truth: we know what they impeached President Trump on last time, specifically that first one. They have plenty of fodder if that qualifies. If that qualifies for impeachment. which of course was that phone call with Ukraine. back years ago at this point.

Then I'm sure they can find a litany of options, plenty of things that they could, quote unquote, say are impeachable. We have currently the war in Iran, certainly something they're going to throw out there. There are plenty of things that, if you have the votes, it doesn't even really matter. If you have your beliefs really match up to what it is, you have the votes, you're going to come up with a reason. That is the desperate side of politics today.

I want to hear from you about this. Are you ready? To go through another impeachment trial. Look, we know last time it was unsuccessful. You know, our team was involved in it.

However, Unsuccessful, meaning unsuccessful for the Democrats to fully remove President Trump from office. But this time we could have a very different lay of the land. And as we know, though sometimes the end result is clear before it even begins. It does put a lot of pain on the American people, puts a lot of pain on the federal government. They have to go through a lot of red tape.

They have to go through all of the proceedings. Things slow down. It is not a fun process to be a part of, I can assure you. Phone lines are open at 1-800-684-30-110. If you want to talk about this or any of the topics we've hit this week, feel free to call in or anything on your mind.

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So, what we're talking about is the report that came in through Axios that the House Democrats are already planning their first move. And of course, what do you think their first move is going to be if they are to come into power? That is to impeach President Trump. When? Day one.

That's right.

We know that a bunch of House Democrats are pushing their colleagues to at least be start beginning. The process of building the case, the impeachment case against President Trump. Look, it does feel like somewhat ancient history when we went through this twice, once while President Trump was in office, once while he wasn't. And they are making it very clear that it is going to be.

Now, I'm very curious: do you think it will be a campaign promise? Do you think it'll be something that they start rolling out here a little bit more open and saying this is what we're going to do? Because they know it could rally their base. I think for a group of them, yes, it will. And I think if they are doing some of this work.

Like having shadow hearings and things of that nature, they will be doing that not just for the benefit, I guess, of them having done work early, but also to use for campaign material and to push and show the people: look what we're doing. We're already fighting hard trying to rally the base to lead towards a theoretical impeachment if they take the house. Go ahead. No, no, I was going to say there's a call coming in about it. Maybe it'll help spur some more calls.

Let's go to Warren on line one. Warren, go ahead. Thanks for taking my call, guys. You know, we knew day one, they they talked about impeachment anyways, but it just it goes to show that the Democrats and the left are doing nothing and have done nothing to better America or their constituents or anything except for oppose Trump and the Republicans at everything they've done. You know, Warren, one thing I think that's so fascinating and once I agree with what you're saying there about the them if this is all they have to run on.

But in reality, They are pushing this. And I think there's also on the conservative side a resignation to the fact that, yeah, they're going to take the House.

Now, that is normal. It is normal for two years in, the first midterm after an election. The agility swings. Yeah, the opposing party takes control of the House of Representatives. There's that kind of pushback after the first two years of an administration.

But. What's interesting here is that how resigned it feels like many conservatives are. that they're just like, eh, I'm going to focus on my race, the swing districts, whatever. It's going to flip. The Senate will probably hold for the Republicans.

That's not a guarantee. It does feel like there is a lot of deflation when it comes to the mood in Congress.

Now, part of that has been the intra-party fighting that you've seen between the Senate and the House on the conservative side, of them not even being able to get on the same page to get legislation passed or funding bills passed. I think that has kind of taken down some of their motivation, some of their Pep, for lack of a better term, when it comes to doing the job.

So, this resignation to the fact that they're going to lose the house. Makes it almost a guarantee that we're going to have to deal with this, which is ridiculous because we've seen how ridiculous it is.

Now, We know that impeachment is a political process, right? They can, in theory, Impeached for anything. If they get the votes, and then it gets sent, and you have to convince the Senate that it is enough of a high crime and misdemeanor to convict and remove you from office. It takes more than just a simple majority in the Senate, which is a good thing.

So, will President Trump be removed from office from this impeachment? No. It's going to be a waste of time and money and everything. The conclusion is already there. That they don't have the votes for this to go beyond impeachment.

Right.

Well, I mean, here's the deal: in theory, something could change. The Democrats would have to have a super majority in the Senate or convince. More Republicans. 10 Republicans to remove the President from office. Yeah.

Which never happened. It's just two years. And like you said. Why have they been calling it an illegal war? Since even before bombs started falling in Iran, they were talking about military.

So you can disobey illegal orders.

So it's either going to be on, even though I feel like the news has moved on from the ICE story. I think that was their first plan, to say he's illegally using the military on American soil. Therefore, we will impeach him. I think they've moved on from that because the media has. What they'll probably do is say, The war in Iran is an illegal war.

We believe that. And so, therefore, we are going to impeach him on the fact that he went beyond the scope of his power. It's an abuse of power. Those will probably be the charges in the articles of impeachment. You're giving them a lot of ideas here, Will.

It's not that hard. I'm not giving them any ideas. I'm using their words. If you think Will shouldn't be giving them ideas, let us know in the chat. Yes or no?

Do you think Will should be leading this impeachment process? Because it seems like you're making a compelling case. No, I think it's absurd. I'm saying that is the thing that they will do because we know what their rhetoric is, and therefore they're going to just use their rhetoric to push an impeachment. There used to be the standards of why was impeachment so rarely used?

Only two other times in American history before President Trump.

Now, a total of four times, he's been impeached. Twice. Two of them. He's about to be the majority shareholder of impeachments as soon as November rolls around and we get into January when they will take over in the House of Representatives if they go according to what they're expecting.

Now, we do know that polling and those kind of things is a very different world here in the 2020s, if you will.

However, As Will said, it almost feels like a foregone conclusion. As much as I don't want to be that kind of person, and I don't think you should. You got to get out and vote. You got to do what you got to do. But it feels like they are already are resigning to the fact that This is going to be a flip.

Well, and I think that's also part of the concern I have, too, is where we've talked about some of this like conservative nihilism that's arisen, where people are saying there's nothing will ever change, no one will ever be held accountable, et cetera, et cetera.

Well, I look at it as this is an opportunity to do something. If you think it's a waste of the American taxpayers' money and time, and instead of them working together to find, okay, now you have control of the House of Representatives. How about you go forward and try to find across the aisle legislation you can pass with a Republican Senate and get the Republican President to sign? Instead, you're just going to try to get him out of office and then J.D. Vance becomes President?

I mean, it's absurd, all of what they're doing just to run out the clock. Nicola in the comments is saying that they're all watching right now, watching you going, write that down, write that down. I can guarantee you they're not watching me. I don't know.

Well, some people, we have big influence here.

Okay. You know what? Don't, just like you say, don't be a nihilist. Don't be a conservative nihilist. Don't be a broadcast nihilist.

But that should get people motivated to go vote, to go support a candidate that you care about. Right.

All right, let's take another call. Henry is calling in Texas. Go ahead, Henry. Hi, yeah. How are you doing?

My name's Henry. I'm from Big Town, Texas. All right. Go ahead, Henry. Yes, sir.

I think that they wasted a whole lot of taxpayers' money the last time they tried to impeach President Trump. If they're unsuccessful, I think that they should be held responsible instead of the taxpayers. Yeah, Henry Wee and what they love is just throwing that impeached label on President Trump. Are they unsuccessful? They would probably say they were successful in impeaching the President.

But we know in the back of your head when you think of what an impeachment should lead to, if it was a just impeachment. It would lead to the removal from office, or even as Richard Nixon did, resigning from office before they even got to the moment. But that's not what this is. This is a political talking point, and they love a good brand to throw something on. They love a label to throw on.

They all start using the same words. Why? Because it's really easy to say now, the thrice impeached President Trump. One thing that Henry, I think, brings up the point of saying that, you know, they need to pay it back.

Well, here's the problem. Where do they get their money from? When it comes to their salary, it's from us.

So, yep, they're still the taxpayer paying it back. But then I don't think they'd be willing to part with, you know, some of the Democrats that are very prolific traders in the stock market when it comes to certain activities, the famous Nancy Pelosi tracker, things of that nature. I don't think they'd be willing to part with that either. But I like where your head's at, Henry. Yeah, thanks, Henry, for calling.

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Then go to aclj.org back in just a minute. Welcome back to Sec Killo. There's a lot of you watching today. I'd love for you to call in. And we had a bunch of calls lined up.

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Phone lines again are open for you at 1-800-684-31-10. Will, you want to pivot a little bit here? Yeah, I did want to bring this up because I think it's interesting, and I think that I'd like to hear from the audience on this one as well. But one, we had a video in the break that talked about the fact that Israel and Lebanon are extending their ceasefire by three weeks. Remember that today?

10-day ceasefire was announced a few days back, and it really kind of led to Iran stopping their bombing of the Gulf nations, which had nothing to do with what was going on between Israel and Lebanon. But it really brought them more into the ceasefire, the Iranians. But it's also led to real talks between Israel and Lebanon for the first time in. Over 30 years. And so you're seeing progress between the government of Lebanon and Israel.

And that could lead to something where one of Iran's, probably Iran's strongest proxies still, Hezbollah, may be having the government of Lebanon finally doing something about their presence there. But on top of that, there's this other issue. This is the defense minister of Israel. The other issue being war. Right, right.

The other side of the war. That the defense minister of Israel. said that Israel is awaiting a green light from the United States. First and foremost, to complete the elimination of the Khomeini dynasty, the initiator of the extermination plan against Israel, and the successors of the successors of the leadership of the Iranian terror regime. And in addition, to return Iran to the age of darkness and stone by blowing up central energy and electricity facilities and crushing national economic infrastructure.

I think President Trump wrote that. It sounds like it. That's actually Mr. Katz. Yeah, Defense Minister Israel Katz, what sounds like a name President Trump uses.

Posing as the defense minister. It's his burner account. He calls into a show. What should we call him? Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Yeah, there you go. That's exactly it. But I want to know from the audience: if the United States were to. Say, you know what? We're done here.

We have eliminated the leadership. We have taken out most of their military capabilities. We feel like we have done what we came to do. They do not have an opportunity at this point to build a nuclear weapon or to restart that nuclear program for decades. We're going to bring our troops home.

Would you be In favor of the United States coming home and Israel. doing whatever they want to do after that. Getting the green light, as the defense minister says, to go ahead and finish what you and I were talking about earlier in the week. We do want to see real regime change there. We want to see the...

I wasn't sure what you're talking about. I mean, we talked about a lot of things.

Well, no, no, no, where we're talking about with the deals being up in the air and the extended policies. Exactly. Can we, would you, as the audience, be okay with if it wasn't the United States that took out the Iranian remnant leadership in the IRGC and helped set the people of Iran free? Yeah, I would hope so. Because, look, I would hope so.

I hope Israel can just go in and finish the job here if the United States decides to make a deal. I think there's other ways around this. And look, I believe there should be. a freedom for the people in Iran. If you've spoken to really any Of your friends, and maybe you've seen any of your neighbors who are of Persian or Iranian background.

Most of them are praying daily for a free Iran, a new government, not a new group of people in the same style of government, not just a new administration, but a truly new regime. It doesn't seem to be the plan. And some of them called in said, I don't know if it was ever the plan. They are right that Naomi has maybe not ever stated out specifically that this would be President Trump's plan, but we talked about standing behind the Iranian people. I think that means standing for the Iranian people and the people who are in the streets who got murdered for simply speaking out against their government.

There are still like two lines open at 1-800-68-430-110. I'm looking at the chat. A lot of you coming in from California today. I don't know why California is such a big hotbed today. They think maybe they're frustrated.

They want to talk to someone in Mexico as well.

So we got people from around the world watching. It's always good to hear from California. Always good to hear from Mexico. And let's take things on the phones. Let's go.

The other side of the country. The free state of Florida, let's go to Cara, who's calling in. Line two, go ahead. Hi, my question is you guys are doing a great job of Giving us all this information, but what can we really do as American people to kind of combat?

some of this wasteful spending, like we're seeing the stuff with Ilhan Omar and And Minnesota. But it and I think that's where we're becoming complacent. Because what can we do? What are I'm curious as to some ideas that you guys have as to how quickly we forget? Uh Kara?

it becomes not top story. And all of a sudden, Minnesota feels like that happened five years ago. Feels like we're not even talking about all of that and sort of the waste, fraud and abuse. This is something that obviously was one of President Trump's big initiatives early on. He had Elon Musk involved.

He had Doge, and it really took a lot of heat and kind of ended up. Uh sadly, uh falling a little short. As Elon would say, essentially, there's so much corruption going on. He didn't say this is not a quote, but kind of inferred it.

So much going on, so much red tape in the. not just this administration, but just in Washington, D.C. in general, that getting things done. And actually, cutting spending is very, very difficult. And I find that to be frustrating for a lot of you that there are billions, if not trillions, of dollars being wasted every year.

Well, I think to one point though is that you you look and and you see things like the director of the FBI put this out uh last night. That in the last 24 hours, the FBI has taken down a scam center with 503 fraud websites dismantled, with had over 700 million in stolen crypto, other things that are fraudulent activities. But you also look at what the vice President's task force found in California and how quickly also that pushed California. To indict that 21-member fraud ring for hospice fraud that was taking hundreds of millions of dollars. And it is because of shining a light.

It is because of continuing to talk about those things. It is because you let your member of Congress know. This matters to me still.

So, yes, I don't think one, when you have a government and a bureaucracy as. large as the United States has, you're never going to completely eliminate it. But that should be the goal. And continuing to bring it up and letting those people know this is something that actually matters to me. I don't want just a campaign slogan of eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse, and then nothing done about it.

I really want to see this happen. That's when you start to see change. And I think this administration is doing something very good when it comes to this fraud initiative. because it's even making California react. They had to indict as well.

So I think you shouldn't lose hope on that. Yeah, we're going to keep taking some calls, even related to that. There's a lot of people talking about the elections coming up, the midterms as well. Are we being too pessimistic? What does that look like?

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Pokemon Secular. Phone lines are jamming up. Finally, thanks for calling. Will you got people motivated? That's right.

Here on a Friday. It's hard to get people motivated on a Friday. Right.

Looking at a bunch of sleeping people in the control room. There's literally four people asleep. Eyes are closed. I see it. I think if the mics were on, I'd hear snores.

Well, it's a good thing we don't have the mics on in there. It would be nice, though. It'd be like, you know, your dog snores, kind of puts you to sleep. You can just kind of make a voice. Ambient noise.

Let it go. People like that. They watch that on YouTube. Right.

They just like sounds. My kids play these videos. Like, you ever seen this? And I'm like, it's just. The noise of slime.

Yeah, and why is it a video? Why isn't it just the audio? Hot topics today, guys. This is really what we're talking about here. Of course, we are talking about a war and other things.

But look at impeachments of war. That is one of the big topics today. Axios put out a report. Again, it should be no shock to any of us, but. I like the pregame version of this, that they are like watching game film.

I like to think of them all like together, you know, just like prepping in the locker room. They're like, all right, guys, and we take over. If we take over. And it's a lot of hopes. It's like my beloved Orlando Magic, right before game one of the series.

You're like, they're going to do it. This is going to be our year. It's our year. It's our year. And then, you know, you get a few months in, and they're like, well, you know, maybe we'll make the playoffs.

And then by the end of it, they're like, well, next year.

Well, next year. We're gonna have some new players. You know, it'll be good. But That being said, we know that some of these top Democrats and look, they're going to run on this because you get the midterms coming up very, very soon. We're talking about months, not years, and we're talking really about weeks until some of these primaries start happening.

And then you will have your midterm elections. They need something to run on. And what are they going to run on? Impeaching President Trump on the first day of being in office. And we know those plans are happening, and they're not even necessarily even back room.

They're more like off site at the local Applebee's. Planning out. How they're going to impeach President Trump round three. Do they have to report if they get like free appetizers? If they use a coupon on the congressional expenses or something?

I don't know.

I'm always wondering. Yeah, I mean, they can't go to Chili's because they're like El Presidente, no-go here. We have to go to Applebee's because it's safer for them. And better tchotchkes on the wall, right? Best Fridays.

Oh, really? Applebees had like skis and stuff sometimes? Yeah, probably. Yeah. I don't know.

Smoky, is what I remember. That was back in the 90s, right? Hey, if Applebee's wanna spot, we're fine. We're down, okay? I have some requests to bring back on the menu.

That being said, we do have a bunch of calls coming in. I'm not going to take them in this segment because honestly. How do you even go from here? The next segment, we're going to take a ton of calls.

So stay tuned. We got one line open at 1-800-684-30110. We do actually try to have a little bit of fun here on Friday. We know you're listening, you're starting to wrap up your week and you want to know what's going around the world. Let's just be honest, today has been a pretty quiet news day.

But sometimes that's nice. But what's really happening behind the scenes, we know Washington, D.C., it's never quiet. And we know there are always these kind of big plans happening. This is, again, not a shocker that it's happening. We're not sitting there surprised that likely we're going to be putting ourselves through another marathon impeachment trial that you'll probably be watching on your cable news stations day after day, with a foregone conclusion that President Trump will not be removed from office just two years before he is up.

and up without re-election. Because we know obviously this is his second term in office. But It's a really, really good distraction. It's a really, really good thing to run on if you are a Democrat trying to motivate that far-left anti-Trump base that maybe you started to lose. Maybe they've turned on you.

Well, you can give him something to bring him back into the fold. And that looks like impeachment could be that thing.

Well, and to be fair, what really do the Democrats want? Like, what could they accomplish? With having the house. That they would be able to, you know, build a bridge with Republicans in the Senate on. I mean, all of their pet programs and spending is not going to fly in this current day and age.

So I think the only thing they can run on is just saying we're going to just shut everything down. They are kind of the shutdown party. And a visual for pet programs, way different than what you were talking about. Mine I was like, I like it. You know, maybe they can turn me.

I do like animals. Here we are folks, okay? Let's just be honest. 1-800-684-30-110. I'm gonna ask you to support the work of the ACLJ, but you may be listening to this segment going, guys, I'm not so sure.

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We got so many calls coming in. And I'm just going to go straight to the phones and Actually, it's the call that's been on hold the least. But they're ACLJ champions. And ACLJ champions, people that give on a monthly basis. Again, it's not an official perk.

You don't see it on the website. I can't even tell you that Will or Jordan, whoever may be sitting in these chairs, when I'm out, will honor. This pledge. A lot of times I reference oops, I should have taken the champion first. That's the name of your podcast.

Oops, I should have taken the champion first. Just oops, I should have. And each episode is something different. Yeah, exactly. All right.

Uh, This is an important topic, though. Of course, we are talking about the potential for. A third impeachment. We know the kind of pain it puts everyone through. It's sort of like a government shutdown that's used politically, but it's also really shuts down whatever is happening.

So, all good, or in your opinion, if it's all bad, a lot of it gets just, there's a halt in Washington, D.C. Let's go to Frank in Connecticut, an ACLJ champion, some of the gives on a monthly basis, which I appreciate. Frank, go ahead. Yeah. Hello, guys.

God bless you. Yeah, this midterm election, it's. more important than the Presidential election at this point. The narrative should be: let's get our base out and vote. I know in the midterms, no one wants to get out, but I don't care how much it costs.

You need to start spending some money and get this message out there. Because this is everything relies on this election. We will lose everything. We'll have tax hikes, everything.

Well, it's as much as that as nothing will get done. You know, if this happens, if this goes through, sure, you'll have changes you certainly don't agree with, but what you'll have is a completely stagnant. Trump administration. Who cannot get a lot of things pushed through because all of a sudden you do not have one of the vital votes. And I don't understand.

How specifically in states where it really does. Come down to sometimes what feels like dozens of votes because of how few people vote. doesn't get more attention. And I think it's a fundamental You know, misunderstanding of how the government works.

Well, and I think to Frank's point, I think why you feel like people are just resigned to it is that. That kind of what Logan said is that there's like, okay, well, everything will just stop. There'll be two years of lame duck. that not much is going to get done. We'll get some spending bills here and there that just keep everything at status quo.

There'll probably be a couple more shutdowns thrown in because the Democrats have decided they love a good shutdown, and then they'll try to blame it on the Republicans. And it'll kind of work because people will listen to them. But to that point as well, There are still things that can happen. The administration can still do a lot of things as the executive branch, but it really will put a pause on really anything big happening. In some ways, maybe that's nice.

Maybe, especially with the current state of the Republicans in the House and the Senate, where they're not fully getting along, maybe it will be nice to just hit the pause button. I wouldn't prefer it. I don't want the House to be turned into the impeachment machine. And wasting money that way, they're gonna find ways to waste your money, the Democrats in Congress, and maybe they're just gonna do it on impeachment after impeachment. I also wanna say this before we go to another call.

This is to longtime viewer on Rumble, Ryder. Take your time. That said, and it was back to when we were talking about. I was saying, yeah, things can move. We are starting to see people get indicted for fraud.

We are starting to see dismantling of some of these fraud networks. And Ryder said, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Will, nothing is going to happen. And I believe at the timing that that's what we were talking about. But I would push back on that. One, Even the stuff that happened with Doge in the beginning.

While not fully what we hoped. The fact that USAID was completely dismantled, which if they're still trying to tell you that it is going to just be hurting the world, you haven't looked into what USAID was going to do. They were just a network of people taking government money with little oversight.

So, the waste, fraud, and abuse, that was probably the biggest center of it, where the oversight was so relaxed. No conservative causes or NGOs would ever get a grant. It was only the most liberal causes. They were just printing money for them. And at the end of the day, it wasn't really helping the world as it was promoted.

Nor is that what it should be the job necessarily of the federal government to have an ongoing entirety of this program.

Now, we know that much of that, if it was actually being done for those reasons, it was a shell operation of the CIA that was created a long time ago under JFK to do soft power moves. They would go in, they flood it with money. That's how it began, was to use it as an intelligence wing to flood soft money into these areas using NGOs. And it just became an out-of-control spending spree for those in Congress that like to spend American taxpayer dollars. And now you know.

There you go. That was very informative. I appreciate it. The movement can happen, things do get done.

Okay. You can actually have progress in America. It's very easy to forget when that happens.

Sometimes it does happen, and then all we hear are the complaints of nothing ever happens. And we go, Hey, guys, you know, when you always say nothing ever happens, look, this is happening. Then two weeks later, you're going to go, nothing ever happens. It feels that way sometimes, but remember, your memory can be very short. The American news cycle is very short.

The media cycle is very short. Your memories can be very short.

So, we're going to keep this conversation coming. A lot of calls on Iran, also right now.

So, we'll kind of bounce between Iran, Israel, of course, this impeachment stuff.

So, let's see what else we can hit. Let's go to Brian. We'll take it over to the conflict in Iran. Brian and Virginia, go ahead. My comment is that We're going to lose so much credibility on the world stage if we don't finish the job.

We definitely need to secure the straightover moves And we can't ever attack, I don't think they're bridges or power plants and all that different stuff and or let you know, allow Israel to do that because that'll cause so much harm to the people of Iran, cause such a humanitarian crisis and actually turn the people against us. We don't want that. Yeah. Brian, I I think he makes very valid points. Again, it's figuring out what that finish the job means to not only you, but to.

The current administration. It seems like there may be some conflict of what that means between Israel and what that means with America. This is also politics.

So sometimes you have one side say something so the other side can say something and the job can get done. You know, this could be very much Israel saying, you know what? When we're ready to finish this job, we're going to do it. Let's save America's face a little bit. And, you know, I don't be surprised if that is the kind of conversations that are happening behind the scenes.

That's right.

And once again, it also goes to show that it is actually America running the show when it comes to the foreign policy of the United States and the war in Iran, because it is Israel admitting, say, we're waiting. We would like to continue this bombing. Israel doesn't want really this deal. Talk to continue. They want to continue attacking Iran and make sure the leadership, because their existential threat is a little bit different.

A little bit closer to home. Right.

And we know that they have the ballistic missiles capable of hitting Israel. Right.

And so I think that is where the difference is as well. All right. Let's go to Jerry, kind of take on the other side of this. Jerry, Rhode Island. Go ahead.

To answer your question, should we go if we have negated the nuclear threat and the military advisers are telling POTUS we've accomplished it all, then I think we should. And let the people who won't cooperate with the blockade over in that part of the world, let them pick up the stick and run with it. See, I'm kind of with... Jerry on this, that I would not be with Jerry. I would not.

Well, he's a longtime colleague. I like Jerry. I just like. But I mean, to that point, I want to see. A real regime change in Iran.

But as we were saying the other day as well, If we're not going to... Fully invest in that. Then why are we here? be certain that we have at least firm 20 years completely destroyed their capacity to have centrifuges. If we have wiped out Not just the facilities, but even the scientists, and just the rebuilding process of making and getting centrifuges and all of these things is so far out from where they are.

Then, I mean, I think you can say, well, yeah, we said we were going to eliminate the nuclear threat. We did. We're done. Israel, if you want to continue and you want to see and push for regime change, go ahead. All right, I don't have as much of a problem with that.

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So many calls are coming in today. Look, I'm going to do my best to get to all of you. If you've been able to hold over 20 minutes, I guarantee it. If you don't hold over 15 minutes, I'll try. If you're able to hold less than 10, no guarantees, but I'm going to do my best to just stay on hold.

Let's go quick to the calls. Let's go first to Chuck calling on line five. Chuck, go ahead.

Well, good afternoon, guys. It's good to be back on with you guys. I just want to say I think the topics that we're trying to discuss here regarding what's happening. uh in our our country Um I think when I look at the Iranian war, My only problem is we went in and we really didn't have a plan going in.

So, when you don't have a solid plan going in, it's going to be difficult to have a plan getting out. then when my old saying is, if you break it, you gotta fix it. It's going to cost us billions to fight, and then we're going to spend billions to try to rebuild the infrastructure. And I just think this Presidency has failed because we all of our wisdom And people of war We're just dismantling and throwing everybody out and just I think Pete And some of these guys that's making these decisions They have no reference point. And they're just blasting, blasting, blasting.

And it seems like it's just the whole purpose is to cover up something. That if we just say, hey, man, come clean and fix what we got going on here in the United States, it won't get as bad as what we're doing. It's like we're trying to fight everybody's war, but take care of our own here.

Well, Chuck, I'm not invalidating your opinion. I think that you speak for a lot of the American people who feel this way, who never wanted us to get involved. And I understand that. Do I think we had a solid plan going in? I think there was more of a solid plan going in than maybe what happened, sort of the shift that happened.

I mean, look how quickly we're able to take out the top leadership. Day one. They were able to take out really everyone of influence in Iran.

Now, the weeks that followed, I will agree with you. It seems like it got a little murkier as time has moved on. The plans changed, the end goal changed. You had those sort of moments where it felt like we were headed towards a mission accomplished moment from Iraq now happening with Iran. There were those remnants of that, the reminders of that.

Now, do I think there's still time to fix that? I do. I also understand the spending issues and saying, look how much money we're spending. But look, we also know, as Will brought up, Look how much money we're spending on a lot of things that seem to be Not of interest to people. But it involves Israel, if it involves Iran, you know, those are the Middle East.

All of a sudden, it feels like those billions. Are somehow worse than these other billions being wasted, if you would. And here's why I appreciate your call, Chuck. Because one, you disagree with us and you're able to say that without being nasty, attacking our call screener, attacking us, or saying something extremely anti-Semitic, which we sometimes have to deal with. But in reality, You also speak, I feel like, for a lot of people.

I think, like, that has been the biggest criticism of this.

Now, I, I. Personally, my opinion on the operation in Iran is that I was glad that we finally did this as the United States of America because we have been fighting against this regime since the 70s for 47 years. They've been killing Americans. They have a stated goal to kill Americans. And at the end of the day, we know that their goal is theocratic, that their theology is to kill Americans and Western ideology so that they can take over the world.

That's the theology of the leadership.

So I think it is a threat. And I do think actually that Pete Hexeth and the military leaders actually fought this operation a lot differently. Than previous militaries under previous Republicans have done. And I feel like it did move quicker. I think that we aren't used to seeing it play out at that speed in that transparent.

And that's why we are starting to see people say, oh, they don't have a plan and they don't have this. I disagree, but I also appreciate you calling and voicing it. But Logan and I have said, Some of the PR issue now. Is that? Is that it's it validates a lot of what Chuck says: of, hey, well, we're doing a ceasefire, then we're not going to have a ceasefire anymore.

It's a deadline. Oh, but now we're going to do it indefinitely. But no, it's only three to five days. That's a PR crisis. The constituents showing us movie-looking footage of them taking ships.

You know, it doesn't feel as dismantled as maybe they want you to believe, but Chuck would totally understand. And I do want to say one more thing that relates to that, but then we'll get to the next one. I'm so sorry, but this is when it goes back to also the fraud issue: is that he's pointing out that this cost a lot of money. Yes, I think this is something, though, that for the American people, for the future, for our kids, it's a good thing. But whenever Republicans do try to address things at home, like all the fraud in the Medicare system.

The Democrats use that as, look, they're trying to dismantle. If you stop paying fraudsters and therefore that money is not spent, they will use that as a campaign ad. that they cut funding. to Medicare. And Medicaid.

That is the reality. That they will use even paying fraudsters. If you eliminate that, they'll use it in campaign ads. I guarantee you that they dropped funding. All right.

I want to take Roberta in Colorado, line three. You've been holding for half an hour. Thanks, Roberta. Good uh hi, I wanted to just say I do believe my comment is I do believe that we should have always been standing next to and supporting Israel and let the world know that we always will. And is the iron dome still working?

Yeah, Roberta, number one, I agree with you on that. Sadly, that was a pretty much. Standard operation, whether you're a Democrat or Republican. Until the last decade. I would say until the last five years.

Until the last three years really. That the uh there was sort of an unbreaking alliance between uh Israel and America.

Now, that did start to shift primarily under Obama. Remember, Obama was calling for the 1947 borders and for all of that during his time.

So, yes, that started to shift a lot of it. Of course, you had the Clintons very strongly in support of Israel. You obviously had George W. Bush very strongly in support of Israel. Then Barack Obama started to soften it.

President Trump came back stronger than ever. Joe Biden took a very opposite, after being a big Israel supporter for decades, decided to start wavering with sort of the will of the far left of his party. And then you have now President Trump reasserting this. But I do think it's very, we got to be very careful with it. That being said, in terms of the Iron Dome, currently, as Will said, right now, prayerfully, thankfully, not a lot of action needed right now.

So hopefully, though there were some issues with the Iron Dome, just due to the amount that was coming in, hopefully they've had time, if you want to say, to reload. Right.

And I think that is partially why the ceasefire is good for Israel, is that it is giving them time to reload some. They are still seeing some rocket fire from Hezbollah, even though they have entered into this ceasefire with Lebanon. Still things happen. But the Iron Dome seems to be able to handle that at this point.

So I think that as of right now, yes, the Iron Dome is holding it. It's sad that it needs to exist, but it is what it is. I'm going to take really quickly, it's going to Marion. Marion, you got like 20 seconds on the air. I'm sorry.

We only hold 10 minutes.

Okay. Marion, go ahead. Yeah, basically uh I I wanted to say that I'm in favor of continuing the war. And the reason that I am is every time that something happens, like they go and blow up ships and they're sending all these. Mines down in the ocean and all that.

We need to find out who these people are. And Trump said if they start doing that, we're just going to blow them out of the water, just like we did in Venezuela.

So I'm in favor of keeping it to expose who the bad people really are. And eventually, we might get somebody that will only cut you off for time here. How quickly we forgot about Venezuela? How quickly you forget about a lot of these things. Thanks for reminding us.

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