BREAKING: Trump Rushes to Situation Room

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I'd love to hear from you today again, 1-800-684-3110. Get your voice heard on the air. We are covering a breaking news item. When we say breaking, we mean it was breaking. We had a different show planned.

And at the last second, President Trump put out a statement on Truth Social that kind of changed everything of what we're going to be talking about today, as well. As we will still talk a little bit later on with Rick Rinnell about the Titaning race in Los Angeles. This is the current breaking news item right now. As we know, President Trump has entered the situation room. A statement came out.

We'll read it to you. It says, Iran must agree. Then again, this again came out less than or just about an hour ago. Iran must agree that they will never have a nuclear weapon or bomb. The Hermuz Strait must be immediately opened.

No tolls for unrestricted shipping traffic in both directions. All water mine bombs, if any, will be terminated. We have removed through detonation numerous such mines. It goes on and on. But.

More importantly, they have been called into the situation room right now. It goes, uh, Other items of far less importance have already been agreed to. Again, this is essentially saying that all nukes have to be destroyed. I'll be meeting now in the Situation Room to make a final. Determination.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Trump using the term final determination. I think this is a big moment once again. This is what we talked about to some degree yesterday: how there were reports from Axios and others picked it up throughout the day that the parties that were negotiating, the Iranians and the U.S., had agreed to this memorandum of understanding. And what we even said yesterday is it is up to President Trump.

He mentioned that he would make a decision in a few days based off what they had negotiated out. It appears now that this meeting is happening in the Situation Room with his national security team. To make it a final decision about that agreement, we talked about it yesterday. I want to get your phone calls. If the President is weighing the options right now, how do you feel about this?

And we'll get into more of what he said in that post of things that are the demands from the United States and what we think. Will that be in this memorandum of understanding that that is the baseline that they negotiate out into a final agreement? Or is that what we still have to negotiate? Give us a call, 1-800-684-3110. But this is happening in real time, Logan.

He is, if you look at the news channels, it says that they are meeting right now in the situation room. They're awaiting an update. This is happening, folks, as we are live. One of the statements in this, or one of the passages in the statement, says, Ships caught in the strait due to our amazing and unprecedented naval blockade, which will now be lifted, may start the process of heading home. Say hello to your wives, husbands, parents, and families from me, from your favorite President.

Again, a little humor there, but. Realistically, this is what probably needs to be happening. We know the economy is taking a pretty big hit. President Trump knows there needs to be some changes, some movement happening.

So maybe, again, sometimes it feels like this show can be on repeat because it feels like we're close to a deal at any day. But this one, using the term final determination, obviously that final determination could be. That the war continues, it could be. That we have a deal.

So, who knows what that looks like? Could it be a distraction tactic, Casso? You never know with what goes on in Washington, D.C., but at least we have an update, and I want to hear from you about it right now. What do you think about this? What will make you happy?

What will make you upset? Again, President Trump currently has a very Heading to the area in the situation room, making that final determination. As President Trump has also said, the enriched materials will all be dismantled or destroyed. We'll go through a lot of what this all means in the next segment, but I want to hear from you. Phone lines are open at 1-800-684-3110.

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So Welcome to the show. Will Haynes in studio. We've got a special guest, Rick Rinnell, joining us later on. But Today, we are just going to go back to President Trump's statement, which just came out as he rushed to the situation room to make what they're calling what he's calling in the exact words: final determination. on whether we have a deal with Iran.

It was a lengthy statement on Truth Social, no character limits there, so he could... You can go, you know.

Well, I mean, on X, you don't really have character already. It's just a show. You can do an article. Yeah, and it's too much. Yeah.

But. There's a lot of words here. We've highlighted some of them, though.

Well, I know you want to sort of went through and took out kind of the bullet points of what this post says. And so here are what he's saying Iran must agree to. that they will never have a nuclear weapon or bomb. The Strait of Hormuz must be immediately opened with no tolls for unrestricted shipping traffic in both direction. All mines, sea mines, must be terminated.

The naval blockade will be lifted if Iran agrees to all this. The enriched uranium material, sometimes referred to as nuclear dust, which is buried deep underground, will be unearthed by the United States. In close coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the IAEA, that's the International Atomic Energy Agency, and then destroyed. And no money will be exchanged, so no sanctions lifted, et cetera, until further notice. That is what he is saying Iran must agree to.

And they are meeting right now in the situation room to make a final determination.

So that's where we're at, folks. That is what President Trump is saying Iran must agree to. What we don't know. is if That is what he's saying they must agree to in a final deal, or if that is what is in the memorandum of understanding. That is what would give them 60 days of continued ceasefire to further negotiate out these points.

That's what I believe he's basically setting what the marker is, what the goalpost is. Iran must agree to this. If I were to agree to this further memorandum of understanding, but I think it's also good to see no money will be exchanged. That kind of pours water on all of the reporting that the United States is going to give $24 billion in order to get here. I think that's huge, and I think that's for a lot of people going to be a little bit of a sigh of relief thinking that in some ways you don't have an IRGC that now comes out of this better.

Than when they did.

Now, President Trump is appearing on Laura Trump's broadcast. Later on in the week, but they've started to put out clips from it. I think it maybe gives you a good little insight of what President Trump's thinking is right now when we're deciding whether what kind of deal we're going to make with Iran.

So, here I'll play a little bite from it. This is bite one. Is there a line that they would cross for you to go on the offensive again militarily?

Well, a deal that wasn't going to be good for us is the line, ultimately, because, you know, I'm playing it out and we're going to see, and that's what I do. I negotiate, they negotiate, they're very good negotiators, they're crafty. But in the end, we have all the cards because we've defeated them militarily. Look, they have no navy. Every ship, they have 159 ships.

Every one of them are at the bottom of the sea. Every single one. We take pictures of them. We have people going down taking pictures of hundreds of ships. Their navy is totally gone, 100%.

Their Air Force is totally gone 100%. Their military, we sort of left it alone because we think that their military is somewhat moderate. They have other people that aren't moderate. We've taken them out. We've taken different forms of leadership out.

We've actually left their military alone. People would be surprised to hear that. Yeah, again, I'm surprised to hear that too. Left the military alone now.

Well, in that-that's a little bit of a blurry. Yeah, you have to separate what he's talking about there because the IRGC, in and of themselves, have their own military. Right. They have their special forces units, they have their own air force, their own navy. And then there is the regular army of Iran, of the Islamic Republic.

And that's more what he's talking about. People that are. In military service in Iran, that aren't the hardliners, that aren't doing it to necessarily further their career within the government of the Islamic Republic. That is what the IRGC not only controls the Quds forces, the special forces, all of these things, they also control vastly the economy there.

So when you look at this, there's very much almost a Soviet-style Uh if you want to wrap your head around what the Islamic Republic of Iran is. It's a Soviet-style government where you have the authoritarian leadership, but then you have this bureaucratic, technocratic state. That is the IRGC that really controls everything. And that is because the Islamic Republic was born out of a Marxist-style revolution. And so while they are theocratic and they have these wild theologies that go towards the apocalypse, they also have a lot of their roots in Marxism.

And that is when you, even the timeline, that's when a lot of other Marxist revolutions were going on around the world. They were able to utilize that with the youth of the people of Iran during the day, with this populist Marxist movement to get to where they are. And how did that play out? Exactly like a Soviet-style state, where you have the IRGC that controls the economy, that picks and chooses the winners and the losers. And a lot of times, the winners and losers, the losers are people that want to live a life.

The winners are those that want to go do terrorism around the world.

So, if you are able to separate the military in what he's saying, he is talking about regular people in military service for the regular army, not IRGC military. And that's where it can get confusing if you just hear the term military, like, well, why would you leave them alone? In some degree, they're hoping, and there's been a hope for a long time, is that the military itself. will turn on the government. And they are armed.

They do have that ability, but they aren't the diehards. They aren't the true believers in the revolution as the IRGC folks are. All right, phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. I do want to hear from you today. 1-800-684-3110.

Again, we had a show planned out. And this made some big adjustments. As we know, that this is a very big interest to all of you. And I want to know, do you want to see a war in Iran come to an end? Do you want a deal?

And if that deal includes, by the way, no financial return to Iran, I think that's something you'd probably be happy about. But what do you think? It's an important time to call in. It's a Friday. I can take as many calls as I possibly can today at 1-800-684-3110.

And I had great callers yesterday. Maybe I used them all up, Logan. Maybe they all are like, yeah, we already talked. I think the phone lines are broken. That's what I'm telling people right now.

Oh, that's all. They all are watching on YouTube right now. They're not wanting to join us. But I think I want to hear, even if you thought about calling, but someone said something similar yesterday, give us a call again because it's similar topics. We were at that point yesterday where they were saying the negotiators had come to an agreement on both sides.

Now it's before the President. Do you think President Trump should move forward with an agreement with Iran? Do you trust him in this leadership? To make the right decision, yeah. Phone lines again are open, as Will said, 1-800-684-3110.

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Should we take some? Yeah, I think we should. Let's go, Jerry, in Rhode Island. Jerry? Go ahead.

Hello, boys. The phones are working. We're listening. The questions posed were: should we think it's going on or not? Those of us who've been listening long enough now know that Trump on his second term has rooted out the Deep State and has assembled a team that he trusts and therefore we trust.

So they get all the information, and we're trusting that they will make the right decision. Yeah, Jerry, I think that we do have to at least go into this thinking that there are experts in the room who know maybe a little bit more than we know. But look, we also know that. In Washington, D.C., people get influenced by what's happening in the polls. We know what they get influenced by what's happening on social media.

It's not immune. That, but I agree with you that there are some level heads in the room, hopefully, who are addressing this correctly. And that's why I've said even just the little changes, like there's going to be no financial. Right. I think if that stays true, that's a big deal.

That is something we need to look at and go, okay. Uh the media narrative was incorrect or They saw the blowback. From people like you and people that not necessarily you, Jerry, but you know, people that listen and watch these kind of shows and say, we don't want this to be happening, that would be, or even some of the other government officials. The senators, congressmen who said, we cannot have a financially. We can't give them a financial win here in Iran.

Right. But also, to some degree, if there is to be a final deal, and it is as good of a deal as. They have no capacity to enrich uranium. They've given it all up. They will never have a nuclear weapon.

the sanctions that are tied to that nuclear program. Will need to be lifted as a part of that. That is an appropriate exchange of you're giving up your entire program, the sanctions we put in place on your banking and your industry. tied to that would be lifted, and that would be them having access to money. And now the left will try to spend it as giving them money, but it is relief of sanctions if that we get to that point.

Now I don't think that should be a precursor, lifting the sanctions before they agree to do that. That is what a lot of other Presidents have tried to do before, saying, hey, we'll lift the sanctions, then we'll negotiate on your nuclear program. You're taking away the power you have over their economy if you relieve them of these sanctions before you even get to the point of dealing with their nuclear program. But we also had Mama Bear on Rumble, who's a longtime watcher of the broadcast, said, I trust him. But I'm confused by the path and the length of time he's allowing them to regroup and strike back.

I think that is what a lot of people have issues with as well, is how long, you know, the ceasefire was two weeks. Back. April 2nd, when it went into effect. We're now almost to June. Seven weeks.

Almost two full months. It'll be two full months on Tuesday since this ceasefire began. And now we're talking about another 60 days under a memorandum of understanding. I don't know that they have the capacity to regroup in the way that we think that they are. They, many of the munitions facilities, even the way that they manufactured them.

have been completely cut off. A lot of the ability for outside forces to get. Munitions in.

So, some of the other countries like China that have supplied them before Russia, those kind of supply lines have been severed from this.

So, them rebuilding in that way isn't necessarily as big of a concern, as well as things like when you sink their entire navy. They can't just Get battleships back into service immediately.

So I think the damage. I talked about this yesterday to some degree. 13,000 targets were taken out just by the U.S. in Operation Epic Fury. Even if They are trying to rebuild and regroup.

You can't do that in eight weeks. And another two months isn't going to really make that lasting of an impact on their regrouping in the way that would give them the ability to start launching the ballistic missiles immediately. A lot of you are just joining us right now. We just saw a spike in numbers on our live stream.

So I want to make sure that we address what is going on. Because I know a lot of you saw breaking news, President Trump rushes to Situation Room, what's happening. President Trump put out a statement just right before we went on air today, essentially saying, headed to the situation room to make the final determination. I mean, look, I'm summarizing. If you see off the screen, it's quite a lot of details.

But it ends with, you know, we will be meeting now in the situation room to make a final determination. This is on the war in Iran. This is what came out on Truth Social this morning.

So that is what the main topic is. If you are tuning in just now and wanting to know what we're talking about with President Trump rushing to the Situation Room to have these final potential meetings. I think that having a final meeting, even if it's not particularly personally, the way I would have wanted this to go. I think having some sort of closure is important for the American people right now, and maybe seeing some relief. uh financially, whether it's gas prices, whatever, could at least let people breathe a little easier.

with what's happening in Iran. We actually have a call kind of related to that. Let's go to Trish in Texas. I know Trish speaks for a lot of people. Go ahead.

Well, let me preface this by saying I'm Republican. I'm Christian, raised Episcopalian, now Southern Baptist. There you go. I've supported in every way possible. But I'm to the point that if you even start talking about giving them the, I'm not talking about raising Satan.

Lifting sanctions after the fact Fine. That's the reward for them doing what they're supposed to be doing. But if they get one dime to rebuild anything that we have bought. While President Prompt is insistent on distraction. Not fulfilling promises that he made to not only save but fix Social Security.

I'm sixty-nine years old.

So Social Security is why If we lose the House, the Senate, whatever we lose in the midterm, It will bec be because we have a President. who is saying, I don't care about the midterms. The midterms are important. I'm sorry. He is wrong.

I beg to disagree. This Iranian thing has been going on for years and years. And this is probably not the last time we'll deal with it either. Yeah. Trish, uh.

I think you speak for a lot of people.

So that's why I wanted to make sure you actually got some airtime and I appreciate you being respectful and kind. And look, I think you feel for a lot of people who even voted for President Trump when there are concerns that are real. This is it. You didn't just go on here and just scream about something irrelevant or whatever it may be. I think a lot of us are looking to the midterms and going, okay.

I do feel like we've kind of just al already accepted some kind of weird defeat for conservatism. And that's strange, and some of that is coming from this. You can say: look, if President Trump wants to say that. Securing the country is better for him. And better for all of us than any sort of election.

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This is Sekulow. And now, your host, Logan Sekulow. Welcome back, Sekulow. This is the second half hour of the broadcast. Thanks for joining us here on Friday.

We appreciate all of you who are watching us, whether live on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, or ACLJ.org. Welcome to the show. And we have a really full. Yeah, bank of calls right now. We have one line open just because we just took a call at 1-800-684-3110.

For those just joining us, we do got to restate what the main topic of the day was. And that is right before we went on air, we had to pivot because President Trump announced that they are making a final determination right now as they head to the situation room to meet about the. Potentially. End or The end of the ceasefire, the end of the war, or the end of the ceasefire, in terms of what kind of deal could happen in Iran, including the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. Will you got some of those sort of top-line items?

Yeah, the top-line items: this is what President Trump basically is drawing the line in the sand and saying is that Iran must agree they will never have a nuclear weapon or bomb. The Strait of Hormuz must be open immediately, no tolls, unrestricted shipping traffic in both directions. All mines will be terminated if there are any left. Then he's saying the naval blockade will be lifted if they are moving forward in this. Enriched material That's what they sometimes call the nuclear dust that was buried during the Operation Midnight Hammer.

That will be unearthed by the United States, not by Iran or some other third party. But it will be in close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic of Iran, plus the IAEA, and it will be destroyed. This is a key point, too, because this is different than what had been reported earlier in the week and that was causing some frustration, especially on the conservative side. He says no money will be exchanged until further notice.

So, and this goes back even to the caller that we just had, Trish, which I. Hear what she's saying, and I think it resonates with a lot of Americans, especially conservatives at this point. And That is a big point. I truly hope that this also means no money will be exchanged. It also means no sanctions will be lifted.

Because that wouldn't be the United States giving money, exchanging money with Iran. That would be allowing them to access funds from countries they've done business with, banking systems in places that the United States also banks with. Therefore, the sanctions affect those banking institutions. I truly hope that that means that no sanctions will be lifted. I think if sanctions are lifted as a precursor to getting to a deal, that is a negative thing.

That isn't the best deal. That is, opened yourself up for criticism of it being a JCPOA 2.0.

So I think the President has to be very careful with that. And I think that he is clear-eyed and his advisors are clear-eyed. I'm thankful it is Marco Rubio that is Secretary of State, not like Rex Tillerson, which was the very first Secretary of State. And I mean, imagine if we were in this situation. It was like Secretary Tillerson is coming out and saying, you know, they will never have a nuclear bomb.

I wouldn't trust that per se. But we have former senator, now Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, saying this. Going some shade of Rex Tillerson, Bill. Oh, I mean, he wasn't great. He wasn't great at Secretary of State.

Will's naming names. We also have this situation where someone's also pointing back to what Trish said, the caller in the last segment, saying. Oh When, as President Trump said, the midterms don't matter, et cetera. What he did say was that the midterms won't affect his Iran strategy. And I get that.

And for better or for worse, I think as commander-in-chief, that should be your position. You shouldn't say, I'm going to just end this war because of politics. If you have a stated goal, you should try to finish it. But it does affect it. It's the right thing to do.

in the terms of if the American people's safety is truly At a breaking point. Who cares about politics at that point? You're talking about nuclear warfare. Yeah, let's uh let's put his politics aside here, everyone. But you gotta convince the American people that that's the truth.

We've been through enough the last 25 years. to where you have a lot of people who question a lot of what goes on in terms of war.

So, make a compelling case. Don't just say, I'm doing it for this. I agree with the sentiment. It's just whether you can convince the American people that that sentiment is true. Coming up next, Rick Rinnell's going to be joining us.

We're gonna talk about that LA mayoral race and a lot more. And then at the end of the show, the last segment, right after that, we're gonna take as many calls as we can.

So stay on hold if you're on hold right now.

Some of you have been on hold for a while. Don't worry, I will get to you. Full bank of calls right now. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back to Sekulow.

Good for you, everyone. We're having some connection issues with Rick Rinnell.

So, guess what? We're going to take some calls. We got a lot of calls coming in, and some of you been a hold for 20-30 minutes.

So, we'll go ahead and take some of those off the top. Uh let's go first. I think, hmm, let's see here. Let's go to Jane in Florida first, and then we'll pop over. We'll stick in Florida in the next segment, too, or in the next call.

Jane, go ahead. Hey, I have been a Trump supporter. I've known him for years in Palm Beach, different gardens mall. He walked around with Marlon Maples. We love him.

He's a businessman for years. But you know, two things I had with the last caller, I believe what she said about Trump saying not worried about the midterms. I think that was a stance. That's my opinion. I think it was just to say, hey, we want to get this dealt with.

But my question or my thought was, you can't make a deal with the devil. I mean, he's an outlaw, right?

So how is that going to cover Iran? having some kind of um you know Jane, I think it's very interesting when you hear President Trump talk about that they're good negotiators, they're tough going back to craps. Because it is like you're hearing a business deal. With tough, shrewd business New Yorkers. But you know, on the other end of that phone call is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It does. Mentally You know, I mean, maybe that's why he's the right guy for the job right now. Because mentally you have to think of it sort of as a business deal when you're dealing with people. Who we know are fairly ruthless.

Well, and we're joined now by Rick Rinnell. Rick, you know both the President as well as. All of the other individuals that are involved in this decision making. We know that the President is in the situation room with the national security team right now, discussing whether or not to move forward on this memorandum of understanding. But to Jane's question here that's calling from Florida, she says, you know, how can Even if on paper everything is right.

How does a national security team craft something that we can? Trust can be enforceable with a regime like Iran.

Well, look, I think it's a great question. And the answer really is. that President Trump has mastered the ability to go back and forth between diplomacy and military action. That has given his threat not just a simple solution, but his threat is extremely credible. And other countries, other individuals, other leaders move very quickly.

They know.

Now the other thing that we have to realize is that we've gotten rid of the leadership in Iran at the A level, at the B level and at the C level. We're down to D.

So we're dealing with people who were very low bureaucrats Previously, and now they are in charge making these decisions. And so they don't have a lot of capacity. within their their uh government There's a lot of infighting. It's hard to tell who the leader is because the leadership has been crushed. One of the things, Rick, also that I know our audience is interested in talking about is what's going on in your home state in California.

We've talked about many times what people should expect. We know we're just a few days away from that. Tuesday is the primary. Yeah, so probably the next time we'll probably hear from you, you'll probably know some of the answers here. But it looks like the mayoral race, like you said, getting very big national news coverage in Los Angeles.

You're seeing some big names throwing their support behind Spencer Pratt. You're seeing some big names going the exact opposite route and saying this can't be it. This is a very interesting time for Los Angeles because, at least, at a minimum, what is happening on the ground there is starting to at least become national news, whether it turns out how maybe all listeners would like to see happen. But look, Uh election day, primary day, and the primary's a little weird in in in California, but maybe we can Open that up for conversation too, Rick. What it looks like headed towards Tuesday.

Well, it's such a big day here in California. I am sure about one thing. We are making progress of fixing California. We're making a ton of progress. We're going to win races that we haven't Been able to win in the past because of voter registration, because of participation of new people who are feeling energized.

I do believe that we have a challenge statewide where our numbers for statewide are just not there yet in terms of conservatives and Republicans coming together and frustrated Voters.

So the question is: are we going to have enough to win a statewide office? I tend to think we don't yet. And I say that not because I want to discourage people, but because I want. people to be encouraged and not think This is going to be terrible Tuesday night if we don't win in a big way a statewide election, if we don't see growth. This is just the primary.

We're hoping to get some of our people into the top two, but this is still a democratic state. We've got work to do. When it comes down to individual races, like the mayor's race with Spencer Pratt, I think Spencer Pratt has done a good job by saying he's not a Republican. He's not a traditional politician. He's winning the frustrated Democrat vote, which is a huge vote in Los Angeles.

And they just won't vote for Republicans yet, but they are frustrated, and they will vote for someone like Spencer. And I think that he has done a phenomenal job of articulating common sense policies, and he's coming at it from a non-politician. Standpoint, and that's an attractive thing right now in this atmosphere. Rick, you know that they're scared in LA when you start to see the Hollywood types coming out cutting messages and promos for Mayor Bass, which one, I mean, it's shocking that people are willing to go that far to endorse her at this point after the job she's done in LA. But what we do see in the most recent polling is what's pretty close to, within margin of error, a three-way tie.

We have a jungle primary system in California where the top two vote getters, regardless of party, are the ones that move forward on the ballot in November. Do you think we are at a point with all the work he's done? You've even talked about the savviness of being a frustrated politician, not a partisan politician. But do you think that there is hope on Tuesday to see Spencer Pratt move to the general election ballot in November on Tuesday with the numbers that we're seeing? Yeah, I do.

I'm I'm pretty hopeful. I think he will be.

Someone who um Who is in the top two for sure? I know Spencer has talked about trying to win it out right with 51%. I think that he is on pace right now to make it into the top two for sure. And then we're going to have a Pratt summer. It's going to be all about going after Karen Bass and showing that common sense reform is better than what we have right now.

It's so interesting, Rick, because California, you know, we know California is we spend a lot of time there. You obviously are there. A lot of actors, a lot of people who believe in a lot of interesting things. And I was watching a clip from an interview where they tried to do like a gotcha moment on him because he is a collector of crystals and rare earth minerals. And I was like, of any place that is going to start going after somebody for having a collection of crystals, now you have liberals who are going to be attacking somebody over something like this.

It's absurd. Yes, it is absurd. I mean, in many ways, what the way Spencer talks about these issues though, he really is bringing in people. He's bringing in the typical Southern California You know, resident. And it's a very outdoor.

And it's like, well, maybe people will think this is weird.

Well, I think people look at it and they say, look, he's from Southern California. This is a Southern California thing. And it's helping him. And the way he's handling the criticism, though, is so good. His language is not a politician's language.

It's blunt. It's common sense. And it reminds me of somebody else we know. Yeah, absolutely, Rick. I appreciate you chumming on here today.

I know we had some technical issues, and I always appreciate it. And we'll have Rick back on next week to discuss, I guess, the fallout of what actually happens. But look, when we get back from this segment, we have a ton of calls, mostly to do with Iran. If you have a call about California, you can call in as well. I think we have a call from California being screened right now.

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That's the rock stylings of Rudy Landa, who I saw just the other day. He is a good, good man, that Landa. Hopefully, he's watching right now.

So, shout out to him. With that, though. I saw all of you chiming in where you're coming from. That's really awesome to see. But now it's time to take phone calls from around the country.

Well, where do you want to start? Let's start with Ann from Pennsylvania online for ACLJ Champion. And you're on Sekulow. Hey guys, how are you? Wonderful ACLJ.

I just love you guys. Listen, I just want to say really quickly about Iran. We're never going to agree fully on the decisions that a commander in chief makes at the end of the day. I just fully trust him. And I just want to say also, I disagree with the caller, the previous caller, about the midterms.

Trump is continually being misunderstood, taken out of context. Of course he cares about the midterms. Why did he have all these amazing endorsements that won? Why did he win three times in a row? Because I believe 2020 was stolen.

And also, if the midterms were ever lost, it's the voters to blame. Even if Trump didn't care about the midterms, which is not true, but even if he didn't care, is that going to stop me from going out and voting in the midterms? No. In fact, I'm going to be even more enthusiastic to vote. MAGA, straight down the line.

You see what I'm saying, guys? To that point as well. And one, if the commander-in-chief said, you know what, I actually care more about the midterms than the ongoing conflict we have, that would be criticized as well, because you should not say that. You shouldn't say, I care about politics at home more than I care about actual conflict with a threat to our national security.

So yes, a commander-in-chief shouldn't say that, even if that is weighing on his mind. Two, your point about the midterms not just being about the President, that is correct. It also has to do with the candidates. And in some places, you have better candidates than others. You see that.

Typically, there is a little bit of a referendum on the first midterm after a Presidential election where you see more seats flip, but That doesn't have to happen if people are energized and get out there and vote. But also to that point as well. It's not like The majorities in the House and Senate have delivered a ton of things other than the big, beautiful bill. It's not like all of his legislative priorities have gotten through Congress. Like, we got six minutes, and I appreciate it.

Six minutes and five callers. We're going to do our best to get through as many of these as we can. And shout out to our UK viewers who are watching right now. See a few of you chiming in. Let's go to David, who's calling in Florida.

I've been a hole for a while. David, go ahead. Hold on. There you go. Truck's doing great.

Yep. All right. Yeah, we got you. What's your statement? What you got?

Well, Trump's doing great. He should go ahead and hit them. All this waiting stuff that gives them ways to get their weapons through other countries and through the six roads they have open at this time. All right. And all the Somalis that's in this country, he needs to take the National Guard and surround them.

David, David, all right. I appreciate your call. I think that some of it, you got to remember, let's go back to your first statement, not the last one. Let's go to the first statement of saying, can we just get it over with? You said the callers could be bombed.

Remember what we did first. I mean, the first day of this operation, you had the removal of the top leaders of the entire government. You had. A very clear, decisive attack on these leaders. who had been controlling this country for a very, very long time.

Now you see a very wounded Iran.

Now, was it everything I wanted? Not necessarily. It's not necessarily going to be what any of us necessarily all wanted, but it is what it is. But thank you for calling. Let me move on.

Let's go to Rob, who's been on hold for a long time. Rob, line two, go ahead. Robbie there? Hello, gentlemen. How are you this morning?

We're good, man. Go ahead. All right. I just want to give you a little bit of background really quick.

Okay, real quick. My grandfather was involved in bringing Rezar Kaut Alabi into power back in the twenties and thirties. And I I left Iran in 1982. I know the Khomeini government is destroyed, but I want to be very cautious with how President Trump moves forward with dealing with the Iranians. I would not trust them.

For a second. They will turn things back on us, and we have to be very careful moving forward. Rob, I couldn't agree with you more. That we have to be very, very careful when you're dealing with this.

Now, do I assume President Trump has people in power in play that are doing these conversations that understand that as well, of course? And we're seeing sort of the PR version publicly as they negotiate this out. But, Rob, your story is not unlike a lot of people's story here in this country. You're not unlike me who wanted to see a very strong change in Iran. President Trump has said it's the people need to do that.

He can't necessarily go in and do that. Maybe we've learned somewhat from what happened in Iraq and what happened in Afghanistan, that it doesn't always end up the way the American people want to because the Western world is not the same. As what's happening in the people, as you said, that are in charge. But, Rob, I appreciate your call and your statement. I do want to try to take a couple more calls and just get them out.

So, Dan, go ahead, line one. You're out of the air. Thank you for taking my phone call. A man that's in his 60s who voted for Trump three times. We were told for over thirty years By a certain country that Iran was about weeks, if not months, away from getting a nuclear bomb.

This has been going on for over thirty years. We were told no new wars, We were going to take care of the American people, cut energy costs in half, fuel prices were going to go down. Can anybody name me one thing? That is better in his second term for the American people. His first term, the economy was rocking.

The second term, things are so bad for the American people. People are losing their homes, cars, everything. He needs to concentrate on the American people. This certain country that's gotten us in the middle of the country. I'm only cutting you off for time and not just because of what you're talking about here with Israel and all of that.

You can be as shielded as you want. I understand the real frustration here. I understand that a lot of what's happening right now isn't what you voted for. I think that's why you've seen the changeover, a lot of the cabinet. You've seen so much happening because I don't necessarily disagree with you.

I n I disagree with you on the on the issue. But I understand. It not being what you felt like you signed up for.

Well, and to be fair, Dan, I can name some things that are better for the American people. We see all the massive fraud that's been uncovered and prosecuted finally. You're seeing, I mean, the. The stock market, which people say that's not everyone, anyone who has a pension or a 401k that affects is at record highs. Yeah, there are things that aren't specifically as good as people would like at this point.

The inflation rate is less than half of what the Biden administration had. They were at 9%. Inflation is way down comparatively. There are things that are better. It may not be everything you want it.

Also, the tax cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill, they affect everyday Americans. It's not just billionaires, like everyone wants to say.

So, yeah, I think there are things that are better. I also think if you did trust President Trump, as people say they do, how can you believe that? The anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that he's controlled by Israel can be true.

Well, yeah, I mean, that's true. If you're saying, well, they've been saying this for years, well, then why did he all of a sudden decide this was the time? You knew gas prices were going to rise. And that's why he said the midterms don't matter. You don't think he said the midterms don't matter.

And what he's saying is, if the evidence was pointing towards the safety of America, He had no choice than to do this. You can agree or disagree with that, but that's the statements that he's been making. He also said in 2016 when he was running for President, Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. That's been a clear policy goal of his since before he was President the first time. All right, this is the last 30 seconds of our week.

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