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So, we're going to have a lot to cover really early on, talking about the California elections, and also we're going to talk. A little bit about The alleged conversation between President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Now, the details of that conversation have been reported massively throughout. Mainstream media and social media, well, with other people saying denying that some of the allegations that happened happened. Clearly, a very heated conversation where President Trump is focused on trying to end. The war in Iran. While Israel does Ramp up certain things.
Now we can have a debate because there's obviously this conversation that seems to be focused in America about who's controlling who? Does President Trump listen only to Benjamin Netanyahu? Does Israel control America's interests? Then, on the other hand, you have this conversation where now the press is going, President Trump goes after Benjamin Netanyahu in a profanity-laced tirade.
Well Both cannot be accurate. But this is the problem with the American media and their Hypocrisy over Israel. We're going to talk about that coming up. But of course, eyes are oddly, maybe for the first time in a very long time. The country stage, world stage is probably also focused on this as well.
As you see, Los Angeles is today deciding who will progress. in the mayoral race for Los Angeles. And of course that is between Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt who was the third candidate I always forget this candidate's name. I'm gonna make you say it.
Well, you put me on the spot here. It's uh ramen. Yes. And it's a jungle primary, correct? Which, if you don't know what that means, that means the top two.
Doesn't matter what party, doesn't matter whatever it is, who is number one and number two, will then move on to a general election.
So, again, think of this kind of as a non-partisan runoff, if you will, where you get to decide who will be now. the two candidates. There has been a lot of different pollings.
Some have said that Spencer Pratt is coming in second.
Some have said he's coming third. It is going to be an uphill battle, but we know that he has gotten a lot of national attention. He's done a lot of things right in terms of the way he has positioned a Los Angeles moment. And look, I have been on here, and Rick will be sure will be joining us next. I believe we should have a thriving Los Angeles.
I believe we should have a thriving New York City. I believe we should have thriving San Francisco. That these areas of the world are so important to our country. They bring in so many people. They brought...
In so much industry, and unfortunately, they have been run into the ground by leadership who has just not served the interests of the people. I am not a cut and run kind of person saying we need to abandon these cities. Absolutely not. I actually think we need them. In America, you need Manhattan.
You need Los Angeles. And they have been under some pretty bad leadership over the last few years.
So let's help turn them around. Let's see if other people can do a better job there.
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Eyes are on California today as it is election day, or at least primary day, the jungle primary system. Always fun to try to explain it to people who are outside of the areas where these kind of systems happen, where the top two candidates move forward, regardless of political party or affiliation. And, Rick, how are things feeling in California?
Well, look, I think it's a big day, and to me, it's a pretty obvious vote. You either vote to continue what's happening in Los Angeles because you believe we're on the right path. Or you vote to say, We're not on the right path, things are not going well, and let's try something new and different. And I think that's where most people are. I can't imagine anyone voting to say that Karen Bass has done such a great job that she deserves re-election.
I mean, we literally didn't have water in our fire hydrants.
So, that seems to me something that's pretty basic. But, you know, there's a machine in. Los Angeles that is telling people through unions and through other mechanisms that you should just vote for the Democrat. It's really robotic in terms of always vote for the Democrat no matter what. And we really have to have people who are willing to think and not just pull a lever that they're traditionally pulling.
I have seen zero excitement from people, even my friends who are voting for either Bass or Rahman, who have decided those are their options. It is a lot of hold their nose and vote because they feel like they can't vote for the more conservative candidate, or maybe they feel like Spencer got associated with Trump and they can't do it. But I see no one. I mean, and I mean that. Zero people in my, you know, friends, I got a lot of friends in California, got a lot of friends in Los Angeles.
who are excited about the opportunity to vote for Karen Bass, to vote for these people. They've at least acknowledged that they know that things are bad. They just aren't, like you said, willing to necessarily pull the lever for someone they consider to be more conservative in this kind of moment. And again, he has not shown himself to be this super Republican conservative, but for Los Angeles, clearly the marketing of saying, you know, we know you don't like Karen Bass, but are you really going to vote for someone that may or may not be somewhat liked by President Trump? That's sad that that has come to the stage.
But there doesn't feel like there's excitement coming from anyone on the Democrat side. And Rick, what I just said on the last segment. And you know that we've talked about this before, is I'm one of those people who doesn't feel like, hey, we need to just cut our losses with Los Angeles, cut our losses with New York or San Francisco. I feel like we need these places to be thriving in this country. Yeah, of course.
I mean, look, we're hosting the FIFA events. We're hosting the Olympics. I mean, Los Angeles is an amazing city despite its leadership. And we have massive problems, but we still have the most beautiful coastline and the most beautiful weather in all of the United States. And I've traveled the world and I actually think Southern California has the best weather in the world.
And I have literally educated myself on weather around the world by my travels. And so I am strategically in Southern California because it's an amazing place. But let me just say this to anyone who is in Los Angeles where I live. You're an idiot if you vote for Karen Bass. I am sorry, but this I'm getting angry as you're talking, Logan, because I hear some of the same things, and I just say to people, pull your head out.
This is the most asinine, ridiculous way to think that we don't have water when there's a fire. We have homeless people that are zombies everywhere. I took a picture and put it on Twitter when I was driving through Beverly Hills. It literally looks like the zombie apocalypse in Beverly Hills. People have got to break out of this mentality that a Democrat is better.
Karen Bass is a total failure. And if you vote for her, you're an idiot. I'm sorry, but this is so poor. Plain and simple, try something new. Don't be an idiot.
I think if you've never experienced what LA was like 20 years ago, You never experienced what it was like 10 years ago. Same with New York City, where you may look at it now and go, well, compared to you don't understand what these places were like. They were thriving. They were beautiful. Yeah, they were always edgy.
They're going to be. They're the biggest population in our country.
Well, and to that point as well, New York was always different because it was an urban center, whereas you had beautiful landscapes in Los Angeles. And Rick, when you look at this as well, you know, Democrats always want to talk about affordability crisis in America and they try to blame Republicans. I think the perfect test case for all of that is California, where it is the most expensive place to live. You can't just say that's the sunshine tax or the weather tax anymore because of how out of control the affordability crisis is there for many people. And you see these policies, you talk about a machine in California that's able to continue the whole.
On the government. I mean, a jungle primary system is part of that as well, of being able to. coalesce and move many times two Democrats forward to the general election so that another party doesn't even have a choice. But when you look at what Spencer Pratt's doing, but there's also this governor's race. How can anyone in California that hasn't woken up to this already?
And unfortunately, they're seeing their neighbors leave the state in many places because they're waking up to it. But those that remain, How can anyone look at the leadership, at the state? and city level. And even we talk about that Karen Bass is running, but a city councilwoman is also running, trying to edge out Spencer Pratt. How can anyone look at this and blame conservatives, blame anyone else but themselves because of that very machine that keeps them in power?
Yeah, look, this is where I think Spencer has done a good job. And, you know, he's got the best shot of upending what's going to happen in our political system in California tonight. I think Spencer's got the best shot because he has done a really good job of just being common sense, saying, I'm not a Republican, I'm not a Democrat. Remember, too, and although you and I, because we're political, we may see through this, but there is no partisan line for the mayor's race in Los Angeles. It doesn't say Republican or Democrat.
So people are going to go in and they're going to see Karen Bass and they're going to see Nithya Rahman and they're going to see Spencer Pratt. Spencer's done a good job of saying to people, I'm just a normal. You know, person who's outraged at what's been happening. He's stuck to the issues. I actually think the Bill Maher interview where he's getting panned was very good for Spencer Pratt because when he was, when Bill was asking him about solar panels, Spencer's like, yeah, yeah, I might get to that later.
But right now, we got a zombie apocalypse and we've got no water in our fire hydrants. And so he is sticking to the messages. I'm going to be watching very closely tonight, West Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, and Miracle Mile, because I believe that those three areas are going to be the first Democratic areas that are going to look at Spencer and say, you know what, we got to try something different. We got a zombie apocalypse going on right now with homeless people.
Well, and Rick, I think once again, we'll see very much tomorrow. We'll talk with you again tomorrow with the results and see what happened tonight. But I think that for the first time really in a long time, this has become a national story. Looking at Los Angeles for so many years, even the national media just kind of wrote it off as, yeah, we know what's going to happen. Probably the two most liberal candidates will advance.
And then you see now them making it a national story, trying to frame Spencer Pratt as this radical conservative. When, really, if you listen to his message, It's not about conservative politics. It's about. Making a city that's a great city livable. Yeah, look, and he is talking about all those issues.
He's talking about common sense. He also got Kristen Cavallieri to come out for him and say, I love Spencer Pratt. And so you have to remember that Logan knows this, Hollywood and Los Angeles is one industry town of entertainment and acting. And you've got Karen Bass, who is out there criticizing an actor, saying, oh, you're just an actor. Uh, I don't think that's gonna help.
LA, either. No, absolutely, Rick.
Well, appreciate you stopping on. I look forward to seeing how things pan out tonight. We'll be following it, and we look forward to hearing your commentary, whatever happens on upcoming episodes.
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We are talking about what's going on in California. I know a lot of you also are looking at even other races that are happening in California and then maybe the potential run for President. By Gavin Newsome, who has at least flirted with that and has pretty much said it's happening. And it feels like has weirdly the most momentum. In the Democrat side right now, which is again two years out, but that is not that far.
We know with Presidential elections now. President Trump announced his run in 2024 well beyond two years. And we know that once the midterms are over, I mean, in terms of fundraising and getting your campaign together, we know that those talks are already well underway. These aren't. Fast-paced scenarios.
They do a lot of little meetings that then lead to bigger meetings, which then lead to bigger meetings, put together teams. It takes time. Before you hear about it, Know that most of these candidates have been at least debating running for President for At least four years. And I would say two years of serious, serious talk.
So we know that's happening as well. I want to take a call about that. Eric in Pennsylvania. Go ahead. You're ACLJ champion, which I appreciate.
Someone who gives on a monthly basis. Go ahead, though. Yes. I heard Gavin Newsom say When I saw two Republicans might need to get it, so that would be two on the ballot. Don't worry about that.
We'll take care of that. They're going to cheats. There's definitely a lot of corruption. They better have a lot of poll workers for the even though supposedly nonpartisan, that they're still going to cheat. The machine is working.
Thanks for my comment. Yeah, Eric, I don't want to say they're going to be cheating in the traditional sense of like stuffing ballots, and though there were some ballot boxes that got burned over the weekend, I think that what you're probably seeing is some confidence by Gavin Newsome, knowing. Really, the uphill battle someone like Spencer Pratt actually has. And I and I do Think that as much as I would love to see Los Angeles turn it around, and I hope. That tonight we are all shocked, and he takes the number one.
He could get second place. I mean, that would be a win at this point. If he can actually make it to the next step, that would be a huge win for anyone who thinks there needs to be a new path in California.
Well, and once again, when we talk about this jungle primary system and what that means, it in of itself is a way to control who even makes it to the general election by that political machine that really runs California. When you start to look at this, you know, in the governor's race, there's. One, two, three, there's six people polling above 5%. When you look at this race.
So, when a lot of times, also because the conservatives, the Republican Party in the state is less organized at the state level because of funding, because of historic elections, et cetera, you end up with a lot more people running as Republicans trying to be like, I can be the person. And they all take votes away from each other. Making it harder to get a Republican on the general election ballot. What we have when we look at this, the polling, the latest polling for governor, you have Javier Becerra, who was the Attorney General of California, someone we have filed many cases opposing in the history of the ACLJ, as well as he was the Director of Health and Human Services, the role that RFK Jr. has under the Biden administration.
He is polling at 24% right now. You have in an average of the latest seven polls. You have Steve Hilton. who is polling at 22.3%. And you have Tom Steyer, a billionaire but extremely left-wing, who's polling in third at around 19.9%.
However, Steyer has been spending a lot of his own money and surging in some of these polls late. It's kind of a toss-up. If you look at just the averages, it could be a Republican versus a Democrat. in the November general election. It could be Steve Hilton versus Becera or Steyer.
There is a chance, though. that Steve Hilton gets left out of the conversation. If Steyer is able to jump him, but Becera maintains his lead. That's how the jungle primary works.
So it's only the top two vote getters. Get to move on to the general. Same thing in LA. Right now, for the mayor's race, you have what appears to be almost a three-way tie within the margin of error. All three, Karen Bass.
You have Spencer Pratt and Nathia Rahman, who is the councilwoman, that are all polling in the low 20s.
So, really, it doesn't matter if you win, unless you get 51%. I believe it doesn't even have to go to the general election at that point. But That doesn't happen typically. You get 51%. Typically, in a jungle primary, a lot of times, if you get to the 51%, at least in runoffs, I'm just elected.
State rules do vary based off of where you are. But The the jungle primary system is kind of like a runoff system. But regardless, when you look at this, you're seeing a threeway tie in the mayor's race. We don't know who of those three, which two will move forward. Spencer Pratt has done a really good job of kind of separating himself.
He's not running as a Republican. He's running as an independent in this race. But you look at this and you see these other two. Can they? through the organization of the state party.
Get enough people motivated to turn in ballots or to go vote in person today. That's what it comes down to. And when you're really looking at a razor-thin margin that you're competing, you almost have to be running way ahead of people. To be able to pull this off if you are not a part of that machine. Do I think that Spencer can make it and get to that general election ballot in November?
I think he can. I think there is that energy. There's a reason for people to go vote for him, but it's not a done deal. And we'll see what happens. We'll see if the machine can control it.
Because at the end of the day, I think the political machine in Los Angeles is fine with either one of the two Democrats that are running. They still want to have their control over the direction of Los Angeles. Exactly. And look, again, that's what I've told you is when I'm looking at my friends, there are some that are quietly saying, yeah, I'm voting for Spencer. I'm voting for Spencer.
You know, I think even Spencer specifically said there's been some big name celebrities, the Leonardo DiCaprios, those people who have quietly told him, yeah, they're going to be supporting him.
However, I've also seen as many, if not more, saying, You can't vote for him. I understand it's bad. Let's go vote for the same old, same old, and maybe next time we'll get him. or find somebody new and fresh and exciting. You can't live that way.
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Welcome back to Secular Will Haines in the studio. Just me and you, Will, for the next half hour. That's right. You didn't bring us any other guests. You, me,.
And the millions phone lines that are currently. I was going to say millions of listeners around the world. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a good way to put it. But Will just said people that may want to call in.
Well, you should. Phone lines are open at 1-800-684-31-10. We'll keep talking California, but also. There was an interesting story that came out overnight, which was that President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu got into a very heated, we'll say profanity-laced conversation. I think that's the best way to put it.
Now, there have been some denials of that. President Trump said it was a very productive meeting. And look, it's no shocker that President Trump sometimes uses some.
Some R-rated language. I don't think that's any shocker to anyone, but maybe this will dispute some of the conversation around Israel. And look, again, we're supporters of Israel. I always have been. I always will be.
Doesn't mean you have to support everything that a government does, but we believe that Israel should exist, that it's a place, the only Jewish country. And that we are been there many times, spent a lot of time there. I'd love to spend more time there, I'd love to live there at some point.
However, There is this narrative going around that President Trump has been controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu and by the Israeli government. And sadly, that has taken a lot of gotten a lot of heat, a lot of fire from around even the conservative world over the last few months.
Now, again, this doesn't really have to do directly with whether you support... Yeah, Benjamin Netanyahu and the current Israeli government are not. This is obviously the more conservative government. Like I've said, if you've ever been there, it is a very politically split country, not unlike America in that sense. What's very much unlike America is that it's very, very tiny of a country comparatively.
It could fit in pretty much any state. Maybe not Rhode Island, but pretty much most of it. About the size of New Jersey. New Jersey is what they always say. You see here when you're on a tour there.
Yeah, it's the size of New Jersey. You could drive the whole thing in a matter of hours. But of course, the world looks at it and the world says, President Trump is controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu, by the Israeli government. That's how it's always been. But this report.
Even if I don't know it's true. A source said that President Trump yelled at Benjamin Netanyahu, what the blank are you doing? And said that pretty much everyone hates Israel because of this. Everyone hates you now. And then even said that you maybe should be in prison if it wasn't for me.
And again, this is all alleged, but this is coming. It's not like it's getting. Um Yeah, in sort of this. Odd subculture media. It's being reported by not only Axios, but now pretty much everyone that this has.
So we have to have these open discussions of saying, well, can two things be true at the same time? Can you believe a conspiracy theory where Israel controls President Trump and America, which by the way, I just have never believed? And can you also believe simultaneously that President Trump would use this kind of rhetoric towards Benjamin Netanyahu if he's being controlled by the Israeli government? It's absolutely absurd, but I want to hear from you on it. 1-800-684-3110.
We've got a call coming in about it. Let's take it real quick. Let's go to Bobby in New York online too. Hi guys, this is your fellow rascal. What I want to know is what you and Will think.
Should Donald, I'm a big fan of both Netanyahu and Trump, and I just wonder if he should have left Netanyahu alone to defend Israel, because what's he supposed to do if Lebanon's shooting rockets into northern Israel?
So I want your take on the whole thing. Yeah, Bobby, we've got a minute left. We'll discuss that in the next segment as well. Sure. I also think Israel has the right to defend itself.
So if they disagree with something that America is doing? I think both of us should be able to be like, okay, they're independent countries. Yes, we fund a lot of Israel. Prime Minister Nanyahu specifically said, I'd love that to wrap up in the next decade. I'd like us to be financially, completely independent.
I think that's been a problem that Israel has had for a long time. There's a new conspiracy theory about that, too, Logan. We can talk about it in the next segment. But, you know. There's a reason where Prime Minister Netanyahu is controversial even within Israel, but there's also a reason.
Why he has been elected for so many different terms and different positions. over his entire lifetime. Whether you like it or not, he is a strong leader. And I think that you could probably say the same about a lot of Historical figures in America, as well, that are very similar, kind of strong personalities. You have a country that is always having to have its guard up.
And for the first time in a long time, they've gone on the offense sometimes. And that, of course, is too much for the world to bear. Fellsfields like Fund Lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. We'll be right back with more on Sekulow.
All right, let's set this back up a little bit for everyone listening.
So we know overnight, this kind of report kind of came out late last night. I sent it to Will and said, look what's happening here. It feels like uh anything to do with Israel shows up on my internet before it shows up on your internet. I don't know why. It's interesting.
I just feel like I'm in that more algorithm, the Israel algorithm. Follow a lot of different. Organizations develop. I feel like I do too, though. Influencers.
Uh that cover this A lot.
So uh with this, President Trump allegedly Had a and this is from some sources from Axios And again, this is being reported by the mainstream media as well, so it's not like we are just covering something that is out of the blue here. Apparently, had a very heated conversation on Monday over Israel's military operations that were going on in Lebanon at the same time as President Trump is trying to wrap up a war in Iran. I mean, if the reports are true. Uh President Trump laid into him pretty hard, you know, saying things like, You're blank and crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me.
I'm saving blank. Everybody hates you now. Everyone hates Israel because of this. What the blank are you doing? Another source saying that he steamrolled Netanyahu during the call.
Now that could be. Very accurate. We know President Trump. does not like When things get out of hand, we do know he doesn't like when things happen that he's not aware of. On the other hand, you have an Israel defending itself, and I believe they have the right to do that as well.
So whether it gets in the way of the United States That starts to become a very Interesting part of this conspiracy theory that Israel has some sort of control over America when you have a frustration. Um Or that somehow they're always in lockstep, that they're always working together. And this is some conspiracy theory, because you can't. You can't have your cake and eat it too, if you will.
Well, even the words that are chosen in these stories, the same outlets that are reporting, you know. Israel Forced us into the war with Iran. I mean, that was the storyline, not from just sources on the internet, like mainstream publications that, you know, they tricked us and got us to move forward at a more accelerated rate. And they were going to do it with or without us. And so, therefore, we felt like we had to join in.
Those same sources that were. Reporting that as a scoop. a few months ago. Are now using words like President Trump steamrolled BB Nutanyahoo. I mean, even the choice of his words, saying, like, you could say, took command of the call, didn't let him.
But Steamrolled is implying a negative connotation that he just wouldn't let him speak. One, You were feeding into the conspiracy theories that America was controlled in this war against Iran by Israel a few months ago. And now you are using language that makes it seem like: how dare the President of the United States be commanding in a phone call with a foreign leader? They are. The American press is trying to have it both ways and are trying to make salacious sentences to make people think that no matter which way it's happening, that President Trump is unhinged.
That is what they want everyone to believe. And You go back to this though. We're now looking at even more conspiracy theories that come out. The Congress right now, the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives, is marking up the National Defense Authorization Act. It's kind of the budget for the military that will be for 2027.
They're working on it now. You know, we'll probably get to a shutdown at some point about it. But as of right now, it starts in committee. And You're already seeing things on the internet from Al Jazeera, from other news sources from NGOs, Democracy Now. the Center for Responsible Statecraft, which is a more or less loosely or more than loosely connected to Iranian lobbies.
All pushing this new thing about a section in the 2027 NDAA. And I'm starting to see it pop up online. I'm starting to see people like Rokana and Thomas Massey. The dynamic duo The bipartisan anti-Israel committee going after it and say, look, Now we're our military is about to be fused, inseparable. From Israel's Because of this one section that creates a position to oversee and offer transparency and report back to Congress about how.
The US military and Israel work together. the technology we share. This is already happening. We have deals with Israel. We have technology we share.
Our military gets a boost from that. As well as when we share technology, it helps refine it for America at home. This is just creating an overseer, an executive that can report to Congress on this as these things go and as we work towards what even Bibi Netanyahu said of trying to get off of just foreign aid. Which is What everyone thinks is just giving stuff to Israel, it's really subsidizing the defense industry here at home.
So once again, you see this. They've got to find a new conspiracy theory because now that the reporting that President Trump is going off on Bibi Netanyahu, they have to find another way to make it be that Jews and Israelis are controlling the U.S. in our military, and now we're going to be inseparable from Israel in our military. It's just absurd when you read even the text of the bill, 500 pages that's being marked up right now, but the section that they're up in arms about online is very short. It's one page, and it makes very clear sense of what it is, not the lies that people like Thomas Massey are putting out there.
I think when you read this kind of conversation, you also have to remember that, unlike any other world leader, I don't know about any other world leader, but Benjamin Netanyahu. For all intents and purposes. Was you know educated in America. Raised partially in America.
So you're having a conversation between, you know, an MIT graduate and went to Harvard with Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump. They're not speaking a different language here. This is a very different world. It would be not unlike. It's even more closely than you can deal with Israeli government than you could probably with the UK.
Like you're speaking a closer language from that.
So unlike having to go through translators, work with Putin, work with all of these people who speak kind of broken English, if they speak English at all, you have a very direct relationship with Israel. Also, because Israel, primarily, when you have these leaders who've been there, remember historically, Benjamin Netanyahu, again, Partially raised in America, partially raised in London, and ended up in Israel as their leader.
So it's different when you have a country that's only been around 70 years on paper. And you have these leaders that have been there for a long time.
So, does it surprise me that President Trump could have a profanity-laced conversation with this person? Probably not, because you are dealing with a different kind of world leader, one that we are so, number one, very closely associated with, or you can have blunt and honest conversations, and number two, are essentially dealing with Americans.
Well, and I think we should even talk about what this alleged conversation was about. It's about one, the way that President Trump is negotiating with Iran in the war. And the reality of what Israel has to face every day. And that's why this isn't a simple. uh sound bite type of issue.
This is something where President Trump has a goal, and it's not what the crazies online would have you believe. That goal is to keep America safe and secure and eliminate the chance of Iran getting a nuclear weapon. He does have a very America-first foreign policy. Whether or not you think that he's not going far enough with Iran, or whether you think he's going or shouldn't have gone at all. That's what his Course of action is here.
The frustration he has with Israel is because Israel has to deal with a different threat. Right to their north. In southern Lebanon, which is where this happens, there is a quasi-state. Quasi-military proxy of Iran called Hezbollah. And they have been fighting with them for decades.
As well, has killed American soldiers. Uh they are not good people. And even though there is a ceasefire with the government of Lebanon, which is miraculous that this has happened, over the decades, Israel and Lebanon have not even really wanted to talk to each other, and they're having talks with the U.S., negotiating and mediating between them. Hezbollah is still trying to provoke Israel. They will still shoot rockets in Israel.
Because what they do, which is best for their country, hits back harder than a single rocket. They take out the people that are threatening their citizens. That's not what Iran wants.
So it complicates the negotiations with the United States. That is the source of frustration with the President: of saying, you're getting in the way of what I want to do. But can you blame Israel? No, because they are saying we will not be bullied. We will not be pushed around by a terrorist group to our north.
That if they're going to keep sending rockets to provoke us, we are going to take them out. That's what we're at. You can agree with President Trump. And you can also agree at the same time with the way Israel conducted it. I don't think it's them trying to loop the United States back into fighting.
No, they're protecting their citizens. But President Trump also wants to protect the United States' interests. Yep, how do you feel about that? Give me a call. We are going to take as many calls as we can.
We only got a couple calls right now, so we have quite a few lines open at 1-800-68-430-110. Before we wrap up this show, I always like to take a listen to what you all have to say. And there's thousands of you watching and listening around the country and around the world, even right now. Why not be a part of the show as well? I know it's, you know, get brave.
Call in. Be a part of the show. I believe in you. Do you believe in them, Will? I always have and I always will.
Yeah, you're controlled. Bye then. By those six phone lines. Yeah, they're like the Netanyahu's of Phone lines for you. They don't control me.
Yeah. I'm going to yell at them when we get on it. I know. I'm going to say some words we're not supposed to say on the air. No, I wouldn't.
No, you say it in Hebrew. 1-800. Yeah, well Sorry. 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110.
Also talking about the ALA Moreo race? It's hard to say. We can have a conversation about that as well. 1-800-684-3110. I'll be right back with more.
On Sekulow. Here we are. Phone lines are open. 1-800-684-30-110. Probably the last time you're going to be able to get on the air today is if you call in in the next.
minute or so so Give us a phone call, 1-800-684-3110. I do want to hop right to the calls. A lot of you are calling in about Israel.
Some of you are calling in about California. We'll cover both of those topics, really, whatever you want to talk about. If there's anything on your mind, 1-800-684-31-10, the phone screeners like when I say that. Anything. Anything.
Anything that's on your mind. Anything that's on your mind if you want to talk. That's when you know we have a few lines open for you. I'm not going to lie to you. There are some questions that are coming in from social media as well.
We'll take some of those on YouTube, but I much prefer to hear your voice. That is at 1-800-684-3110. Ephraim is calling from Virginia online one. Go ahead. Well, I wanted to comment on Netanyahu and Trump.
I'm Jewish, was recently in Tel Aviv. I believe that both things can be true at the same time, that perhaps they Had a heated conversation. As we know, Trump can often be hyperbolic. I also support him, but I think he is probably More than a bit miffed that Israel is pursuing its own best interests by continuing to go after Hezbollah and in Lebanon. And perhaps Trump thinks that that is interfering with the terms with Iran.
I can hear him perhaps having that conversation with Netanyahu, and Netanyahu standing firm that Israel has to do what is in its best interest. And by the way, support Israel and thank you for supporting Israel as well. That's my comment. Ephraim, I think you're probably right. Which is those two things can be true.
You can have a supporter and a friend in Israel. It doesn't mean you have to agree with every political decision they make. It also doesn't mean you have to be not frustrated if you're trying to create an into an A war? And you feel like they've escalated it.
Now, again, that doesn't mean that The Israeli government or Benjamin Etanyahu, or whoever it may be, is wrong. They're just making a decision for themselves. They're making a decision for their own government interest, not the government interests, their own interest of their people. And it's interesting to hear that you were in Tel Aviv recently. Look, like I just said, I want to get back soon.
It's been a number of years and I miss it. I want to take my kids there. I want it to be a safe place that we can all experience. If you've ever been, you know it's a life-changing experience for those that are Christians, those that are Jewish, people that have those religious beliefs because you get to see, physically, touch all of these areas. And it's an unbelievable place.
Even take out the religious significance. It's an unbelievable place in this world. A beautiful place, beautiful people.
So I would love to get back there soon.
So, sure, do I want a war to wrap up? I do because I selfishly. Miss being there. And I would have loved to have taken my son there, who just turned 13 on his bar mitzvah, as I did when I first went. During my bar mitzvah.
But unfortunately, we're in the middle of a pretty hardcore wartime. But you never know what's around the corner. Hopefully, things can wrap up. I do want to take some more calls, though. We got a bunch of champions calling in.
I appreciate all those champs. Let's start with Marion in Texas. Go ahead. It's about California.
Okay. Yeah, I just wanted to talk about the elections that are being held for the mayorship, and I pray. Pratt wins and also in the governorship. The only problem that I have is that I believe that one of the reasons that the Democrats have been able to have such a stronghold there as through cheating and things like that. And that's the only thing that I fear.
I'm not sure it's going to be a fair election. And I just wanted to see if y'all had a comment on that.
Well, Marion, here's what I look at. I agree with you, but maybe not for the same reason. I don't necessarily think that, I mean, yes, I think wherever you go, there is probably people that do illegal ballots, things of that nature. But I think that they have created a system. That is so hard to defeat.
And that's when Rick talks about the machine. When you think about how much money they have, how much they control every aspect of the government, of the people's lives in California. I think it becomes very difficult to overcome that. And when you think about it as cheating, it may not be in the traditional sense, but it is an unfair advantage. And you even see that they'll tip their hand to that.
When they feel like they need to change the rules in order to benefit themselves, they will do it, such as their ballot referendum. Where they change their congressional maps, which was supposed to be done by an independent commission. As soon as they feel like, we're going to have an unfair advantage, we don't have a fair advantage or whatever, they go back and they redraw the maps because of what other states are doing.
So they tell you that they just care about control. And I think that it is hard to overcome that when they have had decades of control. And what you see is one, disheartened people. on the state level that think I'll never win, so they're just not motivated to go vote. And then, on top of that, you have the levers of power, and you have systems like a jungle primary, which make it gives the advantage to the controlling power as it is.
So, it is kind of a double whammy. It isn't fair, but it's not necessarily cheating in the sense of they are changing votes or they are stuffing it full of illegal votes, et cetera. I'm sure across the country, there are things like that that go on, but I think the primary reason is the complete system that they have built. All right. There you go.
And if you're not motivated to go vote, Unlike something you have to take Melissa in South Carolina. Melissa, go ahead. ACLJ champion as well. Hi, everybody. I just want to encourage every California resident and anyone listening in California to this broadcast to go and vote.
Please vote. Change California. Hey, go, Melissa. I appreciate you calling in. She loves California.
She loves L.A. She's like a Randy Newman song, Will. That's right. She's a longtime former California resident and also one of our Rumble Ranters that are. Are frequently in the chat there.
So you can join people on Rumble as well. Yeah. Hang out with Melissa. But I think to that point as well, it is hard to motivate people. And even when you look at the split in like a Presidential election, I don't think it's truly a 75-25 state or 60-40 state.
I think that just the motivation of people that have resigned to the fact that the Democrats are always going to win there, that they just don't go vote. And it's taking someone like Spencer Pratt to motivate people to do something different. That maybe you'll see something different. Speaking of something different, let's swerve a little bit. Joe's calling about Iran, Joe, and Texas.
Go ahead. Yes, sir. I just got one question, man. I mean, I hear. that we own Iran's military.
Their navy's at the bottom of the ocean, and their ground forces were basically nonexistent.
So, my question is, why do we have to ask Iran for anything? Why don't we just step up to the plate and tell them what we're going to do? If we really own everything if we really got them by the you know what? Yeah, Joe, we only got a minute left. There has been some strategic moves, and President Trump has talked about this, about not really going after The specific military.
Right. While we, sure, they are thwarted. Like you said, a lot of their ships are on the bottom of the ocean. We've gone after them. There has been an attempt to minimize actually the attack on Iran's military in a bit due to the fact that they think they may not be as radical.
as the leadership was.
So, they may be people that we could actually utilize in the future.
Well, that's right. And Secretary Rubio was speaking, he was testifying before the Senate this morning, his former colleagues, and even said they still have a lot of drones. They still have them. That's because of where they keep them. It's not like they are easy to spot on a satellite, per se.
And so, once again, you talk about the threat to the Strait of Hormuz. With one-way drones that don't have to come back. It's not a fighter jet that has to go drop a bomb and come back. That is still a threat where, if you're trying to keep even the shipping industry and all these things safe, You have to take that threat as a real threat. All right, that's going to do it for today's show.
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