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I feel like yesterday was really, I'd say this weekend was the big kickoff. To the 250 celebration, you had a weekend. of sports, Will. And of course, a weekend also. That allegedly Apparently On paper.
On President Trump's 80th birthday, the night of UFC Freedom 250, what happened? Allegedly, apparently, according to the deals that we have not yet seen, but we know the deal is coming, signing on Friday. The war in Iran. In theory. has come to an end.
Now, again, we all hold our breath. We got five days until anything is signed. You know, it's like. The worst version of a home closing where you're just sitting there waiting. You're like, we got a deal.
But you know, we gotta like wait to this day where we all sit in a room with a lawyer who tells us, well, you know. They want an extra few days. You know, I feel like that's coming. But as of right now, according to President Trump, let the oil flow. This was right before, again, that big UFC event that happened on the White House lawn, which what a spectacle.
If anyone watched that, I loved it. I feel like most people were watching Stanley Cup finals. Last night in Canada. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Yeah. Yeah, I got a couple of people pumping their fists in there. Canadians. A bunch of Canadians in there.
Okay, I mean, it's fine. I give you a pass if you're like in Las Vegas. Like, I give you a pass if you're one of the. teams that are maybe involved. Other than that, hopefully you were watching the UFC, which was wonderful on the lawn of the White House.
I know there's been a lot of controversy ever. I thought it was great. But again, phone lines are open for you because really Allegedly, the deal has happened and we've got the bullet points to go through. Look, after UFC, President Trump boarded Air Force One and headed to France again for a big summit. That's right.
The G7 summit. Headed to France Remember that? That's a callback. Yeah. Oh, lines are open.
1,800, 6,8, 430, 110. Should we break down these points now or wait until we get back from the segment? I think we can start with some of the material. I think we're going to go through it. I think the main thing is that both sides have declared an immediate and permanent end to all military operations.
That's a big word. I honestly did not read that until just right before we came on air. I was looking through. I go, permanent end to military operations. They are declaring this over.
And I think that is something we have to take for real consideration here: that we're not talking about another temporary. Ceasefire, a hold. We are talking about a permanent end to this war. We know President Trump has wanted to wrap this up. Look, Israel got a little bit heated again over the weekend.
There's some stuff that happened that the Trump administration was not thrilled about. And look, I think you're going to read this deal and go, Yeah, do I think there's some good stuff in it? Sure. Do I think gas prices are going to come down in the next few weeks? That's the hope.
I think really has to. Would be the plan, right? I think they said it could take up to a month or so to really settle in, but maybe it even comes quicker than that. But is it a good deal in terms of the American people, our safety, and really the effort that we put in? In Iran?
Did we come out as what you would say, the quote unquote victors? We're going to break that down. What do you think? one eight hundred six eight four thirty one ten. I'll read this from President Trump.
He said, this was again midday yesterday, the deal with the Islamic Republic. Which I have to say before I read this, didn't feel like it got near enough news. Like, I was sitting it around. Everyone was like, what? Like, I didn't get a push notification.
Like, nothing. I don't know why this wasn't like. Begin. Top of the line story. But again, President Trump said the deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete.
Congratulations to all. I hereby authorize the toll-free opening of the Strait of Hormuz and simultaneously herewithin authorize the immediate removal of the United States naval blockade. Ships of the world, start your engines. Let the oil flow. President Donald J.
Trump. A little bit later. Ships are starting to move. Mini loads up with oil. Out of the Strait of Hermuz, they're going along the Southern Highway, which is totally safe, secure, and pristine.
There are other areas of travel also. President Donald J. Trump again. Why it matters, we're gonna break that down coming up. What it actually means, gonna break that down coming up in the next segment.
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Look, I think for a lot of people, this news was a bit of a breath of fresh air. President Trump, by the way, right now, meeting. With Emmanuel Macron, the President of France.
So if there's anything that we need to break into that, we will talking about the Iran deal, but probably nothing that's really worth covering right now live on air. Because a lot of you are probably curious about: well, what does this mean beyond? The end of the actual war. And I guess the main thing people are going to be looking at. the main point of friction probably with the American people.
is gas prices. I think that's the number one.
So the question is, is gas prices have skyrocketed? Let's not pretend they haven't. Let's not pretend it hasn't hurt a lot of people. I understand President Trump's wanting to end this. Um this war Because of that even alone.
I think there's a lot of questions of whether this deal Got us any further than where we were a few months ago, but that's neither here nor there. Let's start with the obvious. How does it affect you? economically.
So Will, what does this look like in terms of specifically? The prices of gas.
Well, one thing you have to look at is you look at the price of oil. And remember, those are futures.
So that is people purchasing when they say the price of oil, the dollar per barrel, that is what you lock in a contract for an amount of oil at some future date.
So we are already seeing that drop tremendously because of this new. Immediately, it started. It was overnight. That market is kind of always ongoing, even though there's open and closes to the markets, but there's after-hours trading, et cetera. But even the futures that were at a high of 112, I think, is where the peak during this conflict back in April.
It's down already to $74. Just today, it's down 4% total.
So $3. It's dropping very rapidly. And I think that will continue as more ships are able to get out of the Strait of Hormuz and And get oil to the world.
So that is one thing that you look at when you factor that in. That doesn't necessarily immediately change the price of the dollar, the gallon of gas. It does have some effect on it. We already have seen a drop in the average gas price in the United States from a high of around $4.50, which is. Outrageous, it's extremely high, down to about $4.
So you're seeing a 50-cent average drop around the country. That's a good sign that there is downward pressure on that pricing.
Now, It does take a while for that dollar amount to get priced into what you pay at the pump. It could take very quick. It could also be weeks that that actually gets baked into what you're paying at the pump. With the downward pressure, though, I think you will see prices continue to fall. But to get back to normal, yeah, it will probably be a few weeks.
It will be, you also have to think of the consideration that sometimes gas prices naturally go up during the hot months, the summer months, as it is.
So you take all these factors in, but this is getting back to normal. Let's say in Tennessee factory, I think if you saw a three. Starting it. You'd feel a little bit of a relief.
Well, if you saw a two, you'd be thrilled. But if you saw a three, if it was starting $3, I mean, the point that we are. Like in our lifetime as drivers. You know, we're not talking about other than the times of crisis, let's say, you know, after a hurricane or when there's been true gas shortages. That have occurred or oil leaks, everything, where those temporarily have spiked.
We've never seen it this high.
Well, and what you will also see is the demand that is still there. And during summer months, demand is higher. You will see the supply start to reach that globally. And that will naturally draw down the prices as well because then people aren't trying to sell at a premium to other countries if they're an American producer, et cetera. But you also have to think the price per barrel on crude oil futures back the day before the conflict started.
Was $67.02. You're at $74.35 right now. That's about a $7.30 difference. That is, when you think about being up to $112, you're starting to be in the range of back to normal already. And I think after the signing on Friday, you'll see the futures be back at where it was before the conflict even started.
Vice President Vance was asked about this this morning on Good Morning America, and I think maybe it gives us a better idea of what we're talking about here. And again, I keep going back to it. It's like. You're signing a mortgage here. It's like you're getting everything set up for a home closing.
Byte 16, here's JD Vance.
Well, we already signed the deal digitally yesterday and there's been no money released and that won't change George. Again, this is a performance-based thing. If we see the Iranians making, for example, taking action to eliminate their stockpile of enriched material, then yes, sanctions relief will follow. If we see the Iranians taking action to allow the kind of verification regime that we need to see to know that they're not going to build a nuclear weapon, yes, sanctions relief will follow. Yeah, just waiting for the inspection.
That's what's happening here. I like that they digitally signed it. They went on DocuSign. They all had to, you know, pick. I want to know what their digital signatures look like.
Right. The Iranian regime. Yeah, hopefully. Donald Trump, we know it's not. Hopefully, it's just they typed it out and it's in the font, the pre-chosen font, instead of them trying to meticulously sign it in Farsi.
Well, if we know that he, if we know the head of Iran is currently maybe incapacitated, who's to say?
So it's a little easy to forge that with a docu sign. Let's just start those conspiracies. I think we need to break down what the deal points are. That's right. Because now we've gone through the good.
You're going to see gas prices drop. End of a war, end of a conflict, that's a positive.
Now. The determination? Based on this deal. Of what we got. What we lost.
Is this a win? Is this a loss?
Well, that was very Susian. I like that. That was an unintentional freestyle. Susian Iran war is not the children's book you want to read. I mean, some kids.
Well, yeah. All right, my kids. All right. This is what we're looking at because it is going to be a structured thing. It is tiered.
You see that both sides have agreed that they declare an immediate and permanent end to all military operations. They've signed this memorandum of understanding. That the end of the war will be signed this Friday in Switzerland. Is this going to be like a. A made-for-TV moment.
I think it will be. Yeah. Now, we don't know who is going to. We know the President, obviously, is in France for the G7. It's in the French Alps, very close to Switzerland, to Geneva, to be able to do that.
The deputy foreign minister of Iran is saying that the memorandum will be published after it is signed.
So, this is, you know, if you want to call back to Nancy Pelosi, you got to sign the deal to find out what's in it. I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad sign. You'd be the judge. Then you have. Iran and the U.S.
both saying the Strait of Hormuz would start to reopen. The U.S. blockade on Iranian ports will lift as soon as the memorandum is signed. This, I guess, isn't the e-sign. This is the actual signature.
We don't know who from the Iranian side will be there to sign it. That will be interesting to see as we continue forward. There will be an agreement that more difficult areas of dispute, notably the nuclear issue and U.S. sanctions on Iran, will be conducted more negotiations over the next 60 days. Right.
So I think we need to back that one up.
So, yes. The war is over. As of today. You know, there's no... Firing happening.
There's nothing going on. The straits are reopened, everything.
However, There are still some still some deal points beyond reopening the Strait of Formose and the end of the war. By the way, those are two big ones. That needs to be negotiated. And one of those big ones is, of course, how this is going to work in terms of. Uh the nuclear materials.
And the removal of that. And President Trump kind of said in there, this is no rush.
Well, and once again, this is what we've got.
So I want to hear from people. Do you think this is going to pan out well? Do you think it's going to end terribly? You're seeing a lot of both sides arguing. You're seeing people on the left tear it down.
You're seeing people on the right say, keep going and destroy the entire regime. And you're seeing people that are on President Trump's side saying, oh, you're just a panican over here on the far right, that you're a neocon. All these words are being thrown around.
Meanwhile, we haven't even really seen the full text. We're just getting reporting on what both sides are kind of. both telling the press that if the Iranians to say it, And the US says it, then the press is kind of taking that as, okay, that's a confirmation. That but yeah, they're agreeing that the war is over. Before finalizing details on the uranium, on the uranium.
And you hear from J.D. Vance that that's kind of the benchmark to this: they believe this already puts in motion. Them to never have a nuclear weapon because both sides say that Iran agrees. It will neither produce nor acquire nuclear weapons. Here's where the difficult part of this continues: of what they're going to do with the nuclear issue and U.S.
sanctions. Because it's easy to end the war. But Iran has been saying for decades, we're not trying to get a nuclear weapon. When they indeed were. I don't care what you look at.
You look at what they were doing. The entire goal was to get a nuclear weapon. Is ending the war and winning the war. And those can be very different things, as we've seen in American history. I want to hear from you.
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Welcome back to Sekulow. Phone lines are open for you. Look, we're talking about the deal in Iran. Deal is signed. Straight is partially open.
President Trump just said that, actually, by the way, that is what he just said in France right now, where he is. Phone lines are. I like the way you say, France. You know, I am of. the world.
I'm what they call a global citizen. Ooh. I don't know if you want to be saying that. I'm a citizen of the world, you know. One world, really, is what I like.
Oh, no. I like a government that is. Is that what you're looking for? Just like one government that's over all the world? That's kind of what I'm looking for.
Like kind of a new world order, is what you're looking for for life. But also. Run by America. You know, there are a lot of states out there potentially. That's what we were watching the fights last night.
You know, there was a Canadian. Yeah, George St. Pierre was there in the guy's corner. one of his trainers, forget the guy's name exactly. He was fighting an American and uh My son said, you know, this The fight is for Canada.
For control of Canada. Will we win it and finally get to take Canada? I mean, do you feel bad for Canadians that now, like, Out of the mouth of children, it's like anytime a Canadian's on TV in the United States, the joke is. Winner takes Canada. Yeah, I mean, we went and visited Canada.
Last year, which I loved, by the way. As a global citizen, and there's a lot of merchandise that's like keep Canada ours free Canada, not free Canada, like I forget what they call it. Keep Canada free? Yeah, they are hands-on. I don't know.
There's a lot of that kind of talk. And honestly, I kind of wanted to pick up some of the merch. It looked cool, but unfortunately, that was during the time President Trump was pitching for us to take over Canada during the Trudeau days. Phone lines again are open. Let's take some of them.
Let's go to Robert. He's calling a Maryland line one ACLJ champion, which you can become one too. Go ahead, Robert. Yes, hi. I wanted to ask the both of you with the Details beginning to come out about the memorandum of understanding, which I understand is a framework.
Uh for peace. Um Do you believe that the Iranians are going to abide by any of the conditions? that they've released already. I personally don't believe that they are because you once a guest was right. For forty seven years, they've been telling the entire world they're not working toward a working nuclear weapon, which of course, we all know they have been, and they've been funding proxies.
And I believe that if we don't destroy the regime and go for regime change, we're just pushing down the road, them cheating on just about everything they're saying they're going to do because of the ideology that they believe. I think regime change and the way you and I both believe it is off the table. I think that we're finishing up here, this conflict with Iran, because of a few different reasons. One, the American people are hurting, and I think President Trump knows that and realized that's probably more important than what's going on in the Middle East right now. Not necessarily more important, but it may be more important also as you head terms towards the midterm elections.
I don't want to be that person who says that's the case. And I do think we have a deal, and the deal is. I'm mixed on in terms of the was it worth it. Was it worth what we started with with this attack? Taking out their leadership, everything that went down, the pain that did come from it.
Did we come out of this in a better place?
Now, if no money changes hands, there are some things that could be very positive that come to this.
So, I don't want to pretend that it is some sort of loss. I don't think so. But to not think that the American people's response to this had no impact on it, I think would be naive as well.
Well, and I think here's my kind of take on this, Robert. One, since this is just a framework and it's the memorandum of understanding, an invitation to understand, right? As the great poet laureate of America, MXPX, had said. But when you look at this, and knowing that there's 60 days of negotiations, I think that we will find out more then. It is a big step for the Trump administration to get to this point where there's a sign on both sides.
Senator Graham said that Congress will review any final deal. That is unlike the JCPOA, where. Where Congress had no part in it.
So that's a positive step forward. Here's really the meat of it, though, right? Is that they've ended this conflict. I think no matter what, there are successes out of that. The Ayatollah being dead, the.
Four layers of Iranian leadership being dead. is a good thing for the world.
Now Here's my concerns, right? That the memorandum of understanding is: we will no longer try to produce or obtain a nuclear weapon. Same rhetoric they've said forever. We know that they were trying to do it. Good news is a lot of their capacity is completely flattened for now.
That doesn't mean that they don't then. put all their effort back into trying to get there.
Now, The sanctions and financial impact part. This is where a lot of people will get nervous because it enriches a regime that last time they were enriched. What did they do? They planned October 7th. They got very quickly to weapons-grade material.
And this says that the U.S. will agree not to impose any new sanctions on Iran until a final deal was reached.
So, we're not going to put any new sanctions. That's probably fine. We've got good ones in place right now. They added the U.S. would waive oil sanctions on Iran for a specified period.
And after that, the final agreement: all U.S. and U.N. sanctions will be lifted to an agreed timetable.
Okay, I understand this negotiating point. Lifting just oil sanctions gets them some revenue to start to rebuild their country that's been bombed incredibly for months. Do I like it before a final deal that they're starting to get their own revenue? It's not us paying them money, but starting to have access to that, it starts to get a little dicey. Then it says the U.
S. has agreed to release twenty five billion of Iran's frozen assets, including direct cash transfers, cooperation among regional countries and financial credit lines.
Okay, starting to give them a little bit more access to cash. If they use it to rebuild their country and take care of their people, Then that's an appropriate thing to do. The problem is, every time we've done that in the past, they do it to sow more terror around the world. There's other issues here about Washington preparing a reconstruction and redevelopment plan to be negotiated with Iran in the next 60 days. I hope that's not our taxpayer dollars going to that plan.
And then Iran said, Trump said, Iran will not be provided with cash, but with sanctions that could potentially be lifted.
So, right here, Coupling that with what JD Vance said on CBS yesterday, saying that if they're willing to honor their obligations, if they are going to allow real inspections of their nuclear program, then we will welcome you back into the world economy. My concern here is with that statement. Because yes, the nuclear program is stopped. But that's not the only thing that Iranians have done to. I don't care.
I'm not even talking about the Israel situation. I'm talking about American situation. They have sown terror around the world. They have killed American troops. They have killed Americans around the world.
And if that's not in the writing, too, like, hey, also stop funding terror. We're going to watch your transactions. Then I don't know that this is a good deal. We're not allowing Russia. to be part of the global economy right now, or of the American economy.
And because of their current conflict with Ukraine, which again, I think is a valid that they would not be a part of the American economy. but we're holding different standards to similar. Uh If not even more extreme. Um countries and regimes. What are we doing here?
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Some people asked, well, how do we have this information from this deal? Has this deal been released? I believe Pakistan was part of it and released some of it. What the press has been doing to try to get these details. And once again, everything could be buzzing.
Influx. But they're not taking one side's. They're doing real reporting, folks. They're not taking one side's here's what's in it. They are.
Talking to American officials, they're talking to Iranian officials, and they're talking to Pakistani officials. They're kind of triangulating what all three sides are saying is in it, and then they're saying, okay, this is probably a good idea here, a good idea here that we know that's going to be the second half hour of the show coming up in less than a minute. Don't go anywhere. Go to aclj.org if you lose us. Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever.
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It's just Will and I today in studio. If you're just joining us right now, we are talking about the deal that is ongoing, that has been electronically signed, according to JD Vance, with Iran. That really, the big sticking talking points are: the Straight of Formuzza is open, the war is over. And I mean that. It says the permanent end to a military conflict.
Now, will it stick to that? What does that mean? What is it going to break down? We're going to keep breaking that down. We got a lot of questions or comments coming in about that specifically.
And we will take some phone calls on it. Again, the midterm elections are just a few months away, Presidential election just two years away.
So we know a lot of this is starting to play into what our future looks like. We got a call about that from an ACLJ champion. I want to go to Melissa real quick. Melissa, she's only going to hold a few minutes because she's an ACLJ champion in South Carolina. Go ahead.
Yes, hey guys, I just think that This is great. God bless President Trump and the team. for all their hard work, but it will all go to pot. two years from now, if we get some President like Gavin Newsome or other crazy Democrat who wants to think like Obama and Biden.
So yes. I mean, look, Melissa, we our politics would lead us to believe that there is a fifty fifty shot that the next President of the United States is not a Republican. Just look at the last 50 or so years. Uh it swings both ways. Occasionally, you'll have a moment where you'll have back-to-back Presidents of the same party.
And sometimes that last One Uh you know, maybe one term. We've had that happen a few times, but it's look to live in some world where we're not going to have a Democrat President or we're not going to have, you know, that's going to happen.
So, of course, there are the long-term implications of it. The difference is if this thing does stick. You're not going to want a President who decides Hey, I'm going to jump right back into a conflict with Iran. But however. We've learned that these are a bit cyclical.
And let's say every fifteen years or so. Iran seems to have to be dealt with.
Well, and that's, I think, my concern from the Vice President's comments about welcoming them back into the economic stage. If it's the same mullahs and the same. Theology in control of Iran, then it won't change ever, no matter who's in office, because eventually they'll feel bold enough to continue to push for their apocalyptic theology to come to pass. They believe that they are tasked with that.
So, yes, if the same theology is in place, now if these new IRGC people are, you know, theocrats in name only, I don't know if that term's ever been said, but if they are only playing the game while the Ayatollah was still around, then. Then perhaps there is something different. They are still horrible people and have done horrible things to the world and still want to dominate the region. But if they don't believe the theology, then maybe there is some room for them to be a little different. That being said, if they still believe that and hold dear the tenets of the Islamic Revolution, Then nothing will change, no matter who is President.
And so that's my concern with what the deal presented is. But the other side of that as well. If, let's say, there are real strong ways to monitor their programs and things of that nature, to that they want, at least for a while, to get back into the world's good graces and make money to put away for a rainy, terroristic day that they might want to do, then I could see someone like a Democrat in office being like, yeah, we're fine with this now. There's all Wendy Sherman. Not someone whose foreign policy we're big fans of.
was saying that This deal, in theory, is very good.
So. Take that. as you will. Yeah, build unlike Sherman. Phone lines are open, 1-800-684-3110.
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We just played a video in the break if you're watching online that showed some of the highlights from UFC Freedom 250, which, of course, happened on the White House lawn. Same time, you have the World Cup. Same time, you had the NBA Finals. There's a lot going on in America that's bringing a lot of, I would say, positive attention. to the country.
Yeah, UFC 250, Freedom 250 was pure was yeah, controversial, I would say. I got myself into some scuffles online with some uh people who are just So against the precedent, they can't see through the spectacle and the amazingness that was that event last night. If you are a fan, by the way, of combat sports and you're a fan of the UFC. I think that is different. That is who it was for.
And it was for the troops. Loved the event. I even talked to some of my very, very hardcore liberal friends who are also just big MMA fans. And they were talking about how amazing it was to see this. And a really great story: a great story of a company who 30 years ago would have been considered uncouth, probably illegal in some states.
And they got everything together, really got the rules set in place, and ended up becoming so big that they're now at the White House lawn. I thought it was amazing. I. Thought, one, I think I didn't know what to expect with the production, right? I kind of thought maybe it would come across a little corny.
Yeah. Just because you're not used to seeing something like that. And. To be fair, a lot of White House events, no matter which administration, look a little cheesy. Yeah.
They look. Very overperformative, even the turkeys, the pardoning of the turkeys.
Sometimes it's just like, okay, it's a tradition, but it's a little cheesy. Turning that on last night and seeing the flawless production value of it. The way that even the building of the White House was so honored through it, of having the fighters walk through on their way out to the octagon and seamless camera work, following them through specific rooms with the title fight, the main event, both fighters starting in the Oval Office, was. One, you don't get to see the White House. portrayed in that way.
Even the interconnectivity of it. You normally see Photos, static shots of press conferences, being able to get an inside look and see the way even the rooms connect was so fascinating. Yeah, there was sort of that almost Buckingham Palace style production of like, here's really what we're talking about.
Now, you got to see some of President Trump's editions, whether he liked them or not. You know, the Wall of Fame or whatever it is, you know, all of that. But look, it was a spectacle. I thought it was great for the troops that were there, the audience that was there. I mean, the amount of people that showed up to just watch on screens also shows the impact of the sports.
And they were saying those numbers, and I was like, okay, this is going to be one of those like. We can hold that many, you know, and then you're going to see, no, it was packed. Uh, it looked like an amazing time. Bummed I wasn't there, but you know what? I'll hit up the next one.
Let's uh let's go ahead and take some phone calls, though. A lot of you have been calling in. Let's go ahead and take Bill in Wyoming. Get some of the old classics out of the way. Bill, go ahead.
Yeah, thanks for taking my call. Um just real quick, I hope you get a chance to talk to the person who answered my call uh about my uh comment. But uh the thing of it is is that um The first two champion callers maybe take a step back and take a look at it because of the fact that I think what we need to do is take a look at two examples of how this could be handled. Because last night I watched uh Barack Obama. Give his opinion about how this deal is working because I think it's really good.
Okay. But Barack Obama says, Well, I just really have my doubts. I just I'm just not too sure how this goes. And so Yak, yak, yak, yak, like you guys say. And maybe you guys can make this a little bit more clear and elaborate.
I think we've got two examples of how this could be done. I'll let you guys take care of it from there.
Well, I think once again, when you look at what this President has done, he does things differently, right?
Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, depending on who you are and if you're a fan of the administration. But Bill, you know, I think President Obama is going to be partisan no matter what. I think when you're seeing Wendy Sherman say that she thinks it's a good thing that they've come to this memorandum of understanding, I think that gives me pause because I've seen the havoc on the world that people like Wendy Sherman have unleashed. Because of really bad foreign policy and really bad deals.
So I am a skeptic of it myself. I will see how this plays out. But I think we should hear from the President because this is brand new sound from the G7 meeting with Macrone just moments ago. Take a listen to what the President had to say about this deal. And the main thing is that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
I fully agree to that. With strong policing powers, and they won't have a nuclear weapon, which is what it was all about, because they probably would have used it if they had it.
So we had two big moments when they terminated the JCPOA, that was the Obama deal, the Barack Hussein Obama deal. And when I terminated that, it was very important, because it was a road to a nuclear weapon. It was a horrible deal for the United States. It was a deal where billions of dollars was given to Iran. There was a deal where 1.7 billion in cash was put on a Boeing 7 Well, not a 7757 I guess, right?
But it was put on a big beautiful Boeing 757. They needed a Boeing 747, to be honest with you, because the technicality there at the end of the line. I know he's a big airplane fan. Yeah, clearly. But to Bill's point as well, Don Travolto President.
Yes. Could have. President Obama done something differently than the JCPOA and prevented all this? Yes, because I think when you see what the President talks about, he's talking about peace through strength. As opposed to what kind of the Obama doctrine was, which was peace through capitulation.
And what does that give you? Not peace. And here we are now. They talk about President Trump ripping up the deal. No, they weren't living up to the deal.
They violated the JCPOA by continuing this program, getting to the thresholds and not allowing inspectors to actually look at what they're doing. If the President is correct on this, that We are going to get in 60 days a real A lock solid agreement where there's policing powers to make sure they don't get a nuclear weapon. And I think this deal is a success, even in the long term, knowing it won't be forever because a regime's still maintaining power in Iran like that that is apocalyptic in nature. But I think if there's real policing power, snap inspections, not, hey, give us 30 to 60 days' notice and we'll let you come look at the facilities. I think this could be a good deal.
I would love to know those details of what the actual inspection power, all of that is, and how the Americans can actually play into that. I always get concerned when those, you know. All right, everyone go hide, is what it kind of feels like in those moments or inspection. Let's go ahead and take Greg, who's calling, who's an ACLJ champion. I think he has got an interesting point.
In New York. Hello. Go ahead, Greg.
Okay. Yeah, I just I wanted to say that I don't think well, I I kind of attribute the people on the left like lunatics. I mean, it's like trusting the Iranians with a deal, which God bless the whole thing that's going on. I hope it is a done deal and forever. These people have been in aggravation forever.
Yeah. It's kind of like uh trusting uh Schumer, Hakeem and and the other clowns that are over there uh with something. They would lie, cheat, and steal. Trump could show, he could have showed up yesterday with Jesus Christ to cure to cancer. And that and I would still hate his guts and the deal signed and printed coins saying it's signed doesn't matter.
They are just absolutely off the rail. Greg, and I agree with you. Look, I have been no specific apologist for President Trump in this. I have always told you if I agree with him or disagree with him, and I have had plenty of times both.
Now, I think I probably agree with him more than not, according apparent, compared to whoever else would have been President right now. But I've told you what I've felt differently. And look, Iran is no different. I felt very conflicted on some of these agreement points.
However, and I can say this, the UFC to me is that one thing. Because I got in some scuffles, as I said, with some people online. This was your line in the sand. It was my line in the sand. Because it just, to me, rang of absurdity.
When you start talking about putting yourself on a higher horse, going, this is only because of the vulgarity of President Trump that he would have such a heinous thing that I don't know, millions of people watch around the world, that brings the world together, that is sports and combat sports. By the way, combat sports, martial arts, those kind of things have been around for thousands of years. Teddy Roosevelt, a very strong proponent of boxing. Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler. Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler.
You have, again, Greco- I mean, we're talking. The beginning of time here, this has been something that's happened. And you have an American celebration, but this high horse of pretending that this is President Trump putting on some disgusting spectacle. When we saw what's happened before at the White House and you never said anything, whether that was in private or out in the open. And that is where I feel like he's right.
It doesn't matter what it is, it's always going to be seen as some sort of negative. You're going to find a way to spin it. That can't be and shouldn't be how we live. Because then I've said, okay, well, then if you think that it's some vulgar display of violence, then you need to start. Where does the line?
Is the line football? You gonna ban football? Because look, there's physical violence that has to happen in that sport. That's totally within the rules. Hockey?
You know, there's a lot of things. You start going down this line, you start putting yourself on a higher horse. Then it's going to quickly crumble, and you realize it's just politically motivated. I'm sick of that. For everybody, sticking that from both sides here.
No conversations will ever occur if we live that way. Three lines are open. I want to hear from you. I'm going to take your calls coming up in the next segment. 1-800-684-3110.
We'll be right back. Can't believe we're already here, everybody. Last segment of the day, starting our week. Strong. Yeah, three lines open.
That's kind of last chance to get on the air if you want to, 1-800. 6843110-1800. 6843100. 3110 seems to have been a hold for quite a while. Let's try to get through some of those.
Let's go to Scott in Nevada. Go ahead, Scott. Hi, thanks for taking my call. As a Trump supporter and a conservative my whole life, I think that any deal That does not include changing of the regime has been a waste of time and a waste of money. I mean, to me, on kind of a smaller scale, It's a little like winning World War two and leaving Hitler still be in power.
Yeah, there's a lot of Hitler talk coming on here. I see one from another call as well.
Well, except for Hitler was killed in this situation. Yeah, which I'm saying is that similarly, the Ayatollah, the leader of that, is no longer in power. I understand Scott's concern because, look, you could probably go back to see many of my things where I said, Look, what I want is full regime change. I want a free Iran. I want to visit Iran.
I want to be a part of that community. I want to see a thriving Persia. I personally, I'm talking about personally, I would love to be there. I would love to see it. I'd love to work with people there.
This current plan doesn't necessarily lead me to believe that will be the case. Anytime soon.
So I understand the disappointment coming from Scott.
Now, Scott, where I think that we disagree a little bit, it's just saying that. Is a total waste of time and money. I'm not so sure.
Well, and I think what we will give you on this broadcast, no matter what, is nuance. Nuance and honesty. A lot of times you're not going to get that with issues like this. I'm not so sure certain I'm sold on this deal. But I don't think that what has happened is a waste of time and money.
I think that one, the fact of how many iterations of leadership are no longer alive. Is a good thing for the world and our future generations. The fact that the Ayatollah and many, many leadership levels deep of the ones that were perpetrating the terror on the world have been wiped out. They haven't been captured. They haven't been put in exile.
They no longer exist. That is a good thing for the world. I also think when you're talking about a conflict that started on February 28th, And they're now saying is over. With the big gains, even you think about the infrastructure to their military infrastructure, how much that has been decimated, their Navy, etc. Yes, they still operate.
They still have some ability to fire things, but the setbacks there will take a very long time, decades, to rebuild. It wasn't even a leap here. You think about all of this, right? That it started February 28th and to now is over. You think about what happened in, say, Afghanistan, 20 years of war.
Trillions of dollars spent to be just abandoned in the way it was abandoned. You can point to some wastes of time and money in the Afghanistan war, and unfortunately, how much American blood and treasure was lost on that war and the way it was wrapped up. I don't think you can point to such a short conflict and relatively low cost comparatively. The left and the media want to say they're wasting so much money. It's like this has been a couple of months.
This is how the military should operate. Yeah, thanks, Scott, for calling. I do want to try to get to a few more today. Let's go to Don in Illinois. Don, go ahead.
I know it's an option. Hello. I just knocked over a glass of water. Oh, no. Well, Don here, here's what I'll do: I'll put you on hold.
I'll come right back to you. Just go chill for a second. You know, clean up your mess. Anna and Georgia, let's go to her next then. Anna and Georgia, go ahead.
I just don't know about this at all. I know that and I'm seventy five years old, so I was you know, I was living with a lot of you work. And I remember some of the things that happened. I was born in 1951, but A lot of the stuff that had gone on back in the 40s, the 30s, and 40s. I was still listening to all the adults.
I was watching what was going on. Half-heartedly, but now I love this President. I I got to tell you, I not personally, I'm talking about professionally. I have a lot of faith in him, but the art of the deal doesn't apply here. Just doesn't.
I read the book, and I can tell you, this is a whole different level Of Eagles. Yeah, and I'm only cutting you off for time here because I want to make sure we get to other people. I think a lot of people feel that way. It's okay. You know what?
Blind loyalty shouldn't be something that we have here in this country. We should be able to talk about our leaders and say, President Trump, I agree with you on this. I disagree with you on this. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with asking those questions and having those hard conversations because we are dealing, like you said, with a level of evil that it's hard for our brains to comprehend in a Western society.
Right. And I think we'll say it again that. We'll see how this plays out. There's a lot that concerns me about it. Even if it's great now, it isn't a forever deal.
I don't care who is selling it to you. It's not a forever deal. It also visits our administrations as well. Who's going to be next? And I think that's why some of this deal is happening.
You got midterms coming up, two years away from a new President. Let's go to Don. Back to Don in Illinois. Don, hopefully you cleaned up. Go ahead.
Yeah, I got it. Yeah, I was sitting here and I had so many things I was thinking about the list of the pros and cons. And it's so, you know, it is a win, win, win. And I wish everybody would get a hold of this because number one, it teaches the future Presidents that what happens is you can hit Iran. You don't have to be afraid.
It's a win for the vets who lost their legs and arms. It uh makes the libs the liberals look stupid. It uh shows Iran that they can be hit. It makes them think every time they do something stupid. You know, it's just a wake-up call mentally, physically.
I don't just say it's it's not a It's not an end-all, whatever. But what happens is, I'm 73. I was around when Jimmy Carter was in. And what happens is, all of this stuff we've been afraid of around all these years. And what happens is finally, President Trump, for good or for bad, he stepped up and said, that's it.
And he put no truths on the ground. Don, by the way, I'm going to only cut you off your time. I think it's for good. I think it is for good. I think there was good that is had.
Was it necessarily all we could have hoped for? Maybe not, but that's okay. These are conflicts, they are bigger than we can imagine. I do have to say, you brought up some of the troops that were injured. And last night, one of the really cool things that happened in the UFC, and this is where I have to say, there's a whole other conversation we can have coming up in the next few days, is how big tech and everything can really start to.
Uh get in You're good with the American people. Since there is good. You saw what happened with Elon Musk being thrown down as being the first trillionaire after SpaceX goes public, and you saw what happened also, though. Thousands of people became millionaires. who invested in that company.
And invested, by the way, I mean wouldn't go work for the company. I mean, not invest necessarily in their own stock options or give them. There's amazing things that can happen when you have this kind of thing. One of them was Mark Zuckerberg and Meta decided to give Every Blinded? Veteran.
Blinded in combat veteran. Free Meta Ray-Band glasses or Meta Glasses. that can do so much good for them. In terms of they even showed like the simple thing of being able to read a menu at a restaurant gives them freedom to get out of their own houses and have spend more time living a normal life. And he's giving them to them for absolutely no cost.
You literally just have to register online and they send them to you. That's the kind of thing that if we have the American business side on our side here, going, you know what? Look, we're going to do this. I think that's going to make some huge strides. for hopefully winning people over.
As technology is a boogeyman for so many. And these people are boogeymen so many.
So many have come over. And they are doing some really great things. And I think we need to celebrate that as well. That's gonna do it for today's show.
Sorry I didn't get to you, Russ. We'll get to you tomorrow if you wanna call in. You weren't all that long, so I don't feel as bad. But you know, that's going to do it for the show. Become an ACLJ champion if you can.
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