Conflict in Iran Sparking Political Fights at Home

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1:00Trump after her appearance at two congressional hearings this week as the administration remains focused on strikes in Iran. Is it about an imminent threat? Is it about the nuclear program that were told was devastated last year with the amazing military operation the US military carried out? What is the justification? I'm Chris Foster. The US military is on drone defense and offense in the fight against Iran. It is nothing for someone to fly and clean to a US airport look completely fine walking through TSA. Go pick up a drone and with the knowledge of how to weaponize it land one of these things on the front steps of the White House. That is a real threat. And I'm Jason Rant. I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown. President Trump set on a truth social post that he is moving Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome to a special post for the shield of America's a new security initiative for the Western hemisphere. Fox News correspondent Jackie Heinrich reported on a pointed statement from someone familiar with the

2:02president's thinking on this quote it was a combination of her many unfortunate leadership failures from Minnesota to the ad campaign to allegations of an affair in a statement. Nome thanked the president for the new post. Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullin is the president's pick to be the new secretary of DHS. It was a tough week though for Nome who was questioned about a number of items before House and Senate hearings including slow FEMA payments and whether she lied when she said US citizens hadn't been detained during ice operations. Republican Louisiana Senator John Kennedy also asked the president approved ahead of time you spending 220 million dollars running TV ads across the country and which you are featured prominently. Yes sir we went through the legal processes. Did it correct? Yes. He did. Yes. Okay. This shakeup comes at a crucial time as the US conduct strikes on Iran. The partial government shutdown currently involves DHS funding as Democrats have called for Nome's resignation or firing and Republican Senator Deb Fisher said to that earlier in

3:05the week. The very least that we can do is ensure that the agencies defending our homeland here at home have the funding the personnel and the operational capacity to do their jobs. The Senate this week rejected a war powers resolution meant to pull troops from hostilities with Iran and the House debated a similar resolution. Kentucky Republican Congressman Andy Barr said the president has the legal authority to conduct these strikes. As a legal matter the president of the United States doesn't need the permission of Congress to engage in hostilities to protect the American people. The House voted to reject a war powers resolution as well. It's one of those classic article one versus article two showdowns Fox News Senate Ikr Shan and Brem is also the host of the live in the Brem podcast and war could not be probably a better example than exactly how these conversations go. When it comes to the president's powers as Commander-in-Chief we've all heard the White House and the administration articulate these arguments that there

4:07were imminent ongoing threats that Iran has been killing Americans directly and through their proxies for a very long time. We know they have ongoing plots to assassinate President Trump and you know all you have to do is look back to October 7th and what homostead and you know devastating one of our closest allies certainly in that region but also there were dozens of Americans who were killed and captured in that as well. So the administration pointing to all of those imminent ongoing threats saying that the nuclear program continued to progress and we couldn't the world couldn't afford to have and Iran with a nuclear weapon. On the other hand you're going to hear the article one folks say listen the legislative branch has the war powers for a reason that we need to have debate before American men and women are sent into the active conflict and that you know Congress has got that power but it to me begs the question of this bigger debate we've been having under the Trump administration one and now two point oh is how much power is Congress willing to seed and have they given too much over to the executive branch it really gets

5:09into a glaring spotlight that conversation when something like this happens to your point about this imminent threat you know Democrats insist the president and this administration haven't done enough to explain the war like why it was needed what was the imminent threat even if war powers resolutions don't pass the administration explained the reasoning enough and that's the question is it a moving target are there different explanations I mean there were critics on the left and the right saying we need an articulation prior to the strike what this is about is it about an imminent threat is it about the nuclear program that were told was devastated last year with the amazing military operation the US military carried out what is the justification even post strike there have been questions about is it a or is it b is it a and b what is it so the left side of the aisle clearly skeptical about what the justification was for the immediacy of this and that continues to kind of trickle out from members of the

6:11administration who aren't exactly always on the same page I think that they're on this general same page they may not be on the same paragraph with some of the stuff to that point when the strikes happened we were in negotiations with Iran it wasn't like we weren't talking to their their some of their leadership and Steve Whitkopf told Sean Hannity that the Iranians essentially opened negotiations by telling him and Jared Kushner they had enough enriched uranium to make 11 bombs and that they seemed proud of that when we talk about imminent threats and and justifications how significant is that if it's true it's very significant because it gets to the whole point of do we wait until these guys one day show up and say hey not only do you have ballistic missiles but we now have new warheads to put on them we now have nuclear weapons that we could use to our advantage and to insulate ourselves from any further sanctions or demands I mean once you're a nuclear equipped

7:15power that changes the the dynamic for everybody who has to negotiate with you over everything or anything and we know that that region with respect to oil and the state of hormones I mean it's critical for the entire world so that definitely lends credence to their argument that there was an imminent threat but again it gets back to the conversation of Iran said they wouldn't even negotiate over their missile system and that was a major issue for people throughout that region and certainly for the US as they bettered their capabilities and wanted something that would reach the US homeland so if you say we're negotiating but also oh we won't negotiate over our missiles that was always going to be a non-starter I think for President Trump Shana what do you make of the global response and the level of support US and Israel are seeing right now from from around the world including from some these these Gulf nations and even the UK I know Kier Starmer had said we're we're not involved

8:15but now there there is some involvement in protecting certain assets the European assets are we seeing some quiet support I think we all get why a lot of these countries would want to be clear that on the front end of this they were not involved in this US Israel joint operation that they were not allowing their bases to be used I mean things that really ticked off President for people that he considers or or nations that he considers to be close allies and there's been a softening obviously with a lot of that I think when it comes to our Arab partners that we work with in that region Iran decided to go back hard after a lot of them in the region that doesn't leave them a place to be neutral and so you know now we see them being drawn in in different ways when you're harming their people and directly firing on their homeland and their interests it makes it tough for them to be neutral and maybe Iran's calculation was like listen this is it for us this is potentially an existential threat to the

9:15entire regime and to what we're trying to do our nuclear program here so let's just spark something that gets bigger and uglier and we'll see if we can survive it it's almost like their Hail Mary pass like they they really don't have a lot left without an active nuke if we think that they don't I think if there was something closer to completion we would have seen or heard about it by now it seems on energy Russia's president Vladimir Putin said he might stop selling energy to Europe Qatar energy says they've stopped sending out LNG their biggest customers were in Asia major maritime insurance companies are dramatically increasing coverage costs for shipping companies that use the straight of war moves all of this is impacting energy and pricing as we head into summer but we're also then after that heading into midterms how how do energy prices impact voters goodness well if you've seen the reporting from politico there's a complete freak out according to them at the White House that everybody has been rounded up to say what can you do energy secretary right secretary bergum suzy wiles is very sensitive to this and

10:18very upset because the president constantly talks about points to this if you're going to have the support ability crisis they want him to focus on that issue and he constantly talks about rightfully that he's gotten the gas prices down under his tenure they come down it's been a real positive because that not only people get a really you know a daily or weekly check when they fill up their gas tank that is a real world check for people but it impacts everything else you know the shipment costs and and you know it drives up everything when it goes up and you don't want that going into the midterms I mean that's the last thing that you want when you're trying to convince people the economy is turning around you know but the reporting at least according to politico is that of course there was a concern that you go after Iran it's going to affect straight off our moves in that whole region and that's going to drive up prices but the administration's also going to say listen we've been warning europe to get off your um russia's supply you know that we've warned them that that's not a place they need to be especially in the middle of this russia Ukraine conflict and it you know it sparks the conversation here at home too about more energy production in america and how linear environmentalists in climate groups and and have

11:23really done what they could to slow that down here in the u.s well just about everybody admits we have great reserves if companies could be reassured they'd be allowed to tap into them because it's very expensive and it's a long term commitment to be drilling and doing those things that you know that gets to policy changes here in the u.s as well when it comes over to who could take over in Iran I found this interesting you know the president noted this week that many in leadership in Iran have been killed obviously and he brought up Venezuela saying that was the ideal situation the vice president delsea Rodriguez is now in charge and she's very cooperative it does sound like he's hoping for someone to emerge in Iran with whom he can negotiate and as he said you know each time they have these gatherings that we think that we're you know targeting the next round of leaders it gets you further and further down the chain but listen it's not just the itola we know that I mean the way that society has set up and has functioned there with that theocratic leadership runs very very deep I mean the roots are very deep just like you know the Maduro roots run deep all through Venezuela not just government

12:27through but through industry and through all factors of society the same isn't is true in Iran too so do you have someone that could be considered more moderate I think there are a lot of people you could find in in Iran that would be considered more moderate than the itola than the molla but who can the US work with and for those who say oh the US hasn't thought this through there's a lot of pushback from the White House like of course we've spent a lot of time digging in and thinking this through we would never go and bomb and take out the current regime and leadership without having seriously wargamed and thought through and had conversations and with our human intel they're about who we can possibly work with so the White House insists that there are options and that there are conversations ongoing and I think with Delsey Rodriguez you know obviously they'll try to do the same thing in Iran like we will threaten them and say you work with us or we make sure you get replaced so I'm sure this is the same conversations they're trying to have in Iran we have some Fox News pulls out this week Shannon on support for the Iran strikes Americans are

13:28split evenly but another part of the poll asked about job performance of Congress 29 percent approve of congressional Democrats 36 percent approve of Republicans on the Democrats number does that number reflect feelings from within their own party that they need to move more to the left or a reflection from moderates who feel they're too far to the left you're getting both of those things because what we do continually hear from within the Democratic base is they want more fighting with President Trump I think that they see kind of a light at the end of the tunnel like we we've had so much success in these special elections history shows we are going to route this president in the midterms although the speaker will continue to say he sees the path forward with very specific seats in the House that they're going to hold on we'll see but I think there is that that frustration within the Democrat Party that they don't control any of the levers of government listen there aren't 60 Republican votes in the Senate so they can slow things down there they can block things but I think very much their base wants more fighting with Trump more roadblocks in

14:30his way there are a lot of legal fights they want to see more of that Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Vryne thank you for joining thanks just Instagram Tina counts automatic protections for teens Instagram Tina counts have built-in content settings now inspired by 13 plus movie ratings and limits for hooking contact teens plus teens under 16 can't change these default safety settings without parental approval so parents can help teens connect safely Instagram Tina counts automatic protections for hooking contact teens and the content they can see learn more at instagram.com slash Tina counts precise personal powerful is America's weather team in the palm of your hands get Fox weather updates throughout your busy day every day subscribe and listen now at Fox News Podcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts this is Jason Rance with your Fox News commentary coming up

15:35the American military is using for the first time in combat against Iran new one-way attack drones called Lucas drones stands for the low cost unmanned combat attack system they're modeled on Iran's drone technology that's been shared with some of America's enemies and is being used now in retaliatory strikes by Iran they fired more than 500 ballistic missiles and more than 2,000 drones striking innocent civilian targets throughout the region that was joint chief chairman general Dan Cain Wednesday with war secretary Pete Hexif he has said some will get through despite the most sophisticated air defense system ever thousands of Iranian missiles and drones have been intercepted and vaporized tens of thousands of American allied lives six members of the army reserve were killed by an exploding Iranian drone hitting a trailer used as a command center and Kuwait on Sunday the US military has been using unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance the Vietnam war nothing like what we have now of course drone strikes started in the early 2000s our guests now use them to hunt down terrorists in Iraq I feel a little bit of an OG when it comes to military drone technology seems like everyone's a drone expert these days

16:39especially with all the Iranian attacks Brett Velikovic is a former army special ops intelligence analyst author founder of the drone company power us and a Fox News contributor I like to consider myself a real drone expert I started out in the US Army shortly after 9-11 I spent my 21st birthday on the ground in Afghanistan where I saw my first military drone that we were using to do surveillance on the Taliban and since then I've seen just about every single drone within the US military's arsenal and spent years in active service managing drones from you know predators and reapers all the way down to even handheld drones that we use at the tactical soldier level and then most recently I've spent a lot of time overseas in an active war zones including Ukraine doing work not just humanitarian but also support to the uses of drone technology out there whether it's for war or you know for solving you know complex humanitarian issues yeah I mean obviously the tech in warfare has evolved how is that evolution changed military strategy since their use in

17:45Iraq Afghanistan I mean I remember just even a small handheld drone that fits in a soldier's backpack back then was would cost you about $250,000 I mean that cost was just incredible and frankly you know the same systems then you could pretty much buy off Amazon right now for a couple thousand dollars that are frankly just as capable especially in the hands of people that know how to weaponize them and I think especially what we've seen from Russia what we've seen from Ukraine is this capability now to take commercial off the shelf tech that is no longer reserved for nation states with billion dollar defense budgets that can be weaponized and actually cause massive damage there's a ton of lessons learned just in the last few years of how low cost highly scalable rapidly manufactured drones are able to cause just as much damage as you know U.S. military drones that we've spent you know tens of millions of dollars on procuring and that's that's a scary part that's why we're seeing drones that cost under a thousand dollars blowing up million dollar tanks every single day in Ukraine

18:48in Iran what's your assessment of their drone program particularly the she had drones I mean they're called the poor man's cruise missile it's a lot more expensive to shoot them down than they are to build well that's a problem right Iran really in my opinion has just about perfected the art of low cost one-way attack drones that was because they had to put these things in the hands of their proxy forces that were running around the world trying to kill Americans trying to kill Israelis so chaos and those proxy forces didn't have access necessarily to big budgets so Iran started creating drones that were capable of reaching significant distances and they in my opinion in terms of being able to produce that at low cost have surpassed what what we did because of where our focus was and frankly it's unsustainable right when you talk about what is being used right now to shoot these things down cheap twenty thousand dollar Iranian Shahids are forcing us to burn multi million dollar interceptors that's unsustainable math obviously they're starting to get

19:50through some of our sites I think we probably underestimated at least their their ability to send them into locations that we weren't expecting locations that probably did not have as much counter drone defenses as we would have wanted I think that's a wake up call right now for the US government when embassies are getting hit with these drones when we assume that the fight would maybe stay a little bit closer to Tehran that's going to change I think the way that we fight going forward because at the end of the day we can't shoot million dollar missiles at twenty thousand dollar drones where are they coming from are they built domestically where they get the components from and do the American Israeli militaries have the capacity to at some point curtail some of that production so I think if I was the military planner going into this epic fury operation my first one of the first strikes that I look at is knocking out their production capability because they can make these things in the thousands per month our procurement channels haven't moved that fast we get excited when we can

20:53build a hundred drones a month I don't know where that started but it shouldn't be what we do going forward I mean my company at power alone can produce thousands of drones per month but typically the US government has bought these legacy you know companies drones that you know they spend years building and and when you look at how Iran did it they built massive production facilities all around the country underground areas that could withstand strikes because they knew at some point we'd probably be looking from above they've given this technology to their forces in Yemen to Hezbollah Russia they gave all the schematics to Russia so Russia just basically reproduces copies of them right and and that's I think a little bit of the danger is how quickly they can stand up these manufacturing facilities virtually overnight with systems that you don't you don't need a lot of money to make I've I've personally been on the other end of shahead attacks it's pretty scary these things move slowly sound like a lawnmower above that's part of the terror that's part of

21:57the psychology I've seen the inside of shaheads when they've been captured when they haven't exploded what fascinates me it's just how many US parts are inside an Iranian shahead I've seen multiple US companies parts inside these systems and not to say that they're selling them direct to the Iran but somehow Iran is getting those those parts and that's a thing that we've got to get a handle on as well because again they're just looking how to build these things as quickly as possible at the cheapest and in most effective and over time it's it will continue to get worse as they they adapt to our defenses what do you know about the Lucas platform that I guess in my understanding it was sort of reverse engineered after the shaheads that and now it's being used in combat by the Pentagon what do you know about those Lucas is really impressive I've been paying attention for paying attention to it for a while I think our strikes really represent a new chapter in American innovation and capability because we use the Lucas system in actual combat that's a significant evolution I think and how we're going to fight wars in the future it's a

23:00reverse engineered version of the shahead that essentially was stolen out of Ukraine I suspect that our government somehow got their hands on a downed shahead that was captured and then reverse engineered it there's kind of an irony there when you think about it we took a weapon that Iran developed and fielded against our own forces and sent it right back against him and I think that's a message to our adversaries when you think about it you might be able to build and innovate a little bit faster than we can when it comes to drones but in the end we're going to steal that technology and don't be surprised when we send it right back against your own facilities what are defense measures that don't involve you know three million dollar a shot or whatever it is missiles in some cases can we eventually just have fleets of defensive drones nearly everywhere where American troops might be in harm's way and train them to take out enemy drones 100% so we have my company has interceptor drones that are about the size of the children's a children's

24:05toy that basically costs less than five thousand dollars each that can be manufactured in the thousands that that has the capability to be fired up in the air and actually have a proper cost per kill ratio and when you set something up like that around base perimeter sort of as a last resort if things hit the fan you can imagine that now we don't have to waste a million dollar missile so no big deal if one or two of these things fail we'll send 30 of them up into the air at a time and it'll be much more cost effective in that we're not the only company out there that that has that capability Ukraine's exploring this every single day they're using them every single day right now to take out shot heads and our counter drone defenses I think will start utilizing that as we get more comfortable that we're not going to accidentally take down a commercial airliner and so pairing that also with like electronic warfare is important electronic warfare isn't enough to stop shot heads alone you have to be more kinetic but it helps detect them it helps

25:05triangulate them but in the end I think if anything this operation epic fury has taught us in Iran's responses that we we have to get better at making more systems domestically in quicker a lot of Ukrainians have been killed in drone strikes and that's in war I wonder what happens if this doesn't have to be a nation state that puts this together it wouldn't be that difficult I'm assuming you believe for almost anyone to use these in a terrorist attack in a urban area I don't know how you possibly defend against it these drones are not things that are restricted behind state department licenses and military you know hardware situations where before nobody could get their hands on the technology it is there right now and so it is nothing for someone to fly in clean to a US airport look completely fine walking through TSA go pick up a drone and with the knowledge of how to weaponize it land one of these things on the front steps of the

26:09White House and there are experts out there who have been talking about this for a long time and I think we don't have we don't have time any longer to wait on that that is a real threat today the world's changing it's changing the battlefield's changed in the last few years and now non-state actors with access to these systems can cause real damage with just a little bit of knowledge breath of luck bitch Fox News contributor founder of the drone company power us from army special ops intel analyst as you said a bit of an OG when it comes to this stuff author of drone warrior and elite soldiers inside account of the hunt for America's most dangerous enemies on social media at the drone warrior thanks Brett thank you that's pure automotive joy I'm Peter the owner of muscle car junior it started as a hobby then I started posting about before I knew it I built the business for storing muscle cars on Facebook

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28:12v Bondi and it was decided on March 4th so here's the basic backdrop a salvador and family entered the United States without authorization back in 2021 they applied for asylum claiming threats from a hitman back home now the immigration judge said yeah look your testimony sounds credible but it was still denied for asylum because legally the facts didn't add up to persecution as the asylum statute uses the term the board of immigration appeals agreed so what was the Supreme Court fight really about now whether you feel sympathy for an asylum seeker the question was the legal standard federal appeals courts must use when reviewing whether or not the action qualifies as persecution by the agency the claimants wanted courts to treat that persecution call more like an open-ended legal question meaning judges could take the same facts and freely substitute their own judgment making it easier to overturn denials the government argued the opposite congress said immigration cases up so courts must be differential and uphold the agency as long as their substantial evidence supporting the agency's conclusion the Supreme Court sided with the government it held

29:15that courts of appeals have to apply the same substantial evidence standard to the board of immigration appeals persecution determination now in English that means no judicial duovers unless the record basically forces the opposite answer now why is this decision good for those of us who actually believe in immigration enforcement and borders well it's real simple it rains in judge driven immigration policy it restores nationwide consistency and it cuts down on the law fair that turns every denial into years of delay making enforcement more predictable and closer to what congress actually wrote that's a win for us all i'm Jason rants you've been listening to the Fox news rundown and now stay up to date by subscribing to this podcast at foxnewspodcasts.com listen ad free on foxnewspodcasts plus on apple podcast and prime members can listen to the show ad free on amazon music and for up to the minute news go to foxnews.com Ryan Reynolds here from int mobile i don't know if you knew this but anyone can get the same

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