S15 EP42: Hour 1 - The War Effort

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2:02everything you need. Let's begin with the war briefing, shall we? I feel like we need to start doing this on a regular basis. I was going to start with other stuff and I was like, you know what, I should probably just start with where we are with the war situation. The most significant point I can make to you is that the B-52 has now flown multiple missions over Iran. We've been flying the B-52 since the 1950s, we've upgraded them from propellers to jet engines over time, but essentially they are the same plane we've been flying since the pre-Vietnam war era and they continue to expand. The Iranians have been making a very big deal of the fact that the B-52 may fly at about 50,000, 55,000 feet, but it moves very slow and it has very little defensive mechanisms to stop it from being blown out of the sky. Now the B-52 does fly high enough, it can fly over neutral or allied territory and launch

3:09cruise missiles into enemy territory. That's not what happened here. The B-52 flew over Iran, the point being that despite Iran saying that the B-52 could easily be shot down, it was not shot down and it was not shot down because we have eradicated Iran's capabilities to be able to detect and respond. It essentially shows us that we have a situation where the air power of the United States has so thoroughly dominated the situation in Iran that we've taken complete control of their airspace. Now, they told us this wasn't going to happen and that's one of the important points here that you've got to focus on is that they told us the Iranians did, the talking heads did, the chattering class did, that what we were doing was not possible and yet it was.

4:14We continue to see people around the world on television and print on the internet and elsewhere just flat out failing to understand the superiority of the United States military. This is the chairman, if I can pull it up, I'm having some technical difficulties here. This is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff talking about the situation in his briefing. Central command is making steady progress. Iran's theater ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of fighting with a 23% decrease just in the last 24 hours and there are one way attack-troned shots are down 73% from the opening days. This progress is allowed sent-com to establish localized air superiority across the southern flank of the Iranian coast and penetrate their defenses with overwhelming precision and

5:16firepower. We will now begin to expand inland, striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory and creating additional freedom of maneuver for U.S. forces. Now what are the things that we have been doing for the past year and I told you guys it was going to come to this? And by the way, I have very limited special insight from conversations I've had just so you know a lot of it is just I'm a literate person and no stuff about the Middle East since I grew up over there but we have allowed the Israelis to bomb the snot out of the border between Iraq and Iran. After the Iran-arach war the Kurdish north in Iraq is deeply hostile to well to Saddam Hussein at the time and also to the Iranian regime and the Iranians fortified their northwest border to keep the Kurds out. They have a lot of military operations in the northwest in case the Kurds ever spilled over into Iran.

6:18We've been bombing those positions have have the Israelis. We've dropped a massive amount of ordnance to weaken those Iranian positions and now we've been arming the Kurds for the last year and the Kurds I'm here to tell you are not the only people we have been arming in and around Iran to go into Iran. Don't miss that point. The very important point it's not just the Kurds we've been targeting for weaponizing but allowing the Kurds to move into Iran begins a ground campaign without American boots on the ground. Be significant maneuvering by the Americans and the Israelis to soften the ground. This is Pete Hexeth, Secretary of Defense who spoke this morning as well giving a briefing update. To our steadfast partner Israel, your mission is being executed with unmatched skill and iron determination. Being shoulder to shoulder with such a capable ally is a true force multiplier and a breath

7:20of fresh air. We salute your courage and your contribution. Yes. Very big deal to be this engaged with Israel. Some more from the Secretary of Defense. Yeah, if I can get these things to play the wife, sure Iran will still be able to shoot some missiles and still be able to launch one way attack drones at civilian targets. And their proxies will attempt to attack our embassies, bases, and soft targets. They are terrorists after all and they need to target civilians because they can't fight toe-to-toe. But we will find them and we will kill them. This is what the fake news misses. We've taken control of Iran's airspace and waterways without boots on the ground. We control their fate. Not only that, but this is a relevant point. This is the first American naval effort to use a torpedo to sink an enemy ship since

8:22World War II. And we have done that in the Persian Gulf to an Iranian destroyer. The Iranian Air Force is no more built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Not an effective, decimated, destroyed, defeated, picker adjective. In fact last night, we sunk their prize ship, the Soleimani, looks like POTUS, got him twice. Their Navy not a factor, picker adjective, it is no more. In fact, yesterday, in the Indian Ocean, and we'll play it on the screen there, an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead it was sunk by a torpedo, quiet death. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II. Like in that war, back when we were still the war department, we are fighting to win.

9:28Also, yesterday, the leader of the unit who attempted to assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and killed. Iran tried to kill President Trump, and President Trump got the last laugh. Now, this is not a mission accomplished situation. This is simply a reality check. The combination of U.S. and Israeli intelligence and combat power will control Iran, and will control it soon. And we are doing an incredible job with our military assets, and again, it is lasting longer than the rapid operation of Venezuela. Polling is now showing that something upwards of 70% of Americans would support a campaign that lasts about a month or less. We may be able to get there a little more from the Secretary of Defense here on the operation. Starting last night, and to be completed in a few days, and under a week, the two most

10:31powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace. I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control means. It means we will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing, and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders, flying over to Iran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the RGC, Iranian leaders, looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over. Now you should know overnight, there is Iranian chatter that they would like a ceasefire. I don't know that we are going to give them the ceasefire yet in large part because of

11:35the people they have put in charge and wish to continue to be in charge. I don't know that that's going to happen, a little more from the Secretary of Defense here on how we can sustain this effort. President Trump said more and larger waves are coming. We are just getting started. We are accelerating, not decelerating. Iran's capabilities are evaporating by the hour while American strength grows fiercer, smarter and utterly dominant. More bombers and more fighters are arriving just today. And now with complete control of the skies, we will be using 500 pound, 1,000 pound and 2,000 pound GPS and laser guided precision gravity bombs of which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile. We used more exquisite standoff munitions at the start but no longer need to. Our stockpiles of those, as well as patriots, remains extremely strong.

12:37The enemy can no longer shoot the volume of missiles they once did, not even close, and the Chairman will lay out some of those percentages. So our air defenses and that of our allies have plenty of runway. We can sustain this fight easily for as long as we need to. And you know, there's been some peddling misinformation out there about the American stockpile. We are able to replenish that stockpile. We have enough to be able to wage this campaign. We've got people working 24-7 to rebuild the stockpile. It's simply not really the concern that members of the media are trying to make it out to be. I just again, I will say what I said yesterday, there's not an effort to update the talking points. People who are arguing about this stuff have been using the same talking points since the Iraq war in the early 2000s. They haven't been able to update. It's all about munitions supplies. It's all about forever wars. It's all about getting bogged down. It's all about spreading a regional war around spread the war regionally. And all of the Arab neighbors of Iran are now on the site of Israel, which is saying

13:40something significant about how much they hate Iran, which if you're a long-time list of this program, I've told you would happen with the exception of Qatar. Qatar is the only surprising one in this situation. Qatar siding with Israel on this despite still not having regular negotiations with Israel is significant. And the American press corps has largely danced around this. Last night, there was a briefing from the commander in charge of the operation at Sintcom, who noted that we have taken an Iranian drone. We have made it more significant here, more powerful, kept to the price point to around $30,000 a drone, and we're launching them at the Iranians. We're using Iranian technology upgraded and relaunched at Iran quite successfully. Now our air campaign is struggling to shoot down the Iranian drones. They move slower than missiles, and they fly beneath radar. They're harder to detect. The Ukrainians have started advising the war effort, understanding that by wiping out Iran, we're wiping out Russia's ability to be provided drones for the theater.

14:45So it's a win-win all around. We're helping Ukraine. We're helping Taiwan, by undermining China's energy issues. We're helping our Middle East partners. We're helping Israel. We're helping ourselves stamp out Iran. This is a worthwhile campaign. The question is what comes next, and it is a valid question that started to be asked. And it sounds like the President and the Israelis do have plans having armed numbers of people inside Iran not just the Kurds to take their country back. The President is signaling that it's not necessary for the Iranian people to take their country back, but he's hoping they will. We're softening up positions. Israel in particular right now, while we're focused on the military aspects of Iran, Israel is focused on the police aspects of Iran to destabilize enough of the regime so that people can get back into the streets. We're hoping that happens in the next week or so. And in the meantime, it's full steam ahead. The Iranians cannot take down our B-52s, and that is the significant takeaway today. Is that the fact that the B-52s can fly over Iran right now unimpeded means we have taken

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16:50said that we are moving from precision-guided missiles to gravity bombs in our campaign in Iran, immediately a bunch of left-wing academics spun up in action along with democratic pundits claiming this means we have depleted our stockpile of precision-guided munitions and this is a dangerous thing the president has wiped out our supplies. I began the program today telling you that the B-52 is now able to fly over Iran unimpeded which it could not do if Iran's air defenses were operational. The fact that Iran's air defenses are not operational means we now get to operate directly in the theater of operations which means we can use gravity bombs because planes can fly over and drop them off as opposed to before we had to worry about surface-to-air missiles, detections and Iranian planes as well. We don't have to worry about any of that stuff now. That's why we're using the gravity bombs. It has nothing to do with the fact that we've wiped out our arsenal.

17:54In fact, this has become a talking point of the people who have long opposed Iran. It's been so obvious that they hate our operation to begin with. They don't like the fact that we are doing what we're doing and now they're trying to scary one and claim, oh my gosh, we've wiped out our ability to wage war because we've wiped out our ability to have precision-guided munitions. And since all we're doing now is we're actually able to fly planes directly over Iran and drop bombs off. We don't have to send cruise missiles anymore. We can send pilots and planes because we've wiped out Iran's capacity to blow us out of the sky. This is actually major progress. I just, the ridiculousness of these people in any of them. Let me tell you something else that's ridiculous out there is progressives over time have been buying stock true story, not making this up. They've been buying stock in banks and then they've been using their ownership in the

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19:58The full number is 877-977-37425. If you want to be on the program, I guess it would help if actually got into the call screening program. Wouldn't it? Let's see here. All right. Well, that was the Bible program. Okay, we got to talk about Texas. I'm a little bit upset this morning. My friend Chip Roy's a real good friend did not do well in the in the Attorney General race in Texas and the Senate race in Texas on the Republican side. John Corden and Ken Paxson are going to get into this race. And what I find notable is that the Paxson people believe they were going to run ahead of Corden. In fact, I did too. I expected Paxson to get 40 percent. Corden got over Paxson. He got 43 percent when you combine West Hunt and John Corden's numbers together.

21:00They dominated Ken Paxson and that may be enough to get Donald Trump into the race for Corden. There's a lot of hope that Donald Trump gets in the race for Corden in large part because it's a three month runoff now. Paxson is perceived as much weaker. The Democrats decided not to go with Jasmine Crockett. They went with James Tallerico and I actually think the Democrats have fallen into a trap with Tallerico. Hear me out here. A lot of my friends on the right were playing up Jasmine Crockett because they thought she would be weaker in the general election than James Tallerico. And in fact, that's what the polling showed. I actually think Tallerico is weaker in a general election than Jasmine Crockett in large part because Crockett has a way to be able to moderate her image while still being anti-Trump and Tallerico doesn't. And Jasmine Crockett does not alienate Christians the way Tallerico does. That includes particularly non-white Christians. Tallerico did much better than Crockett with Democratic Hispanic voters in Texas.

22:02And one of the dirty little secrets in Texas is that the racial animus between black and Hispanic voters in Texas is significant. People don't like to talk about it, but you want to see real racism in Texas. You go down to South Texas and engage between black and Hispanic voters in Texas and you'll find real racism there in ways that don't exist in many other parts of the country. There's real racial animus there. And in particular, within the Democratic Party, the black voters and Hispanic voters within the Democratic Party are not fully compatible with each other because they hate each other the most. When you have embraced intersectional racial politics and identity politics the way these people have, they don't like to go exist together. So the Democratic Hispanic voters of course voted for Tallerico. What I find most notable, however, is Tallerico has a long, long record of being very, very progressive on theological issues that are alienating to a great many more people than

23:06evangelical Republicans. But I say all this in terms of the context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable. I mean, go back and read this in Luke. I mean, the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do. And she says, if it is God's will, let it be done, let it be, let it happen. So to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone. Yeah, Wi-Fi issue there. Creation has to be done with consent. You have that. He uses the enunciation where the angel appears to Mary and tells her that she will give birth to the Son of God as an justification for abortion. Now what you need to know is that theologically, in mainstream, not mainline, but mainstream

24:11Christianity around the world, two billion people, the enunciation is actually used as an example of why Christians should oppose abortion. Why? Because according to the enunciation, theologically life begins with conception. The moment Christ is conceived in the womb by Mary and the Holy Spirit, he could be aborted. Therefore, life begins with conception and conservative renewal, I should say, conservatives Christians generally orthodox Bible-believing Christians, that's why they have long opposed abortion. Now, it was actually mainline Christianity that has never been fundamentally pro-life. You know, even Billy Graham back in the 1970s was, it seemed to be a pro-born, it was the Catholic church that actually convinced evangelical Christians in the United States that they had to be pro-life because otherwise it meant they were saying that Jesus could be aborted in the womb. What you actually find when you read the story of the enunciation is that God did not

25:15ask for Mary's consent. He went knowing Mary was of a character to agree. He never asked for consent. That's something that James Talleriko doesn't bring out in his, in fact, he completely misrepresented. There was no issue of consent. What's funny is that for a very long time, a lot of people have left to say, oh, that means God raped Mary. And now, suddenly, it is Talleriko said, oh, no, he didn't ask for consent. He didn't ask for consent. He didn't rape her either. He knew that Mary was at a pure heart. It would agree. But it's not just the issue of abortion that Talleriko has embraced. James Talleriko has often gone out on a limb with trans issues claiming that the trans community needs abortion as well. That's actually a quote from Talleriko, that the trans community needs abortion as well. That's how far left this guy is on these things. And it's not just that. He's gone out of his way as well to claim that Jesus was a feminist.

26:24And that Jesus is non-binary. That's actually probably one of my favorites out there is that Jesus is non-binary. You know, the other one that is going to get, well, a lot of play in Texas is his position on the border and immigration in Texas. James Talleriko, who lives in Texas, who's seen illegal immigration overwhelm the border firsthand, is actually a big fan of open borders immigration, claiming that because Christ welcomed the poor and the like that Christian should too. And we should be welcoming the illegal immigrants coming across the border. It's just wild how progressive his positions are. His positions are out of line with black voters and Hispanic voters and non-progressive white voters across the board. You can't make this stuff up with Talleriko. He really is that far left on these issues. And the white progressives in Texas didn't want a black woman running in the general election,

27:26so they pushed her aside in favor of Talleriko. Now, Talleriko potenti- Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front. Our borders should be like our front porch, a giant welcome mat out front. Good luck running in Texas on those issues. This is why I actually think Jasmine Crockett would have been a stronger general election candidate than Talleriko because she's not alienating to as many people as Talleriko is. He really is a beta beta. We went from abortion barbie with Wendy Davis to abortion, Kindle. He's just as new to his Kindle. And he wants to be the progressive standard bearer for abortion and trans rights and an open border, good luck running in Texas. Now on the Republican side, if the Republicans do nominate Ken Paxon, frankly, they're asking to lose. And I want to go on record now, and I've said this repeatedly.

28:27The problem with Ken Paxon as the Republican nominee is not that Ken Paxon's going to lose to James Talleriko. The problem with Ken Paxon in Texas is that the amount of money that must be spit to ensure Ken Paxon wins is money that will be taken away from Georgia, and North Carolina, and Maine, and Michigan, and Ohio, and other states that the Republicans need to win. The Republicans actually have an opportunity to gain seats in the Senate through Georgia by beating John Ossoff. Although at this point, I think Mike Collins is so scandal-plagged and ethics challenged in problems with his campaign manager and the like, that Mike Collins, he's dominating the Republican field right now, but Republicans in Georgia are known for doing the Herschel walk around, and they could be doing that with Mike Collins if he didn't get this ethics issue fixed in his chief of staff slash campaign manager issue fixed. Mike Collins is, I listen, I think Mike Collins makes the most sense, Derek Dooley has not caught on fire, buddy Carter actually knows how to win a swing district in Georgia.

29:28Mike Collins on paper is a very strong candidate, but so was Herschel Walker. It's just the baggage, and if there's one thing that John Ossoff knows how to win on, it's the ethical challenges of a Republican candidate, which are there. So the Republicans in Georgia could be committing suicide for the party, and you go with Paxon in Texas. Again, Paxon can beat Talleriko, you're just going to have to spend way more money to get him across the finish line than James, than John Corning. Corning's a pretty reliable vote on virtually everything other than he was bad on the gun issue, and that's what's got him into this mess. And then from there, you've got all the money that's going to have to be spent. So North Carolina Roy Cooper is going to be the Democratic nominee. He is the governor who got elected twice statewide in North Carolina against Donald Trump's hand-picked chairman of the GOP, Michael Watley, who's gone back to North Carolina. It's going to be a dog fight of a race. It's going to be a very, very, very difficult race in North Carolina. Watley is not as good on the campaign trail as he needs to be.

30:30He's got time to get up to speed, and frankly, the crime issue and the Ukrainian woman who was killed on the subway or on the train area in Charlotte gives an opening for the Republicans because that criminal was out of prison thanks to Roy Cooper's policies. And George is going to be difficult to go after us off. You need to save all your money. That means Corning is a better bet in Texas. But Taloriko, again, is so far left, it's a problem. Dan Khrinshaw, I should note, also lost his primary last night. He's the first incumbent to lose a primary this year. He's probably not going to be the last incumbent this year to lose a primary. He was redistricted out of the core of his district. He didn't turn out well for him last night. He was running against a guy. Khrinshaw, listen, I like Dan Khrinshaw, okay. But you know, my wife, I knew Dan Khrinshaw had a problem because my wife has been asking about it because my wife watches some of these podcasts with some of the military guys

31:32and he's been on those. And I'm like, this is not how you need to be running for reelection. You need to be knocking on doors in your congressional district and doing these defensive podcasts where you're trying to defend your record with people who, people in your district aren't even watching. It's a very, very weird, not great campaign. And the same, I got to tell you, John Kornin, if I had you on my program, I'm just going to give you some frank advice. You need to shake up of your campaign team. You've got three months. Your campaign team is not playing its A game. You did better than Paxton. You should not look at that and think it's success. You got to shake up your campaign team. You need a stronger com shop. You need to be on the attack more and you need to be knocking on doors across Texas. You are playing it like an old man and you're going to lose the runoff if you don't engage harder. You're making the same mistake Dan Khrinshaw made in his primary where Khrinshaw's been at, I mean, just looking at it from my perspective, way more time doing podcasts defending himself

32:35that no one in his district cared about. You got to be boots on the ground knocking on doors across Texas, John Kornin. You got to do old school John Kornin campaigns, not this lazy campaign you've been doing. If you want to beat Ken Paxton and having the president support actually does matter, given the fact that you overperformed and surprised everyone and the donor class of the GOP understands what's at stake nationwide, you got an opportunity to make a persuasive quick case to the president of the United States that it needs to come in on your side. If Kornin is the nominee, Talleriko is just absolutely blown out of the water. The only reason Talleriko would have a shot as if Paxton's the Republican nominee because he's damaged goods, the messy divorce with his wife, the affair with the lobbyist, the impeachment, the FBI investigation, all of his staff in his office turning on him and reporting him to the FBI. He's damaged goods and he and some of these people in Texas who they just hate John Kornin, they don't care about the evidence, they don't care about the issues they claim.

33:36It's old news, it's old news. Here's what I learned in the Herschel Walker race in Georgia, I knew about the allegations against Herschel Walker and I raised the Herschel Walker allegations repeatedly in the primary and got beat up by a lot of people that I was just disloyal, I was never Trump, I wasn't supporting him because I had supported Donald Trump and I'm like, guys, you don't understand, he held a gun to his ex-wife's head and it doesn't matter that she's come out and said, by God, she's not going to be on the campaign trail. He got into the general election, his son turned against him, the ex-wife didn't come out in campaign for him. All of the allegations came up, the old interview with him talking about having been abusive to his wife came up, those were the attack ads again and again and again and it turned out. What was old news for Republican hands in Georgia was not old news for voters who only pay attention in the general election and the same thing's going to happen with Kent Paxon. Do you think it's old news? You think it's been litigated, but most voters don't pay attention until the general election. They will pay attention to the attack ads if Paxon is the nominee.

34:37He will be vilified and watch independent voters jump to Tolerico and again, it's not that Paxon's going to lose. It's that you're going to spend so much money getting him across the finish line. You're going to sacrifice other races. Republicans spent so much money getting her show walker into a runoff and he was on the ballot with every other Republican, every other Republican of the state of Georgia one. He went into a runoff and there were no other Republicans turning back out to help him and he was destroyed. That's the danger with Paxon. It is her show walker 2.0 and the only people who don't believe it are Kent Paxon's most die hard supporters. This is our program brought to you by Van Allen Golf, L-L-E-N, Van Allen Golf dot com. You can also text the word golf to 33777 and check out the Van Allen Golf lineup there developing new putters that got phenomenal putting technology, the milling, the just the piecing together of this putters incredible.

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36:38The Americans don't dispute it, but it was remarkable to see a bunch of came a bunch of Twitter accounts decide that they were going to put up the Iranian talking points as if the Iranians were telling the truth that we're actually blowing up imaginary things in Iran and what I also found notable is some of these supposedly America first accounts of people who celebrate the president all the time were rushing to also do this. Meanwhile, the media is claiming there's some massive division among MAGA and the president on this, but new politeness come out over 80% of the president's base. The self-described MAGA base supports this campaign as they should, it's the right thing to do. We don't want it to last a long time, but blowing up the mollusus is good, by the way, the new Ayatollah already dead. We'll get into that when we come back. First I got to tell you about the Eden Pure Thunderstorm. You can get three of them and save $200 at EdenPureDeals.com. EdenPureDeals.com, the discount code is Eric 3. They got a money back guarantee if they do not eliminate odors, they'll give you your

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