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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Mister Vice President, is the United States now at war with Iran? No, Kristen, We're not at war with Iran. We're at war with Iran's nuclear program. President's been very clear, Kristen. We have no interest in a protracted conflict. We have no interest in boots on the ground.

I don't like the regime, but we're not into the regime change business here. We're into the safety and security of the United States business.

We are not pursuing regime change.

We're not trying to put any troops on the ground into Iran.

We are trying to eliminate their nuclear weapons program.

No, I don't think I see boots on the ground in our future, but I do see Israel not stopping.

So that was JD. Vansvice President, Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, both very trumpy hawks in the Republican Party saying no or not, this isn't about regime change, and then Trump, like an hour after they all went on the TV shows defending his actions against a hostile press that, of course wanted us

So I wonder if Iranian.

Ex pats who despise the current regime, we'll start wearing mega hats with the old Iran flag on it. And we've got the lion on there, which has become a potent symbol of get the Mullahs out.

Later this and about a half an hour, actually, we're going to talk to Mike Lyons, another one of our military analysts that we really like about how it went in what could come next. I just I don't personally get why Iran would do a lot of the things people are scared of happening. It just seems like it would be a soulicide mission. Well yeah, the only for the country argument.

Well, right, but if you have a messianic religious fervor, as the Ayatola does allegedly and a lot of the people around him, you want to bring on the apocalypse.

That's part of their religious politics.

It hasn't happened yet, but that's the main argument for doing what was done, is that these are religious lunatics. These are not calculating dictators of a Kim Jong unish style. And that's a big enough pain in the ass that he has nukes, but they are religious lunatics.

If they believe that and they strike, for instance, one of our bases and kill a whole bunch of US soldiers, it will be apocalyptic for one area of the world terran. The rest of the world is going to continue on.

At which point the Muslim world.

Unites and fights back against the Great Satan and brings on the great to religious war.

I guess the.

Concept of the thirteenth Mahdi, which I remember reading about a number of years ago. I can't remember why I had to do with a post nine one one.

Probably after nine to eleven we all memorized this.

It refers to a messianic figure in islam belief, often associated with the end times, who is expected to bring justice and peace to the world. While she a Muslim Islam in particular, anticipates the return of the twelfth Mahdi. Concept of the thirteenth Mahdi is not a standard part of the doctrine, but it's believed that some of the wackadoodles in charge of her hon are really into this, bringing on the apocalypse and Allah's justice being visited on the unbeliever's bubble.

It's hard to know how much they actually believe it. You just never know. It might be a good way to hold sway over a bunch of religious nutjobs. I don't know.

Out in the hinterlands, I mean the citizens.

Yeah, I was just watching I was looking up at ABC News right now and they have Ian Pannel in Tel Aviv, and I thought he was in Kiev or some other bombed out town in Ukraine, because that's what it looked like in that little area with the apartment complex is just rubble. That's what's happening in some parts of sparkling, glittery, very modern tel Aviv. They're getting missile

Right, and from what I understand, Iran's held back some of the more heavy armaments and those might be on the way. So what role do we take and even more active role in intercepting ordinance as it flies toward Israel.

Don't know, but it's far from over.

While the success of the initial mission is unmistakable, Yeah, it's definitely a time of uncertainty and any sort of triumphalism.

Well nobody.

I don't think anybody's engaging any in any triumphalism. Jd Vance, Marco Rubio very serious in businesslike on the unwatchable talk shows over the weekend.

Yeah, so I keep mentioning this. The four hundred kilograms of sixty percent enriched uranium is still out there somewhere as far as we know. Where is that because that's the important part of the whole nuclear program. That's why you had those reactor sites, was to make that stuff. And where is it? And do we know?

That's a big question. Nobody knows.

I don't think, well somebody knows, but we got to get it out of them. A couple of different perspectives to share with you, although, Jack, you've you've led us rather neatly into one from one of our listeners who is, if not an expert, damn close to it in the very world you're talking about the enrichment of uranium, And he says, and I'll keep him anonymous for now, the basis for criticism of the attack will most likely be the accusation that Iran was not close to being able

However, the likely.

Hold up is that Iran also needs to work out all the details and engineering of the actual bomb, igniters, reflectors, et cetera, et cetera, and the ability to put it on a missile for delivery to its target.

Those things are much harder. You don't have to put it on a missile for a target, though, has been pointed out many of people. All they got to do is drive a truck into Tel Aviv somehow, like you know, like Israel has apparently been able to do into Iran with drones and Ukraine was able to do into Russia with drones. Drive a truck into Israel or next to a US base. You don't need to put it on a rocket.

Can you imagine a nuclear arm suicide bomber with a truck? Final bit that he says those things are much harder to track and inspect. But the important thing is that once they do work out those details, Iran can create weapons grade fissile material within a couple of weeks.

Iran has been a I was about to use a really gross graphic medical example, but I don't need to.

Thank Goodness for your restraint.

God, I'm really wanting to. Yeah, no, I won't.

What do you got for us? Tumor festering sore?

Yeah, open festering shore with some more. Yeah, it's sort of a sort of graphic language that direction. But it has been that for so many years, and it's just the world just puts up with it. And maybe it's time the world doesn't put up with that. I mean, it's going nowhere. Good you just I guess said. The world has been hoping all this time that the ancient Ayatola will die or there'll be an overthrower or something

But man, we've been waiting a long time. Or the belief that they don't really mean that stuff that death to America, death Israel. They don't, they don't actually mean that. The interesting part of this, and again there are question marks around this. I do not bring one hundred percent certainty to all of this, but the idea that we have now started a war with Iran. We are now at war. We have been attacked dozens and dozens and dozens of times in the United States, never mind Israel

We just haven't.

Well, we're aware of much. We're aware of plots. We have captured some of the Iranian operatives to try to kill our president. That's not a terrible reason to bomb them right there.

Right then, you have this perspective from the La County Sheriff's Department. Our hearts go out. This is from their official Twitter account. Our hearts go out to the victims and families impacted by the recent bombings in Iran. While this tragic event occurred overseas, the LA County Sheriff's Department is closely monitoring the situation alongside our local, state, and federal park.

Why anyway, why my local sheriff monitoring what's going on in Iran? Our hearts go out to the victims and new families impacted by the recent bombings. Can you monitor my local Walgreens and CBS to make sure doesn't get rob blind. So what it can stay open? How about you let somebody else worry about Iran well.

Not shockingly, not long after that, the La County Sheriff's Department put out the following statement. We are issuing this statement to formally apologize for an offensive and inappropriate social media post recently posting on our department social media platforms blah blahla. This post was unacceptable, made in error, does not reflect the views of Sheriff Robert G. Luna nor the department. Okay, who put it out, and we don't comment on that. This has nothing to do with our mission.

Who put it out? Somebody that works for you? Are they still working there?

They don't go to that.

You're committed to learning from this failure and to prevent such incidents from occurring again.

Somebody who works there in the Sheriff's department put that out thinking that that was what everybody thought and would be Okay, that person and everyone who was aware of that statement needs to go.

I disagree.

I suspect it was a woke activist employee who had access to the social media.

Well, well they still haven't mentioned, did they get fired or they still work there?

Steps are being taken a strength in our social media over a site protocols and to ensure that any future communications aligned with our department standards of professionalism, respect and accountability. We're rooting out the evil to her and will fire their ass and probably give them a little night stick on the way out. That's how I interpret that.

Tend to put somebody with that point of view.

Wow, well, all right, minor point moving along.

Wouldn't somebody in that job supposedly have the best interest of the sheriff's department.

That's what their job is. That's my point. That's not their job. They just had access to it. There's some underling. Maybe he knows how to.

Blah blah, maybe tighten up your access like you and I don't have lots of people with really crazy ideas have access to art statements.

No indeed coming up. How and when Trump made the decision to go. It's pretty interesting. He was a board marine one.

According to inside sources.

And this is the big headline. Millions on alert for life threatening heat across much of the country. What is causing this heat? Joe Getti has a theory summer more's my best theory.

I'm still conducting experiments and consulting the calendar.

That's a decent theory. More on the way, stay here, the Test.

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Halliburton's hurt right away. What he fell. That was the play of the game. And it happened in the first quarter. The star player for Indiana, who was on fire nine points and seven minutes and just dominating, was playing injured and he goes down and he immediately knew it was over. He's pounding the court, he's crying. Everybody on both teams knew too. Oh man, the best player on one team just went out. I mean, that's that's not what you're wanting a game seven. It was just it was horrible.

Very plucky effort against mighty Oklahoma that's got a bunch of I was just reading a bunch of super high draft choices. Yeah, over the next couple of years. I mean, they're just getting started. I've heard that before though in my life watching No it's a dynasty, clearly a dynasty.

And things change. But I'm interested in the fact because this happened a couple of times in the playoffs. Athletes the whole they just know their body and and injuries and stuff like that in a way that like the rest of us don't. Apparently, like they know when they get an injury. Oh, this is this is huge, this

So, speaking of pain, Fox News Mark Levin nuked Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, I am unfortunately going to be quote media Eite, which is the shameless left wing rank, but they're getting the quotes right. On Sunday, Green tweeted MGT MTG. I never hear it called Green, so that it's confusing to me for a thing. Yeah, Margie said, I don't know anyone in America who has been the victim of a crime or killed by Iran, but I know many people who have been victims of crime committed by criminal

Man's that's the Tucker Carlson argument right there.

Yeah.

By the way, it's probably worth noting there wasn't ani and drone attack that actually killed three service members from Georgia in Jordan.

Just last year.

But well, in addition to thousands of American soldiers they've killed over the years.

Right, and Levin fired back, Marjorie Taylor Green, shameless.

Nit wit and everyone knows it.

How incredibly dumb is this, Marjorie Taylor Green? She doesn't know anyone in America has been a victim of crime or killed by Iran. You mean the thousands of Americans, especially military personnel killed and maimed by the Iranian terrorist regime. He went on on that level. So, yeah, there's obviously a bit of a divide.

On the right.

Well was she you know, Well, according to polling, she's in a pretty small minority, although that is a loud minority that will donate a lot to your campaign if you represent them.

Well, and the whole tossing out a false choice thing, Yeah, no, no, no, what happened here doesn't prevent us going after the cartels. It's not an either or never was, and how the hell do you imagine it is?

But that sort of thing seems to be very popular.

Yeah, does Mike Lions. We love talking to him about all things military. Will get his take on what happened and what could happen, among other things, to stay tuned.

Armstrong and Getty.

As the strike package approached for DOEU and Natence, the US protection package employed high speed suppression weapons to ensure safe passage of the strike package, with fighter assets employing preemptive suppressing fires against any potential Iranian surface to air threats. We are currently unaware of any shots fired at the US strike package on the way in Wow.

So we were able to fly over Iran, drop all those bombs, do whatever we wanted, then leave without a shot being fired at us.

To discuss the success of the mission, what's likely to come after, and much more or please welcome Mike Lyons, military analyst to the show again. Mike recently penned a terrific article for Real Clear Defense entitled The War that was Always Coming Mike welcome.

How are you hey, guys?

Great to be back.

Could that have gone any better?

Not really? I don't see how you know again all of warfare's deception. I think everybody was looking at the head fake of B two's getting stationed in Guam for a couple of days and taking their pictures there. I didn't think it was going to happen Saturday night. I thought it might have happened forty eight hours after that, but it couldn't have. And it just again shows American ingenuity planning with a lot of help of Israel. Let's face it. I mean they take out the entire air

And Iran is not technically defenseless, but they're as close as a significant power has been in my memory.

Right.

You know, they had say three hundreds, say four hundreds, They had strategic level air defense systems that are all gone. Their capability to create ballistic missiles is gone. That went out about six months ago the rains you attridded all of the capability out. They've obviously taken away and stripped away has Blah Humas, the hu Thi's, all of those proxy brigade, all those all those people that were fighting their war are all gone. So they are very well

Yeah, you know the history of these sorts of things is some popular military leader who has a lot of people who are willing to follow them takes over. But if you kill all the popular military leaders, it makes it a lot less likely.

Yeah, in the scenario of potentially someone coming from outside, I know the Shah's son has been on social media trying to politic for the job. Perhaps let's hope there's a Henry Kissinger out there somewhere that it's getting these Middle Eastern countries together, because I think this is a

Well, right, and honestly, it could be argued that if you want to prevent chaos, and I think most people and countries do, the fact that a lot of the major military leaders are gone is not necessarily a good thing, as they are an obvious next step, but who knows.

I mean, it could go in any direction. So the title go ahead, no, no good good.

I was just going to reference the title of your article, the war that was always coming. I'd said early in the show that a number of you know, press outlets and politicians are saying America is now at war with Iran, when we've been attacked dozens and dozens and dozens of times through the years, fought back against Iran's proxies and sometimes a're on directly. The idea that this is the beginning of a state of hostilities is almost funny.

Right, I mean, they've been at war with us for the last forty seven years. They've killed or main thousands of American service members of just people don't know. The Iranian propaganda machine has kept a quiet and for whatever reason, every president, to include Republican presidents, have been always so focused on de escalation and not ramping up the escalation ladder. But this is the first president comes in and says Nope, enough's enough, and I'm just glad it's happened again. It

So not surprisingly, the Supreme Leader of Iran has threatened all kinds of things. Oh you've done it this time. Now all hell is coming toward Israel in the United States. Will you will wish you had never done this? Blah blah blah. What can Iran do? What do you think they actually will do?

Well?

I think you know again, classic Iranian playbook. They sow fear within our country saying we're going to release sleeper styles. You know, they must watch the same movies that it made here in Hollywood, because I just think that's completely overblown. They will likely try to maybe target some American forces that are in the area that are closed, that are

That's the old dictator's golden parachute. Get out of dodge and we won't kill you, Yeah, Mike. Folks who are opposed to the strike frequently cite the example of Iraq and Mission Creep and the rest of it.

How did the two situation.

I mean, I realized this could be a book length answer, but how did two situations differ most prime to you or most.

Importantly, Yeah, not even close. We don't have one hundred thousand troops there on the ground. We didn't topple this regime necessarily. This again was as a surgical military strike to advance our foreign policy. Right, war as an extension of foreign policy. This strike was doing that. The president

You have better sources than we do. What have you heard about the effectiveness of the.

MOP So what I'm hearing is that they like the fact that it got well underground and if it wasn't destroyed, it's been buried in on itself. So right now, the signals, the Intel, what they're listening to the iraqis talk about it and they're noticing that there's not normally you would send an army unit or somebody to go towards it and check it out itself. Is real bombed a lot of those roads that could go there, but there's no

Military analyst Mike c. Lions.

Mike, thanks so much for the time. This is far from the last chapter in this saga, so let's stay in touch.

Great I describe me.

Thanks.

Ian Bremer was tweeting out yesterday and a lot of people have made this point that it shows Iran and a number of other countries the importance of having a nuclear weapon. Nobody does this to a country that has

And if the Mullahs made that announcement, would they be believed? I mean, they have every incentive to lie about it. At this point, they're hanging on by a threat.

You'd well, the reason, there's the way this is usually handled is you detonate one. That's what. So what we did, That's what Russia did, That's what country, That's what countries usually do. North Korea did to show the world you see we got when we ain't kidding. So they'd probably have to have some sort of a detonation to prove it. But so hopefully that doesn't happen because that does change everything.

Why And if I'm one of those guys in my swanky pad there in the UAE.

I'd keep my eye on.

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Trump is headed to a NATO meeting that was planned before this attack on Iran, but I'm sure that'll be one of the top topics, along with you know, the whole Ukraine Russia thing is still going, and Putin's got to be loving the fact that nobody's paying any attention to the fact that he's bombing the hell out of all kinds of civilian targets around Ukraine daily and not getting a lot of attention.

Ugly Ugly times. Final note for me this segment. Apparently Trump was flying along on Marine one, the helicopter, and he got a call from Pete Hegseeth, who said, look, it's time to make a final decision. We either move forward with the strikes and Iran or abort the mission because all of those chess pieces had been moved. As Mike Liines was describing, the faint out to Guamber wherever they sent those B two's.

And the it's got up to two weeks.

As Trump said, So obviously things were moving in the background. But evidently Steve Whitcoff, his Special Envoy to the Middle East, essentially said to Trump, they're not serious about the negotiating. They're not They're clearly not right, and so Trump said, go.

And go. They did interesting. Be interested in your takes on any of this, what you feel about it? Text line is four one five two nine five KFTC. There's obviously other news in the world and things to talk about. I hope you can stick around.

And the National Guard is still here. A lot of security here in LA, and I think the National Guard is I think the LA lifestyle is going to their head. I underst now before they take a put a rate on home depot, they call TMZ first.

So here's an interesting thing. My son and I are driving to Dodgers Stadium on Friday to go to a Dodgers game, and we're listening to the hip hop station. I think it was Power Anyway. All the hosts on there are not all the hosts, but a lot of the hosts have a Hispanic accent, and they were really into the story that. So I'll back up a second.

The Black Lives Matter strategy of bullying. Nike say into given one hundred.

Million dollars, right, And we are kind of talking about how that era seemed like it was over where your big companies take a political stance to appease you know, being taken hostage by activist groups or whatever. But on my drive to Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers did announce a million dollars going to a fund to help victims of ice, whatever that would mean. I mean, it just seems like a gesture to me. I mean, I can't imagine how where the rubber meets the road on those individual dollars

Guessed, yeah, well, I get the dynamics of why they be tempted to do that and think it was a good idea, But holy cow, how about you announce, you know, our stance is beat the Dodger or beat the Giants and beat the Cadres and try to win our division. We're a baseball team, folks, We're a baseball team.

It seems like such an say that Nike.

Dodgers, all you people.

It just seems like such an easy out to me to say, our primary purpose is to have the best baseball team we can, which they have, which they've paid for. Every single player is a star. That's one thing you notice watching that everybody they put up there is like a three time All Star or all time thiss or blah blah blah. Yeah, every single player. It's something best team money can buy.

But leftists want politics in everything all the time.

But I think it's such an easy out and I think it would work. You just have to have a little courage. Our goal is to win another World Series period plus, you know, and if you're a different sort of a company, you can say, we're obligated by our shareholders to concentrate on baking the best running shoe that exists, so we're going to stay out of politics. I think you're fine. Let people try their boycotts. They're not going to amount to anything.

But the Dodgers must have been scared, Yeah, clearly, or got whipped up in the whole, grossly overestimating the numbers and power of the activist class.

But I'll tell them that happens long. The radio station I was listened to, they mentioned every single break like it was a big deal to them.

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