Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Just yesterday, Pakistan said they were going to nominate Donald
Speaker 2: Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 3: That news came.
Speaker 2: Out a few hours before the news came out that
Speaker 2: Americans had struck the Iranian nuclear sites. But I thought
Speaker 2: that was kind of a fun, interesting thing of the
Speaker 2: craziest weekend that we've seen in quite a while. Hey,
Speaker 2: it's Gary here until four o'clock today as we follow
Speaker 2: a couple of things that are going on, not just
Speaker 2: the military action against Iran of course that we saw
Speaker 2: yesterday and into overnight, but also Michael Monks downtown just
Speaker 2: keeping our eyes on that situation down there, because we know,
Speaker 2: as we've seen the last couple of weeks, things downtown
Speaker 2: can get kind of out of control if we don't
Speaker 2: keep an eye on them.
Speaker 3: So that's why we put.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks down there on his own sort of Operation
Speaker 2: Midnight Hammer, if you will. The strikes on Iran's nuclear
Speaker 2: facilities were spectacular, and I mean that in not just
Speaker 2: the positive sense of they were a good military move.
Speaker 2: They were spectacular in that the mechanism of the American
Speaker 2: military worked to a t. It seems and that is
Speaker 2: a pretty amazing thing when you think about seven B
Speaker 2: two bombers that took off from the United States, flew
Speaker 2: thirty thirty plus hours round trip for about two minutes
Speaker 2: of excitement, and then all the way back in that
Speaker 2: thirty seven thirty thirty thirty seven hour trip. We've already
Speaker 2: seen some of the images of B two bombers landing
Speaker 2: at Whitman Air Force Base there in Missouri, where the
Speaker 2: B twos are often stationed. We'll talk a little bit about,
Speaker 2: among other things, the deception that took place. There's a
Speaker 2: certain amount of operational security that you have to have
Speaker 2: in any sort of military operation like that. That's part
Speaker 2: of the reason why the White House likely didn't go
Speaker 2: to Congress to seek any sort of war powers resolution or.
Speaker 3: Anything like that.
Speaker 2: The president doesn't have to these people that are screaming
Speaker 2: for the you know that this was an unconstitutional No,
Speaker 2: it wasn't it. You may be upset, but it was
Speaker 2: not unconstitutional. The president has a lot of power when
Speaker 2: it comes to things like this, strikes like this, military
Speaker 2: events like this, so that wasn't necessarily a problem. But
Speaker 2: there's a lot of operational security that goes into it.
Speaker 2: And we hear say in the media or in the
Speaker 2: general public, we often fall for the things that they
Speaker 2: want us to fall for, and I was one of them.
Speaker 3: I was following a couple of different.
Speaker 2: Operations sorry, open signals, intelligence, Twitter feeds, and this is
Speaker 2: just you know, the stuff that everybody has access to.
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of knowing where to find it.
Speaker 2: None of it is hidden. But there was a lot
Speaker 2: of information about some B two bombers and tankers that
Speaker 2: had taken off from the West coast of the United States.
Speaker 2: There were some tankers that had taken off from Travis
Speaker 2: Air Force Base up in northern California and were headed
Speaker 2: on their way to Guam. And I think that was
Speaker 2: probably Friday morning that we saw that. And what we
Speaker 2: actually saw was an incredible diversion because if we in
Speaker 2: the general public and the government of Iran believes that
Speaker 2: the attack is coming from that side of the planet,
Speaker 2: when in fact it was coming from the other side
Speaker 2: the much shorter route. I say much shorter, it's still
Speaker 2: seven thousand miles or so between between Missouri and Tehran.
Speaker 2: But they were as surprised, we assume, as everybody else
Speaker 2: was about what was going on, and think about this,
Speaker 2: think about the cup. If that's the diversion that everybody
Speaker 2: was kind of keeping their eyes on the South Pacific
Speaker 2: and our military assets in Guam, And is that where
Speaker 2: the pilots are going to be taking off from. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's Diego Garcia, that tiny little island that's out in
Speaker 2: the Indian Ocean, that would be much closer, but still
Speaker 2: a pretty hefty skip to get up to Tehran. One
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five different aircraft involved in this attack
Speaker 2: on Iran. All three of the nuclear sites we know
Speaker 2: sustained severe damage. In fact, President Trump on truth Social
Speaker 2: just a few moments ago, posted the damage to the
Speaker 2: nuclear sites in Iran is said to be monumental. The
Speaker 2: hits were hard and accurate. Great skill was shown by
Speaker 2: our military. Thank you. A short time after that, he
Speaker 2: posted on truth Social, it's not politically correct to use
Speaker 2: the term regime change, but if the current Iranian regime
Speaker 2: is unable to make ira great again, why wouldn't there
Speaker 2: be a regime change? And then instead of Maga m aga,
Speaker 2: he wrote mega m IgA, make Iran great again, and
Speaker 2: then adds a handful of exclamation points just to just
Speaker 2: to make it officially, Donald Trump. So over the course
Speaker 2: of the next couple hours, we're going to go through
Speaker 2: some of what we know has been the reaction, especially
Speaker 2: from members of Congress, to this. It is almost not
Speaker 2: entirely but it is almost predictable down party lines about
Speaker 2: what both people are going to say, what both parties
Speaker 2: are going to say about the attack on Iran. But
Speaker 2: like I said, it's not entirely down political lines, and
Speaker 2: there are some standout Republicans who are in complete disagreement
Speaker 2: with President Trump about exactly what happened. So Iran has
Speaker 2: warned of consequences. Tiffany played for you the foreign minister
Speaker 2: from Iran talking about how the United States can't rest
Speaker 2: on its laurels, always be on the lookout, head on.
Speaker 3: A swivel, all of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's not as if Iran has the same capability to
Speaker 2: promote terrorism here as they used to. That doesn't mean
Speaker 2: we're completely immune to it, but they do not have
Speaker 2: the reach that they once did. So we'll talk about
Speaker 2: all of this as we go through what's going on today,
Speaker 2: the fallout from this. We get any more statements, of course,
Speaker 2: from the White House or from the Pentagon or from
Speaker 2: the Israeli government or the Iranian government. A lot of
Speaker 2: things in play. Will definitely bring those to you. But
Speaker 2: when we come back, we're going to talk with Michael Monks.
Speaker 2: He is downtown a couple of different protests that are
Speaker 2: supposed to materialize today, and we'll see how things are going,
Speaker 2: and he's keep an eye on that for Operation monks
Speaker 2: Hammer downtown.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3: It's gary.
Speaker 2: It will be here till about four o'clock and then
Speaker 2: somewhat normal programming, we believe after that. Of course, we're
Speaker 2: talking about the United States hitting three nuclear sites in
Speaker 2: Iran in an overnight operation one hundred and twenty five aircraft,
Speaker 2: most notably seven of our B two bombers that were there.
Speaker 2: It's almost a third of the entire fleet that we have.
Speaker 2: All three of those nuclear sites in Iran did sustain
Speaker 2: severe damage. President Trump did say that I'm trying to
Speaker 2: go through his social poster, the damage to the nuclear
Speaker 2: sites in Iran is said to be monumental. The hits
Speaker 2: were hard and accurate, great skills shown by our military.
Speaker 2: He also wrote a short time ago on truth social
Speaker 2: the Great B two Pilots have just landed safely in Missouri.
Speaker 2: Thank you for a job well done. Donald J. Trump,
Speaker 2: President of the United States. I had to sign it
Speaker 2: because it's his own account.
Speaker 3: But Washington.
Speaker 2: By the way, the White House says that they did
Speaker 2: send a message to Tehran urging them to engage in
Speaker 2: peace talks, but Iran's foreign minister said that that was
Speaker 2: not going to happen. Also, the New York Post is
Speaker 2: reporting that they actually tried to get a hold of
Speaker 2: the Iyetola at the very last minute before those airstrikes.
Speaker 2: According to Axios, three officials have told Axios President Trump
Speaker 2: greenlit the attacks after the back channel in Tehran was
Speaker 2: unable to get the Supreme Leader on the horn that
Speaker 2: has pushed for diplomacy hit this as snag when Iotola
Speaker 2: Ali Camene allegedly went into radio silence because he was
Speaker 2: afraid of an assassination attempt. That was big news in
Speaker 2: the middle of the week last week when the suggestion
Speaker 2: came out that Israel had a plan to assassinate the Ietola,
Speaker 2: but Donald Trump put the kibosh on it. There has
Speaker 2: been plans for some protests in downtown Los Angeles and
Speaker 2: Michael Monks is there our protest, Maven who has been
Speaker 2: keeping an eye on this, If all the ones you've
Speaker 2: seen in the last two weeks, it sounds like this.
Speaker 2: This one is low on the scale for you, Oh.
Speaker 4: Definitely much calmer than what we had been used to.
Speaker 4: And what started at twelve o'clock was a hastily thrown
Speaker 4: together anti war protest. That was the main message. A
Speaker 4: group of folks who just wanted to speak out against
Speaker 4: potential war with Iran. That was the dominating theme of
Speaker 4: the speakers and the participants and all of the signage
Speaker 4: that was created, along with occasional references to immigration or
Speaker 4: gaza and those sorts of things. Even some messaging against
Speaker 4: Democrats as well. So a bit of a hodgepodge of
Speaker 4: a protest, but mostly focused on anti war. This was
Speaker 4: outside La City Hall and it drew about fifty people
Speaker 4: and some of the organizers, some of the participants were
Speaker 4: also involved in that massive protest last week with the
Speaker 4: no Kings messaging. This didn't quite reach the turnout of that.
Speaker 2: Are you getting to the point where you are familiar
Speaker 2: with some of these faces out there, starting to recognize people.
Speaker 4: You know bit at least the words I can usually
Speaker 4: predict the chance, and that's always true when you cover
Speaker 4: local government. You know you're gonna get a c sapayda
Speaker 4: or that sort of thing. You know what the message
Speaker 4: is going to be. Certainly, what's been hard to keep
Speaker 4: track of is wish flag we're waving this week. It's
Speaker 4: gotten so confusing that I noted with Tiffany in the
Speaker 4: last hour that a flag salesman showed up to this
Speaker 4: protest and stood just outside of it selling different flags.
Speaker 4: So if you're waving the American flag or the Mexican flag,
Speaker 4: or the Palestinian flag, or now maybe the Iranian flag,
Speaker 4: there's a buck to be made.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And if you could combine some of those flags together.
Speaker 2: We've seen some of those half and half flags. Those
Speaker 2: we have those a hot item right now here on
Speaker 2: the street vending scene.
Speaker 3: Is there fatigue do you think?
Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen a lot of people out on
Speaker 2: the streets for the last couple of weeks, But is
Speaker 2: this something that's gonna generate enough heat for people to
Speaker 2: come on out?
Speaker 4: I asked one of the organizers this when I interviewed
Speaker 4: him last hour. Was look because he was off all
Speaker 4: of the different issues that they're concerned about. And I thought,
Speaker 4: it's not just a list that you've just rated off.
Speaker 4: These are all individually items that have led to massive demonstrations,
Speaker 4: even here in Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: So how do you keep that?
Speaker 1: I guess energy towards all this.
Speaker 4: Think about what we've gone through just in the past
Speaker 4: year between Palestinian oriented marches and then you know what
Speaker 4: we've seen so far this year against President Trump or
Speaker 4: an immigration enforcement. It's just been a constant stream of large,
Speaker 4: massive protests. I don't know that today is an indication
Speaker 4: that they've lost energy. I just am not sure if
Speaker 4: they know where to go next, physically where to go,
Speaker 4: because when you're doing an anti war speech, you know,
Speaker 4: you show up at the government building, I suppose, But
Speaker 4: it didn't draw the crowd that we had been seeing.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a loss of energy, if
Speaker 4: it's a loss of organizational structure, or yeah, just people
Speaker 4: who have protest fatigue. But this was a bit of
Speaker 4: a bust. Yeah, I'm sorry, I shouldn't editorialize like that.
Speaker 4: There were fifty people who expressed themselves enthusiastically, but it
Speaker 4: did not amount to the size of crowds that we've
Speaker 4: been seeing the.
Speaker 2: No editorialized for you and say it sounds like it
Speaker 2: was a bust.
Speaker 3: It is funny.
Speaker 2: I mean, we saw some of the flyers on social
Speaker 2: media that suggested the no More War in the Middle
Speaker 2: East protest we won't die for oil, profit or empire,
Speaker 2: and that it was supposed to be today at twelve
Speaker 2: pm city Hall. And obviously City Hall is a central
Speaker 2: gathering place, but Los Angeles City Hall has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with a decision to send me two bombers halfway
Speaker 2: around the world and back with the giant, giant ordinances.
Speaker 2: So I'm curious. I mean, I get your point of
Speaker 2: they probably I don't know exactly what to do next
Speaker 2: or who to target.
Speaker 4: It was so sudden, you know, I do the show
Speaker 4: on Saturday night and Tifany goes on at five. I
Speaker 4: go on at seven, and you know, just before she
Speaker 4: went on the area yesterday at five is when we
Speaker 4: got the message from President Trump that this had all
Speaker 4: taken place. So we're still not even twenty four hours
Speaker 4: removed from the public acknowledgment from the White House that
Speaker 4: these military strikes took place, and so the rapid response
Speaker 4: from this group may not be as swift as maybe
Speaker 4: some of the more leftist organizations who organize those rapid
Speaker 4: responses against immediate immigration enforcement. Not just that we're going
Speaker 4: to take a stand in general against it, but like
Speaker 4: there's there's immigration enforcement happening right now on this block.
Speaker 3: In Maywood and a crew shows up.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is a group that needs some time,
Speaker 4: it looks like, in order to gin up the type
Speaker 4: of enthusiasm that we saw for them a week ago
Speaker 4: at the No Kings. They do have other events planned,
Speaker 4: because some of these organizers are involved in that fifty
Speaker 4: to fifty one group that planned the No Kings and
Speaker 4: the Hands Off Medicare thing a couple months prior. They
Speaker 4: have plans for July four, they have plans for July seventeen.
Speaker 4: They're already promoting those and you can probably expect a
Speaker 4: decent turnout for those. But it doesn't seem like the
Speaker 4: type of organizers that can turn it on a dime
Speaker 4: and get folks out the way that some of the
Speaker 4: leftist groups can. Here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you make a good point as well,
Speaker 2: because this is this is kind of a sanitized thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's an event that took place halfway around
Speaker 2: the world for years, for decades, we've been hearing that
Speaker 2: Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, so it's
Speaker 2: they're already characterized as sort of the bad guys in
Speaker 2: this and then we do something to cripple their ability
Speaker 2: to continue terrorism and in this case, to develop nuclear terrorism.
Speaker 2: So it's almost as if, yeah, we clearly don't want
Speaker 2: to lose American men and women service members and put
Speaker 2: them in harm's way, but it's also fuck. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could argue it's on the whole a positive. So
Speaker 2: there's going to be a harder it's going to be
Speaker 2: harder to pull people, you know, into a protest and
Speaker 2: get them fired up for something that happened and they know, no,
Speaker 2: they know nothing about it. You know, it's not affecting that,
Speaker 2: it's not affecting their their streets, their neighborhood, their community
Speaker 2: in general. It's could be argued it's as a as
Speaker 2: a positive.
Speaker 4: So exactly, I think that's great analysis, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4: We did hear some folks try to compare Iran to
Speaker 4: Text as I heard one of the speakers say they
Speaker 4: have universal healthcare in Iran, we don't have that here.
Speaker 4: And then you know that people want to talk about
Speaker 4: the restrictions on women in Iran.
Speaker 3: There are these restrictions on women in Texas.
Speaker 4: Why don't we invade Texas if we need to invade
Speaker 4: over some of these things. It was it was clear
Speaker 4: that outside of the generic no war message, it was
Speaker 4: hard to find something to really sink their teeth into
Speaker 4: in terms of getting some enthusiasm beyond that general message,
Speaker 4: because there were just a lot of different statements going
Speaker 4: on out there.
Speaker 3: All right, what's your plan? Well, i'll tell you.
Speaker 4: We were hearing that there was going to be another
Speaker 4: protest related to immigration enforcement outside that federal building, the
Speaker 4: roy Ball Federal Building here in downtown La I saw
Speaker 4: about one hundred demonstrators who marched along Los Angeles Street,
Speaker 4: still in the overpass over the one oh one.
Speaker 1: And they quickly dissipated.
Speaker 4: I don't know where they disappeared to, but it looks
Speaker 4: like there's a bit of a festival going on at
Speaker 4: Olvera Street al Pueblo, So I don't know if they
Speaker 4: just went in and blended into that. They were peaceful.
Speaker 4: They didn't do anything except wave some signs and cheer,
Speaker 4: and as of now, as of just two minutes ago,
Speaker 4: when I went past the backside of that building where
Speaker 4: a lot of these heated confrontations with law enforcement and
Speaker 4: military have taken place. It's just six guardsmen guarding the
Speaker 4: garage and not a single protester in sight at this point.
Speaker 3: Good, good y, honor, good calm Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4: Then, hoping it calms down. I am going to be
Speaker 4: at the ready for you, Gary. I know that if
Speaker 4: Gary Hoffman is in that seat on a weekend, something
Speaker 4: horrible has happened in the world.
Speaker 3: So we are always ready to help you out when
Speaker 3: you need us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that I couldn't sleep, my nap didn't work out,
Speaker 2: something like that. Michael Monks, Downtown, LA for KFI News.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, you got it all right. We will continue
Speaker 2: and again continuing coverage of not just the strikes on Iran,
Speaker 2: but the fallout. There was also an event that took
Speaker 2: place in Michigan. There was a shooting at a church today.
Speaker 2: I'll talk a little bit about that when we come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Gary Hoffman in until four o'clock today. Chris Meryl will
Speaker 2: be along at that point. Krazer's sitting over there in
Speaker 2: the newsroom. We're trying to figure out everything that's going on.
Speaker 2: Of course, with the American strikes on Iran. There was
Speaker 2: a story Nash story though up in Michigan, Wayne, Michigan.
Speaker 2: This morning, there was a shooting at a community church
Speaker 2: at cross Point Community Church, an active shooter was declared.
Speaker 3: This is a suburb of Detroit by the way.
Speaker 2: Security guard at the church shot and killed this guy
Speaker 2: before officers were able to get there, and the reason
Speaker 2: the security guard had time to take aim at him
Speaker 2: was because one of the deacons who was showing up
Speaker 2: to church ran him over with his truck. The deacon
Speaker 2: hit and clobbered the guy with an f one point
Speaker 2: fifty and then the church security guard was able to
Speaker 2: come over and finish him off. They said that no
Speaker 2: one else at the time was hurt. Only one person,
Speaker 2: the security guard himself, was the one who was injured.
Speaker 2: The shooter did fire multiple shots into the church, but
Speaker 2: did not actually go into the building. There were about
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty people in there at the time.
Speaker 2: They were live streaming the service when it happened. It
Speaker 2: had more kids in there as usual. Showed the moment
Speaker 2: when people inside became aware of what was going on
Speaker 2: and you can hear people yelling, get down, everybody to
Speaker 2: the back, and then again he was hit by a
Speaker 2: truck and then shot and killed by a church security guard.
Speaker 2: So that was in Wayne, Michigan today. So Operation Midnight Hammer,
Speaker 2: that is what this is being called. One hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five aircraft were involved in the strikes on Iran.
Speaker 2: The three nuclear sites all considered to have suffered severe damage,
Speaker 2: although at this point we don't know exactly how severe.
Speaker 2: The head of the United Nations Nuclear Watchdog group said,
Speaker 2: the extent of this is still unclear, despite some satellite
Speaker 2: images that are out that now show that the bombs
Speaker 2: literally moved mountains in some respects. The chief of the
Speaker 2: the International Atomic Energy Agency excuse me, Raphael Grossi, confirmed
Speaker 2: that yes, the strikes did hit, and that they hit
Speaker 2: the most fortified nuclear site called Ford Doh during an
Speaker 2: emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. That is, I
Speaker 2: believe it's still going on actually today in New York.
Speaker 2: And what he said was craters are visible at the
Speaker 2: Fordah site, Iran's main location for enriching uranium, indicating the
Speaker 2: use by the United States of ground penetrating munitions. We
Speaker 2: knew that this is consistent with the statements from the
Speaker 2: United States, but he said, given the fact that Fordah
Speaker 2: is underground, neither the IAEA or anyone else has been
Speaker 2: able to access to assess the damage. Specifically, along with
Speaker 2: the damage at Ford OH, several buildings and entrance tunnels
Speaker 2: had been destroyed at the Ishfahan nuclear site and additional
Speaker 2: damage at Natan's as well. One of the guys that
Speaker 2: I was listening to earlier today talked about the specifics
Speaker 2: of these munitions, and again we've talked about We spent
Speaker 2: all week on the Gary and Shannon Show talking about
Speaker 2: these bunker buster bombs. This is retired Admiral Mark Montgomery
Speaker 2: who said this specific these GBU fifty sevens, this is
Speaker 2: literally exactly what they were designed for underground Iranian nuclear facilities.
Speaker 5: Myself and many of the other retired generals and animals
Speaker 5: who've worked this issue for you know, almost fifteen to
Speaker 5: eighteen years. You know, from the initial planning the Massive
Speaker 5: Ordinance penetrary was conceived two or three administrations ago. So
Speaker 5: the idea that we're finally using it is about time.
Speaker 5: We have cycled our forces through the Middle East so
Speaker 5: many times, particularly the Navy and the Air Force and
Speaker 5: the Army's air defenders that it really impacts our readiness.
Speaker 5: So actually doing this strike now there's a path through
Speaker 5: to to not being so critically involved in the Middle
Speaker 5: East all the time because we've removed the number one
Speaker 5: threat to Middle East peace, the Iranian nuclear No.
Speaker 3: Sorry I cut him off.
Speaker 2: The other point about what this guy was saying, again,
Speaker 2: retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, is that this kind of
Speaker 2: operation where you've got airplanes in the air for hours
Speaker 2: and hours and hours at a.
Speaker 3: Time, is not entirely unusual.
Speaker 2: It was a big lift obviously, like I said, one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five different aircraft that were involved, including
Speaker 2: those seven B two bombers, but that this specific bomb
Speaker 2: that was dropped fourteen of them to be exact, was
Speaker 2: what made this the unusual operation that it was.
Speaker 5: What was unique was the dropping of the of the
Speaker 5: massive ordinance penetrators at twelve at four to Doah and
Speaker 5: two at Natans. Now, those pilots had practiced it hundreds
Speaker 5: of times, but they had not used an operational weapon
Speaker 5: this way. What we can see in the imagery are
Speaker 5: six entry points at four to oh, which I.
Speaker 1: Think is twelve.
Speaker 5: Weapons, you know, because they tend they tend to put
Speaker 5: one right down on the other after it creates a channel,
Speaker 5: so that twelve on four to doh is going to
Speaker 5: cause a lot of damage. And then the two at
Speaker 5: Natan's I think was clean up. The Israelis left us
Speaker 5: some work to do there, knowing that a massive ordinance
Speaker 5: penetrator would be a better weapon to go after the
Speaker 5: centrifuge halls. So that's those fourteen massive ordinance penetrators.
Speaker 2: Fourteen fourteen of them again seven by two bombers. That's
Speaker 2: about a third of the fleet that we have. And
Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier that some of them were sent to
Speaker 2: Guam to kind of distract everybody, and then that was
Speaker 2: almost all of the GBU fifty seven's that we have
Speaker 2: produced to this point. It's not that the explosives are
Speaker 2: as make that a fifteen ton beast, it's the way
Speaker 2: it's constructed with that hardened steal so that it can
Speaker 2: penetrate the ground before the secondary explosion. Now I mentioned
Speaker 2: that there are congressional reactions to the American strikes on Iran,
Speaker 2: and again some of them are via some of them
Speaker 2: are people that you would not expect to be criticizing
Speaker 2: President Trump, but Tim Kaine ran for vice president with
Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump and Mike Pence. He said
Speaker 2: that this is an overreach of presidential authority. He asserted
Speaker 2: that Congress has to vote before initiating offensive military actions,
Speaker 2: which is not entirely true. He warned of the risk
Speaker 2: of getting the US into a prolonged Middle East conflict
Speaker 2: without the backing of the electorate. Listen, there is that
Speaker 2: there is a possibility of that, but we've been involved
Speaker 2: in the Middle East for decades and we will be
Speaker 2: for decades regardless of how this plays out. I think
Speaker 2: it's important to point out that other Arab states, they're
Speaker 2: not mad that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon
Speaker 2: or is now back into the Stone Age in terms
Speaker 2: of its nuclear program. Other Arab states are not unhappy
Speaker 2: about that. They are just fine with this. They may
Speaker 2: put out statements that say that the United States did
Speaker 2: something we can't go back from.
Speaker 3: Or blah blah blah. They do not want Iran to
Speaker 3: have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer, of course, called for the Senate to immediately
Speaker 2: hold a vote under the War Powers Act to reassert
Speaker 2: Congress's role in declaring war as we've seen before, this
Speaker 2: is not a war. Congress has not declared war since
Speaker 2: World War Two. And think of all of the military
Speaker 2: conflicts we've gotten into, some for years at a time.
Speaker 2: Think Afghanistan or Iraq, or Vietnam, or any number of
Speaker 2: conflicts that we've been in that did not require Congressional approval.
Speaker 2: Haakim Jeffries, minority leader in the House, accused the President
Speaker 2: of misleading the public and bypassing Congress. He's listen, he's
Speaker 2: got to mislead the public. In a situation like this,
Speaker 2: you can't, for just for the protection of the men
Speaker 2: and women that are going to be there at the
Speaker 2: tip of the spear, you can't tell everybody what's about
Speaker 2: to happen. That's why he was so coy about his
Speaker 2: two week warning. Remember that on Thursday or Friday, whatever
Speaker 2: it was. Now Thomas Massey is a surprise to me
Speaker 2: only that he's a Republican, the Republican from Kentucky. I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy goes to the beat of his own drum.
Speaker 2: He has introduced, with Congressman Rocanna from here in California, Democrat,
Speaker 2: a joint War Powers resolution stating that the action was
Speaker 2: not constitutional without prior congressional authorization.
Speaker 3: Again, every I shouldn't say every.
Speaker 2: Most presidents have some military action under their belt where
Speaker 2: the opposing party raises their hands and says, this is
Speaker 2: the unconstitutional use of the American military, and it's never
Speaker 2: the case. This one is going to be similar. There
Speaker 2: are people who are going to claim that this was
Speaker 2: an unconstitutional use of American military power, and there's no
Speaker 2: evidence that that's the case. So we'll talk more about
Speaker 2: what this means for Iran going forward. Is there anything
Speaker 2: that Iran can do to poke back at the United States.
Speaker 2: It's Gary Hoff, but I'm in for I don't know who.
Speaker 2: Normally it's Tiffany. Usually it's in this spot right something
Speaker 2: like that. I'm Usually it's nap time for me, So
Speaker 2: it changes every weekend. Good rotating cast of characters.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six on demand, of.
Speaker 2: Course, doing the regular show tomorrow, So at nine o'clock
Speaker 2: we'll pick up on some of the information that we
Speaker 2: are going to be getting in we assume overnight tonight
Speaker 2: and into tomorrow about the extent of damage on the
Speaker 2: strikes for strikes on three of Iran's nuclear sites. Of
Speaker 2: course fourd oh Natans and Ishfahan. This was Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 2: We know that at least seven of these B two
Speaker 2: bombers carried fourteen of the mops. These GBU fifty seven
Speaker 2: massive ordnance penetrators, the bunker buster bombs and then Tomahawk
Speaker 2: missiles were also fired from submarines. President Trump said that
Speaker 2: this was very successful, spectacular military success. And of course
Speaker 2: the final damage evaluations are still pending, notably for the
Speaker 2: deeply shielded facilities like four to H which is why
Speaker 2: we hit those, we believe with twelve of those mops.
Speaker 2: I've mentioned just before that break about some of the
Speaker 2: congressional reactions to the strikes on Iran, and as I mentioned,
Speaker 2: the War Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three does set
Speaker 2: out some specifics of what the president is allowed to do,
Speaker 2: but also what he is required he or she is
Speaker 2: required to do in the event that he calls for
Speaker 2: military action. The War Powers Resolution nineteen seventy three actually
Speaker 2: limits the ability to commit troops to an armed conflict
Speaker 2: without congressional approval. It requires the President to notify Congress
Speaker 2: within forty eight hours of deploying troops, and it mandates
Speaker 2: a withdrawal after sixty days unless Congress comes in and
Speaker 2: authorizes the use of force, which is a pretty wide
Speaker 2: ranging amount of stuff that a president can do without
Speaker 2: getting approval from Congress. Now, again, some people have already
Speaker 2: suggested that this was grounds for impeachment. I think Alexandria
Speaker 2: Ocassio Cortes, the She and Rashida Talib and Bernie Sanders
Speaker 2: have all said that this was grossly unconstitutional, which again isn't.
Speaker 2: Senator Lindsey Graham a Republican out of South Carolina, he
Speaker 2: has been calling for this for a long time, so
Speaker 2: he was a supporter. But so was John Fetterman, the
Speaker 2: Democrat out of Pennsylvania. They took a position of support
Speaker 2: for these strikes, said that this was the right call
Speaker 2: to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3: He had a whole trio of others.
Speaker 2: Roger Wicker, Republican out of Mississippi, Jim rish out of Idaho,
Speaker 2: Mike Johnson out of Louisiana speaker. They supported this. They
Speaker 2: said that this was limited, It was decisive that there
Speaker 2: is no intention of regime change or a forever war.
Speaker 2: I mean the regime change thing is different because we
Speaker 2: know that President Trump has kind of addressed that in
Speaker 2: a truth social post. But this boots on the ground
Speaker 2: deployment myth that's floating out there is not going to happen.
Speaker 2: We are not going into Iran with boots on the ground,
Speaker 2: because that would entail an absolute slaughter of somebody, whether
Speaker 2: it's American military men and women, Iranian civilians, the Irani military.
Speaker 2: That's not what we're interested in. Warren Davidson of Ohio,
Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia. They actually are Republicans that
Speaker 2: were at least concerned about this. They have talked about
Speaker 2: constitutional concerns about this. They have said before that in
Speaker 2: that farthest right side of the MAGA movement, they do
Speaker 2: not want to get involved in any more foreign wars.
Speaker 2: The President will tell you the White House has already
Speaker 2: said this is not war with Iran.
Speaker 3: But to use.
Speaker 2: To use Speaker Mike Johnson's words, this was limited, that
Speaker 2: this was decisive. Jasmine Crockett has said that Congress must
Speaker 2: authorize military force before any president launches a strike, and
Speaker 2: again that's just simply a mis interpretation of the War
Speaker 2: Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three. For example, for example,
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton ordered air strikes on Bosnia ninety five. Also,
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton ordered air strikes on Kosovo in ninety nine
Speaker 2: without price congressional authorization.
Speaker 3: There was also a vote.
Speaker 2: Congress did vote to pass the pass, sorry tried to
Speaker 2: vote to pass the resolution that would authorize continued NATO
Speaker 2: bombings in that Bosnia and Kosovo episode, but it failed.
Speaker 2: Barack Obama in twenty eleven authorized airstrikes in Libya part
Speaker 2: of a NATO operation, again without congressional approval, and the
Speaker 2: administration argued, just like the Trump administration is, arguing that
Speaker 2: it didn't need authorization since it wasn't a full scale war,
Speaker 2: prompting debate over what does entail or what does require
Speaker 2: an actual Congressional vote under that War Powers resolution from.
Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 2: So they're going to talk about it, They're gonna yell
Speaker 2: about it, They're going to raise their voices about it.
Speaker 2: We've seen members of Congress talk about it all day today,
Speaker 2: and you could bet when the new cycle again starts
Speaker 2: the first thing in the morning, going to be doing
Speaker 2: it much much more. I mentioned also the ongoing suggestion
Speaker 2: that Iran has some sort of ability to strike back
Speaker 2: at the United States.
Speaker 3: It doesn't appear that they do, clearly.
Speaker 2: The United States has tens of thousands of military men
Speaker 2: and women within range of offensive weapons that Iran does have,
Speaker 2: but their capability has been degraded so much by the
Speaker 2: ongoing now ten days I believe of Israeli air strikes
Speaker 2: against their ballistic missile production facilities, against their missile launchers,
Speaker 2: that it doesn't appear that Iran has the capability of
Speaker 2: coming after the United States in any real way. So
Speaker 2: now the concern is their proxy units, whether it's Hesblah
Speaker 2: or Hamas to a much lesser extent, but the Huthis
Speaker 2: in Yemen could gum things up if they start targeting
Speaker 2: American warships there in the Persian Gulf area, so something.
Speaker 2: All of this stuff is still going on. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we'll hear from a bunch of the leaders
Speaker 2: the President's address from last night. Pete Hegseth and as
Speaker 2: a Secretary of Defense and the chairman of the Joint
Speaker 2: Chiefs of Staff, also had a very early news conference
Speaker 2: this morning and talked about the incredible success and bravery
Speaker 2: of the men and women who pulled this thing off
Speaker 2: late in the middle.
Speaker 3: Of the night.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk about all of that stuff still coming
Speaker 2: up in the next hour.
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