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means it's time to chat with Ap Dylan. She's a
reporter for the North State Journal. You can read her
work at nsjonline dot com. She is also the purveyor
of a substack newsletter called more to the Story and Ap,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Do you have a good weekend?
Speaker 3: I did. We spent continuing celebrating my oldest graduating from.
Speaker 2: High school, continuing this is like a multi week affair.
Speaker 3: Or something like multiple days in a row.
Speaker 2: Let's beat out again, like we're only doing this once.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so, but you also cranked out some
content as you usually do, and this was regarding the
governor of North Carolina. Josh Stein doing his first vetos.
I think right these were was this the first round
of vetos that he's done.
Speaker 3: These are his first vetos. He vetoed three bills Senate
Bill fifty, Senate Bill one fifty three, and House Bill
three eighteen. Senate Bill fifty is the bill that would
have allowed for permitless concealed carry, joining multiple other states
that have laws like that. I think we would have
been like the thirty es states to enact such a law.
Then there's a Senate Bill one fifty three in House
Built three eighteen, which sort of are tied together because
they're both immigration related. One fifty three would tighten up
the requirements for state law enforcement officials like sheriffs to
formally cooperate with ICE and detained immigrants. It would also
restrict state fund benefits and housing for non citizens, and
it would penalize local governments and the unc system institutions
for adopting any sanctuary policies eight which was backed by
House Speaker Destin Hall. He's been very big on the
ice front. He's on multiple bills pushing through this woman
closed loopholes and existing laws such as the ones that
the Mechlenberg sheriff seems to think exist regarding illegal immigrants
and custody, and it would require that local officials can
find them and verify their legal residency status and be
in touch with ICE to let them know that they
have that person, to see if there's a entertainer or
if they're going to you know, offer a warrant on them.
It also mandates that the prisoner is subject to an
ICE detainer, be held in trans until he's transferred into
ICE custody or released under certain specific conditions which have
to be met, you know, bonds, monitoring, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so right, So these are the three bills he
did sign one into law.
Speaker 3: Some agriculture bills modernized agricultural voluntarily for certain agricultural districts.
There were certain modernizations that were in the law that
needed to happen, and nothing ground shattering there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing controversial about that.
Speaker 1: But so so now, obviously the question is about whether
or not the legislature can override his vetos. In the Senate,
they've got the Republicans have a supermajority, so I suspect
they will have little problem overriding Stein's vetos on these
three items, but over in the House, not so certain
because they don't have a super majority. They're going to
have to peel away a Democrat or two. And the
bill that House Bill three eighteen, one of the immigration bills,
the last one that you that you described there, that's
the one that the local representative, Carla Cunningham from Mecklenburg,
that's the one that she is a Democrat, has voted
with Republicans for this bill.
Speaker 2: So she may she.
Speaker 3: May be the one that helps override that one. The
Senate one might have a harder time unless they can
get her to move over into that aisle. Right, So
we'll see. But then again, we're talking about a new
governor here. We don't know if he's got the same
disciplinary mojo that Roy Cooper did, where you know, if
you stuffed out of line, he made sure he got
a primary challenger. So I don't know if Josh Stein
is going to pull that I'm the Democrats and the
legislature this time around or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you could read that at North State Journal Online.
And AP's also got to write up at her newsletter
more to the story on all of this. And you
also you wrote about and you connected in a couple
of these, these union groups and these lefty groups that
prior to his veto's, the Party for Socialism and Liberation
was back out carrying their anti Ice banner this week
protesting these bills, trying to pressure Stein. And they've been
involved in uh these you know, nationwide protests, the no
King stuff, the fifty to fifty one, which is a
terrible name because it makes it sound like it's just
fifty to fifty one, but it's fifty fifty and then
one but whatever. And then you you pointed out we
covered a little bit of this last week that the
that now you've got the unions that have joined in
the afl CIO you mentioned the s CiU, got the
teachers unions, they're involved in this stuff. And now you've
got the UH workers with the Solidarity Restaurants team.
Speaker 2: And that's a new one to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's being launched by a group called One Fair Wage.
It's another one of those you know, Raised the minimum
wage groups, and yeah, I darked them through their basic
social media and through their platform and everything, and it
very much looks like this is another one of those
you know, Raised the wage groups, and on their website
They have a big, big icon there that's got a
woman wearing a mask at COVID mass that says fight,
don't starve and teacher to read the wage justice is
racial justice, so you know whatever. But they seem to
be they seem to be operating mostly in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois,
and Maryland, New York and Ohio. They're not in North
Carolina yet and those are blue states for the most part,
so they're targeting their own. We'll see what We'll see
what happens there.
Speaker 1: And it makes sense because after the Supreme Court decision
on the force unionization, you know, siphoning off dues and stuff,
the Janus decision. After that, unions have taken a hit,
and so it makes sense that now they're like, they're
making these efforts with regard to illegal immigrants because they
need more people, They need more bodies, they need more
people on the rolls. And so, uh, there's been a
decide because it used to be the unions were opposed
to illegal immigration because it undercut wages for them, and
so now yeah, now they're they're captured too.
Speaker 2: Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Speaking of being captured, apparently the North Carolina Democrat Party.
I don't know what's going on with this drag brunch
that they they held again. This what yesterday I guess
in Raleigh? Is this the This is not the first
time they've done a drag queen brunch at at party
headquarters or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess for the past three years I've held that.
To be honest, I haven't. I hadn't been clocking it regularly.
This one popped up though, in my feet a couple
of times, so I was like, all right, I'll just
I'll drop that in on my substack because you know whatever. Yeah.
But yeah, So they held this thing and apparently one
of the performers there a guy who goes by S. S. Birdie.
His name is Landon bird He calls himself the drag
King and the other social media posts. But he posted
several days in advance on his Facebook page and Instagram
page dressed up like in a in a costume looks
like something out of Natcho lebra and he's like, you know,
shoving his foot in the camera, saying stomping all fascists
in the face.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And this is the person who was, you know, one
of the headliners for this drag brunch. In just a
week ago, we were, you know, we had the Democratic
Party's chair refusing to condone condemn reports Representative von Hagen's
posting of a beheaded Trump from the No Kings rally.
So I just found an interesting juxtaposition, and she did
it again here. She she deflected again and said that
it's the favorite e entity here and they would invite
libs of TikTok next time to.
Speaker 1: It, right, because this one got the got noticed by
libs of TikTok, which then you know, pushed it out again.
And yeah, so this is now like two libs of
TikTok tweets over the last week or so. So it's
I'm sure the I'm sure the social media accounts for
the North Carolina Democrat Party leadership has been blowing up
for the last you know week or so.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: I did like the uh, the screenshot you got of
the Speaker of the House response to all of this,
destinhol said, reminder that Democrats tried to tell your Republicans
were weird in the last election, which meanwhile they got
this this foot stomping, drag king dude performing for their party. Anyway,
So this dovetails nicely though into another piece that you had.
And we've been covering different elements of this over the
last two weeks. The New York Times and Politico both
with stories talking about the Democrats in disarray or the
civil war inside the Democrat Party. This is not this
is not good. They are apparently, I mean for them.
It's probably good for America, but it's not good for
their party. They've discussed the possibility of borrowing money in
the coming months to keep operations fully funded.
Speaker 2: I did not know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that didn't really shock me, given you
know that they blew through what, you know, a billion
dollars I'm the Harris campaign. Yeah, little to show for it.
So yeah, the both the New York Times and uh
Politico are doing their their duty and breaking the bad news,
uh in a way that's you know, as friendly as possible.
The New York Times article goes on for you know,
like eighteen hundred words or something like that, describing the
internal collapse of the DNC, and my favorite section of
that article was titled worse than some high school student
council drama. So yeah, yeah, so they they're they're looking
around and then we've got. You know, it looks like
Bernie Sanders and AOC have broken up. Oh no, he's
been out on his noahl oligarchy, you know campaign, and
she had been out there with him, you know, doing
doing the rallies, and in the last two weeks or so,
she's sort of disappeared from that, and it's just Bernie
out there now, you know, old man yeltic cloud moment.
Speaker 1: So well, she's she's doing I think she's she's trying
to ride the anti immigrat stuff right then. Yeah, well,
and this is the thing too, like because I think
it in your piece, you said, yeah, here it is
a Neither the New York Times nor the political article
seem to connect the dots back to President Biden's disastrous
debate as the turning point when the wheels started coming
off the DNC bus. And you've got now these camps
that are fighting inside the DNC, and you got one
that's like we should moderate, and the others like, no, no,
full blown you know, leftism and stuff. And that's why
like their own voters, their own Democrats, they disapprove of
their own party by like seventy percent. And it's because
they're like that no one is fighting Trump hard enough.
And that's why I think you're seeing these guys going
and getting themselves arrested, right, these stunts, because they want
to be seen to communicate I'm willing to get arrested,
you know, like their own moral Munday movement moment a
momo momo and like I'm fighting. Look at me getting arrested.
It's why they that's why they're cursing in really cringey ways,
like people you know don't curse, and then you just
start dropping f bombs and stuff like this is this
is not a good look, but I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think I think someone over the weekend said the
arrests and everything that they're going on with all these
elected officials, it is like they're lining up to get arrested.
They think that, you know, it's good publicity. But someone
I can't remember, I think it was Scott O God
what was his name from CNN. He left out the
line something like along the lines of the theater kids
have taken over the Democratic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was that was Scott Jennings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Scott Jennings. That's right, that's what it was. That
that just kind of stuck with me. I'm like, you know,
that's kind of an app description at this point.
Speaker 2: It absolutely is. We've been using that term to describe
these performers for a while. It is completely accurate. Ap Dylan,
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: As always, you can read her work North State Journal
and more to the story on substack.
Speaker 2: Thanks AP. We'll talk with you next week.
Speaker 4: Thanks p.
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we've been talking a lot today about what happened over
the weekend with the bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities
by the US military successful mission. Trump put out a
truth social post saying they were all totally destroyed, but
Iran is also putting out a statements saying that they
totally destroyed the US base in Cutter, Katar Cutter. Still
don't know how to pronounce that one. Yeah, they so
that's obviously for domestic consumption. They want their people to
think that they have wiped out a US air base
in Qatar with six missiles that they fired and gave
the kataris a heads up on, just like they did
when they they've shot them into Iraq after we took
out Solamani.
Speaker 2: So this is the way they quote save face. So
there's that.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Israel has started hammering Iran again. They took out
the doors off of the Eving Prison, which was the
prison where they hold all their political prisoners and regime opponents.
They blew the doors off of that. They also blew
up the Destruction of Israel clock that they have right
in like Palestine Square in Tehran. They've got this clock
and it's like, yeah, we're counting down till the destruction
of Israel. They blew that thing up. So all right,
let's get to the phones. People have been on hold
for a while. This is Andy. Hello, Andy, Welcome to
the show.
Speaker 2: Hello Andy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I'm gonna put you back on hold and
we're gonna go over to Richard. Hello, Richard, are you
still there?
Speaker 5: Yes, welcome, Thank you very much. I'll listen to you.
Did you know I watched Pops news at work, Okay,
and there was something under the Russia gave permission for
other countries to give nuclear warheads. Did you see that?
Speaker 2: I did not see that.
Speaker 1: I don't know why Russia would need like what countries
would Russia need to.
Speaker 5: Same here, same here? They need, uh, you know, permission?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, unless it's like Belarus, which is, you know, a
client state of Russia. Maybe Belarus has nukes or something,
but Russia's got the nukes. If they wanted to give
or on some nukes, they could. But I don't know
if like again, I I don't know if they would
do that. I don't know if Putin would do that,
Why you would do it, Why you wouldn't do it?
I have no sightline into that, except you know, to
just try to take out an American ally or something.
I don't know, because if it traces back to him,
like that's problematic, you know.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't agree. My question is only
that if you've seen that, so you haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: I have not.
Speaker 1: No, I have not, but I can I can try
and find it. If you say it's out there, there
may be a report that's out there. But I appreciate
the call. Thanks for thanks for making it.
Speaker 5: Richard, Thank you much.
Speaker 2: All right, take care.
Speaker 1: There is another component to this, and I keep hearing
you know, oh, they our intelligence. And this is based
off of the Tulsi Gabbard, the clip that made the rounds.
I played it last week eighteen seconds where she's like
they are not, you know, making the bomb or something.
But then everybody chops off the second part of it
where they're like, yeah, but they're they're still pursuing all
of this and they're not cooperating and they're doing all
this other stuff.
Speaker 2: That part out of the quote.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the IAEA, the UN's nuclear watchdog,
the Board of Governors, found that Iran is not complying
with its nuclear obligations. And this was June twelfth, right,
this was the first time in twenty years that the
UN's nuclear watchdog made this finding. Iran reacted immediately, saying
it will establish a new enrichment facility in a secure
location and that other measures are also being planned. The
Islamic Republic of Iran has no choice but to respond
to this political resolution. To the Iranian Foreign Ministry and
the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, they put out a
joint statement. US President Donald Trump previously warned that Israel
or America could carry out airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities
if negotiations failed and some American personnel and their families
have begun leaving the region over the tensions. This was
again from June twelfth. Nineteen countries on the IAEA's board,
which represents the agency's member nations, voted for the resolution.
Nineteen countries Russia, China and Burkino sorry Burkina FASO opposed it.
So three against and eleven abstained. And I don't know
why two did not vote. I don't know if they
were sick or something. But in the draft resolution seen
by the Associated Press, the Board of Governors renewed a
call on Iran to provide answers without delay in a
long running investigation into uranium traces found at several locations
that Tehran has failed to declare as nuclear sites.
Speaker 2: They are gaming the system. They always have them.
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We'll get to that. Let me finish with this piece though.
This was at the Associated Press June twelfth. Okay, so
almost two weeks ago, and the headline on the story
is you an Atomic board censures Iran and Tehran says
it will establish a new nuclear site. In its report,
the IAEA stated that it is unable to provide assurance
that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful, and said this
is a matter for the UN Security Council, like we're
going to do another meeting on this or whatever. But
a senior Western diplomat described the resolution as a serious step.
But we're not closing the door to diplomacy. But if
Iran fails to cooperate, an extraordinary extraordinary IAEA Board meeting
would be held in the summer, during which another resolution
could get passed that will refer the issue to the
Security Council. Like there you can tell like they were
ticked off with Iran because like they were going to
do another resolution. We're going to meet again and we're
going to do another resolution on you. But when the IAEA,
that is supposedly the one that is monitoring Iranian compliance,
when they say they cannot give assurances that the nuclear
program is for peaceful purposes exclusively, like that's a pretty
big deal because obviously it's not for peaceful purposes. The
IAEA's comprehensive report circulated among member states before their vote,
and it's said that Iran's cooperation with the agency has
quote been less than satisfactory when it comes to uranium
traces discovered by agency inspectors at several locations in the country.
One of the sites became known publicly in twenty eighteen
after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nintonnaho revealed it at the
United Nations and called it a clandestine nuclear warehouse hidden
at a rug cleaning plant. Iran denied it, but in
twenty nineteen when the IAEA inspectors all lickety Splits showed
up for their investigation, they detected the presence of uranium
as well as at two other sites. And Iran won't
tell them why because it's not for peaceful purposes obviously.
Here's the uh. We had a eget who was I
think it may have been David was his name? Maybe
this was from Dmitri Medvidyev, So not Putin, but the
deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, former president. He had
suggested that other countries would transfer their nuclear warheads to Iran.
Trump then responds on truth social to this report, and
he says, did I hear former President Medvidyev from Russia
casually throwing around the N word nuclear and saying that
he and other countries would supply nuclear warheads to Iran.
Did he really say that or is it just a
figment of my imagination. If he did say that, and
if confirmed, please let me know immediately. The N word
should not be treated so casually. I guess that's why
Putin's the boss. By the way, If any by the way,
if anyone thinks our hardware was great over the weekend,
far and away, the strongest and best equipment we have
twenty years advanced over the pack is our nuclear submarines.
They are the most powerful and lethal weapons ever built,
and just launched the thirty Tomahawks. All thirty hit their
mark perfectly. So in addition to our great fighter pilots,
thank you to the captain and crew. Medvidyev has now
responded quote regarding I'm not going to read the whole
thing like that, but that's how that's the voice I'm
hearing in it.
Speaker 2: I condemned the US strike on Iran. It failed to
achieve its objectives.
Speaker 1: However, Russia like, I don't think that's true, but Commi's lie.
So however, Russia has no intention of supplying nuclear weapons
to Iran, because, unlike Israel, we are parties to the
nuclear non Proliferation Treaty. I know quite well what this
would entail, having overseen our nuclear forces as president, but
other countries might.
Speaker 2: And that's what was said. And we definitely shouldn't be
arguing over who has more nukes, all the more so
because the new Start Treaty, which I once signed with
a US president, is still in force for now. The
question is what comes next. So I don't find this
to be particularly helpful. That's just that's just me. I
I don't like.
Speaker 1: I don't like the mean tweets like we're in high school,
like going back and forth with with the Russians about
start treaties and use of nukes and all this other stuff.
Now Trump did not start this, Okay, this was Medvedyev.
He was the one that was talking about somebody could
give Iran a nuke. I don't know who would do that.
Pakistan maybe, sorry, Bukistan, Like maybe I mean that who
else has them that would give them one?
Speaker 2: China U.
Speaker 1: Bill Malugin from Fox News. He reports, per a senior
Customs and Border Patrol source, there were one thy five
hundred four Iranian nationals caught crossing the border illegally during
the Biden administration. Forty eight percent of those were released
into the United States fifteen hundred half of them were
released into America. It's unclear how many of these Iranians
were on the terrorism watch list, as the Biden administration
repeatedly denied my Foyer requests and appeals for that data,
citing the privacy concerns of the people on the list
and minimal public interest in disclosing the data.
Speaker 2: That's what they told him.
Speaker 1: That's what the Biden team said, privacy concerns for people
on the tech watch list, and that there's minimal public interest.
There were over two million known godaways at the border
during the Biden administration. Because they were never caught, there's
no way of knowing where they were from. All Right,
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I mentioned this earlier in the program, so I want
to play. The clip only runs two minutes. This is
Margaret Brennan from CBS News Face the Nation. Marco Rubio
is on Meet the Press yesterday, and I watched this
just because I was trying to anyway, I watched it.
I usually don't watch the Sunday shows anymore, but I
watched this and this is Chef's kiss.
Speaker 6: Oh on a phrase you just word weaponization ambitions? Are
you saying there that the United States did not see
intelligence that Supreme leader had ordered weaponization.
Speaker 4: That's irrelevant. I seek that question being asked in the media.
That's an irrelevant question.
Speaker 6: That is me point in US intelligence assessment. You know
it's not yes, it was, that's the political decision.
Speaker 4: Well, I know that better than you know that, and
I know that that's not the case whether the order
was given. And the people who say that it doesn't
matter if the order was given. They have everything they
need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury Why
would you bury things in a mountain three hundred feet
under the ground, Why would you bury six Why do
they have sixty percent in rich uranium? You don't need
sixty percent in rich area. The only countries in the
world that have uranium at sixty percent are countries that
have nuclear weapons, because it can quickly make it ninety
They have all the elements they have. Why are they
Why do they have a space program? Is Aron going
to go to the moon? No, they're trying to build
an ICBM.
Speaker 6: No, But that's a question. That's a question, that's a
question of intent. And you know in the intelligence assessment
that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold.
See you use those I'm talking on what the intelligence
March assessment, and that's why I was asking you if
you know something more from it?
Speaker 4: That's also an inaccurate representation of it. That's inaccurate and
representation of it. That's not how intelligence is read. That's
now how intelligence is used. Here's what the whole world knows.
Forget about intelligence with the IAEA knows they are enriching
uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program.
So why would you enrich uranium at sixty percent if
you don't intend to one day use it to take
it to ninety and build a weapon? Why are you
developing ICBMs? Why do you have eight thousand short range
missiles in two to three thousand long mid range missiles
that you continue to develop. Why do you do all
these things and just everything they need for a nuclear weapon.
They have the delivery mechanisms, they have the enrichment capability,
they have the highly.
Speaker 2: Enriched uranium that is stored.
Speaker 4: That's all we need to see, right, Well, the regime's our.
Speaker 2: That's our enemy. There you go.
Speaker 1: I am convinced that people seek out her program to
appear on because she is not very good.
Speaker 2: I really do. Like that's the only explanation. I don't
know how she has that job.
Speaker 1: Let me talk a little bit quickly about the mission.
So there was trickery involved. The level of trickery we
don't even know. We're not sure how Like how much
was Trump working with Israel? Like how how long? How
far back did they start this plan? Was it all
part of the plan over like weeks or something? Or
they flew one set of bombers west, they flew another
set east. The one that went west was a decoy.
The one that went east was the real package, as
they called it. The AP reports it was an unprecedented
attack years in the making, with some last minute mister
meant to give the operation a powerful element of surprise.
US pilots dropped thirty thousand pound bombs early Sunday on
two key underground uranium and Richmond plants in Iran, delivering
what American military leaders believe is a knockout blow to
a nuclear program that Israel views as an existential threat
and has been pummeling for more than a week. American
sailors bolstered the surprise mission by firing dozens of cruise
missiles from a submarine towards at least one other site.
Iran denied that any significant damage had been done. The
B two bombers delivered a total of four hundred and
twenty thousand pounds of explosives. So does that make sense
to you that there was no significant damage?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Almost half a million pounds of explosives and no damage, okay?
US official set Iran neither detected the inbound jets nor
mustered a shot at the planes. They didn't even fire
a shot. So destroyed is the Iranian air force? So
complete is the Israeli dominance of their airspace they couldn't
even fire a shot. After setting parts of the plan
in motion, Trump publicly announced Thursday that he would make
a decision within two weeks on whether to strike Iran,
ostensibly to allow additional time for negotiations, but in actuality
masking the impending attack. One group of B two stealth
bombers traveled west from Missouri on Saturday as decoys, drawing
the attention of amateur plane spotters, government officials, and some
media as they headed toward a US air base in
the Pacific. At the same time, seven other B twos
carrying two bunker buster bombs a piece flew eastward set,
so you had seven B twos, each of them carrying
two bombs. They kept communications to a minimum. They refueled
multiple times in flight. It was a thirty six hour
round trip. And in case you are interested, the stealth
bombers are equipped with toilets and microwaves and a cooler
like a little fridge. Yeah, so you could put snacks
in there, you know, because it was a thirty six
hour trip. The high tech bombers have their cockpits outfitted
with mini fridges and a microwave to keep the crew
fed and alert. And they've got the toilet as well, which, yeah,
you would have to have that thirty six hour flight.
This was Operation Midnight Hammer. They flew in complete radio silence,
with their two man crews taking turns to sleep during
the night. And it marked the first time that the
US used the man YIV fifteen ton GBU fifty seven
bunker buster bombs in a military attack. It was the
longest B two flight since nine to eleven, since after
nine to eleven.
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