It is April 13th of 2026. Always love having General Richard Newton on the radio program. General, always great, as I said, to have you on. And you've got to be a very busy guy this morning with all of your political and military analysis. So I appreciate you taking the time to joining us here on Nashville's Morning News. Two hours and counting. So were you surprised that the president decided that beginning at nine o'clock hour time that he was going to block the straight of four moves and that means that even Iran isn't going to be able to use it? Well, good morning, Dan. Happy Monday morning, everybody in Nashville. The fact is that I'm very proud, frankly, of our US delegation led by Vice President Vance over the weekend in Islamabad, stuck to the United States red lines. The bottom line is with regard to the ceasefire negotiations with Iran, two major key points. Number one, Iran opened up the straight of four moves and no longer threatened commercial global shipping through the strait. And secondly, cease this immediately and never achieve, again, a development for nuclear weapons. And President Trump and the administration wanting to really cut a deal at all costs. And I believe that President Trump held to his guns and so did the US and our negotiating team. So I'm not surprised now that also that we have plenty of options for the commander-in-chief and for US Central Command led by Admiral Brad Cooper and one of the key options out of that deep playbook for the United States is a blockade. It's a difficult undertaking. It's a big task. There are some risk involved. But not surprised and, frankly, pleased that we're holding to our guns here, literally. Let me ask you, sir, because I do find this interesting. JD Vance goes to Iran and it ended pretty much how I thought that it would end. Do you believe that Iran do think that they're negotiating in good faith? Absolutely not. They never have in their 47 years of their theocratic regime. You can't trust Iran. They do not really show any cards going in. And they always try to delay. I believe this ceasefire period, and we're about halfway through, is all about Iran not acquiescing to United States strength, but really seeking to just survive. And by delay, they compel, perhaps in their own minds, that this president, this administration, will, because of the concern over gas prices at the pump, perhaps the midterm elections coming up and all those type of issues that they perceive that this administration will blink. But you cannot trust them. They will try to lie, steal, and cheat. And I believe the administration knows that. And so really the bottom line for President Trump and from a diplomatic side is maintain our red lines, achieve a ceasefire, and likely, hopefully, an ensuing negotiated settlement to this, but based on United States terms. I believe the United States has a lot of cards. You've heard in the media and elsewhere that perhaps we don't. I disagree with that. And I think that's why the president and certainly our negotiating team lead, in this case, Vice President Vance, after 21 hours of negotiations, saw that we weren't getting anywhere. So we returned home to Washington, DC. General Richard Newton is joining us on Super Talk 997. OK, so let's get down into some of the X's and O's of closing this rate of Hormuz. It actually makes sense to me, closing this rate of Hormuz, blocking Iran from blocking this rate of Hormuz, because now they will not be able to make any money either. Shipping oil through the rate of Hormuz. Can we talk about these speedboats that Iran apparently has like 5,000? How easy is it going to be if we have this blockade going on? How easy will it be for Iran to attack our ships from either these speedboats or from the shore missiles, et cetera? Well, that's right. Amal Brad Cooper, the commander of the Central Command. By the way, the world's foremost expert on blockades and naval surface warfare capabilities, he commanded the fifth fleet up in the Persian Gulf before he took over at US Central Command. So we've got the right person, the right leadership, the right position, as I mentioned, when Amal Brad Cooper. So he understands these waters. That's very challenging, however. I'm more concerned about perhaps their sea mines. They've got an inventory of up to several thousand sea mines. Secondly, as you mentioned, those gunboats, they're small agile, but we're used and accustomed to dealing with those gunboats on scale. Yes, that'll be significant. And the other aspect of this is that the Iranians will do everything they possibly can to smuggle ships in and out of the strait. It's not an easy task. That's why we have positioned the USS Abraham Lincoln, the significant US carrier strike group, along with a dozen or so plus destroyers and frigates that will now focus on opening up the strait. And then perhaps, if you think in terms of the strait of Hormuz and then to the east, where the mouth of the North Arabian Sea, which is where the Lincoln is positioned right now, that's one aspect of the strait, but then the other aspect of it, dealing with these gunboats and other threats from Iran is inside the strait and then moving into the Persian Gulf. That's where we're going to need help from allies, in this case. Allies are very important. I know the administration, and particularly President Trump, has harped on our allies. But I see it the other way. I think it's very important that we have these allies, namely the US, the British, with our minesweeper capability. I would also anticipate that you'll see United Emirates, the Emirates, their navy, as well as Saudi Arabia, their navy also to help out with the blockade to compel commercial shipping out to go back and forth inside the Persian Gulf and to the rest of the strait, if you will. That'll be very important. And along with a half dozen or so of other US destroyers and frigates to keep that straight open. But bottom line to your question, yet these gunboats are an asymmetric warfare tool that Iran has. They will be eliminated, as well as Iran's sea mine capability. But it's going to take time, Dan. Let me ask you this, because this is how I see this playing out. This isn't your average podcast. This pot is about to be crazy. I don't even know what's going to happen. This is full send. It's just like a boy scrap. Join the party. We threw a spontaneous party out of nowhere. It was crazy. And we pulled off a crazy prank. Pranks, parties, and viral culture at its wildest. Just seeing the guys that you brought in and seeing their different personalities and stuff. It's been entertaining, dude. This could be the greatest content build of all time, bro. The full send podcast. Dude, let's get ready to rumble. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. We've got our warships. And they've blocked the straight of Hormuz, beginning at 9 o'clock this morning, an hour and 45 minutes from now. What if Iran tries to go around our blockade? I mean, is this the kind of thing where Trump would be within his right and authority to sink their ships? Absolutely. A blockade is an act of war. And we've demonstrated that from the United States standpoint. Remind our listeners, Dan, you and I have talked about this many times. The straits are actually in international waters. And so Iran trying to block shipping through the straits is really an act of war on their part. And so if they decide to do that, we will engage with combat military power that we have there in the strait, which is significant. As well as, let's remember that we own the skies over the strait itself with air cover. We've got those AT&T attack aircraft. We've got Apache helicopters and other capabilities. One more bit of update with regard to US military capability. You recall a couple of weeks or so ago, the USS Tripley, with the 31st amphibious readiness group, has arrived on scene in and around the strait of Hormuz, which also adds 2,500 Marines. Yes, that's ground force power, but also includes a squadron of F-35 strike aircraft as well as other helicopter assets on that amphibious readiness group. Final point with regard to military power, we've got another amphibious readiness group, another complement of 2,500 Marines and F-35 strike fighters en route from the USS Boxer, which should be arriving for Admiral Cooper to engage these targets and likely will here in about 10 days or so. So you'll have two amphibious readiness groups. You've got the USS Abraham Lincoln. It's reported also that a third carrier strike group is on the way. The HW Bush set sail out of Norfolk, should be there in the central command area of responsibility about 10 days. We've got the Gerald Ford, which is coming out of repairs. Also, their complement of air power as well. Plenty of US military capability is now on scene or will be very shortly. We have an hour and 45 minutes before President Trump moves our warships in and we block Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. And I guess my question, General Richard Newton, OK, so how does this ultimately end? We're trying to basically destroy Iran's economy because they've been utilizing the Strait of Hormuz and they've been selling oil while they've got it close to most other countries. And so how do you think this is going to end? Will this give enough financial pressure for Iran to come back to the table and actually negotiate in good faith and give us what we really need, which is an assurance that they will not try to create nuclear weapons? Unknown, Dan. And that's kind of a, I don't want to sound as if that's a trivial response. But first off, let's want everyone to understand this is not against the Iranian people. This is against the economies, the other infrastructure elements, their ballistic missile development capability, their ballistic missiles themselves, the launchers, their nuclear weapons development capability, their leadership. It's all against the Iranian regime itself. And so I believe what the president's going to endeavor to do along with now, Prime Minister Netanyahu, will continue to do, should we call upon renewing military strikes, renewing the military campaign we've seen since February 28, that is now going after the infrastructure that supports the regime. Their leadership, their political underpinning there, as I mentioned, their defense industrial base, other things that support, with regard to the Iranian economy, that supports directly the regime itself, certainly going after the Strait of Hormuz. Perhaps hold, take a Karg Island, which is where 90% of Iran's oil and natural gas actually emanates from through the Strait and so forth. We're really trying to now compel Iran to go back to a negotiated table that would be all cards now are in the president's and the administration's deck here, stacked up against Iran. That's the real objective. I would hope, hope is not a strategy, but I'm all for diplomacy prevailing here and creating the conditions for all the support and infrastructure towards the regime is destroyed. That's a tall order, however. But I think what really I would support and advise the president is to pick up again on the military campaign. There's still a number of targets we can go after, especially there's remnants of their nuclear weapons development capability up at Isfahan and Natanz. Namely, there is 900 pounds of enriched uranium, about 60% of it's enriched. And then there's another 100 or 200 pounds down at Natanz. Perhaps we would need to go in and get that. That's a tall order, Dan. We can talk about that at a later time, but there's still plenty of action for the United States to take against the regime in order to at least create the conditions for they cry uncle at this point. But they now realize that they've got, President Trump, they perhaps may have thought that the president really was trying to, his sense of over-eagerness, perhaps on their part, trying to garner a ceasefire. Well, that's not true. And so we're entering a new phase, Dan, where all eyes will be now on that blockade. But also what I anticipate will be impending military action, not only by the United States, but by Israel as well. How worried are you? There's news today that China may be giving some of these shoulder missile launchers, the kind of launcher that took down that F-15. And so apparently China has been giving some sort of weaponry to Iran. Is that worrisome to you? It is worrisome, but it doesn't surprise me. I think you and I maybe talked about this about three weeks or so ago, recalling Russia providing intelligence capabilities to Iran to more effectively target their Gulf Arab nations and so forth. And this is just another page out of the alignment between now China and Iran. They've been providing nuclear weapons technology, even scientists for years. And so it should not surprise us that they would also be aligned, it's still very strongly aligned with Iran, now providing what we call man-pad or shoulder-held air defense capabilities and so forth. Very concerning, but does not surprise the president or the Trump administration, the Pentagon or our intelligence community. It also underscores Dan how more closely aligned in 2026 directly and even somewhat publicly that China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are no longer just loosely aligned, but they're practically aligned as well, either through exercises leading up to the campaign that kicked off on February 28th or now we're seeing them providing air defense capabilities and perhaps other technologies that they've been covered up, but now is out in the public view, at least through the intelligence community. Is it worrisome? Yes, but I tell you what, the president has a major summit visit to China with President Xi on 14 and 15 May coming up here in about a month or so. That'll be a major discussion point, I'm sure, because China needs the United States. And the president, I believe, has leverage here with regard to China and their economic position in the world. However, China also realizes that it has a lot of stock in Iran because they've been providing Iran so much support over the last several years, if not decades. And so they wanna keep that leverage against the West, but if the United States goes and blockades the strait, it really now pounds even more so their nuclear weapons development program, there are other retaliatory capabilities and so forth. And if Iran is truly decimated and if the conditions are set for the regime to collapse, I'm not saying it's gonna collapse, that's a tall order. But that takes leverage away out of Iran as what they think could be as a superpower themselves. So yes, concerning, we've gotta deal with it, but I think the president has leverage here, especially coming up with that summit, because Xi needs his summit to be successful in order if he's gonna be invited to another summit that president has offered up to President Xi to the United States in October. So think of this not as 3D chess, but almost four dimensional chess with all these national security tools in play. Information, diplomacy, military, economic finance. Fascinating to watch, fascinating to talk about, and General Richard Newton, as always, thank you for joining us here on Super Talk, 397 WTN, a great, great perspective. All right, well, we'll keep folks abreast of what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz. Chris Hand, really, Joan is gonna get all the fun, because this starts at nine, and that's when Chris comes on. So we're doing the pregame, if you will, then it all begins at nine o'clock this morning. Hey, Joan. Yes. When you hear me scream Omaha, you know what that means, right? No. It means you gotta call an audible. Oh, okay. It's a football reference, Joan. That question would have stayed. I see. Omaha, Omaha. So anyway, Congressman Andy Ogles. A Peyton Manning reference. Yeah, it's a Peyton Manning reference. So Congressman Andy Ogles on his way, running a little late. You know, maybe we'll ask him, Joan, if one of those Waymoo cars got in his way. Oh, yeah. Maybe that's what we can ask him. What you call it? I know I'm shamed. He causes us wrong things all the time. Waymo, Waymo. There you go. I like Waymoo better, because it's like a Timu version. That's exactly, that's what I meant there, Sam. No, I had a written down on my paper as Waymo, but I had buried my piece of paper. Anyway, Congressman Ogles is on his way. So he is running a little bit late, but that's okay, because I actually wanted to get, and by the way, Sam, when I start waving, that means that the Congressman is here. You're not having a stroke. I need to go get him. That's what I mean by that. That's exactly right. Now, speaking of Iran, we just had a great conversation with General Richard Newton and all things from a strategic standpoint, if I may, on what is going on with Iran. And of course, we are now an hour and 42 minutes away from the blockade straight of Hormuz. I'll ask the Congressman about that. But one of the things that I did ask the general about was China sending those rocket launchers, apparently sending the rocket launchers to, I've got some video here, Sam, sending those rocket launchers to Iran, which is part of the news cycle this morning. This is what President Trump said, if they can confirm that Iran is actually doing that. You said the other day that any country that supports Iran and sends military equipment to Iran will face a 50% tariff if they try to bring products. Did you refer to China? Did you mean China? Yes, and other people, but yes, China too. Okay. If we find that China, because I hear news reports, so a news report doesn't mean much to me because they're so fake, but I hear news reports about China giving the shoulder missiles, what's called a shoulder missile, anti-aircraft missile. I doubt they would do that because I have a relationship and I think they wouldn't do that, but maybe they did a little bit at the beginning, but I don't think they would, anyone know. But if we catch them doing that, they get a 50% tariff, which is a staggering, that's a staggering amount. So that is President Trump talking about China and whether or not they are sending those shoulder fired rocket launchers to Iran. I will say this, and you know that I'm a supporter of Donald Trump, but if he doesn't think that China is capable of sending rocket launchers to Iran, absolutely they are capable of doing that. And absolutely if they are, then we need to retaliate. Now, all of this, of course, follows what I would say can only be described as we gave it our best shot. I believe that the 21 hours of negotiations that happened in Pakistan, we did give it our best shot. Unfortunately, we know what happened. By the way, real quick, Sam, we did a daily Dan poll where we did ask people in the five o'clock hour, do you believe that Iran is negotiating in good faith? Now, I did ask General Richard Newton that question. He said, absolutely not. I don't believe that Iran is negotiating in good faith. Heck, I'll ask Andy Ogles if he believes that Iran is negotiating in good faith. But I'd be willing to bet that the majority of people on the super text line said no. They're not negotiating in good faith. I know when I looked at the super text line earlier, most people said no. What do people say on the daily Dan poll? In the YouTube poll, do you believe Iran has been negotiating good faith? 5% say yes. And then I just loved that Richard Newton happened to choose some of the wording for the no. I put absolutely the F not. Yes, there you go. All right, everybody knows. But you know what? I think that Trump had to do it. I think Trump had to send JD Vance and give it our best shot so that we could do what the next step was, which was- So we could say we were negotiating good faith. Yeah, we could say that we were negotiating in good faith. They refused to negotiate in good faith. So what do we need to do next is we need to block their blockade of the straight of Hormuz. By the way, this was a JD Vance after the failed negotiations. We've been at it now for 21 hours and we've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached the agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America. So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on. And we've made that as clear as we possibly could and they have chosen not to accept our terms. Yeah, so that is JD Vance following the negotiations. You know, the kind of silly things, Joan, that Sam and I talk about off the air. Yeah. So we were talking about whether or not JD Vance actually ate any food there in Pakistan. Yes. Because we talked about how we don't trust Pakistan. Oh, right. I mean, we just took out three layers of Iranian leadership. And now our number two goes all the way to Pakistan. You can't trust those people. Anyway, but obviously he was able to, and I just can't imagine Pakistan, he food is very good. I don't know, maybe that's my own personal bias. I'm thinking they might have a little. Full send golf. You guys know how much I really, really love golf. And I think every week would be dope to folks on the golf channel. Want to get a lot of guests on here. Salim's gonna take a leap. I'm down to be in it. It's not really work to play golf. Join the party on the golf course. I was like, let's go to the range. So what are we putting on it? We said 10K, right? 10K. All right. We probably bet more than all the other golf channels, right? 10K, nine holes. Those guys bet for like cookies. So like I'm gonna shank it. This guy's been trading like a Navy SEAL when it comes to golf. I'm very, very excited. Are you excited? Yeah. Full send golf. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. American food, like a burger or some hot dogs for JD. You know, I wonder if they bring his own food. I gotta ask, who would I ask? Do they bring like his own food? Like on Air Force, whatever he flies on? Well, I think on the plane, you know, he's snacks on. He stayed obviously like a hotel or something. Yeah. I think that they make sure that people who are visiting have food that is acceptable to their palate. Like I think that here at the White House, if the Pakistani president came, we've feed him some Pakistani food. Yeah. You know? Obviously they gotta test the food, you know, and just make sure that it's okay. Because again, we can't trust Iran and we cannot trust Pakistan. All right, Congressman Andy Ogles has arrived and it is true to form a Congressman for a Congressman. You're late, I'm totally kidding. We'll get into actually my ire these days is with the Senate. So we'll talk about that and hold on more straight ahead. Congressman Andy Ogles joining us in studio. All right, Congressman, I against my better judgment, I'm gonna ask for the first question, your thoughts on Eric Swalwell. In Congress, they're talking about, we covered it earlier, all kinds of nefarious allegations, sexual in nature, against Eric Swalwell. Of course, I did mention earlier, the allegations against Republican Tony Gonzalez as well. So now the conversation in the House of Representatives is, should both of these guys just be booted because of these allegations? Yeah, I mean, I think as soon as we get back tomorrow, that there will be a resolution to remove both of them from Congress. And I would be surprised if it doesn't succeed. Were you surprised at these allegations? I mean, I don't know how well Eric Swalwell, but Madison Cawthorne, of course, if you remember what he said a long time ago, which was, in Washington, DC, you got all kinds of nefarious things going on. You talked about orgies and all that kind of stuff. And I mean, in this, one of the videos, you've got Swalwell and what is, some people are saying is a sex worker, I have no idea. But there are other people in the room as well. I mean, I don't know. I mean, is Madison Cawthorne somewhere right now feeling like he's a little vindicated? It's like anywhere else. And if you want to go look for trouble, you can find it. I don't get invited to those parties, nor would I go. But that being said, so I actually am on Homeland with Swalwell, but he doesn't really, especially this last year or so, because he's been running for governor, he's hardly there. But I don't know him very well. And so I can't really say was I surprised or not surprised because I just didn't know the guy. I mean, 435 members of Congress as a very conservative. I mean, I'm top 10, ranked number 10, most conservative in the house. There was a kind of a composite score came out today. And so he just not, we're not going to overlap in the same circles. Very good. Then let's get to more serious matters. Of course, we are, yeah, you can, hey, let's turn his mic off real quick. He's got to adjust it. You can bring that mic up a little bit if you would. There you go, good. All right, turn it back on. Thank you. All right, so we are one hour and it looks like, what, 14 minutes or so away from the blockade. The Strait of Hormuz. It's basically Donald Trump is blocking Iran's blockade. I know that you are, you've been knee deep in some of this stuff and maybe not another stuff. But I mean, what's your thought on what is going to happen in the next hour and 13 minutes now? Yeah, I mean, ultimately there needs to be regime change. Now that's not our goal per se. Our primary goal is securing the nuclear material that Iran has in country. And the exportation of terrorism. So, there's a nexus between Venezuela and Iran. So if you might ask the question, well, why did we grab Maduro? What you have to understand is that Iran was sending Hezbollah to Venezuela. They were getting fake IDs in Venezuela from the administration and then being ferried up to our southern border. And we literally just caught an Iranian sniper in Alabama of all places. And so this guy was here. He had his military ID. He was here to kill people and we were able to catch him. So Iran is an exporter of terror. They have killed roughly 60,000 of their own people. And so no boots on the ground. I'll say that again. I do not want boots on the ground, but we have air superiority. We have naval superiority. And we can control that flow of oil and resources in and out of the region. Yeah, we call that, I've covered things like that, weaponized migration. And that is exactly you had Iran, you had North Korea, you had China that did that stuff as well, that kind of thing as well. You're of course on the House Committee on Homeland Security. How confident are you that once things, and they've already gotten real clearly in Iran, but every other day I see these stories about how Iran is targeting soft targets here in America. From your vantage point, how safe are we? Well, so not only am I on homeland, I'm one of the chairman. So I'm chairman of cyber and AI, which means that I get a lot of classified information that most members of Congress don't. I'm somewhat shocked that we haven't had a mass casualty event here in the United States because we know that we have active terror cells in this country that are operating. Some of them were, some were surveilling, so we can figure out who, the what, the when, the where, and others because of Venezuela, because Maduro, these terrorists have come into the country and they've disappeared. And so, yes, we are constantly under attacks, whether it's China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran, they try to attack our systems. And so cyber is really the new battlefield and the landscape as we go forward, and you look at quantum computing, you look at AI, that's a whole separate conversation of what does the future hold. But practical today, Iran is certainly trying to, get into our systems and do nefarious things, because that's what they do, they're terrorists. That is what they do. And when you look at what is going on, you had Israel and Lebanon, and now you do have those two sides beginning negotiations as well. The president, I think that JD Vance going in, and I was just saying this before you came in, that I thought that JD Vance and President Trump in doing what we're doing to try to negotiate some sort of a settlement with Iran, I don't believe that they're negotiating in good faith. They are, years and many years, decades, they've been lying about their nuclear aspirations, where they are with their want of nuclear weapons and so forth, but I think that it's smart that we did decide to have these negotiations, even though I believe that we knew that they were not negotiating in good faith, so that we could block their blockade. That's right. And again, look at their past actions. So they were making nuclear material, not for energy, but for weapons. We blew up that facility, and what did they immediately, I mean, that was kind of their warning. Stop, guys, we're not gonna let you do this. And they go to another facility, and they immediately start making nuclear material for weapons, weapons grade nuclear material. And then you look at the recent ceasefire, the two week ceasefire. After the ceasefire was announced, they launched 100 rockets in Israel. So I mean, again, they are not negotiating in good faith and kudos to the president. He's showing the world, like we're trying, we're checking all the boxes, we're giving them, every chance that we can possibly give them, we're trying to be reasonable, but you can't reason with an unreasonable people who wanna destroy the West. I mean, they literally call Israel the little Satan, and they call the United States the big Satan. That's their view, and nothing's gonna change that. It's kind of funny too, and I mentioned this on Friday, it's kind of funny how people were freaking out about Donald Trump saying that he was going to, civilizations will die is what the president said. And everybody freaked out about that, and it's like, you people know that Iran has been calling for the death to America for decades now. And so I just, you know. Well, and part of that is Trump's personality, he's constantly poking the bear, you know, the left immediately overreacts. And but again, he's also sending a message to the Iranian, and keep in mind, there's a difference between the people that are controlling Iran versus the Persian people. Ultimately, I would love to see the Persian people take their country back, but again, our ultimate goal is to secure that nuclear material that they have in country, that they're trying to export here to the United States to blow us into smithereens. You know, when you talk about homeland security, and you talk about Iran, and you talk about, you know, their quest for nuclear weapons, I know that there seems to be some debate over how close Iran is to, you know, I can think through all the breakout, you know, how close are they? I've read anything from, you know, a few days to a few weeks to a couple of months. Nowhere have I said that it's years away. I mean, it is very close. Are you worried that, you know, the longer that we take with all of this negotiations and messing around with the Strait of Hormuz, which is obviously very important, but they're getting closer and closer to that bomb, or have we been able to just stop that production right now while, you know, we deal with all of this? Yeah, I would say arguably that their capacity to develop in advance has been halted, but that could change quickly. I mean, when you look at Iran going back to the late 70s, we underestimated that the regime was gonna fall, and kind of like, you know, go to the cyber realm, that, you know, we have to be right every single time. They only have to be right once. They, you know, so if they're attacking, they're trying to develop a weapon, they're launching a missile, and so that's when you have asymmetric warfare or kinetic conventional warfare, we have to be right in defending the homeland every single time. They only have to get one missile through, one bomb through, one suitcase bomb through a port, and that's part of when you look at the government shutdown, why that's so scary is because, you know, one of the agencies that's not being properly funded is CISA. That's the agency that protects this from hacks. So keep that in mind. So every day when I get my briefing, my classified briefing, it's a stack of all of the hacks and detail that took place overnight, right? It's just volumes, attack, attack, attack. And then, you know, so as we go forward, you have to understand that these are critical infrastructure that the Democrats and the Senate are hijacking, making us less safe. There's another niche department agency that their goal, their responsibility rather, is to detect nuclear material coming across our borders and at our ports. It's not being properly funded. So cyber, not properly funded. Nuclear detection, not properly funded. And who's not funding it? The Democrats. All right, we're gonna, you're gonna stay after the news? Absolutely. All right, so, because coming up, what I wanna talk to you about is, of course, funding, I think the Senate's back today. Yeah, probably, yes. So they're coming back today. I wanna talk about what your thought is, as far as what they're gonna do with what the House passed a couple of weeks ago. Right. I cluster, is the only word that I use this cluster when it comes to what's going on in Washington, D.C. related to the funding of the Department of Homeland Security because you're right, we are vulnerable and we are at risk because of what is going on and no one knows that more than you do from your vantage point in your various committees. Vince Colonies is redefining news talk. I'm Vince Colonies host of the Vince podcast. I'm bringing you the truth beneath the headlines of all of the nation's top stories. In-depth interviews. We feature newsmaking interviews with the top guests on the whole planet. And I'll ask the questions you only dream of other interviewers asking. And a front row seat to the most important conversations of the day. It's a show with an obsessive focus on what's good for America. You are going to love Vince. The Vince show. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.
