THE SQUAD: Ilhan Omar Meltdown on Capitol Hill

Serenity Now on today's show low talker, Elon Omar comes after Jerry Seinfeld. Keeping you informed and engaged. Now more than ever, this is Seculo. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments. Recall 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Logan Seculo. Welcome to Seculo. We made it to a Friday, folks. Here we are. Let's open up those phone lines. I'm going to wait. There they go. They're open now. 1-800-684-3110. So I want to hear from you today because look, we made it here to Friday. It's a big weekend. Is the UFC, Will, is on the lawn of the White House? It's an abomination I've heard, though. How dare you? I can't believe it. You know, I don't get into a lot of online discourse with people. I don't like it. I think arguing with someone on Facebook is never, you never win. You go back and forth. But I won. I won. So you, the first one. This guy, good friend, you know, friend of the family for years, he went on a rant about how the UFC was like a modern day blood sport. And how, you know, how dare the president on the Lord's Day spend his time on his birthday bottle. I can't believe watching the modern day equivalent of the Christians versus the Lions and the Gladiators. And I said, you know what? Say what you want about Republicans. This is my line. My line is defending my precious combat sports. And he even put out, he said, I want to reiterate, $60 million is being spent by the federal government. And I said, not so fast, sir. Logan coming with facts. Go read the article you posted first, sir. And it said $60 million we spent, all of which will be incurred by the UFC. The only thing American people will be paying for is the normal security costs that happen in these kind of things. Like, I don't know, the Christmas tree lighting or this and I, and he had issue a correction. I won a Facebook document. That is really one of the first times that's ever happened. I got to applaud you, Logan. Everyone should applaud Logan on Friday and call in to applaud him. I like that. I put a meme or a gift of Alex Paruchama going victory. And I was like, I want to explain that for 90% of the people. That's not true. We got some fighters. Look, it looks amazing. I can't wait to watch it this weekend. I'm having people over. That's why people are tuning in right now. My son said that we had to be very selective on who gets invited because he's not going to spend the time explaining who these people are. He said I want to be focused on the fight. Because your son is you. You. Yeah. He's like, I don't want to be sitting there talking to people. They're talking during the fights. No, we have to focus. That being said, we're also, I don't know how I got on that rant. I do though. Look, it's Friday. Okay. Phone lines are open for you. 1-800-684-3110. We are also talking about a response that Elon Omar had specifically to Jerry Seinfeld, who was cornered leaving the Knicks game after the big historic win, the best basketball game I've probably ever watched in my life. As the Knicks won their first game at home in the first game of the finals at home, you got to listen to what happened on the streets first. Let's play Jerry Seinfeld, and then we'll let you know what happened there. What up Seinfeld? What up? Can we get a free Palestine? Can we get a free Palestine? Come on, give us one free Palestine. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. Then later on that influencer is like, we got him. We got a quote. We got him to say something. It's like, look, this dude has been the most consistent of any woman Jerry Seinfeld, a very loud, outspoken, someone that was there. By the way, when the attacks were happening, because he was visiting, you use pictures of him in the bunkers, meaning with people, has been very active in his support of Israel. How did this guy even get up to Jerry Seinfeld? That's something that I think needs to be discussed. It's crazy. He, on the streets of New York, good for Jerry for being a man of the people, but it's kind of wild. Well, guess who decided to respond? Elon Omar was positioned saying, hey, what do you think about this with Jerry Seinfeld? And we get back, we'll play what she had to say. Nothing that's going to surprise you too much, but I love that right now we're building beef between really an American treasure, an icon, Jerry Seinfeld. You know, I think that probably the number one most successful television figure in our, not just in our lifetime, probably in all, phone lines are open for you. 1-800-684-31, 10th Friday, we're having a little bit more fun here. We're monitoring some other news as well. Let me know what you think. Let me know what you think about the UFC event, by the way, happening this weekend. Let's chat about that as well. I think this is another cool moment in American history. If they want to leave up that structure will, like President Trump said, like the Eiffel Tower, you're for it. 100%. 100%. Can't wait to get another video game. Welcome back to Secular. Let's see, yeah, some phone lines are still open. 1-800-684-31, 10th. I'd love to hear. George is calling online too. Do you think it is George Costanza? Yeah, you know, oh man, maybe we'll see. California. So I don't think. That would be great. That would be the top five moments of this broadcast. Actually, if any of the cast were to call in. Well, if anyone's listening, it's, anyway, we'll take real low, like you have to be cast. You can be like, not even recurring. Were you once, I think I know a few people that have made like a spot. You're at least a couple degrees away from the camera. Like they did one scene. I know some of those people that there were a lot of sign felled one off. You know, all right, with that, we're continuing to call this conversation. Look, Jerry Seinfeld, he was approached after the next historic win in the NBA finals outside of Madison Square Garden was walking down the street immediately following and someone approaches him. Now this is not uncommon. Jerry Seinfeld has been heckled over the last couple of years at his shows. People yell things out. We had it happen actually to show. I went to go see him, I guess probably almost two years ago now here in Nashville, someone yelled something out and then the crowd overwhelmingly turned on the person in the audience and that person was removed. Usually it's about his support of Israel. Again, his show doesn't even address it. It's not like you sit there and Jerry Seinfeld then goes on a rant about Israel. But when he's been approached about it, he's had conversations and interviews and such about how he feels about really not the Israeli government, but the Israeli people and the Jewish people in general. So it's not uncommon for him to get heckled right now or to have people who are approaching him. So he usually though, because look, you're talking about someone who is, I would say, one of the more untouchable celebrities in terms of you, there's nothing you could do to his career at this point to hurt it. He is financially, I think, doing fine, still touring the country because he loves it, can't take any money. Just generic support of the Jewish people. So I want to play first and we played this last segment. This is just so you have a setup. This is what happened on the streets of New York following that next game just the other night. What up Seinfeld? What up? Can we get a free Palestine? Can we get a free Palestine? Come on, give us one free Palestine. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. It laughs it off and moves on. People start cheering. Look, everyone was in a celebratory mood and of course someone had to come in and try to get a gotcha moment from Jerry Seinfeld, someone who doesn't seem to care. But who did we approach? Of course, then we got to get a response. We got to get a reacts to video, Will. Yeah, that's how the internet works. People wanted Elon Omar reacts to Jerry Seinfeld. That's right. And here's what we've got. So this is from TMZ. Remember TMZ now has this DC office because I think that DC has become very circus-like, that it's the perfect place for TMZ to go in, speaking of circus, send in the clowns for all the clown-ishness that we're having today. But here's what we've got. This is a TMZ reporter going up to Elon Omar, squad member, and here's what she had to say about Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld has said again last night, Palestine doesn't exist. Do you think that's dangerous rhetoric for someone with such a big platform? I think Jerry Seinfeld has been really a perfect human being and an example when it comes to talking about the reality of the genocide that Israel has carried out. And I think when people prioritize their own people in the interest of harming others, it's very dangerous. And I don't even think of him as like just a celebrity and someone who has a platform in that danger, but it is dangerous just as a human being to talk the way that he does. It's very disgusting, it's very disturbing, and it's very genocidal, like which that he uses. Logan, I don't think she knows who Jerry Seinfeld is. She says he's now a celebrity. I don't even think of him as a celebrity or someone with a platform. It doesn't think he's dangerous enough. Right. It's as if someone said, did you see what Jerry Seinfeld said? And she's like, who? And then reads it, is like, oh, that's awful. I'm going to respond to this. But I think we should play this because I think this goes also more to what she doesn't know who he is. Let's go ahead and play bite three from Ilan Omar, where she continues with more questions with this reporter. Let's hear what she had to say. Do you think like people hear words he says and like they kind of, you know, get into their own brains as well? Like, do you think it has an impact, someone of his stature saying such things? It does because it carries weight. So many people are able to see it and hear it. And I'm assuming he is of Jewish heritage. Yeah, I think so. And for for him knowing that his people suffered the Holocaust and experience what genocide looks like for him not to recognize the genocidal language that he's using to wipe out a whole group of people is very disturbing and people need to recognize that. Logan, back there, even, okay, Jerry Seinfeld may be one of the most famous Jewish comedians, like has brought in a lot of Jewish culture to be household culture in America. I would say top five, maybe number one, most famous comedian, walking the planet. I mean, maybe you could say right now you have a Rogan or you have a Dave Chappelle, those guys who currently, but we're talking about long-term history, Jerry Seinfeld, top five at least. And yeah, it's not a secret either that Jerry Seinfeld is Jewish, like that's a part of his whole bit. And the fact that she says, I'm assuming he's of Jewish heritage, I think it goes further to she doesn't know who he is. Well, I think beyond that you have Jerry Seinfeld, like you said, I think it's very interesting. And Seinfeld actually did this in a way that I think the Jewish community has always really appreciated, which is the actual show Seinfeld that was on NBC for so many years, been reruns for decades, was probably the most Jewish television show without really ever addressing it. Right. It was Jewish culture being brought to, like you said, into the mainstream and being a way for it to become acceptable to even embrace Jewish culture, whether that was stealing a babka, whether whatever it may be, that would probably not have made its way into the middle of the country. And Jewish culture was really planted into our entire zeitgeist because of something like Seinfeld. And you had even characters that were even not Jewish, technically George's, Costanza, I don't think that, but then eventually the character did essentially become Jewish. These characters meant a lot to the Jewish people. And then on the other hand, you have the actual guy. You have the comedian, the person, by the way, who is also a father and a husband. His wife has been one of the, this is why he's a target. His wife, not only him, Jerry has obviously been very, he's been fairly, fairly vocal, I would say, about his support of Israel. His wife is one of the leading activists. She's one of the leading Zionists, I would say, in the sort of celebrity culture of Israel. And this is happening, by the way, to other people. Look, we have Gwyneth Paltrow. Gwyneth Paltrow releases a video promoting a condominium, pretty much a two tower units that have been built, New York style apartments that are going to be built in Herzlia in Israel. And look, she's not stupid. She's a very smart woman. She knew by doing this ad campaign, she was going to be bringing on a lot of people who are going to be very upset. So I'm very proud of some of these celebrities. We talk a lot of bad about celebrities. We don't necessarily, but a lot of you said the conservative talking figureheads. There are some that make strategic moves that mean more and actually say more than making a political statement. I think someone like a Gwyneth Paltrow or a Jerry Seinfeld, again, people that don't need the money, taking the money even and becoming a spokesperson for Israel at this point. This is not, you know, some of the, maybe the ones that they were joking around about, this is not the Millie Vanillies, right? Getting the money to go support you and don't care. They'll just take a booking comes. These are a, you know, the top of the A list. I saw a clip or interview with Jerry Seinfeld talking about the, that he was offered $100 million to do another season and turned it down. He had the ability to say, you know what, I don't need another $100 million. Like that's the level of A list celebrity we're talking about here. But even this entire back and forth almost feels like a bit from Seinfeld, where the individual here, a member of Congress has no clue who Jerry Seinfeld is. He's like, I'm assuming he's Jewish. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It feels the whole thing feels like a Seinfeld bit. But yet here we are in reality with Ilan Omar saying that he's a horrible person. Yeah. I thought she said prolific and she said horrific. Which I mean, prolific would be, I mean, he's done a lot. I mean, probably. Yeah. The B movie. Right. hilarious. The Pop Tart movie. My kids love that Pop Tart movie. That's not actually how to go see Jerry Seinfeld after the Pop Tart movie. Unfrosted. This is ridiculous, but it was fun. Phone lines are open for you. 1-800-6-8-4-30-1-10. We are having a little bit more fun here on a Friday, but look, it's the real challenges of the world that we live in right now. It's, you know, we can glaze over it a little bit because it is humorous in nature, but in reality we're dealing with a lot. Phone lines again are open. Let's take some calls when we get back. 1-800-6-8-4-30-1-10. As Will said, send in those clowns. Be right back. Welcome back to Secular. We're going to take some calls. A lot of you are calling in, but we do a few lines open right now. 1-800-6-8-4-30-1-10. 1-800-6-8-4-30-1-10. We are live and we will be covering a few different topics today, including, you know, we'll move into a little Iran talk in this segment as well as we know President Trump after those big threats yesterday. Pretty much made a statement saying we're calling it all off. It's not going to happen. Pretend like that didn't happen. Well, it's like George Costanza. You just go back to work the day after you quit and just pretend it never happened. That's all you do. I do want to take some calls that are related to Israel right now because that was a conversation. We're going to go to George in California who is watching on Salem News Channel, which by the way is a way you can watch us as well. And we can watch, you can watch on YouTube, you can watch on Rumble, you can watch on aclj.org. But if you're trying to maybe have an experience a little bit different, the 24-hour network of Salem News Channel, we are on there live. So George, go ahead. Thanks for taking my call, guys. Watch your show every morning. Really enjoy it. I'm a big, I want to comment on the Israel and Jerry Seinfelting. I'm a big supporter of Israel, but I see a little bit of a hypocrisy and maybe you guys could straight me out the Palestinians. Are they a Semitic people? What do we do with them? Yeah, we can easily have that conversation. And look, it's not one that you tread into lightly, I will say that. And look, people support of Israel. I can understand specifically if you're just getting attuned to the situations in the Middle East over the last three years, where you can be very confused. And look, I've even someone who spent a lot of time in the Middle East, spent a lot of time in Israel, have had to make sure I stay brushed up on my history. Our team actually put together a video right, you know, shortly after October 7th, because I think there was that conversation of who are the Palestinian people? What is their background? How did they end up where they are? Did the Jewish people have a right to be there in the first place? Those are the big questions that were asked that, look, I think historically now we should be saying Israel was founded, the modern state of Israel was founded in the 40s and 1948. We should at that point say, you know, whether you agree with the fact that they were put there in the first place, generations have passed now, and this is where we are. You could start, you know, really wheeling that back to almost any country that wasn't even America at that point. Like, how far back are we going to go? But the Palestinian people will actually have a very interesting background. The Israeli community will say it's really an amalgamation of a lot of Arabs that are in that area, people of whether that is, you know, from Persia, whether it's from all these different areas. And mostly Jordan and Syria because of the proximity to it. And really, It's all right there. The entire area was called the Trans Jordan area for a while, and then it was, Palestine was given under the British mandate as kind of a nickname, but it was never a place, and the Palestinian was never a distinct people group separate from those that are in the neighborhood, for lack of a better term. And there's this video we have that Logan referenced. The title on YouTube is Everything You Need to Know About the History of Palestine in Israel, but the piece itself, we refer to as the myth of Palestine. It's very well put together, researched. I remember the, really the painstaking amount of edits and things that we went through to ensure it wasn't just, like every sentence we analyzed to make sure that when we put this out, it was something we were confident that if people consumed this seven minute video, they would be able to speak with authority and with researched historical fact when talking about this. So I know they're going to put it in the chat. We may play it later in the broadcast because we're having similar questions come in, but George was asking, are they a Semitic people? Are they, what do you do with this thought of the Palestinian people? When you have people say, like Jerry Seinfeld, Palestine doesn't exist. And I think that is what this piece really does. It breaks down the history of it, and really the position of the ACLJ is the true position of reality. It's gorgeous, the historical facts. When you look at what this entire fight that you see in public now about, you know, from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free is what they try to say, which is saying wipe out the entire state of Israel. This really goes and shows the history of it. Yeah, I think it's worth watching, George, but look, it's a big question. And I'm not going to also pretend that, you know, that there aren't people on each side who get a little dehumanizing when we're talking about human life. There are incredible people in these areas. There's incredible things that are happening. They have been under a stranglehold of bad, bad leadership. Israel has tried to work with what you consider, I guess, the PLO or all the different iterations of Palestinian leadership over the years to try to come to these solutions. Often it can't get there. Often, 100% of the time it can't get there because the wants of the leadership is much different. The goals are much different. You go to Israel, it's a very Western society. It's still rooted in Judaism, but it is a Western secular country. Women have full rights. People have pretty much the same amount of rights as you'd expect here in America. There are differences, of course. Politically, it's very split. There's a lot of more what you'd consider if we were to import it, conservative and liberals that are there. But you go one step outside of Israel. All of a sudden, women have very little rights. All of a sudden, you know, you do not want to be a member of a different sexual orientation or anything like that. There are things that happen to these people that are really disturbing and it is being controlled. That narrative somehow is winning. I don't get that, but I do understand the sensitivity to it. I also never want to devalue human life. Hopefully, in that video presentation we have, you can have a history lesson that then can inform what we do in the future. Not dislike the fact that I think even those who complain, well, Israel shouldn't be in the first place. Yeah, but it's there. These people are there too. We have to come up with answers that work for everybody. Well, and here's to that point as well, Logan, when you look at even the politics of Israel in itself and people that don't like Benjamin Netanyahu, I do think it would genuinely shock people because of what they hear about, you know, that it's an apartheid state, that it's, you know, that they are keeping the Arabs with no rights in Palestine and the Palestinians and all of the rhetoric you hear, that there are 10% of the Knesset, which is like their parliament, the equivalent of their Congress. Their government, yeah. Right. 10% are what the world would call Palestinians are Israeli Arabs. So what kind of apartheid state lets the people that they are taking their human rights away, have political parties and be a part of the government? That, that is where these myths and these allies that you hear on TV and on social media need to be put to rest because that's not an apartheid state. If you're giving them representation in your government, I am going to be very interested to see when the next time there's a general election in Israel or whatever it may be, and there's a new prime minister and that prime minister is very liberal and that prime minister is the opposite of Benjamin Netanyahu. Do all of a sudden, people become pro-Israel? I don't think so. Because we know it's deeper rooted than that. It doesn't actually have to do with the government. You wouldn't be approaching Jerry Seinfeld on the streets and then having to get somebody else responding to Jerry Seinfeld on the street, someone who's not an Israeli. We know where the roots are. Phone lines are open for you. We got a second half hour of this show coming up. We are monitoring a lot of what's happening around the world. We're going to talk about a little bit more of that, what's happening with the Iranian war when we get back in just a moment on Seculo. Don't go anywhere. If you lose this in your local station, find us at aclj.org or have a get your podcast. Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever, this is Seculo. And now your host, Logan Seculo. Welcome to the second half hour of Seculo. That break is always so fast. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-310 to have your voice heard on the air today. If you're just joining us right now, we are discussing a few different topics, one of which we haven't really gotten into much, which is President Trump yesterday afternoon after we had, again, done a show about what's it going to look like. We're going to hit back hard. The president said the bombings are coming in Iran. And then he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we got a new deal on the table here. And look, this is again, the negotiation that happens in the public square. It feels like from President Trump. And then on the other hand, we are talking about a topic I did not expect, which is Elon Omar reacting to Jerry Seinfeld being approached on the streets of New York after the Knicks win, where they asked him about to save free Palestine, obviously trying to troll him into saying something he didn't want to say. And he said, it doesn't exist. And kept moving, laughing. And that became a whole cultural story as well. And Elon Omar came out and said he's a horrific figure, so on and so on. A battle now between Jerry Seinfeld and Elon Omar. I want to hear from you, 1-800-6-8-4-31-10. Let's pivot a little bit to Iran. We have a call coming in, Robert, in Maryland. You're on the air. Yes. Hi. How are you doing, Logan and Will? I wanted to ask both of you, do you believe that the framework that President Trump is working out with the Iranians and possibly a deal is going to be something that the Iranians are going to stick to or they're going to break to it, break it, and we're going to have to go back to full-scale military operations? So, Robert, I think what we've seen over the past 24 hours, we saw a big threat from the President taking Carg Island. And then later in the afternoon, you saw the, he's saying, I'm calling off all the attacks for tonight as well as any plan. Here's where I'm at personally. This is without any real insight into the back and forth here. But what we've seen as this continues, it does seem like the Iranians, at least to some degree, are getting close in these negotiations so much so that President Trump will say things like, hey, we're going to hold off, we're getting close. He did say yesterday that there will be a signing. So, he was very confident yesterday. Then terms leaked in the press and President Trump said that those are not real. He called them fake news. So, if you're seeing someone say these are the terms of this memorandum of understanding, know that they probably are not. If we get to a deal, which I'm skeptical of, I have always been. You have as well, Logan, on this broadcast. But if they do get to something, I don't think it will be something that Iran can not hold up. I think that the way it's being crafted will be something that has real teeth, something that would have moments. It's not all of a sudden, they're releasing all the sanctions at once. You have to prove to be able to get your money, that you are following this, and that there would be real inspections, etc., unlike the JCPOA. So, it's a big if there, Robert. If they get to something, I think it would be something that has enough terms that hold Iran accountable, not just taking their word for it. But I'm still very, very skeptical that we even get to that. All right, Robert. I appreciate your call. Look, we only got one minute left in this segment. We're going to keep the conversation rolling though. But I'm going to have any guests today. It's just me and Will. So, if you want to call in 1-800-684-3110. I haven't talked at all about the work of the ACLJ really in this show. And look, when it comes to dealing with people like the squad or Elon Omar, we're right there with you. We're there in Washington, DC. We got to make sure that we are there, whether that is at the UN, across the country, across the world, or whether that's here in our own country. So, not just, again, blindly support the government of Israel, but to say that we need to support the existence of Israel. And that is precisely what the fight really is. Like I said, when you have a country like Israel, that is a very Western society that likely will vote someone in next who could be very liberal. What happens then? We're going to always be there though, to support the existence of this nation. You want to be a part of it as well. Go to ACLJ.org. I'm asking you to become a champion today. That's someone that gives on a monthly basis. That's how the show exists, not from advertisers, not from anything else, only for people like you who donate. That's at ACLJ.org slash champion to become a recurring donor. Or even if you can make a one-time gift, that's fine too. We'll be right back. Welcome to Seculo. Welcome back to Seculo. It's Friday. It's what happens here. Yeah. I forgot about the first five segments we did. It happens. Blurred my frame. I've seen it happen to you many a Friday. Hey. What? I feel like that wasn't very nice. No, it was extremely nice. That was very kind. It was kind to say that I forget that we're in the middle of a show. Yeah, I was pointing out an observation. I wasn't being cruel. You know what? I'm going to jump to a call. You should. Because I feel like you've insulted me. It's going to mirror. How dare you? There you go. For those who weren't watching, I did not do that live. That's a sound bite. But I could probably still do it. My voice a little still shaky. I don't know if I get that high. A lot of people were saying they're like, Logan, your voice doesn't sound shaky. Today? Yesterday. Yesterday. Yeah. Well, they weren't feeling the knives in my throat. It was just straining. You were spraining. Yes. All right. Marion and Texas go ahead. I love that they get to decide whether my voice hurts. No, they were. They were like, he's not telling the truth. He's lying for some reason to try to get people to call. Maybe I could do that again. I need you to call in. Full lines are open at 1-800-6-8-4-30-1-10. Help me out. Marion though, in Texas calls a lot, Marion. Go ahead. Yes. Thank you so much. First of all, I want to commend y'all on the work that you've been doing. And I do believe everyone should become a supporter of your program. I haven't seen nobody do the successful things that y'all do, and y'all do it around the world, not just in the United States. So I'm very grateful to y'all, and I hope more people join your support. Anyway, I believe that Trump's biggest threat is not, I think it's the divisiveness against him in America. Can you imagine how successful he would have been if he had had the support of the liberals, the Democrats, the media, and all the insane left that have done nothing but fighting because of their hatred toward them? And no one in the world, in my opinion, other than Trump, could have done some of the things that have been done, like the Abram Accords, the attack on Venezuelan capture of Maduro, and look at what he's doing in Venice at the Straits right now. Nobody else had the courage or the guts to go after what they've been doing, and everybody says, well, it's been about 40 years. They attacked, when Thomas Jefferson was president, they attacked some of our ships that were going around a certain area. And then when Thomas Jefferson found out about it, he sent some warships to go there, so they wouldn't be robbing our ships and killing some of the people that were trying to go around there. And after they did that, guess what? They stopped, and he completely stopped it. So you need force to stop force, but people in America need to support Trump and quit being so divisive and pointing a finger at him at everything he does. That's my comment. Look, Marion, I think you should bring up a pretty interesting point. I don't think that other presidents couldn't do what President Trump has done with some of these situations. It's that they were so pressured and influenced by the people surrounding them that were playing politics that they didn't have the gumption to do it. There have always been threats like this. Look, there's always been campaign promises about these topics. And I could say that, by the way, in terms of Supreme Court justices, in terms of some of the pro-life activism they've done, I could say that about border issues. I could say that about a lot of things. And even if you don't line up with President Trump, and I understand a lot of you don't, you can't say that a lot of these core campaign promises weren't met because President Trump is uniquely strong in the sense of doing what he feels like he wants to do and maybe not taking those political influences. And I would say that's so in back half of his first term and then now in this term. First couple years you had the sort of the playing politics years and then the gloves came off. Look, for better or worse in certain scenarios. Right. And a lot of that is the political correctness of DC and the way that administrations have always been. Right. There's the standards, the norms. That's one thing that you see in the New York Times going after Trump saying he's breaking political norms. And they're saying that as a negative when in reality what you've had for so long, and I'm not even saying that the individual presidents may have not been well-meaning, but when your entire government is staffed with academics, people that have spent so much time at elite universities playing hypothetical games for grades for so long that you end up people with like Jake Sullivan who was the that is like the quintessential Washington swamp creature who was in the first Obama team as like a JV player and then became the national security advisor under Joe Biden. And that is what you see. He's the perfect test case of elite universities, Yale educated, all of these things with no real world practicality to him. So much so that he would so boldly say on an interview just days before October 7th what you're seeing here is a Middle East that is peace like we've never seen, a quiet like we've never seen because it's all academic and you can't see the practical signs that are pointing to something horrific that is that you're doing because you helped come up with the JCPOA to get Iran money where they funded October 7th. I also think, I mean let's just look back even just to the previous administration, let's look back to the Biden administration. You had people who had such strong political weight behind them they were able to convince the president of the United States, Joe Biden at the time, to not seek reelection just months before then Panic was setting in so much and he had so much pressure from his own party from people who should be there to support and back him to say get out of this race and here's the deal. Do I think President Trump would have won? Either way I do. I think Trump would have won. Do I actually think it would have been closer if Joe Biden was the candidate? I do because I think the chaos that ensued in the few months leading up to it gave nobody confidence to really vote and that's where you saw a landslide victory from President Trump. I don't think it would have been, I think you would have seen a win but I don't think you would have probably seen every swing stake because as much as Joe Biden was not a good president and had a lot of problems, let's not pretend he didn't, there was a lot of issues that were even more so when it came to Kamala Harris last minute takeover that really burned people but you had that political pressure, you had your Nancy Pelosi's, you had the people who could go in and meet with the president and somehow eventually pressure him to quit. Well and I think even to Marion's entire statement about the divisiveness here at home, that divisiveness is happening with these academics, the people that wanted to go back to the way that it was where you know they control everything, they control the narrative, they control the politically correct way that the elected president behaves and follows their rules and I think one thing that you've also seen, I keep bringing this up because it's one of my favorite things that's happening right now. There's a billion, trillion, billion. No not that, that because there's about to be a trillionaire. We'll do that another time. But this is the the people that are coming here for the World Cup and because of how spread across America, it's not like just LA across North America but even our own country where you've had these teams that have been stationed in places like Lawrence, Kansas, that was Algeria and Japan is here in Nashville. But the lie that you've been told is that one that rural America and flyover country is racist and xenophobic and hate foreigners, that's what you've been told. You're also been told that the world is going to hate coming to America for the World Cup and that people are scared to come to America for the World Cup. And in reality you're seeing this play out on social media. One of the most inspiring things is you're seeing how welcoming rural Americans are across the country to people that are coming here as well as people genuinely loving the United States outside of New York, LA, Miami, Disney World and Las Vegas. They are loving what they are finding here, loving the people. Loving a bucky. I saw there's that but there's also this this elderly couple from Lawrence, Kansas that is going viral because they're wearing Algerian team gear cheering for them and they're like why are you it's a new service from overseas thing. Why are you pulling for Algeria? They go we are so grateful that they chose our small hometown of Lawrence, Kansas to be their home base. We want them to go and they're like what do you know about it? They go we looked up a few things. We know it's located here, here's their primary industry, etc. But they're genuinely just thrilled to welcome people. That's the goodness of America. So don't believe the divisiveness and don't let it get you. Who are you cheering for in the World Cup? USA baby. Atlanta. Just Atlanta. You're cheering for the city of Atlanta to win it or just to do okay handling the crowds because the traffic is awful. Atlanta is going to take it. That got me. I don't know why that's the funniest thing you've ever said to me. You're the World Cup Atlanta. Atlanta. Yeah. Yeah, you got it. We're not represented here in Nashville so you got to pick somewhere. Right. Going for Atlanta. We got a couple of things up in it. 1-800-6-8-4-30-1-10. We're taking calls in the next segment. We're going to continue this conversation. Going who are you supporting in the World Cup? I mean America. Historically they've made it I think out of the group rounds maybe. I kind of like Ronaldo to get a World Cup. Yeah. I'm cheering for Scotland which has never made it out of group play. And hasn't even qualified since for 28 years. So you know what? We'll see what happens here. We'll be back in just a minute on secular support the work if you can at aclj.org. Take your calls. Get three lines open. 1-800-6-8-4-30-1-10. We asked for calls. You answered. I was going to play that video for folks. Not now. No, you still want to take their calls? Yeah, I want to take calls. They've been calling in. Okay. You asked them to. If you call I will answer. Classic. Bobby in New York, line one. You're on the air, Bobby. Hi guys. This is your fellow Rascal. I want to put Will into the category of you Logan also as a Rascal. But what I was going to say is. Hold on. Pause. I didn't know Will wasn't. I thought we were all fellow Rascals. Yeah. But now I've actually learned that Will has, has like you have graduated. And now Rascal. What did I do? I think because you're funny now. Oh, I think, I think T-shirt should be made up for us of all of us fellow Rascals like proud to be a Rascal. That's what I think. There you go. All right. Ba-ba-ba-ba. Okay. Let's go ahead. Go ahead. Let's pause. Go with your real statement here, Bobby. We're having fun here on Friday. Go ahead. But what I want to say is, I think social media has been the worst thing that has happened to Israel because the social media has no conscience. And I think the world should take a look back at Anwar Sadat who fought, you know, a war against Israel on 1973. I don't, I don't think he fought the 67 war against Israel, but he did a 180 degree turn and change his mind, came to his senses. And I think the world should take a look at what Anwar Sadat did, of course, from the Prime Minister of Egypt. And that's my statement for today. Yeah. And Bobby, I think people should actually even look at the way Israel, the people in Israel, sometimes better or worse, by the way, sometimes their own detriment. I will say that would turn on their military leaders if they felt that there was any kind of failure or any kind of issues. Look at what happened historically with a lot of the top military leaders and even Prime Ministers. Like how many Israeli governments have had to end in what you would say, quote, unquote, shame, where America doesn't really have that. We kind of let typically, yeah, there's been some impeachments here and there, but Israel like flips governments wild. They're biggest leaders, or heroes even, your gold in my ears, or some of these really famous faces that you've seen. Historically, maybe we look back on and go, yes, these were incredible military leaders or incredible government leaders, but they all went through these times, probably like Benjamin Netanyahu is going through right now, where Israel itself sometimes has an issue defending itself. And they'll start flipping and a lot of them end with a resignation. A lot of times it does not end. Look what happens in England. It's similar. We're kind of unique in America. Even Winston Churchill himself, like after, I mean, we think of him as this great hero, but like lost in election and had to make a political comeback. It's all politics and it always has been. Let's continue to take some calls. A lot of you are calling in James. Watch on the ACLJ app. That's a cool way to explore the world of the ACLJ. It's available on your Apple devices. I believe Android as well. James, go ahead. Hey, I hear Trump saying a lot of things. I think sometimes it's just to mess with the, whatever the leadership is in the IRGC, not Iran necessarily, but the separation between those two. Because they get put together a lot and most people don't support them. They're there. They can't do much because they don't have anything to defend themselves with. Yeah. President Trump has been talking about this saying, look, our hope was this sort of uprising in Iran for the people, but he also understands these are people that are scared when they've had 50,000 of their fellow people that would support a new government murdered in the streets. So he understands that they're under a lot of pressure. It's not that easy when you're risking your lives and your family's lives. Well, and I think that when we talk about those tens of thousands that were killed just this year, it almost takes away from the struggle that people have for decades had to do within Iran. If you were caught with a Bible, you'd go to the worst of worst prisons and be tortured, Evan prison. There are people that have survived to tell this, but how many were killed because they were seen as political enemies to the Ayatollah, to the regime, the Iranian Islamic Republic. If we were a person of faith or if you just weren't following their strict codes of morality, police, et cetera, all of that leads to people being killed and tortured. So we talk about the tens of thousands that have just happened, but I think that leaves out the vast history of people who have died wanting freedom in Iran. Yeah, I want to continue on taking some more calls here. We got three calls, four minutes. Let's see if we can do it. Ray, California, go ahead. Gentlemen, given the fact that Ilhan Omar is a military genius, we know that from her comments on World War 11. Why don't we ask her to point to a map and show us where the state of Palestine is? Ray, I love your comment. She, I feel like it seeds over the existence of Israel enough that she would find a map, cross out Israel and write Palestine over it. But the point's taken, I think people should go find this video on our ACLJ YouTube page. It's on Rumble as well. If our social team could put it in the chat, pin it so people see the myth of Palestine video. We didn't have time to play it. Now you get to know if they're actually watching. I know, it's fun. It's a test on a Friday. It's like a pop quiz. See who still has a job on Monday. No, good jokes. No jokes. Oh gosh. Moving on. Irene in Virginia, line two, go ahead. Hey listen, you know when you were in the sixth grade and you went into English class unprepared and as soon as teachers started asking questions up with your hand, if I wave my hand, she won't call on me. That's Mr. Obama, President Obama. He's guilty of more than we are looking at. Otherwise, he wouldn't be out there waving his flag saying, look at me. All right, Irene. First of all, open call Friday. Strategy in sixth grade of actually trying to act like you want to get called on. I would have never dared to try that strategy. Very bold. I dropped out before sixth grade. That's only partially true. Irene, thank you for your call. I think, you know, there's a lot of, I want to take one more call. I want to just get to it because this one is a good one. We'll hopefully wrap up on Chris and Marilyn. Go ahead. Hi, how are you guys? Great show. Thank you. I think people have forgotten about the Arab Spring. I know. Hillary Clinton, during her, the administration has started. This happened a long time ago. It happened way before Biden. I remember user short, Chris. We had to look back and the de-civilization when the Shah left and the further de-civilization of the Middle East by Hillary Clinton. You've had these moments where it felt like change was coming and Chris, you're right. Our memories are really, really short. Well, and I actually, I want to dive into this more. I want to really... We had 90 seconds. No, no, no. Not today. Okay. Not on Friday, of course not. I want to look at why people like the Obama administration, when the green movement within Iran, they had this real chance. That was some of the most spectacular protests against the government. If they just had some backing, people just saying, look, go for it. They really could have toppled it. That was under Obama administration and the leadership there, Hillary Clinton being Secretary of State. I truly believe why, when you look at all the atrocities that the Iranian people have suffered at the hands of their government, why it's not popular for liberals to say free Iran is because the roots of the Islamic revolution were Marxist. They were copying that playbook. And I think for the left to admit that it is a bad thing, the Islamic revolution there, it would undo so much that they fought for around the world to push a Marxist agenda. I truly believe that is something there I want to explore more. All right, we'll talk about that more coming up next week. And look, this weekend, enjoy your sports weekend. We got the NBA finals. We got the World Cup. And of course, UFC Freedom 250 happened into the White House Law. And let's have a good weekend, everybody kicking off really. The 250th celebration of America, I think, that officially starts today. Let's get going.