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retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel James Carofano, 25 years in the U.S. military as an Army veteran and senior counselor now to the Heritage Foundation president. You joined me live recently when we were broadcasting just ahead of the 4th of July and the tall ships were starting to come in on the Hudson River. And that's really when I learned a lot about your military strategy, more than I had ever known. So I'm so grateful to you to join us on this day. This war is now ratcheted up. We could see it coming. The president promised if Iran didn't come to the deal or come to the table to do a deal. How do you categorize this day? Yeah. So first I would go back to something I said when we were together before the 4th of July, which was that people said, well, why doesn't the president go just go in and finish it? Why don't we do more of this? And because the president doesn't want to waste lives. I mean, we tragically lost some American in uniform because they're always at risk. So here's the good news, which is the strikes are relatively limited. The way they did this was relatively novel that they had a successful strike. I'm pretty sure the U.S. is going to adjust for that, so they won't be able to do that again. And what's really important is all of our regional allies are even more with us than ever. So and that's, I think, really important. And then the most important thing is, look, I mean, we went from saying the big deal is the Iranians can close the strait to them be saying, well, they can interdict the strait. And now they're rapidly losing the capacity to do that. So they're there the longer they fight this war, the worse off they are. And the most important thing is look at what a whole they're digging themselves in. Now they've got to rebuild bridges, power plants, all their military. I mean, to get back to where they were a year ago, that is just going to take forever. Look, I have a couple of questions that just have to do with getting the job done in whatever amount of time it would take. And everybody roots for quickly, I'm certain. We don't want to see any loss of life. I mean, the president says that on all sides. We don't want any loss of life, especially not our own as American citizens. But you talk about the Gulf and everybody being on our sides in terms that you've got the Abraham Accords, got a lot of partners, now friends in the region. When they take incoming, though, it's a lot different than us. Our militaries are not our military. And our protection mission just got bigger. Right. And we are seeing a rapidly increasing capacity in the region for countries to protect themselves. And what's really interesting is working with Israel and seeing Israeli capabilities being brought to the table. But again, a lot of this is there's a much diminished capacity in the part of the Iranians to do anything. This has enormous long term consequences. These people are never as long as that regime is there, they're never going to trust this regime again. So these countries will work together in the future to build up deterrence against future Iranian threats. I'm really sure of that. Yeah. And that took me right to my second question. You did it. We know we can't trust them like we know they've shown us many times who they really are. Now everybody in the region says, well, wait a minute. We don't want to sink money and time and resources into something that's also not going to bear fruit. Who do you deal with on the ground in Iran? Well, I don't know. The important thing is you deal with the things you can deal with. What we can deal with is really build up the deterrent force against that. So for example, we are in Iraq in a way that we have not been since the early days of the war. We have an Iraqi government which is cooperating with the United States more than ever. We just sealed a huge oil deal with them to bring more resiliency to the oil industry in the region. They are working to kick the Iranian militias, diminish them and get them out of the country. This was unthinkable four or five years ago. So I know people are fixated by the losses, which are terrible, and how long does this take, but our position in the region is the strongest that it's been since the end of World War II. I mean, we are so – we have been dealing with this from Jimmy Carter. Since the days of Jimmy Carter, we have never had a position in the region this strong to create a better future for the region. And then that means less trouble for us, less work for us, safe for America. And I just think that this is at the price we are paying. Trust me, it is going to pay off for decades. An Iranian-American academic identified as a regime mouthpiece says that Tehran, the capital of Iran, wants U.S. troops on the ground in Iran. Watch this. The focus of Iranian strikes are on Bahrain and Kuwait, and that's because that's where all the American – most of the American assets have been placed for a ground invasion. The Iranians – we discussed this too during the 40-day war before on your show when I said that the Iranians actually want the Americans to carry out a land invasion. And the same is true now. Because they felt that if there was a land invasion, they would win. My dad said one of the lessons that you learn from wars like Vietnam is that some people just like to fight. And while the communists in that war, my dad would say, may have had a vision, the one that we were clear eyed on was they wanted to kill and they wanted to fight, which is why it was so hard. Your take on what was just said in that clip. Yeah, you don't fight the war of the enemy once, right? This is a country that's the size of Texas. We could put every American in uniform in the middle of Iran, and we could not control that country. So the idea that we're going to go invade this thing, that's just nuts. We're not going to fight them on their terms. That's just stupid. And then when they try to bring the fight to us like they have, what do they get in return? They get absolutely decimated. So I don't see this administration changing course. You know, again, we've talked about regime change. It brings all other kinds of challenges and things. The point is, we don't know the dollar figure or the life figure, you know, what would it take to get the regime? We don't know that. So that's, I don't think, a credible goal for the U.S. But the U.S. can do what it's doing now, which is completely eliminating their capacity to interdict the straits. They've taken nuclear weapons off the table. The country can't build a nuclear weapon. Their arsenals are shadow. A matter of fact, these attacks show, actually, that Iran cannot threaten the reign of death, that it literally could have threatened a country with a year ago. And what have we heard from the surrogates, the Hamas, Hezbollah and everybody else? I mean, they're just sitting on their hands, which is exactly what we want. So I think we're in good shape.

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Everyone will prosper, every family will thrive, and every day will be filled with opportunity and hope. But for that to happen, we must defeat Comrade Kamala Harris. And we must stop her country destroying liberal agenda. Once and for all, you must get out and vote. You have to get out and vote. Everyone here promise me I'll vote. We want a landslide that's too big to rig.

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It is for President Donald Trump, who according to a new Wall Street Journal poll shows is absolutely running away with the Republican primary polling. It's it's gone up April to now from 48 percent support to 59 percent support while you can see the closest challenger Ron DeSantis has gone down from 24 percent to 13 percent. That's if the primary were held today. According to a Wall Street Journal poll, you can see the yawning gap is 46 points. Yeah, it's incredible. I mean, the indictments and then a mugshot, which they thought would seal the deal on the other side against Donald Trump, that this would be like just one step too far. Republicans couldn't possibly put their number one primary candidate, allow their number one primary candidate to be somebody who just had a mugshot in a city jail in Fulton County. And yet here we are. Yeah. And this poll was taken after the Republican debate. So if if people were worried if if we were all positing, was it would it help? Would it hurt? It didn't hurt at all. I mean, a forty six point lead. I mean, there are two parts of the story are, of course, a 60 point percent lead is 60 percent at this point is staggering. But also the cratering of Ron DeSantis. You can't ignore if you're at 24 in April and now you're at 13. And then we're hearing reports about super PACs pulling out money, pulling out of other states. They're starting to try to figure out whether or not they can even continue to finance that campaign. And now, of course, he's he's overseeing what's going on down in Florida, which is exactly what he should be doing. It just I don't know what the prospects are for any other candidate at this point, except for the following through of the indictments and investigations and all the legal challenges, which is why you're seeing so much on the Internet and other conversations on important podcasts. People saying, will the Democrats, will the deep state, will they what else can they do? Because, you know, there's not a lot less that they can do to stop this train, which is.

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Really bad polling for Rhonda Sanctimonious. He ought to spend more time in Florida. Remember when sloppy Chris Christie spent almost all of his final year when he was New Jersey governor in New Hampshire with his security and so much else paid for by the taxpayers of New Jersey. You remember that? He got destroyed, left New Jersey with a record low 8 percent approval rating. Only 8 percent of the people thought Chris Christie did an okay job as governor. He did a horrible job. In fact, 11 times in a row his debt was downgraded. Nobody's ever had that. He broke a record. Now he wants to run for president. But he doesn't really want to run for president. Just wants to say negative things about a guy that wouldn't give him a job. But then he got rejected by the voters of New Hampshire, had no support at all. He dropped out of the presidential race years ago. The exact same thing is happening to DeSantis right now, Ron DeSanctimonius. His polls are dropping like a rock, including in Florida, where he's no longer even popular. The people in Florida, they figured him out. Took them a little while, but they figured him out. He's not even popular. So I just want to thank everybody for the incredible support you've given me. We're going to win the primaries by a lot. We're way up ahead of everybody by 50 and 60 points. We're going to win the election against Crooked Joe Biden. I don't know. Maybe somebody else is going to run. The guy can't put two sentences together. But we're going to win the election against Joe Biden, and we're going to bring our country back. We're going to make America greater than ever before. Thank you very much.

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Hello to the Clayton County Republican Party, and congratulations on a highly successful Lincoln Day dinner. I want to thank Clayton County GOP Chairman Joe Zuker and all of the incredible patriots there today. You are indeed incredible, and we will make America great again. As you know, I fought for Iowa as no president has ever fought before. There has never been a president that worked so hard for Iowa and got Iowa such rewards. I defended Iowa ethanol. I delivered $28 billion to our farmers straight from the tariffs of China. China never had it so bad. They never had this happen to them. I also got hundreds of billions of dollars for our treasury, but we gave the farmers $28 billion because you were treated very badly by China. And you know that? That President Xi knows that and knew the way I felt. We've got your $28 billion. Nobody else is going to be able to do that. I ended NAFTA and replaced it with the best trade deal ever made in our country, the USMCA that's Mexico, Canada, and NAFTA was the worst deal ever made. And I protected Iowa's first-in-the-nation status, just as I promised. You would not be first-in-the-nation if it wasn't for Donald Trump. Now it's time to finish the job of making America great again. With your vote, I will secure the border. I will save the economy. I will purge the deep state. And I will prevent World War III, something no one else can say because we're very close to World War III, and I've predicted just about everything right. It all starts at the Iowa caucuses on January 15th. I hope each and every one of you will go to ia.donaldjtrump.com to sign up and join our campaign. And if you can, sign up as a Trump caucus chair. Once again, it's ia.donaldjtrump.com. Together, we will defeat Crooked Joe Biden, the most crooked and incompetent president in the history of our country. We will take back the White House, and we will take back our country. We've got to take back our country because our country is going to hell with this leadership, the worst we've ever had. I always say we could take the worst five presidents in the history of our nation, add them together, they will not have done, and they would not have done the damage that Crooked Joe Biden has done. What he has done to this country is horrible. So we have to win. We have to be strong. We're going to take it back. This is going to be the most important election we've ever had. God bless you all. Thank you.

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