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April 23, 2025 • 29 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, thank you, Scott Shannon, Thanks to all of
you for me with us. Write down are toll free
telephone numbers eight hundred and ninety four to one, Shawn.
If you want to be a part of the program,
one of these signatures. And we're now approaching the one
hundredth day that Donald Trump has been back in office.
That will be what is it Tuesday next week, I
believe tuesday, and I think one of the most successful,

(00:25):
impactful and one hundred first hundred days I've ever seen
of any president since I've been following politics since I
was a kid. It has been that deep and profound.
Maybe the largest success by far is with immigration. I mean,
it's been like a ninety seven percent decline in unvetted

(00:48):
illegal immigrants coming into our country, coupled with, in spite
of the courts and activist judges, the deportation of criminal
immigrants in this country. There was an interesting piece in
the Philly Inquirer today that a Philadelphia police officer escorted
a Dominican national out of Philly's criminal courthouse into the

(01:09):
custody of US immigration authorities last week after a judge
had dismissed all criminal charges against the defendant now the
Defender Association of Philadelphia. Other advocates questioned what the apparent
cooperation with ICE was all about, especially because Philly has
so called sanctuary city policies. Anyway, this guy arrested April

(01:31):
second allegedly carrying a concealed firearm without a license in
the Cities in one of the city sections, and according
to police and court records, municipal court judge dismissed the
felony charge for lack of evidence. At the time, he
would have been free to go, but instead, according to
the suspect's public defender, a sheriff and a court staffer

(01:53):
instructed this individual not to leave because he was wanted
by ICE agents, and then a police officer in the
court room escorted him outside to awaiting federal authorities, and
he remains in an immigration detention center in Philly, which
shows progress. I mean, what we're watching unfold is pretty remarkable.

(02:16):
I mean, we first started with Van holland now you
got these four congress people representatives that have made the
trek to El Salvador in the hopes of getting every day,
every single day, proof of life from the El Salvadorian president.

(02:37):
But it's just fascinating to watch this obsession, and it's
actually getting worse and worse. Now you've got a bunch
of other elected representatives in DC, this guy at Brego Garcia,
that want to go over there and just for a
little visit. I know some of them. I know, in
the case of Van Hollony defended you the use of
taxpayer dollars. My understanding is maybe one or two or

(02:58):
some of those congressmen their own way, which would be good.
I don't want to pay one one red cent of this.
Now you've got a group of Democratic Congression representatives traveling
to Louisiana to visit Mahmoud Khalil in a pair of
federal detention centers as he faces potential removal from the
United States. Remember he was the guy Columbia University that was,

(03:23):
you know, very loudly organizing these pro Hamas rallies and
frankly what turned out to be intimidation of Jewish students
on the campus. Khalio recently completed a graduate studies program
at Columbia a Tufts University PAHD. And you know, and

(03:46):
it's pretty unbelievable that these people are even in our country.
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization? What is it designated
terrorist organization? What part of nine to eleven of all
of these people forgotten? Because they seem to have forgotten?
And why is it that this new Democratic Party is
championing the cause? And in every almost every case, I

(04:09):
can tell you because I've actually spoken to Patty Moore,
I've spoken to Lincoln Riley's family privately. I never put
him on the air to express my condolences. And Joscelyn
Hungary's mama, Alexis, and Joscelyn's grandfather. I mean, these families
will never be the same again. And it's interesting that

(04:30):
Van Holland never once had two Marylanders, Kayla Hamilton and
Rachel Moore and brutally raped and murdered, never bothered to
pick up a phone and call them, you know. The
Trump administration's mass deportation rates have nabbed more than two
hundred known or suspected terrorists in January, including one of
India's most wanted terrorists who entered the country illegally in

(04:52):
January of twenty twenty two crossing from Mexico into Arizona.
Was swiftly released into custody in the released from custody
into the country by border patrol agents. As per the
Department of Homeland Security under Biden, Harris and Mayorcis and Is,
this guy is one of his home country's most wanted

(05:13):
men for providing terrorist funds and recruitment and planning of
a grenade attack on an Indian police station and on
a retired cops house with the intent to kill an
and still fear among law enforcement officers. According to DHS,
Biden administration is to blame for allowing this individual to
roam the country for more than three years. And the

(05:36):
Biden administration not only let a wanted terrorists into our country,
but after he was arrested by border patrol agents, they
released him again into the interior of the country. You know,
no wonder why we have all these instances of Americans
that are murdered and raped and victims of other violent crimes.
No wonder we don't have a control over fentanyl and

(05:57):
opioids and other drugs that are coming into our country
that are killing our kids. Even Atlantic Magazine, you wouldn't
expect it from them, is admitting the incredible success of
Donald Trump's border policies as a result it'll be one
hundred years, I'm sorry, one hundred years, one hundred days
next next week that Donald Trump's been in office. And

(06:20):
this is probably what are you saying in my ear?
I can't hear you. If you try to talk to
me in my ear while I'm on the air, it
is very distracting. What would you like to say? I'm
very sorry. It is April thirtieth. Is one hundred days
for the president. April thirtieth. What's today's date? I have
no idea, no worth is April twenty third, So a
week from today, a week from today. Okay, So Atlantic

(06:43):
magazine they're concluding that that the incredible success of Trump's
border policies. And I'll give you an example. Two we
illegal immigrants have been arrested after another Maryland woman was
found murdered in the woods. And you know, again, why
would Chris van Hollow. He never called Rachel Morin's mother
or family after this he was out for a jog.

(07:06):
A mother of five brutally raped and murdered. Never called
Kayla Hamilton, raped and murdered another Maryland dir. And that
makes this big deal about going to El Salvador. And
now these Congress people want proof of life, a daily update,
a proof of life anyway. An illegal immigrant another one
in Maryland charged with murdering his girlfriend after a body

(07:27):
found in a forest outside of d C. The Charles
County Sheriff's Office announced yesterday or earlier in the week
that the twenty four year old Casey Berera Rosa was
charged with murder in the killing of his girlfriend, who
was twenty three reported missing on March thirty first. The
alleged killer's uncle was charged as an accessory in this case,

(07:51):
and deputy said that the body was found on April seventeenth,
seventeenth in a heavily wooded area of the forest just
outside of Cedarville State Forest in Prince George's County in Maryland.
This was the mother of two young children, and that
heinous crime, you know, not only devastated the community, but
reinforced the urgent need to prioritize public safety. And Van

(08:14):
Holland has not lifted a finger, you know, where Where's
Chris van Holland? Immigration authorities arresting a Guatemalan national and
Maryland for the murder of his girlfriend. Where's Chris van Holland?
Where was he for Rachel Morin. Where was he for
other Marylanders like Kayla Hamilton? You know, it's how many
more people have to die? You know what part of

(08:38):
you know? Two judges designating you know, Garcia as an
MS third team member, are they not quite understanding? But
this is your new Democratic party. They want a champion
the rights of illegals who stay in our country. And
they're the very people in many instances, if not all,

(09:00):
that can't pick up a phone and call people that
they represent in their own states that are victims of murder.
How is that possible? You know? Now, Republicans have been
trolling Democrats, which I actually think is a good idea,
and their El Salvador visits with an offer to foot
the travel bill. The NRCC has made the offer public.

(09:24):
Any takers have to provide real time video evidence of
their visit. It's, you know, the out of touch Democrats
that are so desperate to cozy up to violent gang members.
The least they can do is to let Americans watch
the show. We'll pay for the plane tickets. They just
can't forget to smile for the camera when they sell
out their constituents. Ouch. This is not going to end well.

(09:46):
Lori Ingram had on one of the congress people called
congresswoman that actually was one of the four that went
to al Salvador, you know, and at one point is
what's her name, representative and sorry, and she said, I
have a very strong pro public safety record, and that's
why I believe in the rule of law. That's why
this case is so important. I think these questions are

(10:07):
a distraction from the main issue is that Donald Trump
is defying the US Supreme Court. All right, So she
goes on with Laura Ingram obviously prepared talking points. Now
here's the problem is, what do you mean questions about
dead Americans and Americans that have been raped and Americans

(10:28):
that are victims of violent crime? Are you incapable of
having sympathy for and what did you do to help
those families? Because I was scrolling the names of dozens
and dozens of Americans murdered and dozens and dozens raped,
and thousands of victims of violent crime during the entire campaign. Anyway,

(10:50):
the president of l Salvador also trolling Democrat Congressman Robert
Representative Frost, and anyway, he took to social media to
roast Frost, one of the Democratic lawmakers who took the
time to go to El Salvador to advocate for the
release of the illegal immigrants MS thirteen gang members TREND

(11:13):
de Aragua. Remember these are designated now terrorist organizations and anyway,
and they're trying to pressure the Trump administration to retrieve
Abrego Carcia and anyway. In a quote to the Latin
American Leader, he responded with a shrugging emoji to highlight

(11:34):
the congressman's apparent past of appearing to be gang affiliated
on social media. It's like he doesn't care and how
do their priorities get so screwed up? Now? The DOJ
has unleashed unprecedented charges against Trend de Aragua members, and
I'm telling you it take I've known Pam Bondi for
thirty years and she is a fierce prosecutor. And you'll

(11:58):
see this in action in very short order. You're beginning
to see it now. And anyway, the acting US Attorney
for the Southern District of New York announced that they
have charged a total of twenty seven current former trende
Iragua members under the Rico Statute for the first time ever,
marking a new development and how the federal government will

(12:19):
prosecute these cartels good because they're designated terrorist organizations. And
so the Trump administration, I think is right to pursue
that and every other option available to them. But if Democrats,
if their decision is to champion Abrego Garcia and to
champion this pro hamas you know, former Columbia student, then

(12:42):
let them have at it. If they want to be
that party. If they want to be the party led
by AOC the squad Jasmine Crockett and Bernie Sanders, let
them be that party. If they want to be the
party that's against you know, Secure Vorter, if they want
to be you know, let let him be that party.

(13:05):
I'm all for it. If they won't stand for mothers
that lost children and they hold the BINGO cards, they
can be that party too. If they won't stand for
young man cure to cancer, they can be that party too.
If they won't stand for the wife of a slain
officer hero, they can be that part. They let him
be that party, because it's not going to get him
far with the American people. You know, one Democratic senator

(13:28):
visiting to detained Colombian activists who said that he can
emphasize empathize with Hamas. You can't make this up. Congressman
Peter Welch visited detain Columbia University activists this this guy
calling him a friend and praising his work with Jewish
brothers and sisters on Columbia's campus. Oh okay, well, this

(13:51):
guy that he was visiting with could empathize with Hamasa's
decision to launch the attack and use the siren to
drown now pro israel students protesting for the release of
Israeli child hostages. This is what the Democratic Party has
now been reduced to. Pretty amazing. This is the hill

(14:12):
that they want to die on. Protecting and championing men's rights,
for women's sports, championing you know, pro Hamas sympathizers, championing
designated MS thirteen members according to court, two different judges,
you know, wanting open borders, putting that over your safety

(14:33):
and your security, claiming it's a constitutional crisis if God forbid,
you save hundreds of billions of dollars in wokeism and
the Green New Deal abroad anyway, eight hundred ninety four one,
Shawn is a number if you want to be a
part of the program. Very interesting on the security front
that we've got to pay attention to because it's been

(14:54):
three months now that the President approved military strikes that
have killed seventy four TERR leaders who were planning attacks
against Western targets, including the US, and John Solomon broke
this story. President Trump has ordered air strikes and other
operations during his first three months back in office that

(15:15):
have killed seventy four leaders of terrorist organizations plotting and
planning and scheming attacks against Western assets and the US homeland,
Mike Waltz revealed to just thenews dot com in an
interview that John did with him yesterday, and Waltz gave
the administration's most definitive accounting of the renewed US counter
terrorism operations, which lagged under Biden, and walt said the

(15:39):
strikes have reached far beyond the hoody rebels in Yemen.
We've also focused on groups like al Qaeda and ISIS
in the Middle East and al Shabab in Africa. Continued
and confirmed that those terror attacks have active plans to
strike our homeland after capitalizing on biden open borders. We
know we have we have known terrorists in the country.

(16:02):
Biggest problem is we don't know where they are. And
President Trump has eliminated seventy four named terrorist leaders that
the Biden administration would never go after. And you add
that to the forty five Americans who are being held
hostage by various regimes, and all of the hostages so
far that Donald Trump has been able to negotiate the
release of I'd say that he's having a profound difference

(16:25):
in less than one hundred days in office. Now, what
is interesting to watch, and you can read into this
what you want is the President has been ramping up
America's military presidence in the Middle East, but potentially devastating
strikes not just on the hooty rebels, but you got
to get to the head of the snake. And I

(16:46):
know this gets controversial with people. I do not believe
America could ever go back and should ever go back
to what happened in Iraq. Number One, advanced military technology
would not run acquire American treasure to go door to
door in Iraq, in Baghdad, stepping over IEDs and and

(17:11):
trying to, you know, get to the bottom of all
the nefarious activities that are happening there. That's not how
future wars are going to be fought. And you see
this kind of playing out in Israel. I mean, when
Reagan was president, they mocked the Strategic Defense initiative star Wars. Well,

(17:32):
it's called the iron dome when it works. One of
President Trump's initiatives is an iron dome over this whole country,
which may end up being one day his everlasting legacy,
especially in light of advanced missile technology like hypersonics and
more advanced weaponry than that. And there's a lot of
areas where we find ourselves behind and deficient in which

(17:55):
is why there's got to be a sense of urgency
in creating the next generation of weaponry. Anyway, so the
President officially informed Congress that he's directed the Department of
Defense to move additional forces equipped for combat into the
Middle East, as US forces now carry out military strikes
against UTI militants in Yemen. But it's not just there.

(18:16):
Washington Times has a story today. Iran is strengthening an
underground tunnel network storing its supply of enriched uranium and centrifuges,
as revealed by new satellite photography from the Institute for
Science and International Security. Now, the worst thing about this
in the great danger of this, and I speak to

(18:38):
those people, and I know you got more hawkish conservatives,
and then you got other conservatives that are more isolation
as conservatives, So you have people all across the spectrum here.
I kind of find myself it's sort of like a
squared B squared equal C squared. If the world allows
Iranian militants with a stated goal to wipe Israel and

(19:01):
wipe the US off the map, if they are allowed
to get nuclear weapons, knowing that with all the money
that they got rich on because Joe Biden turned to
blind eyed to sanctions, and then funding and plotting and
planning the attack on October seventh in Israel twenty twenty three,
but also providing the weaponry to hamas As Balah Islamic Jiha,

(19:24):
the Hoodi rebels firing their own missiles into Israel. What
do you think they're going to do with nuclear capability now?
According to published reports, even the IAEA not particularly known
to be accurate in terms of rightly identifying where Iran
is in their nuclear weapons program, but it is believed

(19:46):
to be in a very short period of time, they're
at sixty percent enrichment. I don't think the Iranians should
be allowed enrichment period end of sense. Now you can
give the Iranians a choice. You could say you you
must stop all enrichment of uranium, because if they're at
sixty percent, the jump to ninety percent enrichment, which is

(20:09):
military great enrichment, can happen in the shortest period of time.
That is a real, clear present danger for the entire world.
There is not one country in the Middle East that
wants a nuclear arm Duran and now it's going to
fall on the shoulders shoulders of Israel. Now the Israelis

(20:32):
can if they have to, if their survival is at
stake here, and the Iranians have proven they want to
destroy Israel, if they have to, they could probably take
out these nuclear facilities with a tactical nuke. I don't
think that would be the first option of choice by
any stretch of the imagination. But if their survival is

(20:53):
in jeopardy. Having known Prime Minister net In Yahoo for
over thirty years is will you'll do what it has
to do to survive. And if I think the better
option would be the bunker buster bombs. Look, the Uranians,
they might be evil, The Mullas may be evil. Their
ideology is certainly evil, but that doesn't mean that they're stupid.

(21:18):
And they've been able to enrich uranium. There's no need
for the Iranians to enrich uranium except that they want
a nuclear weapon. And according to sources and people that
I've spoken to, they can have as many as twenty
five of them in a short period of time with
just that additional push of enrichment to weapons grade enrichment.

(21:41):
And of course they need a delivery system where they
are in that process. I simply don't know, I really
don't anyway, So they're strengthening this underground tunnel network. It's
supply of enriched uranium centrifuges as revealed and I just said.
And according to a Wednesday report from the Institute, updated
satellite images of Iran now showed new fortification efforts around

(22:05):
the perimeter of the uranium storage site, indicating that the
country could be preparing to defend against a strike on
the nuclear facilities and the creation of this perimeter around
deeply buried sites all around the country. It's a large
land mass Iran, and anyway, it suggests that Iran is

(22:26):
increasingly worried about Well, I mean, we could figure out
who it's not an individual or group seeking to enter
the tunnel complex is undetected. I think this is about Israel,
and Israel's going to make a determination. The United States
is going to have to also similarly make a calculation.

(22:47):
Steve Whitkoff, the President's Special Middle East Envoy, has been
very clear, so has President Trump. The Iranians cannot have
nuclear weapons. Now do you run the risk that the
Iranians are going to want to strike back if you
take out the nuclear facilities. Yeah, but at that point
you might as well take out their refineries and make
sure that they can't have any money, which would probably

(23:09):
lead to regime change. I mean, when Trump left office,
his sanctions had been so successful that there was growing
animosity and a rising up of young people in Iran.
They don't want to live under these mullas. They don't
they want regime change, they want modernization. Now the question

(23:30):
is will the world see this as the moment to
stop them? And I even have conservative friends of mine
don't do it, don't do it. I'm like, yeah, well,
I mean, you take out the nuclear facilities, They're going
to be angry, They're going to want to attack back.
But that threat already exists. I have no doubt under
Biden and Harris that Iranian terrorists are in this country already.

(23:54):
They will strike one way or the other, regardless of
if their nuclear facilities are stopped. That's just who they are.
I see that well. As Mark Levin affectionately calls him,
Little Dicky, Durbin is now retiring. He's the second ranked
Democrat in the Senate. He announced that he will not

(24:14):
seek reelection. He's the Senate Democratic Whippy, has served in
the Senate since nineteen ninety six. He made the announcement
in a video message posted to social media. A decision
of whether to run for reelection has not been easy.
I truly love the job of being a US Senator,
but in my heart, I know it's time to pass
the torch. So I'm announcing today that I will not

(24:34):
seek reelection at the end of my term. He's eighty
years old, meaning he will leave office when his term
expires in twenty twenty seven. The people of Illinois have
honored me. Blah blah blah blah blah. That usually means
that he doesn't really think that there's a good chance
that Democrats are going to hold on to or get
back a majority in the US Senate. But you know,

(24:58):
here's what I don't understand about the leve There's a
lot I don't understand about the Left. I don't understand
their obsession with Garcia and al Salvador. After two judges
determined ascertained that this guy was a member of MS thirteen,
his own wife and her own handwriting described him not
once but twice as a wife, Peter, I'm not sure

(25:21):
why this is their cause to love. I'm not sure
why this guy Khalil, who openly supports a moas a
designated terror organization and his deportation. I'm not sure what
they're thinking. I'm not sure why they want men to
have the right to play women's sports. I'm not sure
why they would put the rights of illegals that are
non existent over the safety of Americans. I'm not sure

(25:42):
what part of what has happened, the murdering and the
raping and the violent crime against American citizens that they
don't feel compelled to protect. Now there is a case,
and it appears based on arguments that the Supreme Court
will likely you know, it's about a case that would
require a Maryland school board to provide parents with the

(26:07):
ability to opt their elementary school age kids out of
instruction featuring story books that address gender identity and sexual orientation.
This drives me nuts. You want to see Linda bubble
fizz and pop off and say a lot of cuss
words that she gave up for lent but didn't really
give up. Just bring up vicious involving children. She'll lose

(26:30):
her mind, all of us. I agree with you, you know,
just like, oh, you're going to give gender affirming care
without parental consent. Who the hell these people think they
are plants? Stop messing with them. For a hundred years,
they were fine. Just leave them alone reading, Leave them
alone reading, writing, math, science, history, computers, and that's it.

(26:53):
And let mommy and daddy deal with values at home.
That's their job. And anyway, So Brett Kavanaugh, invoke the
state's founding, said the county in particular has been a
beacon of religious freedom and tolerance, and he echoed Alito saying,
I'm not understanding why it's not feasible for schools to
excuse children from instruction that violates their families religious beliefs.

(27:17):
Forty seven states in the District of Columbia allow for
parental opt outs or require opt ins before students participate
in sex d I don't want some woke DEI green
new deal transgenderism advocate to be teaching my kids about

(27:39):
things that I should be teaching them about. My values
instilled in my kids, not your values. They're not your children. Anyway,
the Supreme Court does seem ready to side with Maryland
parents in this particular case. There was a heated moment
with Sodo Mayor and Justice Alito during the arguments that
took place. And anyway, so Alito starts saying, there's growing

(28:03):
so to my was trying to disagree with Alito's portrayal,
and Alito pushedback and says, can I finish? Which I
thought was pretty good? And so do my or initially
asked one of the attorneys in the case about a
book entitled Uncle Bobby's Wedding that included a same sex
relationship storyline. Anyway, our parents would object, the lawyer said. Anyway,

(28:27):
Alito jumped in with additional question, said, I've read the
book as well as a lot of these other books.
Do you think it's fair to say that all is that?
All that is done in Uncle Bobby's wedding is to
expose children to the fact that there are men who
marry other men. Then the guy the lawyer objected to
the Alito's question says, the book has a clear message,

(28:49):
and a lot of people think it's a good message
with traditional religious beliefs, but they don't agree with it.
And then anyway, Alito tries to continue, and then so
to my own interrupts, Wait a minute, as Alita goes,
can I finish? Kind of like what Linda does to me.
It has a clear moral message, and it may be
a good message. It's just a message that a lot

(29:12):
of religious people disagree with. And by the way, a
coalition of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim parents are the ones
that brought this case. Pretty interesting

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