The Exact Moment CNN Host Realizes Ilhan Omar Is a Monster After ICE Shooting Answer

26:40Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody actually no but I get that you don't understand that because you're a progressive and a buffoon and a pandering putt F-bombs aren't that bad I dropped one on the program today and I may have to do it again you never know and killing people is bad except killing someone who is about to kill you who is not listening to the orders of federal law enforcement officials well that's self-defense and I know that Ilhan doesn't understand that or doesn't want to understand that or want to acknowledge that because she just wants more chaos and that's what she is going to bring to your city so let's just be real clear here let's level set as they say Mr.

27:27Frey you are going to oversee the destruction of Minneapolis now maybe that's what you want or maybe you're just a tool for the real radical I don't know I don't know what's in your heart. I don't even know what's in your mind other than you are just pandering. You're just terrible. But again, it's not just the politicians. It's the media that does the exact same thing here. Here's Kristi Noem with Jake Tapper. I'm just waiting for the investigation to come through. I'm wondering if you're not doing a disservice to the officer by reaching a conclusion before the investigation takes place. I haven't heard you say once what a disservice it's done for Mayor Fry to get up and to tell ICE to get the F out of his city and AOC to stand up before she had any of the facts and call this officer a murderer.

28:14For individuals, well, call them out, Jake. Spend as much time calling them out. I have provided you with facts and information to back up every single word that we have said and every single part of this investigation. And if you don't like it, that's fine. But we're going to continue to do the right thing to keep the American people safe. Do you see what I mean about how things are different right now and you really have to acknowledge it. Like that is right. What she just said. Phoenix just said something interesting as that was playing. He said, I'm sort of amazed that Jake Tapper came this far in his career.

28:41There's something very curious. I've said it many times about Jake Tapper. You know, he was ABC white house chiefs correspondent before he was with CNN and he was a respectable guy. I liked him a lot. And even when he first got to CNN, he was, look, he's obviously a Democrat and that's fine. They're all Democrats. Do you think that Wolf Blitzer is a Democrat or a Republican? Do you think Anderson Cooper is a Democrat or a Republican? Do you think that Dana Bash is a Democrat or Republican. Like we could do this all day long. They're all Democrats, fine. But he was sort of a little bit better than the COVID stuff and obviously the Biden stuff and then writing a book about the scandal that he covered up and everything.

29:14I don't know how he's come so far, but she did a great job right there. Enough, and this is what Stephen Miller has also become a master of. And who do you give the credit to all of this for? It's Trump. Trump who just called out all of their BS from the very first time he did a debate, you know, 10 plus years ago at this point. It's crazy how time flies. He just called out their BS and that's what she's doing there. And I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess and we can try to find the clip and maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I will be wrong. It'll be the first time ever. But if Jake Tapper interviewed Fry next and he really called him out on the language, I will gladly play that clip tomorrow and eat crow on it.

29:50But the point is what he's, yeah, you did a disservice to the officer by showing the video and showing what actually happened. It's nonsense, man. Stop being such an obvious lawyer for the Democrats. You can lie and be a bullshit artist like 80%. Don't go up to 90%. That's where people start thinking about it. Here's a compilation of just terrible leftist tools defending the indefensible. In a statement yesterday, you called this murder. And I know you watched the video we all did. As you thought about it, what should justice look like for that ICE officer? It has to look like accountability. And I think for far too long, we've seen ICE operate as an agency with a complete sense of reckless impunity.

30:33In order to institute the largest mass deportation program in American history, those are the people this administration has to go after. And the Renee Nicole Goods of the United States are getting caught in the middle of this, tragically, and it will only continue to happen. She was in a car parked on the street in a residential neighborhood about a mile from where George Floyd was murdered. It appears on both angles of the video to be first backing up and then trying to basically drive her car away from these armed men who are coming to accost her. This woman was part of a group of people who they train to try to be ICE interrupters.

31:08And what they try to do is observe what ICE is doing, film them, and try to use their white privilege, to be honest. They're mainly white people. Which is what we ask. Which is what we ask them to do, right? Because black people, like we can't get on, we can't put our bodies on the line because cops will shoot us. Help me. Help me. I just had a colonoscopy yesterday. I don't want to do this. That's she just that was a colonoscopy of verbal nonsense is what she just did right there. They're all just terrible. And first off on Mamdami, of course, he wants to call this murder, murder. Right. Which is what Ilhan calls it, because what they want you to think is that ICE is out on the street just murdering random people.

31:49which of course they are not. And if a federal law enforcement officer asks you to get your car out of the middle of the street or get out of your car and you're blocking traffic, you are inherently breaking law in the first place, you might wanna do it. She would not have been killed that day if she did not do that. And by the way, if she had just put her car in park, look, so the ICE officers walk up to her. Now, she don't like the ICE officers, obviously. They don't like her, she doesn't like them. But if they had just said stop, which is what they were saying, you can see the first guy walking up to him saying, stop.

32:20If she just put her car in park and then just yelled at them, you're a bunch of Nazis, you're awful people, blah, blah, blah. Would she be dead right now? The answer is obviously no. And if they had shot her with the car in park, do you think I would be up here defending that? Of course not. So everything they say is a lie. But Ilhan and Zorhan, they want murder in people's head because they want to gin up the craziness on the streets. Note that ICE is not here in Florida, by the way. Now there might be some ICE operative somewhere in Florida, but notice that all these videos are coming out of blue states and blue cities.

32:50It's because DeSantis has decided to work with ICE, but it's not even just work with ICE. He's decided to give law enforcement, state law enforcement here, the proper backing so that they can go ahead and arrest illegals. You may remember it was about, what was it, six months ago or so? There was a bunch of Chinese nationals who there were about 40 of them in a U-Haul van. A friend of mine sent me the video. He was caught not too far from where he lives. He was caught in traffic because they just found, because they saw the car in front of them was acting a little sketchy. And they were like, wait a minute, local Florida police were like, what's going on with that U-Haul van behind that car that has way too many people in it?

33:32And they found about 40 guys, Chinese nationals. What are they doing here? And they have no right to be here. And I don't care what their plan, if 38 of the 40 are just great people who wanna open up Chinese food restaurants, it does not matter. You cannot be here. You gotta go home. So everything they say is a lie. Every single freaking thing. And if you guys would do your job as state representatives, the feds wouldn't have to be here, but they want the revolution. That is what they are going for. Here's Whoopi trying to explain this using a joke, but I, well, watch. I don't know. there were there are a zillion perspectives of this yeah and it's like that old joke do you know a woman comes home walks into her bedroom here's noises happening walks and there's her husband having sex with somebody else and she goes oh my what are you doing I can't believe you're doing this and he said what are you talking about look at what you're doing you're having sex with this woman.

34:31And he says, who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what this is. Yeah. You know what you saw. Yeah. How can people, it's a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyway, watch the same footage and see things so differently. Hey, I'm Dan Harris, host of the 10 % Happier podcast. When life gets a little rough, sometimes we feel this overwhelming urge to fix everything, which really is impossible. So I've got a new series coming up called Reset, where we're going to help you find simple, practical, surgical ways to reset key areas of your life. The lineup is incredible.

35:09We've got people like Gretchen Rubin, Laurie Santos, Atul Gawande, and The Daily Show's Josh Johnson. 10 % Happier with Dan Harris. Join the party wherever you get your podcasts. You know, it's interesting. One of the things that the late, great Scott Adams would often talk about that I quoted on this show many, many times, I think I did it a couple of days ago, actually, was that we're all watching the same movie, but we're having two very different reactions to it. And that's a perfect example of it. First off, she opens by saying there are a zillion perspectives on it. What do you mean? Let's watch the slow motion video one more time.

35:40Here is a car in the middle of the street, which you are not allowed to do, blocking traffic, a man standing in front of it. And as you can see, once she starts moving forward, he pulls out the gun. That's not a million zillion perspectives, lady. There's one perspective on this. You may not like the fallout around it, but there's one perspective. Also, it's not worth, I'm not gonna bludgeon you by showing you the clip again, but if you watch Alyssa Farah there, she's just sitting there in shame. Now she gets her cookie and she gets her couple hundred grand every year, but she's sitting there in shame with those women because she knows that this is not right.

36:13So I hope you enjoy the cookies, ladies. Look, think about it this way. Let's remove ICE from this. Let's remove immigration from this, race, whatever you wanna remove. If young Joseph, my associate producer here, Joseph, why don't you come wave to the people for just a moment? Here's Joseph. If Joseph... Hi, good. That was good. Okay, you can go sit now. If Joseph over there... If Joseph... He has a car. You have a car, right? You drive here every day. If he just parked... He comes to my house every day. If he just parked sideways in the middle of the street today, just decided, you know, I'm not going to park on the side or in the garage.

36:46I'm just going to park in the middle of the street, caca. And then people started coming and they were like, well, we can't get around this guy. What are we going to do? And then the police showed up. And then Joseph was just sitting there and they approached his car. And then he stepped on the gas and was about to hit one of them. What do you think the police would do, having nothing to do with ice or race or anything else? I think you got the answer. I said you could sit. You can, there you go, sit, sit. Okay. What's the other part of this? Well, you have insane politicians. You have a completely ginned up base.

37:19You have media that run cover for them. And then you have the celebrity class. And when it comes to celebrities, it's hard to figure out who the biggest douchebag is. I'm gonna scribble down a couple of douchebags right now. And Mark Ruffalo, we're gonna show you because it was the Golden Globes. These are people who give themselves awards. Once a year, people who are super rich, who create crap for you to watch when you're bored, give themselves awards and then lecture you about how much better they are than you. Well, they had the Golden Globes the other day. And Mark Ruffalo, who is a Hamas-supporting leftist, like this guy, I'm gonna curse again, and he is the fucktard of fucktards.

37:54He is King Fucktard. Here he is on what happened. This is for her. This is for the people in the United States who are terrorized and scared today. I know I'm one of them. Oh, you're one of them, Ruffalo? You're scared? Because I'm going to guess you have a big-ass fence at your fancy home, probably in Beverly Hills or Brentwood somewhere. I'm going to guess, not guess, I have no doubt there were snipers all over that red carpet making sure you were safe. If you seem to not care when regular Americans want that same layer of coverage and care for their families and friends and everything else, but good for you, you wore a pin and you called ice murders and all those.

38:31So if we were trying to figure out the douchebag, celebrity douchebag list, he's probably at the top. By the way, he sucked as the Incredible Hulk and it should have been Ed Norton who, you know, he did the original one and then stepped away or even Lou Ferrigno was better. But who's the lesbian with the snaggletooth? Who's that snaggletooth lesbian from Cynthia Nixon? She's up there. Let's just get five of them real quick. If we were figuring out who are the worst of the worst, leftist celebrities. You got Mark Ruffalo, you got Cynthia Nixon, you got who are just terrible leftist celebrities.

39:01We're just listing douchebags right now. Wanda Sykes is terrible, but she's barely a celebrity anymore, but she went after Bill Maher at the thing. But another, it's like another leftist. You're a lesbian. Good luck with the queers for Palestine, you idiots. Rosie, it's just, lesbians are all insane. I think that's the list. Ellen, it's just lesbians. Lesbians are out of their freaking minds. Who? Billie Eilish. I don't even know who that is. That's a singer or a video game player or something. They're all just, yeah. Jillian Michaels, number one lesbian by far.

39:36Here's some other horrible people. Two of them are NBA coaches. This is Doc Rivers and Steve Kerr. When you wonder why I don't watch NBA anymore, someone that loves basketball to the extent I watch it, here's why. You know, what happened in Minnesota was a straight-up murder, in my opinion. And it's awful. You know, this lady was probably trying to go home. To me, we're attacking brown people. It's shameful, really, that in our country we can have law enforcement officers who commit murder and seemingly get away with it. Guys, could you talk about basketball? Do you know anything about the pick and roll?

40:20Could you talk about why they're not calling travels anymore or why people are chucking up too many threes at your press conferences? Instead, you've got Doc Rivers, a guy I used to like in the 90s, explaining that they're hunting down black people while the woman was white. These people have ruined absolutely everything. You have ruined everything. You know what? Can we get Joey, have Joey send Connor the seven second clip of me hitting the game winning jumper the other day, because I'll show you motherfuckers what basketball is all about in just a second. Joey's going to send that over. Here's Scott Jennings shutting down the nonsense narrative around what happened to this woman.

40:56Procedurally, this is not sound, but from a law perspective, it can be somewhat questionable. All right. Scott? I mean, contrary to what I heard out here the other day, this person was not a random passerby who just happened to be driving through her neighborhood. This person is part of a a group of people who form convoys to interfere with federal law enforcement operations. They drive convoys of cars and do active law enforcement situations. They interfere with ongoing law enforcement activity. This is a felony to do that. A. B. This person had been following ICE around all day, apparently, according to witnesses, now according to further reporting.

41:36C. They didn't follow lawful commands to stop, get out of the car. D. They accelerated a car into the officer. It clearly hit the officer. I don't understand how you could watch this video and all the other videos that have come out and not come to the conclusion that this is an unfortunate, tragic situation that was caused by someone, the person driving the vehicle, using extraordinarily poor judgment from top to bottom. You know, if you didn't see it, I had Scott Jennings on the show last week and I talked to him about what it's like to be the same guy at a panel, you know, with a bunch of lunatics.

42:10And what he did right there was point by point, bullet point after bullet point, laying out exactly what happened. So no, Whoopi, you're wrong. There weren't a zillion perspectives on this thing. Everything that he said there was right. And I just want you to think about it another way. I mentioned it about myself, but think about Scott Jennings for a second. If that woman, so she's illegally got the car in the middle of the street, let's say she just blocked traffic and shut the car off and took the keys out. If they had walked up to her and shot her, do you think Scott Jennings would be defending it?

42:37Of course not, of course not. This is a completely different situation. But let's go back to Doc Rivers and Steve Kerr because they wanna tell us that we've been through this with you guys. Steve Kerr, Steve Kerr is even worse in some sense. And he was a great basketball player. He was the point guard on the Bulls, hitting crazy threes all those years with the Jordan Bulls. It's like, it's so, you just never, you have these guys that are like heroes in your mind and they all just turn out to be terrible. But it's like, guys, instead of explaining to us why we're racist and horrible and why America is so evil, while you guys are easily worth 50 mil each, probably way more.

43:10Tell us about basketball. For example, analyze this clip. This is from me Sunday morning. It was 1313. We played a 15. And watch this. I know, but you're blocking it. Stay with yours. Up. Boom. I know, but you're blocking it. Stay with yours. Up. Boom.

43:33You think it's easy to do that shit sideways? I was playing on Mars, okay? One more. Come on. Give me it to me one more time. One more time, straight up. Come on. Stay with yours. Look at that. Look at that, guys. 49, a year after, not even a year, less than a year after completely blowing out my knees. Stem cells, the entire thing. I can still jump. I can still shoot. Analyze that, you screwballs. Here is Byron Donalds, who is gonna be potentially our next governor for here in Florida. He will be running. Although just yesterday, Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins, who I like a lot, he announced he's going to be running as well.

44:07So Florida is going to have a bit of a fight on that front. But here is Byron Donald's congressman from southwest Florida explaining why Florida doesn't have this problem with ICE and federal law. Hey, I'm Dan Harris, host of the 10 % Happier podcast. When life gets a little rough, sometimes we feel this overwhelming urge to fix everything, which really is impossible. So I've got a new series coming up called Reset, where we're going to help you find simple, practical, surgical ways to reset key areas of your life. The lineup is incredible. We've got people like Gretchen Rubin, Laurie Santos, Atul Gawande, and The Daily Show's Josh Johnson.

44:4610 % Happier with Dan Harris. Join the party wherever you get your podcasts. Any official within the state of Florida, if they think for a moment that they are going to flout federal law or state law, they will be removed from office. So you get it. You get it. Leadership comes from the top. What does DeSantis always say? Decline is a choice and we do not choose it here in Florida. So if it's not to say we don't have any wackadoodle progressive politicians, we've got a couple of them, particularly up in that Orlando area where Disney is. I'm shocked. And it's like, if you guys are going to become what Ilhan Omar has become, and if you are going to fight with federal law enforcement and fight with Florida state troopers and local police and everything else, you're gonna be in deep doo-doo.

45:36And I say that as someone who had a colonoscopy yesterday. Let's talk about Juvent, and then more on the other side. We'll finally get to the Iran stuff. Staying active matters, but even people who move and work out regularly still deal with stiffness, soreness, and feeling worn down. That's where the Juvent Micro Impact Platform comes in. Juvent is a smart wellness device inspired by NASA-funded research and assembled in the U.S. It uses gentle micro impacts through the soles of the feet to support recovery and mobility without strain or stress. This isn't an aggressive vibration plate. It's subtle, low impact, and can be used for about 10 minutes a day while watching TV.

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46:44And before I get into that, I want to reread that tweet from Will Tanner that I read a moment ago because I think it will really help define where we're going here. High civilization existed for a bleep flicker of a moment in Rhodesia, a few decades where the primordial darkness of the Stone Age was vanquished. But then it returned in the name of equality and Zimbabwe is once again in ruin. The same happened in South Africa over a somewhat longer timeline. Centuries of hard work and immense effort are being erased so a few kleptocrats can steal and destroy all in the name of equality, and now the nation that once had a nuclear program doesn't even have clean and reliable drinking water.

47:23The same will happen in America if we let it. The toxic brew of race communism and anarcho-tyranny that turned the dark continent back into being such after a century of civilization has taken deep root on our shores and will destroy us as it destroyed them if we let it. So while we have people out on the streets who are protesting the fact that Donald Trump is doing exactly what he was elected to do, which was to fix the border, which he's done, and now clean up the illegal immigration situation in this country, which is what ICE is lawfully doing, across the world, there are quite literally millions of people, millions of people who have lived under the darkest tyranny imaginable, the mullahs, who are running a religious theocracy over the largely Persian population of Iran, but there are Kurds there and there are all sorts of other people.

48:19And then what is happening? Well, now we have protests in America that are for the people of Iran, which is the just side. These are people who lived in a, for what the Middle East is, they lived in a pretty liberal place with women wearing bikinis who have now been all put in burqas only about 40 years ago, pre-1979. Anyway, in Los Angeles, you probably have seen this video already, there was a pro, pro, how do you call it? You would call it the pro-Iranian people protest. And a U-Haul truck with messages that was backing Khomeini and the mullahs drove right through it. Take a look. Matt Cedorf from Fox 11 in Los Angeles reporting that a U-Haul truck drove into this pro-Iranian demonstration outside of a federal building in Westwood.

49:06Los Angeles police are on scene. The number of injuries is unknown. And we have a live look from the scene there. You can see a U-Haul and LAPD vehicles. Okay. So now let me show you the footage actually.

49:51Okay, so amazingly, no one was killed by that lunatic. Now, he had messages on the side of the U-Haul truck that were pro-regime messages. This was an anti-regime, pro-Iranian people rally, but it doesn't matter which side of the issue you are on here. Look what this chaos, the chaos that has been wrought by the Democrats and the mainstream media and everything has now brought it so we have a version of sectarian violence on our streets. Now, again, it's the reverse in some sense of what's happening across the world, right? Because the people that are protesting in America are protesting the fact that we are trying to get illegals out of the country so we can live in a free and prosperous nation.

50:31The people that are protesting in Iran are protesting so that they can live freely and the women cannot live in burqas and they don't have to live in a religious theology and everything else. Which is why the pro-Palestine movement, the genderqueer dingbats, all of them are actually for the mullahs. I mean, this is the red, we talk about the horseshoe theory and the red-green alliance. This is it right here. But some countries have learned, some countries have learned that you cannot mess around with these horrible ideas because you will destabilize your entire country. One of those countries is the United Arab Emirates.

51:04This is absolutely insane. Listen to this from Visegrad. The UAE announces it will cut funds for citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear that Emirati students are being radicalized by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on British campuses. An Arab state now views a European state as a dangerous Islamist radicalization hotspot. But guys, again, if this is all kayfabe and a script being written and everything else, you could not make this up. The UAE, an Arab nation, right? That is largely, I mean, in essence, it's wholly Muslim, but it's not extremist Islam because they refuse to let that take root.

51:44They've banned the Palestinian flag, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They don't want their kids going to what was supposed to be evolved Western England to learn because they know the Islamists have taken over there. It's absolutely, absolutely crazy. But now let's connect this back to what's going on in Iran right now. This is from Fox News. Iran is not merely experiencing another wave of street protests. It's facing a crisis that strikes at the core of the Islamic Republic, and for the first time in years, places the regime's survival in real doubt. Across Iran, demonstrations sparked by economic collapse and corruption have rapidly transformed into direct challenges to clerical rule.

52:22Security forces have responded with live fire, mass arrests and communications blackouts. International reporting cites hundreds of people being killed and thousands detained. Internet shutdowns point to a regime determined to suppress not only dissent, but proof of it. Iran has seen mass protests before. In 2009, the Green Movement threatened the regime after a disputed election. In 22, nationwide protests erupted following the death of Masa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died in a morality police custody after being detained for allegedly violating Iran's hijab rules. Each time the regime survived.

52:56First, the economy is far worse. Iran faces sustained currency devaluation, unemployment and inflation that has crushed the middle class and hollowed out state legitimacy. That pressure is compounded by a deepening water crisis that has crippled agriculture, sustained urban life and fueled unrest in multiple provinces. Economic despair is no longer peripheral. It now sits its center. At the same time, Iran's proxy network is under strain. Hamas has been devastated. Hezbollah suffered significant losses and now faces domestic pressure in Lebanon. The Houthis remain disruptive but isolated. Tehran's so-called axis of resistance looks less like an unstoppable force and more like a series of costly liabilities.

53:32More importantly, the regime's coercive apparatus is under stress, and this is where the future of Iran will be decided. So we're gonna show you some video of the protests in just a second, but again, as I said at the top, as of this morning, it sounds like 12 ,000 people have been killed and that over the next 24 hours, the Iranian regime is really gonna ramp it up. Like they're gonna try to do a shock and awe and just kill as many people as possible so that the protesters will cow in fear. Now that's to the backdrop of that post that Donald Trump put up earlier this morning, basically saying, keep going.

53:59And Donald Trump has made it clear he's not messing around with this stuff. So I don't know what that means we do, but think about this. Israel, which is an absurdly, absurdly, can we get a map of the Middle East real quick? Israel, which is an absurdly tiny country the size of New Jersey. Iran is probably 50, 100 times bigger landmass than it. Israel won that war in 11 days. And on day 12, they asked the Americans to have some B-2 bombers fly over and blow up those nuke sites. Meaning that that showed the people of Iran, boy, this regime, these people, the Ayatollahs, the mullahs who were in charge of us, they're not as powerful.

54:36You know what I mean? Like Israel destroyed Hamas, destroyed their proxy Hegzbollah in Lebanon. Like it's actually maybe a bit of a paper tiger. So these people are emboldened right now. And as the article pointed out, Let's not forget, in 2009, they tried to do this. They got pretty damn close. But who was the president of the United States? It was Barack Obama, and he let all of those people die. Now, again, I'm not saying, I'm not saying if we do something, it will work. This is very different than Venezuela, which I think will be just fine. I don't know exactly what will happen, but we are the last force in the world that can do anything to help these people.

55:09So let's show you some video of the protests in Tehran, and then I'll show you a quick map of the Middle East.

55:26You have to realize how historic this is. These people, their internet has been cut. They have lived through decades of secret prisons and women not being allowed to walk on the street and all sorts of unbelievably horrific conditions. And they're going through it now and 12 ,000 people have been killed and they're still out there. It's just incredible. I think we have a map of the Middle East here. And you can see Israel is so small, you literally can't fit a letter on the landmass. And look how big Iran is. So I don't know, what is that? 50 times bigger, 80 times bigger? And they took them in 11 days.

55:56So that months ago showed, boy, this regime isn't so strong. So the people started getting inspired. And the Persians don't hate the Jews, and the Jews certainly don't hate the Persians. So there's something historic happening here. The question is, what will America's role be in it? Again, it's unknown what would happen if we got more involved. I certainly wouldn't be for sending troops there, but is there some way we can hit regime military sites so that it weakens them? Potentially. Here's a little bit more from Visegrad24. Breaking, Islamic authorities in Iran have announced the imminent execution of participants in anti-regime protests.

56:33Officials said that following expedited court proceedings, the first group of convicted ringleaders of unrest will be executed on Wednesday morning. Among those sentenced to death is 26-year-old protester Irfan Sultani. His execution is scheduled for January 14th, 26th, just days after his arrest during the protests. Reports say the execution will be carried out by a hanging. Some of the executions may be conducted publicly in accordance with Islamic law. According to human rights organizations, Sultani's family was informed of the death sentence on January 11th and granted only a brief 10-minute visit.

57:05Sultani was denied access to a lawyer, a fair trial, or any opportunity to appeal, making what appears to be the first in a potential wave of rapid executions aimed at suppressing dissent. So yeah, one of the things that people are saying now is that now that it sounds, again, like 12 ,000 people have been killed, that they may do a rush of public executions because what do I always say? It's about the signal. And what signal do they wanna send? We are in charge. And if you stand up against us, you will die. Of course, the X factor in all of this is a guy by the name of Donald Trump. They called you yesterday.

57:36Yesterday, Iran called to negotiate. Yesterday. Yesterday. The leaders of Iran called. They want to negotiate. I think they're tired of being beat up by the United States. Are you sure you need to go to that call? Iran wants to negotiate, yes. Negotiate what? We may meet with them. I mean, a meeting is being set up. But we may have to act because of what's happening before the meeting. But a meeting is being set up. Iran called, they wanna negotiate. Thank you. We will never have a more honest president. It's so crazy. A meeting has been called, but we may have to act first. It's called carrot and stick.

58:14It's called negotiations. A guy like Donald Trump, I think his name was Donald Trump, wrote a book about negotiations. And that's what he's doing right now. And again, let me read that tweet or the truth social post that I read up top. Iranian patriots, keep protesting. Take over your institution. Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters. Stop, help is on the way. Make Iran great again, President Donald J. Trump. So again, I don't know what that means exactly, but Trump, like, it seems to me he has now gone so, he's gone so far with the rhetoric here.

58:46He can't just leave these people to die. What happens on the other side of that, we don't know, but this does feel different because Trump has a track record of doing what he says he's gonna do. And it's like, do you think that we're gonna suddenly send thousands of American troops there and all of that stuff? I just think there's no way Trump does that, but is there something we can do? And are there some things that you and I probably can't think of that Trump is talking about with Pete Hegseth and Marco and a bunch of other people right now? I'm gonna guess yes. Here's Caroline Leavitt on what's going on.

59:13Tomorrow, the president's gonna be meeting with his national security team. Reports are that he's gonna be weighing options on what to do to push back against Iran, killing innocent protesters who are simply saying that they want a better economy. And some of them now are calling for regime change. The Speaker of Iran's Parliament openly threatened the president over the weekend, calling him, quote, delusional, also saying, if you have the courage to come to Iran, we will discipline you. What I will tell you is that what the Iranian regime is saying publicly is quite different from the messages they are sending to the United States and the Trump administration privately.

59:48President Trump, as for him, he has always expressed that diplomacy is the first option, always has been, always will be. However, he is unafraid to use the lethal force and might of the United States military if and when he deems that necessary. All right. So look, this is clear messaging. It's it's you use it's carrot and stick. Guys, stop doing bad things and maybe we can work with you and negotiate. That's carrot. But what's the stick? Well, if you don't do that and you keep killing these people, the stick is going to be in the form of a bomb. And that would be a problem. I thought this was interesting on Polymarket.

1:00:23will the Iranian regime fall before 2027? And this is where they kind of do a poll of polls thing and a 46 % chance. So just under 50 % say yes by 27, 54 % say no. You know, I'm gonna say yes. I'm gonna say yes before the fall of 27. So that's about a year and a half from right now. My guess is yes, I think this is different. I really, really do. Elika Laban, who is an Iranian who I believe now lives in the UK. hey, I've had her on the show once to talk a bit about this Iran situation or previous Iran situation. Here she is, it's about a minute-long video explaining, and I just think this is so important because I will not even sit here and pretend to be an expert in all of the history of Iran, but here she is in a minute sort of succinctly explaining some of the history around how Iran became what it is now.

1:01:12Most people believe that the story of Iran begins in 1979 with the Islamic Revolution, but our story actually goes much further back. It begins with the Red-Green Alliance. The alliance of the far-left Marxists with the far-right Islamists. Their union not only destroyed Iran, that ideology infected the West. That is why I say Iran is not the past. Iran is a warning of what happens when that ideology goes unchecked. In the 1960s, the Shah introduced the White Revolution. That was a modernization project. It increased women's rights, women's suffrage, education, literacy, land reforms, industrial expansion.

1:01:52It was supported by the Iranian people by referendum. But guess who rejected it? Of course, the Red-Green Alliance. They said that that type of modernization was westernization and that couldn't happen in Iran. That was when the Marxists and the Islamists began setting fire to everything. That's why they set fire to Rex Cinema famously, because they said cinemas were a symbol of westernization. That movement eventually led to the 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah and ushered in the Islamic regime. That's just a tiny bite, and I highly recommend you follow Erica. And she'll be on our show.

1:02:29She's on the show on Friday, right? So she'll be on the show on Friday, and we'll get a bit more into this stuff. But the reason I wanted to show you that is she brings up, I mean, I think you got it already. she brings up something that I talk about all the time, right? It's the Red-Green Alliance. And the Red-Green Alliance is the far left, which is signing up with the far right. And why do they sign up together, even though they're supposedly at odds with each other? It's because they are in it for the revolution. So why is it that someone on the far left, say a Zorhan Mandami or an Ilhan or Omar or one of these types, AOC, et cetera, why are they largely in bed with someone like Tucker right now on the right.

1:03:06It's because they both want the revolution, right? It's not that they necessarily agree, but they're sort of, they're inconvenient neighbors while they usher in the revolution. And MAGA and what America truly stands for is the thing that is against that. But what we could be ushering in here is, we're not going to have the Islamic revolution of 1979 right here in America tomorrow, but there could be some revolution that's, you can see it. You can to do to break all of the good things of America. You'd have to break us from our history, you'd have to break us from truth, you would have to brainwash us so that the bad ideas that all of our ancestors fled would be ushered right back in.

1:03:47Well, I've shown you many videos over the years of former KGB agent and anti-communist author Yuri Bezmenov. Here he is once again explaining how a generation can be brainwashed to hate their own country. It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being demoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism.

1:04:44The result? The result you can see. Most of the people who graduated in the 60s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system. We are unapologetic about our socialism. There are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS, right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production. But you guys get it. And that's why I show you these videos over and over at times, because I really want it to be something that you understand so that when you're in a conversation, as we all get wrapped in these conversations as often on the weekend when I'm just trying to escape all this stuff, no matter where I go, someone's gonna come up to me somewhere and try to get me in one of those conversations.

1:05:27Okay, I'm a pro at it, but for you guys, it's like you should have some of this knowledge just in your back pocket when people are asking you what you think about the world or why things are so chaotic or how does this any make sense or whatever. And it's like, yeah, if you took over the institutions over decades and you broke people's minds and you convinced people that the bad guys were the good guys and the good guys were the bad guys and you convince people that America, the greatest freaking human experiment in our history is bad, then you could usher in unimaginable evil. So you've got the people of Iran trying to extricate themselves from unimaginable evil, and you have brainwashed buffoons on the streets of America trying to usher it in.

1:06:09That is the strange place we seem to be in this first month of 2026. but, you know, we've got 11 months left of the year and it's America's 250th and I think everything's gonna be okay. So that's the program for today. Post game show, why am I doing this? I don't know. Post game show, 30 seconds, rubenreport.logals.com. Thanks for watching.

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