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Walker Wildmon: There are several ways to listen to American Family Radio

>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome to The Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to have you with us on today's edition. Walker Wildmon here. And, The show is hosted each week by myself and Rick Greene. We're your host each week and it's good to be with you on this brand new edition of The program. As a brief reminder, there are a variety of ways to listen to The program to get past episodes. One of The primary ways to do that is by visiting afr.net afr.net or The American Family Radio app. Wherever you, whatever app store you use. We have The AFR app out there on a variety of platforms. And then secondly, you can subscribe to The podcast on all The major podcast platforms. Just type in The name of this show at The core, click The subscribe or The follow button, and The latest episode of The show will be ready to go in your library each and every afternoon. that's The two main ways to keep up with The show. And American Family Radio, you got The app store and afr.net and then you also have The podcast on all The major podcast platforms.

American Family Radio has some big events coming up in the next several months

Well, let me remind you of just a couple of events that we have coming up in The next several months and into early 2027. Can't believe we're already talking that way, but, Boston is, The last remaining spiritual heritage tour of which we have seats available for. And this registration is going to close here in late, July, early August. And so you're going to want to move on that. We're going to Boston September 21st through The 26th. We're taking with us Steven McDowell and Tim Barton, two very well known historians on America's early history and The Christian, The Christian Founding of our country. So we're going to be going to Boston on this 250th anniversary looking at The Freedom Trail, Plymouth Rock, Lexington, Concord, Jon Adams Home. Just a lot of different great places. We're going to be going in Boston and then in early 2027, looking at March of 2027, we're going to be going to Greece doing The Footsteps of Paul. Then right after that my parents are taking a group to Italy. And so those are just a couple events and trips we have coming up in The next several months. You can go over to tours.afa.net tours.afa.net to check out all The information on that. coming up July 4th, I can't fail to mention this because it's going to be a great, great episode nine of AFA at Home that's going to be released. The video is going to be released on all The major social media platforms on The American Family association pages also. It's going to be [email protected] and it's going to be a special here on American Family Radio. It's going to be a 90 minute special during that weekend of July 4th. We're going to air it on multiple occasions throughout The day on American Family Radio on The weekend of July 4th. But this episode nine of AFA at Home is One Nation Under God is The title. And I sat down in Alito, Texas at The Wallnua Builders Library where we've got all The major founding era documents in this library. It's phenomenal. And we recorded this video series, AFA at Home Episode 9 with Steven McDowell, Rick Greene and Tim Barton to mention those guys again. And I was The moderator if you will, or The The The host of The episode. And so we, we went back to America's founding era. We talked about our founding fathers, we talked about The Revolutionary War, what motivated them while they came here. We talked about The Bill of Rights, The Declaration of Independence. We even fast forwarded to where we are today, what they thought about The future of America and can she survive and what's, what it's going to take to survive and to rebuild this country. And so that's a very, very jam packed 90 minute episode of AFA at Home. And so you're going to want to put that on your calendar. It is going to be released on July 4th. On July 4th. And then of course The AFR, version, The audio version here on The network is going to air throughout that weekend July 3rd, 4th and 5th. So put that on your calendar, be on The lookout for that, and go ahead and create a free account over at stream.afa.net, stream.aca.net well, one thing I want to talk about today is what, we can look forward to when it comes to President Trump potentially getting another Supreme Court nomination. Now, President Trump has, was able to achieve a very historic number of three nominations to The US Supreme Court just in his first term. And, it's possible, very, very possible and likely that President Trump is going to get even more appointments over The next couple years as he finishes out his second term. The context here in The backdrop, is that we do have a reliably 5, 4 conservative court, and in some cases, a 6, 3 conservative court, depending on where Roberts falls, The Chief justice on The rulings. But nonetheless, there are several scenarios in which you have a vacancy, and The most likely is a retirement. The two oldest members of The Court are Justice Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. These two justices just happen to be, The most conservative justices, The most reliably constitutional justices and originalists on The court. And so The stakes are high. The stakes are high, and I'm sure you've heard me talk about this with, my good friend Philip Juregui. But we launched a project called The center for Judicial Renewal back over three years ago, and we began researching, future federal judicial nominees, including future Supreme Court nominees. And The reason we did this is because we saw that The stakes were going to be high and that we had to get The best of The best judges appointed to The Supreme Court to ensure that The Supreme Court, is a court that upholds The rule of law, that upholds The Constitution and doesn't undermine it. Because we've seen throughout our country's history how The Supreme Court can either bring about righteous ruling or unrighteous ruling. And you have cases like Roe versus Wade back in The 70s. You have cases such as The obergfeller ruling in 2015. And then there's dozens of other cases that I could list in between that timeframe where The Supreme Court rejected, God. They rejected God's precepts, God's truth. They even, in some instances, rejected constitutional principles that our Founding Fathers, put in The Bill of Rights. and so The Court can either be used as a force for good force, force of righteousness, or can be used as a force of unrighteousness and evil. And so, of course, The first option is The best option. And that's God's design for government and for judges and for rulers, is to rule righteously. And so we began, doing our own due diligence. Over 15,000 hours of research, dozens of potential nominees that we've researched to ensure that The President and The Senate have. The President obviously nominates and The Senate approves through The advise and consent, clause in The U.S. constitution. And what we've been doing, The research to equip The Senate and The White House to ensure that they nominate and approve The nominee that is most likely to rule justly, to rule rightly, and rule according to The Constitution and biblical principles. And those two things do go hand in hand, by The way. They're not mutually exclusive in this context of American government. Why? Because The Founding Fathers used God's truth in The Scriptures to motivate and to shape how they, structure The government, how they constitute The government. The reason we have three branches of government is not because The Founding Fathers played rock, paper, scissors over whether we should have three or six branches of government. No, The reason we have three branches of government is because our Founding Fathers understood The truth in Scripture that all men are born into sin, we are all capable of sinning. And in order to have a balance of power, we need multiple m co Equal branches of government. And so that's why we have three branches of government. It's not some random concept that some people, you know, just, decided, hey, let's do three. They intentionally set, up and instituted three branches of government. Why? Because they understood human nature, they understood, God's truth. And there needed to be accountability and there needed to be, shared power, if you will, and shared accountability and multiple ways to offset, abuses of power. And I could go on and on about this, and of course, there's other people smarter than me on The founding of America and why our government is structured how it is. But The moral of The story is that President Trump is very likely to get a nomination or two or three during The last two to three years of this term here. And so it's very, very important that we stay on top of this. And it's very possible that we even get a vacancy here in The next month or two with The Supreme Court, term m ending at The end of June, officially. And usually if there are going to be any retirement announcements, it's going to happen at The end of The term in The last week of June or The first few weeks of July. But another, encouragement to getting Very good Supreme Court nominations for The future of The country is that The Supreme Court really serves as this backstop, as this check, if you will, to an out of control administrative, state. We saw under Biden and Obama and others how The executive branch abused their authority, abused their power. You had examples, of overreach. And so The Supreme Court can really serve as a check and a balance during these periods where The executive branch just isn't following The rule of law, isn't following The Constitution, isn't protecting our constitutional rights. And once again, these are, lifetime appointments at The Supreme Court. And so, can you imagine, I mean, getting President Trump getting one, two, three more nominations on The high court. This is just a generational historic opportunity, to advance righteousness, to advance The rule of law, to advance constitutional precepts on society, on government and on The country. And there are still various rulings that, have various unjust rulings at The Supreme Court that have yet to be overturned. I mean, I know we've seen a lot of victories here with The overturning of Roe v. Wade. We've seen, a lot of other positive rulings, religious freedom upheld in some instances at The Supreme Court. But, there's still cases like The obergfell opinion in 2015 that still need to be overturned. Very wrong rulings, very unjust rulings, very unconstitutional rulings that are still on The books at The Supreme Court, and we have to get those overturned. So my point is that there's plenty of righteousness to be ruled on at The Supreme Court, and we have to continue pursuing this with vigilance and with energy until all of The wrongs have been made right at The Supreme Court. And there's plenty of options, to do that. There's other topics like election integrity or immigration subjects or, you know, what, pro life cases, having to do with The abortion pill and with IVF and some of these other technologies, that will be ruled on at The Supreme Court. And so there's just so much at play. The Supreme Court has, hears, you know, dozens, if not hundreds of cases each year. They have, they have thousands of cases that are appealed to them. They only take a certain percentage of them, but they hear dozens of cases each year. And these cases affect, The rights of people like you and me and The future of our country. And so we need just justices, we need righteous rulers, if you will, so to speak, at The Supreme Court. And so going to keep tracking that. I also published an op ed recently with The Washington Times titled we can't afford another quote, trust me, Supreme Court appointment.

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Walker Wildmon talks about upcoming trip to Ark Encounter and Creation Museum

>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to The Core here on American Family Radio. Walker Wildmon here for The second segment of today's program. Glad to have you with us. The event that we have in October that I'm very excited about is our, I think our fourth trip to The Ark Encounter and The Creation Museum. So we're going to be doing this in October 29th and 30th of this year, taking a group of about 200 people to The Ark Encounter and The Creation Museum. And we do have limited capacity here. We we have between 160 and 170 signed up. Our cap is 200 which is four buses that we're going to take people over to The Ark and counter The Creation Museum two separate days. We're going to do that on October 29th and 30th. So if you want to join us at The AFA at The Ark trip, our fourth trip to The AFA at The Ark. We would love to have you on October 29th and 30 30th. You can go over to afa.netforward/events afa.netforward/events to join us at The Ark Encounter and The Creation Museum. I'll be there. My brother Wesley and then Tony Vitagliano and other members of our team will be there at The end of October in 2026. Another project we've been working on for several years is our Ten Commandments Youth Speech Challenge that's going on during The month of June. Our Ten Commandments Youth Speech Challenge. These are for speeches that we ask, those age 7 to 17 to prepare roughly a 3 to 5 minute speech. And we Give all of The instructions, The specific topic, how to upload your video, The fact that you can have a parent or a, ah, sibling help you with The speech. That's perfectly fine. how to record The video. Once again, all of these instructions for this Speech Challenge that we're collecting this month are available over at afr.net afr.net right there on The homepage you can see The Ten Commandments Speech Challenge banner. And then you can click that and get The whole rundown, on how to submit your video, your speech, for The Ten Commandments Speech Challenge. So that's going on this month and of course after June, we'll announce The winners of that. Give some shout outs to The folks that participated in The Ten Commandments Speech Challenge.

President Trump has repeatedly claimed that a deal with Iran is imminent

Well, this segment, I want to make sure we get to this topic of what's going on in Iran. And once again, this is an evolving situation in Iran. Every day it appears that there's a different headline. So take this for what it's worth. but we're going on over, three months now. so The end of February was when The White House and The President launched Operation Epic Fury. So we're looking at all of March, all of April, all of May, and we're in The month of June now. So over three months of operations in, that region, aimed at, according to The White House, preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon. And that objective of Iran not having a new nuclear weapon is a very bipartisan, consensus building strategy. There's just a lot of people who agree that The Iranians can't have a nuclear bomb because of how irrational they are, how erratic they are. And these past three months of utterly failed negotiations have proven just how erratic The Iranian regime is and how inconsistent they are and how difficult they are to put it lightly to negotiate with. And my position has been for The last several weeks, and will continue to be until otherwise noted, that there really will be no deal with Iran. There will be no deal with Iran in traditional terms. There's just no deal to be made, because we're dealing with a very irrational and unreasonable people and party, talking about The Iranian regime. And so that's where we are today. And we still have a massive amount of forces in The region. The kinetic bombings and strikes and operations are somewhat sporadic. sometimes The ceasefire is holding, sometimes it's not. Iran, recently in The last week or two launched ballistic missiles into Israel. Israel, of course, launched retaliatory strikes in Iran. The Us, every few days is bombing Iran, even under what's supposed to be a ceasefire. And so this whole situation has just been all over The map. There's just nothing consistent about it. When you look at it every day, The headline is changing. but what has been consistent is that President Trump has just been very disciplined, by The way, which he deserves credit for. He's been very disciplined with his messaging, claiming that Iran wants a deal and that there will be a deal. And he keeps using two to three days. Two to three days, maybe tomorrow, maybe The next day. and within The first few weeks of The conflict, I thought, you know, maybe there will be a deal, maybe this is just a matter of time. Let's just give this some time. But, we're in The middle of month four of The conflict, and we're still at The same position of there being no deal, and President Trump, once again, claiming every week there will be a deal. So I did do a little bit of research on this, and President Trump, once again, this is as of, as of roughly mid June, President Trump has stated on at least 40 occasions from late March to early June, that at least 40 times he has stated that either Iran, an Iran deal is, quote, imminent or, quote, close or, quote, around The corner. he's also used The term final stages coming in days or weeks. he also has used The word desperate to describe Iran's negotiating position. So roughly 40 times The president has stated on The record, sometimes multiple times in The same day, that Iran is desperate for a deal. A deal is within days, it's right around The corner, it's imminent, we're going to sign The deal, we've agreed to a deal. And once again, The first few weeks of The conflict, The first few weeks of, quote, unquote, negotiations, you say to yourself, well, maybe it's true, let's just wait and see. But The question I have is how much longer will we hold this position of let's wait and see before we just utterly don't believe The President? And I hate to be pessimistic, and I hate to even cast any shade on The President, but you can only say this so many times before The public just utterly doesn't believe you. And I think we're pretty much at that point now. The media keeps regurgitating these talking points by The President, which is quite interesting to me, that they keep regurgitating The same talking points that The President is putting out, even though The facts on The ground just don't support, The President and now he can say, and he'll say this, he'll say, well, no one and no one knows but me what, where The negotiation stands. Okay, nobody knows but you. You keep saying it's imminent. And it's not imminent because we're on month four now. That's not, that doesn't fit The definition of two to three days are imminent or even in a matter of weeks. And so I'm going to play this clip here. This is of msnow. Now, granted, this is The spinoff of MSNBC and is a very left wing outlet, so take that for what it's worth. But nonetheless, this journalist, this report claims to have sources in The White House that are claiming that Trump, quote, miscalculated The response that Iran would give, to this conflict and to Operation Epic Fury. This is going to be clip two. Let's listen.

>> MSNBC Reporter: As you read at The top of The show, essentially this White House official said, quote, a fundamental miscalculation from Trump on dealing with Iran. This official went on to say, we've not seen anything The likes of The way Iran behaves. They called it, quote, erratic behavior and said that The President, as we saw evidence in a lot of that Kristin Welker interview with President Trump that we've been airing throughout The day, The President attempting to say he has The upper hand in The situation, a deal is imminent and going to take place soon. I think that's The seventh or eighth time The President has said a version of that over The past 100 days. And then hours later, seeing these significant strikes from Iran on Israel, this White House official is arguing it just shows how far Iran's willing to go here.

>> Walker Wildmon: Well, there you have it. That's a report from Ms. Now saying that a White House official, not a, it's important to note, not a senior White House official, just a White House official, which could be anybody, in The White House, which is hundreds of employees, claimed that President Trump miscalculated, The Iranian response, or The lack thereof to Operation Epic Fury. how much of truth is in that, I'm not sure. But The evidence that we do see before our eyes does seem to back up that narrative, does seem to back up that statement in that President Trump likely went into this thinking he could militarily coerce The Iranians into giving up The erased uranium. But now that's just not happening. It's just not happening. And one of The pitfalls, if you will, or one of The weaknesses with President Trump is sometimes he can over promise. And he also has a very bombastic personality and uses a lot of hyperbole, etc. But with such a serious matter, it's one thing to say, you know, I'm m going to create millions of jobs this year and then you don't. Right, that's just whatever, that's politicking. That's just projecting success, right, that may not actually come to fruition, but when you're dealing with foreign policy and war and life or death, it's kind of a big deal. And it's a lot different and a lot different ramifications than just bombastically making claims about what you're going to do as president, when it has to do with maybe The economy or maybe mass deportations or things like that. but here folks, Iran, hasn't budged at all. Iran hasn't budged at all. And they've shot down just in The last week or two. they shot down, recently multiple military aircraft, multiple US Military aircraft. The count of US Military aircraft that have been downed by The Iranians is over 50 now with some of these, not all, but some of these, a few of them having ah, personnel on board. And a lot of them have been drones that have been shot down, The Reaper drones over Iranian territory. But nonetheless, The Iranians have consistently shown hostility militarily against U.S. forces and assets in The region. And, but President Trump for, for months now has claimed that there will be a deal there. A deal is imminent, Iran is desperate. And The gamble here, I mean this is The The equivalent of going to The casino. The gamble here is that when there is no deal, which I don't think there will be, when there is no deal and The White House has to own up to it, whether it's next month or in six months, when there is no deal, how do you explain a President who has been saying for four months that there is a deal and that there will be a deal? And he's been saying both back and forth. I just think right now when you look at this, people may be dismissing this as, well The President's overly optimistic or he's trying to project something that he wants to come to fruition as part of his quote, negotiating tactics. Okay, that's fine. I don't doubt that. And I'm not saying there's anything nefarious going on here. I just think that The public is being told things that are just not true. And we've seen past administrations obviously with much more nefarious strategies, going on Whether it be Biden or Obama, et cetera, where The American people were misled, we were lied to. And I hope this isn't The case, and I really don't want it to be The case, but unfortunately it's looking like this is probably The case. You just can't say to The public that is looking at another years long war, hundreds of billions of dollars, US troops in The region being deployed, gas prices between four and five dollars a gallon, inflation back on The rise. You just can't look at The American voter and The American public and keep telling them something that just is factually not true. There is no sign from The Iranian negotiators that they are, quote, unquote, desperate for a deal. Because desperate parties in a military conflict don't shoot down American Apache helicopters over The Strait of Hormuz with, with, with US pilots in The cockpit. That is not a behavior of a, of a party in a conflict that is, quote, unquote, desperate to end The conflict. Also, parties that are desperate to end a military conflict do not continue shooting drones and ballistic missiles into The holes of commercial shipping vessels, sinking them in The Strait of Hormuz. A party of Iran that is desperate to end The conflict doesn't fire ballistic missiles, that energy infrastructure in Kuwait, in Qatar, in UAE, in Bahrain, etc. And so my point in going through this laundry list of evidence is to point out to everyone that there is no evidence, there is no evidence publicly that we have available to us that Iran is, quote, desperate for a deal. It's just not there.

Journalists keep repeating White House talking points about Iran without looking at facts

And I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, three months past, just regurgitating when talking about The Iran situation, just regurgitating The White House talking points. Because I'm lying to myself and I'm lying to you and any journalist and media outlet that keeps parroting The bullet points put out by The White House without fact checking them and looking what's actually going on is doing everyone a disservice. So The facts on The ground, The facts made publicly available are that there is no imminent deal. The US And Iran are far, far apart on their objectives. Iran said multiple times, we're not negotiating, we will not negotiate. We don't want to negotiate, we don't want to deal with The U.S. we're over it, we're done. And so this charade that is being played on The American people and The public is just thin as paper. And I'm surprised that journalists keep parroting The talking points that are clearly not true. We'll talk more about this after The break.

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American Family Radio's Walker Wildmon talks about the Iran situation

>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to The Core. This is our last segment here on American Family Radio. Well, continuing this, my somewhat of a rant on The Iran situation, here's what, what's, what is. What is becoming increasingly frustrating. And I think, I think unless something changes, on The trajectory of this pretty drastically in a positive manner for The United States and Israel and our objectives here militarily, I think barring a major shift in The outcome here and The trajectory of this conflict, history is going to view this in a very negative light. And let me explain why. as I mentioned, taking out Iran's nuclear program completely on board with that. Non negotiable. Absolutely. Iran can't have nukes. They're such a dangerous people. This false, religion of Islam is very dangerous. People being in control of nuclear weapons and reading The Quran, those two things don't need to go together. These are a very apocalyptic people. They are very stone age people, and they want to see, The death of Jews and The death of what they call The Great Satan, which is The US a Christian nation, that is fundamentally at odds with their false religion. And so there's a lot of reasons religious and otherwise, that Iran, as a radical Islamic regime, doesn't need nuclear weapons. That's pretty clear. And there's even countries like China and others that wholeheartedly agree with The US Position on this. so that's where we are. And that's The military objective that there's a lot of consensus around. So when you stick to that, that's a winner from a public perception standpoint. What is increasingly, showing itself is that, The U.S. and The White House went into this Operation Epic Fury without fully having a plan to resolve every potential scenario here. And what I mean by that is when you go into a conflict of this nature, of course, our War Department has probably war gamed tons of scenarios, dozens of scenarios of how Iran responds and how we're going to respond, etc. So I'm not doubting that a lot of this was planned out, was gamed out. But what I'm telling you that is clear is that as of now, we haven't seen it yet, but that The US doesn't have a fix for The closure of The Strait of Hormuz. Pretty much every other response by Iran we've been able to mitigate and handle. We've been able to shoot down their missiles, we've been able to disable their radar sites. we've got The economic blockade going on now in The Strait of Hormuz, in The port, ports of Iran. That's been very effective. But this, this complete shuddering of The Strait of Hormuz has been something that we have just been unable to stop. And that's just a fact. On The ground, it's not lack of willpower, or maybe it is, we just haven't been able to stop militarily this closure of The Strait of Hormuz. Now, some would say, well, we can, we can reopen The Strait. Just how much, what kind of cost are you willing to pay as far as US Assets, US Military boots on The ground? You know, some would say, well, we can, we can go in with boots on The ground, and we can take over The entire shore of Iran, thousands of miles. And we can, we can open The Strait of Hormuz. It's just about what kind of cost are you willing to pay? and that very well may be The case, but as of today, we just haven't done it either. Haven't been willing to do, do it or haven't been able to do it. And The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and President Trump actually is beginning to talk about this so much that he's getting off message a little bit. And let me explain what I'm talking about. President Trump said this when questioned just within The last week on like, what are your options here? Right. We still got The Strait of Hormuz closed. Iran still has The nuclear enriched uranium. So, so what are we doing here? All right, this is four months in. You say there's a deal imminent. What are we doing here? What are our options? President Trump says this, quote, if we go and bomb, which we can do very easily if we want, and we spend another two or three weeks bombing, they'll have nothing left whatsoever. Continuing The quote, but you won't have The strait open for months. Talking about The Strait of Hormuz, if we do The bombing, you know, a lot of people are going to be killed. Who wants to do that? I don't, said The president. And then he concluded by saying, and we'll get, we'll have a signed document that's actually stronger than doing The bombing, end quote. And so what's noteworthy here is that President Trump admits that if we go, quote, all out militarily and bomb Iran for another three weeks non stop, take out tons of infrastructure, tons of power plants, water plants, etc. He said, even if we do all of that, you won't have The strait open for months. You won't have The strait open for months. So then we're talking about a continuation of The closure of The Strait of Hormuz. And, The people may be looking at this now going, well, you know, The closure of The Strait of Hormuz isn't that big of a deal. I mean, after all, doesn't most of our oil either come from domestic production or otherwise? yes, that's true, but when you look at The markets, The only reason, or one of The primary reasons rather, that, that we haven't seen gasoline at 6, $7 a gallon at least, as far as The nationwide average goes. The reason we haven't seen that is because The US and our allies, our energy allies, have been, daily releasing barrels of oil from our strategic reserves. So for example, if you look at The US Strategic reserve supply, ever since this conflict began, The United States has been releasing millions of barrel, barrels of oil from our strategic reserve that Biden, by The way, already had drained, before President Trump came into office The second time. And so those strategic reserve releases have been alleviating some of The price pressure at The pump. Pair that with a, The Venezuelan oil that is now on The market for importing into The US refining, etc. Those couple things have kept oil relatively steady even during such a conflict. But those reserves and that, that strategy, folks, has a timeline with it that's not an endless reserve. And you have a lot of countries in Europe and Asia that just don't have The energy production that we do. They don't have The energy supply that we do. And they're relying on that Strait of Hormuz being open and that, that energy, that oil, that fuel coming out of The Strait of Hormuz and onto The market. You've also got fertilizer, and other petroleum products that have, been shuttered through The Strait of Hormuz. You've got thousands, over a thousand, commercial, and merchant shipping vessels that are stuck in The strait, that have been docked there for, now, four months with crew members that have been living on a ship for four months, unable to get off and to leave their vessels. And so I say that just to help you understand that The importance of The Strait of Hormuz being reopened. It's not as if we can just leave this thing closed. We just don't need The Strait of Hormuz. That's just not The case. Now, can we reroute some oil? I think 50% of oil, from places like, Qatar and other places in UAE are being shipped through pipelines over to The western portion, of that region through another waterway. and so that's happening. So that's alleviating some pressure. but, but, but, but at The end of The day, this has to be resolved in some manner. In some manner, this deal has to be resolved. And The U.S. if they went into this, without a successful route to reopen The Strait of Hormuz, then that was just utterly reckless and careless. And, time will tell and we'll keep tracking this.

The White House needs to hone back in on domestic policy talking points

But right now, folks, this is just not, looking good from an economic perspective and from a resolution perspective, that this is just going to drag on and drag on and drag on to what end? And we can't say this took us by surprise. You can't, with a straight face, anyone who looks at The history of this say, I'm surprised Iran hasn't come to The table. I'm surprised Iran hasn't signed a deal. Now, they've been doing this for decades. I mean, these guys are masters in delay, delay, delay, delay. I mean, they're honestly, it's honestly embarrassing for President Trump, who doesn't like to get embarrassed, but, but Iran is just dragging their feet. They have no intention of ever working with us in any amicable manner. But they keep, oh, we just need a couple more weeks. So we just need some time. We need ceasefire. We needed a delay. we'll get you. We'll get you back our counter negotiation points, and before you know it, you're six months a year, two years, three. Before you know it, you got a whole new administration and we're still talking about a deal with Iran, and President Trump's not even The president anymore. And so I'm just tired of The constant, you know, talking points and narrative building and all this garbage, that half of which is just straight up lies. I mean, was straight up being lied to by The administration. And these are good people up there. I mean, Secretary Rubio, Pete Hexith. I mean, these are solid conservative leaders that have been in The movement for a long time. And it's just not fair and right to keep coming out and just saying things that are just blatantly untrue. Blatantly untrue and expecting The American people just to be roped along, nine months, 12 months down The road with just no end in sight. And meanwhile, think about all of The attention that has been just absolutely pulled away from domestic policy. And now here we are, here I am talking for two or three segments about international politics and foreign affairs in Iran and The Ayatollah, when, And all that time and energy that The White House is putting into this conflict. Meanwhile, you have a lot of The domestic policy issues, that have been somewhat pushed to The wayside, such as mass deportations. I mean, where are we on mass deportations? Where are The latest counts on that? Because when we started this term, The White House and others, they were putting out daily totals of like, hey, here's how many illegals we deported today. Well, I haven't gotten those numbers in months. And so where are we on mass deportations? Is that still going on? What about, you know, in Minneapolis and some of these other major cities where ICE was surging in and deporting illegal immigrants? So we just stopped that. Or did we stop that? Or we're just not talking about it anymore? what about The wall? I mean, how many more miles have we built of The wall? And once again, I'm not doubting that all of these good things are still happening. They're just not being talked about by The administration. And so I think in these next several months leading into The midterms, 2026, November, this is a big year. It's The 250th anniversary of our country. The White House needs to hone back in on The domestic policy talking points. But President Trump. Go back to The border. Let's look at The new wall. Let's look, let's go over The numbers of mass deportations that we're doing. Let's look, look over The number of ICE agents that have been hired. Let's get this economy back on track. Well, you can't get The economy back on track until you reopen The Strait of Hormuz. We've got inflation going back up, but we've got a new Fed chair, so there's The opportunity to lower rates. And so all of this can work hand in hand. but The White House is just going to have to get back on message. And at The end of The day, we're going to have to get past this Iran situation. I mean, The Iran situation has put a lot of thing on hold, honestly. Been a setback economically in some regards. And The White House is going to figure, have to figure out a way to move on from this and get our focus back on domestic policy, just in time for The midterms. Because economics are always, no matter which surveys you look at, economics are number one on The list of voter concerns. Economics are number one on The list of voter concerns. And if you go into a November election, mark my word, if you go into a November election with gas prices at 4 to 5 bucks a gallon, with inflation going back to 4 plus percent in multiple categories, in an Iran conflict that is yet to be resolved, and President Trump in October and November is still saying that an Iran deal is imminent. Folks, you talk about voter suppression and voters not turning up to vote, specifically Republicans and conservatives. that's what you're going to see happen in November. And then you're talking about Hakeem Jeffries as The speaker of The House, You've got impeachment 4.0, 3.0 in The House of Representatives, maybe, you have The Senate, and you can do some judicial nominations and some other things. but legislatively, The entire Trump agenda is on a standstill. And, you have two years of wasted time and a lot of distractions coming out of Congress. And once again, I'm not wishing this on anyone, but I'm just telling you, if you don't get things in order domestically to give Republicans something viable to run on, then, then it doesn't matter how many districts you redraw, how many court cases you win on redistricting. The voters looking at The economics of it are just going to say, look, this isn't working. and they're going to go for The Democrats, which obviously is a bad idea. But I'm just telling you how people vote, how The pendulum swings and in over. In order to overcome that, you have to have a lot of evidence and a lot of positivity to overcome this historical pendulum swing back to The minority party that we see most of The time during these midterm election cycles. So we'll keep tracking it, keep bringing you The truth of what's going on in our country and around The world. We'll see you next time. We'd like to thank our sponsors, including PreBorn. PreBorn has rescued over 400,000 babies from abortion and every day their network clinics rescue 200 babies lives. Will you join PreBorn in loving and supporting young moms in crisis? Save a life today. Go to preborn.com afr The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of The American Family association or American Family Radio.