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>> Tim Wildmon: this Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Again, thanks for listening to American Family Radio. I'm, Tim Wildmon. And joining me in studio is Ed Battagliano.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Good morning, Brother ED Good morning, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wesley Wildmon, all right, welcome back. Yep, second consecutive day, you're.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right, two days in a row. Yesterday we pointed out that there's a reason I'm only on twice a week. I'm only good for two days.
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>> Ed Vitagliano: phenomenal.
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>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Fred Jackson. Good morning, Brother Fred Good morning to you guys. All right, thanks for listening again, everybody, to, today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. We have got a lot, lot to get to on the program today. Fred.
US, Israel to have complete air superiority over Iran in under a week
something called a war going on, isn't there?
>> Fred Jackson: There is a war going on. And our secretary of War, Pete Hegseth gave his latest update this morning. May I just say that I think he has spinach for breakfast because he comes out like he's ready to box somebody in a ring, guns blazing. He's a guns a blazing. And the guns were blazing this morning and he made quite a claim about air, superiority. US, Israel, air superiority over the country of Iran is just a couple of days away. Cut number four.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And we have only just begun to hunt, dismantle, demoralize, destroy and defeat their capabilities just four days in, starting last night and to be completed in a few days. In under a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies uncontested airspace. It means we will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military. Finding and fixing their Leaders and their military leaders flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the irgc. Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US And Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over.
>> Tim Wildmon: Any questions? Think this press conference over.
>> Ed Vitagliano: In fact, I think right now, the only threat to the U.S. military and its air force comes from the Kuwaitis who think we're Iranian planes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Friendly fire.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Friendly fire.
>> Tim Wildmon: M. Now, thankfully, none of the pilots were. They ejected.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They ejected and, got clear. And, No, listen, this is. If you're going to spend trillions of dollars on your military, you might as well be able to do this. And let me say this. What President Trump has been doing now, setting aside all the questions about whether we should be doing it, okay. because I know listeners, there may be disagreements on all of that. Setting that aside, what President Trump is doing is resetting the, global framework here by going ahead and doing what he wants the military to do in Venezuela. Okay. In Iran, the first time. And I'm not saying Israel wasn't involved doing what the military is doing in Iran right now. Everyone else is paying attention.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: All right. If, if, if we are able to get a pro Western government in Iran, not controlled by religious fanatics, the mullahs, etcetera, he's going to be able to, whether it's himself or those representing the US when you're talking to China, you say, listen, you saw what we did. If you, if you invade Taiwan, if you do this and you do that, we will cut off the oil coming through the Strait of Hormuz and then later on the Strait of Malacca, or
>> Tim Wildmon: they think they're getting the idea.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No. Behind the scenes, you don't embarrass them right in public. I'm just saying what Trump has done is kind of reset the foreign policy world map. Yeah. And he said, listen, we're going to do what's in our best interest. And if you don't like it at this point in history, there's nothing you can do about it. I'm not saying, I'm not saying that's the right thing, the right whatever. But when it comes to countries like in the Middle east and China and Russia, they pay attention to who's got the bigger guns. And right now, the trillions we've spent looks like it's. Well, it's. We may run out of missiles, but by golly. But while we got them, there's going to be pain. And it's. I've never really seen anything like what we're doing to Iran.
>> Tim Wildmon: You sound like Trump. Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
>> Ed Vitagliano: It's the greatest.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's the greatest.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Let me just say I do have some misgivings about what we have done.
>> Tim Wildmon: but in what way?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Overall? Well, I don't want to get stuck there in Iran. This thing needs to get settled. I don't know. You know, in a matter of weeks, this, this need gets. Needs to get settled. I don't want to get stuck there in Iran with it falling apart like it did in Iraq. You remember, we had to go in because it was a humanitarian disaster and we had to spend a trillion dollars to fix what we broke.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, but in Iraq, we had Operation Iraqi Freedom. Right. and we put all those ground forces in Kuwait and planned an intentional boots on the ground invasion.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, but I'm saying we destroyed the ability of the government to run the country, so we basically had to help build that up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wesley.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, I don't want to do that. And in this case, you know what, do you call it country building or government building?
>> Tim Wildmon: nation building.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Nation building. We, we don't want that. I don't want that, obviously. but back to the clip of, Pete Hexeth. It was interesting. One of the other things he, I, I listened to the first, five or six minutes or so before we. I, came up here to the, came over here to the show, and there was one line in there that just stood out. He also said, he said, I just want to be clear. We're not, this is not intended to be fair,
>> Tim Wildmon: what he's about. We want to win.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah. Decisively. And he said, and while they're down, we're going to keep going until it's done.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Ed: President Trump made decision to join in an operation against Iran
Okay, so we have a situation. This is day six or so.
>> Fred Jackson: Day five.
>> Tim Wildmon: Day five. Okay, so we have a situation. we, we're not going to rehash everything we said yesterday, except to say, I'm going to rehash everything I said yesterday. Why do we do this? We all do this, don't we?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, there might be new listeners.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me just say this, Let me just say this one more time, not to repeat myself, but again, you have to, you have to step back and say, what's the objective? Okay. The, the, the Israelis have the most, have the best intelligence, agency in the world. Mossad. That's an, ah, that's a subjective opinion. I don't know.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Certainly in that part of the world.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now that's without factoring In Thom Cruise.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: CIA with Thom Cruise.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You need to factor that.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're gonna, you're gonna bump up against a Mossad for who's number one.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But absent. Thom Cruise is Mossad.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so, no, Mossad is the CIA of Israel. they understood. And Prince Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel understood that there was an imminent threat. I mean, the nuclear capabilities. And Iran admitted to this in the negotiations that the US Conducted with them trying to prevent what's happening now from happening. they were going full steam ahead with developing nuclear weapons. And, and they were almost there. And so the Israelis had to say, do we want to wait and see if they'll use it against us, or do we want to preemptively attack them, take out their leadership and hope that the Americans join us? And that Americans did. President Trump made the decision to join in an operation against Iran. And we've had our own problems. The why we. I mean, the US With Iran and they, they're, they're the number one exporter of terrorism around the world. That's been mentioned many times. And how many presidents, Democrat and Republican, have all said that we can't allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon because of their. They will, they will probably use it because, they are religious fanatics. And so you can't reason with these people. They only understand strength. and so they think that they're ushering in the 12th Imam. It's very. Ed, you were reading yesterday from some of the people, don't know what the beliefs of these, ayatollahs, and these mullahs are.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, this is, I'm going to be very vague. This was very disturbing. I saw this on X and double checked to make sure that this was legitimate. But, but the, Shia, views on who you can have relations with.
>> Tim Wildmon: The Shia Muslims, the Shia Muslims different from the Sunni Muslims, the Sunni Muslims of the Arabs. The, Shia Muslims, roughly, roughly speaking, are the Persians.
>> Ed Vitagliano: There are Shia, Arabs, but Shia is a minority. And I do not know what the Sunni views are on this, but it goes all the way down to infants.
>> Tim Wildmon: The Shia, the Shia.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And then this is Khomeini's own guidance on this. It was stunning how perverse their practices are and what are allowed. And you are allowed to. When we talk about what Muhammad did, you know in marrying a nine year old. This is what's allowed. Yeah, nine years old. And, listen, our country is not perfect. We have, we have aborted 50 million babies God doesn't. God doesn't ignore that we have our own problems as a country. But that kind of. The kind of perversion that I was reading is their official.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean allowed in the Shia religion.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The Shia religion. I just thought. I am not surprised that God is judging that if God is involved in this. it was very disturbing. It was very dark, and I can't
>> Tim Wildmon: even talk about it, Really, I can't.
Mossad tapped into Iranian street cameras, Fred says
But you were reading about the belief. Now, these are the people. What you just described were the people who were in charge of Iran that we were dealing with. And so, anyway, back to Mossad. The Mossad, told Benjamin Netanyahu, we got to go, or either we risk annihilation, and they'll be hanging this over our head. That will the Iranians, that they'll strike us if we do anything. So that's the situation that we faced as a country, Israel faced as a country. And so the decision was made, take out the Iranian military and their nuclear capabilities now, and we have to deal with the criticisms here and abroad. I'm talking about, you know, there are people who don't want to go to war, even if it means we get blown up later. They just don't want to go. And there's a lot of Trump derangement syndrome going on here now, too, Fred.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, absolutely.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, you mentioned the Mossad. We go back a few years to the exploding pagers.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, you got to be worried if you're an enemy of Israel, because in this case, they tapped into the street cameras.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Been doing that for years, I think.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, they tapped into the street cameras in Iran, in Tehran, and they knew where these leaders were meeting.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: They were sitting down for a meeting Saturday morning, Tehran time.
>> Tim Wildmon: And Israel's watching them on the. On the video from the street camera.
>> Wesley Wildmon: This is like a movie.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Beyond what you would think is capable. I'm just going like, go ahead.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. But you'd have to believe that these leadership in Iran, you know, they have to be reasonable. Mossad's really smart. Do you think they would tap into our street cams and watch us?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, they did. That's why they're all dead.
>> Fred Jackson: That's why they're all dead.
>> Ed Vitagliano: By the way, if I'm not mistaken, those pagers that we're referring to, this was for Hezbollah, wasn't it?
>> Fred Jackson: Uh-huh.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Those pagers were actually produced by a shell company run by Israelis.
>> Fred Jackson: By Israelis, yeah. The Hezbollah ordered the pages from a shadow company Run by. Yeah, this was.
>> Tim Wildmon: The Iranians are just not looking very smart right now. No, they're. They're looking. Their decision making. They're. They're. They're. I guess they rolled the dice, and said, you know, Israel and the US Are not going to attack us.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it happens.
>> Fred Jackson: So one more story here, under the heading, you can run, but you can't hide.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
The United States and Israel have just wiped out Iranian military forces
>> Fred Jackson: All right. Hegseth had one more announcement this morning. You know, we've heard that in the first few days, the Iranian navy has been destroyed.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, apparently one of their ships tried
>> Ed Vitagliano: to escape the area, made a run for it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Made a run for it, big mistake.
>> Fred Jackson: Made it all the way to. Just off the coast of Sri Lanka. but underneath the waters was a U.S. submarine.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, man.
>> Fred Jackson: And, the name of the good ship, Iranian ship was Soleimani. Does that ring any bells for anybody
>> Tim Wildmon: that was a terrorist, General? What is it, General, that Trump took out when he was in Iraq? He went to Iraq and. Yes, Trump took him out. Took him out seven, eight years ago.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, the good ship Soleimani, went to the bottom thanks to a US Submarine. Here's Hexath making that announcement. Cut number five.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The Iranian navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Combat ineffective. Decimated, destroyed. Defeated. Pick your adjective. In fact, last night, we sunk their prize ship, the Soleimani.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Looks like POTUS got him twice.
>> Tim Wildmon: POTUS being President Trump, President of the United States.
>> Fred Jackson: That is the first time since World War II that a submarine using a torpedo has sunk a warship.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I was watching the video of that, and it's just stunning footage, because that torpedo just lifted the ship out of the water. It looked like it was already on fire. Looked like it had already taken a missile or two.
>> Tim Wildmon: Listen, the United States and Israel have just wiped out Iranian military forces, and they got hardly nothing left. And anything they do have left. We're about to control all the airspace in the country. It's a pretty big country geographically, and, they have no leadership. is anybody, Have you heard, Wesley? Is anybody speaking for them? The Iranians that you know of? Who's speaking for them, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Nope.
>> Tim Wildmon: They do have an ambassador. They do have a representative. I don't know if it's called an ambassador. A representative to the United nations in NewSong York. Maybe he will speak. But what's happening in it, in your corner, like your President Trump even said. Let's play President Trump's clip on it. What did he. What was he asked?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, he's asked about who's Pope is going to take over. And this is what the president had to say to that question. Cut number two.
>> Ed Vitagliano: The worst case would be we do this, and then somebody takes over who's as bad as the previous person. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Most of the people we had in mind are dead. So, you know, we had some in
>> Ed Vitagliano: mind from that group that is.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is dead.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And now we have another group. They may be dead also, based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming in.
>> Tim Wildmon: Pretty soon we're not going to know anybody.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, you know, the question is very serious. who do you want to take over when this. This campaign is done? And you heard the president there.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, every time they have a meeting, the Americans and Israelis blow it up.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, I mean, I don't know they're going to have a. How they going to have a meeting to decide who's the leader? Hey, come over to my house. I don't think it's a good idea to us get together anymore.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And that. And that is, like I said, that's my main concern is that we've done such. And I want to say we, the US and the Israelis, have done such a great job decapitating the leadership there that there won't be anybody to run the country. You don't. You want the citizens who have long wanted.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, I need to represent them.
>> Ed Vitagliano: they. You don't want them getting angry at us because people are starving and there's no water and all that kind of stuff.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We don't want to turn, Tehran into Gaza. So,
>> Tim Wildmon: So that's not sure what the answer is. Good point. Yeah, a good point. You're listening. You're listening to today's issues. That's the name, this program on the American Family Radio Network. Well, as far as the military campaign goes, this has been, you know, carried out with, And can only be described again. I'm talking about not the political implications. I'm talking about just the military cane. Overwhelming.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Overwhelming, efficiency and effectiveness.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things
>> Fred Jackson: They've done.
>> Ed Vitagliano: What was that the old saying in one of the Middle east wars? I don't think it was m. Maybe it was the Gulf War, the original, the first one. But the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things. Yeah, break things. And that's what we're doing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And that's, ah, that's. He fits the description. He meaning Pete. That's, the change from Secretary of defense to the secretary of war.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He's the secretary of War of the Department of War. You got that right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, he is. No nonsense. And you definitely got it. You're not getting much ambiguity. here.
>> Ed Vitagliano: No.
For those who oppose this war, who could be against Israel
>> Tim Wildmon: all right, so I mentioned Mossad. Mossad, the Israeli equivalent of our CIA. They've been monitoring the Iranians for years, and they knew exactly where everybody was, what they're doing, what time they had breakfast, over easy or scrambled M. This is just. They're watching their movements of scientists, to know where the nuclear plants, I say plants.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Why is that, you think?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, they. Because they want to watch where the scientists went. And where the scientists went, quote, that's
>> Ed Vitagliano: where they need to blow up.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what they need to blow up. And so that's why they were watching them.
>> Ed Vitagliano: one of the places we hit had, I don't know how many of those drones were located there, but they. They knew where they were.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And, you know, why would you. Okay, let me ask you this question. for those who oppose this war and Tucker Carlsen, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens says she stands against Israel. Did you see this?
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I did not.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know what's happened to her. these are conservative people. on many, in many respects. Although Megyn Kelly calls herself an independent. I guess that's what Tucker Carlsen would call himself, too. I'm not sure. But, Okay. I'm trying to understand where they're coming from. And of course, you have the people on the left, and they're just. Many of them are just, whatever Trump's for, I'm against. Whatever he's against, I'm for. So it's hard to. They don't. You can't. You can't. You can't hardly. Except for John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, the senator, and I heard him the other night. He said, who could be against this?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who could be against. This guy was the number one exporter of terrorism in the world, a threat to world peace. Talking about the, Atolla and his minions over there, and we've taken them out. and this is a great day. This is what John Fetterman from Pennsylvania was saying. The senator there. So. But he's few and far between on the Democrat slash liberal side of the aisle. most of them are just, like, going, trump's got us involved in a war we didn't ask for.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And he promised not to get us in.
>> Tim Wildmon: Promise not to get. They're just.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They're saying that the M. MAGA folks,
>> Tim Wildmon: that's why you can't risk some of these people you can't respect, because there's no answer to this question.
What would you do if faced with the idea of Iran having nuclear capabilities
Okay, what would you do if you were in Trump's position and you were faced with the idea of the Iranians, having nuclear capabilities as well as underneath that, all these missiles, these, these, these, ballistic missiles they were building that Secretary Marco Rubio talked about. I'm just. I'm asking you for those who would criticize President Trump for acting here. I would say, what would you do? The Pope. I heard the Pope comment this about this. Of course, you don't look to the Pope for military guidance, but he's saying, we need to negotiate. Well, we tried that. Oh, yeah, okay. We tried you at some point with evil, you can't negotiate any further.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I do know the part that got real quiet in the, these press conferences. The one I saw with Pete Hegseth. yeah, there was another one I saw with, a couple of the other leaders, on this issue. And the mic drop or the quiet moment was when it's when they said, now, in the event that we didn't do anything and they did attack us, and then you found out that we did have the information beforehand, could have
>> Tim Wildmon: done something, and we didn't, and we didn't, then what?
>> Wesley Wildmon: We would all be in here. Yeah, that's the part where he got. There's an awkward quiet, silence of two times that's been asked.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's when you come to say, okay, are you saying that President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are lying and we didn't have intel saying they were about to. They were about to have a nuclear weapon? Are you saying they're liars?
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think that's what Tucker Carlsen would say. Yeah. And I think Tucker Carl Carlsen would say, iran posed no threat to us. They pose a threat to Israel, and Israel drug us into this, because they've gone kind of anti Israel.
>> Tim Wildmon: I want to talk about that when we get back. Stay with us.
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Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network features Abraham Hamilton
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Ed, Wesley and Fred promise to let Wesley talk this half hour, people. Those who wait. Yeah. Anything you want to say, Wesley? Right now, the floor is yours.
>> Wesley Wildmon: No, just looking forward having Abon.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, we do have Abon and I'm sure Abel talk. That's why we invited him on. Abraham Hamilton iii, host of the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio, joins us right now. That's afternoons, five to six o' clock Central time. Good morning, Abe.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Good morning.
Pete Hexif: You think the Israeli strikes are legitimate or illegitimate
>> Tim Wildmon: I want to ask you a couple things. first of all, what's your. We've been talking here about the military campaign being carried out in Iran and the, and the reasons for the actions that President Trump and the Israelis, Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis took here in a. I, guess you could call it a sort of. I don't know if it's a preemptive preemptive strike when, for Israel, when the Iranians have been paying to and have attacked Israel already and they've been paying their proxies to attack Israel, you know, for decades now. So I don't know if you'd call that a preemptive attack, but, getting the Americans involved here. But, what is your view, on this whole. You think it's legitimate or illegitimate?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, based on the information that we have and what has been communicated from the administration. If the things that they've communicated are true, and I have no reason to think that they're not true.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: then I would say that the attacks are legitimate. When you, when you have. I'm sorry, go ahead.
>> Tim Wildmon: Constitutional, is that.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah. And even like this, man, sometimes I really, really hate politics because you have this show vote concerning the war powers. They call it a War Powers act, but it's technically the War Powers Resolution. that's the Name of it was passed in 1973 over President Nixon veto at the time. but the resolution itself grants the President 60 days, which could be even 90 days to initiate a strike anywhere in the world. They simply would have to notify Congress within 48 hours of, the initial action taken, which the President has done. Which the President has done. And they have the capacity of 60 days straight up. And then the President has the capacity to extend that another 30 days before having any formal action from Congress. And the reason why I said politics, really, I hate it sometimes because, ah, many of these exact same people, when Barack Obama struck Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, these same people literally said the president didn't have to come to Congress to ask for permission to do anything. But just because you have another president in office in a different party, because now some of these exact same people are saying the exact opposite of what they've said previously. And it's just one of those things that when we have our, servicemen and women in harm's way attempting to serve our country's interests, it's not the time to play politics. But some of these people see no end to playing politics, even when literal lives are on the line.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so when the American people elect a president, we're also electing a commander in chief. Yes, commander in chief being, he's the number one guy in the United States military. All right? Not Pete Hexif, the Secretary of War, not, not Secretary of State. Whoever is the president, be it Barack Obama or Donald Trump, is the commander in chief. And so the commander in chief has to make calls, sometimes to use our military around the world, as Barack Obama did, as Bill Clinton did in Serbia, I think it was. and if you're going to say, if someone is going to say that every time that happens, the president states, has to go to Congress to get approval. wow, okay. Then that's going to inform our enemies what's about to happen as we debate it in Congress every time. Every time. So there's a reason, you can't tie the hands of, the president. I wouldn't want to tie the hands of the president if he were a Democrat. To exercise. Furthermore, a president understands Donald Trump or Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or George Bush or whoever the case may be, they understand the gravity of the situation. They understand because they're going to be held accountable by the American people in the elections, and maybe other ways if in fact they are lying about, the reasons for going to war or they are because they're putting, they are putting, as, President Trump said, they're putting our men and women, who are sons and daughters, they're putting them in harm's way. It better be for a. It better be for a constitutional cause and a cause that's worth defending for the, you know, for the betterment, of our country. For the defense of our country. For the greater good, maybe. I guess I should say. So you're saying these people that are, coming against President Trump, saying he's violated the War powers Act of 1973, are only doing it for political reasons because they hate Donald Trump?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes, they are. Because these are some of the exact same people who had no problems with Joe Biden's open border policy in which lots of Iranians came into the United States of America via our southern border. These people are. And I know I don't know every single one of them, but the ones I've seen speaking publicly about it, they. These people are playing politics.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, and Chuck Schumer and the others.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Anyway, I was just going to say, is.
Sonny Hoskins says this is an illegal war against Iran
Isn't it true that this, War powers Resolution from 1973. It is clear when people say, I heard, saw a clip with Sonny Hoskins, I think, on the View, saying, I love her. Oh, yes. She's a joy of joy, son.
>> Tim Wildmon: You got Sonny and you got joy.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Sonny and Joy.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's in the, intellect, the intellectual dynamite there on that stage.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know. We only wish we could compare.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Listen, they. They are a joy to be. To listen. They are absolutely the complete opposite. but anyway, she says this is an illegal war. Okay. And. And, it was illegal. And. And people always want to say only, only Congress has the right, under the Constitution.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who said this?
>> Ed Vitagliano: To declare war? I was pretty sure there were several others jumping in, but I think it was Sonny Hoskins.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Ed Vitagliano: but it. It is true that with this 1973 resolution that Congress has delegated to the Commander in Chief the flexibility to commit US Troops for a short period of time. So while it is technically true that only Congress has the constitutional right to declare war, what they did in 1973 was to give the President the flexibility, to initiate military conflict. Do I have the legalities right on that?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean, Section 5 is pretty explicit in saying that. It's pretty clear. And when you have things like we already had Operation Midnight Hammer. Right. That transpired. Well, you have Special Envoy Witkoff, who's who stated on the record on national television that when they attempted to negotiate with the Iranians, day one of the negotiations included the Iranians saying, hey, by the way, we have 460 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%. And we believe, adopting our language, they adopted language from our declaration saying, we believe we have an inalienable right to enrich uranium as much as we want, and we have enough right now for 11 nuclear bombs, you know, and any negotiations. And Speaker Mike Johnson was in a press conference this morning. He said this. I reported this on the Hamilton Corner two nights ago. Speaker Johnson said it this morning. The United States of America offered Iran free nuclear fuel forever. Forever in exchange for them to get rid of their homicidal, maniacal penchant for destruction of weapons. And you know what the Iranians said? They said, no, thank you. Why. Why would they reject nuclear fuel if they wanted it? If they want uranium for purely, civilian usage purposes, why would they decline the United States of America giving that to them for life, for free, unless they have bad intentions? And so, as Secretary Rubio said that, well, we learned that there was going to be a strike because Israel cannot abide a nuclear armed, and not just nuclear armed, massively weaponized Iran. And there was going to be a strike. And we knew that if there was going to be a strike, the Iranians were going to try to kill Americans immediately in the reprisal, if that information is true, what other choice does the President have if they know all of it?
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, Right. This situation where the Democrats would, if they had any sense of fair mindedness, would follow what, like John Fetterman has done and said, listen, I don't agree with President Trump on everything. In fact, I have a lot of disagreements with him. But in this case, I commend him because he did the right thing to protect the American people. And he said, I do stand with Israel. The betterment said.
Abraham Hamilton welcomes Joy, Sunny and Whoopi this afternoon
All right, you, know when you have a panel made up of Joy, Sonny and Whoopi. Am I, Am I right?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Is it what would be.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, it's Whoopi.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I think Tim is making a point here. Joy, Sunny and Whoopi.
>> Tim Wildmon: And they're bringing it. Yes, every day. All right, we look forward to hearing you this afternoon, Abe. Okay. Oh, well, you there.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Thank you. I'm here.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Hey, you go. You go ahead and use that if you want to on your show. Joy, Sunny and Whoopi, next up and
>> Tim Wildmon: our next guest are Sunny, Joy and Whoopi. They'll be bringing us some smooth jazz all right, thank you. Appreciate it. All right, guys.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, that's Abraham Hamilton, third. You want to listen to a fly solo, then this afternoon, tune in five to six o' clock Central time right here on American Family Radio.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He brings it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Wesley: There's a little difference between us here in our generational
All right, Wesley, what do you hear? Wesley, you follow the, conservative podcasting world.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: The influencers. I'm saying, between 30 and 40. Yeah. The people that your generation. Listen.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You young people. You young people.
>> Tim Wildmon: we just get the remote and hit the channel. Okay. That we want. We don't go down.
>> Wesley Wildmon: When you say channel, what do you mean?
>> Fred Jackson: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: See what I'm talking about? There's a little difference between us here in our generational.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Like a channel, like a water channel, like a creek channel.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Wesley Wildmon: All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know you're mocking me, but when you're mocking me, you're mocking all these other people.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It's three to one right now.
>> Ed Vitagliano: I got. And you're mocking your mother.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I'll step back.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Mom. Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: You should draw the line.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Probably two thirds of her audience, she
>> Tim Wildmon: likes to channel Flipper, too. That's all we need. We don't need any Internet there.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, Flipper.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, whatever.
Conservative podcasting world is a little bit divided on Trump, Owen says
So my question to you is, in all seriousness. I mentioned, some of the popular, podcasters and influencers in the conservative world with Tucker Carlsen or Megyn Kelly or Candace, Owen. Ah, so Those are just three. There are probably 20 that make.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ben Shapiro, you listen to Steven Crowder, Benny Thompson, Matt Walsh. So I'm asking you, in that world, is it divided in this, in our Iranian war effort or what?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I answer that two different ways. So the short answer, it is a little bit divided. I will say this, though, in particular with Candace Owens directly, and I would even at this point say Tucker Carlsen. There has been quite the shift over the last year and a half or two in their politics on issues like this and others to the point where they have lost a lot of credibility anyways, leading up to this.
>> Tim Wildmon: And so, especially in the aftermath of the. Charlie Kirk, right?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yep, that's exactly right. Especially Candace Owens.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And then there was an. There was a couple articles that were, that were popular that was trending and going around during Candace's comments against, Erica Kirk and these articles going around with Candace particularly. And don't let me forget the question. I'll come back to that. But. And her particularly, where you could see she has a track record of continuously being fired and being in lawsuits and you could see that she, at one point she was a, A lefty, and then she became a conservative. I guess I'm saying with her track record, if you, if you look at it in a great detail, you do, you aren't quite as surprised at the way that she's behaving now based on her past. Although for those that would know of her past, it is, it is, it would surprise you. But nonetheless, with, someone like her and, and, and Tucker, Carlsen, their, Their, their issues with Israel in the United States have been going on for quite a while. So their reaction to this, while it is wrong, it may not be as surprising for those are aware of it now. But now the divide, I would say kind of divided, but I would even say. I wouldn't even say I should take that back. On the divided side, I would say more so, like, wait and see. They're neutral. they're saying, like, obviously there. I would actually say they would be probably closer to the Fetterman side of things.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean most of the, influencers in the conservative podcast world.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. And yeah. And then, of course, let me, Let me have a little fun here. We also have, we have our own in our, in our conservative podcasting world that are pro Trump, regardless of whether he's right or wrong.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And so, you know, we have our side of, of the, of the. What do you call it? Trump derangement.
>> Tim Wildmon: But the other way.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's the other way.
>> Tim Wildmon: Whatever he does is.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Sacred Trump.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Trump supports syndrome. Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So we have our two or three on our side. Nonetheless. I do think the overwhelming m. majority of, of those 20 would be either neutral. Let's wait and see. Yeah, their, their biggest concern right now for the ones that are neutral is they're just holding their breath. Please don't nation build and put boots in the ground for four years.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't think he's gonna.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I don't think it's either.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: But, but they, but they, but they would also say it hadn't stopped yet either, so let's wait and you know that's true.
Fred: I'm done for the day, though. That was good. I'll see you tomorrow
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Fred, what do you get? What else you got?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I'm done for the day, though. I'll see you.
>> Tim Wildmon: That was good. I knew you followed that world. And a lot of our listeners follow that. Some of those podcasters. Go ahead, Fred.
Gretchen Whitmer: Imam in Michigan eulogizes Iranian leader
>> Fred Jackson: Well, we've talked about, the Ayatollah Allie Khamani Khamenei, who was the first of the leaders taken out last Saturday. he has been in charge, in Iran for decades, really.
>> Ed Vitagliano: He's been around, I think, since 1989.
>> Fred Jackson: 1989. I think it's okay to call him a mass murderer, because he carried out the execution of, what, 30,000 Iranians just in recent weeks. You may find it hard to believe, but there are imams right here in Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn, Michigan. they basically had a funeral service for him the other day eulogizing him, saying what a great man he was. I want you to play your little bit. I was shocked about this yesterday when this story first broke. Cut number seven.
>> Ed Vitagliano: As a teacher, as a leader for
>> Tim Wildmon: decades and decades of, absolute service in educating people with, with wisdom and with work and with worship, and then end your life after 86 years with Shahada.
>> Fred Jackson: Wow.
>> Ed Vitagliano: And I also offer my congratulations on this ultimate honor that he received after 86 years of jihad in the way of Allah. then I appreciate our sisters, especially those sisters who brought small children so that our children would grow up with this culture where we remember our martyrs
>> Tim Wildmon: and we're not ashamed of them. That's in Dearborn, Michigan.
>> Fred Jackson: That's in Dearborn, Michigan. We talked to Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, about this. He's not surprised that we have imams in this country who praise this guy, who honor this guy and think he did wonderful things. Cut number eight.
>> Tim Wildmon: Back 10, 15 years ago, he and I were on the Sean Hannity show
>> Ed Vitagliano: together several times arguing about Islam.
>> Tim Wildmon: And he was claiming that Islam was peace. But he is, of course, a deceptive Shiite cleric. And so he's been eulogizing Khamenei, saying that he was killed by the most wretched hands on earth, and praising his so called martyrdom. This has to be understood that this
>> Ed Vitagliano: isn't really a matter of freedom of
>> Tim Wildmon: religion, because Islamic law is political. And it's not just political, but it's supremacist, violent, aggressive, and expansionist.
>> Ed Vitagliano: These people are really agents of a foreign power that's hostile to the United
>> Tim Wildmon: States, and that's how they should be treated.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, he was referring to debating this imam from, Dearborn, Michigan. But there you have it. And there's a lot of concern about what's going on right now in this country with more and more Muslims, more and more attempts, of course, in Dearborn, Michigan. The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan is a Muslim. and now we hear North Carolina, Texas, all of these sorts of things. We're seeing Islam making a very wide footprint in this country right now. And people like Robert Spencer are saying there's a warning here folks. Better pay attention to it. Especially when you have these imams praising this guy who was just taken out by our military.
>> Ed Vitagliano: on American Family News, our website, that goes alongside of American Family Radio with the news that you hear at the top of the hour. Folks, of our listeners here for afr, these stories and many others are put on afn Net. There's a, a really sad story related to this. The title of it, if you go and read it, it's eye opening. Iran's horrified doctors and nurses recount the regime's hospital horrors. This is in the wake of the suppression of, of the protests in that country. and what this Ayatollah Khomeini did and ordered and go try check this out folks. Afn.net I don't care what this, this
>> Tim Wildmon: is before the war.
>> Ed Vitagliano: This is before the war but it was within the last whatever six weeks
>> Tim Wildmon: treating their own people the way they
>> Ed Vitagliano: treated their own people. and so to lionize this man and to applaud him, Khomeini I'm talking about, as some sort of a hero to his own people. I think most of the Iranian people would disagree with it. Even if the people in Dearborn, Michigan, the Muslims in Dearborn Michigan might agree with it.
>> Fred Jackson: by the way, we put a call, we put a call into the governor of Michigan's office, Gretchen Whitmer. We want her comments on this.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: That she has in her state. People who ah, say this terrorist leader in Iran was an honorable person. We'd like her to comment on it. We haven't heard back from her office.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, well, you won't.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio.
Ed: Why did Adolf Hitler hate the Jews? You have 35 minutes to answer
Ed, I want to ask you, down, down through history you've had anti, Semitism, which by that for the people who don't know what that means, hatred, for the Jews. Okay. is there why did Adolf Hitler hate the Jews? And does that have any relationship to why the Iranian leadership? And some people on the right in America, on the left to hate the Jew. I mean is this some kind of supernatural thing or have the Jews done something to, you know, to draw this kind of vitriol, against them? That's a loaded big question. M. I know if you got an out, we. You got about 35 minutes to answer.
>> Ed Vitagliano: 35 minutes?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Ed Vitagliano: well look, first if we remember the dispersion, the diaspora, which just means a dispersion can be dispersion of any people but the dispersion of the Jews. When the Roman armies, conquered, Jerusalem. Jerusalem.
>> Tim Wildmon: We have to go back.
>> Ed Vitagliano: We're talking about 70 A.D. there was still another rebellion on the part of, the Jews in 135ad okay, so the Jews get dispersed. They don't have a homeland. And they were able to preserve, many of them, were able to preserve their cultural identity and some of their religious beliefs. And they became, and I was just reading a book on this, on the origins of antisemitism and totalitarianism in Europe. The Jews, throughout, the history of the Western civilization in Europe, they became, they really did become bankers and successful businessmen and women. And they were able to preserve their heritage because without a country, they had to solidify their community ties. They became known by kings all throughout history, especially in the Middle Ages, as those who ran a lot of the banks and they would loan money to this king or that king when they had to do this work or go to war. And I think that is where their reputation of controlling the economics of the world. It wasn't the world. It was really was Europe. That reputation developed. And it was not, it wasn't a fantasy, it wasn't a myth. This, this was a reality. But it was how the Jews survived because nobody would go after them because they didn't belong. They weren't French. M. So you could be a German prince or a German king and go to Jewish bankers and get money for a war in. You didn't have to worry about them because they were not going to be allied to a particular nation. And so this, this idea of the Jews controlling a lot of the economics in Europe was a real thing. And people understood that. And Hitler began to assign them blame for the rise of communism and the harsh, treaty imposed the Treaty of Versailles against Germany in the end of World War I.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, so he blamed Hitler, blamed the Jews for the economic depression that the German people were experiencing post World War I. And that's the reason he convinced a lot of the people to be. To hate the Jews and to kill 6 million of them.
>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. And it wasn't that they were running governments.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Ed Vitagliano: They were bankers and had a lot of wealth and they received the blame for that. That's a real thing. We're almost out of time. I'll tell you what I was reading on this. It was from a Jewish writer. We'll be back in five minutes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Stay with us. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American family Association or American Family Radio. M.
