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Greetings, conversationalists. Welcome. It is Eric Erikson across the United States. Delighted to have you with me, the full number 877973-7-425. Text Eric E R-I-C-K to 33-777. Get the show notes, the live stream, the podcast, everything you need. You know, my friend Michael Yusuf has a book coming out, Unholy Alliance. It's about how progressives and Islamic radicals are working together. And the Islamic radicals are essentially using the left. in the United States to advance their mission. And once dominant, of course, they will perfectly be happy to slaughter the progressives like they did in Iran. People forget that it was a Iran and a radical Muslim. and a radical, a progressive communist alliance that ousted the Shah. And the moment the Shah was ousted, the radical Islamists turned on the socialist and the communists and murdered them all. The book's called Unholy Alliance. In fact, if you text the word engage, E-N-G-A-G-E, Engage to 33-777, I'll send you a link on my Amazon profile to it. It's a great book, easy, easy read. And it's all about this alliance between the left and Islamic radicals. And one of the things Dr. Michael Yusuf, who is the pastorate Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, says and points out accurately, is that the Muslim Brotherhood. is infiltrating governments around the world. They claim to be liberalized, and they're really not. It's been a part of their stated mission since their founding. That's why they have been banned from most Arab nations. They come in trying to be portrayed as moderate Muslims, and they're actually the far jihadi radicals that they want to take over and then dominate and impose Sharia law. Their front group in the United States is care, the Council in American Islamic Relations. They have lots of ties, many people believe, to the Muslim Brotherhood. And in the process of that, they have advanced anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic tendencies. They have advanced radicals. They have supported jihadists around the world and at home. They have screamed about Islamophobia. They've used dominant friendships in the media to... silence anyone who would dare suggest that maybe we shouldn't be import in a bunch of radical jihadis from the Middle East into the country. They scream Islamophobia as loud as they can. They get the media to censor anyone who questions the import of radical Islamists into the United States. And care has come out in defense of Joquint. That's right. The Muslim Brotherhood branch of the United States care has come out and defended Joquint.

for bailing on the Trump administration. Their statement is, quote, we welcome National Counterterrorism Center Director, Joe Kitts, historic and unprecedented decision to not only resign in protest, but, I mean, basically go on Tucker Carlson and blame the Jews. That's care statement. I want to read you some quotes. If you got my morning piece, you can text Eric to 33777 and get it. October 7th happened because Biden Harris gave Iran access to over $100 billion. I personally think we should have crushed their ballistic and nuke capability, but Trump has a plan. He has definitely earned the confidence of any clear-eyed observer. We should not sit and wait for the next attack. Wipe Iran's ballistic capabilities out and get our troops out of Iraq. They are only targets now. No U.S. wounded or killed in action is a tribute to the professionals of our military and intel professionals, not because of Iran's restraint. Iran's goal in orchestrating October 7th was to break up the Abraham Accords because the historic alliance isolated Iran's terror regime. Trump used a balance of diplomacy, economic pressure, and targeted strikes to contain Iran. The embodiment of peace through strength, Israel's dismantling of Hezbollah would have been much more challenging, if not impossible, had Trump not taken out Iran's terror master Kassim Soleimani. I am intimately familiar with the help that Israel has provided the United States. During my military service in the Middle East, my fellow soldiers and I often relied on intelligence provided by the IDF and their intelligence agencies to help us accomplish our mission and keep us alive. The United States and Israel share common enemies in the Middle East from terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah to the totalitarian government of Iran. One of the best things that President Trump did for the security of the United States and of Israel was terminating President Obama's Iran deal. I support working with Israel to apply maximum pressure against Iran's government and its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, and to prevent Iran from ever acquired a nuclear weapon. I am sadden and angered by the violent attacks against our ally Israel. Hamas's unprecedented violence has made possible by the Biden administration providing the number one state sponsor of terror $6 billion in sending over $300 million of our tax dollars to assist terrorists in Gaza. Biden has consistently enabled Iran and as proxies to indiscriminately attack Israeli citizens. Marie Perez did not condemn Representative Premala Pramila Jayapal when she labeled Iran or Israel a racist state and she refused to remove the anti-Semitic Representative Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. When I get to Congress, I will not authorize one sin of financial aid to Iran or Hamas and I will make sure Israel gets the weaponry they need to keep themselves secure.

Iran has been after Trump since January of 2020 after he ordered the targeted killing of the terrorist Kazim Soleimani. This isn't a new threat. The Secret Service consistently failing to secure Trump is new. Those are all Joe Kent up until about a year and a half ago. In fact, this is Joe Kent on the Sean Ryan Show three months before the president got reelected in 2024. He is talking about our soldiers in Iraq. I've already heard rumors that fifth group is going to be sending guys to Iraq because of the escalated situation with Iran now. Yeah. I mean, most Americans aren't aware of it. Our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 150 plus times by Iranian proxies. And when we say Iranian proxies, we've got to be clearing what that is. That's the Iraqi government that we pay. Because after the Iraqi military, we spent two trillion on surrendered to ISIS. We had to go back in there in very short order and stand a military back up again. And guess who filled the breach? The Shia militias controlled by Iran did. That's Joaquin. And now, this is Joe Kent, quote, I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. This is the same man who only a couple of years ago said the totalitarian government of Iran is our enemy. and that Iran is the chief global sponsor of terrorism, and now the director of counterterrorism says Iran is not a threat to the United States that we need to deal with. Really? That should tell you everything you need to know. I am told that the senior sources in the White House are accurate, that the president wanted Joe Kent fired. He had been marginalized. He had been shut out of conversations. He was not trusted and was presumed to be a leaker. His present wife works for a far-left site that has long been rumored to have ties to the Kremlin. She works for a guy who's been a mouthpiece for both Hezbollah and for Russia today. This website she works for or has written for Grayzone, I should say, written for. Grayzone has taken a very pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, pro-Iran line. Joe Kidd is now being talked up by Vladimir Putin's in-house philosopher Alexander Dugan. He's going to go on Tucker Carlson's show and Candice Owen show going on Tucker Carlson's today. This all appears to be a bit of a setup. And isn't it interesting that an intelligence source from the White House rushed down and said, oh, it's not true. It's not true that Tulsa Cabber was told to fire him. And then a senior White House official.

In fact, there are reports out that Joe Kent tried to dig into the Charlie Kirk assassination using his role as director of counterterrorism, and Kash Patel shut him out of that. The Office of Director of National Intelligence has become a figurehead position. She's testifying on Capitol Hill, which she won't admit to and won't confess to is that Marco Rubio, John Ratcliffe, and the President of the United States have marginalized her position. Oh, they'll trot out press releases saying great things about her, but she was not in the discussions on Venezuela. She has not been in the discussions on Cuba. She has not been in the discussions on Iran. They've shut Joe Kinn out of the process. Dan Bongino said the other day he's seen more intelligence than Joe Kent. He was so untrusted by the administration. So he's now packed up and left to go run to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Steve Bannon's Catholics for Catholics or whatever the hell they call it group to undermine Israel, undermine the administration, undermine the war effort. Ultimately, I got to point out, this is on the president. He picked these people. The buck does stop with the president. These are his picks. I hope the president is realizing that some of these people, they performed for him on social media to get his attention and get involved in the administration and they've been worthless picks. Tulsi Gabbard probably needs to go as well. I mean, they're not relying on her. They're not really listening to her. They're keeping her out of a lot of conversations. Joe Kent marginalized himself because of his behavior. It is perhaps time to clean house. in the White House and actually put people in who support the mission of the President of the United States to destroy the capacity of Iran to make war. Have something to say? Hello. Hello. Call the show. 1-877-97-airing. That's 1-877-973-4425.

Eric's daily show prep email. Text data to 33777 and you'll be in the know. Well, guess what? The transportation department is on the verge of shutting down airports around the country. TSA agents have stopped showing up for work. One Democrat in Congress actually said, this is his quote, we are hurting people. That is what a Democrat himself said about the Democrats' shutdown effort. With more than 30% of transportation security administration officers absent from work at several airports across the United States, a senior TSA official warned on Tuesday in the New York Times, the ongoing partial government shutdown may force the closure of small U.S. airports. Adam Stahl, the acting director deputy administrative TSA, said the shutdown continues. It's not hyperbole to suggest we may have to quite literally shut down airports, particularly smaller ones, if call out rates go up. Nick Dyer, the TSA spokesman, explained in a phone interview that airports would be closed only if so few TSA officers showed up to work at an airport that they were unable to fully staff a security checkpoint. About 50,000 TSA officers have been working without pay since February 14th. More than 10% of TSA officers around the United States did not show up for work Sunday and Monday, the highest rate of absences in the shutdown so far. Frankly, if TSA agents want to get the shutdown over with as soon as possible, they really should stop showing up for work. That's about the only way at this point to force the Democrats' hand because they're starting to get a little panicked that they've overplayed their hand. And if TSA agents just stop showing up for work around the country and airports start showing down, well, the Democrats will begin to feel that pain. Here in Georgia, the Republicans are targeting Jon Ossoff as security lines at Two Dead Mayors International Airport in Atlanta continues to grow. It's not just an inconvenience to travelers. They're literally forcing people to go without paychecks to defund unrelated and already funded entities. Now. Let me tell you about my privacy concerns online and how I've been doxed. People found my information online. We're able to find where I live and harass my family. It's one of the many reasons I use incogny. I-N-C-O-G-N-I. Incogny.com slash Eric, E-R-I-C-K. Incogny works behind the scenes online, going to data brokers demanding they take down your information. They send...

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were so savagely raped by both men and objects used by men. They had to have hysterectomies to remove their uteruses because they were so badly internally damaged. And the Athens Banner Herald in Athens, Georgia, part of the USA Today Network, Never showed a picture of the nurses who were savagely raped. Has it put up pictures of the people being gunned down by the Iranian regime? But has the audacity to put on its front page today. The picture of a grieving Iranian mother and her dead son, one of the Iranian soldiers on the side of the regime that gunned down over 100,000 people, killing 35,000 of them and brutally raping nurses who tried to help the survivors. That is the American press corps in one picture. That is why the press in the United States of America is so reviled and hated by the American public. That is why the American people hate hate. Hate the American press corps at this point. They do not trust them. Families mourn as dead are laid to rest in Tehran. You know who couldn't bury their dead, Athens Banner Herald? That would be the families of the 35,000 people who this guy helped murder. And you've got this guy's face on the front of your newspaper. You didn't have any of there for you. You should be ashamed of yourselves. What a damnable thing to do. The United States is at war against a bunch of butchers and murderers. And you're going to profile the sympathetic portion of the grieving mother of a monster who helped probably kill a bunch of people because he worked for the regime that gunned down, 100 plus thousand people and brutally raped nurses. And that's where your sympathies lie. The Athens Banner Herald. In Athens, Georgia, that's where... sympathies lie with the butchers of Tehran and those who carry out their orders and their grieving families, not the grieving families who were butchered by these people, but the grieving families of the butchers themselves, that's what the Athens banner herald and Athens Georgia cares about. Absolutely, absolutely offensive. Just ridiculous. shameful even. And you know, while the Athens Banner Herald and other members of the American Press Corps are mourning the Butchers of Tehran, You know, we're suddenly, we're going to get more radical people in charge. I don't know if you know this, but the people who butchered the 135,000 people and severely raped the nurses, those were the moderates. And now we're going to get, we're going to get the real radicals now. Just you wait and see. Oh, you haven't seen the butchery and savagery that's coming now. Really. Wow. Wow. You know.

While the Athens Baron Herald and the rest of the media grieves the Butchers of Tehran, and Ali Larijani, the head of the Defense Ministry, the head of intelligence for Iran has been killed this morning. Israel is out flying drones over Tehran and Isfahan and Komen and the other cities of Iran. And when they see... The citizens of Iran being harassed, they fire on them and kill them. Early, this is from the Wall Street Journal, Tuesday morning, Israel's intelligence services found Ali Larijani gathered with other officials at a hideout on the outskirts of Tehran and killed him with a missile strike. That same night, Iran got a tip from ordinary Iranians that the leader of the feared Basic militia, Gullum Reza Pahlavi Soleimani, was holed up with his deputies in a tent in a wooded area in Tehran. It was the sort of payoff Israel had been hoping for after blowing up Bassage headquarters and command posts for more than two weeks, forcing its members to gather in the open. Soleimani, too, was struck and killed. Israeli and American leaders said at the outset that the war with Iran would create the conditions for Iranians to topple their regime. The killings early Tuesday followed by the Israeli announcement a day later that Iranian intelligence minister Ismail Khatib had also been killed were milestones in the campaign. With thousands of regime members killed from top leaders to street-level grunts, Iranians are reporting that a sense of disorder is starting to take hold. Security forces are under stress and on the run as they threaten protesters to stay off the streets and direct strikes at the U.S. Israel and Arab neighbors. Detailed target lists and battle damage reports viewed by the Wall Street Journal give an inside look at the enormous effort being deployed to wear them down. The documents show the effort began in the early days of the war and continues to ramp up. Key words there, continues to ramp up. Israel is chasing security forces from their headquarters to muster points, then on to hideouts under bridges in an effort to disrupt their activities and show Iranians that the enforcers are being taken out. Israel has dropped 10,000 munitions on thousands of different targets, including more than 2,200, related to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Bassage, and other internal security forces. The advanced technology deployed by Israel and the penetration of Iranian society by its agents are combining to create the greatest threat yet to a deeply entrenched regime. But decades of military experience show it is difficult, if not impossible, to dislodge a government from the air. And if the Iranian regime survives, it could emerge emboldened and more dangerous. Israel began the war with a shot at the regime's heart killing the supreme leader and working with the U.S. to quickly destroy Iranian missile launchers and air defenses. Now, I want to give you a sense of just how wild and comprehensive the Israeli infiltration of Iran has become.

My son last night headed up to bed and my wife was headed up to bed. And I saw the report. And I thought, you've all got to hear this story. I'm going to read you now from the Wall Street Journal. Can you hear me? A Mossad agent could be heard speaking in Farsi. We know everything about you. You are on our blacklist and we have all the information about you. Okay, the Iranian commander said in the recording. I called to warn you in advance that you should stand with your people's side, the Mossad agent replied. And if you will not do that, your destiny will be as your leader. Do you hear me? Brother, I swear on the Quran, I am not your enemy, the commander said. I am a dead man already. Just please come help us. On the ground, Israel went after police warehouses destroying computer equipment, vehicles, and police gear. According to target list seen by the journal, another target were motorcycle units, which had been central to efforts to suppress protests. At one point, Israel struck around 34 different sites related to the internal security forces in the Alm province, an area western Iran near the Iraqi border with a large Kurdish population, according to a target list seen by the journal. They're literally calling Iranian military officials on the phone on their cell phones. They have their cell phone numbers. And Israel is calling them and saying, we know everything about you. We know where your family lives. We know where you live. We know where you work. We know your routes. You will either stand with the Iranian people or you will die. And more than one of them have said, Please come help us. Israeli officials have expanded their targets so much. They've distributed messages to the Iranian people. Last night was their celebration of fire. It predates Islam to celebration, a thousand-year-old celebration, where the light overcomes the darkness. And the Iranian officials... They gathered on the streets to tell the Bassich and the other militia members that if people take to the streets to celebrate, kill them. You would not see the bodies on the front page of the Athens banner, Harold, and Athens, Georgia or the New York Times or USA Today because they're free Iranian citizens yearning to breathe free of the regime. What you will see, however, is the video footage. when the citizens of Iran harassed by the militia call in their coordinates to the Israelis and the drones fly overhead and blow up the bad guys. The American media is profiling the dead of the regime, building sympathies for dead terrorists, dead monsters.

Israel is in the air watching. Yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu released a message. He was surrounded by the leader of the military, by his chief of staff, by the head of the Mossad, and he sent a message to the Iranian people, go out and celebrate tonight, your festival of fire. We are watching in the air. If the leadership tries to harm you, we will take them out. And they did. Across Iran last night, the people who could get to Starlink communicators and Starlink terminals and upload videos had videos. Where the Iranians were in the street celebrating, the regime came out to cause them harm, and the Israelis from drones high above open fire killing the Iranian leaders, killing the Iranian terrorists, killing the Iranian militia, and the people cheered and celebrated. When have you seen video of people cheering and celebrating? The deaths of the leaders of their own country. When have you seen the people of a country calling for their supposed enemies to blow up their country? Maybe the progressive left in this country. Maybe the editorial writers at the Athens Banner Herald or the New York Times or USA Today. But among the general population, among the citizenry? Among the citizens of Iran, they're standing on rooftops and cheering as the bombs drop around them. One Tehran resident said a friend hasn't been able to retrieve a car that was stolen and recovered by police before the war began because there's no one at the police station to turn it over. Another said police told him and other shop owners to close before dark because they couldn't guarantee their safety. The police have disappeared. The leadership is in hiding. Iran's economy is crumbling. Its soldiers are not getting paid. And they're beginning to flee. This is a good thing. All Iran has left is the American press corps to do their bidding. The Tucker Carlson's and the Candace Owens of the world, the Steve Bannons of the world, the progressive left and their websites, and the control of their media, the front page of the Athens banner Herald and USA Today and the nightly news on CNN and ABC, CBS, and NBC. Maybe that'll be enough. Maybe there's dominance of the propaganda campaign and their infestation of the American media and the hatred the American left and the media has for Donald Trump and the right and for Israel and for freedom. Maybe that'll be enough to stop the war. But right now, the United States and Israel continue to escalate their bombing campaign to wipe out the terror regime. And the best the American media can do is try to tell us that in winning we are losing and that in wiping out the radicals, the real radicals. will rise. It's hard for the real radicals to rise when they keep getting blown up. Honest. Putting your trust in me to tell you what's going on. Transparent. I need you to know this from the bottom of my heart. Giving you the information without the noise. My job isn't to tell you what you want to hear. It's to tell you the truth. It's the Eric Erickson Show. Able to put across some rough and got into it. That was pretty impressive, but holding a beer and a cigar in one hand, I was on the phone leaning into my shoulder to hold the phone, one hand to putt, and I did it. This was 35 feet, though.

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