The Erick Erickson ShowMarch 12, 202637m

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I think I said yesterday you should be aware that some news outlets are reporting that Iran may be targeting the west coast of the United States. And I would get you the details and moved on from there. And here is what the story from ABC News is. The FBI warned police departments in California in recent days that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by ABC News. We recently acquired information that as of early February 26, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel of the coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California. In the event, the United States conducted strikes against Iran, according to the alert issued at the end of February. We have no additional information on the timing method target or perpetrators of the alleged attack. The warning came just as the Trump administration launched the assault against the Iranian Republic. I want you to just think about this for a moment as a rational human being. The FBI, according to this report, believed that there was a vessel off the coast of California capable of launching unmanned aerial drones to blow up California. First of all, you should know the Babylon B is running a story that Iran gives up its quest to destroy California, seeing that Gavin Newsom has already done it. Second. Should you not be a little incredulous about the fact that they're supposedly a ship capable of launching aerial drones and we're not doing anything about it? Well, this is from Karoline Leavitt at the White House. This post and story should immediately be retracted by ABC News for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people. They wrote this based on one email that was sent to local law enforcement in California about a single unverified tip. The email even states the tip was based on unverified intelligence, yet ABC News left out that critical fact in their story. Why? To be clear, No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did. It's remarkable. Ben Williamson from the FBI put up the FBI actual notice and compared it to the story from ABC News. Here is the actual opening of the FBI report. that says not for dissemination to public or press. We recently acquired fourth word unverified information that as of early February 26, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran. We have no additional information on the timing method target or perpetrators of the alleged attack.

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Now, that's the notice. It's just wild to me that ABC ran the story. And it makes no sense the fact that we would somehow, there would be a boat out there. We couldn't find, couldn't track, couldn't see. But this is what the United States Press Corps continues to be doing. This is the story from CBS News today. The headline, Iran wants surrender in a million years. Analyst, single analyst says. In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Danny Citrinowitz, a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan think tank, said he believed the chances of regime change are very slim, especially without the use of ground troops, which would be a potentially disastrous gambit. We had our hopes too high, he said. If somebody thinks that by air campaign, you can topple this regime, despite the fact that it's weak, but it's still very strong, I think we should think twice, despite the fact that it's weak, but it's still very strong. Citrinowitz said if the war ended today, he would not consider it a victory because the regime is not going to capitulate in a million years. As long as this regime is there, there will be no unconditional surrender, he added, the regime is not going to give up its nuclear capacity. Citrinovitz served for 25 years with Israeli military intelligence, also questioned the U.S. and Israel's planning the strikes on Iran in the exit game, saying it was a flawed assumption the regime would collapse if Ali Khamenei died. Friends, if you listen to this radio program, you are listening to right now. You listen to me, Eric Erickson. I have been saying... since last year when we dropped the bombs on their nuclear fields and specifically saying after we took out Maduro that Iran would be different because the Iranian regime was spread out and designed in such a way that if you cut off its head, new heads could grow back. Iran designed this regime in such a way that you couldn't just eliminate the Ayatollah and have the regime collapse like you could take out Nicholas Maduro and have the regime in Venezuela change. I have said that at least once a week since we took out Nicholas Maduro when I've talked about Iran. Why? Because I'm a literate person. I have read the data, and I understood this. And you're telling me that the U.S. and Israeli governments didn't know what I knew because I read the Internet? It's absurd to think they didn't know. Of course they knew. And that is why there's been a remarkable shift on the ground in Iran. Local targets are now being targeted. The Iranian regime props up, I think they're called the Basis, the, what do you call them? I want to say Baselis, but that's the snake and Harry Potter. In any of it, they prop up these motorcycle gangs. These motorcycle gangs that are fundamentalists in Iran who are loyal to the regime, they arm them, and they terrorize residents throughout Iran. And they have checkpoints set out throughout Tehran and other major cities. And Israel overnight has been literally pinpoint targeting their checkpoints and killing them.

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There are remarkable cell phone footage coming out of Tehran of citizens watching these guys, stopping traffic, searching cars, and falling over dead when the Israelis target them through drones. It's remarkably precision strikes. The Iranian citizens are cheering from the rooftops, calling for the death of these guys. There are actual non-AI videos of this stuff happening. Clearly, Israel has understood that you can't just kill the Ayatollah. Clearly, something is coming. You've got the would-be Shaw telling people to stay inside but prepare themselves. You've got Israel blowing up the checkpoints and killing these motorcycle gang members. It's just remarkable. And then there is this, social media data. that suggests from the Jewish insider that an analysis about foreign accounts shows that often presenting to be Americans disproportionately it is foreigners driving the most viral anti-operation discourse and far-outreaching U.S.-based users. There is a coordinated online campaign of people who pretend to be in the United States, putting up AI videos and other pieces of commentary and supposed deep dive analysis to convince Americans that we have been destroyed in the Middle East. There are people who actually believe we're covering up the vaporization of Tel Aviv. Then there's this. There's a story out. that shows that there's actually no MAGA split on Iran. 90% of self-declared MAGA Republicans support it. 77% of regular Republicans do. 54% of non-Maga Republicans do among all adults. It's 41%. Only 27% of independents do, and Democrats are 9%. That's from NBC News. 88% of MAGA, according to CNN, supports it. 85% according to UGF supports it. Overwhelming Republican support. Now, here's what's notable, is a number of people. On the right, on social media, like, these are terrible numbers. Only 41% of people support it. Only 27 to 32% of independent support of this is a disaster. Color me surprised that these same people look at the same sort of data on deportations, on ice, on tariffs. They all show the same thing right now. And none of these people want to change their mind on tariffs or how we're handling deportations. But on a round, they're like, oh, my gosh, we can't do this. Look at the data. They ignore the data on how deportations are being handled. They ignore the data on the unpopularity of tariffs. They ignore the data on the unpopularity of other Trump positions. But on Iran, they're like, oh, we got to surrender to the Iranians. Look at the data. We're going to lose. They're willing to lose on everything and insist the polls are wrong. But on this one, oh, my God, this poll shows exactly what all the other polls show. But this one's right. The level of willful disinformation and treachery. For a lot of these people on the right who love to throw around the world traitor, for someone who doesn't stand behind Donald Trump, they sure are behaving exactly like they call other people traitors. What did Donald Trump call them? The panic ends? It really is a remarkable, remarkable shift on all this, but also notable, here's something else.

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When the Washington Post polled Americans as this started, Trump ordering air strikes against Iran, it was 52% opposition. This week, it's 42% support and 40% opposed. You know the one difference in the polling? They didn't name check Donald Trump in the polling. And when you take Donald Trump out of the polling, suddenly the polling changes dramatically. It went from 5239 to 424 with more undecideds now. There is not a person in senior leadership in the United States or Iran that believed that if you kill the Ayatollah and those around him that you would destabilize the regime enough for it to collapse. There's not a single one. I know this because I actually talk to these people. A lot of people presume... that because I'm not humping Donald Trump's leg every day, that somehow these people don't talk to me. I actually have a lot of these people's phone numbers, and I talk to them, and they talked to me. I got woken up the other day by someone in the know involved in the operation. And what is remarkable to me is the information that I hear that I know I'm not alone in getting is being shared with other people who are willfully out there trying to tell you that this is a disastrous campaign right now and that we should give it up. The idea that the Trump administration did not consider the Straits of Hormuz as necessary until somebody on Twitter said, oh my God, we forgot about the Straits of Hormuz. Really? We forgot about it. Really? You think they forgot about it.

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I don't know if it's going to be successful or not. What I do know is we are 12 days into an operation that has virtually wiped out Iran's ability to wage a response. And somehow the media and the Democrats and some of the people on the right who are isolationists. are all screaming that we have lost to the Iranians who are hiding in bunkers in the mountains trying to wait us out. Really, you really believe that? Why do you people keep betting against the United States? It's almost like you might be paid by some other nation to willfully lie to the American public. Have something to say? Hello. Call the show. 1-877-9-7-Earic. That's 1-877-97-9-3-7-4-25. You can be live on Eric's show by calling 877-97-97-9-7-Earic. That's 877-97-9-3-7-4-25. Welcome back. It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number 877973-745. Well, it happened last night. And, you know, I'm glad it happened. This is Abby Phillip on Struggle Session last night on CNN. More to come, but first, this morning I issued a correction first thing in the morning on X for a mistake that I made in last night's show, but I also wanted to do so on air as well. I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Mayor Zohran Mamdani. They were not. I failed to catch and correct that mistake in real time, and I take full responsibility for that. And while we do make mistakes, it is important to acknowledge and correct those errors when they happen. But next for us. Next for us. You know, she didn't say, though, in her correction, who the IED was thrown at. It was thrown at anti-Muslim protesters who were protesting. What's so notable as well as Edward Isaac DeVore, who is a Democratic stenographer who works for CNN, who was one of the people who insisted all the time that Joe Biden was fine, made exactly the same mistake on social media and had to issue an almost identically worded retractionist like CNNPR. doing it. The entire network has continued to convey that somehow Zohran Mamdani was the target of the attack or his home was, and it's simply not true. This is an institutional problem at CNN where they willfully are getting the story wrong.

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This is from the New York Daily News. A scandal-scarred Harlem School Superintendent has been slapped with a $3,000 fine for selling real estate to a subordinate teacher authority, said Tuesday. Manhattan District 4 Superintendent Alexandra Estrella violated city rules when she sold a home to a teacher working for her in 2011 when Estrella was President Esperanza Preparatory Academy. In signed settlement papers with the conflicts of interest board, Estrella claimed she didn't know city regulations barred her from entering into a financial relationship with an employee. She had no idea. This is kind of wild to me. The Gwinnett County Public Schools in Georgia have decided to go with a woman who, the New York Daily News, not a conservative publication, called Scandal Scard. She violated the rules for the city of New York's Board of Education by selling property to a subordinate and was fined and said she had no idea that the rules prohibited that. But wait, there's more, Gwinnett County. Estrella grabbed headlines in June when she emceived a kids' talent show, where a PTA president gave an erotic drag performance to the dismay of the audience. She faced no disciplinary fallout from the show. Estrella was promoted to superintendent in 2013 and otherwise has had a clean disciplinary record and makes $177,000 a year. So she has violated the rules of the New York Board of Education claiming she had no idea and she presided over a... PTA Kids Talent Show where a PTA president gave an erotic drag performance. And that is who the Board of Education in Gwinnett County, Georgia has decided is the great superintendent, so great they don't want to consider any other candidates for the position. Well done, parents in Gwinnett County. Well done. May God have mercy on your souls. Absolutely wild to me. that this sort of stuff keeps happening more and more of these liberal educators from a liberal from New York who oversaw a drag queen show and is now going to be the superintendent of the Gwinnett County School System. Friends, if you can get your kids out of public schools, you really should. And I know many of you can't. And if you can't, you need to be highly, highly active and engaged in your kid's school. But what you can do in many states, including the state of Georgia, is fund the Opportunity Scholarships Fund where you can direct your tax money instead of going to the state of Georgia to the opportunity scholarship money.

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so that kids can get scholarships to go to private schools. Those of you in Georgia's state legislature, you should be expanding these programs to get kids out of these schools. The fact that many of you listening right now in Georgia are in the Gwinnett County area, and I bet you had no idea that the woman that your school board has chosen, oversawed drag queen PTA talent show. You should really be thinking about where you can send your kids to escape that sort of stuff because I can assure you your Gwinnett County Public School Board is not going to change their minds because they're all a bunch of liberals and they're fine with this sort of stuff. Speaking of the liberals, I just, I need to, I got a, I got a, I got a beef with the Democrats right now having computer issues as I talk. Y'all, I just, I find it very, very notable that the Democrats are attacking our soldiers. The story has come out that Pete, Texas spent 90-some-odd billion dollars in a month at the Pentagon. and a lot of it went to ice cream machines and food and other things. Paul Bagala was on CNN last. I got to play you this exchange. And by the way, I know Paul Bagelowell, we worked at CNN together. He is personally a very nice person, even as I disagree with him, on pretty much everything. I gotta play you this. That's not important. You know what's important? He has spent $15 million in one month for ribeye steak, $6.9 million for lobster tail, $225 million for furniture. He spent more in the month of September than most countries on earth spend in their defense. Paul, do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating all the lobster? Wait, he can't eat the troops. Oh, really, the troops are getting lobsters. Frequently. Paul Bagala apparently has no idea that our military feeds our soldiers well. Lobster. I read you the story yesterday, and if you have forgotten it, it is worth me reading this to you again. This is from when Barack Obama was president of the United States in Afghanistan. This is the opening to the news report. They serve more than 30 dozen eggs for breakfast every morning, washed down with 300 cups of coffee, and they go through 40 gallons of ice cream a day. Every night has a theme with Monday being Italian, Tuesday, Mexican, and so on. Thursday night is seafood night. The lobsters and crab legs are shipped from the United States and driven down on a refrigerated truck. On seafood night, the crew serves up 400 of the tasty lobster tails, 130 pounds of Alaskan king crab legs, and 135 pounds each of shrimp and scallops. Our American nuclear submarines all have ice cream machines on them, soft serve ice cream machines. You know why? Troop morale. You've got a bunch of men hundreds of feet under the water. They're not going to see the sun for weeks or months at a time. They give them ice cream to keep them happy.

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Our soldiers are in combat. They give them lobster tail and shrimp. And Paul Bagala had no idea. In fact, most of the Democrats had no idea. Heg says spent $93 billion in one month, roughly the cost of extending the ACA tax credits for three years. But instead of lowered American health care costs, Heg says he used millions of taxpayer dollars on fruit baskets, Herman Miller Recliders, ice cream machines, Alaskin king crabs, and a Steinway and Son's grand piano, a true grifter. That's what Chuck Schumer wrote. The Steinway and Son's... Grand Piano went to the Air Force Band. The ice cream machines went to submarines. The king crab and the steak and lobster went to the troops. The Herman Miller recliners went to bases around the world to keep our soldiers comfortable. New Pentagon budget shows Pete Hegseth has spent $93 billion in one month making it the highest monthly expenditure since 2008. This budget report included spending $2 million on Alaskan King Crab is the headline that Chuck Schumer was riffing off of. And it incited a bunch of other Democrats. Congressman Jason Crow, who is actually in special forces in the military, tweeted this out. Pete Hegseth, they're spending millions of your taxpayer dollars, a lobster ribby and a grand piano. Meanwhile, he's sitting Americans off to war, and folks are struggling to get by. Congressman Crowe had the steak and lobster when he was in the military, and now he doesn't want other soldiers to get the steak and lobster that he enjoyed when he was in the military because he liked to make Pete Hegseth look bad. Congresswoman Debbie Dingle, Pete Hegseth is spending millions of your tax dollars on lobster ribby and a grand piano. Meanwhile, he's sitting Americans off to war and folks are struggling to get by. They're literally regurgitating propaganda from the Russians. I'm not making this up. This is the Russia today propaganda. network. Quote, Pete Hegseth' Defense Department reportedly bought $22 million worth of luxury, steak and lobster. The purchase was part of a larger end-of-year spinning frenzy of its immense budget. The Democrats are quoting Russian propaganda to attack the Secretary of Defense for doing what? For feeding our troops in combat. And I saw an idiot last night when I make this point. Eric said the war only started March 1st. We've had soldiers in combat zones around the world for years. We've had soldiers in Iraq. We've had soldiers in the Middle East. We've had soldiers in Europe. We feed our soldiers well. Why? Because it keeps them happy. When there's a government shut down and they don't get pay, at least they're eating well. When the Democrats shut down the government so that our troops don't get money, Pete Hegseth is giving them lobster and steak, so at least they're not going hungry. You know why the Democrats are upset about this? Do you know why the Democrats are upset that our soldiers are getting steak and lobster? Because they want the steak and lobster to go to the illegal aliens. They want to subsidize the illegal aliens.

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The Democrats want to protect the illegal aliens, subsidize them, and give them food and nourishment at taxpayer expense, and they're mad that Pete Hegseth has spit the money on the soldiers who are fighting for the United States. Our soldiers who are willing to die for this country get well-fed, and the Democrats are mad about it because they want to feed the illegal aliens who are killing Americans. They flooded the border with a bunch of illegal aliens who came in here, some of whom are sleeper cells. They won't fund homeland security. 300-plus TSA agents have quit now. Lines are backed up at airport. reports around the country. The Democrats are upset that the military is getting food, not the illegal aliens. It's wild to watch the outrage about this from the Democrats. I want to play you something from CBS News. I got lots of criticism about CBS News still, even with Bari Weiss there, but the fact that they're now going in a direction covering governmental corruption is a big deal. Just listen to this from CBS News. A 69-year-old Dr. Lynn Iani was, according to Medicare records, dying in hospice care two years ago, something she discovered when she sought physical therapy for a pickleball injury. I was shocked. They said you're in hospice, and I said, what? What are you talking about? Do I look like I'm not? She was no, no. Imani's Medicare number had been stolen and used by a company to fraudulently enroll her in hospice care, which she obviously didn't need. Just to think you're literally without coverage because of some ridiculous fraudulent thing. My name is Adam Yamagucham with CBS News. A CBS News investigation found an industry ripe for fraud, especially in California. Companies accused of overbilling. Real patients denied care. And it's costing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. The hospice Iani was fraudulently enrolled in. It's called Fortuna. When we called, no one answered. I cannot expect any messages at this time. Kudos to CBS News for covering this story. Kudos to CBS News for covering this. Have you heard any Democrat mention it? Hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare fraud in California? The state of California leads the nation in Medicare fraud. People are being signed up for hospice care who aren't dying. People are being signed up. for other treatments that they don't know they get. They're being signed up for hospitals that have no physical presence in California. The Democrats are upset about lobster and steak for our troops, and they're not upset about the Medicare fraud because it's probably a bunch of illegal aliens who are doing it. Look at Minnesota. The Democrats have said more in the last 48 hours about the Pentagon budget spending to feed our troops than they ever said about the fraud in Minnesota. The Democrats doubled down on the fraud in Minnesota. and claimed that we were racist for carried about it. You know they're going to do the same thing in California. When it turns out it's a bunch of Somalis who are running the fraud in California, they'll say, give them the steak and lobster. They're clearly hungry. Our troops have MREs to eat. The other really striking thing to me about this whole story is that I don't know that any of these Democrats have anyone in their family serving the military. My mind is actually blown that Paul Begala did not know.

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that our soldiers get fed steak and lobster when they're in combat regions. He absolutely had no idea when Scott Jennings called him out on it. None of the Democrats seem to know it, including Jason Crow, who was in the military and ate the steak and lobster. They're all trying to own this. We're in a war with Iran, whether we want to call it a war or not, and the Democrats are more upset with the Pentagon. feeding our soldiers well than they are with the mullahs. They're in bed with the mullahs. They're not concerned about Medicare fraud in California. They're not concerned about Somali fraud in Minnesota. They're not concerned about illegal aliens. They want to fund the illegal aliens. They're just mad. We take care of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who are preventing the Democrats and the rest of us from dying. The priorities of the Democrats with the illegal aliens, the mullahs, and the fraudsters. That's the party today, and that's why Americans hate the Democratic Party more than anything else except Iran, which the Democrats are siding with. 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 is to tell you what you want to hear. It's the Eric Erickson Show. Giving you the truth. Not the talking points. It's the Eric Erickson Show. This hour of the program is brought to you by Van Allen Golf, A-L-L-E-N, Van Allen Golf.com, Van Allen Golf on Instagram, where the pictures are really pretty because the golf equipment is beautiful. You can also text the word golf to 33777-7. In fact, if you text golf to 33-77, I'll send you the link to Van Allen Golf, and I'll also send you my referral link to the golfer journal. If you've got anyone in your family who loves golf, one, they're really going to want to check out Van Allen Golf and get one of their putters. And two, they're going to want to be a member of the golfer journal. They might see me on a course somewhere around the country in one of the Broken Tea Society events. Now you need to know. The 26 Academy Awards are on high alert because the FBI has warned of a surprise attack from the regime of Iran. As we've already covered, the surprise attack from Iran is a nothing burger. The FBI and the White House are saying it was an unverified piece of information, passed on to local law enforcement as is customary, wasn't meant to get to the press, and now it's become a big deal in the press when there's actually no sourcing for it at all.

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But my question is, why on earth would Iran attack the Academy Awards? Those are some of the biggest supporters of Hamas and Iran in Western society. For Iran to attack the Academy Awards would be like, I don't know, PETA attacking a garden. Why would you attack your biggest supporters in the West, Iran, and potentially convert a bunch of anti-Semites into a pro-Israel crowd? I don't understand. I mean, the safest place on the planet against the Iranians is going to be at the Academy Awards because all those people are probably going to show up with Iranian flags to begin with. There literally is a movie out about the Iranian regime. And people in Hollywood are saying it needs to be killed because they might help Trump if they give this movie accurately portraying the monstrosity of the regime an award. Now, let me tell you about Eden Pure, the Eden Pure Thunderstorm. You can get three of them and save $200 at Edenpuredeals.com. An air purifier, it eliminates dust and pollen. It eliminates particulate matter. It wipes out 99.9% of bacteria and viruses because it produces plasma and the air comes through it, touches the plasma and the bacteria and viruses die. It also generates ozone. Three technologies. It's filterless. And with the third technology, ozone, it wipes out every odor. No odor can stand up to it. It's like odor bleach. wipes out orders. They've got a money back guarantee. Within 30 days, it's not wiping out your orders. You can get your money back. The site has all the details. Eden Pure Deals.com. The discount code is Eric 3, E-R-I-C-K-3. I travel with one of these. In fact, I'm headed down to Jacksonville to W-K-V this evening. I'll be staying down there. Nice place. Shouldn't need it, but I always keep one of my travel bag. They're small and portable. Eden Pure Deals.com. The discount code is Eric 3. Get three. Save $200. They got a money-back guarantee. See the site for details. Order for Jennifer C. Is this my double shot, double cream, double froth, double pump, double whip, double sleeve? Yeah, can you handle that much caffeine? Did you know Discover automatically doubles all the cashback you've earned at the end of your first year? Oh, really? That's great. Seriously, did you know Discover automatically doubles all the cashback you've earned at the end of your first year? Yeah, you just said that. Did you say I just said that? Yeah, I'm cutting you off. I can't have any more. Why not? You earn we match. Discover cashback match. See terms at discover.com slash credit card.