Chris HandJune 29, 202632m

Schumer BOOED in NYC, Called to take a stand in the Senate, & Vance Fortifies!!

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Boo! No, they weren't somebody in the text lights. They weren't booing you, sir. They were saying boo-earns. Boo-urns. Chuck Schumer getting booed at the pride parade. That's wild. As you see the socialist takeover of the Democrat Party, an old white man like Chuck Schumer, well, he's got no place in the Democrat Party in 2026. And it's not even just anecdotal evidence of people booing him at the gay pride parade on the streets. There's some stats to back this up. New polling as well. CNN broke it down. Lisa Elissa Slotkin is channeling Democratic voters on this one because it's no longer the overall electorate that doesn't like Chuck Schumer. Look at this change among Democrats themselves. Chuck Schumer's net favorable rating with Dems now versus the last time Democrats were going for that Senate majority. In early 2020, look at this. Chuck Schumer was 40 points above water very much on the positive side of the ledger with Democrats. Look at this. Look at this change. This is nuts. Johnny B. off on the side going, my goodness gracious, now he's a point underwater with Democrats. Chuck Schumer isn't unpopular overall. He is that. He's not just that. He's actually not popular with Democrats. Alyssa Slokkin, who's a moderate Democrat, her comments, not coming out of left field. Again, to be clear, this is among Democrats. This is among Democrats where Chuck Schumer is struck. All right. Democrats hate them. You got to embrace socialism, man. If you're not going to embrace socialism, if you're not going to embrace the free Palestine movement, then you're out. You're out of the Democratic Party. And it's going to get worse for these people. There's a lot of money that are going to be pouring into a lot of these races in the midterms. George and Alex Soros, maybe you've heard of them. They're just philanthropists. They just want to help people with things. That's it. They're going to be flooding over $100 million into the 2026 midterms to thrust more Democrats into power. But I don't think they're going to be thrusting the old guard of the Democrat Party. They're going to be embracing the socialist movement in the Democrat Party. And a lot of Democrats know. A lot of Democrats are taking note. When you see Chuck Schumer. completely underwater. I mean, alarm bells are ringing for a lot of Democrats. Right. How's he doing among Democrats in New York, his home state? Yeah, you think that this number is bad. What about here in his home state of New York? I tell you, these numbers scream primary challenge two years from now. Look at this. Okay, New York Dems who view Chuck Schumer favorably, again, in early 2020, It was 75%, three and four Democrats. Now it is less than half. Less than half of Democrats in Chuck Schumer's home state of New York, 47% who view him favorably. This is part of a larger picture in which Democrats are turning against their leadership. They are specifically turning against Chuck Schumer. He is actually underwater nationally with Democrats. And even in his own home state of New York, the Empire State, he can't even reach 50% favorable. rating with Democrats. That's crazy. That's wild. I mean, Chuck was the Democrat Party for many, many, many, many years. And now he looks like an old football coach who the game has passed him by. And he just doesn't see the writing on the wall yet. But he's going to be relieved of his duties. It appears very, very soon. Now, there are other Democrats that are trying to play this smart.

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They're not trashing the socialists. They're not running to the left with a full embrace for the far left socialist in the party. But they're being pretty smart. Senator Raphael Warnock in Georgia, he says, guys, we're a big tent party. We got to let these people in. Zohran Mamdani said those victories prove that the DSA has a durable movement. Among the positions that these candidates have advocated for are ending all support for Israel. ending prisons, ending police, no borders. Now, you've worked hard to be a progressive who can represent all of Georgia, all of a purple state. Are you worried at all about the impact that these positions of some DSA members could have on the Democratic Party's ability to win a majority in November? Jake, I have to tell you that if I were a Republican this morning, I would be deeply worried. because they're having an argument about who is the most loyal to Donald Trump. We are a big tent party focused on the ordinary concerns of everyday Americans. Yeah. Like, how much puberty blockers are you allowed to give your kids? How many illegal aliens should you be letting in? Should we eliminate borders altogether? Who wants to get rid of the police? Can we abolish prisons? These are just, you know, everyday Americans are worried about this kind of stuff. I mean, this is a calculated response. And you're seeing this over and over again. Jonathan Carl was essentially fawning over Zohran Mamdani over the weekend. And you heard the big tent talking point. It's like the meme where you replace the chip in the NPC's brain. That's what's happening. And they've all been had their chips updated. We're a big tent party. We're a big tent party. So Zohran Mamdani says, well, that tent has to have a spine. You got to be able to hold the tent up. Obviously, the spine is going to come from the socialist. weak-kneed Democrats like Raphael Warnock. He's reading the writing on the wall. He's smart enough to understand that if you don't get in line, you're going to get rolled over. So he's, ah, we're a big tent party. We're just doing big tent party things. He's not the only senator that's keeping score at home. Senator Chris Murphy out of Connecticut, essentially echoing the exact same thing. Let's first off, start with your reaction to the latest primary results out of New York. You've heard President Trump say that these candidates aren't socialists. He's gone as far as to call them communists. As someone who identifies as a progressive, is this a moment of reckoning for establishment Democrats? I think you're going to have different candidates being nominated in New York City and suburban Connecticut. This is a...

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party that is also nominated and won with candidates like Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill. I want us to be a big tent party. I mean, I've been saying this for years. I think that it's actually a sign of a party that is alive and growing when there's a contest of ideas inside the party. So I'm not a Democratic socialist, but I do believe that the Democratic Party has been historically way too timid in taking on corporate power. I think our party should have bigger ideas. I put one on the table last week, a $25 minimum wage. And I think we do have to have answers for the way in which corporations and billionaires are taking over and corrupting our politics. So I do think that there is somewhat of a trend that candidates who are confronting concentrated corporate power in a meaningful way are winning. And I think that that is something that the Democratic Party should pay attention to me. I think he's noticing a trend. And the trend is that if you don't get in line behind these socialists, you're going to be primaried and removed. And I don't know if you've noticed this about Democrats. They love power. The United States Soccer Federation presents the U.S. Soccer Podcast. I'm your host, Megan Klingerberg. One thing I promised you is an all-access pass that you wouldn't get on any other show. And we found out that whoever comes on scores a goal. Burho. Freeman. Trusty. U.S. soccer podcast magic is real people. We still got plenty of coverage all throughout this World Cup. Okay, let's get into it. The U.S. soccer podcast. Presented by Henko. Follow and listen on your favorite. More than they love principles. So they're going to be willing to bend and budge on just about everything if it means that they can hang on to that power. And I think Chris Murphy is a perfect example of one of those guys. Did I say Rhode Island when I said he's a senator? Or did I say Connecticut? He's a senator from Connecticut. It's a lot of senators lining up saying this stuff. You got Raphael Warnock. You got Chris Murphy. Jon Ossoff, also out of the state of Georgia. lining up behind the socialists, and he's dodging the questions. You're noticing calculator responses from all of these guys. And he's like, oh, what we're seeing. is a revulsion to the current entrenched political class. You talked about the Republican Party. What about the Democratic Party? We've seen this shift to the left that has happened, whether it's in the New York Democratic primaries, the main Democratic primaries in the left. Susan Collins is very much trying to tie you to the leftward shift in your party. Are you personally... concern at all about what we're seeing in the rise in the left this election cycle. Here's what I think we're seeing across the country and it's happening in both political parties. We are seeing a growing revulsion.

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at the corruption of an entrenched political class that especially since the Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to limitless secret corporate funding of politics has been less and less responsive to the needs of the American people and more and more responsive to powerful donors whether they're corporate interests or the ultra rich and I think that that is driving some of the dynamics we're seeing in both political parties right now. Yeah, it says, I mean, it says the party that's getting $100 million dumped into it by George Soros for the 2026 midterms. Probably, probably for no reason, right? There's no ask tied to that. But you're watching the Democrat Party do the mental gymnastics to stay in power. That's what all of these guys are doing. Every last one of them. Now, I think the Democrats are going to be unelectable. I think that their ideas are trash at best, dangerous at worst. And we can make a lot of time and spend a lot of time talking about just how bad they are. Donald Trump posted this clip of Stephen Miller over the weekend. Democrat Party, Sean, as you've covered better than anybody, has become a party of Marxist, communist, socialist, violent extremists. And yes, violent revolutionaries who support the policies that are getting Americans killed in mass historically for many years now, and of course it accelerated under the Biden administration by criminal illegal aliens. This is a party that supports violence against ICE officers, supports violence against federal law enforcement, and engages in conduct and rhetoric. and behavior that leads to repeated assassination attempts against President Trump, against President Trump supporters, and against Republican-elected office holders. It is a terrifying reality, but one we cannot turn away from, ignore. We cannot put our heads in the sand and pretend the Democrat Party of the 90s or the 80s or the 70s exists anymore because it is gone, Sean. It is gone and it is not coming back. Now, listen, everything Stephen Miller said there is absolutely true. But I don't necessarily think that the conservative's biggest issue is going to be the Democrat socialists. I don't. In fact, I think that that's going to be... A great talking point come the 2026 midterms. I mean, the alternative that they're presenting is vile, trash, and anti-American. But what we're going to be battling more than that, it's going to be complacency from conservatives. We had Senator Haggerty on the phone on Friday, and Senate Republicans have been dragging their feet on common sense legislation like the Save America Act, and conservatives and Republicans are fed up. We have showed up for you guys every single time. You have the House. You have the Senate. You have the Supreme Court. You have the presidency. And yet they still can't get anything done. And they don't want to put their members on record by forcing a vote on nuking the filibuster or passing the Save America Act. And if we lose in the midterms and we lose control of the Senate, I hope that conservatives understand it's not going to be because of the popularity of these Democrats socialists. It's going to be because of the lack of movement.

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in the conservative movement. We haven't been able to do anything outside the big beautiful bill. And we need to see more fight from our representatives or you're going to have a lot of conservatives sitting at home in the midterms. Now, again, I made this point to Senator Haggerty on Friday. I don't think it's going to be conservatives in Tennessee. But if you're a conservative and you're in the state of Maine, a state that could absolutely swing the balance of power for the Senate? To the Democrats, are you going to be energized to go out there and vote for Susan Collins over a Nazi tattoo guy? You're not going to vote for Nazi tattoo guy, but you're going to stay home and you're not going to vote for Susan Collins. And Senate Republicans need to have a bit of a reckoning with that reality. Yes, the Democrat socialists are terrible. Yes, it provides a great talking point. But if the Republican Party doesn't look inward and solve their own problems before we get to November, well, those problems are only going to continue and get worse. Do you still feel like you're in for disappointment on birthright citizenship? I'm going to hold out hope. Okay. I'm going to keep fingers and toes crossed. I feel like the hope meter has increased. Yeah. That's a good thing. Yeah. Well, now I feel like you're just saying that. Yeah. So I can tell you that Ken feels like it's going to get shot down by the court. So, you know, you've got him coming on as a cheerleader later on. Okay. You boot me out the door and you've got him. Thank goodness. I'm just kidding. We love Joan Jay Jones. Headlines on the way in less than five minutes. It is 1026 on Super Talk 997. WTN. My name is Chris Hand. I don't know if you know this, but Dan Mandis, the outlaw. The absolute madman. He was brandishing weapons on YouTube this morning. And he got us kicked off YouTube for 24 hours. Dude brought in his own M16. Like, what are you doing, Dan? What are you doing? I mean, come on. So we're only on Rumble today and Facebook and Twitter and Twitch. But that's it. Facebook's jumping off. Rumble's jumping off. We have tens upon tens of people watching us on Rumble. Tens of ones. Tens of ones. It's unbelievable. No, I'm just kidding. We got a few people over there. If you need the link to the Rumble page, I know Rumble is not as easy to find. You can text us. 615-73799-86. I'll send you the link. We were talking about the Democrat Socialist Takeover, which we're watching in real time. And if we lose in the midterms, there's going to be a lot of finger pointing at the Democrats. There's going to be a lot of finger pointing at the media. But there's never going to be any inward reflection from the Republicans, especially the Senate Republicans. And the Senate Republicans have been absolutely dragging their feet. You know it and I know it. And they've been dragging their feet on a piece of consequential legislation that would make things a lot harder for the Democrat Party, the Democrat socialist movement as well.

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They've been dragging their feet on the Save America Act. And then they have to stop doing that. Over the weekend on Fox News, Tommy Lauren said that the Senate Republicans, they need to stop sitting on their hands. And she's absolutely 100% right. And that's the message that we conveyed to Senator Haggerty on Friday when we had him on the show. I will say this. If we can't get this through. Right? Then at least let's lock down our borders, make it incredibly hard to get here so that you can do things like that to begin with. And also back to our Save America Act, right? There might be nothing that we can do about some of the millions of people who are here illegally. It sounds like perhaps the effort of mass deportations, the appetite for that by some is waning. But I will say this. If we can have the Save America Act, we can have voter ID, proof of citizenship, watch how quickly Democrats give up all their other arguments for... illegal aliens, right? That in and of itself is a major victory and a major win. I say we go for that as hard as we possibly can. That's why the Senate needs to do something. Stop sitting on your hands, make it happen. Yeah, seriously, stop sitting on your hands, make it happen. You would see a lot of these Democrats who are essentially playing footsie with the socialists saying, we're a big tent party. If the Save America Ag was passed, you'd see them come hauling ass back to the middle. Now, I don't know if it would be authentic, but you would absolutely see it. And Tommy Lauren is right there. Stop sitting on your hands and make something happen. The House continues to make things happen. Speaker Mike Johnson over the weekend with Maria Bartaromo says, you know what? We're going to pass the Save America Act again for the fourth time. We have, and the President and I laughed about it in the Oval last week. I told him, you know, Mr. President, I don't have any tattoos, but if I did, it's a Save America on my shoulder, okay? We passed it three times in the House already. We're going to pass it again. And this time we're going to try to put it on a reconciliation bill. And the reason that's so important, Maria, as you know, is it prevents the necessity of 60 votes in the Senate. The Democrats want no part of this. And remember, this is very basic stuff. We're just going to make sure you have to have proof of citizenship to register to vote and then show an ID when you turn out at the ballot box. These are 90-10 public opinion issues and more than 70% of Democrats want to do it, but not the Democrats in the House and Senate. And so we've got to go around them. And look, I told Donna Palina Luna and a couple other colleagues, I said, it makes no sense for us to shut down our good work in the House just because Senate Democrats refuse to do the people's will. We've got a lot more to do. We've got to keep it going. Yeah, I mean, we do have to keep it going. But even Mike Johnson there put the blame at Senate Democrats' feats. And I think that a lot of the blame really falls at Senate Republicans' feats. Bill Maher had JD Vance on over the weekend. Did you see that? I was actually, listen, this is where JD Vance is at his strongest. He can diffuse. He can disarm. He can talk rationally and calmly with a lot of people. And I think that one of the things that we have to our advantage is we're willing to go into places and have these conversations, whereas the Democrats on the other side of the aisle. They want nothing to do with this kind of stuff. I mean, the last time that we have seen a high-profile Democrat kind of crossed that line into hostile territory, it was Gavin Newsom, and he had Charlie Kirk on his podcast. We rarely see this in reverse where you have high-profile Democrats going into the lion's den on a conservative-type show. It just doesn't happen. But the reverse happens quite often.

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And JD Vance, one of the best guys that sent out there to do it. We talked about the view last week, 3.3 million views. It was their most watched episode in over a year when they had JD Vance on. And JD Vance speaks calmly, and he meets people where they're at, and he has a conversation. And this is how you win voters over. You got to meet people where they're at. You got to find the culture where it is. And he was shocked, Bill Maher, that it's even easier for him, a leftist. to get conservatives on than it is to get some liberals on. In fact, he says he can't get Zohran Mamdani or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Kamala Harris on his show, but he can get the vice president of the United States. I mean, and this is Bill Maher's own admission. He's like, these liberals, they don't want to come on. He said it took him eight years, eight years to get Obama on his show. I'm just glad you're talking to me. You know, I mean, I say it every time when the Republicans come here, they take their beating like a man. It's the people I vote for. They're the ones who won't talk to me. That's odd, isn't it? It is very odd. I mean, and I'd probably... I'm not like this new woman who was elected in New York. Do you think she'll come on the show? Oh, I know you want... No, I can't get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I can't get Zohran Mamdani. I can't go and get Kamala Harris. You know, it took me eight years to get Obama. Mm-hmm. Anyway, let's not talk about my problem.

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And I promise this is going to be a lot easier than talking to the Iranian. Or even more, the view. The question is whether it's harder than the view. That's right. I mean, these are good moments for JD Vance. So for a couple reasons, he's being exposed to a new audience that's not just seeing him clipped out of context. That's, for starters, that's a big win. And if J.D. wants to be the nominee in 2028, I mean, people have to see him as sane and normal. And when he can joke around with Bill Maher, he's getting a lot of airtime with a lot of liberals who don't see him as a right-wing fascist extremist, which is important. And, I mean, he had a couple funny moments. You know, Bill Maher's going off about how liberals won't come on a show. But he's like, you know, I was able to get, I was able to get you on and I was able to get Mike Pence on. Yeah, Mike Pence. And then JD Vance, JD Vance is hilarious. He says, well, what did you talk about with, what did you talk about with Mike Pence? I've been saying to me, I told them, you know, people get excited. Why, you have the vice president on? I'm pretty impressed myself. I'm very excited about this. I had Pence on. I've had both his vice president a couple of weeks ago. Pence was here. I'm killing it with the vice president. Okay. Yeah.

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What did you talk about with Mike Pence? Sex, drugs, and rock and roll? I don't know. I mean, it's humanizing. It is very, very humanizing. He's not the fascist that you think he is. What do you talk about with Mike Pence? Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yes, actually. We talked about the finer intricacies of ayahuasca and the little elves that visit you when you trip out on ayahuasca. Mike Pence huge LSD fan. Huge. But there was a couple moments there that are eye opening. I think that this is true for a lot of the so-called moderate Democrats. The party has gone so far left when it comes to abolishing the police, abolishing prisons, open borders, the trans stuff with kids. That you're seeing this happen in real time. And then you're seeing these Democrat socialist victories in New York. Hey, I'm Chris Van Fleet. Go behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the biggest names in pro wrestling and beyond. Mr. Sandman. All I ever wanted to be was a pro wrestler. So I got to live my life. And make people really happy. The heartbreak kid himself, Sean Michaels. Do you think there's anybody better than you were? I think I was great at what I did. And I think other people were great at what they did as well. Greatness is more of mindset, I think, than anything. else. Mindset, motivation, insight with Chris Van Vleet, follow and listen on your favorite platform. And I think a lot of individuals that once consider them a classic, themselves a classic liberal, you know, free speech and looking out for the average American, they're looking at today's Democrat Party and they're like, you're not looking out for me. And they're starting to second guess things. And Bill Maher, he looks at JD Vance dead in the eyes. And he goes, guys, if this Democratic Party continues to be taken over by socialists, my votes in play in 2028. That's the statement from Bill Maher. His vote is in play in 2028. Like, if this is where the Democratic Party is going, where this Democratic socialist, this obsession with Israel, with the Jew hating, with, they don't believe in capitalism, no prisons, if this is where they're going, my vote is in play. Okay. And I like to hear that. It actually always has been. I just every year, I don't make my decision by who was an R or D. I actually always came to the conclusion that the Democrat was probably better. Sure. And voted for them. Okay. And Trump can't run again, and he'd be a little too exciting for me anyway. So it's either going to be you or Marco Rubio. Now, there was a laugh line at the end there, but did you notice something a little bit different from the other clips? When Bill Maher says that his vote is in play in 2008, the audience is kind of stunned. They react not with booze, not with clapping, but with silence. Because I think a lot of the audience members probably hold that same thought deep down in their core. If this keeps trending the direction that I think it's going to keep trending, maybe their votes in play too. And maybe Bill Maher tapped into something and said something out loud that a lot of Democrats are feeling.

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This isn't my mom and dad's Democrat Party. This isn't my grandparents' Democrat Party. And everyone knows it, up to and including Bill Maher. And if this continues, I think we're going to see a lot of votes in play. Like, if this is where the Democratic Party is going, where this Democratic Socialists, this obsession with Israel, with the Jew hating, with, they don't believe in capitalism, no prisons. If this is where they're going, my vote is in play. Okay. And I like to hear that. It actually always has been. I just... I mean, you hear the stunned silence. You could hear a pin drop in that audience. And this was an audience that was rolling, laughing 10 seconds later, but they all instinctively know that this is true. It's just that the Democrat leaders are worried about getting primaried and rolled over. So they're playing both sides of the fence right now. The elder statesmen in the Democrat Party have a decision to make. And a lot of them are being very, very cautious about pissing off the socialists. Bill Marr, though, is like, no, I'm out. But Bill Maher also fought JD Vance on some big topics, one of them being immigration. What I worry about is when people say you can't ever do immigration enforcement if it produces a bad video clip, what they're really saying is you can't ever actually do immigration enforcement. We had 12 million people come into the country, into the interior over the last four years, or I should say from 2021 to 2025. And we were elected with a mandate to get some of those people out of the United States of America. You can't do that easily. Law enforcement deporting people is never an easy process. So I appreciate your argument that we've gone too far, but we couldn't do nothing. And I don't think there was an easy way to do this. And I love how he thinks that the current party has gone too far. And I was, you know, I'm doing research over the weekend. And Hillary Clinton's out there saying that Trump and his immigration policies are going too far. And it's like, hey, don't you remember? Bill Clinton removed a little Cuban boy in the middle of the night via gunpoint during the 90s. Was that a little too far? I don't remember any anti-ice protests. I don't remember any protests about that. I know ice wasn't created yet, but you get what I'm saying. The moderate take on immigration, that's really like enforce your border, deport people who sneak in illegally. That used to be some of the Democrats held. Not so much anymore. The conversation then drifted over to Iran. And JD Vance, again, does a masterful job at disarming Bill Maher. Bill Maher tried to cast out on the Iran deal. JD Vance said pump the brakes. I'd say the most important thing, Bill, is that the people who judge whether the oil is actually flowing, they judge this as a success, right? So... If you look at oil right now, it's back down to $73 a barrel, got up to $126 a barrel. So there's a signal that there's something real going on here. I think the second bill is whether we make the final deal, because you have to remember this MOU is fundamentally, it says the straits are going to be open, the oil is going to flow. We're seeing that happen already. It's also a ceasefire, which, as you pointed out, is always going to be a little messy when you're dealing with the Iranians. But if we make the final deal, then great.

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If we don't make the final deal, their nuclear program is still destroyed. They're still much weaker as a country. So my attitude is America wins either way. But I do think that what the president has done has asked us to do something that, frankly, nobody in 47 years of dealing with the Iranians has done, which is... offer them an opportunity to fundamentally transform how they behave with the West. They've been the largest state sponsor of terrorism basically since they began as a nation, or at least as an Islamic Republic, 47 years ago. He's saying, look, if they're willing to change, we're willing to change too. If they're not willing to change, we still fundamentally have all the cards. I mean, JD Vance just does such a good job. And again, he's in enemy territory on Bill Mars show. Yet that audience is listening to him and listening very closely. Now, Bill Maher pushed back, and rightfully so. JD said that the nuclear program has been destroyed. Bill Maher said, no, it hasn't. And J.D. then disarmed that talking point as well. If we don't make the final deal, their nuclear program is still destroyed. They're still much weaker as a country. So my attitude is America wins either way. But I do think that what the president has done has asked us to do something that, frankly, Nobody in 47 years of dealing with the Iranians has done, which is offer them an opportunity to fundamentally transform how they behave with the West. They've been the largest state sponsor of terrorism basically since they began as a nation, or at least as an Islamic Republic 47 years ago. He's saying, look, if they're willing to change, we're willing to change too. If they're not willing to change, we still fundamentally have all the cards, and I think it's a good place for us to be. But their program isn't destroyed. The nuclear program isn't destroyed. I mean, I don't know any of our objectives. And look, I said I... What part is not destroyed? Well, we didn't get in there. The whole thing was we have to get in there and see. Are there us we wouldn't be doing this? Well, let me say... We didn't. First of all, so a nuclear program, and I'm hardly a nuclear scientist, I'm a lowly politician, but the thing that you have to destroy is their ability to enrich uranium, which has been destroyed. You have to destroy their ability. How do we know that? Well, because you need functioning centrifuges that can actually spend. We've got to get in there and we've got to get the dust. Okay. And we didn't get in there. So how do we get the dust? So that's actually a separate question. So there's the highly enriched stockpile, which by the way was allowed to accumulate over 20 years of previous administrations. That enriched stockpile is something that we want to get. But Bill, if we never get it. And the president wants it, and we are going to get it. But if we never got it, it's buried deep underground, and they don't have the ability to turn it into a nuclear weapon. So the program is functionally destroyed. We're just talking about can we set them back even further through these negotiations. I mean, JD Vance does such a good job at this. He is so level-headed. He is so calm, cool, and collected. And I think you can hear him winning over members of that audience in real time, no pun intended. because of how smooth and level-headed he is. Now, yes, is the memorandum of understanding and the ceasefire fragile? I think that that would be an understatement. We saw that happen on Friday. Yet as of today, we're being told that more negotiations are happening this week and that there has been a pause on some of the bombs.

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