US & Iran Announce Framework For Peace Plan

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The idea as the president put forward yesterday is this, because apparently they have the signatures. Pakistan announced there was a deal. U.S. announced there was a deal. Eventually Iran announced there was a deal, but the deal that Iran is announcing sounds a lot different than anything our president would sign. But here's what the president put out on true social. The deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all. I hereby fully authorized the toll-free opening of the Strait of Hormuz and simultaneously herewith authorize the immediate removal of the United States and naval blockade. Ships of the world, start your engines. Let the oil flow, President Donald J. Trump. Now, here's, you're going to get a lot of misinformation from people, especially from the left who want to minimize this. And they want to tell you that, well, the president hasn't achieved anything. Why did we go to war in the first place? Why did we attack them at all? Why did we lose 14 American lives? Of course, mind you, these are not people who will ever extend themselves and question Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, where we lost 13 service members because of incompetence and failure to actually take our enemies seriously or anything like that. But they'll criticize Trump for the actions against Iran, and they will wrap themselves in the memory of those fallen Americans. But they will say, well, what's the point? The Strait of Hormuz was open before we started bombing. So what have we achieved here? And if you hear that from somebody on cable news, let me explain one of two things is going to be in play. Number one, they're ignorant. Or number two, they're lying to you. Could be both. Always leave open the possibility that it's both. Let's just really go back and look at the timeline of events here, shall we? Because they're right. Before we started bombing, the Strait of Hormuz was open. Why did we start bombing? Did we start bombing because we wanted the Strait of Hormuz to stay open? Well, no. That wasn't the reason for the bombing. The bombing was because Iran was not seriously working on a negotiation process to end their nuclear ambitions. If you'll remember, we had weeks and weeks and weeks of Jared Kushner and Stephen Steve Witkoff sitting there in Geneva with these Iranian diplomats, you know, spinning their wheels and acting like they wanted to end their nuclear program. This, of course, comes months after us sending our bombers over to obliterate their caves where they were building these things under a mountain, right? And so the U.S. came in and said, okay, so we're serious now. You're not going to acquire a nuclear weapon in any way whatsoever. We will bomb you again if we have to. Let's start this process now where you promise never to try to get a nuclear weapon again. You end all enrichment and you hand over whatever enriched uranium you may still have left. That's what led us to the bombing. Because as far as the U.S. was concerned and because of growing threats to our partner in ally Israel. The peace process was going nowhere. They continued to try to pursue it or a nuclear bomb. And so we had to do something about it. So we took the opportunity and we bombed the hell out of them. And we bombed them for weeks. Now, in response to the bombing, Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz. That came after the bombing, right? And then in response to shutting down the Strait of Hormuz,

We put a naval blockade on all of their ports. And that's basically where we've been. Under a ceasefire, we stopped bombing. They shut down the strait. We shut down their ports. And we've had two demands. Well, three demands. Number one, open the straight. Number two. Stop funding terrorists like Hezbollah and Hamas. And number three, get back to the table and seriously now and be serious about ending your nuclear program and put in place a final deal on your nuclear enrichment, uranium enrichment and nuclear program, that we will be able to third party verify or even first party verify because we don't trust you people. And that's where we've been. It's been a standoff. So now it looks as though we've reached a memorandum of understanding because our naval blockade is killing them economically. And they finally said, okay, okay, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. We'll open the Strait of Hormuz. We won't fund terrorists. You and the naval blockade. And now we have a 60-day window to work out the nuclear thing. That's where we are. So we're basically... not to the place before we bombed them. We're at the place of weeks after we bombed them before they shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which is, we just bombed you, now get back to the table, and let's reach a deal on your uranium, and if we think you're not negotiating in good faith, we'll start bombing you again. That's where we are. That's what we've achieved. We haven't gone back to square one. We've gone back to square, let's call it two and a half. What are the details of this agreement? We don't know yet. This is what we've been told. The details of the agreement are. Jack Kane, General 4-Star retired, he'll join us in our second hour, 735 Eastern to talk about it. But no, we're not right back where we were before we started bombing. And now we'll see what happens next. This is O'Connor. For nearly 3,000 years, Homer's The Odyssey has shaped Western imagination. It tells the story of Odysseus as he faces monsters, shipwrecks, false comforts, and impossible choices on his long journey home. As one of the foundational works of Western literature, Homer's epic is more than a mythology, it explores permanent questions about courage, duty, loyalty, family, leadership, temptation, and the search for home. In one of the epic's defining moments, Odysseus rejects the offer of immortality from the goddess Calypso, choosing instead the long and difficult journey home. His decision reveals one of the central themes of the Odyssey that a life of duty, family, and home is greater than a life devoted to comfort or glory. Achilles chose glory. Odysseus chose home. That's why Hillsdale College has released its newest free online course, The Odyssey. Top by Professor Benedict Wayland. The course reveals why Homer's masterpiece remains one of the greatest works of Western literature. Find this free course at Charlie for Hillsdale.com. That's Charlie for Hillsdale.com. Read the classics, study the West. The Odyssey from Hillsdale College. Go to Charlie for Hillsdale.com.

Retired four-star General Jack Keane joining us at 7.30 to talk about this so-called memorandum of understanding. And everyone commenting on one Senate without knowing what's in it because it hasn't officially been released. We've heard from Iran what's in it. Yeah, go ahead and believe them. Great idea. Good plan. I won't believe what's in it until I hear a readout from the Trump administration in detail about it. We've heard broad strokes. And I've laid out the broad strokes. And the broad strokes are, you know, reopen the Strait of Hormuz with no tolls, of course. It's an international waterway. Number two, we'll shut down the blockade, then come back to the negotiating table. And then, and only then, if you start hitting some marks and you start actually moving toward your denuclearization, no more enrichment, hand over all of the materials, and let us come in and actually trust and verify. Excuse me, verify. and not trust that you're doing these things, then maybe we can start freeing up these sanctions because you can join the rest of the world body, which is sort of like regime change in that they still remain a theocratic authoritarian dictatorship. but you've basically reshuffled the deck. You've gotten rid of the A team and the B team, and now you're down to the C team because so many of them have been killed in this war effort. And I guess the hope is these guys coming into power will be like, yeah, maybe we shouldn't be the world's pariah anymore. Most of us don't think that Iran is going to have some sort of reawakening and decide that they don't need to be the world's pariah anymore. There's no reason to believe that that's what they'll do. But there seems to be a small handful of critics of this plan from various factions. There's one side of the equation who believe that the only good thing Trump has ever done is wage war against our enemies, including this engagement with Iran. People like Eric Erickson, people like Nikki Haley. They've been shorthanded called, you know, neocons, but I think that that's too sloppy and lazy. But these are people who believe that we have existential threats on the world stage and they need to be obliterated. And I don't necessarily theoretically disagree with them. It's the how that I always have a problem with and what the next steps are after you obliterate them. I do kind of lean toward the you break it, you bought it sort of thing, where if we go in and carpet bomb Iran into submission so that there's nothing left. I think there is sort of a moral obligation to go in and say, okay, so we'll help you put something together here. That's how we performed in Germany and Japan. And, of course, those two countries unconditionally surrendered, didn't they?

And the only way you're going to get Iran to unconditionally surrender is you pummel them into non-existence. So there are some people who will not be happy with President Trump unless he just continues this and then sets up an occupation force or something. Again, they've never said it out loud. They've never said, yeah, we need to have an occupation force and we need to nation build and we need to create. They won't say that because they know it's not popular. It doesn't poll well. But if you ask some follow-up questions saying, okay, you want us to continue bombing and obliterate them, then what? What comes next? Because there are, you know, 90 million people living there. And they will all die if there isn't some kind of government structure. And I know a lot of you are like, that's not our problem. That's not our problem. The Iranians have been our enemy. So, you know, just pummel your enemy and let them figure it out. Well, first of all, when you let them figure it out, you come up with, well, governments that end up being the world pariah. But secondly, also, the Iranians have not been our enemy. The small few that run that theocratic dictatorship have been our enemy. But I refuse to believe that it's every Iranian that is guilty and deserves the death sentence from us. We can disagree on that. The point is, when we step in and wipe them off the map, we have an obligation to help them clean up the mess. And nobody who's in favor of carpet bombing Iran will ever step forward and actually then say, and oh, by the way, we need to occupy Iran for the next decade. They won't say it. But I don't see some other way we're going to fix the problem. So then you've got other people who are criticizing the president. People like former President Barack Obama who will glibly jump up and say, well, Looks like I had a pretty good deal because he hasn't gotten anything better. Here was the president, former, talking to Robin John Roberts on ABC News. You spent a lot of time wrestling with the threat of a nuclear Iran. How do you think things are being handled right now there? It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from. the deal that we had in the first place and had worked for a long stretch of time before we'd the United States pulled out of it. So he can't help himself, but smile through this because he knows he's lying. It worked politically for him because it kicked the can down the road, but it still kept Iran enriching uranium. Don't ever forget that. And no deal that the president agrees to. Our current president will include that. All right, more on this later with General Jack Keane coming up in our 7 o'clock hour. You know, for 250 years, Americans have believed in one powerful idea, and that is that we're meant to live free. Free to work hard, free to move, free to enjoy life without being held back. But if everyday aches and pains are slowing you down, it might be time for you to declare your independence from pain. Relief factor is a 100% drug-free research-based formula designed to help your body fight inflammation, which is one of the root causes of pain. It's not a quick fix or a temporary mask. It works from the inside out, all at the source. Relief factor was created so people could get back to living life on their terms, walking, working, exercising, and enjoying the moments.

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We sure are making a name for ourselves for all the wrong reasons, Larry, every time we talk. Tell me about Graham Platner from your perspective. I can't believe your colleagues there, the Democrats, the rational, normal ones, or even more importantly, the independents. The non-affiliated voter in Maine really is where the power is. They're the ones who swing one way or the other. I can't believe that they're proud to have this man representing the state. You know, I'm optimistic, Larry. The common sense will prevail in the end, but you're right. We've got this extremist, Graham Platner, who you and I both know, he simply follows in the footsteps of the extremists who've been in power in Augusta for the last eight years. Governor Mills and the Democrat majority in the House and the Senate. So, yes, while we have whiplash, because there's a new story coming out all the time, we also know that this is not a huge surprise. And what I... want to make sure folks don't forget about is that as extreme as his personal life might be, I'm more concerned about what he would do if and when he got to D.C. And the fact is, he would follow in Governor Mills' footsteps in increasing costs dramatically for Mainers and not just Mainers, but folks across the country. You know, it is funny that whenever there's a new scandal, you're right. He's trying to make this about me, but it's really about the people of Maine, although he really doesn't talk about the people of Maine much. He talks about one person in Maine, Susan Collins. It's just an unrelenting negative campaign against her and attacking her. So let's actually take him up on his offer. Let's talk about the people of Maine because I'm told that they're getting squeezed, that Maineers are in debt, that they're not able to afford things. How exactly is that Susan Collins or the federal government's fault? They keep voting for Democrats to run the state. If they are getting squeezed, if they are under pressure, does that have more to do with the state government than it does the federal government? Absolutely. The government that's closest to us affects us absolutely the most, Larry. And I think most folks don't understand that. You know, we are living busy lives. Folks are busy working and being productive citizens. And so, you know, most people are paying attention a little bit to the federal level, but much less so to the state level. And so Governor Mills and the Democrat majority have gotten away with so much over the last eight years. And they are the reason that our costs are rising so dramatically. They've increased the state budget, 65% in eight short. years from $7 billion to $12 billion. Wow. And at the same time, they've increased or implemented 32 new taxes and fees. And so we are getting squeezed from every direction because on top of that, we have the solar subsidies that they insist we have because of, you know, green New Deal like policies here. And so our energy costs are 63% higher than the average cost across the country. We are getting squeezed from every direction. Incredible. And, well, Graham Platner, he keeps echoing the socialist, Marxist rhetoric from two states over there in Vermont, Bernie Sanders. He's basically saying the same speech that Bernie Sanders has been giving since the mid-90s. He's blaming it on the oligarchs. The oligarchs and the billionaires, they're the ones who were hurting Maine. How does that actually translate?

in Maine? Because I don't know. It doesn't seem like Maine is the type of state that would embrace Marxism. No, Maine certainly is not a state that would embrace Marxism. But folks are... relatively desperate. We have been living under governor mills the last eight years, and most folks don't perhaps understand where this squeeze is coming from. We do see that we've got terrible education results, the lowest scores in the last three decades. We see that rural health care is struggling. Health care overall is struggling. It's hard to find a primary care physician. It's hard to get care. And when you can get care, it's very expensive. And so folks want to look for an easy scapego. partners trying to provide them with one saying oligarchs and billionaires let me tell you Maine has one billionaire and they have done more for the state of Maine than you could possibly reasonably expect one billionaire to do. And Susan Collins, obviously, she's found some secret sauce to win in a state that usually, for president at least, always seems to vote for the Democrat candidate. I think they've done so since 1984. But she's found a way to speak to Mainers. And when it comes time to vote for Senator, they think that even if they don't agree with Susan Collins on everything ideologically, she's represented them well. She's represented them with dignity. As they say, she's brought home the bacon. Quite a bit of federal money comes back to Maine in defense contracts and other major projects. Ultimately, do you think that that's what this campaign is going to come down to, how effective she's been as a senator? I think it's tremendously important, whether you're talking about the lobster industry, forestry, health care, you name it. Any industry in Maine has been impacted tremendously by having Susan Collins in the Senate. She has brought, through being the chair of appropriations and her tenure in the Senate, she's brought $1.5 billion to Maine that otherwise, frankly, would be unlikely to see we're a small state, we're a rural state, and who would be watching out for us if Susan Collins was not? in D.C. And so I hope that that comes into bear. I believe that it will. Mainers are common sense. We're pragmatic people. And the care for our industry certainly matters. Graham Platner every single day takes to his ex-platform and says Susan Collins is spineless and corrupt. Is there any evidence to suggest that Susan Collins is corrupt? Because, I mean, compared to her colleagues who have been in Congress for quite some time, it seems like a whole lot of other people enrich themselves. I haven't seen any evidence that she actually comes from the sort of blue-collar, hard-scrapple, middle, low...

lower income sort of environment that Graham Platner pretends to come from. He grew up in a mansion off the coast of Connecticut. Why do you think he calls her corrupt? Graham Platner makes things up every day, and that includes the statements he puts out on Susan Collins. Look, he's lied about his history. He's lying about Susan Collins because he's desperate to win this race. And he knows that if he talks on the merits, he's going to have a harder time. Because Susan Collins has represented Maine well during her time in the Senate. And we need her back there to ensure that we have a stable, common sense, independent-minded senator who is working for the betterment of Maine every single day. After the 2016 presidential election, a lot of people were surprised that Donald Trump won. And I remember observing at the time, you know, he said, oh, how can you vote for this guy because of A, B, C, and D, and all that stuff? And the best response was, well, because people are angry. People are angry. And what better way to send a message than to send this guy that you all disapprove of that you'd tell me I can't possibly vote for him because I should vote for Hillary Clinton. And people were very angry. And they wanted to sort of shake things up. Is there something like that happening in Maine right now, Laurel Libby? Is it be people who will hear everything that you're saying and they'll say, you're right, you're right, you're right, but I'm just angry. And the best way to send a message is to send someone like Graham Platner. I think so. The problem is that anger is misdirected. Graham Platner is gaslighting everyone into thinking that he can fix things. So he's got these far leftists who voted for him in the primary who think that he can fix the things they're frustrated with, refusing to acknowledge that his own party is at fault for most of what he's talking about. When he talks about our failing health care and rural hospitals closing down, that... is squarely in the hands of Janet Mills and the Democrat majority when he's talking about education and our students test scores failing. Again, it's not that main students are uniquely poor test takers, which is one suggestion I've heard. It is that our system is failing them. And that is here in our state. That's not the federal government. And when they're talking about folks not having much money in their pockets, well, we don't. If you make under $100,000 in Maine, you have the highest income tax in all of New England. And so this all sits squarely in the hands of state government. So folks are frustrated. Graham Platner is attempting to make them just misdirect that frustration and send him to the Senate, which unfortunately, all that would do was... it would be increased our costs as he seeks to continue that radical agenda in dc

To survive as a Republican in state politics like you have Laurel Libby and thrive, frankly, make a name for yourself, you've got to understand your political opponent. You've got to understand the Democrats. So giving your insight to them, do you think they're going to maneuver him off of the ticket? Do you think that he's hanging by a thread if another scandal, another woman, another horrible thing that he's said in the past when he keeps saying there's nothing else there, there's nothing else there? Are the Democrats in the state of Maine? the type that would force him off the ticket and replace him while they still have a chance. Graham Platner has shown time and again thus far that his ego and hubris are unmatched. And I don't see a way that he could be forced off the ballot unless there is something that comes out that is blatantly illegal that he's done. And I mean illegal worse than buying illicit drugs off in another country. Which he's already admitted to everybody, yes. Which he's already admitted to one of so many things. By the way, while also violating the military code of justice because he was in active duty when he did that, yeah. There is that. I don't see a way without his cooperation that that could happen. There's a very concrete timeline where he has to drop off by a certain day in July, and then they have two weeks to caucus in another candidate. It's certainly possible, but I don't think it's likely. Well, Representative Laura Libby of Maine, you have a bright future, and we're happy to have you on whenever positive. It's funny, coming out of Washington, D.C., you figure, yeah, Maine politics, we're not going to talk about it a lot. I've talked more about Maine politics in the last couple of years than I think I may have talked about one of the local states around here. Thank you, Representative Libby. Always going to talk with you. Thank you. This is O'Connor & Company. It's a radio show with cameras. It's O'Connor and Company. Check us out on Salem News Channel where we stream on your Roku, your Samsung TV, your Amazon Prime, or just get the app. There's an app for it. Salem News Channel. You can see all our colleagues up and down the dial in studio. and see what we look like and say, oh, yeah, that guy does have a face for radio. Coming up in the next hour, Hans von Spikovsky for our weekly visit about all things legal, Supreme Court decisions coming out, can't we for that? Also, we'll speak with General Jack Keene, four-star retired general of the Army, talk about what he thinks of this memorandum of understanding, supposedly that the president has now said Iran has agreed to what are the next steps. We'll get into all of that. And in mere moments, you'll hear. Yet again, JD Vance answering the same questions he's asked all the time about whether he's going to run for president in 2028. I hate it when reporters do this. Oh, yeah, thanks for asking me, Bob. I was going to make a big announcement and have a rally and put out a TV ad and do a big coordinated announcement that I'm running for president. But since you asked me, yeah, I'll just tell you here on Face the Nation. Why do people do this?

We'll show you what JD Vance had to say about the prospects of him running for president. We'll do that in like a minute. First, though, we've begun a new week, and I don't want you to forget that we're coming up on Father's Day weekend. But for a second, I want you to imagine how emotionally painful Father's Day is for a boy or a girl whose father is in prison. Please remember my Angel Tree Camp Drive at Larry O'show.com. I'm asking for your help to bless a child without a dad. I send more prisoners' kids for a week of fun, fresh air, and Christ-centered activities that can literally transform their lives forever. Every year, Angel Tree Camp gets these kids out of bad neighborhoods away from gangs and drugs and whisk them out into the fresh air and Christian fellowship that they so desperately need. The transformation... week is heartwarming. Think about it. Think about when you first heard the gospel. Think about when you were reborn, when you recognized the truth of Scripture and your Savior. It doesn't take that long for it to impact you, for the Holy Spirit to move you. If you're wondering how much impact your donation might have, listen to the words of Angie. This is a mom whose children have been blessed by Angel Tree. In prison or behind bars, there's a variety of reasons why that happens. Angel Tree definitely plays a huge factor in bridging that gap, blessing families, blessing the people who are caring for those children, giving hope, showing love and kindness. Angel Tree is such a good program. I just think that it's really important to acknowledge just how much they do for our children and loved ones. I hope you heard her voice shaking there as she talked about how you help. her kids who wouldn't have had the opportunity to go to angel tree camp. A scholarship funded by a gift from you can bless one child with a week of angel tree camping. Your donation in any amount will combine with others to send the child of a prisoner to camp this summer. Camps for filling up and your help is needed now. Go to my website, larryosho.com. That's larryosho.com. Click on the angel tree banner. You'll spot right at the top of the page. And thank you for making this upcoming Father's Day weekend so special by sending a deserving child to Angel Tree Camp. By the way, one other thing I forget to mention about Angel Tree Camp, when these little children, when they get their opportunity to go to camp, they're told that it's because of their dad. Their dad got them their gift. So whatever they think about their dad, not being there and being in prison and all of the things that might be going on in that child's psyche. The one thing that they will remember is that their dad was able to get them to this weekend summer camp. It's just so powerful. And by the way, we're up to 211 kids now. Your donations kept coming over the weekend. Our goal was 162. We've blown past that right now. So, of course, I have a new goal. I want to hit 250. We're at 211 now. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. All right, here's JD Vance asked the question that he keeps getting asked. Are you running for president? Here's the answer today. In 2025, Americans lost more than $21 billion to fraud and identity theft. That's why so many people are turning to Aura. Aura helps protect your identity with fraud alerts, dark web monitoring, and up to $5 million in identity theft protection. And if you become a victim, Aura's 24-7 U.S.-based support team is there to help. Don't wait until your identity is stolen. Start your free trial today at Aura.com slash safe. That's Aura.com slash safe.

But a lot of people don't know you as well as all the Washington insiders. Okay. So, genuinely, people are curious about your answer to this question. Sure. After the midterm elections, we know you're focused on the midterm elections now. Will you and your family make a decision about whether you will seek the Republican nomination? Well, we're certainly going to have to make a decision about something because I have this job and I'm blessed to have this job, honored to have this job until January 20th of 2029. And Ush and I will absolutely sit down and talk about what comes next for our family. But, you know, I think people sort of assume that we, you know, I'm sitting around figuring out whether I'm going to run for president, whether I'm not going to run for president. I really, the way that I make decisions is I try not to make them until I absolutely must. And right now, I'm doing a really good job, I think, for the American people. I'm trying to do a great job for the American people, and that's what I'm focused on. And I really don't ever want my thought about a future job, whether it's president or anything else, to make me a worse vice president. And the way to do that is to keep my attention on the job that I have right now. And just final things. What's your gut at this point knowing it's early? Do you lean toward running or not? I guess it's too early. You haven't made the decision. It's again, Bob, here's why I take this perspective. Let me just say this again. The reason I take this perspective is because when I make a decision, What am I thinking about? Am I thinking about what's good for my political future three years down the road? Give me the answer, Bob. That's the whole point. He's not going to answer that. The reason that JD Vance is laughing every time Bob Costig comes up with another way to ask it is because it's so ridiculous this game. Well, let me ask you this way. Are you leaning toward it? Let me ask you this way. Are you going to make it? Of course he's going to make a decision. It's a stupid question. But that's all anyone in D.C. wants to care about. Here's why. Why do they want to know if the nominee is Marco Rubio or JD Vance? Because they want to know who to destroy. That's why they're asking. O'Connor and Company. It is six minutes after the hour. The hour happens to be 7 a.m. here in your nation's capital, where we are screaming to the mid-Atlantic. on our flagship station, WMAL, and of course picked up coast to coast on our network. This is O'Connor and Company in the Relief Factor Studios. Thank you for being part of our program here and letting us do a ride along with you. Go shotgun as you start your day and your week the right way on this Monday. Coming up in 30 minutes, we will take a deep dive into this memorandum of understanding with Iran. What's there? What isn't there? What to trust? How do we verify? We'll speak with General Jack Keane, retired four-star general from your United States Army. Also in the 8 o'clock hour, Tyler O'Neill of Daily Signal has a great, great analysis here of a fight going on with the daughters of the American Revolution here in D.C., an old, august, patriotic organization that is now being embroiled potentially with a schism, a civil war. It all has to do with how do you define daughter?

Because as you know, the best daughters of the American Revolution were actually men. We'll raise that conversation coming up in the next hour. But right now, we are joined as we always are when we're lucky at this time of week. Every Monday morning, 7 o'clock with our legal analyst, Hans von Spikosky, Senior Legal Fellow at Advancing American Freedom, of course, who is filling this role. I want to keep maintained because our listeners get very upset, Hans. Not that they don't love you. But they really love Joe to Jennifer, who's been a fixture in this slot for decades now. Joe is on special assignment for the Justice Department, looking into the Russian collusion story, as you know. And so Hans is dutifully filling in for Joe. But we're going to figure out a way to keep you on and Joe somehow when all this is said and done, Hans. Good morning. Happy Monday to you. Happy Monday to you. Are you a UFC guy? Were you watching the gladiator match there on the South Lawn? No, I have to admit that I'm not a wrestling guy, although I've been dealing with the traffic problems caused by all the streets being shut down and everything else in downtown D.C. You know, it's funny, you should say that real fast, because idiot. I love that America's 250 is going on. I love that D.C. looks so great. I love that all these events are happening. But I'm trying to avoid driving downtown like the play. And imagine Hans, people were upset that the World Cup was not awarded to any of the stadiums here in the D.C. area, which is going on right now. And imagine if the World Cup were happening right now with all this going on. Yeah, I mean, basically the city of D.C. would be paralyzed on all the streets all throughout the city. Well, the street in front of the Supreme Court will pretty much be paralyzed for the next couple of weeks as we await some of these final decisions from the court. Let's begin with what I think is the most important one, and that is birthright citizenship. You've already given us your opinion that you believe based on the oral arguments that the Supreme Court is not going to come down on... revoking birthright citizenship. But how do you think this decision will play out? Do you think that they'll put it back in the hands of Congress? Do you think that there will be a way to end birthright citizenship, just not the way the president did it? What do you think? Well, if they come down against the president, then it may be up to a passage of a constitutional amendment to change it. Because the federal statute on this just... just reflects what the Constitution says. So I think that would be a very unfortunate ruling by the court and one that ignores what the original sponsors intended with the citizenship clause. What about this Trump v. Slaughter decision? This has to do with a woman named Rebecca Slaughter. She was a Democrat commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission, the president trying to replace her. I thought this was already adjudicated with the Sean Spicer decision that the president, because this is what Joe Biden did. He went in and just cleaned house, fired everybody that the president had appointed, and the courts have affirmed that he had the right to do that. How was this different?

Well, our friend Sean was on a commission that didn't have the kind of limitations that Congress has put on the power of the president to fire the heads of other agencies, the SEC, the FTC, basically federal agencies that have the power, the executive branch power, to prosecute you. And Congress now for almost 100 years. has basically set up laws and regulations that give a president almost no supervisory power over the heads of those agencies. And Trump has challenged that. And hopefully the Supreme Court will come out and rule in his favor because the 90-year-old president that said it was okay for Congress to do this. It's clearly unconstitutional. The president is the head of the executive branch. You can't limit. his authority over executive branch agencies yeah that that seems pretty inherent to the constitution if congress creates there there's no such thing as a commission created by the legislative branch then the executive branch doesn't have sway over in fact the executive branch nominates people for these for these uh commissions right Well, yeah, but that's the only power the president has. He then can't fire them except for cause, and that is a limitation the Constitution does not allow. Now, how does that, since you said fired for cause, that brings us to the Federal Reserve. This is Trump v. Cook because the president moved to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for cause because she got embroiled into allegations of misdeeds with regard to her mortgage application and other financial disclosures. How is the Federal Reserve removal different than the slaughter removal? Well, the slaughter removal, the president simply removed slaughter, not complying with the statute that says you have to have cause before you can remove ahead of the FTC. But with Lisa Cook, he actually cited. the statute, and he cited her, frankly, misbehavior. So in that case, the only thing I think the court will do is, did what she did wrong, does that fit within the misbehavior definition in the statute? So it's not, it's not as important a case. I mean, the Federal Reserve is important, but it's not as important as the slaughter case, which will affect. many, many other federal agencies. So I forgot to ask you. I know you believe in the slaughter case, you believe the court should uphold the Constitution and say that, of course, the president has the right. Do you think they will? Well, the indications are, yes. There have been several recent cases.

in which they clearly had been reconsidering that, like I said, 90-year-old precedent. And I actually think those cases indicate that they'll rule in favor of the president. All right. And that brings us to slaughter, or excuse me, Cook, getting them confused, Cook has to do with the president actually exercising the right based on cause. It seems to me if slaughter comes down and says the president can remove people regardless of cause, that sort of makes the Cook case moot. Well, it could be, although the Federal Reserve has a weird structure that's not the same as all these other very direct federal agencies. Okay. And based on the facts at hand, how do you think the court's going to come down with regard to the Federal Reserve and Ms. Cook? you're going to get a split decision for sure, and I suspect that the president will win that. And they'll say, it's up to the president to determine what is harm that fits within the statute. Gotcha. We're speaking with Hans von Spikoski, and we're analyzing the decisions that should be rolling out in the next two weeks from the Supreme Court, some of the high-profile decisions that have yet to be announced. What about the campaign finance decision that's pending? This is, in addition to the famous one from about 15 years ago, having to do with Citizens United. What's the distinction here? It looks like it goes beyond where Citizens United was with regard to coordination. Yeah, the Congress put in this limit on how much money a political party can spend in direct support of its candidates where they actually coordinate with the candidates, which is kind of bizarre because, Larry, what are political parties created to do to find recruit and support their candidates? But they previously upheld this limit. on how much money can be spent, they will have to directly overturn a prior precedent. As you know, Chief John Roberts is often very reluctant to do that. But again, the trend, since Citizens United has been a greater deference to the First Amendment. So I suspect they might limit, lift this limit. And again, it has to do. And that could be, by the way, a game changer for this election cycle because the GOP, they're the ones who have been moving this saying, listen, but GOP has raised all this money. We've got all this. We want to help our candidates for our party. It's not like some, you know, super PAC or with anonymous, God knows what. It's the Republicans wanting to help other Republicans. That seems like it's a no-brainer. And that could very well help Republicans going into these midterms. Now, that's exactly right.

All right. All right. We've got a couple of more decisions, some big ones, including birthright citizenship and transgender athletics, and also Election Day and when they count votes, which I know Hans feels very passionately about. Hans, can you stick with us for one more segment to talk through these decisions? Yep, happy to do so. Excellent, Hans von Spikoski of the mighty advancing American freedom. We'll continue with us. We'll get into all of those decisions that I just laid out in a moment. Keep it here. It's O'Connor & Company. I'm Larry O'Connor on this Monday morning in your nation's capital. Honestly, the more I see of this left-wing counter-programming protest concert they did in D.C. last night called Rise Up, Sing Out. including Betten Midler singing a song about fascism, all the while the conquering emperor announcing peace with Persia had a gladiator match on his front lawn on his birthday down the street. It really is a striking distinction here between the political right and the political left in this country. as prosodified last night in the nation's capital. We'll get into some details of that a little later in the show. Good morning. It's O'Connor and Company. And we continue with Hans von Spikoski advancing American freedom. All right, Hans, I want to start because I don't want to run out of time here on when election day is and when you can count votes and when you stop counting votes. Tell me about this decision and what the impact might be. and how it came up, what the argument is with regard to election day, finally defining election day. Well, probably about a decade ago, state started extending. Election Day. You know, it used to be if you voted with an absentee ballot, had to be in by the end of election day. But now many states have put in long periods of time afterwards. Mississippi, a ballot will get counted even if it comes in up to five days after election day. They were sued. by several parties, Judicial Watch, RNC, and a federal court said, you can't do that. Why? Well, because there are three federal statutes for the presidential race, House, and Senate that say election day is the first Tuesday after the first Monday, November, and when you count ballots coming in after election day, you are violating election day. So that's what's up before the Supreme Court. Will they uphold? the lower court, that's what they ought to do because the whole point of those federal laws was to get rid of the extended period of elections that was occurring in states across the country. Okay.

And you think that's what they're going to end up doing. And then that will be in effect immediately. Obviously, nothing will be retroactive because they're still counting in California. Will they be able to employ this on the California process based on the election that just happened? Well, not for the primary, but I think for the general election, they could do it. And really quickly on this, because you know election law so well, will this require states basically to change their laws on when they count, or will it force them to sort of staff up and make sure that there are enough people to be able to count these ballots in a timely fashion? No, it doesn't change when they can count it. It just means that they can't count a ballot that comes in after election day. I see. So in other words, even though all these ballots keep coming in, and they're just going to say, well, sorry, we can't count them because of when they arrived. That's huge. That's huge. Spencer Pratt would like to go back in time by a couple of months, I think, on this one. Yeah, he sure would. Finally, transgender athletes, West Virginia has a law having to do with men playing in women's sports. How do you think these arguments went? How do you think the Supreme Court will come down? It's actually a combined case. It's West Virginia and Idaho before the Supreme Court. And I think those states are going to win. Basically, you know, they say biological males can't participate in women's athletic sports. And given two prior cases from the Supreme Court, remember, just this term, they said Colorado censorship law. which said counselors could not give anything but a positive message about gender identity. They threw that out. And remember last year they upheld Tennessee's law that said, you can't do surgical, frankly, mutilation on kids to change their gender identity. That law was also okay. So I think the states are going to win this. Right. And finally, this really isn't a court decision that we're waiting for, but do you think we'll have any announcements of any of the justices with regard to retirement? Clarence Thomas, who must be protected at all costs and must remain on the bench, is now 78 years old, or at least later this month. We share a birthday, by the way. That's the one. My one claim of greatness is that Clarence Thomas and I were born on the same day, although a few years apart. Do you suspect that Clarence Thomas might say, yeah, enough is enough? I want to sit under my fig tree and enjoy the Lord's benefits. Boy, I sure hope not. Rumors like that are always flying around Washington. He's been on the court more than 30 years. Samuel Alito's been on the court more than 20 years. There's nothing solid indicating they're going to resign, and I hope they do not, because they're two of the best justices on the court. That said, Pete Buttigieg says we should expand the court to 13. Maybe President Trump should just do that as a preemptive measure now. Yes? No, I don't think that's a good idea because then Democrats, as soon as they got in, they'd expand it to 20. Exactly. Thanks, Hans.

It's O'Connor and Company here from the Relief Factory Studios. General Jack Kane, four-star retired general from the United States Army. He's such a bad dude. He could have climbed into that cage and knocked the crap out of half of those people at the UFC match last night. But he restrained himself. Instead, he was too busy. drilling down and getting the details on what is rumored to be a deal. The president has announced a deal, although General Keane, good morning. Do we know for certain the details of this memorandum of understanding yet? No, I don't think we'll really know for sure until we actually see it. And it obviously hasn't been public release, but it's been much talked about, you know, from both sides. And what we believe this memorandum states is that the Strait of Hormuz will be opened without any toll or payments. The U.S. will stand down from their naval blockade that they only employed because the Strait of Hormuz had been shut down. And now a 60-day window of negotiation over the disposition of the uranium that remains. in Iran and the future enrichment regime that Iran had employed. That will now be negotiated. So we sort of, everyone's saying, oh, we're back to before we started bombing. No, we're back to before the Strait of Hormuz was shut down after the bombing began. Am I, and am I right in saying that? Yeah. The bombing last week, surely the two days of bombing by the... by the president certainly changed a lot of the path that the Iranians were on and brought a degree of compliance, you know, to the goals the United States was trying to achieve. But yeah, there's three things that we do know. One is an extension of a ceasefire. It remains to be seen when Iran will abide by it. They haven't certainly abided by it for the last six. 60 days, that's for sure. For the last two months, they've been hitting the Strais-Muz, they hit U.S. faces, they hit our allies, and what Hezbollah has unleashed inside Iran, certainly in hitting northern Israel is quite significant. So that's an open question. People are assuming they will comply. The strait of a moose, that's number two. And that begins on Friday, supposedly. We have to make certain. that Iran has no management or control whatsoever. They're saying there won't be any fees, but there's other things you can do to exercise control without having a toll. In other words, when you go, where do you go, how do you go, all of that, Iran can impose themselves on it and make certain people understand that they still are in charge of the straitial moves. This was a strategic objective they've been able to achieve. for some time now, since they impose their will on the Straits Removes. And I doubt seriously they want to give it up. But the details will matter here in terms of what happens. And the removal of the blockade, I think it's likely we'll do it incrementally because the Straits of Removes will take some time. They have to clear the lanes, Larry, and make certain that they're mind-free.

And then make certain, obviously, there's no control over traffic that's going through that. I doubt seriously we would eliminate the entire naval blockade immediately. We likely would do that over time. So, yeah, those are the things that are knowable right now. And, of course, the tough thing is... All the tough issues are, as you indicated, over a 60-day period. What do we do with nuclear? What do we do of ballistic missiles? What will we do with support for proxies? All of that are negotiating items. And believe me, that is going to be very challenging. And in the meantime, will Iran get finances freed up? Will the sanctions be lifted? Will they be able to sell oil on the open market? And will the U.S. release billions of dollars of assets that we've been holding? Yeah, well, certainly that's a major question. Of course, as soon as the straits are open and our naval blockade begins to remove, that'll be a revenue source for Iran there. Certainly what they want are two other things to fall. One is sanction removal. I'm assuming we would do that based on behavior change and two release of frozen assets. And I would assume that's the same. There's also some talk about some kind of reconstruction fund being established by... the countries in the region establishing some kind of a fund to help them recover. This is why people like myself were opposed to this pathway to begin with. Because what it does is it provides a lifeline for Iran. Listen, we have to come to grips and going through the next 60 days and also execution of a deal itself. We have to know that these people are not changing. They are who they are, diabolical, ideological, committed to recovering all of what they have lost. They are not going to change. And we've got to know that. One, they're going to survive. Two, they're going to try to recover and rebuild. And three, whatever they sign as part of the deal, they will work towards reversing that. And we have to be clear-eyed about that and have enforcement and compliance baked into this deal. This is the problem of the diplomatic path where you throw a lifeline to the regime, and any way you look at it, we're dealing with these people for the next five or ten years. So this was sort of my question. You've already led me to it. I can't imagine. Maybe I'm wrong, but I can imagine the president agreeing to a deal that gets money flowing back to this regime and allows them potentially to fund terrorists and to continue the path of tyranny over their own people if they're exactly the same.

I guess my question is, is there any indication that the people who have now replaced all those in the command structure that had been killed by the initial strikes, that they in some way do wish to reform Iran and move toward being a more harmonious partner in the world stage? I don't think there's any indications of that. I'm not suggesting, though, that people don't say things like that because that's what we want to hear. But look at their behavior. We've been under a ceasefire. since April the 8th. The Iranian has been violating it just about every single day of that ceasefire. The same thing going on in Lebanon since April the 17th. That's the indication of their behavior. I think it's with Jason Fool's goal here, if we really believe that these hardliners are somehow going to now become a legitimate nation in the international community. This was the Obama goal of the JCPOH. so-called nuclear deal and why they justified having the so-called sunset closes 10 years to a threshold 15 years you can have a nuclear weapon and they asked the question why would you actually do that why would you actually give them a pathway to a nuclear weapon the answer was well in the 15 years being with treating them as legitimate nation and negotiating with the most powerful nations in the world we're expecting them over time to become a responsible country and join the international community. What a bunch of fooie that was. Yeah. And so, our guest is General Jack Kane. I mean, General, one of the reasons we like to have you here is that I know that the president respects your opinion. And I know that he has taken your counsel on various issues over his public. career. It sounds to me like you would advise the president not to execute the memorandum of understanding that it appears he's prepared to execute. What would your advice be instead? Well, he knows how I feel about this, but we're on the diplomatic path, and that decision has been made. We just have to make certain that we don't change our minds about who we're dealing with because they talk nice to us about making a deal. They are ideologically committed to recovering everything they lost and going right back on the same path. And we have to make certain through diplomacy now and through the strength of enforcement. that we bake into this deal and prevent them from doing just that. And the president has said this on more than one occasion, and he said it just recently. If they renege on any part of this deal, he is absolutely willing to use military force to go back against them. And I know that. And I know that's true. That strength of enforcement. Basically, this is quintessential Teddy Roosevelt, speaks softly and carry a big stick. Our big stick is still there. Our military is not going anywhere, right? They may stand down from the blockade, but they're not going to bug out and return back to their home ports. Everyone's still going to be there.

You just said the president is more than willing to employ military force if Iran reneges on the deal. There are some in this town in Washington who will say that's not so, that the president has basically gotten cold feet. He's done with any military action there. He's more concerned about the political fallout. Why do you believe that he is willing to launch again, if necessary? Because of what he did last week. He launched twice, and he was going to do it a third time, and then the Iranian said, okay, we've not enough. And that's what pushed him over the finish line, so to speak. So I... He just did it last week. Okay, that's a great answer. That's a great answer. Can I, you mention the Strait and what sort of control Iran is now going to basically exert over the Strait. The Strait is international waters, right? This has not been determined by any legitimate body that Iran has the rights to the Strait. They don't have the rights to the straits. I mean, what they use is the fact the straits is only 21 miles across, but 12 miles out as international waters, and therefore they overlap and they say this is our territorial waters. International, the laws of the sea have looked at that and declared the straits of Amoos are indeed international waters. And Iran and Oman, Oman is not making any claim to what Iran is. They have no basis for that claim. So, yes, they don't have a legal basis to stand on whatsoever. They used intimidation and coercion, obviously, to take control of it. And we've got to make certain that there's nothing, no subtleties, no nuances, no below beneath the surface, threats and intimidation going forward, or else this deal is off. So the administration is going to watch that like a hawk, I'm sure. But that's got to be, one, will I buy by the ceasefire? Two, will the straits truly be open? They have no control over whatsoever. Both of those things we've got to see. And we'll see that'll begin on Friday. Based on what you know, General Kane, and what you may have heard that hasn't been announced officially, are we in a better place than we were under the JCPOA under the Obama nuclear deal? Oh, yeah. I mean, just think about it. We killed the Ayatollah and 40 of his leaders. We took down their entire Navy to include much of their fastboats. By the way, Cooper and the Suncom commander, we haven't seen a fastboat come out and do anything in four to five weeks because we've knocked so many them out. Every time they do it, we knock another one out. And the nuclear enterprise is rubbled. And we've set back their ballistic missile. And significantly, the manufacturing and production capabilities have been set back so significantly. It's completely different than where we were under the JCPOA. All right. General Jack Kane, always great to talk with you, sir. I know you're a busy man and a man in demand, but it's always great to run into you in Washington when our paths crossed, and it's always great to talk with you here on the program. Yeah, great talking to you, Larry, in your audience. Thank you.

Thank you. That's General Jack Kane, four-star, retired, and he does have the president's counsel unofficially. He's on the other end of the phone at various times when things like this happening. You heard from him the general believes, listen, not the way he would go about doing it, not the path he would take, but the diplomatic approach was chosen, and so that's the path we're going down. Trust but verify, but don't trust at all, actually, because there's no reason to trust. And that seems to be where we are. More to come here on O'Connor & Company. Apparently one of the highlights of the UFC match last night was an American fighter knocking out a Canadian fighter. Everyone went nuts because Canada will show you some highlights of the scene there on the South lawn coming up at just above it. But first, as we begin this new weeks, don't forget that we're coming up on Father's Day weekend. Now, try to imagine. how emotionally painful Father's Day is for a boy or girl whose father is in prison. And remember my Angel Tree Camp Drive at Larry O's Show.com. I'm asking for your help to bless a child without a dad. We're sending more prisoners' kids for a week of fun, fresh air, and Christ-centered activities. They can literally transform their lives forever. Every year, Angel Tree Camp gets these kids out of bad neighborhoods away from gangs and drugs and whisks them out into the fresh air and Christian fellowship that they so desperately need. The transformation can happen in only one week, and it's heartwarming. And if you're wondering how much impact your donation might have, just listen to the words of Angie. This is a mom whose children have been blessed by you and by Angel Tree. People in prison or behind bars, there's a variety of reasons why that happens. Angel Tree definitely plays a huge factor in bridging that gap, blessing families, blessing the people who are caring for those children, giving hope. Showing love and kindness. Angel Tree is such a good program. I just think that it's really important to acknowledge just how much they do for our children and loved ones. And your donation of any amount is going to be combined with others. That means $5, $20, $50. We'll combine that with others, and we'll send a child of a prisoner to camp this summer. It's only $200 per kid. Camps are filling up, and your help is needed right now. Go to larryosho.com, click on the angel tree banner, and then you'll know exactly what to do. And thank you. You're going to make some kids really happy this upcoming Father's Day weekend. And by the way, real fast, we're now at 212 kids over the course of three weeks. We've only been doing this fund drive for three weeks. And I'm told by the folks who track these things that so much of this is coming from our family in the greater Washington area. This is the first time that you've heard about Angel Tree here on WMAL, our flagship station. And it's been absolutely heartwarming. Your response, specifically here in Washington.

Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland. Everyone listening here, thank you so much for everything you've done for Angel True Camp. God bless you. All right. Last night, it was Flag Day. It was the President's birthday. It was the day the President announced a temporary memorandum of understanding and end to the conflict, hopefully, at least a path forward with Iran. And it was also, of course, the day of the big UFC match. on the south lawn of the White House, and everybody's just going nuts about it. And I don't quite understand. It looked incredible. The scene was surreal. I've never been a big USC guy, but my brother-in-law is, my wife is. They love it. And again, it was, well, surreal to see the president marching into the cage match there. The national anthem was amazing. exclamation point at the end there on the home of the brave excuse me land of the brave home of the wait land of the free and the home of the brave there it is jeez got to sing it to remember the lyrics uh we had the combined blue angels and air force thunderbirds do a flyover at that moment over the white house over the big claw there. And the president celebrated his 80th birthday that way. Amazing. Can't tell you anything about the fights other than the dudes with the tattoos seem to win. You get more tattoos at UFC. You end up being a better fighter or something. The president was ringside with Dana White and with Joe Rogan and the first lady was there as well. And she looked pretty great. She was in a black dress with a black leather jacket draped over her bare shoulders. And she looked very good. Good for the first lady and good for the president. There were also some amazing scenes of patriotism and love of country that one can only see at events like this. And it was kind of cool to see it on the southbound of the White House. Listen, for everybody saying, oh, you know, conservatives went crazy when Obama had his feet up on the resolute desk. They went nuts. They said he disrespected the office. And now we're having this. And I will only respond to you. Yeah. You're right. you celebrating things like, well, what Obama did in the White House and even worse, what Bill Clinton did in the White House, you waving that away and saying, oh, it's none of our business. That is what led us to this. And if you don't like this kind of spectacle, well, you're welcome. This is what you started. But secondly, I'll also say this, as the opening video of the UFC fight last night proved, this is not new. President Teddy Roosevelt used to hold boxing matches. He would engage in those matches at the White House. In the East Room, they set up a ring, and he would actually fight champions there, all types of champions, boxing, judo, wrestling. There's nothing unprecedented about this except for maybe the scale and the...

glitz and the over-the-topness. And yes, one of the fighters afterwards got a hold of a live mic with Joe Rogan and said that Michelle Obama was a man. I'm pretty sure he was kidding. Yes, everything with Trump is bigger and a little more brash. And yes, even maybe a little vulgar. But that's part of America too. I'll have you know. And it was quite a scene, that's for sure. Also, by the way, if Democrats really want to make a case for why they're a better path, they've got to do some better counter-programming. They had a big fundraiser last night. Do we have Bet Midler? Let's show Bet Midler if we've got it. Let's play that audio. Here was their big response to the UFC fight. Oh, we don't. All right, we'll have that later in the program. Trust me. It's worth the wait. And you'll see exactly why people are inclined to support what the president did last night. Hey, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Those words weren't written for history books. They were written for you. But it's hard to pursue happiness when pain is part of everyday life. Relief factor was created to help people address inflammation. That's one of the most common causes of ongoing aches and pains from aging over exertion and daily living. Relief factor is a 100% drug-free research-based formula that works through multiple metabolic pathways to support comfort and mobility, no prescription, and also no masking of symptoms, just relief, real relief, so you can keep moving forward. And to commemorate America's 250 years of independence, we've got a patriotic price, $17.76.76.3-week, quick start right now at relieffactor.com or call 800 for relief. Relieffactor.com, 800, the number four relief. As much as I want to talk about Iran and the deal, which we've done quite a bit, and the Supreme Court decisions that are pending, which we've done quite a bit. We had Hans von Spikaze, General Jack King, talking about all of those things, the grand platinum race, politics coming up this November, all those things. Everyone's talking about the fight last night on the South Lawn of the White House. Everyone's talking about the UFC match. And so will we coming up in 30 minutes with Willie Nelson. No, not that Willie Nelson, a different one, but he's pretty entertaining in his own right. He's a reporter, correspondent, and content creator for Salem and for Town Hall. Willie Nelson was all over the match last night. We'll get his first-hand account coming up in 30 minutes. It's Larry O'Connor here on O'Connor & Company from WMAL, our flagship station, and in the Relief Factory Studios. Joining us right now is Tyler O'Neill, Senior Investigative Reporter at the Mighty Daily Signal. He's, of course, the author of two books, Making Hate Pay, the Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the woke dopus, it's hard to say, the dark money cabal manipulating the federal government. So you can tell he specializes in left-wing radical woke ideology, certainly how it played out with the corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center we saw.

in last week's hearings and in the current indictments now for the SPLC. But today, Tyler O'Neill, you're focusing on the Daughters of the American Revolution and August organization here in Washington. They've got their own theater and everything. Good morning, Tyler. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, good morning. Thanks for having me, Larry. So, first of all, just as a framework here, explain who the Daughters of the American Revolution are what they do here in Washington and why they're now embroiled in their own internal civil war. Yeah, the Daughters of the American Revolution is one of the most historic ladies' societies in the United States. I mean, founded in 1890, this is a group of women who were descended from the heroes of the American Revolution. And they actually started. So there's a weird bitter irony to all of this because daughters of the American Revolution started because sons of the American Revolution wouldn't let women join. And so they started their own organization. Now, DAR might be even better known than SAR. And yet, in recent years, you know, with this transgender push, now men have been able to join the DAR, which was established because women weren't allowed to join the SAR. There's this really disgusting sort of, and this is all, of course, in the name of transgender ideology, and essentially what happened. And as we've seen an institution after institution, the leaders of these institutions have kind of foist. on the rest of the society, this ideology. So it wasn't that, you know, daughters of the American Revolution chapters across the country started demanding that men be allowed to join. It was that, you know, the leadership hosted this vote in 2023, and they had this language where it was like, oh, you cannot discriminate against people, okay? Who likes discrimination? I don't know that. Right, yeah, but we agree. We don't want to discriminate against people either. Right. But, of course, what happened is they passed this resolution, and unbeknownst to many of the women in DAR, especially the rank and file, the resolution is applied to force chapters to admit men who claim to be women and who change their birth certificates to say that they are women. And so this policy pushed transgender ideology.

into the organization. and essentially didn't allow people to really push back. And so now, finally, after a long period of pressing for this vote, the DAR at the, you know, at their annual meeting, which they call the, oh, come on, the Congress, constitutional Congress or something, constitutional convention, every year. So they have this annual meeting. And at the annual meeting this year, which is, of course, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, they're finally going to have this historic vote where the ladies can say, no, the daughters of the American Revolution is for women. And according to, you know, the understanding of the term women at the time in 1890 when our institution was founded, this does not include men. It is insane. that you're trying to redefine this. But hopefully that will have. Basically, they're saying, we're going to define what daughter means. The Daughters of the American Revolution will say daughter means someone born as a female. Exactly. And not someone who later in life decides, oh, I actually am female, even though they were male. So, you know, this whole... It is beyond the pale that we're having to fight for the definition of women here. But that's where Daughters the American Revolution is. So how do you think this vote is going to go? I mean, usually these institutions don't even get this far. They knuckle under. They kowtow. Nobody wants to speak up and they just let this wokeism, you know, take over. And the next thing you know, you've got a man dressed as a woman. lording over a organization that's supposed to be for women. Yeah, exactly. No, so this is going to be a very, a very interesting battle. I know many members of the DAR who are staunchly opposed to transgender ideology, as you'd expect. But unfortunately, there are some, especially in the younger cohorts who, due to a mistaken understanding of empathy and a few other things. uh actually support this insanity and so there is going to be a real a real debate here and hopefully you know now now that it's it's out in the in the open now that the daughters of the american revolution can finally take a clarifying vote i expect sanity to prevail i don't think most women have been hoodwinked and especially most women in the d a r who tend to be

you know, a bit more conservative, a bit more focused on their history, understanding of the importance of America. These patriotic ladies, I think, are going to show their medal when the vote comes. Tyler O'Neill, senior investigative reporter of the Daily Signal, this idea that men can infiltrate and sort of change the makeup of the daughters of the American Revolution. It certainly falls into your category of some of the things you investigate for the latest signal in your book, The Woktipus. Let's go back to your other book, Making Hate Pay, the Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, because we saw that spectacle of the SPLC under oath trying to defend their practices. while they're under indictment. But also last week, there was a motion filed by the SPLC claiming that the Justice Department was targeting them specifically for political prosecution. What ended up happening with that motion? Because it's a pretty important one, Tyler. Yeah. So that motion was filed. I think it was earlier than last week. But essentially, the SPLC is saying that they... So to clarify, like, that motion looks really great on a press release. Like, oh, we're being prosecuted for vindictive prosecution. And this needs to be thrown out. But if you actually look at the law on vindictive prosecution, it's a lot more specific than what they're claiming. So they're claiming that the SPLCs targeted for their free speech in disagreeing with the administration. And that these charges are brought. as a pretext to attack the SPLC's free speech. The problem is, if you look at vindictive prosecution rulings in the past on this... specific issue. And this is something, you know, last week, the Department of Justice filed their response to the SPLC. And a lot of what I'm going to say comes from the DOJ's response. But if you look at the actual text of the law, that motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution is usually used during or after a trial. And it usually comes after a defendant. takes a legal action like filing a motion in court. and not, it does have, it has nothing to do with someone's free speech before an indictment even came. So this isn't a good legal fit. And what's worse is the SPLC is not being charged for their free speech. They're being charged for wire fraud and bank fraud for lying to their donors ostensibly by taking the money that they raised.

in the name of fighting white supremacy and using it to fund white supremacy in smaller way. They funded and it appears coordinated the very hate they claimed to donors they were fighting. Exactly. And so this, you know, we have, we have situations where the SPLC is paying for clan hoods and clan robes and reimbursing people for cross burnings and then going out to their donors and saying, oh, we're fighting hate. It's like an exterminator infesting your house with roaches and rats and then coming around to the front of the house knocking on your door saying, wow, it looks like you got a roach and rat problem. If you give me $1,000, I'll take care of those roaches and rats. Or a fireman moonlighting as an arsonist. There you go. Probably even a... More apt description. All right, well, we'll be continuing to watch that. I'm sure you were entertained by the SPLC before the Judiciary Committee last week, Tyler. We will have you back to come. Not as entertained as I wanted. You were hoping it was going to be worse? Well, I mean, I kept thinking he was going to actually give a response, and he kept saying, oh, no, we're going to address that in court. Right. It was, you know. Well, Tyler, I think that that was the response. Listen, if I were innocent of all those things, I would take that opportunity under oath and say, yeah, we didn't do any of those things, but he didn't. I think that's telling. Tyler O'Neill, great talking with you, as always. Keep up the great work, Daily Signal. This is O'Connor and Company. Coming up, we'll speak with Willie Nelson, who was there on the South Lawn for the UFC fight. I don't know if you saw everybody was like celebrating and getting excited that there was going to be rain, thunder, 30 mile power winds. There's probably going to be a tornado. Mosquitoes, swarming bugs, locust, cattle dying in the fields, the Potomac termed blood red, all the plagues. And they were rooting for, none of that happened. It's just wild. We'll talk to Willie Nelson, who was there for Town Hall and for Salem there on the South Law. And coming up in just a few moments, and also the counter-programming, as promised, Bet Midler, really taking it to Trump. We'll get into all of that in a few moments. First, though, Elon Musk and SpaceX had their IPO on Thursday and then went to market on Friday. And we previewed this for you Friday, explained to you that this was basically going to be the biggest IPO in history, which it was. And what was really sort of in the backstory was that all of these employees of SpaceX from the beginning, who worked there, even the cafeteria workers, the welders, they were given options when they first joined the company to be able to be stakeholders in case the company ever went public. They were able to then take those options, turn them into stock. And when the company goes public, like SpaceX just did, those stocks immediately will be worth a whole lot of money. Now, there are some restrictions on what they can do with those options, when they can sell them, all that jazz. But as of now, on paper, there are over 100 new millionaires in America because they worked for SpaceX.

at the beginning. And yes, this means janitors and cafeteria workers and welders and others that have all been profiled now. These are people who because they worked for this company and it had just gone public, they are now on paper at least in their portfolio worth at least a million dollars. And that's incredible. And by the way, along the way, SpaceX has done some incredible things. amazing things like put a global Wi-Fi network and satellite internet network around the planet so the people in the deserts and in jungles and the rainforests and sub-Saharan Africa can access the internet they paid for that They built that. They launched that. They also invented something that people at the time said was impossible. They got a renewable rocket that could shoot up into space, deposit their payload, and then return to space and land on its feet so that it be used again. This is the value SpaceX brings to the table. It's why it's worth so much. Elon Musk now, because he's the CEO of SpaceX, on paper again, is worth a trillion dollars. The first time anyone on this planet has been able to say that on paper their net worth is that big. And politicians around the world... who have never created anything, even close to SpaceX, well, they're full of envy and anger and hatred. And they want to confiscate his money because they don't think he should be allowed to get rich off of his work because they don't believe in that. They don't believe that it's even through his own efforts that he's been able to acquire this money on paper. Here's Elizabeth Warren, one of those angry, envious, hostile individuals. Elon Musk is officially the world's first trillionaire. Think about that. We're living at a time when more and more people are just hanging on by their fingernails to survive in this economy. And Elon Musk has more money and more wealth than anyone in human history. I want to be clear, this is not just some fluke. It is a feature of a rigged economy. Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill cut health care for millions of Americans to give guys like Elon Musk bigger tax breaks. The tax code rewards CEOs for firing workers and replacing them with AI. Loopholes have allowed Jeff Bezos to pay an effective tax rate lower than a Boston public school teacher. And we are left with a country where a handful of billionaires at the top pop champagne in their... $300 million yacht while working people. I've heard enough and I think you have too. By the way, she delivered that video unironically from the backseat of a chauffered car. She's not driving herself. Although if she bought a fully self-driving Tesla invented by Elon Musk, she'd be able to have a chauffeur-driven luxury without having to pay for a chauffeur. But she's going ahead and burning carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

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Larry. I anticipated that answer, Willie. I anticipated that. And that's, I think, the beauty of this. No, no, no, seriously. Because for the last 24 hours, everyone in this town has sort of suspended talk of politics and policy and Republican and Democrat and elections. I think that's why this was such an important event. Because it was just a big old spectacle there in Washington to celebrate patriotism and something very cool like a UFC match. You know what I mean? Larry, this was a love letter to combat sports and a love letter to the United States of America. Was it, and again, you were there, you got to the fan experience, you got to see all the show, the prep, the weigh-ins. Some people were saying that the weigh-in was sort of disgraceful because it was in front of the Lincoln Memorial. What, I mean, what was your impression of that? What was the crowd like and how did they react to it? Larry, I think this was one of the best sport viewing events I have ever been to. I mean, it felt like it felt like as if Coachella and the UFC had a baby. I've been to Coachella before and I've been to the main stage. And I'm talking just, you know, the best production in the world to be able to watch the top athletes go at it at such a historical. backdrop, the White House on this incredible stage production with all this grass where tens of thousands of people were seated was phenomenal. By the way, everybody should follow Willie Nelson on social media. It's Willie Nelson TV, Willie Nelson TV, because some of the footage that you picked up from the last really 48 hours over the weekend here is phenomenal and very unique to you. It's why we're so happy to have you as part of the town hall family now. Was it a joyful atmosphere? Because a lot of times people equate UFC with a bunch of drunken dudes who, you know, are just looking for a fight themselves, and they're looking at the gladiator-style bloodlust that goes on there. But from the images I saw, it looked like, well, wholesome, if I can call it that. Larry, that's a great word to say wholesome, because I'll tell you this, when I was walking back from the bathroom, I was looking at my phone, and I tripped. And I was just on my own. Two people rushed up to me and go, are you okay? No, seriously, are you okay, man? It was like I felt so taken care of. Everyone was incredibly friendly. And the fans were just having the time of their life. When the American Sugar Sean O'Malley fought the Canadian, everyone was just chanting USA, USA. And when the Canadian came out, everyone was just booing. I've never felt so patriotic in my life. I love that the Canadian ends up being the heavy, the evil villain. By the way, how'd that fight end up for the Canadian? Oh, he got knocked out. We knocked out the Canadian at the White House. Come on, we could have him have that win.

It was quite as it. Also, by the way, I kept hearing all these people were celebrating on social media saying, oh, a huge thunderstorms coming through. There's going to be winds. There's going to be a tornado. There's going to be, they were even talking like locust. There was a swarm of mosquitoes. Did any of that occur? Was there any sort of negative events that sort of put a damper on things? Let me tell you about the weather. I am now convinced that the weather forecast might have trump derangement syndrome. I mean, even I started to buy into the weather concerns for the last few days. I was like checking it so much and oh my gosh, you're supposed to be thunderstorms and this and that. It was the best weather of the entire week. I mean, you couldn't have asked for better weather for an outdoor event. It was so nice out, slight breeze, not a drop of rain in the sky. And hardly any humidity. And I did not notice a single bug the entire night. I went back and I saw all these weather forecasts. And I was just kind of perplexed because it was so far off. I mean, it was so far off. The weather couldn't have been any better. All right. Well, I mean, just full disclosure, I was sitting on the tarmac at Reagan Airport trying to fly out during the way in on Friday, and we all got grounded because of weather. Maybe it was just the lightning and the storm clouds and all that stuff. So we did have some. At least it affected my life, and honestly, Willie Nelson, that's all that matters, how it affects me. All right, so one thing is going viral, and that is a video of one of the winners speaking with Joe Rogan from inside the cage there. saying that Michelle Obama is a man. Now, I don't think he was serious, but is that indicative of sort of the entire evening, or was that a bit of an outlier? No, that to me was a total outlier, and that fighter in particular is a bit of a fun character. You know, these guys like to have fun, and they do get rewarded for the more attention they can bring to the sport. There's no doubt about it. When he said that as well, I think everyone just kind of laughed, and, you know, I mean, it certainly wasn't met with any booze, to be honest. Everyone was kind of laughing when he said it in the fan experience. And I just really want to quickly touch upon the fan experience as well. Please. Unbelievable that they pulled this off. And right across the street from the White House, just tens of thousands of people, you could see the infrastructure from the stage. And after every fight, the fighters would come over to the stage and talk about and they gave an interview to the crowd there in between commercials and one of the things uh shan o'malley the fighter said was that he could feel the energy from just across the street he said i didn't even know what this place looked like i could feel the tens of thousands of you and and truly the energy was contagious i've gotten barely any sleep

from the night before, and I'm still... You're hyped. I'm still riding that high. And I'm... I'm as hyped as I can be. I'm talking very loudly in this press briefing room, because I just... I can't even get over it. Yeah, go stand next to the guy that does Morning Joe. I want to get in their face. Go ahead. Keep that fighting spirit going, Willie. There was also something else that was unmistakable about this. As everyone starts to scream and criticize and say, oh, it was vulgar and it was, you know, not what America is all about. Actually, it's very much what America is all about because each of the fighters, they were coming out, they were draped in the American flag or they were wearing some sort of patriotic garb. The military was there. They were being escorted by Medal of Honor recipients, bona fide military heroes. And that was sort of an overall theme was celebrating our military. On the birthday of the Army, not to mention the birthday of the President and Flag Day. So it's hard to overlook the patriotism. As people start to criticize this event, are they also sort of criticizing the unabashed patriotism and love of country that we saw? You bring up a good point, Larry. And I honestly think these people criticize anything President Trump does. It doesn't really matter how successful an event or how many people love it. These people are going to be upset regardless. was a love letter to our military this was a love letter to uh... americans this is a love letter to anyone who loves combat sports it was a giant feel-good party and you know at m m a fan's get a lot of uh... get a lot of rap that all you know the rowdy or this or that these people were hugging each other i i showed up on my own by the end of the night when the American won, which was unbelievable in an upset, everyone was screaming, everyone had their arms around one another, and they were chanting USA. Yeah. Well, that's what Freedom 250 is supposed to be about, by the way, events like this. All right, the bigger question here, Willie, how long does it take to dismantle this scene? I know the president was joking about keeping it there permanently. That's not going to happen. The cleanup... to get ready for the next big events in Washington, that's got to happen pretty quickly. Yeah, and I think we should be seeing it cleaned up within 10 days. You know, usually it takes two days for the octagons to be torn down. This is obviously a much bigger piece of infrastructure, so that would be... My estimate, I guess we're going to have to wait and see the next week or two. But yeah, this is a serious piece of infrastructure. They spent over $60 million on it. This thing can't just be broken down in a day. All right. Well, we're going to, we're going to, you have to wrap up your beat there on the UFC match and all the Freedom 250 stuff you've been covering because there is going to be a lot of news today. The president is leaving, I think, for the G7 in France. So he'll be leaving from the South Vaughn pretty, well, I guess not the South Vaughn since. That's where the, well, they left space for the helicopters for Marine One to land, I'm thinking, didn't they? This isn't like right by the portico. I believe the president has taken off already. Oh, is he already taken off? All right. So we're in the middle of the night, yes. All right. So he's on his way to France already. And gosh, what kind of schedule does he keep? He was up late with the fights and then he had to.

get on the plane and fly over to France and they'll be able to work it out. I, you know, Larry, I'm 30 years old and I wouldn't be able to keep that schedule. So I don't know how a guy who's 80 is able to maintain such high energy with barely any sleep, but the guy does it and he does it like no one else. By the way, real fast, I did see a video of you. I guess they had a whole fan fest there where you could sort of test your skills and stuff. And they had like a punch meter where you like you hit a bag and it tells you how powerful your punch is. You didn't look bad, Willie. Well, thank you, Larry. Yeah, I got a score of 690 or something. What was it? Yeah, 697. It's pretty good. We like to round number, so we'll call to 700. That's a 700. Out of 1,000? Oh, out of 750. Come on. No, I'm just kidding. Maybe out of... Maybe out of 10,000. I don't know. All right. Well, it was a good-looking punch, and I'm glad that you got into the spirit of it. And I'm glad that we've given you all of the real tough assignments for Town Hall in Salem. You were breaking a sweat big time last night. Thanks for joining us, Willie. Great stuff. Keep up the good work. Good to have you as part of the team. Thanks, Larry. Great to see you. Willie Nelson, not that Willie Nelson. That's how you got to introduce him all the time until eventually he becomes just as famous, if not more so, then, that other Willie Nelson. In a moment, we'll show you what the left was doing in Washington while the big patriotic bash was going on. Let me just say for a political entity that has run the entertainment business, they're not very entertaining. You'll hear it next. And in a moment, we're going to show you some of the spectacle from last night's UFC. And everyone's still talking about it in D.C. Yes, we've had plenty of conversation about the Supreme Court decisions coming down and about the Iran memorandum of understanding and what may be baked in there and whether we can trust the Iranian regime at all. We had a lot of conversation about that and Graham Platner and a whole lot else going on on the news. But everyone in D.C. is talking about this UFC thing. So we're going to continue talking about it a bit. You've got to see what the Democrats did as they're counter-programming. It's pathetic. It's hilarious, actually. That's coming up in just a moment. But real fast, we're beginning a new week here, and I don't want you to forget the fact that Father's Day is coming up this week. And now I want you to imagine how emotionally painful Father's Day is for a boy or a girl whose father is in prison. And, of course, I'm talking about helping those little children out with the Angel Tree Camp Drive that we're doing at Larry Oshow.com. This is the fourth week of this drive. And in just three weeks, you, through your generosity, you have pledged to help 212 children escape from the drugs and the crime and the gangs and all of the other despairing choices they've got in front of them this long hot summer. You've...

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With the president of the United States celebrating his 80th birthday there on the portico of the south lawn of the White House, overlooking and saluting. Incredible. Absolutely breathtaking. Liberals, on the other hand, well, they had counter-programming. It was broadcast on C-SPAN 2. They couldn't even clear C-SPAN 1, apparently. And they were raising money for the resistance. And here's a little bit of the entertainment factor they brought to the table. Let's take a listen. No one is getting left behind this time. No one is getting left behind. Not this time. No one is getting left behind this time. How do we get there? Together or never get there at all. That's something else is what that is. Sorry. Before I got into talk radio, I was a musical theater professional in the management of shows. And I can tell you, that ain't it kid. That ain't it kid. That ain't making it out of their, out-of-town tryout there. As Mary Catherine Ham pointed out to that video on X, she said, it's weird to watch the people who have owned culture and entertainment for generations put on shows this bad. Oh, but that's not fair. They brought out the big guns, the superstars. Bet Midler was there. Bet Midler, Grammy, Emmy, Oscar, Tody. Isn't she an Egot? I'm not sure. Anyway, she sang too for the resistance. Here's Bet. Go ahead, Bet. Oh, you fascist bound to lose. You're bound to lose. You're found to lose. You're fascist let me put you straight when you come for the rest of us we'll fight you at the gate and you will lose you fascist paloose well she tried I just as Andrew Breitbart famously said politics is downstream of culture and it's important to have a voice in the culture And that's their voice right now. Well, and I guess the UFC match and the Star Spangled Banner and the flyover. That's our voice. Choose your fighter. Pick your lane. I know which line I'm standing in. It's so Cotter & Company, you have a safe Monday here. In 2025, the FBI reported that Americans lost more than $21 billion to fraud and identity theft. Identity thieves can steal your social security number, open credit accounts in your name.

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