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It is Thursday, March 12th, 2026. I actually am Guy Benson, and this is my show. I'm here today. Harry Hurley was in yesterday. Our thanks to him for that. I had some personal business to attend to. But back here in the saddle today and tomorrow for the next three hours between 3 and 6 p.m. Eastern every single weekday and then around the clock for free on our podcast. Of course, Guy Benson.com, Fox Newspodcast.com, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm actually in New York. For the remainder of the week and the weekend, Gutfeld tomorrow, a few other shows as well. Here in the Big Apple, I was just on outnumbered today. I'll be co-hosting the big weekend show Saturday and Sunday as well on Fox News channel. So a couple days up here in New York City at the worldwide headquarters of Fox News, where I am a political analyst at the network. Also a senior columnist at the Washington Examiner, you can read my work there. Over the course of today's show, we've got a great lineup. We'll get to our first guest here in just a moment. Later this hour, Andy McCarthy will be with us, longtime federal prosecutor, legal analyst, Fox News contributor, Jason Ransson, the House coming up in our next hour, and then Tommy Laren, who is the permanent co-host of the Big Weekend Show, one of them. She will join us just after 5 p.m. Eastern in our final hour here today. As we begin today's program, I want to talk about the military campaign against the regime in Iran. President Trump has been weighing in on this repeatedly in the last couple of days. Here he was at Joint Base Andrews talking about the military success thus far of Operation Epic Fury cut one. We're going to be in very good shape. You see what's happening. They are. Pretty much at the end of the line. Doesn't mean we're going to end it immediately. But they are, they've got no Navy. They've got no air force. They've got no anti-air traffic, anything. They have no systems of control. We're just riding free range over that country. He said that it's a regime that has inflicted 47 years worth of damage to the world. And now they're paying a big price. And he's of course right about what Iran is responsible for that regime. In the Middle East and the region, there are terror tentacles reaching even further afield as well, the blood of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Americans on the hands of this regime to say nothing of the brutal repression and slaughter of their own people. This is one of the most virulent anti-American bloodthirsty regimes on the planet. And they were just not adjusting to the new reality in which they found themselves after the 12-day war last summer, an Operation Midnight Hammer. And they were once again trying to build up their capabilities, their missile capabilities to protect as an umbrella a renewed nuclear program that they were obsessed with pursuing no matter what. And there were warnings, there were opportunities, there were olive branches, and they just repudiated any chance at meaningful peace or reform. And so now they're getting what they've asked for. And I think a lot of people believe it is a very long time coming. And in Kentucky, President Trump also made the point about needing to finish the job here in cut two. We don't want to leave early, do we?

We got to finish the job, right? After midnight hammering, then we left. We figured that'll be the end of them for a while. But they started again. That's why we got to finish it, right? We don't want to go back every two years. That is part of the case being made right now to rain fury down on this regime. By the way, to the cheers of their people who they've abused so badly for these decades. and either completely destroy or overwhelmingly destroy their entire military capacity or bring about, or I should say and or bring about the possibility for the people of Iran to rise up and change their own regime and finally taste freedom for the first time in many, many years. Joining us now as we begin today's program, Brigadier General John Tyker. He is U.S. Air Force retired. He has a new book, in God I Trust, making our national motto, my personal declaration. General, it's great to have you here. Welcome to the show. Guy, thank you so much for having me. All right, if you could just give us your overall military assessment of what the U.S. and Israel and some other partners have been able to achieve over the last two weeks or so, I mean, you look at much of the reporting in the news media, you would think that we're losing the war and that no one supports it and it's been a big disaster. But. From what I can actually gather militarily, this has been an extraordinary success up to this point. What are you seeing and what can you tell us? Guy, I agree with what you just said. And I also agree with what you said a few minutes ago and the way you characterized Iran. They have been the biggest consistent threat to the United States of America for the last four and a half decades, bar none. More than China, more than Russia, more than North Korea. They have threatened and they have killed. And in less than two weeks, we are pursuing and achieving very capably our military objective, which is to destroy their ability to project power. to destroy their ability to threaten anyone. And that includes their nuclear program. That includes ballistic missiles and cruise missiles and drones. And that includes their Navy. And I think it's interesting going back a couple of days to the Pentagon press conference, echoed in the White House press conference, that now we're focusing on an additional target set, which is military-related industrial capacity. So now we're not just destroying their ability now to threaten others. But we're destroying their ability to reconstitute so they won't be able to easily threaten others in the future. And we're going after targets very capably. And we're achieving those military objectives very well. There was a soundbite that was released, I believe, by the Israelis. There was a radio communication between an American pilot and an Israeli pilot as they were working together on one of these bombing missions. Here it is. Cut 19. Some camaraderie here. Mobile 97.

great honor for us to fight with you. You're doing the great job. Thank you very much. Likewise, gentlemen. Please be safe out there. An honor for us to fight with you. You're doing a great job. Thank you. Likewise, strike hard. The Israeli pilot and the American pilot going back and forth. I think that's stirring. It's also just a little encapsulation of the hand-in-glove cooperation that we've had from the Israelis last summer and certainly during this operation as well. Talk about the value of the Israeli alliance because there are certain people. on the left and certainly some on the right who are out there saying it's actually not really an alliance and we're just doing the bidding of a foreign country and we're in this war on behalf of a foreign country and they're pulling the strings um i think all of that is absolute hogwash and i'm wondering if you can put some meat on the bones sort of militarily on why this alliance is beneficial to the united states Guy, you are right about that. It is hogwash. But the thing that really brings tears to my eyes is just hearing that conversation. I'm a fighter pilot by background. I've got good friends in the Israeli Air Force. And we together are demonstrating how hard we can strike by working together against a consistent, persistent threat. And I know that Israel lives in the most dangerous neighborhood on the planet. And they provide us... exquisite intelligence, that they keep threats at babes so that it doesn't come to the western hemisphere. And I have seen them do great work on behalf of all of us and humanity collectively. But going back to specifically what we've done for the last two weeks, I think there's four primary reasons why we are striking Iran. Number one, they are a consistent, persistent threat. Number two, they have been an imminent threat, meaning that they can use their ballistic missile arsenal. to attack us and our interests at any given moment. Number three, that we had a target of opportunity, both based on where the Ayatollah was and how weak the regime was to strike. And then number four, our credibility was on the line. Help was on the way, and we are delivering, and we're delivering alongside of an Israeli Air Force that is the world's best Air Force. second only to the United States of America. We train together. We exercise together. They buy our equipment and support our industrial base. And we are doing this to meet our interests. And they are aligned often as they are with Israeli interests. General, let's talk about this as well. I saw at last report, I think this was yesterday, I saw this stat, that during this conflict, Iran has launched, as according to Mark Dubowitz, Iran, the regime has launched 3,366 strikes at Gulf Arab states versus 550 at Israel. So we know that the Iranians have been killing Americans for decades, right? And they would love to kill far, far more than they already have.

They've come after Israel directly and indirectly repeatedly, not just October 7th, but direct attacks as well over the last year or two. But during this particular conflict, it seems like the regime has spent an inordinate amount of time and effort launching attacks at... Arab states at Muslim neighbors, as a matter of fact, far more dwarfing the attacks directly on Israel during this conflict, which has drawn the Arab world very openly into this conflict, aligning themselves with the United States and with Israel. And just, I'm still trying to figure out from a strategic standpoint, why. The Iranian regime already in this very weakened position, getting pummeled by the United States and Israel, would then go out of its way to, I mean, they might say, you know, it's a wink and a nod from the Arab world and behind the scenes they're conspiring against us. But to rally the entire neighborhood, including these Muslim majority nations and their governments against them by. you know, lobbing all these missiles at Gulf Arab states, which solidified an anti-Iran alliance in that neighborhood. What was the strategic value for the Iranian military regime to have done that? It seems to me like almost suicidal. Guy, I think it was in part an act of desperation, but let me tell you a little bit more than that. I was our nation's senior defense official to Iraq from May of 2020 to July of 2021, deployed for 14 months. And it broke my heart to see how Iraq remains to some extent in shambles because of Iranian-aligned militias. that destabilize and terrorize that country. And they have been not just the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, but they've created an arc of instability consistently across the Middle East that has harmed the population in that entire region. And what they're doing now indiscriminately firing at Arab neighbors in civilian areas is frankly just a metaphor for what they've been doing for 47 years, which is. trying to create an instability around the Middle East that has profoundly harmed the entire population there. And this is consistent with that strategy for the last 47 years. Yeah, to see them now getting totally sideways with the Qataris, it seems again like a giant blunder perhaps born out of that desperation. But it does, I think, to me, underscore the very important point here that this is a regime that, of course. should never be able to pursue significant weapons, let alone nuclear weapons, given their behavior, you know, attacking everyone around them during this conflict. You create a much more dangerous situation if that exact regime has a traditional weapons or conventional weapons umbrella to protect and develop a nuclear program that we know that they're just fixated on. Meanwhile, General...

There was a regime figure from the Iranian regime who went on national television, state television, and threatened once again the population of his own country, saying if you're back out in the streets and participating in these. These protests, quote, confiscating property is nothing. We will make your mothers mourn you. This is a regime that, according to several estimates recently, slaughtered 30 to 40,000 of their people just in cold blood in the streets. I did see reports that the Israelis bombed not just military targets over the last day or two, but also these besieged checkpoints that are used to try to crush dissidents. and crush these protests, which seemed like a real assistance to the people of Iran who loathe the regime. What do you make of that? Could that be part of a potential endgame, like a major leg up to the protesters? Guy, I think that the overarching philosophy or strategy of the regime for the last 47 years has been to suppress internally and to threaten externally. And we saw those protests spring up out of economic desperation in January. We saw them slaughtered 32,000 or so of their own people. Probably they incarcerated another 30,000 or so. But I do think that their... could be an opportunity for us to provide the right type of top cover for protests to spring up once again that may be enough to topple the regime. And I think as we go after internal security sites, then it gives that type of top cover. But I also think it's important to realize that the central command commander, Admiral Cooper, has told the Iranian people to stay inside and stay safe. But there will be a time, I hope, before this war is over, where Admiral Cooper and our president and our secretary of war tell the Iranian people, now is the time. We are here for you, rise up and overthrow. And I hope the Iranian people are ready for that time. Brigadier General John Tyker, nickname is Dragon. U.S. Air Force retired. Check out his book, In God I Trust. General, really appreciate your time and insights and expertise today. Guy, thanks so much for having me. We are just getting underway on Guy Benson. Some breaking and disturbing news out of Michigan will bring you an alert when we come back. America is listening to Guy Benson. This episode is brought to you by Adobe Firefly, the all-in-one creative studio with AI-powered image and video generation. Build for today's creative process, Firefly helps you generate, edit, and experiment fast because the asks aren't getting smaller. And the timelines? Ooh, yeah, still tight. With all the best creative AI models in one place, Firefly brings your ideas to life. Learn more at adobe.com slash Firefly. I'm Guy Benson, and we're back with a Fox News Alert.

An apparent terrorist attack in Michigan targeting a Jewish synagogue in Bloomfield has, thank God, been effectively thwarted, but not for lack of trying. A yet-to-be-identified attacker rammed his car reportedly into this synagogue, which is also home to a Jewish school. And then there was some sort of gunfire or firefight. Bill Malugian reporting that his and for his law enforcement sources say that the suspected shooter was armed with a rifle, rammed a vehicle into the building, and was killed in the shootout with armed security. Jewish houses of worship in this country now all have armed security because of this repulsive, violent anti-Semitism that is on parade around the world. You might call it globalizing the intifada. It is disgusting. It appears that the only deceased person in this attack is the attacker, is the terrorist, which is good news. He is apparently neutralized, no one else from what we're being told, even injured. So a very dangerous and scary attack that has largely failed and additional damage was thwarted by armed security on site, thank God. Now there are some reports that there might have been homemade explosive devices or like mortars in this guy's car in addition to using the car as a ramming weapon and also the gun or guns. that he had. No ID on the suspect yet, but we do know that the suspect is dead and that local authorities say that there is no active threat anymore to the community there in Bloomfield. So our prayers are with that faith community, our Jewish brothers and sisters across the country, the members of that particular synagogue, another incident like this in the United States of America. utterly unacceptable. And that wasn't the only potential jihadist attack today. We'll get into that next with Annie McCarthy. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FM Radio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 order to order. Please drink responsibly.

Talking about the issues you care about, Guy Benson. Welcome back to Guy Benson. Guy Benson.com is our online home. The podcast is free every day on demand. Joining us now is Andy McCarthy, a Fox News contributor, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, bestselling author several times over at Andrew C. McCarthy on social. Andy, good afternoon. Guy, great to be with you. So there are two apparent terrorist attacks that we are reacting to on this Thursday. One, in a Detroit suburb in Michigan at a synagogue where an attacker, we have yet to get an ID on this person. A terrorist reportedly rammed his car into this synagogue. And there are conflicting reports that... The car might have been packed with some explosives. And then also that the attacker had a gun, was in a gun fight with security at the synagogue. The terrorist has been shot dead is the last one that we've heard. No one else, thank God, injured. But a very dangerous situation there. And it's unclear what exactly motivated this, although it's a synagogue and it's not subtle at all. I'm just not sure what particular... twisted flavor of anti-Semitism might have inspired that attack. And then there was another one earlier today at Old Dominion University in Virginia. where late this morning, police received calls about an active shooter on campus. The gunman had opened fire in a building called Constant Hall. There were two wounded victims in this shooting. Apparently military personnel is what local news is reporting there. And I'm seeing some interesting reporting now from Carol Markowitz, who's got some very good law enforcement sources, now being confirmed. by our colleague here, Bill Malugian, that the alleged shooter, who by the way is dead, also shot dead at Old Dominion, the alleged killer there, or attempted killer, it looks like he failed in the murder attempt, is a man named Mohalajalo, who is the very same man who was previously convicted of supporting ISIS, providing material support to ISIS. That was... Back in 2016, he was arrested for that. Why on earth he was a free man to apparently, reportedly, shoot up a school? I have no idea. But now it's looking like we do have an ID on the killer. And it was an ISIS supporter here in the United States. Just want to get your reaction to both of these disturbing incidents today. Well, Guy, I'm... I'm going to say what I'm sure you've said any number of times, which is that, you know, it's early moments after these incidents, and we never want to get, you know, too far out in front of what we can reasonably know at such an early stage where fog of war is often a problem and initial reports are often wrong.

But one of the things, obviously, I think that we need to be very concerned about. It's always been a factor in the calculations about any war scenario with Iran is whether it would have either agents, jihadists that it controlled or jihadists that it inspired in order to bring the war. to the United States and to bring it to the west. We've seen in the way that Iran has conducted its operation so far that I think it has, it's fair to say that while it's been pummeled for the last two weeks, it has also reacted in a way that wasn't really the sort of calibrated. acceleration or escalation that maybe some people in the defense community predicted. I think what we have to be concerned about is they are trying to wage a war in a way that drags in other participants. and puts in our government the fear that it will conduct operations anywhere, any place that it's capable of. So I don't want to, you know, I don't know that we have any indication that there have been other attacks besides the two you just described. We had the one in Manhattan. Yep. We had the one in Austin a little over a week ago. So we're suddenly having a spate of jihadist attacks. I don't think we're noticing something. Just because the war is on, I think there is something unusual and dynamic happening. And what we have to figure out is whether it's related to the war or not. Andy, the alleged attacker at Old Dominion University today is said to be a former National Guard soldier who admitted traveling to Africa to join ISIS. and was ultimately brought to justice back home here in the U.S. and was sentenced in 2017 to 11 years in prison. So I'm not a math genius, but in my mind that would be a release date of 2028. We are here in 2026. If this guy went to join ISIS... It was, I don't know how the sentencing usually works, and you can comment on that. But to me, 11 years for trying to join a terrorist organization seems maybe a little light. But it sounds like if, if in fact Bill Malugian and other reporters are correct that this is the exact same guy who now just shot two people in Virginia today, it would only stand to reason this person was released from prison early, despite being not just an ISIS sympathizer, you tried to join ISIS. I just, it's crazy. I'm sorry. Yeah, I have to say, Guy, things have changed a lot since I did terrorism cases in the 90s. Before, when I prosecuted terrorists beginning in 1993, we hadn't had the overhaul of anti-terrorism law, which came in 1996.

And as a result, we were looking for anything we could find in the criminal code before it was amended with all these terrorism crimes that could enhance the sentences because we were dealing with people who had tried to commit, you know, massive murder attacks. I think that since the new terrorism laws have been on the books. And as the years have gone by, the government charges material support to terrorism. In a lot of cases where, to my mind, they could charge terrorism. You know, in other words, you're not just a helper. You're actually in a terrorism conspiracy. The difference, I think, is important because if you're in a terrorism conspiracy, depending on whether somebody gets killed or not, you could be looking at life in prison or the death penalty. Whereas with respect to material support, depending on... What the theory of it is, the sentence could, the maximum sentence could be as little as 15 years. And very often people don't get the full 15. And then if you only get 11, you know, in the federal system, you're not going to do all 11. You should do close to 11, but it's not going to be all 11. So I do question the way they charge a lot of these cases. Yeah, and I think there'll be a lot of questions about that. I mean, if this is the fact pattern, and again, it's Carol Markowitz, Bill Malugent reporting this based on multiple law enforcement sources who were telling them, this guy was arrested in 2016, convicted for trying to join ISIS in 2017. He's out early and then apparently got himself a gun and went and shut up a school and apparently was targeting some military officials. or military figures at that school, I think a lot of Americans say, how the hell was this person able to do any of that, given his, you know, the prior facts about his choices in his life? Yeah, I just don't think that we're taking the terrorist threat as seriously as we did. in the lead up to and then the year shortly after 9-11, I think some of this is human nature. You know, you go a long time without a repetition of 9-11, notwithstanding that our enemies have tried and tried. And you start to think that maybe the problem wasn't so serious rather than that maybe it's the precautions you're taking against being attacked again that are working. But it seems to me that, like, if you're dealing with a terrorist, situation, you're dealing with somebody who is committed either to carrying out himself or helping others carry out mass murder attacks against Americans. To me, you know, there are some offenders in the federal system and in the state systems that you can cut a break here or there. But if you're talking about the most serious offenders and there's nothing more serious than terrorism, you should be trying to charge them with the most serious crimes you can indict. Andy, you mentioned the New York City attack. That was just days ago. And thank God the explosive device in question did not detonate properly because it seems, and we were talking to Paul Morrow about this and there were other reports that this was a very, very heavy duty device that could have done some major damage. And it was hurled at a group of peaceful protesters by a guy screaming Alahu Akbar. And, you know, the mayor's...

Focus seemed to be denouncing the protesters at first. That was his emphasis out of the gate. And a lot of news media came out and tried to at least. Just kind of fantasize that this was actually a terrorist attack targeting Zohran Mamdani, which is completely untrue. And once that little narrative that they wanted to be true, wasn't true, it's kind of just disappeared from the radar. This very serious attack in New York City by jihadists. I mean, it seems like that should be a long-lasting national news story and not a little blip. Yeah, I think the media hasn't changed. This is why people don't trust it and why it is so unpopular. I mean, the way that was reported... You know, I think it was it, was it the CNN headline that basically said that there was a terrorist attack at a protest outside Zohran Mamdani's residence, not Zohran Mamdani, the mayor's residence. And it was, you know, the suggestion to any common sense person who read that was that it was the mayor who was under attack. Not that there had been this, you know, this potential jihadist attack, which is what it was. I guess it's fortunate that we have beams of piercing the media coverage so that we can figure out pretty quickly exactly what happened. But this is a dysfunction of the media that goes back a very long time. I remember the two radical leftists. who threw a Molotov cocktail at the squad car in New York City is one of those protests. And not only did they not get charged with serious offenses, when the... Trump Justice Department from the first term initially charged them with something serious. The Biden people came in and basically took the terrorism aspect of it off the table. And what we read was a big sob story about like these two promising young people had a moment of weakness. All they did was fire bomb a police car, Andy. Right. That's all. Right. So, I mean, this is your media, right? And this is why people can't stand them. Andy, on this.

conflict in the Middle East and the fight against the Iranian regime. We just had a brigadier general retired on the show to begin the program talking about the massive military success so far. I think that's undeniable. But there's also, I saw one poll out today that actually showed a significant uptick in support for our military action. I think it was the Washington Post poll. That being said, CBS showed in their... public polling that Americans were actually overwhelmingly supportive of this if it is a matter of days or weeks. If it drags into months or longer, then support really comes down. Now, I don't think you should be basing military operations. on public opinion, right? That's a factor in politics, but it shouldn't be the factor. At the same time, it is a consideration that the Trump administration needs to think about here as this bombardment continues against the regime. What does an off-ramp... look like to you, and at what point would the baton, if there's going to be regime change, need to be just handed to the people if they can make it work or not, if and when our military objectives have been completed? What do you think about that? Yeah, I think that the first thing, there's too much of the thinking that's gone on here, Guy, and I think I'm being critical of myself as well as other people who've opined on this. But I think the correct way to think about this is, in the first instance, what are the objectives? And then once you settle on what the objectives are, then you can address things like how long is it going to take and will we need ground forces and all the things that flow from that. I think there's been too much of how long is it going to take. and how opposed are we to ground forces and things like that as a first-order question, when the first-order questions ought to be to make this a success, and it has to be a success because we're too invested in this to come away with anything that looks like a loss for the United States, especially with everything that's gone on in the last two weeks. I think you have to decide what do we want to accomplish. The way I understand it, what we want to accomplish is kind of in two phases. One is to completely suppress the regime's capacity to project power, which includes nuclear weapons as well as ballistic missiles. And also, and there's spectacular work being done, especially by the Israelis with drones inside Tehran itself, but to suppress the ability of the domestic security service by siege.

to abuse its people. And then when we've done enough of that, which also includes having to get the straight-of-home moves open and other priorities, then you could start talking about ending the military, the main combat phase of this, and turning to what my friends at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy is called the phase two part, where it's maximum pressure. that now that you've hollowed out the regime, we're going to work on trying to make it collapse, which isn't necessarily solely a military task, once you've done all this other stuff to suppress their ability to project power. So that's the way I see it. And I'm not enough of an expert on either Iran or military strategy to know how long that takes, but I do think it's probably the work of months rather than weeks. Andy McCarthy, Fox News contributor, longtime federal prosecutor here on Guy Benson. You can read him at National Review and elsewhere. Andy, always appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Guy. We'll be right back. A fresh perspective on the topics of the day. It's Guy Benson. As we continue here on Guy Benson, Bernie Sanders, the socialist from Vermont. is, as are so many people on the left, just fixing it, obsessed with Israel, the Jewish state. He's been tweeting angrily about Israel attacking the Iranian regime. He says it's not just Iran, it's Lebanon. He talks about attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Residential buildings bombed with no warning. The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in Benjamin Netanyahu's wars. This is so ignorant and stupid. And people say, you can't criticize Bernie because he's Jewish. I sure, I sure can. He is so hostile to the Jewish state as it defends itself. The Lebanese government is cracking down on Hezbollah, the terrorists that have ruined that country in so many ways and are now deeply, deeply weakened because of what Israel's been able to achieve. It's not just. The U.S. and Israel involved against Iran. It's the whole region that Iran's been attacking and are now allied openly and collectively against the regime. It's the people of Iran who hate the regime. It has killed them and kidnapped them and beaten them in the streets and suppressed their freedom for decades. And Bernie Sanders points the finger of blame at the Jewish state and saying, oh, we're complicit. Where was any of this for like the people of Iran who were slaughtered by the tens of thousands by the regime? The priorities, the outrage is so consistently misplaced by exactly these kinds of people. Another hour coming up.

new generation of conservative talk right here right now fair fun and backed by the trusted voices and reporting resources of fox news you're listening to Guy Benson and now here's your host Guy Benson It's a new hour here on Guy Benson, our middle hour of three. On this Thursday from New York City, thank you for tuning in. Guy Benson.com is our website. The podcast is free every day. Fox News Alert. The Dow tumbling dramatically today on fears about oil, of course, related to the conflict in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. The Dow down 739 points based on those concerns, finishing the day at 46,67 points. This despite a pretty good inflation number that we got yesterday, CPI coming in at 2.5%, the lowest reading in five years. Right now, the more immediate concern is, are the price of oil, which are rising again today, going to become a real problem in a lasting way, given the conflict in that part of the world? We know the Trump administration now says that they will use the U.S. Navy if necessary to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz if the Iranians. continue to try to close it with attacks and with mines and that sort of thing. So a major move there on Wall Street today as a result of that uncertainty. Joining us now is Jason Rance, host of the Jason Rantz show on Seattle Red, our affiliate 770 a.m. in Seattle. You can read his stuff at Seattlered.com. You can also buy his book, What's Killing America, or follow him on social at Jason Rance. Jason, good to have you back. Good to be back. All right, a couple things. It has been pretty wild watching the media, especially CNN, try to pretend that the terrorist attack, I'm not talking about either of the ones that happened today, but the jihadist attack from last weekend in New York was directed at or targeted the mayor of New York, which is simply not true. I think that network has now made four or five public corrections because they keep. saying the incorrect thing, including anchors and reporters. It's been days of this quote-unquote mistake. There was this exchange and cut 21 on the air the other night. Anna Navarro is paid by two different news networks for this kind of insight. Listen. Erronic is. So supposedly some of these comments are as a result of the attempt against, I guess Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York, who was raised Muslim, was he not? himself. So, so they're being anti-Muslim to def- and they're finally defending Zohran Mamdani over something. Be clear the attack wasn't on Zohran Mamdani. It was on people protesting. It was on, it was attacking protesters, people protesting by his house. It wasn't, it wasn't, to frame it as an anti-Muslim attack would would actually completely reverse what happened. Someone who shouted al-A-Qa-Qaeda through a bomb that didn't go off at the protesters. The Republicans are finally doing something. Okay, so she got that.

embarrassingly wrong, as did several other people at that network. And the corrections keep coming. What's that about, Jason? Do they want this to have been an attack on Zohran Mamdani? And they're disappointed that it wasn't. So they're just going to keep saying that it was? I think we've seen the same lazy attempt from left wing mouthpieces like Anna Navarro for a very long time, that they will. present their version of something, knowing that it's a lie with the intent of misleading, because they can, you know, seriously impact public opinion with these lies. It just ends up snowballing into what effectively becomes the new narrative. And it's not even just on this story. I mean, even the, you know, the story about Pete Hegseth and the lobsters, that also you saw the same exact folks on the left pulling the exact same strategy. They don't need to be honest. They blamed... In terms of political violence, they blamed Charlie Kirk's assassination on the right. When it was a died-in-the-wool, like leftist radical who allegedly pulled the trigger, they tried to turn that into a right-wing attack, just as we've now seen a lot of people at CNN trying to pretend that this was a terrorist attack targeting Zohran Mamdani rather than peaceful right-wing protesters outside of Zohran Mamdani's house. It is hard to win. discussions and debates when facts aren't on your side. And so people who are dishonest will then just make the facts up. Look, there are some people who make honest mistakes. It happens on the left. It happens on the right. But it seems hard to believe that when stories have been fully established or just common sense reigns, you're now still making the quote unquote same mistake. If this were comments, if Anna Navarro was out there making that comment. You know, 30 minutes after this happened over the weekend, okay, I'll give some grace on that. Maybe you can argue she missed it. But not several days later. It just seems like it's intentional. All right, Jason, a couple stories coming out of your neck of the woods, Seattle and Washington State. What are the Democrats done in terms of a change to the tax code out there? Well, they just passed an income tax. It passed the House and the Senate. The governor will be signing it into law. They're framing this as a millionaire tax because it assesses a 9.9%. tax on income above one million dollars the problem for anyone who pays even a little bit of attention is that it's not just going to say against the millionaires in washington state it is unconstitutional to have this kind of tax because property And income are the same thing under the law. This has been precedent since 1933. And under constitutional principles, you have to have uniformity of taxes. So you can't just go ahead and say, well, because of how much money you make or because you're the one who owns the property, we're going to hit you with a higher tax. The intent is to get in front of the Washington State Supreme Court so that they can overturn that precedent and allow for an income tax to hit everybody. There's only one of two possibilities here because this is very clear.

clearly and obviously unconstitutional. They either reject the tax, which is very unlikely at this stage. We have a very far left Supreme Court. And by the time this gets heard, it's possible that five of the members will have retired and then been appointed by our governor. So that's number one. The only other option that could happen is that they say we're getting rid of that precedent, which then would open the doors for an income tax across the board. As the ink was drying. On this bill being passed the other day, Howard Schultz announced he's leaving Washington State. He's moving to Shocker, Florida. Yep. Hanging out with Jeff Bezos and the many other people who have already decided to leave because not just this tax, but we've got a crazy death tax in place. We have a capital gains tax. We're the highest taxed. per person rate in the entire country at this point or will after this tax officially goes into effect. And we're paying the consequences of it. The mayor, the socialist slash communist mayor who was elected on the other side of the country on the same night as Zohran Mamdani, Katie Wilson, she's now like going to war with grocery stores. What is this? She wants, so there's a few things that are happening. Number one, she wants to pull this idea that that Zohran Mamdani, you know, previously proposed of basically a government-funded scheme to get free groceries. It's unclear how that would even work, and it's undefined. At the same time, she's contemplating some kind of ordinance that would effectively stop a grocery store from closing down in certain neighborhoods, which, again, Well, certainly isn't legal. I don't know how that would be enforced. But that's the point of just to put these crazy ideas out there that are driven not by common sense or by the law, but by ideology, the thinking that she can prevent so-called food deserts from developing. It's just not realistic to say a business that can't survive is going to be forced to stay open and go into deeper debt. It doesn't make any sense. Or the government would probably take it over. I mean, it's just, it's crazy, right? It's absolutely crazy. saying a grocery store can't go out of business, even if there's crime and all these problems. We're going to force them to stay open or we're going to take it over. Welcome to communism in the city of Seattle. And we'll talk about a communist in New York after the break. Jason Rance, thanks so much for your time. Thank you. We'll be right back after this. I didn't think the pain from the shingles rash would affect simple everyday tasks, like bathing, getting dressed, or even walking around. I was wrong. Though not everyone at risk will develop it, 99% of people over the age of 50 already have the virus that causes shingles, and it could reactivate at any time. I developed it, and the blistering rash lasted for weeks. Don't learn the hard way, like I did. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today. Sponsored by GSC. I'm Guy Benson. We are back. So I've been thinking about something. We've mentioned here on the show that the mayor here in New York City, Zohran Mamdani, had, among other people, over to dinner during Ramadan, Mahmoud Khalil.

The radical Islamist Hamas supporter who was at Columbia University. There's been this battle with the Trump administration trying to kick him out of the country. I think he richly deserves to be thrown out of the United States. Right. He was the leader of an organization that openly celebrates terrorism. Openly celebrates terrorism. Justifies it. Glorifies it. calls in their materials for the total overthrow of Western civilization. This is a group, by the way, that just posted on social media in the last few days with the war against the Iranian regime underway, they tweeted death to America. Straight up. Death to America. That is the Iranian regime chant echoed by Khalil's organization, the sort of blanket umbrella organization that he was basically the unofficial spokesman for for a long time. This was also a group that broke university policy and the law, taking over buildings, for example. Remember they took some custodians hostage for a while in one of their pro-Hamas crime sprees? As Marco Rubio has said, why on earth, if you're a guest in this country, non-citizen, you're not an American, why on earth should you be allowed to stay here if you are doing things like supporting terrorism that would clearly, without controversy, borrow you from being admitted to the United States if you were trying to come right now? If you were abroad as a non-U.S. citizen trying to come here as our guest. and you were doing and saying the types of things that this guy has done on our soil, we would quite rightly say, no, you're not welcome here, you're not getting a tourist visa, you're not getting into the country. Why do you have any special right to stay here, especially as some sort of victim martyr? which is how Zohran Mamdani is portraying this guy and choosing to showcase his so-called plight by having him over in this very public way for dinner. At that dinner, in the photograph that was posted, right, they're rubbing our faces in this. In that photograph, you saw Mrs. Zohran Mamdani, the first lady of New York City. The thing that occurred to me, is that since it became public, that that woman was liking, she was all over social media, liking a bunch of posts that once again were celebrating the October 7th terrorist attack in Israel. Yes, it murdered nearly 1,200 Jews. It also murdered Hamas, murdered dozens of Americans during that slaughter. And took hundreds of people hostage, including Americans. And Mrs. Mom Donny was out there just double-tapping these photos, loving the content about October 7th barbarism, including the rape denialism, which is one of the most evil things that the Hamas brigade has done.

She is a public figure and an adult. Has she been asked by anyone to account for why she was liking rape denialism about a Hamas mass murder of Jews? And why and to the tune of dozens of these posts that she was liking? Has anyone actually asked those questions of her? Right. She made those choices. She is in the public eye. She has a very powerful husband. She's given all sorts of interviews before. Why not now? If there is some sort of explanation that she would like for us to have about what possessed her to do that, besides the obvious, right, aside from the obvious, if she wants to maybe push back on that assumption about what motivated her, couldn't she answer a question about it? Has a journalist anywhere asked her about this? Or is that now just uncalled for and gross and beyond the pale, according to like Zohran Mamdani and his little cult of supporters? I don't understand these people scream about accountability all the time. Can this grown woman speak for herself and offer an explanation or not? Is anyone ever going to ask her about that or not? This one just kind of slipped right by. Is half a news story roundly condemned by many people on the left as a non-news story? And then the journal is just dutifully marched on like it never even happened. Why? Can she come out and answer those questions, please? It'll take someone to ask. That's a key part of it. But the idea that she can just hide behind the indignation and smile of hubby, is she not a fully empowered woman who can think and speak for herself? Or does the cat have her tongue at the moment? More of Guy Benson coming up after this.

Guy Benson, sponsored by Previgin. Previgin, made for your brain. Halfway through Guy Benson on this Thursday in New York City, thanks for being here, Guy Benson.com. Podcasts always free. So here's a story that we covered earlier today on outnumbered. I was on the couch today, noon Eastern time for that hour. It is this fake outrage, completely phony scandal, quote and quote from some in the media. And of course the left wing late night comics are piling on elected Democrats. I think very foolishly doing the same thing, including Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer is the most powerful Democrat on Capitol Hill. And he got sucked into this very online discourse, which is at least purporting that Pete Hegseth and the Trump administration's Department of War is just wasting a ton of money for no reason whatsoever on gargantuan quantities of steak and lobster tail. And this just like became a thing almost overnight. I guess they want to make it seem like it's just very, very wasteful and everything they do is terrible and corrupt and all of that. And I guess no one just stopped for a second to ask anyone in the military, hey, what's this about? Do they know anyone in the military? Do they have anyone in their orbit, in their offices, on their staff, anyone? who would be aware of why the military, our military, might spend a lot of money on steak and lobster tail on a regular basis for decades, by the way. No, apparently not. It's like low-hanging slop fruit for resistance people. And so they're like, oh, the thing that we're mad about today is Pete Hegseth and Trump are spending millions on steak and lobster tails. Isn't that so wasteful? And that was a specific example that was raised by Chuck Schumer. It's not just TMZ that's been so-called covering this. It's not just some of the late night left-wing hosts that I mentioned. I saw Russian state television has picked up the story. No surprise there. It is pure propaganda. And the total lack of awareness or discretion from the Senate Minority Leader's Office, I'm just a little bit. astounded that he decided to go with this one. I have a very low opinion of Chuck Schumer and virtually all the Democrats over there on Capitol Hill. But this was such an obvious trap to try to avoid and they just can't do it. They are not capable of avoiding the trap because it's just, I know it's an overused term. It does not always apply accurately, but Trump derangement is real and resistance theater is real.

And when your base demands this 11 out of 10 anger all the time, you will get bamboozled by this kind of thing. And you will very stupidly, frankly, amplify it. So here's an example of how it's being set up. You have Jen Saki. So this is the former spokeswoman for the White House under President Biden. She now has a job at the network formerly known as MSNBC. She's got her own show over there. So that clip of Jen Saki that you're about to hear was played on Seth Meyer's late night NBC show to have a big laugh about this wasteful Pentagon spending under Pete Hegseth, cut 24. At the same time, a new report from an external government watchdog finds that Pete Hegseth Pentagon was already on a massive spending spree before the war began, dropping $15 million on wait for it. If you haven't seen this story, look it up. Steak and another $6.9 million on lobster tail in just the month of September. They spent $15 million on steak in one month? Who are you, Sterling Cooper, Draper, and Price? If you're going to eat that much steak, you better have come up with a new campaign for Lucky Strike. No wonder, Pete Hegseth always looks miserable. He's 24-7 meat constipated. That's the face of a man war fighting with his colon. So big, big funny laughs there from Seth Myers. The clip from Saki, by the way, she's like, wait for it. Look it up. If you haven't seen this, true story, they spent all this money on steak and lobster tails. Isn't that weird? Maybe Jen Saki was completely aware that the administration that she served in also would serve these kinds of meals to our troops who were stationed abroad. This is a well-known, long-established, decades-old practice where the U.S. military takes, yes, our taxpayer money, which I think is wasted all over the place all the time, including sometimes by the Pentagon, but not on this. They take our money. They buy steak and lobster tails and really nice food for special treat meals for troops on long overseas deployments, especially in dangerous places. These men and women risk their lives for all of us. They are across the globe, far away from their families and friends. Unlike Seth Myers and Chuck Schumer and Jen Saki, who probably eats steak and lobster on a regular basis whenever they want. These are very rich people. I mean, Seth Myers, Jimmy Kimmel was piling on this as well. Of course, Stephen Colbert. They all did. They all sing from the same hymnal all the time. These guys are worth millions. Steak and lobster may not be very special for them. It is special for the troops. who are used to food that is not nearly at that level. I would love to see, as an aside, Chuck Schumer or Adam Schiff, who is going down this path as well, Jimmy Kim. I'd love to see those guys eat MREs for a week, right? The instant meals that our troops often have to eat, maybe not the most desirable. I would love to see how they would do on one week's worth of MREs. Let them eat MREs, they demand.

Because they have finally found, apparently, some government spending that they are willing to oppose or cut. And it is morale boosting nice meals for troops deployed abroad. American troops. The priorities are so deeply screwed up that I actually think these guys don't really believe it. It's an opportunity to take a cheap shot. at Pete Hegseth and therefore Trump. So they don't have to really think about what it actually means, what the implications of the joke or the outrage du jour might be. They don't take even a second to hear themselves to wonder, you know, does this even make sense? Is the implication that Pete Hegseth is ordering like truckloads of Omaha stakes for himself on our dime? Does that make any sense logically at all? Over on CNN, Paul Bagala. Longtime lefty pundit Clinton night. He was weighing in on this. And you can hear Scott Jennings at the end of the clip being like, are you listening to yourself, man? Cut 28. $15 million in one month for ribby steak, $6.9 million for lobster tail. $225 million for furniture. He spent more in the month of September than most countries on earth spend in their defense. Do you believe? All for himself? Lobster tails? Do you believe our troops are eating MRIs? No, no, no. Lobster tails? Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating all the lobster? Wait, he can't eat the troops. Oh, really, the troops are getting lobsters. Frequently in theater. Troops who are going to run. Oh, my God. You know that. They're getting a lobster. You are so full of this. You are going to get killed over this. You are going to get killed over this. Okay. So, Bagala said that Pete Hegseth spent $15 million in a month for steak and $7 million for lobster tail. And then he said, all for himself. There's a word that I want to use and it starts with R. I'm not going to do it. But that is brain dead commentary by Paul Begala, who then tries to make it seem like Scott Jennings is the way out of line hack lying about how this food actually goes to our troops. Like, you're telling us our troops get lobster out while they're fighting. Get out of here. Like you're embarrassing yourself. No, Paul, you embarrassed yourself because that's exactly what happened. That's why we spent these millions. Millions. Of course this was going to be on a vast scale. Who do you think the Pentagon was buying this for? As Begala would say, on Pete Hegseth himself. It's crazy. And then Scott Jennings actually knows something about this. Seems to know the bare minimum about these special treat meals that are given to our troops. He brings it up and Paul Begala's like, you liar. These people are so embarrassing. There's not one centilla of critical thought applied to a story like this. And now they're caught like doubling down on this. The money and the steak and the lobster is for the men and women in uniform deployed abroad. They've been doing it for decades, you morons. Try to befriend one person who might know something about this. Just one.

And you could avoid this sort of ritual demented humiliation that you have brought upon yourself with this ridiculous story. Someone that they might want to get to know. Here's one example. I'm encouraging them to find new friends. Maybe, I don't know, expand the bubble just a little bit because this is a deep, deep bubble. Right? The lining of this bubble is very thick. If you see a story about $15 million for stake from the Pentagon budget and your first thought is that's bad and it must be for Pete Hegseth, and it does not occur to you that that amount of meat might be going to the many thousands of our troops deployed abroad, you've got blinders on that are not allowing you to even think like a normal human being anymore. And you might want to just kind of like reset in life. especially if your job is to go on television and tell us what's supposed to be real. Like Jen Saki has a news show. So, oh, yeah, if you haven't seen the story, look it up. Yeah, I did look it up. Actually, I didn't have to look it up because I was aware as a non-military expert. I am not at all an expert, but I knew this about the special meals that they do for morale boosting. But Jen Saki, who spoke for a president, apparently didn't know it. Paul Begala, who's been in the pundit space, Longer than I think I've been out of diapers. Certainly in the political world, he's been at it a long time. He doesn't know this either. And the list is very long, including the most powerful Democrat on Capitol Hill and Chuck Schumer. He fell for this or decided to participate. Find one person who might know how things actually work. And by the way, there were some like lefty people who have been in the military who were like on social media. Yeah, guys, mate, this ain't it. This isn't the one. That's, this is not what, whatever you think this is, you're wrong. Don't do this. This is a bad look. They can't help themselves. They cannot stop themselves. But if they need a friend or maybe not even a personal friend, just follow some people who are aware of how the real world works when it comes to the military. I have an idea. I have a recommendation. A friend's suggestion, if you will, for them. And he's actually speaking out on this very issue. How convenient we'll tell you about that and play you that audio coming up next on Guy Benson. Always Fresh, Always Fair. Guy Benson.

We're back. It's Guy Benson talking about one of the dumbest, most imbecilic, quote-unquote controversies I've seen in a long time. And I was suggesting maybe some of these people need to get out more, expand their social circles, maybe get to know anyone who's ever served in the military, for example. One of whom I would very much commend is our colleague and friend here, Joey Jay Jones. We've got his co-host Tommy Laren coming up in the next hour. We'll talk about this story. Joey and Tommy co-host the Big Weekend show on Fox News Channel. I'll be on the show this coming weekend with them. Joey went on social media and gave his personal story about the steak and lobster experience decades ago when he was serving abroad because, as I said, they have been doing exactly this kind of thing as a pick-me-up to people who are like dodging bombs and IEDs and enemy fire. We've been doing this for a very long time as like a little taste, literally, of the good life back home that these guys and gals are defending for us. But now it's an outrage point, supposedly, because Pete Hegseth is at the helm. Gosh, I mean, I am almost physically cringing talking about this story. I'm so embarrassed for them. I'm so embarrassed for these so-called comedians and cable news hosts and U.S. senators and beyond and internet peanut gallery and TMZ and the rest of them. I'm embarrassed for them that they decided that they were going to run with this. Then earning a rebuke from someone like Joey Jay Jones who has sacrificed literally a lot for this country, including his legs. So here's his post, not angry about it, just giving people the facts, a walk down memory lane to correct this idiocy. Cut 26. In 2010 in Afghanistan, I was working with two other Marineo Detex, Brian Smith and Chendo Mesa. We had been out all day long working some IEDs. It was a difficult day. We had a few really close calls that day. When we got back, we sat down, and I've got this picture of us, just sitting on a ledge at patrol-based karma, and there's a stack of MREs behind us. And I remember Mesa looking at me and saying, Man, I just hope I don't get that chicken tetrazini or something like that. Like, we've been out all days. A tough day. It's like, man, I should have we get a decent MRI. And then somebody comes down the corner like, hey, guys, it's steak and lobster night. It's surfing turf. A log train had come in, which was insane because the route was littered with IEDs. And now I've got another picture of the three of us eating steak in the room that we lived in later that night. What's funny is the look on our faces from the one picture to the other is about the same because we're in war. And he goes on here in a second, but they were dreading the MREs. And then they got the good news that lifted their spirits. Hey, it's actually surfing turf night because a train had gotten through with this really good food. And they had just spent a day diffusing bombs on behalf of the United States of America. This was in 2010. This is a long time ago. This was long before Donald Trump was even running for president, guys.

And the photos that he's talking about of him and his buddies, his war buddies, he's posted these photos. This is not some story he made up. This is just obviously true because anyone who's been deployed abroad can tell you a story like this. This is Joey's story. Cut 27. But after that day for weeks, we talked about steak and lobster nights. The only one I've ever gotten overseas. It was in the middle of a really tough summer. Brian got blown up a few weeks later. He's not with us anymore. He died of stomach cancer last year. Then I got blown up a couple of months later. And you see these tweets, you see these tweets about, you know, Pete Hegseth that spent $15 million on steak and lobster. Are you serious? That is the only thing. about home, that's the only thing that makes you feel special for the entire time you're there watching your buddies die and you're mad about that. The fact that people aren't smart enough to even look up what that's for before they criticize it, and I guarantee you none of them said a word when Biden surrendered Afghanistan killed 13 of us, or when the whole DOD spent tens of millions of dollars on going woke. They had that special meal on a really tough day, and then they talked about it for weeks because it meant that much to them. And these blithering idiots have decided that the Pentagon steak and lobster budget for those types of guys is a problem. The party. of the leering center and fraud. And I have a few more examples. We'll hopefully get to them tomorrow. Wall Street Journal, CBS News. We are being robbed blind as taxpayers constantly in this country. And all these welfare programs being fleeced by criminals, the party that defends it, enables it, encourages it in some cases, the effectively or explicitly pro-fraud political party. All they want is government spending to go up, up, inexorably up every day, every year, as much as they can get away with. And if you question any of that, oh, draconian mean-spirited cuts, right? This is how they talk. But they have found, along with ICE, federal law enforcement, they have found one thing that they are willing to cut. And it's steak and lobster surf and turf for the men and women of the U.S. military deployed abroad. Slow clap guys, really, really smart messaging and knowledge. Good for you. Ugh. Embarrassing. You're so embarrassing. Final hour of Guy Benson up next. The aforementioned Tommy Laren joins us when we come back.

Raise your glass to Guy Benson Happy Hour. Brought to you by the Finnish Long Drink. Finland's most popular alcoholic beverage is taking America by storm. Visit thelongdrink.com. And now, here's Guy Benson. Happy hour time here on Guy Benson. It's Thursday. I'm in New York. Thank you for being wherever you are listening to this program. Guy Benson.com, the website, our podcast is the whole show every day for free on demand. When the show ends in just about one hour, Guy Benson.com, Fox Newspodcast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts. This radio hour brought to you by the Finnish long drink, delicious, refreshing. Please drink responsibly always, 21 plus only the longdrink.com. Well, joining us now is Tommy Laren. Host of Tommy Laren is Fearless on Outkick, co-host of the Big Weekend show on Saturday and Sunday evening, 5 to 8 p.m. Eastern on Fox News Channel. I will be co-hosting that show this weekend with Tommy and company. Tommy, always great to have you here. Welcome back. talk to you guy now i'm surprised that you're not talking about uh great american freestyle wrestling but hopefully this weekend we will get an update on that i'm looking forward to your analysis okay so for those who have no idea what tommy's talking about this is now an inside joke that's becoming i guess an outside joke because for whatever reason tommy with one exception recently because we were going wall to wall on another story By coincidence or accident, whatever it might be, for like three or four consecutive appearances when I was guest co-hosting your show, we just always had a promotional segment for this wrestling programming that Fox Nation is involved in. And somehow I always get assigned the segment. And the home viewer might have detected this pattern and assumed that I'm a huge fan. of wrestling. And I don't have anything against it. My dad was a very good high school wrestler. I think these guys are really good athletes, but I know nothing about wrestling. I have very little interest in it. So I'd like do my job and do some reading and ask the questions and all of that. But it's like I'm now, now you brought it up, I'm bracing for impact. I assume there'll be a wrestling segment this weekend and I'm getting it because that's apparently what the producers do to me. Well, I think that they now know just how much it's on your heart. So if there is a segment, I am going to make sure that you are leading it because you are now the expert. I don't know if we got that this weekend, but if we do, I think, you know, who's going to be. At the helm. Well, the odds are that it probably will happen because I'm here. And even if they assign it to you, you'll be like, Guy, I want to come to you first because I know how fired up you are about this wrestling league. But I mean, look, the guys are amazing athletes. They're generally actually very good interviews because we have them on. And they're a lot of fun. It just, it has been this funny pattern. And then we get into it just joking about it during commercial breaks. And so, yeah, let me know. Send me that preliminary rundown, Tommy. And let me know if I need to start doing my wrestling homework.

immediately. Speaking of sports, I want to get your take. I saw this post from Clay Travis. The Iranian women's soccer team has done some very brave things in recent days because they are standing up. to the regime that runs their country, knowing that that is an immense risk to themselves and to their families. But unlike a lot of the empty posturing from American athletes kneeling during anthems and that sort of thing, these women are truly displaying courage. Some of them have now sought refuge in Western countries because they fear that they could be punished or killed when they come home. Others are very worried for their family members. This is a story that I've seen a little bit about on social media, mostly being covered by like Iranian dissidents and right-leaning people in the West. Missing an action almost completely are sports journalists and like the Megan Rapino activists of the world. Where are they on this story? This is, this should be at least right in their wheelhouse. And yet, interestingly, it is not. Yeah, the human rights, women's rights, free Palestine crowd has been noticeably silent on this issue. I'm glad that she brought up Megan Rapino. You know, she thinks it's so brave and so noble for men to compete in women's sports, but apparently didn't take the time to look at these Iranian women soccer players. Soccer players. It's her own sport. Her own sport. quite literally risking their lives to stand up for freedom. And these athletes have nothing to say about it. And the crowd that wears the F-ice pins, free Palestine campus protest, noticeably silence. I'm so happy that Senator John Fetterman has become an unlikely voice of reason for years now, he also pointed out the number of people that were criticizing the men's hockey team. with their interaction with President Trump, their appearance at the State of the Union. Yeah, we're also waiting for them to criticize the Iranian regime for oppressing actual athletes here. But again, those folks also pretty quiet. Yeah, no, I mean, it is such a juxtaposition where you had a meltdown. among a certain type of leftist, pretending to be sports fans, right? This was often very progressive women who decided that they were going to go on social media and declare that the men's U.S. hockey team, gold medal winners, were now public enemy number one. They just crashed out over these guys because they took a phone call from Donald Trump in the locker room and he made like this sort of silly boomer passing joke and some of them laughed. And that is now like a crime against humanity for which they should be roundly booed or whatever they decided. And yet, here are these proclaimed big fans of women's sports are like, oh, we should support the women's team because they didn't talk to Trump. And they were grievously insulted by the men, even though the women's team was not insulted at all. They made that clear. That exact group of people you would think would have a new.

cause to champion the women's soccer team in Iran against a truly theocratic toxic regime. Talk about toxic masculinity. That would be the moas. And yet those very same human beings have absolutely nothing to say about it. Nothing to say, and I think part of the reason for that is if you acknowledge the plight of the Iranian women, then in some way you have to give President Trump credit for what he's doing in Iran and his attempts to make it easier for those folks to free themselves to change their regime of oppression. So I think that's how they connect it, right? If President Trump, and he also, by the way, did a true social post about these women, which I'm sure that was another reason why they felt they couldn't enjoin the chorus because President Trump did talk about it. what it is as well you know if we say something about this and in some way we have to get president trump some credit so we definitely can't do this and then they move on to the other flavor of the weak cause disingenuous at best but you're absolutely right there should be a much bigger story in the sports world but it's not tell me you mentioned flavors that's my transition and segue on this story the additional so-called outrage. Maybe they've moved on to this story instead of, you know, girl power with the women's soccer team in Iran. They're instead all spun up about steak and lobsters for the troops. Tommy, I talked about this earlier. I am rarely surprised these days, I would say by our political discourse, which is dysfunctional and very stupid and very dishonest almost all the time. But for them to have picked up on this of all things, I will admit to being surprised by this one. Yeah, and the same people, by the way, who were totally fine with illegal aliens being put up in four-star hotels and being given, you know, prepaid debit cards, they're upset because our Secretary of War and the department afforded our service members, steak and lobster, which, by the way, isn't a new thing. America reports just did a very lengthy report on this today that this is not new, that the truth's getting steak and lobster and having a treat. This is not a... Pete Hegseth thing. This is not a President Trump thing, that this is a tradition. But the fact that they have found this to be outraged about, an even worse guy, some of the headlines on this would make it seem as though Pete Hegseth himself was ordering steak and lobster. Yes, yes. Pete Hegseth is using taxpayer dollars to fund his exorbitant meals where he eats $15 million worth of steak on a regular basis. Like, it is so incredibly stupid on top of everything else. Here's the thing. about this. I am so old, Tommy, that I remember President Trump's state of the union address a few weeks ago. And that that viral moment where he challenged the Democrats and called them out, he said, if you agree with this, stand up and show your support. The function of the federal government is to protect our citizens over illegal immigrants. And they almost to a person sat there, stone-faced, did not agree with that message. And it feels like they've spent a lot of time. confirming Trump's point since he made that that viral moment at the state of the union address. I mean, right, they've shut down DHS during this heightened threat alert moment.

Because they are signaling their opposition to deporting criminal aliens, right? So they are shutting down America's Homeland Security Agency during a time of overseas military conflict and increased threat here at home in order to just signal their support, frankly, for illegal immigrants against the enforcement of our laws. And you just, I think, made a very good point. The people who are like, let's give driver's licenses and welfare benefits and hotel rooms and everything under the sun. to illegal immigrants, that is the same group of people, at least a significant overlap, that are saying, you know what, we've finally found some spending that we don't like, and it's nice morale boosting meals for our troops. I mean, it's not just that thing that happened at the State of the Union where they were caught in this optics catch-22. It's their rhetoric, and it's their actions, their priorities, their values that they advertise to us routinely now. Yeah, protecting illegal aliens has become the entire personality of the modern day left. Elected Democrats, activists, pundits, that's what they spend the majority of their time on. They also have a fierce opposition to the Save America Act, which I believe is for the same reason. And you hear Chuck Schumer repeatedly saying the people, there's going to be millions of people that aren't going to be allowed to vote, not American, not citizens, but people. I think that's pretty obvious. But, yeah, everything that they do, it's for the betterment of illegal aliens, the advancement of the rest of the world selectively, and the American people, they're left in the dust. And the fact that we've got TSA agents right now that already don't make a lot of money saying, hey, I can't basically afford to live right now. And the fact that the Democrats are willing to die on that hill as people are waiting hours at TSA and people are going without their paycheck. simply so they can stand up, not even for illegal aliens, but that they could broadcast that virtue signal that they're standing up for illegal aliens, because as we know, they've got ICE and CBP funded for years. Right. So it's so ridiculous that it's not just that they're standing up for them, that they want to optically show that they're standing up to them. That's how weird this is to me. Tommy, a couple more here quickly before I let you go. Number one, the conflict with the Iranian regime. There are some sort of influencers in the right-leaning MAGA space who say that this is a war for Israel and not America first, and it's splintering Trump's base. The polls actually don't show that at all. It's like 91% of Trump supporters are in favor of what the president has ordered here. I just wonder from your perspective, what's your view now that we're what, starting week three of this? Yeah, well, I say there's a couple different groups there. There is a group of, I guess, you would say, podcasters or influencers who have just legitimate questions that they want answers to and they're worried about a forever endless war, the repeats of what we as millennials experienced with the endless war, Iraq and Afghanistan. So that's a legitimate position to take. But then you have, which I wouldn't even consider them right wing, I would consider them just so far out on the fringe. that they make everything Israel's fault. Those people I don't even put in our basket. I don't think they're America First. I don't think they're Trump supporters. I don't put them in this ecosystem at all. I think they're just whack-a-doodle and they just hate Israel. But I will say, you know, I think the best messenger here is President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. I don't love the messaging coming from Senator Lindsey Graham. I don't think that's helpful. I think if he spoke less, it might help the cut.

Finally, on the other side of the aisle, I see that Dr. Jill Biden has announced a new memoir. And she's put out the cover. She says she's going to discuss in-depth Joe Biden's exit from the 2024 race when he was basically forced out by his party after their giant lie about his condition and fitness or office totally evaporated. It's just obliterated on that debate stage in June of that year. And in teasing her book, The former first lady says parts of this story have been told, but not all of it. So she's saying like, you know, here we go. We're going to reveal some of these behind the scenes maneuverings. I just wonder, A, are we going to get anything close to the real story from her? B, is this what the Democrats are eager to have sort of clogging up? the attention of the American people ahead of the midterm elections. I would imagine that if I were a Democrat, I would want the Biden's absolutely gone from the public eye forever. Yeah, that same thing with Kamala Harris, by the way, and her book tour. I mean, it seems like they're all in a book tour. I guess that's part for the course. But what I want to know was when Jill Biden is doing press for this forthcoming book, is she going to answer real questions from people who might not be, you know, Biden or Democrat-aligned folks. Like, would she ever answer a question from someone like a Brett Baer or Harris Faulkner or someone from our network? Like, hey, you know, was Joe cognitively failing? Give us the real story here. Why did he fail so bad in that debate? Is it because he had Ambien three days before or is it because he's a cognitive mess? I would hope if she's going to write a book and put it all out there, that she's going to be open for questions by not just those friendly to her cause, but to everybody. Because if you're going to write a book, you should welcome the question. I am not going to hold my breath on that one. I mean, she was one of the core, if not the top core enabler of all of this, right? The gaslighting, the lying about the present of the United States and his fitness. She was like the top validator. trying to assure people that he was fine and then also go after people who were asking those questions. That would definitely have to be part of the question and answer session here on the book tour. I actually think some of the lefty journalists will do it. They wouldn't have done it before the election. They would have done it when it might have hurt the Democrat Party, their party. But I think they now resent the Biden so much. We've seen it with, you know, the very chilly reception that Corrine Jean-Pierre got on her book tour, for example. I think the knives would be out maybe for Jill Biden. So if she thinks she's going to get like a rainbow and butterflies press tour on this one, I think she might want to reconsider that one. because they view the Bidens as largely responsible for Trump being back in office, and that is maybe the unforgivable sin on the left these days. Tommy Laren, you can catch her on Outkick. Tommy Laren is fearless, and then we'll be co-hosting the big weekend show together Saturday and Sunday night on Fox News Channel 5 to 8 p.m. Eastern, set your DVRs now. Tommy, looking forward to it.

I'll see you in a couple of days, Guy, and I really look forward to it. Oh, yeah. We will be wrestling with all sorts of issues on the air together. Looking forward to that. And with that, we'll step aside and come right back on Guy Benson happy hour. Same issues, but with a fresh perspective. Guy Benson. Back on the Guy Benson's show, happy hour. We do these progress reports. Progress in air quotes. Every so often, we're doing them a lot these days because there are many of them to share out of the West Coast in particular, left-wing places, in this case, California, where we've been discussing companies and successful people just streaming out of there because of the bombardment of terrible policies. Here's yet another one. Wells Fargo has announced it is relocating its wealth management division from San Francisco to West Palm Beach, Florida. Surprise, surprise. The Exodus continues as more bad decisions and proposals come down the pike. And by the way, we've talked a lot on this show about the high-speed rail boondoggle out there in California than the mini version of it at LAX, a project that's like a billion dollars over budget, three years delayed. That's actually better shape than the high-speed rail, which is seemingly never actually happening as intended. And it's six years delayed and tens of billions of dollars over budget. It's just embarrassing. Here's another example of that. The Orange County Register pointing out that in 2014, this is a long time ago, more than a decade ago, California voters passed a 7.1 billion dollar bond measure, a large chunk of which was allocated to water storage projects, which could have come in handy, by the way, during the government failures in the Palisades fires last year. Here we are, well over a decade later, and not one of those projects has been completed. Billions of dollars, many years later, something adopted with great fanfare and none of it has been completed yet. This is the story of so-called progress in places like California, and we will bring these examples to you as they arise routinely on Guy Benson.

Talking about the issues you care about. Guy Benson. In our first hour today, Andy McCarthy joined the program, a Fox News contributor, longtime federal prosecutor, bestselling author. Here's part of today's conversation with Andy. Andy, good afternoon. Guy, great to be with you. So there are two apparent terrorist attacks that we are reacting to on this Thursday. One in a Detroit suburb in Michigan at a synagogue where an attacker, we have yet to get an ID on this person. A terrorist reportedly rammed his car into this synagogue. And there are conflicting reports that... The car might have been packed with some explosives. And then also that the attacker had a gun, was in a gun fight with security at the synagogue. The terrorist has been shot dead is the last one that we've heard. No one else, thank God, injured. But a very dangerous situation there. And it's unclear what exactly motivated this, although it's a synagogue. And it's not subtle at all. I'm just not sure what particular. twisted flavor of anti-Semitism might have inspired that attack. And then there was another one earlier today at Old Dominion University in Virginia. where late this morning, police received calls about an active shooter on campus. A gunman had opened fire in a building called Constant Hall. There were two wounded victims in this shooting. Apparently military personnel is what local news is reporting there. And I'm seeing some interesting reporting now from Carol Markowitz, who's got some very good law enforcement sources, now being confirmed. by our colleague here, Bill Malugian, that the alleged shooter, who by the way is dead, also shot dead at Old Dominion, the alleged killer there, or attempted killer, it looks like he failed in the murder attempt, is a man named Mohalad Jalo, who is the very same man who was previously convicted of supporting ISIS, providing material support to ISIS. Back in 2016, he was arrested for that. Why on earth he was a free man to apparently, reportedly, shoot up a school? I have no idea. But now it's looking like we do have an ID on the killer. And it was an ISIS supporter here in the United States. Just want to get your reaction to both of these disturbing incidents today. Well, Guy, I'm... I'm going to say what I'm sure you've said any number of times, which is that, you know, it's early moments after these incidents, and we never want to get, you know, too far out in front of what we can reasonably know at such an early stage where fog of war is often a problem and initial reports are often wrong.

But one of the things, obviously, I think that we need to be very concerned about. It's always been a factor in the calculations about any war scenario with Iran is whether it would have either agents, jihadists that it controlled or jihadists that it inspired in order to bring the war. to the United States and to bring it to the west. We've seen in the way that Iran has conducted its operations so far that I think it has, it's fair to say that while it's been pummeled for the last two weeks, it has also reacted in a way that wasn't really the sort of calibrated. acceleration or escalation that maybe some people in the defense community predicted. I think what we have to be concerned about is they are trying to wage a war in a way that drags in other participants. and puts in our government the fear that it will conduct operations anywhere, any place that it's capable of. So I don't want to, you know, I don't know that we have any indication that there have been other attacks besides the two you just described. We had the one in Manhattan. Yep. We had the one in Austin a little over a week ago. So we're suddenly having a spate of jihadist attacks. I don't think we're noticing something just because the war is on. I think there is something unusual and dynamic happening. And what we have to figure out is whether it's related to the war or not. Andy, the alleged attacker at Old Dominion University today is said to be a former National Guard soldier who admitted traveling to Africa to join ISIS. and was ultimately brought to justice back home here in the U.S. and was sentenced in 2017 to 11 years in prison. So I'm not a math genius, but in my mind that would be a release date of 28. We are here in 2026. If this guy went to join ISIS and was... That full discussion with Andy McCarthy, available online at Guy Benson.com. Part of the free podcast every day on demand, no charge at all. Guy Benson.com, Fox News Podcast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the other side, the home stretch, I am just tickled by something. I'm amazed. I want to gush a bit when we come back. Not the same talking points here, but Guy Benson.

And now it's time for your favorite segment of the day. Home Stretch. It's basically the only segment I'm on. So I've declared it the audience's favorite segment. Guy Benson. Home Stretch on Guy Benson Thursday edition in New York City today and tomorrow. Glad you're with us. Guy Benson.com. The podcast is always free as we like to remind you. So I just want to mention something and it's just me marveling. at technology. And to be clear, this is not an ad. I'm not shilling for anyone. I was just blown away. Yesterday, I had a flight from Wisconsin to New York. And I got a text message and just like information from the airline leading up to the flight. And one of the features that was mentioned is that that aircraft is equipped with Starlink, right, for Wi-Fi. And I had not utilized Starlink before, in flight or elsewhere. So I was like, oh, that's cool. Let's see if it's different. Because in-flight Wi-Fi often works okay. It can be a little spotty, not always reliable, a little slow. But in terms of the stuff that I need to do, generally on a flight, basic work, that kind of thing, it usually works fine. But here was United Airlines, my go-to airline, telling me it's a Starlink capable aircraft. I said, okay. So we get airborne. I log on on my phone first. And first of all, it's free. So usually you're paying a certain amount of money or miles from my account to get Wi-Fi. I'm just used to that. I actually was waiting for the payment portal and it never came. It's just like you're connected. If you are a member of their frequent flyer mileage system, which I am, of course, it's included in the cost of the ticket. I'm like, well, I love that. So it connects. It's as easy as can be. And I'm just realizing it is lightning fast. This Wi-Fi is so good. So I was wondering to myself, I think I'm going to try streaming. Streaming video of a basketball game, live sports. Because Northwestern was playing Indiana in the Big Ten tournament in Chicago. And the game was happening while I was in the sky at 34,000 feet. I said, I probably won't be able to watch it, but I'm going to try. Worked flawlessly. Worked perfectly. So then I pulled out my laptop. I said, I'm going to watch some of this basketball game on my laptop. It's a bigger screen. I then had two devices going simultaneously, both some of the fastest internet I've ever experienced with entirely undisrupted, high-speed streaming capability. It was a game changer. So I was like sending emails, text messages, chatting with people about the game and other things on my phone while I was watching the live sports streaming in the middle of the sky. And I know some of you like, guy, they've had the internet.

on planes for a long time. I know I fly a lot and some of the planes have direct TV so sometimes you can watch live sports or whatever you want to watch. But to me, having both devices hooked up for free at that connectivity speed just felt like a total game changer. I was I was blown away. Now I'm spoiled because I know United is slowly. adopting Starlink across their entire fleet, but it's taking time because they have to retrofit all the planes. This was my first experience with one of the planes that had already been set up. It was just amazing. I don't know how I can go back. And I was very, very efficient. And now that will be my new baseline of expectation. That's the dangerous thing. I tweeted about this, by the way. And some people are like, oh, are you trying to get paid? But I'm like, no, nope. I'm a weird United fan to begin with. You all know that. And someone's like, are you trying to get a retweet from Elon Musk? I'm like, wouldn't hate it. Wouldn't hate it. Thank you, Elon Musk for your genius invention that works amazingly well. Am I not supposed to recognize that because we're not supposed to like Elon Musk get out of here? The fact that he often provides free Starlink to oppress people to try to get around government censors. I mean, that's like God's work. In a modern era, in a technological era. This is small potatoes. Me watching Northwestern basketball beat Indiana, by the way, for the seventh consecutive time. Just had to point that out. That's small potatoes. That's far less important in the scheme of things, but still something that I really appreciated. And then it was actually sort of fun because my replies to the tweet about the Starlink experience included a bunch of people who fly other airlines, CCing their airline, like, hey, what are you going to catch up? Like, when are you going to start doing what United is doing? So I was just representing, just out there representing and had an amazing experience. And it's just like, I think sometimes we live in a culture, in a time where we just expect and get instant gratification constantly for everything. It is. worth taking a step back sometimes. Some comedian, I forget who it was. It might have been Louis C.K. I forget exactly who it was. But there was a comedian who did a riff on how we immediately get used to the new technological development and then we forget how amazing it is because now we're entitled to it. And it's sometimes I think healthy to break through that mentality and just say, I am sitting on an airplane. That will get me from Wisconsin to New York in an hour and a half, a journey that many, many years ago would have taken weeks or months. This is an hour and a half flight. The flight is on time. I have two different electronic devices that are connected to this unbelievable high-speed internet, one of which is allowing me to watch sports in real-time live. The other one is allowing me to chat with friends and family about the game that I'm watching. And by the way, I'm sitting in a comfortable seat. 34,000 feet above Earth. It's just amazing. So, I mean, maybe I sound like a goober here and that like I'm starry-eyed at Starlink and like, yeah, welcome guy. Welcome to the 21st century. I just think like gratitude and amazement for the people and the companies and the geniuses that make this kind of stuff possible. From time to time, it's worth.

Just saying it out loud because it's extraordinary. Christine, I think I fly so much that when little things like this happen, maybe I derive disproportionate joy and excitement from it. But. I don't know. I'm still not over it. Yeah, that's right, Goober Guy Benson. Yeah. The next day I'm still thinking about it. Well, you know, you were talking about how, you know, technology sets the bar high and then you expect it. It's like this show. Every day I just, you know, hit that bar or I raise it higher and then you're expecting the rest of the staff to be just as good. You're saying that you're the Starlink? of radio producers, you're Elon Musk in this analogy? Pretty much. Pretty much. Can you lend me some money in that case? That could be a problem. Has your compensation not caught up with Elon Musk's yet? Not yet. You haven't reached for that level of greatness just yet? I'm just trying to walk down a hallway and not have a boss just look at me and laugh and shake their head. How did that go today? I haven't seen him yet. He saw me yesterday though. So, oh, do you want to hear a story? So every day, I don't, I'm very strange about commuting. I don't like to wear my work clothes on a commuter rail or a commuter bus. Okay. So I wear a different outfit. What do you wear? Like, you know, like jogger. Orange jumpsuit. Oh, my God. I'll wear like joggers and a t-shirt. It depends. Garbage bags with holes cut in them. I don't know. I haven't seen you on your commute. Sometimes it looks. A little... Underprofessional? As my mother would say, you look like a bum. Oh, no, you know what she would call me? She would call me a ragamuffin. You look like a ragamuffin. She'd say that a lot. That's an old school term. Yeah. You look like a ragamuffin. Fix your hair. So what do you do? You come in here and then change your whole outfit? Yeah, I have a whole bag and I change my whole outfit. And normally I try to rush in so nobody sees me. And here I am on the elevator yesterday. And it's a beautiful day. So I don't have a jacket covering my rag muffin outfit. And it's the big boss. The boss's boss. And he looks at me and he goes, wow. It's just not, you don't want, that's not how you want to present yourself. Did you explain? I tried. And then it was just the shake of the head and the laugh and the smirk and, you know, just got off at the soonest floor possible. Correct. Okay. See, just a little slice of life in cookie world. By the way, before I move on, because we're out of time, you got a pleasant surprise from the airline. Sure did. I would love to know if anybody else got this. So yesterday I opened my email and I got an email from United. And it was like, congratulations. Like, you know, you got your gold status. And here's all the benefits. You're like, no, I didn't. I was like, not only did I not make gold. I never even made silver.

for 2026. So then I looked at Bobby and I go, Bobby, I'm like, did you surprise me and pay or something? He goes, I have no clue you're talking about. I'm like, okay, Bob. He's like, no, really. He's like, I wouldn't pay for that for you. And just to reiterate, this is not an ad for United Airlines, although it could be, please. If you're listening, please. They're headquartered in Chicago. They're listening on WLS. Sponsor us, you cowards. Yes, I love, you've got me hooked on United. I won't fly. I'm going to a friend's 40th birthday party in Cancun in July. And everybody's flying JetBlue. It's like, I'll see you there. What are you writing down? Well, I'm just surprised. I'm just doing the math. You have a friend who's turning 40? That's a much younger friend. I know. I know. By the way, JetBlue is now partners with United. So you can... You get the miles? Yeah. Girls. You're learning some new things here. But they just gifted you gold status? Just gifted it to me. Oh, I hope I had nothing to do with this. Do you think it was from the story I told on Friday where I was asking to get boarded on group one? I don't think so. I think I've heard that they're doing some like surprise gifting of loyalty statuses and maybe you just got lucky. For excellent producing. Or maybe it's they know that there's a connection between you and me as a 1K traveler and they've just decided to expand the generosity to you. So what I should be hearing is a. Thank you. Thank you, Goober. Although I don't even know if I had anything to do with it, but I want to take that credit. Are we got to go? We're supposed to talk about your daughter's birthday. We still haven't done that. That'll be tomorrow. How about tomorrow? No, it will not. That's true. There's a very special thing tomorrow. Very special home stretch tomorrow. Way better, sorry, Megan, than the Megan's birthday situation. We might have to just punt that into next week. I'm not looking forward to home stretch tomorrow. Oh, I am. How did I forget? It is a home stretch segment you won't want to miss. Friday exclusively on the Goober Guy Benson. Got to run back here tomorrow. Same time, same place. Talk to you then. Sometimes it looks a little. Underprofessional? As my mother would say, you look like a bum. Oh, no, you know what she would call me? She would call me a ragamuffin. You look like a ragamuffin.

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