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EP767: TL Nuggets #230 - The Larry Elder Show Presents: Nicky Billou Returns! · The Thought Leader Revolution Podcast

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Nicky Billou: I'm feeling better about it than ever.
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Nicky Billou: I think the time is coming when the people of Iran will be able
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Nicky Billou: to take to the streets and overthrow this evil regime and
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Nicky Billou: take back their country.
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Larry Elder: I am Larry Elder.
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Larry Elder: We are Salem News Channel.
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Larry Elder: Well, the senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy,
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Larry Elder: has already decided that we are losing the war against Iran.
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Speaker 3: Still have had no hearings in front of Congress that the public can see.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's pretty simple, because if the president did what the Constitution
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Speaker 3: says, come to Congress to get authorization for this war, he wouldn't get it.
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Speaker 3: The American people would demand that their member of Congress, their senator, whether
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Speaker 3: they be a Republican or Democrat, vote no, because this is a disaster of epic proportions.
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Speaker 3: It's already getting Americans killed.
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Speaker 3: It's driving up prices here at home.
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Speaker 3: Harder line leadership, more antithetical to U.S. interests are strengthening inside
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Speaker 3: Iran.
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Speaker 3: And there's really no way that we're going to be able to destroy their nuclear program
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Speaker 3: because most of it is buried underground, unless we mount a ground invasion, which would
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Speaker 3: be even more disastrous and more unpopular.
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Speaker 3: This has just been a debacle, a 10-day debacle.
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Larry Elder: A 10-day debacle.
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Larry Elder: It's now been over two weeks.
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Larry Elder: Now, our next guest was on just a week ago or so.
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Larry Elder: Lot of positive reaction.
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Larry Elder: He was born in Tehran, and people wanted me to bring him back for him to give us an update
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Larry Elder: on how he's feeling about the Iraq War, the Iran War.
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Larry Elder: Please welcome back Nicky Billou.
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Larry Elder: Hey, Larry, good to be here.
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Larry Elder: Thanks for having me back on the show.
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Larry Elder: Nikki, it is my pleasure.
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Larry Elder: You heard that senator from Connecticut.
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Larry Elder: What's your reaction?
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Nicky Billou: So Senator Murphy is probably the single least intelligent senator in the United States Senate,
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Nicky Billou: and that's saying something.
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Nicky Billou: Senator Murphy's understanding of foreign policy in the Middle East is limited at best,
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Nicky Billou: and I'm trying to be charitable over here.
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Nicky Billou: What he has to say is absolutely ridiculous.
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Nicky Billou: Here's the reality.
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Nicky Billou: The leadership of the Islamic Republic has been decimated.
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Nicky Billou: This morning it was confirmed by the Israeli Defense Forces, the IDF, that Ladi Jani and
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Nicky Billou: Soleimani.
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Nicky Billou: Larijani is the de facto leader of the Islamic Republic since the death of Khamenei.
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Nicky Billou: And Soleimani is the head of the Basij forces.
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Nicky Billou: The Basij are the equivalent of the brown shirts in Hitler's time, the SA.
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Nicky Billou: These are the people that went out in the streets, killed over 100,000 Iranians.
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Nicky Billou: Those two people were eliminated by the IDF today.
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Nicky Billou: The ability of the Islamic Republic to engage in offensive action has been reduced by 94
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Nicky Billou: percent.
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Nicky Billou: When Mr. Murphy thinks that America's losing, quote-unquote losing this war, first of all,
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Nicky Billou: it's not a war, it's a rescue operation of the Iranian people.
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Nicky Billou: And secondly, his understanding of what constitutes winning and losing is, I'd say, wrong-headed,
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Nicky Billou: upside down.
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Larry Elder: Since the last time we talked, how do you think things have gone?
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Nicky Billou: Well, the United States has continued with Operation Epic Fury.
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Nicky Billou: It has continued to degrade the capacity of the Islamic Republic to wage offensive combat operations
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Nicky Billou: Right now along with the IDF they're making it
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Nicky Billou: More difficult for the Islamic Republic to repress their own people and I gotta tell you I'm feeling better about it than ever
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Nicky Billou: I think the time is coming when the people of Iran will be able to take to the streets and
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Nicky Billou: Overthrow this evil regime and take back their country and praise God free at last free at last
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Larry Elder: Yes, free at last talk to us about these two people you just now mentioned who were taken out. What difference will it make now?
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Nicky Billou: Well, these are two of the most senior remaining
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Nicky Billou: leaders in the Islamic Republic regime apparatus
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Nicky Billou: The fact that they've been taken out is going to cause a lot of the people in the lower ranks to start to feel even
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Nicky Billou: more depressed about their situation and the calls for them to quit to
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Nicky Billou: defect to the other side to the side of the iranian people and his uh...
4:16
Nicky Billou: highness the crown prince was up at levy
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Nicky Billou: are going to be evermore attractive
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Nicky Billou: i'm telling you
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Nicky Billou: the islamic republic is on the ropes the united states is kicking button taking
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Nicky Billou: names
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Nicky Billou: you guys had the same type of media that you had in world war two right now
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Nicky Billou: they'd be singing the praises of america's g_i_'s
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Nicky Billou: they'd be singing the praises of president trump
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Nicky Billou: and they'd be talking about the folks
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Nicky Billou: in the islamic republic like the evil bastards that they are
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Nicky Billou: it's incredible
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Nicky Billou: These guys are just like the media war during the Vietnam War.
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Nicky Billou: Larry, I'm reading a book by Patrick Buchanan.
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Nicky Billou: It's called Nixon's White House Wars.
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Nicky Billou: And in this book, he talks about how the American media during Vietnam was so anti
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Nicky Billou: Nixon and anti the war that they actually would slant all the news in order to hurt
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Nicky Billou: America's chances and hurt America's cause.
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Nicky Billou: I'm telling you, deja vu all over again.
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Nicky Billou: They're doing it right now in 2026.
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Nicky Billou: It's crazy.
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Nicky Billou: These people should be considered traitors, honestly.
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Nicky Billou: They should be arrested, and they should be thrown in jail
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Nicky Billou: until this conflict is over.
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Nicky Billou: Abraham Lincoln did that during the Civil War.
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Nicky Billou: I think that's not a bad idea to do during wartime.
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Nicky Billou: You shouldn't be letting the media talk badly
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Nicky Billou: about your country's war effort,
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Nicky Billou: because that hurts the morale of the people
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Nicky Billou: that are fighting, bleeding, and dying.
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Nicky Billou: That's nuts.
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Larry Elder: - Nikki, the difference is that the media hates Donald Trump
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Larry Elder: far more than they hated Nixon, and they really hated Nixon.
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Larry Elder: There was an offensive called the Tet Offenses in 1968, and it was a disaster for the North
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Larry Elder: Vietnamese.
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Larry Elder: They were slaughtered, but the perception was that we got caught off guard and we lost
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Larry Elder: that battle.
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Larry Elder: We did not, but that was the perception because primarily of a newscaster named Walter Cronkite,
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Larry Elder: who was "the most trusted man in America" close to war.
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Larry Elder: The media is far worse than it was then, far worse.
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Nicky Billou: It is it is it's evil right now. You've got people in the media right now that actively hate America
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Nicky Billou: I don't think that was the case back then but it certainly is right now and I got to tell you the Tet Offensive that
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Nicky Billou: You talk about is something Buchanan talks about in his book
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Nicky Billou: And as I told you before I attended Georgetown University and I studied Cold War politics
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Nicky Billou: Vietnam was one of my areas of specialty. The Tet Offensive was an absolute unmitigated disaster for the North Vietnamese
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Nicky Billou: They lost and they lost badly
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Nicky Billou: They didn't achieve any of their objectives.
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Nicky Billou: The United States military slaughtered them by the tens of thousands,
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Nicky Billou: and yet the media portrayed this as a loss for the United States.
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Nicky Billou: They're trying to do the same thing right now,
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Nicky Billou: but thank God for the internet.
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Nicky Billou: Thank God for people like you, Larry, that are getting the truth out,
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Nicky Billou: because at least the truth has a fighting chance.
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Nicky Billou: Remember Winston Churchill said, "A lie gets halfway
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Nicky Billou: around the world before the truth gets a chance to put its pants on."
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Nicky Billou: That's true, but these days, because of the internet,
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Nicky Billou: the truth is getting off its dime a little bit faster.
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Nicky Billou: And I think that's what's allowing more people to know
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Nicky Billou: that the media is lying to them,
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Nicky Billou: that people like Senator Murphy are absolute morons
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Nicky Billou: who shouldn't be listened to or trusted.
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Nicky Billou: And they're seeing good things are coming out of this.
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Nicky Billou: The American people understand
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Nicky Billou: that the Islamic Republic having nuclear weapons
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Nicky Billou: would be an existential threat
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Nicky Billou: to the United States of America
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Nicky Billou: and to the very cause of liberty
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Nicky Billou: on which the United States is based.
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Nicky Billou: and that's why they're supporting donald trump in doing what he's doing
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Nicky Billou: they don't want us to back off until we defeat these guys
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Nicky Billou: even if they thought that going into iran was a bad idea to begin with
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Nicky Billou: which i think is not correct
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Nicky Billou: while america's fighting
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Nicky Billou: the silent majority wants us to fight to win and that's a good thing
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Larry Elder: talk to us about the straight-up for most
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Larry Elder: how important it is
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Larry Elder: uh... what uh... our military planners anticipated would happen
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Larry Elder: and talk to us about the strategic importance of carg island
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Nicky Billou: So, Kharg Island is a important island for Iran as a nation
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Nicky Billou: and has been important for the Islamic Republic.
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Nicky Billou: Most of Iran's oil exports come through Kharg, okay?
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Nicky Billou: And the Islamic Republic's IRGC,
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Nicky Billou: they decided to put significant military assets
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Nicky Billou: into Kharg Island.
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Nicky Billou: So the United States wiped out
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Nicky Billou: most of those military assets,
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Nicky Billou: but in a move that I think historically
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Nicky Billou: is gonna be seen as a correct move,
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Nicky Billou: decided to leave the oil infrastructure alone
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Nicky Billou: for the nation of Iran.
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Nicky Billou: Thank you, President Trump.
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Nicky Billou: The Strait of Hormuz is the place where over 20%
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Nicky Billou: of the world's energy goes through on a daily basis.
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Nicky Billou: Allowing an evil terroristic regime
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Nicky Billou: to be able to have that strait held hostage,
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Nicky Billou: to be able to scare people into not using it
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Nicky Billou: would massively disrupt the world's economy
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Nicky Billou: and energy markets.
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Nicky Billou: So it's absolutely critical that President Trump
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Nicky Billou: did what he did, because going into the Straits of Hormuz
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Nicky Billou: ensuring that the Islamic Republic's mine layers were all sunk and
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Nicky Billou: ensuring that the straits are open and that
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Nicky Billou: insurance is provided and backed by the good faith of the United States government means
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Nicky Billou: That oil is going to continue to flow there and the world economy is not going to be subjected to the kinds of shocks
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Nicky Billou: They're going to cause massive economic harm
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Nicky Billou: So this is a good thing the president is doing and I think it's disgusting that his NATO allies have decided
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Nicky Billou: "Well, we don't want to get involved."
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Nicky Billou: Well, guys, you know what?
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Nicky Billou: The United States has been backing you up for decades.
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Nicky Billou: Without the United States, you'd have been run over
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Nicky Billou: by Soviet Russia or Vladimir Putin's Russia long ago.
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Nicky Billou: When they ask for help, it's your duty to step up and help.
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Nicky Billou: If you're not gonna do that,
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Nicky Billou: then why the hell should the United States
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Nicky Billou: put its blood and treasure into defending you?
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Larry Elder: How big was Iran's military before this war started?
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Larry Elder: How big is it now, Niki?
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Larry Elder: Just got 30 seconds in this segment.
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Nicky Billou: - Well, the Iranian military was a large military
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Nicky Billou: outside of Israel's.
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Nicky Billou: It was the most potent in the Middle East.
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Nicky Billou: But since the United States started attacking
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Nicky Billou: the Islamic Republic's military,
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Nicky Billou: it's been degraded by over 90%.
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Larry Elder: - Okay, I'll give you time to give a fuller answer
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Larry Elder: on the other side.
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Larry Elder: My guest is Niki Bahlou.
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Larry Elder: The number is 888-971-S8G-888-971-7243.
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Larry Elder: I want to find out, of course, Nikki, are you still optimistic about the outcome?
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Larry Elder: I have a feeling you are, but you can talk to us about that in a second.
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Larry Elder: Don't go away.
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Speaker 4: You said earlier today that you used Supreme Leader Bouttaouka, maybe you don't know, he's
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Speaker 4: dead or alive.
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Speaker 4: There are a couple of interesting reports about him today.
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Speaker 4: There's one report that you just narrowly escaped death in the first air strikes by stepping out into his garden.
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Speaker 4: There's another report that he may actually be gay despite meeting the atheocracy that hates gay people.
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Speaker 4: How do you determine what's true and do you have an assessment of this?
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Speaker 5: Well, so far nobody knows. If you look at his father, he used to give talks a lot, you know, talking about death to America.
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Speaker 5: He'd say death to America all the time.
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Speaker 5: When they say death to America, you should believe them, because that's what they would have...
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Speaker 5: If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it.
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Speaker 5: But they never had the chance.
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Speaker 5: I never gave him the chance to use it.
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Speaker 5: And other presidents should have done.
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Speaker 5: I spoke to one of the former presidents who I actually like.
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Speaker 5: I actually speak to some I do like some people be shocking.
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Speaker 5: And he said, I wish I did what you did.
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Speaker 5: Could have done it.
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Speaker 5: Other presidents, somebody should have done it.
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Speaker 5: Forty seven years this went on.
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Larry Elder: He didn't respond to the part about the new leader being gay.
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Larry Elder: We'll talk about that later on.
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Larry Elder: Before you analyzed the state of the Iranian military, President Trump was told that the
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Larry Elder: new leader might very well be gay.
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Larry Elder: Have you heard that?
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Nicky Billou: I have.
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Nicky Billou: And I don't have any inside intel to give you, but it could very well be true.
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Nicky Billou: There are a lot of people in Islamic countries who are gay and hide it from people because
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Nicky Billou: frankly in the Islamic Republic, if it becomes public that you're gay, they'll throw you
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Nicky Billou: off a building or hang you from a crane.
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Nicky Billou: It's not a pleasant fate to behold.
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Nicky Billou: I got to tell you, if this fellow is indeed gay, that's one piece of empathy that I have
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Nicky Billou: for him. But in no other way do I have empathy, because being gay in a repressive, theocratic
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Nicky Billou: country is no fun.
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Larry Elder: I've read that he is married, did not have kids for a long time. His father was concerned
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Larry Elder: about it. He underwent therapy in order to presumably make himself fertile. But he does
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Larry Elder: have a child now, correct?
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Nicky Billou: That's right, he does.
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Nicky Billou: But he hasn't been seen in public, Larry.
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Nicky Billou: This is like a Chafka-esque thing.
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Nicky Billou: But when they announced that he was going to be the leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, they brought
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Nicky Billou: a cardboard cutout of him to the press conference.
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Nicky Billou: Not the actual person, but a cardboard cutout.
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Nicky Billou: This is the sort of thing you see on a Saturday Night Live skit, my man.
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Nicky Billou: Our leader's dead.
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Nicky Billou: Let's bring the cardboard cutout and say, "This is our new leader."
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Nicky Billou: That's almost what happened in the United States under the Biden years, right?
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Nicky Billou: His Biden was so cognitively challenged that people had to
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Nicky Billou: Translate for him often because whenever he'd speak to the public you could see that he was
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Nicky Billou: brain dead practically
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Nicky Billou: So much double hominins case he may actually be dead and this is something they don't want to let the public know about right now
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Nicky Billou: Which is why they haven't brought him in public and they bring a cardboard cutout of him to meetings
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Larry Elder: So these two military leaders you just now mentioned have been taken out by the IDF.
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Larry Elder: So who's running the country now, Nicky?
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Nicky Billou: Like I told you, Larry, last time when I was on your show,
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Nicky Billou: I don't think there is anyone officially running the country anymore.
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Nicky Billou: There's various factions that are being headed by leaders like these two that got taken out.
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Nicky Billou: So the Basij is probably going to have someone else step in to take over from this guy,
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Nicky Billou: but they're not going to be nearly as competent at running that organization.
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Nicky Billou: And I think they're going to start losing more and more people who are going
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Nicky Billou: to either desert or they're going to defect.
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Nicky Billou: This is why I believe the Islamic Republic's days are numbered.
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Nicky Billou: The longer Operation Epic Fury goes on, the weaker the Islamic Republic gets
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Nicky Billou: and the stronger the forces of freedom those
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Nicky Billou: who want a secular democratic free pro-Western Iran become.
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Nicky Billou: Larry, every day that American and Israeli bombs are falling on Islamic Republic targets
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Nicky Billou: is a great day, brother.
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Larry Elder: All right.
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Larry Elder: We have about 90 seconds left in this segment.
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Larry Elder: I want to get back to the military next segment.
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Larry Elder: But what's the state of the Iranian media right now?
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Larry Elder: What are people being told and who's doing the telling?
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Nicky Billou: So Larry, they've shut down Internet access for most of the country, right?
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Nicky Billou: And so Elon Musk has dropped a whole bunch of his Starlink sets into Iran, but Basij
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Nicky Billou: military people are using signal trackers to isolate the signals of these things.
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Nicky Billou: And they're going after these people and they're shooting them and taking away their Starlinks.
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Nicky Billou: That's how messed up these people are.
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Nicky Billou: The Iranian media, as it were, is a state run media.
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Nicky Billou: There isn't a free media and they're lying like crazy to the people of Iran, but nobody
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Nicky Billou: in Iran believes them.
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Nicky Billou: The good thing about having grown up in a totalitarian country like the Islamic Republic
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Nicky Billou: is that you learn to distrust the media.
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Nicky Billou: You Americans could take a page from the Iranians' playbook when it comes to that, Larry.
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Larry Elder: We come back.
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Larry Elder: I want you to tell me the size of the military when this operation began.
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Larry Elder: What is it right now?
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Larry Elder: How many are left?
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Larry Elder: Talk to me about the besiege.
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Larry Elder: How many people involved in that?
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Larry Elder: And then I want to hear your timetable.
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Larry Elder: What do you think is going to happen?
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Larry Elder: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Joy Ann Reid.
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Speaker 6: But by the way, our regime is not good.
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Speaker 6: Our regime has secret police.
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Speaker 6: They have secret police.
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Speaker 6: Our regime is oppressing women, taking away abortion rights, taking away women's rights
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Speaker 6: in like 26 states, some states where they're trying to have the death penalty for having
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Speaker 6: an abortion.
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Speaker 6: They also oppress women.
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Speaker 6: They have the highest rate of women who are in STEM careers.
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Speaker 6: We're kicking women out of the military, out of university.
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Speaker 6: saying that DEI means women can't be hired for high positions in the sciences.
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Speaker 6: So we're marginally better, and we're doing it for Christianity, they're doing it for
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Speaker 6: Islam.
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Larry Elder: Salem News Channel, we're coming to you from the Relief Factor Studio.
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Larry Elder: My guest is Nikki Bellew.
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Larry Elder: Nikki, do you know who Joy Reid is?
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Nicky Billou: Of course I do.
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Nicky Billou: She is the Baghdad Bob of the modern left, the Joseph Goebbels of the modern left, brother.
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Nicky Billou: That's who she is.
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Nicky Billou: My God, that was such a ridiculous series of statements
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Nicky Billou: that she just made.
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Nicky Billou: Was she seriously comparing the status of women
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Nicky Billou: in the United States versus the Islamic Republicans
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Nicky Billou: saying there's no difference?
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Nicky Billou: Could she actually say that with a straight face?
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Larry Elder: - She did, she did. - It's unbelievable.
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Larry Elder: - She did.
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Larry Elder: Okay, now let's break down the Iranian military
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Larry Elder: before the war started, where it is now,
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Larry Elder: how many soldiers are there, what is their morale?
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Nicky Billou: So the regular military, the regular army is called the Artish, okay?
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Nicky Billou: And they're not super political, certainly not in the ranks.
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Nicky Billou: The leadership, they have to be.
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Nicky Billou: They have about 500,000 people in the regular military.
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Nicky Billou: Many of the political leadership have been killed.
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Nicky Billou: In fact, the majority of the high-level generals in the Artish have been killed.
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Nicky Billou: There are a few that are still around, but not that many.
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Nicky Billou: The IRGC and the Basij are the political forces.
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Nicky Billou: They're the equivalent of the SS and the SA in Nazi Germany, okay?
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Nicky Billou: And the IRGC top leadership has been absolutely decimated.
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Nicky Billou: And Basij has had its leader just be killed, as I told you, okay?
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Nicky Billou: His name was Soleimani.
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Nicky Billou: And what the size of those organizations together, Basij and IRGC, is about 250,000 people, okay?
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Nicky Billou: So a number of those people have been killed.
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Nicky Billou: But it's not like the United States has absolutely decimated those forces.
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Nicky Billou: At the higher levels they have, I'd say the number of people killed that are part
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Nicky Billou: of the Islamic Republic military at this point probably is in the neighborhood of 10
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Nicky Billou: to 15,000 effectively killed by the IDF and the U.S. military.
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Nicky Billou: But what's been great is they've been killing the leadership.
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Nicky Billou: They've been cutting off the head of the snake.
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Nicky Billou: And the ability of these organizations to engage
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Nicky Billou: in offensive combat operations is null and void.
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Nicky Billou: The IRGC's Navy, all the ships have been sunk.
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Nicky Billou: The IRGC's Air Force has been completely destroyed.
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Nicky Billou: The ballistic missile force has been degraded by 94%.
19:23
Nicky Billou: The drone forces have been degraded by 95%.
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Nicky Billou: The factories that produce ballistic missiles
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Nicky Billou: and drones have been blown up and destroyed.
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Nicky Billou: Effectively right now the ability of the Islamic State to engage in offensive operations with
19:41
Nicky Billou: the IRGC and with the Basij against other countries is null and void.
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Nicky Billou: Their ability to oppress their own people is still there, but that's being degraded.
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Nicky Billou: Larry, there's videos right now that are out there on the internet released by the IDF
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Nicky Billou: of Israel locating Basij members and using Iranians on the ground to provide them with
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Nicky Billou: and saying, "Here they are," and then using precision bombing to take these people out.
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Nicky Billou: It's a beautiful thing.
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Nicky Billou: I love it.
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Nicky Billou: This is why I'm convinced that the Iranian people are going to overthrow this evil regime
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Nicky Billou: and be free.
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Larry Elder: So, the morale of your basic member of the Iranian military right now, Nicky, is what?
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Nicky Billou: Is terrible.
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Nicky Billou: They don't want to be bombed and destroyed and killed.
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Nicky Billou: And I'm telling you, they're being told that if you engaged in the killings back in January
20:37
Nicky Billou: and February, we have you on videotape.
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Nicky Billou: We're going to come after you and we're going to kill you all.
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Nicky Billou: And in fact, that's what they've been doing.
20:44
Nicky Billou: They've been using intelligence on the ground from Iranians and from, you know, intelligence
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Nicky Billou: assets that the Mossad has in Iran to identify the key leaders and the key killers who gave
20:56
Nicky Billou: the orders, who shot the people and they're killing them.
20:59
Nicky Billou: And remember, the Islamic Republic also brought in militias from Lebanon, from Iraq, and from
21:06
Nicky Billou: Pakistan to kill Iranians, because many Iranian soldiers were reluctant to shoot and kill
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Nicky Billou: their own people.
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Nicky Billou: And right now, the IDF is locating the members of those militias, and they're blowing them
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Nicky Billou: to bits.
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Nicky Billou: I'm telling you, we're absolutely giddy about this.
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Nicky Billou: We play songs about this.
21:24
Nicky Billou: There's meme songs about us blowing up these people and meme songs about Khamenei getting
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Nicky Billou: killed that Iranians are dancing to.
21:31
Nicky Billou: It's a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 7: I wanted to ask you about Karg Island.
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Speaker 7: You know, Colonel Layton was just showing us exactly what's been hit there and what
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Speaker 7: hasn't and what potentially could be the plan if there is a plan for boots on the ground
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Speaker 7: there.
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Speaker 7: Trump today said that the U.S. has literally destroyed everything on Karg Island, except
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Speaker 7: for those oil facilities.
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Speaker 7: But he's left open the door for the future.
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Speaker 7: And in fact, Senator, this is amazing.
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Speaker 7: He has been talking about seizing Karg Island since at least 1988.
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Speaker 7: All right, 1988.
22:01
Speaker 7: This is incredible.
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Speaker 7: It's not as though he knew where it was and he was talking about seizing it.
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Speaker 7: In an interview with The Guardian, he was promoting his book, The Art of the Deal, and
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Speaker 7: he said, this is 1988, quote, "I'd be harsh on Iran.
22:12
Speaker 7: They've been beating us psychologically, making us look like a bunch of fools.
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Speaker 7: One bullet shot at one of our manorships and I'd do a number on Karg Island.
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Speaker 7: I'd go in and take it."
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Speaker 7: you, Senator. I mean, this has been on his mind, this specific island, Karg Island, that
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Speaker 7: he knew by name since 1988. Well, I think a lot about the Marines that he's sending
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Speaker 8: over to the region right now. There are only two logical explanations for that. One is
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Speaker 8: taking Karg Island, and the second is East Fahan, where nuclear materials may well be
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Speaker 8: buried under the rubble. But because Karg Island carries that 90% of the oil that Iran
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Speaker 8: produces, it's really a chokehold over Iran. So the idea has always been kind of floated
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Speaker 8: that if you control that island, you can really extract enormous concessions from Iran because
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Speaker 8: they wouldn't be able to transport and sell their oil. The President, he's also threatened
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Speaker 8: to respond by taking out the pipes and the tanks, the oil pipes and tanks, or blowing
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Speaker 8: up the... If that happens, that takes away the strategic value of controlling Karg Island
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Speaker 8: in terms of negotiations with Iran.
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Larry Elder: I am Larry Elder.
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Larry Elder: We are Salem News Channel.
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Larry Elder: My guest is Nikki Bellew.
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Larry Elder: Nikki, is the military getting paid?
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Nicky Billou: The short answer is not anymore.
23:31
Nicky Billou: The United States and Israel launched a cyber attack on the main bank, the Sepah Bank, which
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Nicky Billou: pays these folks, and they're not able to operate as usual.
23:44
Nicky Billou: Now, they may have some cash reserves that they're paying their most favored leaders,
23:49
Nicky Billou: but the average soldier, the average policeman is no longer getting paid.
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Larry Elder: And I've read that the average Iranian can no longer go to an ATM and get money.
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Nicky Billou: That's correct as well.
23:58
Nicky Billou: Wow.
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Larry Elder: The ability to make drones.
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Larry Elder: Drones are not terribly expensive to make.
24:08
Larry Elder: I'm assuming their ability to replace the drones that they've used has been severely
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Larry Elder: diminished.
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Larry Elder: too much about that.
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Nicky Billou: It's at zero right now.
24:17
Nicky Billou: The main production facilities and manufacturing facilities have been destroyed by the United
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Nicky Billou: States and Israeli Air Force.
24:23
Nicky Billou: They can't do anything.
24:25
Nicky Billou: They've effectively, the Islamic Republic has lost this war.
24:30
Nicky Billou: Donald Trump, when he says, "I want to negotiate with these people," that's not really what
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Nicky Billou: he's saying.
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Nicky Billou: What he says is, "I'm waiting for them to surrender unconditionally."
24:38
Nicky Billou: Because he's going to keep hammering them until they yell "Uncle."
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Nicky Billou: Or until they're so weak that America can stop bombing and the Iranian people can rise
24:51
Nicky Billou: up and along with the defections in the Atish and even in the IRGC and the Basij, they're
24:56
Nicky Billou: going to have enough strength to be able to take over the government.
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Nicky Billou: One of those two things is going to happen.
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Larry Elder: I hear you saying, Nicky, in different words, that Trump's real goal, whether he says it
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Larry Elder: or not is regime change.
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Nicky Billou: Absolutely it is.
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Nicky Billou: He is the modern FDR.
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Nicky Billou: He has decided that we're dealing with the modern equivalent of the Nazis in the Islamic
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Nicky Billou: Republic.
25:19
Nicky Billou: There's no negotiating with these people.
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Nicky Billou: They want to destroy America.
25:23
Nicky Billou: That little clip that you played earlier, Larry, where he said, "When they say death
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Nicky Billou: to America, believe them," that tells me that you've got a president who has a clear-eyed
25:31
Nicky Billou: understanding of the threat posed by the Islamic Republic and is not interested in leaving
25:37
Nicky Billou: them in place so they can menace the United States and the free world again.
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Nicky Billou: He's out to destroy them and to make sure that they cease to exist.
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Nicky Billou: He's going to do what Ronald Reagan said back in the day about the Soviet Union.
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Nicky Billou: He's going to dump them on the ash heap of history.
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Larry Elder: Are people, Nicky, in Iran getting up and going to work?
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Larry Elder: Are nurses going to hospitals?
25:57
Larry Elder: Are teachers going to schools and teaching?
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Larry Elder: What's the daily life now for the average Iranian?
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Nicky Billou: Honestly, for the most part, they're sheltering in place.
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Nicky Billou: They've stopped going in the work.
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Nicky Billou: I mean, the crown prince has asked Iranians that work for the government, the bureaucrats,
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Nicky Billou: to stay home and they're listening to him.
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Nicky Billou: And for the average person, if you're not getting paid, what's the point in going to
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Nicky Billou: work?
26:21
Nicky Billou: You've got to find a way to make sure that you can feed your family and stay alive until
26:24
Nicky Billou: the bombing ends.
26:25
Nicky Billou: That's what Iranians really right now are focused on.
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Nicky Billou: And Larry, there's a message I got from Iran that I posted on Facebook, and I'll share
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Nicky Billou: it with you as a text later.
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Nicky Billou: And here's the message.
26:37
Nicky Billou: The Iranian people who put that message out said, "We're not afraid of being bombed.
26:43
Nicky Billou: We're afraid of this regime surviving and them slaughtering us all.
26:48
Nicky Billou: Keep bombing them."
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Nicky Billou: That's what people in Iran are saying, Larry.
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Larry Elder: Are people able to get up and go shopping for food?
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Nicky Billou: With a lot of trepidation, because they might be shot.
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Nicky Billou: The regime has said if we catch you outside, we're going to assume you're against Islam
27:09
Nicky Billou: and they're shooting people.
27:11
Nicky Billou: And quite frankly, bombs are still dropping in Tehran and other major centers.
27:15
Nicky Billou: So you've got to be careful where you go.
27:16
Nicky Billou: But you've got to get food for your family.
27:18
Nicky Billou: So a lot of people are taking that risk.
27:21
Nicky Billou: Refugees?
27:23
Nicky Billou: Not so far, not so far.
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Nicky Billou: And you know, touch wood, we'll be able to overthrow these guys.
27:29
Nicky Billou: And I think once that happens and a transitional government under the Crown Prince comes into
27:34
Nicky Billou: Iran, there'll be a flood of money coming in and we won't see the refugee crisis happen
27:40
Nicky Billou: in Iran the way it did in Syria.
27:42
Nicky Billou: But who knows?
27:44
Larry Elder: Iran has bombed some 12 states or so in the Gulf.
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Larry Elder: What are the Gulf states thinking, what are the Gulf states telling Donald Trump?
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Nicky Billou: They're telling Donald Trump, and some of them quite publicly are saying this on the
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Nicky Billou: media, that they consider Iran a bigger threat to their existence than Israel.
28:07
Nicky Billou: These are countries that are officially at war with Israel.
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Nicky Billou: So they want Trump to finish these bastards off.
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Larry Elder: I was just reading, Nicky, about the Iranian-Iraq War, 1980-1988, where they were literally
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Larry Elder: using children to clear minefields.
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Larry Elder: They were giving them little golden or plastic keys to paradise if they were willing to blow
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Larry Elder: up their bodies so that troops could come through.
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Larry Elder: I'm going to have to ask you about that in just a second, but hold that thought.
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Speaker 9: You know, as a former educator, as someone who has fought for students and for kids in
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Speaker 9: the halls of the Texas Capitol. It makes me sick to my stomach to see our foreign policy
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Speaker 9: take the lives of innocent children in Iran and in the Middle East. And it has to end.
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Speaker 9: We again need a foreign policy that reflects our values. We can support the democracy movement
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Speaker 9: in Iran. We can prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon without bombing innocent
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Speaker 9: schoolchildren.
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Larry Elder: Larry Elder, Salem News Channel, our last few minutes with Nicky Billou.
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Larry Elder: Nikki, that was a candidate for Texas Senate, essentially suggesting that we almost did
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Larry Elder: it on purpose.
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Larry Elder: It's just so disgusting to hear people say stuff like that.
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Larry Elder: That's why I mentioned the children that were used as cannon fodder during the Iranian-Iraq
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Larry Elder: War, 1980, 1988.
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Larry Elder: My understanding was hundreds of thousands of kids were given these little plastic keys
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Larry Elder: to paradise if they would be willing to walk on foot across a minefield to clear the field
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Larry Elder: for troops and for tanks.
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Nicky Billou: It's true, Larry. They don't care who gets hurt. They don't care who gets killed.
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Nicky Billou: They have a twisted ideology and part of their ideology is nihilism. And they have caused
29:46
Nicky Billou: the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iranians, including little children. And as I told you
29:52
Nicky Billou: on the last appearance I had on your show, when they arrest young women, they make sure
29:57
Nicky Billou: that they rape them before they execute them because in their twisted ideology, virgins
30:02
Nicky Billou: go to heaven. So Democratic Senate candidates for Texas, James Tallarico, who claims he's
30:11
Nicky Billou: a Christian, is nothing but an evil enabler of the most twisted evil ideology on earth.
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Nicky Billou: You sir are enabling the oppressors of the Iranian people that have killed hundreds of
30:23
Nicky Billou: thousands of children, that have raped tens of thousands of young women before executing
30:29
Nicky Billou: And you have the gall, the temerity to say that the United States, by attacking and killing
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Nicky Billou: these oppressors, is doing a bad thing?
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Nicky Billou: Sir, have you no shame?
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Nicky Billou: You should resign and drop out of this campaign immediately.
30:47
Nicky Billou: You don't deserve to be a candidate for a major party for the United States Senate,
30:53
Nicky Billou: and you certainly are no Christian.
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Larry Elder: - Nicky, are you worried about the stamina of the American people?
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Larry Elder: We only have 60 seconds left.
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Larry Elder: The willingness of the American people to stick this out.
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Larry Elder: Depending upon the poll and how it's worded, it appears that more Americans than not do
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Larry Elder: not support this war.
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Larry Elder: Are you worried about that?
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Nicky Billou: - I'm not, because you have the best leader in the world as your president, and his name
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Nicky Billou: is Donald J. Trump.
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Nicky Billou: This man sees the threat with a clear eye and he is absolutely bound and determined
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Nicky Billou: to end it.
31:26
Nicky Billou: Like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, he's less concerned about the polls than he
31:31
Nicky Billou: is about doing the right thing.
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Nicky Billou: And quite frankly, most polls, Larry, as you know, are absolute garbage.
31:37
Nicky Billou: The polls that actually predicted Trump was going to be elected president are showing
31:42
Nicky Billou: that the support for this is a lot stronger than the polls that are claiming the American
31:46
Nicky Billou: people are against this.
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Larry Elder: Nikki Bailou, thank you so much for taking the time. Stay in touch.
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Larry Elder: My pleasure. You bet. God bless you.
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