TV host bursts into laughter after Democrats' hypocrisy over Iran exposed

This is Power Hour with Gabriella Power.

Hello and welcome to Power Hour. I'm Gabriella Power. Thank you for joining us. We are five days into Operation Epic Fury and the President says we're winning.

We're doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly I would say. Somebody said on a scale of 10 where would you rate it? I said about a 15. And we're going to continue to do well. We have the greatest military in the world by far.

That must be hard for Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries to hear of course, they don't want to know about Americans taking out an evil regime or admit that Iranians are still celebrating around the world. More of that please. Any excuse to play this on the show.

Also coming up, outgoing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. He's been squirming under pressure, he's been grilled over massive state fraud allegations and he still hasn't worked out what a woman is.

What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?

Do you know what a woman is? I'm the governor of Minnesota, congresswoman. Do I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be your prop for your obsession.

If you can't define what a woman is, you certainly can't define what fraud is. If you can't even define what a woman is, you can't define fraud. Will he ever get

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We've heard today from Secretary Pete Hegseth claiming that the US military has hunted down and killed the head of a unit which attempted to assassinate Donald Trump. Pete Hegseth also confirmed that a US submarine sank an Iranian naval ship off the coast of Sri Lanka and Donald Trump is giving

this operation a 15 out of 10. If we didn't hit within two weeks they would have had a nuclear weapon. If we didn't do the B-2 attack a number of months ago they would have a nuclear weapon. It's a complete obliteration of their nuclear potential. And that set them back very, very seriously. Somebody said on a scale of 10,

where would you rate it? I said about a 15.

There you go. Army, can I get your thoughts? What's your assessment of Operation Epic Fury?

Yeah, I'd expect nothing different from President Trump on how he rate himself in this war. But in this case, he happens to be totally right. This was an absolutely incredible operation. It was the exact opposite of how Russia is now perceived after the Ukraine war. Going in, they thought that they were, people looked at the Russian army as this formidable

force where the great militaries of the world turned out their paper tiger and that war exposed them. Well, this is the exact opposite. People are looking at the United States saying, ah, you guys aren't a real threat anymore. You guys don't have the teeth anymore. And we prove them completely wrong.

Look, we have destroyed Iran in every imaginable way possible. Like he said, the nuclear threat is no more. Their navy is in the bottom of the ocean. The leadership of Iran has been completely decimated. One of their main weapons that they had was their ballistic missiles. They spent so much time spending money on building out.

Right. And one of the things, by the way, that the that the Obama administration did not cover in his horrific Iran deal, that is no longer a thing. No, Iran will no longer be able to wage any kind of war against its neighbors whatsoever. They are completely denuded. And that's all thanks to President Trump taking one of the boldest foreign policy moves we have seen in decades.

And that is not, Gabriela, that is not hyperbole. That is absolutely accurate. So yes, kudos, unbelievably executed. Great job. This is such a good thing for the world, yet Democrats, they're mad that America is winning. Senator Ruben Gallego says that the US is no longer a world power after its strikes

and is of course blaming Israel for claiming to drag the US into this war.

I guess we're not a world power anymore. I you know for me I mean look I was in some pretty hard times during the war at a very young age and it just it just drove me mad the fact that these guys just went to war on somebody else's word. Nobody decided to say hey you know what what is the best wishes of the men and women of my country first. Nobody decided to go to Nairn and be like guess what don't go to war. If you go to war we're not

giving you the intelligence, we're not gonna give you the support, we're not gonna give you the bombs, all these things that you could have done instead

you say you know what we going to go with you. Ami, it's been so painful to listen to the Democrats being so miserable after Ayatollah Khamenei was killed. And we've been seeing Iranians celebrating right around the world. Yet we've heard from Democrats and some like Hakeem Jeffries saying, oh, I know how it's going to end and it's going to end badly. I don't think that's the truth.

What's your reaction to the Democrats?

You know that's so insidious, right? To hear that, and you hear this across on the hard right and the left. By the way, on the left, this notion that Israel dragged us into war. First of all, that is incredibly anti-Semitic to say that, again, it goes back to this canard of Jews controlling the world, controlling governments. Right, that's exactly what that shades of.

And second of all, for the people on the right to say that, you're telling me that Donald Trump doesn't make decisions? You're telling me Donald Trump doesn't have agency? He's Mr. Agency. Nobody's dragging that guy into anything. But you know, Democrats, I gotta ask you,

when you take a position like this, you have to ask yourself, who are you standing with and who are you standing against? Okay? So in this case, you're standing against all of the Iranians.

I don't mean like a majority of Iranians. I mean universally. If you look across the board, not just in Iran, which has vast majority of support for this war because they do not like the regime, they never have. All the expatriates of Iranians, all over the world are literally dancing in the streets,

sometimes dancing the Trump dance for this. So you're standing against them. Who are you standing with? China, Russia, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, are you comfortable with that company? I don't think you would or you should be. And again, this idea of this was an unprovoked war.

There's nothing unprovoked about it, okay? This is a regime that has been killing Americans, American citizens, American soldiers, our allies for years. This is a country that tried to assassinate Donald Trump. So yeah, this is not unprovoked. It is up to the president to choose when and where

he decides to go after a regime, and he decided the time is now. There's nothing unprovoked about it. It is completely provoked.

So well said. I mean to suggest that Donald Trump does not have agency is laughable. And as you said we've seen Iranians absolutely celebrating this but the Democrats, they seem to have an issue. This is part of Trump's legacy, what he's doing right here. I mean this is a once in 100 year event, it's incredible and as we know Donald Trump, he

does not want to stay there any longer than he has to and anyway, America is winning. We've also heard from some Hollywood lefties such as Jane Fonda freaking out about this.

The people of the United States are here to tell the Trump administration, you may wage this. war against our constitutional rights, especially our First Amendment right, free speech and free assembly. He's at war against those of us who believe that the right to engage in dissent is what democracy is all about. He is at war against immigrant families. He is very definitely at war against the environment and is now vastly accelerating climate catastrophe.

He's taken away every effort to stop corporate polluters from poisoning our air and poisoning our water. We are here today, and thank you for being here, and we will be in the streets tomorrow and in the coming days and weeks to demand that this new war in the Middle East end. We are going to be here. Let regime change start at home. Thank you.

I'm sorry, I can't stop laughing because it's so stupid. I mean, I can't, I mean, the Iranian people are on the verge of liberation and that is the response from Jane Fonda. It's so bad and then she's ranting about the climate and democracy, those same old lines again, but that's what we get from Hollywood.

Gabriella, you know, I like you, but why did you put me through that? What do you, what? Look, I mean, the, the irony obviously is right. Coming from a woman who was sitting on an anti aircraft battery that was shooting down American pilots over Vietnam. Right. I have no doubt. If there were any anti aircraft weapons left the Iran, which there aren't,

they would keep the seat warm for her. Okay. So yeah, I don't really take advice on strikes on countries from Jane Jane Hanoi Fonda. Thank you very much, but I'll take a pass on that. No, she's a Hun Hinge woman I didn't know she was still a thing. But yeah, you just took two minutes of my life away from me Gabriella. I will not forgive you for that

Army, we're gonna make this a tradition every time you're on power hour I'll find some other Hollywood celebrity just to torture you with but it's absolutely ridiculous. I Can't I can't believe it too to be honest with you. I'm starting to lose the plot here But I want to talk to you about this operation because it is incredible. It was incredibly well planned, incredibly well executed from the very beginning to take out Khomeini. We know that Israel enacted a plan that was years in the making just to pinpoint where

he was. So Israel hacked all the traffic cameras in the capital, according to reports from the Financial Times. And Israel had a window of about an hour to strike while this meeting between Iran's top leaders were being held army.

Yeah, look, this was, if you asked Israeli military planners, what keeps you up at night? They will tell you it's Iran, Iran, Iran, nothing else. It's not even Hezbollah. It's not the Palestinians. Those are things that are not existential to the state of Israel. Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, One of my favorite Israeli operations that was prior to this, but still says a lot about where Israeli intelligence is at vis-a-vis Iran. The guy who's in charge of hunting down Mossad agents was a Mossad agent. When they killed, they are voting for a new leader.

They bombed that. By the way, the son who's taking over of the Ayatollah Khamenei is actually even more psychopathic, if you could believe that, than his father, but I don't think he's really long for this world. No, the amount of time, effort, and money that went into this was incredible, and it all paid off.

And by the way, one of the greatest things that has come out of all of this, right? Forget about the destruction of the Iranian military, its nuclear weapons, deterrence is back, baby. No one is looking to screw with the US or Israel. This has really brought back deterrence in a massive way and there's no amount of money you can put on that.

Hey, before I let you go, I have to talk to you about Tim Walz. He's been forced to answer questions about Minnesota's alleged fraud and Tim Walz was accused of lying about why his administration resumed funding to the 250 million dollar Feeding Our Future scam and Tim Walz was unable to answer such basic questions about his own state's spending on autism. Let's look at this.

And you've seen the numbers about autism fraud in Minnesota. So we're going to do some Minnesota math with you today, okay? Are you ready? How much money was spent on 2017 for autism in Minnesota? How much?

I don't know.

I wasn't the governor.

Okay.

Did you not

just say that you prepared for this hearing today? One million dollars, okay? A quick Google search or using your AI could tell you one million dollars was spent. How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in 2024? I don't have a

number in front of me. Were you governor in 2024? I was but I'm not the head of the agency.

Okay, so your excuse before that you didn't know what 2017 autism numbers were because you were not governor, and today you can't answer the numbers about 2024 as governor, and you still said you prepared for this hearing today. It's unbelievable.

And Army Tim Walz didn't want to admit some facts about Somalis in his state that 54 percent are on food stamps and 87 percent of those charged in the Minnesota fraud scheme Somali. What do you make of Tim Waltz getting grilled there?

Can we go back to Jane Fonda?

No.

You didn't want to go back to

Jane Fonda.

Tim Waltz is worse. Look, Tim Waltz is a joke. I mean, look, to be honest, it seems like all the males who are involved in politics in Minnesota seem to be these huge cucks. I don't know what their deal is

or what's in the water over there, but they're all terrible in governance. Now, look, Tim Walz has been told prior to this scandal that what was going on, he refused to, of course he's not going to talk about it because it's all on his shoulders. He knew about this, but he understands a Democratic Party machine is fueled by Somali votes and

Somali money. Okay, that's where the power lies, the Democratic Party. So of course they're going to allow this to happen. Of course he's going to allow this to happen. Of course they can pretend not to know. But there's a problem in Minnesota and no one refuses to deal with it.

You are absolutely spot on. Next time you join us on Power Hour, I will make sure we have plenty of Jane Fonda and Tim Welts content coming up for you. Thank you so much for joining us.

All jokes aside, appreciate your analysis on this history-making time.

My pleasure.

Joining us now is senior editor at LARD Newsweek, Josh Hammer, and Signal principal and pollster Nick Weinstein. Thank you both so much for joining us. Let's talk about Operation Epic Fury and the polling around this. A Fox News poll found that

voters are split on military acts action rather against Iran and most see the country as of course being around a serious security threat.

This Fox News poll found that 61 percent of Americans believe that Iran poses a real national security threat to the United States. Nick what's your assessment and what are the polls telling you about how Americans

are responding to this operation?

I think it's a little bit early to say for sure what the political implications of this strike are going to be. What's certainly clear is that in the lead up to this, the liberals on the left have spent a ton of time and energy ginning up this feeling that a war against Iran would lead to catastrophe for the American people in the Middle East. Americans are by and large focused on domestic issues, but from the very limited early polling that I've seen, this is at the very least a net break-even issue

for President Trump. And this is at a time when President Trump's, you know, job approval ratings have hovered in the low 40s for a while now. So I think he will take a break-even issue for now when it comes to the war in Iran.

And I have a feeling if they continue to prosecute the war the way that they have over the last week plus and, you know, get out of the Middle East having achieved their aims are going to make the Democrats look really foolish. And I think ultimately the American people are going to embrace the action that they've

taken.

Some of the Democrats already are looking very foolish, aren't they Josh? I mean we've heard from Hakeem Jeffries who claims to know how the war is going to end saying that it's going to fail Just back on the polling for a minute another poll a CNN poll found that Republicans overwhelmingly back the strikes in Iran this poll found that 77% of Republicans Approve of the military action and 58% believe that it will reduce the threat from Iran. But it's interesting Josh, we're not really hearing that from some even right-wing podcasters, are we?

Yeah, Gabrielle, I think two higher level points to make here. One is that the polling is very interesting and I am a personal bit of a polling nerd myself and I love firms like I sit on that poll for sure. I'm just saying that when it comes to this particular operation, I don't think Donald Trump is necessarily looking

at the polls to be very clear on view. I don't think that he expected this to be an 80-20 or a 90-10 issue. There's plenty of issues for that. There's biological men competing in women's sports. There's deporting criminal aliens, gangbangers, rapists, Mahmoud Khalil, people like that.

There's plenty of low-hanging 80, 20 or 90, 10 political fruit. I don't think that Trump necessarily cares here because he is doing this for this very simple reason that he thinks that it is the right thing to do, period, full stop, end of story.

There are some people saying that Donald Trump campaigned against ending forever wars, and so he did. But paradoxically, contrary to what you hear from those same folks there, in my judgment, he's actually seeking to end the forever war that's been 47 years and running from the Islamic Republic of Iran against the United States, a regime that was really founded

on the US embassy seizure back in 1979. It was found on anti-American hatred there, and he's seeking to finally bring this seemingly interminable war to an end. I will say one interesting tidbit though about the polling because to your point, Gabrielle, you're alluding to people like Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly,

some of these loud voices who have been very, very skeptical and the media is portraying this as a MAGA civil war, the same way that they did last summer during the Operation Midnight Hammer, the B2 bombing run. Well, funny enough, back then the CBS News had a poll that showed that MAGA Republicans back then were 94% approving of Donald Trump's B-2 bombing run in Midnight Hammer. And this time around, according to all the polls that I've seen, self-described MAGA

Republicans support Trump's actions at an even higher rate, upwards of 20 to 30 points higher than, let's call them, normie country club Republicans there. So this notion that the MAGA base is revolting against Trump for the second Iran military action in a row is completely belied by the data that we have there. But ultimately, as I said earlier, I'm not sure that Trump is looking at the polls for this one there. I think he's doing this because he genuinely actually believes that this is the right thing to

do. Absolutely. Look, Fox News reporter Bill Malugin asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries about Nancy Pelosi saying in 2011 that Barack Obama didn't need congressional approval to bomb Libya but but now

Democrats say that Donald Trump needs approval to bomb Iran. Thank you Leader

Jeffries. Back in 2011 Nancy Pelosi said that then President Obama didn't need congressional approval to bomb Libya. Now House Democrats say President Trump needs

that approval to bomb Iran. What's the difference? Well obviously Libya and the circumstances connected to that were very different than the circumstance that we face in Iran right now. I mean I don't even understand the genesis or basis of that question. I'm suggesting that you're not asking it in good faith. Libya went on for seven months. As I've indicated, first of all it was not in Congress at the time.

Nick, I don't think Hakeem Jeffries really answered that, did he?

No, and look, I think we could do probably a 24-hour show just of clips from Democratic leadership when it comes to hypocrisy on the role of congressional oversight, comparing the treatment of Obama and Biden with the treatment of President Trump. But the reality here is the Democrats are in a really, really tough spot here. They have for a decade plus told the American people that the only way that we would be able to solve this Iran issue was by sending pallets

of cash via private plane to the Iranian ayatollahs to buy them off and to keep them from progressing this nuclear program. And President Trump is just proving them foolish and is proving that their outlook on foreign policy is just completely detached from reality.

Josh, I want to talk to you about these reports that thousands of Kurdish fighters have claimed their outlook on foreign policy is just completely detached from reality.

Josh, I want to talk to you about these reports that thousands of Kurdish fighters have crossed from Iraq into Iran, launching a ground offensive against the Iranian regime. US and Israeli officials reportedly confirmed this operation to Fox News and the Jerusalem Post, but the reports are the White House is pushing back against those claims that Washington is involved. Josh, what do you make of this?

So it depends what the actual goal is here. If the goal is simply to deliver a massive blow to the Molas there and try to settle for some lesser Mola, someone who can basically be blackmailed and bought off and basically say, oh, we can blow you out of the skies unless you do our bidding there. If that's the goal, then perhaps this is necessary. But if the goal is to genuinely enable the Iranian people

to give them a fighting chance, I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but at least give them a fighting chance to topple this most dictatorial and tyrannical theocratic Islamist regimes, then you're gonna have to do things like this. There's no shortage of weapons inside the country of Iran.

The problem is that the folks who are not in the regime, who are not in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for instance, don't have access to those weapons. The Kurds, for decades now, have been some of the best positioned folks to fight against, frankly, not just the Iranians actually,

but a lot of the other problematic actors in the region, the Kurds were well-positioned during the ISIS campaign about a decade ago to do damage against ISIS, both in Iraq and Syria there. The Kurds have been some of the lesser appreciated American Western allies in the region for a very, very long time.

Personally, I've actually been a proponent of forming some sort of new Kurdistan Republic. I think that the Kurdish people, frankly, are actually very much do that. So I think, again, details at this very early stage are a little hazy there, but, and admittedly, I'll be the first to admit,

Gary B. O, the CIA doesn't always have the most spotless track record when it comes to arming insurgent groups. There was the infamous arming of the Mujahideen, excuse me, back during the Reagan era. So we've messed this up in the past there, but the notion that the Kurds should be in a position to deliver some sort of damage to the Iran regime is a longstanding belief

of a lot of very, very smart people in American foreign policy. And to me, it actually does make a lot of sense.

Nick, can I get your thoughts?

Yeah, look, I am also a little bit skeptical of these reports. That being said, the Kurdish people have been a great partner of the United States, both in Iraq and in Syria. In so far as this is destabilizing the Iranian government, enforcing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to have to worry about their border with Iraq. I think it makes a ton of sense. And if I was a Kurd, I would want to go back to Iran and make sure that the Kurdish people

were protected from reprisals against the Tehran regime. But I do think we have to be cautious about, you know, balkanizing Iran and recognize that, you know, the Kurdish question is a really potentially troublesome one with some of our other American partners and allies in the region. But that being said, I think it's all hands on deck

to topple the regime in Tehran

and the Kurds are a great partner for us.

Well, let's just talk about what is happening in the US ofS. of A. In Texas, Jasmine Crockett has lost the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Texas. Jasmine had declined re-election for her seat in the U.S. House in order to run for the Senate,

so she'll be out after this year. And just yesterday, she was already suggesting that there was a bit of cheating going on. Listen to this. Red has already stated

We encourage each and every one of you to remain resilient

We cannot allow this type of behavior to be rewarded Because so long as they know that they can win even if it means cheating then they will continue to do it

So I am asking you I am begging you to make sure that you go ahead and figure out where it is that you are supposed to vote. Stand in line, wait in line.

She has conceded defeat now to James Tallarico, but Josh, what a shock and surprise that Kamala Harris's endorsement didn't help her.

Yeah, Jasmine Crockett, I mean, it'll be interesting to see what her next gig is. Look, I guess that she's conceded at this point, but the fact that she was not initially willing to concede. Democrats have a somewhat under-discussed problem when it comes to conceding electoral losses. Who can forget Stacey Abrams in Georgia in 2018. Has Stacey Abrams conceded the 2018 gubernatorial election to this day, almost eight years later? I'm honestly not sure I know the answer to that question, actually.

Frankly, back in 2016, a lot of people forget Hillary Clinton was not particularly quick to concede the election to Donald Trump as well. Back in 2004, there were plenty of Democrats actually who refused to vote to certify the Electoral College victory for George W. Bush. You know, Donald Trump in 2020 in January 6th, all this dominates the narrative here in the United States when it comes to quote unquote election denial. But there's a lot of high ranking Democrats who have a very long and glorious track record

of doing exactly that. This Texas Senate race, by the way, is gonna be a fascinating one to watch. Republicans are gonna have their upcoming Senate runoff between Ken Paxton and John Cornyn to go up against this guy who's being billed as the woke Billy Graham, this nominal would-be Christian who says a lot of very, very far-left things in the guise of Christianity there.

So we'll see if it plays out for them, but unfortunately for Republicans, I do think that the woke Billy Graham, Tell Rico probably has at least a slightly better chance of victory than the utter nincompoop Jasmine Crockett.

Yes.

Nick Weinstein, I want to get your reaction to that.

What does the future hold for Jasmine Crockett?

I think it's I think it's hard to say. Certainly I can understand why she would be conspiratorial after the National Democrats spent upwards of twenty five million dollars to defeat her with a, you know, a milquetoast candidate who I think come November is going to lose by, you know, eight or nine points to either Ken Paxton or Senator Cornyn. But this is just the Democratic Party as it exists today, right?

The only factor that the National Democrats care about right now is, you know, how effective are you going to be electorally in defeating President Trump? And quite frankly, their track record with Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden has not been the

strongest and maybe they will be ruining the day in November that they sent Jasmine Crockett packing.

Nick Weinstein, Signal Principal and Pollster and Josh Hammer, Senior Editor at Largett Newsweek, thank you both so much for joining us.

Thank you, Gabrielle.

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