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>> good evening and thank you for joining us i am trey gowdy. it is "sunday night in america". missiles and drones filled as really skies as iran launched hundreds of attacks against the jewish state. most of the incoming weapons were intercepted by israeli, u.s. or other defense systems in the region. the system beginning of iran's response or will iran go back to fighting through proxies like hamas, hezbollah and the who sees. speaking of iranian proxies, russia sided with iran again for those wondering who the u.s. should be pulling for in russia's war against ukraine. after the unprecedented iranian attack in israel the biden administration still wants israel to halt the underground offense in gaza. biden believes benjamin netanyahu is making a mistake and then biden discourages from immediately responding to the attacks of the last 24 hours and

what to make of israeli opponents who chant this. [shouting] trey: that is death to america were those wondering about the translation. joining us to react arkansas senator tom cotton an army veteran who serves on the senate intel and armed services committees. welcome. what do you make of iran's response and is at the beginning or the end of the direct engagement with israel and especially the reporting that biden advised benjamin netanyahu not to respond. >> thank you trey. that's not the beginning or the end of iran's work in israel. they have been waging the war for more than 40 years like it's been waiting proxy war and chatter were against the united states. i want to command the bravery and skill of american and

israeli pilots and others troops from friendly nations like saudi arabia, jordan and great britain who helped intercept almost every single one of more than 300 and drones and missiles shot at israel. but of course president biden is wrong telling israel that they should not respond. imagine america getting 300 drones missiles shot at her homeland and have it country tell us not to respond. it's up to prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the workout in the elective government of people of israel of how they respond. it's hard to imagine this doesn't steal their resolve to finish the hamas in gaza or refuse to tolerate hezbollah iran's proxies to the north of lebanon possessing more than 100,000 rockets and missiles and drones on its own and ultimately to tolerate iran or the nuclear weapon. imagine what would it look like if every and was shooting nuclear armed missiles into israel. the question in america it's not what israel would to do it's what president biden is going to

do, there's a few things we can do right away. didn't require military force. he wants diplomatic solutions. i have a few recommendations. he keeps giving more than $10 billion in waived sanctions to iran periodically he should resend those immediately. to he should work with european partners to immediately reimpose the snapback sanctions under the flawed nuclear deal with iran that he refused to do now for three and half years. three he should immediately and fully enforce sanctions against iran shipment of oil most of which goes to china. all of these would immediately put iran on the back foot diplomatically and financially without president biden even having to take step of what he doesn't want to do anywhere which is use the american military to ever defend american interest. trey: 's editor, while president biden should listen to you, i am not sure that he has been. he has had tougher words for benjamin netanyahu lately. even tougher than what he says

to the religion find addicts running iran. how do you under this a administration how do you view our relationship with israel given what he says to benjamin netanyahu what he doesn't say to the mullahs in iran. >> it doesn't seemed like the relationship between president biden and benjamin netanyahu through no fault of the prime minister is very good. it doesn't seemed like the relationship between the democratic party and israel is very good right now when you have pro-hamas proxies running around like rashida tlaib, chris van hollen and the senate demanded we condition aid to israel as a third world tierney. i tell you america's relationship with israel is very strong and will remain very strong. normal americans of both parties recognize the israel is a great ally. a strong military that enhances our own strengths and protects

our own interests in the middle east and also shares deep cultural religious historical and political ties with our nation and exact ally will should have. whatever the relationship is between the president and the prime minister in the relationship between america and israel is outstanding and rock solid. trey: before i let you go russia seems to be siding with iran. pfizer is up for reauthorizat reauthorization. the most progressive member of the house mistrial paulette called israel a religious state and offering an amendment what do you think of this with pfizer should be reauthorized and should be reauthorized with reforms? >> we certainly need reforms of the pfizer process with the american people confidence is not going to be abuse the way other parts of pfizer were abused against president trump in 2016. the bill that the house passed will pass the senate as well. has some important reforms.

it's only a two year authorization that will have a chance to revisit it in president trump second year in office. the parade of horrible i want to stress is happy because joe biden is projected weakness all around the world. russia did not invade ukraine on donald trump he did on barack obama joe biden's watch. iran would not of thought to shoot 300 missiles and drones to israel when donald trump was president. russia, iran and china were not been mutually supporting each other in wars of unprovoked aggression as the way they are now when donald trump was president that's why the world was safer and more stable in america was safer and her interests were protected when donald trump was president it's one of the reasons why the american people will reelect donald trump later this year. trey: senator tom cotton from the great state of arkansas and served our country in uniform. thank you for joining us on a sunday night. >> israel is planning to enter the city of rafael to eliminate

hamas. the biden administration is expressing opposition. as president biden running the war with hamas or benjamin netanyahu and israeli war cabinet, biden has been famously wrong in the past when it comes to military and foreign policy matters. he was out the commander-in-chief. his mistakes can be overcome until now until afghanistan, ukraine and now israel. for the congressman brian mast served our country in uniform and now serves on the house foreign affairs committee and he joins us now. you were part of our war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. we pursued for decades. why does israel only get six months to eventually happen last october. >> double standard we predicted this in the immediate days following october 7. there is global support for what happened against october 7 largely but that's going to wane in just a couple of weeks or

months and we have to be ready to stand by your ally. as you spoke in your intro, that is most importantly right up until this moment of israel potentially entering the far south of gaza rafah. this is one of the most important parts of the operation. trey: you understand war congressman, the psychology of war. iran warned everyone that was coming. most of the missiles and drones were ineffective and intercep intercepted. what did you make as a military veteran. what did you make of the retaliation and do you think it's really over? >> i think you can never trust that they say we count this as square in if you don't do anything we won't do anything. we know that is not true israel is the aggressor to run against iran they have been to the proxies whether in yemen or all of the regions, syria, egypt to

gaza, to the west bank everywhere that they have proxies they have been the aggressor against israel no reason to think that would end. one of the most important things that we put iran onto their heels is by destroying their proxies, that goes up to hamas that is on their heels in the south of gaza in the last of the hamas leadership likely remaining there in the tunnel systems likely remaining in the south of gaza. any hostages that they have allowed to stay alive likely still in the area if they have not move them into other countries. this is the tack that you have to take if you're going to be credible which unfortunately this administration is one of the most important points we can make doesn't have credible deterrence, general mckenzie sent commander under biden very specifically spoke about this now that he's out of uniform that the biden administration has taken iran off the table as a target, what you said directly for the intelligence agencies

across the world to hear him say that means there is no deterrence against iran if we deem that we take them off the table. that is the direction that you see biden pushing with every state that is making. trey: you mentioned taking iran off the table. i have hate to ask to speculate but it would be an educated speculation. do you believe israel wanted to strike back last night in the heart of iran. >> i think absolutely they have been discouraging in the biden administration we will not stand with them and taking iran off the table and to the attack against iranian generals versus the indiscriminate attack iran made against israel and were talking about 100 to 30136

drones and other rockets that were meant to indiscriminately target any israeli that they can hit. it was not a military operation intended for israeli military targets that's a huge difference. let's forget other point into this. last week we saw 40 house democrats one of them being nancy pelosi of a mainstream democrat that letter say no more arms transfers to israel. the number arms transfers what does that equal, that equals don't resupply the iron jones system that was knocking the drugs out of the sky, don't resupply the david slaying, the midrange system don't resupply the aerosystems a long-range ballistic missiles to knock them out of the sky, that's essentially what they're saying that's a continuation of where you see biden not right now. trey: congressman brian mast, we continue to salute your previous service to our country and your continued service in the house of representatives. thank you for joining us on a sunday night.

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trey: welcome back to "sunday night in america". missiles and drones were in moderna iran made an appoint to say they attack was revenge for the idf strike in syria that killed their top generals, that the matter was concluded in their minds but iran has been provoking conflict in the region for decades. it did not start and will not likely end with the events of last night, what is iran trying to signal and what should we make of iran warning the u.s. to stay away.

the iranian crown prince and his royal highness join us now. welcome your highness. what did you make of the iranian response last night? and what do you think was meant by the matter that has been concluded. >> these are signs of the regime becoming more weak and desperate and a matter of fact at the very same time it launched the missiles and drones against israel it's cracked down the again on the streets of iran. the intelligence part of the irgc has worn people in iran that the slightest demonstration of sentiment to the israelis will be partially treated their extremely afraid of what the iranian people think and as a result is indicated that as we have always believed the regime is trying to hang onto power by intimidation and exercising to its proxies or directly by

itself is a conflict abroad. trey: if my memory serves me correctly, you visited israel and you believe the iranian people and israeli people can coexist in peace, what will it take to make that happen? >> from tehran to tel aviv to haifa. iranians and israelis know that this is not the iranian people's war this is the dictator of the brutal regimes were. as we speak, today there were demonstrations in paris, london and berlin. iranians together with the israelis and jews hand-in-hand together supporting each other in demonstrating to the whole world that we as a nation in israel as a nation have our destiny intertwined. we cannot hope for any chance

for peace and stability in the region until the regime is finally gone. i think it's important for the world to realize that the only obstacle to peace and stability in a better future lies on putting an end to the regime. it's time for the world to finally decide to endorse and back the iranian people to topple this regime of putting into the madness. trey: you mentioned regime change. many found it stunning that senate majority leader chuck schumer called for change in israel but they have been pretty silent on regime change in iran. what can or should the u.s. do to support the iranian people to have a different government. a government that doesn't do the things that you describe especially to women. >> when you release money to a regime and give it more means to finances proxies and use brutality at home, basically appeasement has proven his only

emboldened the regime. we said that a long time ago. as you indicated last year when i visited israel, part of our discussions with israeli leaders and for that matter other leaders around the world have been precise of and if you let it be emboldened by the fact that they can count on appeasement were paying ransom for the release of hostages are not imposing sanctions which gave the regime almost one extra hundred billion dollars in the fact that the current administration is trying to release even more money to the regime, $10 billion of iranian revenue from the iraqis. i think there's a direct correlation between appeasement in doing this kind of thing in the regime becoming emboldened, the solution is to use every opportunity to put more pressure on the regime. for instance it is time that the united states allies in europe finally decide to put the irgc on the terrorist group list and

that will mean more pressure on the regime. but also parallel to that it's time to use maximum support to the iranian people in their struggle against this regime. as iranian peoples asked to have change it does not have they have been the u.s. editor saint who needs to change. if the iranian people see loud and clear that were done with this regime, help us liberate ourselves that is the message of the iranian people have it to the entire world and i hope the u.s. government and other governments will heed this call and finally help us save our world from disaster more conflict and have an opportunity post this regime to have regional peace and cooperation. not just iran and israel but the arab world that's also been a target of this regime. trey: your royal highness. thank you for joining us and loaning us your truly your unique perspective on iran. thank you.

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pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records in connection with payments to stormy daniels. he remains presumed innocent no matter how infrequently you hear that on other networks, the way the jury selection system works is people are asked questions by the judge, the lawyers were both to determine fitness and fairness. it's an amazing process. if you like small government, what can be smaller than 12 people deciding the fate and treatment of a fellow citizen. can any politician get a fair trial these days? are people willing to say i don't like the defendant but the government did not meet the burden of persuasion. new york is the beginning, special counsel jack smith then wants a supreme court to reject trump's presidential immunity claim. the court will hear arguments april 22 but the d.c. court of appeals was unanimous in rejecting an earlier claim. were joined by two former prosecutors who switched over to the lucrative side of life katie and elliott fe elliott felig. the jury selection is a misnomer, and selecting or

deselecting the jury but ideally, who would be on your new york jury? >> the judge in this case has already said that anybody who self identifies as somebody that cannot be fair and impartial upfront will not even be questioned further. that will weed out significant amount of people were openly partisan as they were. we want people who are going to be listening to the evidence in this case and understanding the high burden of proof that the prosecution has. it's not an easy case for the prosecution in people that are not openly political obviously is a significant factor as well. i believe the jury selection is going to take a long time in this case. we will see if they can get a fair jury. trey: finding 12 people who have not made up their mind is always a challenge in high profile cases. let's listen to the former president together and then i'll ask you a question on the other side. >> will see every legal scholar said they have to come it's a horrible thing but is selection

interference it's all run by the white house. every one of the cases that you mentioned every single case civil criminals, selection interference, joe biden is using this to try to get elected and it's a shame. trey: i am a little rusty but that sounds like a jury nullification argument. as a jury going to hear allegations of being politically targeted, never done before, they are out to get me it's really relevant politically. but will the jury hear any of that? >> almost certainly not the judge will limit it to whether or not the four corners of the indictment the actual elements of each and every charge are proven beyond a reasonable doubt but going back to the jury thing, there's a real risk generally speaking, the likelihood of a conviction is supposed to depend on the strength of the evidence. in this case because of the inherent political bias that jurors may bring there's a real

chance that the outcome will be driven not by the evidence but simply by the popularity or the unpopularity of the accused. trey: presidential immunity, give me a quick line of demarcation between a private act versus a presidential act. that case is going to be decided by the supreme court i guess that is the line of demarcation, immunity for presidential acts but not private or personal acts. how do you see this matter, the soon to be argued before the high court. >> i personally think it's a strong case for donald trump. i think the supreme court needs to make it clear with a line in the sand is drawn and that's not an easy task when you talk about the executive who is one person on an entire branch of government. how do you draw the line, where will we stop questioning executive decisions because you can get in the hypothetical regarding military operation and decisions that were made that indent death were negligent at the time.

you really have to have the court weigh in and be very clear about where they will draw the line. it totally will debilitate the executive branch if there is not a significant immunity given to the president. trey: the president is presumed innocent no matter how infrequently that is mentioned on other networks. let's assume he were to be convicted. is this the case that resulted in active prison sentence. it does not seem that way to me. if you are not would be sentenced to prison or you're not better off leaving the judge alone rather than picking a public fight with the senate judge. >> in new york we rank felonies for the most serious and e4 the least serious. these are e-filed and easily serious none carry mandatory jail time were talking about a defendant would no, no record and if alvin braga holds to his previously stated philosophy. he said in his famous k-1 memo he will only seek prison sentences in the most violent of

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trey: the consequences of an unsecured border continue to dominate the minds of voters heading into november. this is true for myriad reasons, the border impacts sovereignty, law enforcement and national security and spending and symbolizes the justice systems of ebbs and flows of the political vagaries and it was designed to supersede. if the election were today, the border and accountable would be the leading issues but not the only issues. republicans underperform and 2022 because democrats cobble

together a constellation of less dominant issues which in the aggregate proved powerful. among these issues with aborti abortion, dobbs set the issue back to the states but republicans consistently lost on state initiatives while being seen of out of touch with many voters especially female voters. in addition republicans cannot seem to agree on what their position is like conception for six weeks or 12 weeks or 15 weeks or when a harpy is detected or when pain can be felt or viability or birth. there is little consensus on the gop side. that does not even address the issue of exception for rape or incest or the life or health of the mother. most americans seem to have settled on something of a consensus, grudgingly, after decades of decisions in division and debate. it seems that voters were following the line of a former president who said abortion should be safe, legal and rare.

but that still leaves the question of why something should be rare unless there remains moral uncertainty. so we entered the second half of the century debating the fundamental issue of life. joining u our associate politics and public affairs at princeton university doctor laura wright and for providing seer get in strategic democrat strategist kevin walling, welcome to you both. doctor wright there are constitutional legal moral even religious views that factor into this decision. is there any consensus on when life begins or how the issue of abortion should be handled among voters? >> no, there's really no consensus among democrats or republicans. it's a very thorny moral and political issue. i would say the top issue that democrats have surrounding abortion heading into 2024. when we pull voters 10 - 12% of

them say abortion is my number one most important concern. when you lower that to what we call low propensity voters, voters who didn't turn out in the midterms are sure to turn on a general election it is even lower. the task that democrats have because absolutely they have the advantage on the abortion issue and republicans are losing honor. it's making a sale yet in making the case that this is just as important as economy, immigration or crime which you mentioned are much more important to a much bigger swath of voters. trey: abortion is not mentioned in the constitution, neither our marriage, children education or the air force for that matter. life however, is mentioned twice. is this an issue for congress, the supreme court or the states and can you really have 50 different definitions on when life begins?

>> is a good question. we are seeing this play out right now in the wake of the dobbs decision back in june of 2022. every state that is had abortion on the ballot since that decision. i'm talking about deep red states like montana, ohio, states like kansas, kentucky have all voted for in charting abortion protection into the constitution or state law. clearly this is an animating issue might not be the number one issue that americans when they're asked weatherby immigration or the economy. it is still the mindset of a lot of voters and you're looking at a dozen states that are going to have this on the ballot states like florida, states like arizona the vice president was just in arizona this past friday talking about abortion access, harkening back to the 1864 law that is now potentially the law of the land in arizona in the wake of the dobbs decision. clearly this will be a problem for republicans.

the former president doesn't how to talk about the issue and he released the video but there's a lot of uncertainty even where his position is. clearly republicans are going to have to grapple with this in the next six or seven months. trey: technology seems to move people on this issue much more so than sermons or speeches from politicians. where do you think that the american people are headed because i would think the idea of a woman who was raped, being imprisoned is just as obnoxious to people as an elective late-term abortion. where are the voters on this issue. they don't seem to be where the politicians are. >> is a very good assessment. voters are very moderate on the abortion issue. one of the most interesting findings in social science in the last couple of decades has been technology advances, young people for instance are getting more conservative on abortion.

that does not mean they are for eliminating abortion under all circumstances but most people in groups of voters want abortion to be legal and they want some exceptions. so politicians, the issue is a lot of them are pandering to the very specific constituencies. maybe the very conservative but statewide and nationwide a lot of politicians are out of stuff on the issue because most people are very middle-of-the-road. they might not be personally for abortion but they want some form of it early on in pregnancy to be widely assessable. >> avenue may attend the democrat national convention. i may be forced to go against my will but if there were a question at the convention when does life begin, what do you think the consensus will be on the democrat side, how will the answer the question. >> is a question.

hopefully i'll see you in chicago, should be a great convention. but i think democrats just like republicans grapple with this issue you have a lot of pro-life democrats. the president is a consistent catholic he is moderate when it comes to this issue. he has been forced to change his position over time where the party is for example as a practicing catholic. he fully supports the right to abortion is obviously campaigning on that with the vice president. but i think the democrats and any kind of conversation about our platform in chicago are going to focus on the legal right to access abortion and probably stay away from the morality questions of the religious questions with regards to abortion. >> doctor lauren wright, kevin walling is a divisive issue and thank you for this ability in which you are able to discuss it with us and one another and we

look forward to seeing you both real soon. thank you for joining us on a sunday night. >> thank you both. trey: if trauma were a drug, congress will be a cartel. there would be a new narco miniseries, acting speaker patrick mchenry after th

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trey: welcome back to "sunday night in america". hbo had the house ugly and mr. in the house of stark. c-span has the house of representatives, winter is not coming but a motion to vacate might be. marjorie taylor greene's latest beaker and tackiness but she was not the first, mark meadows did it and then her friend matt gaetz, gates used to tour the country raising money and then they decided to separate but for the same purpose raising more money, green watched how much matt gaetz raced to attack kevin mccarthy with a ancillary benefit of killing an ethics investigation into alleged misconduct. now marjorie taylor greene is following suit over mike johnson's head. you may be wondering what would happen if the same energy was put into maybe winning the white

house or we need to democrat senate seats in georgia there is a lot of money to be made in fame and when family members fight, there's just not much in it for you. joining us former acting speaker congressman patrick mchenry. welcome congressman, some are not billed for the majority. being the minority is easier, you show up, vote no imposter videos on social media. leading is hard we saw one speaker defrocked enough threats to defraud another. what is going on. >> it's just that. democrats run washington, the senate and the executive branch and the only thing that is stopping them are house republicans. but were not winning were stopping bad things from happening. that's not really exciting stu stuff. just like marines on leave artists focus on their duties and sometimes can get in troub

trouble. that's a house republicans are doing, the infighting is what's driving a lot of the attention rather than the harm that joe biden is doing to america and the american economy, national security. responding time fighting amongst ourselves and stupid things. it's really not serving the american people and certainly not the interest of us winning the national election. trey: i want to play a clip from the general lady from georgia and then i'll ask you a question on the other side. >> he is a republican leader, he is the leader of the opposition party against invited administration and we expect him to lead that way and not to pass a budget administration agenda. trey: you know congressman, she represents a ruby red district in georgia, there are scores of members that you serve with representative less secure seats, some seats where biden

one, what are realistic expectations when your conference is full of different people from different districts. >> first, listen to our comments. she is saying the speaker needs to lead, i said the same thing. he is leading through turbulent times we've given them a tough job and he sought the tough job and he's gotten on with the tough dealmaking that you need to do to get through the waters that we are in. that is a good encouragement for the speaker. but the expectation setting for an election year, expectation setting for republican house, we cut spending year-over-year, that is the biggest gain for house republicans in the american people. that's the biggest policy when of this congress. after that it's not going to be a good outcome because we saw joe biden in the white house and we saw way too much spending in washington and we still have a president that does not have a strong national security

objective with his actions. we have to do the best we can in a confined space that we are in and get through this year so we can get reinforcements in november, that's what i'm trying to encourage my colleagues to hear and to voters to hear that will do the best we can. until we have reinforcement we cannot do the good work demanded and needed. trey: congressman we had speaker johnson on a show recently. he remains in my judgment a very decent honorable man with almost impossible job. he voted to keep kevin mccarthy, he was not one of the aid that failed hands with democrats and replace kevin mccarthy. in hindsight what exactly was accomplished when they got rid of one speaker and inserted speaker mike johnson. >> nothing, there is no policy. worst case with pfizer, federal spending and with a major initiative on national security we are not in a better position

to extract conservative reform that we were with speaker mccarthy. so we traded in entry did not result in more conservative policy. actually put us in a worse position politically and organizationally. i don't think making another trade on the speakership will get us a different outcome or a better outcome as republicans. we have to focus on november and getting the best results we can there. trey: you announce that you are leaving congress to return to your beloved state of north carolina. have you reconsider that? it seems like a lot of fun are you sure you want to leave? >> you know that i love this place. i love the battles and the policy initiatives. i even love the people. but it was time for me to be done with committee term limits and house republicans have committee term limits. having committee term limits on the chairman schiff is a really good thing and i'm respecting

the term limits and out of respect for the term limits i recognize that having served here in the house for 20 years, it is time for me to call it quits and allow a new generation of leaders to come in. i've had my opportunity. and i leave this institution really loving and respecting it even in the most chaotic form that were currently in. trey: one of my former favorite colleagues patrick mchenry from the great state of north carolina. thank you for joining us on a sunday night. >> you the best. trey: thank you for spending part of your sunday with us. i hope you have a great week ahead. until next week you can find us online at gowdy america or trey gotti podcast. good night from sout