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866-90-RED-EYES. The phone number 866-907-3339. You can text the show when I'm filling in 615-737-9986. Gary and Eric, they return next Sunday night, Monday morning. And follow me on the socials at DanMandaShow. And I have a poll up this morning, believe it or not. Grade President Trump's war efforts in Iran, 48.5 percent of the people that have taken the poll give the president an A, 18.2 percent give the president a B, 21.2 percent give the president a C, 12.1 percent give the president an F. If you want to chime in, go ahead and take the poll at Dan Mendes Show on X. I've got a couple of things I want to do in this hour. I've got an update on Mitch McConnell and the president making a plea to the Supreme Court. I want to get to both of those before the hour ends. So I've got a lot to do. But some people have been holding a long time. Luke is in Middle Tennessee listening on my home station, WTN. Luke, thanks for calling in. Go ahead. Oh, apparently Luke is gone. All right. Russell is in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to WKIM. Russell, go ahead. hey dan how you doing doing good thanks for calling in

um i want to give him an a for effort but and i hope you cut me off on this but you can't reason with these people it's gonna have to be something in game like hiroshima like your last caller was saying you've got to make a point that they can't come back from You've got to bomb them until they stop, until they really stop. And they won't. They won't. So it's going to be near cataclysmic what we're going to have to do to get rid of this problem, because they want all of us dead in the U.S. and our president especially.

Well, Russell, here's the problem. And I get what you're saying. I do. The problem is that and it depends on the type of nuke. There's all kinds of different nukes. And so I don't I don't know if Hiroshima is the right bomb to use, but if we went down that road. But, you know, you've got ninety two, ninety three million people in Iran. You use a powerful nuke, then you're going to have the rest of the world that is going to be against what we just did. I'm I'm on board if we need to bomb them into submission. I'm all for that. But I don't think that we can use these massive nuclear weapons that are going to kill a bunch of people who, frankly, are just trying to survive in Iran. Russell, I appreciate the call. Luke is back. And Luke, thanks for calling in. Go ahead.

Yeah. Hi, Dan. I've been listening to you for quite a while. You do a great job on your normal station and you're doing a great job here on Red Eye. I do want to say that we make fun of the liberals for having their own echo chamber and living in their own world. And yet here we are doing the same thing So we should be able to call balls and strikes and things with Trump And not just be another echo chamber So that's why I'm calling in to push back You said you gave Trump an A on the war I'm not sure how you're doing that What have we accomplished? The goals that we had set out

what have we accomplished for that war okay so uh number one when i gave the president an a i said militarily but remember in the in the that whole monologue you're bringing up the point that i made which is from a military standpoint we bombed a lot of stuff and we've destroyed a lot of stuff so he gets an a militarily but politically the That is a different conversation. So but let's go down your road of what have we actually accomplished. A few things, as the president has said many times, we have decimated their military. We've taken out a couple of layers of their of their Islamic Revolutionary Guard, their their government there in the nation of Iran. The other thing we have done, the president says, and if you believe the president, fine, if you don't, then that's on you if you choose not to believe him. But we apparently know exactly where that uranium is in the ground and we're watching it. So they don't have the ability, according to the president, according to J.D. Vance, according to our government, they don't have the ability to process that uranium, enrich that uranium because we've destroyed all of that nuclear infrastructure. So and we've also done a hell of a job on their economy. So that's, I think, four things that I've just rattled off. Now, where you're going to go, as I play all this out, where you're going to go is the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians still have the ability to close the Strait of Hormuz. And that is, I can guarantee you, in the next couple of days, that is what they're going to try to do. Somebody asked me earlier, Luke, I hope you heard it. You know, how is it? Because this has been baffling me. How is it that the Iranians, with all of this bombing that we've done, how is it they can still close the Strait of Hormuz? Well, number one, they've got all of those drones that we talked about earlier. We've also they've also got those fast boats that also have an impact. The problem is that just for people that don't know, is that the insurance companies won't insure those ships to go through the Strait of Hormuz because they're afraid that they're going to get destroyed. So the ships can't go through the Strait of Hormuz because they're not insured. But I do believe that we have accomplished a lot in Iran. I think that from a political standpoint, we're not going to know this answer for a while. We have to see what happens with Iran. But the other thing is, there's still a lot, as I said, that we don't know. So I'll give you the last word, Luke.

Sure, and I may have missed your monologue there, and I do apologize, but we went in there because they're supposed to be weeks away from some type of nuclear device, which according to Tulsi Gabbard, that was incorrect in the 18 intelligence agencies and Marco Rubio. And then we were supposed to go in there and get the nuclear material, which we've not done either, and we've lost at least 13 service members, and it costs us billions of dollars per day on this. And this has completely affected our midterms, which is – it's going to be catastrophic, and that's what I'm concerned about, and maybe we're saying the same thing. we're just on different pages. But I don't think that we should have an echo chamber. And I've seen a lot of listeners that are blind and just completely for Trump and can't you can't question anything. And that's what I don't want happening here, especially on the on this this level. So I think it's good to have a communication to be able to push back and hold people accountable.

And that's what I'm trying to do right now. So, Luke, real quick, what do you do have a do you have a prediction as to what's going to happen as far as the war yeah as far as the war goes

um i think we're going to be stuck into it for for quite a while i would hope uh my solution would be is just to pull out um is that what uh everybody would want no but we have to go back to america first and we have to try to get the midterms back on on schedule hey babes it's

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All right, Lou, thanks for the call. Appreciate it. And the phone number is 866-90-RED-EYE. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Green. I'm going to I'm going to talk a little bit about and by the way, if you still want to talk about Iran, people have been calling all night. 866-90-RED-EYE. Mitch McConnell's wife has now broken the silence, broken her silence on Mitch McConnell's condition, condition, her husband's condition. But first, I want to remind you what is going on with Mitch McConnell. Just just real quick. He's been hospitalized for three weeks or so. We've been watching the senator as he has been you know, having medical issues for the better part of a year, freezing up in front of the camera. He's fallen down a few times. He's he's frozen a couple of times as well. Clearly, he is now at the point and he has been. I've been calling for him to resign for quite some time and and step down. But I think it is obvious that he is having some issues with his with his capacity, his his ability to think, his ability to speak. So he had a heart attack. He ends up, they find him in the home. He has to go to the hospital. They have to do CPR. And by all accounts, he is not doing well. But all of a sudden, just as we talked about yesterday, you had all of these folks from, you know, Scott Jennings and John Thune, all of these people saying that they spent 20 minutes on the phone with Mitch McConnell. Now, not one person whipped out their phone to record said conversation. And if Mitch McConnell is talking to all of these people, well, why won't he talk to CBS or Fox News or News Nation or Axios or, you know, some place that could verify that he is actually able to serve the people of Kentucky? and so i think that some of these folks that are speaking out and saying well i spoke to mitch mcconnell i spoke to mitch mcconnell well okay are we supposed to just you know blindly believe you we need some sort of proof not only proof of life but we also need proof that mitch mcconnell has the the the capacity to continue to serve the people of kentucky so that's number one And I don't know that I've seen any update on his actual health. But Elaine Chao has now spoken out and I've got what she has to say coming up. But first, I want to remind you what Marjorie Taylor Greene said about how she flew to China to meet with China's vice president. And three days after Mitch McConnell had that heart attack where they had to provide CPR to keep him alive. And so this is what Marjorie Taylor Greene said. I did play this for you last night as well.

I want to call this out. This really irritates me. The Republican Party is all campaigning against communism right now. What about Elaine Chao? Elaine Chao flew to China and met with the vice president just a few days after Mitch McConnell practically died and went to the hospital. So when are we going to call out a possible communist Chinese spy right there?

You're calling his wife a possible Chinese spy.

Yes. Yes. One hundred percent. What woman leaves her husband's side while he is dead or dying in the hospital, flies to China and meets with the vice president? Answer me that.

I mean, listen, there is no answer to that. There is no answer to that. Anybody who knows anything about this story finds that abhorrent. Now, is she, you know, is she working with the Chinese government? I have no idea, but I have my suspicions. Mitch McConnell's wife breaks silence on the senator's condition. This is from MSN. Elaine Chao, the wife of Republican Mitch McConnell, has issued her first public statement since the 84 year old Kentucky senator was hospitalized on June 14th, addressing weeks of speculation about her her whereabouts and his condition. Chow said the secretary was on a long planned trip in China to support her family's philanthropic endeavors. During the trip, she met with a number of people, including the U.S. ambassador. The senator's health did not warrant an immediate return to the U.S. And so I guess that was released by her team, according to W.L.K. why Elaine Chao left for China on June 12th, two days before McConnell was hospitalized and has since returned to the United States. Her staff did not say whether she remained in contact with McConnell during his hospitalization. So she was in China on some sort of business, which The whole thing sounds a little sketch to me.

Her husband has a heart attack. CPR is needed and he's in the hospital after a year where his health has been going down the tubes quite a bit. She doesn't immediately fly home. I mean, the whole thing just sounds suspicious to me. So now Chow's statement drew some additional scrutiny because of a meeting with a senior Chinese official after McConnell was hospitalized. Remember what we talked about last night, where China China said that the meeting with Elaine Chao was about U.S.-Chinese relations and Chao said that it was about philanthropic endeavors. Well, those are not the same thing. So there's a whole lot of weirdness going on here. Elaine Chao served as transportation secretary during Donald Trump's first term, 2017 to 2021, previously served as labor secretary under President George W. Bush. So there's just a lot of bizarreness going on. You have all of these Republican leaders saying, oh, yeah, we spoke to Mitch, things are great. No problem whatsoever. But there's no tape. There's no audio. There's no proof of the nature of these conversations. And now the Democrat governor for the state of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, is chiming in what he has to say coming up next on Red Eye Radio. Brought to you by FPPF Fuel Power Max. The IFTA tax program redistributes tax revenue

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Red Eye Radio, 866-90-RED-EYE is the phone number 866-907-3339. so president trump just real quick was um asked about the whereabouts of mitch mcconnell what is going on with the um with the republican senator from kentucky this is what the president

said no i have no idea i have no idea how he's doing that's it donald trump i have no idea how

he's doing. And see, nobody really does. Governor Andy Beshear is now calling for an update on his health following weeks of speculation with little information released by his office. Basically, it looks like what Beshear is asking for is just, guys, what's an update? And you know, the thing is, you know who's screaming the loudest about Mitch McConnell. It's Republicans. It's people like me who are like, you know what? We spent four years talking about Joe Biden and his inability to serve the people of America. We got Mitch McConnell, who clearly I've been saying that he should step down for a long time. And we have a situation where we got a bunch of people who are friends of Mitch and they're saying, oh, he's fine. We had all of these great phone conversations with him. Really? Show us proof. I mean, I'm going to tell you and I love Scott Jennings and I am I'm a conservative, but I don't believe any of them. I just don't. I don't think you can trust politicians, to be perfectly honest with you. Let's see here. So here's what Andy Beshear says. Over the last several weeks, Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the current state of McConnell's health and his well-being. The ability to hold office in the United States Senate, Beshear wrote in the letter requesting a health update as public office holders. We have made a commitment to our constituents to do our best to represent them and to always be transparent, he says. I believe this requires clear communication about one's ability to serve. So, I mean, I I find myself in an awkward position because yet again, I agree with a Democrat. I agree with Andy Beshear, the governor who is considering a presidential run in twenty twenty eight also wished McConnell a safe and speedy recovery. As we all do. But transparency is key. You don't want to break that trust.

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your studio. 86690 Red Eye is the phone number. If you can't call in, you can text in 615-737-9986. It's almost like the text line, which we use for my morning show at WTN in Nashville, Tennessee. Dan Mann is here, by the way, filling in for Gary and Eric. It's almost like a completely different show is happening on the text line, as I sometimes will debate people there as well. And it's just, I try to have a lot of fun on the radio and in the text line. So if you, again, can't call in 615-737-9986. President Trump is targeting birthright citizenship again. Listen, just days after the Supreme Court allowed birthright citizenship to continue. The president thinks that maybe he has found a new path to get back to the Supreme Court. But literally, he is asking now the Supreme Court to take a second look at this case. He based his request for SCOTUS to rehear the case after signs and billboards were seen going up along the U.S. border with Mexico. Listen to this. This is insanity. They're advertising that deliveries, as in babies, deliveries in America start at the low, low price of just four thousand dollars. Now, this is all about birthright tourism. Donald Trump adding billions of dollars will be illegally made by this scam with citizenship going to anyone who will pay. The folks at Fox News heard all this and they just absolutely freaked out.

You can pay $3,950 if you want to have birth naturally. Make your child a U.S. citizen. Your foreign board, C-section, $5,525. I spoke with Ken Paxton on this, and he showed me pictures where there are houses in Texas that look residential. So it could be your neighbor's house. And you go inside the house, and there are rows of bassinets where Chinese women are coming, giving birth to a child, then going back to the Chinese Communist Party, educating their child there, and they have U.S. citizenship. which could amount to more than a million new voters in this country.

Yeah, that is Kayleigh McEnany. Now, that was on Fox News. And she's clearly horrified, as I am and as you should be, at the thought of rows and rows of bassinets of kids born in our country through birth tourism that can now go get educated in, say, China, come back here and vote, be eligible for government benefits, take advantage of America's generosity and so forth. Now, none of this is a surprise. Not even the billboards are a surprise. These kinds of stories go back decades. I remember reading about these types of, you know, baby birthing factories in California years ago, and it's happening now all across the country. You know, the first baby born in 2026 was Chinese here in America. That's right. You know how the media always does this, you know, hey, the first baby born in this particular year in this particular year was first baby born in 2026 was Chinese, a product of birth tourism. Yep. People lost their ever loving minds as they should. The New York Post in 2012. Listen to these numbers. In 2012.

Thirty six thousand foreign born women gave birth in the United States, then left. And I can only imagine what it is now. And it's only going to it's only going to get even worse because it's been all over the world broadcast that the United States Supreme Court decided that birthright, essentially birthright tourism and birthright citizenship can continue. So there's going to be a massive surge. Chinese officials estimate that the number is a staggering 50,000 of their own citizens per year are born here in America. Scholars who have studied the subject in depth, like Australia-based professor Salvatore Babonis, put the figure even higher, perhaps twice that. guy says we could have up to 100,000 Chinese babies being born as U.S. citizens every single year. He writes birth tourism may result in millions of new elite Chinese Americans. Now, this has been going on for a long time. Chinese birth tourism in the United States has been practiced for decades, but it has especially flourished in the past 15 years. So if you do the math. And I didn't. It was part of the story. That means that at least 750,000 and possibly as many as 1.5 million Chinese who are also American citizens by virtue of being born here are now

growing towards adulthood. In China, over time, only a stupid nation would allow this to happen. And they also have a website, HaveMyBabyInTexas.com.

Yeah, remember, these are billboards. I know I'm spewing a lot of words. Remember, these are billboards in Texas. I guess maybe it's not necessarily in Texas. It's actually south of the border. But they're advertising birth tourism in Mexico.

By the way, this big border advertisement right there is miles away from the border. So their audience are people that are crossing back and forth. And by the way, if you think it's just Mexicans, no, that's just a checkpoint right there. People are traveling from all across the world to come to Mexico to go pregnant. They could have their baby here in the state of Texas. And, you know, as a result of that, their kids are going to be American citizens.

Yep. I mean, yeah, obviously, again, it is horrifying. So the billboard says birth packages in South Texas, if you're going to have a natural childbirth, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. If you've got a C-section, that is five thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars. And, you know, it is very blatant. And for a nation who has been dealing with this illegal immigration for so long, this is just an absolute slap in the face, isn't it? And they're coming across our southern border. They're coming from all over the place and they're they're coming across or or they're just coming in here with a visa and having their babies. That is also something that is happening a lot.

Pictures of pools that these women can lounge by. You can buy like elite luxury birth tourism packages. It is crazy. And then Tommy Piggott at the State Department was telling me that they caught fraudulent documents coming from South Africa, North Africa. There have been more than 400 cases out of Europe in just one year alone. It is worldwide. And do you think the founders or the framers, I should say, of the 14th Amendment really intended for two billion women in the world to have access, to have a baby on our soil and boom, you're a citizen. Do you think Democrats will be against this? I will answer that. Of course,

the Democrats will be against any effort to stop birthright citizenship. They would not be against these billboards advertising for people, not American citizens, to come into our country and start birthing a bunch of anchor babies. It's the only way that I can say it. Same concept, by the way, is open borders and their parole program as well of the Biden administration. Let all of these people in and eventually you have new Democrat voters. I mean, that's that's the whole point. That's why the Democrats refuse to close the borders or enforce our immigration laws. And that's why Joe Biden had the parole program as well. By the way, the same parole program that allowed illegal aliens into our country. I did a whole segment on this yesterday where I think it was either yesterday or the day before here on Red Eye Radio. But it's like every single day.

Every day we are reminded of the consequences of Joe Biden's wide open borders, the gaslighting of the Biden administration when they said that the border was secure. And we talk about that Haitian truck driver who killed that state patrol officer in Pennsylvania. And I think the American people are really sick of it. And so Donald Trump, basically, the president is saying, please, Supreme Court, take another look. Now, the question is, can we actually do something about this from a legislative standpoint? Mike Johnson, of course, House Speaker, he's on it.

The 14th Amendment, the original intent was to enhance and really value citizenship. And it's been devalued because of birthright tourism, which is what we have now. It's a threat to the rule of law and national security. We do need to address it. We're looking at all angles. If there's some legislative fix, we'll advance that immediately. If it's a constitutional amendment, as you know, it takes a little more time. But we've got to address this. It really is a serious, serious issue.

Yeah, I don't remember earlier when I said that I don't I don't believe or trust any politicians. I'm getting that way about a lot of pundits, too. I don't think that they're really going to do anything about birth tourism. They've been talking about this for a long time. And so the president is now highlighted and commented on these. And so now the question is, will the Supreme Court take it up again? This does happen rarely, but it does happen a rehearing. I'm no Supreme Court expert, but the Supreme Court granted rehearings in Roe versus Wade, Citizens United and Brown versus the Board of Education. So we have seen instances where, yes, the Supreme Court has said, you know what, maybe we will take another look. The president, by the way, saying this. It was a miscarriage of justice. The six three ruling on birthright citizenship. The president staying saying on true social American citizenship is not for sale. In fact, this is a crime and therefore the Supreme Court's ruling is wrong. He says, I will be asking for a rehearing by the United States Supreme Court immediately. So we'll see what happened. We'll see what happens. And hopefully the hopefully Congress can do something. The Republicans in Congress can do something. But as I said earlier, we're simply not even able to get the Save America Act passed. I don't see that they're going to be able to do anything about birthright citizenship either. My name is Dan Mandis, 866-90-RED-EYE. Got a lot more straight ahead.

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Red Eye Radio, 866-90-RED-EYE is the phone number, 866-907-3339. I don't mean to sound like, you know, I make the joke on my local show in Nashville. I hate to sound like such a Danny Downer when it comes to Congress actually getting stuff done. But I think the skepticism that we all have, because I know that a lot of you folks understand the absolute dysfunction that we have, not only in Congress, but of course, in Washington, D.C. And so when I say I really don't see. The Republicans in the House or the Senate to be able to get anything done. I just don't see it happening. And I think the reason why I'm so cynical is because we have the majority in the House and we have the majority in the Senate. Obviously, we have the White House as well, and we haven't gotten done nearly as much as I would want to see get done. Now, is Donald Trump getting a lot of things done? Well, yeah, he is. He did a lot of executive orders. I don't have the exact number in front of me, but I would see a lot of those. I would like to see a lot of those executive orders made into law. Is it going to happen? Probably not. I mean, it was just what was it a week ago? I think it was like a week ago where there was about a dozen or so Republicans in the House of Representatives that literally shut down the House of Representatives. They were angry because the SAVE Act had not passed the Senate. And so they just decided as we are heading into the midterm elections, hey, you know what? Let's go ahead and just put our dysfunction on full blast. And that is exactly what they did. And they shut down the House of Representatives and Mike Johnson had to send everybody home. That wasn't the Democrats that did that.

was the Republicans. Even though the House of Representatives, they've passed the SAVE Act, what, three times now, three or four times already? They can't get it passed in the Senate. And, you know, there's a lot of Republicans that are out there saying, oh, we have some in Nashville. Oh, the problem is the Democrats. That's why the Save America Act won't pass. Bull crap. It's the Republicans. It's the I call them the rhino four. You've got Lisa Murkowski. You got Mitch McConnell. You've got Susan Collins and Tom Tillis. Those are the four. They won't pass the Save America Act, and they also won't vote to eliminate the filibuster to get it passed. So that's what I mean when I say, you know what, I would love to see Congress take some sort of of action against birthright tourism and birthright citizenship. But will it actually happen? Something substantive to ensure that it doesn't keep happening? No, I don't. I don't know if there's ever going to be a time in my life where I'm not disappointed with my own party of the Republicans. is just frustrating. And when you're a talk show host, and I know that Gary and Eric can relate to this, when you're a talk show host, and you start going down the road of, you know, complaining about your own party, some people take offense to it. But you know, the only way that things are going to get done is if you call out your own party, which is something by and large, the Democrats refuse to do. Republicans do. Democrats don't. And now the Democrats have their own war going on with all of these socialists. I think of the two parties, though, I think the Democrats are far more of a train wreck than the Republicans. Got a lot more straight ahead. Right on radio.

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