Chris Krok fills in for Pete (05-12-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:29] Pete and I, my show in Dallas for many years, Pete's been on with the horrific aftermath of the hurricane. And we had a great time with him on the air, like hearing that great time. I said, but you know what I mean? Just it was his depth and his knowledge was tremendous and awesome stuff. So it's great to fill in for Pete as well here on News Talk 1110 and 993 WBT. 704-570-1110 is the number. Maybe you want to tweet me out.

[00:00:58] Tweet at me or follow me on Twitter, at Chris Crocshow, C-H-R-I-S-K-R-O-K. 704-570-1110 is our number. Even Great Britain gets it. Listen to this, the far left prime minister of Great Britain. Listen to this. Let me put it this way. Nations depend on rules, fair rules. Sometimes they're written down. Often they're not.

[00:01:28] But either way, they give shape to our values. Guide us towards our rights, of course. But also our responsibilities. The obligations we owe to each other. Now in a diverse nation like ours, and I celebrate that, these rules become even more important. Without them, we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.

[00:01:58] So when you have an immigration system that seems almost designed to permit abuse, that encourages some businesses to bring in lower paid workers rather than invest in our young people, or simply one that is sold by politicians to the British people on an entirely false premise, then you're not championing growth. You're not championing justice or however else people defend the status quo.

[00:02:27] You're not championing justice or however you're not championing justice or whatever you're not championing justice. So yes, I believe in this. I believe we need to reduce immigration significantly. That's why some of the policies in this white paper go back nearly three years. Why I told the Labour Party conference, taking back control is a Labour argument.

[00:02:56] And why most importantly of all, inward migration is already falling with this government. So it's amazing that you have a far left UK Prime Minister telling you how he's rabidly against all these illegals coming in or all this mass immigration.

[00:03:14] And here you have Democrats sneaking into an ICE jail with all these, over 75% of the people in that jail in New Jersey are either convicted of felonies or charged with felonies. You have MS-13 gang members, you have rapists, you have murderers. And yet there's folks that all of a sudden care so much about illegals. I want to tell you something else.

[00:03:39] I will never forget an editorial that I read in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlanta Journal Constitution when I used to do a show over in Atlanta years ago. And this is probably 18 years ago. I can't believe how long it's been. Maybe even a little bit longer, 18, 19 years ago. And it was a column in the AJC Atlanta Journal Constitution and it was talking about this. It was a warning to African Americans.

[00:04:05] And it was saying that you are no longer or you're about to be no longer the number two or top one or two on the total poll in the Democrat Party. You are about to be usurped by Hispanics, illegal immigrants, illegal immigration, Hispanics. You are literally about to be usurped. You will no longer be number two in the Democrat Party. You will be number three or number four.

[00:04:35] Don't remember the exact amount of orders, but they were basically saying you're getting pushed to the side now for the illegals and for the Hispanic community. And how prescient that was. And now they have, Democrats have some of their core constituency. To me it's like fake anger. It's not even real anger. It's like fake angry about illegals in a freaking jail.

[00:05:00] Who, by the way, you would love for your kid to go to school in a facility like this. Do you think I'm making this crap up? They don't have any locks on the doors at night. In fact, the Fox News report described it like a school. The ICE prison. Listen to what you get. There are phones. And that's the other thing too. All these people getting apoplectic about this ICE stuff. You guys are just nuts in my opinion.

[00:05:29] Phones are everywhere for the consulate. Anybody that's in there, any one of the illegals in there has phones. They can call their consulate at any time, anywhere. They're all over the place. There are signs everywhere saying if you want to self-deport now that you've been convicted of a crime or now that you're being charged with a felony, if you want to self-deport, we will literally pay for your flight and give you $1,000 cash. There are recreational facilities, soccer fields, dominoes tables, weight equipment for weights. There are legal facilities. There are computers with webcams that you can access.

[00:05:58] The doors on the room aren't locked, as I said. It looks like a high school. It's not a prison really the way it is. And the standards, listen to this, and this is what's so amazing. We have people getting apoplectic over these Democrats who, congressfolk, who literally sneak in with a busload of illegal criminals and then shove, push, assault, and even punch ICE officers and claim they were assaulted when they were trespassing.

[00:06:29] Okay? And they're fighting for what? We want oversight. Really? Well, if you look at the facility, this is what's crazy. It's a private facility, right? The private facilities must be used because the standards of our prisons, our federal prisons, our local prisons, our state prisons, the standards of our prisons are too low for the standards that we demand, our country demands, for our illegals.

[00:06:57] In other words, you will never see these kinds of conditions in a state, federal, or local jail because they're worse. They're so much worse than the ICE facilities. They don't qualify to be used as an ICE facility. So why are you angry about all these illegals in a facility that is better than any jail in America? Why aren't you caring about Americans who are in jails, in state jails, federal prisons, local prisons that are getting crappy treatment?

[00:07:27] Nowhere near this quality. And here you are rallying for illegals who are convicted of or charged with felonies. It's – you literally make yourself look like an absolute fool. That's what this is. And then the support people that trespass, barge in and the assault officers and pretend like that's congressional oversight is the laugh of the year. The only people you're fooling is yourself and people that drink the Kool-Aid. You are not – you're going to keep wondering why the Trump folks, the people that are like Trump, keep winning in these elections.

[00:07:55] Don't wonder why it's staring you in the face as you lie to us and pretend that this is some kind of a real issue. It's not. Our number is 704-570-1110. 704-570-1110. We're going to get into coming up next. I've got a few more quick things about illegals, but I want to really get into the Trump jet from Qatar. We have – supposedly he's going to take. We also have an American-Israeli hostage being freed. He's in Israel right now.

[00:08:23] We have Trump going to the Middle East today, and part of this is the Iran negotiations. We have so much to get into. That's coming up next. This is Chris Kroc in for Pete Calendar. He's back tomorrow. He said it publicly. He's at a funeral today. So I'm not telling you something that he didn't put out there. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do too, and you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why?

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[00:09:43] Okay, do you think Trump should take this plane from Qatar? Call it Qatar, Qatar if you want. Apparently, Qatar's the right way to do it. Some call it Qatar. It doesn't bother me either way. Tomato tomorrow, right? Potato, potato. But I want you to hear Trump in his own words. This is in 2017, in his first term of president. I think it sped up a little bit, but this is some video.

[00:10:11] Trump, I think he's in the Rose Garden, talking about how much of a threat, a supporter of terrorism, etc., Qatar is. Unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level. And in the wake of that conference, nations came together and spoke to me about confronting Qatar over its behavior. So we had a decision to make.

[00:10:37] Do we take the easy road or do we finally take a hard but necessary action? We have to stop the funding of terrorism. I decided, along with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, our great generals and military people, the time had come to call on Qatar to end its funding. They have to end that funding.

[00:11:04] And its extremist ideology in terms of funding. I want to call on all of the nations to stop immediately supporting terrorism. Stop teaching people to kill other people. Stop filling their minds with hate and intolerance. I won't name other countries. But we are not done solving the problem, but we will solve that problem. Have no choice.

[00:11:32] This is my great priority because it is my first duty as president. To keep our people safe. Defeating ISIS and other terror organizations is something I have emphasized all during my campaign and right up until the present. To do that, stop funding. Stop teaching hate. Stop the killing.

[00:11:59] For Qatar, we want you back among the unity of responsible nations. We ask Qatar and other nations in the region to do more. All right. That's Trump in his own words in 2017 about how bad Qatar is. How they're not a friend. How they fund terrorism. They fund. They send billions and billions of dollars to our schools. Columbia.

[00:12:27] All these Ivy League schools. Teaching students in the Ivy League to hate Jews. To support terrorism. The funding for the propaganda. For the brainwashing. For the curricula. That teach students to hate Jews. Is funded by Qatar. Hamas, as you know. Top three leaders of Hamas.

[00:12:57] Most of whom who have gone to be with Allah, if you will. Given dirt naps. They were living in Qatar, as you know, in a five-star luxury hotel. Because, and by the way, you saw the leaders of Hamas, I'm sure, on video. Getting down on their knees and just being so excited and celebrating the slaughter of our Jewish friends in Israel.

[00:13:23] The rape, the beheadings, the vicious, sickening, evil, wicked attack on our Jewish friends. Our Jewish brothers and sisters there in Israel. That's what Qatar supports. That's what Qatar likes. And so, no way in hell should Donald J. Trump take that plane. And I do understand his dilemma.

[00:13:45] Because when I share with you how bad the track record of Boeing is with this new Air Force One. That should have been built a long time ago. Wait until you hear what the Boeing, the last time Air Force One was commissioned under Ronald Reagan. How long it took from getting a commission to then actually having the plane to then getting a test flight. And then being, in effect, Air Force One versus now. It's a disgrace. It's a joke.

[00:14:15] Trump is owed an Air Force One. And it's not the fact that he's getting an Air Force One from another government, another country. It's who he's getting it from. So I'll posit some questions for you. Would you think it would be okay for Trump to accept an airplane? And I really don't think he's going to end up going through with this because it looks so bad. It's horrible. It doesn't even look bad. It is bad.

[00:14:42] Would you support Trump accepting an Air Force One from the Taliban? How about from ISIS or Al-Qaeda? How about from Hamas? I mean, literally, you know, how about funding from the same people that fund the students who assault, terrorize, say vicious, hateful things to our Jewish folks at our schools? I'm a Christian, but I'll tell you what. I wish I was there to stand with them because I would.

[00:15:13] You insult them. You attack them. You attack me. You insult me. That's the way this has got to be. And I know, I thought about this more last night as I was preparing for today's show of filling in for Pete. I know that things are so messed up and nuance is a horrible word. That's what the left says. Nuance, nuance, nuance. It's their excuse for not having moral clarity. But in this case, I know that things are more complicated.

[00:15:41] I know that in Saudi Arabia they funded terrorism and they funded 9-11 and they helped it happen. But yet I know they are a critical ally in the Middle East. I know that they are one of the most important things to helping fight against Iran and its desire to kill every Jew on this planet and to kill us. I know that we must make alliances with people who are not our friends, even though they may act like they're our friends publicly.

[00:16:07] Or that don't mind us as long as we aren't Jewish and want to eliminate the Jews. I mean, how do you deal with these people? I understand that this is not as easy as it is, but you don't take a dang plane from them for Air Force One. You just don't. And so I really am like, are you kidding me, dude? I knew about this. As soon as I heard of Cutter, I'm like, come on. So no, he should not take the plane. By all means, here I'll just pause it right now. Would you take the plane?

[00:16:37] Would it be okay for Trump to take the plane if it was from Hamas? How would you feel about a terror entity supplying to him? Because these are the people that fund the terror entity and support the terror entity. There's no way we should take this. It's how it would be given to, from whom it would be given. I'm going to give you some ideas about how bad Air Force One is as far as the pathetic non-progress from Boeing coming up next.

[00:17:03] And then we're going to get into the Israeli-American, the last American hostage released. He's in Israel right now. And Trump in the Middle East to broker some kind of a deal, perhaps, with Iran. How should he handle that? What should we do to Iran to dismantle them? All that is next. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina, just a quick drive up the mountain? And Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal,

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[00:18:25] Or check out all there is to offer at cabinsofashville.com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. Okay, we have a lot to get into. The plane, though, that Cutter wants to give President Trump for Air Force One and then perhaps to be gifted to his presidential library, it's not the gift, it's who it's coming from. If this came from Great Britain, I would not care. There's so many places. You could even get away with Saudi Arabia doing it, but you cannot get away with Cutter doing it.

[00:18:56] I'm going to share this before we take Jim's call. By the way, this is Chris Kroc filling in for Pete Callender. He'll be back tomorrow on News Talk 1110 and 993 WBT. 704-570-1110 is our number. 704-570-1110. Would you be okay if this gift to Trump was from Hamas or from Hezbollah, from Al-Qaeda?

[00:19:22] Because Hamas and Al-Qaeda members have been housed and kept by Cutter, kept safe. I'm going to read you this real fast. My buddy Eric Erickson is a prolific and great writer. Cutter is a safe haven for Hamas, which I described in the last segment to you. They collaborate with Iran. They give safe haven to Al-Qaeda terrorists. They funded jihadis around the world.

[00:19:51] They funded the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses that I'm so passionate about that you are too, I'm sure, because it's evil. They funded Al-Jazeera. They throw money at American universities in the way that China has done with its Confucius Institutes. They funded jihadists who have kidnapped and murdered Americans. Why in God's name would you want to accept any gift from these folks? By the way, another little tidbit I got from my buddy was, I didn't know this, Attorney General Pam Bomdi.

[00:20:21] A servant is a lobbyist for Cutter, making over $100,000 a month. This is not good. This is not good at all. Not good. And by the way, I do understand Trump's tremendous and sincere and very appropriate desire to get Air Force One in. You know why? Check this out. Look at the timeline between the Air Force One that Ronald Reagan commissioned and this one. They're both, listen to this. This is going to really blow you away.

[00:20:51] It should. Boeing built the Ronald Reagan Air Force One that he commissioned in 1985. Boeing is supposed to be doing the one that Trump commissioned in his first term. Watch this. Air Force One commissioned by Reagan in 85. One year after Reagan commissioned it, it was built. One year. You hear that? Two years they were taking test flights with Air Force One. In five years, Air Force One was officially the new jet.

[00:21:20] So one year it was built. Two years it was tested. Five years it was flying the president around. Okay? Now look at Trump with also with Boeing commissioning the next Air Force One. He commissioned the Air Force One in his first term in 2018. Seven years ago he commissioned this. Okay? Seven years ago he commissioned it and nothing's been built.

[00:21:45] So you go from five years it's flying the president around to seven years we don't even have a flipping plane. So literally the earliest it's going to happen is 10 or 11 years from being commissioned. So you literally have two or more times. And two times is probably not going to be. It's probably going to be longer than that. Boeing can't even make a dang plane with all the technology, all the stuff we have nowadays compared to back in 85.

[00:22:11] They can't even make it in less than double the time at least than it took in 85. That's why he's mad he should be. And I think he's also really, really mad and frustrated righteously, rightfully, because he commissioned it. He wants to enjoy it. The one he's flying around right now is, I think it's, was it 43 years old? Or 39 years old? Something like that. So here's my hope. Here's my sincere hope.

[00:22:40] He should never take this plane from Qatar. But here's my sincere hope that he's using Qatar as leverage, as negotiation to get Boeing to either give him his money back and do something else or to get the dang thing done. This is insane. Let's go to Jim. Oh, by the way, our winner on the Yacht Rock review tickets is Dave from Charlotte. Congrats, my man. Jim, you are on News Talk 1110 and 993 WBT. Chris in for Pete. Hello.

[00:23:07] Yeah, Chris, I was going to say something else about the airplane, but since you read what you did about Qatar, I think Trump ought to take the airplane. I'm sure it's got a lot of Islam imagery inside of it. You get all that out and donate it to Franklin Graham's organization right here in North Carolina. Absolutely. Samaritan's Purse. I think that would be the ultimate kick in Karane's, you know what.

[00:23:36] But this thing about Boeing, let me tell you something. We're their headquarters. You've got the most Democratic leftist people out there that you can have literally in the whole country. I've met some of them, even ones working for Boeing. Aren't they in Washington State? I think they're in Washington State, right? Or is it Chicago? Washington State. That's right. Yes, although Boeing's got plants around the country. Yeah, right.

[00:24:02] That's where technically, well, technically the headquarters may be Chicago, but that's really where the nuts and bolts of decisions still come from Washington State. But let me tell you something. All you'd have to do to straighten that crap. Boeing's not the same organization it was 10 or 15 years ago. They're building some junk. You know, just ask NASA or people that are trying to promote U.S. space policy. They're building some junk.

[00:24:29] And all you'd have to do is shut out a couple of federal or NASA contracts, and they'd probably get their thinking straight, probably get their minds straight real quick. Yeah, I agree. But, yeah, strip out all that Islamic imagery out of that Koran 747 and donate it to Franklin Graham. Franklin's got a 767 or 777. Good. Because I never will forget after Fukushima, Franklin was in Japan with that 767, 777 immediately.

[00:24:59] God bless him for that. My family and I over the years have donated to Samaritan's Purse, Franklin Graham's fantastic ministry. I appreciate your call, my friend. Thank you very much. Okay, so coming up next, I want to talk about an American hostage free. He's in Israel now from Hamas. I want to talk about Hamas negotiations. I have a lot to say about that. And Iran. Trump is going to do – well, he and his team are doing more negotiations.

[00:25:25] He'll be in the Middle East, and part of those negotiations are Iran and trying to take away their nuclear capabilities without taking away their ability to have nuclear power plants. Big difference between those two. I want to get into that coming up next and what he should do with Iran. I have a very strong opinion to share with you on that. Coming up next, this is Chris Kroc in for Pete Callender. All right, so spring is here, a time of renewal and celebrations.

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[00:26:48] Get all the details at createavideo.com. Okay, 21-year-old dual Israeli and American citizen, our last American citizen held hostage by the terrorist Hamas. 21-year-old young man who's been in captivity 583 days is free. He's in Israel right now. And I'm very happy for that as his parents are and all of us should be.

[00:27:15] Meantime, the military, the IDF is going to go in with Gideon's chariots, a new plan to crush, take control of Gaza. More civilians south, strike Hamas and prevent it from seizing aid. Absolutely crush them. Crush them. Crush them. Crush them. And I don't want any let up. Hamas, by the way, now that they released this American, wants to negotiate with Trump. Listen, I hope to God that Trump does not negotiate a ceasefire. I do not want a ceasefire.

[00:27:45] I want Hamas eliminated. And I know it's impossible. I know there's always going to be terrorists are cockroaches. Islamists are cockroaches. They pop up everywhere. You can never stop all the Islamists, all the radical Islamists. But nonetheless, I want them totally crushed and eliminated. They are so, so, so devastated as an entity. It's hard to keep up with all the terrorists they killed over and over again, week after week, day after day, all the leadership.

[00:28:12] And look at their success, the IDF success with Hezbollah. Tremendous. Literally, they took out every single leader. And they even took out the entire leadership of the Shura Council. The Shura Council picks the leaders. So they took out all the Hamas leadership. It should be Hezbollah leadership. And then after that, they took out the Council of the Pigs leadership. I love it. In the meantime, Trump is arriving today for his first overseas trip. And this is going to be the Middle East.

[00:28:40] And part of the whole visit is going to be about negotiations with Iran. And there is no way in heck that Iran should ever be allowed in these new negotiations to be able to enrich their own uranium. There is no reason to need to enrich uranium.

[00:29:04] Because enriching uranium will give you the ability, if you can enrich it above 3.67% or higher, you can then make a nuclear weapon. And guess what? Iran can make a nuclear weapon, at least the warhead, excuse me, they can make the warhead within about a week. They'll have enough orange uranium to have a nuclear bomb within a week. The only last piece of the puzzle is a ballistic, intercontinental ballistic missile, which may take six months or so.

[00:29:32] Depending on who you ask, it could be a little bit less, it could be a little bit more. Trump, he had better not. He had better not try to do some kind of Obama-esque agreement. Because all that is... Let me just give you fresh reminders here. A day before their talks today, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei welcomed chants of death to America in Tehran. Your judgment is right, he told the crowd of supporters. Death to America. America.

[00:30:02] They want to kill us, they want to kill everybody, every Jew on this planet, and that's what they're going to do. They cannot, under any circumstances, have a nuclear weapon. They must not, they cannot, they never should be able to, and they must not be allowed to enrich uranium anymore. There are 20 or 30 countries across this planet of ours that do not enrich their own uranium, yet have peaceful nuclear power plants. How do they do it? They import the enriched uranium.

[00:30:30] They import what they need to have a nuclear facility. They don't need to enrich it themselves. Their centrifuges, which is what they do, what they use to enrich uranium, must be destroyed. And I'm going to tell you something else that's going to go down. Trump says he's giving them 60 days. Maybe he'll give a little more leeway, but here's the deal. I do strongly believe, I do unequivocally believe, that we will be bombing Iran and ending the nuclear weapons program.

[00:30:59] Apparently you can't completely wipe it out, but you can totally, totally, totally cripple it, devastate it, and put it on, you know, make it totally neuter it for the foreseeable future by bombing the heck out of it. And the only country that can bomb the heck out of Iran and go down to those 350-foot and deeper facilities is the United States of America with the latest bunker buster technology we have. We're the only country in the world that has it and can do it.

[00:31:29] And by the way, look for this. Now, first of all, we have 20, we have a fleet, a total fleet of B-2 stealth bombers is 20. That's the total amount we have. Six of them, as of last count the other day, are at the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean, which is where you would put them to strike Iran in the Middle East. I want to pause that and come back to it coming up next. But I want to ask you this. How do you want to deal with Iran? How do you want President Trump? How do you personally want to deal with Iran?

[00:31:59] Because the only way to stop them is to bomb them. That's what I say. It's Chris Crockett for Pete Callender on News Talk 1110 and 99.3 WBT. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them, too, and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallendershow.com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.