Host good morning. It is sunday, april 14. I ran launched an attack on israel last night. Although israel reports it intercepted the majority of the attempted strikes, the entire region and israels allies are on alert for further escalation. We will keep you updated on the story as it continues to develop and we want to hear your reactions to the attack and with the United States should do about it. Our phone lines are republicans, 202 7488001. For democrats, 202 7488000. Independents can reach us at 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, that number is 202 7488003. Please be sure to include your name and where you are writing in from. On social media, we are at facebook. Com cspan and on x at cspanwj. There has been quite a bit of Global Reaction to these attacks. Looking at the washington post, iran launches aerial attacks at israel. Strikes threaten to further inflame a volatile mideast. Iran launched an attack of more than 200 missiles and drones, and assault the put the Israeli Military on high alert and threatens to unleash more violence in an already turbulent region. Moving to to the New York Times, rod air attack launched by iran broad air attack launched by iran. Images those 200 drones and Ballistic Missiles israel on saturday evening. The Israeli Military said in retaliation for a deadly israeli airstrike on the syrian capital this month. The attack, believed to be the first direct iranian assault inside israel, threatened open a volatile chapter in the longrunning shadow war between the two nations. We also had reaction last night from the white house with President Biden issuing a statement saying, iondemn these attacks in the stngest possible terms. The u. Military moved aircraft and Ballistic Missile defens destroyers to the region over the course of the past week. Thanks to these deployments and the extraordinary skill our service members, we helpe israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles. I have just spoken with Prime Minister netanyahu treaffirm americas comtment to the security of israel. Told himsrael demonstrated markable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks, sending a clear message to his foes that they cannot effectively threaten the securi of israel. Tomorrow, i will convene my fellow g7 leaders to coordate a diplomatic response to irans attacks. My team will engage with their counterparts across the region and stay in touch with israels leaders. What we have not seen attacks on our forces to date, we will remain vigilant to all threats and not hesitate to take all necessary actions to protect our people. There was also reaction yesterday from former President Donald Trump at a Campaign Rally in pennsylvania, where he addressed the attacks on israel. I wanted to say god bless the people of israel. They are under attack right now because we showed great weakness. The weakness we have shown is unbelievable. You know that. We know that. Everybody knows that. We send our support to everyone in harms way. This is an attack that would not happen to think about what we have to go through and what we put up with with the border, with no Energy Independence with everybody buying electric cars but we will return the world to strength and revive American History and restore american strength at home. We will respect it all over the world. Today, we are considered a joke. It is not when to be for long. It is not going to be for long. Host for updates from the Associated Press this morning, with the latest on that story. Israel hills success in blocking irans unprecedented attack. Biden seeks a diplomatic response. Israel sunday hailed Successful Air defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by iran as eight and its allies thwarted 99 of the more than 300 drones launched toward his territory. Regional tensions remain high amid fears of further escalation in the event of a possible israeli counterstrike. President joe biden said he would convene a meeting of the group of seven on sunday to coordinate a united diplomatic response. The language indicated the Biden Administration does not want irans assault to spiral into a broader military conflict. Lets go to your calls with your reaction to this news. We will start with daniel in washington, d. C. Caller i would hope people go to listen to democracy now on tv and radio and youtube so that they hear more rounded view of what has been going on in the middle east. Americas laws restrict our military aid from being used against civilians, so the military aid that has been destroying gaza is illegal in our country. Tonight i heard Michael Cohens show on youtube with a congressman and he said he is the biggest supporter of israel and i am a supportive israel too, but we need to make sure this horrible atrocity in gaza is the last one. All those children who have been horribly injured and killed are not the enemy. And it is clear racism that allows people to go on from daytoday and continue sending bombs to israel. I also want to recommend that we what is going on in this country is off the wall. The Republican Party makes up delusions and platitudes and expect that to pass for political campaigns. The president ial election is a disaster. Because host lets talk to kal in manhattan on the democratic line. Go ahead. Caller i am a fan of democracy now and i listen to them all the time. What is depressing is that you listen to the brightest minds, people actually there on the ground, and the universal reaction is hopelessness, powerlessness. No one, even the smartest minds, the most powerful politicians, have any way out of this. I am an overnight guard. I work at an apartment building. All i have been doing tonight is listening to the world fall apart and this situations is beyond anyones control now. This stroke that biden or even netanyahu or the u. N. Or the european powers or iran everybodys following this principle of machiavelli, of the reflexes of International Powers when things reach this level of chaos. People start firing guns and nobody can control it now. It is out of anyones hands and i do not know about i talked to a great number people who live in fear as to what could happen next, the idea that our hope and our savior is joe biden is incredibly depressing to us, demoralizing to our allies, and encouraging to anybody who thinks they can disrupt the world order of International Power these days. Host next we have lydia in maryland. I think it is time we think out of the box and the previous caller spoke about hopelessness. This is going to be weird, but hang with me. I think that joe biden should appoint donald trump as a special president ial assistant and allow trump to solve the problem. I do not know that trump will solve the problem, but host which problem specifically . Caller the iranisrael problem. Trump says he can do this thing in a matter of days, so lets just in effect call his bluff, put him out there. If he solves the problem, hallelujah. If he does not, we know he is not the person we want for president. So i just as people, think about think out of the box. Host steve is in san jose, california on our line for republicans. Caller thanks for taking my call. I lay the blame for not only this but what we saw last night in regards to iran and israel, but also the ukraine war, and i will tell you how i came to this conclusion. Trump had the oil from iran shut off. He said to the world, if you buy iranian oil you are not doing business with us, and the oil dried up coming from iran. In regards to ukraine, long before russia invaded ukraine, newspeople asked biden what he would do if russia invaded ukraine and his answer was host looks like we lost you. Caller on how much land they took. That is an open invitation. If we do not have world war iii hunter biden, we are going to be destroyed by inflation and terrorist attacks from our southern border. Host next up, jess is in indianapolis. Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. It is ridiculous that anyone believes these incidents would never have happened if donald trump was president. I dont think none of those leaders over there have any fear of him, so any for supporters who believe that, total stupidity. They need to quit listening to all the stupid things coming out of his mouth. I do not understand why people believe anything he says. No one fears him. People need to quit believing that people fear him. For the israeliiran situation, this has been going on for decades you are never going to get people to accept israel as being a country because they believe it was stolen land, so you are always going to have conflict back and forth between the muslims over there and the israelis, but this stuff that trump keeps putting out there that it would not happen if he was president and all that, it is really stupid that people actually believe this. Thank you. Have a nice day. Host jerry is in massachusetts. On the eve of world war i, you had the treaty with the british and french and southwest asia and you had the agreement where they decided they would create a state of israel and it is like colonialism. They are going to take property and give it to someone else. Israel was created like a hand grenade. It is going to be destroyed as it continues to fight. The more it fights, the worse it will get. You need peace through economic development, like the oasis plan. People from all over the world want development. Colonialism is over. In west africa, they are throwing the french out. They want development. They want peace through economic develop meant. The oasis plan over 50 years ago. In ukraine, biden was Vice President he helped pull a coup in ukraine 10 years ago, when this war started in ukraine. And they started outlawing speaking russian in Eastern Ukraine and started killing 14,000 people. We spent about 14 trillion since 9 11. Host lets go to alice in new york on our line for republicans. Good morning. Good morning. I sat here watching cspan and i agree with the lady that called a while ago. Get donald trump in. Donald trump is going to fix that. We never had any kind of threat our economy, everything, our country was safe and you do not even dare to go outside. Earlier this morning, i know this is going away from israel and iran host can you turn down the volume on your tv and continue . Are you still there . Caller i am. I was watching cspan earlier this morning before right after i got up. They were doing hearings on bidens school loan debts, canceling them. I do not feel that we should us taxpayers should have to pay for that. Host we are going to try to keep today on iran and israel. Lets go to crystal in philadelphia on our line for democrats. Good morning. Caller please, republicans, stop following that pied piper. Trump is getting ready to go to the first trial of many tomorrow. He cannot solve his own problems. We have to wake up, america. Host what are your thoughts on the attack launched against israel last night . Caller they had to do that as a response. Any country has to say, why are you bombing my embassy . So they did this, 300 missiles. It could have been worse. They need to calm the waters and donald trump is absolutely not combing any waters. He is here at home making all kinds of delusional talk here in pennsylvania last night. He could solve it in a day sure. He will sell out anybody to get his way, good or bad or anybody else, so he can lay claim. Please stop following the pied piper. Lord help us all. Host a bit more of the news coming out of this ongoing situation from reuters. Israel vows victory and iran once against retaliation warns against retaliation after attack. Says iran warned israel and the United States sunday of a much larger response if there is any retaliation for its mass drone and missile attack on israeli territory overnight as israel says the campaign is not over yet. The threat of open warfare erupting between the arch foes and dragging in the United States has put the region on edge as washington set america did not seek, like with iran but would not hesitate to protect its forces in israel. We also had reaction from the Israeli Military that we will share with you here. A spokesman made statement yesterday on involvement in the war, calling iran the worlds biggest state sponsor of terror. Irans terror proxies across the middle east and beyond. Iran backed hamas and backed militias in iraq and syria and houthis in yemen, expanding this into a global conflict. Iran is the worlds biggest state sponsor of terror. His network of terror does not just her and the people of israel. The regime fuels the war in ukraine and beyond. Iran will bear the consequences for choosing to ask like the situation any further. Israel is on high alert. We have increased our readiness to protect from through the from further aggression. We are also prepared to respond. The Defense Forces are prepared for all scenarios and we will take the necessary steps together with our allies to protect the people of israel. Host kim is in sacramento, california on our line for independents. Caller first, it is not that great of a morning commit to wake up to this situation going on, but what i want to say is two things. First, you cannot look at this in a bubble because it did not just happen. Israel has been targeting certain places in iran since october 7. Would happened in israel on october 7 was horrible, devastating, and people have a right to defend themselves. I do not believe that it happened on october 7. I believe that israel had been committing occupation for years, but this is could stop today. If america stopped funding it. I mean, we have to decide, is this happening on our dime or not . How many of us really want to continue a war throughout the middle east when we already have seen and we get involved it never stops the wars . Afghanistan, iraq. What is going to happen is this is also taking the real crime that is happening there is genocide happening in palestine. There is a famine going on and we are talking about that is happening maybe from both sides to take the eye off of what is really happening. If we do not get back to getting aid in soon, the famine is going to kill millions of children and women and men that have nothing to do but just want to survive. And i want to Say Something. Biden is definitely going to lose because i am letting you know i am a brown woman. I do not believe brown people and black people are going to continue to vote for this kind of war that is happening in our name with our tax dollars. We are not going to do it. We have the power to stop it. Host lets go to richard on our line for republicans. Caller god bless all americans, but this situation is not going to fix itself. The delusional democrats need to realize a senile person cannot fix problems in this world. First, biden sponsored this by giving 600 billion to iran, so now we are fighting both sides of the war here. We are paying to fight both sides. How do you win in a situation like this . Is it possible . Someone like biden should be in a nursing home. I have watched several people in my life go through what he is doing and they dont need to be trying to run anything other than being in a nursing home. Until the democrats keep if the democrats keep voting for fools like this, we will never have peace in this world. Theres nobody to stand up to it, nobody in his administration that has the ability to fix anything, only make things worse. I am sorry, but that is what it is. Thank you. Host next we have dave on our line for democrats. Go on. Caller calling in and using up my 30 day allowance to respond to the individuals who call in and happen to be supporters of the most mercurial buffoon this country has ever witnessed. As far as giving money to iran or stopping letter member our history. Even if trump stopped the flow down, the production in regard to oil then we started getting oil from russia. Youve opened the floodgates for russia and then now all that money went to russia we later see that money was used to attack ukraine and one more thing. Since youre talking about all this that this buffoon happens to have done, this administration, korea was off the train with launching missiles. I have not heard anything recently that north korea is launching all these missiles and the last thing, since he is such a great individual and he has done everything he says i dont remember that mexico builds the wall and paid for it. Host lets look at reaction for members of congress to this ongoing story. Here we have mike bosco who said, in response to irans dangerous response on israel, the House Majority leader announced a major change to the legislative agenda for next week. There have been reports that there may be some sort of motion to file legislation in support of israel. The house will medially begin consideration of an emergency israeli aid package that will leave iran with no doubt about whether we will stand with israel in their time of need. I expect it to pass with bipartisan support and for Senate Democrats to have no choice but to advance it. Enough games. It is time to act. A representative says, the retaliatory strike by iran on israel was mostly intercepted. These actions following the Israeli Attack in syria worries me. A broader conflict bringing in the u. S. Everyone must stop aggressions, including a mac gaza, with a priority on human life, not war. Former House Speaker nancy pelosi says, american support for Israel Security is resolute as we condemn irans horrible attacks. Our commitment to the israeli people and support of their defense remains unwavering and we must pass the National Security supplemental. Now back to your calls. Lets hear again from you. Andrew is in alexandria, virginia on our line for independents. Caller good morning and happy sunday. There needs to be a diplomatic solution to this immediately. There needs to be a wider, peaceful, and economic plan for the middle east also. If this escalates, i am afraid th