And now, America's number one show on pop culture and politics.

This is the Michael Medved Show.

And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth, but not a

great day for the U.S. economy or for Wall Street or for international markets. The Dow Jones

Industrial Average, which the Dow is about to close in about an hour. It's already down a thousand points,

a thousand and fifty nine points as of three p.m. Eastern time.

That's a huge ouch, and it may be related

to the possibility of nuclear war.

What possibility of nuclear war?

Iran has apparently, quote, indicated to Israel that sometime in the next 48 hours,

Iran is planning a very major attack,

and this would be a worse and more consequential attack than that 300 missiles that were launched

several weeks ago and were counteracted successfully by Israeli defense forces and by the

David Sling and the Iron Dome protective shield, the United States is

saying that it will stand by Israel despite whatever comes from this looming attack. And it's

interesting how Iran warned Israel of the attack. They did so

by speaking to the Hungarian ambassador, who then relayed the information to the Foreign Minister

of Israel, the Israel Cats. We will be covering that. People have been urged to get out of Lebanon before it's too late. There are already cancellation of major flights from the United States or from anywhere to Israel, except for the Israeli National Airline El Al. Meanwhile, the rest of the

political world in the United States is waiting for an announcement that could come at any time

of who has been selected by Kamala Harris to be her running mate. And a lot of the focus has been on the possibility that the

selection will be Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania. And one of the things that

stream left on the Democratic Party has tried to gin up is opposition to Shapiro because he happens to be Jewish and observant, as he describes himself, a religiously minded Jew who is active in his local synagogue in Elkins Park,

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