And now, America's number one show on pop culture and politics. This is the Michael Medved show.

And another great day, another great week, in fact, in this greatest nation on God's

Green Earth, and this greatest nation is showing some of its military power right now, this

moment. According to CNN, the U.S. Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East

and accelerated the arrival of a carrier strike group to the region ahead of an anticipated

Iranian attack against Israel. The Pentagon said in a statement Sunday evening. The USS, Georgia,

a nuclear-powered submarine armed with cruise missiles,

was operating in the Mediterranean Sea in recent days, according to the Navy, having just completed

training near Italy. This, meanwhile, in the midst of a report in the Jerusalem Post,

that says that Israeli intelligence now believes that Iran

will attack directly, will hit Israel, not just Hezbollah, but Iran itself, sometime in the next few

days. And I've mentioned to you before that Iran, which is very conscious of history and heritage and religion generally,

they know very well that tonight begins a Jewish fast day, which is actually not Yom Kippur, but this fast day,

the ninth of Av, the ninth day of the month of Av, is the darkest day in the Jewish calendar.

So there is a wide expectation that this could be beginning sometime this evening and remember they are

ahead of us by 10 hours in in in Israel so we will follow this story very closely

there is also, obviously, big news about the political race and making the

front page of the New York Times, Harris leading in three key states, new polls show. And this is a reversal in the crucial

states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan. And what you're talking about there is a total

of 36. You're talking about that's a lot of electoral votes because it's

11. It's 19 for Pennsylvania now and 16 for Michigan. So that's 35 and then 11 for Wisconsin.

Maybe down to 10, but it's, in other words, you're talking about more than enough electoral votes to change the outcome of the race.

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