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This is the Michael Medved Show.

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

A great week to fact that it begins with reports from Sky News

that the Iran has fired two missiles at a U.S. warship near the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S., our government, our military, deny that report.

They say it will start freeing up ships.

U.S. Navy destroyers will be crossing the key waterway despite Iranian warning.

The UAE, the United Arab Emirates, one of our allies in the Gulf, has intercepted Iranian missiles.

Meanwhile, the analysis is that Trump's challenge of Iran's stranglehold on the strait is a sign of frustration.

Eyewitnesses say the sound of war can also be heard from the Israel-Lebanon border,

not involving Israel and Lebanon, but involving Israel and the Hezbollah terrorist gang.

The week in video includes what Trump told Sky News.

We will be getting to that.

We'll also be speaking to the very eminent Dr. Robert Pape of the University of Chicago,

who's been with the show before,

who warns about the coming age of violent populism in the United States.

He also warns that what the first 60 days actually changed in the Iran war

was to make Iran vastly more powerful.

And Professor Pape says the next 30 days will be even worse. We'll be speaking to him

later this hour directly. Meanwhile, there is this from the Strait of Hormuz.

Two U.S. flagged vessels have successfully passed through the strait.

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