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The Big Ben Show

President Trump Pulls The Trigger On Iran

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5576 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ben examines President Trump's decision to pull the trigger on Iran's nuclear program and discusses the results of the NYC mayoral primary. Senior Director of FDD's Iran Program Behnam Ben Taleblu provides his analysis of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Then, FOX News Senior National Correspondent Aishah Hasnie joins to talk Pacers, party divisions on Capitol Hill, and Senate Majority Leader Thune's leadership under President Trump. Later, Ben shares more about the exciting announcement of his third child. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, boys and girls, welcome back to another edition of the Big Ben show.

0:14.5

You can email us, as always, at Big Ben at Fox.com.

0:18.0

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0:24.1

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0:30.3

share it with your friends. Today I want to talk to you about this momentous week where Donald Trump made the decision to pull the trigger on the Iranian nuclear program in a way that

0:35.6

many of us never expected would actually happen.

0:39.9

Of course, the follow-on to that was back and forth between Israel, Iran, and programs that have

0:47.0

been at odds when it comes to the Middle East for decades, going back in terms of their

0:53.9

opposition for years and years in ways that really

0:58.7

the president hoped to resolve.

1:01.2

Unfortunately, from his perspective, this is something that led into a situation that he

1:06.4

didn't anticipate and one that, frankly, left him frustrated.

1:13.0

Cut one. I'm not happy that Israel's going out now. There was one rocket that I guess was fired overboard. It was after the time limit,

1:19.8

and it missed its target. And now Israel's going out. These guys got to calm down. Ridiculous.

1:29.6

I didn't like plenty of things I saw yesterday. I didn't like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal.

1:34.8

They didn't have to unload. And I didn't like the fact that the retaliation was very strong.

1:40.4

But in all fairness, Israel unloaded a lot. And now I hear Israel just went out because they felt it was violated by one rocket that didn't land anywhere.

1:50.0

That's not what we want.

1:51.0

I'll tell you, and I'm telling you, I'm not happy about that Israel either.

1:55.0

This is Donald Trump sounding a lot like the way that I talk when my four-year-old and two-year-old are fighting with each other,

2:01.9

cut four.

2:02.7

We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't

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