Here's a look at some headlines from the first 20 minutes of this “Round-Up” broadcast.  Later on, listeners were given the opportunity to share their thoughts:

--At 2:19am Eastern Time this morning, before adjourning for a 2 week recess, the U.S. Senate passed a bill approving Department of Homeland Security funds to pay TSA agents, but it excludes money for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.    

--Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is said to be leading diplomatic talks with the U.S., praised Hamas' October 7, 2023, massacre against Israel as a victory and recently threatened to, “...make the Persian Gulf run with the blood of invaders” if Washington targets regime assets on islands there.

--Iran has rejected a 15 point cease-fire proposal from the U.S. while offering a 5 point counter-plan of their own.

--Iran just released a video simulating a missile attack on the Statue of Liberty.

--Iran's IRGC Navy Commander was targeted and killed in an Israeli attack.

--Multiple Gulf and Arab states are taking a far more forceful posture concerning Iran.

--President Trump extended, by 10 days, possible attacks on Iran's energy sector. 

--The Pentagon is considering sending up to an additional 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East according to a senior defense official.

--The Saudi Crown Prince has been pushing President Trump to continue the war with Iran.

--Russia is sending drones and other equipment to Iran this month.

--President Putin of Russia reportedly has asked the nation's ultra-wealthy oligarchs to donate funds to help boost the nation's dwindling military budget as its four year old war with Ukraine continues.

--In the waning days of President Biden's term, his administration entered into a secretive sweetheart settlement with an alleged Iranian front group. 

--Former CIA Director John Brennan appeared on MSNOW, saying he tends to believe Iran more than President Trump.

--Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia shows participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for cheers every time an American service member comes home in a casket.

--A Palestinian hospital doctor was caught by Israeli authorities several weeks ago while attempting to smuggle dozens of rare, 2,000 year old Hebrew coins, through a checkpoint in Judea.

--Tucker Carlson no longer sees China as a major threat and is calling for the U.S. to share power with Beijing in a new world order and with a weakened America.