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The US forces hammered Iran for a thirteenth straight night, as the president weighs escalating the nearly five-month-old war.

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We want to get it over with, and we want to do it right.

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Trump telling Axios, I am considering a massive attack, bigger than ever before. But he has not made a final call.

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The president's policy is ahead for an eye.

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Senior officials tell ABC News, the options include strikes as large as Operation Epic Fury's opening days, possibly even bigger.

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They had some evil intentions.

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We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.

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After Iranian-allied Houthis in Yemen struck these two Saudi ships in the Red Sea, the president warning, if they do this again, major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and the Houthis.

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**Drew Mariani** (0:58)
That was ABC News on whether or not Trump's going to escalate the war with Iran. Good afternoon. I'm Drew Mariani. Thanks for joining me. It's good to be here with you. Today, we've got a lot to get into this afternoon. And I'm looking forward to diving into that with you. I just saw a weird story. I'll tell you about it coming up. Billy the Kid, they say, may have actually been a convert to the Catholic faith. And so did a very famous writer. I'll tell you that is coming up. Let's do a little bit of news, something that's unfolding. And of course, if you wanna join me in anytime, you know the number, right? Always love to have you here. The number's 888-914-9149.
888-914-9149. We'll also, by the way, pray the Chaplet in about an hour or so. If you have somebody in your life who's going through a very difficult moment, have them join us. And we will intercede for them, we'll pray together, and we'll really ask God for his mercy. So that's coming up tonight, maybe, today may be a great day for you to do that, okay?
What a, hit on a couple things came across my radar. I don't know whether this impacted you or not. I saw a headline that grabbed my attention. It said half of the internet apparently went down this morning. Like half the internet went down. What? There was a problem that occurred at AWS Amazon service. That's their server service. And issues came up around 6:40 a.m. this morning, Eastern Time, and it impacted all sorts of different areas. If you watch Hulu or were on Reddit or you use your Apple Pay or DoorDash, those were all impacted. They resolved it around 9 Of course, that's not very helpful for those businesses that were disrupted, but it took about two and a half hour period. I just sat back and I'm like, is this Iran? What's behind this? Is there an explanation? Is it an anomaly?
I found that to be kind of interesting and I just threw that out to you. I don't know if we'll see more of this type of cyber disruption, whether it is intentional or not, but I'm an observer. I just like to sit back and I like to see the patterns in things. I've been noticing the same thing happening. I have not talked to you much about it, but I've been noticing a lot of different earthquakes. We talked about the one that took place around the Ring of Fire, I think it was last month, but since then, I have tracked probably three, four, maybe five other earthquakes have taken place in the United States, and I saw one down in Texas recently, too. I like to take those different events and take a look at the pattern and kind of put it together and give you a perspective on it, but I'm just throwing that out to you. We'll see if there's any more of these disruptions.
Speaking of natural events, if you think it's hot here in the US, check out this number, 113 degrees, right?
Central Asia, Asian News was reporting that in, I think it was Tajikistan, I think, if I remember correctly. Residents had power cuts, right?
Kyrgyzstan, too, I think. Electricity was cut off in some areas because people were cranking up the, I guess their air or using more electricity. And apparently temperatures have soared way beyond 100 degrees. It caused road services to warp. Normally you might get around 100 degrees and you know, it isn't considered unusual. But if that goes on for days, it becomes problematic. Well, now they're talking about temperatures of 113 degrees or even higher. You imagine 113 degrees. I saw one report, 118, but I find that hard to believe. So good news on the crime front, and we'll talk a little bit about crime coming up in a moment and tariffs and a whole lot of other things.