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Why is America Funding Iran? - October 18th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, our top story remains what's going on in Israel.
28 neighborhoods, kibbutz, as they call it in Israel, in northern Israel, have now been evacuated.
And one of the great fears is because Hezbollah, again, funded by Iranian money and strategic support, military support, has been firing rockets into Israel from the north on top of what's been going on with Gaza.
And, you know, now seemingly we're on edge waiting for a ground war to begin.
And it's going to happen.
I don't think it's if, it's when.
That would be a two-front war.
Now, that's not new to Israel.
If you look at its history, they've been attacked from all sides before, and they always prevail, but it doesn't make it any easier.
Now we've got another part of the equation that we've got to be really paying attention to, and that is Iran.
The very Iran, Iran, whatever you want to call it, you know, whose mullahs are the number one state sponsors of terror.
The same people that for whatever inexplicable reason, Barack Obama and Joe Biden seem to just want to be pals and friends with.
Not sure how you can be friends with people that want to destroy Israel and destroy the U.S. Death to Israel, death to America.
That's often been a chant we've heard out of Iran.
If you go back to this hostage ransom payment of Joe Biden, okay, $6 billion in frozen assets that were held in a South Korean bank were moved to a bank in Qatar.
And I thought this issue was long dead and gone because I had read that they came to a quote secret agreement meeting Qatar and the U.S. and that they would not be handing over any of the $6 billion to Iran, especially learning that their Quds forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces, had been up to their eyeballs in the plotting and the planning and the scheming of this terrorist attack, you know, on Israel.
I thought the issue was dead and gone.
I read it in almost every media outlet.
Well, apparently, that is not necessarily true because apparently that money might go to them.
Now, the Iranian leaders are all claiming, no, we're getting that money.
What are you talking about?
Nobody's going to prevent us from getting the money that was transferred from one bank to another.
Anyway, so we're trying to get to the bottom of it.
Now we have Senator Marsha Blackburn.
We had her on about this issue, Tennessee.
We also have Senator Dr. Roger Marshall of Kansas.
They're going to join us in a second.
Why would America ever give $6 billion of ransom payment to a country that is the number one state sponsor of terror that wants to destroy Israel and destroy the United States?
That really doesn't make sense, does it?
You have the Cynthia Loomis, who's the senator from Wyoming.
You have Marco Rubio.
You have Katie Britt of Alabama.
You have Rick Scott of Florida.
You have Mike Lee of Utah.
They've all joined as co-sponsors to this bill.
And this legislation will halt all funding that would go to Iran until Iran is expelled from the United Nations.
And talking about this group, you know, how is it possible that we would reward them after all of this?
Now, Donald Trump was forbidding them from even selling their oil.
Now they're making more money.
They're an oil-rich nation again since Joe Biden's become president.
And now, Joe, just like, you know, the time he was vice president with Obama, now they want to make deals with the Iranian mullahs.
Death to Israel, death to America.
Not hard to comprehend.
Anyway, joining us now, just ahead of Biden's visit to Israel, Marsha Blackburn did introduce this legislation to stop all the funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees.
Biden promised, what, $100 million just when he was in Israel?
Any money that goes to the Palestinians, I promise you, will never get to them.
It'll end up in the hands of Hamas and other terrorists.
Anyway, Senator Blackburn and Senator Marshall, thank you both for joining us.
Delighted to join you, Sean, and thank you for spending so much time on this issue and bringing it forward to the American people.
As you said, if they're watching mainstream media, they are not finding all of this out.
Can you explain?
You read what I read, I'm sure, that they had made a private deal that Iran wouldn't get the money.
Was that deal struck or not?
Well, they are telling us it was, but bear in mind, before the 20 of us sent them a letter saying rescind these waivers and never let Iran touch this money.
And by the way, double down and implement the sanctions that have been put in place so that we stop Iran from producing oil.
Well, before we sent that letter, they were silent on this money.
We send the letter, then they come out after they've gotten all this pressure and they're saying, oh, we made a silent deal.
We're not going to let Iran get that money.
But then what we're saying is, look, you've got to formalize it.
We have to pass legislation that will prohibit you from allowing them to have that money after all of the media attention dissipates on this Hamas attack on Israel.
And to add, you know, you know, more to the story, the Iranian nuclear deal is over.
They're free to produce nuclear weapons.
And everything I've read, Dr. Senator Roger Marshall, everything I've read has shown me that they're very close to being a nuclear-armed country.
Am I correct?
Yeah, that's right, Sean.
So Iran is probably at 60% enrichment right now.
And what no one is pointing out is the science is that they can connect those centrifuges in series.
And really, they can make a nuclear warhead, I think, just in a matter of weeks.
But this is once again why it was so important that Senator Blackburn got ahead on this with her letter.
You know, I would explain it like this: Iran had not cashed the check yet.
So Joe Biden had sent them the check.
They hadn't cashed it yet.
So Senator Blackburn and her office cops had caught him on this.
So I do think thanks to her efforts, we're going to be able to store for Iran to develop nuclear warheads.
Can you explain to me, Senator Marshall, exactly why it's a bad idea to offer relief for the Palestinian people?
Do you agree with me?
Do you concur with me that any money, American money that is sent to help innocent people, and I'm sure there are plenty of innocent people there, that it will never make it to them and that Hamas, just like they've used cement that was meant to build hospitals and schools and electricity that was supposed to be used for infrastructure and other infrastructure projects, that the U.S. gave them hundreds of millions of dollars.
Israel even contributed tens and hundreds of millions of dollars.
They were used to build a network of tunnels in preparation of days like what happened two Saturdays ago.
Right.
You're spot on, Sean.
Senator Blackburn and myself been to Israel multiple times, and what you're describing is exactly what happens.
I've been in those tunnels, sir.
I've been there with you.
Yes, sir.
You bet.
So the United States sends money to these Palestinian organizations, and they use it to feed the terrorist troops with, right?
So that's exactly what goes on here.
Again, I'm reminded of what President Eisenhower said once upon a time.
He said that I hate war as only a soldier who's lived it can, one who's seen its brutality, its futility, and its stupidity.
Sean, we got weeks and months ahead of us.
This is going to be ugly.
Israel needs an ally that's going to stand beside them no matter what, not matter if, but no matter what.
We need to stand beside them.
We need to stop, encourage them.
We have to cut the head of the snake off.
Iran is the head of this snake, and we need to make sure all of it's- Well, let me ask both of you.
How do you plan on cutting off the head of the snake?
Well, one of the things that we can do is continue to go after all of this funding, these pockets.
And you mentioned the U.N. relief and work agency that is there for the Palestinian refugees, and President Trump cut all the funding to it.
Joe Biden has really just, he's put in $730 million into that.
And that is going into Hamas.
They have hired Hamas-affiliated people.
They used the facilities of UNRWA there in Gaza to store weapons.
So we go after that.
We continue to go after the $6 billion.
We try to get Jake Sullivan fired because he has not served us well.
And then let's put these Trump-era sanctions back in place.
Right now, Iran has really juiced up their oil production to the point that they are making a billion dollars a week selling oil to China and Russia.
So those sanctions would go a long way to disallowing them to sell that oil.
And Sean and Senator Marshall, from my standpoint, elections have consequences.
It's going to be hard to cut the head off this snake as long as Joe Biden is the president of the United States.
He actually empowers Iran.
If you think about what he's done as the president of the United States, we've seen Iran's federal reserves go from $6 billion to $60 billion under his watch.
We've seen Iran grow its ghost armada from 20 ships now to 300 ships, allowing Iranian and Russian oil to be sold to China, as Senator Blackburn pointed out, to the tune of a billion dollars a week.
So we have to go after them with bank sanctions, stopping any type of nuclear research.
In all ways, as far as I'm concerned, Iran is dead to me.
It is the snake.
It is the source of all evil.
It funds all these terrorist organizations, and America is not safe as long as Iran is in power.
I guess I'm a little surprised, maybe only at one thing.
And I'll say this to both of you because, you know, you're both spearheading this effort, and we have all these co-sponsors, but I only count five co-sponsors.
Why isn't every Republican senator co-sponsoring this, Senator Blackburn?
We need to have every Republican co-sponsoring it.
Indeed, we need to get to 60 co-sponsors on this because everyone should agree.
Hamas is a terrorist organization.
The U.S. named Hamas a terrorist organization in 1997.
Their own charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
That's right.
They are funded.
They are funded by Iran.
As you said, their charter calls for wiping Israel off the face of the earth.
Iran backs them in that effort.
And they likewise fund Hezbollah.
Everybody should be on this with us.
And Sean, we are continuing.
Everybody should be, but they're not.
You know, even after the evidence came out that, in fact, it was the Islamic jihad and acknowledged by even Hamas in this intelligence when they picked up communications and all the other visual evidence that has been released.
You just had even earlier today, just a couple hours ago, well, hours and hours after the release of the evidence that it was not Israel that bombed this hospital, but of course the media mob just ran with the talking points fed to them by the Hamas group and their representatives.
There's Congresswoman Talib blaming Israel.
Listen.
Continue to watch people think it's okay to bomb a hospital when children.
You know what's so hard sometimes is watching those videos and the people telling the kids don't cry and like let them cry.
And they're shaking.
And somebody, you know this, they keep telling them not to cry in Arabic.
They can cry.
I can cry.
We all can cry.
If we're not crying, something is wrong.
And so I'm telling you right now, President Biden, not all America's with you on this one.
And you need to wake up and understand that.
We are literally literally watching people commit genocide and killing a vast majority just like this.
And we still stand by and say nothing.
We will remember this.
But all of you, you need to know.
I swear to God, you are on the right side of history.
You are.
You're doing everything possible to save lives.
What is wrong with that?
Stop it.
We're trying to try to politicize this.
A little scary, Senator Marshall.
It is.
And Sean, you know, I'm a physician.
I'm not going to go down to emotional depths that maybe some people would go here.
Again, I think that, again, I want to make sure Americans realize that the blood of all these people is on the hands of Hamas and Iran.
And of course, this is a lie.
What she is saying is an absolute lie.
Israel did not bomb that hospital, that it was - that the terrorists bombed it.
And you're going to see this image over and over again with innocent women and children dying during this war.
And that's why I say war is horrible.
That's what President Eisenhower was trying to say.
But the bloodshed, all the blood is on the hands of Hamas and Iran.
If Hamas would lay down their arms and leave the Gaza Strip, this would be over with.
But they're not going to do that.
And here's just one more point I want to make.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is in Israel begging Israel to stand down.
That's why Joe Biden is in Israel.
He's weak knee.
He's a gutless wonder.
So while our American hostages are being tortured, Joe Biden's over there asking Israel to stand down.
This is going to be a tough, I think, month over the next several weeks, months going on here where we're going to see people dying.
And Americans can't buy this.
Don't buy what the national media is going to feed them.
Wait till the actual intelligence comes out.
Look, this was terrorists from Hamas that killed these kids and the people in that hospital.
I got to run, but I appreciate both of you for your hard work.
Thank you both for being with us, Congresswoman Blackburn and Congressman Marshall.
Thank you.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones.
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Bill in Los Angeles, K-E-I-B.
What's up, Bill?
How are you?
Hi, Mr. Hennerty.
As a former newspaper writer, myself, and a Columbia J School grad, 86, I think that whatever credibility the corporate media had before these outrageous headlines about Israel allegedly bombing the hospital has been destroyed by journalistic negligence.
They had no evidence or even credible sourcing to conclude that Israel.
No, they had none at all whatsoever, as we've been laying out all day.
And all they did without any questioning at all was quote a terrorist organization and the propaganda they put out.
And they all ran with it.
And, you know, and we had Congress people doing the same.
You know, they just ran with it.
And I'm talking about the initial, you know, quoting of CBS and ABC and fake news, CNN, MSDNC, the AP.
You know, I can go on and on and on.
They all just went with the propaganda and doubled down.
Bloomberg, you know, the French press agency, the New York Times.
I could just keep going.
You know, ABC Associated Press, BBC World News, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, et cetera.
Well, we were just quoting them directly.
They all got it wrong.
And you know what?
And here's something that Israel probably shouldn't have had to do, but they had to do it anyway.
I know that sounds contradictory.
They had to, I'm sure they didn't want Hamas to know that they had such sophisticated eavesdropping abilities that they had the conversation and they picked it up.
But they had to defend themselves from what was worldwide condemnation and outright lies about what they didn't do.
So they had to defend themselves.
And in the process, they gave up a little bit of information because now every terrorist in the area knows that the likelihood that Israel is listening to their phone call is probably very high.
And that kind of sucks for Israel.
That compromises their security in the process.
So I don't know what to tell you except that I've been dealing with the fake news media industry my entire career.
They lie about me constantly.
I have no recourse as a public figure because of Times of E. Sullivan.
I can't sue them for liable without wasting a ton of money and ending up losing.
And the bar is so high.
How do I possibly prove that in their heart they had malice against me?
They're just going to say, well, we were just quoting another source and I won't win that case.
But that, you know, in my case, it's nothing.
In this case, it was worldwide condemnation of an innocent country.
And they had no choice.
They had to defend themselves.
And in the process, they compromised their sophisticated intelligence gathering.
And that sucks.
Anyway, it makes sense, Bill?
Yeah, and I think that the late Fred Friendly of CBS News and former dean of Columbia J School is spinning in his grave.
And he was a very objective liberal seeker.
And there's no pretense of seeking truth.
This is just political posturing.
And since you mentioned Congressman, this is the same outfit that gave us Adam Schiff's Russia collusion hoax.
And they've never explained that.
Well, they lied about that.
We got it right.
They wouldn't vet Obama.
I vetted Obama.
They wouldn't, they're not looking into the Biden family.
looking into the Biden family.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Thank you, Bill.
Let's stay in California.
Frank is next.
Frank, how are you?
What are you doing out there paying all those taxes?
I'm good, Sean.
How are you doing?
Yeah, I'm paying a lot of taxes.
I've talked to you before.
It's been quite a while.
You said, you know, after a while, Americans will get fed up with the, you know, them not electing the speaker.
Well, I'm already fed up with it.
I mean, these guys are, you know, they like to cannibalize themselves.
They love it on CNN and MSNBC.
They're having a great time with it.
And it just makes us look not effective as a governing body.
And they need to get it on and just get Jordan, elect him, and get this over with.
Well, that would be the common sense solution to me, especially in the times in which we find ourselves living.
But they're going to do it their way, which is the dysfunctional way.
And they're going to do it and make it, they're going to personalize it all.
And, you know, I never liked the idea that any decision, like, for example, the next speaker Republicans pick is only going to be officially speaker until January of 2025.
That's a year and two and a half months.
That's 14 and a half months.
Why don't you just take your best open the people's house up again and deal with these important issues of our time?
I don't think it's that complicated, do you?
No, I agree 100%.
It's not hard.
And I don't need talking about the Democrat they're talking about putting into it to have speakers.
They should be voted out of office immediately.
I mean, that is the most ridiculous, stupid idea that I've ever heard in my whole entire life.
Well, there are a lot of stupid ideas and a lot of dumb things that go on in Washington.
Maybe if there's only one benefit, they're not picking our pockets right now because there's no amount of debt they won't accumulate as long as they keep their power.
That's always been a problem.
And, you know, unfortunately, you know, the American people have always said that term limits is a bad idea because I prefer an informed electorate, you know, that follows their elected representatives and know what they're up to.
But name recognition tends to be, you know, of very high value when reelection comes around.
Also, gerrymandering plays a big role in it.
And all these districts are literally carved out specifically so that there are not many swing districts.
And as a result, this is what you get.
You get a bunch of people that are institutionalist and they just want to be there and they like being called congressman and congresswoman.
And, you know, they don't work that hard.
If I ever took the amount of vacation they take every year, you wouldn't want to listen to this show because it would be fill-in hosts every other day.
I'd be taking months off at a time.
Could you imagine me taking a month off?
I'll give you an example.
I was supposed to be off the weekend of Columbus Day, the whole weekend.
Okay.
War broke out on Saturday.
And a typical note, ask, Linda can verify this.
What did I say?
We're working Monday.
Right?
And by the way, how many times has that happened?
Let me tell you.
Every time.
Every time, almost.
Every time I plan a day off.
And Linda, at one point, used to get mad.
She doesn't get mad anymore.
No, I expected I plan any day off to be in the office.
And make no plans.
You make no plans because that's the business we're in, and that's our work ethic.
I'll tell you what I would tell all of them right now.
I want you to go in a room, you know, make sure there's enough bathroom facilities available.
Everybody lock their phone up and nobody leaves the room until they pick a speaker.
Nobody.
You know, and that means you can sleep in the room if you get tired.
You can order as much pizza and Subway sandwiches or whatever you want.
You can order it, you know, with the taxpayers.
Oh, no, no.
No taxpayer money.
And they should go in and they should buy their own food.
And they, you know, maybe after seven days, if they're still in the room, you give everybody, you know, 15 minutes to take a shower and then come right back in the room.
But they can't touch their phone.
And then you don't come out until you have done your job.
I don't know.
Is that my old-fashioned work ethic kicking in?
Does that sound like a terrible idea?
I don't think so.
They're never going to do it.
They've been taking weekends off during all of this.
And I get reasons for it with, you know, I talk to my sources and they say, well, they're hoping that people's heads will cool down.
You know, let them all explode in the room, get it all out, and then try and come to a consensus, pick a leader, and at the end of the day, go to the floor, vote that person speaker, and get back to work.
That's all.
Open the people's house.
I don't think that's hard.
I think most Americans have that work ethic that I have.
That's what I believe.
Anyway, Frank, appreciate it, buddy.
Roberta in the free state of Florida next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
I've been trying to get with you.
I was listening last week when you had Mr. Ginger Chan, and this is more a lighter note, but I think it fits on what's going on with the Speaker of the House.
I've always admired him, and I really liked listening to him.
And then it struck a chord when my son, who's now 30, was 12.
We took him to a rally that a political rally that Newt was speaking at, and he was quite inspired by that.
So much so that that Halloween, he dressed up as Newt for Halloween.
Is that right?
How old?
Yes, he's 30 now, but he's a great kid.
That's funny.
Great kid.
He went to a very liberal university and fortunately didn't get indoctrinated like many of these young kids are.
But my point being is these kids need role models.
I've always been blessed.
I've got four wonderful, beautiful children.
Three of them are boys.
They've always had good role models.
When my oldest went and listened to Newt, he was quite inspired with politics, got involved in politics, wound up going to Loyola University.
But anyway, when he was up there, he was chosen two students out of the whole university to meet with Colin Powell.
He got to spend the day with Colin Powell.
Oh, very cool.
Well, obviously you're a good mom, and obviously you raised a great kid, and you should be very proud of that.
Well, these kids need role models.
They do.
They need good, solid role models.
You know, my other two boys were able to meet Keene, General Keene.
I worked for the Ritz Carlton at the time, and he used to come and visit.
I lived in the Virgin Islands, and he took my boys aside, met with my boys.
I mean, what an honor that was for me, you know, to have my boys be around people like that.
You know, I don't think about it much, but, you know, when I do have reflective moments, introspective moments, the people that I've been fortunate enough to meet and interview in the course of my life, it's a blessing, and I'm very grateful for that for the same reasons you're expressing.
You're a good mom, Roberta.
God bless you.
And, you know, I am confident somehow this impasse will go away.
I don't disagree with Newt very often, but I disagreed with him last night, and I disagree with him today.
He had his newsletter out, and he says, well, maybe, you know, cooler heads will prevail, empower the pro-Tem speaker, McHenry, for 30, 60, 90 days, whatever it is, open the people's house.
At least work can get done in the interim.
That to me is a cop-out.
That to me is capitulation.
That to me is, you're now giving into the childish demands and egotistical activities of these varying factions and groups.
I've given up talking to any of them.
I don't talk to any of them.
You know what else?
It's really sad with all these kids dying in Israel, women being raped and held against their will, and grandmothers being murdered.
And maybe babies being decapitated and charred to death.
You know, and just setting homes on fire and burning people alive.
And they can't agree to rally against one and for another so that we can get some things done because we need to be a leader on the world stage.
What they are seeing right now, hands down, is what it looks like to have the weakest America in our history.
With all the talk about what's going on with the Republicans and Speaker, I think the most embarrassing thing that happened was Joe Biden going to the Middle East in the middle of a war breaking out.
And I'll be honest, I said it either on radio or TV, I forget.
That kind of made me nervous.
This is a United States president and heading into a war zone.
You usually don't telegraph that.
I didn't like the idea that they telegraphed that for security for the president reasons.
And you might say, Hannity, you're his biggest critic.
Yeah, okay, we got to protect our politicians.
It should show you how little fear he instills in them.
That his announcement of him coming, they were like, yeah, okay, let me go back to our originally scheduled programming.
Like, who cares?
They won't even show up.
The fact that they said no to meetings, I mean, we're not talking about the biggest countries in the world that rejected a meeting with Joe.
The Palestinian Authority for crying out loud would not meet with Joe.
The King of Jordan would not meet with Joe.
Pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic people working in the White House, working in the Department of Homeland Security, working within our CIA.
They are open about it.
They are posting about it.
They don't give a rat's ass.
Look at this one guy that we was close to national security.
You got Robert Malley.
You got Talib today being questioned as we played earlier.
They're chasing her down the hallway.
How do you feel about that Congresswoman Tlaib?
She doesn't have a word to say.
She seems to only have a voice when no one is asking her any questions.
I think she forgot she works for us.
Well, you do.
Maybe we should fire her.
Well, she keeps getting re-elected, doesn't she?
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for tonight.
We got great coverage.
Obviously, all the new developments out of Israel tonight, and there's a lot of them.
Mike Pompeo, Senator Ted Cruz, John Roberts on the ground in Israel, and the battle for speaker, Tim Scott, Kellyanne Conway, Mike Huckabee, news you'll never get from the mob and the media.
Set your DVR, 9 Eastern tonight.
Hannity on Fox.
See you then.
Back here tomorrow.
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