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| If you want to be a part of the program, as we speak, rockets being fired at Gaza, as the IDF now has officially even announced, they are expanding their operation and ground forces. | |
| We'll be expanding them further throughout the night tonight. | |
| It'll be interesting to see what's going on six hours from now when we get on TV and I'll be able to show you these images. | |
| Earlier today, the IDF raided the West Bank and the militant camp there. | |
| Also in the north, obviously the Israelis know, the IDF knows that as they expand these ground operations and this ground incursion now is officially beginning, that they're likely to have a lot more pushback and a lot more rocket fire in terms of the North and Hezbollah. | |
| So that's going to be, you know, we'll cover all of this in great detail tonight. | |
| But this is literally now all happening as we speak. | |
| Rockets over Gaza as the IDF has expanded their operation. | |
| They have been warning, by the way, because you're going to be hit with a deluge with never-ending corrupt media mob propaganda on how Israel is targeting civilians. | |
| No, they have not. | |
| They have spent nearly a month telling people to get out. | |
| And if you want to know why, and we have video of this and we'll show you on Hannity tonight, that some of the people can't get out is because the same Hamas terrorists that slaughtered innocent men, women, children, babies, decapitated them, | |
| burned them alive, slaughtered kids in the desert, killed over 1,400, including 30 Americans, and took all these hundreds hostage, and have built out these network of tunnels. | |
| Just know if there's any casualties, put the blame where it belongs on Hamas, a terror organization. | |
| Yep, one of many funded by Iran. | |
| And at some point, the world is going to have to be a reckoning with Iran. | |
| And it better happen before the radicalism of these Iranian mullahs is married to nuclear weaponry. | |
| And from every indication, every source I have, and I've worked them all, the general consensus is that Iran is getting closer and closer, meaning months, to being nuclear capable and producing nuclear weapons. | |
| If they have it, they will use it. | |
| But this now, as the IDF ground forces have now expanded their operations, just the beginning of it. | |
| We'll have a lot more on this tonight. | |
| But as they expand these operations, we now know what to expect. | |
| The likelihood of a two-front war is almost a feta complete, but it was very clear. | |
| I think because you got in Lebanon, you have a country. | |
| In Lebanon, you have an elected government. | |
| In Lebanon, there'll be far fewer restraints on the Israelis. | |
| If anything, I think they'll hit Lebanon twice as hard as they hit Gaza in the beginning of this conflict just to get them out of the way. | |
| Do I think Israel is capable of fighting a two-front war? | |
| I do. | |
| Do I think they're capable of fighting the Hamas terrorists in the south in Gaza and the Hezbollah terrorists out of Lebanon? | |
| Yeah, I do. | |
| Do I think they're able to deal with and will be able to deal with the Houthi rebels that have been firing rockets? | |
| Interestingly, rockets destined for Israel were taken out of the sky by Saudi Arabia. | |
| Because remember, that Iranian-funded group of terrorists have been targeting, Iran has been fighting their proxy war against the Saudis. | |
| But again, funded, they all have one thing in common, Shia or Sunni, doesn't seem to matter, and that is this hatred for the state of Israel and their desire for the destruction of the state of Israel. | |
| But now where things get a little bit dicey, and I know, by the way, I thought last night, I was doing my interview with the new speaker of the house, Speaker Johnson. | |
| By the way, Linda, were you not impressed with him? | |
| I am, very much so. | |
| I was very impressed. | |
| Now, we've known of him. | |
| He actually was the fifth highest ranking Republican in terms of the hierarchy inside of the House, but more quiet, more subdued, but did a lot of great work behind the scenes. | |
| The media immediately went out there, tried to just kill him. | |
| And did you notice, Linda, every single issue they were attacking him on, one by one, I went, I asked him about all of them, and I couldn't believe his answers to so many of them, like on the issue of gay marriage, on the issue of abortion, all these traps that the mob and the media and Democrats thought they could set for him and use him as the poster child to just to be the face of this Republican Party that wants to eliminate Medicare and Social Security and | |
| take away abortion rights. | |
| And he's like, no, I'm a constitutional lawyer. | |
| The gay rights issue is settled by the Supreme Court in 2015. | |
| I believe in the rule of law. | |
| On the issue of abortion, yeah, we just had, I was against Roe v. | |
| Wade. | |
| I thought it was bad law. | |
| The Dobbs decision has correctly put it back in the States. | |
| Do you imagine any scenario at all ever as Speaker that you will ever deal with any of these issues? | |
| No, that will not be coming up during our term as Speaker. | |
| We're going to focus on what's going on in the Middle East. | |
| We're going to focus on what's happening in Ukraine. | |
| We're going to focus on what's happening with our borders. | |
| We're going to try and get back to regular order, balance budgets, get away from this reckless deficit spending and this debt accumulation. | |
| We're going to get back to energy independence. | |
| And he just goes through the list of everything that a conservative would want to hear or a Republican would want to hear. | |
| I'm like, okay, that sounds like the right guy for the job. | |
| I also hope, for the sake of all of us, that we don't have to keep going through the drama, you know, every however many months, that you have to have a higher threshold. | |
| It can't be just any one member of Congress deciding that they want to vacate the chair and having the power and the ability to shut the house down. | |
| That's got to end. | |
| So last night, as we were getting towards the end of my show, my producer gets in my IFB, my earpiece, and says, go to Jennifer Griffin, go to Jennifer Griffin, Joe, go to Jennifer Griffin. | |
| She has breaking news. | |
| I was interviewing Jim Jordan at the time, and the breaking news was that the Biden administration had targeted certain places in Syria in light of the fact that Syria had been firing missiles at Americans in Iraq and Syria. | |
| But by the way, the Iraqis fired more than twice the amount than the Syrians did. | |
| And, you know, my initial thought was: okay, good. | |
| Joe's finally fighting back. | |
| And then we get more details about what it actually was. | |
| I think Senator Tom Cotton summed it up best by dismissing these airstrikes ordered by Joe Biden against these Iranian-backed terrorists in Syria as too little, too late. | |
| And the more I thought about it, it was like Syria is the one country that Joe could probably hit and not be afraid because there certainly were no consequences and have been no consequences for China from this administration, | |
| be it about COVID or our fighter jets being confronted often in international airspace or our Navy being confronted in international waterways or the fact that they had a spy balloon, a military spy balloon flying all over the continental United States and Joe Biden not doing a thing about it or holding them accountable. | |
| There's been no accountability for Russia in terms of them shooting our drones out of the air. | |
| So what has been happening is they see nothing but a weak, frail cognitive mess as a president that probably also with many of these countries like Russia, like China, is also compromised because of the Biden family syndicate and whatever monies that the Biden family ultimately had taken in from them. | |
| Anyway, so Tom Cotton dismissed it as too little, too late reacting to the strikes against the weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria. | |
| So we're basically talking about unoccupied warehouses, and that's the extent of Biden's response. | |
| Hardly inspiring. | |
| I mean, I guess I'm glad he did it if I have a choice to do it or not do it. | |
| But what you can clearly see here is a president that is extraordinarily fearful to defend American interest in the world, the opposite of what we see unfolding in Israel. | |
| So if you look at the 20 attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East, I mean, they've taken place in Iraq and Syria. | |
| And we've had air bases attack one after another. | |
| And, all right, so we get, you know, two warehouses that they think might have had weaponry in it. | |
| I'll believe it when I see it and they confirm it. | |
| That's just not going to be enough. | |
| But again, you know, Israel is now, I think they're probably done listening to the Biden administration and their pleas to, you know, hold off, wait, don't go in, don't do anything. | |
| But that's not what they're doing. | |
| Now, the latest is from FoxNews.com is that the Israeli Defense Forces, you know, have begun expanding their ground operations in Gaza. | |
| And the Army spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said aerial attacks have been targeting Hamas tunnels and other targets. | |
| In addition to the attacks that we carried out in recent days, ground forces are now expanding their activity this evening. | |
| The IDF is acting with great force to achieve the objectives of war. | |
| And sources telling Fox News that mobile comm system inside of Gaza have totally collapsed completely, rendering communications for civilians virtually impossible. | |
| You have a Palestinian telecom provider told the AP that internet service in the Gaza Strip has been cut off by the Israeli bombardment. | |
| Our friend and Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst reported that the main internet and cell towers across Gaza, they are down. | |
| Some civilians are now able to get signals by bouncing off Israeli towers across the border, but they don't have communications possibilities like they did. | |
| So we're just going to watch this all unfold. | |
| So, you know, my only big question is with Syria firing, and I don't think Joe Biden's response last night is going to really stop the Syrians controlled by Iran from continuing firing missiles out of Syria into Israel. | |
| I don't think that's going to stop. | |
| I'm not sure that the Houthis are going to stop just because some missiles were intercepted by Saudi Arabia. | |
| I don't think they're going to care. | |
| And then you'll deal with Hezbollah in the north and you'll deal with Hamas in the south. | |
| But the big question will be what Iran then does, because they're now threatening direct involvement themselves. | |
| Now, if they choose that path, then they're going to have to pay a price. | |
| If they choose that path, now I would argue all bets are off. | |
| If Iran now gets involved, at that moment, the entire Middle East is officially a powder keg. | |
| You can have the entire region engulfed in conflict. | |
| And what do I mean, the entire region? | |
| That would be the Saudis. | |
| That would be the Egyptians. | |
| That would be the Jordanians, the Emirates. | |
| I mean, I don't think anybody is going to be immune from the consequences of this war if Iran takes it to that level. | |
| That's why, had Donald Trump gotten a second term, none of this, in my view, would be happening because he accomplished something in the Middle East I never thought I'd see in my lifetime. | |
| We had an alliance between Israel, the United States, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Saudis, the Emirates, all standing united, sharing intelligence, the closest they've ever been in history, | |
| all standing against Iranian hegemony, because most of the problems militarily and terror problems we have in the Middle East because of the proxy wars funded and orchestrated by the Iranians themselves. | |
| Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Actually, my voice is getting better. | |
| I know it doesn't sound like it, but it is, so I apologize for that. | |
| Anyway, the Tuttles to Towers Foundation, their promise is to do good. | |
| And Linda, would I ever take off on a day like today with all this news? | |
| Is that possible? | |
| You wouldn't take off on any day. | |
| I take off occasionally. | |
| It's not fair. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I've been here a long time. | |
| It's pretty rare. | |
| Jeez, you sound cranky when you say that. | |
| Why are you saying that? | |
| I'm just saying, warn me. | |
| Why are you being so mean about it? | |
| You're at work. | |
| There's always news breaking. | |
| This is my job. | |
| Very true. | |
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| All right, as we roll along this busy news Friday, just joining us, just the IDF just raided on the West Bank militant camps there. | |
| The shooting back and forth in the north reports all day that there's been a significant increase in activity. | |
| The IDF has already begun ground force operation expansion into Gaza and has announced that they are expanding operations tonight even further. | |
| So the time is here. | |
| So we're monitoring all of this very, very closely. | |
| I would imagine by the time we get on the air tonight that this is going to be in full effect. | |
| Now that they have said it, to be honest, I have heard this chatter now for a number of days, and this gives, you know, my sources on the ground have been terrific in terms of the intelligence that they've been able to give me. | |
| I mean, right down to the day and the time. | |
| So we have the U.S. military carrying out these airstrikes on empty facilities. | |
| Okay. | |
| Not really sure how impressed I'm supposed to be with that. | |
| And U.S. troops targeted again by Iranian-backed terrorist groups in the Pentagon has now deployed 900 more troops there. | |
| I think we've got to be very careful. | |
| I do not have confidence in our Secretary of Defense. | |
| I don't have confidence in our Secretary of State. | |
| I don't have confidence in our Vice President. | |
| And I don't really have confidence in Joe Biden because he's let every other major attack against this country go unanswered and he's sucked up to the countries like Iran enough. | |
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| Interesting in Genesis, the book of Genesis, it says that the Bible tells us that to bless those that bless Israel. | |
| And I know many people are struggling in this country with our own decline, but there are so many people that have been displaced. | |
| I mean, entire neighborhoods people have been evacuated from in Israel, especially in the north, now 28 last I heard. | |
| And anyway, we witnessed these heinous attacks by Hamas terrorists against these innocent Israeli citizens and the devastating attack of over a thousand Israeli men, women, children, 1,400 killed, hundreds more taken hostage, so many thousands more injured. | |
| And this is the ugly face of terror. | |
| You know, frankly, Hamas is ISIS, and it's a war between good and evil. | |
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| If you're just joining us, we do have some breaking news. | |
| It is, you know, with all these weeks since October 7th, you know, here we are. | |
| We're finally at that date. | |
| And nearly a month later, it's October 27th, not really a month, 20 days, it's the 27th. | |
| The IDF has announced a ground force expanding operations are now happening tonight. | |
| You've been seeing all day a bombardment of Gaza. | |
| We saw earlier in the day the IDF raid the West Bank and the militant camps that are there. | |
| You know, I have been saying for the longest time, and only recently, and it was interesting to watch the new Speaker Johnson last night on his own independently talk about the new axis of evil. | |
| I thought I was the only one for a while using the term, and I think more and more people are. | |
| And then you think about the connections to the Biden Family Syndicate, and you have to ask yourself, oh, maybe this is why Joe lets the communist Chinese, you know, confront in a hostile manner in international airspace U.S. fighter jets, or why in international waterways he allows our Navy to be confronted with hostile intentions by the Chinese Navy, and nothing happens. | |
| And the saber rattling all over Taiwan, or the fact that the Chinese can fly a balloon and pick up as much intelligence as they'd ever want, and nothing happens. | |
| Barely a word is even said. | |
| Nobody can ever answer the question why Joe Biden is allowing the communist Chinese to buy up thousands and thousands of acres of ranch land and farmland and land near military institutions. | |
| Why is he allowing them to do that? | |
| Would they ever allow us to do that to them? | |
| The answer is no. | |
| It's quite obvious. | |
| You know, why is it, you know, look at this meeting today. | |
| Russia is hosting Hamas and Iran for Moscow meetings. | |
| Russia, the Biden family, made a fortune from. | |
| You think maybe that the Russians and the contacts with a Russian oligarch and all the monies that went into the Biden family coppers, you think they may have some compromising materials on the Biden family? | |
| Because I think they probably have a full dossier, a real dossier. | |
| Probably China has the same thing. | |
| Probably, you know, all these countries, Ukraine has the same thing. | |
| Because none of it makes sense. | |
| It certainly does not make any sense that Joe Biden lifting sanctions and now letting a murderous dictator thug running Venezuela sell his oil on the open market so they can get rich again. | |
| Just like Joe Biden turned a blind eye and has been letting Iran make any estimates now are $80 to $100 billion that we know that Iran is only going to use for terrorist purposes and allowing that to happen. | |
| Anyway, a pair of delegations from Iran and Hamas have descended on Moscow where the Russian foreign minister has subordinated and huddling with Israel's enemies as the war in Gaza is now threatening to expand. | |
| This new axis of evil, China, Russia, Iran, we saw that unfold at the very anti-American and anti-Semitic UN this week when both Russia and China went against the U.S. | |
| And these talks now going on in Moscow, focusing on recent Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip, recent Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip. | |
| That's how that's written up. | |
| That's what they're saying that this is all about. | |
| It's not about the fact that the worst terror attack in Israel's history was perpetrated thanks to the military planning, plotting, scheming, and support of Iran that left 1,400 Israelis dead with a population of a little over 9 million. | |
| That would be the equivalent of 38,000 plus Americans killed in a day. | |
| We have the U.S. carrying out those airstrikes. | |
| Again, not impressive when you listen to the details of it. | |
| Basically, warehouses in Syria as they have been firing some 900 times they have fired at Americans and American installations in Syria and Iraq. | |
| How is it there hasn't been a response sooner? | |
| How come the media has ignored this pretty much up until now? | |
| How come nobody seems to be paying attention to the fact that Syria has been lobbing their missiles, their Iranian missiles, into Israel as well as Hamas and Hezbollah? | |
| Does anyone even know who the Houthis are? | |
| Well, we do know under Donald Trump they were designated a terror group, and under Joe Biden, that designation has been removed. | |
| No explanation as to why that ever happened. | |
| So we're watching all of this unfold. | |
| The FBI and the DHS are warning of U.S. hate crimes increasing amid this Israeli-Hamas war. | |
| You have a man invading a studio city home, threatening a Jewish family, yelling, free Palestine. | |
| We told you about the incident at Cooper University yesterday. | |
| We know that cops have nabbed an anti-Semite who assaulted a Jewish woman on a subway in New York. | |
| We know in Richmond, California, a council meeting exploded over a resolution blaming Israel, the victim, for the attack by Hamas. | |
| We have students blasting colleges for anti-Israeli protests. | |
| It's diversity, equity, and inclusion, except for the Jews. | |
| You got a Colorado Imam teaching children that the Jews lie, deceive, can't be trusted, constantly tricking us to trust them. | |
| You have one major Jewish group, on the other hand, calling on Major League Baseball, the NBA, the NFL to abandon their support for Black Lives Matter. | |
| I mean, it's like everybody has an opinion, and 90% of people with the opinion on college campuses and elsewhere. | |
| By the way, this just breaking rockets now. | |
| You can actually see it being fired into Gaza as the IDF now has very publicly expanded their military operation right now in the air, but have told all of us that there's ground incursion. | |
| They're expanding their ground operation and their ground forces tonight. | |
| But I mean, it's sort of like, well, that's the news from Lake Obegon. | |
| That's what's happening. | |
| This is now Israel's second night raid on Gaza, and it's only just begun. | |
| I assume by the time we get on the air at 9 Eastern, there was some really good work. | |
| As much as I've tried to explain these tunnels to you and show the images when I was in, I mean, they have a network of tunnels that is so expansive. | |
| One of the reasons for the air war that's going on in Gaza right now is to take out these tunnels. | |
| And the Daily Mail did a really good job of putting a lot of pictures and images so people understand what's going on underground here because, I mean, it is absolutely chilling what we've learned, showing just how elaborate this network of tunnel system is that Hamas and terrorists have been using to move their weapons, hostages, and stage their attacks on Israel. | |
| It just gives an insight into the conditions of the Palestinian Islamist fighters and what they've been operating in. | |
| And it is so expansive. | |
| This just, you know, brings clarity to the stupidity of Joe Biden wanting to give $100 million in aid, which he's offering the Palestinians. | |
| He's calling it humanitarian aid. | |
| Here's the problem. | |
| All these tunnels, all these networks, all of the massive amount of money that they have spent. | |
| I mean, that was humanitarian aid money. | |
| Just like Joe is promising humanitarian aid money. | |
| Now, how many of these $100 million do you think end up in the hands of the Palestinians? | |
| It's going to be nothing. | |
| But anyway, so this, you know, what we've been waiting for and saying is imminent is now happening. | |
| A sad story about how the Hamas terrorists are treating the people of Gaza. | |
| Because for the last three weeks, Israel has been warning the innocent people of Gaza to get out. | |
| Now we have images, and I literally just had somebody in Israel send it to me, of people in Gaza seeing what's going on and listening to the Israelis saying that, yeah, it's game on now, you know, trying to flee. | |
| And then you have guns by Hamas terrorists being fired at Palestinians. | |
| Now, these are the same people that will go out there, and if there's an innocent or if there's collateral damage or an innocent man, woman, or child killed, they're going to be the first people to say, see, we told you. | |
| Look at Israel's brutality. | |
| None of it true. | |
| All right, let's get to a call here. | |
| We don't have a lot of times. | |
| We have great guests today coming up, so I want to take a couple of calls while I can. | |
| Let us say hi to Jim in Pennsylvania. | |
| Jim, hi. | |
| How are you? | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Hey, I'm great. | |
| I'll make it real quick. | |
| Thanks for having me on. | |
| I love your show. | |
| And someday I'm going to be in your live studio to catch a football from you. | |
| I can't wait. | |
| Come. | |
| You'll have a great time, I promise. | |
| Yeah, my one comment is I think it's a mistake to put all of the inflation and the immigration issue and this pending war that we're going to get involved in just on Biden because everybody knows Biden's not going to make the next election. | |
| If he does, Trump wins in a landslide. | |
| I think we got to put all these issues on the Democratic Party so that when he is replaced, they don't have an alibi that, hey, Joe caused inflation, Joe caused a war, and then they have an alibi. | |
| I think it's the Democratic Party and whoever's running our White House now, they are the ones responsible for the high inflation. | |
| The fact that my 401k in retirement is down 30%. | |
| And I just wanted to put that out there. | |
| I'd like to see more emphasis blaming the Democrats versus Biden because Biden's done. | |
| He's out. | |
| The only other comment I'd like to make is I would have fixed this immigration issue in one week when it started. | |
| I would have had the Republicans down there registering all those illegal immigrants as Republicans. | |
| They would have shut that border down in a week. | |
| That's all I have, Sean. | |
| Appreciate the call, my friend. | |
| 800-941-Sean. | |
| By the way, Linda just sent me, what is this text you just sent me? | |
| I guess it was a posting on Twitter or something. | |
| Yeah, there's a guy who I guess Hillary Clinton is out and about, you know, talking as she likes to do for Sheila Jackson. | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| Can you say that again? | |
| She was talking. | |
| She was talking as she loves to do. | |
| Did you know it was her birthday, by the way? | |
| Everybody's been talking about that birthday tweet that just won't die. | |
| She's with Sheila Jackson Lee, who earlier in this week had that very nasty tape released of her being vicious to her staff. | |
| By the way, if I was ever like that to you once, forget it. | |
| Oh, forget about it. | |
| I mean, listen, this is the thing, right? | |
| It's like these people go out and they say, freedom of speech, accept everyone. | |
| We love everyone. | |
| It's like when I see, you know, these signs for people that are like lesbians, you know, for the Palestinians and Hamas. | |
| And I'm like, you do realize it's not a part of their charter, right? | |
| Have you ever read their charter? | |
| Do you know how much they hate anybody who's like from your group at all? | |
| But just down a rabbit hole. | |
| But, you know, this guy stands up and says, let's talk about your husband's trips to Epstein Island. | |
| You know, he has this. | |
| No way. | |
| The guy stood up and asked about Epstein. | |
| Yeah. | |
| He's like, what about Billy's trips to Epstein Island? | |
| You know, I'm wondering how that's going. | |
| And then he writes on the bottom, he's like, by the way, I'm not feeling suicidal. | |
| So if I wind up dead somewhere, you know, they did this to me. | |
| I'm not one of their casualties. | |
| So it's just like ridiculous. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| Well, it's kind of interesting to hear that, though. | |
| I give him credit, man, for having the tenacity to stand up in front of those people because those are some nasty people. | |
| They love everything if it's in that groupthink, one mindset. | |
| There's no freedom of speech with liberals. | |
| They don't want to hear anything that contradicts what they have been, you know, sort of their ideologues have made them think for the past however many years. | |
| You know, this whole idea of freedom of thought and freedom of expression and all this, it's lost on these people. | |
| They're communists. | |
| It's disgusting. | |
| All right, we got a lot coming up on the program today. | |
| We got South Carolina Senator, presidential candidate Tim Scott. | |
| My colleague at Fox, Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmead will be on today. | |
| We have not had Brigitte Gabriel on in a long time. | |
| She's the chairman of Act for America, best-selling author of Because They Hate. | |
| Well, that kind of sums it up pretty well. | |
| Joel Pollack is the senior editor-at-large of Breitbart News. | |
| He just got back from Israel yesterday. | |
| I think he's in the, somebody in his family's in the IDF. | |
| Anyway, we'll get an update from him, and he is seeing a lot of what the media is not showing the rest of the world, which to me is just unbelievable. | |
| And what you may not know about Brigitte Gabriel, when she joins us, she herself was once in her life used as a human shield by the Palestinians when she was a child. | |
| And she lived in Israel, also in the West Bank, and worked as a news anchor. | |
| She knows a lot about what's going on. | |
| But what most people don't know is these border towns and cities, especially tens and tens and tens of thousands of rockets, north, south, west, I mean, from every direction, every year. | |
| That has to stop as a result of this by the end. | |
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