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Standing Up to Iran - February 5th, Hour 2
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This weekend on Sunday Futures, Maria Bartiromo had an interview with President Trump.
One of the more interesting comments Trump believed.
Well, first he said Iran may have a nuclear weapon in 60 days.
That's kind of scary.
But when asked about names he's thinking about for VP, here's what he said.
Who is your running mate?
Well, I have a lot of good people.
We have a lot of really good people.
So you haven't decided who it is.
I have a lot of good ideas, but I haven't.
And there's no reason to say that.
So you never told that person.
You're my person.
I speak to everybody.
I speak to everybody.
You know, I called Tim Scott this week because a lot of people like Tim Scott.
I called him and I said, you're a much better candidate for me than you are for yourself.
When I watched Tim, he was fine.
He was good, but he was very low-key, et cetera, et cetera.
I watched him in the last week defending me and sticking up for me and fighting for me.
I said, man, I said, you're a much better person for me than you are for yourself.
Because for himself, he was low-key.
For me, he's been a real tiger.
He's been incredible.
And others have too.
So maybe it's Tim Scott.
Well, it could be a lot of people.
But it was interesting.
I was watching Tim.
I've been watching, you know, for a while.
I watched him campaign as a candidate.
But I watched him over the last two weeks.
As you know, he endorsed me, fully endorsed me, gave me a beautiful endorsement.
And he has been really strong in terms of that.
No, but that has nothing to do.
I don't want anybody to take even any inference.
But it's incredible.
Christy Noam has been incredible fighting for me.
She said I'd never run against him because I can't beat him.
That was a very nice thing to say.
Anyway, joining us now, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
Well, I've been following your tweets this weekend, and I'm going to get to the poll, the NBC poll that you cited.
But first, I want to ask you, would Tim Scott be a good choice?
Would Christy Noam be a good choice?
Who would be on your short list if he asked you?
By the way, I once recommended you for VP and got a lot of negative press over that one, as per usual, if I do anything.
No, listen, I think the president, I thought, had it exactly right when he said the number one concern has to be, could this person be president?
Because you never can tell what's going to happen.
I thought that was a very self-aware and a very honest position.
I think the two people he named are good people.
I think Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who did such a spectacular job last year in responding to Biden's State of the Union as being a very effective governor in Arkansas.
I think Elise Stefanik, who did a great job taking on the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania, has been a very effective leader of the House Republican Conference.
You know, there are a number of folks.
I think certainly Tim Scott is on that list.
Somebody I think that you have to look at a number of other folks and recognize that we really have in the Republican Party now grown a pretty deep bench.
You look at the Democrats by comparison, and they have a lot of candidates who are either so far to the left that they're very flawed or so boring that you can't quite figure out how they get there.
But we have a lot of talent, and I think the president will eventually make a pick, I'm guessing, in the late spring.
But I think his concern has to be first, can they be president?
Second, do they share his values?
And third, can they learn enough to potentially win in 28?
Because if you could get a Trump second term and then add to it two terms of a Trump vice president, you then would have enough consistent time to really begin to change Washington.
All right.
So we have a lot of things that are going on right now.
We have a battle over this border bill, the Senate version that came out, this bipartisan bill.
I don't think there was ever any need for that to be codified into law.
When you get to the bottom line of this, Joe Biden will have full authority to veto most provisions in it anyway, which renders it meaningless as far as I'm concerned because he's been doing pretty much whatever he wants anyway, regardless of the law.
Then we have, you know, the security.
Look, I appreciate that the U.S. dropped 125 bombs on 85 targets.
They say it was linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
However, we now know that they telegraphed all of it, giving the terrorists time to get out of locations that were likely to be some of these targets.
And frankly, Mr. Speaker, I don't think the Iranian mullahs that he helped get rich by not enforcing the sale of oil sanctions and offering $6 billion in ransom and another $10 billion in payments, a waiver for Iraq to pay Iran.
He's made the mullahs rich, and I don't think the mullahs care what happens in Iraq or Syria or to the Houdi rebels for that matter.
And I think the only message that would have worked is to maybe, you know, if you take 200 shots at American soldiers and kill some, 200 attempts, by that point, you better do something meaningful, and it's got to be directed at the people responsible.
And that would have been like taking out their refineries.
Not starting a war, taking out their refineries, saying you will never ever fire at an American soldier or attack an American soldier again.
I know I'm long-winded here, but I'll let you go.
Well, look, I think a couple of things.
First of all, the key when you're dealing with a dictatorship is who intimidates who.
When Trump was president, he was very effective at intimidating people.
The Iranians wanted to mess with us.
He killed Soleimani.
He didn't send in 20,000 troops.
He didn't start a long war.
He selected one of their highest value leaders and eliminated him.
And that shook them to their core.
So I think you have to start with a notion that what are you trying to accomplish?
And frankly, the Saudis and the Emirates dropped 25,000 bombs on the Houthis between 2014 and 2019.
25,000.
Now, why do we think that these missions are going to be dramatically more effective?
And I think you have to go to the heart of this, which is Iran.
By the way, I saw a note this morning that the Iranian economy has grown faster under Biden than the American economy.
That tells you how much his favoritism has mattered to the Iranian dictatorship.
So I would argue for a steady escalation.
I would probably, if I were doing it, I'd probably start and take out Iranian warships.
There's one, for example, sitting in the Red Sea helping the Houthis.
And I would, when Reagan decided to send a signal, he took out half the Iranian Navy in one day.
And the people were very calm after that.
And by the way, for all this fear, oh my gosh, he's going to start World War III.
Oh, my gosh.
The only thing, and actually, in this interview with Maria Bartiromo, Trump actually said he believes Iran's going to have a nuclear weapon in 60 days.
Now, the IAEA had some valid confirmation of that themselves in their own latest report, that it's very possible because they now have weapons-grade uranium that they've been producing, which means, and I'm sure they're getting help from Russia and China.
That should be a scary thought for the world, shouldn't it?
Well, I think when you have a country where the legislature chants death to Israel, death to America, and the Ayatollah Khomeini goes on national television to say death to America is not a slogan, it's our policy.
You have to assume they mean it.
I mean, you know, it was pretty stupid to think that these religious fanatics who are in charge of a dictatorship don't actually mean what they're saying.
So I think one of the challenges to us is to think through, should we, in fact, be eliminating their nuclear facilities now, and should we be eliminating their ballistic missile facilities now before they are able to operationalize it?
We did not act when we knew that North Korea was trying to get weapons, and the North Koreans today probably have 30 nuclear weapons.
And I think it's very sobering to think about what North Korea could do if Kim Jong-un decided that he wanted to go after the South.
I mean, I'm not sure mutually assured destruction is particularly persuasive with mullahs that believe, you know, the final imam is coming and that, you know, martyrdom results with 72 virgins that are given in heaven.
I just, I think you have A squared, B squared, C squared.
I think radical mullahs that believe this and that wage jihad and believe in this whole caliphate ideology, which they do, with nuclear weapons, it is a clear and present danger for the entire world.
I'm not exactly sure why other countries in the region haven't banded together and realized the need to take those things out themselves.
Well, I don't think they have the capability because they're mostly being built in very deep underground facilities.
Some of them are hundreds of feet underground.
And you would have to have very sophisticated stuff to go after them.
You would need American bunker-busting bombs.
Right.
That would be a minimum.
You might need a lot of them because you might need the first one to clear away the rubble to get to the second one to clear away more rubble to get to the third one to finally penetrate because they're that deep and they're that big.
Some of them are the size of an aircraft here.
So I think you have to decide that you're not going to allow them to do this.
I also think we have to recognize that we need dramatically better anti-missile capabilities.
We probably should have ships floating off of North Korea with orders to kill any North Korean missile that we have not inspected.
Because, you know, once you have the ability to launch something into satellite orbit, they could put an electromagnetic pulse weapon up there that would take out all the electric capabilities, including your car, in half the United States.
What is out there and available in terms of weaponry and technology that can be used as a weapon is frightening.
All right, quick break.
More with former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, as we continue.
And then your calls, 800-941-Sean, our number.
800-941-Sean is our number.
As we continue, and former Speaker Newt Gingrich is with us.
Your calls are coming up straight ahead right after.
Let me ask you about how Republicans in the Senate can justify this bill when there was no need for them to even negotiate with Biden on the border at all, considering he just needs to.
And if they wanted to codify it by law, they could have put that in the bill.
All the Trump policies that worked.
H.R. 2 is a far better bill in the House.
And now they're trying to feed the American people a line that this is a border security bill.
There's not one House member that's buying it.
And so that's going to be dead on arrival in the House.
How's that going to end?
Because I don't think it's going to end well because the Republicans don't have a big enough majority.
Well, look, I'm writing a newsletter for Gingrich 360, outlining a brand new poll that we did at America's New Majority Project, where the American people are so fed up with the border, with illegal immigration, that there is no justification for the Senate bill.
None, zero.
And I've sent that poll to a lot of Republican senators just saying, you know, none of you should be for this.
You know, if Biden wanted to control the border, he could control it tomorrow morning.
If they wanted to adopt a serious border control bill, the House Republicans passed H.R. two months ago.
It's already available.
This is a tally, typically Senate baloney, where they get in a room, con themselves into selling out to the Democrats, try to explain to us why it's really good to sell out, and it makes no sense at all.
You have the same thing, by the way, going on with this Romney Fiscal Commission in the Senate, where they've actually talked about raising the FICA tax on every worker and a whole variety of things.
And I'm totally opposed to fiscal commissions, which include taxes, because I was with Reagan.
They promised him that he'd get $3 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increase.
As he used to say, he got all of the tax increase and none of the spending cuts.
Well, you always get the amnesty.
You never get the border security.
You always get the tax increase, but you never get the spending cut.
I mean, it's kind of a rule.
NBC News, you point out in an ex-post that is a real warning for Democrats because 73, 22, you know, think we're on the wrong track.
Biden is at 60% disapproval.
And this is the poll that had Trump up by five points.
Although, if he has a conviction, they did poll that.
He would lose by two points, which would make it a seven-point swing.
You know, I don't think this is going to happen.
We'll ask Greg Jarrett legally if these cases are even going to take place before the election.
I would imagine maybe not at this point, but we'll see.
Tell us what you read in this poll.
Well, first of all, I think there's a signal here that a Republican Party, which is positive and suggests that we could have a dramatically better future, has an opportunity with 73% of the American people to offer them hope.
This is exactly where Reagan and Carter were in 1979, 1980.
Carter was selling misery and explaining the best you can get is mediocrity.
And Reagan came along and said, America's best days are ahead of us.
And, you know, you ain't seen nothing yet.
And people decided they preferred hope to despair.
And I think you have an enormous opportunity.
I think this could widen out dramatically.
You'll notice that the Republicans in Congress had a significant lead over the Democrats.
So it's more than just Trump Biden.
There's an underlying swing against a Democratic Party, which is pro-open borders, pro-weakness around the world, pro-inflation, pro-policies that are anti-American energy.
And you'll just go down the list.
And I think people are beginning to figure it out.
Interestingly, the biggest drop in Biden support is people under 30.
And I think they're deciding that while they'd like to be woke, they'd like to have a job and be able to afford a house and have a better future more.
And I think they also understand that this gigantic surge of illegal immigration is an enormous threat to their generation.
Mr. Speaker, we always appreciate you being with us.
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, you can always find Gingrich360.com.
He has his own podcast and a lot of good information you always want.
Thank you, sir, as always.
800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
We'll get to your calls, comments at the bottom of the hour.
Later, Greg Jarrett looks at all the legal issues that Trump is facing.
We'll also look at the attack of the Middle East and the immigration bill that the Senate is trying to ram down our throat.
Standing up for what's right with America.
We're back on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Well, abortion numbers, they're just higher than they've ever been.
I mean, tragically.
And, you know, I've always said that abortion is a heart issue.
People have to have their hearts changed.
If you have a political discussion on abortion, nobody's going to change their mind by the end of that discussion.
However, science is changing hearts and it's changing minds.
And that's the beauty of what Pre-Born is doing.
They're leading the charge, you know, to turn around and giving women options and hope other than abortion.
And they give any expecting mom a free 4D ultrasound.
And what they find is when they introduce expecting moms to the miracle that is growing within them in their womb, that women are choosing a life, you know, dramatic by dramatically higher numbers.
If they were thinking about abortion after hearing a heartbeat, after seeing images of facial features of their baby, they just abortion goes right out the window.
They also also at pre-born, they offer a ton of other help to expecting moms.
They offer free counseling.
When these babies are born, they don't give up on these women.
They stay around if they need help with diapers, baby formula, whatever.
They're there to help them.
Postpartum depression, they'll help them with counseling there too.
Amazing group.
They don't get a penny from the federal government.
That's the interesting thing.
Planned parenthood, tens and tens and tens and tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars.
No, pre-born, it's nothing.
They really rely completely on your generosity, people that believe in the sanctity of life.
And you can sponsor one ultrasound that's $28 a pop.
140, that'll be five ultrasounds if you can afford it.
Maybe you can get a 4D ultrasound machine and sponsor one of these clinics.
I've now done this twice.
I love it.
And I was glad to do it.
Anyway, two ways to donate.
You can dial pound 250 on yourself, say the keyword baby, or go to their very secure website at preborn.com slash Sean, S-E-A-N.
That's pre-born.com slash Sean, S-E-A-N.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones here, shall we?
A lot of you have been really, really patient.
Let's say hi to Warren is in Idaho.
Warren, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
I'm good, Sean.
How are you today?
I'm good.
How does Idaho feel about parts of Oregon?
I'm sorry, was it parts of Oregon?
No, parts of Washington state wanting to be a part of Idaho.
What are your thoughts on that?
You know, I'm all for it if they're not wanting to bring the liberalism that's in the Seattle area over to us.
We like our free state.
Yeah, well, everybody I know that moved to Idaho, they did it for a reason because they wanted to live free and kind of also they have that rugged individualism.
You know, they're more, I don't know, just down to earth and want to be left alone by this government.
That's what I get generally speaking when I talk to people in Idaho that I know.
Absolutely.
You know, we're pro Second Amendment.
We love God and our guns and freedom.
God and faith, family, country, and freedom.
Not a bad combination.
That's right.
Anyway, what else is on your mind today?
You know, I hear your monologues and I just think of how you call them the corrupt media.
And lately it's getting worse.
I would love to be able to see them be held criminally liable for the lies and lack of coverage, like just the border, for instance.
I have family on the border, and it is so bad.
Would think that real journalists would go down and see for themselves and report it honestly and fairly.
You would think so, but it's never going to happen.
And there's a part of me that maybe should be glad, although I think it's bad for the country.
And the part of it that should make me glad is, okay, that makes what I do more special, more unique, and less available.
I mean, I call them a mob because they have a mob mentality.
I mean, they all hate Donald Trump.
They all believe in the same thing.
They all protect the Biden enterprise like they protected the Clinton enterprise and the Obama enterprise.
And they're just a bunch of political hacks.
They can get away with conspiracy theories that they peddle for three straight years and never have to retract a thing.
They even get phony pulled surprises over this coverage.
It's insane.
But, you know, that's what I'm up against.
But if you want to know why Sean Hannity has never made it to a Washington correspondence dinner in all the years I've been doing this, it's because I don't want to go.
I don't want to see them.
I don't want to be around them.
They don't like me, and I don't particularly like most of them.
It's that simple.
They're terrible.
Yeah.
You know, I'd rather talk to people like Warren, like yourself in Idaho.
That's who I'd rather talk to.
Anyway, appreciate it, Warren.
God bless our friends in Idaho.
800-941-Sean, our number, Todd in Iowa.
What's up, Todd?
How are you?
In the dream, Sean, the American dream.
Watching our country sink into the abyss.
America is a nation in decline right now.
That is a true statement.
I wish it wasn't, but it's true.
Our government is so corrupt, Sean.
You can't even imagine.
You can't make this stuff up.
Every day, even on your commercials, we're supposed to be scared of the IRS.
Now we have the FBI, the DOJ, all these corrupt alphabet goofballs.
Now they're coming after us.
We have a government that let the government steal an election.
They have done nothing.
The border, look at the border.
And both sides, we're coming up with these goofy bills.
I better not use that word.
You guys can't pull your head out of your rear end and do something.
We're letting millions and millions of people, and they're not doing anything.
The government is so out of control, and you can't even vote these people out.
Schumer, Pelosi, Chuck Grass, Lee, all of them.
They're all.
They've been there 50 years, and what have they done?
Our country is dead.
I don't see any way.
Our country's not dead.
It is definitely on life support.
At least the country, the constitutional republic that has a foundation and natural law, God-given rights, not government massive control of every aspect of our lives.
Yeah, that's in jeopardy for sure.
The government doesn't want you to be anybody but just listen to me, Sean.
This country, this government, this so-called political theater that we have is so bad.
The American people have sat on their thumbs.
You can't even vote these people out anymore.
It's bad, Sean.
I just went to, I won't even say the local hardware store, one of the major chains, and a piece of round steel three feet long was $10, Sean.
$10.
And what the tags say?
It said made in China.
Everything that we buy is made in that.
I can't say that either.
In China, our government, all of them have sold our country to everybody else.
And now they want to give money to Ukraine, and you don't want to defend our country by taking all these millions of military-aged men out of our country.
Who's going to be the end result when all these attacks happen?
It's all of the American people, the innocent, hardworking men and women.
People are going to die if terrorists have crossed along with the unvetted 10 million Joe Biden illegal immigrants, Americans, and they're plotting and planning what they do.
This is who they are.
This is what they do.
They foment and they commit acts of terror.
Anybody that dies will have blood on their hands.
Every illegal immigrant that was responsible for beating the hell out of those two cops in New York, I'm sorry.
I blame Joe Biden.
I blame those people that support open borders.
I blame those people that not only won't support our laws, enforce our laws, but aid and abet the law breaking.
I blame them all.
And let me tell you what the answer is, because I hear where you're headed.
It's called an election, and I don't like the system that we currently have, but the only way to change it is to win elections.
So you've got to work with the system we're stuck with.
And I've gone over that again and again and again.
I won't reiterate it here.
I totally agree with you.
Elections.
We've already proved that.
No, we can win elections.
Don't believe that for a minute.
We can win elections.
They're not going to be able to pull off the crap that they pulled off in 2020.
For example, states have laws that insist that partisan observers get to watch the vote count.
Citing COVID concerns, they were placed in some cases 1,000 feet away if they were even allowed in.
And partisan observers need to watch the voting all day in every precinct and the vote counting all night and make sure that there's nothing nefarious going on.
And they got to be able to see it up close.
That's how it works.
Anyway, I could talk to you all day.
I got to move on.
I appreciate it.
Henry in New Joise.
What's up, Henry?
How are you, sir?
Hey, Sean.
How you doing?
I'm good.
What's going on?
I spoke to you a number of years ago.
You always say journalism and media is dead.
I got to know.
I told you quite a while ago, but I'm suggesting that you and, you know, you get a panel together and you challenge the left, the other media to a series of debates that would be, you know, on all the channels to get the word out and prove their lies and hold them accountable to what they've.
Let me ask you a question.
What love?
Let's take fake news, CNN.
Average night, we beat them by like four or five times my hour, what their audience is.
Why would I want to elevate them in any way when nobody's watching them by choice?
Why would I want to elevate them in any way?
I'm not afraid of debating anybody.
I'm just also not a big believer in wasting my time.
Well, the mainstream media still controls the narrative.
I mean, you got to be, but they're still, you know, too many people don't watch enough of the conservative media, so they believe everything that they're saying.
I mean, they believe Donald Trump is almost the devil, and, you know, because they don't have the facts.
They don't have proof that he's a good man and he's trying to work hard for this country.
And I think they need to be held accountable.
And I think, I mean, I spoke to you many years ago before the last presidential debate, and I also spoke to Mark Levin or his screener, and the screener said he would totally be up for it, but I would have to set it up.
I don't have that ability.
But I think it would look great to see it on all the channels watching you guys take them down.
I mean, that would, you know, before the election, so now they can't lie anymore.
Look, I mean, I think I do enough of taking what they say and airing enough of it that most people realize that they're just full of, you know, Adam Schiff.
And I think people have figured it out.
And I'll tell you the evidence of that.
The evidence of that is they're not number one.
They don't get viewed by as many people.
The evidence, you know, why is talk radio all these years later still having a huge impact?
It's having an impact because people seek out alternative viewpoints because they know the media is corrupt.
They are a mob.
I call them a mob on purpose because they have a mob mindset and they all think alike.
And they all just, you know, if they hate Trump, they support Biden.
They support the Clintons.
They supported Obama.
Got it.
Check the box.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, good call.
If you want to be a part of the program, let's get back to our busy phones.
800-941-Sean, the number, if you want to join us.
South Dakota, Mike is next.
Mike, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hey, Mike, how are you?
Good.
How are you doing today, Sean?
I'm good, man.
What's on your mind?
Well, just first of all, I want to thank you for all you do to get the information out there.
And I want to thank all the service members for all their service.
And I want to kind of touch base on what this last crisis, or not really crisis, but I guess we're going through a crisis now with Iran and stuff now.
And Biden managed to get another, you know, his policies and ignorance and stuff, managed to get three more service members killed over there.
And it's his policies that got them killed in the first place.
And then, you know, as far as the demographics, like it would have been a lot quicker, it'd have been a shorter flight to fly them to Georgia, the base that they were out of.
And then they could be closer to their family and where they were supposed to be.
And their family members would have been able to pay, you know, homage to them quicker.
And it was his policies that got them killed in the first place.
And then he makes a spectacle out of it by flying them to Dover, Delaware, so he can make a spectacle and serve his tributes and make it look all good for the media and everything.
And I'm just really disgusted by that.
Well, I'm disgusted by a lot of stuff that he's doing.
Honestly, I, you know, at least he wasn't looking at his watch the entire time like the last time.
I mean, I don't know.
There was a video, I think, from this weekend.
He was going into a restaurant, I think, to celebrate Hunter's 54th birthday, which is fine.
I have no problem with that.
But he could barely step on what seemed like I was trying to count it like three or four little baby steps up.
And a lady is basically holding up grandpa.
That's what it looks like.
Now, I've been out with elderly people.
I will grab onto them so I'll have such a grip.
There's no way they're ever going to fall with me putting my arms around them because I know how to hold people the right way.
I hold them just that way.
So if God forbid they trip, I got them.
And it's even happened.
But that's what grandpa needed to get up these little itsy-bitsy baby steps.
It's pathetic.
And he's too old and feeble.
He can't even fly down to Georgia where these service members should have been flown to.
They have to fly him up there and parade them around.
And I just think it's horrible what they did trying to make a good media scene out of that stuff.
And it's people's lives.
Listen, all of his policies now, the chickens are coming home to roost.
All these policies now, we're seeing the impact of them.
And that includes the economy.
If they tell me one more time and lie to me one more time with all the statistics we have that prove the economy is in a shambles and in them to look at every metric as though it was like a manna from heaven when it's not for real people.
They're just living in their own bubble.
Anyway, I appreciate your call.
Thank you very much.
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