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	The only thing missing here is Bill O'Reilly.
	Mr. O'Reilly, sir, uh welcome.
	I will tell you, Qatar is a spectacular city.
	It is unbelievable.
	And very, very different than Saudi Arabia.
	I know you're well traveled uh throughout your career as a as as a media personality and journalist at different times.
	And um but I will tell you it's beyond impressive.
	Um how are you, sir?
	I'm okay.
	Uh you hang in top.
	You looked a little uh tired last night on TV, but you didn't sleep for 24 hours, I understand, right?
	I did not sleep for 24 hours, and you know, we were on the air at 4 a.m. local time, and then this morning I was up at six o'clock to get back on the road again, and it's not exactly been my day of napping.
	Um, but with all that said, uh it's an honor it really is an honor to be here.
	Sure.
	It's an honor to see this up close and personal.
	You we both have had these moments in our career where sleep is is secondary.
	And um to give uh you know, to use your words, the folks of a first hand view of history in the making for me is a great honor, and I'm very grateful.
	And uh I think these are all big things that the president's working on.
	Um I'm watching what happened in Saudi Arabia.
	I saw things that I didn't think I'd see.
	I'm seeing the same things here in Qatar.
	Um I do have my very strong belief that radicalism must be completely rejected.
	You can't turn a blind eye towards it.
	I would like to see this part of the world align now with Israel and the West and the Abraham Accords as the president is challenged.
	The president has been very clear on Iran.
	Uh I was there this well, my time this morning, uh when everybody else was sleeping uh where you are.
	I I heard the president warning of new sanctions ahead of the Russia-Ukraine peace talks, which I do hope takes place.
	Um these are not small items.
	He's taken on every big issue in the world, and you know, he showed some success with Indian Pakistan, but what say you, sir?
	Well, there's a changing dynamic where you are.
	I I haven't been uh to the Gulf states.
	I spent some time in Iraq during the war, as you know.
	Uh Kuwait, Afghanistan.
	Um, But I didn't get down to the Gulf states.
	But it's an interesting history there.
	So there's no question that Wahhabism, which drives the hatred toward the Jews and uh the West America, is on the decline.
	And that that's a key factor that the Trump administration understands.
	That under uh Barack Obama, Wahhabism was was still very strong.
	And the uh Sultans who run um Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Emirates, they were afraid of the rabbis.
	They were stretchied.
	That has declined in conjunction with Iran.
	I don't want to be too pen pinheady here, but Iran was always the money behind the radical Islamists.
	And now Iran's on the ropes.
	So the Trump administration understands that global reality and has basically said to the Gulf states, you need to throw in with us, and by extension Israel.
	We don't need you to love them, but we need you to treat them fairly.
	And I think that all of the Gulf states at this point in history are going to do that.
	Does that analysis make sense?
	No, it it makes a lot of sense because I I can tell you this.
	It is very obvious to me that if there was if you take if we could extrapolate out Iran from the entire equation here in the Gulf states.
	If we could do that, there is no doubt in my mind that Saudi Arabia, that Qatar, that the Emirates, that uh Egypt, Jordan, all of these countries would immediately sign on.
	And now I spoke to people deep inside the Saudi government about this.
	I was told this bill directly.
	And they they want to do it.
	That's that and I and I believe what I was told was true.
	Do you agree with that analysis?
	Yes, but you need to know why they want to do it.
	It's not because they love America or they uh certainly don't love Israel and the Jews.
	That's not gonna change.
	But they're the people who run these countries are realistic, and they see that the threat from the jihad is declined.
	And what they want most of all, and they've always wanted is to make money.
	You say that uh the uh cities are spectacular, they are.
	But that doesn't uh filter down to the folks very much.
	A lot of poverty in those countries.
	It's the royal family and the apparatus nicks attached to them that really benefit.
	And they build these big spectacle cities and these airlines like emirates, which some consider best in the world, to get people to do commerce to buy their oil or buy their stuff.
	So it's more of an economic thing than a well, we've had a conversion, we like America now because we respect America's freedom.
	There's no freedom in the Gulf states.
	You get out of line, they're gonna come and take you away to quote Buffalo Springfield.
	But Trump is the ultimate capitalist.
	Trump speaks their language money-wise.
	That is the reason this detonat is now forming, because uh they understand each other.
	Well, I I think your analysis is right.
	I think it's about money, but Bill, I would rather they care about capitalism and and money.
	Now it it's interesting when you talk about poverty, because you know, I I've now driven extensively through these two countries, and I'll drive through the UAE tomorrow.
	And uh for example, crime compared to the U.S., drugs compared to the U.S., all of these sort of things.
	Um and and don't mistake me.
	I'm I'm I'm I am not for theocracy or the rigidity or the lack of freedom that is associated with the culture and the mores in many and of these states, and I want to be very clear about that.
	Um however, it is it the the these Gulf states are ruled with an iron fist.
	But the folks, to use your term, are doing much better because some of that money has In fact, cascaded down to the folks, and the poverty level has come up dramatically, and people are doing much, much better than they had previously, because we're talking about wealth that is unimaginable to most people.
	That's true, and that's uh a smart thing that the uh sheikhs have accomplished.
	Um there's two factors.
	Number one, if you commit a crime in any of those places, you'll get your hand cut off or you'll disappear.
	So they these are fascist societies, no due process.
	By the way, if you were a citizen of any of these places, they would have you they would have had you disappear decades ago.
	You and I, Hannity, we wouldn't.
	We wouldn't exist, Phil.
	If they were listening to this radio You know what's shocking?
	Can I just divert your attention for a second?
	It's shocking how many people here and in Saudi Arabia know me.
	It shocks me that they they have watched me for years.
	It shocks me that you know, when I I went up to the dais when the president was with the Crown Prince, uh, and I was speaking briefly with Marco Rubio, as the president pointed me out to the Crown Prince and and made a joke, and the Crown Prince left, and then I said, Nobody up here, Mr. President knows who I am.
	And uh the guy sitting to the right of the president said, You're Sean Hannity of Fox News.
	And the guy, no, he said Hannity, and the guy goes next to him, you're Sean uh Hannity of Fox News.
	And that kind of surprised me.
	Would that have surprised you?
	No, I just got invited to speak to uh she's guys in Beijing on the 28th of May.
	That shocks me.
	Uh by the way, it was really nice knowing you, Bill.
	Uh I appreciate our friendship.
	But I'd be very careful.
	I'll talk to you that about I'll talk to you about that next Wednesday.
	Um, but with YouTube and with social media now, everything it just carries all over the world.
	And Fox News is still a big canon.
	I mean, obviously um the people who want to know what Donald Trump thinks are gonna be dialed into that.
	I don't think Rachel Maddow would be uh getting any Hosanas over in the Gulf states if you know what I mean.
	Um, that might be the best line you've ever used.
	She's not gonna be getting any Hosanna's over in the Gulf States.
	Go, uh hey, Rachel.
	But you know, this is what people don't understand about Trump.
	He's not a politician.
	And and one of the reasons that I believe he's ultimately gonna be successful in bringing more prosperity to this country, is because he doesn't look at things like Jimmy Carter looked at it or uh Obama looked at it.
	Doesn't look at it like that.
	He's not looking at, well, how many votes am I gonna get in Missouri if I do this?
	He's not.
	He looks at it like how much money is gonna come into the United States if I sell all these Boeing jets to Gunter.
	I mean, he doesn't care about votes in Washington State where Boeing is based.
	He's a deal guy.
	And in the Gulf, that is a huge advantage over these pinheads who come out of the political science schools where the Arabs couldn't care less about the electoral vote in Wisconsin.
	Um they respect Trump because they know Trump is a successful business person.
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	You heard Trump, his very direct threat to Iran.
	He's like, I want the people to prosper.
	I want them to prosper.
	I want, but...
	But they will never have a nuclear weapon, and they've got to dismantle their nuclear capability, or there will be action.
	And I think there is a hope on their part that in fact Donald Trump will do the job that they themselves can't do.
	That's what I think a big part of the equation is.
	And as a consequence of that, we go back to where I was before, and that is that that would result in an unprecedented peace in the region.
	That would result in them joining the Abraham Accords, the recognition of Israel, etc.
	I mean, that's certainly the hope.
	I think it it is definitely a possibility.
	I would not disagree with that.
	Trump is a symbolic iron dome to the Gulf nations.
	They know that by the way, that that that is a you're a wordsmith with that.
	You're on your A game today.
	He protects them from the tribalism, because it's Sunni Shia, all that stuff, of Iran.
	And they, but even more importantly, they know if Trump says Iran's not going to get a nuclear weapon, or they believe that he's going to follow through.
	Yeah, pretty pretty amazing times.
	Um I do want to talk more uh the next time you're on the program about your trip.
	You you are taking a trip to China.
	When is that trip?
	Uh I'm going to Japan first, then China, then South Korea.
	Um, the Chinese government uh invited me to do a QA based upon my book, The United States of Trump, which it uh I understand is a phenomenal bestseller in Beijing right now.
	And they want to they want to know.
	Well, of course, of course it is, Bill.
	I mean, how could it not be?
	I mean, you're Bill O'Reilly.
	Well, thank you.
	I appreciate you the killing Jesus in China.
	Listen, I'm not surprised.
	Yeah.
	Uh, in all seriousness, um, that is fascinating.
	I I I really want to hear more about it.
	We'll talk about it next week.
	And we do appreciate your time.
	Over there.
	I mean, you're an iron man.
	I'm telling you, I I would be uh in a hammock someplace.
	Um, we we've been to many of the same places.
	You know, I've traveled to Israel and Iraq and Helsinki and Singapore and Vietnam and and you know, we're very honored to be able to do what we do, and I'm very grateful to our audiences collectively for giving us the opportunity to report on it firsthand, and uh uh I appreciate the fact that you're always supportive.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Okay, we'll talk next week.
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	You want to be a part of the program as we continue.
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	You want to be a part of the program where you are in Doha.
	We are in Qatar, very different than Saudi Arabia.
	This is not a desert.
	It has water and oil, by the way.
	A very wealthy country.
	Um, known like the UAE is as a vacation kind of playground uh for people in the Arab world and around the world.
	I mean, you have people from all over the world that come here uh to vacation, etc.
	Far less stringent laws and rules.
	Uh Linda would be a lot happier and less at risk if she were on the trip uh here in in Doha in in Qatar.
	You agree with that, right, Linda?
	I don't think that I am in safe in the Middle East in any capacity, other than the one democracy, which is Israel.
	Uh, maybe true.
	Um, but you have me, and I would protect you at all costs.
	Are we kung fu fighting in the Middle East, bro?
	Because I'm down.
	If that's what we're about, I'm all in.
	If we kung fu fighting, what does that mean when we kung fu fighting?
	What does that mean?
	You know what it means.
	Haya.
	I'm here to party.
	Would you say to me?
	That's right.
	I'm a woman.
	Karate chop your ass.
	Okay.
	Um, listen, I want to remind everybody, Memorial Day is right around the corner.
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	You know, it's amazing to me is I read through the news every day, and it just does not go away.
	What am I talking about?
	The issue of Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
	What people knew when they knew it.
	I mean, fake Jake Tappers, the biggest phony of them all.
	Uh, we have played that tape over and over again of fake Jake, uh, literally going out there and saying, you know, let me play this clash with Lar Laura Trump.
	And, you know, over Joe Biden's obvious and clear cognitive decline.
	And we talked about it before the 2020 election.
	It was on display for everyone to see.
	And everybody knew about it.
	Everyone denied what their eyes were saying.
	And even in 2023 and four, these are cheap fake videos.
	No, they're not cheap fake videos.
	They're real videos.
	George Clooney, he didn't recognize me.
	I was shocked.
	Um they're full of Adam Schiff, uh, to be honest.
	But it was transparent.
	Now this guy's trying to sell a book about Joe's cognitive decline and how the media missed it, meaning how he missed it, along with everybody else in the state-run legacy media mob.
	Listen.
	What we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline.
	That's what I'm referring to.
	It makes me uncomfortable.
	It's so amazing to me that and try and figure out an answer.
	I think if you were mocking his stutter.
	And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline.
	I have one last question for you, Laura.
	You can't.
	Times on stage.
	And it's very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world.
	That is all I'm saying.
	I genuinely sorry for Joe Pennonette.
	I appreciate it.
	I'm sure it was from a place of concern.
	We all we all believe that.
	Laura Trump, thank you so much.
	Now, what's amazing about that?
	Oh, you're making fun of his stuttering.
	No, it no, nobody was making fun of his stuttering.
	I I'll be honest, I never once talked about Joe Biden having a stuttering problem.
	He had a cognitive problem, a very big distinction and difference.
	You know, his uh David Axelrod, well, people around him didn't serve him well.
	Now, in one little bit of fairness to David Axelrod, he didn't want he knew Joe Biden was a mess.
	He just didn't say it.
	He came he went all the way around the edges, never came out and said, This man has no business being president the way we did and the way anybody in the media should have done.
	Listen.
	I think one of the tragedies of this story is that Joe Biden served this country honorably for more than half a century, did accomplish some very significant things as president, but mistakenly thought that he was equipped to run for another term when I said, as I said back in 2022, he'd be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of that term.
	And that was just not sensible.
	And a lot of people around him did not serve him well because they reinforced his desire to run instead of protecting his legacy and him.
	And by the way, also the Democratic Party in the country.
	So I you know, he doesn't get a pass either.
	And then you got Chucky Schumer shutting down somebody on fake news CNN's question about Biden's cognitive state.
	Chucky Schumer knew Nancy Pelosi knew, everybody around Joe knew.
	They covered it up, they lied because they just didn't want Donald Trump, and they hate Trump way more than they care about telling the American people the truth.
	Listen.
	You uh sat next to Biden in the Oval Office, February 27th, uh 2024, just a handful of months before the president took that debate stage.
	And it was later reported uh that you and other Democratic leaders about having a plan.
	You and Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama.
	I understand you later denied that that ever happened.
	But I I am curious, I'm interested to know whether the man that you saw sitting there on that couch on that day, you were in there, you saw him up close and personal.
	Did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term?
	Casey, we're looking forward.
	We have the largest Medicaid cut in front of us.
	We have the whole federal government at risk.
	Right, but you're facing all of this because you lost a presidential election.
	And is that not Joe Biden's responsibility for deciding to run again?
	We're looking forward.
	That's it.
	That's it.
	And not to be on uh outdone, you know.
	Now the minority leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffrey, he's asked about Biden not recognizing George Clooney.
	Uh we're looking forward.
	Uh really?
	You what did you know and when did you know it?
	There really should be an investigation.
	And I'll tell you why.
	Because if a president has severe cognitive decline the way Joe Biden did, it is a national security risk.
	It is a national security risk.
	It's that simple.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones as we continue.
	We are in Doha.
	We are in Qatar.
	Let us get to our phones.
	Uh we'll stay in Texas with Bill.
	Bill, God bless Texas.
	Uh welcome to Qatar and glad you could be with us.
	Hey, Sean, thanks for having me.
	I just wanted to uh comment on the uh shortage of the air traffic controllers.
	Uh my son, he's a twenty-two-year-old college graduate, and he started the process uh to be an air traffic controller back in November, and it's May, and he's still he still hasn't got that call to go to Oklahoma yet.
	And uh we're waiting for him to get that call because he's eating us out of the house.
	So I just I mean, uh I'm I'm gonna give you advice.
	My kids are just a little bit older than yours.
	You know what?
	You're gonna miss that day these days.
	But with that said, when we end this call, stay on the line, and I'm gonna have uh my uh Katie take your number and I will pass it on to Sean Duffy.
	I had very extensive conversations about the shortage of air traffic controllers that he inherited from Pothole Pete, and it's over three thousand, and for example, Newark, New Jersey is just an unmitigated disaster, and that impacts the New York area, the metropolitan area, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, etcetera.
	So um they need people, and I know they're gonna try and extend out the age of retirement and maybe entice people to come back in that have all that experience, but people like your son are the people we're looking for.
	Yes, sir.
	So I mean, uh I I think it's great that he wants why does he want to be an air traffic controller?
	Uh uh he likes looking at maps.
	Uh he's always had a fascination with maps and uh and places and uh he wants to uh you enjoy uh he's not uh he's not uh of learning to fly or anything like that, but he he just enjoys uh I think he'll enjoy that that type of atmosphere, that that kind of high stress uh that comes along with that job.
	And so yeah, he started back in November and got uh I'm gonna call it the entrance entrance exam.
	I'm not sure what it's called, but he he uh scored very high on that.
	And then we thought it would just be a short time before they called him up, but uh it's it's May.
	You may be surprised, and I don't want to give away you may be surprised at how quickly this whole process will unfold.
	And I'm only saying that based on my conversation with Sean J Duffy, who understands the urgency to get people like your son uh behind those controls on the job sooner rather than later.
	So if you don't mind, Bill, stay on the line.
	Katie will take care of you, and I'm gonna pass your number on to Sean.
	Uh he his sense of urgency about this is beyond measure.
	Uh rightly so.
	And he inherited all of that.
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	Uh let's get back to our busy phones, 800, 941 Sean.
	We have a great Hannity tonight, nine Easter.
	Uh, let me go up to Cindy, great state of Texas.
	Cindy, how are you?
	Uh glad you could be with us in Qatar, and uh what a sight I'm looking at as I look at this this city with bright lights and uh a vibrancy that is really amazing, actually.
	Well, I just don't understand how come anybody hasn't I mean everybody's freaking out over him accepting a gift whenever nobody is even mentioned the fact that you know there could be a TPS system on this new plane.
	They could be trying to find out secrets, and I'm sure President Trump is smart enough to dissect the whole thing and break it all down.
	And why can't we just be grateful that okay, let's let's run with this, see what happens.
	Worst case scenario, we sell the sell it off apart.
	Look, the uh Air Force One, and I have the honor of of traveling Uh as you know, and reporting on what's going on on this trip.
	And this is the president's, you know, first foreign trip and a second term.
	And it's a 40-year-old plane.
	And it's kind of hard to, you know, think that America has a 40-year-old plane for the president of our country.
	When I was leaving Saudi Arabia, I did notice that they had all of the Gulf states that were there.
	And I I didn't notice the planes of other states in the Gulf.
	And they were far newer or seemingly far newer and bigger than Air Force One.
	And I maybe it sounds egotistical, and if it does to people, that's fine, but I think the president should have the best, the latest, the greatest.
	Always, because that's just who we are as a country.
	I mean, we are the leader of the free world.
	End of sentence.
	And as I always say, every single politician, Democrat, Republican, needs to be protected.
	And I don't care what your political affiliation is, we need to protect elected officials.
	And I said that back in the Obama years many, many times.
	I'll say the same thing here we need the latest, greatest, best technology, knowing that we have enemies that are targeting our country and our president.
	So I think it's fine.
	Now there's a bigger issue in play here, too.
	And I brought this up last night on TV.
	I brought it up on this radio show yesterday.
	And the amount of protection that is provided to Qatar and Saudi Arabia and UAE is incalculable because not only do we sell them, and you'd say, well, we're just selling the military equipment.
	It's not that we're selling them the military equipment.
	And I watched, you know, the I think they're F-15s, 18s, whatever they were on the side of each wing applying into each country.
	It's that we are giving them that technology, and they wouldn't have anywhere near the security.
	You can't put a price on that.
	The last thing.
	Largest military base is right here in Qatar for the U.S. in terms of the Middle East.
	The Qataris have spent eight billion dollars in terms of investing money to build out that base.
	Nobody ever questioned that money.
	There is a defense alliance agreement between our two countries that far the benefit far is far in favor of the Qataris than it is America.
	And so it's trust me, it's it's a small price to pay, relatively speaking for what we're offering them.
	Anyway, God bless Texas, Cindy, appreciate you.
	Thank you.
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