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If you want to join us, there is a lot of chatter.
There is a lot of noise.
There is a lot of indications that the Israelis are planning to take out the nuclear sites of Iran.
President Trump, when we were in the Middle East last week, was very, very clear.
That and this is these are his words, not mine.
I can play them for you, but ostensibly they have two choices here and only two choices here.
It's kind of like with Zelensky in that Oval Office beatdown, only to be matched by yesterday's beatdown of the South African president.
Um the choices are simple.
I want I want Iran to prosper.
I want them to do well.
I want to have an agreement with them.
Well, I want to trade with them.
I want to do this.
However, that's not going to happen.
If Iran insists on continuing to enrich uranium, there's only one reason they would enrich uranium, and that is because they want a nuclear weapon.
It is really that simple.
Now, with the Israel, I've known Prime Minister Netanyahu.
As long as I've known President Trump.
And I am telling you, Iran is not getting a nuclear weapon on either one of their watches.
It's not going to happen.
It's not in the cards.
If they if they don't calculate properly what the situation is, That will be to their own detriment.
Then the only question is will there be the nuclear sites taken out or their nuclear sites and their refineries that will bankrupt them, and that likely, once the money's gone, that would result in it likely result in regime change.
We're not talking about, and and I am one of these people.
The day and age of long drawn-out, protracted wars is over and must be over.
We cannot allow, especially with the development of missile technology and military technology today.
We can't allow our national treasure to go door to door ever again and with without up armored Humvees and stepping over or on IEDs in the hopes of quote, regime change or whatever, whatever the motivation might be.
We don't need to do that.
I am telling you that future wars will be fought in air-conditioned offices with people firing, you know, weapons from from afar, and that's the way the attacks are going to take place, and it will be done with overwhelming force.
Now, there are some conservatives or people that claim to be conservatives that say the president should not have any involvement in this i if it happens on our on Donald Trump's watch, even though it would be Biden's fault.
Well, Hannity, well, how do you blame this on Biden if he's not president?
Biden allowed the Iranians to get rich.
He allowed them to get rich because he turned a blind eye towards the sanctions that were bankrupting that country when he became president.
And by doing such, it allowed them, it funded the terrorism that they have been fomenting in the region.
It helped them plan out October 7th with Hamas out of Gaza.
They use the Kuds forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards forces.
They have been funding Hezbollah, they have been funding Islamic Jihad, they have been funding the Houthi rebels, and they have been firing their own rockets into Israel.
When people chant death to Israel, death to America, and Israel because of its proximity to these nations in the region, you know, makes them the easy target.
And they but the Israelis, I mean, you're not going to beat Israel in a war.
They're not going to win.
Israel is winning the war, and Israel will remove Hamas from Gaza, and at some point they'll become an opportunity.
I don't think President Trump is wrong in saying, you know, there's a lot of prime real estate.
I believe it's along the Mediterranean.
Correct me if I'm wrong on my my map skills here, Linda, where they could develop Gaza into a beautiful resort-like place.
One of the things that really stood out when I was in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi and the UAE is the amount these cities are modern.
They have like the most modern clean American cities.
I mean, with great architecture, especially I would say when we were in Doha, maybe the nicest city, and in large part I like it because I'm I'd prefer an area that is on the ocean on the water versus you know an arid desert, which is a little little difficult to adjust to.
But I think all of these nations too are sick and tired and and of Iranian, they don't want Iranian hegemony in the region.
They don't want uh nuclear-armed Iran.
I think the only thing that is holding these nations back at this moment in history doesn't mean they haven't made mistakes, doesn't mean they have turned a blind eye towards radicalism, doesn't take away their complicity in past acts.
I'm I'm not going through their entire history.
I am saying at this moment of time, the way things seem to be aligning up or lining up is that they want relationships based on peace, and they want this conflict to end.
I think they understand that Israel is going nowhere, and and that this has to end and radicalism has to be purged.
And that's every country.
That's Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, all of the Gulf states, they all understand the same thing.
And they all know the real existential threat is the number one state sponsor of terror, which is Iran.
Sad story about the two Israeli embassy staffers gunned down last night by a suspect shouting free free Palestine after being arrested inside the Capitol Jewish Museum in D.C. Metropolitan Police said officers took Elias Rodriguez of Chicago into custody after the deadly shooting.
The Israeli foreign minister identified the victims to the associated press.
I mean, it's just so sad.
Officials say the suspect seen pacing back and forth outside the Capitol Jewish Museum, which was hosting the event just prior to the shooting.
I mean, that this has to stop Pam Bondi leaving open the door to seek the death penalty in this particular shooting.
FBI director Cash Patel called this uh uh Jewish museum shooting an act of terrorism.
And what we know about this this guy Rodriguez, this was in the New York Post, you know, apparently had suspected was a suspected terrorist busted for doing this, uh, has ties to the radical left wing group, according to the New York Post that spearheaded Black Lives Matter protests and fiercely advocating on behalf of quote the Palestinians.
I mean, we saw the disaster that was the commencement, I guess, address, if you want to call it, it got interrupted the whole time at Columbia.
I mean, it is it is sad.
I know more parents if if that were maybe they would have thought in years gone by about Ivy League schools and Havid and Yale and Princeton and Columbia and Dartmouth and whatever.
Not anymore.
These parents are now looking to send their kids to places like UVA and Vanderbilt and UNC and USC in Carolina and USC in California, although less because California's California, but and or Wake Forest or any of these other universities, they're all looking to send their kids to the SEC and Southern schools.
Notre Dame is still on the list, but they're not looking in the same places, and you see it in terms of the applications that are going there.
Now, uh, in response to Israel, Iran's top diplomat warned that his country would take special measures to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel Israel continues to threaten them.
The Iranian foreign minister on X writing, I have called on the international community to take effective preventive measures against the continuation of Israeli threats, which, if unchecked, will compel Iran to take special measures in defense of our nuclear facilities and materials.
We are likewise of the firm conviction that in the event of any attack against the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Zionist regime, the government of the United States shall bear legal responsibility, having been complicit there.
You know what?
Who gives a flying Adam shift what they think?
Nobody cares.
It was interesting to see Canada, by the way.
Did you see this, Linda?
Canada wants to join our Golden Dome Missile Defense Program.
Maybe they'll lift the tariffs against us.
Maybe they'll secure their border.
Maybe they'll pay their fair share for NATO.
I love our friends in Canada, but give me a break.
I don't love them.
Let them fund for themselves.
Peace out.
Oh boy.
We don't know.
I didn't say I hated them.
I just said I don't love them.
They're not on the hate list?
Not on the hate list yet, but I'm all good.
I don't need any maple syrup right now.
Go ahead.
Figure it out for yourselves.
You'll be fine.
Okay, are we done?
Did you get it all out?
I feel better.
You feel you feel better about yourself?
All right, big news on the one big beautiful bill.
There was a reason why I did not need to come to you with phone numbers this week because I knew it was going to pass in the end.
I knew the who the difficult actors were.
I knew what people were arguing for.
I knew in the end that it would get there.
I knew the President Trump would play a big role in it.
And anyway, the one big, beautiful bill did pass the House of Representatives early this morning, Thursday morning, with just two Republican defections.
The bill passed 215 or 214, two Republicans, Tom Massey, Warren Davidson of Ohio voting against it, all Democrats voting against the bill.
Now, what does that mean?
That means that every person that voted against this bill voted against the largest tax cut in American history.
That's an extra $5,000 in every American's pocket with a double digit percent decrease in their tax bills.
Americans earning between 30 and 80,000 will pay 15% less in taxes.
Now add to that, the president that really is standing up for working men and women.
It includes his promise of no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
That is great for hardworking Americans.
It also delivers on big, beautiful deportations, as the White House called it, and permanently secures our border and ramping up mass deportation operations.
It will finish the president's border wall, 701 miles of the primary wall, 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary barriers, 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers that are all going to be constructed.
It will boost border patrol and ICE agents on the front lines, and we'll get into this with Dr. Oz later in the program.
It will protect, and the president was adamant about this when he went to the Capitol this week.
It will protect Medicaid.
There were groups of people that wanted cuts to Medicaid, big cuts to Medicaid.
Uh, it will protect Medicaid, but also it will kick off 1.4 million illegals that are benefiting from Medicaid.
It will also require able-bodied Americans to work if they receive benefits.
You know, 4.8 million able-bodied adults that just choose not to work.
I don't understand it.
Kind of a boring life to me.
It reverses the spending curse that plagues the swamp as they have laid out their what's in the legislation.
It delivers the largest deficit reduction in nearly 30 years, 1.6 trillion in mandatory savings.
It ends taxpayer funded sex change for minor operations, reversing the Biden era mandate that Medicaid covers so-called gender transition procedures for minors.
This is insane.
It provides historic tax relief to social uh security recipients, uh no tax on Social Security benefits.
It will give Americans again the permanent tax relief through the Trump tax cuts.
Everyone who voted for this voted for the largest tax increase in history.
End of sentence.
It will modernize on air traffic control system.
I mean, Sean Duffy inherited equipment, you know, from the 1950s and 60s.
He was he could he he he inherited 3,000 air traffic controllers sh uh short.
It will end the Green New Deal, all Green New Deal monies, thank God, modernize our air traffic control system, overhaul the system, hire air traffic controllers, incentivize made in America.
It's also pro-family, and it establishes MAGA accounts for newborns to start savings.
I love that.
Repeals the insane attack on the economy.
It protects family farmers, and I mean, I could just keep going on and on.
It boosts American development, and we're not even talking about it does help with energy dominance, but then you have the 10 trillion in in commitments and spending and manufacturing uh that he already secured.
I mean, this was a big deal.
And I it'll go to the Senate.
There'll be some changes, they'll go to conference.
That bill will pass somewhere sometime around the fourth of July, hopefully.
So much to get to today.
Um as it relates to the Democrats are trying to demagogue Medicaid and Medicare as they usually do, and it's not true.
They're increasing spending.
They're just taking off people that don't belong on the like illegal immigrants off the rolls.
I mean, that would be one big beautiful bill, right?
But it advances the president's agenda on taxes, emigr immigration, defense, the national debt.
Um, imagine 1.6 trillion in government, you know, say uh savings in this bill.
That's a lot of money.
And oh, requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients to actually work.
I mean, unbelievable.
And by the way, as well as putting more of the cost-sharing burden on states that took advantage of the Affordable Care Act, which was Not affordable.
Anyway, rolling back green energy tax credits for Biden.
It's unbelievable.
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All right, joining us now is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, uh, the author of the one big beautiful bill, uh, Mike Johnson is with us.
I don't think I'd ever want your job.
Just for the record, I don't think I'd want it.
You're a wise man, Sean.
It's uh not an easy one, but I tell you what, it's very rewarding today.
This is a this is a great day for the country.
It really is.
We got one step closer, a big step closer this morning to delivering that full America first agenda for the people, and uh, we're super excited about it.
Well, it's the largest tax cut in American history, which also means conversely, that Democrats and two Republicans voted for the largest tax increase in history because the the the Trump tax cuts were about to expire.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
And look, we voted for all these great policies, but that is so important for everybody to remember.
The Democrats are now on record this morning, Sean.
They they they had the opportunity to undo the damage caused by the last four long years of Joe Biden.
Instead, they doubled down, they voted against our bill.
And that means they want higher taxes, they voted for more inflation for open borders again, benefits for illegals, weakness on the world stage, fraud, waste, and abuse, all of that.
That is now the recorded record.
That's gonna be very helpful for us in the midterm election.
It comes up in that first two-year cycle when we've got to keep and grow the House majority, and we're looking forward to that contest.
And by the way, that includes no tax on tips.
I I worked in the service industry from the time I was 12 till I was 20.
Uh I worked in construction after that.
No tax on overtime.
This is really this shows that the Republican Party, the Make America Great Again movement is now the party of working men and women.
I would argue the people that really truly make this country great.
Sean, it you nailed it.
And you and I have similar backgrounds, as you know.
Our legislation.
First of all, we make permanent, right?
The 2017 Trump tax cuts.
That's that's the that gave the largest tax cut to low-income working families.
I mean, we are the party of the working man and woman in this country.
And the American people are gonna feel the results of this.
This is this is even more historic because we made those tax cuts permanent.
And this is what it means.
The typical American family with two children, okay?
They're gonna see their take-home pay increase by an estimated thirteen thousand three hundred dollars a year.
That's that's real money for real people.
And you got there's about eighty million hourly workers in this country, about four million who are in the the the chipped occupation.
They're gonna see a pay increase.
It's gonna average uh almost seventeen hundred dollars.
Overtime workers are gonna receive a tax cut up to eighteen hundred dollars a year.
This is real money for real people.
And and this is exactly what President Trump promised on the campaign trail.
We're delivering it, and that's a big thing to fulfill the.
And Americans that make between thirty and eighty thousand dollars a year that have been struggling the last four years will pay what, fifteen to twenty percent less in in federal taxes.
Yeah, and you know, here's the thing the alternative.
If we had failed in this mission, and we still got to get it through the Senate, right?
They're gonna handle that.
They'll come back to us.
The the goal is to get it to the president's desk by July 4th.
So we have a massive independence day celebration of America first.
It's gonna be epic.
But Sean, we had to do it because if we didn't, if we don't get this done, the the average American taxpayer is is going to have a massive tax increase.
It'll be the largest tax increase in U.S. history when the original Trump tax cuts would expire at the end of this year.
And I mean it's real.
It's like a 22% tax increase that'll befall every family.
What by one estimate, uh, twenty-six million businesses in America uh would would have their tax increase go up to 43 percent.
I mean, it would be devastating.
So we have no margin for error.
We had to get this done.
And I'm delighted we got the first big step.
Now we get it to the Senate and it goes to the president's desk.
Let me go to the Medicaid Medicaid portion of this, and we have Dr. Oz on later to talk more about it specifically.
Uh illegal immigrants, there's one point four million of them that get Medicaid benefits, they will be kicked off.
That's that they you enter this country illegally, you shouldn't be living off the American taxpayers, in my view.
Also, able-bodied Americans will be required to work if they get benefits.
That's about four point eight million people.
Uh I believe in dignity through employment myself.
Uh and it also delivers uh the largest deficit reduction in nearly what, 30 years?
How much is that?
Yeah, it's historic.
I mean, look, historic deficit reduction, there's never been anything like this.
Really, if you adjust for inflation, we're we we saved in that vote this morning, we saved almost 1.9 trillion dollars of taxpayer funds while also checking all these boxes and delivering for the folks.
And it's got everything in it.
I mean, we call it the one big beautiful bill, the president named it that because it it's the best description.
It's got historic spending cuts, it's got historic tax relief for American workers, it's got the largest investment in border security, Sean, in a generation.
At the same time, all in the same legislation.
We're unleashing American energy dominance, we're restoring strength on the world stage again.
And to your point, we're ensuring that these programs like Medicaid and SNAP are preserved.
We're we're securing the programs because we're making sure they're only for US citizens who need and deserve them, not illegals, not not people trying to cheat the system.
Dr. Oz was is a great great member of the president's team.
I talked to him two days ago about this as we were finalizing it.
He's excited because you you're right, Sean.
Uh able-bodied young men do not need to be riding the wagon on Medicaid.
They need to be working.
And when we do that, when we have public policy that encourages work, it it builds purpose and dignity in people's lives.
It's a win-win-win all the way around.
And that's why 4.8 million able-bodied adults that choose not to work, and there are now jobs available, and we have $10 trillion in committed monies for manufacturing, which includes pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips and automobiles because of the president's battle over tariffs.
I mean, that $10 trillion is a massive commitment.
That's gonna result in high-paying career jobs for Americans.
But on the Medicaid question again, it reverses the Biden era mandate that Medicaid cover so-called gender transition procedures for minors and ending taxpayer-funded chemical castration.
Frankly, I call it the mutilation of American kids.
Um, and you're right about the border because it gives the president money for mass deportations as needed.
It also ha offers what, 700 miles of primary wall, nine hundred miles of river barriers, six hundred and twenty mil 29 miles of secondary barriers, 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers that will be constructed.
It will boost border patrol and ice agents on the front lines.
This is this is now protecting our country, especially after the open borders of Harris and Biden that brought us what, fourteen, fifteen million.
Nobody knows the actual number.
Yeah, we we we use the number, it might be closer to twenty.
There is no accurate count, and that's part of the problem.
But we we had to have strong leadership.
President Trump has brought that back in spades.
I mean, he's the most effective, most consequential president, certainly of the modern era.
I mean, you can make an argument here very soon, probably in all of American history, and it's just really something.
I talked to him late last night.
We had a celebratory call.
Uh he's he's he's such a uh he has such a personal involvement in what happens in the legislative branch of the government.
It's it's it's innovative.
He's just that kind of leader, and it's been a great he's a partner in it.
What what a concept, right?
The President of the United States, the commander in chief, also caring so much and and helping out with the little details of making sure the legislative package is shepherded through.
It's it's just a great thing for the country.
Unified government.
This is what the Republican Party represents.
This is what we will deliver for the American people.
We had a historic election because President Trump uh really set the record 77.4 million Americans gave him the popular vote win.
We had the largest popular vote win in the House among House Republicans in our history as well, 74.8 million.
They gave us a mandate, Sean, and President Trump is delivering on it every day, and we're doing it as well.
It's great pain for the country.
The only issue that people have called in about that I really don't have a good answer to, because I I never read the final version.
Uh I know you had your final markup last night.
Uh I I think it actually happened after my TV show.
Uh as it relates to Social Security, the the President had promised no taxes on Social Security.
You know, where does that stand if you're an individual, is it up to 25,000, no tax, uh up to 50 percent of your benefits if you're at a certain level.
Where does that stand for people that are concerned about Social Security?
Yeah, look, what he promised on the trail and what we all echoed everywhere is that we were not gonna have tax on tips, no tax on overtime, we were not gonna have taxes on interest on car loans for those cars that are made in the USA.
That's a big thing.
And also historic tax relief for for seniors on Social Security.
And it it there is some range there, the varying ranges of uh people's income levels and where they are and all that.
There's charts and graphs.
Um you're right, it was being negotiated at the very end because we wanted to make sure we gave the maximum amount of relief for the people.
President Trump is the president for all Americans, for hardworking Americans, for those who uh struggle and and and work hard every day to get by.
They're they're owed that.
And it you know what, when you provide that kind of relief, Sean, it's good for individuals, it's good for families, for communities, states, our nation as a whole.
I said it I said in my four speech last night, Sean, uh uh kind of as we concluded all this right before the vote.
A strong America is good for the entire world.
And it doesn't matter what party you're in, you ought to be cheering this along.
You ought to be you ought to be applauding what President Trump and Republicans in Congress are doing, because it's not a partisan exercise.
We are delivering relief for everybody.
And I think they're gonna reward us for that in the next election cycle.
You know, there's only two.
Listen, I love the fact that it gives permanent tax relief.
That benefits every American.
I love no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
I love that you will modernize uh this busted air traffic control.
When I talked to Sean Duffy, I was shocked.
Yeah.
That you know, we have we're three thousand air traffic controllers shy, and we have equipment that goes back to the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
They've never modernized.
And uh I'm glad that you got rid of any funding for the the Green New Deal, five hundred billion dollars, which is insane.
Uh I love that it incentivizes made in America and rewards companies to build their products here in America.
I love that it's pro-family and their MAGA accounts for newborns to start saving.
I love all of that.
And it you're repealing the Democrats, you know, insane attack on you know, requirement that Venmo and PayPal and other transactions over six hundred dollars be reported to the IRS.
Can you please leave us alone that protects farmers?
Um let me go back to the Social Security question.
Are people in every category paying less?
Is anybody paying more?
No, no, uh no one's paying more.
Everybody's paying less, and um I don't have all I don't have the final like schematic in front of me with all the numbers, but it is it's real relief.
And I think I think the average is about five thousand dollars uh back in the pockets of um seniors who are relying on Social Security.
Um they're very uh it degrees, of course, how much they receive and all of that.
Um they're tables that that correspond with all this.
I don't have it in front of me, but I'm telling you, it is real relief for everybody, and that's exactly what the president promised.
That's what we uh are are delivering.
And and importantly, Sean, by the way, we're doing this in a way that is fiscally responsible because we are we're we're trying to change the debt trajectory of the country because we've got to do that.
We all know how important it is.
The number one threat to our national security.
So these are investments.
I mean, when you put money back in the pockets of the American people, that's how the economy grows because they spend it and they invest it, and job creators and risk takers and entrepreneurs expand their businesses and add more employees, wages go up.
The beautiful thing about this, Sean is it's not theory.
We've already proven this.
We had a first Trump administration.
And you and I know, because you talk about it all the time, remind people.
After the first two years of the first Trump administration, we brought about the greatest economy in the history of the world, not just the U.S., because we cut taxes and cut regulation, and we let the free market flourish.
That's what we're doing this time, and now on steroids because all these other things are with it as well.
In this bill, you will modernize this busted air traffic control system.
In this bill, you will begin, especially with the Golden Dome, but in uh with other weapons systems as well, be building out the next generation of weaponry.
In this bill, you will unleash America's energy dominance, which I believe we're gonna have the lowest prices uh for gasoline on Memorial Day, if you factor in inflation since you know in the last 20 plus years.
Um, and it will boost our mineral development so we won't be dependent on other countries.
Those are four very big components to me.
I'll give you the last word on this part.
Yeah, I mean, look, in quick summary, America's gonna be more prosperous, uh more secure, and more free.
I mean, that's what Congress has done.
The president promised it.
We're delivering it.
Yeah, what about do we have enough rare earth minerals in this country that we won't be dependent on any other country?
I know we have enough natural gas, oil, and coal.
Yeah, look, God has blessed America with all these extraordinary natural resources.
The problem is the Democrats and all the radical uh, you know, uh Green New Deal agenda and all of that stuff.
They have foreclosed our ability to use that.
We're we're unwinding that.
We're we're removing the uh shortening the permitting processes, and we're allowing for us to to mine and use the resources God's given us.
It's crazy for us to be having to import critical and rare earth.
Well, they wouldn't they wouldn't allow mining just like they wouldn't allow drilling, just that like they wouldn't allow fracking or coal mining, and just like they don't want us to have gas stoves or or plastic straws.
We're getting rid of all of that, one step at a time.
Well, congratulations, Mr. Speaker.
I think it's probably the most conservative bill I've ever seen passed.
I think it is the most conservative bill I've ever seen passed in my lifetime, and this certainly uh will reap huge rewards for the American people overall.
I really appreciate it.
Good job, and we'll see what happens with the Senate and in conference, and hopefully by the fourth of July, this will be done.
Uh, we appreciate your time.
Thanks for all the air cover, my friend.
God bless.
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