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June 26, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Updates from Iran - June 25th, Hour 1

Sean updates us on the full damage reports from Iran including the evidence that suggests Iranian's nuclear capability was significantly destroyed.  There's no doubt that dozens of bunker-buster bombs did significant damage but the left would have you believe otherwise!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Uh well, uh, we'll get into this.
There might be an opportunity here that didn't exist prior to this, uh, for a Republican to be the New York City mayor.
Now, that would mean Curtis Sleewa, because you have Eric Adams as an independent, you have another this other guy's an independent, and Andrew Cuomo is mulling over the possibility of running as an independent, and this guy, this radical leftist, you know, who, you know, supports global antifada.
You know what antifada means, you know, holy war.
Uh, I mean extreme radical social.
He wants government run grocery stores.
This guy's a lunatic.
You know, he wants free buses and free, free, free, free, free.
And tax the rich Wall Street Journal pointed out.
And uh I can tell you already, living in Southern Florida, there is Wall Street in New York, but there's Wall Street South.
Every major Wall Street firm already has a presence, if not half their business has moved to the free state, my free state of Florida.
They've left.
New York City has chased them away because of their burdensome regulation, their high taxation.
This guy wants the he wants this socialist utopia.
Doesn't want to fund the police, he wants to hire counselors.
Yeah, let's send counselors into a domestic ab uh, you know, situation.
This is dumb as you can be, radically virulently, you know, against Israel.
And I I've never seen anything like it.
Mom Donny is his name, but it might I I I actually can see Andrew Cuomo getting in as an independent just to make sure Mom Donny doesn't win.
And that would give probably a path, you know, the only one that's running as a uh kind of like a Rudy Giuliani, Trump like conservative, uh make New York City great again, conservative would be Curtis Sleeva's gonna join us at the bottom of this hour.
And anyway, Wall Street firms, you got this guy, Anthony uh Pompliano, CEO, professional capital management.
Uh yeah, it it it it is failed in America in every single way, he says, and there are more Wall Street firms that are now out there openly saying if Mom Dani wins, they are gonna flee.
I mean, every major Wall Street firm, every private equity firm, every major bank on Wall Street, they're all now have a massive presence in South Florida.
And they're gonna and Ron DeSantis, you know, my governor is saying it's gonna be great for Florida.
If Mom Dani wins, it's insane.
Um today uh when the NATO general secretary, uh, or Secretary General rather refers to Trump as daddy, and Trump is asked by Sky News about it.
Let me play first the NATO uh Secretary General.
I mean, we may do papers on it, Marco.
Maybe we're gonna do papers.
I don't even know if you need them.
They're not gonna be fighting each other.
They've had it.
They've had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard.
You know, they fight like hell.
You can't stop them.
Let them fight for about two, three minutes, then it's easier to stop them.
Sometimes strong language.
Every once in a while you have to use a certain word.
And then a sky news reporter during a presser.
You should have seen Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State is laughing so hard.
Listen.
Um Mark Ritter, the NATO chief who is is your friend.
Um, he called you daddy earlier.
Um, do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children?
No, he likes me.
I think he likes me.
If he doesn't, I'll let you know.
I'll come back and I'll hit him hard, okay?
He did he did it very effectually, Daddy.
You're my daddy.
It was just hilarious.
You can't make it up.
Uh Trump warning was asked uh what would happen if the Iranians attempted to rebuild the nuclear program.
He answered very simply.
He said he just strike him again.
He made the statement during this exchange with reporters.
And would you strike Iran again if they were to rebuild the nuclear facilities?
Sure.
It was just a simple answer, but a profound statement.
Now, so far the piece is holding with, you know, radical mullahs, I don't have a high degree of confidence.
They want peace.
And if they think they're going to be clever and go around the president and uh, you know, fund their proxies to to do the dirty work for them, which is historically what they've done.
That's not going to work out very well.
Um, Steve, you know, there has been there was this low confidence assessment uh that the intelligence community put out that said, well, from satellite imagery, we're not sure if it was as successful as the president said.
They bombarded the Ford nuclear facility with what?
A whopping, you know, six bunker buster bombs.
And it just it defies gravity.
Steve Wickhoff, Mid East uh envoy, uh, was on with uh Laura last night, and he said, Let me tell you for something that's for sure here.
Three distinct facilities in Iran that we were concerned.
Isfahan, which is the conversion facility, he goes on to explain what a conversion facility is, which is the only one that they believe that they have uh completely destroyed.
Esfahan, done.
Hit with a 30,000 pounder bunker buster bomb, and then followed up with Tomahawk missiles.
Uh so they have no conversion opportunity.
It means they can't weaponize, even if they wanted to.
Then the Natan site, one one above ground, one below ground.
The below ground was eviscerated, the above ground hit by the Israelis and 75% destroyed before you know America even put more bombs on top of it.
He said that was eviscerated.
They put 12 buster bunker bombs on uh four dough.
There's no doubt it breached the canopy.
There's no doubt that was well within reach of the depth of these bunker busters and how far down they go.
And no, it was obliterated.
And this is like this odd thing that the left tries to do to take away any success of President Trump.
It's bizarre.
General Petraya said, yeah, of course these bombs knocked it out.
Uh there's no way it didn't knock it out.
Telsey Gabbard came out today.
New intelligence confirms that what the POTUS has stated numerous times, Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed.
And if the Iranians chose to rebuild, they would have to rebuild all three of the facilities entirely, which would take uh, you know, many, many years to do.
And she said if if they choose to do that, and she criticized recent press reports.
By the way, fake news CNN, the same idiots that went forward with the you know, with Russia, Russia, impeach, impeach, and all the other lies that were told.
As a matter of fact, as it relates to this topic, the Pentagon now has launched a criminal probe into the defense intelligence leak that claimed that Iran uh well, it wasn't as successful as Donald Trump is saying.
Now you've got to understand something here.
There's something else going on that I think is very, very important.
And if you go back to Bill Gertz, who's been great on covering national security issues for for decades, and if you're wondering why we see America's intelligence community, you know, trying to discredit, by the way, this this was a low level.
Uh this was the highest, the lowest level of confidence briefing that they purposefully leaked.
And we're gonna get to the bottom and because you can't leak intelligence.
You know, Steve Whitkoff actually says, you know, it's outrageous.
He even called it treasonous and needs to be investigated.
It is it is being investigated.
But as Bill Gertz said in April of 2019, that the CIA, other U.S. intelligence agencies have become bastions of political liberals and the pro-Democratic Party views of the intelligence personnel have increased under President Donald Trump.
I guarantee you that this was done purposefully, and this was done as a means to take away a victory From President Trump.
And anyway, in the uh in the article, John Gentry, who spent 12 years as a CIA and analyst criticized former senior intelligence leaders, including the CIA director at the time, John Brennan, and director of national intelligence, James Clapper,
and former deputy CEO CIA director Mike Morrell, along with a bunch of other people for breaking decades-long prohibitions of publicly airing their liberal political views and attacking President Trump.
Anyway, he said Gentry points to the activities of senior retired intelligence officials during the 2016 uh campaign that universally criticized Trump.
The attacks on Trump were unprecedented for intelligence officers in their substance, tone, and volume volume.
It's like the 51 former Intel officials.
Those are the people that you're dealing with, those allies.
I mean, you can't be any more clear.
But I will tell you another success is NATO's been paying two, two and a two percent of the GDP for defense, and we have been picking up the vast majority of monies, and Donald Trump got commitments from every NATO ally except for Spain, and he had strong words for Spain and telling them that they're going to be punished with the most brutal tariffs they've ever seen in their life.
I have a funny feeling that Spain may want to revisit that issue.
Uh and even the Secretary General of NATO thanking President Trump, you know, at the at the NATO summit, you know, for making Europe pay in a big way, and that making Europe understand.
Uh and by the way, for those that say, oh, there's a big split.
No, 84% of respondents called the strikes uh military actions.
It's not a war because it wasn't a war from the Washington Free Beacon.
Ninety percent of Donald Trump voters support the strikes that decimated Iran's nuclear program because 90% have common sense.
There has been an effort to try to divide the conservative movement, Trump supporters uh on this issue.
I've that people have tried to drag me into it.
I'm not getting into it.
You know, people are entitled to their opinion.
It can differ than my opinion.
My opinion is I I'm in full complete agreement with the president and Donald Trump's doctrine.
I agreed with him when he took out the ISIS caliphate, the right decision.
I agreed when he took out Solomon Solomonny, the right decision.
I agreed when he took out Baghdadian associates, the right decision.
When he dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan, again, the right decision.
None of those military actions led to a forever war, which I don't support either.
Right decisions across the board.
And if you would have told me, and we'll have Bill O'Reilly on later in the program today, at the top of the next hour, I told Bill last week when we reconvene this week, Bill, I said, Iran's not going to have nukes.
And he said, he was kind of skeptical.
Maybe a bold prediction on my part.
Anyway, if you look fully 90% of Trump supporters, Washington Free Beacon, support the attack, and I don't really know any that don't.
Even by the way, Biden's Middle East coordinator praised Trump, Brett uh McGurk, the U.S. envoy for a global coalition against ISIL, speaking during a news conference.
You know, he said U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities have rendered ideal results for addressing the crisis with Iran.
It's a massive achievement.
And, you know, then there are people that have other agendas.
And maybe, you know, at some point there's a difference between what Israel thinks is necessary for their security, and they'll deal with it in their own way.
I I think the Iranians are not going to give up their sick twisted converter die ideology.
And I think we've got to be on the lookout for that and assume that that's that's going to be the case.
And then I think you have to assume that if they try to use their proxies to attack Israel, that it's not going to work.
You know, as for the ceasefire, I think the I think we'd need anywhere, anyplace, anytime inspections.
We can't allow them to build out their ballistic weapons and their launchers for these ballistic weapons, which would be a way that they think they can overwhelm the Iron Dome.
Uh, I think that a recognition of Israel should be paramount if you really, really want a peace in the region.
I'd like to see these other countries join the Ebraham Accords.
I think it's a possibility now that Iranian nukes have been taken out as a factor for them.
But the same Intel community now being quoted for its leak bombing damage assessment in Iran has a long history of spreading Trump anti-disinformation.
And I will tell you it's it is it's pretty disgusting that they want to politicize even this.
But the world is a safer place.
And you know, people have different points of view.
I'm I'm fine with having disagreements.
It doesn't bother me.
Israel intelligence assessment finds that Trump's B2 bombing raid on Iran's nuclear sites.
Uh yeah, was successful, causing massive damage.
So, you know, this this leak isn't it's it's not worth the paper that it's printed on, uh, but we need to get to the bottom of whoever did it.
And the Israelis did a great job themselves.
They did deserve a lot of credit.
All right, we'll have uh this guy, Curtis Lewa, I think has a chance that maybe be New York City's mayor if enough independence run, and it's him versus Mamdani, Cuomo, Eric Adams, and another Democrat, they could split splinter that vote, and that could be an opportunity for New York City to change for the better.
Can it really happen?
We'll ask Curtis say what is scary, and you know, Democrats.
We have Iranian assassination squads in this country.
As a matter of fact, a trial date has been set for the three men charged in the Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump.
Tom Holman warned that the Iranian sleeper cells are a significant threat.
We have been warning you about this now for years.
California Democrat urging an illegal gangbang bangers to fight back against ICE.
These people need to be arrested.
This is insane.
And Holman's saying that the Democrats sold us out, sold out our future for future political power by allowing all these unvetted illegals, many from countries that have terror ties into our country.
That would be on them.
We'll continue.
Curtis Slewit next.
So there was a political earthquake in New York City, and it is probably the biggest most devastating potential blow to what was once by far, and I said it often, the greatest city in the world.
I don't think it is the greatest city in the world anymore by a long shot.
I think it's been destroyed by uh burdensome regulation, ridiculously oppressively high taxes, uh, quality of life issues have have gone down the drain.
Uh, we're almost in the pre-Rudio Giuliani era of New York City.
And with this election of this radical Mamdani yesterday, I mean, this guy is he wants government run grocery stores.
Grocery stores don't have high profit margins, maybe one two percent.
Now, they they make their money in volume, but they're not making massive profits the way on on items the way you might think that they do.
And of course, he wants free buses, he wants everything free, and then he wants to take what what is already one of the highest tax cities in the country and drive it up like 20% with his radical redistributionism, socialism, how he's gonna pay for the ending cash bell.
He doesn't want to hire any more police officers.
They're already depleted in New York City.
If you can even find people that want that job anymore, used to be a great job, great profession.
Uh, and and they've it's gotten so bad cops don't even want to they don't want to work there anymore.
I know a lot of cops that'll train in New York get hired in New York, they get their training and then they go to another state, another city.
Anyway, repeal whatever walking while trans ban means, I don't even know.
Decriminalize sex work, meaning legalize prostitution, legalize drugs, uh safe injection sites, restrict solitary confinement, you know, reinfranchise incarcerated New Yorkers, decriminalize drug possession, repeal all mandatory minimum sentences, reduce maximum sentences.
I mean, I can go on and on and on here.
End cooperation with ICE, which by the way would be a violation of law.
But something magical has happened as a result of all this.
I was pretty certain that that Andrew Cuomo in early polls indicated Andrew Cuomo was going to run away with his Democratic primary.
And slowly but surely the race started to shift and change.
And then in the final weeks leading up to last night's primary, all of a sudden Mom Dani is is right there overtaking Cuomo.
And then ended up blowing him out of the water last night.
Now what's interesting is Andrew Cuomo may run as an independent the current mayor Eric Adams he's running as an independent.
You got another radical leftist running as as an independent what does that mean that there is a possibility New York can get Rudy Giuliani 2.0 or make New York City great again and that would be Mayor Curtis Sleewa who's the only conservative with common sense in the race will we you know offer a full throated endorsement of I've already done that on this program and on other programs in New York when I'm a guest
uh and uh we welcome Curtis Lee to the show.
Curtis, how are you?
By the way, Rock ribbed all American conservative from Franklin Square, Long Island, check it in, my friend.
Yes.
And remember when you decided to leave and I know it hurt you to leave and to make Florida your primary residence, I always try to encourage you, Sean, reconsider what we need you back here too.
And I'm you you you and Mark Simone are New York born bred and you'll be New York dead.
You are the hardest core New Yorkers I know.
Yeah but you see my whole focus is improve don't move we have a situation now with Mandami that it's Chicago 2.0 it's the socialist mayor Johnson all over again and we've seen what a failure that is as I prepared to do your show I came out of the subway because you know I live in the subways so I deal with the working class people I had to go over homeless people emotionally disturbed.
I'm looking across the street.
We're here on 50th and 3rd, the Upper East Side.
There are five storefronts that are closed.
No lease, no sale, no rental.
The city is in a free fall.
And my job is to try to get us back on track with the quality of life.
With Mondami, it will continue to slide into the abyss.
I want to make sure that there are no more Sean Hannity's who feel that they have to leave, that we can stem the flow out and like you said with Rudy Giuliani turn things around and personally Sean you may have remembered it was October of a year ago my oldest son was the victim of a vicious gang assault on the Upper East Side Vicious.
Almost killed him thank God his stepfather Democrat Governor David Patterson jumped in and saved his life and they call it a random attack there are no random attacks.
You know me.
I'm law and order.
I'm the quality of life.
We've got to take back the streets of our city.
We've got to start locking up criminals, Sean, instead of locking up toothpaste in Dwayne Reads and CBS.
Well said.
There's a Wall Street Journal article out today, and I can tell you living in South Florida, Curtis, and I love you.
And every time I ever went on the subway, I would always run into you, no matter what time of day or night it happened to be.
I know your passion, your heart your soul is for New York City I admire it.
In South Florida every Wall Street firm is already down here they've they've already half moved out of New York and and I'm talking about every major firm on Wall Street every private equity company every major bank they're now setting up base in Florida.
Governor DeSanta said this is going to be the best thing that ever happened to Florida if Mom Donnie is elected.
I know you don't want that to happen but I want you as my friend to be successful.
And I think you could stop the bleeding and you could rescue New York and return it to at least much of its former greatness and it did have greatness at one point.
But today's Wall Street Journal points out that this win, you know, literally, it's quoting one Wall Street executive after another saying they are going to leave and they are going to move to states like Florida and Texas immediately, and they quote a number of them hedge fund managers, private equity firms, banks, they they're gonna bail out on them, New York, and it will be a disaster.
I mean, you know, talk about this guy.
What is he what are his stated plans?
They're scary.
No police, no prisons, and instead of police protecting the people, he wants social workers.
So for example, Sean, he's been under a threat of late.
I understand that.
You remember we're on the anniversary of me being shot five times with hollow point bullets on the orders of the Gotti family to the Gambinos, and luckily I survived.
I know what it is to be threatened, but he is being protected now by off duty NYPD officers with guns.
Why doesn't he have social workers?
This is what he wants for everyone else, but not for himself.
So we have to get back on track.
And I will go to all these Fortune 500 CEOs, C O O O C FOs.
I will tell them, you know me, Curtis, 46 years in the streets and the subways.
We can get this city back on track.
I understand you may want to bifurcate your business and not have your entire business here in New York City.
But give me a chance, and that's why your listeners, they know me.
They know what I've done.
You you've exposed everything that I've done in this city to help this city to everyone in America.
And if they would get online to Sleewa for NYC dot com.
That's Sleewa for NYC dot com.
They would see my plan not only to get this city back on track, but to make it safe and secure because there are the blue-collar working class who are now the mainstream of the Republican Party.
That's what Donald Trump the president has started.
We are the party of the blue-collar working class, and you know, like yourself, Sean, I'm the son of the blue-collar working class.
I haven't forgotten my roots.
I'm in the outer boroughs.
That's where the people pay the taxes, that's where they get hit with the fees and fines.
That's where they're being driven out.
And if the mortgage rates weren't at six and three quarter percent and down to three percent, they would be joining you and fleeing and fight.
And I'm gonna stop that.
I'm telling you, Sean, you know me.
When I make a commitment, I deliver.
I know that for a fact, and I know that you will deliver, and I know you will eat, breathe, sleep, uh, making New York a safe place again and more secure for people that deserve it.
Uh there's no doubt about it.
Let's talk about you talked about working men and women, and Donald Trump, for example, is now pushing the big beautiful bill, the largest tax cut in history.
It also eliminates tax on tips and tax on overtime.
What are you gonna do to help the working men and women in New York that can barely afford to live?
And what are you gonna do to entice these bigger firms that hire people with career jobs, high-paying career jobs to stay in New York City?
Well, first off, the veins and arteries, as you know, Sean, because you took the subways, even though you were an entertainment figure doing very well.
It's the veins and arteries of the city.
It's how the working class people travel.
If we can make it safe and secure, many of these people will return to these empty office buildings that have been shut it.
Now, they won't all return because business has changed the way it was done when you and I were growing up.
But you have to start with the basics.
The streets have to be safe, the subways have to be safe.
The majority of the working class people are now women, some of them single women raising families, working two jobs just to make ends meet.
I'm gonna have them in my sights to improve their quality of life, and you'll see.
They will notice the difference, they will stay, and their employers will say, Okay, let's let's give it a try.
Let's give Sleewa a try.
Just like we gave Rudy Julian a uh Trudy Giuliani a try.
Remember, Sean, it was much worse under David Dinkins.
Two thousand murders a year, ten thousand unsolved shootings.
Rudy came along and made a difference.
And I'm consider me Rudy Giuliani Jr.
I can make that same difference.
You know it.
You've seen me out there, and this is what the city desperately needs.
Law and order and quality of life and affordable housing, and obviously lowering the expenses of living.
That's something I know how to do, and if given the opportunity, I will return that favor to the people of New York City who have trusted me and the Guardian Angels for forty six years.
I can tell people from personal experiences, two people that I've walked the streets of New York with that you constantly hear the name, you know, people scream it out.
Trump is one, and the others, Curtis, you know, and people love Curtis Lewa, and they know you're known everywhere you go.
Um, what about how do you incentivize these businesses to stay?
You've got to get rid of some of this regulation.
It is so ridiculously burdensome.
It costs them so much money, and lower taxes.
I mean, that will take away the incentive of these companies to leave, but also lower taxes for the working men and women.
Do you believe you can accomplish that?
Yes, I can.
And most importantly, remember, I'm a Republican who go and go into neighborhoods where the only Republican they've ever seen, Sean, is Abraham Lincoln on a five-dollar bill.
You start with those small businesses so that they don't vacate, and then you have abandonment.
Then you start on the mid-size level businesses that are getting hammered, and they have one foot out the door.
And then you go to the Fortune 500 businesses who can wait a little bit of time because they have the equity and say, look what I've done for the small business guys and gouts.
Look what I've done for the mid-level size businesses.
Hold your move.
Give me an opportunity to give you that same ability to do base business without the regulations, the fees, the fines, and the perpetual bureaucracy that strangles any kind of development.
You go down to where you are, Florida, in Florida, you can develop overnight, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia.
And that's why so many people are fleeing.
I understand why they leave.
I want to keep them here, including business, and I'll be able to do it.
You know, uh I I really do want you to succeed.
And there is a path for you to win.
And I know it's like nine to one Democrat, registered Democrat to Republican, but I got to imagine a lot of Democrats are sick and tired of what's happened to New York City.
I've got to imagine that they they do know you, they do have faith in you.
And I've got, you know, Donald Trump, remember you said, what have you got to lose?
It can't really get worse, although with Momdani, it's gonna get worse.
That's the that's the scary part.
He's gonna institutionalize stupid.
You have to fight fire with fire in the streets.
He's motivated the millennials.
Remember, Sean, we're the baby boomers.
We are no longer the majority of the population, and you know me.
I've been able to attract young people, especially in inner city neighborhoods.
That's the route.
Uh Trump was very successful in getting male millennials over into voting for him for the presidency.
And many people think that was the margin of his incredible victory, in which he swept through the seven battleground states and won the popular vote.
He got the male millennials.
Nobody thought it was possible.
And I think you understand.
I have that same kind of machismo because when Trump went to Cortona Park in the heart of the South Bronx and attracted 30,000 people supporting MAGA.
You know who was in Cratona Park back in 1969 and every year after being received in the same manner by a cross-section of minorities, Curtis Lewa.
And you know that for a fact, Sean.
That's why people need to go to Sleewa for NYC.com and see for yourself how we can turn this around the way Rudy Giuliani did when he was elected, and people said it's hopeless, it's despair, it can't be done.
Yes, it can be done.
It has been done.
We had George Pataki for 12 years as a governor, no corruption, no chaos.
We had Rudy Giuliani eight years, no corruption, no chaos.
It can be done because it has been done.
You know what, Curtis, I'm I'm championing you, and I have too many friends, and you're the guy for the job.
I fully wholeheartedly support you.
New York City would be so better much better off.
We'll have you on many times between now and election day.
Thank you, my friend.
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