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If you want to be a part of the program, well, two years ago, tomorrow will be the anniversary of October the 7th.
On that day, Hamas terrorists, Hamas, elected leadership of Gaza, unleashed hell on the Israeli people.
And they killed over 1,200 Israelis, took hundreds hostage.
I've seen the videos from the IDF, and I wish I begged them, begged them to let me pixel out the faces of the victims and show the world the atrocities that I saw.
And so many people are so ignorant.
It's breathtaking to me.
We've seen the rise of anti-Semitism in the halls of Congress on college campuses.
We see it worldwide.
You saw what happened in Great Britain on this holy day, this Jewish holy day.
And we still have a massive problem with radical Islamists.
That's just a fact.
I've been to Israel.
I've been in the terror tunnels.
I've been to border cities.
I've been to a city that was hit with 10,000 rockets in 10 years and kids that play in underground bunker playgrounds because it only takes 13 seconds.
They're on the border with Gaza for a rocket that's fired to land in this particular city.
And it's a frequent target.
I've been there the day after rockets have been fired.
I've been when the missile systems have gone up to protect the Israelis.
This has to end.
If you extrapolate out the population size of Israel, and I think I'm the only one that points this out because the magnitude of this is incredible to me.
And they only have a little over, what, about 10 million people, population.
It's a country the size of New Jersey.
It is an incredibly small country surrounded by enemies.
You know, you got if Hamas in the south, you got Hezbollah and Islamic Jiad in the North, you got the Houthi rebels, you got the Iranians, all want and pledge they want to destroy Israel and wipe it off the map.
They also would like to wipe America off the map.
And under Donald Trump, something has happened.
And I'm hoping that he is successful.
You know, he was able to get Arab nations for decades and decades and decades, never wanted to be a part of the solution.
But because of Donald Trump's outreach, now Egypt and Jordan and the Saudis and the Emirates and the UAE and Qatar and other countries are now on board to come up with a plan to finally bring peace and stability to Gaza.
And we're on the brink, hopefully by early this week, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow night, that these hostages will be released after being two years in captivity.
And I think there's a number of things, key moments in this process that have happened.
Number one, the president had to convince Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is winning his war.
Now, we would have lost 40,000 Americans in a day, to finish my thought.
Based on our population size, if you extrapolate out and compare it to Israel's population size, the videos I've seen had murder, kidnapping, torture, and beheading on them.
You know, it's a level of evil you don't want to see.
It's something that'll never leave you.
And here we are two years later.
And, you know, what would you want your government to do if 40,000 Americans were killed in a day?
You know, and yet we hear these anti-Semitic comments or blaming Israel or nonchalantly people commentating that have never even been there, have no idea what they're talking about.
You know, talking, well, Bibi needs to end this war quickly.
Oh, do you want them to drop a nuke?
Because short of that, it takes a long time to clean out a place like Gaza that is filled with known terrorists.
Anyway, the president has put forward his 20-point peace plan.
The Israelis, I'm sure reluctantly on many on this prisoner swap, especially, and releasing known terrorists back to Gaza, you know, has gone along with it.
And Hamas has been hedging.
The president now has upped the ante.
And he said that if the terror group does not quickly release all the Israeli hostages, he warned all bets will be off.
The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, when he had this joint pressure last week with President Trump announcing that he would support this deal, you know, both the president and the prime minister said they will finish the job.
President Trump said they will unleash hell as well on top of all of this.
Now, the deal's not done, but the president, you know, if you doubt where he's coming from, I remind people that really don't have a good understanding of the Trump doctrine, what's going to happen is it's the same president that beat the ISIS Caliphate, the same president that took out Sole Amani on a tarmac,
the same president that took out Baghdadian associates, the same president that dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan, the same president that took out Iran's nuclear sites and they had a peace 12 days later.
The same president, you know, all these people seem to understand the Trump doctrine and interpret it as interpret never, no forever wars as no use of military force.
No, Donald Trump uses it, you know, in a way that nobody else has used it before.
Here's Marco Rubio commenting on where we are.
Well, I want to start with these peace negotiations in the Middle East.
Is this now the end of the war in Gaza?
Well, not yet.
There's some work that remains to be done.
And I would view it in two phases in terms of understanding how to break this out.
The first piece of it, which was very clear from the letter and Hamas's response, they have agreed to the president's hostage release framework.
And what needs to happen now, and they acknowledge in the letter in their response is there now needs to be meetings which are occurring even as I speak to you now and hopefully will be finalized very quickly on the logistics of that.
What that means is, you know, who goes in to get them?
Is it Red Cross?
You know, when do they show up, et cetera?
You know, what place are they going to be?
And the conditions have to be created for that to happen.
You know, you can't have bombs going off and fighting going on in the middle of this exchange.
So that's piece one.
The second part, and we want to see that happen as soon as possible.
All 48 hostages, both living and deceased, and there's some need to be released.
And there's some logistical challenges to that that we'll have to work through.
But that work is happening even as I speak to you this very moment.
The second part of it, it's even harder, and that is the long-term peace.
What happens after Israel pulls back to the yellow line and potentially beyond that as this thing develops?
How do you create this Palestinian technocratic leadership that's not Hamas, that's not terrorists, and with the help of the international community, how do you disarm any sort of terrorist groups that are going to be building tunnels and conducting attacks against Israel?
How do you get them to demobilize?
All that work.
That's going to be hard.
Gonna be hard.
John Andrasik is with us, leader of Five for Fighting, lead singer of Five for Fighting.
He's been a very loud, passionate supporter of Israel.
I'm hoping upon hope that Bibi won't have to finish the job.
He will if he has to.
He has the capability to do so, but a lot of lives will be lost.
This seems to be Hamas's last chance and probably the last chance to get any of these hostages home alive and the bodies of those that are dead that they're holding.
I would like to see that happen.
Sean, so would I. And I talk to hostage families every day, and I think they've never had more hope.
I think you're right.
The president was the one person who could get Middle Eastern countries to come to the table and put pressure on Hamas.
Of course, it's very hard to trust Hamas, but I think you mentioned it.
I think the big game changer was President Trump bombing Iran.
And for the first time in decades, there's accountability for evil.
And so we're certainly hopeful.
We're also realistic.
Marco Rubio has been incredible from day one.
And again, we're all praying.
We're hoping.
And I can't wait to see the hostages in the arms of their loved ones.
I think we would all break down in tears.
And I think it would be a wonderful change of direction for the world at large.
You've been to Israel.
You've stood in solidarity with them.
You've written songs for the families.
You've met with the families.
You stay in contact with the families.
And it seems to me that when I look at what's happening on college campuses, in the halls of Congress, when I listen to the punditry class, when I see what's happening worldwide, that there's a level of ignorance that is breathtaking to me.
Your thoughts.
Well, we just had 4,000 Hollywood actors, influencers sign literally a letter blacklisting Israeli artists.
Can you imagine that?
We wonder how the Holocaust happened.
And here's another clarifying thing, Sean.
All these people who have been screaming for a ceasefire, why are they silent now?
If they truly cared about innocent Gazans, wouldn't they be supporting President Trump, demanding Hamas make this deal?
Wouldn't they be calling for the release of the hostages?
You know, the insidious genocide lie that has been promoted to demonize Israel is what these folks have signed on to.
Because if you truly believe Israel is committing genocide, well, shouldn't you defund them, ostracize them, ignore the hostages, and eventually excuse the killing of Jews?
This is what these people have been perpetuating.
And you can call them useful idiots, which many of them are, but there's no difference in reality between a useful idiot and a terrorist.
And that's what we've seen.
Well, the president has been very, very clear that he's going to greenlight B.B. Netanyahu, and that this is their last chance.
And, you know, he gave the Iranians 50 days.
On day 51, the Israelis went in and they knocked out their air defense systems, their missile battery systems, and pretty much everything that they could wipe out, which paved the way for President Trump to make a very, very courageous call to take out their nuclear sites once and for all.
Well, look, if you look at the pictures of the hostages, they are basically indistinguishable from 1938, 1939 Holocaust pictures.
And you're right.
The time has come.
Imagine having a child.
I've met with many of these hostage families, and their children are the same age as our kids, Sean, and put ourselves in that position.
It cannot continue.
And as you mentioned, we focus on Israel and we focus on the war and we focus on Hamas.
And I think it's important to realize that is the small picture.
That is the tip of the spear.
Look what's happening in Europe.
Look what's happening in America.
Look what's happening in the halls of Congress.
This truly is, and it sounds like an exaggeration, but it truly is a fight for civilization, a fight for the soul of the world.
And of course, if Israel goes down, that is a sign that we are losing.
And I do believe in many aspects we are losing.
We're losing our kids, the indoctrination.
But I have to say, Marco Rubio, President Trump, B.B. Netanyahu, who get slammed every day for being these fascist dictators, they are saving the world, but they can't do it alone.
And I think we have to stand with common sense, with sanity, with our Jewish brothers and sisters.
You're not Jewish.
I'm not Jewish.
This has nothing to do with religion.
This has to do with sanity, common sense, and humanity.
And let's pray that we get these hostages back.
At the same time, if we don't, there will be consequences.
And it's not just going to be Hamas leaders.
And I think that's why you have Qatar, Egypt, and many of these other folks who basically play both sides coming to the table because they know they're in the line of fire too.
And that's only because of President Trump, thank goodness for him, and his courageous, courageous moral clarity.
Quick break more with John Adrossik, who's the lead singer, Five for Fighting, our friend of the program, and also now heading into tomorrow, the second anniversary of the October 7th Hamas terror attacks against Israel.
And now on the verge, hopefully, of a peace deal and the release of hostages.
Anyway, we'll continue our coverage.
We'll get to your calls coming up.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Justin in Texas.
Justin, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
God bless Texas.
Doing good, sir.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Hey, I had a good question for you.
So the 2027 presidential, almost coming up next year or in two years.
My question was, I think J.D. Vance will be announcing his candidacy.
And also for the Republican side, an AOC might announce her candidacy for the Democratic.
What are your thoughts of who's going to run in 2027 for the 2028 presidential nominee?
Who do you think is going to run?
I can give you a list of everybody, but it means nothing at this point to me.
Right now, the single thing I would urge everybody to focus on, which is way more urgent and important, first of all, we have an election in a month.
There is a chance a Republican can be elected the governor of New Jersey.
His name is Jack Chitterelli.
I would urge you to pay very, very close attention.
New Jersey, I mean, there's a real shot there.
Early voting shows an advantage for Republicans in the state of New Jersey.
This is your opportunity.
There's a chance.
Things are falling apart for Democrats in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Jason Mayaris, who's the attorney general running for re-election on this program earlier, he could absolutely be re-elected.
Winsom Sears could also be elected and replace Governor Junkin.
She'd be a great choice there.
In New York City, I don't really have much hope.
I really would like Curtis Leewa to win.
I think he'd be rude to Giuliani 2.0.
I don't have a lot of hope, but you know what?
Why not?
You might as well try.
It can't hurt, but Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one.
Linda hates when I say you hate when I say it's kind of a fade of complete.
You don't like it.
I do not like it.
Am I being truthful?
Do you want me to do you want me to offer false hope to people?
I'm not.
I'm saying it's not.
No, I want to talk about, I want to talk about the fact that this guy is a communist.
He's saying today that he's going to give away free everything.
Nothing is free except death.
It's not free.
It's not even me when I say Kami Marxist Mamdani.
How much more?
First of all, I hate it.
It's either Kami Donny or Marxist Mom Donnie.
It can't be both.
It's Kami Marx's Mamdani.
I like my name.
It's too long.
It's gotten a lot of fun.
I can pick your name.
It's got a ring.
You can sing it.
It's got a ring to sing.
But the point is, you know, I'm looking at the reality.
You know something?
One thing I'm never going to do to this audience is lie to them.
You know what the reality is?
The reality is Republicans can't get off their ass and put their money where their mouth is.
They need to give Curtis a little bit of money.
Tough of them.
This is the best.
Oh, there's plenty of them.
Kami Donny isn't getting his money from New Yorkers.
He's getting his money from the world.
I will say this.
If Jack Chitterelli wins in New Jersey, then I would say that there's absolutely a chance New York can turn red in terms of a gubernatorial race.
I will say that if they got a good candidate, and let's say either Chucky or AOC, and they go up against them, I do think there might be a chance.
There is a tipping point where independence and people just get fed up and they've had enough.
And, you know, New York hasn't hit that point yet.
Let's see if it happens.
I hope it does.
Anyway, last word to Justin.
Go ahead, Justin.
My other question is: so it's like your book that you wrote a few years ago, Lit Free Die, and I agree with you 100% on that.
I never got a chance to read it, but it's our democracy's dying.
The Democrats are taking over, and they're going to make New York so blue that it's going to turn purple, like you've said in the past.
How do you feel about leaving New York City?
You can move to Florida, home where Martin Sanderson is doing a great job.
I hate to tell you, it's my, you know, I'm now two years in Florida.
Best move I made.
I mean, for a lot of reasons.
You know, safety, security, law and order.
I don't have to face the high taxes, the burdensome regulation.
I mean, I can go down the list.
And, you know, I got to the point in New York City because obviously being on television for 30 years, people recognize me.
And I would walk into a restaurant and see disdain in half the room.
I mean, just utter contempt that I was even in the same room as some people.
And at that point, I felt like I was putting other people's lives at risk, that people that were with me.
And it became untenable.
And I said, I'm out.
I can't do that to people.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
God bless you.
Howard, in my free state of Florida, what's up, Howard?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, how are you?
What's going on?
Yeah, a previous guest that kind of touched on some things that I wanted to discuss, but I'll just try to add to it or reiterate some of the things that he already spoke about.
And it's basically about the rise of anti-Semitism.
And, you know, just obviously the war and Israel-Gaza war obviously is highlighting some of the hate decontent that was already existing.
But just looking at some of the lies that they've been using, genocide, apartheid, colonizers, and starvation, and how these lies kind of get pushed through our media, of course, but the education system, and not only through the college system, because a lot of the indoctrination started very, very, very young.
Almost like first-grade kids are starting to learn some of these things.
Not in exact specific ways, but no, they're learning it in specific ways.
We've actually shown on television some of the cartoons that kids in Gaza were being shown.
I mean, just so, so anti-Semitic.
They're indoctrinating young children.
You know, we showed school books where kids basically is like, okay, you have 10 Jews, you kill seven.
How many Jews are left to kill?
I mean, that's how bad it is.
And that's one of the reasons why neighboring Arab countries wanted no part of absorbing that population and solving the problem until Donald Trump came on the scene.
Now we have a chance.
We were on the precipice of hopefully getting this done.
If we lost as a country 40,000 people in a day and other Americans were kidnapped by terrorists dedicated to wiping us off the face of the earth, wouldn't you expect your government to go fight and win that war?
And pretty much at that point, after being attacked by any means necessary, I think that we would expect that.
Look at what we did after 2,977 Americans were killed in a single day.
And no, we didn't handle that perfectly by any stretch, but we did respond.
Anyway, my friend, I hope that answers your question.
It is frightening.
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Andrew, back to the free state of Texas.
What's up, Andrew?
Hey, Sean.
Longtime listener, man.
Really, really love everything that you do.
God bless Trump on us and RIP, Charlie Kurt.
How are you doing today, man?
There's no such thing as a happy Monday, but I'm as happy as I could be on a Monday.
What's going on?
Well, I was just calling basically about the government shutdown.
And, you know, every time the liberals are in charge and a government shutdown happens, let's just say during the Biden administration, they expect the Republicans or our side to bend the knee to be able to get the government back going.
And every time that we're in power, they just, as of what's going on right now, they don't want to bend the knee.
They just, they play the game.
It's really become a joke, to be honest with you, how I view it.
I mean, it's just gotten so out of control.
And how, you know, just how radical these liberals are.
And they're not, you know, just all the good that Trump's doing, all the good that we're doing right now, from Doge to going in and, you know, helping out the cities, different cities around the U.S. with the guard and everything, get their cities under control, just helping the border.
Just everything the Trump Union is about, which is good for this country.
You have a liberalized side, just not wanting to, you know, it all be on the same page, bend a knee, whatever, try to get the government back open partially.
It'd obviously a partial shutdown, but get back and get going and get this country back to where it needs to be.
So if you want to, if you want an education on a party that is self-destructing and imploding, just watch the Democrats.
They're allowing the radical extreme element of their party has now taken it over.
And the likes of Schumer, Jeffries, they're leaders in name only.
They are terrified of the radicals that really do run their party.
We've learned that.
They're on the wrong side of every issue.
They're against law and order, safety and security.
They're for defund, dismantle, no bail laws.
They want open borders.
They want free health care.
This is what the shutdown is about.
You know, they want taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants.
If you want a 10-1 on how to lose future elections, just do what the Democrats are doing.
And I don't care if it's it's it's amazing to me that nobody's gotten a hold of this.
No leader has emerged to challenge this because they're all afraid.
And I don't see change coming.
I think they're going to stay locked down in their radicalized mode in the hopes that, you know, Mamdani wins and they could say, see, this agenda is really going to work.
And they will misread those results because New York City is not America.
I can promise you.
I've lived in seven states.
It is not America.
Appreciate the call.
Mary, South Carolina, Sean Hannity Show.
Hey, Mary, how are you?
I'm great.
How are you?
I'm good.
Glad you called.
So just listening to how the Democrats are so bent on getting this health care for illegals when they're already getting it.
There's a lawyer law.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act enacted in 1986 that anyone that goes into an emergency room has to be seen.
If they have an emergency, they get admitted.
So we are treating people who have labor.
What do you do in a hospital?
You're working in a hospital?
What do you do?
Yes, I'm a nurse.
I love nurses.
Nurses are awesome people.
Did you want to be a nurse since you were little?
Yes, I did, actually.
The military was in the military, and I got out and became a nurse.
So I kind of did things a little backwards, but yeah.
You accomplished your goal.
You didn't do anything backwards.
You achieved your goal.
That's awesome.
But you're confirming that if an illegal comes into an emergency room, they must be treated.
They must.
By the way, a survey came out today.
39% of illegals are getting free taxpayer-funded health care.
Never mind the emergency treatment.
In the meantime, my fiancé is paying $650 a month because he's self-employed for insurance.
I have to pay all these co-pays, but then we're going to treat a million dollars somebody with cancer, which I know, I mean, you know, but we're going to admit them, use the language line and all that.
They're not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare, but they get treated because you can't just put them out on the street.
That's why the government is shut down.
Now, if Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer want to continue to, you know, doubt the resolve of Republicans and Donald Trump, I'm all for it.
But anyway, you raised great points, Mary.
Thank you for what you do every day because you're helping people every day.
And I don't think there's any greater, I don't know, calling in life to help people.
Thank you.
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