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Oct. 14, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show

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Historic Deal - October 13th, Hour 1

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	I know most of you probably got the headlines, and yes, the hostages that have been held by Hamas and Gaza now are released.
	Um, we still are waiting the return of, of many of the bodies of, of those that were killed in captivity or died in captivity.
	I'm sure most of them killed in captivity, um, in what has been a historic day.
	Basically you break this down into three separate parts.
	Uh, The president's arrival, the president, and speaking before the Knesset, only the fourth time a president has done that.
	Then getting on Air Force One and heading to Egypt and meeting with General El Sisi.
	I w I was shocked when I met General Ossisi once and interviewed him.
	Linda, I don't know if you remember the interview, but we needed an interpreter until we started speaking privately, and I realized he speaks pretty good English, much better than I thought.
	And it was uh I remember being shocked that day that he knew everything about me before I guess he was brief before he met me.
	And he then, of course, you had representatives, you know, from like 50 countries.
	You know, the small sample, the Arab League, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, uh, the EU, France, Germany, Greece, uh, Italy, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, uh, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, uh, as a, you know, uh, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, uh, Qatar, the Saudis, Spain, Turkey, UAE, UK, UN.
	I mean, it just go the list goes on and on and on.
	And that was the third part of this.
	And then the more remarkable parts is when the president got up to speak in front of all of these world leaders that he was obviously the most popular guy in the room, and and I I would argue that he's probably this force of nature that comes, you know, Marco Rubio said it pretty well.
	He said, you know, today's one of the most important days in world peace in 50 years, maybe a hundred years.
	He's not wrong.
	I mean, this is right up there.
	And, you know, there's there's a lot of things that that paved the way for this, and I'm gonna get into my analysis of that in a second.
	Um, but I will tell you this, that America's ascendancy um in terms of the leader of the free world and the leader of the world, frankly, not just free world, but the leader of the entire world, and that President Trump has devoted so much time, energy, and and resources into bringing about a world peace is pretty spectacular.
	And American exceptionalism, American military strength, American economic strength has been on display ever since he took the oath of office, coming back into office on January 20th, and it's been he's been and it remains a force of nature, and he just never stops.
	Um watching Israeli lawmakers chant Trump's name the way they they did moment before moments before his address to the Knesset.
	I know most of you were asleep, which is why I'm gonna play it later in the show, because I think it's worth everybody hearing.
	This is such a historic day.
	But his, you know, a whole series of actions that have led up to this possibility, you know, all as a result of President Trump.
	Um he was funny uh when he called on the Israeli uh president to pardon the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
	He's like, really?
	Over cigars and champagnes.
	The whole place erupted in laughter and greeted by th three minute standing ovation upon entering the chamber of the Knesset, and in one notable moment calling for the prime minister to be pardoned.
	He's a good man.
	These two men are good men right here, pointing to President Herzog, and he said, I have an idea, Mr. President.
	Why don't you give him a pardon?
	That's quintessential Trump.
	What other what other person would ever do that?
	Um and actually have the pla the place applauding to the extent That they were at that moment was was unbelievably spectacular and special.
	Um you can see something that I think everybody should really pay attention to, and that is how much the Israelis put a value on human life.
	And this does raise a lot of questions about the critics and the people that didn't want him to take out Iran's nuclear sites and the you know the rise of anti-Semitism.
	I have a hard time comprehending why, because and some people say, well, you know, people are just sick of it, and it's gone on too long.
	And I'm like, well, okay, imagine if America and American towns and American cities were being hammered with hundreds of thousands of rockets, you know, decade in and decade out, you know, surrounded by enemies, culminating in what happened on October 7th, the worst terrorist attack in Israel history.
	You know, they have a small population of under 10 million people.
	You know, you compare that to America's population, extrapolate out the numbers, and that's 40,000 dead Americans in a day.
	And if people were firing hundreds of thousands of rockets into our towns and our cities and our country, and then killing the equivalent of 40,000 Americans and kidnapping others and raping others and beheading others and torturing others, um, would you put a timetable on victory against that enemy?
	I don't think so.
	But so many have, and um, the silence, by the way, on many of the left or the absolute criticism is repulsive, but we'll get to that later.
	Um, and you could see, you know, with the Israeli people and his speech to the Knesset.
	I mean, unbelievable applause with these massive crowds gathered at uh hostage square in in Tel Aviv.
	Tel Aviv's probably the nicest city I think in Israel.
	I mean, it's certainly you want to go to the old city if you haven't been to Jerusalem, it's worth going to just the rich history that is involved there.
	But uh his entire more than one hour long speech was broadcast on a jumbotram, and when he finished speaking, you know, it's it was like this crowd, the crowd was just so happy to get people back.
	And you know, this was, you know, as Trey Yangst actually had said, and then he interviewed President Trump today, uh, and he's been a reporter in the region now for Fox News for such a long period of time.
	And he said, you know, never before in his lifetime covering this conflict and covering what's been going on in the region in the Middle East had he ever seen this, you know, where uh a moment where the Israelis were celebrating and the people of Gaza were celebrating.
	Um so we only have about six of the twenty-eight dead hostages released.
	Um there were listen, there were people on the left, you know, from Bill and Hillary Clinton to John Meacham on the MSDNC.
	He said that today's hostage release is a tremendous achievement for both President Trump and America.
	And I would argue in light of the disastrous withdrawal out of Afghanistan, America's standing in the world probably was at the lowest point ever.
	And, you know, I'm I'm I'm watching the left.
	Tell me how Barack Obama could have done this.
	You know, there was uh the Jerusalem Post actually had a great piece that they put out here, you know, um zero wars.
	They have a picture of Trump with all the his his face outlined with the pictures of the hostages, and then they talk about the Abraham Accords, the Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the Israeli Hamas ceasefire, the Armenian Azerbaijan peace agreement, the Congo uh Rwanda peace deal, the Israeli-Iran ceasefire after 12 days.
	Nobody really expected that.
	The Israeli-Palestinian Authority Agreement, the Kosovo-Serbia normalization, North Korea, uh, Cambodia, Thailand, what happened there, Israel-Sudan, the U.S. and the Houthis, you know, all of these happened under his watch.
	And you ask yourself, well, why couldn't Biden negotiate this?
	Because he wasn't capable of it, frankly.
	You know, the cruelty, as the president said, of October the seventh struck to the core of humanity itself.
	The United States grieved alongside you, and we mourned our own citizens who were vicious, also, viciously taken, and to all the families whose lives were forever changed by the atrocities of that day to all the people of Israel.
	Please know that America joined you in those two everlasting vows.
	Never forget and never again.
	And, you know, this is now going to be the challenge of a generation to make sure that it doesn't happen again.
	And we have to really stop and pause and think at a moment like this.
	What is it that that led up to today's events?
	What happened that led up to today's events?
	And you start with the relationship that President Trump and the trust in the relationship that President Trump and especially Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had in each other.
	It was Trump that moved the Capitol to its rightful home in Jerusalem.
	It was Donald Trump that, you know, understood that the Israelis had a fight for their survival against radical Islamic terrorism.
	But you know, the president was asking a lot out of the prime minister of Israel and turning over, you know, thousands of prisoners, which is part of today's deal.
	Um making that happen, especially at a point where Israel was probably on the precipice.
	It would have been a difficult finish of wiping out they they could have obliterated Gaza.
	That was the option.
	That was you can do it the easy way or the hard way, as President Trump said the last time the Prime Minister was at the White House.
	You know, only President Trump would be able to.
	Obama would never be able to.
	Remember, Obama did that idiotic nuclear deal with Iran where he had cargo planes with cash and other currencies, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars, you know, dumped on the tarmac for the mullahs in Iran to foment even more terror around the world.
	It was maybe the worst agreement ever in the history of peace negotiations, and it never would have prevented ever the Iranians from getting nuclear weapons on top of it.
	But here's maybe the biggest difference.
	And having been on that trip with the president to the Gulf states when we went to Saudi Arabia and we went to Qatar and we went to the UAE and Abu Dhabi, etc.
	Is he built up between his first term and this term and the end of his first term, the Abraham Accords, now taking it to another level, and getting a coalition of all these neighboring Arab countries to join in these peace efforts because for decades and decades and decades, most of these countries wanted nothing to do with being a part of the solution here.
	And he was able to forge alliances with countries because they respected him.
	It was underreported, but in his first term, he was able to build a coalition, for example, with the U.S. and Israel, the Jordanians, Egyptians, the Saudis, the Emirates, in large part to stand against Iranian hegemony.
	It was trust me, it wasn't just Israel that was happy when Iranian nuclear sites were taken out, and that's taken off the table because that was a threat to the entire region.
	And that also freed up these countries now to take a more bold stance and stand with President Trump for a long-term solution for peace in the entire region.
	So you really can't underestimate the impact of taking around taking out Iranian nuclear sites, and the world knows that Donald Trump, by doing that, does not make idle threats in case they forgot he defeated the caliphate, in case they forgot he took out Solomonni, in case they forgot he took out Baghdadi, unless he forgot that they forgot that he took out or dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan.
	You know, remember he gave the Iranians 50 days, make a deal on nuclear uh issues, or Israel will have a green light to attack you.
	Day 51, Israel attacked, and they took out their ballistic missile sites and their defense systems.
	And then that paved the way for the president to make a very tough decision, but the right decision by every measure to take out their nuclear sites because as he had promised, they could not be a nuclear power.
	That would be an existential threat to the entire region and the world.
	Death to Israel, death to America.
	And every other country would forever have lived in fear of a nuclear armed Iran.
	And he tried for peace to negotiate it with Hamas.
	You can do it the hard way, you can do it the easy way.
	And when they initially rejected the deal, he said, you better take the deal, or you'll be obliterated.
	And I think they understood he meant it.
	You know, President Trump more than any president in the modern era, and you could see this with these economic deals and 17 trillion dollars in committed monies for manufacturing investments in the country.
	You know, more than any other president.
	He understands the power, the economic power, the military might, and the influence of the United States.
	And he's using that power, both economically and militarily to make this world a better and safer place.
	And he has re-established America on the world stage as the leader of the free world.
	I mean, this is beyond historic.
	And I tip my hat to all the people that work with him and forum from Marco Rubio to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and everybody else involved because they all played a part in this.
	Look, I don't want to be Pollyanish in all this.
	It was a great day.
	Seeing these hostages released was great to see.
	To see them reunited with their families was phenomenal.
	It's sad to see the bodies now slowly, you know, returning of those that didn't make it is sad to see.
	But it's also a relief for the families.
	It gives them a little bit of closure.
	I'm sure it doesn't bring peace to them.
	I'm sure that they're still devastated.
	Um, but it's it's it's at this point, you know, we are at a point where it either either the war continued or somebody took, you know, took the reins and Donald Trump took them.
	And it was historic.
	And these hostages were released, and there is now hope for the region.
	And he did build coalitions and a partnership.
	And hats off to the president for being willing to do that which so many other leaders would be unwilling to do, and that is, you know, to expend all this political capital and energy to get there and to do that.
	Um, and I could see that when I went on the trip and covered the trip with him on Air Force One when he went to the Gulf states.
	I mean, the level of respect that they have for them, I can't it's I can't really even put into words, but it is it's they they love Donald Trump over there.
	Uh these states now freed up to be a little bit more supportive of the peace process, something they've been unwilling to do for decades, well, in large part because Donald Trump took out Iranian nuclear sites.
	These countries were as uh as afraid of a nuclear-armed Iran as Israel was.
	And anyway, but uh the the caution is you know, there's a story out today that dozens were killed in Gaza as violence was erupting between Hamas and these armed clans, they're having their own intramural fights.
	And for the first time since Hamas seized power 18 years ago, Gazans, you know, speaking out against Hamas, and they're doing it at great personal risk, and now people are fighting within themselves with these clashes with local militias ahead of the president's address before the Knesset earlier today, disarming Hamas, making sure they never have a voice, demilitarizing the region.
	You know, this is now the moment where our coalition partners and people in the region need to step up and do as they're promising here and to get rid of the radicals and put in place, you know, the proper policing to prevent that from happening.
	Um we, you know, maybe the you know the democratic response here is fascinating on a lot of fronts.
	And there were some people on the left that said nice things about President Trump.
	I don't want to, I don't want to discount that.
	I'll go over some of that in a minute.
	Probably the dumbest person of all to watch Wincoln Anthony Tony Blinken try to basically Take credit for getting this process started.
	I mean, is he that delusional?
	He said that well, it starts with a clear, comprehensive post-conflict plan for Gaza.
	It's good the President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden administration developed after months of discussion with the Arab partners, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
	It centers on temporary transitional authorities for Gaza's governance, security, humanitarian assistance, and rebuilding, led by Arab and international partners alongside the Palestinians, backed by the United States, and ultimately handed over to full Palestinian control.
	You know, the moment was squandered.
	Israel and Hamas went back to war.
	The question now, and this is what he said in I guess May.
	I mean, it was so stupid.
	I just it's it's remarkable to me that he's been nothing but a critic, and now he's trying to take out we started this.
	Oh no, no, we did this.
	No, you didn't do this.
	You weren't capable of this.
	And it was Obama and Biden that were stupid enough to think that they could buy peace and bribe the mullahs in Iran by dropping off hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and other currency after they, you know, sent him big cargo planes full of cash and other currency.
	It was insane.
	Um, I think again, there's some of the fun moments when when uh the president was joking around quite a bit.
	Yeah, PB, you can be tough.
	You know, he said the same thing about Erdogan later in the day.
	Um, but the the more substantive things that the president said um is this is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
	He called for a golden age of Israel, a golden age for the Middle East.
	And he said Hamas and Israel are looking for the bodies of the hostages.
	He did update us on that.
	Phase two of the deal has already started.
	And he said, as I believe, I think all of this goes back to taking out Iran's nuclear capability.
	I think that gave I gave a window of opportunity for Arab countries that feared Iran.
	Remember, you always stopped this conflict with Sunni and Shia, and um, to actually do it.
	By the way, both Bill and Hillary Clinton did praise the president.
	You got to give him some credit for that.
	Uh, and but then you have the the lunatics on the left, predictably.
	By the way, you think you heard from Zoran Kami Mamdani, Mr. Global Antifata himself.
	No, he didn't offer any comment on the release of the last Israeli hostages.
	And anyway, Andrew Cuomo Curtis Lee was celebrated the development as a critical step towards peace in the region.
	And even Cuomo said Mamdani's silence speaks volumes.
	And Slee offered praise and thanks to the president that helped broker this ceasefire deal.
	We pray these hostages coming home can recover and live peacefully again.
	We're proud of the president and all involved in making this peace deal happen.
	Is that so hard for people to say and acknowledge?
	You know, for over the past two years, we've had squad members, left-wing commentators in the halls of Congress on college campuses all around the world.
	We've seen a rise in anti-Semitism.
	I again, I think that's all based in ignorance.
	And they all been have consistently calling for a ceasefire.
	All have been demanding why didn't Donald Trump get a ceasefire?
	Why didn't Israel stop fighting back?
	Israel needs peace guarantees here.
	Imagine your town being hit with tens of thousands of rockets.
	You know, at what point are you going to put the safety of your citizens above those that just want free access to just fire a rocket anytime they want?
	You know, you got this idiot over at MSDNC.
	What's his name?
	Medhi Hassan.
	I don't even know this guy.
	Writing in one of several posts, I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peacemaking and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch with bombs and bullets, etc., etc.
	Uh, apparently even compared this, you know, to worse than the uh Holocaust.
	He says, you know, ways that the war in Gaza was worse than the Holocaust since deleted that tweet.
	You got that idiot Christian Amman Poor.
	I have no idea why this woman is even on TV.
	She is like the chief international, you know, propagandist and and Israel.
	Our commentary over the years has been repulsive as far as I'm concerned.
	And anyway, she gives big thoughts on this and claims that, well, the Israeli hostages were probably being treated better than the average Gaza.
	And meanwhile, the world had been spending hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, a lot of which was stolen by Hamas leaders at the time.
	We do have an update we originally had four of the 28 coffins that were being transferred that have been handed over to Israel before crossing into Israeli territory.
	A military protocol is held in the Gaza Strip in their memory according to the IDF during that protocol IDF soldiers draped the hostages' coffins with Israeli flags, salute them and recite a chapter from the book of Psalms.
	I can only imagine you know heartbreaking there was some families that didn't know whether or not their their loved ones were coming home.
	But six of the 28 bodies of dead hostages have returned and a lot of people like well where are the rest of them apparently JD Vance said that that we might not get them all because they don't know where they put them which is a little you know hard for me to swallow or understand um but you know if you're evil you know what do you care?
	I mean this is one of the problems that a lot of these neighboring countries have had with absorbing the Palestinian population and that is that they've been radicalized since their youth you know the cartoons you know have been teaching them to hate Israel.
	The the the school books that they use you know have been teaching them to hate the Jews.
	You know if you have ten Jew Jews and you kill seven of them how many Jews are left to kill and you think I'm exaggerating I'm not we've shown it on TV a number of times but high value terrorists that Israel has released that was a probably a bitter pill for Israel to swallow but they did it because of their love and respect for human life.
	The only Democrat that I saw that really went to the map for Donald Trump throughout this whole thing was John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.
	And anyway, there was some question about the Israeli prime minister not joining the president on his summit in Egypt, but it was due to the Jewish holiday that is starting.
	But it is a moment to celebrate, pause, be cautiously optimistic, trust but verify.
	Those nations that showed up in Egypt today, and I went through a list of many of them, over 50 of them, I believe, those nations now, they have to step up and they have to do their part.
	And a lot to do here.
	I will tell you that I don't think anybody else, I don't see any Democrat that could have pulled off what President Trump pulled today.
	We have Newt Gingrich's take on this.
	We're also going to check in with Ambassador Nathan Sales.
	Just some other quick news because we're going to spend a lot of time on this.
	a lot more time on this by the way Oregon now spending more tax dollars on free health care for illegals than it does the police I couldn't believe that in the Daily Caller today.
	More than 30 children rescued amid trafficking operations in a major U.S. city operation lightning bug leads to the arrest of new investigations targeting the trafficking of young youth anyway this effort out of San Antonio uh now we are expecting Antifa Antifa's threatening families of law enforcement according to Epic Times today in a piece that they have out there the DHS secretary Christy gnome visited Portland Ice facilities and
	But, you know, now we're looking at all options.
	The president is going to restore peace in these cities.
	They have to.
	You know, we have got to get this done.
	By the way, the Schumer shutdown, you've got this big, crazy rally of, you know, well, first of all, we had anti-ice protesters in Portland staging a new die-in.
	Not very pretty.
	They have this no-kings protest.
	And, you know, I guess these crowds on demand, their CEOs, says manipulation misinformation turn public expression into tools for profit.
	Bernie Sanders livid that Speaker Johnson called the upcoming protest the Hate America rally.
	Uh I mean, and the the liberals are back to doing what they do.
	They just go right back to hating Trump.
	They can't spend five seconds and take a minute and say, Wow, this is really good for the world.
	This is good for the Middle East.
	You know, they can't they can't bother.
	It's not in them.
	Um anyway, we'll get to uh a lot of this coming up.
	We'll get Newt's take on this.
	As a historian professor, I'm trying to get his take on it.

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