Sean Hannity Show - Stopping a Nuclear Iran
Aired: 2026-03-17
Duration: 30:10


=== Lost Lot and Liberalism (03:26) ===

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[00:00:14]  A lot of news developing as it relates to the president's successful campaign against Iran.
[00:00:23]  You know, I had a conversation with a friend last night, somebody I don't talk to very often, but is one of those friends that when you pick up the phone, you start conversing, and you just pick up where you left off.
[00:00:34]  And I'm sure everybody has friends like that, even you, Linda.
[00:00:37]  Do you have friendly friends?
[00:00:38]  I'm sure you have friends like that.
[00:00:40]  I have one friend.
[00:00:41]  Thanks for asking.
[00:00:44]  This high opinion you have of me.
[00:00:46]  Is that Anthony?
[00:00:48]  Yeah, that's my best friend.
[00:00:49]  I can't believe you don't consider me a friend.
[00:00:51]  I mean, that's that's that's you talk to me every day.
[00:00:54]  You said it has to be a person you don't talk to.
[00:00:57]  I actually just texted a girlfriend from high school the other day, and I said, How are you?
[00:01:01]  How you doing?
[00:01:02]  How are you?
[00:01:02]  Good to talk.
[00:01:03]  Haven't talked her in ages.
[00:01:04]  She's a good egg.
[00:01:05]  I was talking to this friend last night, and he's very insightful.
[00:01:07]  And he, at one point in his life, was in the news media.
[00:01:11]  He's out of it.
[00:01:14]  He's the strongest critic I know of it, especially now.
[00:01:18]  And he just brought this up out of nowhere, and it made me think a lot.
[00:01:22]  He goes, Could you imagine if it was D-Day?
[00:01:28]  And on D-Day, when we slammed the beaches of Normandy, remember we had Marty call into this program for years?
[00:01:33]  Marty, and he lost an eye fighting for this country.
[00:01:37]  I mean, if you've ever seen the opening scene of the movie Private Ryan, and you want to know the devastation of war, I mean, here our kids are slamming the beaches of Normandy, and, you know, the Nazis have the high ground, and it's like a mass slaughter.
[00:01:56]  That day, we lost 2,501 Americans.
[00:02:02]  And you look at Pearl Harbor, 2,403 Americans that day.
[00:02:07]  My father spent four years fighting in the Pacific.
[00:02:10]  I mean, he wouldn't talk to me about it.
[00:02:12]  And there were not good years in his life.
[00:02:15]  He lost a lot of friends.
[00:02:17]  World War II, we lost 416,800 people.
[00:02:21]  World War I, 116,516.
[00:02:26]  Civil War, then we lost about 750,000, if my memory serves me correctly.
[00:02:31]  We lost a lot of people in Vietnam, 58,000 American lives.
[00:02:36]  We lost 2,977 Americans on 9-11-01.
[00:02:42]  The ensuing conflicts and battles between, we lost 2,456 soldiers in Afghanistan, 3,923 contractors, civilian workers in Iraq, 4,431.
[00:02:58]  And I just, his question to me was, what do you think the headline would be after D-Day or how would it be reported On by the corrupt media that we have today.
[00:03:17]  Now, I go back to the last century a lot because I am a strong believer that if you don't learn the lessons of history, you are doomed to repeat it.

=== Deliver Us from Evil (15:41) ===

[00:03:26]  That's why I wrote a book, Deliver Us from Evil, Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism.
[00:03:32]  Why did I say liberalism?
[00:03:34]  Liberals didn't like the title of that book.
[00:03:37]  Because if you don't win politically, you don't have the ability to make or implement the change that is necessary and needed.
[00:03:47]  You know, if I'm going to keep my eyes dialed in over the target in terms of what's most important to me this year, which I plan to do, it's going to be I am going to keep my eyes on the most important midterm election in our lifetime.
[00:04:01]  Because losing, we know what the net result is.
[00:04:04]  We know the Democrats, they're not even willing during a time of conflict and war after they created the biggest national security crisis in our nation's history, most preventable national security crisis by allowing unvetted illegals into this country, over 12 million plus from over 200 countries, including countries who had terror ties and then flat out lied to us about it.
[00:04:28]  And the Democrats, you know, let that all happen.
[00:04:31]  And we have known terrorists in this country.
[00:04:33]  We just don't know where they are.
[00:04:35]  But many of these countries had terror ties, as I said.
[00:04:39]  And you just wonder and you just think, and there's, you know, as I've said many times, if Donald Trump cured cancer, Donald Trump cured cancer, the Democrats would find a way not to like it.
[00:04:50]  I highlight often on this program, look at the way they sat on their hands.
[00:04:56]  Can we all agree, if you agree with me, stand that our first role in government is to protect the American people, not illegal immigrants?
[00:05:06]  John Fetterman stood.
[00:05:07]  By the way, John Fetterman's coming on my podcast at Alaire tomorrow.
[00:05:11]  I'm looking forward to that.
[00:05:13]  And it's going to be a long discussion.
[00:05:15]  And it's going to be, you know, fun, serious, all that.
[00:05:18]  Let's put it this way.
[00:05:19]  I'm going to start out by apologizing to the guy.
[00:05:21]  Don't you think I own one, Linda, in person and publicly?
[00:05:25]  I was kind of tough on him during that campaign, but Oswald was a friend of mine.
[00:05:29]  He was totally cool.
[00:05:29]  He's going to be totally cool about it.
[00:05:31]  We've talked about it.
[00:05:32]  But I'm just going to this point.
[00:05:35]  If you, as a conservative, I'm so pro-life, and I do believe that every life is precious and that every life comes from God.
[00:05:44]  And I do believe that God put his hand on every human soul.
[00:05:49]  And it's just a matter of free will for people and that we have a choice between good and evil in our lives.
[00:05:56]  And we're going to make that choice individually.
[00:05:59]  And as a society, in many ways, you make it collectively.
[00:06:02]  But the idea that, you know, Mao and China and Stalin and Russia and Hitler and Germany and fascism and Italy and Mussolini and Tojo in Japan and Pol Pot and the killings feels, that is evil.
[00:06:17]  Evil does exist.
[00:06:19]  And my argument is very, very simple, is That if you are okay with the number one state sponsor of terror that has chanted death to Israel, death to America, and that is so hell-bent on getting nuclear weapons that even after Operation Midnight Hammer, you know, they're bragging to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
[00:06:44]  And I interviewed Steve Witkoff.
[00:06:45]  Maybe some of you don't believe him.
[00:06:47]  I've known him a long time.
[00:06:48]  I absolutely believe him.
[00:06:50]  They brag that they had 460 kilograms worth of 60% enriched uranium, which means that if they are ever able to enrich again, they're seven to 10 days away from weapons-grade uranium, which is an existential threat, I believe, to our country, especially in light of their proven history of fomenting terrorism.
[00:07:12]  And I'm just not interested in arguing with anybody that doesn't agree with me on this because you're entitled to your view.
[00:07:19]  I make my living with freedom of speech.
[00:07:23]  Not going to take away others' rights to freedom of speech.
[00:07:26]  You're entitled to your views, but you're entitled to be wrong and naive and frankly stupid.
[00:07:33]  And you might say, well, Hannity, what have we learned from Afghanistan?
[00:07:36]  What did we learn from Iraq?
[00:07:39]  Well, we've learned a lot.
[00:07:41]  And we can't have our kids or national treasure stepping over IEDs.
[00:07:45]  And I've said this a million times in the past and not having up armored Humvees.
[00:07:50]  But here's the difference.
[00:07:52]  The difference is it's a different day.
[00:07:55]  There's the next generation of military weaponry and there's something called the Trump Doctrine.
[00:08:01]  And that's what makes this conflict different.
[00:08:04]  And Donald Trump has proven that there is another way to stop enemies and to see emerging threats and to neutralize them before they become massive threats for our children and our grandchildren.
[00:08:21]  I think we as a generation have an obligation to leave this country in better shape than we inherited it.
[00:08:27]  And the thought of leaving behind a nuclear-armed Iran for our kids and grandkids is just not acceptable to me.
[00:08:36]  And there might be people that have a different point of view.
[00:08:39]  I think a lot of people just don't like it because it's Trump.
[00:08:42]  Then you couple what Donald Trump did with ISIS and the Caliphate, which kind of almost went unnoticed, believe it or not, during the time he was doing it, was not widely reported on.
[00:08:53]  That caliphate grew under Biden and Obama.
[00:08:56]  He allowed them to grow.
[00:08:59]  Donald Trump wiped them out, wiped out the caliphate, wiped out Soleimani, the world's worst terrorists, wiped out Baghdadi, dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan.
[00:09:09]  That's not isolationism.
[00:09:11]  That's not forever wars.
[00:09:13]  This is not going to be a forever war in what's going on in Iran.
[00:09:19]  The only question I have, the only thing that worries me or concerns me long term is if they do have 460 kilograms of enriched uranium at 60%, that would be a problem if it ends up in the wrong hands.
[00:09:34]  I would imagine that they're dealing with that as they're dealing with the issue of the Straits of Hormuz.
[00:09:39]  And so the choice to me is unambiguous.
[00:09:45]  You need moral clarity and you need the military might to back it up.
[00:09:50]  And Donald Trump got every piece in place to ensure as much safety and security for our troops as possible.
[00:09:58]  And it has been an overwhelming success.
[00:10:01]  If I would have told you, what are we, 17 days into this campaign now, that we would be where we are and that we would have wiped out their air defense systems.
[00:10:11]  We'd own the air, you know, we own all of the air above Iran right now.
[00:10:17]  There's nothing they can do.
[00:10:19]  Wipe out most of their ballistic missile systems, wipe out their navy, wipe out other military targets, wipe out and finish wiping out some of their nuclear facilities and targeted other military targets.
[00:10:34]  And over 6,000, 7,000 targets have been hit.
[00:10:37]  Wipe out their leadership, wipe out the next level of leadership.
[00:10:41]  We believe that the next supreme leader is either clinging to life or dead already, and that we'd be on the verge of the possibility of handing off to the Iranian people an opportunity to choose their own destiny.
[00:10:56]  Yes, there are still complications.
[00:10:58]  Of course there are.
[00:11:00]  Is it dangerous?
[00:11:01]  Of course it is.
[00:11:03]  You know, the idea that some people so casually would be willing to leave to our children and let them inherit the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran because they cling to this idea of isolationism is just absurd to me.
[00:11:20]  It's like you've learned nothing.
[00:11:23]  One of the great lessons of World War II is Neville Chamberlain versus Winston Churchill.
[00:11:29]  And I thought we learned lessons from past conflicts.
[00:11:33]  At least we're supposed to.
[00:11:35]  And I think in the case of Neville Chamberlain, peace in our time.
[00:11:38]  We'll meet in Munich with Hitler and we come back and I can declare we have peace in our time.
[00:11:42]  No, we didn't.
[00:11:44]  And the one guy that they thought was crazy off on the sidelines saying, no, read Mein Kampf.
[00:11:49]  This guy, he has territorial ambitions way beyond what you guys are comprehending at this time.
[00:11:56]  He is a clear and present danger.
[00:11:59]  And as a result of waiting, many more lives were lost as a result.
[00:12:05]  And nearly all of Europe, it was bad for a long period of time.
[00:12:11]  And America had an isolationist faction in this country at the time.
[00:12:16]  They did not want FDR to get involved in that conflict.
[00:12:20]  Then what happened at Pearl Harbor forced us into this conflict, and we were in theater.
[00:12:26]  And then when my friend said to me last night, imagine what the headlines would be the next day, or what MSDNC would be reporting, or what fake news CNN would be reporting, or the legacy media would be reporting, and how they'd be reporting it.
[00:12:43]  I mean, I can't even begin to imagine.
[00:12:47]  And now, thank God, we have something known as the Trump Doctrine, which is, you know, no forever wars.
[00:12:55]  I mean, he's holding out the possibility.
[00:12:57]  I think probably because if they do need to rescue the 60% enriched uranium that might take an effort on the ground that would be small in scope and quick and fast with maximum chances of success because they would protect the area with massive overwhelming force.
[00:13:15]  But I'm just, you know, you pray for all of it.
[00:13:18]  You wish that evil didn't exist.
[00:13:20]  It's kind of hard to imagine, but evil does exist.
[00:13:24]  And this regime has been evil.
[00:13:26]  And their intentions are clear.
[00:13:29]  And they want to be a nuclear power.
[00:13:31]  And that's why I think it's silly and superfluous and a waste of time to argue with people that think it's in our best interest not that are willing to gamble with their children and grandchildren's future.
[00:13:44]  Do you want a nuclear-armed Iran or not?
[00:13:46]  That's the issue that's on the table for me.
[00:13:49]  Because Donald Trump wanted a peaceful negotiation.
[00:13:52]  That much was clear from my two interviews with Steve Witkoff.
[00:13:56]  Not one, two.
[00:13:58]  He wanted, he sent them on a mission to get it done.
[00:14:02]  The Iranians wouldn't budge even after Operation Midnight Hammer and 14 bunker buster bombs.
[00:14:08]  So, you know, we find ourselves, it's a, you know, let's see where we are one month from now.
[00:14:16]  That, relatively speaking, in terms of conflict, is a very short period of time and a very short window.
[00:14:24]  And of course, we pray for everybody that is in harm's way.
[00:14:28]  And we live in great appreciation for, you know, their sacrifice and willingness to sacrifice so that this country does not hold one day the world hostage.
[00:14:38]  I will never convince people that have made up their mind.
[00:14:41]  I've come to that conclusion, too.
[00:14:42]  I'm not going to waste my breath.
[00:14:43]  Am I wrong, Linda, on that?
[00:14:45]  I can't convince people.
[00:14:47]  No, I don't.
[00:14:47]  But for those of us that see it, what's that?
[00:14:51]  No, I said I would agree with you.
[00:14:52]  You can't convince people.
[00:14:54]  So why waste my breath?
[00:14:55]  I'm not going to.
[00:14:57]  Let me just go through this with you because I think these new developments today and where we are, you know, after day 17 now, Operation Epic Fury, 7,000 military targets have been struck.
[00:15:13]  The Iranians have a 90% reduction in their ability to launch ballistic missiles and a reduction in launching ballistic missiles.
[00:15:20]  95% reduction in these drone attacks.
[00:15:23]  100 Iranian naval vessels sunk and/or destroyed.
[00:15:29]  The president says, yeah, they're decimated.
[00:15:31]  The military's decimated.
[00:15:32]  He's not declaring the war is over.
[00:15:35]  Fox News, U.S. locked and loaded to destroy Iran's crown jewel if we want.
[00:15:41]  What is the president talking about?
[00:15:43]  Karg Island.
[00:15:44]  It's a small coral island in Iran.
[00:15:46]  Most of you, I'm sure, never heard of it.
[00:15:48]  It's in the northern Persian Gulf, 34 miles northwest.
[00:15:53]  And the island serves as the terminal for nearly all of Iran's oil exports, has a loading capacity of 7 million barrels a day.
[00:16:03]  By the way, I said this before when we get these people that make these ridiculous proclamations, Donald Trump is doing the bidding of Israel and Bibi.
[00:16:14]  First of all, Donald Trump, if anyone says that, I promise you, as somebody that has known this man for 30 years, he doesn't listen to anybody but his own self.
[00:16:23]  And I actually think it's a good thing that he listens to everybody and even people he disagrees with.
[00:16:31]  And he'll take it in and then he'll make up his own mind.
[00:16:36]  He is a man of his own mind.
[00:16:38]  That part I can tell you.
[00:16:39]  When I hear that, I just roll my eyes.
[00:16:41]  I'm like, these people, they think they know Donald Trump, but they don't.
[00:16:45]  Linda, how accurate am I in that assessment?
[00:16:47]  You've known me forever.
[00:16:49]  Oh, you're dead to rights on that.
[00:16:50]  Absolutely.
[00:16:51]  Yeah, I mean, if I call Donald Trump and say, I want you to do this, do you think he's going to listen to me?
[00:16:56]  It's hilarious.
[00:16:57]  He listens to nobody but himself and perhaps Melania.
[00:17:00]  That's actually not true.
[00:17:02]  He listens to everybody.
[00:17:04]  That's the secret to his success.
[00:17:06]  He listens to all arguments.
[00:17:08]  He listens to all sides.
[00:17:10]  He's very conscious and aware, and then he makes up his own mind.
[00:17:13]  That's the beauty of it.
[00:17:17]  And so what the president very did, what he did here is he took out the military targets on Karg Island, but he didn't touch the oil on Carg Island.
[00:17:29]  But he let them know that he can.
[00:17:31]  U.S. warning Iraq must act against the Iranian-backed militia attacks on American assets.
[00:17:37]  Yeah, they better.
[00:17:39]  Israeli military destroyed the late Supreme Leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamani's plane as it plans for at least three more weeks of war.
[00:17:49]  That's about what the estimate is: three or four more weeks.
[00:17:52]  The country's famous for throwing, you know, that's so famous for throwing gays and lesbians off rooftops and abusing women if they're not fully covered or they're not out in public with a male relative.
[00:18:05]  His one report that was out today in the New York Post, did you see that report?
[00:18:09]  They suspect he's probably not heterosexual.
[00:18:12]  Let's put it that way.
[00:18:14]  I don't know anything about it, but I just found it rather amusing.
[00:18:17]  One retired admiral shuts down the fail to plan for Hormuz.
[00:18:23]  I know for a fact that is complete Adam Schiff.
[00:18:28]  Of course, they planned for the Strait of Hormuz because 25% of the world's oil supply passes through there every day.
[00:18:34]  And so did the Saudis.
[00:18:36]  That's why they built out a pipeline so they can bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:18:41]  And by the way, we get less than 1% of our oil from that strait.
[00:18:47]  Now, the president may delay his summit.
[00:18:50]  He's been planning on going to the end of this month to visit President Xi.
[00:18:54]  That might be delayed for a period of time.
[00:18:57]  By the way, we're also keeping a close eye on Cuba and its potential fall, no doubt, because of President Trump and the fact that they're not getting Venezuelan oil any longer.

=== Seize the Strait of Hormuz (10:33) ===

[00:19:08]  They're getting oil from nobody.
[00:19:09]  It's the lifeblood of the world's economy.
[00:19:13]  The president says, yeah, the Iranians' back door are dying to make a deal.
[00:19:17]  I don't doubt that for a second, but they had their chance to make a deal.
[00:19:21]  And Trump on the new Ayatollah, no one's saying he's 100% healthy.
[00:19:25]  Nobody is.
[00:19:26]  We don't really know if the guy's dead or alive.
[00:19:29]  We really don't.
[00:19:31]  And you've got the left wing.
[00:19:33]  As I said, I wonder how fake news CNN, the legacy media mob, would report slamming the beaches of Normandy when we did in World War II.
[00:19:43]  I wonder how they would report on that if Donald Trump was president.
[00:19:47]  Now, I ask everybody, was in retrospect defeating Nazism and fascism and imperial Japan, was it the right thing to do for the cause of liberty and freedom for future generations?
[00:20:02]  These are not simple questions to ask.
[00:20:06]  It's just not, they're not.
[00:20:08]  Because you know, in the middle of this, that the cost of liberty and freedom is high and it's a national treasure.
[00:20:16]  But is, you know, but do we agree with Patrick Henry?
[00:20:19]  Live, you know, give me liberty or give me death or not.
[00:20:22]  Oh, it's easy for others to say when they're not the ones doing the fighting.
[00:20:26]  No, we have an all-volunteer army.
[00:20:29]  My father, you know, signed up right after Pearl Harbor, as did all of his friends.
[00:20:34]  He said there wasn't one person he knew that didn't sign up to fight for their country, which is pretty amazing.
[00:20:40]  And why do we refer to them as the greatest generation?
[00:20:43]  Because they were.
[00:20:44]  They weren't doing it really necessarily for themselves.
[00:20:48]  They were in the moment, but they also did it with an understanding how impactful this is going to be for future generations.
[00:20:55]  The Israeli military, again, destroyed the plane of the dead supreme leader, which was interesting.
[00:21:03]  If you're reading polls from the mainstream media, the legacy media mob that are saying that Americans don't support this, MAGA doesn't support this.
[00:21:13]  It's false.
[00:21:13]  John McLaughlin put a death knell in that lie today.
[00:21:18]  86% of voters, Trump voters, support the action.
[00:21:23]  And notably, 18% of voted for Harris expressed approval for the action.
[00:21:29]  Nearly 60% agree with the president.
[00:21:32]  I actually think that's a low number.
[00:21:34]  I think there's more.
[00:21:35]  Look, I think a lot of people want to be associated with a final result ending.
[00:21:39]  Rasmussen has similar results.
[00:21:41]  58% of voters.
[00:21:43]  I'm sorry, what is the number?
[00:21:46]  Oh, nearly 60% of voters consider Israel an ally of the U.S. I've been warning people about what's happening online.
[00:21:53]  What's happening online is toxic, it's cancerous, and it is, I don't know, it's like Alice in Wonderland and the looking glass.
[00:22:02]  It's like it's not a real world.
[00:22:05]  Remember, it is flooded by people that have agendas, in some cases, paid agendas.
[00:22:12]  It is flooded by people that live in mommy and daddy's basement, keyboard warriors that are anonymous in their underwear, just throwing out invective left, right, and sideways.
[00:22:22]  There are foreign entities, especially with the sophistication now of artificial intelligence, that they are our top geopolitical foes, China, Russia, Iran, some other Middle Eastern countries.
[00:22:35]  I would venture a guess probably the Qataris are trying to especially indoctrinate young people, especially into this anti-Semitic belief system.
[00:22:47]  By the way, there's a story in the Jerusalem Post.
[00:22:49]  Two nurses detained in Tehran after treating wounded anti-government protesters were tortured and raped by Iranian security agents while in custody, according to an exclusive report by Iran International.
[00:23:04]  Can you imagine?
[00:23:05]  Both nurses suffered internal injuries.
[00:23:07]  If you know anything about Iran, this shouldn't surprise you.
[00:23:10]  President, by the way, has demanded Iran's full and complete unconditional surrender.
[00:23:16]  I can see that coming.
[00:23:18]  I hope it comes sooner than later.
[00:23:21]  But with their military being decimated, I mean, I'm not sure how much longer they can hang on.
[00:23:27]  You know, what the president has been able to do, which is why we played every other president or Democratic wannabe president, but from Obama to Biden to Clinton, Kamala Harris, every single one of them all said that they would obliterate Iran if they dared to get close to a nuclear weapon.
[00:23:45]  This has been going on since 1979.
[00:23:49]  And even after Operation Midnight Hammer, the Iranians still would not give up their nuclear ambition.
[00:23:58]  You know, there's a Telegram article that I took note of.
[00:24:01]  Too many armchair foreign policy experts seem to want Iran to win.
[00:24:06]  You know, when I listen to some people, I'm like, whose side are you on here?
[00:24:10]  You know, what is the war critic's agenda anyway?
[00:24:13]  You know, the New York Post had a very good piece about this.
[00:24:18]  You know, we'd like to believe that the negative coverage of the Iranian war so rampant in the media is simply more Trump derangement syndrome, but it's plainly about how the president's firm actions expose how pathetically weak elites applauded Barack Obama and his misbegotten Mideast policies.
[00:24:38]  To simplify things, consider the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, the dean of elite liberal political analysis, who's actively sneering at the joint U.S.-Israeli effort to defang the entity that for five decades has called Israel the little Satan and America the big Satan.
[00:24:56]  Both Washington and Jerusalem are making claims about imminent threats that require preemptive strikes, he huffs, but we should dispense with such statements.
[00:25:04]  Iran is not presenting an immediate danger to the United States or Israel.
[00:25:09]  Now, you're going to believe a radical left-winger or are you going to believe Steve Witkoff?
[00:25:13]  I choose to believe Steve Witkoff.
[00:25:15]  You can make up your own mind, who said that they were bragging about all the 60% enriched uranium that they had, enough to make 10 or 11 nuclear weapons.
[00:25:24]  Imminent threat has become too tough to take out.
[00:25:27]  And Iran lunatic bombing almost every country now within its range.
[00:25:32]  Well, it shows you how crazy they are.
[00:25:34]  And this is the point.
[00:25:35]  This is the Democrats.
[00:25:36]  And set aside people like Congresswoman Omar and Talib and the squad members, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:25:43]  And supposed centrist, signing on to suggestions that U.S. armed forces may be complicit in war crimes.
[00:25:53]  And Chuck Schumer, the self-proclaimed guardian, admitting that confronting Iran's regional activities and nuclear ambitions and oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength.
[00:26:05]  He falls back on, you know, quibbling with the, well, Trump hasn't provided the American people with details of the scope and immediacy.
[00:26:12]  By the time they get to their politics, this thing is over.
[00:26:16]  And by the way, now we're going to have other things.
[00:26:19]  There are always risks in everything that you do.
[00:26:23]  But what is the risk?
[00:26:24]  Here's the sad part for President Trump.
[00:26:27]  If assuming that Steve Witkoff is right, that they would not give up even after Midnight Hammer their ambition for nuclear weapons, and they were clinging to it as their inalienable right, as he said, in spite being offered civilian use uranium in perpetuity for free, then what if they, you know, the country that's the number one state sponsor of terror ever had that weapon and the ability to launch it a long distance?
[00:26:54]  But you can't calculate how many lives might have been saved.
[00:26:58]  That's the thing.
[00:26:59]  You just don't know.
[00:27:01]  The difference is, are you willing to make that gamble?
[00:27:06]  That is where some people are willing to gamble their children's future.
[00:27:10]  I'm not one of them.
[00:27:12]  We'll see if the president seizes the crown jewel of Iran's oil industry, Carg Island.
[00:27:18]  I do believe when all is said and done, and I have nothing to back this up, my thoughts, my belief is that Iran will pay.
[00:27:27]  The Iranian people will have to pay for their own liberation in the end.
[00:27:30]  USS Abraham Lincoln sailing close to Iran for waves of strikes.
[00:27:34]  IDF took out the Supreme Leader's plane, which I thought was funny.
[00:27:38]  Remember, I was telling him, you better get on that plane now while you can.
[00:27:41]  Because I just saw what was the handwriting was on the wall.
[00:27:45]  Nobody thinks this guy is really functioning as the new Supreme Leader either, which is fascinating.
[00:27:51]  But they just keep hitting and hitting.
[00:27:54]  Now I think the next strike is probably the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
[00:27:58]  I think that's probably their next big strike that we're going to be watching.
[00:28:01]  And that will pave the way for the Iranian people to either seize the moment or not.
[00:28:06]  As President Trump said, seize it.
[00:28:08]  Maybe once in a generation.
[00:28:09]  Pete Hegseth did say the Pentagon has their plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:28:13]  The Iranians are exercising sheer desperation.
[00:28:17]  We are on a plan to defeat, destroy, disable all their meaningful military capabilities at a pace the world has never seen.
[00:28:23]  And he's right.
[00:28:25]  We understand the ability to interdict shipping is something Iran has done for years.
[00:28:28]  It's key terrain.
[00:28:30]  They've used it as leverage.
[00:28:31]  The world is seeing what they'll do to fight back in that context.
[00:28:35]  And by the way, they don't care about anybody in the region.
[00:28:37]  They have been just, you know, they've been lashing out at anybody and everybody.
[00:28:43]  And then the president, we only get 1% of our oil from the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:28:47]  President's saying, no, you get your oil from Hormuz.
[00:28:50]  Send in some support.
[00:28:52]  The U.K., other nations, send your ships.
[00:28:55]  Well, I will tell you that this prime minister of Great Britain and this idiot president of France, they're no leaders.
[00:29:03]  There's certainly no Winston Churchill in the case of Starmer.
[00:29:06]  That's for sure.
[00:29:08]  He's so weak and pathetic.
[00:29:10]  Europe is gone.
[00:29:12]  Unfettered immigration, no assimilation.
[00:29:15]  They have not kept up with the national security needs and defense.
[00:29:18]  They've embraced socialism and climate alarmism.
[00:29:30]  All right, when we come back, we'll get a full analysis of where we are.
[00:29:33]  I mean, it has been an incredible military and intelligence display, the likes of which the world really has not seen before.

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