Sean Hannity argues President Trump's "Trump Doctrine" averted nuclear catastrophe by halting Iran's enrichment of 460 kilograms of 60% uranium, which could yield 11 bombs in ten days. He claims rejected diplomatic offers and subsequent military strikes like "Midnight Hammer" obliterated the program, with Senator Lindsey Graham calling it the most imminent threat since 1979. The episode further critiques Kamala Harris's tax proposals, DOJ leniency toward ISIS affiliates, and California's governance under Gavin Newsom, suggesting these failures necessitate a shift to red states for national security. [Automatically generated summary]
He's also developed his own doctrine, the Trump Doctrine, which wiped out ISIS and Soleimani and Baghdad and dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan, took out the Iranian nuclear site, standing true to his principle, no forever wars.
But now with the onset of new technology, we don't have to follow the bad example of Iraq and Afghanistan, where we're sending our national treasure on the ground.
We can stop a threat before it becomes a massive threat and risking even a potential Holocaust in our lifetime.
That's how serious this whole issue is.
So you have this senior administrative official, this guy, Joe Kent, director of Counterintelligence Center.
He was a known leaker, according to the White House.
He had been shut out of White House intelligence briefings for months, and he was shut out of any and all Iran war preparations.
And the interesting thing, and the update, the White House even said he's a crazed egomaniac who is often at the center of national security leaks.
He spent his time working to subvert the chain of command, undermine the president.
And he tries to go out with this big splash today.
And of course, the left-wing media is eating it up.
He said in good conscience he couldn't support the war in Iran.
And this is what he said.
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Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.
So I'm going to go back to the start of the show, and then I'm going to have Lindsey Graham lay this out for you, and I'm going to hand the ball to him.
I want to play Steve Witkoff on my show, how he was in the negotiations.
The president wanted a deal.
Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff were negotiating that deal.
This is how Steve Witkoff described the opening of those negotiations.
They opened up with telling us that they had the inalienable right to enrich, to which we responded that from President Trump, that we had the inalienable right to stop them from enriching.
So, but they opened up by challenging us.
Their next statement to us was that they had 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium.
60% enriched uranium would take a week, maybe 10 days at the outside, to bring up to 90% weapons grade.
So it was a clear threat.
They were boasting about having it.
And they said that that was going to be something that was going to be very valuable at the same time that they were attesting to wanting nuclear for civil purposes.
There is no reason whatsoever to be enriching past 20% unless you're going for a weapon.
Deliver 11 nuclear bombs.
Back to Steve Witkoff.
Now, they offered on behalf of the president U.S. provided civilian-use uranium enriched at a low level, which would be all that they need just in exchange for a commitment.
And of course, there'd be trust but verify provisions.
They would give it to them for free.
They just had to agree not to enrich uranium and pursue nuclear weapons.
They refused.
Listen.
In terms of their enrichment, it was very, very clear they had plenty of 20% material.
That, by the way, was another telling sign of their insidious motives.
And as I said, they had the 60%.
We had a red line on enrichment.
However, we were willing to help them convert to a civil 123 non-enrichment program.
And what you're referring to is, as a little extra, we suggested to them that we would provide fuel to them for free for a long period of time.
And their response to that, you would think they would feel that that was something gracious.
But their response to us was that this was an assault on their dignity.
Now, the last thing that is pivotal, he said they bragged about their 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium.
It would take a week to 10 days to enrich that to 90% enrichment, which is weapon-grade enrichment.
That would allow them to make 11 nuclear bombs.
This is this guy saying no imminent threat to our nation.
In seven or ten days, they'd be able to make 11 bombs.
Listen.
And let me say this because I forgot this small little detail.
In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly, with no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%, and they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs.
And that was the beginning of their negotiating stance.
So they were proud of it.
They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.
Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, joins us.
Senator, tell me how, based on Steve Witkoff, that that is not an imminent threat to our nation.
Well, it's the most imminent threat we've faced as a nation coming from Iran since 1979.
Thank God Kamala Harris was not in the White House.
Thank God President Trump was.
Now, how do you explain this?
So Trump is basically saying if you want peaceful nuclear power, which you've been claiming, they've denied they want a bomb, even though they've been trying to do everything in the world to get a bomb.
Trump gave them an offer that they couldn't refuse unless they wanted a bomb.
So he smoked them out.
He said, you can have all the spent fuel rods you need forever, really, for free to produce nuclear power.
You just can't have the capability to go from 3.5% to 90% to make a bomb.
The difference between 60% highly enriched uranium and 90 is weapons grade.
90 is weapons grade.
It's about 10 to 12 days of enrichment.
They thought they were talking to Obama and Biden when they told Kushner and Witkoff what they just told them.
They thought that they would panic.
They would beg them not to go to Nani and throw a bunch of money at them like Obama and Biden did.
When Trump heard that they were within two weeks of going to 90%, he blew up their enrichment program.
Instead of trying to bribe them and beg them, he blew it up.
And that's why they don't have a bomb today.
If that's not imminent, what would be?
Bottom line is when Kushner and Witkoff went to negotiate a peaceful nuclear power program, the Iranians made a big miscalculation.
They bragged about how close they were a nuclear weapon.
Literally weeks.
This is an episode of 24.
If people don't get this, they're not trying very hard.
The media does not want you to know this story because it justifies Midnight Hammer on steroids.
After Midnight Hammer, when they blew up all the enrichment facilities, within a week, they tried to start over again, going deeper in the ground and having no ventilator shafts so they can enrich without a bomb coming down the shaft.
That's why we did Epic Fury.
This was a war not of choice, but of necessity.
The necessity was a religious Nazi regime who's been trying to build a bomb for decades, and Donald Trump finally stopped them.
Thank God he did.
You can have your opinions of President Trump, but you cannot have your own facts.
If he had not acted when he did, we would be talking about a nuclear-armed Ayatollah who would wreak havoc on the world, who would control the streets of Hormuz and the Mideast oil supply forever because he'd have a nuclear weapon, and he would eventually use it against Israel because he's a religious Nazi.
He is now dead.
Their nuclear program has been obliterated.
We should be celebrating Donald Trump.
Let him finish the job.
Get this over with once and for all.
So thank you for having Witkoff on your show.
The most important show in the history of Sean Hannity television was when Witkoff explained to the audience how close they were to Obama and how Donald Trump stopped him.
Quick break.
Right back more with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.
Then your calls on the other side, 800-941-Sean, as we continue.
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Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina is with us.
800-941 Sean, your call's coming up straight ahead.
Let me ask you this because I get asked this all the time.
And I understand that the president, yeah, he has the Trump doctrine.
I think there are many people that claim to be MAGA that don't understand it, as evidenced by his past military actions, including Midnight Hammer, including the ISIS Caliphate, including Soleimani, Baghdadi, and the mother of all bombs in Afghanistan.
Yeah.
Donald Trump does not plan on being there very long, and they are ahead of schedule according to him.
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And I'm not looking for a drop-dead date when this thing is going to be over or what the outcome is going to be.
Ultimately, the Iranian people are going to have to do their part.
They'll have a chance, once in a generation, opportunity.
Don't ruin it, Trump said to them.
BB said the same, and that moment's coming soon.
But based on operations, where we are, you know, I'm not looking for a real timeline, but I think Americans want to be assured that this is not a forever war.
This is not Iraq and Afghanistan, which I know it's not.
I can promise you it's not a forever war because they're not, the Iranian regime, we're running out of targets.
We're killing the Revolutionary Guard guys.
We're decimating their ability to build missiles and to build drones and to hit us ever again.
We've got the regime on the run.
We just killed their number chief security guy today, number two to Khomeini.
It's like losing General Patton.
We took him out today.
So we're talking in weeks, not months.
And what's the goal?
It's to make sure the regime has been devastated in terms of their ability to go back to making a nuclear weapon, producing missiles that can hit us and fund terrorism.
We're very, very close.
But the real goal, I think, is to give the Iranian people over time a chance to take their country back.
The biggest prize of all is if you could get Saudi Arabia back at the negotiating table to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, to recognize Israel, the one and only Jewish state, have diplomatic relations between the center of Islam, Saudi Arabia, and the center of the Jewish state, Israel, and they make peace.
That's the biggest change in 2,000 years.
October the 7th was designed to stop normalization.
Donald Trump, once we get Iran in a box, we're going to take back up the cause of peace.
The gateway to peace opens wide when this regime has been neutered and can no longer generate another October 7th.
You heard it on this program.
Sooner rather than later, Saudi Arabia and Israel will start negotiating an end to a 2,000-year conflict.
It will be because of what Donald Trump did to Iran, the great disruptor.
Iran has kept the Mideast in chaos, has kept the world in chaos, and their reign of terror is about to end.
The biggest dividend of taking this regime down and debilitating its ability to create terrorism is that peace now is possible between Saudi Arabia and Israel, historic beyond historic.
And there's one man above all.
Our military deserves tremendous credit.
But without a good commander-in-chief, it doesn't matter how good your military is.
President Trump is setting in motion the end of a 2,000-year-old conflict, peace as far as the eye can see in the Mideast because he took on the Ayatollah.
It's a myth.
You know, it wasn't just Israel that was celebrating Midnight Hammer, now Epic Fury.
It was every Arab country in the region.
I learned a lot when I went on that Gulf State trip with the president to Riyadh and to the UAE and to Qatar.
I learned so much.
And they wanted this as much as Israel.
They did not want a nuclear-armed Iran.
They did not want Iranian hegemony in the region.
You're so right.
And that's why I go there to try to learn.
Remember the last time we took our eye off the ball over there and it came here was 9-11?
The biggest threat to civilization would be a religious Nazi, the Ayatollah's regime, having a nuclear weapon.
They would use it.
There's three things the theocracies build around purify Islam.
They're Shiites.
They hate Sunniism.
That's Saudi Arabia.
They would destroy Sunni Islam if they could make them bend to their will.
They want to destroy all the Jews because God commands them to in their twisted religion.
We're infidels and they'd come after us, drive us out of the Mideast.
Like Hitler, they meant it.
People didn't believe he meant, I want to kill all the Jews and I want an Aryan race.
They were wrong.
They should have understood he meant it.
When the Ayatollah chants death to America, death to Israel, he means it.
That capability to destroy Israel and to terrorize the world is being lost every day.
The Ayatollah is dead.
His son is virtually dead.
The chief security enforcer is dead.
We're on track to do something historic, give the president a little more time.
But to all those naysayers, if you don't believe we were this close within a tick of a clock to Iran having 10 nuclear weapons, you just are in denial.
They were.
And thank God Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff found out what they're up to and Trump stopped them.
So to anybody that ever wants to be president and they say that this was not a justified military action, they should not allow it to be anywhere near the Oval Office.
When you sit at that desk like President Trump, the buck stops there.
That's what Harry Truman said.
It was his call.
He made the right call.
If he had not made that call, we would be living with a nuclear-armed Iran as I speak, and that would terrorize the world forever.
And I can't think of a worse outcome for the Arab world and the civilized world.
So I'm going to stick with President Trump.
This is going to be weeks, not months.
And when this is over, we're going to have peace like we never envisioned before because Iran will be off the table.
Finally, after 19 since 1979, the largest state sponsor of terrorism, their days are numbered in terms of wreaking havoc on the region.
And when they get weakened, peace will break out.
Just remember what I said.
When the Ayatollah's regime is further weakened, peace breaks out.
Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, appreciate you being with us.
Quick break.
Right back.
We'll continue on the other side.
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All right, let's get to the beautiful blue socialist utopia known as Minnesota.
Jason, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, it's first time caller.
Well, people leaving their states because of taxes.
You know, it's kind of like leaving a battle.
I guess that's on my mind in the businesses.
You know, they're getting taxed more.
I know that.
It's hard to do.
But when people just get up and leave and just move out of their state, it's kind of like not fighting for it, I guess.
What do you expect billionaires in Silicon Valley to do when they're paying the highest taxes already in the entire country?
And now they have a referendum that will be retroactive to January of this year.
And then the government will come in and rob 5% of what they've been able to save after they paid taxes.
What do you say to the people of New York if Momdani has his way?
He's going to lower the estate tax threshold from $7.5 million to $750,000, which you can't even buy a closet as an apartment for $750,000 for the most part in New York.
I don't think you can get one for that amount of money.
You work hard, you save your money, you pay your taxes.
You're paying city taxes in that case.
You're paying state taxes in that case.
You're paying federal taxes.
About 57 cents or close to 60 cents of every dollar already goes to the government.
Now Bomdani wants to put more taxes on people that he defines as rich.
Sorry, but if you make a half a million dollars in New York, you're not exactly rich.
You're just not.
I'm giving you the reality.
Most people are like rolling their eyes.
Well, that's a lot of money.
Yeah, it is, but not in New York.
It's just not.
And so then he's going to take, he's going to put a whopping 50% estate tax on New York City residents on top of the 10% estate tax at 60%.
On top of the federal estate tax or death tax, that's 40%.
Now, do the math for me.
How much money do you get to pass on to your children, your grandchildren, charity?
This is money you've already been taxed on.
If they take 40% federal, 10 state, 50 city, how much is that?
Can you help me out?
That's simple math.
Yeah, I understand it all, Sean.
100%.
It's every penny you've ever saved.
Why would you stay and try to fix stupid?
I don't know.
I just hate to see.
I think it's their plan is like tax everybody right out of the state.
Then they just take everything over.
And pretty soon it's.
That's the thing.
Anyone that wants to stay in those states, they can.
Here's the thing.
If Americans move en masse, I have a different view.
My advice is get out before the 2030 census.
And my advice is pack these red states and make them redder.
You know, move to states that are more marginal and a little more difficult to win.
Move to Georgia, move to North Carolina, move to Texas.
They keep targeting Texas.
Move to Florida, my free state, if you want the whole enchilada, the best state, I think, in the country.
And there are other great states, places like Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, the Carolinas.
They're just great places.
And the people are nicer.
I'm telling you from my personal experience.
And the way of life is better.
Look, I've lived, I grew up in Long Island, New York.
I lived in Rhode Island five years, California five years, Huntsville, Alabama, two years, Georgia, four years.
Then went back to New York when I got hired at Fox.
And I've been now, I'm three years down in Florida.
And I love having moved around as much as I have.
It's the best thing I ever did in my life, a great life experience.
I know some people are kind of set in their ways and maybe fearful of things.
Don't be fearful in your life.
You know, be adventuresome.
And you're going to find your money goes a lot further.
New York City's proposed budget under Kami Mamdani is higher than the entire state of Florida.
Now, to me, that's misappropriation of taxpayer dollars, a waste of money, a waste of taxes.
They have the crummiest infrastructure, the worst services, and a mayor that doesn't even believe in law and order, and a mayor that hires virulently anti-Semitic people around him, as far as I'm concerned, and whose wife applauded 70 times on social media posts praising October 7th.
No thanks.
My values are not in sync with that place anymore.
Yeah, I just the thought of them just being able to tax everybody out of their state, then they can just spread and spread.
We'll have bigger margins in red states, and they're going to lose congressional seats, and they're going to lose electoral votes because they've chased everybody away.
I say to everybody, if you can move, do it now.
Do it sooner rather than later, especially with the shifting economy and new jobs coming online.
And we're going to start, you know, when manufacturing begins in earnest and energy jobs come online as they come online in a big way, we're going to make those opportunities available to people.
And we'll maybe bring on some of the CEOs of these companies because they're going to want to hire great people.
And it might be a good opportunity for many of you in this audience.
Look, I only care about my audience here.
I want you to know something.
You know, the people that are loyal to this show, I'm grateful because you gave me a life I never deserved.
And I want to try and give back and make your life better.
And I'm telling you, these states are, they are spiraling downward, and I don't think you can save them.
Your state is gone.
It's over.
And if you want to stay and fight, I admire you.
Mark Simone and Curtis Sleewer, they're staying in New York, but I think they're nuts.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, they're calling.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call.
Thank you for being with us.
All right, back to our busy phones, 800-941-Sean, our number, James, Kentucky, next Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hello, Sean.
How you doing?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Well, I was wanting to talk about the Old Dominion case.
And with respect to specifically, why didn't the DOJ stutter prosecutor denaturalize the shooter after he started to throw to prison time for treason?
I mean.
Makes no sense, does it?
The guy was associated with ISIS seven years in prison.
Why did we ever let such a person out again?
Yeah, I mean, why wasn't that part of his plea deal?
Or rather, was that the big part to get the treasonous soldier to take the plea deal and not have to go to trial?
You know, an easy guilty plea, if you will, for the prosecutor.
There's certain crimes that I think you've got to give deep consideration to ever letting people out on.
I think, for example, once you cross a moral boundary and you harm a child, that to me is such a such a dark road.
I don't know if people really can change their hearts.
And I believe in forgiveness, repentance, and all of that, but I don't think it's a risk you can take.
I don't think if somebody is aligned with ISIS that they're going to spend seven years in jail and come out, oh, yeah, I denounce ISIS.
I'm never going to do this again.
And it is reckless.
It is dangerous.
But this is the Democratic Party.
This is the party of open borders, amnesty, sanctuary cities, and states, and so on and so forth.
This is the party that believes they want the defund, dismantle, no-bail, reimagine.
I mean, it's insane.
I totally agree.
See, I think the American public, though, and the ROCT officers' family deserve to know the name of the federal prosecutor who failed them and us, the American citizens.
I mean, we need you should, if you can, have your resources, drill down and find out why that took place and publicize it.
Yeah.
I mean, honestly, there are certain people that if you are going to let them out of jail, get them out of the country.
Period, end of sentence.
And three people would be alive today if they didn't make that mistake.
And this unfortunately is happening every day.
And this is the real danger of the four years of unfettered, unvetted illegal immigrants from over 200 countries.
We're all in danger.
Small towns, big cities, and we have to all be on guard at all times.
They are the most preventable national security disaster in history.
James, we appreciate you, buddy.
God bless you.
Quick break, right back.
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Tom in California, Gavin Newsom's United Socialist Utopia.
How does it feel to have a no-show governor, full-time Trump stalker, full-time author, full-time world traveler, full-time ex-poster, full-time podcaster, and people in the Pacific Palisades, you know, 18 months later, can't even get a building permit.
How does that feel?
Sean, if he's not here, I'm happy because I don't want to.
Not here.
You wouldn't feel that way if you wanted to get a friggin permit to build your house back after all this time.
And you still have to pay taxes and insurance on it, according to people I talk to.
Those people are being treated shamely.
I'm telling you that right now.
I was going to call you today.
I wanted to tell you about the DHS.
I think the airlines wrote a letter yesterday, and I believe that they should take a vote.
And if you can't pass and fund the Homeland Security, I actually believe they should stop flying to those individual states.
And I believe it would get taken care of very quickly.
You know, I actually don't disagree with you.
I actually think that's a very clever idea.
I really do.
I think that's a very, very clever idea because they're the ones responsible.
Now, I ran into TSA agents recently, talked to them.
They haven't been paid in 30 days now.
It was 28 or 9 when I saw them over the weekend.
And it's so unfair to them, but it's also the Secret Service.
It's also FEMA.
It's also the Coast Guard.
I mean, and here we are in the middle of a conflict.
We're told that there are known terrorists in the country and sleeper cells.
I'm going to ask FBI Director Kash Patel about this on TV tonight.
And we don't have anything to do about it.
Anyway, good idea, Tom.
You get a gold star today.
Thank you.
Doug, also in the United Socialist Utopia of Gavin Newsom, also in California.
What's going on, Doug?
What are you doing there?
Well, I'm brooding about what's going on in Washington right now.
Okay, what's the matter?
First and foremost, I'm a political nobody that deeply loves the country I served for decades, and I represent exactly one vote, which is precisely what every independent voter is.
And what really concerns me is I think the GOP is on course to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory because it continues to ignore independent voters.
And so that's just my general thing I'm brooding about.
But I think more urgently, based on what you just said, the Department of Homeland Security shutdown from an independent voter's perspective, it really appears that both sides want it to continue for talking points and they don't want it to end.
And the reason that I say that, Sean, is that votes to fund DHS are kind of amorphous and nonspecific, and they let people hide behind what may or may not be included.
If the Republicans in Congress really want to end the shutdown, they'll bring to the floor first legislation that makes it clear that Congress and their staff get no pay during shutdowns and they will.
I like this idea and agree with it.
We've talked about it for a long time.
Many, by the way, many congressmen have voluntarily agreed to do that.
Republicans want to fund the government.
Republicans understand that they just don't want to, the Democrats don't want to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
That's on them.
I understand that.
But if you want to get it to where the Democrats cannot afford to vote against it, bring up individual legislation, have roll call votes, and make them vote against the U.S. Coast Guard funding, then make them vote against Secret Service funding, then make them vote against FEMA funding, then make them vote against TSA funding.
The average vote...
Well, they probably would vote for that, but then not fund the Department of Homeland Security, which is a national security risk.
I don't think, I think you just, this is the Department of Homeland Security.
Fund it.
Fund it.
Again, the average voter is listening to what they're hearing on the other side, that somehow this has something to do with ICE.
If you make them appropriate each individual department, the individual voter will be profoundly offended by them failing to fund the Coast Guard, by them failing.
But remember, they demagogued everything in Minneapolis.
They talked about two incidences.
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I talked, let me give you an example.
Can you name one Californian where you live that has been murdered by an illegal immigrant?
I cannot, but I know it happens.
And crime is.
But that's my point.
But everyone, because the Democrats only care when they can weaponize a death.