Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly confront the Iranian threat, citing Senator Lindsey Graham's claim that Tehran holds 460 kilograms of uranium ready for weaponization within days. They condemn the regime as a terrorist state responsible for 30,000 deaths, arguing military action is essential to prevent mass murder. Rejecting claims of foreign influence on President Trump, they draw parallels to the Reagan Doctrine while criticizing local Democratic leaders like Kami Mamdani and Kathy Hochul for policies that endanger national security and drive wealth abroad. Ultimately, the hosts assert that decisive force is the only path to securing a safer future for generations. [Automatically generated summary]
That can only mean one thing on this radio program, and that is all things self-proclaimed, simple man.
That means all things, Bill O'Reilly.
All thingsO'Reilly at billo'reilly.com.
It's his favorite day of the week when he's on with me.
How are you, sir?
You know, I'm just back from St. Patrick's Day in D.C.
I just don't like it down there.
I think you would.
Bill, you could have been in New York where they're throwing up green beer all over the streets of New York City, and you could have been hanging out with Marxist Kami Mamdani.
I mean, he now wants a 50% estate tax in the city of New York.
Good thing you don't live in the city.
That's for sure.
No doubt about it.
But Washington, I just, even with all the problems in New York, most of the folks are genuine here, but down there, I don't know.
No, they're not.
No, they're insane.
The people in New York City, now, where you live in Nassau County, it's being run very well, but it's still very expensive by Bruce Blakeman.
I think he's doing a great job.
I think he'd be a great governor, but I think in that state, it's nearly impossible.
Did you hear Kathy Hochl begging people to go visit their friends in Palm Beach and tell them to move back so that they can donate millions to the coppers of New York?
I know.
I hope I'm going to lose.
You know, Zeldon is now the Secretary of Interior.
What is he?
EPA.
EPA.
Correct.
Last time around.
And Blakeman is going to have more money than Zeldon.
He's a better campaigner than Lee.
So I'm not so sure.
The problem is every four years, more people leave.
And with, all right, let's put it this way.
I'm in the free state of Florida, and Zoron Marxist Kami Mamdani, as I affectionately refer to him.
By the way, I had, we just dropped a podcast today.
Comrade Bill de Blasio, we talked for an hour and a half, Bill, and I got him to admit a lot of mistakes that are being made by Democrats, but it was a civil conversation.
And I was kind of surprised he was so forthright, but he's Mamdani's biggest supporter.
But Mamdani is now supporting reducing the non-deductible part of one's estate.
This is money people have already paid taxes on.
In other words, the death tax from $7.5 million to $750 million.
And then he is proposing a 50% New York City estate tax.
The state has a 10% estate tax.
The federal government gets 40% of this better known as the death tax.
That's 100%, Bill.
Nobody is going to live there.
And you see what's happening in California.
Every rich person in California is getting out before this referendum takes place in November.
That would be retroactive to January.
They're leaving.
There's not going to be enough people in New York, I don't think.
And I love Bruce Blakeman.
I want to be very clear.
And I like Lee Zeldon, but I don't know if anyone has a shot in New York.
I don't even think you could win, O'Reilly, and you're a rock star.
Well, listen, the situation is going to deteriorate here over the next six months.
And Hoko is wedded to Ma'am Donnie.
And I do believe that the tipping point is being reached.
If you are a person who has property, that property is not going to be respected by the governments of New York, Illinois, and California.
They want to seize your property.
And that's what it is all about.
All right.
Let me go to your conversation.
I know that, you know, you're always stealing my guess.
You were doing it ever since we worked together, but it's okay.
I mean, I don't mind sharing my guess, but I saw that you interviewed Lindsey Graham recently.
And actually, it was a very good interview.
I watched it.
And I want to play a couple of exchanges from it and get your reaction to it.
First, Lindsay, you know, he's very clear.
He's very transparent.
There is absolutely no ambiguity in where he stands.
I agree with his position as it relates to Iran, especially after my interview with Steve Witkoff, that they want the unilateral right to make nuclear weapons.
They rejected civilian use uranium for free, and they bragged about being able that they bragged about 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium.
And in seven or 10 days, you can have weapons-grade uranium at that level of enrichment.
Okay.
So you talked to Lindsay, and I agree with him.
This was an imminent threat.
We'll get your thoughts on the other side of it.
Here's your question and answer.
There'll come a time where Iran is defanged, not completely solved.
Well, you say it's going to be in about six weeks.
Three to four weeks.
Three to four weeks.
Okay.
And I've got my work cut out for me, and I am not giving an inch.
I'm trying to stick with President Trump.
And here's what I believe.
In about three or four weeks, no longer, we will have degraded the regime's capability to build missiles to hit us, to be the largest state sponsor of terrorism, and to go back in the nuclear weapons business for a very, very long time.
What is the outcome I'm looking for?
And this will surprise everybody.
It's not who takes over Iran next.
I'm trying to defang Iran so there's no more October 7th to go back and finish what I tried to start with Biden, Saudi Arabia recognizing Israel.
Okay.
That is the goal.
I think so far they're doing a pretty damn good job.
I think this might be in terms of the amount of intelligence and the execution of a military effort unprecedented in the history of warfare.
Period.
It's that successful.
Doesn't mean it's over.
It means up to now it's been a huge success.
Well, first of all, you helped me get that interview with Lindsey Graham because everybody's afraid of me and you said, no, Riley, be straight up.
Why do you have to give out intimate details?
That's for me and you to know.
I don't want people to know we're really good friends.
I don't want that.
No, but I want the audience to know you're a generous guy because there are people who feel that you're commuding.
You can't help yourself.
All right, but I want your reaction to it.
Okay.
So I went down to D.C. and I didn't want to hear any more opinions.
I just didn't.
I'm tired of watching television and hearing opinions about the Iranian military action.
So who is the person who knows the most about this?
That was my wish list, and that is Senator Graham.
Now, he is a hawk.
And we identify him, and he does not, he doesn't disagree with that.
He wants to use U.S. military power to make the world safer.
That's the definition of a hawk these days.
So it's upfront.
But then I started with the very specific questions.
And the first one was imminent.
What does imminent mean?
And he defined it pretty well, I have to say.
And he said, oh, look, if I'm wrong, I'll own it.
But I believe him because, number one, he has access to President Trump, and number two, he sees the intel.
There are very, very few senators and no representatives that I know, no congresspeople, who have that kind of a dual information flow coming in.
Well, he's part of the gang of eight.
Keep going.
So Lindsey Graham knows what the president knows and what the CIA knows.
That was number one.
And then for an hour, I basically, every specific thing, how long is it going to last?
What about the backside of a recession in the United States?
We got into JD Vance, very candid about JD Vance.
And all of this on billo Reilly.com for premium members that drop.
Well, it's pretty well known.
And by the way, I don't really have a problem with people that have a different view of the president.
We only have one commander-in-chief.
But if people want to express a difference of opinion, the one thing about Donald Trump is he will listen to everybody, and then he will make up his own mind.
There are allegations that he's listening to Mark Levin, Sean Hannity.
He's taking orders from Bibi in Israel.
You know that's false.
I know that's false.
Well, I got into that as well about Netanyahu being very difficult, and he is with Graham.
But the centerpiece of the interview is Q ⁇ A, fact, And Graham backs it up pretty well about how he knows what he knows and how this is going to play out.
So that's what I wanted to accomplish.
I think we did that.
But I do want to make clear for everybody who wants to watch the entire hour that just go to billoreilly.com.
We'll drop it at 6 tonight.
Premium members have it now.
That's why Hannity's already seen it.
But it's a very important interview because we have far too much of guessing and speculation in this country.
And people get confused.
Voters get confused.
They don't know what imminent means.
They don't know how long, how much longer I'm going to be paying high gas prices, all of these things.
And they need to know to make responsible decisions.
And that's my job.
And that's why I went down to D.C. to do the interview.
And it worked out, I think, very, very well.
And I appreciate the fact that you helped make it happen.
All right, quick break more with Bill O'Reilly.
Then your call's coming up.
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right now.
All things simple, man, Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
Bill just getting back from Washington.
So you can ask me some questions, too, and I'd be glad to answer.
And I think I'm as in the know as Lindsey Graham.
If you have any questions you want to ask me, Bill.
Well, listen.
Because I think his timeframe is extraordinarily accurate.
I think certain things have to happen.
And if I had to predict, certain things will happen.
I think the president will stabilize the Straight of Hormuz.
I think the president will continue.
We're at 8,000 military targets now.
I believe that will continue.
The final remaining forces, although there are lots of reports of defections, will continue.
I think that Karg Island will be in control of the U.S. by the time all is said and done.
That's where 90% of their oil production takes place.
They export about 7, 7.5 million barrels a day.
And I think then it's going to be in the hands of the Iranian people, and we will have accomplished our mission.
The one other unknown is the 460 kilograms that Steve Witkoff told me.
And I think this was the defining interview about what tipped the scales for the president.
It wasn't Bibi.
It wasn't Mark Levin and Sean Hannity.
It wasn't Israel.
It was with it.
They have 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium.
And he pointed out that that can be weapons grade enriched in seven to 10 days to 90%.
And then they offered civilian use, low-grade enriched uranium for free for civilian purposes.
And they offered it in perpetuity for free.
And it was rejected.
And they held on to, quote, their unilateral right to enrich and have a nuclear weapon.
And that tipped the scales.
And I believe that was the deciding factor of the president.
Yeah, and there was one other factor that when Mossad told the American CIA that all of the mullahs are going to be in one place at one time and they could all be eradicated, which they were.
I can add a little context to that.
It wasn't just the Mossad that knew it.
Both countries had eyes on these guys.
Our own CIA, you cannot dismiss John Ratcliffe, who testified yesterday it was an imminent threat.
I think Radcliffe would tell the American people that Mossad had isolated these people at a certain place, and then we acted.
So it's a war of opportunity there.
But the ability of Graham to tie this into Ukraine, which he did, very interesting.
And China.
So he ties in the Iran war to Putin and she.
And I didn't know that.
That was brand new to me.
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And I'm going, okay.
And it makes perfect sense about the whole world.
If this is successful, and I agree with you, I think it will be, but it's, you know, be painful.
Anything like this is painful in life.
It's going to realign the whole world in a much, much more positive way.
And a final point I would make is as a historian, presidential historian, it's good for presidents to have dissent in their administration.
So it's actually positive that Vance didn't see it this way, but was persuaded to go along with the program.
He had to if he wanted to keep his position there, unlike the other guy yesterday at the counterterrorism who, and, you know, I don't begrudge that guy his opinion, but to do it in the middle of the war, that was low.
That was low, this guy.
But what specifically, oh, this guy Kent, yeah.
Right.
There's a backstory I'm not prepared to go out with publicly yet, but there is a backstory to this that in time I will tell.
I'm just, it's too important that this mission be completed and done before, you know, I might tell it.
I might not.
You got five more minutes because by the way, what you're describing is like with Abraham Lincoln, a team of rivals.
I want to talk about the historical aspects, what Trump is leaning on historically, because I see three historical incidents that he is leaning on for his decision making.
And this is my own analysis.
I want to see if you agree with me.
Do you have five more minutes and then I'll let you go?
Sure.
All right.
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And the reason I wanted to hold you over is these are important times.
Getting this right is important.
There's a couple of things historically that I think a lot of people are missing.
Although, I mean, 90% of the MAGA base supports Trump.
100% actually support him overall.
90% support him on this issue with Iran.
And the polls show that, and I can play you even fake news, CNN saying it.
But historically, I see a couple of things happening.
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One is I see that President Trump has learned the lessons of history.
You used to be a history teacher.
People may not know that about you.
I think he's following the Reagan doctrine, which is peace through strength.
Similarly, I think he's learned something from the last hundred years.
Both of us have written books about evil, very different, but very relevant to these times.
Evil does exist.
This is an evil regime.
I'm not going to dispute it with people that are ignorant.
It's a waste of my time.
But evil does exist.
This regime is evil.
And by ignoring evil in the last century, that's Mao, China, that's Stalin, Russia, Hitler, Germany, Mussolini, fascism, Italy, Tojo, Japan, Pol Pot, and the Killing Fields Bill, over 100 million people died.
And I think the president has learned that lesson in history.
And I think now he also learned from Iraq and Afghanistan.
And that is no forever wars.
That's what we saw when he defeated ISIS and took out Soleimani, Baghdadi, dropped the mother of all bombs in Afghanistan and dropped 14 bunker buster bombs with Operation Midnight Hammer.
And for whatever reason, there are many people on television, radio, on the air, doing something someplace that don't have the understanding, the simple understanding that if you have a shot at taking out evil before they can potentially kill millions, it is just the wise, prudent thing to do.
I can't convince people otherwise that I'm not even going to waste my time trying.
There's a couple of things that Americans need to know about Donald Trump and his decision-making process.
The first one is he takes everything personally.
And that's unlike most presidents.
Most presidents are theoreticians.
Even FDR in World War II had many opportunities to get in earlier and perhaps mitigate some of the tremendous damage.
And Winston Churchill was all over FDR.
I mean, every time they met, he's going, you got to get in.
You got to get in.
But FDR didn't take it personally until Pearl Harbor.
Then he started to.
Donald Trump takes everything personally.
So when he's negotiating with the Mullahs, and I know this because I had an extended conversation with him off the record about the negotiations that you discussed earlier with Witkoff, he wanted a deal with them.
Big time.
He was begging them for a deal.
That would have helped Iran and the Persian people as well as the rest of the world.
And they were so arrogant and so evil in their response to the United States trying to get this thing done that Trump said, you know what?
These people are now in a different category.
If they do get any kind of nuclear device, they will use it.
Bill, let me ask you personally, because I believe they would.
I believe this fanaticism is that insane.
Do you agree with me?
Yes, I agree with you that the theocracy that I wrote about in Confronting Evil doesn't care about human life at all, including their own people.
And we saw that when they killed 30,000 protesters a few weeks ago.
I have a follow-up.
Do you believe every generation has an obligation to try to hand off a more prosperous and safer country to the next generation, like the greatest generation handed off to us?
And by definition, does that mean it is a gamble that we would be taking with our children and grandchildren's lives if we allowed this rogue regime, the number one state sponsor of terror that chans death to America to have this weapon?
Would we be failing our children by taking that gamble?
Yes, that's why I supported the action because I understood that taking this regime out and replacing it with one that isn't interested in mass murder is good for every child on the planet, not just the American child.
And when you can do it, you have the ability to do it, and there isn't anything except high gas prices that are preventing you from doing it.
You have to make the decision to stop the murder.
That really sums it up, Bill.
And I guess every American is going to have to make up their own mind.
But I felt when, and I did have an off-the-record conversation with the president, too, and the president did.
He was adamant that he wanted this peace deal.
He was putting a lot of pressure on Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to get the deal done.
The primary sources here are this information because I didn't call him soliciting my opinion on what kind of a deal to the United States.
Israel wasn't even mentioned.
And that's why I know that Netanyahu and everybody else were there benefiting from this, no doubt.
They weren't the driver of it.
Can I take it a step further?
That to me.
There was a period where the Israelis weren't ready.
They were begging the president to wait.
How's that for information that you're not going to get from the mainstream media, Bill O'Reilly?
Well, listen, the people of this country have a very good source of information because two of the top journalists, and I put you in that category, have access and do tell the truth about what's happening.
And I hope people listen to us.
And I hope they watch the Lindsey Graham thing because you'll be armed and dangerous with facts if you invest an hour in watching that.
Linda, do you notice that Bill can't help himself?
He just can't.
I mean, he just, he's always doing a little pat on the back for himself.
But in all honesty, I think it's a great discussion you had.
Thank you for sharing it with us early.
And we appreciate you staying late as well.
This is too serious an issue.
And I can't, I really would hate to think of a nuclear-armed Iran.
And that's the world we hand off to our children.
Because at the end of the day, it's not really about us, Bill.
It's about kids and grandkids and future generations.
And I think once you have that perspective in life, you start thinking a lot differently than maybe when we were younger.
Bill, appreciate your time.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
And all things, Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones here.
Lorenzo in Boston.
What's up, Lorenzo?
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
I couldn't agree with you more on what we had to do with Iran.
I listened last week and the week before, I listened to some great callers call other shows and talk, you know, soldiers, soldiers that were over there.
And they told their stories.
And this Iranian regime, they are just evil.
And this was about time that they were all finally proud.
It was like they had some kind of closure.
And not only that, but the Iranian people, Sean, it's insane how they had to deal with this stuff.
And we see how happy they were.
And you're right.
I'm older than you, or maybe we're around the same age because I remember.
But, you know, we live longer than what we have on this earth.
And you're 100% right.
It's about our grandchildren, my grandchildren.
I don't have grandchildren.
I keep telling my kids, don't make me your grandpa.
I don't want that.
You know what that means to me?
That means more people to worry about in my life.
Yeah, well, we got to worry about them.
They're precious, the grandkids.
You're not going to be able to stop them.
I mean, I assume one day, if God willing, I get to live long enough, I'll have grandchildren.
But then I'm going to have to like, now I got to worry about this kid.
And the last thing I'd like to mention, Sean, if you give me a chance, is this guy, Kent?
When people ask, well, on the job site, we're always talking, guys are like, who's the deep state?
What are their names and stuff?
And, you know, they say we don't hear enough of it in the radio.
Well, this guy, Kent, he is one of them.
That's a classic example.
I don't know if you know him.
You know, I heard stories about him.
But, I mean, he's a classic example, just like the governor in Virginia, the one in New Jersey.
Eliza.
These people are part of that system, that sewer system in Washington, D.C. that we're fed up with.
The people off their working banging nails or serving the coffee.
We talk about this at the coffee show.
This guy, we played him yesterday.
We quoted him yesterday.
And back then, even as recently as not that long ago, he sounded just like President Trump and Sean Hannity.
And now he's saying, you know, something very different.
I have a deep suspicion that something deeper is going on here.
I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Not ready to go with it yet, but this was a subterfuge, if you know what I mean.
This is a distraction, in my humble opinion, and I'm waiting for the evidence.
Okay.
You're pretty gone.
You've got the right thing.
Hey, John Solomon, you had him on yesterday.
He was brought on.
He talked about these people, how they, I mean, they can keep stuff from, you know, people.
It's the parties.
You know, they go to the you know, you know better than any of us because of the, you know, by the grace of God, the sources that you've had being in the business.
So just keep up the good work.
Thanks.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
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Matthew in Michigan.
Hey, Matthew, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, an honor and privilege to be on your show, sir.
Thank you.
I'm hearing you and Mr. O'Reilly talking about New York City and their socialist mayor damn dummy.
That's what I call him.
One, because I really don't care how to pronounce his name correctly.
And two, he's a damn dummy.
How him and Hokul.
You're not going to get any arguments from me.
But just how him and Hokul, and now you got News come over in California just taxing the top 1% or 2% to basically pay for everybody in the state.
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And they have the goal that surprises when these people pick up and move.
Are they really that stupid to believe that the people with the most money don't have the capability or the means to move away?
Look, I'm just telling you right now.
You know, remember she said Lee Zeldin and Trump, get on a bus, go down to Florida.
Andrew Cuomo said, if you're pro-life and pro-assault weapon, you are not a New Yorker.
There's no place for you in the state of New York.
You know, tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
We did.
And the rich leave.
What do you think is going to happen?
Exactly what is happening.
This is predictable as, you know, the sun rising in the east, setting in the west until God comes back to earth.
It's not complicated.
I honestly would love to have an honest discussion with her.
I don't think she'll ever do it, but I'm going to invite her and explain to her what's happening because I'm not sure if she has the perspective that she would really need if she really cares about her state.
That state can be fixed.
The state absolutely can be.
Absolutely.
They have to reverse course.
They have to.
The first thing I would do is start fracking in upstate New York.
The next thing I would do is lower taxes dramatically.
New York City should not have a bigger budget than the entire free state of Florida, but it does.
It is only so much money you're going to be able to take from people before they say enough.
Yep, exactly.
And I just can't believe they're not going to change those, sir.
These people.
I don't think she's going to listen to me.
She probably won't even want to talk to me, but it's too bad because I would have a heart-to-heart with her and try and help her.
I mean, I feel bad for my friends that I left back in New York years ago.
Anyway, thank you, my friend.
And I'm not saying that I talk to people all the time.
I talk to friends today, and they're telling me how bad it is.