Sean Hannity addresses Delta's halted congressional perks due to TSA shortages linked to ICE deployments and condemns the murder of Sheridan Gorman, blaming Democratic officials for their lack of conscience. He details Iran's hardliner takeover, outlines strict nuclear deal conditions involving 460 kilograms of enriched uranium, and describes the U.S. striking over 9,000 targets in Operation Midnight Hammer. The episode concludes by criticizing Republican leadership's failure to pass the SAVE Act, which includes voter ID and restrictions on gender-affirming surgeries, highlighting a broader crisis of legislative gridlock and failed national security strategies. [Automatically generated summary]
If you want to be a part of this extravaganza, it's 800-941.
Sean, if you want to join us.
By the way, Delta Airlines announcing they just halted congressional airport perks as TSA staff shortages worsen.
We're going to get into this today.
The ICE deployment is shrinking TSA lines at America's busiest airport.
Fox 5 Atlanta now reporting that several passengers saying that as far as the agents here, I've seen a couple of people thus far.
It seems like the lines are moving quite faster.
You can thank Donald Trump for that.
And you can thank the Democrats for the long lines and the shutdown that they themselves have caused because it's absolute insanity on their end.
I have a lot to get to today, not the least of which is I am disgusted.
You have the idiots over at MSDNC.
Here you have the case of this Loyola student, 18 years old, killed by a Biden-Harris Maorcas illegal.
We find out allowed into the country.
And then a month after he's in the country illegally, and again, the borders closed, the border's secure.
Biggest lie, one of the biggest lies they ever told.
And then the comments that are being made by this alder woman, well, this person was in the student's in the wrong place at the wrong time.
No, the person in the wrong place at the wrong time was not Sheridan Gorman, this woman who was murdered.
The person in the wrong place at the wrong time was the Biden-Harris Maorcas illegal who had no business being in this country.
And then people say, well, why are we removing everybody?
How do you know if they have criminal intent?
You can't read people's hearts.
That's why you've got to do your best.
That's why people are coming into our country have to be vetted.
We have to see if they have radical views, associations, a health check, and they're not going to be a financial burden on the American people.
Now, we have new comments of Brandon Johnson.
You know, he would not even condemn his own policies, sanctuary policies that are aiding and abetting in this effort.
And the same with J.B. Pritzker.
He's more upset over Donald Trump.
He's complaining Trump's politicizing the murder.
I mean, this party has lost their heart, their conscience, and their soul.
But nobody talks about the 19 people shot, four dead in three days after this Loyola co-ed, Sheridan Gorman, was executed.
Anyway, we'll get into that probably in the next hour of the program today.
And Pritzker complaining about Trump.
Is this supposed to be a bad joke?
All right, we have a lot of developments as it relates to Iran that I want to get to.
The Iranians have named another hardliner to replace the national security hardliner, Ari Larajani, apparently whose daughter is studying in the U.S. along with a lot of the hardliners from Iran that were taken out from the very beginning of this campaign.
But anyway, they named a former Revolutionary Guard commander, senior figure in the hardline political faction.
But that's not the big news of the day.
The big news of the day is, in fact, the Iranians have acknowledged that these talks are taking place, something they didn't acknowledge yesterday.
And, you know, you want to hear a really sad story as this all goes down?
You know, John Brennan, remember John Brennan?
Where does he work at?
MSDNC?
He works at one of them.
Fake news, CNN, they're all the same to me.
Works at one of them.
I know Brennan works at one.
I know Clapper works at the other.
I think Brennan works for MSDNC.
Brennan flat out admitted he believes the Iranians more than he believes President Trump.
And I'm also weird to be taking the word of Iran.
Like, they are an authoritarian regime who's known to lie.
But, like, I'm confused.
What is going on?
Help me.
Calm me down.
Well, I tend to believe Iran more than I do.
That's crazy.
Because he could not acknowledge the truth, even when it is slapped in the face with it repeatedly.
And it's clear that he is flailing right now.
He's trying to figure out how he's going to get out of this debacle that he has created.
And so he's going to make these claims about negotiations that the Iranians now are sending signals that they really want to make a deal and indicates that it's going to make a deal on our terms.
I don't think anything close to the truth in that statement.
Now, for the record, there's been a ton of chatter lately that, in fact, Brennan might, in fact, be indicted in the days to come.
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We'll have to wait and see what happens there.
On a side note, Pakistan now has offered to broker a meaningful and conclusive end to this Iranian war.
So we'll see now that they have emerged as a possible mediator what that may look like.
Apparently, Vice President Vance will lead negotiations for America.
Look, I've gone through this in great specificity and detail, and the president's been very clear.
He's perfectly content to just start the bombing.
And he reiterated today at a press conference earlier that they've already agreed to no nuclear weapons.
Now, the conditions are very, very straightforward of any deal that takes place here.
Now that they acknowledged and admitted that they have 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, as we have been discussing, that can be turned into weapons-grade 90% enriched uranium within seven to 10 days.
That has to be handed over.
That uranium cannot get in the hands of the wrong people.
We know where it is, apparently, according to my sources, and that would need to very carefully either be extracted or diluted.
I'm not a nuclear physicist, scientist.
I don't know the process, but I do know that there is a way, especially the way that we know that it's stored, apparently turns into a gas form.
I'm not that knowledgeable about it, so I don't want to pretend that I am.
However, we know where it is.
They can have it.
That's got to be part of any deal.
Secondly, anywhere, any place, anytime, inspections by U.S. inspectors, if they're not willing to go along with that part of the deal, there's no point in making any deal.
The first thing that would have to happen before we even think about retreating our military would be to get the enriched uranium.
The next part of the deal has to be that they can no longer constitute any nuclear program, any ballistic missiles program.
I hope those idiots in Western Europe might have woken up when they fired a missile 2,500 miles away, which means that Paris and London could be hit based on the range they currently have.
And as usual, the UN, the useless, historically anti-Semitic and anti-American organization that it is, underestimates the Iranian ability in terms of where they are with their nuclear program and their ballistic missiles program.
Well, maybe that will wake up these morons in Western Europe that are part of a NATO alliance that is a paper tiger, and the United States pays more than all those countries combined.
And frankly, I don't even see any, I see no reason for America any longer to be a part of any globalist organization, WEF.
I don't think we should be a part of the UN.
Let China have it.
I don't think we should be.
As far as I'm concerned, NATO is a useless organization because when the president said, and they get their oil from the Strait of Hormuz, not us, when the president suggested that they assist in securing the Strait, they balked and they ducked and they hid and they hid behind, you know, and especially here Starmer and Macrone and the leader of Spain.
Absolutely nowhere to be found.
It's a disgrace.
All right, so the U.S. now has reportedly hit over 9,000 massive military targets in Iran since this war began.
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I mean, an amazing accomplishment.
The intelligence, an amazing accomplishment.
The military precision, an amazing accomplishment.
Now, there's been a lot of talk about the president and Carg Island and the president not hitting their infrastructure.
Do people think that Donald Trump is not purposeful?
Do you not know this was by design?
The president understands that if the Iranian people are ever going to have any shot at rebuilding their society, then they're going to need some form of financial income.
And the bulk of their economic prospects is their energy.
Now, the president could easily wipe out their energy capability, but that would wipe out any ability for them to ever be able to have any quality of life for the foreseeable future, at least for the next generation.
Anyway, the Iranians now have confirmed that there is negotiation going on.
By the way, fake news, CNN has been backtracking all day because they spent most of the day yesterday, you know, trying to make the argument, oh, well, the Iranians say, no, it's not happening.
I knew for a fact, I talked to multiple sources, it was real.
It was always real, but they always want to believe the worst about Donald Trump.
Now, you know, remember in the beginning, they were accusing the president of doing Israel's bidding and the bidding of people like Sean Hannity and Fox and Mark Levin and all these bizarre accusations.
And I laughed.
And I even asked Prime Minister Netanyahu, did the president do this at your behest?
He laughed.
Donald Trump is a man of his own mind.
Now the New York Times is actually trying to claim that the only reason Donald Trump is continuing this conflict is for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, which is another lie.
Now, there's a lot of speculation as to why the Marines have arrived on the scene.
I think I have a pretty good idea why.
I'm not going to give you that information now, but it's speculation, but I'm putting two and two together.
I think I have a pretty good idea what this is about, and it's about making sure that America never has to go back again.
That's all I'll say.
Linda, can you put that together in your head?
Because you have multiple master's degrees.
Yeah, I think you're laying it out pretty clearly.
Okay.
But so there is a reason, and the idea is we don't ever want to go back there.
This is it.
We cannot leave this job at this point unfinished.
But anyway, there is back-channel diplomacy going on.
I will say this: you know, this long-range ballistic missile ought to be a wake-up call for Western Europe.
And then what's the next thing I read this morning?
The European Commission president urging a negotiated settlement.
Did these idiots not learn anything from Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill?
Are they that dumb and ignorant of history?
Are you people in Great Britain that dumb?
What has happened to this once great country?
It is a shadow of its former self.
And the idea that you don't see emerging threats after the last century and you mitigate the threat before it becomes a much larger threat that could potentially threaten millions of lives, you'd think you would have learned that lesson, but they have it.
Prime Minister Netanyahu says that's fine.
The president's going to talk with them only once, but they're not stopping their objectives, which is fair.
Now, the energy secretary Chris Wright says, and I know some people have been concerned about the price of energy, I think hovering about $90 a barrel right now.
It is not that extravagant.
It's not anything we won't very quickly recover from.
And I think it'll happen sooner than later.
The amount of energy that we can produce, even without the Strait of Hormuz, is obviously plenty for America.
More importantly, it's an opportunity for America to sell to a lot of people around the world.
Apparently, side deals, bilateral deals have been made with China and India and other countries, even France, I understand, maybe Great Britain.
I mean, they are just, they are the most unreliable allies.
And this is decades now of neglecting their own homeland security, their own national security, their own defense needs.
It's decades of clinging to socialism, climate alarmism.
And the worst part is unfettered, illegal immigration without assimilation, resulting in Sharia courts in Great Britain, no-go zones in France and other parts of Europe, and the Islamization of Western Europe.
And it's not that I care where people come from.
What I care about is assimilation, not groups of people that are blocking themselves off from the rest of society in the hopes of converting you to their point of view.
If they wanted to do that, why didn't they stay where they were?
Makes no sense.
Democrats are going to end up having a lot of egg on their face when this is all said and done.
You know, Chucky Schumer out there attacking President Trump on Iran and his plan to send ICE to airport.
He's asking for trouble.
No, he's offering help to people at a moment of need.
Anyway, Trump says Schumer is in never, never land.
He should be, he actually said he should be fighting with Palestine.
He unloaded on Trump.
And, you know, think about Chuck Schumer, once a strong ally supporter of Israel, once a guy that believed in voter ID.
This guy so desperately wants to cling to his power that he's compromised every position he's ever had.
And that's why he will eventually lose his power because he never stood firm and he never led.
And he's now being led by the radical extremists that run his party.
Anyway, I've never been more proud of our military, really haven't.
And Trump's Iran strategy showcases this doctrine of his, which is unpredictability amid strikes and a sudden pause.
And, you know, Iran denied and like fake news, CNN went along with it, you know, the continued expanding of its military footprint in the region.
This has got to be, I will say this part.
I mean, Operation Midnight Hammer was taking out their ability to enrich uranium.
And during the negotiations, as we've discussed in detail, we find out they have, all right, I'm not allowed to say it, 460 kilograms.
Let's put it this way, over 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched uranium.
That can be enriched to 90%, which is weapons-grade in a very short period of time.
When you get to that level of enrichment, the next level is very quick.
In seven to 10 days, they can take 60% enriched uranium and turn it into 90% weapons-grade enriched uranium in about 10 days, depending on which nuclear scientist you talk to, anywhere between 7 and 12 days, but they can do it very quickly, which precipitated the president's decision on Operation Epic Fury.
Now, as the president is involved in negotiations, okay, check the box.
The Iranians are, according to the president, and I know I have every reason to believe what he's saying is true, or else the negotiations would end.
I mean, it's that simple.
He has said repeatedly before Midnight Hammer, and he said it before Epic Fury: the Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Okay, so they have now apparently agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons.
That's great, but you have to be a trust-but verify guy, especially with the Iranians.
And that also, the first good faith measure that they mean what they say would be to surrender the 460 kilograms, enough for 11 nuclear weapons, enriched uranium at 60% over to us.
That's got to be the first condition.
Second condition is open the Strait of Hormuz.
You know, next condition is they can't build out their ballistic missile systems anymore.
Next condition is they will agree to pay the United States back every penny we have had to spend in this effort, and then maybe more.
Maybe they ought to pay us more on top of it.
That is about as Trumpian as you can ever get, which I've always liked about Donald Trump.
He used to say that about the Iraq war.
Why don't they pay for their own liberation?
And he was not wrong.
He was right then and he's right now.
But, you know, I would say this threat continues.
We'll see what Israel eventually does.
Look, Israel is their own independent country.
Now, maybe their goals, we know what the president's goals have been from the beginning, and he's accomplished most of them.
And this would be, this is the opportunity.
Now, the Iranians have had multiple opportunities.
They could have prevented Midnight Hammer from ever happening.
And they had 50 days to negotiate a deal.
They chose not to.
And look what happened.
14 bunker buster bombs wiped out there and obliterated their nuclear weapon sights and their ability to enrich uranium.
Now we know they're bragging about the uranium they still have left hidden, although we know where it's hidden.
And, you know, at this point, that has to be part of any deal.
Here's the goal.
You don't ever want to go back there.
This has got to be the last.
This has got to be our last excursion into Iran.
And every generation then will, you know, as Reagan famously said, freedom is but one generation away from extinction.
And I heard some historian recently suggest that, well, Winston Churchill didn't save Western civilization.
He did for his time.
Anybody that disputes that knows nothing of history.
But it's the next generation's responsibility to do their part.
And this is what this whole issue comes down to, at least for me, and for people with common sense and why the Trump doctrine is so effective.
And that is, are you willing to take the risk of a nuclear-armed Iran?
And what country, what condition would we be handing our country off to our children and our grandchildren?
That is not a risk that I think any American should be willing to take.
Now, the Trump doctrine has been enormously effective.
I mean, remember, after Midnight Hammer, that ended in 12 days.
That war was over.
They basically said no must.
They didn't want any more.
No must.
Moving on, and we'll get into a lot more of this.
Top Democrats are asserting there's risk that ICE agents could kill travelers.
No, the only thing that we're discovering is the ICE agents are expediting the long waits that have been caused by Chuck Schumer and the Democrats that five consecutive times have voted against funding the Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, which includes the TSA, which includes the Coast Guard, which includes FEMA, which includes the Secret Service.
They have steadfastly refused to fund it.
Now, we might be on the verge of a deal here.
And if the president decides, because the president was playing chess a long time ago, the president saw the handwriting on the wall.
That's why when they passed the one big, beautiful bill using reconciliation, the president funded ICE to the tune of whatever monies he would need pretty much throughout his presidency, this term in office.
So the idea that the Democrats are going to have any win in this by saying, well, we'll fund all of the Department of Homeland Security except for ICE.
We don't need the money for ICE because it's already been allocated, whether they like it or not.
Not that big a deal.
The one thing I don't like is they are trying to negotiate that ICE agents can't wear masks with an 8,000% increase of threats on ICE agents.
That's not something I'm willing to accept.
No, you don't get to tell ICE agents they can't protect their identity as they go out there and they successfully are arresting the worst of the worst, known terrorists and murderers and rapists and child molesters and cartel members, gang members, drug dealers.
No, you can't tell them that.
No, thank you.
Anyway, so the deal is emerging.
Apparently, there's been shutdown talks and the DHS talk stalled.
And a supplemental bill is in limbo.
Reconciliation may be the Republicans' only path forward.
Now, the one person that's been pushing this, and I don't think he's wrong, and I know there's been multiple discussions with Nuke the filibuster.
Here's the reality.
Don't kill the messenger, Linda.
They don't have the votes to nuke the filibuster.
Don't kill the messenger.
I'm just giving you the math.
And I know the number of votes that are there.
They're not even close to the number of votes.
So put that option off to the side.
Option number two, standing filibuster.
Right now, they don't have the votes for that either, in large part because some Republicans, right or wrong, I'm just giving you the simple math here because I want the SAVE Act passed more than any other bill that we currently have before the House of the Senate.
But right now, the only way that's going to happen is if they forced a standing filibuster.
The fear among some Republicans, again, don't blame the messenger.
Did I make that clear, Linda?
I made that clear.
Okay, well, you're going to like the ending, so why don't you just chill out a little bit?
You notice I'm not responding.
I'm just listening.
No, you're not responding because you're just saying the word SAVE ACT.
You get pissed off.
I'm with you.
I fully agree.
I think America's with me.
I think America is with me.
No, America's with us because I agree with you.
However, I understand I'm going through the reality, not what I wish, but what is real.
So that brings us to now the Kennedy option, which initially, and I didn't understand why, because I always like this idea better than any other idea.
And that is they pass a reconciliation bill, and we don't need one Democratic vote, and they don't get control of the House floor.
And then we get the opportunity to pass the SAVE Act, and that means proof of citizenship.
That means voter ID.
That means you can't have the mutilation surgeries, and you can't have men playing women's sports.
Not that complicated.
They're all 80, 85, 15, 80, 20 issues.
And let me play John Kennedy, senator from Louisiana.
This is what he said.
We can shut down all negotiations with our Democratic colleagues and just do the entire thing through reconciliation.
It'll take 10 days or so, but it'll get us back open and it'll satisfy the president's requirement that we not make any kind of deal with the Democrats.
Now, that's the part that you should be happy about.
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And you should say to me, Sean, that's a great idea.
I think I agree with Senator Kennedy because I'm trying to find a way to cross the plane to use a football analogy that you didn't even know what it meant a year ago.
So you should say, Sean, thank you for doing a deep dive and coming up with the answer that probably would solve our problem.
You're welcome.
Was I supposed to say something there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm supposed to say thank you.
Listen, I think you are more creative with your approach.
I don't necessarily agree with you.
And I think we learned how difficult these Rhino Republicans are that don't deserve our vote because of the fact that we could stay focused on the intramural fight.
Let me just say one thing.
This is not going to solve the problem.
Senator Lee, God bless that man, has been leading this, forging the path.
And he literally gave our party the opportunity to just silo out the SAVE Act, take out everything else in the bill, take out the DHS stuff, take out the mutilation stuff, take it all out, just silo protecting the vote.
And we couldn't even get that.
It just shows you how deep in the paint they all are for these bought and paid for votes.
And that's the real crux of what we got going on.
Okay, I agree with everything you said.
However, we don't have the numbers.
And I'm trying to get this across the finish line.
Okay, so how does Kennedy's idea work?
How does the reconciliation approach?
Because then we don't need a single Democratic vote.
We'll be able to get it all through reconciliation.
And Lindsey Graham has been talking about doing a second reconciliation bill.
Remember, this is how the one big beautiful bill was passed.
This is how Obamacare was passed.
And it is the one way to get around the filibuster without nuking the filibuster, which there isn't enough support for.
Again, you bring up.
Why isn't there enough support for it?
That's the point.
Well, you want me to answer and get into the minds of 50 some-odd Republicans in the institution known as the United States Senate, which is supposed to be the more deliberative body as designed by our framers and founders.
And I'm just giving you the simple math.
Whether you like the math or not, I don't like the math.
Now I'm trying to figure out plan B. I'm looking for plan B because I don't think plan A is going to work.
But plan B gives power back to the states.
It's not a federal, it's not a federal mandate anymore.
It becomes a problem.
We can't trust the states.
That's where we're at now.
The problem is, to me, it is the, well, I would say this.
The Republicans get to run on all of this.
They get through all this TSA mess.
You can thank Schumer and every Democrat.
They voted five times against funding Department of Homeland Security.
The party that wants to defund, dismantle, no-bail laws.
The party that wants amnesty.
The party that supports sanctuary cities and states.
The party that is bankrupting the American people.
The party involved in corruption up to their eyeballs, as evidenced by Minneapolis.
God bless Nick Shirley.
He's done a great job in Minneapolis, now in California.
This is the party that voted for the largest tax increase in history.
This is the party that doesn't even want Donald Trump to win the war in Iran.
They've not been supportive.
This is the party of no.
This will be the party that only wants to investigate and impeach Donald Trump.
That's why I'm trying to get this over the finish line in the hopes that we have more integrity in our elections and we have more confidence in election results.
So I am looking for a solution based on what I see as an emerging reality.
I like Mike Lee too.
We've had Mike Lee on this show how many times I've had Mike Lee on.
We've had Ted Cruz on.
We've had everybody on.
And I'm looking at the numbers right now.
I don't see them.
And by the way, neither does Mike because I've asked him.
They know right now.
Now, his answer is to keep the vote open.
And that's how the 64 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act were passed by keeping the vote open.
I don't think it's a bad strategy either.
I'm not against it.
I just want to figure out a way to cross the plane.