Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity dissect the Iran conflict, asserting that over 9,000 military targets were degraded while 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium remains a critical threat capable of yielding 11 bombs. They demand immediate uranium handover, program dismantling under U.S. inspections, missile cessation, and Strait of Hormuz access, rejecting any deal lacking these terms. While debating potential civilian energy exchanges and criticizing Gavin Newsom's commentary, both hosts conclude that preventing Iran's nuclear acquisition is non-negotiable, regardless of whether the U.S. or Israel executes regime change or applies further pressure. [Automatically generated summary]
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O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
I'm trying to keep ahead of this Iran story, and it's really annoying.
Are you like on a speakerphone?
Are you on a sports illustrated football phone?
What's going on here?
No, can you hear me all right?
I can hear you all right, but you sound like you're on a speaker.
Are you on a speaker?
You got to pick up the phone, O'Reilly.
This is the important, the most important interview you do all week, and I know you do hundreds of them.
No, but this is the super phone.
Is that better?
It's the Bill O'Reilly bat phone.
Great to have you back.
I do have an important question for you, and it's about this conflict, Epic Fury, which I think has been an unbelievable success to date.
We can't define victory until it's all said and done.
But the level of intelligence and the military precision, I mean, I've been in awe of it, frankly.
I'm so grateful for the brave men and women in our military for all the great work that they do, all the technological advances that we have made, and whether or not these negotiations are, well, the negotiations are real.
I have confirmed that on multiple levels.
That part is real, but we really don't know whether the people that we're talking to have full control over the country of Iran.
But that's not my point, because I think at the end of the day, this is going to either end the hard way.
Remember, 50 days Iran had before Midnight Hammer, and they just let the deadline pass, and 14 bunker buster bombs wiped out their ability to enrich uranium.
And then, of course, the Israelis obliterated pretty much everything else in terms of air defense systems, etc.
This has been over 9,000.
We're now approaching 10,000 military targets have been hit.
We've wiped out their Navy.
We've wiped out most of their ballistic capabilities, their air defense systems, and any other military targets.
We've taken out not one, not two, but three levels of regime.
Now we're at the fourth tier level.
Whether this is a deal or not, this is how I think it has to end.
And I really want your opinion on this.
We know what the imminent threat was.
Steve Witkoff revealed that to us, and that is that they acknowledged, they admit that they had, what, 460 kilograms or over 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched uranium, which we all know can be quickly enriched to 90% in a matter of 7 to 12 days, which is weapons-grade uranium.
That's enough for about 11 nuclear weapons.
All right, that was the imminent threat.
So they would have to hand over all of the 60% enriched uranium that they have.
They'd have to do it immediately while our military is still in the region.
They'd also have to fully agree to end any nuclear program once and for all.
They would also need to allow American inspectors, not IAEA inspectors, but American inspectors anywhere, any place, anytime, not some globalist organization.
They must agree to not build out their ballistic missile systems, open the Strait of Hormuz, and knowing Donald Trump, he's going to want to be repaid for the military effort and what it has cost the American taxpayer.
And I think he will get that one way or the other.
Do you agree with my conditions?
Do you want to add to it, subtract from it?
Are we going to get there the hard way or the easy way?
I'm not as optimistic as you are about all those points.
Think the Trump administration will achieve victory, but victory is a word that you can define many ways.
Let me give you a historical, a brief historical victory that everybody thought wasn't a victory, and that was Korea.
So, when the Korean War ended, we did not defeat the Chinese, which propped up North Korea and North Korea, and the Chinese still caused havoc among their own people primarily.
But we did achieve freedom for the South Koreans.
I was there in the spring of last year.
And so, that was a victory.
That war was victorious.
So, in Iran, you basically have a situation where I believe pretty much what you said, that their ability to wage offensive war in almost every category is now obsolete for years.
They're not going to be able to invade anybody.
Handing off weapons to the terror groups as Bilal al-Mas going to be far more difficult because they don't have the weapons.
The threat to Israel is diminished big time.
And the nukes are really the last remaining thing, which they have to do.
So, Trump's never going to sign a deal with them, a peace treaty, or whatever you want to call it, unless the nuke program is dismantled.
And by that, just to be very clear, I want to be very, very, I want to define these terms.
That means the enriched uranium at 60% cannot ever end up in the wrong hands.
We will have to extract that or dilute that, whatever process these nuclear scientists would use to diminish any future threat.
It'll be a trade.
They'll destroy the uranium enrichment, which leads to nuclear weapons.
And in return, the United States will give them nuclear material for electrical purposes and power purposes.
So, the Iranians will get some stuff.
They'll get economic relief and sanctions.
But this war now isn't about military any longer.
That's over.
And you can say the United States won and Israel won.
That's absolutely valid.
It's about oil now and an economy.
And the Iranians are holding out, believing that the world is going to turn against the United States.
And even the U.S., the American people are going to get furious because they're paying more for energy.
And that's why Iran is holding out.
That's the reason.
Now, Trump is the kind of guy who doesn't succumb to that kind of pressure easily, as we both know.
So the Iranians are probably making a mistake.
And the Americans and Israelis may have to hit them hard one more time.
Bill, they're pounding them today.
They've been pounding him yesterday.
The only thing they've not hit, and I think they're doing this strategically for the benefit of the people in Iran, they're not hitting their infrastructure, their power grid.
They're not taking over the Karg Island and where the seven and a half million barrels of oil are produced every day.
They could take that out in 10 seconds.
They're not doing it, and they're showing restraint.
However, the patience is going to run thin here.
No, then that's the big hammer.
That's the big hammer that the Trump administration has.
You say, look, we're not going to keep doing this indefinitely.
Either you're going to agree to these terms or we're going to take out your power infrastructure and you're not going to be able to do anything.
And I, you know, look, you're dealing with a whole different mindset here with these Islamist people.
I mean, they don't care about their own people.
They don't care about even their own lives.
They think they're going to go to heaven and, you know, all that stuff.
But I think, and I'm hoping for the good of the world and this country, that whoever is going to be in this negotiations with us will see to about 80% of what you said.
I think it's going to be greater.
And let me explain why.
The president is never going to want to go back there.
There's no way he's going to leave open the possibility that Iran can one day become a nuclear power.
And at least in, you know, for the next generation, maybe beyond.
I mean, at that point, you know, I mean, every generation, as Reagan famously said, freedom is but one generation away from extinction.
So the president's not going to leave 60% enriched uranium there.
He's just not.
And whether we have to take it by force or whether they voluntarily give it up is going to be in their hands.
And at the end of the day, that's going to be a major condition.
The Straits of Hormuz are the Strait of Hormuz is not going to be controlled by the Iranians in the end.
It's just not.
And the region is not going to allow that.
Now, Gulf nations, they are preparing to take on Iran as well as a result of their attacks, the attacks against them by the Iranians.
Maybe the one thing that we may not get is anywhere, anyplace, anytime, inspections by U.S. inspectors over time that will probably deteriorate, but it won't matter because it would take them two decades probably to catch up to where they once were.
They've been so degraded, and financially they're in such dire straits.
But those are the conditions that I think that are needed for the U.S. to pull out militarily.
Now, I'm going to also talk about a timeframe, which you really probably should never do.
I think all of this will be fully resolved within a month at the latest.
Thoughts?
I can't predict that.
It's logical, it's logical, but you're dealing with... Bill O'Reilly, you should pay closer attention to your friend Sean Hannity.
Your friend Sean Hannity is much smarter than you give me credit for.
I've always given you credit for a high level of insanity.
But I can't make a prediction because the mullahs are so insane.
They're so crazy.
And the under carriage of this that isn't spoken about is that the Trump administration, they will give some to the Iranians.
They will give on a few points, not nukes.
Nukes are, that's not going to be negotiable.
They're going to have to get rid of the nukes.
But they'll give on some of the others because they believe that the Persians are going to rise up and overthrow these people.
So if you read my book, Confronting Evil, you saw how that happened with the Shah.
And it's almost the same situation.
And the Persian people are capable of doing that, overthrowing.
Now, there's going to be heavy casualties because the Revolutionary Guard, like the SS in Germany, will shoot you right down in the street.
But with the weakened military and the humiliation, because throughout the Muslim world, Iran is being humiliated.
There's going to be deep anger.
And that's what the American CIA is hoping for, that we're not going to have to deal with these people in the present government because they'll be overthrown.
By the way, the present government is now dead.
Layer one, tier one, tier two, tier three is dead.
They're all wiped out, Bill.
We don't even know who the next, the next, we don't know who's in the next tier.
No, but who's ever answering the phone is the same.
Whoever, the secretary's picking up, the secretary's now in charge.
Yes, I'm Bill O'Reilly's secretary.
Can I help you?
Oh, it's the president of the United States.
Hold on one second, please.
Right.
Line one is the mull is dead.
Line two, same thing.
I'm fairly confident that this is going to resolve itself.
Certainly the American government is organized.
The military campaign once again shows the world how powerful this country is.
And Trump is doing the right thing.
That's what drives me about, drives me crazy about the media.
Because anybody would know.
You may not agree.
Maybe this is the wrong time or whatever.
But he's doing the right thing.
This is not the wrong thing to do.
And yet the media portrays it as that.
Well, somehow this is wrong.
It's not morally wrong.
You're protecting the lives of people all over the world.
It's not wrong for the United States.
How much longer are we going to put up with these Islamists?
I mean, did 9-11 not teach you anything?
And so it's the right thing to do.
But that's not what is coming out of the corporate media.
All right, quick break.
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I think we're pretty much on the same page.
And you're right.
You're not wrong, Bill, in saying that we don't know how this is going to play out.
I think it's just a matter of time in terms of how it plays out.
And in all honesty, I'm just hoping for the best.
Trump Derangement Syndrome00:11:50
And, you know, I think that if we did not do this, we would be doing such a great disservice to our children and grandchildren.
We will have learned nothing from the last century, something you and I discussed at length the last two weeks on this program, and that is to take out threats early before they become massive threats and potentially millions can die.
I have no interest in debating people that don't see that simple truth because I think they're dumb and ignorant and stupid, but you're not.
That's the corporate media.
The majority of American media, okay, will not seed any of the points you just made.
None of them.
But you know what, Bill?
That's why we've been successful our entire careers.
Let's be very blunt about it, is because we're not them and we're never going to be them.
All right, Mr. O'Reilly.
Now that we made some money for our sponsors, let's go back to making the liberals crazy.
The handman is back on the radio right now.
That's our favorite passion in life, driving the left nuts.
By the way, Linda, did you hear James Carville?
He's going nuttier than ever.
I mean, here's his latest rant.
I hate Donald Trump.
I hate him.
Can't stand it.
I got Trump derangement syndrome.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, God Almighty.
I want more Trump derangement syndrome.
I hate the man.
I can't stand the man.
Here it is.
I'm crazy.
I hate it.
A lot of people like me.
We're crazy.
And I was thinking back a long time ago, but I think it's still a kind of relevant book, a book called Catch 22.
And I'm not a literature scholar or anything like that.
But as I recall, the protagonist, is that the word I'm looking for?
I don't know who it was.
But anyway, a guy named Usarian was in war, and he didn't like anyone to get out.
So he claimed that the war made him crazy.
And I think it went something like this.
The psychiatrist says, no, the fact that you are crazy means that you are sane.
If you are in a situation like this and you're actually sane, it would mean you're crazy.
So what I'm doing for myself and people like me, and you know who you are, we wake up at 2 o'clock in the morning throwing against the wow.
I can't believe this mother is a president of the United States.
He's running the country.
He's running everything we had.
We do that.
And we are crazy.
And we understand that.
But maybe our craziness is evidence of our sanity.
You're right.
I got Trump derangement syndrome.
I hate the mother.
And you know what?
I don't want to get rid of it.
I don't want to get better.
I hate Donald Trump.
Understand that.
And Lord, thank you for your intervention.
Thank you to make all of the people that attack me, some who love me, understand that I am executing thy will on this earth.
Thank you.
I mean, you just, I used to get along with this guy.
I don't know what the hell happened.
He's like jumped the shark.
It's unbelievable.
Linda, did you notice the fight that I had with Gavin yesterday?
There was another fight with you and Gavin.
You did not know that?
I did not know that.
How did you not know that?
You should be following everything I do every second of every day.
I don't understand.
I should.
Forget the war in Iran.
What's wrong with me?
Oh, my God.
So he tweeted, well, he puts up an ex-post.
It says, hey, at Sean Hannity, remember your years of rambling about Obama's fake pallet of cash to Iran.
Your silence is deafening.
And then he sources something that I have no earthly idea what he's talking about, that Trump and Scott Besson handed Iran $14 billion by easing oil sanctions.
No, it is so deep in ignorance.
So I wrote him back.
You want me to read what I wrote him?
I would love it.
You do.
I would.
He said, Gavin, you make me chuckle.
Not only are you the worst no-show governor in the country, you're also the dumbest governor in the country.
In case you're not watching the news because you're too busy tweeting, traveling the world, stalking me and President Trump and writing a book no one will buy and podcasting, Iran's military and its nuclear program have been obliterated.
Trump did what every Democratic president you supported promised to do, but never did.
The world is a safer place, Gavin.
You owe President Trump a big thank you.
And Obama did drop cargo planes and cash and other currencies.
I put in parentheses, big letters, fact, which helped Iran build out their nukes and their terror network, and you can blame him and Joe.
And after President Trump destroyed their military and all their nukes, he's now trying to keep the price of oil down, something you would never understand.
You have the highest gas taxes in the country, and let's not forget the highest sales and income taxes and the highest homelessness and poverty levels.
Gavin, you're less qualified than Kamala to run for president, but you and Katie Kirk both think you're very handsome.
I'll give you that.
P.S. Can you please help the people in the Pacific Palisades get building permits and maybe make sure fire hydrants and reservoirs have water in them.
Love Sean.
I didn't say love Sean.
You should have.
That actually would have been a nice touch.
I like it.
You think I should have?
I like that you added it now.
I think it adds effect.
It's very good.
I love that you gave him the ping on Katie Keurick because that was super awkward and weird.
Was that not the strangest moment?
I think we still have it on tape.
I thought that was one of the most bizarre moments that I've ever heard in the history of broadcasting.
Well, you know what's more odd about it is when he does like the weird, no, please.
No, you shouldn't really.
No, but really keep saying it.
No, but really I'm like.
Let's play it so people know what the hell we're talking about.
Do you have a Zoolander problem?
No, I do.
Jesus.
Yeah, Zoolander.
Are you just ridiculously good looking as well?
No, seriously, what do you do about that?
You don't do anything about it because if you're going to do something about it, then you're people.
You know what?
I am who I am.
And it's fine.
You don't have to like me.
Or maybe you like a slick person.
I don't know.
Whatever.
It's okay.
The reason why I brought it up because you talked about being authentic.
And I think it sometimes works against you.
Yeah.
It's just who I am.
It's just who I am.
Just gross.
I mean, is that not the most bizarre, creepiest thing you've ever heard?
What is up with that?
And that's saying we work in politics and we've heard a lot of weird stuff.
Okay.
He does not dispute the notion that he's so beautiful and handsome.
I mean, I wonder, I probably shouldn't say this.
I don't actually think he is.
He's a creepy looking dude as far as I'm concerned.
I mean, that's just my personal opinion.
Everybody's entitled to them, but the weird, like, he does that dance talking thing, like where I constantly feel like he's auditioning for Dancing with the Stars while giving any commentary.
It's awkward.
It's actually equivalent.
His dancing talking is equivalent to Kamala's laughing.
It's the same thing.
I can hit him so hard with, I have my dossier ready for him.
I can hit him so hard with him and his own words.
I'm just holding back.
And people might say, that's not fair, Hannity.
You should share everything with your audience.
And I'm just like, timing is everything in this business, don't you think?
Yes, I would agree with you.
And I don't even think you need to work that hard because every time he talks, he bashes himself.
It's embarrassing.
I don't know, but his hair is slick.
I don't know what he's doing.
He's got about eight pounds of hair gel in it, bro.
I mean, you know, it takes him four hours to get ready.
His poor wife's trying to get in the bathroom.
He's like, wait, hold on.
There's just this one piece.
I just have to get it in the place.
He's real special.
That's bizarre.
Now, you've been with me when I get ready for TV.
How long does it take me to put on my own makeup, do my hair?
How long?
Be honest.
If I'm being honest, maybe 30 seconds.
Maybe.
Maybe.
That might be too much.
Yeah, I just throw it.
I just plop a little makeup, boom, boom, boom, with a brush, comb my hair.
Boom.
I'm ready to go.
I'm not vain.
I don't look in the mirror.
I don't even know what the hell I look like.
I don't think there's anything wrong with being vain.
I think it's good to be vain.
I don't want to be vain.
I don't live my life that way.
You know I disagree.
You have mocked me my whole life that we've worked together and how I dress.
No, but that's different.
I get to see you in ripped up t-shirts and shoes with holes in them.
That's a completely different conversation.
It's okay to be proud and be a little vain and want to look good.
His thing is.
That was a strange moment in my life.
You said one day, I have my feet up on my studio desk and you come in the studio.
I had no idea I had a hole in my shoe.
I didn't know that.
That's so ridiculous.
And he's like, you know, you have a hole in your shoe.
I'm like, no way.
I take a look.
I'm like, sure enough, I had a hole in my shoe.
It's up on X.
It's still there.
And this is what...
Oh, is it still up there?
It's up on there.
Yeah.
Because everybody thought I was lying.
Okay, so I don't pay attention to clothes.
I don't pay attention to looks.
I don't pay attention to hair.
I don't know.
I just, I mean, nobody really can control how they look.
I mean, I guess you can control, you can dress better than I do, but I'm comfortable in jeans, you know, comfortable shoes, you know, a linen shirt like I wear on the pod, and that's it.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
I think with him, it's a little bit of a different thing.
Him and his wife, Jen, they are out there.
They are dressed to impress, but they actually don't do anything.
It's all a facade.
Everything they do is for them to benefit themselves.
The people have no homes.
The children have no education.
The illegals have everything.
He just did another thing now.
It's all about uplifting women to get education and financial assistance.
I'm like, why don't you stop playing identity politics and just help everybody and help them rebuild all the things you were saying?
He's just a disgusting human.
You'll get a kick out of this.
So what do you think the most frequent question I'll ask Ains Lewis?
No idea.
What?
What do I need to wear?
I'm sure it is.
That's fair.
You know, you got an event.
I'm like, all right, what do you need me in?
Hopefully she's picking that out for you.
Hopefully.
Oh, there's nothing that I own now except for my jeans and black shirts that is mine.
Nothing.
It just isn't.
The Dems want to stand on the steps singing terrible songs and cursing out Trump.
You know, you have one guy over there shouting.
Ever wonder if these people ever go to work?
Me too.
Roll them out.
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Israel's Military Goals00:03:46
Aaron in Colorado.
Aaron, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called.
Good.
Hopefully I get to, but my main point is Iran has been sandbagging their capabilities for decades.
Why would we believe they only have a half a ton of uranium?
Wouldn't we automatically double that to say at least a metric ton so that we err on the side of caution?
The only thing I would say to that, if you pay very close attention to how this military operation has been unfolding from its opening minutes, there's so much intelligence on the ground.
I mean, to know where every top leader was at that moment, including the supreme leader and all of his top lieutenants and taking them out.
And then the Security Council voting for the next Supreme Leader, and they were all wiped out.
And then all the numerous people on the next tier were wiped out.
I have a high degree of confidence, and I believe our government does as well, based on sources that I've talked to, that we know exactly where the 60% enriched uranium is.
And one way or the other, we can't leave the region until that's either neutralized or extracted.
And that will be probably the final piece.
Look, it's never been the goal of the U.S. to have regime change there.
Now, the Israelis may have a very different goal.
And I'm sure they're going to pursue their agenda.
There are certain things we totally completely agree on.
But one thing is certain: that one way or the other, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.
And, you know, this is where I think, you know, this is where the rubber hits the road for me and people that disagree with what the president is doing here.
There are people that are willing to gamble with our children and grandchildren's lives.
You know, if we learned anything from the last century, I mean, if you had an opportunity to defang the snake and chop the head off the snake that was Adolf Hitler before the Holocaust, in retrospect, should we have listened to Winston Churchill instead of Neville Chamberlain?
To me, it is that cut and dry.
So that's why I really don't have an appetite at all to argue with people that either hate Israel or anti-Semitic or think that Donald Trump is being manipulated by people.
They don't know Donald Trump if they make that claim.
It's ridiculous.
So I just think that he's learned the lessons of history.
I think it's fully in keeping with the Trump doctrine and his past actions.
And, you know, so I feel I have a high degree of confidence.
We know where it is that we're going to have to get it.
They'll either voluntarily hand it over or the regime will be completely destroyed.
And I don't think it's going to be much longer from now.
I think it's just a matter of a couple of weeks.
I'll give you the last word.
Well, the only other thing I had to say was on that mortgage for the guy in California, it's not how much you can afford, it's how much of your monthly payment they're going to chop out to pay for property taxes and escrow where you lose your buying power.
No, that's a great point.
You know, that's a very good point.
All right, quick break right back.
Jim Jordan coming up at the top of the hour of the House Judiciary Committee.
We'll talk about the SAVE Act.
We'll talk about funding DHS and much more as we continue.