Sean Hannity Show - Rogue Allies: NATO, Iran, and America First Decisions
Aired: 2026-04-01
Duration: 31:13


=== NATO's Pathetic Uselessness (14:30) ===

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[00:00:10]  So the president will finish the work that he started as it relates to the threat that is a nuclear-armed Iran.
[00:00:19]  In the process, we have discovered that NATO allies are absolutely, pathetically useless.
[00:00:27]  And it's frustrating, and it's unnecessary.
[00:00:30]  We've seen it with Macron in France.
[00:00:32]  We've seen it with Spain.
[00:00:33]  We've seen it with now Italy.
[00:00:36]  Great Britain has been pathetic.
[00:00:38]  I think a lot of this comes from internal political pressure in most of these European countries.
[00:00:44]  They have absolutely abandoned their national security and defense needs on their own.
[00:00:52]  They have been reluctant and resistant to being good NATO allies and partners, never wanted to pay their fair share.
[00:01:00]  Now they are beginning to harden their resistance in terms of even keeping open the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:01:08]  Anyway, the President told the U.K., for example, buy your oil from America or you open the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:01:14]  And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, said the Strait of Hormuz is going to open one way or the other, warning the Iranians of real consequences.
[00:01:23]  And, you know, on the other side of it, President Trump's saying, well, we really don't need the Strait for ourselves.
[00:01:28]  We're energy dominant and energy independent.
[00:01:31]  And, you know, we'll get our own oil.
[00:01:33]  And the president's saying, you get your own oil.
[00:01:36]  Yeah, there's going to be this temporary disruption, which has raised the price of a gallon of gasoline.
[00:01:41]  Nobody likes it.
[00:01:42]  I don't like it.
[00:01:43]  You don't like it.
[00:01:44]  But here's the question you have to ask for the short term.
[00:01:48]  Is it worth it to prevent handing off an America under the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran with long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles?
[00:01:59]  I think it's kind of a no-brainer.
[00:02:01]  Now, here's the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, calling out Spain, other NATO countries for denying the U.S. use of their bases.
[00:02:10]  Listen.
[00:02:11]  I think it was very disappointing.
[00:02:12]  You have this.
[00:02:13]  And again, look, the President and our country will have to reexamine all of this after this operation is over.
[00:02:18]  But one of the reasons why NATO is beneficial to the United States is it gives us basing rights for contingencies.
[00:02:25]  It allows us to station troops and aircraft and weapons in parts of the world that we wouldn't normally have bases.
[00:02:33]  And that includes much of Europe.
[00:02:35]  And to see that in a time of need, the United States has identified a grave risk to our national security and our national interests.
[00:02:41]  And we needed to conduct this operation.
[00:02:43]  And we have countries like Spain, a NATO member that we are pledged to defend, denying us the use of their airspace and bragging about it, denying us the use of their bases.
[00:02:52]  And there are other countries that have done that as well.
[00:02:54]  And so you ask yourself, well, what is in it for the United States?
[00:02:57]  What is in it for the United States?
[00:02:59]  Now, if you want some numbers and an explanation in terms of national defense spending for the U.S. in NATO and put it in context, and the aggregate total defense expenditures, when we talk about personnel, equipment, operations, research, development, et cetera, you know, 2025, NATO total defense spending estimates range from $1.4 trillion to $1.6 trillion.
[00:03:24]  And the U.S. share is close to a trillion of that, a little shy of that, about $980 billion.
[00:03:32]  And, you know, that equals roughly 62% of the NATO-wide total.
[00:03:37]  Let me interpret that for you.
[00:03:39]  That means that NATO is nothing without the United States.
[00:03:44]  And as they now have allowed their defenses to deteriorate over decades, as they have embraced radical socialism and and climate alarmism, as they have allowed unfettered illegal immigration without assimilation, resulting in Sharia courts in Great Britain and no go zones in France and other parts of Europe.
[00:04:05]  I think they're looking at a voting constituency and factoring in what the domestic cost would be if the if these respective countries pledged to help us, in fact, were to get involved in any way.
[00:04:21]  And meanwhile, you know, all these countries, they're the ones that need the energy from the Strait of Hormuz, not the U.S. Anyway, James Robbins, former special assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Institute of World Politics, Dean.
[00:04:36]  Welcome to the program.
[00:04:37]  Thanks for being with us.
[00:04:39]  I don't blame Secretary of State Rubio for eviscerating Spain and other NATO allies, so-called allies, for denying the U.S. military their airspace and then boasting about it.
[00:04:52]  There will be a price to pay.
[00:04:53]  I know Donald Trump.
[00:04:54]  I've known him for 30 years.
[00:04:55]  There's going to be a price to pay.
[00:04:57]  Well, Sean, you're absolutely right.
[00:04:58]  I think President Trump is, when he says, go get your own oil, he's trying to help them clarify their thinking.
[00:05:04]  They have to look at the long term on this by saying that we don't have your back on this particular fight.
[00:05:11]  The U.S. secures freedom of navigation globally and has since World War II.
[00:05:16]  I mean, that's been a job that we have taken on, and they have benefited from that, even beyond the Atlantic Alliance.
[00:05:21]  And now, when the Strait is closed, they can't get their oil, and they're saying, well, you know what?
[00:05:26]  We're not even going to help you even with overfly rights or even with basing rights.
[00:05:31]  Well, they have to think about the bigger picture because that could mean the end of NATO.
[00:05:36]  Well, they're not thinking about the bigger picture.
[00:05:38]  I honestly think this is the end of NATO.
[00:05:41]  How do you come back from this?
[00:05:43]  They're unreliable partners and allies, and we pay the bulk of monies to defend them.
[00:05:48]  Well, it's really difficult because the question keeps coming up, and it came up at the recent NATO conference.
[00:05:54]  What exactly are we defending in NATO?
[00:05:57]  We have the shared history with Europe.
[00:05:59]  We have the shared culture with Europe.
[00:06:01]  Okay, all of that is the past and to an extent the present.
[00:06:06]  But then when you look at, like you said, the domestic questions that, well, maybe they're not helping us out with Iran because of their own immigrant population or the direction that their countries are going.
[00:06:17]  Well, that says a lot about Europe's future.
[00:06:19]  And so if we wanted to defend the Europe of the past, that's fine.
[00:06:22]  But we have to look forward.
[00:06:23]  Is the Europe of the future something that the United States wants to continue to make an investment in in terms of defending it?
[00:06:29]  But they have been now in a decades-long decline in terms of their values.
[00:06:34]  Have they not?
[00:06:36]  They have not upped the ante in terms of their commitment to the next generation of weaponry.
[00:06:40]  They're not doing it as individual countries.
[00:06:42]  They're not doing it as a continent as a whole.
[00:06:46]  They've all had this unfettered, unvetted, illegal immigration, no assimilation mandates at all.
[00:06:54]  And again, did you ever think in your lifetime you'd have close to 100 Sharia courts in Great Britain or no-go zones in Europe and in France and other countries?
[00:07:06]  I never thought I'd see that.
[00:07:08]  No, it's crazy.
[00:07:09]  I mean, when you have something in Britain where the ruling party is saying that rural Britain is too white, for example, like the immigrants are all focused in the cities, but you've got to somehow spread them out in the countryside to enrich it with diversity.
[00:07:24]  I mean, well, is that still going to be England?
[00:07:28]  Again, this raises the question of what exactly are we defending in the Atlantic Alliance?
[00:07:32]  Is it our market access?
[00:07:35]  What the heck is it?
[00:07:36]  We knew what it was in the Cold War.
[00:07:38]  We were defending them against communist aggression from the Soviet Union.
[00:07:42]  But we don't exactly know what it is now.
[00:07:46]  And so when the Europeans do things like this and just don't back us up, it just raises these questions again.
[00:07:53]  They are really losing the bubble in terms of if they want to preserve NATO, they really need to step up on this because this is more of their fight.
[00:08:01]  The Hormuz fight is much more of their fight.
[00:08:04]  And it was Iran that dragged them into it.
[00:08:07]  We heard Kirst Armer saying, well, we're not going to be dragged in.
[00:08:09]  Iran illegally escalated the war by attacking neutral countries, attacking civilian shipping, and closing an international waterway.
[00:08:18]  That wasn't us that did it.
[00:08:19]  That was Iran.
[00:08:20]  And so if the Europeans don't see that as a threat to their self-interest, not to mention the fact that Iran lied about the range of their missiles and lied about their nuclear program.
[00:08:30]  If they don't see all this as a threat to them personally, I mean, forget us, it's a threat to them, and they need to step up.
[00:08:36]  Well, I think you just alluded to something that came out of this conflict that we didn't expect.
[00:08:41]  And that is, well, it shouldn't really surprise anybody because international organizations have always underestimated where the Iranians are militarily.
[00:08:52]  And we've learned that they have much longer range ballistic missiles than we had thought.
[00:08:59]  And guess what?
[00:09:00]  Iran can now, with the range they currently have with their ballistic missile systems, they can reach Paris.
[00:09:07]  They can reach London.
[00:09:09]  They don't have the ability yet to reach the U.S. as far as I can see.
[00:09:12]  However, if they get those booster rockets, Gordon Chang was on the program talking about these yesterday.
[00:09:19]  They are well on their way to intercontinental ballistic missiles, which then gets to the core of why the president made this decision in the beginning, was the 60% enriched uranium that they have, which could be turned into weapons-grade uranium in 90 days.
[00:09:34]  I'm sorry, in 11 days or so, anywhere between 7 and 11 days, which would mean they'd have ballistic, intercontinental ballistic missiles and 11 nuclear warheads.
[00:09:46]  They're not within range of this country, but they are within range of these so-called NATO allies.
[00:09:52]  Oh, for sure.
[00:09:53]  When you look at Iran's space program, for example, where they were sending up satellites, I mean, there's very little difference between an ICBM and a rocket that can launch a satellite.
[00:10:03]  In fact, if you look at the origins of our space program, it was very connected to our nuclear program.
[00:10:09]  So Iran was going down that same road.
[00:10:11]  And the UN inspectors already had found that Iran was working on nuclear-capable warheads.
[00:10:18]  Well, why would they be working on nuclear-capable warheads if they had nothing to put in them?
[00:10:23]  So this threat has really been downplayed by the people who just want to ignore it or say, you know, it doesn't matter or didn't want to see this conflict erupt or who thought that things like the Obama-JCPOA agreement was going to stop it, which it wasn't.
[00:10:38]  I mean, eventually this had to happen.
[00:10:40]  And okay, it's happening now.
[00:10:42]  And whether or not the Europeans like it, it is happening and they need to get in on it.
[00:10:47]  All right, quick break.
[00:10:48]  We'll come right back.
[00:10:48]  More on the other side.
[00:10:50]  James Robbins, former Special Assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the Institute of World Politics, Dean.
[00:10:57]  More on NATO, Operation Epic Fury, what needs to happen to wind this all down on the other side, 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
[00:11:13]  If you're ready to get out of the media spin room, you've come to the right place.
[00:11:19]  This is the Sean Hannity Show.
[00:11:50]  James Robbins is with us discussing another failure and, frankly, the complete meltdown of the NATO alliance as a result of the absolute distrust that now European allies have instilled in every American, especially me.
[00:12:07]  I've had it with these people.
[00:12:09]  As far as I'm concerned, they should be on their own.
[00:12:12]  Well, I can't see that this is going to end well for them.
[00:12:16]  I just can't.
[00:12:17]  I mean, Donald Trump, look, he was very, very clear in what he said.
[00:12:21]  He added, the U.K. had to learn to fight for themselves, and the U.S. won't be there to help them anymore.
[00:12:28]  That's a pretty clear indication that he's separating himself from NATO and the NATO alliance.
[00:12:34]  You know, I think so.
[00:12:35]  We saw this kind of flurry of activity about a week or two ago when they were like sending some ships in the Mediterranean.
[00:12:41]  They were having discussions about how they could do something.
[00:12:44]  And then that all kind of faded out.
[00:12:46]  And now we're getting, you know, denial of basing and overflight rights.
[00:12:50]  They have to know that Donald Trump is serious.
[00:12:52]  He's always been a serious guy.
[00:12:54]  If he's talking this way, he's intending something.
[00:12:58]  And Secretary Rubio saying we're going to reexamine everything afterwards.
[00:13:02]  That debate was already going on.
[00:13:03]  That's already a strong debate in the Republican Party.
[00:13:06]  So the Europeans, I think they still have a chance to respond.
[00:13:10]  But if they just sit this one out, it's going to end badly for them.
[00:13:14]  I think it's too little to too late to be very blunt and very honest at this particular point.
[00:13:19]  I don't see how they recover.
[00:13:22]  Let's get to what needs to happen.
[00:13:24]  As both the President and the Secretary of State have indicated, this is now coming to a quick end.
[00:13:30]  It seems to me that there are certain things that are going to have to happen.
[00:13:33]  One is whatever nuclear material or enriched uranium they have at 60% will have to be either handed over or taken.
[00:13:41]  I hope it would be the former, not the latter.
[00:13:44]  The Strait of Hormuz would have to be opened up, and probably the President would prefer to leave Iran a little better than he found it with some type of commitment, although I don't think it's his top priority that they stop killing their own people.
[00:14:00]  Well, yeah, that would be great if they had a revolution, if they had a popular uprising.
[00:14:04]  I think that's the only way we're going to get a guarantee on any of this.
[00:14:08]  The Iranians, you know, whoever we're negotiating with, and there seem to be multiple power centers over there, they can sign an agreement.
[00:14:15]  Will they live up to it?
[00:14:16]  I doubt it.
[00:14:17]  How will we verify and enforce it?
[00:14:19]  I don't know.
[00:14:21]  But we have to stand by what we said, that they can't have a nuclear program.
[00:14:26]  They have to restrict their missile program.
[00:14:28]  The strait has to be reopened.

=== Organized Protests and Money (07:18) ===

[00:14:30]  And, you know, they have to be good citizens.
[00:14:32]  Stop supporting these insurgency groups around the world.
[00:14:34]  Stop being the leading supporter of terrorism.
[00:14:36]  I'm surprised they haven't just signed off on all that and said, sure, we agree, you know, and then betray it later.
[00:14:42]  But so long as we're negotiating with them, they're going to keep fighting.
[00:14:46]  I think they think if they survive at all, that it's a win for them.
[00:14:50]  So I'd love to see the Iranian people take matters into their own hands.
[00:14:53]  It's kind of hard to understand the mindset that you watched the warning for Midnight Hammer.
[00:14:59]  You watched the warning for Epic Fury.
[00:15:01]  You saw the results of ignoring those warnings.
[00:15:03]  Now they're being warned again that everything is going to be destroyed.
[00:15:08]  And yet, why is that even a question?
[00:15:10]  And I guess the fourth or fifth tier leadership, you would think they would have learned something.
[00:15:14]  You know, at some level, you're going to find someone who would rather live, you know, find somebody who would just say, you know what, maybe living in peace with our neighbors, maybe having prosperity is better than what we got.
[00:15:26]  And like the president said, hopefully we can find that person.
[00:15:29]  I don't think we found them yet, but eventually someone like that has got to stand up and say, hey, why are we doing all this?
[00:15:36]  Why are we a leading source of chaos in the world?
[00:15:38]  Why can't we just have a normal country and just live in peace?
[00:15:41]  Well, you would hope so.
[00:15:43]  I hope it ends quickly and successfully and the Iranians no longer will be a nuclear threat.
[00:15:49]  And then it's going to be up to the people of Iran to do what they think is necessary.
[00:15:53]  That has never been our goal, regime change, although the regime has changed not once, twice, three times, maybe four or five times by this point.
[00:16:01]  I can't actually keep up or count.
[00:16:03]  Anyway, we really appreciate you being with us.
[00:16:05]  James Robbins, 800-941-SHAWN, if you want to be a part of the program.
[00:16:26]  Standing up for What's Right with America.
[00:16:30]  We're back on the Sean Hannity Show.
[00:16:34]  Okay, let's get to our busy phones.
[00:16:36]  Doug, upstate New York on the Sean Hannity Show.
[00:16:38]  What's up, Doug?
[00:16:39]  How are you?
[00:16:39]  Glad you called, sir.
[00:16:41]  How are you today, sir?
[00:16:42]  I'm good.
[00:16:43]  What's going on?
[00:16:44]  So, yeah, we were in Atlanta airport picking my son up from Fort Benning, Georgia, and the ICE agents were all throughout the airport in the lines, keeping the lines moving.
[00:16:54]  They were friendly, personable.
[00:16:57]  They're not the monsters that the media and social media portrays them out to be, and they were busy.
[00:17:02]  They weren't just standing there doing nothing.
[00:17:04]  We just appreciate them and everything they do.
[00:17:09]  You know, most people like you.
[00:17:11]  The only people, the only lunatics that are not are the radical left.
[00:17:16]  And they're the ones that call them Gestapo, Nazi, fascist, and all, and murderers and all this.
[00:17:21]  They're the ones that want to defund them.
[00:17:23]  I mean, you know, I'm reading a lot about the upcoming election, and there's too much that's going to happen between now and November to really begin the narrative, the conversation.
[00:17:34]  But I'm going to tell you what it's going to come down to.
[00:17:37]  The left is insane.
[00:17:39]  They're radicalized.
[00:17:40]  They don't want to fund ICE.
[00:17:42]  They're perfectly okay calling them Gestapo and Nazis and fascist.
[00:17:47]  They don't want to fund the police.
[00:17:49]  They want defund, dismantled Nobel laws.
[00:17:51]  They want open borders.
[00:17:53]  They want sanctuary cities and states.
[00:17:56]  They sat silently as murderers and rapists and child molesters and other violent criminals, terrorists, known terrorists were allowed into this country.
[00:18:05]  They voted for the largest tax increase in history.
[00:18:09]  They're the party that wants windmills and doesn't want us to be energy dominant.
[00:18:14]  They're the party that just hates Donald Trump 24-7.
[00:18:18]  So if people are taking hope that somehow the crazy, insane, radicalized left in this country that were out there protesting all weekend is their future, it may be their future, but it's the end of America as we know it if they ever got power.
[00:18:35]  So I am not where others are in terms of being nervous.
[00:18:40]  Anyway, Doug, appreciate you, man.
[00:18:42]  800-941-Sean, Jim in Pennsylvania.
[00:18:45]  Jim, how are you?
[00:18:46]  Glad you called.
[00:18:48]  How are you today, Mr. Hannity?
[00:18:50]  I'm good, sir.
[00:18:51]  What's going on?
[00:18:52]  Well, I was listening the other day, and we hear a lot of talk about these new Kings rallies and the 3.00 billion trillion that was spent to finance them.
[00:19:01]  So my question is, is that money being spent in the United States?
[00:19:05]  Are they then- I would assume so.
[00:19:08]  Or are you saying is the source of that money from inside the U.S.?
[00:19:13]  Well, I'm going to talk about what was spent on the U.S. because I'm thinking, would those people protesting no kings then be benefiting those said kings with their tax dollars and the money they're spending in the United States?
[00:19:26]  Well, maybe in a sense.
[00:19:28]  I mean, I can, I'm not sure where you're going with this.
[00:19:31]  What do you mean?
[00:19:32]  Well, I'm curious about the money that was spent and the 3.7 odd billion that was used and trickled down through to finance these protests.
[00:19:42]  That money was spent in the United States.
[00:19:44]  Therefore, that money should be taxed as income for the receivers.
[00:19:47]  Therefore, that tax money would then go to benefit these said kings that they're protesting against, would it not?
[00:19:52]  Well, you do know that they're usually funneled through, quote, charitable organizations, political organizations, etc.
[00:19:59]  So I'm not sure what the exact tax ramifications are, depending on how they spent the money.
[00:20:05]  If it's direct, you know, if it's money being directly handed to people, yeah, and they don't have an organization behind it that is that doesn't pay taxes, a 401c3, for example, then I don't see how they could avoid paying taxes, but I don't think that's the case.
[00:20:25]  I think they usually hide behind some organizational nonprofit, so to speak.
[00:20:32]  That's a shame.
[00:20:33]  I was hoping for there was a silver lining in this somewhere because I just, I'm not, I'm been a conservative my whole life, my whole family, and I see this kind of stuff, and I'm just hoping there's some way our country can benefit from that money being spent since we have to spend so much to prove them wrong.
[00:20:51]  Now, our friend Seamus Bruner, who's been on this program, traced $294 million to the official No Kings 2.0 partners and organizers, all funneled through the same, quote, Riot Inc. dark money networks.
[00:21:06]  You know, I just don't know a lot about it.
[00:21:09]  I've read it, but the reality is there's a lot of money that goes behind it, and a lot of people that are, this is not the organic protesting that they would have you believe.
[00:21:24]  You know, this was a well-orchestrated, well-planned out, well-funded, you know, a group of radical organizations uniting together to create this impression that there is a movement bigger than they are.
[00:21:38]  What's amazing about it is, you know, and we showed some of this last night, when you actually talk to the people that show up, they're some of the dumbest people that I've ever heard in my life.

=== Uranium Origins from Obama (05:49) ===

[00:21:49]  And their comments are just one is more asinine than the other, and it makes no sense.
[00:21:54]  They don't even know why they're there, except that I guess it's a good day to hang out with a bunch of other radical leftists.
[00:22:00]  I have no idea.
[00:22:02]  Anyway, Jim, appreciate the call.
[00:22:04]  800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
[00:22:08]  Marty in my free state of Florida.
[00:22:10]  Marty, how are you?
[00:22:11]  Glad you called.
[00:22:12]  Hey, thank you for taking my call, Sean.
[00:22:14]  I appreciate it.
[00:22:15]  So listening myself the last few days, and my thought is, how much of this uranium is what Obama gave him?
[00:22:23]  Is there any way to prove that?
[00:22:25]  Can they say, I believe he, what, he gave 130 tons of the stuff?
[00:22:30]  I don't know that he gave uranium directly.
[00:22:33]  You know, you're talking about yellow-caked uranium.
[00:22:36]  Look, if you go back in time, the tipping point moment of appeasement to me was Obama's deal with the Iranians.
[00:22:49]  Obama and Biden made this deal with the Iranians where they flew in cargo planes full of cash and other currency to the tune of billions of dollars.
[00:23:00]  And during the Biden years alone, they had all of this money that was being held worldwide, and the Iranians had no access to it, and Biden freed up that money.
[00:23:12]  What was that money used for?
[00:23:14]  That money was used to build out their nuclear program, their ballistic missile program to foment terror.
[00:23:25]  And they also gave them the liberty and the freedom to continue to sell their oil on world markets, which is the lifeblood, again, of their sourcing for their terror funding network.
[00:23:38]  So all of it combined, I would argue, lies on their shoulders.
[00:23:43]  Unfortunately, but maybe fortunately, Donald Trump inherited an Iran on the precipice of being a nuclear power.
[00:23:55]  And again, I go back to the tipping point.
[00:23:58]  And for those that are isolationists, those that just hate anything that Trump does, for the radical left, I'm not really trying to appeal to them or people that might have a disagreement.
[00:24:09]  I can't convince you.
[00:24:11]  However, when you have over 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched uranium, 460 kilograms, whichever measurement you prefer, that is capable to be turned into weapons-grade uranium in 7 to 11 days, and you now have ballistic missile capability with the help of the North Koreans, that means that in very short order, they could have been a nuclear power.
[00:24:38]  And to me, that would have been an existential threat to the United States and to the entire world.
[00:24:45]  So the final decision, the final nail in the coffin was the negotiations with Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and the Iranians.
[00:24:55]  And they felt that it was their inalienable right to have nuclear weapons.
[00:25:01]  And they had no intention of giving that up, even after Midnight Hammer destroyed their ability to enrich, at least for the interim.
[00:25:09]  But every indication was they were reconstituting that program.
[00:25:14]  But don't kid yourself that the money that they got from Obama, Biden, and the radical left that were trying to appease the Iranians, even in that original Obama deal, the Iranians, quote, promised.
[00:25:27]  Why you'd ever trust them, I don't know, but they promised, and they were not allowed to build out a nuclear program for 10 years.
[00:25:36]  Okay.
[00:25:38]  And they didn't include in that deal anywhere, any place, anytime, American inspections.
[00:25:44]  You know, the IAEA has historically, notoriously underestimated the Iranian regime's ability in terms of their nuclear capability, their ballistic missile capability, which we learned in this most recent conflict.
[00:25:59]  They had ballistic missiles with a far greater range than had originally been thought.
[00:26:05]  And if the North Koreans are, in fact, as Gordon Chang laid out in great specificity yesterday, providing that technology and those boosters, they are well on their way to an intercontinental ballistic missiles, or they were.
[00:26:20]  Not anymore.
[00:26:22]  That has been neutralized.
[00:26:23]  Now, the last part of this operation to follow through on the president's consistent message that they can't be a nuclear power is to get the enriched uranium.
[00:26:35]  Now, they'll either do it willingly or we'll degrade it and absolutely make it unretrievable or we'll just take it.
[00:26:45]  I don't know what the options are.
[00:26:47]  I'm not a nuclear scientist.
[00:26:49]  I don't know about radiological fallout.
[00:26:51]  I don't know the dangers associated with each aspect of it.
[00:26:54]  I know that it is not a risk that we should be taking as a country or as a world.
[00:27:02]  And that then makes it even more profound to me how absolutely abhorrent our NATO allies have been in this entire endeavor.
[00:27:14]  I honestly, I think NATO is a useless, outdated alliance after the actions of Spain and France and Great Britain and other European countries.
[00:27:29]  I think they are Europe as a continent is a continent in a precipitous, dramatic decline.

=== Stock Market Rebound Ahead (02:05) ===

[00:27:38]  And I don't think moving forward, we could ever count on them to be a real, true, effective ally to the USA.
[00:27:46]  And all we're doing is pouring good money after bad, giving into them as far as I'm concerned.
[00:27:52]  Anyway, I hope that answers your question.
[00:27:54]  It's an important question you're asking.
[00:27:57]  Back to our phones, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
[00:28:02]  All right, quick break, right back to our busy phones, 800-941-Sean.
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[00:28:13]  The final hour of the Sean Hannity Show is up next.
[00:28:17]  Hang on for Sean's conservative solutions.
[00:28:21]  Now let's
[00:28:51]  get back to our busy telephones.
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[00:28:56]  Eduardo, also of my free state of Florida.
[00:28:59]  What's up, Eduardo?
[00:29:00]  How are you?
[00:29:01]  Yeah, good afternoon, Sean.
[00:29:03]  Well, yeah, this New Kingston's a joke.
[00:29:04]  This thing might wind down in April.
[00:29:08]  See, these people, they're not like the World War II generation.
[00:29:13]  This is a laid-back society who wants everything, you know, gimme, gimme, gimme.
[00:29:18]  There's no sacrificial personality in the American people.
[00:29:23]  This is why the media just jumps on poll numbers.
[00:29:27]  It's pretty ridiculous.
[00:29:28]  So we need to ignore that.
[00:29:30]  We got to finish this thing in Iran, and then we can deal with things cool in the economy.
[00:29:37]  You know, the gas will come down.
[00:29:38]  The stock market will rebound.
[00:29:40]  You name it.
[00:29:41]  Stock market had a nice rebound today.

=== No Forever War Predicted (01:29) ===

[00:29:43]  Look, all of this, I think, will happen in very short order.
[00:29:48]  You know, look, I guess there's a part of me that can understand those people that have been predicting, oh, this will devolve into a forever war.
[00:29:56]  It will not.
[00:29:57]  Donald Trump won't let that happen.
[00:30:00]  I can assure you of that.
[00:30:02]  And I know more than most of the people that open their big fat mouths that don't Know him, didn't support him most of the time.
[00:30:10]  If anything, they were only intermittent supporters and that have absolutely no knowledge of anything.
[00:30:16]  So, this is going to end in short order.
[00:30:18]  We have really two major issues remaining, and then things that the president will do his drawdown.
[00:30:25]  Israel will continue to do whatever Israel feels is in their best national interest, and then Donald Trump will move forward.
[00:30:33]  But I can tell you, the world will be a safer place.
[00:30:35]  And here's the sad part for Donald Trump in the sense, but it's a great thing for humanity, is that if in fact he's successful and stops Iran from ever becoming a nuclear power with their radical ideology of live free or die, we will never, history will never record how many lives likely were saved by President Trump's bold action.
[00:31:02]  And I guess maybe that's the way it's designed to be.
[00:31:05]  But if he didn't do it, we would know the other side of it if they ever got them and used them.
[00:31:11]  Anyway, thanks so much for being with