Sean Hannity asserts President Trump's military actions in Iran exposed a regime with 60% enriched uranium and missiles reaching London, while European allies like France and Britain allegedly refused U.S. airspace access due to naivete. He claims the U.S. bears 62% of NATO's $1.6 trillion defense burden yet faces high energy costs abroad, comparing leaders Macron and Starmer to Chamberlain for ignoring Russian threats. Ultimately, Hannity argues Europe has forgotten WWII lessons, risking strategic failure as Trump threatens to obliterate Iranian infrastructure unless a deal is reached within a week. [Automatically generated summary]
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There is now, as we head into what is a difficult, and all our prayers and hopes are with American troops.
The president, the Secretary of State have both indicated in great detail, and I know that there are people that don't want to believe a thing that Donald Trump says.
You have various factions out there.
They're loud, but they're not the majority of President Trump's supporters.
You know, some 85% on average MAGA voters support the president, his actions in Iran.
I think people that are educated as to the real circumstances as to why the president made this decision, and that being more importantly, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, are more acutely aware than your average bird out there.
And, you know, you have people that don't really care that the Iranians were far closer to having nuclear weapons than we originally knew.
I mean, this historically has been the case that globalist international organizations have grossly underestimated the Iranian regime's power.
And it's just unfortunate across the board because, you know, here they have, you know, 60% enriched uranium, as we've been describing, that can be, you know, enriched to 90% weapons grade in 7 to 11 days.
And then we also learned in this conflict that they had underestimated the range of their longer ballistic missile capability.
And that now tells us that it could go to parts of Europe like Paris and London, for example.
And there is a schism.
And I'm not sure how this is going to play out, but I have a pretty good idea how it's going to play out.
And it's not going to be good for Europe.
I have been making the case that individually countries in Europe, they are in a precipitous decline.
And they have been for decades, even some of our closest allies.
And they have bought into radical socialism.
They have bought into radical environmentalism.
I'll give you an example.
You know, Europe's decision to switch to green energy instead of relying on fossil fuels is now driving their motorists straight to the poorhouse.
And I know that we're not near $5 a gallon like we were under Joe Biden in America.
It's about $4 a gallon.
And this is going to be temporary.
That is my prediction.
I'm more than confident that I'm going to be proven correct.
But the average driver in Europe, they're now paying $10 a gallon, $9 or $10 a gallon for gasoline.
And the reason is North America produces almost all of its oil.
In other words, we are energy independent.
And, you know, the whole issue of the Strait of Hormuz has very little actually to do with the U.S.
It does have to do with the free flow of oil at market prices, which is impactful to the world.
But over, you know, for a decade, 15 or so years, nearly two decades, Europe doesn't produce anywhere near close to what their energy needs are.
And energy is the lifeblood of the world's economy.
Anyway, European drivers were paying $9 to $10 a gallon of gasoline.
You go to Europe, you wonder why are these people driving around in these tiny little boxcars?
And that's one of the reasons they're doing it because of the high price of energy.
Now, what is the whole purpose of the NATO alliance?
What is the whole purpose of it?
Post-World War II, you know, here we had, you know, America standing, and it took a while for us to get involved in that conflict.
There actually were a lot of, you know, loud, isolationist voices.
FDR, you know, after Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill became the guest that wouldn't leave the White House.
And we decided to enter the theater in Europe at a great, great toll and a great, great cost to this country and our national treasure to fight evil in its time as we fought back, you know, the forces of, and we were fighting, you know, simultaneously.
We had the theater in the Pacific.
We had the theater in Europe.
You know, look how many brave men and women our national treasure died slamming the beaches of Normandy.
Look at how many people died in the Pacific.
My dad served four years in the Pacific.
And the cost of freedom has been anything but free.
And if we, you know, when you look at NATO, you know, the broader U.S. national defense spending in NATO in context, you know, it is an organization that was designed to prevent what happened in World War II and the emergence of evil on the continent of Europe,
i.e. Hitler, Nazi Germany, i.e. Mussolini, fascism, the threat that was Stalin and Russia that started off on one side of that conflict, ending up on our side of that conflict.
I mean, it is a kind of amazing history if you go through it without rehashing all of the conflict in the theater in Europe.
But, you know, so as a result of that, an attack against one is an attack against all.
That's what the NATO alliance is supposed to be.
And, okay, you could argue, well, the Iranians didn't attack us, although they have killed many Americans over the years.
And we have talked about that at length.
But so we spend 2025 NATO total defense spending about $1.6 trillion.
Of that money, $1.6 trillion, we pay about 62% of it, around $980 billion, depending on the source and pricing basis.
In other words, U.S. defense spending as a share of its own GDP was 3.2% in 2025 numbers.
Remember, Europe wasn't even paying its fair share of 2%.
But Europe as a continent and individual countries have been in a precipitous decline.
They've been in a decline for a lot of different reasons.
And one has to wonder, you know, if it's just all combined contributing factors altogether, but Europe as a continent has been in a decline.
We've talked about unfettered, illegal immigration without assimilation.
I don't think most Americans are keenly aware or acutely aware of the fact that Great Britain has nearly 100 Sharia courts that are separate and apart from Great Britain's judicial system.
I don't think most people understand what a no-go zone is in parts of France and other parts of Europe, but they exist.
These are people that have immigrated from countries, usually Islamic countries, that have no interest in assimilating to the country that they're going to.
And they isolate themselves, separate themselves from the rest of the country while also simultaneously having the ability to vote.
I'm not sure if domestic politics plays a part in it or not, but it doesn't matter to me.
When Spain and Italy close their airspace to U.S. warplanes and declare the Iranian conflict to prevent the Iranians from getting nuclear weapons, which now we know they had ballistic missiles with a range capability of hitting countries on the continent of Europe, it is not only disappointing,
it is such a strategic error on their part.
It is naivete on a level that I frankly don't understand.
Now, President Trump has spoken out about all this.
And now, even, by the way, you know, with the Spain closing their airspace to U.S. warplanes while we're in a conflict with a radical Islamic regime like Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, that's shutting off the source, not of America's energy oil supply, but Europe's energy and oil supply.
And then the point, you know, I'm going to get to here is why would we ever be a part of an organization that would not stand up against radical Islamic terrorism and stand with us in preventing a nuclear-armed Iran?
Whether you agree or disagree with the conflict, keeping open the Strait of Hormuz is in their best interest, way more than our national interest.
So the president said, all these countries that can't get jet fuel because of this skirmish, which is short-lived.
We're talking about a month now.
And, you know, two, three weeks from now, I think we'll be pretty close to wrapping this whole thing up.
And there are a couple of important parts of this that need to be handled before that happens.
And anyway, the United Kingdom refused to get involved at all in this conflict.
They weren't there by our side.
And so the president had some advice for Kier Starmer and Great Britain: buy your energy from the U.S. because we have plenty.
Or number two, build up some delayed courage, go to the strait and just take it.
In other words, protect the free flow of oil at market prices.
And he added that the U.K. had to learn how to fight for yourself because the U.S. will not be there to help you anymore, just like you were not there for us.
Iran has been essentially decimated.
The hard part is done.
Go get your own oil.
Now, why should the U.S. be spending a whopping $980 billion when France and Great Britain and Spain and Italy and other European countries won't even stand with us when there's such moral clarity?
What has happened to the continent of Europe that you think would have memories of World War II and the Holocaust and Hitler and fascism and Mussolini, you know, and of course the never-ending threat that is now the former Soviet Union, Russia and Putin, and that did they not realize that if they come calling after the way they're acting here,
that Donald Trump is not going to be that interested in helping them, and I can't blame them.
And I don't think moving forward, we could really depend on the NATO alliance at all to have our back.
Now, the president had said, and so far I think 10 of the 20 ships' oil tankers have been given.
The concession came from the Turanian leaders, whoever it is that they're talking to.
The Secretary of State, Marko Rubio, says the Strait of Hormuz will open one way or the other.
And this whole conflict will come to a conclusion one way or the other.
And Europe's climate policies offer no relief for gas prices there.
But, you know, this is going to be a moment in time where America is now, after this is all said and done, we're going to have to evaluate what this alliance really stands for and whether or not we want to be a part of it.
And I don't see why we're paying the bulk of monies for what.
Now, the U.S., there are two main issues that remain.
All these targets, there's now been 11,000 military targets that have been hit.
We have destroyed their Navy.
We've destroyed their air defense systems.
We've destroyed much of their ballistic missile systems, not completely.
We've taken out as many drones as we can possibly find.
I'm sure they still have some, but those are not the two big remaining issues that have to be dealt with as we now look to wrap this up, maybe even ahead of schedule, which would be nice.
And I know there have been people, this is going to be a forever war.
It's going to be like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not under President Trump.
It's not.
And those people making those proclamations don't know what the hell they're talking about, never have known what the hell they're talking about.
Donald Trump did this because he's doing BB's bidding and Israel's bidding.
That's never been true, and it's not true today.
He's listening to talk show hosts like Mark Levin and Sean Hannity.
That's not true either.
The president is somebody that will listen to everybody and then make up his own mind.
And I can promise you, you can't talk him into anything unless he sees the wisdom of it.
And the pivotal key moment was when the Iranians claim they had an inherent right to nuclear weapons and they were not going to give it up and acknowledge the 60% enriched uranium, which could be weapons grade in 90 days.
And we learned during this conflict that we underestimated, once again, their ballistic missile capability and the range of their ballistic missiles, which means with the help of the North Koreans, which is a problem in and of itself, that they could have had a nuclear warhead enough for 11 nuclear weapons and building towards an intercontinental ballistic missile.
That's why Donald Trump acted.
So the two things that remain is making sure, and I don't know the process of this.
Now, the Israelis believe that they can actually degrade or bury literally underground forever the 60% enriched uranium.
I don't know if it's that, if it's removal.
I don't know what it's going to take.
It's way beyond my level of expertise, but you can't, you have to ensure it never gets in the wrong hands.
That you have to make sure of.
And the Strait of Hormuz, more complicated, less impactful to us.
And I'm not sure whether or not Europe will wake up to that fact or not.
And I don't really care.
I think we're going to have a long discussion about our relationship with Europe post this conflict.
We should pull up Winston Churchill and blood and toil, tears and sweat and remind our friends across the pond of what Winston Churchill once admonished their their continent about and mobilized not only a nation.
but a continent against the monstrous tyranny.
Macron Worse Than Chamberlain00:02:05
Because clearly they've forgotten the lessons.
Here's Tharmers to me.
He's nothing but Neville Chamberlain in our time.
Sad, pathetic.
Macron is even worse.
His band is even worse.
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You did it pretty good.
Yeah.
You speed that up about 10 times.
You'll be good to go.
Okay, just because you have technology behind your speeding up.
Oh, you know that's fake news.
I did it in front of you and you know it.
You take that.
I'm pretty good in front of me, no doubt.
So I'm looking at Europe.
I'm looking at the NATO alliance.
And when this is all said and done, and we're looking at sooner rather than later, and the ceasefire ABCs are very, very straightforward.
The New York Post did a good editorial about this today.
And it's simple.
Victory Over Iranian Terror00:05:12
Now, this will either happen, the Iranians that are in power that have given the president permission to have 20 oil tankers pass through the Strato Hormuz as evidence.
It's sort of like, you know, a kidnap ransom, and you need proof of life.
I guess they had to have proof that they're actually in charge and had the ability to show that they're in charge.
So they're allowing these 20 tankers to pass through.
The first 10 already went through.
I think we might have had all 20 to go through.
I'm not sure.
But if you look at it, there's really two major objectives that are left.
I know that the world would like us to keep the Strado Hormuz open.
I don't think that should be an America-only effort.
I just don't, considering we don't get our energy from there.
And frankly, after the way Europe has acted, I'd like to put that on them.
You know, Tehran also will have to surrender with serious verification and monitoring of their compliance.
But they're going to have to either voluntarily or somehow we will degrade, diminish, or make it completely unaccessible, inaccessible, sorry, excuse me, any of Of the 60% enriched uranium.
That's it.
Now, the Iranian, whoever the Iranian leadership is now, I would imagine we know where they are.
I would imagine we could probably take them out just like we took out Ali Khamani and his top leadership, and then the next level of leadership, then the third tier of leadership, and all the other leaders of the Revolutionary Guard and Quds forces and everybody else in between.
And I would imagine we could do it again.
Now, it's kind of hard to fathom that there are people that didn't learn anything from Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury and Roaring Lion, but I'm sure that if you're indoctrinated into this sick, twisted, ugly mindset that believes in convert or die and thinks that you're doing God's will or Allah's will and you'll be rewarded in heaven with 72 virgins, maybe you think it's a righteous thing to die.
I don't know.
But the sad reality is everything we have been telling you about, well, first globalist organizations, that they are meaningless and they are useless.
And there's no reason for the U.S. to ever be a part, even of the UN.
And why do we fund the majority of it and spend billions of dollars every year?
Why are we a part of the WEF, World Economic Forum, and all these other, the IAEF from the UN, you know, looking into, or IAEA rather, looking into the Iranian capabilities as it relates to nuclear weapons.
They have been wrong again and again and again.
And they always favor Iran's side and they always underestimate their true capability.
And now that Europe has turned their back on us and won't even let us land our airplanes on our air bases as part of a NATO alliance, then why are we going to pay nearly a trillion dollars a year in NATO defense?
And I think this is going to be reevaluated.
And the saddest part is when you listen to the likes of Macrone and even now the prime minister of Italy and the leader in Spain and Kier Starmer, the prime minister of Great Britain, I'm like, how did this continent deteriorate, diminish to such a large extent in such a short period of time?
How did they not remember the lessons of Winston Churchill versus Neville Chamberlain?
How did they not see the emergence of evil back in that time and then make a steadfast commitment never again?
Because how did Great Britain ever get to know go zones?
How is that possible?
Here's a reminder, the great Winston Churchill.
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
You aren't squatting up on the sea.
I will say it is to wage war by sea, land, and air with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.
You ask, what is our aim?
I can answer in one word: victory.
Victory at all costs.
Victory in spite of all terror.
Victory, however long and hard the road may be.
For without victory, there is no survival.
He's correct.
And I think that the more that we will learn and what we already know shows that this was a far greater, more existential threat, not only to the region, but to the world than anybody knew.
The Road To Survival00:05:25
And that's why Donald Trump undertook this action.
And that's why there are two parts of this mission that are left.
And I think they will be accomplished one way or the other in fairly short order.
If the Iranians were smart, they would just negotiate their way out of it, hand over their enriched uranium, open up the Strait of Hormuz, and they can survive.
That would be their benefit.
An Israeli news source reporting today that recent bombing raids on Iranian nuclear sites indicate the Pentagon has decided not to mount a risky ground force operation to extract this enriched uranium.
The alternative approach is to neutralize the material by effectively burying it, making it completely inaccessible, requiring at least a year for Iran to even locate and or retrieve it, giving the U.S. and Israel the time needed to detect and disrupt any such effort.
That would take another trip back, which would not be the ideal situation, but certainly would take away the imminent threat of them having access to this enriched uranium.
Now, they went on to explain the enriched uranium stored in these lead containers holding about 10 to 20 kilograms each can be rendered inaccessible by bombing the complete surrounding area, blocking any and all access points, any and all tunnels.
And we know the three locations where they are believed to be held.
You know, for example, at Nance, U.S. forces struck the area surrounding the uranium storage site earlier this month.
Similar strikes were likely carried out.
Isavan, which is described as a large ammunition depot, that was targeted.
It appears the U.S. took care not to disperse or directly hit the enriched uranium itself, in part to avoid creating radioactive contamination in nearby areas.
Instead, the strikes targeted surrounding infrastructure, sealing off tunnels and access routes, leaving the uranium buried beneath the rock, more than 100 meters of rock.
And as with the earlier strike at some of these facilities, Iran's claim that there was no radioactive contamination suggests that the goal was not to destroy the uranium, but to entomb it under layers and layers of rock and soil and concrete.
And of course, with satellite ability, communications, observations, intel, you know, U.S. operational activity indicates a decision to bury it.
So we'll see.
Now, we do have the Marines there.
Ideally, we would not put any boots on the ground unless they feel like the only option solution would be to grab it if they won't hand it over.
But only time's going to tell.
And we just don't know.
None of this is easy.
You know, Donald, you know, on the other side of this, you never can calculate how many lives likely could have been saved if one day they did become a nuclear power and they did use it.
You just can't calculate that.
We've now destroyed 11,000 enemy targets in Iran.
Pete Hegset did reveal that he made a secret trip to the Middle East over the weekend.
He said on Tuesday he made a secret wartime trip to the Middle East to meet with American troops fighting Operation Epic Fury.
He said this speaking during a press conference, a press briefing at the Pentagon, asserting that Morales High service members are determined to finish the mission.
He didn't disclose the precise location.
Trump says that we will, the U.S. will learn in about a week if Iran's parliament speaker wants a deal.
We're about a week away, probably less than a week at this point.
But the Trump administration has identified the Iranian official negotiating.
It is, in fact, a parliamentary speaker.
Obviously, he's got some juice because he's been able to show proof of power by allowing specific tankers that we have identified to go through the Strait of Hormuz.
The president reiterated the threat to target Iranian energy sites if that deal is not reached.
He said great progress has been made, but if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately open for business, we will conclude our lovely stay in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their electric generating plants, oil wells and Karg Island, and possibly all desalinization plants, which we have purposefully not yet touched.
This will be in retribution for our many soldiers and others that Iran has butchered and killed over the old regime's 47-year-old reign of terror, he said.
And this is where so many people misunderstand Donald Trump.
Because if they would listen to what he says and look at his past actions, he's about as transparent as any president that we've ever had in our lifetime.
There's no surprises here.
Very good talks with Iran.
And I think the Iranians know beyond any doubt what the consequences will be if they don't comply.
We'll have to see.
And I'm hoping they make the right decision.
Transactional Mideast Nations00:03:15
I don't know what we do with Europe at the end of this conflict.
I just don't know.
I don't know how you resolve that.
I mean, they're an unreliable ally that is far too dependent on our money and our military might for their own survival.
And they are a continent that is in decline.
Not exactly a reliable ally.
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Linda, how many of these countries that I tell you about have reached out to me wanting to talk to me and I refuse to talk to them?
All of them.
All of them, pretty much.
Why do you think I refuse to talk to them?
And they don't have my number directly, but why do you think I refuse any outreach from these countries?
It's very hot there.
I don't think you'd be very comfortable.
Look, I've been to Riyadh and Doha and the UAE.
I've been to all of them.
No, thank you.
I'm not looking forward to it.
Nothing is for free.
I mean, let's be honest.
They all want something.
I mean, the ultimate quid pro quo, Joe.
Why do I suspect that you meet with people?
You say, you know, I have a business.
Are you interested in investing?
Why do I think I'd be pretty successful in that endeavor?
I have no interest.
None.
Well, you're a little busy anyway.
You got to tell them.
You know, I have 39 shows.
I'm not able to do it at this time, but thank you for.
39.
You're overestimating how many shows I have.
I have three.
You think I have 39?
Maybe.
I think with all of the projects that you're working on and all the things you got going on, the last thing you got time for is going anywhere to Qatar.
Okay, with all due respect, pot kettle.
You know, you can hear me.
I hear you.
But nobody's calling me from Qatar.
I don't have the same problems.
I'm just saying.
Well, they didn't try that hard, but I have no interest in meeting with these countries.
I've always felt that countries in the Mideast, a lot of countries in the Mideast, I won't speak that generally, unfortunately, are very transactional.
And I want to be free from any transactional anything.
That's every country there.
And I suspect that people want to influence other people.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I'm guessing.
Don't know for sure.
Just my gut.
My gut has, you know, not steered me wrong so far in my life.
All right.
Can the NATO alliance survive after the actions of Europe?
We'll check in with James Robbins, former Special Assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and with the Institute of World Politics, and Matt Towery On the pole straight