Sean Hannity confronts Michael Moore's criticism of President Trump regarding Iran, dismissing claims about enriched uranium as "dust" while highlighting Tehran's human rights abuses. The host details the failed two-week ceasefire, NATO's sluggish response under Mark Rutte, and Trump's alert status against Iranian ballistic missiles threatening Paris and London. Addressing domestic politics, Hannity rejects impeachment calls from Democrats like Ed Markey and defends self-deportation over open borders. Ultimately, he condemns European leaders as modern Chamberlains who must not dictate U.S. strategy on Iran's nuclear program or proxy funding for Hezbollah and Hamas. [Automatically generated summary]
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Modern Day Appeasers00:12:53
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Excuse me.
Michael Moore, the filmmaker, you know he's a lunatic, right?
He's out of his mind.
And this is what he said.
Now, I will agree, if he was talking about the former Persian.
Culture, the Persian people, they were amazing culture, you know, for many, many, many, many centuries actually.
And anyway, he unleashed this deranged online tirade calling President Trump a terrorist for threatening a Holocaust after the commander in chief warned that Iran, its whole civilization could be wiped out, which was a message for one group of people, and we know who that group of people is the radical mullahs that run Iran, and to let them know that they were going to absolutely positively be obliterated.
Because eventually, if they don't agree to the two things the president wants, they're going to have to hand over the 60% enriched uranium, or as Trump affectionately refers to it, as the dust.
And the Strait of Hormuz international waters are going to be open one way or the other.
This is what Moore said.
He said, We are the bad guys.
If you didn't realize that under previous presidents, at least Donald Trump has ripped off the mask and shown you who we really are.
Many blasted the U.S. as the only nation sick and violent enough to use nuclear weapons.
While bizarrely praising Tehran for becoming a diverse global power, advancing human rights, and leading the world on multiple fronts.
How could you be so ass backwards as this guy?
I mean, he's the same guy that was telling us that the healthcare system in Cuba was far superior to ours.
He says Iran is the cradle of one of the greatest civilizations on the planet.
I mean, is it just ignorance?
Did they not know?
I mean, I would imagine being the liberal that he is, he's a champion of gay and lesbian rights.
Trans rights and LGBTQ plus A and I and I or I and A.
I don't even know what the A and I means.
Do you know what the A and I means?
I've yet to figure it out.
Maybe we need to ask Grok what the A and I means because I don't know.
All right, then.
All right, then.
So does he not realize that women are beaten if they don't dress a certain way and cover up?
Does he realize that women are stoned to death?
For example, if women in Iran were to dress like General Soleimani, the now dead number one terrorist in the world, thanks to Donald Trump in his first term, if his niece and grandniece dressed like the pictures that we had and that we were showing after Marco Rubio revoked their right to be in the country as Secretary of State,
They would be stoned to death in Iran if they dressed that way in Iran if the former Supreme Leader was still in power.
Now, I don't know a lot about the people that they are negotiating with now.
I imagine it's complex, and only time will tell whether or not this two week period is going to be productive.
I know they want to reach a deal.
The 10 point deal that the media was peddling was complete Adam Bull and just not true.
But it's all predictable.
Anyway, we're going to see what happens.
We have some developments that we're going to get to.
One of the complications that came up with the beginning of this two week ceasefire was the Iranians.
They kept firing well beyond the deadline, but the excuse that they made was oh, well, it didn't get to the field commanders that a deal had been struck.
I was very dubious when I reported on that on Monday, but okay, so much for that.
Now there's been a conflict with Lebanon, and that has heated up.
You know, so much for the media conspiracy that President Trump is not the one who's calling the shots in the Iranian war.
I mean, I listen to these stupid people that constantly peddle their anti Semitic tropes that this is Israel's war, that the president somehow is under a spell of the Jews and Israel and Bibi Netanyahu.
No, it's not what happened.
They obviously don't care.
These are people that will never talk about the 60% enriched uranium.
And during the negotiations with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, they said they had an inalienable right to keep enriching and to build out their nuclear program.
That was the tipping point, 12 days away from weapons grade uranium.
Without repeating myself, but I got to set the foundation for what we're discussing.
Okay, that coupled with we've now discovered that their ballistic missile range was, we underestimated it, it's much further than we thought.
They have the ability to strike Paris and London and other parts of Europe.
That means it was a real clear existential threat and an immediate threat.
And President Trump made his own mind up, in spite of everybody on this isolationist.
I kind of view these isolationists, these loud voices on podcasts as the modern day Neville Chamberlains.
They are the modern day appeasers.
They want to put their head in the sand.
They think we have no obligation.
They would be the people that, knowing that Adolf Hitler had these.
These ambitions for the perfect race and was willing to use a mighty military to conquer surrounding countries and nations, they would be saying, No, we can't get involved.
Okay, put your head in the sand.
Millions of people potentially die.
I have no patience for stupid and no patience for people that don't learn any lessons from history.
They're not worth the time of day to me.
President Trump now has urged the Israeli prime minister to scale back the strikes in Lebanon that have been threatening to undo this.
This ceasefire with Iran, this two week period of time, and Israel agreed to the president's request.
Oh, I thought it was the other way around.
I thought Bibi Netanyahu controlled Donald Trump.
That's what they would have you believe.
That was never the case.
It's not the case.
Have they been working in partnership?
Yes, they have.
Is it the most powerful partnership in the history of warfare?
It's got to be right up there, if not it.
Anyway, the president said he spoke with Bibi.
He's going to low key what's going on with Lebanon.
There are discussions going on.
I'll give you more details on that in a minute.
It has to be more low key.
The president had a phone call with the prime minister.
The U.S. and Israel have both insisted that Israel's fight against Hezbollah is not covered in the two week ceasefire.
But following President Trump's request, the prime minister of Israel said that he would open the channels for ceasefire talks.
And Netanyahu said, in light of Lebanon's repeated request to open direct negotiations with Israel, Yesterday, I instructed the cabinet to begin direct negotiations with Lebanon as soon as possible, and it would center on disarming Hezbollah and establishing a renewed peace between Israel and Lebanon.
And, you know, one of the problems Lebanon now has is that they have lost the flow of arms to their terrorist network because those arms came from Iran.
And most of their ballistic missile weapons that they've been producing in Iran. Has been obliterated by the U.S. and Israel.
By the way, NATO's chief agrees that Trump, with Trump, that allies were too slow to respond with help for the Iranian war.
It's actually worse than that.
Now, this guy, Mark Redd, is his name, admitted Thursday during a meeting with the president that the alliance had been slow to answer America's calls for help.
No, they haven't been slow.
They were absolutely harmful in any effort to help and support us against the number one state sponsor of terror.
Now, I think he's trying to do damage control.
I'm not sure he's going to be able to pull that back.
I think the president has pretty much now made up his mind as it relates to NATO.
We have more on that coming.
Now, the president has ordered America's Navy and Air Force to remain on alert, ready for action in case Iran violates the ceasefire.
Look, there's some doubt among people that really don't know, understand President Trump.
President Trump did not decide to do this lightly.
Obviously, there is some hope that was communicated to him that this fourth and fifth tier Iranian leadership is serious about peace negotiations and a negotiated settlement.
There's no way any negotiated settlement is not going to result in America either entombing.
Or owning and extracting the 60% enriched uranium.
Now, I would think the more likely scenario would be the Libyan model, which is that they allow Americans to go in and extract, which is a very delicate thing to do, especially now that they're buried underneath a lot of rubble, underneath these nuclear enrichment facilities.
But they have these canisters of 60% enriched uranium.
12 days later, it could be weapons grade.
That is a clear and present danger, not only for nuclear weapons, but also.
For dirty bombs, they can't have that material, nor can they ever have the ability to enrich uranium again.
But anyway, the president announced that the increased military assets that he's sending in the Middle East will remain in place and ready for action.
All U.S. ships, aircraft, military personnel with additional ammunition and weaponry will remain in place and around Iran until such time as a real agreement is reached and is fully complied with.
He put up on truth.
If for any reason the Iranians fail to agree to a deal, the Then the shooting starts, begin, and better, all stronger than anyone has ever seen before.
Our great military is loading up.
They're resting.
They're looking forward, actually, to their next conquest.
And anyway, so that is pretty straightforward as well.
The Trump Justice Department, by the way, launched an investigation into the Biden Justice Department's weaponization prosecutions of pro life protesters.
That's a separate note that I was going to bring up today.
But Trump is considering now, back to the NATO question.
Withdrawing U.S. troops from NATO countries that refuse to allow their bases to be used for the attack on Iran.
Now, I'll tell you the next thing that's going to happen.
And I don't know, I don't have any valid confirmation of this, but I can tell you, knowing Donald Trump as well as I do, America's contribution to NATO will now, by the end of this, when all is said and done, be greatly reduced.
We pay two thirds of NATO's budget.
And yet, we get nothing from them.
And in a moment, Where there should have been real clear, real moral clarity, no ambiguity.
It's the number one state sponsor of terror.
This is, there's so much at stake.
Then discovering during the conflict that they can actually reach Europe and our NATO allies and cities like Paris and London, the president is weighing a plan to punish NATO allies.
He should.
They are what he said.
They are a paper tiger.
Anyway, some 84,000 troops are stationed across Europe in U.S. bases.
Yeah, they boost local economies.
They serve as a hub for global U.S. military operations.
But if they won't let us use them, like Spain and France and Italy and Great Britain, if they won't stand by us when we need them, what good are they?
We should spend that money on our own national security and then make alliances with countries that we can fully, completely rely on.
NATO wasn't there when we needed them, and probably they won't be there if we need them again.
Not that we even needed them in this operation.
They're not a reliable ally, they're just not.
Now, if this ceasefire is not successful, the Secretary of War, Pete Hexett, said, That despite the ceasefire, the U.S. still reserves the right to conduct an Operation Midnight Hammer style operation inside of Iran to eliminate the Iranian regime's stockpile of enriched uranium.
Five Years and Open Borders00:04:40
Now, I've talked to a lot of experts.
There's some conflicting data that I've been receiving.
Some people think that you can just blow it up, but yes, there would be radioactive fallout from such an event.
There are other people that believe we can so deeply entomb this thing that there's no way they'd be able to reach it, and we've had eyes on it ever since Midnight Hammer.
Others feel that that would not be adequate enough, that really the only solution would be to either have them hand it over and have Americans extract it, or to just go in there and take it.
Probably not the first preference.
I hate to see American troops on the ground anywhere, but if that's the only option, I don't think there's anywhere we're ever going to finish this and leave there without it.
And we'll just have to wait and see, you know, how this all plays out in the end.
Now, we got a lot more to get to.
We'll get your calls in today.
I think one of the saddest stories I keep saying that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mayorkas' open borders, you know, the most preventable national security disaster in history.
Where do you hear from Joe Abraham, an angel dad?
Now, we've had all these angel moms testifying before the Senate.
And anyway, he lost his daughter in January of last year.
She was only 20 years old, of course, killed by an illegal.
And, you know, not a word, not a peep from any of these elected officials like J.B. Pritzker or that idiot Dickie Durbin.
Not a word.
Anyway, so you're going to hear this sad story and the story of others.
We've got it on tape.
We'll play it for you.
It seems like we're one of the only shows that actually talk about the victims of this open borders disaster.
By the way, Democratic senators are now demanding that Donald Trump be impeached immediately.
Ed Markey, Democrat, Massachusetts, among the first to call for immediate action.
Remember after.
President Trump won the election.
Linda, what did I say?
Who's going to be the first person?
We ought to run a poll.
Who's going to be the first Democrat that calls for Donald Trump's impeachment?
Well, here, they're coming in, they're beginning to roll in right now because that's what they want to do.
I don't think I was far off to you.
No, I mean, unfortunately, they're kind of doing it all at the same time, right?
Because we've got Pritzker, we've got Swalwell, we've got Newsom, we've got who else was out there today?
They're all out there today.
The 25th Amendment is like the talking point.
The 25th Amendment, this is another way.
Well, first of all, impeachment happens in the House, the trial happens in the Senate, and they're never going to have enough people to impeach them, even if we were to lose the House and Senate, which we're not going to lose.
But it just is this is where their mind's at.
They don't want to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
They don't want to fund the police.
They want open borders.
They want amnesty.
They got this so called dignity bill.
We'll get into that in more detail at the top of the hour.
And that means, oh, if people have been in the country for five years and have not been arrested, oh, then we're just going to let them stay.
Well, that's amnesty.
And then eventually they'll get their path to citizenship.
How about what has been working?
Now, I'm not saying that there shouldn't be exceptions.
You've been here 20 years, 25 years.
Okay.
You have children that are American citizens, you're married to an American citizen.
And you've never gotten in trouble with the law, you pay your taxes, excuse me, you obey the laws, you're a good person.
That's a whole different battle.
Yeah, but Sean, if I may for one moment, here's something that I don't understand.
If you're here for 20 years, you have been able to maintain and hold down a job, build a family, get a house, get a mortgage, and do all the things.
How are you unable to follow the process of either getting a visa, then a green card, studying for your citizenship?
There's thousands of people that do it the hard way all the time.
How important is our citizenship?
What is its value if we're just giving it away for free to people who are going to be further in the process?
And again, at that point, we'll figure it out.
But five years isn't it.
Five years is not the answer.
Five years, you're too close to having come into the country.
One of the most successful programs adopted by the Department of Homeland Security has been letting people self deport.
I think they've had a couple of million people that have self deported.
Now, what does that mean?
Instead of ICE having to chase you down, you come out of the shadows, you identify yourself, you get an airline ticket home, we put cash in your pocket.
And you say, well, why are we giving them taxpayer money?
Because it's a lot cheaper than having to go chase them down.
That is the short answer to your question.
Legitimate Military Targets00:11:20
Anyway, Iran at one point threatened to end the ceasefire over the issue of Lebanon and Hezbollah.
As I said, Bibi Netanyahu is agreeing to talks with Lebanon and Hezbollah.
Hezbollah has to have talks because their proxy, Iran, doesn't have the weaponry to keep providing them the arms so that they can rain their terror down on Israel.
So they're in a position where they're going to have to negotiate anyway.
And in that sense, you know, this two week ceasefire.
I know in the minds of many, I kind of assumed this part would get worked out, was teetering in the face of disagreements over Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz.
But anyway, the vice president issued a blunt warning to Iran as the U.S. demands ceasefire compliance.
There's going to be serious consequences.
Listen, I can tell you for a fact Donald Trump has no problem at all returning to, you know, going back to, That this is going to be bridge day and infrastructure day.
He has no problem at all doing it.
He's only been reluctant because he's trying to leave infrastructure in place for the Iranian people.
The one difference between this Iranian regime is they have been targeting civilian areas.
They are the ones guilty of the war crimes, Israel and the U.S. When you target bridges and infrastructure and oil facilities, et cetera, and an electric grid, They are all legitimate military targets.
All that talk about Donald Trump is a war criminal.
No, he's not.
Those are legitimate and always have been legitimate targets because they're used to transport weapons, they're used to transport troops.
The fuel that they use is being used by the military, and they will prioritize the military over their civilians anyway.
The U.S. never agreed, by the way, to include Lebanon in the Iranian ceasefire.
So that was an addition, but they're working through it.
And I think the president wants to give this two week period a chance in the hopes that the Iranians wake up.
I have been told by my sources that the Iranians, in principle, have pretty much agreed to everything that the president wants.
Some of the details are what has to be worked out.
For example, the Iranians already have given up any hopes of achieving.
A nuclear weapon.
That's part of this deal.
The Iranians even are agreeing to give up their 60% enriched uranium.
That is already part of the deal.
The Iranians are agreeing that the Strait of Hormuz will be untouched and they're not going to be able to charge a tariff or a fee, or if they do, the United States would benefit from that.
And that would be separate and apart.
And anyway, so, but Lebanon was never part of the ceasefire, and Lebanon is a clear present danger to Israel's national security.
And, you know, I look at the likes of this idiot Macron.
Lebanon must be included for a credible ceasefire.
How about you shut up and we don't care what you think?
And just like Neville Chamberlain, Keir Starmer, I don't care what you think either.
And I don't care what Italy thinks.
And I definitely don't care what Spain thinks at this point after their abhorrent behavior in all of this.
And if these NATO non ally allies think that there's not going to be consequences for how they have behaved during this, they have no clue.
What's ahead of them?
Now, there is a very strong and clear argument to be made.
If this, in this period, this two week ceasefire period, if the president can't work out a comprehensive deal, I would argue that the top four items on the list number one, they can't have the enriched uranium or build out nuclear facilities.
Number two, the Strait of Hormuz will have to be left open.
But also, there's got to be limits on the range of their ballistic missiles that we now know can reach Europe and cities like Paris and London.
There has to be a limit on that.
There's going to have to be some type of check and balance that would be anywhere, any place, anytime inspections.
The next thing is they can no longer continue to fund their proxies Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza.
That all has to come to an end as well.
So, once they open the Strait of Hormuz and there's free shipping and there's the free flow of oil at market prices, that's going to be part of it.
The next part is not if, but how they hand over the nuclear material.
The next part of it will be negotiating on ballistic missiles, checks and balances as to what they are building out in the future.
Any deal that's worked out over the next number of weeks is going to have to be airtight.
That's where inspections, it's a trust but verify thing.
The Iranian negotiators can't be allowed to drag out these talks indefinitely.
It's got to come to an end at the end of this two week period.
The president's got to be prepared to resume bombing, including the infrastructure, including the bridges, as he promised that he would.
And as a matter of fact, he's already saying publicly that this is a real clear.
He's giving them an opportunity.
They got close enough in their negotiations to the point where he felt it would be worth.
The effort to try to preserve this for the Iranian people.
That's basically as simple as I can spell it out here.
It is, you know, let's face it, this is the world's one chance to end the 47 year nightmare of this terrorist regime, this evil regime that has caused nothing but death and destruction, you know, since its onset in 1979.
Now, the president, you know, he has his chance to make good on his promise that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
Not in a year, not in 10 years.
But, you know, the president, look, there are certainly pressures on him, but Donald Trump is not subject to the same ordinary political pressures as other leaders that we've had in this country.
It's kind of like when he released the tweet on Easter Sunday morning, and it was really directed at an audience of one group of people, and that being the Iranians.
And he wants them to know that he means it, he wants them to know that he's pissed.
He wants them to know the consequences of their actions ahead of time and force them to make changes.
And so far, I think that it has achieved its intended purpose for all intent and purposes.
The president is very clear that U.S. forces will stay near Iran until they have a lasting deal.
I can't tell you exactly what comes next, but under the agreement, Iran is.
Going to allow safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz for this two week period with due consideration of technical limitations.
The U.S. and Israel have suspended the bombing.
They're now figuring out the one issue that wasn't discussed, and that has to do with Lebanon.
There are a lot of people that are wondering, well, what is Russia's role in this?
What is China's role in this?
The North Koreans' role in this?
I can tell you what it is they've been largely responsible for the technology for the Iranians to build out their ballistic missile systems, their air defense systems.
Now, which I understand that most of those were Russian, ballistic missile technology mostly came from North Korea.
A lot of their nuclear capability came from North Korea and China and Russia also.
But if I'm Russia and you see how Israel and the U.S. has obliterated their air defense system, You got to take note.
Uh oh.
We had no idea how ineffective our air defense systems would be against the United States and the might of its military.
And we kind of already saw that Russia was a bit of a paper tiger because they've been four plus years in Ukraine and they've not been able to finish that off.
But, you know, there are those out there that are skeptical, those that would have preferred Bridge Day and Infrastructure Day.
I am not at all uncomfortable with the president's strategy.
And I have every belief he, as usual, means what he says.
Price of oil went up just slightly today, not a lot.
There was one report in the Financial Times that Iran is demanding crypto fees for ships passing through the Straighter Hormuz.
That is not going to continue.
That I have gotten directly from people involved in the discussions.
So if it was, they were doing it during the conflict, but before the ceasefire, I don't think that's going to continue.
The president has repeated his claim that NATO does not support the U.S. When we needed at least a little support, you know, the right to land our freaking plane, a right to refuel, the right to fly over.
You know, why do we have American troops on the ground in Europe?
What's the point?
Why are we paying two thirds of NATO's freight?
Now, President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio face this NATO chief, and, you know, the president rightly is re examining this alliance.
Mark Rutt, the NATO General Secretary, who's been very supportive of the president.
He said that the conversation was very frank.
He admitted the president was beyond disappointed.
And I'm sure that has already been communicated to our allies, maybe even our former allies.
I don't know.
You know, Macron saying the ceasefire is the best possible outcome.
We don't need his input.
We don't need Neville Chamberlain Starmer's input either.
We don't need Spain's input.
We don't need Italy's input.
I could care less what any of them have to say.
I don't care what the Greek prime minister warning that the.
The Straight of Hormuz toll plan is completely unacceptable.
Okay, well, then you go deal with it.
You go open it up.
Don't expect the United States to do your work for you.
You know, the money that we're spending on NATO, some $800 and some odd billion a year, can be better spent on our own national security, building out our own Golden Dome.
And maybe after we do all the hard work, maybe then we can share it.
By the way, we found footage.
Were you able to get this footage of Schumer, Linda, slamming Obama's nuclear deal?
And he says, if Iran's going to cheat, it won't be at a declared site with the world watching.
This is Schumer.
Remember, he brought cargo planes of cash and other currency.