Sean Hannity Show - The China Conflict
Aired: 2026-04-21
Duration: 28:47


=== Trump Warns Xi on Iran (14:25) ===

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[00:00:16]  When this is all said and done, hopefully sooner than later, may take a little bit longer, you know, because the Iranians have their own little power struggle going on.
[00:00:24]  The president's been very clear where he stands, as we went over in great detail in the last hour.
[00:00:29]  But there's going to be, you know, a realignment.
[00:00:33]  When all is said and done, I think, especially with NATO and I think America's relationship with the Middle East, also, you know, when you look at the president, I imagine that Cuba's on the precipice of falling.
[00:00:46]  Obviously, what happened with Maduro, obviously, the influence of China and Russia in our hemisphere, the Western hemisphere, is now greatly diminished.
[00:00:56]  Same with the Middle East.
[00:00:57]  They have chosen to side with President Trump.
[00:01:01]  So something dramatic is going to happen.
[00:01:03]  And for the president to, Get on the phone with President Xi of China and say, You better not be arming the Iranians or replenishing their weaponry because that's not going to go over very well.
[00:01:16]  And turning back, as he did last week, a Chinese tanker and doing it with great confidence.
[00:01:23]  And in the lead up, and as we prepare for the president's coming trip, pending trip to China, I'm expected to go on that trip.
[00:01:32]  It's just interesting to see this realignment unfold before our eyes.
[00:01:37]  Like I have been saying for a long time that.
[00:01:39]  Western Europe has disintegrated before our very eyes over the last number of decades.
[00:01:44]  They have neglected national security, their own defense.
[00:01:47]  They have been weak NATO allies and partners.
[00:01:50]  They've been even unwilling to pay their fair share.
[00:01:52]  We pay about two thirds of that budget.
[00:01:54]  They've embraced radical leftism, socialism, climate alarmism.
[00:02:00]  And even more disturbingly, they have allowed unfettered illegal immigration without assimilation.
[00:02:06]  And that has resulted in Sharia courts, nearly 100 of them in Great Britain.
[00:02:10]  That has resulted in no go zones in places like France and other parts of Western Europe.
[00:02:15]  And I never thought we'd see that happen in our lifetime.
[00:02:19]  People that come to these countries have no desire to assimilate, they want to impose their way of life on the people of the country that graciously opened their doors to them.
[00:02:29]  And it's spectacular that the leadership, Keir Starmer, Macron, Prime Minister of Spain, and even the Prime Minister of Italy have allowed all this to happen.
[00:02:39]  And they're making these bold proclamations about.
[00:02:42]  Well, we are going to figure what life is going to be like without the United States.
[00:02:47]  They are decades behind catching up to us militarily.
[00:02:51]  I don't think Putin even views them as a threat anymore.
[00:02:56]  You know, for example, when the president announced that Europe was offering to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, this was right after they had announced that the shipping lanes were open.
[00:03:04]  Obviously, a hiccup over the weekend, although the president is responding very forcefully to that.
[00:03:09]  But it's funny to listen to Neville Chamberlain Stormer make this proclamation.
[00:03:14]  We just had a very productive meeting bringing together 49 countries around a very simple message and proposition that the world needs the Strait of Hormuz fully open.
[00:03:27]  Because that is how we keep prices down for our people and stop the global economic damage.
[00:03:33]  So we've all agreed there was real unity in the meeting that we've just had.
[00:03:37]  We want to see a return to talks and a lasting agreement, including the reopening of the Strait.
[00:03:44]  Yeah, a little too little too late.
[00:03:46]  And even this weekend, after the Iranians broke the ceasefire, I mean, here's audio of a U.S. Navy destroyer warning and then firing on this Iranian cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:03:58]  Motor Vessel Tosca, Motor Vessel Tosca, vacate your engine room.
[00:04:03]  Vacate your engine room.
[00:04:04]  We're prepared to subject you to disabling fire.
[00:04:10]  Okay, we Well, they didn't vacate their engine room and the engine room got blown up.
[00:04:29]  How does this ultimately reconfigure?
[00:04:31]  What is this realignment going to look like?
[00:04:33]  Gordon Chang is with us, author of the book Plan Red China's Project to Destroy America.
[00:04:40]  Okay, so I was somewhat to my amazement that President Xi did, in fact, back down on the issue of arming the Iranians, at least as far as we know.
[00:04:53]  If he's doing something covert, I don't have knowledge of that.
[00:04:56]  If you do, please share it with us.
[00:04:59]  Similarly, the idea that we turn back a Chinese tanker, I think, was a strong position of strength for America to take because they are far more reliant on Iranian energy and oil sources than we are.
[00:05:13]  We don't need a thing from the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:05:16]  And then we have the upcoming trip with the president and President Xi of China.
[00:05:21]  I'm expected to fly with the president on that trip.
[00:05:24]  And that should be probably my only chance in life to get to go to China.
[00:05:28]  What are your thoughts?
[00:05:29]  Well, certainly President Trump is reordering the world.
[00:05:32]  And one thing that we have learned throughout this year from the January 3 raid on Venezuela to what is occurring today, and that is that there's only one superpower in the world.
[00:05:42]  That's the United States.
[00:05:43]  It certainly isn't China.
[00:05:45]  You know, a number of Western analysts are saying China's playing this shrewd, passive game.
[00:05:51]  No, they're not.
[00:05:53]  They're passive.
[00:05:53]  Yeah, they are passive.
[00:05:55]  But the reason is that they cannot afford and have no capability. of standing up to a determined American president who is willing to use force to achieve American aims.
[00:06:07]  We have seen China try to arm the Iranians, certainly help the Iranians with targeting information, all the rest of it.
[00:06:15]  But, you know, you mentioned the United States and the blockade, Sean.
[00:06:20]  Yesterday, the United States, as you pointed out in that audio clip, stopped that Iranian ship.
[00:06:28]  Well, that ship was plying between Iran and China.
[00:06:32]  And many people thought that it was carrying Chinese weapons.
[00:06:36]  We don't know.
[00:06:36]  But the one thing we do know was that ship was sanctioned by the United States, and the United States stopped it and seized it.
[00:06:44]  This shows the world that the United States is willing to enforce norms on the high seas.
[00:06:50]  Nobody else is.
[00:06:51]  There is only one superpower in the world.
[00:06:55]  Why then do you warn America so often about China?
[00:06:58]  And what is the state of their economy currently?
[00:07:01]  And what do you expect to come out of these meetings with President Trump?
[00:07:05]  Trump going to China?
[00:07:06]  I warn the world because China is so weak that it could do something that can take us by surprise.
[00:07:12]  Two things, Sean.
[00:07:14]  One thing is that, first of all, Xi Jinping, who is the most ambitious aggressor in history, I think is starting to see a closing window of opportunity, which means he has incentives to act even when we think he doesn't.
[00:07:27]  But even more important, and this is the second thing, the Chinese political system is in disarray.
[00:07:32]  The purges are continuing.
[00:07:34]  They're hard to stop, as we know from Stalinist Russia.
[00:07:38]  And clearly right now, the purges are accelerating in Beijing.
[00:07:43]  That means Xi Jinping may decide that it is in his interest to lash out.
[00:07:48]  And it's not to rally the Chinese people, because the Chinese people don't want war, but it is to prevent other senior Communist Party figures from challenging him, because he feels that I think he sees that a conflict, a small one, would prevent other leaders from going after him.
[00:08:06]  So that's why I worry about a weak China.
[00:08:09]  What is in his interest to meet with President Trump and have this summit?
[00:08:13]  What is he looking to get out of this?
[00:08:15]  He is looking at a couple things.
[00:08:17]  First of all, the propaganda.
[00:08:19]  Anytime any foreign leader goes to China, it is always portrayed as a foreigner showing submission to the Chinese state, the Grand Celestial Court.
[00:08:29]  And those images are, I think, the most important thing that China sees.
[00:08:33]  Second of all, China needs access to the U.S. market.
[00:08:35]  It's never been more trade dependent in its history, and the United States accounts for something like 33, 34 percent of global consumer spending.
[00:08:44]  So he needs to be able to sell to Americans.
[00:08:47]  And then there are a number of other things that Xi Jinping has on the back burner.
[00:08:52]  There's like he wants to back President Trump off of Taiwan.
[00:08:56]  He certainly wants access to U.S. technology.
[00:08:59]  There are a lot of things that are on the table, but the most important are the propaganda and the access to the U.S. market.
[00:09:07]  One of the dumbest things I could do, I know you'll confirm this, is take my phone with me to China.
[00:09:14]  The Chinese already have hacked my phone.
[00:09:17]  The Russians have hacked my phone.
[00:09:18]  The Iranians have hacked my phone.
[00:09:20]  Why are they after my phone?
[00:09:21]  They're after your phone because you're an opinion leader and you have great influence in the United States, and they obviously want to know what you're thinking.
[00:09:30]  So your phone is one of the most important ones for them to seize.
[00:09:34]  Look, at the end of the day, I think there are territorial ambitions for.
[00:09:41]  As it relates to China, Taiwan, et cetera.
[00:09:45]  I don't think President Xi would act while Donald Trump is president.
[00:09:50]  Is that a miscalculation on my part?
[00:09:53]  I agree with you.
[00:09:54]  I think that they are worried about the use of American power, which they saw on January 3 with regard to Venezuela and as they're seeing now with regard to Iran.
[00:10:05]  They're also worried about something else, and that is President Trump's unpredictability.
[00:10:10]  The Chinese can deal with hostile American presidents, they can deal with friendly American presidents.
[00:10:15]  They can't deal with ones that they can't figure out.
[00:10:18]  And I believe that they cannot figure out President Trump.
[00:10:22]  So they'll give him a wide berth.
[00:10:24]  But with the Chinese political system in distress, I just don't know how they are going to react.
[00:10:31]  So I do worry about this time.
[00:10:34]  And I do hope that President Trump will be able to lay down the law, which I'm sure that he is going to be able to do because he's already done it from the beginning of this year.
[00:10:44]  How bad is their economy currently?
[00:10:47]  They say it grew 5.0% year on year in the first quarter of this year.
[00:10:52]  I read that.
[00:10:52]  I didn't believe it.
[00:10:54]  Yeah, it's hard to believe because even the official indicators, underlying indicators, don't point to 5.0.
[00:11:01]  Analysts were taken by surprise by how high it was, which is not a good sign.
[00:11:06]  And we're seeing other indicators about the way the Chinese leaders are acting, and that's not consistent with a strong economy.
[00:11:13]  So, for instance, they're going after foreign companies that are contemplating leaving China.
[00:11:18]  That's not the sign of an economy growing at a robust 5.0.
[00:11:23]  How important, imperative is it for them to get the Strait of Hormuz open because they get so much of their oil from Iran?
[00:11:31]  Two things.
[00:11:31]  First of all, it is the oil.
[00:11:32]  They get about 45 to 50 percent of their imported seaporn oil through the Strait.
[00:11:38]  And they do have an oil shock right now inside China.
[00:11:41]  But there's something more important, and that is that China is trade dependent.
[00:11:46]  It needs calm skies and seas so that people will be willing to trade.
[00:11:51]  And with the problems in the Strait of Hormuz and possibly elsewhere, they are worried that they will not be able to trade and export their way out of their current economic problems.
[00:12:03]  Their export plans are unrealistic, but they become completely impossible in a world which is deglobalizing and which is turbulent around the planet.
[00:12:15]  The thing is, you mentioned earlier that the Chinese, just like the Russians, just like the rest of the world, you know, friend and foe alike, allies and enemies, geopolitical foes.
[00:12:25]  There is this unpredictability of President Trump.
[00:12:29]  Now, I could tell you with 100% certainty that is all by design.
[00:12:33]  And I know that maybe in the minds of some Americans that really have no interest and have never had an interest, even though Donald Trump's been on the world stage for 11 years, they have no interest in understanding that he knows exactly what he is doing.
[00:12:47]  That unpredictability is factored into his thinking.
[00:12:50]  He does not want anybody to ever be able to figure him out.
[00:12:54]  He wants them.
[00:12:55]  You know, on the edge, and he has a degree of believability when he says something.
[00:13:01]  In other words, he's already done it.
[00:13:03]  I think that is maybe one of the strongest weapons that he's never gotten credit for.
[00:13:07]  I agree.
[00:13:07]  And we're seeing this in a number of different arenas.
[00:13:11]  You know, President Trump does think these things out.
[00:13:14]  You know, that New York Times article about the days before the attack on Iran, it points out how thoughtful the president has been on these things.
[00:13:25]  And that's something he doesn't get credit for.
[00:13:27]  for among the general public.
[00:13:29]  And certainly he doesn't get credit from the American elites who are always willing to think the worst of the president, who are always willing to run down our country.
[00:13:38]  And so I agree with you.
[00:13:40]  President Trump has got these guys on the back heels, and that's good.
[00:13:44]  I mean, I do not want the Chinese to feel confident about their dealings with the United States.
[00:13:49]  I don't either.
[00:13:50]  And I think that unpredictability.
[00:13:53]  Will I enjoy the trip there or no?
[00:13:55]  First of all, if the war is continuing, the trip probably will be postponed again.
[00:14:01]  I think you will enjoy the trip because Beijing is one of the more interesting cities in the world to see.
[00:14:06]  It's one of my favorite places.
[00:14:08]  And I am really jealous of you, Sean, because I can't go back, or at least I think it's not safe for me.
[00:14:14]  No, I don't think it would be a good idea for you to go back.
[00:14:16]  You think I'll be followed the whole time?
[00:14:18]  Yes, you will be followed.
[00:14:20]  You will be monitored.
[00:14:21]  Your hotel room will be videotaped while you brush your teeth.

=== Israel War and US Focus (11:39) ===

[00:14:25]  So you should they're going to videotape me taking a shower?
[00:14:29]  Thanks a lot, Gordon.
[00:14:30]  I really appreciate the details.
[00:14:31]  Thanks for now I have a high degree of comfort.
[00:14:35]  Can't wait for that sucker to get released online.
[00:14:38]  That should be every American's nightmare.
[00:14:41]  Anyway, Gordon Chang, we appreciate you.
[00:14:43]  800.
[00:14:43]  All right, stop laughing in there.
[00:14:46]  What's so funny about that?
[00:14:47]  Oh, nothing at all.
[00:14:48]  Nothing at all.
[00:14:49]  I think you're going to be taking a lot of showers in your swim trunks, I'll tell you that.
[00:14:54]  I don't even have a pair of swim trunks.
[00:14:56]  Do you want to get a cupball cap too?
[00:14:58]  If I could, I would.
[00:14:59]  Listen, I'm not sure if any of you heard.
[00:15:01]  I mean, we've got a midterm coming up, and there's a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan.
[00:15:09]  His name is Abdul El Sayed, and he's insisting that Israel is just as evil as the terror organization Hamas.
[00:15:20]  Hamas' charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
[00:15:26]  Israel does not call for the destruction of Hamas in Gaza, not at all.
[00:15:33]  They are the ones responsible for October 7th, which would be the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans a day.
[00:15:39]  And I know there are some people, how dare Bibi Netanyahu fight back and challenge Hamas that has done nothing for decades except build out terror tunnel networks.
[00:15:52]  And monies that should be going to hospitals and schools and roads and infrastructure, they've stolen that money to build out their terror operation to kill the Jews and to wipe Israel off the map.
[00:16:04]  The extinction of Israel is in their own charter.
[00:16:06]  The people in Gaza voted in Hamas, and it's in their own charter.
[00:16:11]  And this idiot, this guy, Democrat, running in Michigan for the U.S. Senate, this is what he said.
[00:16:18]  You said the Israeli government is evil.
[00:16:19]  Do you think they're just as evil as Hamas?
[00:16:21]  Yes, killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil.
[00:16:24]  It's not how evil is this one versus that one.
[00:16:26]  Hamas, evil.
[00:16:27]  Israeli government evil?
[00:16:29]  We could say both.
[00:16:29]  Is Netanyahu, in your view, a war criminal?
[00:16:32]  He's a war criminal.
[00:16:33]  Absolutely.
[00:16:33]  Do you not think he is?
[00:16:34]  When you conduct a genocide, you're a war criminal.
[00:16:37]  What do you make of the fact that Haley Stevens is backed by AIPAC?
[00:16:40]  I find that disastrous for our politics.
[00:16:43]  And you should be more interested in what's happening in Michigan than you are interested in what's happening in Tel Aviv.
[00:16:47]  Let me tell you what the reality is.
[00:16:49]  There is a very high Muslim population in Dearborn, Michigan.
[00:16:53]  And what Abdul El Sayed is doing is he's playing to that base in the hopes of getting the Democratic nomination.
[00:17:01]  And further cementing the impression, which is real, that the modern left wing extreme radicalized Democratic Party is now the party and the home of radical anti Semitism.
[00:17:15]  And why the likes of leaders in name only like Chucky Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries will not call out these radicals that now control their party.
[00:17:23]  There's no excuse for it.
[00:17:25]  And here's the worst part I would tell you is odds of getting the nomination are probably pretty high in Michigan for the Democratic Party.
[00:17:36]  But you see this rise, and people talk about, well, Hannity, you see it all over online media.
[00:17:41]  This is the problem.
[00:17:43]  People believe online media.
[00:17:44]  Online media is an Alice in Wonderland.
[00:17:49]  It is not real.
[00:17:51]  I mean, you've got to understand that there are millions, hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars from outside entities that are targeting your children for their hearts and minds.
[00:18:04]  I mean, we have our top geopolitical foes that are trying to foment.
[00:18:10]  Thought, including virulent anti Semitism in your young kids, and you're not aware, most parents are not aware what their kids are doing when they are online.
[00:18:20]  I did this whole series, Radicalized, that's on Fox Nation, and you need to watch it because your kids that you think it's innocent are on their phones, they're playing games.
[00:18:29]  No, they're being radicalized, they're on social media.
[00:18:33]  That's why you see these kids that get so reactive when they get bullied online.
[00:18:38]  It is beyond influential and is having a way bigger impact than people know.
[00:18:43]  But I mean countries like Iran and China and Russia and other Gulf state nations that have not been particularly aligned with Israel.
[00:18:52]  They are purposely targeting your children to indoctrinate them into this anti Semitic thought.
[00:18:58]  Well, Bibi's popularity among college students is down significantly because these kids read this and they think that this is real.
[00:19:06]  It's not.
[00:19:07]  These are outside influences.
[00:19:09]  And just like you have crazy people in their underwear or naked in their parents' basement, these very courageous.
[00:19:16]  Eboard warriors that are trying to, you know, just put nothing but toxicity online.
[00:19:23]  It's not real.
[00:19:24]  I'm just telling you, it's not.
[00:19:26]  And whether you care to believe me or not is going to be up to you.
[00:19:28]  All right, let's go to George in South Carolina.
[00:19:31]  George's heart is troubled this Monday.
[00:19:33]  Let's see if we can't help him out.
[00:19:34]  What's up, George?
[00:19:35]  What troubles your heart?
[00:19:37]  Sean, I'm a big time fan of yours.
[00:19:39]  I'm a big Trump supporter.
[00:19:42]  But yes, my heart is troubled what's going on in Lebanon right now.
[00:19:46]  There's a lot of innocent people, civilians, Christians in particular, that are being killed there.
[00:19:52]  I mean, it just seems like Israel's just going in there and carpet bombing the whole southern part of the country.
[00:19:58]  It'd be like, you know, in Long Island, a Hezbollah terror cell, let's just bomb all Long Island.
[00:20:04]  I just don't think it's.
[00:20:05]  George, let me ask you a question.
[00:20:06]  Did this happen in a vacuum or did Hezbollah, again, another terrorist group committed to Israel's destruction, Have they not been firing indiscriminately into Israel for decades?
[00:20:18]  I mean, are you saying the Israelis should not fight back?
[00:20:22]  What I'm just saying is there's got to be a better way to do it.
[00:20:25]  You can't have innocent children and people get killed that are Christian.
[00:20:29]  And in light of what happened over the weekend with Israel, their idea, you know, one of the soldiers taking a picture, and it was confirmed to be real of Jesus Christ being slammed with a sledgehammer.
[00:20:39]  That was a one off.
[00:20:40]  That's not how the people, having been to Israel many times, that's not how the people of Israel feel about Christianity.
[00:20:46]  As evidenced by the Old City.
[00:20:48]  If you have not been to Israel, I strongly recommend maybe when it's more peaceful, you go over there and you can see the five sectors within the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Christian sector where many believe that Jesus was buried.
[00:21:00]  But let me focus directly on these two apartment buildings, which is what you're referring to.
[00:21:05]  Yes, there were civilian casualties, there was collateral damage.
[00:21:12]  However, those, and I've done a lot of work finding out the background of what happened here.
[00:21:18]  And those two specific apartment buildings that were targeted were taken over by Hezbollah terrorists that had been targeting and killing Israelis.
[00:21:30]  Now, you have this longstanding problem, and we saw this in Iran when Donald Trump was talking about blowing up bridges and infrastructure.
[00:21:38]  What did the Iranians do?
[00:21:40]  They took innocent citizens and they lined them up on the bridges, lined them up outside of power stations as human shields.
[00:21:48]  They have done this in Gaza.
[00:21:50]  They've done this in Lebanon.
[00:21:52]  This is who they are.
[00:21:53]  This is how they act.
[00:21:54]  You know, out of Gaza, they fire missiles from schools and hospitals and other civilian areas, from people's homes.
[00:22:02]  And they do it because if you look at, for example, the Iranians, they have targeted Tel Aviv, densely populated area.
[00:22:09]  Well, the Israelis, the Americans, who have we been targeting in Iran?
[00:22:13]  We have been targeting their military targets.
[00:22:15]  We're not targeting the population, densely populated areas inside of Iran.
[00:22:20]  And that is the same mentality mindset that has existed in this nonstop, never ending proxy war by radical jihadists that has been fought against Western civilization.
[00:22:32]  Can I say something, Sean?
[00:22:33]  I don't disagree with you.
[00:22:34]  What you're saying, war is ugly, it's a terrible thing.
[00:22:37]  There are no winners, there's no losers.
[00:22:38]  But, you know.
[00:22:40]  No, there are winners and losers.
[00:22:42]  I disagree.
[00:22:43]  You can win a war.
[00:22:44]  Yeah, but you take a lot of atrocities and things that, you know, make the history books for future generations to read.
[00:22:52]  But.
[00:22:52]  You know, at the end of the day, what's the alternative?
[00:22:55]  If somebody killed 40,000 Americans in a day, what would you want your government to do?
[00:22:59]  Because that's what happened on October 7th.
[00:23:01]  Yeah, I mean, I don't want to get into that.
[00:23:03]  But the other thing is.
[00:23:04]  No, I really want you to get into that.
[00:23:07]  They have a population of about 9 million people in Israel.
[00:23:11]  When you extrapolate out their population size versus ours, that would be 40,000 dead Americans in a day.
[00:23:18]  What would you want us to do to a country that did that to us or a group of people that did that to us?
[00:23:23]  What would you want America?
[00:23:24]  How would you expect your government to respond?
[00:23:26]  It's terrible.
[00:23:27]  I'd probably want them to retaliate.
[00:23:29]  Retaliate or obliterate?
[00:23:30]  What's the difference?
[00:23:31]  And there's a big difference.
[00:23:32]  It's a tough one.
[00:23:33]  I don't like, you know, I'm a peaceful person.
[00:23:35]  I don't like seeing anybody.
[00:23:37]  I want to be peaceful too, but how do you make peace with people that think you're an infidel and that strapping bombs on their own kids is justifiable and the promise of 72 virgins?
[00:23:47]  How are you going to have a conversation with them?
[00:23:49]  Right.
[00:23:49]  It's, it's, it's, I think President Trump said it at one time.
[00:23:53]  He said both of these sides, they don't know what they're doing.
[00:23:56]  They've been fighting for hundreds of years or, you know, decades now, and none of them could get it right.
[00:24:02]  You know, they don't want, some of them want peace, some of them don't.
[00:24:05]  There's just some underlying factors there that just don't.
[00:24:09]  Hamas' charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
[00:24:12]  Israel does not want to destroy the people in Gaza or the people in Lebanon or be at war with Iran.
[00:24:19]  I'm telling you, they don't.
[00:24:20]  They would much rather live in peace.
[00:24:23]  But here's my point.
[00:24:24]  First, it was Palestine.
[00:24:26]  Now it's Lebanon.
[00:24:27]  There's talks of annexing the land that is surrounding him, making a greater Israel.
[00:24:32]  Do you think he's doing that, or do you think he's just doing what you say he's doing, just retaliating?
[00:24:37]  Or do you think he's looked on a land grab to make a greater Israel?
[00:24:41]  Well, usually, if in war, if you defeat the other side, you know, and you need a buffer zone or you win territory, then it's yours.
[00:24:50]  Now, that's historically speaking.
[00:24:52]  However, do I think the Israelis would be content to have their current borders and live in peace?
[00:24:57]  Do I think on the other side of this Iran conflict, the odds for a lasting peace in the Middle East are going to be greater than they've ever been and something that I definitely hope for?
[00:25:07]  Let me ask you another question.
[00:25:08]  Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
[00:25:11]  Right decision, wrong decision.
[00:25:13]  I wasn't around then, but I guess.
[00:25:16]  Come on, now you're copping out.
[00:25:17]  Stop.
[00:25:19]  I don't know.
[00:25:19]  I mean, I wasn't around to judge the time, the temperature in the room or anything, but obviously it's in all our history books, and it's one of the days that is on our calendar to mourn every year.
[00:25:35]  So I don't know.
[00:25:37]  I mean, right now, the relationship seems to be good between Japan and the United States.
[00:25:40]  So at the end of the day, maybe it kind of woke up.
[00:25:43]  A lot of the world.
[00:25:45]  A commonly cited range is anywhere between 90,000 and 166,000 deaths.
[00:25:52]  A frequently referenced Japanese estimate is about 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945.
[00:25:59]  They attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
[00:26:01]  Did we do the right thing defending ourselves?
[00:26:03]  Yeah, I believe so.

=== Hannity Signs Off Tonight (02:42) ===

[00:26:05]  I mean, I'm not.
[00:26:06]  Okay.
[00:26:06]  So tell me what the difference is.
[00:26:08]  You know, I just, like I said, it's a very, it's a part of the world that there just hasn't been peace in so long.
[00:26:15]  I'm a peaceful guy.
[00:26:16]  I just want to see these countries get along.
[00:26:18]  And at the end of the day, that's what my phone call is.
[00:26:21]  I hate seeing human life so disregarded.
[00:26:26]  I do too.
[00:26:27]  But you know what?
[00:26:29]  You wouldn't strap bombs on your own children and promise them 72 virgins in heaven if they killed other innocent men, women, and children.
[00:26:37]  That's the problem.
[00:26:38]  We're dealing with a death cult.
[00:26:40]  And you have to face the reality that exists, not the one you wish existed.
[00:26:44]  Joe and Ella Jape, you're next on The Sean Hannity Show.
[00:26:48]  Hi.
[00:26:49]  John, great show.
[00:26:50]  You're the best in America, the best taxpayer champion.
[00:26:53]  I think Trump is doing a great job.
[00:26:54]  I think he'll finish up with Iran.
[00:26:56]  We need to be patient.
[00:26:57]  And I think once he does, the price of gasoline will go down and we will win the midterms, in my opinion, with landslides.
[00:27:05]  But you're doing just a fantastic job for the American taxpayers.
[00:27:10]  And I just want to say thank you so much.
[00:27:12]  Well, you're very kind and you're very welcome, Joe and LOJ.
[00:27:16]  You're a good man.
[00:27:17]  I will tell you that, yeah, this may take a little bit longer than initially planned.
[00:27:23]  Unfortunately, as Lindsey Graham very accurately depicted this, you have the guys in suits, they've woken up to the fact that they're going to lose.
[00:27:32]  And then you got the guys with the guns, and the guys with the guns brought an end to the ceasefire.
[00:27:37]  However, how this ends, we win and they lose.
[00:27:41]  That's how it's going to end.
[00:27:42]  And it will end sooner than later.
[00:27:44]  It's just a matter of how much force the president ultimately will have to use.
[00:27:49]  I like this last caller.
[00:27:50]  I respect life.
[00:27:51]  I would rather nobody be radical and extreme like this.
[00:27:55]  But that's not the truth.
[00:27:56]  That's not the world we live in.
[00:27:58]  Unfortunately, I'm very pro life.
[00:28:01]  I don't want people to die, but I don't like people killing other innocent people either.
[00:28:06]  And that's what we're dealing with.
[00:28:07]  Appreciate the call, Joe.
[00:28:08]  All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
[00:28:11]  Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern, on the Fox News Channel.
[00:28:14]  News I promise you won't get from the legacy media mob, fake news, CNN, MSDNC.
[00:28:19]  And this is important news.
[00:28:21]  What's really going on with Iran?
[00:28:24]  We'll get it all broken down with General Jack Keane, Caroline Levitt.
[00:28:28]  White House Press Secretary.
[00:28:30]  Also, we'll check in with James Comer tonight.
[00:28:32]  Nancy Grace, what about these 11 missing people that are involved in important science and intel in this country?
[00:28:39]  What about them?
[00:28:40]  Nine Eastern, set your DVR.
[00:28:42]  Hannity on Fox, we'll see you tonight.
[00:28:44]  Back here tomorrow.
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