Sean Hannity opens with caller Linda's son Liam rejecting school for pizza, then pivots to President Trump's economic blockade on Iran, citing $400–$500 million daily losses and potential oil shutdowns. He claims Spain faces NATO suspension, notes 850 Tomahawk missiles fired, and warns Democrats could seize all federal offices while pushing for immediate impeachment. Hannity concludes by urging listeners to vote against what he labels Nazi and fascist "lunatics" in the Democratic Party. [Automatically generated summary]
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Liam's Waffle Fry Preference00:03:21
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It's 800 941 Sean.
If you want to join us, did Liam have a good Take Your Children to Work Day yesterday?
Linda, how did it happen?
Yeah, I hope you're looking for another child so you can adopt him and you can take him next year because you're the fan favorite today.
I'd love to.
Forget about it.
I hate to tell you, he shows up in the free state of Florida.
Where I live, he ain't going home.
Oh, yeah.
He's not going back.
He's not going to want to go back to school.
Let me tell you something.
In the school drop off line.
I'm telling you right now, we were in the school drop off line this morning.
True story.
He looks at me.
He goes, I got to tell you, Mom, I'm not on board with this.
I look at him like, What are you not on board with?
He goes, I thought we were a good team yesterday.
I think you should just take me to work again today.
Just take me with you.
I'm like, Are you for real?
This kid.
I'm like, Get out of the car.
Go to school.
Learn something.
All right.
What is the real fallout?
Because I got some intel that you had a very difficult time all throughout the night last night because of the discussion that I had with your son on this program yesterday.
Yeah, suddenly he's deprived.
He's very deprived.
Did you inform the audience what Liam was saying to you?
He was hysterical because we got done.
He goes, You know, I should get more pizza.
Sean's right.
I should get more pizza.
And, you know, Sean got him pizza yesterday, real pizza.
Yes.
And he had chicken fingers.
He had, now, he did not have Chick fil A waffle fries yesterday, although he did want them.
And then he thought, Well, maybe we'll get some on our way home.
And since we were in traffic for 800 hours, I probably should have.
But it was hysterical.
He was like, I should get more of this.
And it He's right.
I should do more of that.
I'm like, no, he is not right.
We are doing air fried fries and we are making homemade pizza because it is a bonding experience.
But clearly, the bonding is not as.
So, obviously, if Liam was free and didn't live in your prison of radicalism when it comes to food, and if he had his choice, I was more right than you were.
While I mentioned McDonald's fries versus your air fried French fries, he turns out he would prefer French fries that were cooked in oil because he wanted waffle fries.
It just so happens it's from Chick fil A, which he prefers over McDonald's, which, by the way, everyone is entitled to their preference.
I didn't even know that you ever gave him a waffle fry.
I'm sure he's only had it once or twice in his life.
I will tell you, you're a little bit skewed in your analysis here.
You're a little bit off the mark.
No, not a little bit off the mark.
When given the choice, he wants the French fries that are cooked in oil.
No, what he said was now I wasn't in here for the interrogation.
He didn't say in five seconds.
He said, if you had to do takeouts.
That he would want waffle fries, but he loves my fries.
No, There was no caveat about takeout.
You are depriving this kid.
And if it wasn't for Uncle Sean, he would not have had the pizza that he had yesterday that he really loved and was so grateful for.
And he said, Why don't we get more pizza, Mom?
Did he or did he not say that?
Yes.
I mean, I tell you, he's just the homemade meals, you know, with the protein and a vegetable and a starch.
And Mom, I want more oil cooked fries, Mom.
Did he not say that to you?
Well, I don't know that he used exactly that, but I will tell you.
And Uncle Sean is right about everything, and you're wrong, Mom.
This is fake news, obviously, a little bit.
But yes, I was wrong about a lot last night.
Military Pressure on Iran00:15:26
There's no question.
And how long did this little discussion go on after the show?
Well, we were in traffic for three hours getting home.
So it was quite a while.
Then he fell asleep.
He was like, all right, I'm done.
It's pretty funny.
All right.
Happy Friday.
I have a different perspective that I want to share with a lot of you today regarding.
I think I really figured something out that maybe the president really telegraphed yesterday and didn't realize.
And this goes back to my conversation that I had with him earlier this week when he said to me, I can bomb him anytime I want.
That's not going to be a problem.
And I can knock all of this out anytime that I want.
And of course, you have number one, you have a problem with the Iranians can't even communicate with each other because none of them dare pick up a cell phone.
Number one.
Number two, who is actually in charge?
That is a real problem.
And the, but however, the president's giving every indication that the blockade has been so effective.
Not a single ship has gotten through, in spite of there was a report by the fake news media.
This is the one where Chris Murphy from Connecticut said, Oh, awesome.
26 ships have slipped through the blockade.
That was fake news.
It wasn't true.
As we come on the air, 12 Pacific, 3 Eastern today, the U.S. envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, they are traveling to Pakistan for negotiations with the Iranian foreign minister, Aragachi, to U.S. officials telling Axios, I would assume by this point that the Iranians got the message they need a unified.
Response to what the president has proposed to them.
In the end, it's going to have to be no nukes, give up the dust, open the straight, join the free world, or get obliterated.
And that's going to be pretty much their choice.
They have no cards to play.
And that's why the president extended the ceasefire.
But anyway, they're expected to arrive in Islamabad late tonight for these talks.
And also, the foreign minister will be there, the field marshal will be there in Pakistan, the prime minister will also be there.
And a Pakistani official telling Axios the meeting with Aragachi will focus on relaunching negotiations and a trilateral meeting will take place.
Vice President Vance, who led the U.S. negotiating team in previous rounds, did not make the trip because his counterpart, the Speaker of the Parliament, won't travel in this particular case.
I don't know if you should read the tea leaves into that or not.
The Pentagon now considering suspending Spain from NATO for trying to block America's initial attack.
On Iran.
I think this is the beginning of NATO's decline, which we have spent a lot of time talking about.
Most of Europe, most of NATO, they have allowed their individual countries, they have allowed the continent of Europe to disintegrate right before our very eyes.
They have not at all kept up with their national security needs, their national defense, nor the defense of NATO in general.
We pay two thirds of the bill, and they didn't have the moral clarity to stand up against radical Islamic terrorism.
It's crazy.
Before I get to my theory on where the president is on this, I just want to give a little more.
You know, information on where he is standing.
By the way, the president's funny.
The Southern Poverty Law Center paid 70 grand to the leader of the American Nazi Party.
Did you read that, Linda?
Oh my gosh.
They were paying money to all of this.
I mean, you can't even make this stuff up.
Former KKK member, Aryan Nations director, the same man they had listed as an extremist on their own website.
It's crazy.
They are the problem and the solution all at the same time.
The problem.
Well, I think they did it to create a false notion, but it's crazy what they're doing.
Anyway, but I digress for a second here.
So here's where we stand at this moment.
And I think that this may be more deep and more profound than people have actually given the president credit for.
And I think this is why the president was saying in detail yesterday that time is on his side.
The president's not in a rush.
When are you going to end this?
When are you going to end this?
Which, by the way, is a fair question.
I understand what people are saying, and he definitely is going to stick by his, this is not going to be a forever war.
What he told me specifically was I can make that decision and it'll be over in 15 minutes.
But apparently, this blockade has been way more impactful in the Iranian economy than anybody knew.
U.S. economic pressure on Iran now has reached one of its most powerful points in decades.
And now, the enforcement by the naval blockade that we put in place.
They're losing serious money, $400 to $500 million a day.
And as Scott Bessem pointed out, and I read his tweet on the air, his ex post on the air the other day, saying that they're not going to have any storage.
I don't know how much most people know about oil production, but when you strike a well and you're producing oil, you have to keep producing if you want to get the maximum amount of oil.
If you have to shut that down, Meaning the Iranians don't have any more storage capability.
At that point, the odds of you ever getting back to the same level of production where you were are negligible.
At best, you're hoping for maybe 50 to 60% of what you otherwise were producing on a daily basis.
I'm not a land man.
I don't know enough about it.
If somebody wants to call in and tell me and educate me, I'm really interested in hearing more about it.
I have researched it.
But anyway, so what the president has done here is we've never had.
The level of leverage that we now have just because of the economic pressures that the president has put on Iran and how effective, far more effective than I think anybody knew this blockade would ultimately be.
I mean, all the media wants to focus in on is they've got a little gunboat and they're dropping mines.
Whether they are or aren't, I don't know because I don't trust the fake news industry.
But the president, by escalating this pressure and saying that we have total control over the Strait of Hormuz and that it's sealed up tight and that the Iranians can't sell any oil and nobody can get their tankers filled and get out of there, that means that there's no place to put the oil, which means that probably within the next week, those oil wells are all going to be backed up and have to be shut down.
There's no place to put it.
In other words, they're running out of oil storage.
And in what we think will be a maximum of three weeks, but probably likely next week, which then forces production cuts while gasoline shortages then hit on a similar timeline because now they're going to be relying on imports, but they can't even get it into their country, combined with the amount of money they're losing on a daily basis, and it's 90% of the economy.
And at the core of this pressure is this is it, this is their economy.
Right now, their currency is worth zero.
Right now, their inflation rate is 200%.
Right now, they are bringing in no money, and half their workforce is now out of work.
And pretty soon, they're not even going to be able to pay the IRGC forces either, Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces.
They're not going to be able to pay them, which means that this may be so effective that Iran's economy can drive them.
Back to the negotiating table.
Now, why is the president sensitive?
Why was it?
Because I've gotten this question from a lot of people.
Why doesn't the president just wipe out Carg Island?
Why doesn't the president just follow up and wipe out their bridges, their infrastructure, their power plants?
As he told me this week, he could do that.
I said, I know, in under an hour, two hours.
He goes, no, probably under five minutes.
That's how quickly he can do it.
But Iran's economy relies on the Strait of Hormuz more than any other economy.
And yeah, there are other countries and continents, such as Asia, Japan, South Korea, India, China, are most exposed to this disruption.
And many have built up reserves, and Japan's oil reserve is pretty significant, the same with China.
But still, the region remains heavily dependent on the waterway of the Strait of Hormuz.
Now, if in fact this does bankrupt them, now they have no capacity to even.
Even get whatever remaining tier of leadership exists.
I mean, we're kind of like the walls are closing in on them, and the pressure is all on them, which is what the president was trying to communicate to the stupid media yesterday that had just asked, Are you thinking of nuking them?
Did you hear that dumb question?
They're so stupid.
But anyway, the imports between 30 to 60 million liters of gasoline a day to cover a domestic shortfall of 35 million liters.
They run out of gasoline, they're going to have a major crisis domestically.
If their workforce has no work, those people then will become desperate.
They'll have nothing to lose.
The economic pressure, the idea that one country is so reliant on one industry for their entire economy, this economic chokehold, I mean, we put them, to use an MMA analogy, we put them in a submission hold at this point.
And either they're going to tap out or they're going to pass out.
If you get somebody in a chokehold and you are in the right spot and you lock it down, they're either going to tap or they're going to pass out.
It seems to be the most fitting analogy here.
You know, the guy that played the central role in the Treasury Department sanction campaigns against Iran and its network said in an on camera interview that the current moment reflects a rare convergence of economic, political, and diplomatic leverage.
He said, We've never had this level of leverage that we have today with Iran in the history of our conflict since 1979.
And when the president said the blockade scares them even more than the bombing, that's what the president is saying.
And when the president orders the U.S. Navy to triple their minesweeping operations in the Strait of Hormuz, He's also thinking about the impact of the 90 plus million people in Iran.
So he can achieve all of his goals.
And what he's doing by waiting is hoping that he doesn't have to disrupt life in such a dramatic fashion for all the people that have been, frankly, oppressed for 47 years.
You might not like that goal, but to give that a little bit of time makes a lot of sense to me, especially in light of how effective the blockade has been.
800 941 Shawn is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
The economic side of this is pretty amazing.
I don't know what the Iranians are going to do.
I don't know if they know what they're going to do.
I will tell you this if we break them economically, I don't think the regime's radicals can survive.
You can't pay your.
Let me tell you one thing that will break down radicalism very, very quickly.
Very quickly is when you stop paying your military.
The people that get paid the most inside of Iran, they're not sharing the $400, $500 million a day in oil revenues.
That money's not being shared with the people in Iran.
They have been oppressed.
They have been beaten down.
They have been, if they don't dress a certain way, they get beaten.
If they really dress outrageously, they get killed.
If you're gay or lesbian, you get killed.
If you say anything against the regime, you get killed.
They have been oppressed.
And there's 90 plus million people.
And the Persian people have a great rich history that is incredible.
It would be great to be able to restore that.
It would be great if they had an economy to begin with.
That's why the military option is on the table.
And the president has been very clear.
He even said it again yesterday.
If they don't want to make a deal, I will finish this up militarily.
He says they've accomplished 75% of what they set out to do within the first four weeks.
And now the next part is going to be the part that destroys them completely.
They've destroyed the military targets and most of them.
Now they can destroy the economic targets and the infrastructure targets.
And when they have no money, and again, we're already seeing signs that this blockade was far more effective than I think anybody had imagined.
Well, Hannity, we need to get the free flow of oil at market prices.
I understand that.
But I understand that stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons, knowing they have ballistic missiles that can reach Paris and London, that's That's a little bit more important and more of a clear and present danger.
And the president's right about the power struggle.
You know, we'll see what happens as Steve Witkoff, we'll see what happens as Jared Kushner now go back to Islamabad and they'll have another meeting, hopefully with a more united Iranian message.
The Iranian president delivered a speech during an inspection visit to the Ministry of Sports and Youth in Tehran, and he responded to President Trump.
He said that their country has hardline and moderate leaders and that they're fighting with each other.
And he said, In Iran, there are no radicals, there are no moderates.
This was written on X.
We are all Iranian and revolutionary.
And with the iron unity of the nation and government, complete obedience to the supreme leader of the revolution will make the aggressor criminal regret his actions.
By the way, that same message was put out simultaneously within 60 seconds.
Exact same message.
By the head of the Iranian parliament.
What does that mean?
The leaders are not in control of the social media.
That's what that means.
So, you know, that's pretty much the news from Lake Wobegon as it relates to Iran.
The supreme leader, we have an update on him.
This is Khamenei's son, Khamenei.
His face is so disfigured, he will need plastic surgery.
There's talk about him needing prosthetics.
He's never been seen.
You know, they put out remarks.
In his name.
Nobody believes that it's from him.
The critical missile stockpiles are pretty much wiped out.
U.S. forces fired more than 850 Tomahawks.
I mean, this campaign has been devastating.
Carrier Strike Group Intel00:03:56
USS Carrier Strike Group in the Middle East.
Linda, how many for these sailors and Marines, how many eggs do you think they eat a day?
Oh, my God.
I thought I ate a lot of eggs.
I can't even imagine.
Take a guess.
Oh, God, three hundred eggs?
300 eggs a day.
Am I right?
No, you're not right.
We're talking about, we have three aircraft carriers there.
How many eggs to feed all those guys?
I don't know.
Well, take a guess.
I just did.
You laughed at me.
You're embarrassing me.
I'm afraid to answer now.
All right.
They eat more than 12,000 eggs a day.
Oh, dang.
I was way off.
Okay.
You can embarrass me for that.
That's pretty bad.
All right.
That's pretty bad.
I don't think you were thinking about it the way I was asking the question.
I definitely was.
I'll give you a lifeline.
Thank you.
Can I call a friend?
You can call a friend.
Call.
Give a call.
Give a shout out to a friend.
The Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, said during a security assessment that Israel is waiting for the green light to resume the fighting and they're prepared to renew their war immediately.
Israel is awaiting the green light.
One interesting side note I'm not sure what to make of it or if I should make anything out of it, but.
Apparently, the Trump led Israel Lebanon ceasefire has been extended by three weeks after those initial meetings took place.
The problem that I have with the Lebanon question is kind of the same problem I have with the Hamas question the Lebanese army has never been capable of controlling Hezbollah, and they've not been able to.
I don't know if they can defeat them militarily.
There was one surprise, and I saw Bibi.
I had met with him when he was in Florida for a meeting with President Trump, and I did have time with him alone and met with him.
I've known him over 30 years, and he looked great to me.
Apparently, he had picked up that he had early stage prostate cancer, and during this whole conflict, he was treated successfully, but he never told anybody.
Unbelievable.
The Israelis are so tough.
What this little country of 9 million people can do is unbelievable.
They just wipe everybody out.
I mean, just think of the military intelligence that goes into all of this.
Pretty impressive.
The Pentagon now considering suspending Spain from NATO for trying to block America's initial attack on Iran.
I told you and I've been telling you it's only a matter of time that it's going to be reconfigured, the NATO alliance.
Europe is in a state of deterioration.
They're disintegrating and have been for decades right before our eyes.
They have ignored and neglected national security issues, defense issues.
As individual countries, collectively as a continent, they've not met their responsibilities in an ever growing dangerous world.
And we're now paying the price.
This is a one sided alliance.
If they don't have the moral clarity, if they learned nothing from the last century in their own continent in terms of emerging threats of evil, especially now knowing that ballistic missile capability of the Iranian regime, they had a greater distance than anybody had known.
They could reach Paris and London.
And if they had nuclear capability, that would be an imminent threat to the continent of Europe, London.
Iranian Economic Collapse Risks00:03:01
They have had unfettered assimilation.
I mean, immigration without assimilation.
That is now called Sharia courts, no go zones, and radical socialism, radical climate alarmism.
All right, there you go.
Let me read one more article on the Iranian economy to you.
The oil rich nation, this was a report on Fox News, may actually run out of gasoline very quickly.
Can you imagine with all the oil reserves they have and the ability of Carg Island to produce all of that energy and the amount of money they're losing daily and the success of this blockade?
I think what the president's basically counting on, you know, it's the old guns and butter argument that they can't produce both.
And if they have no economy, they're not going to be able to pay anybody.
I think that's why there's a hesitancy for the president to just wipe it out permanently.
When it probably is now going to fall of its own weight, you know, rather quickly.
You know, in addition to food shortages, rampant inflation, you know, their currency has no value whatsoever, but they may be running out of gas, which is what triggered protests in the streets in January.
And anyway, the guy that played the central role at the Treasury Department in their sanctions campaign against Iran said, We've never had this level of leverage that we've had since 1979.
And the leverage is the Iranian economy, he describes as on the verge of, quote, collapse.
He pointed to triple digit food inflation, sharply devalued currency, basically worth nothing, roughly 90% collapse in purchasing power, potential long term oil revenue losses up to $14 billion annually.
They'll have no money to pay their Revolutionary Guard forces, they'll have no money to pay their Quds forces.
They actually import in Iran 30 million to 60 million liters of gas per day to cover a domestic shortfall.
This is before the blockade.
If they run out of gasoline, they're going to have a major crisis domestically.
He said Iran may run out of oil storage in as little as two weeks.
Well, gasoline shortages could hit on a similar timeline due to a heavy reliance on imports.
Combine that with the amount of money they're not taking in.
At some point, he says.
You know, they're going to face not just gasoline shortages and oil production disruptions, but also a massive banking problem, the ability to pay salaries of government employees and the IRGC.
And if they run, you know, if Iranians run out of patience this time, they may get the IRGC to switch sides and support them.
I think that's something they ought to be thinking about.
We will talk more about this later, but Axios had an interesting article.
Uranium Enrichment Threats00:02:59
We have not spent enough time yet because we've been so busy with other news on this being a midterm election year.
Now, conventional wisdom among many is that this midterm has already been decided.
I'm here to tell you that is not true.
I'm here to tell you that most of the polls, they're just a bunch of sheep and they copy each other.
The people that poll Trump and have historically polled Trump well have very different numbers for him.
And I'm talking about the McLaughlins, the Matt Towries, the Rasmussens, the Robert Kahalis, those people that get him right.
But here's what you get.
We highlighted what James Carville said Democrats get the House, the Senate, and the presidency one day, D.C. statehood, Puerto Rico statehood, pack the Supreme Court, get rid of the filibuster.
He's saying the quiet part out loud.
Axios today printing that resistance minded House Democrats.
They are now pushing their colleagues now in the hopes that if they win back the House, they want a day one impeachment vote.
Now, they haven't declared what it's about, but they want a day one impeachment vote.
And if you don't think this midterm is that important, and if you don't understand that the stakes are that high, you don't understand politics.
There are many people that don't understand politics.
You know, I've listened to some people that have, you know, effective, powerful platforms and voices.
And they never seem to be able to get to what the bottom line of what the president is doing in Iran is all about.
Either they don't believe him, or they don't listen, or they don't read.
It has always been about preventing Iran from ever becoming a nuclear power.
Now, I also have sources all over this government that I talk to on a regular basis without getting anything classified.
And the people that know have, in one voice, shared the same sentiment with me.
The president had no choice.
What does that mean?
That means that if the president didn't act, the odds were that high that the Iranians would be able to enrich uranium, to weapons grade uranium, in a period of 12 days.
And they were reconstituting their program after Midnight Hammer and 14 bunker buster bombs.
Now, that would have been Donald Trump's legacy for the rest of his life.
The entire presidency would be defined by this.
Some people don't want to hear it.
Some people don't really understand what that means.
I think it's pretty clear cut.
I think it's pretty straightforward.
Commit to Voting Now00:00:48
But as we begin to start talking more about the midterms, I only have one request from all of you.
And that is that in your heart, your mind, and your soul, you commit to one thing.
I'm not asking much at all.
Not asking you to donate.
Not asking you to volunteer.
Although, if you'd like to, that'll be helpful.
Democrats are going to have plenty of money.
There's going to be plenty of demonization.
The old playbook's going to be pulled out.
The same lies are going to be told Nazi, fascist, racist, on and on and on.