WEBVTT - Building The Wall 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.000 All right, glad you with us and write down our 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:04.680 toll free telephone number you want to be a part 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.360 of the program. We've got the latest the President the 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:14.200 Showdown Iran, and I am stunned at how people don't 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:20.440 understand this guy when he's the single most transparent president 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.960 in modern times. I don't they just they purposely don't 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.560 want to understand him. We'll get to that. Oh, we 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.720 have a preview of coming attractions with the big saying 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.839 Democratic debate this week. It's gonna get entertaining if what 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.920 happened down in South Carolina is any indication of where 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:45.120 things are headed. I mean, the presidential candidates are going 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.120 absolutely nuts. I mean, you know, I got the statistics 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:54.480 for example on what do you call may mayor Pete 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:59.600 Buddha judge. And he has atrocious track record, and we're 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.040 gonna tell you what was said to him over the weekend, 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.480 and I gotta tell you it really was awful. And 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.240 then you look at everything else and what the people 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.680 in the community think of this guy, and they hate him. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.160 How I don't even see him winning South Bend if 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.520 he runs for dogcatcher at this point because his record 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.320 is so atrocious. The President is giving well one more 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.120 last chance, a two week window as requested by the 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:25.960 Democrats to see if they can work out a deal 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.679 on immigration. Don't hold your breath. As my prediction, he's 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.200 already offered all of these things, saying wait, please, please, 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.240 we need two more weeks. All right, I'll give it 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.560 to you. Well, he had already put issues like Dhaka 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.520 Dreamers on the table to the same people that now 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:48.520 call Wall's immoral. But they weren't immoral Obama second term. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.480 They were paying for them in Obama second term. They 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.160 supported them in Obama second term. Now they're talking about 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:00.720 knocking him down like Robert Francis Boza O'Rourke. I mean, 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:05.680 you cannot get more looney than what this left wing field, 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:12.200 this democratic, extreme radical socialist party has become, and it's 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.600 getting worse by the second. I want to start quickly 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:22.519 with what's the latest with Iran and how people do 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:29.040 not people is? Donald Trump is not complicated? He's not. 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.680 I mean, you know, there was a great inventor, forget 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:37.919 his name, one said about inventors. I actually know two inventors, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.959 believe it or not. Years ago, I used to go 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.720 to this invention convention and people come up with the 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.840 craziest but really smart things. But the guy said about 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:53.160 inventors that you know, the obvious is that which is 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:59.440 often unseen until somebody expresses it clearly. In other words, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.320 a great invent it is always right in front of 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:02.880 your eyes, and you say, oh, why didn't I think 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.040 of that? You know, I've had people on the show 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.240 they said something, Oh why didn't I think of that? 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.280 Why didn't I say that? That's what inventors do. They 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.680 see the obvious, They see things, they see a need, 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.000 They fulfill a need. Goods and services people want, need 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.639 and desire. I mean, whoever designed the dishwasher or the 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.760 clothes washer? Think back to the days, you know, and 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:27.960 there are people in many countries today they don't have 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.840 washing machines. And you can see people that they have 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.000 to still haul water up to, you know, wherever it 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.800 is that they live. And it's like, you know, progress 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.200 could be made. Whoever made the washing machine and then 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:42.839 made it in such a way that it's so cheap 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.640 it's ridiculous. You know, look at what Henry Ford did. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:51.760 Henry Ford designed a car that the average man and 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.680 woman could afford. The model t he wanted to make 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.840 it affordable for the people that worked on his assembly line, 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.680 and it was brilliant change the world. Look at where 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.640 we are now. Look at cars today. You can get 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.720 really expensive ones, you can get little little baby cars, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.640 you can get green cars, you can get any car 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:15.640 you want. SUVs, big SUVs, medium SUVs, small SUVs, sports 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:20.360 cars go lore. All my friends love sports cars. And 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.039 you know, I'll tell you this. They as a guy 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.400 out there by the name of Igor Sikorski. You've heard 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.120 of a Sikorsky helicopter. That guy had the same idea 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.479 that Henry Ford did, which was he thought that he 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.640 wanted to make helicopters. And by the way, they're one 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.080 of the finest helicopters by the ways of Russian. I 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:42.320 probably colluded with him, but yeah, I just read about 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.840 how he His vision for the helicopter was that everybody 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:51.039 use it. Everybody that that's how we transport people. And 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.760 you know what, we could do it, but probably government 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.599 doesn't allow it. Then you got the whiners and complainers 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.680 like I give you an example. If you the big 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.000 business in New York is they've got uber helicopters. They 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.320 really do. It's called blade. I know that's one of them. 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.479 They're other ones. I've never used them, but they have. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.200 In other words, it's like an uber and you book 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.719 your helicopter flight if you're part of that crowd that 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.240 goes out to the Hamptons every weekend, and maybe you 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.960 need two seats, but maybe they see eight people. I 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.000 don't know how many people in the helicopters. And anyway, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.680 it's Uber helicopter. It's kind of a cool idea. But 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.520 the problem is in the people in the Hamptons complaining, Ah, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.760 I heard a helicopter. Excuse me. While I'm laying at 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:38.359 the pool. Two helicopters flew over in an hour. It's outrageous, Like, 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.280 all right, get over it. I mean it pretty much 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.760 anywhere where I live in Long Island, New York, and 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:48.800 the flight patterns change, you're gonna hear airplanes. Now, if 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.960 you're really close to the airport, it's gonna be worse. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.279 But you knew that when you bought close to the airport. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.320 It's not like they just put in LaGuardia or JFK 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.520 or whatever the airport Newark that you might be flying 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:04.640 in and out of anyway. So Pete, Donald Trump is 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.400 not complicated. If you look at the things that he 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:13.320 has said during the campaign and you look back on 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:18.120 his life, he's been very consistent. Now some of you 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.560 will say, well, Hannity, but he gave money to Democrats 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.359 and he wasn't. Now he's become the most pro life president, 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.039 but he was one's pro choice. But he explained what 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.880 changed his mind, and it was a profound moment for him. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.000 Nobody believed him. Nobody believed he was a conservative because 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.640 in New York you got to kind of suck up 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.719 to both parties, especially the Democrats, or else your building's 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:44.600 not going up. Those plumbers, electricians, those construction workers are 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.320 not going to be busy because they'll stop you. There's 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.119 punitive you know politicians, Oh you don't want to donate 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.159 to my campaign, We're fine. So he's donating to Republicans 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.160 and Democrats so he can keep his buildings going up 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.479 and workers working and making money. That's he would And 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.520 he said it. He was like, wasn't my idea. That's 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.360 their game. That's how it's played. I don't like it, 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.080 but that's how it's played. And it's true. Now, is 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.520 it bribery, No, it's just that you know that if 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.880 you don't donate after you've been invited. And all these 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.600 people would knock on his door and go up to 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.560 Trump Tower and you know, sit before Donald Trump. He 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.600 knew why they were there. They wanted money. Why they 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.160 want then, I guess that gives you access to make 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.360 a call. Oh, can you do me a favor that 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.480 gives you the phone call access. It's just it's the 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.400 whole thing sucks. That's why you should have politicians serving 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:39.440 two years and out out the door. Anyway. So it's 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.960 he everything he said he would do, like, for example, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.880 when he negotiates. If you ever read the art of 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.200 the deal, and there will be people in the media speculating, 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.040 well Hannity has these conversations with the president. Well, I'm 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.840 a talk show host. Excuse me, I'm a member of 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:02.240 the press, and yeah, I make phone calls and we 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.160 do a lot of digging, which is how we were 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.760 able to really for two years, break story after story 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.720 after story after story, while the mainstream media went ahead 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.440 with their lies, their collusion and their hopes and conspiracy theories, 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.480 and we ended up being right and they were wrong. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.920 And so people literally people will write me from the 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.160 media and how many times said you've talked spoken to 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.360 the president, like, oh, give me a list. My answer 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.920 is always saying, give me a list of all of 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:36.920 your sources, and I'll consider maybe telling you one of mine, 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.720 which I would never do. What do you mean, Hannity 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.600 or a talk show host. Yeah, but I'm a member 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.600 of the press and a talk show host. I can 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.760 produce hours and hours of TV radio coverage. We're just 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:52.360 doing straight news. Catastrophic event of shooting, bad weather, you 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:57.760 know her katrein a war, I'm not doing opinion. I'm 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.760 doing straight news reporting. We do investigative reporting. We've been 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.079 doing it now over two years. That's what the mainstream 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.840 media mob wouldn't touch, and they've been dead wrong lying 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.320 to the American people, and we've gotten it right. We're 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.600 proud of the work that our ensembled team here that 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.920 we've been able to accomplish. Too many names to list, 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.880 you know who they are. We did it with Obama. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.320 We've vetted him. They wouldn't vet him either. That's investigative reporting. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.160 We do straight reporting. We do investigative reporting. Yes, I 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.000 do not hide the fact that I am an opinion host, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:33.760 an advocacy journalist. A lot of times I'm giving strong opinions, 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.480 but I'm open about it, and I'm telling you who 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.160 I am when i'm doing it. There's no I am 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:43.880 a conservative. I'm a registered conservative. Conservatism as being practiced 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.920 by Donald Trump works. So I'm transparent. And sometimes we 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.120 do sports, you know, sometimes we have on herschel Walker 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.840 or Tim Tebow, or cultural issues like first we'll deliver 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.760 the baby and we'll make sure the baby's comfortable and 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.760 then we'll let the mother decide if the baby lives. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.719 That would be considered a cultural issue, not as much 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.000 a political one. In other words, I can't believe we're 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.719 debating infanticide or you know, if the woman's in the 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.800 middle of the birthing process and she's dilating, would you 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.760 still support abortion? Yet our bill allows that during birth, 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.280 after birth infanticide. That's not abortion. I refuse to call 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.720 it abortion because it's not. So. The President has always 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.920 been transparent. He said he was going to cut taxes. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.720 He did the biggest tax cuts in history. Said he 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.880 was going to give you a list of Supreme Court 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.480 justices and he would pick from that list. He did. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:40.160 He said he was going to have massive dearregulation made 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.680 a big deal about it. He did it, he said 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.720 to me many times, because my pet issue. I believe 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.640 that we can raise the standard of living. You know, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.480 we could double the standard of living. Frankly, if in fact, 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.760 we would become energy independent. We are for the first 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.439 time in seventy five years, which makes the Straits or 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:05.240 hor moves less important to us than ever before, which 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.160 gives us leverage. And by the way, we can we're 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.520 now a net exporter of energy and we're just we're 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.520 just touching the surface because we've got more resources than 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.079 all these countries that hate us, that we've been begging 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.160 to give us the lifeblood of our economy for decades. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.599 You know, he kept that promise. President said he was 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.640 going to negotiate new trade deals. He did it. You know, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.720 he's gonna make NATO pay more. Negotiated that every time 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.240 he negotiates, so they get uncomfortable. Last week he single 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:37.440 handedly said to Mexico, stop the migrant caravans or I'm 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.160 gonna put a tariff on you have twenty five percent. Wow. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.199 Even Republicans, No, we don't want, we don't believe, and 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.760 you know we want free and fair trade. We want 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.120 free trade, free okay, But when you're getting taken advantage of. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:55.080 If you don't, if they don't believe you're serious, you 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:59.480 have no negotiation leverage. Read the art of the deal. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.199 President Trump, are of the deal. If you're doing a 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:06.160 business deal, never want it too much. Be able to 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:10.920 walk away from the deal any second. He's fighting for 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.920 the border. He kept his promise on Jerusalem, kept his 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.839 promise on goal On, kept his promise. He has now 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:21.319 put pressure on, massive pressure on the Iranians, which is 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.920 why they're acting out. I like the fact that people 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.120 have an impression of Donald Trump that is inaccurate. They 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.880 literally Donald Trump said he'd do all these things, and 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.600 he did them. It makes him unique. That's why he's 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:41.160 not a politician. He's very, very predictable. And the fact 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.080 that you know, he hasn't obliterated as he said he 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:49.080 may have to the Iranians. I believe he will. But 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.040 he did do a couple of things this weekend that 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.320 nobody really seems to want to pay attention to, like, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.000 oh my gosh, President Trump really did that. That's interesting 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.960 to me. Yeah, because number one, the polls show that 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:07.280 voters support the President's Iran strategy. Maxine Waters was actually 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:13.040 accusing Trump of provoking Iran. Okay, why because he didn't drop, 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.000 you know, cargo planesful of cash and of the currency. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.760 But the President has now announced more sanctions on Iran 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:25.800 Supreme leader Ayatollah Kamane and the president also nobody seems 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.760 to notice. We did strike back at Iran and their 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:34.600 military computers this weekend. But the President said he may 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:39.240 obliterate them, and guess what he may. And is he 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.280 ever gonna get us into a foreign entanglement? No, he's 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:47.840 dead set against it. But would he obliterate them? Oh yeah, 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.400 Now if he would go too fast, everyone would be 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.959 furious with him. I used that earlier, by the way, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.400 So I'm going to go to Okay, eight hundred nine, 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.760 one shot one. We'll get to this. The fact that 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.679 the media doesn't get it, it's amazing to me. So 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.959 people want to just there's nothing Donald Trump can ever 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.680 do that's ever going to be right in the eyes 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:15.080 of those people that have decided they hate him. There's nothing. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.600 The cured cancer gave everybody ten million, it's not gonna matter. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.720 So the president, you know, the media saying, oh no, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.720 Donald Trump, he's gonna get us his World War three starting. No, no, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:34.960 it's not. I do believe Donald Trump absolutely is standing back. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:40.360 He's watching, he's negotiating, and he's doing things that we 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.400 don't know, and he will do it in his time. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:49.880 And if you doubt he has the ability and willingness 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.480 to do what's necessary to obliterator Rand, then you don't 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:58.880 know Donald Trump. But now me is acting and what 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.720 he's done is we struck Iranian military computer's hard. Apparently 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:07.200 over the weekend he's now put sanctions on the Ayatola himself. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.720 The president is being prudent. We have the ability to 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.280 be more prudent than ever before in any Middle Eastern 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:19.000 entanglement because of his decision to make us energy independent, 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.560 which every other president before could have but never did. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.440 And it to me and if he does, he's not 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.760 going to start a war with boots on the ground. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.440 So whatever he decides militarily is going to be devastating 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.480 to Iran. I think were eventually one day as hard 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:41.800 as it is, considering how big the Iranian landmasses and 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.160 the location of their nuclear reactors, I think there's going 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.120 to have to be a partnership to take all those 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:51.040 facilities out and that's a very difficult military operation. I've 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.800 talked to many generals about it. All right, twenty five 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.560 now till the top of the hour, eight hundred and 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.760 nine four one sean, if you want to be a 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:03.000 part of this extravganza, so I just I don't think 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:08.680 the media will ever want to know Donald Trump. They 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.760 just don't want And by the way, if you really 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.360 want to be honest here, why do we have this 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:17.840 problem with Iran? Because well, yeah, Donald Trump kept his 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:22.080 promise and the sanctioned Iran and it's killing their economy. 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.440 They're about to hit a forty percent inflation rate. Their 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:30.160 contraction at four and six percent, you know yearly is 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:37.280 now devastating their economy. The sanctions also have resulted in 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.920 a massive reduction in oil exports for them and the 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.840 United States independence. It couldn't be a better time because 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:50.880 the Straits of Hormuz, which have always been strategically so 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:55.360 dangerous for the world. Really in the end, it wouldn't 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.320 be great. We get over it much more easily than 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.520 ever before because of the President's amitment to energy independence. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.479 Do I think it's going to come down to the 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:12.440 President's obliteration of Iran. I kind of don't, but anything's possible, 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.120 and whatever happens is going to happen. It doesn't matter. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.359 They will choose ultimately what their fate is. It's not 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.119 gonna be Donald Trump. It's not going to be a 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.320 ground war. It's not going to be boots on the ground, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.600 and it's not going to be a protracted long but 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:31.520 you know, no uparmored hum vs. Politicized. You know, a 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.840 year later, you know, questioning whether we ever should have 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.960 been there. Then you know, war mongers. You know it's 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.920 gonna be you know, you have to think strategically, and 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.840 you know, this is something that the country dealt with 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.520 in World War two, the war that my dad fought in. 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.320 If you think back after Pearl Harbor and you think 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:57.320 back America's involvement in Europe, which I think we got 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.960 in a little later than we should my own personal opinion, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.800 I don't think there's a lot of support for it. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:08.439 And Winston Churchill rightly was begging the United States because 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.280 they needed our help. The world needed our help to 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.160 defeat fascism and Nazism. We had our own issues after 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.800 Pearl Harbor, and it was after that the Winston Churchill 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.040 became the guests that would never leave the White House 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.280 because he knew the importance of americasm. Bob. But we 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.280 were the key to victory, and those guys we just 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:32.879 celebrated and honored the men of Normandy and slamming the 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:37.480 beaches of Normandy, and it's like, wow, courageous men. You 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:42.000 just you can't even fathom. You know, Let's say you're 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:46.440 the third, fourth, fifth wave of American soldiers just hitting 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.320 shore and you're just looking at all thousands of dead bodies, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.479 hundreds of dead bodies, injured soldiers ahead of you, and 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.960 you see that they've got the high ground, and you 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:00.320 got to somehow we've got to defeat this. You know, 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.520 you know you're walking in a certain death. But they 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.240 did it and they won. And then you think of 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.919 the decision of Harry Truman. You know, we got hit 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:15.000 at Pearl Harbor, you know, an unprovoked attack, and where 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.600 now involved in the Pacific. That's where my father fought 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.120 for four years. He served four years in the Pacific. 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.639 He's signed up and like so many other Americans of 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.320 his generation, didn't love it, didn't like it, but knew 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:31.120 it was important and did it and watch people die 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.040 in front of him, told me didn't like to talk 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.400 about it, like a lot of that generation, they don't 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.320 want to go there, and I don't blame them. And 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.360 you know, then you think of, well, Truman's deciding, all right, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:46.600 now we have this bomb and we can hit Hiroshima 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.919 and Nagasaki and we can end the war. Maybe just 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:55.200 one is needed, maybe two. And then you think of okay, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.320 well if it's a protracted conflict, and you'll let it 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.679 go on, and it goes on on and on. How 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.600 many Americans are going to die in the process. Nobody likes. 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.160 If you have a human heart and soul, you don't 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:12.680 like what we call collateral damage. It's not collateral when 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:17.440 it's human life. These are real people, real lives, real men, 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:22.080 women and children. And yet because of the actions of 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.800 their government, we have to Now we're now involved in 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.520 the decision we don't want to make, and that is 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.119 all right, do we end the war. People are going 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.919 to get hurt, innocence, will lose lives, People that had 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:39.359 no beasts with the US. No, they've not even involved 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:43.520 in politics. But it's going to end the war, and 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.040 American lives are going to be saved and they started it. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:51.280 There's no question about who the aggressor is. And we 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.480 can go on for many years and lose many American lives, 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.760 or we can end it. What decisions the right decision. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.440 I am thinking more and more that wars need we 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:07.320 need to re calibrate how we fight wars, and that 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:12.200 is we need the next generation of weaponry where we're 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:14.320 not going to have to have boots on the ground. 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.000 We have the satellite technology and the drone technology and 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:21.520 the ability to see, you know, with pinpoint accuracy, you 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.280 know where the target is, where the enemy is, who 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:27.400 the enemy is, and it's getting better every second, every 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.240 hour of every day. That's, by the way, that's from 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.639 our great intelligence people, the ninety nine percent that would 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:37.280 never abuse the tools of intelligence that are so powerful 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.760 a turn them against the American people ninety nine percent 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:42.959 that keep us safe. But if we can fight the 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:47.439 future wars instead of having kids with you know, in 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.240 humbies in some cases of not up armor. That drove 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:54.200 me nuts when we discovered that. Then the retro fitting 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.320 them and I'm like, this is crazy, and then the 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.520 Americans we had to you know, once you start you 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:01.479 gotta win it. I just believe there's only there's no 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:03.960 other answer. Victory is the only answer if you're going 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:07.119 to be involved in a war. We've had two wars 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:13.119 now that have become politicized Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam, and 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.600 it doesn't end well. And I don't want to be 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:22.600 sending kids to fight, bleed and die without the ultimate 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:26.200 goal of victory. And I don't know, and I don't 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.200 believe that the country is the stomach for any type 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.760 of boots on the ground conflict or battle, especially in 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.159 the Middle East where look, I don't believe we're going 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:40.440 to change these countries the weight to defeat Shariah for example, 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:45.000 or Caliphates. And what happened and Siri, we bombed the 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:49.960 living crap out of them. People really weren't paying attention. Literally, 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:54.200 they finally and the people in those countries did the groundwork. 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.760 That's how we beat back isis that's how we did it. 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.240 To the last city, the first city that was taken 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.440 and all of the territorial ambitions pushed back, and that 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:11.320 first city taken back, and that was Donald Trump bombing 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:15.400 the living hell out of them day by day. Now, 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.280 we didn't we had some boots on the ground. We 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:19.320 had intelligence people on the ground, but the people that 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:24.760 were actually doing most of the work upfront were people 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:26.920 from those countries fighting for their country. Which is just 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:28.520 if you're not willing to fight for your country, don't 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.320 ask us to go fight for your country. You know, Frankly, 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:33.199 anybody that we help out, you need to pay the 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:36.119 costs of us fighting for your liberty and freedom. I 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:38.119 think Trump was always right about that. We should have 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:43.840 compensated military families with the oil from Iraq. We're going 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:47.680 to bail you out of that dictatorship, and frankly Syria too, 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:51.320 we could. We have every right to force you to 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:56.120 pay for your own liberation and compensate American treasure. Are 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:59.920 you know which is the men and women the fight 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:05.159 these wars and their families. Yeah, millions of dollars absolutely 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:10.240 per family. Absolutely sorry. You know, we didn't want to 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:12.560