WEBVTT - Iran’s Final Deadline 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.400 One hour two Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and nine 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:04.320 point one, Shawn our number if you want to be 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.440 a part of the program. Now, the President went into 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:14.080 great specificity, in detail into the intricacy and the courage 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:18.440 of our brave men and women to rescue this pilot 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.640 that had ejected how difficult this mission has been, that 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.239 this had never happened before in history where two people 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.840 deep behind enemy lines have been rescued this way. And 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.440 the President, you know, obviously very proud. He did the 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.440 press conference with the CIA Director Ratcliffe, with Pete Hegseth, 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:40.760 Department of War, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General, 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.880 Raisin raising Kine, and it was it was inspiring. And 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.920 when the President put out that truth post over the 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.960 I guess he put it out around midnight ish on 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.760 Saturday night, we got them. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:56.960 How proud we all felt. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.080 That was after you know, a few contingency operations and 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.680 showed up and that we will never leave anybody behind. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.560 But it goes to the heart of you know, why 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.120 is the President doing all of this. We have explained 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.760 this over and over again. The media refuses to report 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.560 on it, and it is about Iran. Not being able 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.360 to have a nuclear weapon. And the President now has 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:25.839 said they have until tomorrow for them to make a deal. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.319 What is that deal going to include. They will immediately 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.199 open the straight of Horn moves A B. They will 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:38.000 also agree that it's a matter of how not if 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.840 they surrender the sixty percent enriched uranium which could be 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.640 enriched to weapons grade ninety percent in less than twelve days. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.400 We now know also we've learned from this conflict that 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:54.080 they had a much longer ballistic missile range than originally believed. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:59.560 That means they can hit places like Paris and London. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.880 Interesting considering that, you know, the our European allies, NATO 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.840 is nowhere to be found. And what was fascinating about this? 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:16.520 The President today's slammed NATO as a paper tiger, you know, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.560 rebuking our allies. He said, we've got fifty thousand soldiers 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.480 in Japan to protect them from North Korea. We have 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.960 forty five thousand soldiers in South Korea to protect protect 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.200 them from Kim Jong un. You know, Japan didn't help us, 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.239 Australia didn't help us, and then you get to NATO. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.200 NATO didn't help us, And he said earlier that this 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.720 was a test for NATO, and all he said was, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.680 you know, I'd like you to maybe send some ships 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.200 that would help in the Strait of Hormuz. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:45.880 You get your. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.040 Oil from there, and they wanted no part of it. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.960 This is not our conflict, this is not our war. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.359 Now we spend nearly a trillion dollars over eight hundred 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.840 and eighty billion dollars, and we pay two thirds of 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.600 the cost of NATO. And then the President referred to 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.960 NATO as a paper tiger and rebuked all of them. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.560 I imagine when this is all said and done that 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:15.000 they'll be we will reconfigure this alliance because it seems 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.320 to be one sided, and that is, we protect Europe 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.120 and they do nothing to join us. And in this case, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.919 it was a no brainer against the number one state 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.799 sponsor of terror, which we learned during the conflict, now 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.720 have ballistic missile capability to reach their countries, to reach 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:35.920 their major cities, which is pretty spectacular. Anyway, let me 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.080 play the president from earlier today as it relates to 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:43.280 the negotiations. Now, it's either infrastructure and bridge day tomorrow 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.200 or it's going to be that they agree to the 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.720 two main points that I brought up here, which is 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.880 the straight of hormones being open and they agree to 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.040 how not if they will turn over the sixty percent 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.080 enriched uranium. Here's what the President said in terms of 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.320 the negotiation and where it currently stands. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.680 That's a fire proposal from this morning. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:06.000 Every proposal. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.480 You can imagine. Final deadline is to say, em your 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:11.280 final deadline. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.479 Major demands, mister president, Are you willing to continue the war? 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:25.280 You have to watch? Yes, what do you think of 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:30.359 the big They made a proposal, and it's a significant proposal. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.200 It's a significant step. It's not good enough, but it's 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.800 a very significant step. They have made the negotiating now 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.760 and they made a very significant step. 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.360 Was see what happened now? This is their choice. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.920 They had an opportunity for peace before Midnight Hammer and 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:51.599 fourteen bunker buster bombs taking out their nuclear enrichment capability. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.400 They had an opportunity before epic fury. The President repeated 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.920 over and over again, he prefers peace. By the way, 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:02.160 I personally prefer peace. I would prefer a negotiated settlement 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.800 with those two main conditions. Whatever else the President thinks 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.760 is are in our best national interest is going to 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:09.320 be up to him. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:10.039 That's his job. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.560 But those are the two main points that I see anyway. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.240 The presidents at Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, and 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.800 if they don't cry uncle, they'll have no bridges, no 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.240 power plans, nothing. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.000 Listen, the war's about one thing. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:28.160 Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon had we not broken 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.440 the baracusein Obama agreement. You know that. You know what 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.120 I'm talking about, the Rand nuclear deal. This is years ago. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:39.719 My first errem You would have had a total Israel 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.919 would have been gone extinguished. Israel would be would have 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.920 been wiped off the face of the earth, and the 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.479 entire Middle East would have been at a minimum in 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.560 big trouble. We are obliterating that country, and I hate 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.920 to do it, but we're oblittering. And they just don't 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.320 want to say uncle. They don't want to cry as 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.520 the expression goes uncle, but they will and if they don't, 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.720 they'll have no bridges, they'll have no power plants, they'll 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.920 have no anything. I will go further because there are 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.520 other things that are worse than those two, and we 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.880 might have well to think, if I had my choice, 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.080 what would I like to do? Take the oil? Because 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.000 it's there for the decade. There's not a thing they 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:19.840 could do about it. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.680 Here joining US, retired Lieutenant General Karen Gibson is with us, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.600 by the way, who has performed in numerous intelligence cyberspace 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:33.920 operation roles, culminating her military service as the Deputy Director 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.400 of National Intelligence for National Security Partnerships. And welcome to 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.440 the program, Lieutenant General. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:40.840 How are you. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:42.000 Thank you. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.200 I'm well, and I went to second to your comments 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.440 and your praise for the US military and they're really 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:53.000 heroic rescue effort over the weekend to save the two 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.200 downs pilots. I think, like every other aspect of this operation, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:02.880 it was performed with tremendous profess nationalism, competence, bravery, and 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.680 precision and just really really well done. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.120 I want to get your reaction not only to that 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.400 which was incredible in and of itself, but the you know, 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:17.480 overall this entire military effort, which by every indication and 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.440 the President's own words, and I interviewed Secretary of State 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.120 Marco Ruvil last week that this is now we're now 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.800 at the back end of this and now it's decision 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.600 day once again for the Iranians. 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.920 You know, now we're at the third at the fourth. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.280 Or fifth tier of leadership, because the other three tiers 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.760 have been wiped out and they have proven that they 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:44.000 would cling to their rigid, you know, twisted converter ideology 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.840 rather than you know, come to a peace agreement, which 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.400 shows just how desperate they were to achieve nuclear capability. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.600 I don't know this this next level of leadership. I 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.880 don't know if common sense will prevail, but clearly the 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.240 deadline is approach. I would prefer that they agree to 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.640 those simple items that I mentioned to keep open the 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.400 straight or hor moves and agree that they will turn 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.640 over the nuclear material. And it's a matter of how 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.000 not if, And I think if they do that, then 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.520 there is whatever is left of that regime can survive, 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.720 and it would be in the best interest of the 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.760 Persian people, a once great people that have been suffering 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:22.679 under this regime. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.320 Well, i'd say I'm not sure that the Iranian Revolutionary 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.200 Guard Corps puts the well being of the Iranian people 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.800 at the top of their priority list. It's rather flippant. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.120 Perhaps I shouldn't have said it like that. I mean, clearly, 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.840 any organization that is willing to just openly gun down 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.560 tens of thousands of their own citizens for all the 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.440 world to see. Is not putting the well being of 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.160 the people at the top of their list. That their 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:56.480 priority is really to preserve the Islamic Republic as the 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:00.960 theocracy that it is, and that move, that public execution 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.520 of their own citizens shows one length to which they're 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.560 willing to go just to preserve that. I find it 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.439 hard to imagine that they would readily give up their 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.760 control of the Strait of Home moves, principally because that's 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.920 the cheap leverage that they have. And once they give 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:23.880 that up their ability to impact global commerce, aerial and 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:29.200 maritime navigation, and the transitive fuel in and out of 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.120 the Gulf. They really have no other light to stand on. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.360 So it's hard for me to imagine that they're going 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:35.079 to give that up. 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.560 Well, it's hard to imagine that they don't want to 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:45.040 survive either. I mean, after Midnight Fury and now Midnight 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.280 Hammer and epic fury up to this point, you would 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.400 think that maybe they would learn a thing or two 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.920 from what has happened now. Over the weekend, also there 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:57.000 was a bunker buster bomb dropped on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.880 Some of their top leaders that were also wiped out 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.000 this weekend, So there's been a you know, dramatic loss 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.040 of leadership in that capacity. So you know, you have 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.080 to wonder at what point they don't realize they're getting 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.360 eviscerated and obliterated and they're not going to have any 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:18.160 country left, And is there any survival instinct that will 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.079 transcend their indoctrination into convert or die. 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.760 I think that for many layers of their leadership, that's 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.760 that's not again their priority. You know, when you said, 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.920 you know they are willing to die many of them. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.679 This is and it would never say this about all Muslims, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.000 all Iranians, all Shia, but certainly the most committed members 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.480 of the Iranian Revolutionary guardcore and the besieged prize martyrdom, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.400 and that there are for them. I think for some 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.320 of them, a fate worse than death would be to 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.439 be a traitor to the Islamic Revolution. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.800 Let me ask you if they if they prize martyred 0:10:55.880 --> 0:11:02.440 them so much, how come they always strap bombs on young, naive, indoctrinated, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:07.280 poor kids and order them to go kill innocent men, 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.960 women and children with the promise of seventy two virgins 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.199 how come they never strapped the bombs on themselves. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.280 Yeah, no, certainly. I mean that's something that we've seen 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.559 in a number of countries and in a number of 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:23.679 many terrorist organizations that have done that. I think, I think, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.400 you know, clearly they are not unbreakable, but they are 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:32.800 not yet broken strategically stressed decimated by these military strikes. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:38.880 But again, I suspect they are not yet ready to 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:44.360 capitulate entirely. I think that they may offer some negotiation, 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.160 particularly in the nuclear space. You know, there's an expression 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:49.880 I wish I knew who to credit this to, that 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.160 Iran has never won a war but never lost in negotiation, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.400 And I think perhaps that's that's what they're aiming for 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:57.240 here as well. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.840 But we don't really we're not dealing with the old 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.800 iron anymore. That old Iranian leadership was wiped out, the 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.360 next tier of leadership was wiped out, the third tier 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.240 was wiped out. I don't know, we're dealing with the 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.520 fourth or fifthier. So I don't know if it's any different. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.800 The President seems to believe that they are talking more reasonably. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.080 Let me ask you this, because it was so much 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.440 made over the the the quote tweet of the of 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.920 the President where you know he cursed and I know 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.600 that got the media mob. I mean, it's it's kind 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.960 of amazing to me that he's been on the he's 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.080 been on the world stage for eleven years. Donald Trump 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.760 says controversial things all the time. This did not surprise 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:44.280 me from my vantage point having known him for thirty years. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.440 I know how his mind works in the sense that 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.160 everything with him is a negotiation. And when he said 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.680 to them that he doesn't want to blow them up anymore, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.000 I don't think he wants to blow it. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.160 He would prefer peace. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.720 Every time he said that before Midnight Hammer and every 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.199 time he said it before epic Fury, I think. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:01.600 He meant it. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.880 But when when he went out there and said what 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.959 he said, open the streets or it's going to be, 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:14.960 you know, infrastructure day, bridge Day, and I'm not really 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.400 sure power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.640 and won, he means it. Now, this is what their 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.760 choice is going into these negotiations of this last hour today, 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.280 and so they have to know it's coming. They have 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.680 to know that we dominate the skies. They're not going 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.079 to be able to stop it. They have to know 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.800 that this is the end of the regime as they 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.440 know it. He also mentioned that we're arming some of 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.240 the citizenry. So the next step after that, if they 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.280 do get arms into their hands, would probably be a 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:44.600 revolution of some kind. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.559 No, I do think, you know, I got to tell 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.240 you last I guess it was December when they started 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.040 gunning down to any of their citizens. I saw, this 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.760 is the end, the beginning of the end. This is 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.760 the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic. But 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.840 it could be a long, messy and violent end. And 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.080 I do you know when you have eighty five to 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.600 ninety five percent of the population that wants to live 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.000 under a different system of government, I do believe that 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.120 is inevitable, but not necessarily imminent. And it is you 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.200 know what you've mentioned, arming, arming factions within Iran. I 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:24.240 think it will take people. The people in Iran will 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:29.120 have to feel sufficiently emboldened that they can overcome the IRGC. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.760 Now I would just say, obviously they cannot withstand you know, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:39.720 tremendous airstrikes, im perpetuity. But I think they're going to 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.280 hang on until one of three things starts to collapse. 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:48.080 One would be the Iranian Revolutionary Guard car themselves lose cohesion. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.440 I would look for defections or military units that start 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:56.280 to refuse orders. Another would be when the repressive apparatus 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.320 that they use against their own citizens starts to fail. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.320 Certainly there have been some strikes against police headquarters, checkpoints, 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.120 IERGC headquarters, et cetera. But that needs to fail, and 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.640 also the third one. Then as long as they can 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:14.200 still impost costs externally by disrupting energy and maritime navigation. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.920 You know, if one of those three things fails IRGC, 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.760 the repressive apparatus, or the ability to hold the straights hostage, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.200 then I think we can look to a more rapid surrender. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.480 Is this the end of DATO as we know it? 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:30.440 Oh? 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.160 I'm not even thinking about NATO right now, to be honest, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.640 I've been very focused on what's happening in the Middle East. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.160 Lieutenant General Karen Gibson, thank you for being with us. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.760 We appreciate your time. All right, let's get to our 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:47.280 busy telephones, shall we. Let's say I to Chrissy's and 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.680 Marylynd Chris High, how are you happy Monday? Glad you called, sir? 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:52.040 Thank you sir? 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.680 How are you today, I'm really good. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:59.320 Actually, I'm very relieved. I'm very grateful. I'm very thankful 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.520 that what was one of the toughest military rescue missions 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:09.280 in history came off flawlessly, basically flawlessly, never been tried before, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.280 this was deep in enemy territory and not leaving an 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:18.160 American behind. Made me feel really really proud of our 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.320 brave men and women in military, all the people involved, 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.760 all the people that serve, and what we have been 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:29.120 able to accomplish. And while some people you know are 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:33.200 somewhat ignorant in terms of what the actual reality was 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.120 in terms of Iran getting a nuclear weapon, neutralizing that 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.120 threat was critical and we didn't have a lot of 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.760 time to do it, and the fact that that story's 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.080 not being told by the legacy media and people with 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.960 agendas is a little frustrating, to be honest, But I 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.320 don't let them take my joy away, and I just 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.680 spend you know, the time necessary to give you news 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.480 and information I know you won't get elsewhere. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.720 But this was necessary. We had no option here, no. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:05.639 Agreed, and I mean, you know, I want to say, also, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.639 if anybody goes to trump truth social and just google's that, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.320 or if you have the app reading all his truths 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.280 are definitely worth it, and they'll make you out of 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.119 They're very fascinating and they'll make you laugh. It's just 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.239 it's pretty powerful and pretty awesome the stuff that that 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.920 Trump puts out like on a regular basis. But yeah, 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.960 I mean this rescue mission thing was was really great 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.280 to see and hear about. It's basically like something out 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.080 of you know, Top Gun Maverick or something in my opinion, 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:31.320 you know, with the precision and. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.680 Stuff, and this Top Gun Maverick, this is Jason Bourne, 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.040 this is James Bond, you know, all wrapped up in one. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.040 I mean, it's it's it's real life stuff, and it's 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.199 you know, in Hollywood it's one thing, but these are 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.320 real American heroes with real lives and jeopardy to do 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:48.879 this stuff. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.320 Completely agree. And you know, if I Ran did get 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.760 a nuclear weapon, I mean, what would the headlines be 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.600 then it would be completely different from what they are today. 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.880 So I'm glad that the President is taking these preventive measures, 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.960 preventive actions against you know, like everybody says, the lead 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.440 state sponsored terror in the world. So you know, hey, 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:10.320 great with me. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.080 You know, it's It's honestly very frustrating to me because 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:19.240 and we've had two definitive interviews that the rest of 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.560 the media is ignored, and when they do interview, say 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.080 the Secretary of State Marco Rubio or people that have 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.120 interviewed the president. I think I might have the two 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.119 definitive issues with the Mid East nvoye. Steve Witkoff. It 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.520 was in the room with the Iranians and that's when 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.880 we learned they had one thousand I'll use Linda's favorite measurement, 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:44.320 pounds of four hundred of sixty percent of enriched uranium. 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:48.480 That means twelve days maximum. They have weapons grade uranium 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.119 if they can enrich it. And we learned in this 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.399 conflict that they had a far longer ballistic missile range 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:58.040 than we deemed prior than we had deemed that they had. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.080 That means they can hit Paris and Lundon. It also 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.200 leaves the possibility of a dirty bomb at some point. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.160 I don't think under those circumstances. You have a point, 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.240 and you raise a good point, and that is, had 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.480 Donald Trump not acted and this became a nuclear power 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.560 under Donald Trump's watch, really it would have been Obama 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.720 and Biden's fault if we're going to be blunt. But 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.919 that's a separate discussion. Because they gave them the money 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.919 to build out their terror network, the nuclear program, the 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:29.119 ballistic missile program. It would have been Trump's legacy. But 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.320 it's not about legacy. It's about keeping Americans safe, about 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:37.880 keeping the world safe. I mean, these religious fascists, you know, 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.240 they think they're doing God's will if they kill innocent men, 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.800 women and children and others. Don't want to face that 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.639 simple truth, but that is a truth, that is a reality. 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.080 Also, protecting one of our greatest ally Israel. I mean, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.520 look at what happened on October seventh. We already know 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.359 in their constitution or whatever you want to call it, 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.520 that they have as one of their core objectives is 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.320 to destroy Israel. Right, So I mean it's spelled out 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:02.760 right there. 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:03.040 Now. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.919 North Korea has nukes, and I forget who who they 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.600 got that under, if it was Clinton or whoever. But 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.240 you know, we don't need more regimes like that with 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.720 nukes obviously, right. I think we can all agree that's 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:14.160 a good thing. 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:14.840 Oh. 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.920 Look, for those of us that understand it's it's very 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.280 simple and basic and fundamental and you know, I'm like 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.760 everybody else. I don't want any forever wars. But Donald 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.280 Trump's not. I mean, listen to what he's saying. He's 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.000 not staying there forever. This is going to wrap up 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:33.240 sooner than later now, and either they're going to take 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.399 the deal. The President is offering that will that he 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.160 will insist they opened the Straight of hor Mooz and 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.640 it they will negotiate how, not if, how this nuclear 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:47.120 material will be turned over, which, by the way, President 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.800 Bush had accomplished with Libya and they turned it over 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:55.720 to us. And Libya was once a real emerging threat 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.840 that was neutralized. This will be neutralized as well. One 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:00.360 way or the other. They'll do it the hard way 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.199 of the easy way. I prefer the easy way to 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:02.679 be honest. 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:06.760 Yeah, agreed, Sean. Love what you're doing, man, keep it up. 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:08.080 I appreciate you, man. 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.920 Thank you for being out there, Thank you for your support, 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.040 Thank you for your common sense. All right, let's get 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.920 back to our phones. Nancy and Rhode Island. Hey, Nancy, 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:18.720 how are you happy Monday? Glad you called? 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:20.360 Hey, Sean, how are you? 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:22.840 I'm good? Thank you? Thanks for checking in. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:28.680 I have a question for you. Recently, Israel has stated 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:35.280 that they were considering executing Palestinian prisoners, and Iran has 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:39.399 responded by saying that if they do that, that American 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:44.800 and Israeli prisoners in Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon will be executed. 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:49.240 I'm wondering why Trump or hag Seth has not responded 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:55.560 to this, and in your opinion, should we respond or not? 0:21:55.760 --> 0:22:01.080 And if we should, how should we respond? And that 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.880 would make a whole new ball game if if they 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:10.400 were executing American prisoners, wouldn't that just ye first, that would. 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:13.920 Change the calculus, you know, dramatically, and you know, as 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.439 the President has shown, I mean, there's going to be 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:20.159 held to pay for any attack on any American. That's 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.080 that's the way this world works under President Trump. You know, 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:27.680 it embodies it is the personification of peace through strength 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:30.040