WEBVTT - Iran In A Vice Grip 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.640 Right news round up in Information Overload Hour. Here's our 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.560 toll free telephone number this Monday. It is eight hundred 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.080 and nine fourt one, Shawn. If you want to be 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:08.560 a part of the program. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:09.120 All right. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:13.480 The President now is taking the events and Iran to 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.720 the next level. The US Navy escorting ships through the 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.720 Strait of Ormuz. Is it risky? 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:21.040 Yes? 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:21.280 Oh. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.800 I think the President's plan B is to obliterate them. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:24.319 I do. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.639 Will the Iranians fall into the trap, We'll see. Only 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:33.160 time will tell. But as the President rightly has been saying, 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.440 the Iranians are fighting themselves more than they're fighting anybody else. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.280 And there has not been one group of leadership to 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.120 emerge to actually have a real negotiation with Here's what 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:44.520 he said. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:49.400 We're doing everything in terms of negotiating right now. In 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:55.520 terms of the negotiation telephonically, they've made strides, but I'm 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:01.560 not sure if they ever get there. Tremendous discord, this 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.240 tremendous having a tremendous problem getting along with each other 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:09.920 in Iran. The leadership is very disjointed. It's got two 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:14.360 to three groups, maybe four, and it's a very disjointed leadership. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.959 And with that being said, they all want to make 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:18.600 a deal, but they're all messed up. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.480 It's pretty messed up anyway. Here to analyze what's going 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.120 to happen next, we have Ambassador Nathan Sales. Now, he 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.440 did serve in the first Trump administration as the Ambassador 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.639 at Large for counter Terrorism and acting under Secretary of State. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.760 I understand what the President is doing. I understand the 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.240 situation he's dealing with. I understand also because I had 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.640 the conversation with him, that he can obliterate them in 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.040 fifteen minutes or less, so that option always remains on 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:53.360 the table. However, I get a little nervous when American 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.560 ships are escorting other ships through the Straight of Horn moves, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.160 knowing the short distance at its narrowest point is what 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.000 twenty four miles something like that. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.560 Yesom, thanks for having me on. The situation today is 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:09.079 obviously very fluid. The US announced that we were going 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.360 to be reopening the Straight and working with commercial shipping 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.080 companies to reduce the risk that their cargoes and cruise face. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.520 We're also seeing Iran lashing out. Who and Iran it's 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:25.560 actually not clear who's responsible for making these decisions to 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.720 attack ships in the Gulf and to launch drones at 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.560 the United Arab Emirates or these rogue commanders on the 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.560 front lines who have taken matters into their own hands, 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.400 or is this a strategic decision that's made by leadership, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.400 such as it is leadership that's remaining in Tehran. So 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.960 we've got to watch the situation very very closely. I 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.240 think the overall picture here, what the President is trying 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.640 to do is maximize his leverage over the Iranian regime, 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.720 using all of the instruments of the American power, diplomatic, economic, 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.440 and military, to coerce the Mulas to the table to 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.200 get a good deal. It looked yesterday as though we 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.880 were starting to see some progress. The Iranians were starting 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.920 to say, okay, well maybe we'll give up nuclear Enrichmond 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.280 for fifteen years. Previously they only said five. Now fifteen 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.160 is still way too short. But the fact that they 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.240 were willing to move a little bit in the right 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.960 direction suggest that they were starting to feel the heat 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.919 of the economic blockade. So there's a lot of moving 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.239 parts here. Let's watch the situation very. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:24.920 Carefully, all right. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.560 Scott Besson said we're suffocating them economically and they're not 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:33.519 able to pay their soldiers. He's also saying that Iran 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:38.280 has gotten a pittance of hormones. Holes they're losing, we're told, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.640 between four and five hundred million dollars a day, and 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.560 their ability to store the oil that they are currently 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.200 pumping is running out very quickly, which would mean they'd 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.000 have to cap those oil wells, which would mean if 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.680 they ever do reopen them, probably they'd be at best 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.520 fifty to sixty percent capacity of where they are today. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.560 Not a good option for them, No. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.680 Not at all. And that's really the economic leverage that 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.600 the United States has over Iran right now. We have 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.240 their economy, and a vice script, so much of their 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:14.000 economic strength, or such as it is, is dependent on 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.240 oil revenues. If you turn that off, their economy craters. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.840 And their economy is not in great shape to begin with. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.720 They've been mismanaged for forty years, fifty years, they faced 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:28.280 decades of American sanctions pressure. The war has completely obliterated 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.839 their industrial base, and so their ability to weather economic 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.600 storms like we unleashed with this blockade is very, very limited, 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.240 and so it's ultimately a question of who's going to 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.719 blink first. The Iranians think they can outlast the United States, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.120 and President Trump is looking at their fragile economy and saying, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.240 I've got all the cards. I've got all the time. 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.160 So that's the question is over the next couple of weeks, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.680 is the Iranian regime going to continue to feel that 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.400 economic pressure and ultimately blink and come to the table 0:04:58.400 --> 0:04:59.080 for a good deal. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.599 What is your best Yes, I mean, at this point, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.920 we don't even know who's in charge. I know that 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.599 they are fighting for the leadership role. They seem to 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.719 have no concern at all about any impact on the 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.120 Iranian people. The one thing that I wish has happened 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.839 and they've not been able to accomplish it at this point, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.039 and maybe they will be able to accomplish it, is 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.680 arming the Iranian people. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.360 Yeah, the Iranian regime has no regard for the Iranian people. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.479 The Iranian people have been victimized by this regime for 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.800 the past fifty some years, and most recently they killed 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.440 about forty thousand of them. So American pressure on the 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.240 regime has to be to impose costs that actually matter 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.680 to the regime, not costs that are going to be 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.720 born by the Iranian people, And that's why I'm glad 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.320 that the President moved off as into earlier threats to 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:51.400 target a lot of Iranian energy infrastructure and transportation infrastructure. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.240 That's going to disproportionately hurt the people of Iran. And 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.200 if you ask the leaders in Tehran whether they care, 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:58.880 the answer is going to be a big, fat no. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.440 What they care about out is regime continuity. They care 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:03.520 about their abilities. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.680 But they can say they don't care. But at that 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.840 point then their days are numbered. I mean things are 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.239 already bad enough. Half their workforce is out of work. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.320 Reports are that the IRGC is not getting paid, Reports 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.279 are their currency is down to zero, reports of a 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:24.320 two hundred percent inflation rate, reports of food and shortages 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.479 of other goods and services. So the Iranian people and 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.760 if they're not paying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces, they're 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.000 going to start to rebel too. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.320 Yeah, that's a real risk that the leaders have to 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.560 worry about in Tehran because the economic pressure we're applying 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.679 directed at regime targets can create fissures within the regime, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.920 can create factions. It's a smart way to exploit divisions 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.040 within the regime and cause them to turn against one 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.760 another and another thing that happens is if you're squeezing 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.039 the pocketbooks of the revolutionary guard core and they're not 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.440 getting paid Sean, as you said, maybe they start to 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.240 consider alternatives. Maybe not leaders who are super ideological and 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.400 committed to shea revolutionaryism around the world, But what about 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.400 the rank and file who saw, now you know, this 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.320 might be a good way to get ahead in life 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.400 and make a good buck. Those folks who are more 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.560 monetarily motivated, maybe the loss of the paycheck causes them 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:18.680 to consider alternatives. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.720 What about these other countries that are way more dependent 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.400 on the Straight of Horror moves than we are. We're 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.280 not dependent on the Straight being open at all. I mean, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.840 why does France and Western European countries that do rely 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.360 on energy coming out of the Straight, why don't they 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:33.920 get involved? 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.400 Yeah, I'd like to see more from our European friends. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.160 They get about twenty five percent of their energy. I 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.720 think from the Straight of Horror moves we get about 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.640 ten or less. So the Europeans certainly have skin in 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.720 the game. Now, the Brits have talked about a maritime 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.920 coalition to keep the Straight open. I think that's valuable. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.560 I think we should encourage that and be grateful for it. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.200 All that said, it would be nice to see more 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.880 effort and to see it sooner so that it comes 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.000 at a time when it actually matters the most, which 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.640 is right now when the Iranians are taking shots at 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.280 a Korean ship and Amorat ship. And it's not just 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.920 the Europeans who we'd like to see stand up and 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.760 be counted. The golf partners of ours have a huge 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.000 economic interest in continuing to be able to export through 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.640 the Strait, and our Asian friends South Korea, Japan and 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.679 others have a huge interest in being able to import oil. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.520 So we'd like to see some help from those guys 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:24.160 as well. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.200 With China and all of this, because they get a 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.400 lot of their oil through that straight Yeah. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.640 And China has really been a huge beneficiary of Iranian 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.560 oil over the past number of years because the Iranians 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.800 have a hard time selling it on the open market 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.920 thanks to American sanctions, but the Chinese Communist Party is 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.439 perfectly happy to take a discount. China and iran are 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:49.360 inextricably linked. They have economic ties, they increasingly have military ties. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.199 A lot of the military equipment that our forces were 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.240 able to go in and destroy during the opening hours 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.720 and days of the campaign. We're Chinese, so we have 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.440 to want under whether Shijin Ping has a lot of 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.880 confidence in the ability of his equipment to withstand American 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.400 military might. But what we need to do is try 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.559 and separate China as much as we can from Iran. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.920 Don't provide them intelligence information, don't provide them with dual 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.320 use capabilities that could be used for military purposes, and 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.000 Iran certainly don't provide them with weapons. I have to 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.920 imagine that that's the key message that the President and 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.360 his team are delivering Decision Ping in advance of a 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.920 meeting in the upcoming weeks or months. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.120 I think it's probably next week. I'm scheduled to go myself, 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.960 so I might be there. Wish me luck getting in 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.040 and out of China. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:37.880 If I go, don't. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.720 I am on Air Force one, so I should be 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.920 fairly protected. I'm hoping, but you never know. But it 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.760 is China. But the Iranians have been getting help from 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.240 the Chinese, from the Russians and the North Koreans. That's 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.800 where a lot of their weaponry came from. Now, if 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.760 I'm China and I'm Russia and I'm North Korea, and 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.320 I watched the obliteration of all of our missile defense system, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:04.840 ballistic system, air defense systems, and nuclear systems that I'm 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.319 sure they assisted with. What are they thinking at this point? 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.480 Are they thinking, Wow, we underestimated America's military might. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:17.560 I think the overwhelming dominance of the American military in 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.920 this campaign is going to send a clear deterrent signal 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.840 to Russia and a clear deterrent signal to China. How 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.439 confident is Russia about in the future, God forbid taking 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.640 a fight with NATO, not just Ukraine, but actually fighting 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.199 against NATO. When you've seen what American military capabilities look 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:35.440 like in Iran, I'm. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.640 Not sure NATO's going to exist when this is all 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:38.840 said and done. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.720 Right, Well, you know, the eastern front country is poland 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.360 the ball the Romanians. These guys are super committed to 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.800 the alliance, and they're putting their money where their mouth 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.679 is because they realize that it's on them first and 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.400 foremost to descend their homelands against the Russian threats. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:55.760 And so see. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.320 But I could see us going into bilateral negotiations and 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.080 agreements with those countries that have been loyal and have 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:07.320 been supportive and basically saying goodbye to Spain and France, 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.800 maybe even Great Britain Italy that have not been supportive, 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.800 that have frankly undermined our efforts. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.199 Yeah, there's a lot of Western European countries that have 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.240 yet to get true religion. Spain it is at the 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.719 top of the list. Spain has said they're not going 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:28.000 to spend the requisite five percent of gross domestic product 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.000 on military spending, and the reason is because we choose 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.080 not to make this sacrifice. I think that's a direct 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.559 quote from Pedro Sanchez, the leader of Spain. And when 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.720 an American here is that, what they think is, well, 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.920 why should we make a sacrifice for Spain if the 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.000 Spanish are not going to make a sacrifice to defend 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.680 their own country. So that's not I. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.520 Don't think, I don't think we should do you. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.320 Yeah, well, no, I mean NATO is before you get 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.880 to Article five collect a self defense, you have Article two, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.439 and that talks about readiness and preparedness, and if you're 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.400 not prepared to invest in your own capabilities in your 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.160 own defense, it's not reasonable to expect other countries to 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.760 make up that flax. So clearly one of the key 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.200 things that's come out of President Trump's two terms is 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.319 more and more NATO ally stepping up. Not everybody is 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:13.880 stepping up, and we need to see more of it. 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.040 Oh, it's going to be interesting to watch this play out. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.240 We appreciate your time, Ambassador and Nathan Sales. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:38.560 Thank you, Thank you, Sean Kent. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:39.480 Let's get back to our. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.200 Busy phones eight hundred ninety four one, Sean, if you 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.280 want to be a part of the program, Stacy my 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:45.320 free State of Florida. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.840 Stacey, how are you glad you called? I am great. 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:48.720 How are you, Sean? 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:49.920 I'm good? Thank you. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:55.120 I have a two part question. The first one is 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:02.360 why are we knee deep in the Strait? Why when 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.640 we know once we open it up, i Ran will 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.160 be continue in its business with China. Iran's a huge 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.520 supplier of China and oil. My other one is is 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.960 if we're only if the Strait isn't that important to 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.480 the United States as getting our crude oil so forth, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.520 why is our oil and our gas prices so high? 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:31.160 Well, it is temporarily because world markets do impact local markets, 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:36.480 and that's just simple economics. But once this is over, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.640 and I do believe it will come to an end 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.880 sooner than later. I think that those prices will come 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.680 down rather precipitously, and I think it's going to happen quickly, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.520 and I think it'll be good for everybody. And the 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.360 reality is is that we're impacted by the price of 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:57.080 oil worldwide, regardless of our ability to be energy dominant, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:02.520 energy independent. And the President is trying to accomplish something 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:07.360 here without going without using the nuclear option, and I'm 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.520 not talking about nuclear weapons without without going scorched earth 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.120 on Iran. That option remains on the table. It's always 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.440 remained on the table. But the President and even said 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.160 so last week, for humanitarian purposes, he's not chosen that 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.560 route yet. But it may come down to that. If 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.239 the Iranians, whoever may be in charge, whatever fourth fifthier 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.840 layer of leadership that is calling the shots there, if 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.760 they're stupid enough to take us on on the straight 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.320 or Hormuz, I think they will seal their own fate, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.160 and then I think this will come to a quick end. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.000 Very well, very well, And you had also mentioned during 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.280 your show, is harming the people might be the answer 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.880 for them to fix their own country. Is what I 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.880 believe is maybe we should look at that. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:57.880 When all this well, they have been looking at it. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.400 There have been attempts to make it happen on Unfortunately, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.320 you're dealing with a lot of unsavory characters. And my 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.440 understanding is is that you know, for example, working with 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.840 the Kurds, they were stealing ninety percent of the weapons, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.280 so that's not helpful. Whether we can find a different 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.280 path to get arms into the hands of the Uranium 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.840 people and they can be the masters of their own destiny. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.960 It's it's proven difficult, but I'm sure we could probably 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.000 come up with an alternative plan, and I would expect 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.400 that to happen. You can't win a revolution with a 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:27.440 sling shot. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.280 Not I do appreciate your time and have a great day. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.520 I appreciate you call eight hundred and nine foot one. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.440 Shawn is on number this Monday. Quick break right back 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.320 and more of your calls coming up straight. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:16:15.600 Ahead, solid as a rock, honestful. This is the Seanhannity Show. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:16.480 Hey dot org. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:21.640 Remember last week we played this idiot mayor in Seattle. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:26.880 Her name is Katie Wilson, you know, telling wealthy people. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.320 And by the way, the former head of Starbucks, Howard 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.960 whatever his name is, moved to my free state of Florida, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.920 just like Mark Zuckerberg moved to Florida, just like all 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.840 the co founders of Google moved to Florida, just like 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.600 Larry Ellison of Oracle moved to Florida. Just like all 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.520 of the private equity firms, big banks, investment firms in 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:50.120 New York are all moving to Florida and Ball Street 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:55.160 South because of the oppressive taxation. And she just mocked people. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.520 She said, you know, basically get lost because she's putting 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.200 in place in her city of Seattle a wealth tax. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:02.640 Listen. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.040 I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.280 our state are like super overblown. 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.399 And if you know the ones that leave, like by. 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:21.240 So now, I mean, if you go back in time, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.359 New York is way ahead of where they are in Seattle, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.360 and you can go back, for example, and you have 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:31.520 Andrew Cuomo. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:33.960 If you're pro stual. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.880 Weapon and you're pro life, you were not in New 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.040 Yorker and there's no place for you in the state 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.200 in New York. And he said that, and I'm like, okay, 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.919 that's when that was in twenty fourteen. I believe and 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.600 all these governors. I said, well, if I'm not wanted, 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.040 I'm going to leave. And I just couldn't leave at 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.840 that time. I'm now three years gone, and now the 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.840 current governor pathy Hokeel. Remember she was telling Lee Zelden, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.760 Resident Trump, other conservatives get on the bus, got down 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:03.200 to Florida. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:04.840 Remember, Bruce, and we're here. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:10.280 To say that the era of Trump and Zelden and 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.000 mon Arro. Just jump on a bus and head down 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.960 to Florida where you belong. Okay, get out of town, 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.320 get out of town. Because you don't read, you don't 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:20.760 represent our values. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.080 You are not New Yorkers. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.480 I got out of town because I agree with them. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.280 I like them. Well, now Bruce Blakeman, who was running 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:36.040 against her, uses that and then concludes it with her 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.320 now backtracking and saying that we've got to go down 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.720 to Palm Beach and beg people to come back to 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:43.240 New York. 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.359 Listen to this, Zad, just jump on a bus and 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.920 head down to Florida where you belong. Okay, get out 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:52.560 of town, get out of town. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.520 Do you got to let me? 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.960 No? 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:57.680 Shoot? 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.080 I still you shoot I go. 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:06.760 If you say that, you Amma, I'll be here til 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:07.920 the end of time. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.040 So you've got to let me know. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.280 Shoot, should I go? 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:18.960 And so. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.000 First steps? Should we go down to Palm Beach and 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:25.280 see what you can bring back home? 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.720 Because our tax base has been wrote it. 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:28.280 It's fine. 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.240 Now I've reached out to Kathy Hokle's office. 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.359 Did you know that Linda I did not know that. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.840 I want to invite her on my shows. I'll invite 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.440 her down to Palm Beach. I'll have a conversation with her, 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.240 and I'm going to tell her exactly why I don't 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.520 feel that I want to go back to New York 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.520 and maybe she should listen to people like me. Now, 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:56.159 Ken Griffin who was used by Mum Donnie Marxist Cammi 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:01.040 Mumdanni in that ad saying he doesn't even live here. Well, 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:05.320 he's scheduled to invest. He's the head of Citadel, which 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.840 is a big investment firm they now are. Their home 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.679 bases is in Wall Street South in South Florida. He 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.000 owns a ton of property all the way from Miami 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:20.080 to Palm Beach and very very wealthy billionaire and he 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:23.560 had planned to spend six billion dollars. Bumdani, that dope 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.000 does this ad attacking Ken Griffin that he wants to 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:31.000 tax him even more. And now Ken Griffin is saying, 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.679 I'm not sure I'm going to spend the six billion 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.160 dollars in New York. Apparently he was going to meet 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.400 with Hockel. My only advice to him is, I don't 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.480 think you can trust Hochel. I mean, there was one 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.080 moment of clarity with Cuomo back when he was governor, 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:46.560 and he said. 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.359 Tax the rich, tax the ridge, tax the rich. We did, 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:51.480 God forbid the rich leave. 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:56.040 Listen, so encourages he income New Yorkers to move to 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:01.000 other states. And what you have to remember is even 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:06.199 if a small number of high income taxpayers leave, it 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:11.080 has a dramatic effect on this tax space. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.840 Tax the rich, Tax the rich, Tax the rich. We did. 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.560 Now god forbid the rich leave. 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:21.760 Well, the rich have been leaving in droves. 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.719 I know because I live in South Florida, and in 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.960 South Florida there are plenty of people that once lived 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:33.000 in New York that are far wealthier than Sean Hannity is. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.680 I promise you and those people are not going back. 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.320 They're not bringing their businesses back. They're all predicting what 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.680 I'm predicting they think a wealth tax will be put 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.080 in place in New York and New York City. Look 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:49.000 at Mamdannie's proposal. For example. On the death tax. Now, 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:52.320 New York State has a ten percent death tax. This 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:56.040