1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: All right, here we are three hundred and five days 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: until you, we the American people, we get the final say, 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: and hopefully on election night or early the next morning, 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: you will hear the words we can now project Donald J. 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Trump has been reelected the forty fifth President of the 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: United States. Anyway, Happy Friday, hope you all had a 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: great New Year Christmas. Yeah, I know. I was supposed 8 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: to be off today many thanks to Rose Tenant. I 9 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: couldn't take it, my honest thing. I'm yelling and literally 10 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: going nuts at home. It is amazing, but yet so predictable. 11 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: I ended up. I was working the phones as I 12 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: started to get when something was going down. So, yeah, 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: we do our job. We source, we double source. I 14 00:00:54,520 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: made all my calls, I talked to everybody, and story 15 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: begins to emerge. Nobody in the mob, in the media 16 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: bothered to really dig down deep into what this is 17 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: all about. You know, you had people literally out there. 18 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: I mean, you've got you know, Joy Reads. This is 19 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: Trump's Benghazi. No or Senator Chris Murphy. You're impotent and 20 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: the only thing you can do is nothing and have 21 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: our personnel hiding in safe rooms. And then the president 22 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: acts and takes out Solomany, and you know, we're getting 23 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: lectures from the Benghazi Democrats. We are getting lectured by 24 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: the Mullah bribing, appeasement Democrats. And I'm sitting here. I 25 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: can't take it anymore because this is so deep and 26 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: so profound, and so vitally important for the safety and 27 00:01:54,720 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: security of the United States. Our interest in the region 28 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: are personnel American citizens in the region. You would think that, 29 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: you know, maybe for just five seconds, that Democrats could say, 30 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: good job, mister President. You took out the leader of 31 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: the Kuds Forces, the guy responsible for more terror, more death, 32 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 1: more misery, more mayhem, more proxy wars than any other 33 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: single one individual in the entire Middle East. But they 34 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: couldn't find it within themselves to do that. What have 35 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: I said? I even said it on calling into Jason 36 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: Chaffins was hosting Hannity last night. I said, look, I 37 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: guarantee you they're gonna you know, the predictable mob in 38 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: the media and the Democrats, they would impeach Donald Trump 39 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 1: if he cured cancer. He kills one with the biggest 40 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: terrorist in the Middle East, a guy responsible for the 41 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: deaths of hundreds of a Americans inside of Iraq. The 42 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: guy that is responsible for all of the proxy wars 43 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: that Iran has involved in, including supporting Yemen in their 44 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: battle against Saudi Arabia, including funding from the get go Hezbollah, 45 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: which obviously one of the most well known terror organizations 46 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: in the world. They couldn't find it within themselves to 47 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: say one good thing, and they were already getting the 48 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: wag the dog, you know, conspiracy theories started by Congresswoman 49 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: Omar I really can't stand the very same people that 50 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: sat back and watched Biden and Obama drop a hundred 51 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: and fifty billion, not million billion dollars and other currency 52 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: on a tarmac in Iran for the mullahs of a run. Yeah, 53 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: the same ones that chant death to America, death to Israel, 54 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: that burn the American flag, that burn of the Israeli flag, 55 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: and they drop one hundred and fifty billion dollars. Now, 56 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: these are the guys that have been fomenting terror. These 57 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: are the guys fighting the proxy wars, and these are 58 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: the guys led by Solomani killing Americans in the region. 59 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: We all watched in horror, were witnessing what was going 60 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: on as our embassy in Baghdad was being attacked by 61 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 1: these protesters. I mean, you would think that that not 62 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: allowing another Benghazi would be a great thing. Apparently not. 63 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: We're going to talk to one of the members of 64 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 1: the Benghazi Remember the guys that were the Mark Geiss 65 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: was one of the Americans told to stand down, and 66 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: him and Tanto Piranto and everybody else, they said, you 67 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: know what, the hell with our Americans are gonna die 68 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: if we don't do something. Ended up saving We lost 69 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: four people, Ambassador Stevens et Center, but we ended up 70 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: saving dozens of American lives because they were willing to 71 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: put it all on the line on September eleven, twenty twelve, 72 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 1: and they save lives. That's what you're supposed to do 73 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 1: when American lives abroad, American interests abroad are being threatened. 74 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: And it was you know, remember it's reported on the 75 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: twenty seventh of this past year. Remember the attack, a 76 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: rocket attack northern Iraq killing an American contractor. Well, in 77 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: that same attack, I know it didn't get a lot 78 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: of headlines that deserved more, but there were many of 79 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: our military personnel that were wounded in that attack and 80 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: one civilian contractor killed. Several US service members and Iraqi 81 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: personnel wounded, and this was a rocket attack on Iraqi 82 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: military base in Kirkuk. Now, a lot of you are 83 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: saying to yourselves, Oh, what are the Mola's gonna do? 84 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: And I'm listening to all these idiots, and they are 85 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: the dumbest people. I'm sitting there at times, I'm literally wondering, Wow, 86 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: who are you cheering for here? Because it's like their 87 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 1: commentary is so extreme, it is so radicalized that the 88 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty candidates same thing that it literally scares me 89 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: how dumb and dangerous they are, and what are we 90 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: supposed to do. These are the same people that didn't 91 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: rescue our Americans in Benghazi, the same people that believe 92 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: bribing mullahs in Iran that chant death to us and 93 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: burn our flag and threaten us that we're not allowed 94 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: to respond. We're not supposed to respond. This is a 95 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: by the way, it's a terrorist organization, the Cuds forces, 96 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: this is their the Iranian elite military forces. And what 97 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: the president did in the time that he did it 98 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: is remarkable. Now, just some news the US is sending 99 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: three thousand more troops to the Middle East. The President 100 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: is not He's been very clear and I agree with him. 101 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: We cannot get involved in long protracted conflicts anymore anywhere, 102 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: especially in the Middle East. How many times have I said, 103 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: from a geopolitical standpoint, the fact that America now is 104 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: the number one producer of oil because the President sees 105 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: the value in the resources that Democrats would never allow 106 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: us to use. But that makes the Straits of hore 107 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: Moves less strategic geo political strategy. It's the least important 108 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: and it's ever been to the United States. What does 109 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: that mean. That means they don't have the leverage they 110 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: want has had on the world and the world's economy. Now, 111 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: if you go back, the media was saying, oh, Donald 112 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: Trump is going to start a war after they shot 113 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: down our drone, President said, better not cross this line. President. 114 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: They thought, after the attack on the Saudi oil fields, 115 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: What's Donald Trump gonna do? Then we had the tankers, 116 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: not our tankers, and we had tankers being held hostage. 117 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: President held this fire. Now, the President acted because American 118 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: lives and interests. It was a clear and present danger 119 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: and this is what a president is elected to do 120 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: to protect Americans an American interests both here and abroad. 121 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: And it couldn't be anymore clear that American lives were 122 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: at stake. It is. So it's so frustrating, but this 123 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: is the battle we now have for the next three 124 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: hundred and five days. So the President's deploying thousands of 125 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: extra troops. Now you're saying, well, does that mean we're 126 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: going to get into a ground conflict. We can never 127 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: ever allow what has happened in both Vietnam and then 128 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: later Iraq to ever happen again because the swamp in Washington, 129 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: they're all get up and go, and then they want 130 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: to fight wars, and then in a very short period 131 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: of time they politicize the wars, and then they kind 132 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: of say, never mind. And after losing fifty eight thousand, 133 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: you know, American soldiers in Vietnam, that is our national treasure, 134 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: after losing nearly five thousand in Iraq and Afghanistan and 135 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: so many others permanently injured, many losing limbs and disfigured, 136 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: and you know, and then what happens Washington politicizes it. 137 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 1: What have I been saying on this program, America's foreign 138 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: policy future needs to now evolve that we never ever 139 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: send American men and women to go door to door 140 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: like we did in Iraq. Now I supported that conflict, 141 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: but clearly Washington goes wishy washye. You know, but what 142 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: did Donald Trump do? He said, we got to get 143 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: out of these conflicts. So what happens he becomes president. 144 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: How did Donald Trump defeat and push back the Caliphate 145 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: in Syria? Well, the first thing he did was he 146 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 1: took the rules of engagement from the Obama Biden error, 147 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: which said you can't fire in a war unless you're 148 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: fired upon. Well that's really dumb, because now you're putting 149 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: our troops that you send to go fight, you're putting 150 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: handcuffs on them. So what did the president do? President 151 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: got rid of those rules, and the president systematically bomb 152 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: the living crap out of every city, every down, every 153 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: location where Syria was taken over by Isis by the way, 154 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: with support from the Cuds and Solomoni. And then he 155 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: defeated the Caliphate in Syria. Well, wow, that would be 156 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: a new paradigm, a new model, something we can duplicate. 157 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: For example, if American now gets down to the very 158 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: important geopolitical safety security issue of defending America, defending Americans, 159 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: and defending our interests both here and abroad, then that 160 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: would mean, if we're really smart and we don't want 161 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: our kids going door to door again, we must develop 162 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: and it'll cost a lot of money, the next generation 163 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: of weaponry, and that would be both offensive and defensive, 164 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: so that when we fight future conflicts, that we can 165 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: fight them in an air conditioned room. Women say Nevada 166 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: where this might have where this where all of this 167 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: might have been launched from, or Tampa, Florida. And if 168 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: we're helping other countries like Iraq, they can send their 169 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 1: national treasure door to door and give us the intelligence 170 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: and will offer them the firepower if it is in 171 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: the interests of the United States. It's that simple. And 172 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: when you fight a war, you gotta fight it to 173 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: win it. Now, some are saying, well, what the Rohani 174 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: the president is saying, we're gonna retaliate. Okay, there's always 175 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: a chance that I guess Iran is that dumb and 176 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: maybe they didn't get the message when the number one 177 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: leader of their elite military was just taken out like 178 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: you know, like just by pushing a button for most part, 179 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: So what if they do try to retaliate, Well, if 180 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: you want to. One of the reasons I think Iran 181 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: is doing all this is because Donald Trump's sanctions has 182 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: crippled their economy, so they want to respond. They try 183 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: to respond, they try to retaliate. Well, what's the first 184 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: thing I think I'd be looking at if I'm an 185 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 1: American president. There are three main refineries inside of Iran. 186 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: Now I'm pretty convinced. I don't know for sure. I 187 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: don't have access to all the information the president has. 188 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: I don't have access to all of our capabilities. But 189 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: I am impressed by what we're capable of doing. And 190 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: I have faith that if we targeted those three main 191 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: refineries inside of Iran, their economy would go belly up. 192 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: And what would happen then the people of Iran that 193 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: have been protesting, although there's not a lot of news 194 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: reporting on it, then they might have a chance to 195 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: overthrow the Mullahs that have been terrorizing even their own people. 196 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: All Right, when we come back, I got a lot 197 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: to get to them. We're also loaded up. We've got 198 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy. The President is expected to speak later sometime 199 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: this afternoon. Lindsey Graham will join US. Colonel North joins 200 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 1: US today, one of the heroes of Penghazi as our 201 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: special coverage continues straight ahead. All right, so the president 202 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: just spoke, I don't I want to play it in 203 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: full in its context, and I don't have enough time 204 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: leading into the bottom of the hour news, so we'll 205 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: play it after that news break coming up. So the 206 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: update is the President now is deployed the extra troops 207 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: that it will be necessary and needed. I've been told 208 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: by sources are military is on high alert and that 209 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: in if there is retaliation, this is what I've been told. 210 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: All options are on the table now. One of the 211 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: things I tweeted out today was, you know, you always 212 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: watch these gutless, these cowards like President Rohana. They never 213 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: you know, the ones that always encourage the terrorism, the 214 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: ones that are always saying, yeah, you know, you'll be 215 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: rewarded in heaven with this or that. If he's so brave, 216 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: maybe he should show solidarity and he can go to 217 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: one of these three major refineries in Iran and taught 218 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: Trump from there, because he was saying just last week 219 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: that Trump can't do anything. Well, he did, just like 220 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: Solomani had taunted Trump previously as well, and the media 221 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: they were saying he was impotent and that our personnel 222 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: had to hide in save rooms. We'll get to their corruption, 223 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: their insanity. Much more straight ahead special edition GLADU with 224 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: a Sean Hannity Show. Happy New Year, all right, twenty 225 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: five till the taunt of the hour. Happy New Year, 226 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: by the way to all you know when an embassy 227 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: is attacked, are you not one? That is our fellow Americans? 228 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: If you can't unite behind that, when are we ever 229 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: going to unite? I watch and I'm going to play 230 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: the president in a minute. His comments in full is 231 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: a Washington Examiner story that not only had this Iranian 232 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: elite general this is their elite force, the cud's forces Solomony. 233 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: This guy's led a terror campaign. I'll go through all 234 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: the details in a minute. Not only has he done that, 235 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: it has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of American 236 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: soldiers during the Iraq War. Turns out he was on 237 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: the verge of launching a new wave of attacks. According 238 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: to the Washington Examiner, US special representative for irand guy 239 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: by the name of Brian Hook said late last night 240 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: that the US moved forward with the targeted drone strike 241 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: and I think Pompeo he'll join me on TV tonight 242 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: was inferring this in his comments on the Iranian Cuds 243 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: forces because quote very solid intelligence that he was planning 244 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: to kill American diplomats and soldiers. Our intelligence community over 245 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: the last many days has been receiving very solid intelligence 246 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: that Solo Money was planning attacks against American diplomats and 247 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,719 Speaker 1: American soldiers that could have resulted in the deaths of 248 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: hundreds of Americans, he said on the BBC, So our 249 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: action was taken to prevent the imminent loss of life. 250 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: When I called into Hannity last night, I had been 251 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: working the phones, and I talked to people, my sources 252 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: in the State Department, the Defense Department, and elsewhere, and 253 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: they all confirmed that there was real intelligence, significant, real 254 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: clear present danger to Americans and our interests abroad. Now 255 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: and anybody in the medium mob ever asked themselves the 256 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: most basic and fundamental question, what is the head of 257 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: the Iranian Cuds forces doing at Baghdad Airport? That would 258 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: be Iraq ran An Iraq usually didn't like each other 259 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: too much. What was he planning, what was he there for, 260 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: what was he really involved in? It's probably something we 261 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: may never know the full answer to that, but what 262 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: remember it was Hezbollah Iranian funded terrorists that were responsible 263 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: for the attack by these protesters against our embassy. And 264 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: thank god we had a president and a military that 265 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 1: acted that decisively and that quickly, and then acted on 266 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: the intelligence. This was a combination of Remember I kept saying, 267 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: the ninety nine percent of brave intelligence people that work 268 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: and protect us every day, not the one percent involved 269 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: with abusing the powerful tools that we give them and 270 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: turning the tools of intelligence against the American people. This 271 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: is the ninety nine plus percent that I've been talking about. 272 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: We have the premiere intelligence community in the world. Nobody 273 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: matches us, and just like we have the premiere law 274 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: enforcement agency. Director Ray, you need to clean it up 275 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: because the ninety nine percent that risked their lives for 276 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: us every day, they deserve better than a tarnished reputation 277 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: by a few that abuse their power. But we'll leave 278 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: them for another day anyway. So you look at this 279 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: guy's Solomoni. The world is safer today. He is a ruthless, 280 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: evil terrorist criminal has been brought to justice. Evil personified 281 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 1: American blood on the guy's hands. As the head of 282 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: their elite military force, their cud's force. There was no 283 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 1: there was not one. Another person responsible for the death 284 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: of our American treasure and civilian deaths in the Middle East. 285 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: And this guy, this is the guy that led Hezbollah. 286 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: They funded Hezbollah. That yeah, the very same one. They 287 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: chant death to America, death to Israel. And thankfully, our 288 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: great intelligence community and our great military, the best in 289 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: the world, the greatest fighting force ever created by mankind. 290 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: They with just pinpoint perfection and accuracy, they got this 291 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: one got. You would think people would celebrate, but no 292 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: president took the decisive action. He was right. Why was 293 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: Solomoni even in Iraq? Well, if you look at it 294 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: and you look at his history, it was obvious they 295 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: were orchestrating all of these attacks against our embassy. Is 296 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,360 Speaker 1: it really that hard, Well, you know, we keep hearing 297 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: one plus one equals two. This is the guy responsible 298 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,719 Speaker 1: for over six hundred deaths of American soldiers in Iraq, 299 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: orchestrating attacks on coalition bases all over Iraq and beyond. 300 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: This guy helped plan the Benghazi attack that killed poor Americans. Solamani, 301 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: He's been fueling proxy conflicts in a reign of terror 302 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,479 Speaker 1: against the US and their allies now for you know, 303 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: decades and of course he's leading this. They're directing Asad's 304 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: genocide in Syria. Don't forget that they supported Asad in 305 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: Syria and in the eighties he backed the militias that 306 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: eventually took over Lebanon known as Hezbollah. Party of God, 307 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: Kill Americans, kill Israelis, and you know he was the 308 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 1: point man for the largest Look, Iran is the number 309 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: one state sponsor of terror in the world. They cause 310 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 1: more misery, death, murder, mayhem than any other country on 311 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: the face of the earth. There's only one reason. Five 312 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 1: years ago it was unimaginable that what has now taken 313 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 1: place in the Middle East is actually a reality. It's happening, 314 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: and that is did you ever think in our lifetime 315 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 1: you would see the United States Israel in complete alliance 316 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: with the Emirates, the Saudias, the Jordanians, and the Egyptians. 317 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: Why is that? Because they recognize the existential threat posed 318 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: by a nuclear armed Iran or the threat of Iranian agemony. 319 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: So if Arran gets control of Iraq, and Iran already 320 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,360 Speaker 1: has pretty much control of Syria with Assad, because without Iran, 321 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: Asad doesn't survive. And then you look at their history 322 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: and then I thought. Secretary of State Pompeo explained it, well, 323 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: he was planning more terror attacks on US troops. Are 324 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: intelligence This time it was pin point accurate. It's amazing 325 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,479 Speaker 1: they identified this guy at this Baghdad airport. You know. 326 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: It's a message from the President. Couldn't be more clear. 327 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: There's not gonna be a Benghazi on his watch. Well, 328 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit and watch and tell American soldiers and 329 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: heroes one mile away to stand down four times and 330 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: forced them to disobey orders and blow up their careers 331 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 1: to go save American lives, which they did, dozens of them. 332 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: And one of those heroes will join us later in 333 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 1: the show, a Colonel North by the way, Lindsey Graham 334 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: today will join us, and Kevin McCarthy will join us. 335 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: But I told remember I said this, and I remember 336 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: I got a lot of press because I directed. I 337 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: went right after the Mullahs in Iran. This was after 338 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: they seized that British tanker, and I said to them, 339 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: I know Donald Trump pretty well. I've known him about 340 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: twenty five years. You keep pushing his buttons. He will act, 341 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: and when he does, it'll be quickly, it'll be decisively 342 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: and it'll be on his terms. People thought it would 343 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: happen after the Saudi oil strike. People thought it would 344 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: happen after they took down a drone. People thought it 345 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: might happen after a rand seas the British tanker. No, 346 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: the President showed enormous patients, not the warmonger that many 347 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: claim that he is. And again you get to the 348 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: issue of well retaliation, what were we supposed to do. 349 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: Our intelligence was perfect, our military had him right and 350 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: the crosshairs. What we're supposed to wait and let's see 351 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: if he starts leading the next wave of attacks against 352 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: our embassy, putting our American family at risk and putting 353 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,120 Speaker 1: our interests in the region at risk. No, that would 354 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: be something that is called dumb. And maybe the Benghazi 355 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,880 Speaker 1: Democrats and the Mullah bribing appeasement democrats, maybe that's their strategy. 356 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: How did the hund in fifty billion in cash, you know, 357 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: the currency work out for Obama and Biden because the 358 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: Iranians did nothing except keep building out their nuclear ambitions, 359 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: keep fomenting terrorism, funding terrorism, and fighting proxy wars. So 360 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: this is how sick anti Trump derangement syndrome is. You 361 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: got Alec Baldwin, Debra Messing, Michael Moore leading the Hollywood 362 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 1: left rushing to social media with their conspiracy theories and 363 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: their rage after the strike against Solomani. That you know, 364 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 1: Trump is a war criminal. People are going to die. Yeah, 365 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: he's dead. Actress Rosanna Arquette, genius that she is. He's 366 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: put us in a war to stop him being impeached. 367 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: Hitler did the same thing, start a war to eclipse impeachment. 368 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: That's Alec Baldwin. This is what Putin wants. Another Hollywood up. 369 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,959 Speaker 1: Mike gol Moore, you know what this? Do you know 370 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 1: this man? Do you know how he was your enemy? 371 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 1: By the end of today, you will be trained to 372 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: hate him. That's how sick it got. Actually have one 373 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: Hollywood actress what's her name, Rose McGowan tweeting an apology 374 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: to Iran for killing Solomoni. I know say in the 375 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: US is held hostage by a terrorist regime. Anyone thought 376 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: of the fact that the reason Iran has all this 377 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,360 Speaker 1: money to commit these terrorist acts and foment terror and 378 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: fight proxy wars because Biden and Obama gave one hundred 379 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: and fifty billion in the dumbest deal ever. Now we 380 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: got Joe Biden. Oh, we just tossed a stick of 381 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: dining white into a tinderbox. Yeah, okay, you caused a 382 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: lot of their their wealth that allowed the funding of 383 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: this garbage that they've been above. Omar threatening to step 384 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: in and stop Trump, you know, spreading her conspiracy theories, 385 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren. So this I love this one. Solomoni was 386 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: a murderer responsible for the deaths of thousands, including hundreds 387 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 1: of Americans. But this reckless move escalates the situation with 388 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: Iraq and increases the the the our Mid East, the 389 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: new Mid East conflict. What did you want to let 390 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: him go? You're gonna let the number one terror leader 391 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 1: for the Iranians go when he's in Iraq, clearly to 392 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: foment trouble with Iran. Then you got the dumbest guy 393 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: of all, this congressman from what's the I guess from Connecticut, 394 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: Chris Murphy. You know, after last week he tweets out, 395 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: you can't even make this up because they're so stupid. 396 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: But last week, this guy tweets out the attack on 397 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 1: her embassy is horrifying but predictable. Trump has rendered America 398 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,120 Speaker 1: impotent in the Middle East. No one fear us, No 399 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: one listens to US. America has been reduced to huddling 400 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: in safe rooms hoping the bad guys will go away. 401 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,919 Speaker 1: What a disgrace. So the President takes out Solomony. What 402 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 1: does he do? And he tweets out, well, Solomoni was 403 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: an enemy of the United States. That's not a question. 404 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: The question is his reports suggest did America just assassinate 405 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: without any congressional authorization the second most powerful person in Iran, 406 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: knowing least, setting off a potential massive regional war. I'm like, okay, wow, 407 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,479 Speaker 1: it's almost like Bagdad Bob, the entire mob in the 408 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: media and the Democratic Party. All right, the President just spoke. 409 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: Let's go to his comments. President Trump is speaking now, 410 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: Let's listen. Executed a flawless, precision strike that killed the 411 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: number one terrorists anywhere in the world, cuss M Salomony. 412 00:28:55,080 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: Solomony was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats 413 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: and military personnel. But we caught him in the act 414 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: and terminated him. Under my leadership, America's policy is unambiguous. 415 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: To terrorists who harm or intend to harm any American, 416 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: we will find you, we will eliminate you. We will 417 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: always protect our diplomats, service members, all Americans and our allies. 418 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 1: For years, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its ruthless 419 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: Kud's force under Solomani's leadership, has targeted, injured, and murdered 420 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: hundreds of American civilians and servicemen. The recent attacks on 421 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: US targets in Iraq, including rocket strikes that killed an 422 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: American and injured for American servicemen very badly, as well 423 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: as a violent assault on our embassy in Baghdad, were 424 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: carried out at the direction of Solomany. Salomony made the 425 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,959 Speaker 1: death of innocent people his sick passion, contributing to terrorist 426 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: plots as far away as New Delhi. In London, today, 427 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 1: we remember and honor the victims of Salomany's many atrocities, 428 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: and we take comfort in knowing that his reign of 429 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: terror as the Middle East for the last twenty years, 430 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: what the United States did yesterday should have been done 431 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 1: long ago. A lot of lives would have been saved. 432 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: Just recently, Salomany led the brutal repression of protesters in Iran, 433 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: were more than a thousand innocent civilians were tortured and 434 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 1: killed by their own government. We took action last night 435 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: to stop a war. We did not take action to 436 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: start a war. I have deep respect for the Iranian people. 437 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: They are a remarkable people. It's an incredible heritage and 438 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: unlimited potential. We do not seek regime change. However, the 439 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: Iranian regime's aggression in the region and the president's comments, 440 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: we have Lindsay Graham, Kevin McCarthy, Ali North, and one 441 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: of the Benghazi heroes. Straight ahead, glad you're with us. 442 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Scott Shannon. Love the all new 443 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: open as we always get from our great friend, the 444 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: Great Scott Shannon. All Right, three hundred and five days 445 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: till you we the people get to decide, three hundred 446 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: and five days until hopefully we hear the words we 447 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: can now project. Donald J. Trump has been reelected the president, 448 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: the forty fifth President of the United States. All Right, 449 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: we're loaded up today. I promised to run the president's 450 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: comments in full. Got about three minutes left. Let me 451 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: pick it up where we left off in the last 452 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: half hour. Then we'll get to Lindsay Graham, Colonel North, 453 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: one of the heroes of Benghazi, Markist and later Republican leader, 454 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy. But here's the president from just in the 455 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: last What the United States did yesterday should have been 456 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: done long ago. A lot of lives would have been saved. 457 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: Just recently, Solomaning led the brutal repression of protesters in Iran, 458 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: were more than a thousand innocent civilians were tortured and 459 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: killed by their own government. We took action last night 460 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: to stop a war. We did not take action to 461 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: start a war. I have deep respect for the Iranian people. 462 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: They are a remarkable people with an incredible heritage and 463 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: unlimited potential. We do not seek regime change. However, the 464 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: Iranian regime's aggression in the region, including the use of 465 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: proxy fighters to destabilize its neighbors, must end, and it 466 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: must end now. The future belongs to the people of Iran, 467 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: those who seek peaceful coexistence and cooperation, not the terrorists 468 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: warlords who plunder their nation to finance bloodshed abroad. The 469 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: United States has the best military by far anywhere in 470 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: the world. We have the best intelligence in the world. 471 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 1: If Americans anywhere are threatened, we have all of those 472 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 1: targets already fully identified, and I am ready and prepared 473 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: to take whatever action is necessary. And that in particular 474 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: refers to Iran. Under my leadership, we have destroyed the 475 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: Isis territorial Caliphate, and recently American special operations forces killed 476 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: the terrorist leader known as al Baghdaddy. The world is 477 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: a safer place without these monsters. America will always pursue 478 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: the interests of good, evil, great people, great souls, while 479 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,520 Speaker 1: seeking peace, harmony, and friendship with all of the nations 480 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 1: of the world. Thank you, God, bless you, God bless 481 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: our great military, and God bless the United States of America. 482 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, that was 483 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,799 Speaker 1: the President finishing his remarks. We'd stopped midway. I apologize 484 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: bedtiming on my part. Eight hundred nine one, Shawn our number. 485 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: President's right. President recognize is Jerusalem. Every president promised it. 486 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:39,560 Speaker 1: The President does, recognizes the sovereignty a Golan. The President 487 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:45,720 Speaker 1: recognizes Israel's right to its own territory. The President wipes 488 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:50,919 Speaker 1: out the caliphate by removing the handcuffs. The Obama error 489 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,279 Speaker 1: rules of engagement be bad ice is completely takes out 490 00:34:55,320 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 1: Baghdaddy and now takes out this one leader that is 491 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: responsible for the deaths of how many Americans fomenting terror 492 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: around the world fighting proxy wars all around the world. 493 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 1: Solomani anyway, Senator Lindsey Graham is with us from the 494 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: great state of South Carolina. I read your tweet last 495 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: I meant to retweet it. It It was didn't you mentioned 496 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: something about refineries in Iran? Yeah, well so let's just 497 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,279 Speaker 1: you know, you gave a good overview. But you know, 498 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 1: by the way, this is what you said. If Iranian 499 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 1: aggression continues and I worked at an Iranian oil refinery, 500 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:40,840 Speaker 1: I think I would think about a new career. Well, so, 501 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: what the President's going to have to do is let 502 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,239 Speaker 1: Iran know that if they do more, we do more. 503 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,759 Speaker 1: So Sulimani basically signed his own death warrant. This was 504 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 1: not a revenge attack. This wasn't for past atrocities. This 505 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:59,800 Speaker 1: was designed to neutralize a planned attack that was about 506 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: to happen, to go after the guide doing the planning 507 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: and the author of the attack. And the reason Suleimani 508 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 1: is dead is because he miscalculated. Donald Trump, how many 509 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,799 Speaker 1: of your colleagues on the democratic side of the all 510 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,800 Speaker 1: you would think that this leader of the Iranian elite 511 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,520 Speaker 1: cud's force, their their elite military. Why was he in 512 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,840 Speaker 1: a Baghdad airport. Why was he on the ground in Baghdad. 513 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 1: Nobody seems to want to ask that question. Well, so 514 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,759 Speaker 1: to my Democratic colleagues, you know, Obama took them lined out. 515 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,279 Speaker 1: We're all grateful. It was a bold move. Suleimani was 516 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 1: in the process of triggering a wave of attacks against Americans. 517 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,719 Speaker 1: We know the intel to be solid. It was just 518 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,359 Speaker 1: a matter of time before he triggered this new wave 519 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 1: of attacks. And the President, after the contractor was killed, 520 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,120 Speaker 1: made a decision that you know, I'll give you a 521 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,919 Speaker 1: pass on the drone that all fill in Saudi Arabia. 522 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: But now you're killing my people and you're coming after 523 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,840 Speaker 1: my people. You've got to pay a price here. And 524 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 1: this is a major miscalculation. We got to change the 525 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,760 Speaker 1: ring too. Calculation. Yeah, well major, No, no, no, it's fine. 526 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,560 Speaker 1: So I'm listening to democrats and the colleagues now I 527 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,640 Speaker 1: call them them Benghazi Democrats. Remember, I'm gonna have on 528 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,480 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour mark guys, tanto pronto. 529 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,680 Speaker 1: All these guys were told to stand down. I interviewed 530 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,719 Speaker 1: him four straight times. They risked their entire career because 531 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: they knew Americans were under fire and they weren't going 532 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,920 Speaker 1: to stand back. They knew were a mile away, and 533 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 1: they're a fighting force, so they went in. This President 534 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: I am told had to act very quickly. That the 535 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,880 Speaker 1: intelligence was rock solid. Now, the Washington Examiner quotes Brian Hook, 536 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,600 Speaker 1: who is the US Special representative for Iran, who said 537 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,200 Speaker 1: that very solid intelligence, that he was planning to kill 538 00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: American diplomats and soldier and that this intelligence was real. Yeah, 539 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 1: this was a peremptive defensive attack against Suleimani who had 540 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,720 Speaker 1: He has blood on his hands all over the region 541 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,959 Speaker 1: in five or six hundred Americans killed by these cone 542 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 1: shaped dietes that came from Iran. So nobody's mourning his death, 543 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,840 Speaker 1: any rational persons not. But to my democratic colleagues, what 544 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,919 Speaker 1: did you expect the proceeds to do? Just sit back? 545 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 1: It wasn't just Suleimani who was killed. It was the 546 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:35,880 Speaker 1: leader of the Popular Mobilization Front, the Shai militias in 547 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,439 Speaker 1: a rock. Their leader was there. They're the ones who 548 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 1: attacked the embassy. You know, Trump killed twenty five of 549 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: them after after they killed a contractor. So you had 550 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,440 Speaker 1: the gown the ground leading the Shiite militias, and you 551 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:54,040 Speaker 1: had Suleimani, you know, the thug terrorist leader all together 552 00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,800 Speaker 1: at Baghdad. What the hell were they doing in Baghdad 553 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,799 Speaker 1: going to the airport. By the way, they supported and 554 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,320 Speaker 1: propped up a sod in Syria and we beat back Caliphate. 555 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:09,320 Speaker 1: The president did something that never happened. So this president 556 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 1: isn't into the mola bribing appeasement ideology because one hundred 557 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,719 Speaker 1: and fifty billion in cash another currency didn't seem to 558 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,480 Speaker 1: buy any good will of the Iranians? Did it well? No, 559 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,680 Speaker 1: I think he's taken on China, go say cheatas like 560 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,719 Speaker 1: crazy when it comes to trade. He's coming down hard 561 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,520 Speaker 1: on North Korea, but giving him a way out. He 562 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,400 Speaker 1: is offering an opportunity to re engage with the Iranians. 563 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,960 Speaker 1: But what do they do Instead of re engage, It 564 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,120 Speaker 1: is trying to destabilize the entire region. So when to 565 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,520 Speaker 1: kill the contractor? That was a game changer. And what 566 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,520 Speaker 1: can we learn from this? When it comes to American personnel, 567 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:57,399 Speaker 1: American citizens, and American interest, you risk a lot if 568 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:01,440 Speaker 1: you come after US, and Donald Trump changed the equation 569 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,239 Speaker 1: for the entire Mid East in the world. If you 570 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:09,000 Speaker 1: kill Americans, you're going to get killed let me let's 571 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,200 Speaker 1: play the game the Democrats are playing. Oh well, what 572 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,560 Speaker 1: if they get mad at us and they retaliate. What 573 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,680 Speaker 1: I liked about your text, and I'll read it again. 574 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 1: If Iranian aggression continues and I worked at an Iranian 575 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,600 Speaker 1: oil refinery, I think I'd be thinking about a new career. 576 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 1: I actually tweeted out, well, if if Rohani wants to 577 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:30,839 Speaker 1: show solidarity and support for the Iranian people, why why 578 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,880 Speaker 1: doesn't he go visit one of the refineries. I've identified 579 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:40,360 Speaker 1: three major refineries that pretty much is the epicenter of 580 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,759 Speaker 1: their economy, and I you would know more about me. 581 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,879 Speaker 1: You have access to information I don't have. But I'm 582 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:49,719 Speaker 1: thinking we take out those three refineries, their economy collapses. 583 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,480 Speaker 1: But maybe I'm wrong. I'm just to talk right, Well, 584 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,359 Speaker 1: I think you you're dead right. So those refineries are 585 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,400 Speaker 1: the lifeblood of the economy of Iran. So what are 586 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,320 Speaker 1: we trying to do here? Create deterrence. We're trying to 587 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,799 Speaker 1: let the Iranians know we're not being clever, we're not 588 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,439 Speaker 1: being too cute, beyhalf, We're not doing the Obama thing. 589 00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,480 Speaker 1: We're trying to let them know, if you want more, 590 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,839 Speaker 1: you're going to get more, and we're trying to up 591 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,040 Speaker 1: the endy. If you come after us, you come after 592 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,400 Speaker 1: our allies, you try to destabilize the roof in the future, 593 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,839 Speaker 1: you try to retaliate against Israel, you try to retaliate 594 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 1: against the United States, and a rock or other blazes, 595 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,400 Speaker 1: you may be out of the oil business. What President 596 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,000 Speaker 1: Trump is saying today in a speech, I have a 597 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,040 Speaker 1: lot of targets available to me. I don't want to 598 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,399 Speaker 1: go further, but if you take me further, you will 599 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,480 Speaker 1: regret it. This is a clear signal by the President 600 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,600 Speaker 1: to establish deterrence. If you want to be out of 601 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,359 Speaker 1: the oil business, test me. I would think that if 602 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,719 Speaker 1: those three refineries now I don't know if there's a 603 00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,000 Speaker 1: lot of smaller ones, but my understanding is as three 604 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,600 Speaker 1: major refineries, that would be a target. And look Prime 605 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,520 Speaker 1: Minister Netanya, who's been warning for years, and I think 606 00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,839 Speaker 1: one of the reasons we watched the impossible emerge, which 607 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,799 Speaker 1: is an alliance between the US, Israel, the Jordanians, Egyptians, 608 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,560 Speaker 1: the Emirates in the Saudist against the Ranian hegemony because 609 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,520 Speaker 1: they realize that that would be a clear and present danger. 610 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,839 Speaker 1: Because when you talk about wiping a country off the 611 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,719 Speaker 1: face of the earth. And you talk about death to 612 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:23,719 Speaker 1: Israel in America, you probably mean it. Yeah, So I mean, 613 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,479 Speaker 1: so what have they done here? I mean they've given 614 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,479 Speaker 1: Hesbelah thousands of rockets pointed to Israel and Lebanon. They've 615 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,520 Speaker 1: given you know, hamas in Gaza. The other side of 616 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,040 Speaker 1: Israel's got thousands of rockets coming from Iran. They're so 617 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,360 Speaker 1: supporting Shiite militias in Iraq, trying to undercut the Iraqi 618 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,280 Speaker 1: military and the Iraqi Parliament. Here's what I worry about. 619 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,960 Speaker 1: I worry about the Iraqi Parliament being pushed by the 620 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,680 Speaker 1: Iranians and they go too far. I've been to Iraq 621 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,120 Speaker 1: and Afghanistan fifty seven and fifty eight times since None eleven. 622 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,440 Speaker 1: Got a lot of friends over there. Here's my message 623 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,840 Speaker 1: to the Iraqi political leadership. Don't hook your wagon to 624 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,200 Speaker 1: a dying economy. Don't hook you wagon to the largest 625 00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,279 Speaker 1: state sponsor of terrorism. I know they're your neighbor, but 626 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:10,200 Speaker 1: don't do anything stupid here. Don't let the ietolo goch 627 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,600 Speaker 1: into doing something stupid. America has been your friend, have 628 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,839 Speaker 1: been your ally with sacrifice, blood and treasure to help 629 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,120 Speaker 1: a stabilize after Saddam Hussein. So I'm urging the Iraqi 630 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,359 Speaker 1: political leadership, don't let the Iranians push you around. Well, 631 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 1: it seems to me that my conclusion would be the 632 00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,160 Speaker 1: only reason that Sulimani was even on the ground. Was 633 00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,839 Speaker 1: probably far more nefarious because Iraq and Rerend have never 634 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,480 Speaker 1: been particularly close friends or allies. Let me move on. 635 00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:42,160 Speaker 1: Let's talk about said something. Can I just mention you're 636 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,759 Speaker 1: the first guy to mention it. And he's on the 637 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,040 Speaker 1: ground to work with a Shiite militia leader, okay, in 638 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,400 Speaker 1: a rock to come after us, But he's also on 639 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,160 Speaker 1: the ground a destabilize the parliament. They have a political 640 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,520 Speaker 1: campaign going on inside of a rock to try to 641 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,480 Speaker 1: drive us out, and we can't let that work. I'm sorry. 642 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,399 Speaker 1: Go ahead, Let's go to Nancy Pelosi and well, we've 643 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,720 Speaker 1: got to impeach them because it's a threat to the country, 644 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,759 Speaker 1: and we've got to do it fast and faster than ever. 645 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,520 Speaker 1: We only have one fact witness who said that Donald 646 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,480 Speaker 1: Trump said I want nothing. So now she's threatening not 647 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:20,480 Speaker 1: to even bring those articles to the Senate. I would 648 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,600 Speaker 1: think under our system of justice that if you're accused 649 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,560 Speaker 1: of a crime. You have a right to a speedy trial. 650 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,759 Speaker 1: I would assume, especially considering it's the president of the 651 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:31,719 Speaker 1: United States, that Congress has their role. They impeach them. 652 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,960 Speaker 1: Now the Senate has their role to have a trial. 653 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,040 Speaker 1: And I don't really think the Senate needs lectures from 654 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,800 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi on how they're going to conduct their business. 655 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,879 Speaker 1: I would imagine that's not going to happen. Well, it's 656 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,440 Speaker 1: not going to happen. Is not going to let it happened. 657 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,480 Speaker 1: So from the American people's point of view, we need 658 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,879 Speaker 1: to end this charade, get the trial over with so 659 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,320 Speaker 1: we can move on to important matters like foreign policy, 660 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:59,280 Speaker 1: prescription drugs, you name it. We need to start governing 661 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,720 Speaker 1: the country than fighting with each other all the time. 662 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,760 Speaker 1: So she's doing a disservice to the people. She's trying 663 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,960 Speaker 1: to dictate to the Senate how to run the trial. 664 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:12,040 Speaker 1: That's constitutional extortion. She's setting a president bed for the 665 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,640 Speaker 1: present presidency itself. Can you imagine if a Republican Speaker 666 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,360 Speaker 1: of the House pulled this stunt against a Democratic president, 667 00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,399 Speaker 1: they'd be eating us. I only got thirty seconds. How 668 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:26,120 Speaker 1: should the Senate Republicans deal with this? I think we 669 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,279 Speaker 1: should bess a resolution pretty quickly saying what she's doing 670 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,919 Speaker 1: is out of bounds. And if we have to down 671 00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,120 Speaker 1: the road, if she didn't send the articles, change the 672 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,960 Speaker 1: rules so we can start the trial, and that can happen. 673 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,279 Speaker 1: Parliament parliamentary will say you need sixty seven votes. The 674 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:46,160 Speaker 1: House then would vote to all rule Parliamentary, parliamentary and 675 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,400 Speaker 1: whatever you call this idiot, but anyway, Senator, you've been 676 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,319 Speaker 1: very generous with your time. I know you have a 677 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,239 Speaker 1: busy day. You're going to join us on Hannity tonight. 678 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for taking the time to be with us today. 679 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,360 Speaker 1: Thank you, Senator Lindsay Graham, Colonel North, Mark Geiss, a 680 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,239 Speaker 1: hero from Benghazi, and also Kevin McCarthy all coming up. 681 00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,040 Speaker 1: Busy special breaking news edition of the Sean Hannity Show. 682 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:07,920 Speaker 1: So when we come back, I'm gonna have Colonel Oliver 683 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:12,879 Speaker 1: North his history with Iran. He knows this regime better 684 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,960 Speaker 1: than anybody. Nobody knows as well as he does. Mark Iiss, 685 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,880 Speaker 1: one of the heroes of Benghazi, and we're gonna have 686 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,440 Speaker 1: time to get to your calls coming up in our 687 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:25,840 Speaker 1: news roundabouer this decision, though, well, first you gotta understand 688 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:30,880 Speaker 1: the importance of becoming the world's number one producer of oil. 689 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:36,839 Speaker 1: It gives us a freedom we never had before. It 690 00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:41,040 Speaker 1: ought to be a sign, a symbol. Don't count on 691 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,399 Speaker 1: the lifeblood of our economy coming from countries that we 692 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:48,759 Speaker 1: know hate our guts. That was huge. The second thing 693 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:53,760 Speaker 1: is is that Benghazi stand down Democrats and the Mullah 694 00:46:53,840 --> 00:47:01,399 Speaker 1: bribing appeaseman Democrats. They failed, This president succeeded. We'll come back. 695 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,000 Speaker 1: We'll continue our coverage straight ahead. Best recently, Solomating led 696 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,879 Speaker 1: the brutal repression of protesters in Iran were more than 697 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,920 Speaker 1: a thousand innocent civilians were tortured and killed by their 698 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:18,120 Speaker 1: own government. We took action last night to stop a war. 699 00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,600 Speaker 1: We did not take action to start a war. I 700 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:26,040 Speaker 1: have deep respect for the Iranian people. They are a 701 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,880 Speaker 1: remarkable people with an incredible heritage and unlimited potential. We 702 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,840 Speaker 1: do not seek regime change. However, the Iranian regime's aggression 703 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:39,120 Speaker 1: in the region, including the use of proxy fighters to 704 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,600 Speaker 1: destabilize its neighbors, must end, and it must end now. 705 00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,480 Speaker 1: The future belongs to the people of Iran, those who 706 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:52,560 Speaker 1: seek peaceful coexistence and cooperation, not the terrorists. Warlords who 707 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:58,360 Speaker 1: plunder their nation to finance bloodshed abroad. The United States 708 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,840 Speaker 1: has the best military by far anywhere in the world. 709 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,719 Speaker 1: We have the best intelligence in the world. If Americans 710 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:10,200 Speaker 1: anywhere are threatened, we have all of those targets already 711 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:15,840 Speaker 1: fully identified, and I am ready and prepared to take 712 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:21,280 Speaker 1: whatever action is necessary. And that in particular refers to Iran. 713 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,560 Speaker 1: That's the President basically saying, go ahead, retaliate. This is 714 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,000 Speaker 1: what Senator Graham was just saying in the last hour anyway, 715 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,040 Speaker 1: twenty four now till the top of the hour, eight 716 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,799 Speaker 1: hundred nine four one Sean, if you want to be 717 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:39,040 Speaker 1: a part of the program, are continuing coverage and joining 718 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:43,680 Speaker 1: us now. Colonel Oliver North, best selling author, decorated war hero, 719 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:48,399 Speaker 1: veteran Purple Heart, actually two and his brand new book, 720 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,200 Speaker 1: by the way, is amazing. It's called a Rifleman. Also, 721 00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,120 Speaker 1: Mark Geist is with us. Remember he was a member, 722 00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,640 Speaker 1: he's one of the heroes in Benghazi on September eleven, 723 00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:02,360 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, and he was at the CIA annex about 724 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,240 Speaker 1: a mile away and told to stand down numerous times 725 00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:11,319 Speaker 1: before he and three others risked their entire careers and 726 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,799 Speaker 1: their lives and then went to save Americans that were 727 00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:19,239 Speaker 1: under fire, and they saved American lives, very different than 728 00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:23,759 Speaker 1: the Benghazi Democrats, which we're willing to just leave them 729 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:28,760 Speaker 1: there and do nothing. Gentlemen, welcome both of you, simplified, Colonel. 730 00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,080 Speaker 1: I don't think there's any one guy I know that 731 00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:37,280 Speaker 1: knows more about the Mullas and Iran and this this 732 00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:41,640 Speaker 1: regime than you do. Well, I got it the hard 733 00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,360 Speaker 1: way by going there so well, by the way, and 734 00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,840 Speaker 1: when you went there, I had to remind our audience 735 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,239 Speaker 1: you were given by our government pill that would take 736 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,799 Speaker 1: your life if you needed to use it. Is that correct, sir? Well, 737 00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,000 Speaker 1: the idea was not just one pill. I had enough 738 00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:01,000 Speaker 1: for everybody. Okay, there you go. There's no bravery involved 739 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,640 Speaker 1: in that act. None. Well, at least we all came home. No, 740 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,000 Speaker 1: thank God, thank God, thank God indeed, and thank God 741 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,960 Speaker 1: indeed that the good president that we've got took the 742 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,520 Speaker 1: action that he did, because the world without ceremoney in 743 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:18,839 Speaker 1: it is a better world. You know. Definitely, let me go, 744 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:23,360 Speaker 1: because you know, it was very interesting. I'm watching I honestly, 745 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,479 Speaker 1: I know that I say it, and sometimes I can't 746 00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:31,600 Speaker 1: even believe it's this bad between the mob and the media. 747 00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:36,600 Speaker 1: And then of course the the you know, Mullah bribing 748 00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,520 Speaker 1: appeaseman democrats one hundred and fifty billion didn't seem to 749 00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:43,120 Speaker 1: buy us much goodwill with the Mulla's mark geist. But 750 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:48,160 Speaker 1: here you have a president that acted decisively and quickly 751 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,560 Speaker 1: because American lives were in jeopardy inside of that compound. 752 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:57,120 Speaker 1: And you got this idiot Chris Murphy and congressman from Connecticut, 753 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,600 Speaker 1: you know, literally tweeting the president last week proclaiming, uh, 754 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,799 Speaker 1: the Iranians don't fear us, and we've been reduced to 755 00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:08,640 Speaker 1: huddling in safe rooms. And then the president does it. 756 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:13,160 Speaker 1: Now it's almost like he's he's rooting for failure. And 757 00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,560 Speaker 1: then when the president gets in there and actually does 758 00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:20,839 Speaker 1: the job, then he's even critical of that. What's amazing, Sean, 759 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,120 Speaker 1: is that I was listening on I must confess to 760 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:28,319 Speaker 1: another radio station coming in. And then there is Chuck 761 00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:32,560 Speaker 1: Schumer demanding an apology from the President for not briefing 762 00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,680 Speaker 1: the Congress before they did this. I mean yeah, I 763 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,960 Speaker 1: mean well, and this guy Chris Barby literally says we're 764 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,200 Speaker 1: impotent in the Middle East. No one fears us, no 765 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,040 Speaker 1: one listens to us, We're reduced huddling in safe rooms. 766 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:49,359 Speaker 1: Then the President takes out Solamani, the number one leader 767 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,880 Speaker 1: of their elite forces responsible for killing Americans in Iraq, 768 00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,200 Speaker 1: fomenting terror and proxy wars around the world, and mark geist. 769 00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:03,319 Speaker 1: Then he says, Wow, did Erica just assassinate without congressional 770 00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,720 Speaker 1: authorization the second most powerful person in Iran? Your reaction 771 00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,520 Speaker 1: to that, wow? You know, this is what really bothers 772 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,719 Speaker 1: me is that, you know, I say, Win is enough 773 00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:17,000 Speaker 1: enough with our politicians? With these You know, they are 774 00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,120 Speaker 1: going to countail to the Mullahs, They're gonna countail to 775 00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:24,520 Speaker 1: anybody try to buy their loyalty. And we all know. 776 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I grew up rodeo and cowboy. 777 00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:29,479 Speaker 1: And then the way you take care of a bully 778 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,839 Speaker 1: as you punch him in the nose, You don't do 779 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,400 Speaker 1: it by sitting there and giving him your lunch money. 780 00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,080 Speaker 1: And when the president does it, you know, and and 781 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,279 Speaker 1: they do it, and then I wonder, you know, Win 782 00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,279 Speaker 1: is enough enough? With how much American blood has to 783 00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,279 Speaker 1: be spilled by somebody before it's okay to kill him? 784 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:53,400 Speaker 1: Remind everybody thousands, Yeah, no, he killed thousands of Americans 785 00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:57,239 Speaker 1: who died as a consequence in both Iraq and in 786 00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:01,919 Speaker 1: the region because Colonel North why was he in bad Why? Well, 787 00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:06,360 Speaker 1: because look at here's the secret. This is very important. 788 00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:10,759 Speaker 1: There's actually two Baghdad, two governments. In Baghdad, there's the 789 00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,279 Speaker 1: pro Americans, most of whom are in the special operations 790 00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,480 Speaker 1: side of things in the Iraqi military. And you've got 791 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:20,120 Speaker 1: people like the Prime Minister, who is a wholly owned 792 00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:24,120 Speaker 1: subsidiary of Tehran, and he's the one who now wants 793 00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,480 Speaker 1: them to have called a meeting of the parliament and 794 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,000 Speaker 1: reinvestigate whether we want the Americans to stay or not. 795 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:37,319 Speaker 1: Without the American presence training good Iraqi soldiers, there is 796 00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,680 Speaker 1: no future for this country. It will become a suburb 797 00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:45,720 Speaker 1: of Tehran. And all the Iranian leadership wants a clear 798 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:49,319 Speaker 1: shot at going from the border with Iraq all the 799 00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,799 Speaker 1: way across Iraq into Syria and then into leban Hunt 800 00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:56,000 Speaker 1: because that's how they're going to expand that's what they've 801 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,360 Speaker 1: been fighting for all this time. Remember the militias that 802 00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:03,560 Speaker 1: were organized to quote go after Isis. We're actually out 803 00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,279 Speaker 1: there trying to take over as much territory as they 804 00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:10,520 Speaker 1: possibly could, going through on Bar province, which happens to 805 00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:14,440 Speaker 1: be largely Sunni, and they pressed the population in a 806 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,440 Speaker 1: way that they've got free access to literally on the 807 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:22,000 Speaker 1: highways with large convoys of munitions into Syria because they've 808 00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,080 Speaker 1: got the backing of Assad, this brutal dictator and demands 809 00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:29,000 Speaker 1: propping up Assade. Without Iran and putin support, there is 810 00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,520 Speaker 1: no Assad. And on top of it, militia leaders like 811 00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:37,600 Speaker 1: Abu Madi Luhandas, who was killed in that convoy with 812 00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,319 Speaker 1: American missiles. He was one of the leaders of the 813 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,600 Speaker 1: whole effort to turn all of Iraq into a suburb 814 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,360 Speaker 1: of the Tehran government. Let me ask you, Mark, I 815 00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:55,839 Speaker 1: remind everybody you were you were there in Benghazi when 816 00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:59,359 Speaker 1: our embassy was under attack. We lost four people that day, 817 00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:03,440 Speaker 1: including one of the heroes of that day, Sean Smith, 818 00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,719 Speaker 1: and I love his family, I've met his family. My 819 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:10,400 Speaker 1: heart breaks for them, but we also Ambassador Stevens we lost. 820 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:16,280 Speaker 1: Remind people what the Benghazi democrats what you were being told. 821 00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,560 Speaker 1: You knew that that you were a mile away from 822 00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:23,400 Speaker 1: that embassy. You knew Americans were under serious fire, that 823 00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:27,480 Speaker 1: embassy was under attack. You guys knew exactly what was 824 00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,319 Speaker 1: going on. Tell us walk us through what happened and 825 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:35,680 Speaker 1: the stand down orders. Well, we got the first as 826 00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,040 Speaker 1: I was driving back with the female case officer, we 827 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:39,839 Speaker 1: got the rest of the team got the first call 828 00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,360 Speaker 1: to for help. They went up to the chief of 829 00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,520 Speaker 1: chief of base said now you need to wait, you 830 00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:48,920 Speaker 1: need to stand down. Tonto and Tig went back up 831 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,080 Speaker 1: along with Ron and talked with him again, and he says, no, 832 00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:56,080 Speaker 1: you're not gonna go. Well, after the third time he 833 00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,279 Speaker 1: was said no, they came across the radio and they said, 834 00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:00,640 Speaker 1: if you don't get here now, we're all gonna and die. 835 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,160 Speaker 1: And that's when everyone said, you know, we don't care 836 00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,000 Speaker 1: what he has to say. We're gonna go anyways, and 837 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,680 Speaker 1: you and you and as a result of the action 838 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,640 Speaker 1: of you and and Tig and Tonto, Pronto and Sean Smith, 839 00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:15,160 Speaker 1: who we lost. He was one of the last people 840 00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:19,200 Speaker 1: killed in that conflict. If I'm not mistaken, um as 841 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:24,880 Speaker 1: you were able, what's that it was Tyrone Woods was 842 00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:29,320 Speaker 1: killed him and uh Woods, Yeah, he was killed standing 843 00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:33,919 Speaker 1: next blown up together. But but so, you guys risked 844 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:38,400 Speaker 1: your entire career, you disobeyed orders and you ended up 845 00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:44,040 Speaker 1: And please, this is important. You saved dozens of American lives, 846 00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:48,600 Speaker 1: true or false? Very true, very true? And would they 847 00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,640 Speaker 1: have made it had had you not disobeyed orders, would 848 00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:55,400 Speaker 1: they have survived? No, they would uh, they would have. 849 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,479 Speaker 1: They would have been a twenty four or twenty five 850 00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:02,080 Speaker 1: American lives that would have been killed, killed, taking hostage, 851 00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:08,959 Speaker 1: utilized for whatever I mean, rape, utilated, No telling what 852 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,239 Speaker 1: would have all happened. And you know, and for the 853 00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,960 Speaker 1: last few days since the attack on the bank the 854 00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:19,040 Speaker 1: Baghdad embassy, and because I spent five years in Baghdad, 855 00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:21,720 Speaker 1: and a year and a half of it was almost 856 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,080 Speaker 1: probably good portion of out was across the street from 857 00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:28,000 Speaker 1: the embassy in Baghdad. And you know, everybody says, well, 858 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,600 Speaker 1: this is Trump's Benghazi, and there was no similarity whatsoever 859 00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,400 Speaker 1: other than that it was bad people trying to kill Americans. 860 00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:41,200 Speaker 1: Colonel north our Us, a special representative to Iran Brian Help, 861 00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,600 Speaker 1: gave an interview with the BBC was picked up by 862 00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:49,840 Speaker 1: the Washington Examiner, and he said about what the President 863 00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,600 Speaker 1: did here, he was acting on quote, very solid intelligence 864 00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:59,920 Speaker 1: that in this Potato Solamani was was planning to kill him. 865 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,600 Speaker 1: American diplomats and soldiers and he said, quote, our intelligence 866 00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,680 Speaker 1: community over the last many days has been receiving very 867 00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:12,040 Speaker 1: solid intelligence that Solomoni was planning attacks against American diplomats, 868 00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,120 Speaker 1: American soldiers that could have resulted in the deaths of 869 00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:19,040 Speaker 1: hundreds of Americans. What if our president didn't take the 870 00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:23,640 Speaker 1: decisive action and we find out later he was told that, Well, 871 00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,000 Speaker 1: look at you'd be right back to the days of 872 00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:30,760 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I mean, what happens in 873 00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:35,320 Speaker 1: this particular case is that intelligence was so good they 874 00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:40,280 Speaker 1: were able to launch a remotely paloted aircraft. At least 875 00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:42,720 Speaker 1: most people are now saying that. I do have some 876 00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,400 Speaker 1: people have some questions about it, and I think they're 877 00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:47,520 Speaker 1: going to have to provide a little bit more information 878 00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:51,080 Speaker 1: to make sure that we're reassured this was a target 879 00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:54,120 Speaker 1: of opportunity. You weren't going to get that kind of chance. Again, 880 00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:56,560 Speaker 1: he's all alone on that highway in the middle of 881 00:58:56,560 --> 00:59:00,320 Speaker 1: the night, and they launched in time to get there, 882 00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,680 Speaker 1: the remotely piloted aircraft. And we can make suppositions as 883 00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:05,200 Speaker 1: to whether it was a hell fire missile or what. 884 00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,880 Speaker 1: But when I look at those vehicles and Mark, you've 885 00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,880 Speaker 1: seen a bunch of by hell fire missiles. It sure 886 00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:13,240 Speaker 1: looks like hell fire missiles to me, and it sure 887 00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,600 Speaker 1: looks like it must have been a very high priority target, 888 00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:20,720 Speaker 1: a high priority individual, because they're heavily armored vehicles and 889 00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,480 Speaker 1: your average guy just driving around does not get one 890 00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:27,320 Speaker 1: of those kinds of things. Now, Colonel, you know the Iranians, 891 00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:31,560 Speaker 1: are they stupid enough to try and retaliate against what 892 00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:35,080 Speaker 1: happened here? And if they do, I would imagine that 893 00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,320 Speaker 1: the last place you want to be. Lindsey Graham is 894 00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:39,680 Speaker 1: right when he said if I worked at an Iranian 895 00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:43,040 Speaker 1: oil refinery, I think about a new career. Well, look, 896 00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,760 Speaker 1: first of all, they're not pumping that much oil because 897 00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:48,959 Speaker 1: their infrastructure is shot to pieces. The price of oil 898 00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,280 Speaker 1: is gone up already, it's going to price the gasoline 899 00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:52,760 Speaker 1: is going to go up for the next few weeks. 900 00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,600 Speaker 1: The bottom line of this is it's not a matter 901 00:59:55,640 --> 01:00:00,440 Speaker 1: of smart or stupid. It's a matter of ideological flicity 902 01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:02,880 Speaker 1: with all of what the Iranians has started to do 903 01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,160 Speaker 1: ever since the iol home and he came back in. 904 01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,400 Speaker 1: You know, when he came back from Paris, he started 905 01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:13,040 Speaker 1: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Suleimani started the Kuds force, 906 01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:17,240 Speaker 1: which is the major component of spreading revolution around the world. 907 01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,360 Speaker 1: If they can anywhere, there's Shiites that will back them, 908 01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:24,120 Speaker 1: the Lebanese Shiite militious that you've got. I sent footage 909 01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:28,080 Speaker 1: of my involvement when we got I was there when 910 01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:31,360 Speaker 1: they stopped their convoy trying Sulimani was with him, trying 911 01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:33,920 Speaker 1: to get into Mosel and up dump things that were 912 01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,960 Speaker 1: happening the right way against ISIS. And I've got You've 913 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,200 Speaker 1: got thirty eight seconds of footage that I just shipped 914 01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:41,720 Speaker 1: up to New York for you for your TV show tonight. 915 01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,880 Speaker 1: It's amazing you know all of these characters and you 916 01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,040 Speaker 1: know them them by name for years. Mark Gys you 917 01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,560 Speaker 1: want to winn Yeah, I think you know. Colonel Nerf 918 01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,320 Speaker 1: is spot on. I mean, we have an opportunity to 919 01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,960 Speaker 1: take out a bad man who's doing bad things. And 920 01:00:57,040 --> 01:01:01,440 Speaker 1: the intel on that it's spot on. And and you 921 01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,320 Speaker 1: can see, I mean the battle damage assessment on that 922 01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:07,800 Speaker 1: is it was a ten point strike, so it had 923 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,480 Speaker 1: to be probably I mean sure it was a hell 924 01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:15,840 Speaker 1: fire missile. And in the thirty seconds we have left 925 01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:21,560 Speaker 1: to explain a hell fire air lunched initial it's based 926 01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:26,000 Speaker 1: on helicopters, it's on some slow patches apaches, yes, and 927 01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,880 Speaker 1: it's on all kinds of different as we the proper 928 01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:35,320 Speaker 1: word remotely piloted aircraft. Right, So call groans by our colleagues. 929 01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:40,120 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Thank God, this country has the 930 01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:43,680 Speaker 1: greatest intelligence and on the face of the earth, and 931 01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:47,280 Speaker 1: we've got brave people like Colonel North and Mark Geist 932 01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,240 Speaker 1: and the people that are military that was able to 933 01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:53,880 Speaker 1: pull this off an amazing feat. The world is safer 934 01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:58,280 Speaker 1: and um I thank you both for joining us today. 935 01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:02,919 Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Hold un seventy five, all right, news 936 01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,760 Speaker 1: round up, information overload our Yes, we are back. Yes, 937 01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,400 Speaker 1: well I wasn't playing on me, but I just couldn't 938 01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:12,840 Speaker 1: take it anymore. I'm just being honest. I could not 939 01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:16,720 Speaker 1: take it anymore. All right. Just seconds ago, the President 940 01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:20,720 Speaker 1: now speaking to a group of evangelicals in Miami. This 941 01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:26,000 Speaker 1: is now his second comments about the killing of Solomoney. 942 01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:30,280 Speaker 1: And here's what he just said as he addressed this group. 943 01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:39,360 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. That was beautiful. That was beautiful. 944 01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:47,280 Speaker 1: Most powerful people in the world my book. But thank 945 01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:50,760 Speaker 1: you Paula the beautiful prayer. Thank you everyone, Thank you 946 01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,920 Speaker 1: for this incredible crowd. They have thousands of people outside 947 01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:57,400 Speaker 1: trying to get in, and if you're truly religious, you 948 01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:01,920 Speaker 1: should give up your seat right now let them. But 949 01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:04,960 Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be here in Miami, Florida to officially 950 01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:09,920 Speaker 1: launch one of the most important grassroots movements in American history. 951 01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:17,840 Speaker 1: It's first Evangelicals for Trump and and you know how 952 01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:22,000 Speaker 1: we did a few years ago. Hard to believe already 953 01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,160 Speaker 1: we're talking about it almost three years, but you know 954 01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:27,000 Speaker 1: how we did. The numbers were phenomenal, and the love 955 01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:29,840 Speaker 1: is greater today I think that it has ever been. 956 01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:34,040 Speaker 1: I'd like to begin my remarks today by extending our 957 01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:37,560 Speaker 1: profound thanks and gratitude to the extraordinary men and women 958 01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:45,600 Speaker 1: of the United States Military right there by far the 959 01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:49,080 Speaker 1: best and greatest anywhere in the world. Is nobody close. 960 01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:53,760 Speaker 1: In recent weeks, American warriors executed a daring raid that 961 01:03:53,880 --> 01:04:00,160 Speaker 1: killed the savage leader of ices al bag Daddy is 962 01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:05,360 Speaker 1: it depraved butcher who will never again hurt another innocent person. 963 01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:10,680 Speaker 1: Last night, at my direction, the United States Military executed 964 01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:16,160 Speaker 1: a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist ringleader responsible for 965 01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:22,360 Speaker 1: gravely wounding and murdering thousands and thousands of people and 966 01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:29,680 Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds at least of Americans. Custom Solomony has 967 01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:39,320 Speaker 1: been killed, and his bloody rampage is now forever gone. 968 01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:45,520 Speaker 1: He was plotting attacks against Americans, but now we've ensured 969 01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:50,240 Speaker 1: that his atrocities have been stopped for good. They are 970 01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,760 Speaker 1: stopped for good. I don't know if you know what 971 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,960 Speaker 1: was happening, but he was planning a very major attack, 972 01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:05,120 Speaker 1: and we got him. We are a peace loving nation, 973 01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:09,920 Speaker 1: and my administration remains firmly committed to establishing peace and 974 01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:13,440 Speaker 1: harmony among the nations in the world. We do not 975 01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:16,480 Speaker 1: seek war, We do not seek nation building, we do 976 01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:20,560 Speaker 1: not seek regime change. But as president, I will never 977 01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:24,480 Speaker 1: hesitate to defend the safety of the American people. You 978 01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,400 Speaker 1: so let this be a warning to terrorists. If you 979 01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:35,400 Speaker 1: value your own life, you will not threaten the lives 980 01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:43,280 Speaker 1: of our citizens. Americans have many blessings, but perhaps the 981 01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:47,000 Speaker 1: greatest among them is the blessing of being protected by 982 01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:51,920 Speaker 1: the most exceptional and virtuous military on the face of 983 01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:58,480 Speaker 1: God's earth. This evening, we are delighted to be joined 984 01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:03,040 Speaker 1: by many incredible leaders, including all Right. That was all. 985 01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:05,800 Speaker 1: The President said that he went back into his speech 986 01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:08,640 Speaker 1: she had spoken earlier today, he was very very clear. 987 01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:13,600 Speaker 1: Under my leadership, America's policy is unambiguous. To terrorists who 988 01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:16,400 Speaker 1: harm or intend to harm any American, we will find you, 989 01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,560 Speaker 1: we will eliminate you. We will always protect our diplomats, 990 01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:24,720 Speaker 1: our service members, all Americans, and our allies. And for years, 991 01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:29,040 Speaker 1: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, by the way, they're a 992 01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:35,320 Speaker 1: terrorist organization and its ruthless cud's force under Solomoni's leadership, 993 01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:40,400 Speaker 1: has targeted, injured, and murdered hundreds of American civilians and servicemen. 994 01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,520 Speaker 1: As president, my highest and most solemn duty is the 995 01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:48,000 Speaker 1: defense of our nation and its citizens. And last night, 996 01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:54,120 Speaker 1: at my direction, the US military successfully executed a flawless, 997 01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:58,560 Speaker 1: precision strike that killed the number one terrorists anywhere in 998 01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:04,320 Speaker 1: the world. Because Sam Somni and Solomoni was plotting imminent 999 01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:09,200 Speaker 1: and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel. But 1000 01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,640 Speaker 1: we caught him in the act and we terminated him. 1001 01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:16,040 Speaker 1: That's what presidents are supposed to do, not what the 1002 01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:21,000 Speaker 1: Benghazi democrats did on September eleven, twenty twelve, or the 1003 01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:26,200 Speaker 1: Mullah bribing appeasement democrats that tried to bribe the Mullah's 1004 01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:28,560 Speaker 1: love of us with one hundred and fifty billion in 1005 01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:36,120 Speaker 1: cash and other currency. And so the president, well done, American. 1006 01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:40,439 Speaker 1: Everything came together, the greatest intelligence community on the face 1007 01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:41,920 Speaker 1: of the earth. How many times did I say that? 1008 01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:46,120 Speaker 1: As we now have had to examine the actions of 1009 01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:50,560 Speaker 1: the one percent that abused their power, that turned the 1010 01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:54,320 Speaker 1: powerful tools of intelligence on we the people, and that 1011 01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:58,080 Speaker 1: had an agenda to stop the election and then take 1012 01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:01,400 Speaker 1: down a duly elected president. It's only the ninety nine 1013 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:03,600 Speaker 1: percent risk their lives for us every day, just like 1014 01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:10,080 Speaker 1: the FBI, greatest law enforcement agency on the on the planet. 1015 01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:13,800 Speaker 1: Nobody's better except for a few at the top that 1016 01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:18,200 Speaker 1: abuse their power. And we're corrupt, all right, as promised. 1017 01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:20,800 Speaker 1: Uh Kevin McCarthy coming up at the bottom of this 1018 01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:25,720 Speaker 1: half hour. Let's get to our phones. Amy is in Colorado. Amy, Hi, 1019 01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:27,920 Speaker 1: how are you happy New Year? We're glad you called. 1020 01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:32,160 Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Sean, Thanks you so much for taking 1021 01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,320 Speaker 1: my call. On many blessings to you in twenty twenty. 1022 01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:39,200 Speaker 1: You too many blessings to you, may showers of blessings. Well, 1023 01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:44,120 Speaker 1: thank you, And my comment is this president is so awesome. 1024 01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:48,000 Speaker 1: I'm in military South UM. My husband's been in for 1025 01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:53,519 Speaker 1: twenty plus years. He's the Serjeant major and the bulk 1026 01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:57,760 Speaker 1: of his career, Sean has been working to secure UM 1027 01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:02,559 Speaker 1: the regions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's done multiple tours 1028 01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:06,439 Speaker 1: over there, and it's heartbreaking to see it, you know, 1029 01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:11,360 Speaker 1: go back into chaos. And this president he didn't agree 1030 01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:16,000 Speaker 1: with the war maybe initially. However, he cares about stability 1031 01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,160 Speaker 1: in the region and the men who fought for it 1032 01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:23,320 Speaker 1: enough to maintain that stability rather than give us I 1033 01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:27,679 Speaker 1: ran a billions to destabilize the region and that means 1034 01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:31,519 Speaker 1: so much to me as a military spouse, just knowing 1035 01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,439 Speaker 1: we have a president that cares that much and knows 1036 01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:38,400 Speaker 1: how important it is. Listen, I'm going to tell you something. 1037 01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:42,000 Speaker 1: It's very clear, based on the comments of the President, 1038 01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:46,960 Speaker 1: the comments of our Special representative for US Special Representative 1039 01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:49,840 Speaker 1: for a Ram Bryan Hook, and an interview with the 1040 01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:54,000 Speaker 1: BBC Mike Pompeio will join us on Hannity tonight, it's 1041 01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:58,400 Speaker 1: very clear that what they are telling us is that 1042 01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:02,439 Speaker 1: our intelligence community has been receiving very solid intelligence at 1043 01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:06,320 Speaker 1: Solomoni was planning attacks against our diplomats and American soldiers. 1044 01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:10,200 Speaker 1: It is clear if you had just opened your eyes, 1045 01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:14,800 Speaker 1: that the Iranian influence at which has been growing in 1046 01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:19,040 Speaker 1: Iraq significantly of two separate you know, governance is now 1047 01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:23,120 Speaker 1: going on one loyal to Tehran, the same Tehran that 1048 01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:26,599 Speaker 1: is the number one state sponsor of terror, the same Tehran, 1049 01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:30,200 Speaker 1: the same mullahs, the same country that threatens to wipe 1050 01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:33,960 Speaker 1: Israel off the map, that chants death to America, death 1051 01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:39,760 Speaker 1: to Israel, the same people that foment terrorism, fund terrorism, 1052 01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:44,240 Speaker 1: fight proxy wars around the globe. There's a reason now, 1053 01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:48,479 Speaker 1: and it is the real, clear, present danger of a 1054 01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:56,080 Speaker 1: nuclear armed Iran that has literally allied Jordan, Egypt, the Saudias, 1055 01:10:56,200 --> 01:10:58,880 Speaker 1: the Emirates, the Israelis, and the United States. That was 1056 01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:05,040 Speaker 1: unthinkable five years ago, but that's now that they now recognize. 1057 01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:08,599 Speaker 1: This is a real, clear president danger to the entire region, 1058 01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:12,720 Speaker 1: and the President acted. Now. Does the President want a 1059 01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,799 Speaker 1: long protracted war, Nope? Is he going to get involved 1060 01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:20,679 Speaker 1: in a long protracted war? Nope. President has been very clear, 1061 01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:23,320 Speaker 1: and I think what we saw in Syria when he 1062 01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:26,519 Speaker 1: defeated the Caliphate will be the paradigm, the model that 1063 01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:30,559 Speaker 1: we could expect should the Iranians be stupid enough to 1064 01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,920 Speaker 1: try and retaliate how they might. I mean, don't put 1065 01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,680 Speaker 1: it past them. That would give us an opportunity to 1066 01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:40,960 Speaker 1: take out their refineries, that will further cripple and if 1067 01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:46,000 Speaker 1: not destroy and collapse their economy. And the Iranian nuclear 1068 01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:49,080 Speaker 1: sites we know where they are. We know this is 1069 01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,720 Speaker 1: a difficult military operation. That would be the tough one 1070 01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,679 Speaker 1: because a lot of those sites are spread all throughout 1071 01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:58,200 Speaker 1: the country, a lot of territory to cover, and they're buried, 1072 01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:02,960 Speaker 1: some of them deep into the ground. But I hate 1073 01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:06,040 Speaker 1: to think of the world where Rany and Mullahs have 1074 01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:10,960 Speaker 1: no clear weapons. This is real stuff. Scary Amy, thank you, 1075 01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:15,000 Speaker 1: Pete New Jersey, Sean Hannity Show, Happy New Year, sir, Hey, 1076 01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:17,040 Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Sean love it man. Hey. I just 1077 01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:19,479 Speaker 1: wanted to go ahead to let you you and all 1078 01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:22,160 Speaker 1: the listeners know that I am in complete support of 1079 01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:25,439 Speaker 1: the President of the United States and this administration for 1080 01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:27,920 Speaker 1: what they did. You've got to understand to all those 1081 01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:29,680 Speaker 1: that are going to go ahead and do harm to 1082 01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:34,120 Speaker 1: any American civilians or any personnel in this world, to 1083 01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:38,080 Speaker 1: any country, or any dictatorship or any regimes, please know 1084 01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:42,840 Speaker 1: this that this administration does not draw two or three 1085 01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:46,960 Speaker 1: lines in the sand. It's one, only one, And we 1086 01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:50,560 Speaker 1: cannot have a dictatorship in Iran that's going to go 1087 01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,719 Speaker 1: ahead and spread terror and bully people around in the region. 1088 01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:56,479 Speaker 1: So they can go ahead and walk over to whoever 1089 01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:59,479 Speaker 1: they want into the next country and take them over. 1090 01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:02,479 Speaker 1: And before you know it, guess what, there was like 1091 01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:05,439 Speaker 1: a cloud over us and all of a sudden, Israel 1092 01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:08,400 Speaker 1: is bordered. This is what their goal is. I don't 1093 01:13:08,479 --> 01:13:11,679 Speaker 1: understand what these people who try to appease this country 1094 01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:15,080 Speaker 1: and try to go ahead and go through means of peace. 1095 01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:17,960 Speaker 1: We've done it for how many years, right, Jean? And no, 1096 01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:20,320 Speaker 1: And they don't care. They don't want that. They want 1097 01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:24,160 Speaker 1: to annihilate Israel, but first they want to get rid 1098 01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:27,240 Speaker 1: of us. We're considered the great Satan. So whoever what 1099 01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:30,439 Speaker 1: they say that they're looking to the centrifuges for energy, 1100 01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:34,000 Speaker 1: it's a lie. They don't need this type of nuclear 1101 01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,120 Speaker 1: type of setup in their country. They don't have enough 1102 01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:39,840 Speaker 1: people to do that. So I am in support of 1103 01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:42,880 Speaker 1: this president and to all those listeners out there, please 1104 01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:45,600 Speaker 1: support this president because you know what this is for 1105 01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:49,240 Speaker 1: our humanity, This is for the saving this world because 1106 01:13:49,320 --> 01:13:52,360 Speaker 1: you go ahead and give this country I ran a 1107 01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:55,840 Speaker 1: nuclear weapon and then that's going to be war War three. 1108 01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:59,200 Speaker 1: I love you, Sean God bless thank you. Great comments. Pete, 1109 01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:04,559 Speaker 1: New Jersey. Think about this a nuclear arm Duran can't 1110 01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,880 Speaker 1: let it happen. You know. The sad thing is, and 1111 01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,439 Speaker 1: I always say, if Donald Trump cured cancer, Democrats, the 1112 01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:11,240 Speaker 1: mob and the media would want to impeach him for that. 1113 01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:16,000 Speaker 1: I'm obviously right. You got these idiots, you know, Rosanna 1114 01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:19,040 Speaker 1: Arquette out of Hollywood, Trump as a war criminal and 1115 01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:21,439 Speaker 1: people are going to die. Well, they were about to die, 1116 01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:24,880 Speaker 1: and we just stopped it. We're not the Trump's not 1117 01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:30,440 Speaker 1: the Benghazi Democrats. He's not the Mulla bribing, appeasement democrats. 1118 01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:33,000 Speaker 1: What idiot would give one hundred and fifty billion to 1119 01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:37,080 Speaker 1: Rania Molus? You know? And you know Alec Baldwin start 1120 01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:40,320 Speaker 1: a war to eclipse an impeachment, you know the conspiracy 1121 01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:43,120 Speaker 1: theories or Omar saying the same thing, This is what 1122 01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:47,479 Speaker 1: Putin wants. John whatever his name is, Michael Moore, do 1123 01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:51,280 Speaker 1: you know this man he's talking about? Solimani? You know 1124 01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:53,760 Speaker 1: this man? You know he was your enemy? Did you 1125 01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,160 Speaker 1: know that by the end of today, you'll be trained 1126 01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:59,800 Speaker 1: to hate him. You'll be glad Trump had him assassinated. 1127 01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,719 Speaker 1: You'll be You'll do as you are told. Get ready 1128 01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:04,640 Speaker 1: to send your sons and daughters off to him. I 1129 01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:08,719 Speaker 1: don't think that's how he's gonna do it. Elizabeth Warren 1130 01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:12,760 Speaker 1: love these. Solimani was a murderer, responsible with the death 1131 01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:16,679 Speaker 1: of thousands, including hundreds of Americans. But this reckless move 1132 01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:19,680 Speaker 1: escalates the situation with a ran, Well, what were we 1133 01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:26,120 Speaker 1: gonna do? Why is the leader of the Cuds forces 1134 01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:30,960 Speaker 1: of Iran doing it Baghdad Airport? You know, you know, 1135 01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:35,519 Speaker 1: sleepy creepy uncle Joe, responsible for bribing the Molos in Iran. 1136 01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:40,120 Speaker 1: Imagine one hundred and fifty billion in cash and other currencies. 1137 01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:43,760 Speaker 1: He says, the president just tossed a stick of dynamite 1138 01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:47,640 Speaker 1: into a tinder box. We're supposed to left him orchestrate 1139 01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:54,479 Speaker 1: the attacks on America within Baghdad. You out of your 1140 01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:58,400 Speaker 1: mind anyway. I gotta take a break here, quick reminder. 1141 01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:00,760 Speaker 1: Will put it up on our website. Ali North has 1142 01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:03,679 Speaker 1: some book signings. This new book is phenomenal, fairly gets 1143 01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:06,080 Speaker 1: called a rifleman. We'll put it up on Hannity dot 1144 01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:10,080 Speaker 1: Com Sunday ten forty five to twelve pm. We'll give 1145 01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:13,080 Speaker 1: you the address and everything on the fifth quick break 1146 01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:16,479 Speaker 1: right back, and Kevin McCarthy coming up straight ahead. A 1147 01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:19,400 Speaker 1: time for another quick call than Kevin McCarthy after the 1148 01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,080 Speaker 1: news at the bottom of the hour, let us say 1149 01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:25,240 Speaker 1: hi to Bill is in New York, by the way, 1150 01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:29,639 Speaker 1: the state that lost more population than any other state 1151 01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:32,320 Speaker 1: in the country. Now, why would that be? Why would 1152 01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:39,920 Speaker 1: why would people be leaving New York? Taxas, regulation, confiscatory, basic, legalized, stealing. 1153 01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:43,080 Speaker 1: What's going on? Bill? How are you? Hey? Sean? I 1154 01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:45,120 Speaker 1: want to be quick. I know you're in a hurry, 1155 01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:47,920 Speaker 1: but I think the raid was a great thing. And 1156 01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:49,799 Speaker 1: what I want to do is I want to ask 1157 01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:57,880 Speaker 1: mister Schumer, mister Schiff, mister Nadler, mister Shalou, I mean, 1158 01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:04,360 Speaker 1: mister his name there, you know all of them out there. 1159 01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:08,400 Speaker 1: It is the Benghazi Democratic Party, the Muller bribing, appeasement 1160 01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:12,880 Speaker 1: Democrats them. Who do they think was next on the 1161 01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:15,479 Speaker 1: hit list? If this guy didn't get taken out? What 1162 01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:20,160 Speaker 1: do they think is ultimate goal? Was? You See, you're 1163 01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:23,320 Speaker 1: the problem with you, Bill as you're actually thinking rationally 1164 01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:28,639 Speaker 1: you are using your intellect, your reason, your common sense 1165 01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:33,519 Speaker 1: that God gave you and guess what they can't even acknowledge. 1166 01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:37,360 Speaker 1: You'd think that when an embassy is attacked that everybody 1167 01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:40,600 Speaker 1: would be on board stopping them. When the head of 1168 01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:43,320 Speaker 1: the Kud's forces from the number one state sponsor of 1169 01:17:43,479 --> 01:17:47,040 Speaker 1: terror is let on Baghdaddy Airport property, taking them out 1170 01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:48,920 Speaker 1: so a good thing. Put out a statement a short 1171 01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:52,400 Speaker 1: time ago that says the decision to eliminate General Solimani 1172 01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:55,960 Speaker 1: was in response to imminent threats to American lives. Was 1173 01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:58,720 Speaker 1: the nature of those imminent threats? John, I can't to 1174 01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:01,200 Speaker 1: talk too much about the nature of the threats, but 1175 01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:04,479 Speaker 1: the American people should know the President Trump's decision to 1176 01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:08,320 Speaker 1: remove Costum Solomoni from the battlefield saved American lives. There's 1177 01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:11,400 Speaker 1: no doubt about that. He was actively plotting in the 1178 01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:14,519 Speaker 1: region to take actions, a big action as he described it, 1179 01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:17,000 Speaker 1: that would have put dozens, if not hundreds of American 1180 01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:19,680 Speaker 1: lives at risk. We know it was imminent. This was 1181 01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:24,200 Speaker 1: an intelligence based assessment that drove our decision making process. 1182 01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:27,200 Speaker 1: The American people also know the history of Costum Solomany. 1183 01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:30,000 Speaker 1: Hundreds of American lives on his hands too, was involved 1184 01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:33,559 Speaker 1: in the Bay Root bombings. He'd orchestrated attack right here 1185 01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:36,360 Speaker 1: in Washington, DC. It ultimately failed. This is a man 1186 01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,519 Speaker 1: who's put in American lives at risk for an awfully 1187 01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:40,920 Speaker 1: a long time. And last night was the time that 1188 01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:43,000 Speaker 1: we needed to strike to make sure that this imminent 1189 01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:47,400 Speaker 1: attack that he was working actively was disrupted. All right, 1190 01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:51,480 Speaker 1: There was a Secretary of State, Mike A. Pompeo, responding 1191 01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:56,120 Speaker 1: to the death of Solomoni. And this is such a 1192 01:18:56,160 --> 01:18:58,880 Speaker 1: big deal, and the reaction of the left and the 1193 01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:01,840 Speaker 1: media and the mob is and the Democrats so predictable. 1194 01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:08,160 Speaker 1: But this is the opposite of what happened in Benghazi, 1195 01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:13,120 Speaker 1: as we've been discussing today. Joining us now, the Republican 1196 01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:18,120 Speaker 1: leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, is with us. Congressman, 1197 01:19:18,240 --> 01:19:20,880 Speaker 1: you happen to be with the President a lot yesterday. 1198 01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:24,120 Speaker 1: Can you walk us through what you saw, what you heard, 1199 01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:26,679 Speaker 1: what you know, and then we'll get into the politics 1200 01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:29,880 Speaker 1: of it all. Well, thank you, Sean. And one thing 1201 01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:33,599 Speaker 1: everybode needs to know, this was a terrorist that had 1202 01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:36,640 Speaker 1: killed Americans. This is not a time to play politics. 1203 01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:40,240 Speaker 1: The world is safer because this man is no longer there. 1204 01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:44,000 Speaker 1: And think of the contrast here we're asked this president, 1205 01:19:44,120 --> 01:19:47,639 Speaker 1: President Trump is removing terrorists. Why the Democrats are trying 1206 01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:49,960 Speaker 1: to remove the President from office. This is a time 1207 01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:53,160 Speaker 1: that we should be uniting. He was making, he was planning. 1208 01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:56,000 Speaker 1: You watched where he was traveling, who he was talking to, 1209 01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:59,160 Speaker 1: You watched what they had escalated. They went in and 1210 01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:01,360 Speaker 1: they killed him American. And I've got to give the 1211 01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:04,519 Speaker 1: President a great deal amount of credit because he did 1212 01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:07,640 Speaker 1: not overplay his hand. Remember when they shot down our 1213 01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:10,759 Speaker 1: unmanned drone. Many of us wanted to go send cruise 1214 01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:13,840 Speaker 1: missiles in there. He said no. But when he made 1215 01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:16,960 Speaker 1: a very strong red line, if you kill an American, 1216 01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:20,519 Speaker 1: you will have to answer for it. So they shot 1217 01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:22,720 Speaker 1: back when they killed an American, and then went in 1218 01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:25,880 Speaker 1: and then they escalated, went into our embassy, and the 1219 01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:29,480 Speaker 1: President was very clear that he would hold them accountable 1220 01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:31,479 Speaker 1: for what they had done and what they were planning 1221 01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:34,080 Speaker 1: to do in the future, when we look back in history, 1222 01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:37,000 Speaker 1: we will have saved lives because what our men and 1223 01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,519 Speaker 1: women did last night for us. Now, when I got 1224 01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:41,320 Speaker 1: down to mar Logo, I was just I was gonna 1225 01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:43,960 Speaker 1: have dinner with the president. We're gonna meet before dinner 1226 01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,840 Speaker 1: and others. And when we when I went into the meeting, 1227 01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:49,320 Speaker 1: that's when it first started breaking, where there was a 1228 01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:51,240 Speaker 1: couple of phone calls where we had to go up 1229 01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:54,400 Speaker 1: and I'm part of the Gang of eight, get some 1230 01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:58,920 Speaker 1: assessments and others. But I will tell you what amazes 1231 01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:01,639 Speaker 1: me so much about this president is what he's able 1232 01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:05,160 Speaker 1: to continue to do while the Democrats continue to play politics. 1233 01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:08,760 Speaker 1: He's got his focus on this country keeping us safe. 1234 01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:12,439 Speaker 1: It is amazing that he's able to do that with 1235 01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:16,679 Speaker 1: such a clear thought and process behind what he's doing. 1236 01:21:17,400 --> 01:21:19,519 Speaker 1: What did you see or what can you share with 1237 01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:22,240 Speaker 1: us that you saw in terms of the entire process 1238 01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:24,759 Speaker 1: in the night unfolding because you were with the president 1239 01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:28,640 Speaker 1: the whole time. Well, you get reports, a lot of 1240 01:21:28,640 --> 01:21:33,439 Speaker 1: them by phone. What's amazing in social media today you 1241 01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:38,240 Speaker 1: can look with on Twitter on reports even inside Iraq 1242 01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:41,040 Speaker 1: itself where you watched on Twitter where you could see 1243 01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:45,840 Speaker 1: the photo of the ring that Salmali wears, and then 1244 01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:49,479 Speaker 1: you watched after the bomb hit you saw his hand 1245 01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:52,759 Speaker 1: with the ring on it to confirm and the reaction, 1246 01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:55,920 Speaker 1: I mean, the precision and what has to be known 1247 01:21:56,040 --> 01:22:00,840 Speaker 1: here too. This individual was such a severe terrorist. I 1248 01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:03,479 Speaker 1: would rate him as one of the top five most 1249 01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:06,559 Speaker 1: dangerous people in the world. But to those other four, 1250 01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:10,640 Speaker 1: the President also sent a very clear message, and the 1251 01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,960 Speaker 1: world is safer because of it. You know, I watched 1252 01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:18,160 Speaker 1: for the amazement, you know, the very exact same people 1253 01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:22,840 Speaker 1: that had no problem with the United States making the 1254 01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:27,439 Speaker 1: worst deal ever foreign policy deal, you know, maybe the 1255 01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:31,240 Speaker 1: equivalent of you know, peace in our time, that somehow 1256 01:22:31,280 --> 01:22:34,280 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty billion dollars in cash and other 1257 01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:39,519 Speaker 1: currency dropped in cargo planes dropping down in Iran for 1258 01:22:39,600 --> 01:22:43,960 Speaker 1: the Mullahs of Iran so they can continue funding terrorism 1259 01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:48,280 Speaker 1: as the world's leading sponsor of terror and their proxy wars, 1260 01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:52,559 Speaker 1: which they have done. And Solomoni is responsible for killing 1261 01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:56,759 Speaker 1: directly Americans, hundreds of them in Iraq and injuring many others. 1262 01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:00,240 Speaker 1: And I'm watching this and I've often said if Donald 1263 01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:03,439 Speaker 1: Trump cured cancer, they would impeach him for curing cancer. 1264 01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:07,400 Speaker 1: So here you have. You know, this guy is on 1265 01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:10,080 Speaker 1: the ground. We all watched. We're all witnessing what was 1266 01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:12,920 Speaker 1: going on at the embassy. I don't think anybody was 1267 01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:16,360 Speaker 1: comfortable watching that. We all had you know, images and 1268 01:23:16,479 --> 01:23:20,720 Speaker 1: recollections in our minds of how people dealt with Benghazi 1269 01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:24,400 Speaker 1: and what a disaster that was that turned out to be. 1270 01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:28,400 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking the very people that will give one 1271 01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:32,439 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty billion to radical islamis that chant death 1272 01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:36,080 Speaker 1: to America, death to Israel. The very same people that 1273 01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:41,280 Speaker 1: defended the non action in Benghazi. Now we're going to 1274 01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:48,120 Speaker 1: offer advice and lecture Donald Trump, who responded forcefully, decisively 1275 01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:53,000 Speaker 1: in record time exactly, and we had that action in 1276 01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:55,320 Speaker 1: the past. Think about this, the Ben Rhodes and what 1277 01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:59,439 Speaker 1: in his administration with Obama, what a dope consult Yeah, 1278 01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:02,200 Speaker 1: salt with Congress when he did it went to Iran? 1279 01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:04,400 Speaker 1: Was it a treaty? No, he couldn't even bring it 1280 01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:07,880 Speaker 1: before us because it couldn't pass. And then secondly, when 1281 01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:10,679 Speaker 1: he delivered those billions of dollars, he lied to Congress, 1282 01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:13,559 Speaker 1: didn't even tell him, and delivered the money. And now 1283 01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:15,840 Speaker 1: and what did that get us? All that did was 1284 01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:18,760 Speaker 1: make the world less safe. That funded the missiles to 1285 01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:21,640 Speaker 1: go down to Yemen, Hezbollah and others. And who was 1286 01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:25,439 Speaker 1: the mindset behind that. The individual who's no longer living today. 1287 01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:29,479 Speaker 1: So this individual that we just took out everyone will 1288 01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:33,960 Speaker 1: tell you killed hundreds of Americans. People should rally behind 1289 01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:36,880 Speaker 1: this president and doing what was right. And we know 1290 01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:39,960 Speaker 1: by his past behavior and with the intel what we 1291 01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:42,719 Speaker 1: had of what he was planning in the future, where 1292 01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:44,559 Speaker 1: he was going, and what he was trying to do 1293 01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:48,519 Speaker 1: in the very near future. We just protected ourselves. I mean, 1294 01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:53,000 Speaker 1: does anybody ask the question your fellow colleagues in the 1295 01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:57,160 Speaker 1: House that are now critical of the president for taking 1296 01:24:57,160 --> 01:25:00,320 Speaker 1: out one of the biggest terrorists on the ground and 1297 01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:04,320 Speaker 1: obviously orchestrating the attacks on our embassy, and they have 1298 01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:08,000 Speaker 1: funded has be lost from the get go, and basically 1299 01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:11,599 Speaker 1: it's an Arranian funded terrorist group. Have any of your 1300 01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:15,400 Speaker 1: colleagues that have been critical here Warren't some of them 1301 01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:19,720 Speaker 1: also critical that, Uh, you know, the president's being embarrassed 1302 01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:23,400 Speaker 1: by the leaders of Iran. Where are they you know? 1303 01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,960 Speaker 1: I mean, they can't They want to have it both ways. 1304 01:25:26,280 --> 01:25:30,200 Speaker 1: To me, they just want to criticize this president instead 1305 01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:33,519 Speaker 1: of putting this country first. Thank for a moment, Why 1306 01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:37,320 Speaker 1: this president took this action. They've been for the last year, 1307 01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:42,120 Speaker 1: Remember uss Cole, Remember the downing of our drone, Remember 1308 01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:45,240 Speaker 1: the bombing in Saudi Arabia. Remember the tankers, they had 1309 01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:47,640 Speaker 1: been trying to push us into a war. What they 1310 01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:50,439 Speaker 1: were planning. Remember that they just went in and killed 1311 01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:53,640 Speaker 1: an American just in the last month. We reacted. And 1312 01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:56,280 Speaker 1: what did they do? They escalated and came into the 1313 01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:59,160 Speaker 1: embassy in the Green Zone. They burnt one of the 1314 01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:02,840 Speaker 1: buildings inside the embassy, the entrance there. The President told him, 1315 01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:06,360 Speaker 1: if you kill an American, we will hold you accountable. 1316 01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:08,960 Speaker 1: When they came into our embassy, and everybody knows who's 1317 01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:12,280 Speaker 1: behind it, this individual that we just killed. But more importantly, 1318 01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:14,479 Speaker 1: where did he come from and what was he planning 1319 01:26:14,479 --> 01:26:17,040 Speaker 1: in the future. This is making sure we don't have 1320 01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:19,880 Speaker 1: a nine to eleven. This is using our intel committee, 1321 01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:22,919 Speaker 1: our community to go out and find what is happening 1322 01:26:22,960 --> 01:26:26,600 Speaker 1: before it happened. And really, when you sit back and 1323 01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:29,679 Speaker 1: think about this, what did this president just stop? How 1324 01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:32,599 Speaker 1: did he keep us safer by making that bold action? 1325 01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:34,800 Speaker 1: And I've watched this president. I watched him in the 1326 01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:37,320 Speaker 1: time when they shot down our drone that here we're 1327 01:26:37,320 --> 01:26:40,040 Speaker 1: going to go in and send missiles in and he said, no, 1328 01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:42,479 Speaker 1: no American died. I want to work with him. He 1329 01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:45,400 Speaker 1: has tried, but this has gone on too far, and 1330 01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:48,519 Speaker 1: I think this decision this president made has made us safer, 1331 01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:51,360 Speaker 1: and nobody should be criticizing they should be supporting him. 1332 01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:55,599 Speaker 1: You know, obviously the sanctions, all the saber rattling that's 1333 01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:59,719 Speaker 1: been going on, taking ships, tankers hostage in the Straits 1334 01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:04,920 Speaker 1: or moves, shooting down a drone, obviously the attack on 1335 01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:09,599 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. Clearly the Iranians or saber rattling, they've wanted 1336 01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:12,840 Speaker 1: this attention. Now they've got it. They're now pledging that 1337 01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:17,640 Speaker 1: they're going to retaliate. I would imagine if they retaliate 1338 01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:21,040 Speaker 1: and they kill Americans that probably number one on the 1339 01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:23,800 Speaker 1: target list has got to be the refineries. There are 1340 01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:27,200 Speaker 1: three major ones in Iran that we're aware of. Their 1341 01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:31,160 Speaker 1: nuclear sits certainly would be good targets as well, which 1342 01:27:31,280 --> 01:27:33,880 Speaker 1: Prime Minister net Yah who's been warning for a long time, 1343 01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:37,200 Speaker 1: we better get those taken out before they have nuclear capability. 1344 01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:41,360 Speaker 1: And I just got to imagine that if they want 1345 01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:44,400 Speaker 1: to go there, they're gonna lose, and it's not going 1346 01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:46,720 Speaker 1: to be a boots on the ground scenario as some 1347 01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:50,000 Speaker 1: of your colleagues are suggesting, because the President's clear that's 1348 01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:53,320 Speaker 1: not the way he wants to engage in conflict. Well, 1349 01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:55,839 Speaker 1: the President is very clear he would like to de escalate. 1350 01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:59,400 Speaker 1: He only reacted based upon what they were planning and 1351 01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:03,559 Speaker 1: what they had done. Remember this is because an American 1352 01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:05,679 Speaker 1: was killed and they came after our embassy and who 1353 01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:07,479 Speaker 1: planned it and what he was planning to do in 1354 01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:11,920 Speaker 1: the future. If Iran wants to try to do something more, 1355 01:28:12,240 --> 01:28:15,080 Speaker 1: I think last night would be a very eye opening 1356 01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:18,080 Speaker 1: to them that at any place, at any time, our 1357 01:28:18,120 --> 01:28:22,519 Speaker 1: men and women are so well trained, they can find 1358 01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:27,280 Speaker 1: you anywhere and they will defend Americans anywhere. My mind 1359 01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:32,320 Speaker 1: set on future conflicts and future wars evolved dramatically, especially 1360 01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:35,919 Speaker 1: in light of what fifty eight thousand Americans killed in Vietnam. 1361 01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:39,880 Speaker 1: The war becomes politicized in the DC swamp, and then 1362 01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:42,240 Speaker 1: we kind of say, never mind. The same thing with 1363 01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:45,080 Speaker 1: Iraq and Afghanistan. Everyone's gung ho, you know, we got 1364 01:28:45,080 --> 01:28:47,760 Speaker 1: to do this, they have a war authorization. Then it 1365 01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:51,840 Speaker 1: becomes politicized and all these kids banging on doors in Iraq. 1366 01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:55,800 Speaker 1: We can't fight wars, Congressman this way ever again, and 1367 01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:57,679 Speaker 1: what I want to see and we saw this work 1368 01:28:57,720 --> 01:29:00,439 Speaker 1: at the Caliphate in Syria that it was defeat once 1369 01:29:00,439 --> 01:29:03,280 Speaker 1: we unleashed our military power and got rid of the 1370 01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:06,400 Speaker 1: Obama rules of engagement. But I think the single most 1371 01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:11,200 Speaker 1: important thing we can do is develop the next generation 1372 01:29:11,240 --> 01:29:15,280 Speaker 1: of weaponry, both offensive and defensive, so we never have 1373 01:29:15,439 --> 01:29:19,320 Speaker 1: to send our kids door to door in any of 1374 01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:23,519 Speaker 1: these countries. You're correct, and every person who served in 1375 01:29:23,560 --> 01:29:25,880 Speaker 1: the military would tell you that exact same thing. And 1376 01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:28,720 Speaker 1: that's what this president is doing by rebuilding our military 1377 01:29:28,920 --> 01:29:31,120 Speaker 1: so it protects our men and women. The other thing 1378 01:29:31,160 --> 01:29:34,240 Speaker 1: that happened when you named all those different wars and battles, 1379 01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:36,960 Speaker 1: what if you were able to stop one. What if 1380 01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:41,080 Speaker 1: you knew about information of somebody planning a big attack 1381 01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:43,479 Speaker 1: when you watch the past behavior of trying to get 1382 01:29:43,520 --> 01:29:45,400 Speaker 1: us into a war, what if you were able to 1383 01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:48,160 Speaker 1: take that individual out before any of that took place. 1384 01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:51,240 Speaker 1: The world would not know what how terrible things would 1385 01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:53,600 Speaker 1: have happened, but you would have known simply from the 1386 01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:56,080 Speaker 1: fact that you kept America a little safer based upon 1387 01:29:56,120 --> 01:29:58,760 Speaker 1: what women last night, and how much safer would we 1388 01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:00,960 Speaker 1: have been, and how many more would have been alive 1389 01:30:01,160 --> 01:30:03,240 Speaker 1: if this individual would have been taken out a long 1390 01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:09,000 Speaker 1: time ago. Americans great point we'll take a quick break, 1391 01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:12,320 Speaker 1: we'll break. We'll get your thoughts on Pelosi's insanity when 1392 01:30:12,320 --> 01:30:15,720 Speaker 1: we get back. As we continue with Republican Leader Kevin 1393 01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:18,720 Speaker 1: McCarthy California, eight hundred and nine for one Sean. If 1394 01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:20,800 Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the program, we 1395 01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:24,559 Speaker 1: are back tonight Hannity Special Edition. Yes, I'll be back 1396 01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:28,000 Speaker 1: in the chair, nine Eastern with let's see Mike Pompeo, 1397 01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:30,799 Speaker 1: the greatest lineup you could ever want on the Fox 1398 01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:33,680 Speaker 1: News Channel. Quick break, right back, We'll continue only three 1399 01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:37,800 Speaker 1: hundred and five days until you get to decide who 1400 01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:41,400 Speaker 1: leads this country down the road? Straight ahead? All right, 1401 01:30:41,439 --> 01:30:44,840 Speaker 1: As we continue, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is with us, 1402 01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:49,280 Speaker 1: So explain to me the thinking of all right, we 1403 01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:53,360 Speaker 1: have these two very weak articles of impeachment that the 1404 01:30:53,400 --> 01:30:56,640 Speaker 1: House Democrats stay out there were hell bent on undoing. 1405 01:30:57,360 --> 01:31:02,280 Speaker 1: There's only one fact witness. Now Pelosi's holding the articles. 1406 01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:06,000 Speaker 1: Now we're very clear in the Constitution you impeach in 1407 01:31:06,040 --> 01:31:08,840 Speaker 1: the House. The Senate holds the trial. But she's not 1408 01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:10,920 Speaker 1: going to hand it over to the Senate until whenever 1409 01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:15,479 Speaker 1: she decides that the Senate vows to her command and 1410 01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:19,000 Speaker 1: does it her way, and she basically wants to do over. 1411 01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:21,960 Speaker 1: Your thoughts on how this is going to unfold, well, 1412 01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:23,400 Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day she's going 1413 01:31:23,479 --> 01:31:25,320 Speaker 1: to have to send it. But one thing I will 1414 01:31:25,320 --> 01:31:29,080 Speaker 1: tell you for Schumer now to claim he wants to 1415 01:31:29,080 --> 01:31:31,599 Speaker 1: have witnesses, that he wants to bring Bolton in, when 1416 01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:34,040 Speaker 1: the House Democrats, if you know, Sean, because you carried 1417 01:31:34,040 --> 01:31:36,760 Speaker 1: it so well, they had all control, they didn't let 1418 01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:39,559 Speaker 1: the minority bring witnesses. They never even asked or tried 1419 01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:42,160 Speaker 1: to get Bolton. The idea that if you look back 1420 01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:45,479 Speaker 1: at what Schumer said during the Clinton impeachment, he wanted 1421 01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:47,719 Speaker 1: to dismiss before it even got to the Senate, before 1422 01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:50,920 Speaker 1: it was even hurt. They know that they have failed 1423 01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:52,760 Speaker 1: at this. They know where it's going to end up. 1424 01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:54,840 Speaker 1: And I think the same thing is going to happen 1425 01:31:54,840 --> 01:31:56,840 Speaker 1: in the Senate that happened in the House. The only 1426 01:31:56,840 --> 01:32:01,799 Speaker 1: bipartisan vote here is going to vote down impeachment because 1427 01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:04,599 Speaker 1: this president has done nothing wrong. But again, look at 1428 01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:09,240 Speaker 1: the contrast. Can the Senate just dismiss it if she 1429 01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:13,519 Speaker 1: refuses to hand them over. I believe the Senate can 1430 01:32:13,640 --> 01:32:16,640 Speaker 1: if she continues to go along this route. It is 1431 01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:19,920 Speaker 1: going against what the Constitution says. I believe the Senate 1432 01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:22,400 Speaker 1: could bring up by a fifty one vote, bring it 1433 01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:24,320 Speaker 1: up and then vote it down if she does not 1434 01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:27,519 Speaker 1: want to send it. Amazing times we're living in house. 1435 01:32:27,560 --> 01:32:31,639 Speaker 1: Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, Congressman. I know it's a busy day, 1436 01:32:31,880 --> 01:32:33,840 Speaker 1: a travel day for you. Thank you for taking the 1437 01:32:33,880 --> 01:32:36,120 Speaker 1: time to be with us. We appreciate it. Thank you. 1438 01:32:36,160 --> 01:32:38,599 Speaker 1: Sean all right, eight hundred and nine. Well, I don't 1439 01:32:38,600 --> 01:32:41,760 Speaker 1: really have time for calls. We're loaded up tonight. We 1440 01:32:41,840 --> 01:32:43,800 Speaker 1: got a great hand at he nine East on the 1441 01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:47,519 Speaker 1: Fox News channel, and you know, look, I just couldn't 1442 01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:49,680 Speaker 1: stay away. I was supposed to be out until Monday. 1443 01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:52,639 Speaker 1: We've got all the political angles. We got Colonel North, 1444 01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:56,960 Speaker 1: Mike Pompeo, Lindsay Graham, call Rove, Sean Spicer on the 1445 01:32:57,000 --> 01:33:01,519 Speaker 1: media losing their minds, and Pete Hegseth. It's all happening 1446 01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:05,240 Speaker 1: nine Eastern set in DVR. We'll see you tonight on Fox, 1447 01:33:05,360 --> 01:33:07,680 Speaker 1: and we will be back here on Monday. Have a 1448 01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:09,000 Speaker 1: great weekend. We'll see you then.