WEBVTT - The Iran Threat - May 9th, Hour 2 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.120 All right, thanks Scott Shannon. Our two Sean Hannity Show 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.240 toll free. It is eight hundred and nine to four 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.480 one Sean. If you want to be a part of 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:09.800 the program, we'll be reporting next week. I will not 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.560 be on the air ILB in flight with the President 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.680 headed over to riod in Saudi Arabia, and we'll spend 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:22.520 a day there broadcast radio and TV Tuesday from Saudi Arabia, 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.360 hopefully assuming technology works, which I expect to fully will. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.720 We've done it from Helsinki and Singapore and Vietnam. I 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.280 don't know why I wouldn't work there, but then we will. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.080 The second day, Day two will be in Doha in Qatar, 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:44.200 and day three will be in the UAE in Abu Dhabi. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.360 Linda's missing out on the trip. She's very upset. He 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.800 feels that we've neglected her, but she you do not 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:53.559 stop it. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.480 I do. In fact, I'm going to dress up and 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.960 cover my hair just for just for fun at home. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.880 Okay, okay, international incident not a good idea. I'm just 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:06.640 saying just a thought anyway. Now, the big one of 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.800 the big issues in the region that I'm sure will 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:13.880 be discussed in all three countries is the issue surrounding Iran, 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.120 the number one state sponsor of terror. The President has 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.240 been very very clear he'd prefer peace. He doesn't want 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.800 he doesn't want to have to take out Iran's nuclear sites, 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.840 but he's also clear that Iran can have a nuclear 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:31.440 weapon and I for good reason. Number one state sponsor 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.200 of terror. We saw they launched ballistic missiles, they tried 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.440 to get into Israel. Uh. We know that they are 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.880 funding Hamas and Hazbalah, and they are funding the Hutis 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.759 and Islamic Jihad, and they are just fomenting terror all 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.880 throughout the region. What is interesting and what happened in 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.200 Trump's first term. The very few people talk about great success. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.960 I think on his part never got credit for it. 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.960 Is he was able to create an alliance because of 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.880 the sanction that were so effective in bringing Iran to 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.560 the brink of bankruptcy. You might remember all the student 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.160 protests taking place at the time. A lot of that 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.200 was financially related because Donald Trump cut off their oil sales. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.760 And then Joe Biden became president and turned a blind 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:21.800 eye towards towards the sanctions that we're working and you know, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.440 now they've become rich, and they're using that money to 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.640 foment terror there and around the globe, in the entire region. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:30.680 But they can't get a nuclear weapon. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:30.880 Now. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:36.480 The breakout time according to public you know, public reportings, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.680 is they are at sixty percent enrichment to get to 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.400 sixty to ninety percent as a matter of a couple 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:50.520 of weeks, and ninety percent is weapons grade enrichment. Here's 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.360 the President saying he doesn't want to bomb I rant 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.000 I want them to be successful. And by the way, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:57.160 I share his sentiment. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.320 So likewise, we're trying to work on Iran, get that 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:05.239 solved without having to get into any bombing as we say, 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.040 big bombing. I don't want to do that. I want 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:08.560 them to where could you. I want them to be 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:09.360 very successful. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.440 And the President went on to reiterate what he has 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.840 now said many many times is they cannot have nuclear weapons, 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.040 that it won't happen on his watch, and that if 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.840 need be, he will take the action and lead the action. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.679 He was asked whether or not to be a coalition 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.080 with Israel. No, we will lead that effort. The President 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.640 also said, if Iran ever tries to retaliate against US, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.480 they will be obliterated. Here's what he said. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.200 They cannot have a nuclear weapon. With me, It's very simple. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.800 Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:39.600 Jesus. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.480 We don't want to be tough on Iran, we don't 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.440 want to be tough on anybody. But they just can't 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:44.960 have a nuclear Why. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.360 Say run happy to sign it? 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:51.840 If it's Iran and their prophecies who have threatened to retaliate. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.440 Against you and your team, like killing you guys for 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:56.200 taking out souls money. 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:01.080 Well they haven't done that, and that would be a 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.360 terrible thing for them to do, not because of me. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.920 If they did that, they would be obliterated. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:07.280 That'd be the end. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:08.520 I've left instructions. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.240 If they do it, they get obliterated, there won't be 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.720 anything left. And they should have been able to do it. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.800 And Biden should have said that, but he never did. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:22.800 Good points on all fronts. Ali Raza sha'afarz Zarday is 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.520 the deputy director of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.200 He's the author of The Iran Threat, an outspoken Middle 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.600 East experts. Sir, welcome to the program, Thank you for 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:32.400 being with us. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.400 Thank you so much. Sean All is a pleasure to 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:36.159 be on your show. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:41.960 Well, we know the iranium mullas, we know that they 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.120 do seek nuclear weapons. We know that they have their 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.480 nuclear program spread all throughout a very large land mass 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:54.320 which is Iran, very deep into the ground. It is 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.160 the Israeli showed us that they were able to penetrate 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.359 their air defense systems rather easily and take many of 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.720 them out. So militarily we have the capability of wiping 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.760 out those sites and probably their refineries, which would bankrupt 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.440 them and I would say would lead to regime change. However, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.119 the president's giving them a choice. He's saying, I don't 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.240 want to do that. I'd rather you be successful. The 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.640 question now is what will the Iranians do well? 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.000 First of all, speaking about the nuclear weapons program of Iran, 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.240 this is the tool for the survival of the Iran regime. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.080 That's why they have spent some two trillion dollars over 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.840 the past three decades and they have expanded their nuclear 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.360 weapons program much further than you know. When we first 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.680 exposed the nuclear sites in Natans and Iraq, which triggered 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.719 the IA inspections of IREDIA nuclear sites, the program was 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:53.320 in the you know, original early stages. But you know, 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:58.080 the Europeans got to rush to help the regime. They 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.880 gave them what they wanted, the legitimize the nuclear weapons 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.800 program of Iran. The JCPOA made it even worse, allowing 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:11.120 them to expand the program, having you know, several enrichment. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.200 Facilities, but also we expose a lot of other nuclear 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.000 sites that deal with the weaponization part of the program 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.200 that the regime said this is off limits, did not allow. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.360 The IAEA, and then they made the missile program as 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.480 though this is totally unrelated to the nuclear weapons program. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.400 It's not. This is part and parcel of building a 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.560 nuclear warhead. And that's why, you know, this regime has 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.640 never been so advanced in the in terms of the 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:42.320 nuclear weapons program. But at the same time, even though 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.320 they have been at the negotiating table before many years 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:49.760 ago and also at the JCPOA, this time, they're extremely weak. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.880 They have lost all the leverage they've had. They have 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.520 lost the you know, the cloud in the region, their 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.960 biggest ally in Syria, Acid is gone. Their their proxies 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.159 Hezboala in Lebanon, the whot Is in Yemen, and chev 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.240 militias in Iraqi. Can you know give you a less 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.440 they've been shattered. But the most important wakness of the 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.160 regime is inside the country. The people of Iran have 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.480 rejected this regime. There have been nine rounds of major 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:21.000 uprisings in Iran since twenty eighteen, people chanting death to 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.559 the dictator or death to the oppressor, beat the Shah 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.000 or the Superndia. They don't want any kind of dictatorship. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:28.960 The same way that they got rid of the show 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.960 which was dictatored at the single party rule was corrupt. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.440 They're doing even more about against the iatolas. They say, 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.960 you know, in this century, the people of Iran are educated, 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.760 they want freedom, they want democracy. They will not settle 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.920 for that. So that's where you want to count on. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.960 And that's why this regime has no leverage at the 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.600 negotiating table. This is the time you want to go 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.440 for the wind, not just simply punting it, not just 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.320 limiting certain aspects of the trouble that the regime is making, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.679 whether it's nuclear that terrorism. You know, they're the warm 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.960 on getting and all of that. And that's why, and 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.119 I agree with Fudy that you know we're not talking 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.560 about war. There's no need for foreign boots on the 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.800 ground or appropriation of money. The people of Iran are 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.360 already the biggest ally of the Western nations because they 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.440 want the same thing. They want to end not only 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.320 just to the nuclear weapons program, which is to the 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.800 detriment of the people of Iran, but also they want 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.080 to end to their terrorism. They want to you know, 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.920 and sending the money and resources to everywhere else but 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.839 the people of Iran. You know, Iran is the second 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.360 largest oil and gas reseves combined in the world, yet 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.520 eighty percent of the Direnia population live below the property line. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.920 Where does the money go. It goes to fill the 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.120 pocket of the clerics, to empower the revolution guards, to 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.400 fund all these terror groups in the region. That's why 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.920 the Irenian nation, and not just intellectuals, the entire nation 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.200 has risen against this regime. When we have these recent 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.480 uprisings in Iran, it was mostly the poor, the deprived, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.240 the work There's the people, you know, smaller towns and 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.960 cities who used to be the bedrock of support for 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.920 the Molas. But now the whole thing has changed. This 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.200 is the new reality of Iran. And we were so 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:14.240 encouraged when the president said that no enrichment. We're not 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:14.560 going to. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.280 Accept any level of enrichment. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.360 We said, you know, this is exactly what we've been 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.440 calling for. You need to shut down the entire nuclear 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.880 weapons program of the Iran regime. There's nothing legitimate, there's 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.880 nothing peaceful about it, including their missile program. And you 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.360 see the people of Iran, you know, on your side, 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.079 they're the biggest ally change will come from within Iran, 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.440 and all the rest of the world really need to 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.880 do is to recognize the right to overthrow the molos, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.720 recognize the right to confront the revolution guards. You know, 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.960 the worst reading stay sponsor of terrorism. That's where you 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.200 want to invest, and you will see how the whole 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.720 equation would change. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.199 Quick break more with Ali Reza Jeffers are they on 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.719 the other side. We'll get to your calls as well. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.400 Right we continue now Ali Reza jeffizar Day and he 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.199 is the deputy director of the National Council of Resistance 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.240 of Iran. The one thing that he said that really 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.400 stands out to me is this will not be Iraq. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.040 There will not be boots on the ground. It seems 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.080 to me that there are two major targets in Iran. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:20.720 Take out the nuclear facilities, and then you have two options. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.800 You can simultaneously take out their refineries, which is the 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:28.240 source of all their money, or you can take them 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.920 out and say if you retaliate, your refineries are next. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:37.280 At that point, you know, you would think that common 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:41.640 sense would prevail at that point they would accept defeat. However, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.320 the radicalization of the Mullahs and those that believe in 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.160 the caliphate and convert or die and not exactly the 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.760 type of people that I would expect you can reason with. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.320 So while maybe you know everything you're saying makes total sense, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.800 and I agree with your assessment too that this is 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.240 not about the people of Iran. They they're living miserable 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.040 lives and and they're being treated horribly, and they're living 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.280 in poverty. They should be one of the wealthiest countries 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.280 on the face of the earth. They're not. However, it 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.640 right that they can't battle the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:21.160 the cuts forces. It's impossible. So the question is what 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.199 will the what will the mulas decide to do, because 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.000 the Americans will insist on no enrichment, no nuclear facilities. 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.480 If they want a nuclear power plant, they could they 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.080 could follow the lead and and Mark Rubio is clear 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:38.120 about this. They'll have the rods available for nuclear power 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.560 that will be given to them that can trade for that, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.160 but short of that, they will be no enrichment within 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.200 that country. Now, they don't have a long time to 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.439 decide here. They really are working on the clock because 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.720 they've gotten so close to the possibility of weapons grade uranium. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.040 Absolutely, you know, you let the molas make a decision 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.000 for themselves and side, which which choice they want to take. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.160 What on this side, what you want to do. You 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:09.000 want to be absolutely firm making it very clear under 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.520 no circumstances, no agreement that would allow any level of 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.080 enrichment is going to be acceptable. Now, the biggest leverage 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.920 the outside world now has is the organized resistance in Iran. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.760 They are confronting the revolution guards on a day to 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.560 day basis. Just in the past one year, there were 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:30.000 some three thousand acts of resistance and the confrontation between 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:34.120 the younger people the organized resistance inside Iran, you know, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.040 burning down the pictures of the Molos, even attacking some 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.680 of those revolution guards that centers, showing the people of 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.280 Iran that the Molos are not ten feet all, they're vulnerable. 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.959 They can be defeated. This organized resistance has put out 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.120 a platform known as the Ten Point Plan for the 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.880 Future of Iran that says, you know, there should be 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.880 separation of religion and state, gender equality, freedom of religion 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.880 and freedom of political is a non nuclear Iran and 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.640 peace in the Middle East. That platform has tremendous support 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.880 on the hill. You know, the leader of the movement 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.840 is actually a woman, missus radjab What does it tell 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.160 you about you know, the opposition against the Malas, who 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.719 are mosogynists, is led by women who are saying that, 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.599 you know, we're going to bring down the mallus and 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.959 we decide, you know, for our own future. There are 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.040 four thousand parliamentarians around the world who have supported this 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.960 her ten point Plan, including the House majority both Democrats 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.920 and Republicans. There's there's really if there's one issue that 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.400 you can line up both Democrats and Republicans is actually 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.360 this one. And that's a huge opportunity for the president 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.640 for you know, even European nations to side with this 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.640 organized resistance who are determined to bring about change in Iran. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.720 This regime is not what it was. It's weak, is vulnerable, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.840 and the resistance has never been so powerful. This is 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.360 the same movement that exposed all the major new si 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.840 of Iran. You know, that's you know, yeah, every almost 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.679 every single side that the eye is expecting was exposed 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.920 by this movement. This is the movement that has become 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.880 the main target of terrorism of the Iran regime, the 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.960 main target of the killings inside Iran. By at the 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.840 same time they're the engine for change inside the country. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.720 It's a huge asset. That's where you want to invest. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.880 That's where we want to look at. If you don't 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.400 want to have boots on the ground, and if you 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.520 don't want to spend money and you don't want to 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.120 go to Iraq rout, well. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.200 I hope you're right, and it would be so much 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.520 better for the world if they would understand that they 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.080 can't win this battle and then not going to achieve 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.120 their goal. But I don't know if we get there, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.640 but certainly long protracted war is not going to be 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.400 in the equation here. This is going to be quick 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.320 and done and over and finished before anybody can blink 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.200 their eye. In my view anyway, we really appreciate it, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.120 Oli Raza, thank you so much for being with us. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.680 Thank we appreciate your time today, all right, eight hundred 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.280 and ninety four one, Shawn. If you want to be 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.880 a part of the program, We'll got to your calls 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.720 coming up. Don't forget Tickets now for sale. We're calling 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.480 it the Punchline and Patriots Tour tickets went on sale 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.920 this morning. Is me and Jimmy Fayla. We will be 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.360 in clear Water at the Ruth Eckert Hall Saturday, June 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.800 twenty eighth, the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:28.960 June twenty ninth, and sales start today. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:34.440 Hannity uncovers the real truth about the politics of DC. 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:41.080 He's your watchdog on Big Brother every day. Hannity is 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:46.880 on right now. I am somewhat conflicted about playing what 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.880 I'm about to play of Senator Kennedy in light of 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:57.800 the ongoing, seemingly never ending discussion about Linda, her faith backsliding, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:02.520 not understanding you know, forgive us as we forgive, you know, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:07.520 forgive seventy times seven. Not we should love God with 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.880 all your heart, mind, body, and soul, and your neighbor 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.920 as yourself neighbor, I think more broadly means everybody and 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.160 nowhere in the Bible does to talk about having a 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.360 hate list, which Linda clings to like manna from heaven. Well, 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.000 there's a little bit of trepidation inside of me to 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:28.120 even fuel this fire. But when it comes to our 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:34.280 favorite senator, and that would be Senator Kennedy from Louisiana, Louisiana, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.240 I can't help myself. Here's what he said. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:44.000 I don't hate anybody. I don't. I look for grace 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:51.560 wherever I can find it, and I say my prayers. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.120 One of the things I asked my maker for is 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.520 push God. Don't let me hate, because it's sometimes it's 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:05.680 hard here in uh in Washington. You know, there have 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.879 been many a morning when I've gotten up in my 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:15.520 overpriced Capitol Hill apartment and I'm walking over here to 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.680 the Capitol and I give myself a pep talk. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:20.600 I talk to myself. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:26.200 I say, Kennedy, today, you're going to follow Jesus. And 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.639 by ten o'clock, I still want to follow Jesus. But 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.760 I also want to slap the hell out of somebody. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.120 Oh boy, Now is. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.600 That in the Bible? Son, Does it say to slap 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:39.720 somebody upside the head? 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.240 No, it actually says to turn the It's it's it's 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.119 the Bible says to turn the other cheek. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.240 Now, are you turning the other cheek with a good slap? 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.000 Because that I mean there that could be. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.480 No, he says, I but but he noticed what he said. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.840 He says, I want to slap somebody, but I don't hate. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.919 He also said, I don't hate anybody. Now there's a 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.760 difference because you have a hate list, and there are 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.240 people that you will never forgive. And that's and and 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.520 and that's very different. He gets up every morning he 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.080 says his prayers. If you listen closely, ask ask God, 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:17.680 Almighty the grace who you know? Please? When I pray, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.879 I said, please, God, don't don't don't let me hate. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.160 I don't think you get up and say that prayer 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:23.840 every day? Do you? 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:25.920 I sure do every single day. I'm my Lord, give 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.280 me the strength. I'm just I'm just asking you know do. 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.520 You do you do you specifically ask not to hate? 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.399 No, I just asked him to give me the strength 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:36.040 to do his will. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.520 He specifically asked not to hate. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.439 You, for I just asked him to give me the 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:42.480 strength to do his will. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.879 Okay, his will is not that his will. I'm telling 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.760 you what his will is. And you know what, you're 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.919 just being obstinate and stubborn and and I don't know 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.920 if it's a bit for you. Listen, playing onto your 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:55.600 hate list. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:56.040 I do. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.720 I hate pedophiles. I hate people who hurt animals. I 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.600 hate people who murder animals. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:09.000 But okay, the understandable, you know, indignant when when Jesus 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:14.480 turned over the tables of money changers in his father's house. Uh, 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.520 you know, there was righteous indignation. There is a difference 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:22.000 between righteous, righteous indignation and the raw emotion of hatred. 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:23.800 You have it. 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.920 I do hate viewers, I do you, but that's not 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.639 the hateless we're talking about. That's separate. You're you're kind 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:35.359 of obfuscating your You have specific people by name that 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:39.040 you won't forgive, and you have a hate list. Yes, 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:45.080 you're backsletting as we forgive. The Bible doesn't say it's 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.040 okay to have a hate list. The Senator Kennedy acknowledges 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.520 he should not do that. You don't mean that you 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.080 think Jesus is okay with it. 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.920 I think I think Jesus recognizes that a strong willed 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.800 individual can look at what's wrong and they can say 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:02.000 I can look past it and then other people who 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.399 may be strong willed, but in your words, obstinate, and 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.359 they're not able to forgive those people. I am one 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:07.920 of those people. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:08.280 I am. 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:09.760 I'm more of an eye for an eye. I am 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:10.200 not a terne. 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.880 What do you want to change mine? Do you have 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:18.080 the word repentance from the Latin means to change one's heart? 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.680 Do you have any desire to change your heart and 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:26.440 have this and like Senator Kennedy, pray that God will 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.119 not let him hate? Do you have any desire to 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:29.840 do that pray? 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:31.560 I do pray to do God's. 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.080 Will you pray that prayer? I'm asking specifics. You see 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:36.080 you obviously hat like a liberal when we get on 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:36.520 this topic. 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:37.879 I do not do that prayer. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:40.719 Would you ever think about it? 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.160 To change my heart and forgive people who rape kids? 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.239 No, No, I'm not talking about the kids and not 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.440 talking about the pedophiles, not talking about Some of. 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.720 The people on my list are people that I know. 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:53.920 That I'm talking about the people that you just hate 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:54.920 because you don't like them. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.080 I don't have anybody that I hate because I don't 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:01.960 like them. Everybody on my list has there's a major infraction. Yeah, 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:06.000 but they're people with major infractions. Oh my gosh, this 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:07.680 is they're not people like I was like, I don't 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.200 like her shirt, I hate her. That's not happening. That's 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:10.880 not what's happening. 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.680 John and san Diego Sean Hannity Show, What's up John, 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:15.160 how are you? 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.000 Yashan? A couple of things. 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:18.320 Uh. 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:23.720 First, Trump needs just bypassed Congress on this tips and 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:28.080 taxes thing. Tips are gifts. They are not earned income. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.880 If they were earned income, they would be mandated by law. 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:35.640 Tipping is voluntary, and when you are given a gift, 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.040 the receiver does not pay taxes. All you have to 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:41.840