WEBVTT - American Strength - June 23rd, Hour 1 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:03.080 All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:04.960 of you for being with us. Here's our toll free 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.400 telephone number. It's eight hundred and nine four to one 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.320 Seawan if you want to be a part of the program. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.480 I think we all need to stop and pause and 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:18.120 be very grateful for the incredible men and women that 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:22.200 serve in our military, and for a president that has 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:27.720 the moral clarity and deep understanding and common sense of 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.600 a world that cannot live with the possibility of the 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:36.000 number one state sponsor of terror having nuclear weapons, and 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.360 the incredible job. We'll go into a lot of the 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.720 specificity of what they were able to do and how 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:46.319 they did it on Saturday night, The level of deception, well, 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.239 first of all, the level of planning, the level the 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.200 bigger part of the planning before this mission ever even started, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:01:00.000 was knowing and anticipating what possible retaliation there might exist, 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:05.080 what risk any any bomber might risk flying into Iranian airspace, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.880 The risk we know under Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Mayorcis. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.480 You know we have untold numbers of of known terrorists, 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:20.039 Iranian assassination squads, the number of Iranians that were let 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.000 into the country that we caught, never mind got aways, 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.560 is staggering. I'll give you those those numbers at a minute, 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.160 but those are if any any the terrorists that made 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.319 it into this country. Everyone needs to understand there they 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.920 are already plotting and planning and scheming their attack, whatever 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.800 it might be, on this country. And that will be 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.399 more blood on the hands of Biden, Harris and Mayorcis 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.320 because they let them in unvetted, and they didn't care, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.360 and even when they knew they were from Iran, they 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.040 still let them go. I mean, this is this is insanity, 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.680 This is madness. We talked often about the countries, over 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.560 two hundred of them, many with terror ties, and how 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.120 these people will being allowed into our country. They went 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.320 in knowing the danger of the possibility of shutting down 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.120 the streets or horn moves, disrupting the free flow of 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.600 oil at market prices. We knew that possibility. We also 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.240 know there's a possibility that they may end up mining 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:22.360 the straits, although I'm less of a mind to believe 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.680 that now. And we knew that our bases in the region, 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.880 and we saw this on display in the last hour 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:34.200 and a half, are our largest base inside of the 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:38.880 Middle East. I was actually there Goha in cutter or guitar. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.440 You can say it either way, and it's both acceptable. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.800 Had six missiles fired at it. We'll get to that 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.320 in a second. But the level of planning, the level 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:55.800 of deception, and it is at the highest level that 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.760 we've ever heard of. The incredible use of our intelligence, 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.679 the amount of detail in the planning. A lot of 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.400 people don't know that a lot of Americans were taken 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.120 out of the region and the lead up to this. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:13.480 There before any of this started, they had anticipated and 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.919 gamed out every possible retaliation effort that the Iranians might 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:22.160 be involved in. Then, of course, the absolute precision, the 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:30.280 overwhelming might of American the American military. The Tomahawk missiles 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.440 fired from an amazing four hundred miles away, every one 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.880 of them a direct hit. Incredible precision. How they did 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.160 all of this completely undetected. When you look at the timeline, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.480 it's incredible. We should be proud at the level of 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:51.160 detail and the professionalism, and how blessed and lucky and 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.800 fortunate we are to have the greatest military force on 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.400 the face of this Earth, and a commander in chief 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.400 with the common sense to understand the world cannot live 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.560 with the number one state sponsor of terror, married to 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.560 weapons of mass destruction, that has been doing everything in 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.520 their power directly and through their proxies to white Israel 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.920 off the map, but also chanting even last Friday, death 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.200 to America and reaffirming just a few months ago from 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:22.039 the Supreme Leader's mouth himself that their goal is ultimately 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.960 to take down the United States of America. And factoring in, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.440 of course, all the Americans that have died at the 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.359 hands of the Iranians over the years, it is the 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.359 time for retribution is long come and gone. Let me 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.200 get into what has been breaking news for the last 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:44.640 ninety minutes. It started this morning when Cutter announced that 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.760 they were shutting down their airspace part of measures taken 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:53.359 amid developments in the region, according to Katari Foreign Ministry. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:58.120 And they shut down the airspace because let me tell 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.400 you what happened. Even the New York Times now has 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.080 a report on this. Three Iranian officials familiar with the 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:09.840 plans to attack our air base in Cutter said that 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:14.360 Iran did in fact give advance notice to the Guitari 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:20.679 officials that attacks were coming as a way to save faith. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:26.240 This is a symbolic face saving gesture, if you will, 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.160 if you give the Guitaris and the Americans a heads up, yeah, 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:38.400 we're gonna fire six missiles, the same number of weapons 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.320 that hit you know, they're one the four doz site 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.760 with bunker busters as a means of acting like you're responding, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.080 so you can use it as a propaganda point and 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.479 tell the people in Iran, oh, yeah, we just destroyed them. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.520 It is very consistent with how they acted in the past. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.280 Now what's amazing about this is if you go back 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.840 to twenty twenty in the killing of Solomani, it is 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.960 and at that point there it's kind of an underreported, 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.120 untold story. The United States was given a heads up 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.400 when Iran and Iran gave Iraq a heads up before 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.400 they fired ballistic missiles at an American base in Iraq 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.240 following the assassination of Solomani. He was their top terror leader. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.520 And it just shows you the depth of fear that 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.920 the Iranians have of Donald J. Trump. I mean, such 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:39.039 a star. Contrast to Barack Obama dropping cargo planes full 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.240 of cash and other currencies and billions of dollars on 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.840 a tarmac to appease the Iranian leadership in the hopes 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.919 that we're gonna come up with a nuclear deal. Meanwhile, 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:53.120 there's no any place anywhere anytime, inspections and Obama and 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.360 I'll play this later in the program, was fully aware 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.880 of the for docite. For example, if you want it 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:03.920 for civilian purposes or nuclear power, you don't need to 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.680 build it three hundred feet into a mountainside, very deep 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.760 down inside that mountain as a means of fortifying it 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.280 from an attack. Although it didn't really serve them well 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.120 or serve the purpose that they wanted here, but that 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.880 in fact happened. But it seems like that pattern of yeah, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.240 we're responding, but just know that this isn't a real response, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.000 and it's coming at this time, and you might want 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.280 to get your missile defense systems in place, and you 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.040 might want to be ready because we want to be 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.960 able to tell our citizenry that we fought back and 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.960 we got you good. I mean, it's insane, but it's 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:44.400 a culture I guess that is rooted in imagery. And 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.640 you know they have a face saving effort. I have 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:53.960 no idea. The thing is, and I've been when all 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.160 of the talk and when Israel started as this conflict 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.840 and what the Israelis have been able to pull off 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:03.440 is miraculous. Also, all of this is going to be studied. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:08.640 What Donald Trump did with these three facilities, both Bordeaux, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:15.160 Natans and Esfahan, all three of these facilities. What he 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.920 has been able to do is now made the world 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.280 a safer place, a much safer place. And what our 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.920 military has been able to pull off here you should 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:30.280 be extraordinarily proud of. I mean, it's after they were 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:37.400 able to anticipate and game out any potential consequences to 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.760 the attack or and all the potential danger involved in it, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:46.480 and then to execute it to perfection is just it's 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.640 just an amazing thing. Kind of like the Israelis actually 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:54.040 had drones inside of Iran and the known locations of 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.400 their top scientists and their top generals and were able 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.439 to take them out at the very beginning of this 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:05.560 entire high conflict most or flare up and the fact 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:07.880 that they were able to, you know, take down their 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.400 air defense systems. If you were ever going to do this, 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.960 this was the time to do it at the level 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.920 of safety that you would want for any American soldier 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.920 that was flying a B two with these bunker buster bombs. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:28.200 But anyway, on the President's orders, Central Command under Eric 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:33.120 Gorilla executed what's called Operation Midnight Hammer, which was this 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.520 precise strike against not one, not just the four dose site, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.560 which is where most people thought this was going. Now, 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.440 conventional wisdom was that they would only need two bunker 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.280 buster bombs. When I spoke to the President before I 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.640 went on the air for two hours on Saturday night 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.160 as this story was unfolding, he told me they used 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.600 six bunker busters. I didn't know it was on the 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.600 one facility, although I was pretty sure it was on 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.120 the four door facility. They didn't know that. They also, 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.800 in the end used fourteen of them. And I'll get 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.120 to that in a minute. And then the Tomahawk missiles 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.160 filed filed fired from four hundred miles away from a 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:14.080 US submarine, and every one of them hitting their target. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.720 It is all of it's complex, all of it is 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.880 high risk, and everyone involved in this, from the lowest 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.720 level to the highest level, needs our debt of gratitude. 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.920 But it was designed to destroy and wipe out Iranians 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.200 nuclear ambitions and their complete infrastructure. And it was successful 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.000 and Anyway, the main strike comprised of the seven B 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:41.000 two bombers, each had two crew members and they were 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:45.800 able to proceed quietly to the east with minimal to 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:50.000 zero communications in an eighteen hour flight, and they were 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.880 able to direct and divert the world's attention by sending 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.960 B two bombers in another direction quote for refueling in Guam, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.959 and apparently the entire world fell for it, and that's 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.200 where the media's attention was most of the day. The 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:08.920 aircraft completed, you know, multi in flight refueling things. I 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.200 actually lived through that when I went to Iraq on 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.560 one occasion on a C one thirty. It is it 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.480 is a sight to behold when you see it in 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.640 real life. It is incredible. A plane, a refueling plane 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.800 will fly just above, in this case, the sea one 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:28.120 thirty and literally you see this pose just you know, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.680 like waving in the air, and then it connects and 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.360 it refuels the plane and you just keep going NonStop. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:38.400 It's pretty amazing. But the mainstrike package had these seven 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:43.800 B two bombers and this eighteen hour flight they completed, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.160 you know, all these refuelings, and once over land they 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.880 lined up with an escort and support aircraft, an extremely complex, 0:11:54.360 --> 0:12:00.560 tightly time maneuver requiring synchronization across multiple platforms in a 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.440 very narrow piece of air space, all done with minimal 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:10.839 communications and the integrity the operation was a complete success. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.960 I mean, you had nine stealth bombers used in total. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.640 Two of them were decoys that flew west over the 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.839 Pacific that's where the world's attention went, and you had 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.840 seven that were flying directly to Iran. You know, my 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.600 sources told me that they were actually they were able 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:33.679 to manufacture on radar screens that the Iranians were seeing 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.600 phantom planes that they thought were American planes that didn't 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.320 even exist and actually were firing at them while the 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.520 real B twos made their way undetected into the area, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.240 and you know then obviously dropping the bunker buster bombs. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.520 Only one submarine launched the thirty Tomahawk missiles into Iran. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:13:00.800 At these other two facilities for submarines were converted to 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.880 become guided missile submarines which carry one hundred and fifty 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.880 four Tomahawks. If you want you know the specifics of it, 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.320 and you know, in every way, shape, matter of form, 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.320 this is it, and what's going to be interesting to 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.280 see is if the Iranians are going to use this 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:26.520 ridiculous attack on a with the heads up notice given. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.200 I think that shows the real level of fear that 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:34.560 they have after what they experienced on Saturday night and 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.240 how they have no control of their own airspace. There 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.560 is no way they can win this war. You know, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.839 the mission for the president was really twofold. He had 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.760 said over and over they cannot have nuclear weapons. Then 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.280 they go the sixty days. On the sixty first day, 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.600 the Israeli strike, and then the President says, okay, well, 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.160 you know, I warned you you should have taken the deal, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.480 and he said, I'll give them up to two weeks. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.840 And that was on Thursday of last week. On Friday, 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:09.000 the Iranian foreign minister said no to any negotiations. That 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:15.400 probably expedited the president's decision to go in sooner than 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.400 later and keep the element of surprise. And that's just 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.680 a guess on my part. I'll tell you a lot 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.320 more about what I know, what I was doing, who 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.680 I talked to, and I did have a number of 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.320 conversations with the president, and I'm just very grateful for 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.440 our military. I'm grateful for all the people that are 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.840 willing to risk their lives to make the world and 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.440 make America a safer place for all of us. These 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.880 are incredible people. There's no military mission that does not 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.080 have risk. By the way, we're not out of the 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:49.360 woods yet. It doesn't mean that there is a lack 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.440 of risk in the region. We know that Biden, Harris 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.640 may Orcus allowed known terrorists into the country, many from Iran. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.720 We'll get into more detail on that in a second. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.440 And I'm very grateful to every person in our military 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.560 and every person in the Trump administration that pulled this 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:10.080 off with perfection. It's something to make America proud. At 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:11.960 twenty five now til the top of the hour, thank 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:13.760 you for being with us. Here's our toll free number. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.160 It's eight hundred and nine four one sean if you 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.400 want to be a part of the program. I'm not 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:23.680 sure and don't have a feel yet as to how 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:31.200 the President is going to respond to this well telegraphed 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:39.120 pinprick frankly symbolic. You know, the six missiles fired at 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:44.200 at the our Guitar or Cutter air base that it's 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:49.520 very reminiscent of what happened in twenty twenty after President 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:54.320 Trump took out Solomoni, whom it was a face saving move. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.000 I always go back to listen to what the president 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.760 and says. The President kept saying, and we have him 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.480 on record since twenty eleven saying that the Iranians cannot 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.440 have nuclear weapons. Donald Trump does not make idle threats. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:15.680 He just doesn't do it. And President Trump was very clear, 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.280 you should have taken the deal. He was clear to 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.360 the Iranians when he said that last week, and then 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:27.280 he gave them the ultimatum, which was unconditional surrender two words, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:33.120 unconditional surrender. And he made that last He gave one 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.760 last shot at a peace process and said within two 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.320 weeks he would be striking. And then the very next day, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:44.560 the Iranian foreign minister probably sealed their fate when he 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.440 made the comments, no, we're not going to be there's 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.200 not going to be any conversation when he said that. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.360 I've listened to that and I'm like, all right, it's over. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.520 And it may have accelerated the timeline for the president. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.280 But with all that said, the president, if you listen 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.520 to him on Saturday night and all the comments that 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.479 he's made since, he said when he announced that this 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:11.600 had happened, that he was clear that he said, the 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.120 US military carried out massive precision strikes on three key 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.480 nuclear facilities in the iranium regime for Doe, the Tans, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.600 and Esfahan, and he went on to say, everybody heard 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:30.440 those names for years as they built horrible, horrible, destructive enterprise. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.639 Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.679 and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.280 world's number one state sponsor of terror. Now this is 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:46.760 in complete agreement with the Trump doctrine as was defined 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.360 by his first term. And he said tonight I can 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.120 report that the world to the world that the strikes 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.600 were a spectacular military success. And he goes on a 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:01.119 Rans nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely, entire totally obliterated, 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.200 and future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.040 For forty years, the Iranians have been saying death to America, 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.080 death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.879 off their arms, blowing off their legs, roadside bombs. That 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.760 was their specialty. We spent a lot of time last 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.480 week listing all the incidences and the number of dead 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:26.040 Americans at the hands of Iranians, you know, going back 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.080 to their forever war, if you will, against us, since 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.639 nineteen seventy nine, and he said, we lost over one 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.960 thousand people. Hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.760 around the world have died as a direct result of 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.359 their hate. So many were killed by their general Solomoni. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.280 I decided a long time ago that I would not 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.840 let this happen. It will not continue. And then he 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:52.480 said he thanked the Prime Minister of Israel, Prime Minister 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.960 net Yahoo, and described how they worked as a team. 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.960 He said, perhaps like no other team has ever worked before. 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.800 We've gone a long way to raising this horrible threat 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.760 to Israel. I want to thank their military for the 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:09.359 wonderful job they've done. More importantly, I want to congratulate 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:13.440 the great American patriots who flew magnificent machines tonight in 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.720 all of the United States military on an operation the 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:18.800 likes of which the world has not seen in many, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.080 many decades. He's correct on that hopefully we'll no longer 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.879 need their services in this capacity. I hope. So I 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.520 also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:35.240 And he said you know what ac what spectacular, brilliant 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.240 military minds were involved in this operation. And he said, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.080 this simply cannot continue. There will either be peace or 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.080 there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.520 have witnessed over the last eight days. And he said, remember, 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:53.040 there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.520 of them by of them all by far, and perhaps 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.000 the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly, 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:05.280 we will go after those other targets with precision, speed 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.600 and skill. Most of them can be taken out in 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.720 a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.359 that could have done what we did tonight, not even close. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.320 There's never been a military that can do what took 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.680 place just a little while ago and tomorrow. And then 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.000 he talked about General Caine. Then he said, and you know, 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.280 and I want to thank everybody, and he said, in 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.280 particular God, and I just want to say, we love you, God, 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:35.280 and we love our great military. Please protect them. God 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:38.200 bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, God bless America. 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:44.119 Pretty pretty powerful speech by the president by any objective measure, 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:51.680 from a spectacular military operation. And you know, it's it's 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.760 not the first time. I don't really want to get 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.040 into the whole issue of the War Powers Act and 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.000 the stupidity of it all, but I can go through 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:06.840 the list, you know, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:14.240 George W. Bush Afghanistan, Iraq, Bill Clinton, Iraq, Serbia, Sudan. 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.959 I mean, yeah, hit the aspirin factory that was, you know, 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:23.920 basically a desert. George H. W. Bush Iraq and Panama, Reagan, Libya, Grenada, 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:29.280 Jimmy Carter, nothing significant, Gerald Ford, nothing significant. But you 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.119 get into these arguments and they're just legally on just 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.440 on the wrong ground. And of course, predictably the left 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.760 in this country, that was some Democrats, AOC leading the 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:44.560 leading the lunatics. You know, we've got to impeach him 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:49.200 over this. What they failed to recognize is that after 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.919 nine to eleven, Congress passed a joint resolution that was 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:58.040 known as the Authorization of the Use of Military Force Acts, 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.400 a great piece by Greg Jarrett on This will put 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.920 it on Hannity dot com. It granted the president exclusive 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:08.280 extraordinary powers to target those groups, those nations that he 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:12.760 determines aided the terrorist attacks or in the case of 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.760 nine to eleven, harbored the perpetrators of nine to eleven. 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.320 The goal was to prevent any future acts of intentional 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:22.560 terrorism against the US. And one only needs to read 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.280 the nine to eleven Commission report that they were at 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:27.879 war with us. We weren't at war with them, and 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:31.600 the government of Tehran actively aided an embedded attack after 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:37.280 attack after attack against Americans in the region and around 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:41.160 the world. And remember we have Iranian assassination squads, which 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:44.320 kind of brings us to you know, the three things 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:48.280 that the Trump administration was preparing for in the aftermath 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.879 of this planned military operation. One is the Straits of 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:56.200 Horn moves. The Iranians have moved to close that as 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:00.960 of now. There is a legitimate fear that they may 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.120 ultimately because their back is against the wall and people 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:07.480 have become desperate, and at that point, you know, they're 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:10.200 capable of anything, and they could mine the straits of 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:14.000 Hormones and disrupt the free flow of oil in the region, 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:16.520 which is twenty anywhere between twenty and thirty percent of 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:20.199 the world's oil supply. And another fear was that they 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.720 would go after American bases in the region, including the 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:26.400 one and Cutter that they went after today. But it 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.960 was again symbolic and apparently had given the Kataris and 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:32.160 the Americans heads up on all of it, at least 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:34.919 the New York Times is even reporting not. But you 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:40.639 can't you can't say that this president has not tried too, 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:45.879 you know, basically begged them to into a peace agreement 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:48.000 that would have been in their best interest. They were 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:53.480 given every opportunity, every opportunity if they wanted it to 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:57.639 take peace. Now, the third thing that America has to 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.560 worry about and is worried about, and they did, is 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:06.280 what about these seven hundred unvetted Iranians. And those are 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:08.280 only the people that we know about. We don't know 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:12.639 about the godaways that are in the United States. And 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:16.760 this goes back to the most preventable national security threat ever. 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.640 And I have said for at least the next decade 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:24.080 and probably longer, we are going to pay a price 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:29.000 for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Alejandro Majorcus and frankly 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:33.040 the Democratic Party because they were either lying to us 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:35.760 along with those three in saying that the border was 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:39.199 closed and the border was secure, or they were just 0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:43.280 This silence was deafening in light of everybody with their 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:45.520 own eyes seeing that the borders were wide open. We 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:48.400 knew that there were people from over two hundred countries, 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:52.919 including many countries would terroritize coming into this country. But 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:55.959 we do know that more than seven hundred Iranian nationals 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:00.880 that illegally entered this country thanks to to Joe Biden's 0:25:00.880 --> 0:25:06.200 open borders, according to data the Center Square obtained Sunday 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:09.359 from a Border Patrol agent. So Border Patrol is putting 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:13.200 these numbers out, and that includes forty eight Iranian illegal 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:18.119 border crosses crossers apprehended in twenty one, one hundred and 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:20.600 ninety seven and twenty two, four hundred and sixty two 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:23.120 apprehended in twenty three, and seven hundred and ninety seven 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:26.959 apprehended in twenty four and at least seven hundred and 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:30.639 twenty nine Iranians that they knew were from Iran entering 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:33.400 our country illegally were allowed to stay in under Joe 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:37.800 Biden's policies. I mean, under the Biden administration, the greatest 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:42.000 number of known or suspected terrorists were apprehended in US history. 0:25:42.560 --> 0:25:45.320