WEBVTT - The Debate At Home 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.240 All of you for being with us Happy Friday. Write 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.600 down our toll free telephone number if you want to 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:07.920 be a part of the program. It's eight hundred and 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:12.840 ninety four one Sean if you want to join us. Uh, Linda, 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.680 I had the best time today. I did Patrick bet 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.919 David's podcast. Now, by the way, I hate It's very 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.000 tough when you're fill in for anybody on anybody else's show. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:24.560 And I learned this a long time ago when I 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.680 filled in for Rush, because the minute you come on 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:32.760 the air in Russia, welcome to the EIB network. Talent 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.880 a loan from God. You just can't duplicate the person 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.200 that you used to hearing every day. Ah ah, where's Rush? 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.800 Why is Rush taking off? It's hard to fill in 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:47.440 for people, and he's got the best people around him. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.360 They got a great, great team. Did you see any 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.239 of it? Or you're gonna tell me, you know, I 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.000 have life outside of everything that you're doing in your life. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.840 You know what are you gonna tell me? You're gonna 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.440 tell me all those things. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:00:59.440 That's not true? 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:01.440 You did first? You did see it? 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:03.800 I saw something, Yes. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.000 Well listen, I gotta be honest with you. I was 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.959 shocked when you said you were doing it, and I 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.240 was like, wait a minute, what you know? So it 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.399 was kind of a surprise. And I've actually never suncked. Well, 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.319 I've never seen you fill in for anybody, So that's 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.480 a first for me, you know. I mean all the 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.800 Rush stuff is before my time. You won't let me, 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.240 you know, play the handity mic drop moment. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.280 You didn't break it the microphone, did you. No, No, 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.399 I'll tell the story, but if you there in the 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.640 studio wherever you are. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:36.480 I'm not going to play it. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.400 You have morened me about that years ago, so I 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.280 haven't touched it. Correct. No, But okay, the first day 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.320 I'm filling in for Rush Limbaugh and I don't get 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.480 nervous on the radio. I don't get nervous on TV. 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.360 And all I was feeling nerves that day. I'm on 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.559 six hundred radio stations, the EIB network, and I'm filling 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.880 in for Rush. And to me, it was a big 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:00.720 deal in a big moment my life, and I was 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.840 honored to be able to do it. And but you 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.320 just know in the back of your head, because I 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.080 as a listener, like I always love Walter Williams, I 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.320 like when Tony Snow filled in, I like, you know, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.040 there were a number of people that would fill in 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.600 for Rush that I liked, but they still weren't Rush. Right. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.640 So if you tune into Patrick bet David's podcast and 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.639 then ah, there's Sean Hannity can't get rid of this guy, 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.320 it could be Frustram. I'm just for for what we 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.680 call P one viewers listeners, the people that watch and 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.640 listen to them. I'm sure for some it was disappointing. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:37.760 But I will tell you this. Yeah, I'm going to 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.720 tell you why I did it, because you're kind of 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.360 asking me. I did it because I love the show 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.280 and there's not many shows that I like. And I 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.519 think that a lot of the podcasting world has gotten conspiratorial, 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:55.160 it has gotten angry. It is it's not smart. Not 0:02:55.240 --> 0:03:00.240 only is Patrick bet David himself a genius, but his 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.240 ensemble cast and then they have guests as well. I've 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.440 been I have in the past, been a guest on 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:09.760 the show, and he's got, for example, Adam and Vinnie. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.040 Vinnie's a stand up coming. He's funny as hell, and 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.959 he's so passionate. He but you know, he reminded me 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.320 of Linda, he reminds me of you. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.440 I like him already. He's like a fantastic guy. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.200 Oh he brought his mother. I got to meet his 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.800 mom and I think his aunt and we just had 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.720 a great time. And and then they have Thomas for 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.080 examples on the show. Now, the last time I was 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.440 on the show, they voted that his Clinton was better 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.160 than mine. That really hurt my feelings. And we didn't 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:40.720 do a Clinton off. We were going to do it, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.560 but we never we never got around to it. But 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.280 you know, this guy's a former CEO, former president CEOO. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.240 You know, has managed billions of dollars in people's money. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.880 He's an absolute genius. He has political acumen and instincts 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:00.360 second to none. So you have this great ensemble cast. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:04.080 Patrick bed David navigates the whole thing. You got Adam 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.400 who teaches and people how to get to financial freedom. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.640 Everybody should pay attention to this because I think financial 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.600 freedom is critical. I always say money does not make 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:20.679 you happy, but money equals what Linda, what is my mantra? 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.960 My freedom is always the same freedom. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:24.760 It's you and mel Gibson. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:40.479 Okay, the prisoner would like to say a wod. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.120 It definitely makes them mad when he does that. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.200 So I had a chance to do it. I was 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.880 very honestly, I was humbled in honored that they asked me, 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.200 and I had a great time doing it. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.200 But I see you didn't get the memo though about 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:50.480 the jacket. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.240 No, I'm not worry. I asked him the day before. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.160 I said, I know, you guys get dressed up for 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.359 your podcast. Do you care if I dressed like myself? 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:58.560 And they started laughing. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.400 They said, no, listen, they got the We got the 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.479 black button down and not the ripped T shirt, so 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:03.040 you know they did. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.839 All right, that's true. I mean, you know the real 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.880 me because you've been hanging out with me forever. But 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.160 we talked about a lot of stuff. We did to 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.840 spend a lot of time on Iran, what's next and 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:14.880 stuff we're going to talk about here in a second. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.120 We talked about the shutdown, we talked about elections. We 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.640 talked about a whole bunch of stuff. But you can 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:25.200 watch it anytime. It's on Patrick bet David's YouTube page 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.960 and wherever you get your podcast. But I just had 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.320 a great time. I like being around smart people. I 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.320 find it challenging. I find it rewarding. I found it 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.440 fun and I was just honored to do it. So 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.640 that the answer to your question, But filling in for 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.280 people is hard. And this is the lesson I learned 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.280 with Rush, because you know, and it wasn't until many 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.520 years later. This is kind of odd for me, and 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:55.640 that is that I knew I was disappointed on days 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.680 other people filled in for Rush. So I just instinctively 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.280 thought believe that people would be a little disappointed if 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.600 Rush was out and I was filling in. And here's 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.839 the funny part. It was years later that people would 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.960 say to me, oh, I first got introduced to you 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.240 when you filled in for Rush, and I always liked 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.000 when you had a chance to fill in, But that 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.760 didn't develop un till years later. You have to you 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.360 have to kind of build up I guess a little 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.919 bit of trust with the audience and and then I 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.560 went on Fox, and I guess my my profile went 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.760 up a little bit. So, uh, you always kind of 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.040 take a risk by doing somebody else's show, because everybody 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.520 Patrick bet David doesn't take off. He's like us. He's 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.200 a workaholic, he works, you know, night and day, and 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.080 a brilliant business guy. And then he does stand up comic. 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:51.599 He he is a character, he's you, except he doesn't 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.120 curse as much. Well, we don't know that the cursing. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.320 We don't know that he curses or he doesn't curse 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.279 because he's you know, he was. 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.640 A curse during the show. I don't think he does. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.400 I can't. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.279 You can you can curse on YouTube, which is nice. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.480 It's it's it's just it's very very refreshing, and and 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.520 you don't have all the you know, stop sets and 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.960 everything else that goes along. Sometimes it disrupts a conversation. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.960 But we had a great two hours. I had a 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.000 great fun I'm very grateful thanks to all those guys 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.200 for being so welcoming to me and uh, and we 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.240 did cover a lot of important ground. You know, I'm 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.280 going to get to the whole shutdown issue because there's 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.440 a lot of ambiguity about what's going on. The House 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.800 is now going to pass a short term spending bill 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.480 that funds all of the dhs. The President last night 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.080 signed an executive order on this, the Senate passed their bill. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.880 Speaker Mike Johnson is livid, apoplectic about it. That's why 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.160 it's going to be short term. What frustrates me about 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.600 all of it is the only reason any of this 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.240 activity's going on at all is because these guys want 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.120 to get the hell out of town and they don't 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.400 like to They don't like to miss their vacation. That 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.600 is the God's honest truth. They they honestly, these politicians, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.160 the Democrats that voted five times against funding the Department 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:16.480 of Homeland Security, they could care less about you and 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.160 your family waiting four or five, six, seven hours in line, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.800 you know, just to get wanded and go through a 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.080 metal detector so you can get to the gate and 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.240 get on your plane and get to wherever the heck 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.320 you want to go. And with Easter coming up, it's 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.480 that much more difficult now. To the President's credit, he's 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.240 declaring this an emergency, and he's saying, Okay, well we're 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.760 gonna we're gonna pay the TSA agents anyway, which I 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.960 think is good. But I think there's something here that 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:50.880 we got into in great specificity, great detail as it 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.880 relates to Iran. I have and I've been saying this, Linda, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.680 and you know I mean this. If you wanted to 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.720 book somebody that disc agrees with me on Iran. Don't 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:06.120 waste my time if I have to convince you or 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.680 convince an individual. And there are people that no matter what, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.640 I'm gonna believe something that's complete Adam Schiff, Adam bull Shift, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.520 and that is they're going to believe that Israel made 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.719 Donald Trump did this. Net and Yahu made him do this. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.800 Talk radio guys made him to Fox News people made 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.760 him do it. They don't know what they're talking about. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:33.520 And we had that definitive interview with Steve Whitkoff Borner 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.760 in sixty kilograms, I know you hate kilograms of enriched 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.320 uranium enough for about eleven nuclear weapons. Now, we also 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:46.000 learned something else in this process that the Iranians had 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:50.800 ballistic missile capability that we never thought that they had. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.280 Their range was much further than we believed that they had. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.680 Let me put it this way, if in the sixty 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:04.319 percent unenriched uranium, which could be enriched to ninety percent 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.120 in a matter of seven to twelve days, and that 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.560 would be weapons grade ninety percent enriched uranium, If in 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.840 fact they got that uranium, that would be enough for 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:20.360 eleven nuclear weapons. And now they have ballistic missile capability 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.480 which means they get hit London, which means that they 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:29.559 can hit Paris. You know, as always, these these globalist 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.679 international organizations underestimate the ability of the Iranians. So that 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.160 is the existential threat, or what the President ascertained to 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.000 be the imminent threat. That's what Ratcliffe was talking about, 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.000 That's what Steve Witkoff was talking about, and that's what 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:49.080 Secretary of State Mark Arrubio was talking about. So the 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.160 question now is and I think this whole thing is 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.560 going to be over in a number of weeks. If 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.600 I had to guess off the top of my head, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.120 I think this is about three more weeks maybe for 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.800 and I think we're getting out of there. I think 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.080 the President means it when he says he's not going 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.040 to support a forever war. However, he means it also 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.080 when he says they can't have a nuclear weapon. I 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.320 just have no interest in talking to stupid people that 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.880 don't understand that that amount of uranium enrich that's sixty 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:22.400 percent enough for eleven nuclear bombs in twelve days, coupled 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.679 with ballistic missiles that have a arranged much longer than 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.520 we ever thought they had, is something that we've got 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.920 to we've got to negotiate or debate. There is no 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:37.559 debate here because you're willing to gamble with your children 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.959 and grandchildren's lives. I'm not, and I think we would 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.400 be failing future generations if we ever allowed that to happen. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.520 And I'll tell you one other thing politically, you want 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.679 to know what Donald Trump's legacy would be, the fact 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.520 that it happened on his watch, even though the financing 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:02.080 really came from the likes of Obama and Biden and 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.600 cargo planes full of cash and other currency and billions 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:11.800 and millions of dollars. Now, the president had to prove that, 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.920 in fact, that this was the capability. That was the 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.120 tipping point. My interview with Steve whitcoll for me and 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.199 I actually played a portion of this on the on 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:24.240 Patrick bed David's podcast. That was it for me and 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:30.800 the president is really the It is frustrating because people, 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.440 you know, the people that say they support Donald Trump, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.719 they know so little about Donald Trump. They think, number one, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.640 that he can be influenced by other people. He heard 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:47.760 from people inside his administration, outside his administration on every 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:54.760 single side of this of this decision. But ultimately, he 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.520 is a man of his own mind. Anybody that tells 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.000 you any differently is just out right lying to you. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:05.200 They don't know him. I've known this guy for thirty years. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.520 I can't convince him to do something he's not going 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.440 to want to do. He just can't. Nobody else can either. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.480 It's in keeping with the Trump doctrine. Now. The only 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.640 questions we now have going forward is and I think 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.480 the President's going to be very committed to this, and 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.520 that is the idea that we're not going back. And 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.320 that means that either and this will be up to 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.360 the Iranians. And he's extended negotiations now out for ten 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.720 more days to give the Iranians an opportunity to agree 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.160 to the fifteen point plan that he had put forward. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.440 I don't know what's in the fifteen point plan because 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.440 it's not been made public, but I'm sure among them 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.080 he said items one, two or three. They can never 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.240 have a nuclear weapon. But I'm sure it also means 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.160 that we can't allow the sixty percent enriched uranium enough 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.520 for eleven nuclear weapons. We can all allow that to 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.319 get in the wrong hands. That's got to be part 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.720 of it as well, and either they'll give it up 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.280 willingly or will take it one way or the other. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.480 They'll probably put restrictions on ballistic missiles, will probably have 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.720 a check and balance system any place, anywhere, anytime. And 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.920 if Donald Trump has his way, if they make a deal, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.600 they'll be paying for this entire operation. And forget NATO. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.760 We know we need a full complete evaluation of NATO 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.360 when all is said and done. Here their unfettered immigration, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:36.680 no assimilation. They've neglected national security and national defense. You know, socialism, DEI, 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:41.600 climate alarmism, They've they've bought bought into all this. I'm 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.160 disgusted by all of it, to be honest, and all 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.800 of it's so unnecessary. This is the modern day version 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:53.119 of never Chamberlain. And there are some people that are unwilling, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.760 you know, they don't see the wisdom and taken out 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.640 the threat before the threat could potentially kill millions. If 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:11.240 you want to gamble that way, go to Vegas. Why 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.120 are you making fun of the fact that I didn't 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.040 get dressed up? I asked permission? I said, do you 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.120 need me in a in a shirt and tie and 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.200 a jacket, And they said no, no, no, but just dress 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:20.880 any way you want. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:22.800 How do you thought it was funny. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.360 I was looking at that roundtable and I laughed out 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:26.240 loud when I saw it. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.240 I was like, of course, he's the only one without 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:28.720 a jacket. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.960 Of course, why why would you care about that? What 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.040 I mean, do you think anyone at home saying, oh, 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.000 I'm watching Patrick Bett David's podcast, why is Hannity not 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:38.840 in a suit and tie? 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.160 You know what, I don't think it's you being you. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.200 At least you weren't in a hoodie. What a baseball 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:43.600 clap one? 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.800 You know I wear hoodies all the time, He'll continue, Yes, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:48.280 I know. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.920 When news breaks, you get the inside story that no 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.640 one else has, and the behind the scenes chatter that 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:23.680 the mainstream media doesn't even know about. This is the 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.440 Sean Hannity. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:31.520 Show anyway, So there's so much here that we have 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:36.320 to unpack. In terms of Iran, I am predicting three 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:37.960 four weeks and I think we're going to be on 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.760 the back end of this. And I know people's patience 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.800 is unbelievably short, and I'm not sure what people have 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.200 been expecting. But if you don't think that this was 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.280 the right thing to do, you're entitled to your opinion. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.880 As a matter of fact, I like the fact, and 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.400 this might surprise some of you. I like the fact 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.440 that there are people that were telling President Trump both 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:04.119 before enduring that they didn't like his decision. That's a 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.160 good thing. That's healthy. You know, give give a president 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:11.879 every upside, every possible downside, and then ultimately, you know 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.240 Bush famously, I'm the decider. He's got to make the 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.040 tough call, and he made the call. I think in 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.160 keeping with history, and that's Reagan peace through strength. That's 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.960 the last century. You know, when you don't act when 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.600 it comes to threats like Hitler, and I don't use 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:34.200 these analogies loosely or tojo in Japan, et cetera, then 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.040 you risk millions of people dying. And if you have 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:41.480 an opportunity to neutralize a threat with the minimal amount 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.920 of threat to your people, and every life is precious, 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.959 but you do it with the mindset that you don't 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.800 want the potential of handing off to your children and 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.960 grandchildren a potential holocaust in their lifetime, then I think 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.920 you're making the right decision. And I think the president 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.359 is now The most important thing is that the job 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.159 has got to be finished as quickly as possible. In 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:10.239 a way that will prevent America from ever having to 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.760 go back to Iran in our lifetime because of unfinished business. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.600 At this point, we have our military assembled, and first 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.199 and foremost in my mind is they cannot have nuclear weapons, 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.879 which means they can't have sixty percent enriched uranium. And 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.320 if they have it, what makes you think they wouldn't 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.280 use it? So that's basically where we are. Did you 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.240 hear Linda that the FBI director Cash Pattel his email 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:40.680 was hacked by apparently some Iranians and did see that 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.160 there's nothing too compromising in it? Secretary of State Mark 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.680 or Rubio, The US is constantly asked to help in wars, 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.399 and we have, but when we had a need, it 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.320 didn't get a positive response from NATO. A couple of 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:59.480 leaders said that Iran was not Europe's war, while Ukraine 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.960 is not our. Yet we've contributed more to that fight 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:07.720 than anyone. I'll tell you there is a threat. I 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.720 don't even think it's a threat. I don't think NATO 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.040 offers us pretty much. I don't think they offer us anything. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.000 We pay more than every other NATO country combined. They 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:22.919 have been reluctant to to keep up with their own defenses, individually, 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:27.840 as countries, collectively, as an organization, and collectively on their continent. 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:33.120 That's their problem, that's their mistake. And as the President said, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.000 he was on the Five yesterday, called into the Five. 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.440 He says, you can't let a madman, you can't let 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:41.399 a bad ideology have a nuclear weapon. And that's what 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:46.119 this came down to. And European leaders now know that 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:50.000 Donald Trump was right and that Iran was in fact 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.840 an imminent global threat. They didn't know that their ballistic 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.879 missiles had the rains that they had. It's frustrating anyway, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:19:59.480 So we'll see what the next ten days. 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:00.800 Uh. 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:05.959 The President hoped for a peaceful solution before Operation Midnight Hammer. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.520 The Iranians rejected that he gave them time before Operation 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.040 Epic Fury as he was building up his forces in 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:17.640 the region. They rejected that opportunity. Now we don't have 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.880 the same leadership. We got rid of the first tier leadership, 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.160 the second tier leadership, the third tier leadership. I don't 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.560 know if we're on the fourth of fifthier leadership. And 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:29.640 I agree. There was an article I'm not sure where 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.080 I saw this on sub stack. Melanie Phillips I don't 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:34.920 do you know who, Melanie Phillips say, is Eland, I 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.160 have know idea, I don't you know. But the headline 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:41.080 has finished the job, mister President. In the new reality 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.040 of warfare, winning can be losing and losing can be winning. 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:49.200 And how do you finish the job here? What what 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:53.919 gave the president the impetus was what Steve Whitkoff told me, 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.720 And I think that was the defining interview. When I 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.480 knew what the I knew without talking to the I 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.760 knew what his decision would ultimately be. I knew that 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:08.920 the President would err on the side of safety and security, 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.600 and that's what he did. And I don't think he 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.040 really had a choice in the matter. It's unfortunate the 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.840 way the media, by the way, is portraying this is disgusting. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:20.240 But that's second, you know, that's separate and apart from 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.919 all of this, all right, So let me let me 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.920 get to this funding bill. The Senate agreed to fund 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:32.000 the TSA and most of the Department of Homeland Security, 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:36.000 but not ice. The President last night signed an emergency 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:40.760 order to get TSA agents paid by passing Congress. As 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:44.520 it relates to this DHS at DHS shutdown, which is, 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:48.240 you know, these people in Congress, they don't really care 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:53.919 that you have been so grossly mistreated and inconvenienced, and 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:57.840 that these people that don't get paid an awful lot 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.640 of money and have a very hard job because they're 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.240 dealing with the public and they have to make the 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:07.360 public do something the public naturally doesn't love anyway, and 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.720 that's wan them and make them go through a metal detector. 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:13.720 I would not want to be the TSA agent that 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:17.040 got stuck with Linda on my line because I know 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.359 she's going to be cranky going through that that line. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.240 Am I right about that? I am right about that. 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:23.239 You can admit it. 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.280 Listen, I'm looking forward to shaking the hands of the 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.440 ice officers that I see as I go through the 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:30.360 airport tomorrow. 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.640 Okay, but generally speaking, you don't love being online for anything. 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:40.280 You get incredibly impatient, and you you don't like being. 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:43.960 This is an accurate representation of my behavior, I will see. 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:45.160 I think it's very accurate. 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:48.720 No, I will say that I am typically the person 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:52.320