June 16, 2025 • 32 mins
Ambassador Nathan Sales served in the first Trump administration as ambassador at large for counterterrorism and acting under secretary of state. He played a key role in the “maximum pressure” campaign against the Iranian regime and its terror proxies. In 2022 he was sanctioned by Iran.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, targeted military operation to roll
back the Uranian threat to Israel's very survival. This operation
will continue for as many days as it takes.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Democracy is under assault before our eyes.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Can you compare them to those nondescript thugs? It does
look like a Gestapo operation.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Tradom is back in style. Welcome to the revolution.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Coming.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
To your city.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Way get thousand.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
Saying you a conscious sound.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:10):
Hight Hour two Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and nine
four one Shawn our number. You want to be a
part of the program. Prime Minister Benjamin at Yahou on
Fox with special report and Brettbair being very very clear
that they launched this operation because Iran was rushing to
weaponize enriched uranium. We see and you know when I
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was I keep going back to one of my trips
to Israel, the small town bordered town with Kauzov Storot
is what it's called. And they had when I had
gone back there. This is a long time ago. They
have been hit with ten thousand missiles in ten years,
one little town. How many missiles would it take to
be fired into the US before you would want your
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government to do something? Anyway, Here's why he says he
launched this operation.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Why did you launch this operation now? Because we were
facing an imminent threat, a dual existential threat. One the
thread of Iran rushing to weaponize. They're enrich uranium to
make atomic bombs, the specific and declared intent to destroy US. Second,
a rush to increase their ballistic missile arsenal into the
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capacity that they would have thirty six hundred weapons a year,
new weapons within three years, ten thousand ballistic missiles, each
one weighing a ton, coming in a mock six right
into our cities as you saw today, and then in
twenty in six years, twenty thousand. That's a no country
I can sustain that, and certainly not a country the
size of Israel. So we had to act. Was the
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twelfth hour. We did act to save ourselves, but also
I think to not only protect ourselves, but protect the
world from this incendiary regime. We can't have the world's
most dangerous regime have the world's most dangerous weapons. We're
protecting ourselves, but by doing so, we're protecting many others.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Now, the Prime Minister rightly has pointed out, yeah, they've
got you know, thousands, at least two thousand according to reports,
ballistic missiles. We see them being fired. The Iron Dome
has done a great job, but it's not perfect in
terms of stopping it. But the production. I kind of
view this as their increased production in ballistic missiles with
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the hope of doubling their how lethal they are from
two thousand pounds to four thousand pounds as Plan B
because the Iranians there are a lot of things. They're evil,
for sure, but they're not stupid, and they knew the
likelihood of their nuclear program existing was diminishing by the day.
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And I'll just quote President Trump for those people who
say they want peace, you cannot have peace of Iran
has a nuclear weapon. So for all those wonderful people
who don't want to do anything about Iran having a
nuclear weapon, that's not peace. I've often said that you
don't define peace as the absence of conflict or the
absence of war. You define it as the ability to
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defend yourself. And in this case it's a preventative measure
before you are literally the war would be held hostage
by a nuclear arm Doran. But yes, it's very consistent
with my ideology and my philosophy. You can no longer
have these forever wars. Is not a single country in
the Middle East that wants the Iranians with nuclear weapons,
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and they have rained down through their proxies and themselves
hundreds of thousands of missiles on Israel. At what point
does Israel have the right to say enough is enough?
How many missiles would it take fired into the United
States before every American would demand rightly so that we
neutralize any country that's involved. Now we are in a
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new era, and I keep talking about the next generation
of weaponry, and I keep talking about how future wars
will be fought in their condition offices and not on
a battlefield. And we see this unfolding in real time,
which means that for those people that worry about quote
the quagmire you know argument or forever war argument, well,
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the israelis already own the skies over all of Iran.
This is this is this is a one sided fight
at this point. Now, that doesn't mitigate the danger, the
dangers to our troops in the region. That doesn't mitigate,
you know, the the other dangers associated with the ballistic
missiles that they have, both short range and long range,
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and the letality of all of that. But what is
it going to be like six months from now, a
year from now, if they have the ten thousand weapons
that the Prime Minister's talking about and maybe nuclear capability.
Now there's anyway for Ambassador Nathan Sales is with us.
He served in the first Trump administration as Ambassador at
Large for count of Terrorism, acting under Secretary of State.
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Is there anything I'm saying here that you disagree with?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Seod It sounds like you're angling for an appointment at
the State's Department. I'd love to have what you just
said reflected among America's diplomatic corps. I think you're spot on.
I Ran as a threat not just to Israel, not
even just to the region. They are a threat to
the United States and that has to be the guiding
star of US policy over the next couple of weeks.
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We're starting to see some of Israel's on again, off
again friends in the West starting to waiver. There's some
chatter as the G seven summit up in Canada kicks
off today that the G seven might call for de escalation,
and President Trump rightly has said not signing that, and
good because our policy should be help Israel do what
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it needs to do to finish the job with a
minimum of henpecking and ankle biting from other countries in
the West.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
It's always been import for Israel to be able.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
To neutralize the threat that i Ran poses, but especially
so now you've got to finish the job because imagine
how motivated Iran will be after this war ends to
get a nuclear weapon, because that's going to be their
insurance policy. So you can't leave any element of the
nuclear program behind because the Iranians are going to take
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that seed and then grow it into a huge tree
if given the opportunity.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
So, whether it's through.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Military force or whether it's through tough diplomacy, this war
needs to end with Iran completely disarmed.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, and look, it's an existential threat not only to
the region but to the world. And this you know
a lot of people seem to have forgotten. But if
you go back to April of twenty five this year,
you know, it's a little ironic President Trump is, you know.
You know, there was one report that he pulled the
plug on Iran's Supreme leader to take him out. I'm
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not sure if I actually leave everything I read, but
putting that aside, considering if you go back, you know,
according to the Persian language article published by one of
their local papers, Trump is out of line any day
now and revenge for the bloody martyr Solamani, A few
bullets are going to be fired into that empty skull
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of his and he'll be drinking from the chalice of
a cursed death. And so I'm not sure if I
believe the report that he vetoed a plan to assassinate
iran Supreme Supreme leader. Israeli airstrikes did target one of
Iran's largest oil refineries. I think that was a message
that we can take out your entire ability to make money. Also,
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not just your nuclear sites, not your missile battery systems,
which they've gotten about a third of.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Here.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Still is a threat to the region, and that includes
American troops in the region. I don't want people to
think that this is, you know, a cake walk, because
it's not. But it's a matter of the act now
or do you risk you know, they what we as
a world might be facing later and I'm not willing
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to take that risk for our children and grandchildren.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Well, that's exactly right, Sean. For the past twenty plus years,
Israel has lived with a sort of damocles hanging over it,
and not just Israel, but the Saudi's, the Bahraini's, the Amuradis,
others in the Gulf, and ultimately the United States. And
that sort of damoicles is the risk that Iran will
develop a nuclear weapon that it will use to hold
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the entire region hostage.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
You know, they keep channing death to America.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
They've been channing that since the revolution back in nineteen
seventy nine. We don't want to find out if it's
just rhetoric. We have to assume that they mean it
when they say it. And from that realization follows a
really important point. They can never have the world's most
dangerous regime, can never have the world's most dangerous weapon,
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and that's the only reason they could have the nuclear
enrichment program they've enriched so far up to sixty purity.
Nobody who has a peaceful nuclear power program needs that
kind of concentration of the uranium.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
The only reason.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
You could have that is because you want to preserve
a pathway to a bomb.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
And so when the MOLAS sit down at the.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Negotiating table and say, well, we just want a peaceful
program for power purposes.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Or they were offered that in negotiations, I know that
for a fact they were offered they could have the
enriched rods for a peaceful powered nuclear program, which is
it's nowhere near sixty percent. But when they're enriching the
uranium and they don't have anywhere any place anytime, American inspectors,
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we know that they've always been further along in their
program than is publicly known, and we see what we see,
how they terrorize the entire region. You know, what's surprising
to me is like I'm like, you know, but break
this down to a very simple equation. How many missiles
would have to be fired into an American town or
city by a foreign entity before you'd want America to react?
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You know, how many how many times does a neighbor
have to punch you in the face and break your
windows and attack your house before you're going to want
to You're going to want to retaliate. And it's really
that simple. Does Sean Hannity want to forever war? Absolutely not.
Do I want this specific threat, with this evil regime
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that has shown a willingness to attack innocent men, women,
and children repeatedly and fun proxy wars ended, And I
want that threat removed for the safety of our children
and grandchildren one hundred percent. Don't apologize at all, A
stand by it. I think the President has been right
the whole time.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yeah, And you know how much risk would the United
States be willing to accept? And I think the answer
not nearly as much as Israel has all read he
had to accept. And this is an important point for
your audience to understand. This isn't just Israel versus Iran.
This is the civilized world against Iran, because Iran really
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is a threat to all of us. You know, a
lot of people remember that the Iranians killed six hundred
or more American soldiers on the ground in Iraq. They've
also been plotting assassinations right here on American soil. They're
trying to kill President Trump. Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and others.
They tried to blow up an Italian restaurant in Georgetown
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a number of years ago to kill the Saudi ambassador
and imagine the collateral damage that would have involved. So
now imagine that regime with a nuclear weapon, and you
have to see why President Trump is so firmly and
resolutely behind Israel's efforts to disarm this regime.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
We can't afford that risk any more than Israel can.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I totally agree. All right, quick break, welcome back more
with Ambassador Nathan sALS. He served in the first Trump
administration as Ambassador at Large for counter Terrorism and acting
under Secretary of State. We'll get to your calls also
on the other side, eight hundred and nine to FOURT
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that took place, including people quoting James Comy eighty six
forty seven, and we have those chants. We continue now.
Ambassador Nathan Sales with us served in the first Trump
administration as an Ambassador at Large for counter Terrorism, acting
under Secretary of State. At this point, it seems that
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there is one reactor left and that the Israelis have
two options, either to use an American bunker buster bombs
because it's buried my understanding is miles underground, or a
tactical nuke. I would prefer the bunker busters, but that's
going to be, you know, between the President and Israel,
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and they're going to ultimately make that decision. But I
don't think it can remain at all.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Yeah, this is the four plant, and it's the hardest
target that the Iranians have. It's buried under about a
half mile of mountain and it's really really difficult to
get it unless you have a bunk erbuster bomb, which
the United States has and which we have a platform
for delivering it, namely the B two. So I think
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there's probably some very serious conversations going on right now
about whether the United States will provide those capabilities to Israel,
or whether the United States will join the fight ourselves.
I don't know where the President is on this, but
this is a question that bears watching very closely, because
we can't afford to eliminate a couple of nuclear sites
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here and there but leave Ford all intact. If Ford
ou survives, the Iranian regimes and nuclear program survives, and
that's a loss for Israel and a loss for US.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I think that's well said, and I don't think that's
a risk. If you've come this far and we're at
the end of the process and you own the skies,
they've not been able to build back their missile defense system,
you know, the only risk we now have, and it
is a real risk, And anytime you're involved in any
military effort, I don't want to mitigate that risk. I
don't want people to put their guard down. There is
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a risk and a risk to American lives. They've already
killed many Americans in the past, and they do chant
death to Israel, death to America, and they've threatened to
hit the continental US with missiles also. But it's either
you deal with it now when they're weakened and finished
the job, or you run the risk that they would
empower themselves and build up their military might even further.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Yeah, I think the lesson the Iranians are going to
take from this war is we're a lot weaker than
we thought we were. Israel has the ability to hurt
us a lot more than we thought they did. So
how do we protect ourselves from that? What I think
and what I fear is the lesson they're going to
draw is we need a nuclear bomb now more than ever.
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And so if you give give the regime that ability
without destroying the program completely, my fears they're going to
race harder than ever.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Appreciate you being with us. Thank you, Ambassador Nathan Sales,
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dot com two day, Well, you know I watched some
of it. There's only so much of it I can take.
But one thing that is clear is the left in
America has absolutely positively lost it. And you can see
the attacks on John Fetterman just get louder and louder
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and louder. And how dare that he he take on
the radicals in his own party. So you have the
no Kings protests over the weekend. They claim millions of
people showed up all around the country. Okay, you have
the radical left wing lunatics, but the bigger part of
the equation is they've taken over the Democratic Party. But
here are the Democratic parties you know, top supporters.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Listen, we are here to say, in the name of humanity.
Speaker 12 (19:57):
We refuse to accept a fashion to America, the fascist
Trump regime must go now here today against authoritarianism and
in support of Palestinian liberation and safety.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Who I am.
Speaker 12 (20:17):
Here today with my comrades and solidarity with all of you,
because none of us are free until all of us
are safe and free. With the flustration and the agents
of state power have used Heffrey's lever to use the
pro Palestine movement as pretext for violent and comprehensive repression,
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from targeting students on campus, to pushing theories for deportation
and denaturalization, to the empowerment of ICE and its mass
stormtroopers to disappear our neighbors. Make no mistake, these cases
are a test of what we will accept, Woo, and
we must not accept.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Them who that rat away?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We don't want a ding that read a ring.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
We don't want a ging.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
What democraphy utracy?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
What democraphy?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Outside?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
This is what democracy?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Let's side me?
Speaker 8 (21:18):
What democracy?
Speaker 10 (21:19):
What side?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
He says? What democracy?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
What side?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Donald Trump's regime is not illegally deploying American troops on
US souls because.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
He's strong, he's abusing his authority as commander in chief,
trying to pick a fight on America Street, because his
engender is incredibly unpopular. His political positions and his claims
are weak and failing and contrariant.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Tom.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Now that's the insanity that took place over the weekend.
Where are they Where are they getting this rhetoric from? Well,
we got mister feng Fang, Eric Swalwell, Trump is America's hitler.
Democrats you know, have never said that about Trump.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He said that at one of the No King's rallies. Well,
they tried he's Hitler of Stalin Mussolini and a Nazi
and a fascist and a racist leading into the election
on November fifth and twenty four, and that didn't exactly
pay dividends for them, But they're still sticking to that
talking point. Here's what he said, Donald Trump is America's Hitler. Yeah,
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that was mister feng Fang himself, Eric Swowell and other Democrats. Again,
the talking point went out called Trump Hitler.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump
would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who's responsible for the
deaths of six million Jews. All of this is further
evidence for the American people who Donald Trump really is.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
Donald Trump's got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden.
There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened
in the mid nineteen thirties at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 14 (23:10):
Trump actually re enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in
nineteen thirty nine. I write about this in my book.
President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo Nazis fascists in
America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for
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the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.
So I don't think we can ignore it.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
We're seeing he's not president yet.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
I mean, are you visiting another Hitler?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
I said the nineteen thirties in Germany.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Yes, you did.
Speaker 13 (23:50):
What I did was compare the times that we live
in to the times that.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Existed at the.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Time Hitler gained power.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
I mentioned the fact that he gained power through democratic elections,
saing wy Trump did, I understand very well why it
is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler's Third Reich to any
other movement. It was uniquely evil, full stop. The Trump
administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred
version of reality.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I don't think this is going to work. It don't
work the last time. But if you want to double
down on dumb and dumber and not have any introspection,
no course correction, and just keep repeating the same mantra
as Donald Trump actually does things that make the country
better and safer in the world, safer, you keep doing that.
Let's say hi to Dale in the United socialist utopia
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known as Gavin Newsom's California. What's up, Dale?
Speaker 11 (24:48):
How are you?
Speaker 15 (24:49):
I'm good. Not all of us would like to look
at the ocean.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Are crazy?
Speaker 15 (24:52):
So well?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I love the ocean part. I never said that it's
not majestic and beautiful there.
Speaker 15 (24:58):
Yeah, I was calling just the comment on the fact
that the Iranian response that it's like watching one of
those Battle of Britain movies. You know, the Luftwaffe's bombing
the cities in response to the military attacks, and you know,
the indiscriminate bombing of civilians seems to be the same
game plan that the Iranians have that the Germans had.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Well, you know, you've got to ask yourselves. There was
look that how do I say this in a nice way?
This is Donald Trump's America First policy, and part of
America First is being smart. And Donald Trump often uses
in his rallies and speeches the word common sense. It's
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just simple common sense. And when the President says, you know,
for those people that say they want peace, you cannot
have peace of Iran as a nuclear weapon, he's right.
And you know, for all these people that don't want
to do anything about Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's
not peace. The world will be held hostage. And he's
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correct there, American America first is not. And I always
got along with Pap Buchanan and he was very smart,
but in many ways I viewed him as isolationist. And
even before World War Two, there was an isolationist you know,
movement in this country that was actually very strong that that.
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You know, it took the bombing of Pearl Harbor to
drag US into World War Two. Winston Churchill was begging
FDR to help because they needed the support of the
United States to debeat, to defeat, you know, the the
forces of Nazism and fascism, and then of course imperial Japan.
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I want to be an isolationist too. Yeah, I agree
with Donald Trump also America First, the end of forever wars.
This doesn't look like a scenario of a forever war.
To me, this looked it's like a wipeout with great danger.
With every military move there's always danger. I am not
mitigating that, I'm emphasizing it. There is significant danger. We
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do have troops in the region. They have shown a
willingness to kill our troops and target our troops and
desperate countries and desperate evil people like the Mullas in
Iran will do desperate things. However, the far riskier scenario
to me is a nuclear armed Durant right.
Speaker 15 (27:30):
Well, like they say, those that don't learn from the
history lessons of history are a bound to repeat.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Them exactly, I mean, and identifying evil now and taking
it out at a point where we can control it
before they have ten thousand ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.
You know, what do we do at that point? Then
we're stuck with a nuclear armed Ran. At that point
there's no option. And when you get to sixty percent enrichment,
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you can be at weapons grade ninety percent less than
a month. That's where you know, again I don't have
the intelligence, but that's what all the intelligence has shown.
So basically it became a minute to midnight and we
had to make a decision, or actually it was Israel
that made the decision. And then you see how Israel
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fights versus how the Uranians fight. The Uranians try to
terrorize and hit population centers like they've been doing in
Tel Aviv, and the Israelis they just keep hitting one
military target after another, and they've got two of their
sites out but they need to take the third one
out to neutralize the threat forever, and their ambition of
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ever having a nuclear weapon must go away. Anyway, I
appreciate you, sir, Thank you. All right, quick break right
back to our phones. Eight hundred and nine four one
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main Jim on the Sean Hannity Show, Happy Monday, Jim.
(29:00):
Glad you called.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
Yes, Hi, Jim fulman, not so preciated a man. I
would want to talk to you about the Middle East.
You know we have. There's one problem about fallout because
where the pavilion prevailing winds go. You would think that
that Jordan and Egypt and uh uh yeah, Emarate and
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all of them. Actually we say to themselves that that
are that Aran cannot get an nuclear bomb because that
they do and they use it on Israel. They're using
it on themselves.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It's a it's it's a little more complicated than that.
But I can assure you there's not one of those
countries that wants a nuclear armed to run. That's why
during Trump's first term, when his sanctions were working and
they weren't anywhere nearly as advanced as they are in
terms of the nuclear program, because he prevented it from happening. Uh,
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we had this alliance between the U, Israel, the Saudis,
the Emirates, the Egyptians, the Jordanians and intelligence sharing against
the Ranian hegemony. So it's really just advancing, you know
that to the next level. What I learned when I
went on the trip to the Gulf States with the
President is all of these countries want President Trump and
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Israel to be successful. They all do. Why do you
think some of these countries are helping Israel take some
of these missiles out of the sky, and Jordan and
the Saudis and others because they know it is an
existential threat to them. And so there already is an
alliance there. And I'll predict one other thing when all
the dust settles here and again, I always have grave
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concern whenever there's a military effort of this type, but
I believe it's a necessity. We're not talking about a
ground war, We're not talking about a forever war. We're
talking about neutralizing Iran because they refuse to do it voluntarily.
And but at the end of the day, my prediction
is this is that all of the countries that we're
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talking about, that you are, that you are mentioning here,
will then seek to join the Abraham Accords, recognize Israel,
and hope to bring peace to that region once and
for all. I do believe that that will be the
natural outcome of this, although it takes a lot to
get there. And you know, but what is the alternative
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Allowing them to get a nuclear weapon? Then they would
never be peace or any possibility of peace in the region.
Then we'd have a nuclear arms race because every other
country would want one as a deterrent against Iran. So
it gets very complicated very fast if they if they
in fact got that weapon. And that's why I think
the President is right. And you know, I love people
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trying to lecture Donald Trump on the make America what
MAGA means. It's kind of humorous to me. I think
the President's policies again are rooted in simple common sense.
When you have the number one state sponsor terror and
you marry them with nuclear weapons, that is an existential
threat to the entire world, and they've threatened the United
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States as well. I wish there wasn't evil in the world,
but there is, and you have to face that
Well, well, come in to your city, Donna lay get
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a little banging un come along.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, targeted military operation to roll
back the Uranian threat to Israel's very survival. This operation
will continue for as many days as it takes.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Democracy is under assault before our eyes.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Can you compare them to those nondescript thugs? It does
look like a Gestapo operation.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Tradom is back in style. Welcome to the revolution.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
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Hight Hour two Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and nine
four one Shawn our number. You want to be a
part of the program. Prime Minister Benjamin at Yahou on
Fox with special report and Brettbair being very very clear
that they launched this operation because Iran was rushing to
weaponize enriched uranium. We see and you know when I
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was I keep going back to one of my trips
to Israel, the small town bordered town with Kauzov Storot
is what it's called. And they had when I had
gone back there. This is a long time ago. They
have been hit with ten thousand missiles in ten years,
one little town. How many missiles would it take to
be fired into the US before you would want your
(01:54):
government to do something? Anyway, Here's why he says he
launched this operation.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Why did you launch this operation now? Because we were
facing an imminent threat, a dual existential threat. One the
thread of Iran rushing to weaponize. They're enrich uranium to
make atomic bombs, the specific and declared intent to destroy US. Second,
a rush to increase their ballistic missile arsenal into the
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capacity that they would have thirty six hundred weapons a year,
new weapons within three years, ten thousand ballistic missiles, each
one weighing a ton, coming in a mock six right
into our cities as you saw today, and then in
twenty in six years, twenty thousand. That's a no country
I can sustain that, and certainly not a country the
size of Israel. So we had to act. Was the
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twelfth hour. We did act to save ourselves, but also
I think to not only protect ourselves, but protect the
world from this incendiary regime. We can't have the world's
most dangerous regime have the world's most dangerous weapons. We're
protecting ourselves, but by doing so, we're protecting many others.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Now, the Prime Minister rightly has pointed out, yeah, they've
got you know, thousands, at least two thousand according to reports,
ballistic missiles. We see them being fired. The Iron Dome
has done a great job, but it's not perfect in
terms of stopping it. But the production. I kind of
view this as their increased production in ballistic missiles with
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the hope of doubling their how lethal they are from
two thousand pounds to four thousand pounds as Plan B
because the Iranians there are a lot of things. They're evil,
for sure, but they're not stupid, and they knew the
likelihood of their nuclear program existing was diminishing by the day.
(03:44):
And I'll just quote President Trump for those people who
say they want peace, you cannot have peace of Iran
has a nuclear weapon. So for all those wonderful people
who don't want to do anything about Iran having a
nuclear weapon, that's not peace. I've often said that you
don't define peace as the absence of conflict or the
absence of war. You define it as the ability to
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defend yourself. And in this case it's a preventative measure
before you are literally the war would be held hostage
by a nuclear arm Doran. But yes, it's very consistent
with my ideology and my philosophy. You can no longer
have these forever wars. Is not a single country in
the Middle East that wants the Iranians with nuclear weapons,
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and they have rained down through their proxies and themselves
hundreds of thousands of missiles on Israel. At what point
does Israel have the right to say enough is enough?
How many missiles would it take fired into the United
States before every American would demand rightly so that we
neutralize any country that's involved. Now we are in a
(04:52):
new era, and I keep talking about the next generation
of weaponry, and I keep talking about how future wars
will be fought in their condition offices and not on
a battlefield. And we see this unfolding in real time,
which means that for those people that worry about quote
the quagmire you know argument or forever war argument, well,
(05:14):
the israelis already own the skies over all of Iran.
This is this is this is a one sided fight
at this point. Now, that doesn't mitigate the danger, the
dangers to our troops in the region. That doesn't mitigate,
you know, the the other dangers associated with the ballistic
missiles that they have, both short range and long range,
(05:35):
and the letality of all of that. But what is
it going to be like six months from now, a
year from now, if they have the ten thousand weapons
that the Prime Minister's talking about and maybe nuclear capability.
Now there's anyway for Ambassador Nathan Sales is with us.
He served in the first Trump administration as Ambassador at
Large for count of Terrorism, acting under Secretary of State.
(06:00):
Is there anything I'm saying here that you disagree with?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Seod It sounds like you're angling for an appointment at
the State's Department. I'd love to have what you just
said reflected among America's diplomatic corps. I think you're spot on.
I Ran as a threat not just to Israel, not
even just to the region. They are a threat to
the United States and that has to be the guiding
star of US policy over the next couple of weeks.
(06:25):
We're starting to see some of Israel's on again, off
again friends in the West starting to waiver. There's some
chatter as the G seven summit up in Canada kicks
off today that the G seven might call for de escalation,
and President Trump rightly has said not signing that, and
good because our policy should be help Israel do what
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it needs to do to finish the job with a
minimum of henpecking and ankle biting from other countries in
the West.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
It's always been import for Israel to be able.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
To neutralize the threat that i Ran poses, but especially
so now you've got to finish the job because imagine
how motivated Iran will be after this war ends to
get a nuclear weapon, because that's going to be their
insurance policy. So you can't leave any element of the
nuclear program behind because the Iranians are going to take
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that seed and then grow it into a huge tree
if given the opportunity.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
So, whether it's through.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Military force or whether it's through tough diplomacy, this war
needs to end with Iran completely disarmed.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, and look, it's an existential threat not only to
the region but to the world. And this you know
a lot of people seem to have forgotten. But if
you go back to April of twenty five this year,
you know, it's a little ironic President Trump is, you know.
You know, there was one report that he pulled the
plug on Iran's Supreme leader to take him out. I'm
(07:59):
not sure if I actually leave everything I read, but
putting that aside, considering if you go back, you know,
according to the Persian language article published by one of
their local papers, Trump is out of line any day
now and revenge for the bloody martyr Solamani, A few
bullets are going to be fired into that empty skull
(08:19):
of his and he'll be drinking from the chalice of
a cursed death. And so I'm not sure if I
believe the report that he vetoed a plan to assassinate
iran Supreme Supreme leader. Israeli airstrikes did target one of
Iran's largest oil refineries. I think that was a message
that we can take out your entire ability to make money. Also,
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not just your nuclear sites, not your missile battery systems,
which they've gotten about a third of.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Here.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Still is a threat to the region, and that includes
American troops in the region. I don't want people to
think that this is, you know, a cake walk, because
it's not. But it's a matter of the act now
or do you risk you know, they what we as
a world might be facing later and I'm not willing
(09:09):
to take that risk for our children and grandchildren.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Well, that's exactly right, Sean. For the past twenty plus years,
Israel has lived with a sort of damocles hanging over it,
and not just Israel, but the Saudi's, the Bahraini's, the Amuradis,
others in the Gulf, and ultimately the United States. And
that sort of damoicles is the risk that Iran will
develop a nuclear weapon that it will use to hold
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the entire region hostage.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
You know, they keep channing death to America.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
They've been channing that since the revolution back in nineteen
seventy nine. We don't want to find out if it's
just rhetoric. We have to assume that they mean it
when they say it. And from that realization follows a
really important point. They can never have the world's most
dangerous regime, can never have the world's most dangerous weapon,
(09:58):
and that's the only reason they could have the nuclear
enrichment program they've enriched so far up to sixty purity.
Nobody who has a peaceful nuclear power program needs that
kind of concentration of the uranium.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
The only reason.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
You could have that is because you want to preserve
a pathway to a bomb.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
And so when the MOLAS sit down at the.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Negotiating table and say, well, we just want a peaceful
program for power purposes.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Or they were offered that in negotiations, I know that
for a fact they were offered they could have the
enriched rods for a peaceful powered nuclear program, which is
it's nowhere near sixty percent. But when they're enriching the
uranium and they don't have anywhere any place anytime, American inspectors,
(10:50):
we know that they've always been further along in their
program than is publicly known, and we see what we see,
how they terrorize the entire region. You know, what's surprising
to me is like I'm like, you know, but break
this down to a very simple equation. How many missiles
would have to be fired into an American town or
city by a foreign entity before you'd want America to react?
(11:14):
You know, how many how many times does a neighbor
have to punch you in the face and break your
windows and attack your house before you're going to want
to You're going to want to retaliate. And it's really
that simple. Does Sean Hannity want to forever war? Absolutely not.
Do I want this specific threat, with this evil regime
(11:34):
that has shown a willingness to attack innocent men, women,
and children repeatedly and fun proxy wars ended, And I
want that threat removed for the safety of our children
and grandchildren one hundred percent. Don't apologize at all, A
stand by it. I think the President has been right
the whole time.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yeah, And you know how much risk would the United
States be willing to accept? And I think the answer
not nearly as much as Israel has all read he
had to accept. And this is an important point for
your audience to understand. This isn't just Israel versus Iran.
This is the civilized world against Iran, because Iran really
(12:11):
is a threat to all of us. You know, a
lot of people remember that the Iranians killed six hundred
or more American soldiers on the ground in Iraq. They've
also been plotting assassinations right here on American soil. They're
trying to kill President Trump. Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and others.
They tried to blow up an Italian restaurant in Georgetown
(12:32):
a number of years ago to kill the Saudi ambassador
and imagine the collateral damage that would have involved. So
now imagine that regime with a nuclear weapon, and you
have to see why President Trump is so firmly and
resolutely behind Israel's efforts to disarm this regime.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
We can't afford that risk any more than Israel can.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I totally agree. All right, quick break, welcome back more
with Ambassador Nathan sALS. He served in the first Trump
administration as Ambassador at Large for counter Terrorism and acting
under Secretary of State. We'll get to your calls also
on the other side, eight hundred and nine to FOURT
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that took place, including people quoting James Comy eighty six
forty seven, and we have those chants. We continue now.
Ambassador Nathan Sales with us served in the first Trump
administration as an Ambassador at Large for counter Terrorism, acting
under Secretary of State. At this point, it seems that
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there is one reactor left and that the Israelis have
two options, either to use an American bunker buster bombs
because it's buried my understanding is miles underground, or a
tactical nuke. I would prefer the bunker busters, but that's
going to be, you know, between the President and Israel,
(13:54):
and they're going to ultimately make that decision. But I
don't think it can remain at all.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Yeah, this is the four plant, and it's the hardest
target that the Iranians have. It's buried under about a
half mile of mountain and it's really really difficult to
get it unless you have a bunk erbuster bomb, which
the United States has and which we have a platform
for delivering it, namely the B two. So I think
(14:19):
there's probably some very serious conversations going on right now
about whether the United States will provide those capabilities to Israel,
or whether the United States will join the fight ourselves.
I don't know where the President is on this, but
this is a question that bears watching very closely, because
we can't afford to eliminate a couple of nuclear sites
(14:42):
here and there but leave Ford all intact. If Ford
ou survives, the Iranian regimes and nuclear program survives, and
that's a loss for Israel and a loss for US.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I think that's well said, and I don't think that's
a risk. If you've come this far and we're at
the end of the process and you own the skies,
they've not been able to build back their missile defense system,
you know, the only risk we now have, and it
is a real risk, And anytime you're involved in any
military effort, I don't want to mitigate that risk. I
don't want people to put their guard down. There is
(15:12):
a risk and a risk to American lives. They've already
killed many Americans in the past, and they do chant
death to Israel, death to America, and they've threatened to
hit the continental US with missiles also. But it's either
you deal with it now when they're weakened and finished
the job, or you run the risk that they would
empower themselves and build up their military might even further.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Yeah, I think the lesson the Iranians are going to
take from this war is we're a lot weaker than
we thought we were. Israel has the ability to hurt
us a lot more than we thought they did. So
how do we protect ourselves from that? What I think
and what I fear is the lesson they're going to
draw is we need a nuclear bomb now more than ever.
(15:56):
And so if you give give the regime that ability
without destroying the program completely, my fears they're going to
race harder than ever.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Appreciate you being with us. Thank you, Ambassador Nathan Sales,
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But one thing that is clear is the left in
America has absolutely positively lost it. And you can see
the attacks on John Fetterman just get louder and louder
(19:29):
and louder. And how dare that he he take on
the radicals in his own party. So you have the
no Kings protests over the weekend. They claim millions of
people showed up all around the country. Okay, you have
the radical left wing lunatics, but the bigger part of
the equation is they've taken over the Democratic Party. But
here are the Democratic parties you know, top supporters.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Listen, we are here to say, in the name of humanity.
Speaker 12 (19:57):
We refuse to accept a fashion to America, the fascist
Trump regime must go now here today against authoritarianism and
in support of Palestinian liberation and safety.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Who I am.
Speaker 12 (20:17):
Here today with my comrades and solidarity with all of you,
because none of us are free until all of us
are safe and free. With the flustration and the agents
of state power have used Heffrey's lever to use the
pro Palestine movement as pretext for violent and comprehensive repression,
(20:38):
from targeting students on campus, to pushing theories for deportation
and denaturalization, to the empowerment of ICE and its mass
stormtroopers to disappear our neighbors. Make no mistake, these cases
are a test of what we will accept, Woo, and
we must not accept.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Them who that rat away?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We don't want a ding that read a ring.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
We don't want a ging.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
What democraphy utracy?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
What democraphy?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Outside?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
This is what democracy?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Let's side me?
Speaker 8 (21:18):
What democracy?
Speaker 10 (21:19):
What side?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
He says? What democracy?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
What side?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Donald Trump's regime is not illegally deploying American troops on
US souls because.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
He's strong, he's abusing his authority as commander in chief,
trying to pick a fight on America Street, because his
engender is incredibly unpopular. His political positions and his claims
are weak and failing and contrariant.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Tom.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Now that's the insanity that took place over the weekend.
Where are they Where are they getting this rhetoric from? Well,
we got mister feng Fang, Eric Swalwell, Trump is America's hitler.
Democrats you know, have never said that about Trump.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He said that at one of the No King's rallies. Well,
they tried he's Hitler of Stalin Mussolini and a Nazi
and a fascist and a racist leading into the election
on November fifth and twenty four, and that didn't exactly
pay dividends for them, But they're still sticking to that
talking point. Here's what he said, Donald Trump is America's Hitler. Yeah,
(22:35):
that was mister feng Fang himself, Eric Swowell and other Democrats. Again,
the talking point went out called Trump Hitler.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump
would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who's responsible for the
deaths of six million Jews. All of this is further
evidence for the American people who Donald Trump really is.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
Donald Trump's got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden.
There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened
in the mid nineteen thirties at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 14 (23:10):
Trump actually re enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in
nineteen thirty nine. I write about this in my book.
President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo Nazis fascists in
America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for
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the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.
So I don't think we can ignore it.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
We're seeing he's not president yet.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
I mean, are you visiting another Hitler?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
I said the nineteen thirties in Germany.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Yes, you did.
Speaker 13 (23:50):
What I did was compare the times that we live
in to the times that.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Existed at the.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Time Hitler gained power.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
I mentioned the fact that he gained power through democratic elections,
saing wy Trump did, I understand very well why it
is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler's Third Reich to any
other movement. It was uniquely evil, full stop. The Trump
administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred
version of reality.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I don't think this is going to work. It don't
work the last time. But if you want to double
down on dumb and dumber and not have any introspection,
no course correction, and just keep repeating the same mantra
as Donald Trump actually does things that make the country
better and safer in the world, safer, you keep doing that.
Let's say hi to Dale in the United socialist utopia
(24:45):
known as Gavin Newsom's California. What's up, Dale?
Speaker 11 (24:48):
How are you?
Speaker 15 (24:49):
I'm good. Not all of us would like to look
at the ocean.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Are crazy?
Speaker 15 (24:52):
So well?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I love the ocean part. I never said that it's
not majestic and beautiful there.
Speaker 15 (24:58):
Yeah, I was calling just the comment on the fact
that the Iranian response that it's like watching one of
those Battle of Britain movies. You know, the Luftwaffe's bombing
the cities in response to the military attacks, and you know,
the indiscriminate bombing of civilians seems to be the same
game plan that the Iranians have that the Germans had.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Well, you know, you've got to ask yourselves. There was
look that how do I say this in a nice way?
This is Donald Trump's America First policy, and part of
America First is being smart. And Donald Trump often uses
in his rallies and speeches the word common sense. It's
(25:44):
just simple common sense. And when the President says, you know,
for those people that say they want peace, you cannot
have peace of Iran as a nuclear weapon, he's right.
And you know, for all these people that don't want
to do anything about Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's
not peace. The world will be held hostage. And he's
(26:05):
correct there, American America first is not. And I always
got along with Pap Buchanan and he was very smart,
but in many ways I viewed him as isolationist. And
even before World War Two, there was an isolationist you know,
movement in this country that was actually very strong that that.
(26:27):
You know, it took the bombing of Pearl Harbor to
drag US into World War Two. Winston Churchill was begging
FDR to help because they needed the support of the
United States to debeat, to defeat, you know, the the
forces of Nazism and fascism, and then of course imperial Japan.
(26:48):
I want to be an isolationist too. Yeah, I agree
with Donald Trump also America First, the end of forever wars.
This doesn't look like a scenario of a forever war.
To me, this looked it's like a wipeout with great danger.
With every military move there's always danger. I am not
mitigating that, I'm emphasizing it. There is significant danger. We
(27:11):
do have troops in the region. They have shown a
willingness to kill our troops and target our troops and
desperate countries and desperate evil people like the Mullas in
Iran will do desperate things. However, the far riskier scenario
to me is a nuclear armed Durant right.
Speaker 15 (27:30):
Well, like they say, those that don't learn from the
history lessons of history are a bound to repeat.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Them exactly, I mean, and identifying evil now and taking
it out at a point where we can control it
before they have ten thousand ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.
You know, what do we do at that point? Then
we're stuck with a nuclear armed Ran. At that point
there's no option. And when you get to sixty percent enrichment,
(27:57):
you can be at weapons grade ninety percent less than
a month. That's where you know, again I don't have
the intelligence, but that's what all the intelligence has shown.
So basically it became a minute to midnight and we
had to make a decision, or actually it was Israel
that made the decision. And then you see how Israel
(28:17):
fights versus how the Uranians fight. The Uranians try to
terrorize and hit population centers like they've been doing in
Tel Aviv, and the Israelis they just keep hitting one
military target after another, and they've got two of their
sites out but they need to take the third one
out to neutralize the threat forever, and their ambition of
(28:38):
ever having a nuclear weapon must go away. Anyway, I
appreciate you, sir, Thank you. All right, quick break right
back to our phones. Eight hundred and nine four one
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main Jim on the Sean Hannity Show, Happy Monday, Jim.
(29:00):
Glad you called.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
Yes, Hi, Jim fulman, not so preciated a man. I
would want to talk to you about the Middle East.
You know we have. There's one problem about fallout because
where the pavilion prevailing winds go. You would think that
that Jordan and Egypt and uh uh yeah, Emarate and
(29:24):
all of them. Actually we say to themselves that that
are that Aran cannot get an nuclear bomb because that
they do and they use it on Israel. They're using
it on themselves.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It's a it's it's a little more complicated than that.
But I can assure you there's not one of those
countries that wants a nuclear armed to run. That's why
during Trump's first term, when his sanctions were working and
they weren't anywhere nearly as advanced as they are in
terms of the nuclear program, because he prevented it from happening. Uh,
(29:57):
we had this alliance between the U, Israel, the Saudis,
the Emirates, the Egyptians, the Jordanians and intelligence sharing against
the Ranian hegemony. So it's really just advancing, you know
that to the next level. What I learned when I
went on the trip to the Gulf States with the
President is all of these countries want President Trump and
(30:22):
Israel to be successful. They all do. Why do you
think some of these countries are helping Israel take some
of these missiles out of the sky, and Jordan and
the Saudis and others because they know it is an
existential threat to them. And so there already is an
alliance there. And I'll predict one other thing when all
the dust settles here and again, I always have grave
(30:46):
concern whenever there's a military effort of this type, but
I believe it's a necessity. We're not talking about a
ground war, We're not talking about a forever war. We're
talking about neutralizing Iran because they refuse to do it voluntarily.
And but at the end of the day, my prediction
is this is that all of the countries that we're
(31:08):
talking about, that you are, that you are mentioning here,
will then seek to join the Abraham Accords, recognize Israel,
and hope to bring peace to that region once and
for all. I do believe that that will be the
natural outcome of this, although it takes a lot to
get there. And you know, but what is the alternative
(31:31):
Allowing them to get a nuclear weapon? Then they would
never be peace or any possibility of peace in the region.
Then we'd have a nuclear arms race because every other
country would want one as a deterrent against Iran. So
it gets very complicated very fast if they if they
in fact got that weapon. And that's why I think
the President is right. And you know, I love people
(31:54):
trying to lecture Donald Trump on the make America what
MAGA means. It's kind of humorous to me. I think
the President's policies again are rooted in simple common sense.
When you have the number one state sponsor terror and
you marry them with nuclear weapons, that is an existential
threat to the entire world, and they've threatened the United
(32:14):
States as well. I wish there wasn't evil in the world,
but there is, and you have to face that
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