June 23, 2025 • 31 mins
Sean reacts to the latest news on America's efforts to neutralize Iran's nuclear weapons program. If you take just a moment you can recognize just how powerful and amazing our military forces are!
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All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. Here's our toll free
telephone number. It's eight hundred and nine four to one
Seawan if you want to be a part of the program.
I think we all need to stop and pause and
be very grateful for the incredible men and women that
serve in our military, and for a president that has
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the moral clarity and deep understanding and common sense of
a world that cannot live with the possibility of the
number one state sponsor of terror having nuclear weapons, and
the incredible job. We'll go into a lot of the
specificity of what they were able to do and how
they did it on Saturday night, The level of deception, well,
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first of all, the level of planning, the level the
bigger part of the planning before this mission ever even started,
was knowing and anticipating what possible retaliation there might exist,
what risk any any bomber might risk flying into Iranian airspace,
The risk we know under Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Mayorcis.
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You know we have untold numbers of of known terrorists,
Iranian assassination squads, the number of Iranians that were let
into the country that we caught, never mind got aways,
is staggering. I'll give you those those numbers at a minute,
but those are if any any the terrorists that made
it into this country. Everyone needs to understand there they
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are already plotting and planning and scheming their attack, whatever
it might be, on this country. And that will be
more blood on the hands of Biden, Harris and Mayorcis
because they let them in unvetted, and they didn't care,
and even when they knew they were from Iran, they
still let them go. I mean, this is this is insanity,
This is madness. We talked often about the countries, over
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two hundred of them, many with terror ties, and how
these people will being allowed into our country. They went
in knowing the danger of the possibility of shutting down
the streets or horn moves, disrupting the free flow of
oil at market prices. We knew that possibility. We also
know there's a possibility that they may end up mining
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the straits, although I'm less of a mind to believe
that now. And we knew that our bases in the region,
and we saw this on display in the last hour
and a half, are our largest base inside of the
Middle East. I was actually there Goha in cutter or guitar.
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You can say it either way, and it's both acceptable.
Had six missiles fired at it. We'll get to that
in a second. But the level of planning, the level
of deception, and it is at the highest level that
we've ever heard of. The incredible use of our intelligence,
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the amount of detail in the planning. A lot of
people don't know that a lot of Americans were taken
out of the region and the lead up to this.
There before any of this started, they had anticipated and
gamed out every possible retaliation effort that the Iranians might
be involved in. Then, of course, the absolute precision, the
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overwhelming might of American the American military. The Tomahawk missiles
fired from an amazing four hundred miles away, every one
of them a direct hit. Incredible precision. How they did
all of this completely undetected. When you look at the timeline,
it's incredible. We should be proud at the level of
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detail and the professionalism, and how blessed and lucky and
fortunate we are to have the greatest military force on
the face of this Earth, and a commander in chief
with the common sense to understand the world cannot live
with the number one state sponsor of terror, married to
weapons of mass destruction, that has been doing everything in
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their power directly and through their proxies to white Israel
off the map, but also chanting even last Friday, death
to America and reaffirming just a few months ago from
the Supreme Leader's mouth himself that their goal is ultimately
to take down the United States of America. And factoring in,
of course, all the Americans that have died at the
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hands of the Iranians over the years, it is the
time for retribution is long come and gone. Let me
get into what has been breaking news for the last
ninety minutes. It started this morning when Cutter announced that
they were shutting down their airspace part of measures taken
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amid developments in the region, according to Katari Foreign Ministry.
And they shut down the airspace because let me tell
you what happened. Even the New York Times now has
a report on this. Three Iranian officials familiar with the
plans to attack our air base in Cutter said that
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Iran did in fact give advance notice to the Guitari
officials that attacks were coming as a way to save faith.
This is a symbolic face saving gesture, if you will,
if you give the Guitaris and the Americans a heads up, yeah,
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we're gonna fire six missiles, the same number of weapons
that hit you know, they're one the four doz site
with bunker busters as a means of acting like you're responding,
so you can use it as a propaganda point and
tell the people in Iran, oh, yeah, we just destroyed them.
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It is very consistent with how they acted in the past.
Now what's amazing about this is if you go back
to twenty twenty in the killing of Solomani, it is
and at that point there it's kind of an underreported,
untold story. The United States was given a heads up
when Iran and Iran gave Iraq a heads up before
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they fired ballistic missiles at an American base in Iraq
following the assassination of Solomani. He was their top terror leader.
And it just shows you the depth of fear that
the Iranians have of Donald J. Trump. I mean, such
a star. Contrast to Barack Obama dropping cargo planes full
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of cash and other currencies and billions of dollars on
a tarmac to appease the Iranian leadership in the hopes
that we're gonna come up with a nuclear deal. Meanwhile,
there's no any place anywhere anytime, inspections and Obama and
I'll play this later in the program, was fully aware
of the for docite. For example, if you want it
for civilian purposes or nuclear power, you don't need to
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build it three hundred feet into a mountainside, very deep
down inside that mountain as a means of fortifying it
from an attack. Although it didn't really serve them well
or serve the purpose that they wanted here, but that
in fact happened. But it seems like that pattern of yeah,
we're responding, but just know that this isn't a real response,
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and it's coming at this time, and you might want
to get your missile defense systems in place, and you
might want to be ready because we want to be
able to tell our citizenry that we fought back and
we got you good. I mean, it's insane, but it's
a culture I guess that is rooted in imagery. And
you know they have a face saving effort. I have
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no idea. The thing is, and I've been when all
of the talk and when Israel started as this conflict
and what the Israelis have been able to pull off
is miraculous. Also, all of this is going to be studied.
What Donald Trump did with these three facilities, both Bordeaux,
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Natans and Esfahan, all three of these facilities. What he
has been able to do is now made the world
a safer place, a much safer place. And what our
military has been able to pull off here you should
be extraordinarily proud of. I mean, it's after they were
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able to anticipate and game out any potential consequences to
the attack or and all the potential danger involved in it,
and then to execute it to perfection is just it's
just an amazing thing. Kind of like the Israelis actually
had drones inside of Iran and the known locations of
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their top scientists and their top generals and were able
to take them out at the very beginning of this
entire high conflict most or flare up and the fact
that they were able to, you know, take down their
air defense systems. If you were ever going to do this,
this was the time to do it at the level
of safety that you would want for any American soldier
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that was flying a B two with these bunker buster bombs.
But anyway, on the President's orders, Central Command under Eric
Gorilla executed what's called Operation Midnight Hammer, which was this
precise strike against not one, not just the four dose site,
which is where most people thought this was going. Now,
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conventional wisdom was that they would only need two bunker
buster bombs. When I spoke to the President before I
went on the air for two hours on Saturday night
as this story was unfolding, he told me they used
six bunker busters. I didn't know it was on the
one facility, although I was pretty sure it was on
the four door facility. They didn't know that. They also,
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in the end used fourteen of them. And I'll get
to that in a minute. And then the Tomahawk missiles
filed filed fired from four hundred miles away from a
US submarine, and every one of them hitting their target.
It is all of it's complex, all of it is
high risk, and everyone involved in this, from the lowest
level to the highest level, needs our debt of gratitude.
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But it was designed to destroy and wipe out Iranians
nuclear ambitions and their complete infrastructure. And it was successful
and Anyway, the main strike comprised of the seven B
two bombers, each had two crew members and they were
able to proceed quietly to the east with minimal to
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zero communications in an eighteen hour flight, and they were
able to direct and divert the world's attention by sending
B two bombers in another direction quote for refueling in Guam,
and apparently the entire world fell for it, and that's
where the media's attention was most of the day. The
aircraft completed, you know, multi in flight refueling things. I
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actually lived through that when I went to Iraq on
one occasion on a C one thirty. It is it
is a sight to behold when you see it in
real life. It is incredible. A plane, a refueling plane
will fly just above, in this case, the sea one
thirty and literally you see this pose just you know,
like waving in the air, and then it connects and
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it refuels the plane and you just keep going NonStop.
It's pretty amazing. But the mainstrike package had these seven
B two bombers and this eighteen hour flight they completed,
you know, all these refuelings, and once over land they
lined up with an escort and support aircraft, an extremely complex,
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tightly time maneuver requiring synchronization across multiple platforms in a
very narrow piece of air space, all done with minimal
communications and the integrity the operation was a complete success.
I mean, you had nine stealth bombers used in total.
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Two of them were decoys that flew west over the
Pacific that's where the world's attention went, and you had
seven that were flying directly to Iran. You know, my
sources told me that they were actually they were able
to manufacture on radar screens that the Iranians were seeing
phantom planes that they thought were American planes that didn't
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even exist and actually were firing at them while the
real B twos made their way undetected into the area,
and you know then obviously dropping the bunker buster bombs.
Only one submarine launched the thirty Tomahawk missiles into Iran.
At these other two facilities for submarines were converted to
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become guided missile submarines which carry one hundred and fifty
four Tomahawks. If you want you know the specifics of it,
and you know, in every way, shape, matter of form,
this is it, and what's going to be interesting to
see is if the Iranians are going to use this
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ridiculous attack on a with the heads up notice given.
I think that shows the real level of fear that
they have after what they experienced on Saturday night and
how they have no control of their own airspace. There
is no way they can win this war. You know,
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the mission for the president was really twofold. He had
said over and over they cannot have nuclear weapons. Then
they go the sixty days. On the sixty first day,
the Israeli strike, and then the President says, okay, well,
you know, I warned you you should have taken the deal,
and he said, I'll give them up to two weeks.
And that was on Thursday of last week. On Friday,
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the Iranian foreign minister said no to any negotiations. That
probably expedited the president's decision to go in sooner than
later and keep the element of surprise. And that's just
a guess on my part. I'll tell you a lot
more about what I know, what I was doing, who
I talked to, and I did have a number of
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conversations with the president, and I'm just very grateful for
our military. I'm grateful for all the people that are
willing to risk their lives to make the world and
make America a safer place for all of us. These
are incredible people. There's no military mission that does not
have risk. By the way, we're not out of the
woods yet. It doesn't mean that there is a lack
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of risk in the region. We know that Biden, Harris
may Orcus allowed known terrorists into the country, many from Iran.
We'll get into more detail on that in a second.
And I'm very grateful to every person in our military
and every person in the Trump administration that pulled this
off with perfection. It's something to make America proud. At
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twenty five now til the top of the hour, thank
you for being with us. Here's our toll free number.
It's eight hundred and nine four one sean if you
want to be a part of the program. I'm not
sure and don't have a feel yet as to how
the President is going to respond to this well telegraphed
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pinprick frankly symbolic. You know, the six missiles fired at
at the our Guitar or Cutter air base that it's
very reminiscent of what happened in twenty twenty after President
Trump took out Solomoni, whom it was a face saving move.
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I always go back to listen to what the president
and says. The President kept saying, and we have him
on record since twenty eleven saying that the Iranians cannot
have nuclear weapons. Donald Trump does not make idle threats.
He just doesn't do it. And President Trump was very clear,
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you should have taken the deal. He was clear to
the Iranians when he said that last week, and then
he gave them the ultimatum, which was unconditional surrender two words,
unconditional surrender. And he made that last He gave one
last shot at a peace process and said within two
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weeks he would be striking. And then the very next day,
the Iranian foreign minister probably sealed their fate when he
made the comments, no, we're not going to be there's
not going to be any conversation when he said that.
I've listened to that and I'm like, all right, it's over.
And it may have accelerated the timeline for the president.
But with all that said, the president, if you listen
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to him on Saturday night and all the comments that
he's made since, he said when he announced that this
had happened, that he was clear that he said, the
US military carried out massive precision strikes on three key
nuclear facilities in the iranium regime for Doe, the Tans,
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and Esfahan, and he went on to say, everybody heard
those names for years as they built horrible, horrible, destructive enterprise.
Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity
and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the
world's number one state sponsor of terror. Now this is
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in complete agreement with the Trump doctrine as was defined
by his first term. And he said tonight I can
report that the world to the world that the strikes
were a spectacular military success. And he goes on a
Rans nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely, entire totally obliterated,
and future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.
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For forty years, the Iranians have been saying death to America,
death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
off their arms, blowing off their legs, roadside bombs. That
was their specialty. We spent a lot of time last
week listing all the incidences and the number of dead
Americans at the hands of Iranians, you know, going back
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to their forever war, if you will, against us, since
nineteen seventy nine, and he said, we lost over one
thousand people. Hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and
around the world have died as a direct result of
their hate. So many were killed by their general Solomoni.
I decided a long time ago that I would not
let this happen. It will not continue. And then he
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said he thanked the Prime Minister of Israel, Prime Minister
net Yahoo, and described how they worked as a team.
He said, perhaps like no other team has ever worked before.
We've gone a long way to raising this horrible threat
to Israel. I want to thank their military for the
wonderful job they've done. More importantly, I want to congratulate
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the great American patriots who flew magnificent machines tonight in
all of the United States military on an operation the
likes of which the world has not seen in many,
many decades. He's correct on that hopefully we'll no longer
need their services in this capacity. I hope. So I
also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
And he said you know what ac what spectacular, brilliant
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military minds were involved in this operation. And he said,
this simply cannot continue. There will either be peace or
there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we
have witnessed over the last eight days. And he said, remember,
there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult
of them by of them all by far, and perhaps
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the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly,
we will go after those other targets with precision, speed
and skill. Most of them can be taken out in
a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world
that could have done what we did tonight, not even close.
There's never been a military that can do what took
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place just a little while ago and tomorrow. And then
he talked about General Caine. Then he said, and you know,
and I want to thank everybody, and he said, in
particular God, and I just want to say, we love you, God,
and we love our great military. Please protect them. God
bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, God bless America.
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Pretty pretty powerful speech by the president by any objective measure,
from a spectacular military operation. And you know, it's it's
not the first time. I don't really want to get
into the whole issue of the War Powers Act and
the stupidity of it all, but I can go through
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the list, you know, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan,
George W. Bush Afghanistan, Iraq, Bill Clinton, Iraq, Serbia, Sudan.
I mean, yeah, hit the aspirin factory that was, you know,
basically a desert. George H. W. Bush Iraq and Panama, Reagan, Libya, Grenada,
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Jimmy Carter, nothing significant, Gerald Ford, nothing significant. But you
get into these arguments and they're just legally on just
on the wrong ground. And of course, predictably the left
in this country, that was some Democrats, AOC leading the
leading the lunatics. You know, we've got to impeach him
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over this. What they failed to recognize is that after
nine to eleven, Congress passed a joint resolution that was
known as the Authorization of the Use of Military Force Acts,
a great piece by Greg Jarrett on This will put
it on Hannity dot com. It granted the president exclusive
extraordinary powers to target those groups, those nations that he
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determines aided the terrorist attacks or in the case of
nine to eleven, harbored the perpetrators of nine to eleven.
The goal was to prevent any future acts of intentional
terrorism against the US. And one only needs to read
the nine to eleven Commission report that they were at
war with us. We weren't at war with them, and
the government of Tehran actively aided an embedded attack after
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attack after attack against Americans in the region and around
the world. And remember we have Iranian assassination squads, which
kind of brings us to you know, the three things
that the Trump administration was preparing for in the aftermath
of this planned military operation. One is the Straits of
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Horn moves. The Iranians have moved to close that as
of now. There is a legitimate fear that they may
ultimately because their back is against the wall and people
have become desperate, and at that point, you know, they're
capable of anything, and they could mine the straits of
Hormones and disrupt the free flow of oil in the region,
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which is twenty anywhere between twenty and thirty percent of
the world's oil supply. And another fear was that they
would go after American bases in the region, including the
one and Cutter that they went after today. But it
was again symbolic and apparently had given the Kataris and
the Americans heads up on all of it, at least
the New York Times is even reporting not. But you
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can't you can't say that this president has not tried too,
you know, basically begged them to into a peace agreement
that would have been in their best interest. They were
given every opportunity, every opportunity if they wanted it to
take peace. Now, the third thing that America has to
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worry about and is worried about, and they did, is
what about these seven hundred unvetted Iranians. And those are
only the people that we know about. We don't know
about the godaways that are in the United States. And
this goes back to the most preventable national security threat ever.
And I have said for at least the next decade
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and probably longer, we are going to pay a price
for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Alejandro Majorcus and frankly
the Democratic Party because they were either lying to us
along with those three in saying that the border was
closed and the border was secure, or they were just
This silence was deafening in light of everybody with their
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own eyes seeing that the borders were wide open. We
knew that there were people from over two hundred countries,
including many countries would terroritize coming into this country. But
we do know that more than seven hundred Iranian nationals
that illegally entered this country thanks to to Joe Biden's
open borders, according to data the Center Square obtained Sunday
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from a Border Patrol agent. So Border Patrol is putting
these numbers out, and that includes forty eight Iranian illegal
border crosses crossers apprehended in twenty one, one hundred and
ninety seven and twenty two, four hundred and sixty two
apprehended in twenty three, and seven hundred and ninety seven
apprehended in twenty four and at least seven hundred and
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twenty nine Iranians that they knew were from Iran entering
our country illegally were allowed to stay in under Joe
Biden's policies. I mean, under the Biden administration, the greatest
number of known or suspected terrorists were apprehended in US history.
That number is estimated to be about two thousand that
we know of, but it's probably many, many more. That's
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why I've been saying over and over again. Yeah, it's
probably not a matter of if, it's probably a matter
of when. But I pray to God that I'm wrong,
that we're going to wake up one day and all
these people that are here that have terroritized that what
are they doing here? They're plotting, They're planning, their scheming
another nine to eleven or something, perhaps even worse worse
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than that. US officials. The Iranian retaliation against US troops,
you know, they have been unnotice now for some time.
But if you look at our military presidence in the region,
we are more than prepared. And that's why, you know,
even the New York Times is saying that this Iranian
and Iranian officials are acknowledging quietly and trying to make
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sure and giving the heads up to the Gataris about
the six missiles that they fired, and that's all for
propaganda purposes, so they can go back to the population.
We devastated the American air base and cutter in response
to their attack against us. You know, one very weird,
bizarre issue you have. Russia's former president said yesterday that
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multiple countries are poised to provide a ram with nuclear warheads. Really,
a number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran
with their own nuclear warheads. This is Dmitri Medveved Medvedev,
remember him. Medvedev did not list the countries that might
pitch in. I can't think of many of them. Donald
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Trump responded to that today and he said, did I
hear that the former president Medvedev from Russia casually throwing
around the N word nuclear? He's used that in a
number of press conferences and saying that he and other
countries would supply nuclear warheads to Iran. Did he really
say that or not? Or is that just the figment
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of my imagination? Because if he did say that, and
if confirmed, please let me know immediately, because you know
that word should not be treated so casually. I guess
that's why Putin's the boss. And by the way, if
anyone thinks that our hardware was great over the weekend,
far and away, the strongest and best equipment we have
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twenty years advanced over the pack is our nuclear submarines.
They have the most powerful lethal weapons ever built, and
we just launched thirty Tomahawks all thirty hit their mark perfectly.
So in addition to our great fighter pilots, thank you,
you know, to the captain and crew, but and presidents
from kind of taunting Iran taking the bomb right out
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of their hands as it's revealed the attack was launched,
you know, when the Ayatola was snubbing a personal offer
directly from the President. I mean, this goes to the
heart of what was going on behind the scenes here,
the amount of deception, the absolute power and might of
the US military, the incredible intelligence of our intelligence community,
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the precision, the perfection of a military operation this complicated,
how they've remained undetected, how they sent decoys you know,
all over the place, and the Iranians actually believed that
there were planes in the sky that didn't exist, according
to my sources. I mean, that is a powerful statement
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by the President, and so I think that the President's
plan thankfully worked, you know. But it goes back to
the fundamental questions we were raising last week when we
were even discussing the possibility of some involvement here. And
I know that I really don't mind people that are
risk averse. I don't even mind people that have different
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points of view. What I don't understand is is people
that don't even want to comprehend the common sense argument,
which is, let's see, the number one state sponsor of terror.
They have been solely responsible for killing, however, many hundreds
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or thousands of Americans in the region over the years.
The Forever War started in nineteen seventy nine against US,
and they have kept it up. They have fired, you know,
either directly or through their proxies, over one hundred thousand
missiles into Israel. I've been a one town that was
hit with ten thousand missiles, and there's only so much
that can happen. Now. I am hoping on the other
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side of this that there can be some good that
comes of this. I do believe there has to be
a new Israeli doctrine at the end of all of this,
that anybody that fires a single rocket into Israel, their
new policy will be to obliterate them immediately. They have
shown too much concern for human life, and their population
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too often is living in bunkers, you know, and knowing
that they care about humanity, you have Hamas's Ballah and
so on and so forth. They would use schools and
hospitals as their launching areas, knowing the Israelis would not
fight back. I don't think that can be their policy
any longer. They have got to immediately respond and respond
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overwhelming with devastat or this pattern will just continue to
play out. But for those that didn't see the wisdom
in taking out the number one state sponsor of terrors
nuclear facilities, the entire world, not just the region would
be at risk, including the United States, because their missile
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capability keeps getting stronger and stronger. Remember, they have two
thousand pound ballistic missiles that were about to become four
thousand pound ballistic missiles. How much time are you going
to allow them to build out their technology before you
really see the wisdom and stepping in ahead of time.
All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. Here's our toll free
telephone number. It's eight hundred and nine four to one
Seawan if you want to be a part of the program.
I think we all need to stop and pause and
be very grateful for the incredible men and women that
serve in our military, and for a president that has
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the moral clarity and deep understanding and common sense of
a world that cannot live with the possibility of the
number one state sponsor of terror having nuclear weapons, and
the incredible job. We'll go into a lot of the
specificity of what they were able to do and how
they did it on Saturday night, The level of deception, well,
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first of all, the level of planning, the level the
bigger part of the planning before this mission ever even started,
was knowing and anticipating what possible retaliation there might exist,
what risk any any bomber might risk flying into Iranian airspace,
The risk we know under Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Mayorcis.
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You know we have untold numbers of of known terrorists,
Iranian assassination squads, the number of Iranians that were let
into the country that we caught, never mind got aways,
is staggering. I'll give you those those numbers at a minute,
but those are if any any the terrorists that made
it into this country. Everyone needs to understand there they
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are already plotting and planning and scheming their attack, whatever
it might be, on this country. And that will be
more blood on the hands of Biden, Harris and Mayorcis
because they let them in unvetted, and they didn't care,
and even when they knew they were from Iran, they
still let them go. I mean, this is this is insanity,
This is madness. We talked often about the countries, over
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two hundred of them, many with terror ties, and how
these people will being allowed into our country. They went
in knowing the danger of the possibility of shutting down
the streets or horn moves, disrupting the free flow of
oil at market prices. We knew that possibility. We also
know there's a possibility that they may end up mining
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the straits, although I'm less of a mind to believe
that now. And we knew that our bases in the region,
and we saw this on display in the last hour
and a half, are our largest base inside of the
Middle East. I was actually there Goha in cutter or guitar.
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You can say it either way, and it's both acceptable.
Had six missiles fired at it. We'll get to that
in a second. But the level of planning, the level
of deception, and it is at the highest level that
we've ever heard of. The incredible use of our intelligence,
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the amount of detail in the planning. A lot of
people don't know that a lot of Americans were taken
out of the region and the lead up to this.
There before any of this started, they had anticipated and
gamed out every possible retaliation effort that the Iranians might
be involved in. Then, of course, the absolute precision, the
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overwhelming might of American the American military. The Tomahawk missiles
fired from an amazing four hundred miles away, every one
of them a direct hit. Incredible precision. How they did
all of this completely undetected. When you look at the timeline,
it's incredible. We should be proud at the level of
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detail and the professionalism, and how blessed and lucky and
fortunate we are to have the greatest military force on
the face of this Earth, and a commander in chief
with the common sense to understand the world cannot live
with the number one state sponsor of terror, married to
weapons of mass destruction, that has been doing everything in
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their power directly and through their proxies to white Israel
off the map, but also chanting even last Friday, death
to America and reaffirming just a few months ago from
the Supreme Leader's mouth himself that their goal is ultimately
to take down the United States of America. And factoring in,
of course, all the Americans that have died at the
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hands of the Iranians over the years, it is the
time for retribution is long come and gone. Let me
get into what has been breaking news for the last
ninety minutes. It started this morning when Cutter announced that
they were shutting down their airspace part of measures taken
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amid developments in the region, according to Katari Foreign Ministry.
And they shut down the airspace because let me tell
you what happened. Even the New York Times now has
a report on this. Three Iranian officials familiar with the
plans to attack our air base in Cutter said that
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Iran did in fact give advance notice to the Guitari
officials that attacks were coming as a way to save faith.
This is a symbolic face saving gesture, if you will,
if you give the Guitaris and the Americans a heads up, yeah,
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we're gonna fire six missiles, the same number of weapons
that hit you know, they're one the four doz site
with bunker busters as a means of acting like you're responding,
so you can use it as a propaganda point and
tell the people in Iran, oh, yeah, we just destroyed them.
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It is very consistent with how they acted in the past.
Now what's amazing about this is if you go back
to twenty twenty in the killing of Solomani, it is
and at that point there it's kind of an underreported,
untold story. The United States was given a heads up
when Iran and Iran gave Iraq a heads up before
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they fired ballistic missiles at an American base in Iraq
following the assassination of Solomani. He was their top terror leader.
And it just shows you the depth of fear that
the Iranians have of Donald J. Trump. I mean, such
a star. Contrast to Barack Obama dropping cargo planes full
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of cash and other currencies and billions of dollars on
a tarmac to appease the Iranian leadership in the hopes
that we're gonna come up with a nuclear deal. Meanwhile,
there's no any place anywhere anytime, inspections and Obama and
I'll play this later in the program, was fully aware
of the for docite. For example, if you want it
for civilian purposes or nuclear power, you don't need to
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build it three hundred feet into a mountainside, very deep
down inside that mountain as a means of fortifying it
from an attack. Although it didn't really serve them well
or serve the purpose that they wanted here, but that
in fact happened. But it seems like that pattern of yeah,
we're responding, but just know that this isn't a real response,
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and it's coming at this time, and you might want
to get your missile defense systems in place, and you
might want to be ready because we want to be
able to tell our citizenry that we fought back and
we got you good. I mean, it's insane, but it's
a culture I guess that is rooted in imagery. And
you know they have a face saving effort. I have
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no idea. The thing is, and I've been when all
of the talk and when Israel started as this conflict
and what the Israelis have been able to pull off
is miraculous. Also, all of this is going to be studied.
What Donald Trump did with these three facilities, both Bordeaux,
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Natans and Esfahan, all three of these facilities. What he
has been able to do is now made the world
a safer place, a much safer place. And what our
military has been able to pull off here you should
be extraordinarily proud of. I mean, it's after they were
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able to anticipate and game out any potential consequences to
the attack or and all the potential danger involved in it,
and then to execute it to perfection is just it's
just an amazing thing. Kind of like the Israelis actually
had drones inside of Iran and the known locations of
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their top scientists and their top generals and were able
to take them out at the very beginning of this
entire high conflict most or flare up and the fact
that they were able to, you know, take down their
air defense systems. If you were ever going to do this,
this was the time to do it at the level
of safety that you would want for any American soldier
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that was flying a B two with these bunker buster bombs.
But anyway, on the President's orders, Central Command under Eric
Gorilla executed what's called Operation Midnight Hammer, which was this
precise strike against not one, not just the four dose site,
which is where most people thought this was going. Now,
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conventional wisdom was that they would only need two bunker
buster bombs. When I spoke to the President before I
went on the air for two hours on Saturday night
as this story was unfolding, he told me they used
six bunker busters. I didn't know it was on the
one facility, although I was pretty sure it was on
the four door facility. They didn't know that. They also,
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in the end used fourteen of them. And I'll get
to that in a minute. And then the Tomahawk missiles
filed filed fired from four hundred miles away from a
US submarine, and every one of them hitting their target.
It is all of it's complex, all of it is
high risk, and everyone involved in this, from the lowest
level to the highest level, needs our debt of gratitude.
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But it was designed to destroy and wipe out Iranians
nuclear ambitions and their complete infrastructure. And it was successful
and Anyway, the main strike comprised of the seven B
two bombers, each had two crew members and they were
able to proceed quietly to the east with minimal to
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zero communications in an eighteen hour flight, and they were
able to direct and divert the world's attention by sending
B two bombers in another direction quote for refueling in Guam,
and apparently the entire world fell for it, and that's
where the media's attention was most of the day. The
aircraft completed, you know, multi in flight refueling things. I
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actually lived through that when I went to Iraq on
one occasion on a C one thirty. It is it
is a sight to behold when you see it in
real life. It is incredible. A plane, a refueling plane
will fly just above, in this case, the sea one
thirty and literally you see this pose just you know,
like waving in the air, and then it connects and
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it refuels the plane and you just keep going NonStop.
It's pretty amazing. But the mainstrike package had these seven
B two bombers and this eighteen hour flight they completed,
you know, all these refuelings, and once over land they
lined up with an escort and support aircraft, an extremely complex,
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tightly time maneuver requiring synchronization across multiple platforms in a
very narrow piece of air space, all done with minimal
communications and the integrity the operation was a complete success.
I mean, you had nine stealth bombers used in total.
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Two of them were decoys that flew west over the
Pacific that's where the world's attention went, and you had
seven that were flying directly to Iran. You know, my
sources told me that they were actually they were able
to manufacture on radar screens that the Iranians were seeing
phantom planes that they thought were American planes that didn't
(12:38):
even exist and actually were firing at them while the
real B twos made their way undetected into the area,
and you know then obviously dropping the bunker buster bombs.
Only one submarine launched the thirty Tomahawk missiles into Iran.
At these other two facilities for submarines were converted to
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become guided missile submarines which carry one hundred and fifty
four Tomahawks. If you want you know the specifics of it,
and you know, in every way, shape, matter of form,
this is it, and what's going to be interesting to
see is if the Iranians are going to use this
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ridiculous attack on a with the heads up notice given.
I think that shows the real level of fear that
they have after what they experienced on Saturday night and
how they have no control of their own airspace. There
is no way they can win this war. You know,
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the mission for the president was really twofold. He had
said over and over they cannot have nuclear weapons. Then
they go the sixty days. On the sixty first day,
the Israeli strike, and then the President says, okay, well,
you know, I warned you you should have taken the deal,
and he said, I'll give them up to two weeks.
And that was on Thursday of last week. On Friday,
(14:05):
the Iranian foreign minister said no to any negotiations. That
probably expedited the president's decision to go in sooner than
later and keep the element of surprise. And that's just
a guess on my part. I'll tell you a lot
more about what I know, what I was doing, who
I talked to, and I did have a number of
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conversations with the president, and I'm just very grateful for
our military. I'm grateful for all the people that are
willing to risk their lives to make the world and
make America a safer place for all of us. These
are incredible people. There's no military mission that does not
have risk. By the way, we're not out of the
woods yet. It doesn't mean that there is a lack
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of risk in the region. We know that Biden, Harris
may Orcus allowed known terrorists into the country, many from Iran.
We'll get into more detail on that in a second.
And I'm very grateful to every person in our military
and every person in the Trump administration that pulled this
off with perfection. It's something to make America proud. At
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twenty five now til the top of the hour, thank
you for being with us. Here's our toll free number.
It's eight hundred and nine four one sean if you
want to be a part of the program. I'm not
sure and don't have a feel yet as to how
the President is going to respond to this well telegraphed
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pinprick frankly symbolic. You know, the six missiles fired at
at the our Guitar or Cutter air base that it's
very reminiscent of what happened in twenty twenty after President
Trump took out Solomoni, whom it was a face saving move.
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I always go back to listen to what the president
and says. The President kept saying, and we have him
on record since twenty eleven saying that the Iranians cannot
have nuclear weapons. Donald Trump does not make idle threats.
He just doesn't do it. And President Trump was very clear,
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you should have taken the deal. He was clear to
the Iranians when he said that last week, and then
he gave them the ultimatum, which was unconditional surrender two words,
unconditional surrender. And he made that last He gave one
last shot at a peace process and said within two
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weeks he would be striking. And then the very next day,
the Iranian foreign minister probably sealed their fate when he
made the comments, no, we're not going to be there's
not going to be any conversation when he said that.
I've listened to that and I'm like, all right, it's over.
And it may have accelerated the timeline for the president.
But with all that said, the president, if you listen
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to him on Saturday night and all the comments that
he's made since, he said when he announced that this
had happened, that he was clear that he said, the
US military carried out massive precision strikes on three key
nuclear facilities in the iranium regime for Doe, the Tans,
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and Esfahan, and he went on to say, everybody heard
those names for years as they built horrible, horrible, destructive enterprise.
Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity
and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the
world's number one state sponsor of terror. Now this is
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in complete agreement with the Trump doctrine as was defined
by his first term. And he said tonight I can
report that the world to the world that the strikes
were a spectacular military success. And he goes on a
Rans nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely, entire totally obliterated,
and future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.
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For forty years, the Iranians have been saying death to America,
death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
off their arms, blowing off their legs, roadside bombs. That
was their specialty. We spent a lot of time last
week listing all the incidences and the number of dead
Americans at the hands of Iranians, you know, going back
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to their forever war, if you will, against us, since
nineteen seventy nine, and he said, we lost over one
thousand people. Hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and
around the world have died as a direct result of
their hate. So many were killed by their general Solomoni.
I decided a long time ago that I would not
let this happen. It will not continue. And then he
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said he thanked the Prime Minister of Israel, Prime Minister
net Yahoo, and described how they worked as a team.
He said, perhaps like no other team has ever worked before.
We've gone a long way to raising this horrible threat
to Israel. I want to thank their military for the
wonderful job they've done. More importantly, I want to congratulate
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the great American patriots who flew magnificent machines tonight in
all of the United States military on an operation the
likes of which the world has not seen in many,
many decades. He's correct on that hopefully we'll no longer
need their services in this capacity. I hope. So I
also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
And he said you know what ac what spectacular, brilliant
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military minds were involved in this operation. And he said,
this simply cannot continue. There will either be peace or
there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we
have witnessed over the last eight days. And he said, remember,
there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult
of them by of them all by far, and perhaps
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the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly,
we will go after those other targets with precision, speed
and skill. Most of them can be taken out in
a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world
that could have done what we did tonight, not even close.
There's never been a military that can do what took
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place just a little while ago and tomorrow. And then
he talked about General Caine. Then he said, and you know,
and I want to thank everybody, and he said, in
particular God, and I just want to say, we love you, God,
and we love our great military. Please protect them. God
bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, God bless America.
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Pretty pretty powerful speech by the president by any objective measure,
from a spectacular military operation. And you know, it's it's
not the first time. I don't really want to get
into the whole issue of the War Powers Act and
the stupidity of it all, but I can go through
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the list, you know, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan,
George W. Bush Afghanistan, Iraq, Bill Clinton, Iraq, Serbia, Sudan.
I mean, yeah, hit the aspirin factory that was, you know,
basically a desert. George H. W. Bush Iraq and Panama, Reagan, Libya, Grenada,
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Jimmy Carter, nothing significant, Gerald Ford, nothing significant. But you
get into these arguments and they're just legally on just
on the wrong ground. And of course, predictably the left
in this country, that was some Democrats, AOC leading the
leading the lunatics. You know, we've got to impeach him
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over this. What they failed to recognize is that after
nine to eleven, Congress passed a joint resolution that was
known as the Authorization of the Use of Military Force Acts,
a great piece by Greg Jarrett on This will put
it on Hannity dot com. It granted the president exclusive
extraordinary powers to target those groups, those nations that he
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determines aided the terrorist attacks or in the case of
nine to eleven, harbored the perpetrators of nine to eleven.
The goal was to prevent any future acts of intentional
terrorism against the US. And one only needs to read
the nine to eleven Commission report that they were at
war with us. We weren't at war with them, and
the government of Tehran actively aided an embedded attack after
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attack after attack against Americans in the region and around
the world. And remember we have Iranian assassination squads, which
kind of brings us to you know, the three things
that the Trump administration was preparing for in the aftermath
of this planned military operation. One is the Straits of
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Horn moves. The Iranians have moved to close that as
of now. There is a legitimate fear that they may
ultimately because their back is against the wall and people
have become desperate, and at that point, you know, they're
capable of anything, and they could mine the straits of
Hormones and disrupt the free flow of oil in the region,
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which is twenty anywhere between twenty and thirty percent of
the world's oil supply. And another fear was that they
would go after American bases in the region, including the
one and Cutter that they went after today. But it
was again symbolic and apparently had given the Kataris and
the Americans heads up on all of it, at least
the New York Times is even reporting not. But you
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can't you can't say that this president has not tried too,
you know, basically begged them to into a peace agreement
that would have been in their best interest. They were
given every opportunity, every opportunity if they wanted it to
take peace. Now, the third thing that America has to
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worry about and is worried about, and they did, is
what about these seven hundred unvetted Iranians. And those are
only the people that we know about. We don't know
about the godaways that are in the United States. And
this goes back to the most preventable national security threat ever.
And I have said for at least the next decade
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and probably longer, we are going to pay a price
for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Alejandro Majorcus and frankly
the Democratic Party because they were either lying to us
along with those three in saying that the border was
closed and the border was secure, or they were just
This silence was deafening in light of everybody with their
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own eyes seeing that the borders were wide open. We
knew that there were people from over two hundred countries,
including many countries would terroritize coming into this country. But
we do know that more than seven hundred Iranian nationals
that illegally entered this country thanks to to Joe Biden's
open borders, according to data the Center Square obtained Sunday
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from a Border Patrol agent. So Border Patrol is putting
these numbers out, and that includes forty eight Iranian illegal
border crosses crossers apprehended in twenty one, one hundred and
ninety seven and twenty two, four hundred and sixty two
apprehended in twenty three, and seven hundred and ninety seven
apprehended in twenty four and at least seven hundred and
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twenty nine Iranians that they knew were from Iran entering
our country illegally were allowed to stay in under Joe
Biden's policies. I mean, under the Biden administration, the greatest
number of known or suspected terrorists were apprehended in US history.
That number is estimated to be about two thousand that
we know of, but it's probably many, many more. That's
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why I've been saying over and over again. Yeah, it's
probably not a matter of if, it's probably a matter
of when. But I pray to God that I'm wrong,
that we're going to wake up one day and all
these people that are here that have terroritized that what
are they doing here? They're plotting, They're planning, their scheming
another nine to eleven or something, perhaps even worse worse
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than that. US officials. The Iranian retaliation against US troops,
you know, they have been unnotice now for some time.
But if you look at our military presidence in the region,
we are more than prepared. And that's why, you know,
even the New York Times is saying that this Iranian
and Iranian officials are acknowledging quietly and trying to make
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sure and giving the heads up to the Gataris about
the six missiles that they fired, and that's all for
propaganda purposes, so they can go back to the population.
We devastated the American air base and cutter in response
to their attack against us. You know, one very weird,
bizarre issue you have. Russia's former president said yesterday that
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multiple countries are poised to provide a ram with nuclear warheads. Really,
a number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran
with their own nuclear warheads. This is Dmitri Medveved Medvedev,
remember him. Medvedev did not list the countries that might
pitch in. I can't think of many of them. Donald
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Trump responded to that today and he said, did I
hear that the former president Medvedev from Russia casually throwing
around the N word nuclear? He's used that in a
number of press conferences and saying that he and other
countries would supply nuclear warheads to Iran. Did he really
say that or not? Or is that just the figment
(27:37):
of my imagination? Because if he did say that, and
if confirmed, please let me know immediately, because you know
that word should not be treated so casually. I guess
that's why Putin's the boss. And by the way, if
anyone thinks that our hardware was great over the weekend,
far and away, the strongest and best equipment we have
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twenty years advanced over the pack is our nuclear submarines.
They have the most powerful lethal weapons ever built, and
we just launched thirty Tomahawks all thirty hit their mark perfectly.
So in addition to our great fighter pilots, thank you,
you know, to the captain and crew, but and presidents
from kind of taunting Iran taking the bomb right out
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of their hands as it's revealed the attack was launched,
you know, when the Ayatola was snubbing a personal offer
directly from the President. I mean, this goes to the
heart of what was going on behind the scenes here,
the amount of deception, the absolute power and might of
the US military, the incredible intelligence of our intelligence community,
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the precision, the perfection of a military operation this complicated,
how they've remained undetected, how they sent decoys you know,
all over the place, and the Iranians actually believed that
there were planes in the sky that didn't exist, according
to my sources. I mean, that is a powerful statement
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by the President, and so I think that the President's
plan thankfully worked, you know. But it goes back to
the fundamental questions we were raising last week when we
were even discussing the possibility of some involvement here. And
I know that I really don't mind people that are
risk averse. I don't even mind people that have different
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points of view. What I don't understand is is people
that don't even want to comprehend the common sense argument,
which is, let's see, the number one state sponsor of terror.
They have been solely responsible for killing, however, many hundreds
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or thousands of Americans in the region over the years.
The Forever War started in nineteen seventy nine against US,
and they have kept it up. They have fired, you know,
either directly or through their proxies, over one hundred thousand
missiles into Israel. I've been a one town that was
hit with ten thousand missiles, and there's only so much
that can happen. Now. I am hoping on the other
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side of this that there can be some good that
comes of this. I do believe there has to be
a new Israeli doctrine at the end of all of this,
that anybody that fires a single rocket into Israel, their
new policy will be to obliterate them immediately. They have
shown too much concern for human life, and their population
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too often is living in bunkers, you know, and knowing
that they care about humanity, you have Hamas's Ballah and
so on and so forth. They would use schools and
hospitals as their launching areas, knowing the Israelis would not
fight back. I don't think that can be their policy
any longer. They have got to immediately respond and respond
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overwhelming with devastat or this pattern will just continue to
play out. But for those that didn't see the wisdom
in taking out the number one state sponsor of terrors
nuclear facilities, the entire world, not just the region would
be at risk, including the United States, because their missile
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capability keeps getting stronger and stronger. Remember, they have two
thousand pound ballistic missiles that were about to become four
thousand pound ballistic missiles. How much time are you going
to allow them to build out their technology before you
really see the wisdom and stepping in ahead of time.
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